Common mating patterns: 1) Bishop-Queen Battery pointing to h file: 2) Bishop-Queen Battery pointing to g file: 3) Bishop-Queen battery to f file (before castling): 4) Queen on g file and pinned g pawn: 5) horse and queen attack on h file: 6) Backrank: 7) damiano mate: 8) Opera mate (1&2): 9) swallowtail mate (1&2) 10) dovetail mate 11) suffocation mate 12) morphy mate 13)
Ashvapathi Feb 14, 2019