Yeah rook blocks at least prolongs mate, but I’m pretty sure the position was dead lost for black even before accepting the queen sac. This was actually based on a real game that was played out differently with black resigning in the end.

What did you expect….. it’s Guy Ritchie

How do you “kind of “ love something?

And that is why you study your opponent. Moriarty gave him that weakness himself in their first face to face interaction in the movie, and was the pivotal information Sherlock needed to defeat him.

moriarty was too focused on having taken Sherlock's queen, that he didn't realize how weak his king was

I happy you mentioned The Terror. I feel like that show is very underrated.

The guy is acting royalty; he is as talented and diverse as his father, Richard Harris was.

He can ppay both heroes and villains, as well as strong and low confident men with such believability. Love him.

faaaaaaak dude! Thanks for pointing that out :D

Harris has such a talent to potray intelligent characters

First movie I saw him in was Doctor Ashford in Resident Evil Apocalypse lol.

That's the stinger; the irony. Digging the dagger further into his narcissistic ego.

“Kind of funny”? Can’t make a decision?

Moriarty said that it's human nature to seek conflict and thus war is inevitable. Donating his stuff to fund that organisation is Sherlock's little jab back for that indicating that humans are also capable of bringing relief from tragedies of conflict and don't have to be fixed by human nature. It also serves to piss him off.

Yep

The original game is in the sicillian, this one is the reverse sicillian, english opening

My thoughts exactly at the beginning of this video

That makes a little sense, white starts with the advantage.

@@HiddelS143 not much advantage, plus the English opening is one of the most respected openings for white, and the reverse sicillian(1 c4 e5) is the most respected answer and is the sharpest variation also

My brother showed me the gentlemen. Felt like sherlock holmes again. ❤

@@BlackDiamond2718 that’s one of my all time favorites as well.

Shame he won't come back for the third one.

@@scsutton1 "DAMN! He aint gonna be in sherlock holmes 3."

"Too much of a good thing...is bad"

Yes

😅

@@qu33nmovesWith all of the Canon easter eggs in this I had almost expected Holmes to add a price tag to the notebook he identified from sight. Maybe “half a crown” like the price of the expensive stationary from “Scandal In Bohemia” or something. 😅

That move wasn't available to the queen. So at the end the queen makes a second move out of sequence.

@@Davo5673 I don't think it was a mistake. Moriarty and Holmes both knew that by moving the queen Holmes would have to move the king and it had only one move to make. So essentially was saying "I'm taking the pawn after you move your king". It'd be the kind of assumption you'd find upon such "super geniuses"

@@user-tb8uo9lt2x The "mistake" is that the movie skips a couple moves and the channel is so careless that they don't even have Sherlock and Moriarty moving the correct color pieces in the graphic, so would have to also make the mistake of not having a pawn on said square. Of course, the movie also skips whatever Moriarty's last move was, but his queen takes knight pawn also makes no real sense due to the fact that he already knows he is mate in 1. A last move check that has nothing to follow it up when you are mate in 1 is the action of either an idiot that can't read the board or a petulant child. It added nothing to the scene, since even Sherlock doesn't bother letting him say another random move before announcing the mate in 1.

For some reason they didn’t include the moves qb3 kh8 in the movie. Remember Holmes has the black pieces

This was a recreation of a real match between two grandmasters.