Black to move. Can you find the quickest checkmate for Black?
8/8/4pp1k/5b1p/P2q1P2/R2B1P2/1PK1Q2P/6r1 b – – 0 33
Do you recognize this game? Can you name the 2 players who played this game?
Missed checkmate
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I could, but since it is so recent, I will let others work it out. Strange seeing from black’s perspective.
Yancey
Qc4+ 0-1
BTW,have no idea who played the game,but I took me less than 30 seconds to see the mate 🙂
Qc4+ Rc3 and where is the mate?
It was Kramnik vs. Anand, game 5 of their recent World Championship.
Upss, it was game 3 not 5. Kramnik lost just too many times to remember 🙂
Bxd3+ Qxd3 Rg2+ Kd1 Qxb2 White has no viable options after this
perhaps something beginning with 1.Bxd3 Rxd3
(if 1…Qxd3 then 2.Rb7 and probably mat on b2)
2.Qc4 Rc3 3.Qxe2
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**Sibemol**
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1 … Bxd3+
2 Rxd3 (2. Qxd3 Rg2+ followed by mate, as previously noted)
2 … Qc4+
3 Rc3 (3. Kd2 Qc1#)
3 … Qxe2+ +-
1. … Bxd3 2. Rxd3 Qc4
This seen an earliest game of Botvinnik?…
Everybody can name the two players,
The name of the image says the names of the players;)
Kramnik-Anand
1…Bxd3+ 2.Rxd3 Qc4+ 3.Kd2 Qc1 mate!
Kamalakanta
There is only a quick mate if White allows it, by playing suboptimal in terms of mate distance. With best play, there is a quick win but no quick mate.
1…Bxd3+ 2.Rxd3 Qc4+ 3.Rc3 Qxe2+ 4.Kb3 is a clear win, but it takes eight more moves from here to force the mate, starting with 4…Rb1 or 4…Rg2. I don’t know what your definition of quick mate is. It’s a quick loss, yes, but the mate is not very quickly forceable.
You guys got it, my only quibble is that in event of 1…Bd3 2 Qd3 Rg2 3 Kd1 (Kb3 Rb2 mate) 3…Qg1 is a quicker mate than Qb2.
-Justin Daniel