any games that end with check,-check-checkmate?

Hi there.

I’m pretty much chess illiterate, (I can’t for the life of me decode the game diagrams) and am looking for a match to study that ends in check-check-checkmate.

I’ve been searching for a while with no luck. Does anyone know of such a game? Maybe an old championship game?

Please help! Thank you!

Is this what you mean? It's very common... but usually people resign before being checkmated.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=7465957

I assume you mean (for example) that white gives check, black moves in such a way as to check white's king, and then white moves to checkmate black.

Currently, the record for such "consecutive checks" stands at 51 (see entry #378 at http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary.htm), but these are specially designed problem positions and not over-the-board games.

Freecat, slightly OT, but is there a name for that opening you used?  Irregular KID/modern defense?  Something else?  Thanks.

AquaMan wrote:

Freecat, slightly OT, but is there a name for that opening you used?  Irregular KID/modern defense?  Something else?  Thanks.

Chessbase names it "Tartakower System-Modern Defence". ECO code is A41, I think.

EDIT: No theory at all, just intuition.

Neophyte123, see the games showcase forum.  A lot of those games end in check check mate.  A couple near the top of the forum list right now are "classic smothered mate," and "the stonewall attack."

http://www.chess.com/forum/category/game-showcase

Nope - it never happens.

FreeCat wrote:

AquaMan wrote:

Freecat, slightly OT, but is there a name for that opening you used?  Irregular KID/modern defense?  Something else?  Thanks.

Chessbase names it "Tartakower System-Modern Defence". ECO code is A41, I think.

EDIT: No theory at all, just intuition.

Yeah, I saw Big DB 2008 only had about 5 games with the same position after move 5.   But still left wondering if one side's move order was intuitive (and if so, which) or both.  I asked because a Chessmaster opponent keeps beating my practice Reti with something like that. 

AquaMan wrote:

FreeCat wrote:

AquaMan wrote:

Freecat, slightly OT, but is there a name for that opening you used?  Irregular KID/modern defense?  Something else?  Thanks.

Chessbase names it "Tartakower System-Modern Defence". ECO code is A41, I think.

EDIT: No theory at all, just intuition.

Yeah, I saw Big DB 2008 only had about 5 games with the same position after move 5.   But still left wondering if one side's move order was intuitive (and if so, which) or both.  I asked because a Chessmaster opponent keeps beating my practice Reti with something like that. 

My first option is playing the Pirc, if it is not possible, then I play similar defences, like this one. So I always face similar combos, and I can tell you white's fianchetto in the kingside seems not to be very common against modern/Pirc defences. If i had to play this as white, I would avoid the kingside fianchetto.

I think it was intuitive for both sides, but I had the advantage of having played a lot of games with similar defences, and probably my opponent was more unsure about what he had to do than me.