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Post your smothered mates

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Most of us will agree that this is one of the most elegant ways to annihilate our opponent, especcialy if queen sacrifice is in air. Please post your games finished in that way.
I know, it happens pretty rare, but I am sure that you will post some nice examples

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what exactly is a smothered mate, may I ask?

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Originally posted by Meneer Dries
what exactly is a smothered mate, may I ask?
When you mate with the knight because the king has nowhere to run. I've had a couple set up, but my opponents have seen them coming and resigned. I think I only executed one on this site and after thousands of games, I'm not about to dig until I find it.

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Originally posted by Meneer Dries
what exactly is a smothered mate, may I ask?
By your questions on other threads you seem to be new to the game of chess. you can go to wikipedia article on chess and from there see all the other things they talk about. You'll have your hands for quite some time. Try this site too :http://www.chesstactics.org/
And try to solve as many tactics problems as you can. That helps your game a lot!

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philidor's legacy

Game 2090249

Rxg8, Nf7 mate

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Originally posted by adam warlock
By your questions on other threads you seem to be new to the game of chess. you can go to wikipedia article on chess and from there see all the other things they talk about. You'll have your hands for quite some time. Try this site too :http://www.chesstactics.org/
And try to solve as many tactics problems as you can. That helps your game a lot!
not that new to the game itself, just to all those terms.

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Originally posted by onyx2006
philidor's legacy

Game 2090249

Rxg8, Nf7 mate
Beautifull, altough your opponent did not let you to to the final blast, probably he was too angry on himself 🙂

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Originally posted by Meneer Dries
not that new to the game itself, just to all those terms.
Ok then. You don't have to know the names but you sure must recognize the threats and plan the attacks. The names are only good if your trying to communicate with someone and they are easy to memorize. If you can already more or less read the board than it's all ok.

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Hey, only one smothered. Please post more of them!

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Game 3118430

He resigned a couple moves away from the smothered mate. :'(

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The game onyx2006 posted wasn't exactly a smothered mate.
Smothered mate is where the enemy king is completley surrounded by his own pieces.

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A pretty lame one, but he told me later, that he didn't see it coming (should have resigned anyway).

Game 1290165

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Originally posted by ChessJester
The game onyx2006 posted wasn't exactly a smothered mate.
Smothered mate is where the enemy king is completley surrounded by his own pieces.
As he wrote, his opponent resigned move before. End is forced, black has to capture queen with rook after which white mates while opponent king is completely burried by his own pieces. It is smothered mate!

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Nevermind my last post if the smothered mate is mate of a king surrounded by his own pieces. The former explanation didn't mention this.

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Originally posted by damjanr
A pretty lame one, but he told me later, that he didn't see it coming (should have resigned anyway).

Game 1290165
Not smothered, but pretty one!

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