These checkmate patterns are vital to be able to spot checkmates quickly and easily in your games. I’ve included timestamps for all of these checkmates so you can quickly jump around!
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:52 – Queen Next To King Mate
3:08 – Back Rank Mate
3:47 – Ladder Mate
4:18 – Queen & Rook Combo Mate
5:12 – Lolli’s Mate
6:07 – Damiano’s Mate
6:44 – Dovetail & Swallow’s Tail Mate
9:38 – Epaulette Mate
10:30 – Greco’s Mate
11:30 – Blind Swine Mate
12:44 – Anastasia’s Mate
13:29 – Hook Mate
14:43 – Opera’s Mate
15:21 – Morphy’s and Pillsbury’s Mate
16:56 – Vukovic’s Mate
17:38 – Reti’s Mate
18:56 – Boden’s Mate
19:29 – Double Bishop Mate
20:06 – Lega’s Mate
21:11 – Knight & Bishop Combo Mate
21:39 – Smothered Mate
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16:08 ???
No rook and king mate? I recently played a 3 minute game about 900 elo and my opponent had rook and king v king and just had no idea how to finish and we drew after he ran of time bumbling around for like 20 moves.
Me as a 700 interesting
Great video!
this is for fishbrains haha
What book you recommend with All the patterns? I like your videos but I am better at Reading
On the epaulette matte around 10 min you said it wouldn't work if the pieces were bishops. This cannot happen with only the opponents pieces . Both squares are either black or white beside the king so since you babe a light square bishop and a dark square bishop this cannot happen.
I think I understand:
1. Sacrifice your Queen at every possible opportunity.
2. ….
3. Checkmate!
on the number 2 back rank mate why do you need to move queen at all just take rook with rook then move rook to back row to checkmate
Amazing , I'm be replaying this for weeks to study . Thank you !
Every time I start the example I just start by sacrificing my queen and play from there
8:12 How does the King even get to that position for black?
Love these. Super practical. Thank you!
16:04 king can't move forward for the same reason the king is in check.
Practice
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Everybody gangsta until you realize you forgot to type chess on youtube and just searched mating patterns
16:04 – That is quite a move there, too bad the game wont allow me to play it 😞
I guessed several of your tests correctly!! 🙂
Im becoming a god of chess!! 😌
For example 7 and 8 couldn’t black just go d7-d5?
Very Well explained!
If the queen is ready to sac watch out for cm
Ladder mate is definitely the first one I learned as a kid.
In that first example, what if black blocks with the bishop instead of running with the king. You can check with the knight and take the bishop with the rook afterwards but the king atill runs away.
I completely misunderstood the first example and spent ages trying to manoeuvre the white Queen in front of the white King to get a checkmate. Made a whole lot more sense when I realised it was just putting it in front of the OTHER King…
I am in the wrong video for The best mating positions.
Great vid. I learned half a dozen new patterns 😀
Ahh yes, the key to all mating patterns is to sacrifice the queen 😛
Where’s the smothered mate man
Chess is a solved game computers have already fed us the perfect moves anyone can teach it soon enough I published the solution in a video to my channel it's like checkers you can force a draw from move one in the opening and play like a 3600 engine the whole game chess will be dead in five years.
2:30
400 elo here
I first saw knight to G2 check,
Knight Takes Queen.
These pattern videos are gold. I have a really hard time memorizing lines, but you always contextualize them in a principle.
This is a great channel!
16:00 it would be, but unfortunately it’s illegal
On the first example, the dark squared bishop for black side could block the rook
9:07 on dovetailmate, Bb7 is not delaying checkmate coz Qe5 is mate already, Qf5 is not required
9:05 what if black plays pawn to D5?
amazing
keep sharing, nice instructional chess video
Thanks for a great video…very helpful. Looking forward to the Middlegame video.
(And yes, as pointed out below, it is "an Opera House Mate" since it was a real opera not a person named Opera)
These videos are amazing.
Me: Come over
Her: What for?
Me: I'm trying to practice some mating patterns.
Appreciate the video, find your content informative and super calming. Subscribed!
16:03 umm wut kg7 hangs the king
Thank you Mr Lopez for another great Vid
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