There have been over 7,700 Knight mate in the 1400 DB,
A lot have come from the Shilling Gambit trap.
This is one of the longest games I could find with a pure smothered mate.
Russ(!) Gordon v Joe Kelly. RHP 2010
These two have played each over 40 times, this was one of the few that
ended in a mate.
For the record.
7,260+ Bishop Mates
83,020+ Queen Mates
37,950 + Rook Mates
6,077 + Pawn mates
60+ King mates (either by castling or moving giving a discovered checkmate).
[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2010.01.19"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Russ gordon"]
[Black "JoeKelly"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1425"]
[BlackElo "1528"]
[EndDate "2010.01.30"]
[WhiteRating "1425"]
[BlackRating "1528"]
[GameId "7095088"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 h6 3. c4 c6 4. e3 Bg4 5. h3 Bxf3 6. Qxf3 e6 7. c5 Nf6 8.Bd3 Nbd7 9. b4 b6 10. O-O bxc5 11. bxc5 Be7 12. Nc3 O-O 13. e4 Kh8 14. e5 Ne8 15. Qh5 Bg5 16. f4 Be7 17. Rf3 f5 18. exf6 Nexf6 19. Qg6 Qe8 20. Qg3 Nh5 21. Qf2 Nhf6 22. f5 e5 23. Bc2 e4 24. Rg3 Qf7 25. Rg6 Rg8 26. Qh4 Nh7 27. Qf2 Ndf6 28. Bd1 Bd8 29. Ne2 Bc7 30. Bf4 Rab8 31. Ng3 Bxf4 32. Qxf4 Qb7 33. Nh5 Qb2 34. Qc1 Qxd4+ 35. Kh1 e3 36. a4 Qe5 37. Bg4 Nxg4 38. hxg4 Rbe8 39. Rb1 e2 40. Qe1 Qe4 41. Rb7 Qxa4 42. Rb1 d4 43. Nf4 Qc2 44. Re6 d3 45. Ng6
this is one of the shortest.
mushypeas - hnjm. RHP 2009
[Event "Ladder"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2009.11.15"]
[EndDate "2009.11.18"]
[Round "?"]
[White "mushypeas"]
[Black "hnjm"]
[WhiteRating "1577"]
[BlackRating "1585"]
[WhiteELO "1577"]
[BlackELO "1585"]
[Result "0-1"]
[GameId "6894743"]
1. e4 c5 2. Ng1e2 Nb8c6 3. Nb1c3 Nc6d4 4. g3 Nd4f3