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Blunders!

Sparks · 2013-09-16 17:18:38

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

16-09-2013 6:18pm

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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...

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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

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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