Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Crossing the board

There have been a couple of celebrated games where the Black king gets checkmated on the opposite side of the board. Normally a piece (or greater) sacrifice was involved and the king was frog marched to its doom. Most games I have seen take more than 20 moves before checkmate is achieved, but the following looks like some sort of record, in that Black is mated on e1 in only 15 moves. Unlike some other record setting games, this one does look legitimate, with Black just blundering in the open.


Abdel Aziz,Shehab (2116) - Tawfik,Neamet [C21]
Cairo op-B Cairo (1), 2000

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Nf3 c5 4. Bc4 Nc6 5. O-O h6 6. c3 Na5 7. Bxf7+ Kxf7 8. Ne5+ Kf6 9. Qh5 Ne7 10. Qf7+ Kxe5 11. Bf4+ Kxe4 12. Re1+ Kd3 13. Rd1+ Ke2 14. Rd2+ Ke1 15. Na3# 1-0

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