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The Checkmate Patterns Manual: The Killer Moves Everyone Should Know
There is nothing more satisfying than finishing a chess game with a checkmate. All essential mating patterns, some with intriguing names, are explained in full in this course. You will review every pattern. Master them. And test yourself with 1.000 exercises at all levels of difficulty.
These are the killer combinations that will win you Anastasia, Greco, Hook, Arabian, Vukovic, Smothered, Suffocation, Corner, Morphy, Pillsbury, Lolli, Opera, Damiano, Max Lange, Dovetail, Swallow's Tail, David & Goliath, Boden, Balestra and the list goes on and on and on.
Raf Mesotten is an average club player from Belgium, but he scored a big hit with this Chessable course, which has since been finetuned thanks to continuous feedback of enthusiastic chess improvers. His fans were amazed by the simplicity and the completeness of the course. But most important, they started spotting checkmates in their own games.
These are the killer combinations that will win you Anastasia, Greco, Hook, Arabian, Vukovic, Smothered, Suffocation, Corner, Morphy, Pillsbury, Lolli, Opera, Damiano, Max Lange, Dovetail, Swallow's Tail, David & Goliath, Boden, Balestra and the list goes on and on and on.
Raf Mesotten is an average club player from Belgium, but he scored a big hit with this Chessable course, which has since been finetuned thanks to continuous feedback of enthusiastic chess improvers. His fans were amazed by the simplicity and the completeness of the course. But most important, they started spotting checkmates in their own games.
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1238 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 30, 2022
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December 14, 2024
This is a fantastic book for anyone to complete. The earlier you master it, the better you will be at planning mating ideas. The best part is all puzzles have the full game with them. So you will also get an idea of how the players reach to that position.
The final 100 puzzles for test are really challenging for any beginner or intermediate players. I personally enjoyed this book a lot! A pure gem. Completing these puzzles won't have any impact unless you master it. Because, you have to make similar positions which will allow you to perform these checkmates. From a practical point of view, I can tell you, many 1800 players on chess.com won't solve all of them perfectly.
The final 100 puzzles for test are really challenging for any beginner or intermediate players. I personally enjoyed this book a lot! A pure gem. Completing these puzzles won't have any impact unless you master it. Because, you have to make similar positions which will allow you to perform these checkmates. From a practical point of view, I can tell you, many 1800 players on chess.com won't solve all of them perfectly.
December 11, 2024
This is basically the big boy version of "how to beat your dad at chess." being able to give names to the different checkmate patterns helps a lot in learning them. Excellent book that I will continue to come back to until I've mastered all the check mates.
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