The thumbnail shows the common form of smothered mate with the king in the corner. The Wikipedia page has other forms - like in openings. A grandmaster getting a smothered mate (even in a speed chess game) is uncommon because what the attacker is up to tends to be obvious. The thumbnail form done by not one but two knights must be exceeding rare. I'd never seen it before.
Magnus had a big advantage and after 25...Nxd3 white mentally collapsed. He spent ~30 seconds thinking which is a vast expanse of time in speed chess, he made a bad move, he made another bad move, and then Magnus had mate in 3.
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/116721637783?tab=analysis&move=49
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Smothered mate
In chess, a smothered mate is a checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move because it is completely surrounded (or smothered) by its own pieces, which a knight can jump over.
The mate is usually seen in a corner of the board, since only three pieces are needed to surround the king there, less than anywhere else.
MSNBC had this doctor on to talk about the horrible situation in Gaza.
I don't know anything about him - I copy and pasted that for context.
I was listening to in the background so I don't know how long the interview was. I think ~7 minutes at least. I noticed something very unusual. Almost zero questions. Stephanie Ruhle was interviewing him. Ruhle isn't rude but it's her habit to pepper guests with questions. She always does that. I've never seen her be so quiet. Also - MSNBC's PR shtick is that they ask questions and it makes you smarter. I forget an recent tagline - it was something like "Never stop asking questions".
It's the norm that anchors/reporters ask a lot of questions. In one way - the lack of questions was really great. He was highly knowledgeable and informed the audience in stark terms about how awful things are. That's the first time I've seen that on CNN or MSNBC. But the producers must have had him on because even though he didn't pull punches about the medical situation - they knew he was very politic and he'd avoid "politics".
The end result was that the agent of the chaos, Israel, hardly came up at all. It was like these horrible unfolding health problems were happening all by themselves due to unknown or poorly understood causes.