Show me your checkmates where the last move was a pawn move. It will please me.

P.S. promotions don't count.

My favorite pawn mate is apparently ...h6+ with black! Here's a trifecta:

Damiano Destruction:

Turns out I have quite a few. In these first three, mate is forced in each one with a pawn, but my opponent resigned before it actually happened.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
My favorite pawn mate is apparently ...h6+ with black!

What better way to end your first tournament game than with a pawn mate?

My favourite one, and against a much higher rated player at that time:

Nice game 🙂

I really like that one Gatusso.

The 1400 DB has over 6,000 pawn mates, most are in the ending.
Here are 7 ten moves or under starting with the shortest game (so far).

Degenerate - matzdr. RHP 18.02.2009

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.Bc4 Nb6 4.Bb3 d6 5.Qf3 Nc6 6.Qxf7+ Kd7 7.e6 mate.



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bugatti - Ciccone. RHP 01.12.2009

1.d4 e6 2.c4 h6 3.Nf3 c5 4.e3 f6 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Bg6+ Ke7 7.d5 Ne5 8.d6 mate.



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valera0000 - sameeh. RHP 21.12.2007

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.Nc3 Nxc3 5.dxc3 d5 6.Bb5+ Nd7 7.e6 a6
8.Ne5 axb5 9.exf7 mate.



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FelixMc - Xanadu777. RHP 01.03.2005

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.e5 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Qe7 6.a3 Nxe5 7.Ke2 Nc4+
8.Kd3 Nxb2+ 9.Kxd4 Nf6 10.Qe1 c5 mate.



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Welsh Witch - 8D. RHP 23.04.2008

1.e4 c5 2.f4 e5 3.f5 Qh4+ 4.g3 Qxe4+ 5.Be2 Qxh1 6.Kf2 Qxh2+ 7.Kf3 e4+
8.Kg4 Nf6+ 9.Kf4 Qh6+ 10.Ke5 d6 mate.



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Fleabitten - desertdog85. RHP 17.12.2008

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Nxe5 fxe5 4.Qh5+ Ke7 5.Qxe5+ Kf7 6.Bc4+ Kg6 7.Qf5+ Kh6
8.d3+ Qg5 9.Bxg5+ Kh5 10.g4 mate.



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Buffoon - sameeh. RHP 24.09.2009

1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nc6 3.Nf3 e5 4.Bc4 h6 5.d3 Na5 6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Nxe5+ Kf6
8.Qh5 d6 9.Qf7+ Kxe5 10.f4 mate.



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mrdougie - Hamish McLobbie. RHP 28.06.2010

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nb6 5.Bxf7+ Kxf7 6.Ng5+ Kg8 7.Qf3 Qe8
8.e6 Qg6 9.Qf7+ Qxf7 10.exf7 mate.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
The 1400 DB has over 6,000 pawn mates, most are in the ending.

It's my own private DB gathered over the two years I've been here.

You pool a team together and they go through the players cutting and pasting
their games. They send them to me and I run a wee program to delete the doublers.

Aaw, that sounds like work, I'll leave that to Russ...!

Still, love those super-miniatures.

today in the olympiads, teterev vs gagunashvil:

Does not happen very often for me, but here is one.

Game 6235072