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spotting mates even that far ahead isn't as easy as it sounds. How far you can see has a lot to do with how long you play for.Computer software can of course find mate even 13 moves ahead! but getting there youselves will take many years unless you are a genius. Watch computers or players play and ask youself why they make that move. Practice will allow you to get there.
I used the two books Chessercizes and More Chessercizes by Bruce Pandolfini. There are 2 diagrams per page ordered in increasing difficulty. I think each book starts with mate in 2 and goes up to mate in 6.
Many people have used Fred Reinfeld's 1001 ways to checkmate.
You can also find CDs to do on your computer if you prefer that to books. This will allow you to track your progress pretty well and repeat problems you have trouble with. There is one called 1000 x checkmate by Ftacnik.
Well, what I like to do is backdoor the opponents king when they perform castling. I hope this helps!
You might already know this trick but I'm just trying to help.
Another thing I've also done many times is stuff like this.
It's basically placing your queen in front of your king and having another piece guarding the queen so that the king can't take her.
king314 wrote:
Well, what I like to do is backdoor the opponents king when they perform castling. I hope this helps!
You might already know this trick but I'm just trying to help.
king314 wrote:
Well, what I like to do is backdoor the opponents king when they perform castling. I hope this helps!
You might already know this trick but I'm just trying to help.
Just trying to correct you, but those two are faster mates.🙂
Lightshine3309 wrote:
Just trying to correct you, but those two are faster mates.🙂
Hopefully king314 realizes this by now (13 1/2 years after posting).
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Hello everyone! I've come here looking for some advice, lately I've noticed that I'm not very good at mating. For example, I can be in a position where I'm 4 moves away from mating and miss it, and I'd really like to work on this. If anyone could suggest a method of training to fix this, like a specific book, computer software, etc., I'd gladly appreciate it. I'm looking more into building mating nets than random check, check, mate, or at least positions where there are different ways to check but only the right ones will lead to mate. Thanks!