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Chapter 13: Blackburne's Mate
Joseph "The Black Death" Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) dominated the British scene during the latter part of the 19th century.

Chapter 13: Blackburne's Mate

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I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content.

When I am playing White I generally use the "Most Underrated & Aggressive Chess Opening for White" which I learned from my favorite YouTube resource Remote Chess Academy.

This mate named after English player Joseph Blackburne (1841-1924) involves White having
a knight on g5, and White's bishops covering the diagonals a1-h8 and b1-h7. When there are open lines, the black king is mated on the g8-square by the white
bishop on h7.


56) The power of the bishops on parallel diagonals is apparent when a queen sacrifice opens the lines for them to mate with knight support.

57) Black can do the same with a bq sacrifice.

58) wk has more pieces around him this time, but it avails him little.

59) Not only does Black fail to avoid mate with accepting the sacrificial wq but feeling foresight in instead taking the wn fails.

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