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The PIG

A rook on the back rank is known as a PIG -it eats everything in it's path - what's better than a PIG? Two Pigs. This 'sloppy' 1/0 game is an example of waiting for the right moment to place two PIGS on the back rank. lichess.org/leNZsS78/white#71
Note it's not the back rank but the seventh rank. The back rank is the eighth rank.
This 'sloppy' 1/0 game is an example of being extremely lucky that the opponent blundered away a win by generously allowing a mate in one with the last two pieces you had. TWICE.

FTFY

(36...Bxf7 and what's your now lonely pig going to do?)
@ProfDrHack it's a 1/0 game the opponent was most likely very scared, nervous and stupified (his time at that point was something like 00:03.2, Puppet's was more like 00:06 .3) when Li'l Puppet came at him like a tool made of two pieces of metal bearing blunt concave jaws that are arranged like the blades of scissors, used for gripping and pulling things. The opponent did the best he could, and would never have come up with 36...Bxf7 even had Li'l Puppet tattooed it on his head and he looked into a mirror. It's always easy to say "what if," and in that case, "what if" Li'l Puppet presented him with a different scenario that would negate any move like the 36...Bxf7 - You could write a novel of "what ifs" once a game is over. AND had the opponent come up with the Bishop move.... TIME was about out for him and the victory would be Li'l Puppet's on time expired for the enemy. A victory either way. Pizza party for the Puppet and raw, spoiled fish for the adversary.

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