Checkmate patternsCheckmate practice puzzles
Knowing a pattern is one thing; spotting it in a real position is another. These puzzles mix the patterns together and hide which one you’re looking at, so you have to recognise it yourself. Filter by pattern on the left to focus on the ones you find hardest.
Patterns covered in practice:
- Epaulette mate
- Cozio's mate
- Kill box mate
- Triangle mate
- Max Lange's mate
- Balestra mate
- Bucking bronco mate
- Sneaky stallion mate
- Damiano's mate
- Lolli's mate
- Greco's mate
- Fool's mate
- Back-rank mate
- Blind swine mate
- Lawnmower mate
- Opera mate
- Mayet's mate
- Réti's mate
- Pillsbury's mate
- Morphy's mate
- Corner mate
- Anastasia's mate
- Arabian mate
- Vuković's mate
- Hook mate
- Anderssen's mate
- Diagonal corridor mate
- Bombardiers' mate
- Boden's mate
- Smothered mate
- Philidor's legacy
- Two knights mate
- Suffocation mate
- Collaboration mate
- Blackburne's mate
- Légal's mate
- David and Goliath mate