THERE HAS BEEN NO EXACT SAME CHESS GAME PLAYED BETWEEN COMPETANT PEOPLE. YES, THERE HAS BEEN BETWEEN INCOMPETANT PEOPLE (i.e. 4-move-checkmate) BUT NONE BETWEEN THE COMPETANT PEOPLE
a lone knight can giave a mate by firerods

THERE HAS BEEN NO EXACT SAME CHESS GAME PLAYED BETWEEN COMPETANT PEOPLE. YES, THERE HAS BEEN BETWEEN INCOMPETANT PEOPLE (i.e. 4-move-checkmate) BUT NONE BETWEEN THE COMPETANT PEOPLE
ah my friend not quite true.
I played a game on another site not long ago where I drew a 2100ish player in 29 moves... the game (partially by coincidence) matched up PERFECTLY to one played by Kasparov (against some guy I don't remember his name)...
It has happened from time to time.
basically anything you do in chess is almost garentied to have happened somewhere before. yes this puzzle is known by lots of people but so are your games that you play. i guarentee that your games were once played by someone else before you. its the way the game is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate#Stamma.27s_mate
It's called Stamma's Mate after Philip Stamma.
(I didn't know this I just googled it)

I'd assume most simple chess puzzles have come up some time in the past (anything with only four pieces, two of which are kings, has certainly been solved before), but I know I've seen this exact puzzle somewhere else on this site.
I don't have a link, and I don't have the next few minutes to search for it, but I know this exact puzzle is posted somewhere else on chess.com.
I'm not trying to accuse anyone of plagiarism or anything, but I know it's far from a unique puzzle. It's probably the title of the thread that's setting some people off.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate#Stamma.27s_mate
It's called Stamma's Mate after Philip Stamma.
(I didn't know this I just googled it)
Lol... Did you knowIm a dublo identity

Firerods also posted this same puzzle on Chess.com on July 27, 2007.
http://blog.chess.com/firerods/puzzle3


actually first my friend showed this puzzle to me and i posted it but i never knew it was from a book .sorry to all!!!
first time i saw it so thanks