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Using small bait to mate
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wu1010 wrote:
Please post games where mate is achieved suddenly when the opponent takes a small bait (poisoned pawn, opened lane, chased piece, etc.). Thanks!
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vlad20002 (1232) vs. wu1010 (1167)
Live Chess | Chess.com | 14 May 2014 | 0-1
Ok, it was a bishop sacrifice as my poisonous bait !
www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=837270785
Nice use of that early center pawn pin for that bishop bait, ROPITAL-Barut.
Here is a classic promotion pawn bait:
A hidden agenda behind my interesting bait (knight+bishop=mate)
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=843155864
Nice find. I like how you used your knights twice there for that agenda.
To be honest, I'm not 100% sure that this qualifies for this post, but I like the race here that sets the mate in motion:
Here is the computer analysis for the previous game:
Why not 18...Rxf2 immediately?
Also more pedestrian moves, like 18...Be5, are terminal.
Decent poisoned c-pawn. I get what you were thinking.
Here, in the endgame, the bait was to slip the king into a spot where a knight check seems natural, but a queen-bishop fianchetto applies mating pressure for the win.
Jul 3, 2014
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pfren wrote:
Why not 18...Rxf2 immediately?
Also more pedestrian moves, like 18...Be5, are terminal.
Because on Rxf2 immediately white still has Qe1 with a lousy endgame to defend.
Be5 is better. After Rb1, Rxf2, Qe1 black has Qxg3 (because of Bd4).
c4 was a "bad" move because this allows white to organize some kind of defence with Qe1, Qxc2, Bf3
A hidden agenda behind my interesting bait (queen sacrifice=mate)
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=851686378
Nicely done, Ronald. I like how you played the fianchetto reveal on the corner bishop. Like fishing, baiting often means "dangle, dangle" and "wait for it, wait for it," then "hooked!" Fun!
In this game, a naturally renegade queen ends up biting on poisoned pawns and a knight, leading to her being dropped and, upon going for the trade, falling victim to a snap mate. I think up 1/2 tempo at move 10, and 16. Nxg6 wins!
"I think up 1/2 tempo at move 10, and 16. Nxg6 wins!"
How so?
After 16.Nxg4 exd3 Black is better (17.Qc3 Qh6!).
I don't have the full game, just this combination saved on my phone. Also, I don't mate but my opponent greedily takes a pawn and I then make a serious of combinations to win his queen :) I'll post it as a puzzle for fun.
Game on #18