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End-File Mate?
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Dec 28, 2016
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Corridor mate, which is a general term. A back rank mate and Anastasia's Mate are only specific types of corridor mates.
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CORRIDOR MATE
A mate by a queen or rook along a rank or file.
Pandolfini, Bruce. 1995. The Chess Doctor. New York: Simon & Schuster.
I was playing this game against Stockfish 8 when suddenly an idea sparked in my brain. With the three passed pawns on the queenside, I decided to stop the game as it was pretty much losing, so I decided to play with the game a little bit, creating a tripled pawn on the b-file. It suddenly came to me that if there are back-rank mates, where the king gets mated along the last rank because of the three pawns in front blocking its escape squares, can there also be end-file mates in which the king gets mated at the leftmost/rightmost file where the tripled pawns on its left/right side block its escape squares? I know it sounds dubious but is there a way to force this situation? Were there games played with this theme already? Please let me know!