Sudden death at move 8

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

The Englund gambit; sudden death at move 8: https://lichess.org/s7sidm3ZPHQs

https://tinyurl.com/sudden-death

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

Sudden death at move 8.

Happens.

Another one bit the dust. On move 8. Thanks to the feared Englund gambit.

https://lichess.org/zRU79Ql3yegy

Like a bolt from the blue.

https://tinyurl.com/sudden-death

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

And just now I had another customer for sudden death at move 8: https://lichess.org/4F0jfrSXrrSz

https://tinyurl.com/Englund-death

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

An 1800 met the Englund gambit, and bit the dust in 8 moves: https://lichess.org/XdaUb4aZ0uK6

https://tinyurl.com/poisoned-pawn

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

And 1864 met the Stafford gambit: https://lichess.org/yfroDzlWrRWn It wasn't a happy hook up. After a queen sacrifice a mate on move 8 followed.

https://tinyurl.com/Stafford-mate-8

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

Englund struck again: https://lichess.org/d36kfSl02BMy

Mate on move 8.

https://tinyurl.com/Englund-candle

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

I had another taker for a Stafford gambit with mate in 8. I sacrificed my queen, he jumped on her, I mated him in 2 moves.
In 8 moves it was all over.

https://is.gd/Stafford_sudden

[Eli Kesef]

https://lichess.org/5OnJtZh6Usb5

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

And another Stafford gambit, queen sacrifice followed by mate in 2 moves, on move 8: https://lichess.org/G63BGFYRKrRg

https://is.gd/Staff8techno

[Eli Kesef]

On Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 8:56:00 PM UTC+2, Eli Kesef wrote:
Bs"d

And another Stafford gambit, queen sacrifice followed by mate in 2 moves, on move 8: https://lichess.org/uL8QLNMTHerg

https://tinyurl.com/Stafford-8

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

An 1880 met the Stafford gambit.

On move 7 he took my queen.

Three ply later, on move 8, I mated him.

You got to love those trappy gambits.

https://tinyurl.com/Staff-Hein8

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

https://lichess.org/IPpQBFQKFaxi

[Ken Blake]

You've posted this game here umpteen times--perhaps against different
opponents, but it doesn't matter. Don't you think the very few others of
who lurk here might remember it by now?


--
Ken

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

If they remember? Doesn't matter. I just hope many more will follow!

If that somehow offends you then I advice you not to read this thread anymore.

Have a nice life.

https://is.gd/trappy_gamb

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

Another babe in the woods who fell victim to a Stafford gambit and went down on move 8: https://lichess.org/wVQdDkto6l9d

If it weren't so funny maybe I might feel sorry for 'm.

Well, maybe a little bit. :D

https://tinyurl.com/Staff-death-8

[Geeknix]

On 2021-02-28, Ken Blake <k...@invalidemail.com> wrote:
> On 2/28/2021 1:06 PM, Eli Kesef wrote:
>> On Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 9:55:33 PM UTC+2, Eli Kesef wrote:
>>
>> Bs"d
>>

>> https://lichess.org/IPpQBFQKFaxi
>
> You've posted this game here umpteen times--perhaps against different
> opponents, but it doesn't matter. Don't you think the very few others of
> who lurk here might remember it by now?

Still an enjoyable game to watch, I imagine what went through opponents
mind at mate!

--
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[Ken Blake]

On 4/15/2021 9:02 PM, Geeknix wrote:
> On 2021-02-28, Ken Blake <k...@invalidemail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/28/2021 1:06 PM, Eli Kesef wrote:
>>> On Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 9:55:33 PM UTC+2, Eli Kesef wrote:
>>>
>>> Bs"d
>>>
>>> https://lichess.org/IPpQBFQKFaxi
>>
>> You've posted this game here umpteen times--perhaps against different
>> opponents, but it doesn't matter. Don't you think the very few others of
>> who lurk here might remember it by now?
>
>
> Still an enjoyable game to watch, I imagine what went through opponents
> mind at mate!

Then save a copy of it and watch it as often as you want to--every day
if you'd like to. His posting the same games over and over and over
again is an imposition on the rest of us.


--
Ken

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

Well, the good news is; you don't have to watch this thread.

You don't like it, don't watch it.

It really is as simple as that.

No reason to whine about it.

https://tinyurl.com/castle-early

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

And I got another one!

