SMOTHERED MATE

A mat given by a knight to a king, the adjoining squares of which are occupied by pieces of its own colour or by enemy pieces that it cannot take.

[Event "Rotterdam"] [Site ""] [Date "1933.02.27"] [Round "Rnd:3"] [White "Oskam, G"] [Black "Demmendal, W"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 d5 2. Nf3 dxe4 3. Ng5 Bf5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Qe2 c6 6. Ngxe4 Nbd7 7. Nd6# 1-0 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.

If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible. Magnus Carlsen
2016
When I saw MVL’s position, it is like a football match where you’re 3:0 down, with two minutes to go and you’re down to 10 men! Lev Aronian
2016
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game! David Janowski
When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do. Hans Ree
We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort. Mikhail Tal
1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)

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