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A ridiculous Danish gambit. Immediately after the game, I went to the bakery and bought a dozen Danish.

Well sometime you find it but sometimes it finds you! Like here for example, of course I didn't set up a combination to end it with a queen sacrifice at all

The key is to remember all the patterns possible to pull them out as soon as you see them without thinking almost. For example you don't need to think to give mate with a queen and king, or with two rooks.

A slow-burn Rossolimo attack with limited material...

Like here for example, two checkmate patterns Q+B against the G7 pawn and rooks on 7th and 8th

an UGLY king's gambit in 18

Nice game! I love "objectively dubious" rook moves! Black's 6.b3 was way too slow. He/she should have played c5 immediately. And even I can see the sac on g6 (19.Bxg6) was begging to be played; half of black's pieces are on the other side of the board.

Thanks for the comment and the advice. I should mention that I started playing this game as a little kid during the Eisenhower administration (!). By the 70s, I had just about clawed my way up to a Class A player. But there was no 'bullet' chess back then. Analog clocks were not practical for one minute games. Most blitz games (only called "speed chess" back then) were 10 minutes. A few adventurous souls tried 7 and 5 minute games, but the vagaries of setting the clocks by hand could mean a difference of 5 or 10 seconds for one side or the other. There were a lot of heated arguments as a result. And of course, there were no increments.

People now are growing up with this technology, and I think it's made the game even more fun and richer than it was before. Andrew Tang can played about 40 ultra bullet games in the time I use to plod my way through a an old fashioned, interminable 10 minute contest. Fantastic! Plus, at my age, the human brain resembles something quite similar to guacamole. And as we all know, mashed avocados are very poor conductors for neural synaptic activity.

Anyway, I still have my moments. Your game with the "dubious rook move" reminded me of my game against a Najdorf with the notorious "Freak attack" (6.Rg1), a.k.a. 'the Petronic attack'.

A Dutch defense with the Staunton gambit.

I'm honestly kind of ashamed of this one even though I won. I did not properly punish my opponents mistakes and I wound up missing an opportunity to finally achieve a smothered mate, which i've yet to do. -sigh- There'll be more opportunities I suppose. But this was a quick one nonetheless. Hope y'all enjoy.

Absolutely disrespectful checkmate. I probably made him quit chess for the rest of his life getting rekt like this.

I lost in this one, so it's probably not my best miniature, but I'll still share it because it was pretty funny

Beautiful checkmate. But I don't think your opponent will "quit chess for the rest of his life". Tartakower lost a game to Reti in eleven moves. But Tartakower went on to win two national championships and three gold medals in the Olympiads.......

Isn't this one the same checkmate BigFoxy missed two posts up, except with colors reversed? Talk about a small world lol

I know the struggles of the analog clocks. My college had to use all resources available (with a tiny percentage of the budget dedicated for chess), so we played with analog clocks way into the 2000's. It was actually stressing trying not to move the table, so the little flag won't fall off XD

My best game so far

I'm pretty sure my opponent cannot even fathom the gap in skill between Tartakover and himself. Tartakover was a GM who lost to an isolated tactical oversight. My opponent is a patzer whose position got torn to shreds over the course of several moves, ending with his king protection getting razed and pillaged and the enemy queen windmiill slammed onto h1 for a brutal checkmate. That's a different kind of trauma, not so easily sloughed off in time for another game. I literally took his soul.

I didn't even realize that! That's hilarious

By continuing to play 5 mins blitz through bad times I'm just starting to get my confidence back, after a lay-off from blitz for 15 years. This is a positional sacrifice of exchange and pawn, just played. I played 1. d3 by mistake. I meant to play 1. d4 as usual.

Wow! You can tell all that from one chess game?! Astonishing!

Maybe you're right...... then again, maybe you've been spending a little too much time in Narnia.

@lukeluke00:

That is surprising! Right into the 2000s!? I learned that the first digital clocks appeared in the 70s, but didn't come into general use until the 80s. So your school was a bit behind the times. I guess it could have been worse..... at least you didn't have to play with an hourglass!