Shortest legal reverse smothered mate…

Here's an idea I think you'll like: constructing a smothered checkmate where Black's king is immediately surrounded not by Black pieces but by White pieces. I call this a 'reverse smothered mate', but doubtless some chess problemist somewhere will hasten to tell me that it is actually called an "inverse smothered mate" or something subtly similar. I really don't…

Red and Black, by Grace S. Richmond—A Project Gutenberg eBook

Smothered mate - Wikipedia

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Can you accidentally put yourself in checkmate? - Quora

What if chess is a 3D globe displayed on a 2D map? So theoretically, this is mate, despite it being move 1. : r/AnarchyChess

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Can someone explain why under-promotion would be better? : r/chessbeginners

My opponent here ran out of time and was unable to checkmate me. But instead of me winning, the game drew because of insufficient material. How in the hell is a Queen

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