Some Discovered Checks are fatal Blunders

 I am writing this partly due to Eric Camp's tireless devotion to the well known tactical motif of Discovered Check. I had a game with American provisional player Bigj18 where the ICC player automatically played a move that setup a Knight move Queen Discovered check on the Black Monarch at g8. 

Eric despite his two failed marriages has done a magnificent job of expounding upon the preconditions that must exist to ignore the threat of the normally DEALDY discovered check tactical theme!! Camp published a game where he was able to calculate that a threatened discovered check WAS NOT REALLY A THREAT AT ALL BUT, IN FACT, AN EGREGIOUS BLUNDER.

In the diagrammed position, Black can all ignore Whites threat by attacking White's very breezy King side with the move Qh3. After Qh3, White continued with Ne3 discovered check. After Kh8, White guards the g3 pawn with Nf5,BUT White just rips off the strong Horse with Rxf5 and wins easily due to Whites miserably developed Queenside including a "stuck Bishop on the back rank and a spectator 5 pointer at a1 that will stand witness to the impending REGICIDE!!!

Shout out and thanks to all my El Segundo California buddies! We shared a lot of good times, women, and male bonding!!

Ethics as related to the 50 move rule and bullet chess at ICC

 

Mexican chess player Robert Rosarito plays for draws with the White pieces inviting early Queen Trades because he presumes he can outplay his opponent in the ending. Lewis McClary, a Texas player, endorses the Moron's defense which was actually studied in depth by a gentlemen named Glen Wilson from Dallas. 

Andrew Hanson of Arizona, who teaches chess, has had some success welcoming his opponent to give up the lady in the first 5 moves of the game.

In 3 minute chess, the 50 move draw rule comes into play especially when one of the players has mismanaged their time and then begs for a draw when they reach a theoretically drawn position as in the game below.

Note that the last pawn move of b6 was played on move 79 as seen in the game score below. Robert Rosarito's time expired in a position where no legal move would have resulted in splitting the point! That is what Rosarito deserved for being way behind on the clock! Dick Head made sure of that!! Roberts last move happened on move 122 making it 7 moves shy of 50 without any pawn moves or any type of capture. Dick Head won fair and square despite whining Robert's opinion on the matter! 

Alec Bojalad is familiar with ethics as it applies to chess and he also into other Geek stuff like unconventional chess sets.

[Event "ICC 3 0"]

[Site "Internet Chess Club"]

[Date "2021.05.01"]

[Round "-"]

[White "RosaritoRobert"]

[Black "DickHead"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ICCResult "White forfeits on time"]

[WhiteElo "1552"]

[BlackElo "1597"]

[Opening "Alekhine's defense: Maróczy variation"]

[ECO "B02"]

[NIC "AL.10"]

[Time "12:14:34"]

[TimeControl "180+0"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. d3 e5 3. Be2 d5 4. Nd2 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Nxe4 6. dxe4 Qxd1+ 7. Bxd1

Bc5 8. f3 Nc6 9. c3 a5 10. Bc2 Be6 11. b3 O-O 12. Ne2 f5 13. Ng3 g6 14. Ke2

Rad8 15. Rd1 Kg7 16. Bb2 f4 17. Nf1 g5 18. Rxd8 Rxd8 19. Rd1 Rxd1 20. Bxd1

h5 21. Bc1 g4 22. Bc2 Kf6 23. Nd2 Be3 24. Bd3 gxf3+ 25. gxf3 Bh3 26. Bb2 Nd8

27. Nc4 Bb6 28. Nxb6 cxb6 29. Bc4 Ne6 30. Bd5 Nd8 31. Ba3 Be6 32. c4 Bxd5

33. cxd5 Nf7 34. Kd3 Ng5 35. Ke2 Kf7 36. Bb2 Kf6 37. a3 Nh3 38. b4 axb4 39.

axb4 b5 40. Bc3 Ng5 41. Be1 Nf7 42. Bh4+ Kg6 43. Be7 Ng5 44. Bxg5 Kxg5 45.

