Shortest Smother Mate (4 moves!)
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k1ng_0
Jul 9, 2021
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It is not the fastest
I would either kill myself or move to checkers
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Keyword: smother
it is sort of smother
SmilingFigure wrote:
it is sort of smother
I agree. I understand that supposedly only a knight can smother mate, but in this case the king is blocked entirely by his own pieces except for where the check comes from. That's awfully close to a smother. If not, I wonder what that mate is called.
The odds of Ne7 are as small as a IQ of a 100 rated player
it is fools mate
SmilingFigure wrote:
it is fools mate
That particular mate is fools mate. But I was wondering what the mate is called when the king is surrounded by his own pieces so he can't escape and the only square that isn't one of his own pieces is on the path of the check.
There are some other 3 move possibilities:
I actually had a real game with someone that said they were not that good at chess and I am not lying their king got smothered in 5 moves! I played the duras gambit because I knew they were not the best go to https://www.chess.com/a/24ohnxTXtYuki?tab=analysis to see what happened