Mate on move 8, after queen sacrifice: https://lichess.org/ijWLtzgfhUYo

The Stafford gambit is still going strong!

https://is.gd/Staff8techno

[Eli Kesef]

On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 7:03:04 AM UTC+3, Geeknix wrote:
> On 2021-02-28, Ken Blake <k...@invalidemail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/28/2021 1:06 PM, Eli Kesef wrote:
> >> On Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 9:55:33 PM UTC+2, Eli Kesef wrote:
> >>
> >> Bs"d
> >>
> >> https://lichess.org/IPpQBFQKFaxi
> >
> > You've posted this game here umpteen times--perhaps against different
> > opponents, but it doesn't matter. Don't you think the very few others of
> > who lurk here might remember it by now?
> Still an enjoyable game to watch, I imagine what went through opponents
> mind at mate!

Bs"d

Judging by their facial expressions, it are no happy feelings that go through there minds when they get mated out of the blue within 10 moves.

I remember the stunned expression on the face of the enemy when he went mate on move 7. :D

Here a post that I already posted in the thread "Opening traps are killers", but it illustrates the point so nicely, that I'll repeat it here:

"So today on my rest day I played some over the board games. In six games I only blundered once, or that is the most that I and my opponent noticed. That resulted in a sudden mate, but that was the only one of 6 games that I lost, so it was 5-1 for me.
That's the way I like it.

I played the same guy I played a few weeks ago, a serious chess player, active on Lichess, and he practices tactics on Chess.com.
He doesn't do opening traps, because, he says, you end up in bad positions when the opponent doesn't fall for your traps.

Fortunately, I was able to impress upon him the importance of studying opening traps, even when you don't want to play them yourself. Then you still need the knowledge in order to prevent yourself from falling into the traps of the opponent.

i drove that point home in the first game, where I was black. He started with white to play an Italian opening, and I used the opportunity to release upon him a Blackburn-Shilling trap.
He swallowed the poisoned pawn, hook, line, and sinker.
I did my thing, my thing being queen g5, after which he forked my queen and castle by smacking his horse in on f7.
And that is the worst line for the opponent there is.
It resulted in the totally unexpected smothered mate on move 7.

With a stunned expression on his face he said: “That was fast….”

Chess is a cruel game. https://tinyurl.com/Nigel-kill

It was an over the board game, but here is an old Lichess game which went exactly the same: https://lichess.org/oGkbGfME/black#14

Opening traps are killers"

I'll never get tired of those baffled faces when I tell them "Mate!" on move 7 or 9. And in a rare case, on move 5. :D

They are shocked!

https://tinyurl.com/Blackburn-trap

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

If you want to see for yourself what such a shocked face looks like, then there is no other solution then that you start playing opening traps.

It is a lot of fun to play them. Go for it!

https://tinyurl.com/beerklem

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

Got another taker for a sudden death on move 8. The Stafford Gambit did it again: https://lichess.org/V3uyr0v6CuH6

Playing now under another name. Tallybloodyho went over 2000, and I'm afraid to mess up that rating.

https://lichess.org/V3uyr0v6CuH6

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

Got another taker for sudden death at move 8. A bit weird move order, but in the end it came out exactly as the usual Stafford gambit.

The enemy took my queen, two moves later I took his king: https://lichess.org/ZvBw5i6ONYbr

Life is funny with opening traps!

https://tinyurl.com/Staff-Hein8

[Eli Kesef]

Bs¨d

And yet another innocent victim fell prey to the ruthless Stafford gambit and died on move eight: https://lichess.org/IdjD12MRD6Af

https://tinyurl.com/Staff-death-8

[Ken Blake]

That game look very familiar. I think I must have seen it once or twice,
or a few hundred times before.

Stop posting the same games over and over over again!


--
Ken

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

If it irritates you, then stop reading the same games over and over again!

https://tinyurl.com/kind-o-chess

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

Got another Sudden Death on move 8. After a queen sacrifice. This time no Stafford gambit, but the mate of Legal: https://lichess.org/cgqOdDQJ6waN

Technically, you can play it in 7 moves, as it is spelled out on the T-shirt below. But here, because there was a horse on c6, I had to squeeze in the move h3, to make sure that I would not lose a piece, but have at minimum a pawn profit. So the extra move made it a sudden death on move 8.

https://tinyurl.com/mate-Legal

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

Sudden death on move 8: https://lichess.org/Mzr2IZQgyfMr

Mwuahahahahahahaha!!!

It just doesn't get boring!

https://is.gd/Staff8techno

[Ken Blake]

On 10/30/2021 2:12 PM, Eli Kesef wrote:
> Bs"d
>
> Sudden death on move 8: https://lichess.org/Mzr2IZQgyfMr
>
> Mwuahahahahahahaha!!!
>
> It just doesn't get boring!