d6 Kf6 46. h4 Ke6 47. d7 Ke7 48. Kd3 Kd8 49. Kc3 Kc7 50. Kd3 Kd8 51. Kc3

Kxd7 52. Kd3 Kc6 53. Kc3 Kc7 54. Kd3 Kd7 55. Kc3 Ke7 56. Kd3 Kf6 57. Kc3 Kg6

58. Kd3 Kh6 59. Kc3 Kh7 60. Kd3 Kh8 61. Kc3 Kg8 62. Kd3 Kf8 63. Kc3 Ke8 64.

Kd3 Kd8 65. Kc3 Kc8 66. Kd3 Kb8 67. Kc3 Ka7 68. Kd3 Kb6 69. Kc3 Kc6 70. Kd3

Kd6 71. Kc3 Ke6 72. Kd3 Kf6 73. Kc3 Kf7 74. Kd3 Kg8 75. Kc3 Kf8 76. Kd3 Ke8

77. Kc3 Kd7 78. Kd3 Kc6 79. Kc3 b6 80. Kd3 Kb7 81. Kc3 Ka7 82. Kd3 Ka6 83.

Kc3 Ka7 84. Kd3 Ka8 85. Kc3 Kb8 86. Kd3 Kc8 87. Kc3 Kd8 88. Kd3 Ke8 89. Kc3

Kf8 90. Kd3 Kg8 91. Kc3 Kh8 92. Kd3 Kh7 93. Kc3 Kg7 94. Kd3 Kf7 95. Kc3 Ke7

96. Kd3 Ke6 97. Kc3 Kd6 98. Kd3 Kc6 99. Kc3 Kb7 100. Kd3 Ka7 101. Kc3 Ka8

102. Kd3 Kb8 103. Kc3 Kc8 104. Kd3 Kc7 105. Kc3 Kd6 106. Kd3 Kd7 107. Kc3

Ke7 108. Kd3 Ke6 109. Kc3 Kf6 110. Kd3 Kg6 111. Kc3 Kh6 112. Kd3 Kh7 113.

Kc3 Kh8 114. Kd3 Kg8 115. Kc3 Kf8 116. Kd3 Ke8 117. Kc3 Kd8 118. Kd3 Kc8

119. Kc3 Kb8 120. Kd3 Ka8 121. Kc3 Ka7 122. Kd3 Kb7 {White forfeits on time}

0-1

Devastating Rook Pin Along your Opponent's 2nd Rank

 I was reminded of a former chess buddy J.P. Hyltin who resided in Austin Texas and often played in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. He once drew with legend Joe Bradford after memorizing Big Joe's Benko Gambit line if I recall and wore a T-Shirt about his pregnant wife's GM candidate fetus. 

He was probably a genius in many regards including his profession in some branch of engineering, but I remember him saying that an overwhelming number of decisive tactics involved exploiting or creating a lethal pin. I also respected his views on the absurd DWI laws in our country where way too many repeat offenders end up killing people never having spend a day behind bars!!! His Austin friend and lawyer Mike Simpson Esquire defended many of those types usually the weekend when the Longhorns played the Sooners. I think  Victor Yaward  and Luis Salinas had strong opinions on vehicular homicide as well.

The following position involves the latter. See if you can figure out the winning move in the following position with White to play:

ICC player Danifrani had just withdrawn his Queen to the f6. Can you see how this move is a losing blunder due to the presence of the White Rook on the c7 square? I missed it in the game, but eventually won on time in a 3 minute no increment time control blitz game.

Outside Passed Pawn Wins Again

 A very common error in King and Pawn endings is to keep pushing your pawns forward in a middle game attack fashion. However, that often leads to lost endings! 

In the following three minute blitz game played at the Internet Chess Club in Pennsylvania, Black played the losing move pawn to b4. Do you see why?

After some pawn exchanges on the b4 square, White(Gianky59 from the country of Switzerland ) wins easily by capturing Black's f5 pawn which forces the creation of outside passed White h pawn which will drag the Black Monarch way out of play!!!

ChessFactor content provider IM Andrey Ostrovskiy does an above average job of explaining the mechanisms associated with these type of structures that involve "on the edge of the board" type of motifs. Istanbul, Turkey chess benefactor Mert Bahadır is an ardent fan of Andrey's pedagogy and self-effacing style.

BTW Black would have easily drawn by replacing the blunder b4 with the drawing Kd6 which leads to a sterile, innocuous drawn position!

Stunning Pawn Sac in Dead Drawn Looking Ending

 In the following blitz game played at USA based Internet Chess Club, TheBlackCat must have thought he had an easy draw. Black despite having an extra pawn, had no way to promote his passed g3 pawn.

