5 Piece Combination Checkmate
Looking at the graphic image above which shows the position of pieces at game's end, you can see that while my f2-Rook delivers the mating move, each one of my other pieces: Queen, King, Knight, and pawn is actively covering one or more of all the White King's possible flight squares. He's dead where he sits and he has no safe place to go.
I won this server-based correspondence chess club game earlier today. The game's full move record: 1. e4 a6 2. e5 e6 3. d4 h6 4. Bc4 Bb4+ 5. c3 Ba5 6. b4 Bb6 7. Nh3 Ne7 8. O-O O-O 9. Qe2 d6 10. d5 exd5 11. exd6 Qxd6 12. Bd3 c6 13. Bf4 Qe6 14. Qf3 a5 15. b5 cxb5 16. Bxb5 Bd7 17. Nd2 Bxb5 18. Rab1 Bxf1 19. Nxf1 Nd7 20. Nd2 Ne5 21. Bxe5 Qxe5 22. Rxb6 Qc7 23. Rb1 f6 24. Qd3 b6 25. Nf3 Rfd8 26. Nd4 Nc6 27. Ne6 Qe5 28. Nxd8 Rxd8 29. f3 d4 30. cxd4 Qd5 31. Nf4 Qxd4+ 32. Qxd4 Nxd4 33. Rd1 Kh7 34. h3 Nc6 35. Rc1 Nd4 36. Rd1 g5 37. Ne6 Nxe6 38. Re1 Nf4 39. Re7+ Kg6 40. g3 Rd1+ 41. Kf2 Nxh3+ 42. Kg2 Ng1 43. f4 gxf4 44. Re8 f3+ 45. Kf2 Nh3+ 46. Kxf3 Rd3+ 47. Kg2 Ng5 48. Rg8+ Kf5 49. a4 Rd2+ 50. Kf1 Rd3 51. Rb8 Rxg3 52. Rxb6 Rf3+ 53. Ke2 h5 54. Ra6 Kg6 55. Rxa5 Ra3 56. Kf2 h4 57. Kg2 h3+ 58. Kh2 Ra2+ 59. Kg3 Kh5 60. Kf4 h2 61. Kf5 h1=Q 62. Ra7 Rf2# 0-1
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe