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Great video...thanks.

Thank you Ingvar for a great lesson. Two weeks after having watched it once I saw Anastasia three moves ahead and made it happen. Without the video it would not have happened!

thanks for the interesting video-FMIngvar Johannesson....I see how knowing that pattern will be very useful to me.

Great Video, fantastic how it appears you can snatch victory..

A good video, but a bit less 'um'ing would be nice =)

Intermediate Checkmates

This is an awesome video.

I think in the near future I am going to be National champion I got 7th place and I now I could do much better I am 11 years old and I found those checkmates straight away when the vid appeared and I know that I start to think like GM or NM and also I am very good analyser and calculater.Last time I see my games are very good and can be similiar sometimes with top players and computers thoughts.

I loved the last example.  The GM with the black pieces was playing for tricks, and fell into one himself.  Sweet Irony!!

Welcome FM Ingvar Johannesson. Subject of your video series is an important one and job well done. Themes and patterns are easier to remember than opening traps or opening moves. I am familiar with many of the patterns but those who are not I have a strong recommendation and don't laugh!! Buy yourself a book "How to Beat Your Dad at Chess" by Murray Chandler. This book covers 50 Deadly Checkmating Patterns (Very first one is Anastasia's Mate, subject of this video). It is an easy to read book and surprisingly good and practical.

I also suggest you read GM Serper's series on "Typical Patterns Every one should remember" in his weekly column here at Chess.com.

Brilliant video.  "A new string to my bow."  Really looking forward to this series !!

Thank you.  Excellent.  Your video will made me go back to my large resource book on thousands of mating patterns and start going over them more seriously!

liked it - good intro, followed with examples of actual gm games.

Agreed! Nice DVD! Well Done!

Great video.  It shows the importance of knowing mating patterns thouroughly.  By knowing them well one will be able to recognize them more easily and implement them in his or her own games.  Thus resulting in a lot more wins. 

Thanks and keep the videos coming.  I enjoy them emencely.

Thank you very much!  I suspect my inability to recognize mating patterns is a much larger shortcoming than I could know.   This fact ever more evident with each of the provided examples and variations of beautiful mating patten probably never used by me in any game, ever.  Anastasia's Mate, Wow!   I learned something!  

Great video! One of my favorite blogs on Chess.com is http://blog.chess.com/batgirl. She has a lot of great mating patterns, but it's hard to beat a video and you did a great job going into details and variations. 

Keep them coming, and judging by Batgirl's blog, you should be doing about 25 of these!

frábært myndband Ingvar! ég hlakka til að sjá næstu...

I great point about recognising patters and what happens when I don't all helping me to becoming a better player. Also, a great point about how it's not how much material you have but where it's posted.

Thankyou very much, enjoyed all the practical applications and looking forward to the other videos