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@greenpawn34 saidThat's how you know you've 'owned' your opponent: when his King is so trapped behind enemy lines that you can checkmate him with either castling move. 😂Hi Big Dog,
It was later discovered that here;
[fen]rn3r2/pbppq1p1/1p2pN2/6k1/3P2N1/3B4/PPP2PPP/R3K2R w KQ - 0 14[/fen]
If white plays 14.f4+ instead of 14.h4+ White can checkmate faster ending not with 0-0-0 but 0-0!
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[FEN "rn3r2/pbppq1p1/1p2pN2/6k1/3P2N1/3B4/PPP2PPP/R3K2R w KQ - 0 14"]
14. f4+ Kxf4 {14... Kh4 15. g3+ Kh3 16. Bf1+ Bg2 17. Nf2 Mate ...[text shortened]... 3 {15... Kg5 16. h4 Mate } 16. O-O {Checkmate. White has to 0-0 so the WK covers g2.}[/pgn]
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@bigdogg saidThere is something very aesthetically satisfying about marching the opponent's K all the way to the 8th rank and mating him there. Lasker was an artist.
That's how you know you've 'owned' your opponent: when his King is so trapped behind enemy lines that you can checkmate him with either castling move. 😂
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@bigdogg saidIt is a famous game, I first knew of it in the 60's seeing it a book of miniatures.
I'm surprised more people have not seen this game. Didn't anyone own Chessmaster 2100 back in the day? It had many of these stored.
Great game and famous enough to enough to have it's own page on
Edward Winter's site where the moves have appeared in many publications
and in many different move orders. Winter calls the page 'Chaos in a Miniature.'
Edward Lasker who was white has published at least two different move orders.
It is well worth a read. https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/laskerthomas.html
It starts off with Kibbey - Dorman, USA 1942 where 14.f4+ was played.