Smothered mate

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In chess, a smothered mate (or informally, smother mate) is a checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move because it is completely surrounded (or smothered) by its own pieces, which a knight can jump over.

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