The common, quick mate against novices is a 4-move one. Morey seems to have done a delayed version of it. The quickest mate is a 2-move mate. I did it once against my brother, without even knowing it existed. I was always told the 4-move is the fastest.
And the Queen/ Bishop are out in no man's land with the middle undeveloped...pressure w/pawns/knights, etc. can then make it easy for an opponent to get out and get a foothold.
Its "possible" but its a total blunder .... No one who understand the game is going to move both the F & G Pawns as their first two moves. And that's the only way for it to occur.
Yep. and that's the reason we'd never heard of it. One of my oldest brothers peaked at 2200 master, and at the time (I think he was like 15), said "no way" that's not possible, until he looked at the board and repeated what you just said. Yes, total blunder by White, but at least I can say I saw the blunder and made the Once-in-a-Lifetime mate ....I think I was 11 or so. [edit] Morey moved 3 pawns, and both Knights. One of them twice. The Queen once and Bishop twice. We should be able to put that together
Interesting, as DM has needed to utilize an analogous variation in putting together this Rockets team without a rebuild per Les's charge.
White's C pawn is gone .... that first bishop move is capturing blacks D pawn. Probably started D4 , D5 , C4 , dxc4 , Na6 , e3 , f5 , Bxc4 putting the bishop on that in diagonal while increasing whites initiative advantage .... really blacks moves there appear pointless , like someone who knows how to move the pieces around but nothing more.
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I’m not so sure this is an 8-move mate. Yeah, my first quick look had something like you, but then I noticed Morey has lost a Knight and a pawn. I can’t see an 8 move mate. Here’s what we know 2 moves for the bishop 2 moves for the king side Knight (or 3 by other one). So for simplicity of counting let’s just say the e5 Knight is the king side on 2 moves. 1 move for the queen 2 moves at least for the pawns shown on the board That totals 7 moves we see That means out of the missing knight and pawn, one of them had to be taken without moving, and the capturing black piece has since moved out of that capture positron. Can you explain 7 known moves and two missing pieces, all within an 8-move mate. I think this is a 9-move mate But I’ve yet to look at this with a board, so trying to do it in my mind. How about you? Did Morey handicap himself and take his Queen Knight off the board to start?
youre doing excellent job brah, i am doing a lot chess games on time lately so i currently find my self hard to do any in detail analysis without being a time limit placed on it
