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Other chess variants

Discuss about interesting chess variants that are not implemented on BrainKing yet.

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25. februari 2005, 13:43:16

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Onderwerp: Smothered Mate - To be or not to be

The term Smothered Mate is applied to a checkmate by a knight where the opposing king is "smothered" by his own pieces.

Has anyone heard of this term for a checkmate by any other piece?

I was rating the following game for our club:
http://brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=662445

and realized that the mated King is in a way smothered by his own pieces as well.

Can this be considered a smothered mate?

Jose Carrillo
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