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26... Bd7# is mate in three instead of 14. So why should we take 14 moves if we can mate in three?
I agree with phobetor, that Bd7 stood right out to me as a simple mate. Was it your aim to see how many consecutive checks you could put your opponent in before mate? If not the game could had been finished a few times
Yes this ia mate in 2 moves instead of 14. big crab
Phobetor wrote: And of course 25... Qh3# is even faster lol.
Qh3 isn´t checkmate...
You make the dutch people silly
it is mate. that post confused me because I was looking for h3 backwards. 25... Qh3 is mate.
I guess the point of this puzzle is to take as much time giving checks before giving a check-mate
I know I could have mated earlier, but I thought it would be fun to play a little "cat and mouse" game instead of ending it sooner, since it wansn't a "serious" game.
This being said, I could have made even more than 14 checks, for example, I could have played 39 Rd7 and only mated on move 40, but that felt like a "cheap" way to increase the number of checks
tonydal wrote: Increasing the number of checks is only increasing the possible number of loopholes.
Thanks for the advice. The thing is that I'm not very good at thinking many moves ahead. Therefore, I found this to be a quite decent opportunity to practise just that. Even if I trew away my win, it really didn't mattered to me, since it wasn't a competitive game
Hope you enjoy... I realize that there were many more ways to mate
Find all 14 checks leading to mate