Uncommon Notation: O-O-O#

Most chess players are familiar with the Ed. Lasker -- Thomas game from 1912 that might have ended 18.O-O-O#. It did not, however. Lasker played 18.Kd2# (see "Chaos in a Miniature" by Edward Winter). Either way, the finish involved writing notation that you do not see every day.

A couple of weeks ago, I played a blitz game that ended Raxb5#. That's another notation that probably has no peer in the database.

This morning's bullet session featured a game that ended with checkmate via a discovered check by a piece that had not moved while a harassed king stepped further into apparent danger: Ke3#.

Here is that game.

Readers are encouraged to share their own moves with uncommon notation. 

Is 20.g6# uncommon? 

It was a 'serious', OTB, 15+0 game, me vs. my schoolmate, 4 years ago already. However, cannot really find any special checkmate in my database with king or castling.

nice

I have about 20 instances of g6# in my database. I was surprised to see that I won nearly every one of these, regardless of color. That's in a database of mostly blitz games that has nearly 80,000 games. In one of these, two bishops on the f-file assisted in confining the King on the h-file.

It's uncommon enough.

Thanks for raising this interesting topic. As Black, I try to play the Scandinavian defense exclusively against 1. e4 and if I am allowed to pin the Nf3 with my B (and soon thereafter Q), I usually castle queenside... sometimes with disastrous results. 

John Gallagher has a nice chapter in his pocket book 101 attacking ideas. If I find it Ill post it.

I think that I have that book, although I haven't read it.

Do variant chess games count?

(This) game ends Rj8# and I lost

Happy New Year!

A few days ago, I ended a game with 31. R1e6#.

In chinese chess, the shortest checkmate is

1. Cbe3 Che8
2. Ch6? Cb4?
3. Cxe7+? Cexe4??
4. Che6#

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/4441685508

does it count?

pa1#

d6# is best

Here's another one.

Ke7#

Yes, you saw that right. King gives a checkmate to an opposing king by a discovered checkmate. It's still a checkmate by a king technically because without the king moving there would be no checkmate!!!

@JuergenWerner Do, please, share the game.

True Lasker was an unbelievable man. Whenever I get the Lasker trap to work I take a minute of silence.

Edward and Emanuel. Two different Laskers.