6 Checkmate Patterns YOU MUST KNOW

chess is a game of pattern recognition the most  important of which is learning how to checkmate   as the game is moving in this video i'm going to  take you through six topics which are right here   rookmates certain squares knight and bishop  piece combinations i've put timestamps on the   video player actually it's over here i'm pointing  in the wrong direction for you to go through uh   and a link in the description if you want to  examine some of these checkmates on your own   and we will kick things off with rookmates the  most basic of which is known as the back rank   checkmate uh it's when a rook or a queen but  we're going with a rook in this case when a rook   can travel all the way to the edge of the board  and just mate a king which has no escape squares   and the reason it's important to learn about  background checkmate is you will always   monitor whether or not your king is safe and  you will get positions like this when backrank   checkmate is not possible right away but the  the enemy is defending too many things at once   and you can play a move like queen takes rook  and you go wait a second that's a terrible move   but rook down is mate and you can add  another layer to the back ranked checkmates   uh in a situation just for example if i briefly  change the position like this this looks like   the enemy king can get away but it can't so adding  an extra layer to this you notice how your pieces   from a distance can take away the squares  from the opponent and then you can play moves   like this and that is why it's very important to  start with something like a background checkmate   and then add a layer or two you will start picking  up on this uh throughout your games for this next   one uh this is a rook teaming up with the knight  i said different piece combinations and although   i have six topics i actually have like 15 examples  so you're gonna end this video evolved as a chess   player this is a rook and knight combination  often times when a king is cut off completely   like this and the king actually at this point has  no legal moves you have rook like this the knight   protects the rook and someone does have to protect  the knight in this case it is the king this is a   very famous boxing of the enemy king the king  has nowhere to go it cannot go here because the   knight defends the rook and defends the getaway  square and there are different ways to do this   but this particular example uh is uh is done in  this manner throughout this video i'm actually   going to give examples with white and with black  so for this one uh we have an example with the   black pieces it's the rook and the night and  black is completely winning here uh but it   can take a few moves uh so for instance you can  give a check the king slides over and you give   another check and here's the thing if the king  goes here the rook cuts off all of the squares   right the king defends the rook and the knight  can give a mate like this and that's mate the   king is absolutely smothered but what if the  king runs this way right tries to run away   when it is checked so check and the king goes  this way now of course we are winning but how   this is a very famous little pattern you give a  check with the knight right the king now has only   one square and now you come back and no matter  where the king goes on the next move your rook   delivers the mate and there's different names if  the king goes to the corner and is mated like this   knight protects the rook and the getaway square  this corner checkmate is known as the arabian mate   i don't know why it's called that but it's called  that if the king goes back in this position this   way you can check like this and the knight defends  both sides of the king's escape while the king   defends the rook i don't actually know if this  one has a mate we'll just call it the in your face   your trash my rook defeated you checkmate longest  name in history but it's fine so rook and knight   like this that you see they have different  coordinations and sometimes the rook has to   be protected by the knight sometimes the rook  needs a little bit of other support but there   is also an example like this where the rook  can cut off the enemy king and it has no move   you can deliver a check with the knight uh but  in this particular case you uh you can't just   go night there immediately why not because the  knight would take you so what do you do we saw   a queen sacrifice earlier queen takes check the  only way black can save this is to take back   but now the defender of f7 has been removed  and knight f7 is checkmate and the way this   works once again is the rook in this case is far  away but is cutting off the enemy king's escapes   and knight to f7 would be checkmate so that's  a few examples of rook comboing with the knight   right this happens a lot very particular very  unique for the next uh set of uh examples we are   going to look at the h7 square why h7 why h7 like  why am i talking about h7 or h2 this is when the   king is castle to the short side and the h7 square  is the far square it's oftentimes only protected   uh by the knight and in this case i've just  this the very first example so the knight   is not covering h7 in this case and i will show  you different ways to add layers to this as well   the simplest way to deliver a mate on h7 is  to have your most powerful piece looking at it   in this case that could be queen to h5  and you ch7 