IRONCLAD PROOF THAT LUCK AFFECTS SOME CHESS GAME RESULTS - Chess Forums - Page 4

FishThatRoared · 2025-02-18T11:40:29-08:00

White played Rxd6, which Black had overlooked. Does it win? This is NOT about game-changing blunders. Blunders reflect skill (or its absence), not luck. There are other situations, however, where "luck" is the best way to describe events on the board that decided a game's outcome. The

BackpackBox

Feb 21, 2025

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#61

It is

playerafar

Feb 21, 2025

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#62

AwsomeHundy_34dpb wrote:

Rxd6 is great

It doesn't work. I thought it did. For a while.
Black responds Qe8! with Qe7 approaching and white's going to be down rook for knight.
As already mentioned earlier in the forum.
Qe8! wins and was played by the opening poster in the game.

Optimissed

Feb 21, 2025

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#63

Thanks to the opening poster posting this, I realised that I wasn't thinking well and so my strategy in last night's game evolved to match. I really wasn't up for a game and was happy with a quick draw, which I offered and my opponent accepted because he knew HE wasn't thinking well and he didn't know I wasn't.

That was quite lucky for me