Famous chechmates

This article contains a list of the famous chechmate S of the Jeu of failures.

To kiss death

The kiss of death is one of the chechmates simplest to implement, since it uses the power of the lady, protected by another part, to block all the exits of the unfavourable king.

Chechmate with choked

The chechmates with choked are the chechmates where the boxes of escape of the king are occupied by other parts of the same color. One generally speaks about chechmate with choked when it is the rider which puts the king in failure. The oldest known mention of one chechmate with choked goes back to Lucena:

Lucena proposes the following combination of chechmate:

1. Dc4+ Rh8 (If 1. … Rf8 2. Df7#) 2. Cf7+ Rg8 3. Ch6+ Rh8 (Rf8 loses same manner) 4. Dg8+! Txg8 5. Cf7#

Chechmate of Anastasie

One can meet this chechmate after having sacrificed a part on unfavourable castling. It is characterized by the rider blocking the exits of the king on the second or seventh column, and the lathe or the lady subduing on the column of the king.

Chechmate of Anderssen

Chechmate of Boden

The chechmate of Boden follows the following diagram:

It holds its name of the player Samuel Boden who provides the oldest known example of it, in London in 1853 against Schuler. Esteban Canal gave of it an illustration known at the time of a simultaneous part, in Budapest in 1934:

Last played blow: 10. … 0-0-0??

With the white parts directed towards the wing rams, the queen-side castling is already risky. Channel even shows that it is about a fatal error:

11. axb4! Dxa1+ 12. Rd2! Dxh1 (Channel sacrifices its two turns to deviate the black lady. All is now in place for the chechmate of Boden.) 13. Dxc6+! bxc6 14. Fa6#

This part remained famous for the sacrifices which are carried out there, and is known under the name of immortal Péruvienne .

Chechmate of Blackburne

Chechmate of Greco

Chechmate of Damiano

Chechmate of Legall

It is about a chechmate played in opening, it stresses the importance of the development in the open plays.

Its name comes from its author, lord de Legall, at the time of a part which opposed it to Saint-Brie in 1750:

1. e4 e5
2. Fc4 d6
3. Cf3 Fg4 the blacks think of nailing the rider blanc
4. Cc3 g6
5. Cxe5! The white are unaware of the nailing of the cavalier
5. … Fxd1?? The continuation is forced:
6. Fxf7+ Re7
7. Cd5#

Chechmate of Lolli

Published, with a hundred of other ends of parts, in the Os teorico-pratiche it will sopra giuoco degli scacchi (Bologna, 1763), had with the feather of the Italian theorist Giambattista Lolli (1698-1769).

Chechmate of the Opera

The chechmate of the Opera is the completion of the part of the same name, the Partie the opera , in reference to the opera of Paris, where she was played in 1858. She opposes Paul Morphy to two amateurs of a good level, the Duke Charles II of Brunswick and the Count Isouard, and is often presented to teaching ends.

Last played blow: 12. … Td8

13. Txd7 Txd7 14. Td1 De6 15. Fxd7+ Cxd7 If 15. … Dxd7, then 16. Db8+ Re7 17. Dxe5+ Rd8 18. Fxf6+ gxf6 19. Dxf6+ Rc8 20. Txd7 Rxd7 21. Dxh8 and the white are gaining 16. Db8+! Morphy finishes with a splendid sacrifice of lady: 16. … Cxb8 17. Td8#

See also: The part with format PGN

Chechmate of Mayet

The chechmate of Mayet combines the action of insane and a tower to subdue a king who is castling on the side of a fianchetto.

Chechmate of Morphy

Chechmate of Pillsbury

Chechmate of Réti

The chechmate of Réti generally meets after the blows of opening, when the central pawns were exchanged. In general, it consists in sacrificing the lady to then subdue the king with a tower and insane. The following example is drawn from a part played in 1910 between Réti and Tartakover in 1910 with Vienna:

The white come from roquer. The blacks play then: 8. … Cxe4?? The continuation is automatic: 9. Dd8+! Rxd8 10. Fg5+ Rc7 11. Fd8#

See also: The part with format PGN

Arab chechmate

Chechmate of the shoulder pads

This chechmate is thus qualified because of the parts located on both sides of the king, such of the shoulder pads, and which block the boxes of escape to him:

See also: chechmate of the pedestal table

Chechmate of the Calabrian

Standard fictitious position:

Combination:

1. Fxh7+! Rxh7

2. Cg5+ Rg8

3. Dh5 Te8

4. Dxf7+ Rh8

5. Dh5+ Rg8

6. Dh7+ Rf8

7. Dh8+ Re7

8. Dxg7#

Final diagram:

Chechmate of the corridor

Chechmate of the pedestal table

The chechmate of the pedestal table is an alternative of the chechmate of the shoulder pads:

Chechmate of the stupid one

The chechmate of stupid, otherwise called Chechmate of the lion or chechmate of the imbecile, is the shortest possible chechmate with the failures. It is called thus because it is not a question of a combination of chechmate, but of a succession of blows which suggests the co-operation of the white which are made subdue:

1. g4 e5 (or e6) 2. f3 (or f4) Dh4# 0-1

Semi-choked chechmate

The semi-choked chechmate is an alternative of the chechmate to choked the:

The white lady is sacrificed (Dh7+). And Black answers by Cxh7.

White makes Cg6# then.

See too

Set of failures

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