The game is over, so I guess I can say something about it.
I regularly encounter opponents of the "never say die" type. Even with a bare king against a whole lot of material, they just don't give up.
Just had one like that. He had a bare king, I had 5 pawns, one bishop, and two castles, but he didn't wanna give up.
In cases like that, if he wants to drag the game out, I happily join in. So I brought one pawn to the other side, and horsed it. Then I fed all my material to the lone king, except for the bishop and the horse. And then I started to mate him with the horse and bishop.
As we all know, you can only mate in the corner which has the same color as what the bishop is on. So I drove him to the corner, and for unclear reasons, I couldn't mate him. I was wondering what was going on, until I realized that I had driven the victim to the wrong corner. So I had to drive him out of there, and to the other corner, where I'd be able to mate him.
I was quite worried that I would exceed the 50 moves, I didn't keep track, but normally, when you slip up one time, you can forget about mating him within the 50 moves.
But everything went fine and dandy, I dragged his king to the other side of the board, and finished him off.
The dance with K+B+N against K started on move 59, and he was mate on move
96. That is a total of 37 moves, in which I slept him to the wrong corner, and from there to the right corner. 😀
That'll teach him. 😆
[Event "Rated Classical game"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/qczZaBNt"]
[Date "2024.02.28"]
[White "Lisynok67"]
[Black "Carnivorum"]
[Result "0-1"]
[UTCDate "2024.02.28"]
[UTCTime "11:36:49"]
[WhiteElo "1744"]
[BlackElo "1897"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "-10"]
[BlackRatingDiff "+3"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "900+15"]
[ECO "A40"]
[Opening "Englund Gambit Complex Declined"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]
1. d4 e5 2. d5 { A40 Englund Gambit Complex Declined } Nf6 3. Bg5 Bc5 4. Nc3 Bxf2+ 5. Kd2 Bd4 6. e3 Bxc3+ 7. Kxc3 Ne4+ 8. Kb3 Nxg5 9. Nf3 Ne4 10. Nxe5 Qe7 11. Qh5 g6 12. Nxg6 fxg6 13. Qe2 d6 14. a3 Bf5 15. Ka2 Nd7 16. Qb5 O-O-O 17. Qb4 Qe5 18. Bc4 Nb6 19. b3 Nc3+ 20. Kb2 Ncxd5+ 21. c3 Nxb4 22. axb4 Nxc4+ 23. bxc4 Qxe3 24. Rxa7 Qxa7 25. Ra1 Qxa1+ 26. Kxa1 b6 27. Kb2 Bd3 28. Kb3 Rde8 29. h3 Re2 30. g4 Rh2 31. b5 Rxh3 32. Kb4 Rh4 33. Ka4 Rxg4 34. Kb4 Rxc4+ 35. Kb3 Rc5 36. Ka4 Rxb5 37. Ka3 Bc4 38. Ka4 h5 39. Ka3 Rb3+ 40. Ka4 Rxc3 41. Kb4 Rc1 42. Ka3 Bd5 43. Kb2 Rc6 44. Ka3 h4 45. Kb4 h3 46. Kb5 h2 47. Ka4 h1=N 48. Kb5 Ba2 49. Ka6 b5+ 50. Kxb5 Re8 51. Kxc6 Kb8 52. Kd7 Ka7 53. Kxe8 Ka6 54. Kd7 Kb5 55. Kxc7 Kc4 56. Kxd6 Kd4 57. Ke7 Bc4 58. Kf6 Nf2 59. Kxg6 Ke5 60. Kg5 Bd3 61. Kh4 Kf4 62. Kh5 Ng4 63. Kh4 Bf1 64. Kh5 Ne5 65. Kh4 Ng6+ 66. Kh5 Kf5 67. Kh6 Kf6 68. Kh5 Be2+ 69. Kh6 Bf3 70. Kh7 Ne7 71. Kh6 Ng8+ 72. Kh7 Kf7 73. Kh8 Be2 74. Kh7 Bd1 75. Kh8 Ne7 76. Kh7 Nf5 77. Kh8 Ne7 78. Kh7 Ng6 79. Kh6 Kf6 80. Kh7 Bb3 81. Kh6 Bg8 82. Kh5 Ne5 83. Kh6 Ng4+ 84. Kh5 Kf5 85. Kh4 Kf4 86. Kh5 Bf7+ 87. Kh4 Be8 88. Kh3 Ne3 89. Kh2 Kf3 90. Kh3 Ng2 91. Kh2 Kf2 92. Kh3 Bd7+ 93. Kh2 Ne3 94. Kh1 Bc8 95. Kh2 Nf1+ 96. Kh1 Bb7# { Black wins by checkmate. } 0-1
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