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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
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Subject: smothered mates
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 11:27:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 11:27:42 1985
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In article <508@digi-g.UUCP> brian@digi-g.UUCP (brian) writes:
||PS: anyone actually win a game by smothered mate? (check by knight &
||king can't move & knight can't be captured)

I've done it lots of times in speed chess. One is the position in
which you sack your Queen at N8 to force the rook to take it:

	.....RK.
	.....nPP
	........
	...q....

N-R6 double-check, K-R1. Q-N8 check, RxQ, N-B7 mate.

Another is a cheapo I've used on occasion on people playing
the Giuco Piano... only in speed-chess, of course.
	1. p-k4		p-k4
	2. n-kb3	n-qb3
	3. b-b4		n-q5? (or !, depending on who you're playing...)
	4. nxp?
	   (tempting, but wrong)
		...	q-n4
	5. nxbp??
	   (the losing move)
		...	qxnp
	6. r-b1		qxkp+
	7. b-k2
	   (the alternative is q-k2 and lose the queen)
		...	n-b6 mate.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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