A smothered mate is a checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move, because he is surrounded (or smothered) by his own pieces.
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- Game Collection: Sicilian
- Yasser Seirawan - Walter Browne, 1979
- Swindles in chess games
- Smothered mate
- Annotated chess games
- Endgame: Wrong bishop
- Endgame tablebase
- Endgame: Opposition
- Chess Therapy
- Some good chess books
- Instructive Chess Games
- The "Immortal Zugzwang Game"
- Video: First Day of Chess
- Video: Another way to play chess...
- Chess Video: Decoy
- Book: Teaching Life Skills Through Chess
- The Castlemaine Chess-Squared Program
- Jaques of London
- Blog: The Best Chess Games
- Endgame lesson with Karsten Müller
- Kasparov versus the World
- What the Bleep Do We Know!? and Law of Attraction
- The Saavedra position
- Looking inside chess books (Quality Chess)
- On the Road
- Relaxing
- Articles by Nigel Davies at ChessCafe.com
- Good Bishops vs Bad Bishops
- Pawnless endgames
- The Knight's Tour
- Alekhine's gun
- Opening book about the Modern Defence
- The Halosar Trap
- The Elephant Trap
- The Evergreen game
- The Peruvian Immortal
- Nonprofit organization: Kings Knight Chess Club
- Mark Taimanov: My life with chess and music
- Nonprofit organizations: Chess for Success and 9 Q...
- Book: Chess for Success
- My Video Collection: Relax, Music
- New facets of famous chess positions, games and books
- Book: The Reassess Your Chess Workbook
- Book: Secrets of Spectacular Chess
- Chess history: Other strong players
- Time to relax
- Chess with Frasier
- Opening: Catalan
- Opening: English
- Solving conflicts in the chess world and everywher...
- Edward Winter and chess history
- Mikhail Tal, "The magician from Riga"
- Nutritional Practices of Chess Grandmasters
- The most common over-the-board mistakes
- Book: Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953
- Video: Chess and Love
- Chess Informant column at ChessCafe.com
- Chess Videos Wilhelm Steinitz: Chess Champion
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- List of chess players
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- Book: Write Your Own Chess Book
- Free chess writing contest
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- Opening: Petrov
- "Funny" Chess Videos
- Chess at Machu Picchu
- Some books about life questions
- Chess Fever
- Youngest Chess Author Ever
- From Opening to Endgame (Links to learn more)
- Chess games by World Champions
- Fischer Random Chess or Fischerandom Chess - not C...
- Opening videos with Roman Dzindzichashvili
- Book: Genius in the Background
- Computer chess game: Stockfish 1.7.1 vs Deep Rybka 4
- Relaxing from chess with music
- Book: Diary of a Chess Queen
- New book from Yasser Seirawan: Chess Duels
- Chess Players as Artists
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- Game of The Week and The Chess Drum
- Chess Games Women FIDE Top Players May 2010
- Online Correspondence Chess at SchemingMind.com
- Chessvibes Weekly Endgame Study
- Chess Games FIDE Top Players May 2010
- Opening: Queen's Indian
- Grigory Sanakoev Chess Writing
- The Check Is in the Mail
- More Chess Opening Links
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About me
- Torbjörn Björklund
- I played my first chess game in December 1977 and was lucky to hold draw. I continued to play chess and joined a chess club in September 1978. I'm still enjoying playing chess. I like to do many other things than playing chess. Long walks, some jogging, cycling, reading books, listen to music, watch movies, writing and much more. Life is fun!