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| | | (1) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Friday, Jan 14, 2011 11:35] | Post your model mate!
"Model mate" in the Bohemian sense of course :-)
This one goes out to all OTB players.
It's rather hard to find typical problem motifs in practical
play, while not impossible. (Books have been written on
that theme, y'know.)
In any case, I just recently played a wonderful combination
resulting in a model mate:
 (= 10+10 )
Of course any attack on Se4, the last nail of the white position, with
Qc6,Qe6,Qg6,f5 or whatever will surely win, but there is a more
spectacular solution.
(Can you beat this? After all the bK doesn't play :-)
Hauke
| | | (2) Posted by Michael McDowell [Friday, Jan 14, 2011 18:34] |
Have a look at item 6660 on Edward Winter's Chess Notes site.
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter72.html
| | | (3) Posted by Joose Norri [Saturday, Jan 15, 2011 03:57] |
In his book "Damen sind Luxus" Wolfgang Heidenfeld described the game Kiss-Barcza (see link above) as "perhaps the most beautiful mate ever to occur in a game". OK, not a model...
| | | (4) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Saturday, Jan 15, 2011 05:36]; edited by Sarah Hornecker [11-01-15] |
Let's not forget Runau vs. Schmidt (not Peter Schmidt, as chessgames.com announces!) which also would count with wPa4 instead of c4. But, with the great combination beforehand, one can't have everything.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1507516
For more on Ralf Runau (later Ralf Marian), see here:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=116859
| | | (5) Posted by Geir Sune Tallaksen Østmoe [Friday, Feb 8, 2013 14:08] |
I can think of at least three games I played which ended in a model mate (not counting my early-career games where my opponents would play until mate with KRvK!), but none of them as nice as yours. Of those, this is the best one (White to play):
 (= 9+10 )
I came very close with this one (Black to play):
 (= 6+7 )
If only I did not have that irritating h6 pawn, this would have been a model mate in which all Black pieces participate - and in addition, there is only one way to win from the diagram position, making it truly study-like. When the pawn is there, it is not even a model mate. Sigh...
| | | (6) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Friday, Feb 8, 2013 16:56] |
Neat. I won't complain about the Ph6 :-)
| | | (7) Posted by Geir Sune Tallaksen Østmoe [Saturday, Mar 23, 2013 12:51]; edited by Geir Sune Tallaksen Østmoe [13-03-23] |
I just realized I forgot to post my best model mate opportunity, which unfortunately I did not find OTB. I was Black in the following position (the queenside pieces may not be 100% correct, I cannot find the game score anymore):
 (= 11+10 )
I had thought that my attack was irresistible, but I missed my opponent's last move, Rf1-f4, and got so frustrated by all the lines that almost work, that I missed the one combination that actually would have won.
There is more to this diagram than the combination and the resulting model mate. This is the only occasion I have experienced where I literally found the winning continuation in my sleep. A week after I played this game, I was dreaming that I was analyzing this game, and then I found the winning combination. When I woke up, I thought it was too unprobable to be true, but I found the game score, played through the game and found that the combination would have worked.
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