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.
"A draw can be obtained normally by repeating three moves, but also by one bad move.""The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake"