Some time after writing the piece about checkmate patterns, I bought V. Vukovic's
famous book The Art of Attack in Chess. In it he
gives a chapter full of mates, shown below; the numbering and
terminology are his.
Pins are one of the first attacking ideas you learn about.
Here's some colourful examples you might not have seen before. Try
and find good examples of forks, skewers, discoveries and so on.
What is an endgame, and what is a queenless middlegame?
I'll look at a couple of the latter, then a game of mine which
moved from one into the other. Lastly, I include some examples of
lines to practice with.
![[Giuoco Pianissimo]](/x/nomoregp.gif)
