Nice (surprise) mates, a contest and a fun tournament at the usual time- results added

Dear chess fans,
since I am abroad this week with unsecure internet connection (being on a Greek island) and no time to calculate the season end standings I thought I postpone the last round by one week and do instead a fun tournament!
Every participant (min. 5 games played) will get one bonus point towards the ranking of S 20! So it is worth it to join!

It will be a 3+2 chess960 arena tournament over 60 minutes at the usual time (Friday, 19h GMT)!


The winner was @franu, followed by @rosmarly and @fcastro177 (and @giuatt07 and @justola1 with the same points)! Congratulations!

Final standings:
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Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/IR2sAo4k

As promised, @franu, @rosmarly, @fcastro177, @giuatt07, @justola1, @kintokris, @zacherybinx, @justfavour, @schamangerbert, @lighteye, @rodrook, @darruiz, @sammy00, @stranger27 and @fiona777 will get a point for their S20 ranking, which will be concluded this Friday! Watch out for the announcement tomorrow!

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Over the past months I have collected some surprising plot twists that ended the games rather abruptly😁. Have a look at the following positions and feel sorry for these opponents (or laugh about their naivity).

Let´s start with a mate pattern which is quite rare, isn´t it? How helpless the kings is, suffocated by his own rooks!! Black with his last move captured a piece from White with the Knight from f6 on h7, falling into the trap :)
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https://lichess.org/GD0yBCdC#41

Here Black is totally winning, but in his euphoria he did´t notice that with his last check on a3 he forced the White king to being part of a mating net for his Black counterpart. He had to move g5+ or Rh7, but made the slow move Rh3, going for a pointless pawn hunt, only to get surprise-mated with Rxf7#! Ouch!
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https://lichess.org/UaWZBBHq/white#101

Black´s last move allows here a nice mate in 2 - can you find it?
White to move, mate in 2:
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https://lichess.org/iZMpdmE9/white#64

A check is always good, right? Well, not really. In this case after White´s check on f1 I was able to answer with Bf2#! The bishop is hanging but White had no time to grab it as the game has ended 😄. A checkmate is for sure the best way to answer a check, but only rarely it happens (by the way on this site you can check for your games on lichess if you ever made it).
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https://lichess.org/qUowWhCx/black#62

Speaking of the "Rosen score", my fastest checkmate was in 3 moves, what was your fastest game ever?
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https://lichess.org/lmrTV6ff#5

Between winning and getting flagged lies often less than a second. In this case I checkmated my opponent having less than 0,01 seconds on my clock!
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https://lichess.org/ZszK88ON#95

For sure one of the fastest mates I had recently with Black! White was more than careless here 😄
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https://lichess.org/XxHcwBCd/black#30

OK, Blacks position was bad, but from the 2 choices the Black king had, he picked the most fatal one. He had played Ke5?? instead of Ke7 and was promptly mated with f4#. His own queen blocked the last escape square!
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https://lichess.org/1AcEATi4/white#67

Now it is your turn: Send your fanciest checkmate into the comments by the end of the week and every entry gets a nice upvote (depending how fancy the mate is)!!
But it should be one of your own games!



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This is interesting. I am not very expert in chess, that is why I have never been able to achieve any good positions, but I play the chess tournaments as a fun.
See you tomorrow at the same time.

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Pulled off this **double checkmate **as White! ♟️⚔️
Knight jumped to h6 delivering check from both the queen on f6 and the rook on g1. Black’s king was completely trapped: no squares to run, no pieces to block, and no way to capture both threats. Checkmate! ♟️🔥

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Nice to have freestyle chess while there is Grenke freestyle chess tournament
rook checkmate looks good

I checked some starred games and choose some knight checkmates - older games but they look nice

First one is this double knight check after Queen f5 blunder
All knights together

https://lichess.org/Gb1wDtnRREaO

And one more from Chess960 game - you have to watch on the King position in freestyle
b6 was played move before

https://lichess.org/y501U5nSimfW

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