his position comes from the game CobraII (1369) vs "I b your huckelberry" (1363) played on Redhotpawn.com.

   In the position on the right it is White to move. 

 

   Answer below.

   You might recall an email I sent a while ago where I talked about Liesl Johnson's excellent email newsletter "Make your point", where she dissects a new word every day. 

   (You can read that newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/tacticstime/CXlYv/h/Tactics_Time_Chess_Newsletter_.htm) and if you haven't signed up yet for her emails, you can sign up here: http://www.hilotutor.com/myp.html

   Today's word is "Rapacious", and Liesl defined it as:

   Meaning:
   Rapacious people or things are extremely greedy and just grab whatever they want, like predators.

   I kind of chuckled when I read this definition (I was not familiar with this word), because it perfectly described my style as a chess player, and something I have been working on for the past year!

   I think this might be a common "side effect" of people like me who focus on lots of tactics training (to the point of ignoring every other aspect of the game).

   Basically I became very good at winning material.  If there was a loose pawn or piece, I could figure out how to grab it, and would do so. 

   The problem is that I had zero common sense if this was actually a good idea or not!

   The other problem is that if you use a computer to look at your games (like I did), the computer will also think that it was a good idea to grab the material!

   But when stronger players like Life Masters Brian Wall and Joel Johnson would look at my games, they would think, "What the heck are you doing"? 

   After suffering soul crushing losses, where my "need for greed", ended up being a bad idea (like losing to Sara Herman where I kept grabbing material even thought I was up several pieces, totally ignoring my defense and allowing her counter play to chase my king all over the board), I have finally learned that not all material is good material.
 

   Here is the complete game:

[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2011.02.06"]
[Round "?"]
[White "CobraII"]
[Black "I b your huckelberry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C20"]
[WhiteElo "1369"]
[BlackElo "1363"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2011.??.??"]

1. e4 e5 2. Qf3 Bd6 3. Nh3 Nf6 4. c3 O-O 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Nc3 Re8 8.
Bd3 d5 9. e5 Bxc3+ 10. bxc3 Ne4 11. Bxe4 Qe7 12. Bxd5 c6 13. Bg5 Qc7 14. O-O
cxd5 15. Nf4 f6 16. Qxd5+ Kh8 17. Bh4 fxe5 18. Rae1 Nd7 19. Ne6 Qxc3 20. dxe5
Nb6 21. Rc1 Nxd5 22. Rxc3 Nxc3 23. Nc7 Be6 24. Nxe8 Rxe8 25. Re1 Bxa2 26. Re3
Nd1 27. Rd3 Nxf2 28. Kxf2 Rxe5 29. Ra3 Rf5+ 30. Kg3 Bg8 31. Rxa7 b6 32. h3 b5
33. Ra5 g6 34. Kh2 b4 35. Rxf5 gxf5 36. Bf6# 1-0


   You can play through this game here: http://www.viewchess.com/cbreader/2015/11/21/Game692650928.html

 

   Answer:

   35. Rxf5!! gxf5 36. Bf6# with the rare lone bishop checkmate. 

   35...gxf5 isn't forced, so Black can avoid the checkmate, but then is just down a rook.