anonymous, Yours is the better way, mine is much more complicated. There are a couple of other moves that black has that you didn’t indicate, but they still lead to an earlier mate than my mess.
Yeah, in a game that would be a big downfall, because if you sacrifice material then you have to calculate everything correctly or you lose. Luckily for this example my missed moves don’t lead to escapes by black. It’s really hard to see everything without moving the pieces. The way I do it is I try to focus only on the area of the board that is relevant (usually I can ignore irrelevant pawns but pieces that can travel far like the castle I try to pretend that they are closer to the action then they really are and this is okay because it does not matter where a bishop or castle is on the file or diagonal it can go to any square unoccupied in front of it). But the hardest part is erasing pieces in my mind that are captured and imagining a piece on the newly occupied square. Sometimes I forget that the old pieces have moved so when I stare at the board I do not think a piece can land on that square because I forgot I vacated it in my mind. Is it cheating in tournament chess to draw on your scoresheet chess diagrams and have an eraser? I guess so. Might be hard to enforce if you just draw dots for pieces with a fine pencil.
I bet superstars of chess don’t stare at the board and erase and draw new pieces when they stare at the board. Rather they reconstruct the position in their head so they do not have to look at the actual board whose pieces are all wrong after moves are played in the head.
Making notes of any kind is not allowed. In fact, it has recently been a hot debate topic whether or not a player is making notes if he/she writes down their intended move before making it(!)
One point is that people often write down (for example) ?xd7 to remind themselves to recapture on d7 for the Queen that just captured their queen… this can be (and is) considered taking notes.
It is sad that the rules have to be insanely explicit to account for the human nature to push the envelope…
I don’have any idea how the superstars of chess analyze their positions during a game. What I do know is that not one of them is human; except for Susan of course. I think it may be linked somehow to the new television series Invasion.
Rxf8+ (threat Qxe7++) Kxf8
Bh6+ Qxh6 (Kg8, then Nxe7+ followed by Rf1+ … Qf5, Qxf5++; whereas Kf7…Qxe7+…Kg8…Qf8++)
Rf1+ Kg8
Nxe7++
1.Ne7 Be7 [1…Qe6 2.Qa8 Qe7 (2…Ke7 3.Qf8#) 3.Bg5 Qg7 or 3…Qd6 4.Rf8+ Qf8 5.Qe5+ Kf7 (5…Qe7 6.Qe7#) 6.Rf1# Kg8 7.Rf8+ Kf8 8.Qf6 Kg8 (8…Ke8 9.Qe7#) 9.Bh6 Any 10.Qg7#] 2.Qh8+ Qg8 [2…Bf8 3.Qf8#]3.Qg8+ Bf8 4.Qf8#
anonymous, Yours is the better way, mine is much more complicated. There are a couple of other moves that black has that you didn’t indicate, but they still lead to an earlier mate than my mess.
Yeah, in a game that would be a big downfall, because if you sacrifice material then you have to calculate everything correctly or you lose. Luckily for this example my missed moves don’t lead to escapes by black. It’s really hard to see everything without moving the pieces. The way I do it is I try to focus only on the area of the board that is relevant (usually I can ignore irrelevant pawns but pieces that can travel far like the castle I try to pretend that they are closer to the action then they really are and this is okay because it does not matter where a bishop or castle is on the file or diagonal it can go to any square unoccupied in front of it). But the hardest part is erasing pieces in my mind that are captured and imagining a piece on the newly occupied square. Sometimes I forget that the old pieces have moved so when I stare at the board I do not think a piece can land on that square because I forgot I vacated it in my mind. Is it cheating in tournament chess to draw on your scoresheet chess diagrams and have an eraser? I guess so. Might be hard to enforce if you just draw dots for pieces with a fine pencil.
I bet superstars of chess don’t stare at the board and erase and draw new pieces when they stare at the board. Rather they reconstruct the position in their head so they do not have to look at the actual board whose pieces are all wrong after moves are played in the head.
Making notes of any kind is not allowed. In fact, it has recently been a hot debate topic whether or not a player is making notes if he/she writes down their intended move before making it(!)
One point is that people often write down (for example) ?xd7 to remind themselves to recapture on d7 for the Queen that just captured their queen… this can be (and is) considered taking notes.
It is sad that the rules have to be insanely explicit to account for the human nature to push the envelope…
I don’have any idea how the superstars of chess analyze their positions during a game. What I do know is that not one of them is human; except for Susan of course. I think it may be linked somehow to the new television series Invasion.
I am only a 1300 player, and usually struggle to get these, but does this work?
1. Nxe7 Bxe7
2. Qxh8+ Qg8
3. Qxg8+ Bf8
4. Qxf8#
Nxe7 Qg7
Rxf8+ Kxf8
Bh6 Qxh6
Qxh8+ Kxe7
and I don’t see anything for white
Nxe7 Qg7
Rxf8+ Kxf8
Bh6 Qxh6
Rf1+ Ke8
Ng6+ Kd8
Qe7++
Nxe7 Bg7
Nxg6+ Bxe5
Nxe5 and black is 2 pawns down
Almost anything is winning for white except taking the rook immediately, which loses to Qg7.