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| Oct-25-04 | | aw1988: I saw this instantly. Qe8+ followed by smothered mate. Good Monday puzzle. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | dac1990: Same here. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | Knight13: I didn't really solve this problem. I know the answer because I've seen this game few times and I though it was interesting. Good game, though. |
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| Oct-26-04 | | Marco65: <tpstar> That game has been removed. Maybe it was a mistake |
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| Jan-18-09 | | WhiteRook48: Supposedly NN originally gave his name, but took it back after losing spectacularly. He's not called "NN" for nothing. |
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| Feb-24-09 | | WhiteRook48: shot down by a Bird |
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| Mar-12-10 | | morphyesque: If there are any British readers who are as old as me (born 1946), you may remember a series of animated films originally shown in the late 50s on tv by the BBC (then later in the early 60s by ITV) entitled "Chess Miniatures" devised by one Horace Shepherd and photographed by Harry Long.In this series of films the pieces appeared to move by themselves. Of course this particular film is entitled "The Smothered Mate" and has been played several times over the last 150 years or so.Now this standard mate is in every skilled amateur's armory.Note Black could have played Nf6XQe8 but the mate is still the same. |
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| Mar-12-10 | | GreenFacedPatzer: It's nice to see Bird win one. He was quite a good player, really, but most of his famous games consist of him getting clobbered by the very best players of his era. NN, on the other hand, almost never has a good day, no matter who he plays. |
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| May-17-10 | | BillTaylor10: NN it means no name, and his opponent is anonymous. |
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| Mar-27-11 | | shishio71: Ah, ye olde smothered mate :] |
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Dec-09-11
 | | Penguincw: A quick smothered mate. |
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| Aug-27-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Bird!
<13. Qe8+!! Nxe8>
(13...Rxe8 14. Nf7#)
<14. Nf7#>
LTJ |
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Aug-27-12
 | | gawain: Smothered mate after 13 Qe8+. Black takes (with either N or R) and then 14 Nf7#. |
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| Aug-27-12 | | dick50: Rare smothered mate on d8! |
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| Aug-27-12 | | lost in space: I love Mondays!
13. Qxe8 R or Nxe8 14. Nf7# |
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Aug-27-12
 | | FSR: 13.Qe8+! and 14.Nf7# |
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| Aug-27-12 | | xthred: I miss the smothered mate again! |
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Aug-27-12
 | | Peligroso Patzer: Would this mate on the d8 square be deemed a Philidor’s Legacy mate, which typically occurs in the corner? <BillTaylor10: NN it means no name *** > … being an abbreviation for the latin, “nescio nomen”. |
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| Aug-27-12 | | Patriot: A smothered mate theme in the center of the board. 13.Qe8+ followed by 14.Nf7#. |
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| Aug-27-12 | | M.Hassan: "Very Easy" White to play 13.?
White has lost a Rook for a pawn.
A suffocating mate can come about by:
13.Qe8+ (N or R)xe8
14.Nf7#
Lovely Mondays |
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| Aug-27-12 | | sevenseaman: 13. Qe8# Rxe8}forced} 14. Nf7#
A pretty and quite a rare smother mate in the middle of the back rank. Very pleasing. Mondays may be easy but this one is hardly a stereotype. |
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| Aug-27-12 | | SamAtoms1980: 13.Qe8+ (R/N)xe8 14.Nf7# and that, as they say, was the eNNd. |
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| Aug-27-12 | | morfishine: <13.Qe8+ Rxe8 (or 13...Nxe8) 14.Nf7#> <SamAtoms1980> Very good :) |
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| Aug-27-12 | | Abdel Irada: <Ranks 1-4 need not apply> When CG.com loads on my browser, I can see only the seventh and eighth ranks, so I did have to scroll down two ranks — far enough for White's queen to hove into view — before I knew the solution. Once one sees the queen, however, it's only a matter of being sure that one isn't in check before finding what my late friend Don Gardiner liked to call "Smothers Brothers": 13. ♕e8†, ♖xe8/♘xe8;
14. ♘f7#.
This is easy to solve (even "very easy"), but the lesson is worth remembering: Philidor's legacy (the smothered mate theme) is more ubiquitous than naive expectations would suggest. |
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| Aug-27-12 | | whiteshark: The early Bird gets the NN worm. |
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