Post your Best Miniatures here Part 2

I learned this pattern from the world champ himself! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aycFDkIAhnQ&t=146s 

At the end, he does the exact same checkmate

Here is Carlsens game:

Lichess blitz game against level 4. Usually it takes like 70 moves for me to beat it, and half of the times i lose to it.

at lukascohen

its more just a comment (beginner since one and half year)    but I just wonder if at step 16 (where you made the obvious fknight check on g5) he sould have better put his king to g8, ok it's exposed and in the corner but the advantages could maybe have been protection with his other pieces moving around, and forcing sacrifices I think it would just have been "THE" move lol

Maybe you're right. I think that with these dangerous knight to f7 mating ideas, he should have played the King elsewhere, however the position was winning for me anyways

@lukascohen Nice game! At move, 17, instead of hxg4 you had Nf6+! If 17...Nxf6 then you've got a nasty windmill tactic.

In exchange for those two knights you'd have gotten two pawns, a rook, and a queen, but more importantly your opponent would've been devastated, only being able to shuffle his king back and forth as your knight gobbles up his entire army.

Regardless, nice game and beautiful finish!

Holy crap, thank you! Now i wish i would have done that, it would have been so pretty! and additionally i would have written something mean in the chat just to make the computer feel bad

I managed to get my queen into an uncomfortable position and decided to give it up for a rook, A few moves later, I found a tactic to gain a piece to all but equalize in material and then managed to prevail queenless checkmating my opponent on move 22.

Thank you Joel Johnson for this one, learned it from his attacking 101 books.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/2776612653

A 2-pawn and knight gambit pays off with a 17-move smothered mate!

@CoffehCat: Isn’t 3. exf5 d5 4. Bb5 the critical line? Black gets the pawn back, but e5 is pretty weak.

In this Bullet game I was positionally outplayed.

@chesster3145: I probably ought to have made myself clearer; I was trying to elucidate why I chose to develop the knight, over what I felt was best, and principled, in that position (being surprised by a very quick retort, a gambit no less, and in a off-beat line - accepting it is not something I'd want to do in my first foray back into playing a rapid game.)

All that being said, I'm still not entirely convinced by 3.exf5, since Black will seek to castle queen-side, and White has to look towards giving up the bishop pair. (Stockfish on-site evaluation for the move steadily drops on greater depth, at ~37 it's only marginally better by 0.16 over 3.e5, at, like 0.72). However, that's a discussion probably best kept for a different forum.

CoffeCat,

"However, that's a discussion probably best kept for a different forum."

Why? Doesn't analysis of one's game that is posted here qualify as being appropriate? I would like to see some discussion, analysis, or even some more games, here to see if 3.exf5 is the better or worse move than what was played.

PS- Don't be lazy and just quote Stockfish, Do a little research, play out some some alternatives.

Thanks!