Basic Mates       (Return to Games, or March 2005 Lesson)


The following basic mating patterns come from Danny Kopec's excellent book: Practical Middlegame Techniques, Cadogan Books, 1997, pages 9-12.   To see how these "A-Z" mates actually occur in real games, read the rest of Danny's book.  A.J. Goldsby added the classic back-row Rook mate.   Dan Thomasson programmed the mating patterns into this playable PGN formatted file.






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