I was not able to figure out a brilliant pawn break through based on the "weakness of White's f4 pawn". Do you see it?!?!? That's right pawn to e5, followed by pawn to d4 leads to the capture of White's f4 pawn and Black should win! 

H C Schonberg would have easily discovered these two naked pawn sacs based on the informant notation Xf4. Contemporary commentator Naroditsky would have noticed it in less than 10 seconds probably between his binge viewing of Breaking Bad. He was cool kid at Stanford when I was working on my post doctoral stuff. He may have been the reason I never finished because his love of Royal game was soooo damn infectious along with his massively expansive vocabulary. The late Emory Tate may not have found it because he did not reach many endings based his tendencies to have things resolved in the middle game. 

Artificial Bank Rank Theme

 Was surprised to discover that Dan Heisman, who took the time to define the nebulous term Accidental Error, would omit the much more substantive definition Artificial Bank Rank. 

That segues us into the following blunder made by ego123, a good blitz player at the internet chess club in Pennsylvania, United States of America. The dude just played the gaffe Nd5 opening the f file for the decisive game ending tactic. 

The artificiality of the back rank mate is made possible by White's g6 Bishop guarding the escape f7 and h7 squares which would normally  be occupied by Black pawns creating a REAL BACK RANK THREAT!!!

IM Bartholomew did an exemplary job of elucidating the perils of not noting the safety of your flight squares. He indicated you can get good at the Royal game by just being air tight on being aware of loose pieces AND understanding the slippery notion of piece communication. D. Gurevich would really go off, especially after a few drinks in Chicago Taverns, about how Gata Kamsky(headcase for a father) understood piece coordination at Carlsonian levels!!!

Hope this Chess player Finds Peace and Tranquility

 Gambling, Alcohol dependency and chess are more related than many would want to confess.

The profile of an outstanding bullet chess player(has played around 150,000 games according to his finger notes) named vladika01 from Japan was ominously suicidal on December 12th 2020. 

1 min chess same as gambling

 2: Time to leave ICC 2002-2020

 3: All that can be said has been said and all good things must come to an end

 4: Came here to play chess not to look for friends-but found some anyway

 5: Forget me soon and take care ya all

 6: Last words ...hmm, guard against those who want to distort history by

  changing it

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I found references to a Bishop vladika a member of the Japanese Orthodox Church and the Enlightener. 

As you can see in the diagrammed position, Vladika typed in the not so spiritually edifying FU. He was quite angry over losing the game after winning piece directly out of the opening and acquiescing to the long term positional disadvantage of a King trapped in the Center of the Board!

Usually the lines and arrow are used to for players to kibitz after the game has completed but the Japanese blitz addict preferred the initials to Fuck You. Also his  mental health would be improved by knowing that history is written by whoever wins the wars or currently in Control.

Back to the game and the White King stuck trepidating fearfully in the middle of the Back Rank.

So Vlad is still "up a piece" but down a King as you can see in the diagrammed position above. He spent time thinking that Qh4 "threatening" Qd8 checkmate was a game saver only to eventually note that Black's Queen at d3 surveils the mating square. So after the forced Qe1 to avoid mate, the Japanese lover of the Royal game could tip over his King after Black SNAPS OFF THE f3 Knight.   3 minute chess is too slow for him in my opinion. Find peace somehow my brotha.

Letting ones time expire Versus resigning like a Gentleman

 A Canadian chess player with the handle PleaseBlunder, understandably, let his time expire in the following position from a 3 minute blitz game at the Internet Chess Club. The guy probably does not know that Tic Tac Toe is a theoretical draw, but still devotes excessive time to our Royal Game without any discernible improvement in his level of play. 

His e2 Knight is pinned to f2 King with Black Knight capturing weak d4 pawn threatened. Back also has unstoppable passed pawns on Queenside so Black's domination of a very weak player is manifest. 

Tryfon Gavriel writes about dealing with bad sportsmanship OTB and online. Does anyone know why Victoria Fryer promotes B2B business platforms on chess blogs and at Quora? Incidentally Pat Wolff wrote about the thorny ethical questions of letting an opponent's time tick off rather than alerting them. I believe it actually transpired in one of his games against GM Dzindzichashvili. Pat was smart enough to transfer his genius from chess to finance.

