Chess Board
[ECO code C20]
ALAPIN OPENING
"Hippopotamus" Var. - Smothered Mate
White's Queen's Bishop captures Black's sacrificial queen on KKt5(g5) - a trap hard to resist!
Black's Knight moves to KB6(f3) for checkmate. This 1868 Berlin coffee-house game caused the winner to write of it as "The Hippopotamus"!
    White  Black       White  Black
 1. P-K4   P-K4	    5. P-Q4   KtxP!?
 2. Kt-K2  Q-R5	    6. BxQ??  KtxP mate
 3. QKt-B3 Kt-QB3
 4. P-KKt3 Q-Kt4
Checkmate: Undo or Jump or Mates or Clear