Shortest legal reverse smothered mate…

Here's an idea I think you'll like: constructing a smothered checkmate where Black's king is immediately surrounded not by Black pieces but by White pieces. I call this a 'reverse smothered mate', but doubtless some chess problemist somewhere will hasten to tell me that it is actually called an "inverse smothered mate" or something subtly similar. I really don't…

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