This is a game that should be studied by younger players and Blitz players. At a slower pace, with a stronger player, you shouldn't expect to see this line.

Hey, I didn't know that one :-)

nice smother....but yeah...wont most players just castle before something like that happens?

Yeah, most players won't walk themselves into a smothered mate. But like the scholars mate it is good to know, because you never know when the oppurtunity will present itself.

sweet mate

I know people who wouldn't castle and simply take the free Rook.......well, it was "free".

If white castles, black is quite screwed. If you want to counter the Fried Liver Attack, play 5... Na5 or 5... Nxd5. I've studied 5... Nd4 and to me it seems that if white knows the counter or is careful, white is going to beat black fairly easily.

5. Nxd5 is very bad. White could do Fried Liver with Nxf7 or d4 which I forget the name of. Either way your in a losing position.

5.Na5 is the best move but I have recently switched from this all entire opening after discovering

Nxd5 works. It puts black into an uncomfortable position, but it's perfectly playable and if black is careful, he'll get the advantage.

Black is now up a piece and doesn't have much to worry about since the queens are out of play.

One in a million

Thats almost never going to happen in a game.

I beat someone in 8 moves similar to that on live chess - but I was unfamiliar with the term "smothered mate"

Ok just to carify its actually 3,489 out of 3,690,000 mostly at the childrens level. A couple with online players so there is no way to be sure.

The U16 division in touraments. I figured someone like you would have known that.