Exeter Chess Club

UPDATE: PGN file attached [PGN]

  All of these mates are worth knowing, although you may only pull off Reti's mate once in your life. But the threat to carry out Reti's mate may come up every year.

  White is to move unless indicated otherwise.

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31 Arab mate

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35 Damiano's mate

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39 Philidor's legacy

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42 Greco's mate

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44 Morphy's mate

45 Morphy's concealed mate

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47 Anastasia's mate

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49 'blind swine'

50 epaulette mate

51 swallow's tail

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54 as Rotlewi-Rubinstein

55 Boden's mate

56 Pillsbury's mate

57 Legal's mate

58 Max Lange's mate

59 Reti's mate

60 Blackburne's mate

Solutions and notes

  1 Bg6+ Kg8, 2 Qh7+ Kf8, 3 Qf7 mate

  1 Bf5+ Kg8, 2 Be6 mate

#31

  1 Nf6+ Kh8, 2 Rh7 mate

#32

  cannot be forced in this situation

  but worth looking out for in a castled King's-side position, because the Knights cover so many squares

#33

  Oh, how many times have we overlooked this...

#34

  1...Kh7, 2 Qh4+ Kg8, 3 Qh6 and 4 Qg7 mate

#35

  1 Rh8+ Kxh8, 2 Rh1+ Kg8, 3 Rh8+ Kxh8, 4 Qh1+ Kg8, 5 Qh7 mate

#36

  1 Qh5 Be7, 2 Qh7+ Kf8, 3 Qh8 mate

#37

  1...f5 2 Qh7 mate

  1...Re8 2 Qh8 mate

#38

  1...g6! 2 Qh6!

#39

  1 Nf7+ Kg8 2 Nh6+ Kh8 3 Qg8+ Rxg8 4 Nf7 mate

#40

  1...Rb8, 2 Qxf7+ Kh8, 3 Ne6 Rg8, 4 Qh5 mate

#41

  1 Nf6+ Kh8, 2 Nh5+ f6 escapes

  1 ... Kg2, 2 Ne8++ Kh6, 3 Qf4+ g5, 4 Qf6+ Kh5, 5 Ng7+ and White needs only a Pawn on g2/h2 to force mate

#42

  1...h6 2 Bxf7+ Kh8 3 Qg6! hxg5 4 Qh5 mate

#43

  1...Rf8, 2 Rg5+ Kf8, 3 Rg7!

#44

  1 Qxf6 gxf6, 2 Rg1+ Kh8 3 Bxf6 mate

#45

  1 Rxg7+ Kh8, 2 Rxf7+! Kg8, 3 Rg7+ Kh8, 4 Rg1+ Rf6, 5 Bxf6 mate

#46

  1 Rd8+ Kf7, 2 Rf8 mate

#47

  1 Ne7+ Kh8, 2 Rxh7+

#48

  1 Qg5 Kh8, 2 Qh6 Rg8, 3 Qxh7+

#49

  1...Rfd8, and White has only perpetual

  the Rooks 'grunt out check' but cannot get sight of mate (Janowski)

#50

#51

#52

  1 g6 Bg8, 2 g7 mate

#53

  1 Nxf7+ or 1 Ng6+ mates

#54

  1 Be6 d4, 2 Bh2 and 3 Be5 mate

#55

  Macdonnell-Boden 1869

  1...Qxc3+ 2 bxc3 Ba3 mate

#56

  1 Rxg7+ Kh8, 2 Rg8+ Kxg8, 3 Rg1 mate

  (compare Morphy's mate)

#57

  1 e4 e5, 2 Nf3 d6, 3 Bc4 Bg4, 4 Nc3 g6

  5 Nxe5! Bxd1? 6 Bxf7+ Ke7, 7 Nd5 mate

#58

  10...Bc5+ 11 Kh1 Ng3+ 12 hxg3 Qg5, 13 Rf5 h5! since 14 Rxd8 hxg4 mate

#59

  9 Qd8+ Kxd8, 10 Bg5++ Kc7, 11 Bd8 mate

#60

  1 Qh1 h5, 2 Qxh5! gxh5, 3 Bh7 mate