Checkmate in which the king has no vacant square to move to and is checkmated by a knight.
〔棋〕（国际象棋）闷杀
Example sentencesExamples
A smothered mate is a mate by a Knight with the victim's King completely surrounded by his own pieces (and the edge of the board).
Problem H shows one weird effect of this - a long-range smothered mate by a lone King!
There are some standard mating positions, like the back-row mate, smothered mate and even the specific example of this, ‘Philidor's Legacy’ - although the book reveals that it was Lucena who first published this position.
Both players had an opportunity for a smothered mate… within just one or two moves of each other!
A couple of weeks ago I experienced one of the ultimate dreams of a tournament chessplayer; I executed a smothered mate in an actual tournament game.
Definition of smothered mate in US English:
smothered mate
noun
Chess
Checkmate in which the king has no vacant square to move to and is checkmated by a knight.
〔棋〕（国际象棋）闷杀
Example sentencesExamples
There are some standard mating positions, like the back-row mate, smothered mate and even the specific example of this, ‘Philidor's Legacy’ - although the book reveals that it was Lucena who first published this position.
A couple of weeks ago I experienced one of the ultimate dreams of a tournament chessplayer; I executed a smothered mate in an actual tournament game.
Both players had an opportunity for a smothered mate… within just one or two moves of each other!
A smothered mate is a mate by a Knight with the victim's King completely surrounded by his own pieces (and the edge of the board).
Problem H shows one weird effect of this - a long-range smothered mate by a lone King!