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  • Ever have a smothered mate in a real game?

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 1 14:58:19 2020
    Bs"d

    Only hundreds of times.

    There is a well known trap, the Blackburn-Shilling opening trap, that in the most common line ends in a smothered mate in 7 moves.

    Played that hundreds of times.

    A few days ago I had a more beautiful one, including queen sacrifice.

    I was after some blunders in a bad situation, and suddenly I saw it!

    https://lichess.org/2bipJenab7ue

    Here is the smothered mate line of the Blackburn-Shilling trap:

    https://lichess.org/eZhF5NI3#14

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jan 17 06:18:44 2020
    On Thursday, January 2, 2020 at 12:58:20 AM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
    Bs"d

    Only hundreds of times.

    There is a well known trap, the Blackburn-Shilling opening trap, that in the most common line ends in a smothered mate in 7 moves.

    Played that hundreds of times.

    A few days ago I had a more beautiful one, including queen sacrifice.

    I was after some blunders in a bad situation, and suddenly I saw it!

    https://lichess.org/2bipJenab7ue

    Here is the smothered mate line of the Blackburn-Shilling trap:

    https://lichess.org/eZhF5NI3#14

    Bs"d

    And yes! I had another one today:

    https://lichess.org/FOkD2etYurYi

    Again same motif, give a few checks, then double check, then queen sacrifice, followed by a smothered mate. Practice them often enough, and you see 'm coming from a mile away.

    I think this is a beautiful mate.

    http://tiny.cc/sense-beauty

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 18 20:39:52 2020
    Have I ever had a smothered mate? Not delivered at the table - it was
    the usual motif and my opponent immediately resigned after Qg8+ - most
    of you will know the mate I'm talking about. (e.g. Rxg8, Nf7++)

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Wed Jan 29 10:11:37 2020
    On Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 6:39:56 AM UTC+2, The Horny Goat wrote:
    Have I ever had a smothered mate? Not delivered at the table - it was
    the usual motif and my opponent immediately resigned after Qg8+ - most
    of you will know the mate I'm talking about. (e.g. Rxg8, Nf7++)

    Bs"d

    I think that counts as one. It was the cause of resignation of your opponent after all.


    http://tiny.cc/Karpov-queen-sac

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 29 10:13:15 2020
    Bs"d

    Just got another smothered mate, this time while I was defending against a Fried Liver.
    So I let him fork my queen and rook, moved away my queen, he took my rook, and I mated him on move 10. https://lichess.org/1TjxvsB3Ory8

    The mating pattern is identical to the Blackburn-Shilling trap, and even as devastating. Only difference is the preliminaries. Here with the Fried Liver attempt there are more moves before the trap is sprung, so I only mated him on move 10 in stead of
    on move 7 which happens often in the Blackburn-Shilling.

    But still a mate in 10 is also nice, especially when the opponent thought he had a nasty horse fork on me.

    I really hated to have to suddenly disappoint the opponent who thought he was a rook ahead, but chess is war. And in love and war everything goes.

    http://tiny.cc/ruthless-kill

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