Lichess Game of the Month November - Contest

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Share your best Lichess game from November 2024 (only from November 2024, only standard games, no variant games, and only one game per player - additional games will be ignored!) until December 5th in a comment to this post! The winner will be announced here in this forum thread on December 14th, followed by a Lichess blog post with commentary on the game. Good luck!

Although variant games aren't allowed here, some of our official variant teams are hosting their own Game of the Month contests - check them out below!

Antichess: https://lichess.org/forum/team-lichess-antichess/lichess-antichess-game-of-the-month-november--contest

A reverse King's Gambit (i.e. played by Black). With Black's king completely naked, the rest of the crew must attack at all costs.

The reason why I picked this game is because of my 2 bishop sacrifices to win the queen. 19...Bd5 to lure the queen onto d5, and then 20...Bxh2+ to check the king and also reveal a discovered attack on white's queen. (there is 100 divided by (amount of games here on December 5th - 1) % chance of this game winning, so that's pretty small)

It is said that checkmate on center squares are the most difficult one. Mate on a1, a8, h1, h8 are easier (look at rook and queen mates).
Those one mates on e5 square and also instructive because it includes the right moves punishing the suspicious opening (1.d4 d5 2c4 Nf6?! and 4...Bg4 moves).

nice