The only ethical standard in BLITZ CHESS is the CLOCK

 Norwegian player DTHG  lost this 3 minute blitz game at ICC by exactly 0.1 seconds. Yes, chess fans, he lost by one tenth of second in a contest which is a dead draw in longer time controls. 

As you can see from the score sheet in the diagram below, White shuttled his King back and forth around the passed a4 pawn while avoiding three fold repetition of the position and exploiting the fact the beleaguered jugadore did not have enough time on his clock to claim the obvious draw.  

White had enjoyed an overwhelming initiative in the middle only let the blitz addict from Norway back in the game, so the method of victory was completely justified. In blitz, the only morality is the clock!! Fascinating that clock and COCK rhyme don't you think?! To hell with all you whiners who offer draws when you only have 5 seconds and your opponent over a minute. YOU LOSE because of your time mismanagement and clumsy lack of coordination with mouse slips. 

Note that  Benu Varghese seems to agree that etiquette has no place in online bullet chess where time expiration is the sole determinant of who wins the cerebral struggle.

Making Outside passed Pawn a Blunder in this Blitz Game

 Was reminded of John Watson's excoriation of  rule dependence when when Chisel playing out of the United Kingdom played a3 believing his outside passed pawn would win. However Black's counter shot c3 forces resignation. 

White might catch up to the Black queenside pawns, but the Black King at e5 would rush to ingest white's defenseless peons at h3 and g3.

YouTube superstars MatoJelic and ChessFactor both seem to advocate unconditionally that outside passed rook pawns win in all variations. Maybe I was just more drunk than usual that night when viewing those videos cuz Nicky Pert does not make many mistakes when pontificating about the Royal Game!

When Promoting a Pawn to a HORSE just gots to be Done

 Drechsler said he was taking into account Trooper Gary Sacco's friendly comportment regarding assailant's emotional duress and instability. 

So what has this got to do with chess in Massachusetts?  Officer Sacco did what most people would do when a pawn reaches the eighth rank. He promoted to the Lady you see on the d1 square in the diagrammed position with her target the mating f1 square! 

Garry probably has the blitzen program setup to automatically promote to a Queen(I know Detroit musician and tournament organizer,Tiger Fan Pete Nixon does), BUT THE underpromotion to a Knight must be around a checkmate in TWO!!  Like old Vic Kortchnoi said, " chessboard is NOT BIG ENOUGHT FOR TWO QUEENS"  So two bitches could only draw against a single bitch(female poker playing twitching Philadelphia girl according to Kraai not available for comment)

Thanks for everything you do for the community of Danvers SIR and we are glad you have the Royal Game as a pastime to blow off the stress and steam you experience serving and protecting our citizens!!!!

Inventive Approach in this Chess Game

 An ICC blitz player named ReInventor, playing Black in the below diagrammed position, had to love the inventive nature of this Naked hanging piece sacrifice. His greed for pawns weakened his f7,e6, and b7 White Squares. Also his Horse at b8 blocks the Rook at a8.

Applying Laskerian logic to the three anemic squares, the NAKED piece sac Ng5 presents itself as a winning move! The Knight move attracts the Black Queen to the g5 square which also creates devastating back rank mate threats after the White Lady ingests the b7 pawn.

Read the work of medical researchers V. Kalidasan, Narcisse Joseph, Suresh Kumar, Rukman Awang Hamat, and Vasantha Kumari Neela to learn more about iron deficiency as it relates to our Royal game. I learned all about Iron homeostasis from these medical students or interns or maybe even Doctors. In any invent the move Knight to King's Knight 5 jacked Black's efforts at homeostasis.

The game Dexter Dale Jr. vs. Ryan Folgarty had some themes similar to this game.

Greed, Greed, Greed.....Lose, Lose, Lose

One of the seven deadly sins is Greed and chess psychologist Rowson expounds lucidly on the perils of not overcoming avarice in our beloved Royal Game pastime.

However, ICC user Missile14 apparently did not get the memo after getting splattered by the mating pawn move f6 in diagrammed position. The military jet fighter plane enthusiast was aiming for rapid consolidation with Nd6 with the goal of liquidating the powerful e4 Horse. In fact, Missile14 played Knight captures Knight after White played the overt checkmate move pawn to f6 pinning the g7 mating square pawn to the trepidating Black Monarch!  

Black could have played the desperate  Nf5 which only delays the mate or the calamitous loss of material. I think our military man was just assuming since he had an extra "do nothing" proverbial WHOLE ROOK on a8 square(not half mind you) that he would just win by swapping aka the Patzer's curse. 

