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A nice attack with some weird final mate.

Definition of a miniature….

definately much smaller than 46 moves!!!!

Nice game. Computers are such greedy materialists. Engine may like snatching that g pawn (14...Bxg5), but it looks way too dangerous to me.

I thought you might find this game amusing. I dug this out of my archives from last year. An English with g4 and Rg1, but, of course, a much different move sequence.

In the words of Montell Jordan:

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Kingside attack and mate with knight and bishop.

I was hoping playing qxf6 would be too good to resist...

A hilarious smoothered mate!

I like the 3D style but had to stop using it when I kept mistaking a fianchettoed bishop for a pawn on it's starting square. The bishop and pawn are too similar but I'm going to start using it again as part of a plan this year to use as many different board and piece styles as possible so I don't get used to just one style.

Not really a smothered mate since the king isn't completely surrounded, but that is a nice looking mate, congrats!

the bishop in the corner

Yes, the bishop cuts off escape squares, otherwise it wouldn't be checkmate. However, in a smothered mate, the king is surrounded by other pieces, like this example:

For black, the good news is he doesn't lose his queen to a knight fork; the bad news is, he's checkmated.

What a surprise! Rg1 and g4!

Black's 12...g6 was weird. I thought he was going to follow up with Re8, Bf8 and Bg7, but no. Nice game.

An incredible double rook sacrifice to get back to 1900! That rook was unstoppable!

An interesting Slav defense.

100% Greco

Qc7?! and Ne4!? shouldn't work but if they do... I would've probably tried 6.Nfd2 to play f3 next and kick the knight out. That b3 has left a lot of holes though, you don't play b3 unless you've developed some pieces first. Overall a strange game, you navigated the complications better.