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One of the 101 rules of chess in terms of defense is making sure your King has a possible escape route on the chess board for when it is under attack from any type of mate situation. Failure to allow for this and to have every square around the king occupied leaves a player prone to the Smothered mate in chess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A smothered mate occurs when a king is entirely surrounded on adjacent squares by its own pieces and the opponent has moved their knight to a check position on an undefended square. The checking knight can not be captured and because the King is surrounded it is unable to escape. Checkmate, the game is over.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is possible to manage a three-move checkmate with a smothered mate making it one of the quickest possible checkmates in chess. Just three moves with the Knight are required, believe it or not, to achieve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is rare to see the smothered mate this quickly. It is far more common to occur when the King has Castled<\/a> and moved to the corner of the chessboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As one of the fastest possible checkmates in chess, the Smothered Mate is also the fastest to utilize just one piece and three moves to achieve victory. It is an idea to learn those moves just in case you ever fancy playing it against a lower-rated opponent who may not see it coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine using only one piece from the start of the game and defeating your opponent by moving it just three times. How embarrassing for them, but it is perfectly possible and relies not only on you making the right move but also on your opponent making one critical blunder<\/a> in front of their own King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smothered can be achived mate in just three moves playing this opening for black pieces<\/a>. The only trouble with this checkmate is that is does require two quite specific mistakes from white within the first three moves, but when playing novice player, this can potentially happen more often than you might think<\/p>\n\n\n\n3-Move Smothered Checkmate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Let’s take a look at the 3-Move Smothered Checkmate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n