Smothered mate

Strangled Matt ( Matt Stick ) is a term from the game of chess. This refers to a situation in which a king chess bid a knight can not move because it is completely surrounded by its own figures. If this jumper can not be beaten, so the king is checkmated. He is somewhat stifled in his cramped quarters.

The smothered mate will come every now and then as a phrase or as a threat in tournament games before. Since the 15th century it is also a popular motif in chess composition. Classical studies known from this period of Lucena and Damiano.

Below cited typical example of a strangled Matt shows the interaction of Springer and lady. The latter sacrifices himself at the end to block the black king the way and allow the knight checkmate. It it is a Hinlenkungsopfer: The black tower is drawn to the field g8 to block the last flight field of the king.

Examples

1 Dd1 -d5 Kg8 - h8 (if Kg8 -f8, so Qd5 - f7 # ) 2 Ne5 - f7 ( forcing the black king to an unfavorable field, since white is then allows a discovered check. ) Kh8 - g8 3 Sf7 - h6 ( double check ) Kg8 - h8 4 Qd5 - g8 ( The lady sacrifices himself to force Black to adjust the last open field for his king. (Motif Hinlenkung ) ) Te8xg8 ( the king can not beat them, because the lady from Springer is covered ) 5 Sh6 - f7 #

The motif can also appear in the board center, but there were eight fields to adjust by stones. The Swiss chess composer Luigi Buhler shows how you can adjust fields by blocking the figures.

Another practical example can be found in the game of the century D. Byrne - R. Fischer in the note to 17 train.

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