I, casting my net over the waves of the World Wide Web today, found two awesome things. One is a game online, played by GM Max Dlugy while he commentates live. The only unusual part? Dlugy loses!
Here is the video:
The game:
Dlugy-TrickyMate ICC 2015
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 {The Budapest Gambit. Black hopes to unbalance the White center.} 3.dxe5 Ne4 {More usual is 3…Ng4, hitting the pawn right away.} 4.Nf3 b6 {As Dlugy says in the video: “Maybe there’s a reason I don’t see this move before.” Bb4+, pinning a knight, is better.} 5.Qd5 Bb7 {Black hopes to trap White’s queen. White is forced into taking.} 6.Qxb7 Nc6 7.Qa6 {This is where Dlugy goes wrong. Up until now he is doing very well; Black has played a true trap, with consequences if the GM doesn’t stumble. 7. Nd4 is in the next PGN.} Bb4+ 8.Bd2 Nc5 {Now, White’s queen is trapped.} 9.Qb5 Bxd2+ {This gains a piece. If it wasn’t played, and instead 9…a6 was, then White could take the bishop as well.} 10.Nbxd2 a6 11.Qxc6 dxc6 12.O-O-O {Good follow-up play, activating Black’s pieces.} Qe7 13.g3 O-O-O 14.Bg2 f6 {Black gets rid of White’s advanced pawn, and activates his queen.} 15.exf6 Qxf6 16.Rhe1 {?? Because of} Na4 {Dlugy missed this ‘Tricky Mate.’ 1-0.} 1-0
Amazing! That’s why the video has one million views on Youtube.
What Dlugy should have played:
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r2qkb1r/pQpp1ppp/1pn5/4P3/2P1n3/5N2/PP2PPPP/RNB1KB1R w KQkq - 1 7"]
18. Nd4 Bb4+ {Black’s best try. If 18…Nxd4 19. Qxe4.} 19. Nc3 {19. Nd2 loses a piece. After Black exchanges on d2, he picks up the d4 knight.} Nxc3 {White, however, follows with the intermezzo} 20. Nxc6 {Not fearing a discovered check, as the c6 knight covers the b4 bishop.} dxc6 21. Bd2 Nxa2 22. Rd1 {And Black is down a piece because he will either take the bishop next and attack the queen at the same time, or end up trapping the knight. Black is simply too uncoordinated.}
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The second: This website: http://setsuled.livejournal.com/880790.html
Which is an analysis of a position in the chess game from the Doctor Who episode Nightmare in Silver.
I’ll reproduce it in an easier-to-read PGN.
The Doctor–Cyber Planner
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "5rk1/5ppp/b5q1/3N4/8/P3p3/2P3P1/2K2R1R w - - 0 1"]
1.Ne7+ Kh8 2.Nxg6+ Kg8 {2…fxg6 3. Rxf8#} 3.Ne7+ Kh8 4.Rxh7+ Kxh7 5.Rh1# 1-0
There are some very big inaccuracies if you actually watch the episode, but I think that the time spent to reconstruct this from screenshots was well spent.
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Unfortunately, your 'pretty finish' is unforced! 4… Qxh7 is why White must take the queen.