RHP Blitz

Queen sac:

comeback of the century!

two minute blitz comeback

1 min bullet traps... sacced my knight on move 18 setting a trap... he fell right into it too.

Originally posted by tomtom232
1 min bullet traps... sacced my knight on move 18 setting a trap... he fell right into it too.

[pgn][Event "Wijk aan Zee C Group"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2004.01.24"]
[EventDate "2004.01.10"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Magnus Carlsen"]
[Black "Sipke Ernst"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2484"]
[BlackElo "2474"]
[PlyCount "57"]

...[text shortened]... 25. Rd3
Rd6 26. Rg3+ Rg6 27. Qe5+ Kxf7 28. Qf5+ Rf6 29. Qd7# 1-0[/pgn]

nice one minute massacre

Five min game only used 28 seconds though... mate patterns are helping my blitz game out tremendously. This is also why I like blitz because many mating patterns occur in every game and they get ground into your head.

Originally posted by tomtom232
[pgn]
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bd3 Nbd7 4. Be3 c6 5. Ne2 e5 6. dxe5 dxe5 7. O-O Bc5 8. Nbc3 Bxe3 9. fxe3 O-O 10. Rf3 Qb6 11. Qd2 Nc5 12. Raf1 Bg4 13. Rxf6 gxf6 14. Rxf6 Kg7 15. Rf2 Ne6 16. h3 Bh5 17. Rf5 Bg6 18. Rf2 f6 19. Ng3 Rad8 20. Nf5+ Bxf5 21. Rxf5 Ng5 22. Qf2 Qc7 23. Qg3 Qe7 24. h4 h6 25. hxg5 hxg5 26. Be2 Rh8 27. Nd1 Rh4 28. Nf2 Rdh8 29. Ng4 Rh1+ 30. Kf2 R1h4 31. Nxf6 Rf8 32. Qxg5+ Kf7 33.Nd5+ Ke6 34.Qxe7[/pgn]

Originally posted by sonhouse
Tom Sawyer?

Originally posted by sonhouse
Tom Sawyer?

Originally posted by kopatov
Isn't that the dude from Huckleberry Finn?

When someone showed me this queen sac just over two years ago, I vowed that one day I would play it myself. That day turned out to be today: