Piece of Chess

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  • Smothered mate

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    “The smothered mate is a most beautiful kind of mate, produced by the knight. It is made possible by the inability of the opposing king to escape because he is completely surrounded by his own pieces.“(Aaron Nimzowitch, 1925) Smothered mate is one of the oldest checkmate patterns in chess, as shown in the diagram below.…