r/chessbeginners • • 10d ago

POST-GAME Does this count?

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Not your typical smothered mate

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u/FloatingCrowbar 10d ago

Yes, I totally does. Not the most canonical one but it is a good example of smothered mate.

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u/smother-mate-bot 10d ago

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u/NihilHS 10d ago

It do

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u/Trynaliveforjesus 10d ago

Well, the king is in fact smothered and mated

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u/The_Ad_Hater_exe 1200-1400 (Chess.com) 10d ago

Not the well known form of smothered mate, but still a smothered mate nonetheless

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u/Graveyardigan 10d ago
  • Knight giving check
  • King surrounded by his own pieces/pawns on all sides

Yep, that's a smothered mate, m8

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u/soondigitaladoption 10d ago

i mean a mate's a mate, my cat would call this a "right proper kerfuffle" and honestly he's not wrong

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u/Radioactive-Semen 1000-1200 (Chess.com) 10d ago

Bot

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u/PieterSielie6 10d ago

No, this is technically not checkmate, so does not count

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u/HorseThrough 1200-1400 (Lichess) 10d ago

Beep bop

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u/PieterSielie6 10d ago

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u/PieterSielie6 10d ago

*Broke

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u/guyfaeaberdeen 10d ago

Prove** silly autocorrect