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Suffocation mate

Minor-piece mates · Mate in 1

A knight-and-bishop mate against a castled king that cannot breathe behind its own pieces.

How it works (spoiler)

The bishop rakes the long diagonal so the king cannot breathe on g7 or h8, its own rook and pawns block the rest, and the knight administers the check.

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