with the queen and the bishop   and on the next move you go here sometimes that  means queen here teaming up with your bishop   and there are positions where you know  your bishop starts on this square like   if i edit this like if you have this position  in the middle of a game like this for example   you go well wouldn't it be nice if i could  like get my queen over there so you slide back   put the queen in front and do this now of course  as you get stronger you're not just going to be   able to mate people but the point is that you  need to monitor that that is even a possibility   and now we need to start adding details right if  a knight is protecting we can remove it if the   knight is on f6 for example like you know you get  a situation like this where okay well the knight   is protecting i gotta go get rid of that knight  or drop my knight back and get rid of that knight   even if it takes me there will be a mate on h7 so  we start adding a layer to this h7 checkmate now   on h7 sometimes there is no guard but  it's not possible to bring our queen   this is known as the greek gift sacrifice  you can take on h7 with a bishop   with check if the king doesn't take you well then  you can go back you've won a pawn the king is now   open you find a way to bring the queen but if you  are captured now your knight jumps to g5 to attack   this king right the knight needs to be guarded  ideally because if the queen sees the knight in   this case it does not but if the queen were to see  the knight it's good that the knight is protected   and this knight move opens up the queen which we  did not have before and that will result in us   getting to h7 so you just add these extra details  the greek give sacrifice very useful can happen   with white or with black and actually for this  last one we are going to be looking at a tactical   sequence on h2 this is something i call the  boomerang technique it means you go there and then   you come back and you know you're looking at this  you go well obviously it's queen takes but hold on   if you take with the queen the king will just  escape and run away right so why is this called   the boomerang technique well you need to take this  actually with the bishop because the bishop is the   one that the queen sorry is the one stopping  the king from escaping right now right if the   queen were to take it wouldn't monitor this square  anymore so the king would just get away but if you   take with the bishop first the king cannot go here  it has to go here so we know the queen wants to   end up on that square to deliver the mates where  does our bishop have to be to prevent that escape   bishop back that's why it's called the boomerang  you go there you come right back i mean i i call   it the boomerang maybe it'll be easier for you  to remember and now you have a mate so again   these different patterns with queen and knight  queen and bishop queen and rook whatever but   hopefully this helps you understand how to mate  on h2 and h7 because now we move to g7 or g2 the   other square on a short side castle which could be  weak in fact often times g7 and g2 are the weakest   square period there there's only a king covering  them the first example that i want to give you   is one known as the battery checkmate again queen  in front of bishop battery that's when a queen and   bishop operate on the same diagonal and then they  can go take on g7 you win the game is that gonna   happen probably not so easy but now you know and  maybe if you set it up from a distance if you're a   newer player 7 800 they won't see it because it's  a very distant attack so that's the first example   that i can give you however there are better  examples of this more uh let's say professional   examples of this i'm gonna edit the board okay  i'm going to edit the board ever so slightly   to this position and here you know we can take so  maybe i should move the i'll just move this knight   i'll i'll edit this knight to this square so in  this position uh when you're playing with the   white pieces it it's you still see g7 however it  it's a little hard to attack it okay it's hard to   attack it because if you go here to team up the  queen and the bishop the knight will just take   all right knight just takes you and you don't have  a bishop anymore however you have this move if   the queen and king are both on the g file this  is another pattern to keep in mind bishop 2 h6   in this particular position black does have  a way to defend this with the queen which can   be a little bit annoying it can also hit your  bishop but for example a very common situation   is something like this where the knight is the  only piece near the king you've got a queen and a   bishop hitting this and the only way for black to  get out of this is to push and then you would take   the rook so you would use the threat of checkmate  to win the rook that's good i mean that's good   you've won material right this structure exists  in a certain opening known as the king's indian   and sometimes uh the king's indian if i just uh  you know move the knight and the queen just for   example i want to show you the last tactical  pattern where this exists if i slide the queen   up a square and i move our queen over here  you will also have positions like this where   these three pawns are all on light squares but  that means that the dark square is available   for grabs this queen and bishop clamp near the  enemy and there's nothing that black can do here   