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Blunders!

  • 16-09-2013 5:18pm
    #1
    Sparks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭


    Saw this on chess.com and thought it should be shared for all of us non-gods of the chessboard :)

    Checkmate in one!
    Last week we discussed the game where Russian Super Grandmaster Evgeny Tomashevsky missed a checkmate in one. Of course that was a special situation where a draw was enough for him to win the match and qualify for the next round, but in general, how often do Grandmasters miss a checkmate in one? More often than you might think!
    Let me start with my own game...

    continues...
    Kramnik, Anand and others, all missing simple checkmate-in-one moves in there, well worth the read to help salve wounded pride from horrible blundered losses :D

    Also, the Puzzles of the Month article in this DHLC newsletter is worth reading for the same thing - missed hanging queens, missed knight forks of king and queen in endgames, missed mate-in-two, the works - and played by Alkehine and Fischer and others...


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