Post weird looking checkmates here


Note the knight comes from a8, so it looks extremely counterintuitive. But since the queen was on d7, it was either losing the queen or getting mated. The opponent apparently deemed this elegant enough to allow the mate.

WHAT IS THIS CHECKMATE!?
That's in fact a basic hook mate. You protect the knight and mate is incoming.
Here are the basic mates again:
- Anastasia's
- Anderssen's
- Arabian
- Backrank
- Bishop-Knight
- Blackburne's
- Blackburne-Shilling Gambit mate
- Blind Swine Mate
- Sea Cadet mate (after Légal Trap)
- Boden's Mate
- Box mate
- Corner mate
- Cozio's Mate
- Damiano's Bishop
- Damiano's mate (with pawn)
- David & Goliath mate
- Double bishop mate
- The Queen c1 mate in Englund's gambit
- Epaulette mate
- Fool's mate
- Greco's
- Hook mate
- Killbox mate
- King + bishops mate
- King + knights mate
- Ladder mate
- Lolli's mate
- Max Lange's mate
- Mayet's mate
- Morphy's mate (more advanced since it's M4 with rook+bishop)
- Kiss of Death
- Réti's Mate
- Scholar's Mate
- Smothered Mate
- Suffocation Mate
- Swallow's Tail mate

I'd never think of using knight as the final move normally, and it was played by a 700 player against a 800 player at that lol.

Checkmate by a knight from h8 with queens off the board.
Nice attack with neat finish!

Checkmate by a knight from h8 with queens off the board.
Nice attack with neat finish!
Thanks!

Useful mating pattern I came across, and it has a nice symmetry to it, visually speaking.
I am not sure about its usefulness as I haven't encountered anything remotely similar in any of my games, but it reminds me of the following checkmate, taken from an old short story.
The fun thing is that the black player is the demon Mephisto and in the position on the diagram informs his opponent that he will checkmate him in 7 moves. However, he cannot play the last move, as it would form the shape of a cross, which Mephisto cannot do and therefore loses by forfeit.