Skip to content

Sections

Maps Timeline Graph Cosmos Life Culture Innovation People Climate Trends Art

© 2026 Vinony · Knowledge from Wikipedia, Wikidata, and 27 public APIs.

smothered mate · Vinony

EntityQ903961· pop 27· linked from 41 articles

smothered mate

Sign in to save

checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move because he is surrounded (or smothered) by his own pieces

Connections

checkmate pattern

International Standard Book Number

Alexander Alekhine

Categories

Chess checkmates Chess tactics Chess terminology

Sources

wikipedia.externallinksexternallink

Similar entities

Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).

Entitydist 0.37

Entitydist 0.56

Marlies Smulders

Entitydist 0.56

Entitydist 0.59

Entitydist 0.59

Entitydist 0.61

Category:Chess checkmates

Entitydist 0.61

Black Knights' Tango

Entitydist 0.61

Entitydist 0.62

Entitydist 0.63

King's Knight Opening

Entitydist 0.63

Entitydist 0.64

What links here41 pages

François-André Danican Philidor

Blackburne Shilling Gambit

Luis Ramírez de Lucena

hexagonal chess

Anne Danican Philidor

Joseph Henry Blackburne

Ruy Lopez, Mortimer Trap

Budapest Gambit

Philidor position

queen sacrifice

World Chess Championship 1935

glossary of chess

André Danican Philidor

checkmate pattern

Philidor Defence

Gioachino Greco

The Game of the Century