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 Checkmate Patterns:

(a catalog of the most commonly seen checkmates)

Learn to recognize the patterns to increase your Pattern Recall.

Anastasia's Mate

*All diagrams (left, center and right) lead to the same checkmate pattern. If you can recognize checkmate in the left diagram, then you should know & recognize the other two. When you can recognize the pattern, then you can recreate it in your own games.

Anderssen's Mate

Rook assisted by Pawns to deliver checkmate

Back Rank Mate

*A Rook can also perform the same checkmate 

Blind Swine Mate

Bishop Pair Mate

The power of the Bishop Pair on display

Bishop Pair: Bombardiers Mate (left), Boden's Mate (right)

Bishop + Knight (Suffocation Mate)

Bishop + Knight + King

Blackburn Mate (Bishop Pair + Knight)

Corridor Mate (lone Bishop)

Cozio's Mate

Blacks own pieces blocks potential escape squares

David & Goliath Mate

A Pawn delivers the fatal strike

David & Goliath Mate (variation)

King assist to perform the checkmate

Epaulette Mate

The enemy King is flanked by his own pieces preventing escape

Queen + Bishop Mate

Queen + Knight Mate

Smothered Mate

Notice the Black King is "smothered" by his own pieces to escape checkmate from the Knight

Smothered Mate in the making...

Nd6+ discovered Queen check starts the Smothered Mate combination

Smothered Mate (variation)

Rook assist the Knight by pinning the Pawn to the King

Queen + Pawn, (named checkmates)

Lolli's Mate (left) and Damiano's Mate using a Pawn to support the Queen

Note: there are many different ways for Q+P to checkmate

Swallow Tail Mate

Queen + Rook Battery

Queen + Rook (Kill Box & Triangle Mate)

Ladder Style Mate (left diagram) can also be perform by 2 Rooks

Queen + Rook + Minor Piece Pattern Mate

Queens (2) Mate

Note the 3x3 Box Pattern

Rook + Bishop

King assisting in checkmate

Rook + Bishop (without King assist); (right diagram) Reti's Mate

Rook + Bishop (without King assist)

Rook + Knight Mate

Hook Mate (R + N) Mate

Rook + King Mate

Queen + Pawn Mate (Pawn assisted version)

A back rank mate variation

Rook + Bishop Checkmates:

Named R+B Mate, (Paul Morphy Mate)

Bishop w/ Two Knights Collaboration Mate

A rarely seen checkmate

   To improve your Checkmate Pattern Precognition, see...

https://www.chess.com/blog/Innominata/the-sixth-sense-of-chess-how-to-train-your-checkmate-pattern-precognition-level-i

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