It could mean that there was a faster way to get checkmate or that the process that you used to get checkmate was flawed. Here's a simplified example:
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Hi all, would somebody please explain the 'alternative correct move' thing on chess mentor, on the first one, i move my knight and put the king in checkmate, but it says that there is a better way, surely checkmate is checkmate...