Checkmate pattern
This checkmate gets its name from the novel Anastasia und das Schachspiel by Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse,[2][3] but the novelist took the chess position from an essay by Giambattista Lolli.
[4] In the Arabian mate, the knight and the rook team up to trap the opposing king on a corner of the board.
[5] In addition to being among the most common mating patterns, the Arabian mate is also an important topic in the context of history of chess for being mentioned in an ancient Arabic manuscript dating from the 8th century CE.
The back-rank mate occurs when a rook or queen checkmates a king that is blocked in by its own pieces (usually pawns) on the first or eighth rank.
The balestra mate involves a queen cutting off the king's escape both diagonally and vertically whilst having a bishop deliver checkmate.
[citation needed] The bishop and knight mate is one of the four basic checkmates and occurs when the king works together with a bishop and knight to force the opponent king to the corner of the board.
The bishop and knight endgame can be difficult to master: some positions may require up to 34 moves of perfect play before checkmate can be delivered.
[7] Threatening Blackburne's mate, which sometimes goes in conjunction with a queen sacrifice, can be used to weaken Black's position.
(In the book My System, Nimzowitsch refers to this type of mate as: "The seventh rank, absolute.")
Boden's mate involves two attacking bishops on criss-crossing diagonals delivering checkmate to a king obstructed by friendly pieces, usually a rook and a pawn.
It works by confining the king to the corner using a rook or queen with a pawn blocking the final escape square and using a minor piece to engage the checkmate.
[11] In Damiano's publication he failed to place the white king on the board which resulted in it not being entered into many chess databases due to their rejection of illegal positions.
The epaulette mate is, in its broadest definition, a checkmate where two parallel retreat squares for a checked king are occupied by its own pieces, preventing its escape.
[12] The most common epaulette mate involves the king on its back rank, trapped between two rooks.
[13] The perceived visual similarity between the rooks and epaulettes, ornamental shoulder pieces worn on military uniforms, gives the checkmate its name.
In some circumstances, if the side with the bare king instead has a pawn, it is possible to set up this type of checkmate.
The checkmate involves infiltrating Black's fianchetto position using both a pawn and queen.
Mayet's mate involves the use of a rook attacking the black king supported by a bishop.
It works by attacking an uncastled king on the back rank with a rook using a bishop to protect it.
The checkmate is named after Richard Réti, who delivered it in an 11-move game[24] against Savielly Tartakower in 1910 in Vienna.
It works by trapping the enemy king with four of its own pieces that are situated on flight squares and then attacking it with a bishop that is protected by a rook or queen.
The mate is delivered by the rook along the edge rank or file, and escape towards the centre of the board is blocked by the king.
It works by attacking the enemy king with a queen that is protected by a rook or other piece.
The triangle mate involves a queen, supported by a rook on the same file two squares away, delivering checkmate to a king that is either at the edge of the board or whose escape is blocked by a piece; the queen, rook, and king together form a triangular shape, hence the name of the mating pattern.
