Chess: Worst games played....please no names...

[Darth Tater]

As far as things I'd like to see...short, quick and blowout games where oneside has a pusle, but one side is jsut short the plastic thingy of a six pack. Enjoy!

I've got two favorties:

1 e4, d5
2 exd5, Qxd5
3 Ke2??????????, Qe4#

Hang on it gets worse...

In a postal game
1 d4, g6 sent with the "If any, 2...Bg7" attachment.
2 Bh6, Bg7
3 Bxg7 ...

And the rook will fall as well.

Anyone else?

[RedSoxFan]

Not that this has actually happened but the quickest possible mate is 1 f3 e5 2 g4 Qh4++

[BC]

I achieved "scholar's mate" against my little brother once.

IIRC:

1 e4 e5
2 b5 b4
3 h5 Nf6
4 Qxf7

[RedSoxFan]

I achieved "scholar's mate" against my little brother once.

IIRC:

1 e4 e5
2 b5 b4
3 h5 Nf6
4 Qxf7

I assume you mean 2 Bb5 and 3 Qh5, and probably 2...Bb4

[BC]

Thanks... what I meant to say was, "Push the King Pawns, cross the bishops, the white queen to the rook file, threaten it with the knight, and then snarf the kings-bishop-pawn for mate. Somewhere between my thinking and the algebraic notation I got mixed up.

[Darth Tater]

Another one recently played.......

1 d2-d4 Ng8-f6
2 Bc1-f4 e7-e6
3 e2-e3 Nf6-h5
4 Qd1xh5 Black resigns

[Hagbard Celine]

When you say "Worst games played," I assume you mean you are on the winning side. If that's the case, I have no games to post! :P

If it's not the case, I'm sure I could dig up a few I played against you! :oops: :wink:

The correspondence guy you played must have been so annoyed to see that! I bet he never makes a conditional move like that again!

[DblDownTrent]

I'm sure a few of my games will make it into this thread.

[Darth Tater]

I asked that posted games do not include names.

You can post what you will...

[Ebenezer Kohl]

My worst here: Hanging my bishop against RSF in Season 2. :shake: I could have sworn I had a pawn defense on it.

Most upsetting: Learning about stalemate after cleaning the board with this one dude.

I find it much easier to remember the games I lose. :shake:

[Will Durant]

I have dropped my Queen in two different games here. :duh: :duh:

[Mel-o-rama]

I just played a game where I won the dude's queen, and then I proceeded to lose. Just call me Tom Dooley. Oops - I forgot - no names. (Oh well-ah well-ah)

[Hagbard Celine]

Mel, I did the same thing on Yahoo once. He hung his Queen and asked for an undo. I didn't grant it. :evil: He got mad and called me a jerk or something. 10 moves later or so, I hung my Queen! :oops:

He ended up winning. DOH!

And, to trump Will Durant, I hung my Queen in 2 consecutive games against ZV. Like he needed the help... :roll:

[Mick Fan]

My favorite beginner's mistake in the opening (I've gotten people on this more than once in the last few months) is:


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4 4. Qe2 Nf6 5. Nc6+

winning the queen, and for all intents and purposes, the game.

It's amazing how easily some people fall for this one. 8-)

[Darth Tater]

My favorite beginner's mistake in the opening (I've gotten people on this more than once in the last few months) is:


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4 4. Qe2 Nf6 5. Nc6+

winning the queen, and for all intents and purposes, the game.

It's amazing how easily some people fall for this one. 8-)

(*Note to self: When playing black against MickFan, be extra careful!!!!*)

[Mel-o-rama]

My favorite beginner's mistake in the opening (I've gotten people on this more than once in the last few months) is:


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4 4. Qe2 Nf6 5. Nc6+

winning the queen, and for all intents and purposes, the game.

It's amazing how easily some people fall for this one. 8-)
Cool. Now you won't be able to get me. hee hee! :P
Nice little trap though, I might have to consider it myself.

[RedSoxFan]

My favorite beginner's mistake in the opening (I've gotten people on this more than once in the last few months) is:


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4 4. Qe2 Nf6 5. Nc6+

winning the queen, and for all intents and purposes, the game.

It's amazing how easily some people fall for this one. 8-)

(*Note to self: When playing black against MickFan, be extra careful!!!!*)

Since when do you play anything other than the french?

[Hagbard Celine]

Since when do you play anything other than the french?

:lol:

He's played it so much that I find myself playing it a lot now!

[Darth Tater]

Since when do you play anything other than the french?

Shhhhhhhh!

I could change....to maybe the Vulture or, dare I say, the Sicilian??!!?!?!?

Though, the French stands it's ground pretty well so far....... 8-)

[Gandalf]

From some of these games, if you just told us the player's name, I think we could lynch EC1 now. :P

[BC]

From some of these games, if you just told us the player's name, I think we could lynch EC1 now. :P

Well, EC1 isn't my brother :)

[Jonas Grumby]

Since when do you play anything other than the french?

Shhhhhhhh!

I could change....to maybe the Vulture or, dare I say, the Sicilian??!!?!?!?

Though, the French stands it's ground pretty well so far....... 8-)

I read about the Vulture recently on chesscafe.com, it was pretty entertaining. But I'm opting for the Mokele Mbembe!

[Werewolf]

My favorite beginner's mistake in the opening (I've gotten people on this more than once in the last few months) is:


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4 4. Qe2 Nf6 5. Nc6+

winning the queen, and for all intents and purposes, the game.

It's amazing how easily some people fall for this one. 8-)

That's why I don't play Petrov's Defense.

[Mel-o-rama]

From some of these games, if you just told us the player's name, I think we could lynch EC1 now. :P

Well, EC1 isn't my brother :)

Now I'm totally confused! On another thread, doesn't EC1 refer to the infamous undecidable hypothesis that there is no degree of infinity between aleph-0 and aleph-1?

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

[BC]

From some of these games, if you just told us the player's name, I think we could lynch EC1 now. :P

Well, EC1 isn't my brother :)

Now I'm totally confused! On another thread, doesn't EC1 refer to the infamous undecidable hypothesis that there is no degree of infinity between aleph-0 and aleph-1?

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

Yes, but he mis-named it. He thought it was the Riemann Hypothesis. I corrected him and explained that it is actually the Continuum Hypothesis.

[Mick Fan]

My favorite beginner's mistake in the opening (I've gotten people on this more than once in the last few months) is:


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4 4. Qe2 Nf6 5. Nc6+

winning the queen, and for all intents and purposes, the game.

It's amazing how easily some people fall for this one. 8-)

That's why I don't play Petrov's Defense.

Never played it as Black, either. Once white moves 4. Qe2, the knight will fall, because 4. ... d5 5. d3 and the Black knight can't move because of Nc6+.

Beginners usually play it to try to be symmetrical to White.

[BC]

There's actually a "symmetrical" checkmate, I think; takes about 15-20 moves, the last 2 are the only ones that aren't mirror images (forced by check and checkmate)

[Mel-o-rama]

BC: I remember a problem presented in a book. You're white and black is forced to mirror every move you make. What is the quickest checkmate you can produce? I want to say that the quickest was somewhere around 8 moves, and it takes awhile to figure it out. But apparently, there's only one quickest way to do it. When I figured it out, it matched the solution in the back of the book (with the exception of possible transpositions). I wonder - how did that checkmate go?

One clue: You're not allowed to check the king till the end unless the mirroring move blocks the check (eg. Qe2+ Qe7 is valid).

[Darth Tater]

I think it can be done in less moves.

Here is a 4 move solution: 1 d4 d5 2 Qd3 Qd6 3 Qh3 Qh6 4 Qxc8#.

There is one other solution (shown below) starting with 1 d4.

And there is a solution that begins with a move other than 1 d4.

Here are the other two solutions: 1 d4 d5 2 Qd3 Qd6 3 Qf5 Qf4 4 Qxc8# and 1 c4 c5 2 Qa4 Qa5 3 Qc6 Qc3 4 Qxc8#.

[Mel-o-rama]

Okay, I'm remembering more. I think the 8 move symmetric mate problem requires that you move only pawns. Try that out!

[Darth Tater]

Okay, I'm remembering more. I think the 8 move symmetric mate problem requires that you move only pawns. Try that out!

Suuuuuuuure, post a problem, and when someone solves it, change the rules...typical... :shake:

[Mel-o-rama]

Hey what do you expect? I gave the book back to the person I was borrowing it from (after I sneezed all over it, of course). This is all from memory. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

Oh, so do you have an answer yet?

[RedSoxFan]

Okay, I'm remembering more. I think the 8 move symmetric mate problem requires that you move only pawns. Try that out!

1 f4 f5 2 e4 e5 3 d4 d5 4 c4 c5 5 fxe5 fxe4 6 dxc5 dxc4 7 e6 e3 8 c6 c3 9 e7 e2 10 c7 c2 11 cxd8=q++

11 is the best I can do!

The only way to deliver the checkmate is to promote to a queen (other wise the queen could capture the pawn delivering the check, thus violating the symmetrical rule and the pawn move only rule), with that queen being protected by another pawn (so the king can't capture the promoted queen). The only way to get your pawns to e7 and c7 is to use a pawn and capture to that file (otherwise you can't get around the opponent pawn on that file).

Unless I'm missing something!

[Mel-o-rama]

Now I've intrigued myself. I can't remember the solution, but I remember that the last move was either a capture or a regular pawn advancement on the seventh rank, and no promotion. I also remember getting frustrated trying to figure out how to get around the opponent's pawn, then I had a eureka moment. I'm going to try to solve this myself. Maybe next time I'll make sure to know the solution to a problem before I pose it.

[RedSoxFan]

Now I've intrigued myself. I can't remember the solution, but I remember that the last move was either a capture or a regular pawn advancement on the seventh rank, and no promotion. I also remember getting frustrated trying to figure out how to get around the opponent's pawn, then I had a eureka moment. I'm going to try to solve this myself. Maybe next time I'll make sure to know the solution to a problem before I pose it.

Aha! I got it!

1 h4 h5 2 g4 g5 3 hxg5 hxg4 4 g6 g3 5 e4 e5 6 d4 d5 6 dxe5 dxe4 7 e6 e3 8 gxf7++