this can happen in a king's indian defense as i  said if black used to have a dark squared bishop   there monitoring this but you got rid of it you  got rid of the dark squared bishop you got in   there and you checkmate now this can also happen  with white in white's case this pawn would be here   and white would be swarmed like this so um this  g7 mate also has one more iteration that i want to   show this one will be from the black perspective  um and the way that actually this is funny i   flipped the board here so it's one and two and  seven eight so the board is technically backwards   but that's okay so in this particular example  we don't have a queen but we can take like this   right and if the king slides over we now give mate  the point is that the rook checks the king and the   king is just stuck completely in the corner of the  board this also can happen in short side castle   situations so you don't always need a queen you  can also accomplish this with a rook and a bishop   as well with this kind of check this also can  sometimes happen if the rook goes first and then   the king slides over and then the rook just slides  back to give mate so this also does happen on uh   g2 g7 although on this particular board i flipped  the board so i hope you can forgive me it's b7   all right we now move on to the fourth topic  that i wanted to cover this is known as the   dovetail checkmate why is this called dovetail  i have no idea apparently it's supposed to look   like a dovetail but i don't know this is  the point you have an enemy king which is   positioned quite nicely supported by  certain pieces but you can give a mate   and remove every getaway square with your queen  i don't know why this is known as the dovetail   mate your queen needs to be protected there is  defense this way defends this way and defends   this way doesn't matter how many pieces that black  has this is a mate and you know you can do this in   a variety of ways for example it doesn't always  have to be a queen if you have a rook in certain   situations like just as an example if i replace  this and put a bishop on this square for example   you have made in one here  it's not quite a dovetail   but the point is that you you you cut  the king's escape squares on the diagonal   so the king cannot run away on the same diagonal  that you are giving check as long as the rook   is cutting off remember earlier the rook cuts off  and the knight gave mate now the rook can cut off   and the bishop can give mate so just monitoring  these empty squares that the opponent might have   and how to take them away there's another  example of a dovetail mate like this   and more pieces on the board actually i added this  edited this incorrectly i'm going to move the rook   otherwise this won't be possible it's hard to set  up 15 exercises before a video sometimes you make   mistakes but this is also going to be a dovetail  mate it's going to take a little bit longer but   black first has to give a check with the rook the  king's only escape square here is to play king g2   and now the queen joins the rook there's a queen  joining with another piece and the king's escape   squares are completely locked away so it's like  a little box as long as the queen has a glue   and defends everything otherwise the king  would just take the queen this is another   example of a dovetail mate and dovetail mates  happen out in the open i mean i'm simplifying   the position so there's less pieces so it's easier  to visualize but these can happen out of nowhere   it can usually involve a queen but can involve  other pieces as well for these next two examples   um i want to give you uh an example of knight  and bishop clamps as i said in the introduction   knight and bishop clamps happen uh either when the  king castles on the queen side or the king side   this very first example could look something like  this like let's say you play knight to b5 and   what i mean by clamp is the bishop takes away the  empty squares and the knight gives mate something   like this right knight checks the king the bishop  clamps and it's game over there's other versions   of this and obviously in this case black does  not have to go c6 but it's a good pattern to know   there's another way that this could  happen for example if you don't go to a7   i mean let's say like something like this  and then knight comes to b6 so rather than   being on a7 of course in my example our  opponent is you know allowing this but   the point is that in the flow of a game it's  important to realize how a knight can jump in   in this case the opponent cancelled queen side  i will show you a kingside example momentarily   but it's important to visualize how the knight  and the bishop can kind of team up like this   in unorthodox ways the way this would look on the  king's side in a super simplified manner is like   this if you play for instance knight jump pawn  attack the bishop takes away these squares knight   here is mate and even knight here is mate both of  these moves are checkmate on the enemy king right   g6 knight h6 you do need the opponent to weaken  their king a little bit but that will happen   sometimes pawns have to move forward right like we  saw earlier if the queen were to threaten the mate   the pawn would need to move up so that it could  not be captured and that way you now would join   an attack from a different angle so all of this  is about you know it's like a mixed martial arts   bout you know you you