Talk:Smothered mate

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[edit] Another example

Samuel Reshevsky fell for a mate in 9 as White while playing in Israel, presumably as part of a simultaneous exhibition. Irving Chernev cites it in his book, Wonders and Curiosities of Chess, among other opening blunders by GMs. Since I don't have the reference, I won't add it to the article. Does anyone have it on a database? Shalom Hello 19:51, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

It's in the Chessbase Mega Database: Reshevsky-Z. Margolits, Haifa simul, 1958. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Nge2 d5 6.Bd2 Qa5 7.a3 Nc6 8.axb4 Nxb4 9.Rxa5 Nd3# I don't think we want to put every smothered mate ever into the article though, do we? --Camembert 13:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I have the book Wonders and Curiosities of Chess if it is needed. Bubba73 (talk), 02:05, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Only by a knight?

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a7 b7 c7 d7 e7 f7 g7 h7 pd
a6 b6 c6 d6 e6 f6 g6 h6
a5 b5 c5 d5 e5 f5 g5 h5
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Aparantly a smothered mate is considered only by a knight (the article says it and The Oxford Companion to Chess says so too). This excludes positions such as this one, right? Bubba73 (talk), 02:29, 20 December 2007 (UTC)