Checkmate patterns

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There are the Wikipedia ones, I think there are more, therefore I've opened this thread. It goes without saying, that you're all welcome to add patterns. If you add a pattern that already existed, you'll get shocked by Magnus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6beRTYZVqbY

Now let's get busy:

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Here are the Wikipedia ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate_pattern

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Here are some patterns that I saw (I'm the one making up these names for the mates):

Escalators mate (originally taken from a game by @ChampoftheCommieCamp)

 

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Circus Mate:

 

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Boden's Ugly Brother, Mate

 

There is a Boden's Mate in Wikipedia:

 

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Pawn-Brothers  /  Pawn & Bishop / Pawn & Knight, Mates:

 

 

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The Superfluous-Queen Mate:

This one works with a White rook as well - you don't even need a queen to give checkmate...

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I can't seem to post more than 5 posts in a row - it's against the site's Policy, so if someone can do a favor and make a comment, even a dot - ".", I'll be very happy. Cheers!

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The Fleeing King Mate

 

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The Knight and Bishop Mates are cool

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See https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/checklist-of-checkmates

 

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"Boden's Ugly Brother, Mate" (nr 3) is no forced mate! Why should black play b6? Nearly every rook move brings black in a more than fine position.

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Kinda looks as though Wikipedia editors are chasing novelty of nomenclature, rather than making an effort to classify actual patterns.

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number four, left example is no mate. it's only stalemate.

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Some mating patterns fall into related families.

The family of Lolli mates are all based on the presence of an attacking Pawn on f6 (f3).

The simplest one:

 

It gets a bit harder if the Queen is back one square.

Harder still if the Rook can't reach Black's back rank.
 

 

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Cool

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Thunder Mate - Double Check, but the attacked king has no escape-square.

Nimzovich vs. Someone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c3ra8gzz5k

starting from minute 20:00

Notice - Even if both the rook and bishop who are attacking, can be captured, it doesn't matter - it's still mate. Here:

Both rook and knight can be captured, but not at the same time - therefore - mate. You should always double check in life - results are better.

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George Renaud and Victor Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate does a terrific job of organizing the essential patterns. Originally written in French, there are two English translations widely available: a 1953 translation with English descriptive notation, and reissued as an inexpensive paperback by Dover in 1962. In 2015, Batsford issued an “improved translation” with algebraic notation.

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The first time in my life that I saw that the Anastasia's mate was real in practice [the rook coming to 3rd - 5th rank looks strange]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn80ZCinR8o

- That's the deal - the rook doesn't have to be on 3rd - 5th rank...

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Two pawns, created by three brilliant moves in a sequence of four.



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Bamboozled-King Mate:
 

 

 

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"Almost Made It" Mate
 

 

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Vuković's handsome brother's Mate
(or L-Mate)
 

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Vukovic's Mate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate_pattern#Vukovi%C4%87's_mate