I did find something about the Infrared Air Force FALCON homing missile14. 

BTW, a cat with a youtube channel called chess traps has a beautiful trap number 28 out of the Kings Gambit opening involving a knight on the grim rim and another fork winning Whites Queen!!!

Finally a tribute to some old acquaintances/buddies in Texas USA: 

Carmen Chairez - Army Veteran 

Tom Crane - Navy Veteran 

    Charles Fricks - Army Veteran 

 Troy Gillispie - Army Veteran - 

           Sheryl McBroom - Air Force Veteran

Bret Lynn - Air Force Veteran

Tom Boyd 

                            Master  John Farrell jarhead(teasing John semper gumbi) 

                                   My favorite Asian who love Biden's VP choice  Neil Naputo  

                           David Hater 

                               Leon Toliver and Jimmy Nazario 

MISS AND LOVE ALL YOU GUYS!!!! probably will never be able to play any of you face to face due to personal issues and fickle COVID policy starting with the leadership vacuum in the White House.....credit to Microsoft BOSS for that one!!!!

Discovered Check Mate

Austrian chess player Wall-Street probably spends more time investing than with his chess development, but he  still threatens mate in one in the diagrammed position in a 3 minute blitz no delay game at the internet chess club based in USA.  Patrick Wolff and Ron Henley traded their GM brains in to become whizzes in financial industry. Wolff used to advertise in Seirawan's mag charging $100 to analyze a black and white game. He quickly realized he could leverage his time 100 fold managing derivative funds. Makes you wonder how many other chess super cerebral types waste all that brain power!! Not sure about Henley who use to be tight with Karpov. Never knew how he wheedled his way into being the boa constrictor's second in some of the world championship cycles. 

Markus Ragger would have been impressed with the mate in 2 that Black has set up which culminates with a discovered checkmate along the h file.White had just played Nc5 threatening mate on the b7 square, but Ng3(blunt force trauma hammer blow to the 1398 player from Austria) check is quite forcing as g1-a7 diagonal is covered by the Lady on d4

Ego Deflating Opening Ambush

It has happened to us all. Checkmated or grievous loss of material not 10 moves into the contest!  Screwed-blued-and-tattooed, Ambushed, gang-raped, torched, epic fail etc. 

Such was the fate of online chess player ego123 one Saturday morning hiding from the deadly virus.Now for the boring part: The opening was a French Exchange variation in reverse which can be quite dangerous for Black according to Watson's book. 

How did such a strong player allow a longer version of the Scholar's mate on h7 square? Carlsen himself has played the slightly more refined version called the Terrorist opening pioneered by Enrique Rios(last I heard this San Antonio homie was cashing in with Poker)

The very slow Ne7-Ng6 maneuver led to a hanging Knight due f7 pawn being pinned by the c4 Prelate(Phallic). Also 3 minute time control is often fast non-thinking chess that can lead to these kind of disasters. Alex Kundin presents an exceptionally entertaining version of this!

Geneticist taking a break with some Online Chess

I could not help but reflect on the controversial work of a China Man geneticist named Dr. He Jiankui after beating somebody named Gene Doctor at ICC.  Not sure if the guy I beat is actually a doctor or just a big fan of the movie, but White actually wins after Black promotes his g2 pawn to a Queen if Black is careless where he places his Monarch after Nd7 check. Just a fascinating position!!! Note that Nd7 is a discovered check which also supports the Queening f8 square!!

The Guangdong doctor tried to modify genes to make the FrankenBabies immune to AIDS. The Chinese recognize this a illegal. No surprise this doctor wanted to become a proxy God after hanging out with the radical liberals in Berkeley California!!

Chess Netiquette

Scotland chess player pantsaretrapped let his time expire in this totally hopeless lost position arising in a blitz game at ICC. Gentlemen resign rather than doing this. Maybe he is upset that countryman and pugilist  Conner Macgregor is retiring too early? 

The Scot did not disconnect and forfeit, as many angry defeated players do, he merely patiently waited for his time to run out. 

KingsEnemy from Chicago writes at length about etiquette and cheating among chess players. Jerry Nash, performs the more noble task, of being sure K-5 kids and students learn how to be good sports at an early age. He induces proper behavior by awarding merit badges, to borrow from Boy Scout custom, at an age where tiny circular pieces of fabric still have moral value.

