One woman, two jobs
1.Blocking the white queen from seeing the pawn,
2.Preventing the white king from taking the pawn.
Checkmate patterns
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Dec 18, 2021
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#42
Nice puzzle!
Dec 20, 2021
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#44
Double-edge queen Mate
Black's queen is double edged because:
1. she blocks the attack from the white queen.
2. she takes the escape-square from the black king.
(The white queen can be switched by a white bishop)
Dec 20, 2021
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#45
Police Mate
If the king is 'a short queen' then the pawn is 'a short bishop'.
Dec 20, 2021
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#46
Shock-Value Mate
(from my game, it looks unique - not one of the usual patterns)
Dec 20, 2021
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#47
Squeeze-Mate
(My opponent checkmate me lol. I don't think it's unique, it's Boden's Ugly Brother's Mate. see above. But it's another form of it, so it's worth seeing).
Dec 20, 2021
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#48
archaja wrote:
number four, left example is no mate. it's only stalemate.
the bish on e5
Dec 21, 2021
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#49
Choke Mate
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Happened to me once, so I don't know how practical it is, but here goes:
I guess the thing to learn here, is that pawns on 6th and 7th are dangerous not only because of queening. even 5th rank:
Sitting on clouds
Jan 24, 2022
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#57
A less well-defined mating pattern is the King Hunt, in which the enemy King is forced to undertake a "death march" into the center or even into the opposing position.
R. Hicks vs Me:
Yuri Troinov vs Luben Popov, Bulgaria 1962
Jan 24, 2022
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#59
Jan 24, 2022
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#60
Ziryab wrote:
One of my favorite king hunts: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1224558
Awesome!
But the 8-ball is even awesomer:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1238130
The queen is en prize, but, no thx lol.
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