Holy crap! Daniel Naroditsky performed a N and B mate with seconds remaining in a blitz game!
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Only 86.4%? I thought he was supposed to be better than that.
I was so pumped after watching that. Inspired me to get off my butt and improve.
I wonder if instead of continually trying to move the king away from the corner the defender had thrown in a spanner by say 84. Kb1 instead of 84. Kd1 if that would have helped break Naroditsky's technique - it would then be a mate in 6 rather than mate in 8, however practically speaking Naroditsky would have to find Be3 and end up moving his king to c2 - as it is his king never left the 3rd rank. There's a video of even Hikaru being unable to find the mate in over 2 minutes so definitely tough mate especially with the 50 move rule in mind.