Dear chess fans,
since I am abroad this week with unsecure internet connection (being on a Greek island) and no time to calculate the season end standings I thought I postpone the last round by one week and do instead a fun tournament!
Every participant (min. 5 games played) will get one bonus point towards the ranking of S 20! So it is worth it to join!

It will be a **3+2 chess960 arena tournament** over 60 minutes at the usual time (Friday, 19h GMT)!

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The winner was @franu, followed by @rosmarly and @fcastro177 (and @giuatt07 and @justola1 with the same points)! Congratulations!

Final standings:
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Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/IR2sAo4k

As promised, @franu, @rosmarly, @fcastro177, @giuatt07, @justola1, @kintokris, @zacherybinx, @justfavour, @schamangerbert, @lighteye, @rodrook, @darruiz, @sammy00, @stranger27 and @fiona777 will get a point for their S20 ranking, which will be concluded this Friday! Watch out for the announcement tomorrow!

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Over the past months I have collected some surprising plot twists that ended the games rather abruptly😁. Have a look at the following positions and feel sorry for these opponents (or laugh about their naivity).

Let´s start with a mate pattern which is quite rare, isn´t it? How helpless the kings is, suffocated by his own rooks!! Black with his last move captured a piece from White with the Knight from f6 on h7, falling into the trap :)
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/23tH5SMheTxEmfjNgGwV4BBSYp9ak4PbKsawyjuW1vteNuve4qAUtMLZwJNj2bEJw2dWn.png)
https://lichess.org/GD0yBCdC#41

Here Black is totally winning, but in his euphoria he did´t notice that with his last check on a3 he forced the White king to being part of a mating net for his Black counterpart. He had to move g5+ or Rh7, but made the slow move Rh3, going for a pointless pawn hunt, only to get surprise-mated with Rxf7#! Ouch!
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/23t7ebCnx3ngefdmyrYCZGLEXKddvrhmcYtTziKH1CENBNEHjG6uMeSQbzRGuPBMJ97rY.png)
https://lichess.org/UaWZBBHq/white#101

Black´s last move allows here a nice mate in 2 - can you find it?
White to move, mate in 2:
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/Eo24aKDYiUpLBiG26HcUy5Zusvp8ccCCb6TfvpjxqjS46SRqzNVBLd7AHv5NHrYkBY2.png)
https://lichess.org/iZMpdmE9/white#64

A check is always good, right? Well, not really. In this case after White´s check on f1 I was able to answer with Bf2#! The bishop is hanging but White had no time to grab it as the game has ended 😄. A checkmate is for sure the best way to answer a check, but only rarely it happens (by the way on [this site](https://rosen-score.vercel.app/) you can check for your games on lichess if you ever made it).
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/23tbpzRKXsfiFpdt89CiqhejaqhoNmTpojLpqZTz3TSSZWmj9QCvZbM5LYKym21K4KaX1.png)
https://lichess.org/qUowWhCx/black#62

Speaking of the "Rosen score", my fastest checkmate was in 3 moves, what was your fastest game ever?
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/23tbs4UDUpFcwGz7BUwWFvMsZ4RzkzkkDWQKMeX7hKPriTCo8NVqgYv2GJ9XoikxwQHFm.png)
https://lichess.org/lmrTV6ff#5

Between winning and getting flagged lies often less than a second. In this case I checkmated my opponent having less than 0,01 seconds on my clock!
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/23tbpaGH3mV6TsvBic2pquZ4cnaM27cUx1cEKvLFkXvpqwQoY3Yuw6cyMytc8VHnS7Pji.png)
https://lichess.org/ZszK88ON#95

For sure one of the fastest mates I had recently with Black! White was more than careless here 😄
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/23u62tRE8d7GzgSRCyhAhcjT5bf1oFNbY9icodDrYGVoeTh9n1cnfi9TR2ZDFjHxnLJp7.png)
https://lichess.org/XxHcwBCd/black#30

OK, Blacks position was bad, but from the 2 choices the Black king had, he picked the most fatal one. He had played Ke5?? instead of Ke7 and was promptly mated with f4#. His own queen blocked the last escape square!
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/23tSSL3jzWqFABVWKuBtMb5wA6tND3qVPxyBLcerbCq2MYmUwJa1SW18nAR1D2iHyhiEk.png)
https://lichess.org/1AcEATi4/white#67

**Now it is your turn:** Send your fanciest checkmate into the comments by the end of the week and every entry gets a nice upvote (depending how fancy the mate is)!!
But it should be one of your own games!