You couldn't be more wrong.


--
Ken

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

I mean of course for me.

https://tinyurl.com/dashing-gambit

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

So I moved back from the Budapest gambit back to the Englund gambit, and I'm glad I did, because I just had another mate on move 8: https://lichess.org/NDMcOTb7dsce

https://tinyurl.com/Englund-pipe

[Ken Blake]

On 11/30/2021 7:40 AM, Eli Kesef wrote:
> Bs"d
>
> So I moved back from the Budapest gambit back to the Englund gambit, and I'm glad I did, because I just had another mate on move 8: https://lichess.org/NDMcOTb7dsce

An amazing game! I've never seen anything like that before.

But maybe you have.

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

https://tinyurl.com/black-smile

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

And another sudden death on move 8. No Englund gambit, no Stafford gambit, but a mate of Legal: https://lichess.org/JnsYDSII3n7Z

There is an unlearned chess player born every minute. :D

https://tinyurl.com/queen-sac-striking

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

And another sudden death on move 8. No Stafford gambit, no mate of Legal, but a juicy Englund gambit: https://lichess.org/SezWlrT1n6L9

And 1800 bit the dust before the game had really started.

There is an unlearned chess player born every minute. :D

https://tinyurl.com/Englund-bdm

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

At the moment they are dropping like flies with the good old Englund gambit. Here an 1877 who fell victim to an orthodox Englund gambit: https://lichess.org/HIV7vX7lnrL6

Are they never going to learn??

https://tinyurl.com/Englund-candle

[Ken Blake]

On 12/11/2021 11:25 AM, Eli Kesef wrote:
> Bs"d
>
> At the moment they are dropping like flies with the good old Englund gambit. Here an 1877 who fell victim to an orthodox Englund gambit: https://lichess.org/HIV7vX7lnrL6

IT was great to see that! Any more examples of your playing the same
games over and over and over and over? I can't wait to see them again.

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

I'm sorry, right at this moment I don't have anything fresh, but as soon as I have I'll make sure to post it right here for you!

I aim to please. :D

https://tinyurl.com/gent-man

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

OK Ken, got one again! A sudden death on move 8. The taker was an 1805, the culprit a Stafford gambit. Oh, those Stafford gambits....

Here he is: https://lichess.org/UAWcgnXvcdB9

Enjoy!

https://tinyurl.com/stafff-8

[Ken Blake]

Here's a game I played and won, years and years ago:

1. e4 e5
2. Bc4 Bc5
3. Qh5 Nc6
4. Qxf7++

I hope you like this game, and are impressed by my skills, because I
played it many times against many different players, and I'm going to
post all the examples of my playing it over and over and over again,
just in case you forget it.

Enjoy!

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

Thanks Ken for sharing that golden oldie with us. I love miniatures! They are SÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓ funny! :))))))))) Great to see how you are going for the jugular on move 3!

But I prefer to get the games in PGN, or, even better, as a Lichess link. For the convenience of all the readers I made a Lichess link out of it: https://lichess.org/GBrnVyFx#7

It is just that a mate in 4 doesn't fit under the heading: "Sudden death on move 8". Maybe next time post them under "Miniatures are the best". Or, if you have a lot of 'm, we can make a new thread: "Sudden death on move 4" or something like that. That'll be fun!

Nothing more humoristic then seeing somebody going mate in 4!

Go for it Ken!

https://tinyurl.com/gloeiogen

[William Hyde]

Two books you might like, DuMont's "Two hundred miniature games of chess" and Chernev's "1000 best short games
of chess". The annotations are better in the DuMont, but who needs annotations with games like these?

William Hyde

[Ken Blake]

I had the Chernev book years ago. It's long gone now, and I don't
remember what happened to it. It was never one of my favorites.

[William Hyde]

Chernev's quality is fairly middle-of-the-road with a few exceptions. Never bad, though.

My copy of Du Mont fell apart decades ago, but I recall it as being a better book.


William Hyde

[Ken Blake]

Yes, I agree. I also remember "The Fireside Book of Chess" which he
wrote with Reinfeld. I think that was the first chess book I owned
(bought around 1953), and I liked it a lot in those days.

I just checked and I see that I still have a copy of "Winning Chess"
which he also wrote with Reinfeld. I still think that's an excellent
book for a beginner or even intermediate player to study.

I'm not sure, but I think I perhaps met him once. He might have been the
tournament director at the 1956 US Junior Championship I played in; my
memory of it is hazy.

