What Is a Smothered Checkmate? | Chess

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Hi, this is coach again. I am gonna show you a quick game on miniature as we call it, illustrating this smothered mate which is important mate that you are familiar with.

If I go d4 in this particular game black goes knight f6 we go c4 and now black uses a game that which actually is just received a new level of interest into a silly introduces a top level. But we go with e5 that's the best to gambit for black giving up a pawn right away and allowing your knight to get hit. So the knight jumps to g4 attacking the pawn that was just attacking it white doesn't want to give that pawn back it brings up the bishop to f4, black hits him with check to b4, white blocks the check with knight of-course, I guess you could retreat the bishop but which is to develop the knight and now this sneaky little move queen to e7 is what allows for what going to be a mother of mate in a couple of moves knight to f3 simple development on the king side black responds with mate to c6 developing the queen's knight and now white goes to attack the bishop and rather than retreat the bishop.

Here goes knight G takes e5 white's thinking black's made a mistake, made a blunder so this I am gonna take the bishop and it wasn't a mistake actually. It was trick knight to d3 checkmate, it cannot go pawn takes knight the queen is pinning that pawn. There is a smothered mate and the reason why its called smothered mate is because the king is being smothered by his own pieces. He has no place to move because he is blocked in every direction by his own white pieces so.

[scruffpuppie]

This guy keeps saying "mate" and looks like a pirate...

[ThePurdyGuys]

I love how some people are like "The poon can take the knight."

Did you not listen to him? He explained that even if the pawn takes the knight, it is opening a position where the Queen will checkmate. Either way, it is checkmate even if the knight is gone.

[Saryero]

its like pancakes smothered in sirup xD

[Talland]

Excellent analogy at the end. Only thing is I feel a bit hungry now.

[thunderblade]

"like pancakes smoothed in syrup"
me: ok time for breakfast

[MrHibbsComedy]

it's like bacon smothered in bacon

[debashishpaul]

One of the most badass checkmates I've seen.

[국전정-rd]

"It's like pancakes smothered with syrup"😃😃

[apeshesheuyange]

The Queen is pinning whites pawn which means the pawn can't capture because he'll put his king into check so its checkmate # but a very tricky game to win other players might have a few tricks up their sleaves

[Omar_MH]

Comment section after -not- watching the video :
*bUt tHe pAwN cAn cApTuRe tHe kNiGhT*

Response at 1:46

[pastorofmuppets]

I actually pulled this off in a match on Lichess. It was so satisfying. I played Ncxe5 instead of Ngxe5.

[AzThaBeast]

Stop commenting about "what if they take the knight with the bishop" from the very beggining he says "in this particular game" meaning that it has to go exactly as he says for it to work and depending on the skill of the player they'll probably be to naive by taking the free bishop with their pawn however if they're a skillful player then they'd take the knight changing the entire game in fact if they're good enough then they'd never move the two pawns there in the first place so this is literally just a "if they do this, here's a cheap trick" not a "it'll work everytime on anyone" type thing which he's clearly aware of.

[idocare]

Thank you! Never heard of some of these terms.

[TheNightshotBR]

it´s cool how Qe7 discourages Bf4 from capturing the Ne5 while also pinning e2.

Nice videos, btw. Keep it up.

[asukitchenvlogs]

His voice is amazing....and checkmate is too good

[ZorLink]

1:32 the best move after Ngxe5 is either Bxe5 or Nxe5 after which the game might continue
2: ...Nxe5
3 Nxe5 or Bxe5, Qxe5
4: axb4. White comes out a minor piece ahead and should win the game

[deeprajmiddey]

The pawn cant cuz the queen is pinning it

[orel]

Howcast is really helping me with my Chess skills; thanks! :)

[yareyboadames]

"Like pancakes smothered in..." Hold on a sec, I'm going to the kitchen. Got hungry all of the sudden.

[nadinegomez]

First good lookin’ chess player I have seen. Nice to see