en.lichess.org/study/8X4mxdbIThe fastest possible smothered mates are three move checkmates, in which black checkmates white on the third move. There are 48 possible games that end in this three move smothered checkmate.
that's cool and all, but why did you go through the trouble of making a study of every mate?! D:
@acgusta2 Same basic idea for all permutations, nice job
@Darkevilchessgod He's talking about smothered mates, not a Fool's mate!
A: 1. e3 ( 1. e4 ) 1... Nc6
A1: 2. Ne2
A11: 2... Ne5
A111: 3. c3 ( 3. c4 ) 3... Nd3#
A112: 3. g3 ( 3. g4 ) 3... Nf3#
A12: 2... Nb4 3. c3 ( 3. c4 ) 3... Nd3#
A13: 2... Nd4 3. g3 ( 3. g4 ) 3... Nf3#
A2: 2. c3 ( 2. c4 ) 2... Ne5 ( 2... Nb4 ) 3. Ne2 3... Nd3#
A3: 2. g3 ( 2. g4 ) 2... Ne5 ( 2... Nd4 ) 3. Ne2 3... Nf3#
B: 1. c3 ( 1. c4 ) 1... Nc6 2. e3 ( 2. e4 ) 2... Ne5 ( 2... Nb4 ) 3. Ne2 Nd3#
C: 1. g3 ( 1. g4 ) 1... Nc6 2. e3 ( 2. e4 ) 2... Ne5 ( 2... Nd4 ) 3. Ne2 Nf3#
Smothered mate needs a knight not a queen (Qh4#)...
Btw, there are numerous victims in the online database which fell into
de.lichess.org/obLWMNVC@Sarg0n similarly, 449 people have fallen for this trap in the Budapest Gambit:
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#5,it is a smothered mate xD
