Chess is a play with 3 actors (4, if you count the kibitzer) - the 2 players and the clock, whose influence is greatest in bullet games.
feritTurkey - musa_mohammadi
2 1 bullet, lichess.org, 2023
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Bxf7+
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6
7.Qxe5 b6This is an unusual way to react to the White Queen's threat to Black's Bishop. In fact, there are only 3 games with the move in The Database, currently containing over 108,000 games. I don't recall coming across it before.
It is interesting to note that Stockfish 16.1 evaluates only one move as leading to an advantage for Black - 7...Qe7. The second best move for Black - the one that leads to the smallest advantage for White, is 7...b6.
Now, White has to do some serious thinking. Which Rook?
8.Qxh8
Stockfish 16.1's choice is 8.Qd5+ choosing to grab the other Rook after 8...Kg7 9.d4 (to take the sting out of a possible ...Qh4) Nf6 10.Qxa8 Bxd4 11.0-0 with and edge for White.
8...Qf6
In many lines, Black's Queen rightly goes to f6. However, this is not one of them.
Instead, 8...Qh4 was the only move, after which 9.d4 Qxe4+ 10.Kd1 Qxg2 11.Qxh7+ allows Black to cooperate with White and lead to a draw by repetition.
A short, messy game was 9.O-O Bb7 (9...Nf6 was the only move) 10.d4 Bd6 11.g3 Black resigned, Littleplayerparis - Ananya2009, lichess.org, 2020.
Finaly, 8...Qg5 led to trouble, i.e. 9.Qxh7+ Kf8 10.O-O d6 11.d4 Qf6 12.dxc5 bxc5 13.Nc3 d5 14.Nxd5 Qd6 15.Bf4 Qa6 16.Nxc7 Qb7 17.Qxg6 Ne7 18.Bd6 Rb8 19.Qe8+ Kg7 20.Qxe7+ Kg8 21.Nd5 Bg4 22.Nf6+ Kh8 23.Nxg4 Qxe7 24.Bxe7 Rxb2 25.Bf6+ Kg8 26.Bxb2 Kh7 27.f4 Black resigned, rahaf2018 - Chonggum123, lichess.org, 2022.
9.Qxh7+ Kf8 10.O-O Bb7 11.d3
Black's development is impressive, but White is 3 pawns and the exchange ahead.
11...Ke8
An unfortunate time slip. Stockfish 16.1 suggests 11...Re8 12.Qxd7 Bd6 13.Nc3 Re7 14.Qh3 and White will slowly develop, with advantage.
12.Qxg8+ Ke7 13.Qc4 Rh8 14.Nc3 Bd6 15.Nd5+
Black resigned
But Black is winning after 15...Bxd5. Did he not see that the capture "solves" the deadly Knight fork?
It is important to remember that time was short - a 2 minute game - and the position was complicated.
For example, White could not answer the recommended 15...Bxd5 with either 16.exd5 or 16.Qxd5, because then Black would have a nice checkmate 16...Bxh2+ Kh1 17.Bf4+ Kg1 18.Rh1+ Kxh1 19.Qh4+ Kg1 20.Qh2#.
If White replies to 15...Bxd5 with 16.e5 (Stockfish's best) Black has 16...Bxe5, and the position is only slightly altered - Black's attack on the enemy King will win.
If there is enough time.
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