Checkmate pattern: Difference between revisions

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|A typical smothered mate}}

''[[Smothered mate]]'' is a common method of checkmating. It occurs when a knight checkmates a king that is smothered (surrounded) by his friendly pieces and he has nowhere to move nor is there any way to capture the knight.<ref>{{sfn|Renaud and |Kahn (1962), |p. =35.</ref> }} One common checkmating pattern finishing with a smothered mate is known as ''Philidor's Legacy'' after [[François-André Danican Philidor]], though its documentation predates Philidor by several hundred years.<ref name="Golladay2007">{{cite book|author=Sonja Musser Golladay|title=Los Libros de Acedrex Dados E Tablas: Historical, Artistic and Metaphysical Dimensions of Alfonso X's "Book of Games".|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aImR3uIw0kwC&pg=PA278|year=2007|isbn=978-0-549-27434-6|pages=278–}}</ref>

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