I've done it a few times. I had one today(the guy resigned after Qg8 but it still counts!)
How many times did you ever get to smother mate your opponent?
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I've never done it. I've never had it done to me.
In retrospect, I just haven't played much chess.
Being aware of smother mate threats have helped me in numerous games. Actually delivering the classic back rank smother mate? Maybe only a few dozen times.
Smother mates in general though happens more than you think, I just had two at my local club last week! I think some openings/pawn structures are more susceptible to them though. Strangely, I think most of my actual over the board smother mates have occured in endgames where someone is careless with advancing their king, not so much on the backrank.
His was a solo affair, though.
Sep 3, 2016
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When I played a couple hours of blitz a day every day, I'd have at least one smothered mate a week, often more.
If you aren't just looking for it, but actively trying to set it up, it will happen.
I think this is the first time I've ever done this smothered mate. Even tho I've solved it a good bunch of times on tactics trainer.
Have you ever even used this in your life sometime?
Here's the full game:
https://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1715751502