Let's call it Rael's mate then! :-)
Is there a name for this mate?
Oh, there was way more material on the board in the two games.
There's no name for the mating pattern? Well then...
If that's true, I'm going to declare "Bischoff's Mate" discovered.
/would you glance at the ending of the two games Zug? I thought almost all mates had names.
Incidentally, my name Bischoff is the German word for Bishop, so it makes it tidy. So technically paul211's requirement of being somewhat piece involved is doubly appropriate, because the bishop is the piece that initiates the combo.
It's Bischoff's Mate when the following criteria are satisfied;
It involves 1 of each of the 3 minor pieces.
It has to occur as an attack on a 0-0.
It is initiated by the Bishop attacking the king's castled rook. (the rook moves to avoid which sets up the "smother").
The knight then comes in (to g4 or g5),
then rook (f2 or f7) -> then rook (g2 or g7).
The king gets the option of either (f or h 1 or 8)
Knight then delivers mate.
Or again (in this instance the bishop had been sitting in position for most of the game):
Haha. Update the literature boys. Someone notify the Russians.
I hate to be a bad guy but he could have defended your mate in the game I looked at....when you played Rf2 he just ignored it even though it was obviously mate in 2, he should have tried something like Bf1 protecting the g2 square.
Haha I know buddy, consider my tounge firmly in cheek here. It's hilariously refutable and any player over 1400 would likely see it coming from a far way away. But doggonit I'm putting my name on a patzerish mate for the mere sake of the idea that it's fun to do so.
I'm really not being serious, haha. But watch out, Jacob... one day, when your guard is down (ie. severely inebriated) you'll realize you've fallen for it. On that day you will have no recourse but to shake your fist in rage and curse my name, having fallen to Bischoff's patzerish mate. Haha.
/she's not the prettiest girl in school, but something about her caught my eye, and now she's mine
//don't listen to Jacob, honey, I still think you're cute
Hehe. Now don't get me wrong- Bischoff's mate is a powerful mating technique and the mere threat of it happening in a game may create so much fear that the opponent resigns just to avoid the devastation.
Btw Rael I have a secret, I can do a search in chessbase that would find just about every recorded instance of Bischoff's mate there is.
I am working on some anti-Bischoff setups though, hopefully I can make a post about it soon
//p.s. what was that thing at the end i dont get it =(
I pulled off the "same" mate in two of my games recently - I first found it in a correspondence game and then "recognized" that I could replicate it in a live game only a few days later. Is there a name for it?
Here are the games I got to use it in:
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=10576559
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10104018
With the board simplified, it looks like this: