Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Hitting the self destruct button

I suspect we've all played games where we've blundered quite early on. Usually this is dropping a pawn (or a piece in a few of my efforts), but it is pretty rare to allow a mating attack starting on move 4. In this game from the current European Championship I suspect Black thought that 3... h6 would prevent 4.Ng5, but he missed the far stronger followup.

Trajkovski,Mile (2105) - Bytyqi,Gzim (1994) [B00]
20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 Skopje MKD (6.169), 24.03.2019

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 b6 2. Bc4 Bb7 3. Nf3 h6 4. Bxf7+ Kxf7 5. Ne5+ Ke6 6. Qf3 Kxe5 7. d4+ Kxd4 8. Be3+ Kc4 9. Qe2+ Kb4 10. a3+ 1-0

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