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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Miniatures are the best
From: nastyhor...@gmail.com (Eli Kesef)
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by: Eli Kesef - Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:58 UTC

On Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 1:22:16 AM UTC+3, William Hyde wrote:
> On Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 1:59:50 AM UTC-4, Eli Kesef wrote:
> > Bs"d
> >
> > Just got myself another mate of Legal, which resulted in a mate on move 8, after a queen sacrifice.
> > I offered the enemy my queen, the enemy jumped upon her with the speed of a vulture diving upon a rotting carcass. I proceeded to mate the enemy in 2 moves: https://lichess.org/yIs9aVZWlpTS
> >
> In the North of England they used to call this Blackburne's mate. Not because he invented it, but
> because he probably played it more often than any other person. Tournaments were rare in those
> days, and Blackburne kept himself in whiskey through simul tours of the UK for many months of the
> year. He once estimated that while on tour he gave Legal's mate several times a week.
>
> At one point he claimed to have played over 50,000 otb games (no speed) and at this point his
> career had thirty more years to run.

Bs"d

He has got the Blackburn-Shilling trap named after him. I read somewhere that it is called like that because Blackburn used to play that in games in which the wager was a shilling, in order to keep him in whiskey. Even Wikipedia knows about the Blackburn-Shilling trap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburne_Shilling_Gambit

I LOVE the Blackburn-Shilling trap, I played the seven move smothered mate literally HUNDREDS of times. OK, that over a 30+ year chess life, but still.
Here is a real life example of an (prov) 1872 falling for the Blackburn-Shilling and being smothered to death on move 7:
https://lichess.org/eZhF5NI3/black#14

Isn't chess great?

And then I mean of course especially the traps. :D

https://tinyurl.com/Blackburn-trap

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Re: [OT] Re: Miniatures are the best	Eli Kesef