A Little Aside on Bullet Chess

By GM Vaska

Although most bullet games are pretty moronic (maybe that is why I like bullet) once in a while some gold nuggets can be pulled out of the morass. I had the opportunity awhile back to unleash a cute little combo against a South American GM (who will remain nameless). Here is the position after Black's 17th move 17...Nc5 .

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A pretty juicy position for White of course. I had the pleasure of wrapping the game up with 18 Rxh7! Kxh7 19 Nd5 exd5 20 Qh6+! and Black resigned. Little calculation was involved, just intuition except for seeing the two-mover 20 Qh6+! This doesn't happen too often...