Ben Finegold was involved in some alleged breech of etiquette which he handled like the lover of the game he is! East Side Christian School Chess Club has clearly posted guidelines and rules on what constitutes excellent sportsmanship over the board and ONLINE!

Overdependence on Sodium Bicarbonate as it relates to Attacking Chess

I paused and reflected whether the former resident of North Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom would spit on the playing style of his online chess namesake Captain Evans.

United States player CaptEvans fianchettoed both his Prelates, placed both his Horses on the second rank, and made various overtures of unnecessary defensive maneuvering in the diagrammed position. The real Captain Evans was of Weaver Adams ilk. Adams, a San Francisco old era Master, published a book titled White to play and win with 1. e4. The openly homosexual Adams played aggressively making every effort to seize the initiative. The baking soda addict had no use for making Luft or waiting moves. This implies he was probably a top in the famous bathhouses near the Bay. It is consistent with the penetrating style of his play!

His much weaker successor makes only waiting moves hoping to pounce on an overstep in a style espoused by the famous Andy Soltis tome regarding the rewards of playing defense. Andy made a fantastic suggestion in his seminal work. He said the last line of defense is to MAKE YOUR OPPONENT WIN after you have exhausted all other remedies to save your losing/difficult position. I have saved many draw and actually won games with this tip alone!!!! 

The big difference here is ICC CaptEvans plays defense from move one with white or black which would make the real Captain Evans turn in his grave.

Lifelong Influence of a Beloved Chess Coach

Before I forget, this is a tribute to GM Yury Shulman or Yuri. Sorry chess coach, I don't recall correct spelling. 

I had not thought of this excellent chess and LIFE coach in ages, but was reminded of him by the following position played at the Internet Chess Club.

A little background on how I remember this guy. My nephew Mark attended a college in Fort Worth or maybe Dallas Texas. The college had chess scholarships and while Mark did not earn a scholarship, he learned a lot about the Royal Game from the humble and patient GM who was employed there as a tutor I think. Been awhile so I could be wrong about the specifics. I never met Yuri, but feel like I know him well based on Mark's remarks. Shulman actually helped Mark in life much more than chess if you will tolerate that irony. My nephew was spoiled rotten and thought he was good in chess because he was good at tactics, but sucked pretty bad at long term strategy.

He would show Mr Shulman a game where he had beaten a fish(weak chess player) with piece sacrifices and unsound play. He could not understand why his coach/tutor would berate him, sometimes cursing emphatically that THIS WAS NOT THE WAY TO GET fuckin BETTER AT CHESS!!

Take a look at the above position to see why this reminds me of Dr Shulman. White(blitzen at ICC) has just played Be4 which allows a mate in 9 according to Komodo chess engine. It is based on White carelessly not noticing an elementary mate based on Ng3 and the Bishop owning the g1-a7 diagonal. 

I am certain the esteemed teacher would have given Mark an earful about his inattention to this detail. I want the teacher to know that Mark is quite successful in another field these days and will never forget the good times at the University in the DFW area where a Dr Root also guided him!

Jerome Knew Tactical Based Defenses

There was this old timer who said something like, paraphrased, "He who takes his opponent's Queen's Knight Pawn sleeps in the gutter" God Damned English descriptive SUCKS. 

A dude named Rick Kennedy, who loves gambit play, told me about only fools grab b2,b7, g2,g7 pawns.

So aforementioned scenario happened in a game at ICC in the position you see below. JPF555 from Australia licked his chops for awhile pondering munching White's undefended b2 pawn after he exchanges Towers on the c file. I guess you callem Rooks or Castles in COVID overrun America. A lot of the rest of the world believe Corona originated in the United States.

As it turns out the b2 pawn is tactically defended to borrow the phrase from Larry Christiansen,  Artemiev ,Kenneth John McPherson,Patrick Daly,Cyrus Lakdawala, dude that maintains the path to chess mastery blog, Doctor Fianchetto(christopher.p.bak),Tanmay Srinath and Farmer Darren Walters.

See if you can envision why capturing the b2 pawn, after the c file clears, LOSES? A chess friend named E. Rios says to imagine possible mating patterns and figure out a way to get your attacking units to the right squares. A key to see this relatively easy mate in 3 is to observe the h6 escape square is surveilled by White's g5 pawn.