Most Common ICC Blunder Leads to Epaulette Mate

 Blitz Player rf(Robert Fischer diehard fan probably)  usually crushes me, but today he blundered trying to castle Queenside. I don't have incontrovertible proof, but with the center wide open he moved his Queen to d1 rather than TRIPLE O.

Do you see the mate in 2 in the position below with Black to move?  Rc1 attracts Whites rook to that square and then mate at d2 for the shouldered White Monarch. Note that Epaulette Mates would NOT BE THING if two pieces could occupy same square!

So, Yup attempted castling is the most common blunder. I guess some people just can not get used to King being able to move two squares.

Hippopotamus In Reverse Catastrophe

 South African  chess player btropic played  soooo poorly with the White pieces that Black's seventh move Bf2 check leads to forced win.

In the diagrammed position, White his timidly set up what appears to be a Hippopotamus defense in reverse. Note that White's monarch is surrounded by its own forces in Epaulette fashion. He was duly punished with the attraction sacrifice Bishop capture King Bishop 2 pawn check in the old English descriptive notation. 

After Ng4 check, the a1 rook in the corner gets ingested and gets reactivated via c2 square. Would like to know if Alessio De Santis has ever essayed the Reverse Hippo and how he fared. 

Also why would a chess player play such a gutless, mindless opening with White?

LOL Chess Queen surrounded in Middle of Board!

 Chess players are a cross between NERD and comedian as evidenced by the following Laugh Out Loud position where White managed to trap his Lady on a central square with PLENTY of pieces and pawns left on the board!!

Take a look for yourself, 7 of the eight escape squares for the entombed White Queen at d4 are occupied  by pawns or pieces. Black quickly reacted, in this ICC blitz game, with Bh6 threatening the sensitive black e3 square which was supported by the Black c4 Knight!!.

ICC member Alga failed to notice that Nf2 blocking the prelate check, was the only non losing move. The position resembles an Epaulette Mate Motif, but it is the Queen that is getting suffocated in this case. Some women enjoy being partially suffocated during certain sexual acts with Black professional athletes. Some will remember the alleged Kobe Bryant rape of desirous white girl where she wanted to be mildly choked while being bent over the hotel table in Eagle Colorado USA.

Quora content writer Abhijit Mohapatra would certainly be amused at this threatened trapped Queen tactical theme. 

Podiatry as it relates to Epaulettes

Was reminded of the wildly popular YouTube site maintained by Suren when I delivered an Epaulette mate to a podiatrist at ICC who shockingly goes by the name of FootDoc. Suren probably makes tons of advertising revenue with his Adsense account. I noticed he has 105,000 subscribers.

Suren posted a video of an Epaulette Mate By Alexander Morozevich. So why in the hell do they call it an Epaulette checkmate. Suren did not explains this, but it  turns out it is a military term. An Epaulette is a type of ornamental shoulder piece or decoration used as insignia of rank by armed forces and other organizations. GET IT EVERYBODY? In the diagrammed position where the podiatrist is being mated, both rooks and the bishop are "shouldering" the King occupying escape squares. Moreover, an age old rule of the Royal game is only one piece may occupy a single square, otherwise the King could move on to the same square as his rooks or Bishop. Possibly FootDoc forgot that fundamental rule? A synonym for this may be smothered mate where king is completely surrounded and then mated by a Horse. So I guess smothered mate is a special case of Epaulette mate.

Please do not confuse any of this with the legendary Nigerian Foot doctor who practices in Albuquerque, NM  United States of America.