fake a punch to change your  opponent's level of defense and then maybe you   you go for a takedown or you fake a takedown and  right it's i mean i'm it might be a stretch of   an example if you don't watch mixed martial arts  but that's the point you you fake an attack they   oh they gotta react and then boom you go uh  you go for another uh kind of attack from a   different angle for the last portion of this video  we are covering a checkmate pattern known as the   smothered mate this one is a classic here you have  an example where you are getting destroyed you're   getting destroyed because you watched eric rosen's  videos not because you watched mine you're getting   destroyed because you watched his videos but now  that you're watching my videos you're going to um   i'm just kidding i love eric but he made a video  today the day that i'm launching this video on   surviving a game being down four queens and i  was like why are you teaching people to be down   for queens anyway here's the position okay and  in this position we only have one check we give   a check okay this is how the smothered mate works  if the opponent goes here we have queen to f2 mate   so they're not going to do that they are going to  go to the corner and now we begin the very famous   smothered mate technique it involves a queen and a  knight it can also involve more pieces as we will   see at the end you jump in with the knight okay  the king has to move ideally the knight cannot be   taken if there was a rook here it should sacrifice  itself for this knight but the king has to go here   now you look for a double check between the knight  now if you're looking and you say well levia this   is a check and i would attack your queen that's  a good move but i also just again the point is   to learn the mate maybe you will get a position  where you can win a queen but you go for this   this is a double check a very powerful tactic  now white has to move the king again if white   goes here this is a mate so the king goes to  the corner and now we bring the queen down   it has to be taken with the rook and we  have now smothered the king in the corner   and give a mate a very famous technique resulting  in a knight smothering the king to death king's   got no moves now and the game is over uh and  this can also happen in situations like this one   where you cannot start with the night move because  if you start with the night move i'm gonna take   the knight and this still is good but you're never  mating me okay and i've got six pawns so good luck   uh you actually in this particular case have  support for the queen be very careful just moving   the queen down there by itself the rook does not  have to take if the queen does not have support   right the the rook only has to take uh if the  king cannot right so if the king can take that's   not good but in this case you bring the queen  down you've got support it's got support so   the king cannot capture the rook has to take like  this and the bishop there was the key difference   the difference with these two positions is in the  other position the queen had no support so you had   to do this whole zigzag technique smothered mates  if i can just edit this one as a as a final note   smothered mates can also happen uh let me just  like remove the bishop completely um and then   i will put the knight on the f5 square i will put  the rook on g1 oops excuse me i will edit the rook   to g1 and i will move this queen to h6 smothered  mates can also happen in positions where it   looks like the opponent can defend themselves what  does that mean that means that like we cannot get   to the standard square but we can go here it looks  like we can get we can get taken but the king is   smothered in the corner with nowhere to move and  it's pinned that's the most important thing and   an extra layer to this this is the most advanced  one so bear with me for a moment this one can come   out of nowhere i've actually i've had this happen  before if we put the knight back here we put like   a bishop on c5 and we put the queen like all  the way over here this is kind of an example of   a smothered mate not really but the point is that  the king is smothered on the edge of the board it   cannot go to g1 so you play this brilliant move  knight g3 check in this case the pawn can take   but that opens a new line of attack and we go  queen to h6 mate and this will happen i did i   had this actually a couple days ago on stream i  wish wish i had the game it was against in 1800   and i called it i i had a feeling it was going to  happen a few moves away i ended up sacrificing my   night like this and then bringing the queen and  this is a very different kind of more advanced   version of a smothered mate because the king  is i mean the king is smothered but it's not   the traditional knight you know king has all the  pieces next to it the game is over hopefully these   were useful this was a lot of examples we did  about 16 examples in 20 minutes but i like to keep   my videos productive and hopefully you learned a  lot as always i've got a lot of other playlists   of videos on openings middle games puzzle solving  do check them out on my channel subscribe if you   haven't already at the time of recording this  like 60 of my viewers are not subscribed so   we're chasing big things i think we crossed 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Length: 21min 45sec (1305 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 04 2021