Using small bait to mate

alexm2310 wrote:

innocuent wrote:

Nomen nescio abbreviated to N.N., is used to signify an anonymous or unnamed person.

Thanks, lol. I feel rather stupid now xD

Actually, I got to know it after googling NN.

here I used a small (or big) bait to mate

So frustrating. Quite possibly the worst feeling in chess is one makes a well-prepared winning move (here, drawing and trapping a queen against one of her own rooks and as a thru-fork winning at least one) and, as your opponent stares in some stupendous disbelief, turns and after ostensible delay, blithely continues play, no "hey man nice find I resign" but "play on" instead! The only winning aspect (like a low odds roll) of such a move being that it sometimes disrupts the construction of the thread, i.e., the psychology of the winning play-maker, who jerks out a pancake blunder in response, ruining everything. That's a legit move at a poker table, but why in chess? Why is everything so zen, even in countering poor sports? Anyway, the positive note I think is this trap was well-set using the pawns.

Just glancing but if 25... Rad8 then after 26. e5 Bxe5 27. Rxe5 Rxe5 28. Qc3 there's still play? Anyway...

A 5 pt trap beats a 2 pt exchange tho. (lolol)

Right. This is what we get for effing around. In a game of blunders, the biggest one was not collecting my prize, however ill-begotten. So shame. On me. Shame. Sniff. (Playing while under any influence can hardly help, either. Cough cough.)

Where do I go to play 960?

Maybe I'll go back to Warcraft. Nnnoooooooooo!

Do you have a link to that Fischer/Spassky book you mentioned, or at least the author and version? There are a bunch. Most are by Gligoric Svetozar, but not all. Also, I'm not sure which ones are annotated and by whom. Also, can you point me to any Fischer (or other GM or Master) games showing the thematic opening and/or defense you have been using? Thanks.

Fischer vs. Spassky World Chess Championship Match 1972 Book

$17.96 by Svetozar Gligoric

1 review

Book by Svetozar Gligoric (Ishi Press, 148pgs) released 2012-10-18.

That would suck if the father on someone's birth certificate was listed as Nomen Nescio and they just now read this thread.

Justin Case, if it helps,

(Apparently he's related to U.N. Owen and A.N. Other. Also distant cousin to "I don't know who did it but it wasn't me, Jr.")

Here's a poison pawn mate I played just now.

Nicely done. You should get extra rating point for mating someone of a higher rating so quickly.

Thanks mate.

The game is not very well played by either side (I could have mated in two with 15...Qe4+ and was actually worse before 20.Rc1) but the final Q sac for mate is at least aestetically pleasing. :)

By the way, in that position the d5 square isnt really relevant since the knight can eventually be easily kicked out of that square and the doubled pawns on f6+f7 are not really an issue either.

Black's central control and space compensate more than enough.

Anyway, nice thread...I'm liking some of these cool examples in here...keep em coming! 

Some questions posed here:

So, here is a nice demonstration of a late-midgame/endgame bait scenario that uses the idea of poisoning a square that your opponent has been staring at with a critical piece as bait to draw him into a veiled blunder that flips a lost game. Without the last mistake and blunder, white had the advantage. Consider this a caveat: when the play has moved on, move on. This is why endgames can take time: natural moves can become toxic. Note: It's worth flipping this board around.

The original tactic problem can be found here:

http://www.chess.com/tactics/?id=174967