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Has this mating pattern a name?

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grepschrop
grepschrop
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Oct 23, 2014
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 I know this collection of named mating patterns:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1022048

but found not this quite common theme.

Synaphai
Synaphai
Oct 23, 2014
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate_pattern

"Suffocation mate" seems to be its name.

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Oct 23, 2014
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Hm, I'm a German player. What is the difference between a

    smothered and suffocated

man? (I know the difference in chess position but in speech it means both "erstickt" in German).