23 December 2014

Provoking Fritz to suicide

Here's an amusing little sequence from a game with Fritz.  The Gabridoodle falls behind but comes fighting back in true CHESS CLUB spirit.

Fritz pulls a clever bishop sacrifice with bxg3.  The Gabridoodle takes back with the f-pawn and promptly loses a rook to the discovered attack.  The Gabridoodle is now down the exchange and two pawns.

The Gabridoodle nevertheless soldiers on, moving his horse to c6 and then exchanging the rooks at f8.  Rightly or wrongly, he's determined to get his queen to e4.

The Gabridoodle uses his h-pawn to give Fritz's horse a kick and manoeuvres his queen to e4.

Next, the Gabridoodle strikes the fatal blow, using horsey to snaffle up the d4 pawn.

Fritz's queen can't take the horse and if he doesn't move the rook or king, the Gabridoodle's horse will hop to e2 and fork them fatally.  Whichever Fritz does, the Gabridoodle would then deliver instamate at g2. 

An alternative for Fritz would have been to send his queen to f2.  This at least would have guarded the crucial g2 square.  However, Fritz would have suffered the uncompensated loss of his rook and his queen would soon have been in difficulties after the Gabridoodle's horse went to d3.

So instead Fritz starts suicidally flailing...

...and then some !

Fritz finally eliminates the instamate threat by sacrificing his queen for the Gabridoodle's bishop.  Roar.

Moar roaring: the Gabridoodle was so worked up at this point that he missed the obvious mate, queen takes horse.  Instead it was horse takes horse.  Fritz resigns all the same.

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