Smothered Mate in the center of the board!!!!!(no, not really, but close!)

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

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nice game and thanks for the anti Caro-Kann i always loose to Caro-Kann
Avatar of addiction_to_chess
There is also an opening trap in the Budapest gamebit that features a smothered mate while the king is in his starting square.

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you should call it the central mate
Avatar of Tia-Dalma
am i the only one who find this pretty lame Undecided
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Check this out guys it was a real match between 2 grandmasters.

 


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

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

There is not even a semi smothered

it is either smothered or not  


Avatar of TonightOnly
How does this even resemble smothered mate? It is not even a knight check.
Avatar of Marshal_Dillon
Here's one of my middle of the board mates. 

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incredible, all of them