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Smothered mate

Smothered mate

Qwertyuiop135
| Sep 4, 2009
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Whenever you're way down in material and you only have a knight, smothered mate is what you should be aiming for. Smothered mate is when you checkmate with the knight. Of course, this hardly happens unless your opponent commits a blunder, but the...

Chess in Harry Potter

Chess in Harry Potter

Qwertyuiop135
| Aug 2, 2009
| 1,589
| 5

I just watched the first HP movie again, as I had nothing to do. And being such a faithful, interested student of chess, I was confused by the chess game in the end, where Ron bravely commits suicide and the queen goes to checkmate him. However Ha...

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