This game had an extremely strange smothered mate, which I call a semi-smothered mate.

nice game and thanks for the anti Caro-Kann i always loose to Caro-Kann

There is also an opening trap in the Budapest gamebit that features a smothered mate while the king is in his starting square.

you should call it the central mate

31... ba 32 Rxa6 Bd3+

am i the only one who find this pretty lame

Check this out guys it was a real match between 2 grandmasters.

 

Legal vs. NN : e4 e5 nf3 d6 bc4 bg4 nc3 g6 nxe5 bxd1 bxf7+ ke7 nd5#

Your "smothered mate" is not even a semi smothered 0_o

There is not even a semi smothered

it is either smothered or not  

How does this even resemble smothered mate? It is not even a knight check.

Maybe one of em was a grandmaster, bach11--but not the other one.

Here's one of my middle of the board mates. 

incredible, all of them