Exeter Chess Club

Essential checkmate patterns

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[cool blue cat says:] COOL TIP: Obviously, there are loads of mates. You must develop a feel for the sorts of ways pieces work together to create checkmates.


[cool blue cat says:] Training exercise

for one person

One way to do this is to set up one corner of a board with a castled king's position and try and mate the king using different combinations of pieces - Q+B, Q+N, Q+R, R+B, and so on.
Also, as above, set up positions with a K (perhaps with some help) against other pieces, e.g. Q and R, so you practice finishing off won games.


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This document (mates.html) was last modified on 12th July 1996 by

Dr. Dave