I never played against him, though.

[William Hyde]

On Friday, December 31, 2021 at 6:56:22 PM UTC-5, Ken Blake wrote:
> On 12/31/2021 4:26 PM, William Hyde wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 30, 2021 at 6:55:29 PM UTC-5, Ken Blake wrote:
> >> On 12/30/2021 4:39 PM, William Hyde wrote:
>
> >> > Two books you might like, DuMont's "Two hundred miniature games of chess" and Chernev's "1000 best short games
> >> > of chess". The annotations are better in the DuMont, but who needs annotations with games like these?
> >> I had the Chernev book years ago. It's long gone now, and I don't
> >> remember what happened to it. It was never one of my favorites.
> >
> > Chernev's quality is fairly middle-of-the-road with a few exceptions. Never bad, though.
> Yes, I agree. I also remember "The Fireside Book of Chess" which he
> wrote with Reinfeld. I think that was the first chess book I owned
> (bought around 1953), and I liked it a lot in those days.

I took that one from the library many times. Fascinating book.

Is that the book in which there was an article on Elijah Willams? EW was a famously slow player, and the author hypothesized that this was due to the fact that he was "inventing" hypermodernism decades before it's time.

Of course Williams was a great player, but this article was an example of what we might call Staunton Derangement
Syndrome. These "hypermodern" systems (some still in use today) were played by, and largely invented by, Staunton, years before Williams arrived on the scene.

But as Staunton is seen as a great villain, sufferers from SDS (even so great a player as Fine) cannot imagine that he did anything worthwhile. I don't recall the actual author of this article, might be Chernev, Reinfeld, or neither.

William Hyde

[Ken Blake]

On 1/1/2022 5:36 PM, William Hyde wrote:
> On Friday, December 31, 2021 at 6:56:22 PM UTC-5, Ken Blake wrote:
>> On 12/31/2021 4:26 PM, William Hyde wrote:
>> > On Thursday, December 30, 2021 at 6:55:29 PM UTC-5, Ken Blake wrote:
>> >> On 12/30/2021 4:39 PM, William Hyde wrote:
>>
>> >> > Two books you might like, DuMont's "Two hundred miniature games of chess" and Chernev's "1000 best short games
>> >> > of chess". The annotations are better in the DuMont, but who needs annotations with games like these?
>> >> I had the Chernev book years ago. It's long gone now, and I don't
>> >> remember what happened to it. It was never one of my favorites.
>> >
>> > Chernev's quality is fairly middle-of-the-road with a few exceptions. Never bad, though.
>> Yes, I agree. I also remember "The Fireside Book of Chess" which he
>> wrote with Reinfeld. I think that was the first chess book I owned
>> (bought around 1953), and I liked it a lot in those days.
>
> I took that one from the library many times. Fascinating book.
>
> Is that the book in which there was an article on Elijah Willams?

Maybe, but if so, I don't remember it.

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

And yet another mate on move 8. The culprit was this time the Budapest gambit.
The enemy who was rated a healthy 1872 managed to avoid the main trap, so I had to fall back on another one. And that one worked like a charm, a smothered mate on move 8: https://lichess.org/iH7Pva8FHrRo

I would dare to say that this is even better than winning the queen for a bishop and a horse. Surely the shock effect must be much bigger than losing the queen for 2 pieces. One moment you're playing chess, next moment, out of the blue: WHAM!! You're mate!

https://tinyurl.com/Budapest8

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

This mate of Legal https://lichess.org/uIq3u52z8Z9J ended in a sudden death on move 8.

On move 6 I cried out: "Oh no!! My queen!!"

I was white, and moved my horse which was pinned by a black bishop on my queen. The black bishop, after long deliberation, took my queen.

Black must have been very happy with this ginormous material win. But, on move 8 black turned all white, because he was mate.

That'll teach him.

https://tinyurl.com/Legal-mate

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

The Budapest has hit hard and merciless again.

This is a very funny one, a mean trap, just now played it: https://lichess.org/2lHBpXknJ1ap 😀😀😀

https://tinyurl.com/mat8Buda

[Eli Kesef]

Bs"d

The Stafford gambit has hit hard and merciless again: https://lichess.org/mQSoEcy4F6d9

White had a big smile on his face when he took my queen. Unfortunately for him, 3 ply later he was mate. 😃😃😃

https://tinyurl.com/Staff-death-8

[Rich D]

On September 25, 2020, Eli Kesef wrote:
> The Englund gambit; sudden death at move 8: