Dear FM Graif , nice games, and thanks for sharing so many great ideas for so long. In your rapid game at 1:32:35 black had a nice forcing mating attack with Qb6+ that could EVEN have played out as a spectacular Philidor mate (smothered mate). It amazes me that it did not happen. WOW! And your opponent deserved to lose that game, even though you were so down to earth in regards to the out come. The chess deities do not forgive such transgressions. Missing a Philidor mate is an ultimate sin. (However going for Philidor mate is not the most accurate solution, as there is a faster mate by playing Nd1+ instead of Nh3+).
Dear FM Graif , nice games, and thanks for sharing so many great ideas for so long.
In your rapid game at 1:32:35 black had a nice forcing mating attack with Qb6+ that could EVEN have played out as a spectacular Philidor mate (smothered mate). It amazes me that it did not happen. WOW!
And your opponent deserved to lose that game, even though you were so down to earth in regards to the out come. The chess deities do not forgive such transgressions. Missing a Philidor mate is an ultimate sin. (However going for Philidor mate is not the most accurate solution, as there is a faster mate by playing Nd1+ instead of Nh3+).
2 hours well spent.