Using Coach Leopolds Chess Playing Guide as reference,I would like to elaborate his outlined endgame mates and let us all give Known examples of games,maybe from a book and please Write down the name of the book/s ,publisher etc. or better your own game if any.Here is the Different mates outline;1.Fool's mate,2.Scholars mate,3.Legals mate,4.Anastasia's mate,5.Boden's Mate,6.Arabian Mate,7.Morphy' mate,8.Pillbury's mate,9.Blackburn's mate,10.Greco's mate,11.Backrank mates,12.Smothered Mate,13.Epaulet mates,14.Mate with Heavy(Major pieces;Q & R),15.Mate with the Minor pieces(Knight or Bishop),16.Mate with Pawns,17.Tapel's mate(is there such a thing?yes ,there is!) and other mates not mentioned.

1.FOOL'S MATE >>> Contibutor : wjones/PA,USA>>>(Mate in 2)

A00 Gedults Opening,

The moves; 1.f3 e6 2.g4 Qh4# Checkmated,Black wins,0-1

2.SCHOLAR'S MATE>>>Contibutor:ChessTrainor/Philippines(Mate in 4)

B02 Alekhine's Defense,

The moves; 1.e4 Nf6 2.Bc4 Nxe4 3.Qh5 Nf6 4.Qxf7#,White wins,1-0.

3.LEGAL'S MATE>>>Contributor:ChessTrainor/Philippines(Mate in 7)

C41 Philidor's Defense,

The moves,1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Bg4 4.Nc3 g6 5.Nxe5 Bxd1 6.Bxf7+ Ke7  7.Nd5# Checkmated,white wins,1-0.

About Legal's mate>>Kermur,Sire de Legal discoverer of this mate(1710-1792) was a strong French player,considered the Champion of Cafe de la Regence in Paris till he was beaten by A.D. Philidor, who was his pupil!

Added insight, a similar game happened to Gm Eugene Torre and his older brother,when Eugene was still a kid.He got a chess book and used this opening moved against his older brother Vic.Eugene puts premium on having chess books to study.Their story is in Eugene's published book," My thirteenth Move".(This book tells the story how Asia's First Grandmaster attained his title).

fool & scholar mates i would call blind man or beginner mate. wont happen to anyone else i am sure. the 3rd is more like a training lesson mate.... enjoyed it for its insight. thanks.

4.ANASTASIA'S MATE>>>Contributor:ChessTrainor/Philippines

Endgame Study example;position of pieces,White:Rook on a1,Queen on b1,Knight on c6,White King on c5.Black:Rook on f8,Black King ong8,Pawns at f7,g7,h7.

The moves,1.Ne7 Kh8 2.Qxh7 Kxh7 3.Rh1# Checkmated,White wins.

Added insight,This mate is called Anastasia's mate,after a novel by Wilheim Heinse,"Anastasia und das Shachspiel Briefe aus Italien",pulished in 1803.Reference Book:The Art of the Checkmate by Georges Renaud and Victor Kahn.Dover Publications,New York.

Sample Game: Gm M. Vidmar vs. Gm M. Euwe Result: 1-0

A48 King's Indian: Torre Attack

5.BODEN'S MATE>>>Contributor:ChessTrainor/Philippines

Endgame Study example;position of pieces,White:White King on a1,White Queen on c2,2 bishops at f1 and f4.Black:Pawns at a7,b7,c6.Black King on c8,Knight on d7,rook on d8.

The moves,1.Qxc6+ bxc6 2.Ba6# Checkmated,White wins.

Added info,this mate occurs usually when one of the players has castled on the Queenside.

Comment on the Endgame Study example,Black's castled position is weaken by the advance of the Bishop's pawn,(c6) and this gives White's bishop full control of the b8-h2 diagonal.And if Black knight's pawn,(b7) were not there,White could mate in one move via 1.Ba6#.The mating maneuver will therefore consist in forcing the opening of the mating diagonal particularly a6-c8 diagonal in this example.

5.BODEN'S MATE>>>Contributor:ChessTrainor/Philippines

Sample Game: Edward Lasker vs.F.Englund Result: 1-0

Boden's Mate

C46 Four Knights Game

Background of players;E. Lasker born in 1885 in Germany,emigrated to the U.S.A in 1914 and became an electrical engineer.He is a very well-known  player, and made a reputation for himself with his book ,Modern Chess Strategy (1914),in which for the first time an author conducts systematically with the conduct of the game.F. Englund is a strong Swedish Player.

thats not even mate ;x

what is this! thats no mate?

The king has one square he can move too.

ChessTrainor, thks very much for the lessons. Very useful. But as WafflesYUM said if black King goes to d7 and then e8 or e7, he has a lot of game ahead, his Quenn, after all, is alive. Why the resignation?

 this correcting Boden Mate example.Well thanks to the correction on my example it is because i am looking at the book directly and it is written in Descriptive Notation(the old way of writting) not Algebraic ,correcting my self move 19. of White is Rd1 to complete the mate!(correct move) not Re1 is a mistake,Thank you for being keen  observers and i hope you all can share your chess knowledge too.,sorry i am not perfect.fr ChessTrainor

6.ARABIAN'S MATE>>>Contributor:ChessTrainor/Philippines

Endgame Study example;position of pieces,White:Rook on d7,Knight on e4,White King on g2.Black:Knight on a4, Rook on a8 ,pawn on g3,Black King on h8.

The (black moves first) moves,1.... Ra7 2.Rxa7 N(any moves) 3.Rh7# Checkmated,White wins.

Added insight,This mate is called arabian's mate,before the reforms were introduced in the Fifteenth century.the only Pieces moved originally as they do nowadays were the Rook,the knight and the King and the earliest mate on record delivered by a rook and a knight is called"The Arabian Mate".The early form of Chess was called"Shatranj".

I tried to find the whole game on my databases.so i will rely on the book's sample endgame.I'm sorry but it starts in the middle game.

 SAMPLE END-GAME NO. 40A

Match,1933,New York

Reuben Fine vs. Arthur William Dake

What a very nice thread! Thank you, thank you.

I'll give examples of how to make it easier to mate with different pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The technique used in accomplishing mate in the example given by LearnChess on R+K vs. K lacks  the technique of using zugzwang to force the Black K into a mating position.

That is why White takes too many moves (14 moves to be exact) to accomplish mate.

Here's how Zugzwang is used for mating the King and accomplishing checkmate much more efficiently .

After 1.Ke4 Ke7, the move 2.Rd5 is too slow. Quicker is 2.Ke5. If Black retreats the K again with 2...Ke8, White mates in 3: 3.Ke6 Kf8 2.Rg5 zugzwang. Black's K is forced into a mating position: 2....Ke8 3.Rg8#

 

If 2...Kf7 then 3.Kf5 Ke7 4.Rd5  again zugzwang. Black's K is forced back such as 4... Kf7 (If 4...Ke8 then 5.Kf6 zugzwang. Black has to go to the square f8 where he gets mated: 5...Kf8 6.Rd8#.   If 4...Kf8 instead of 4...Ke8 then 5.Kf6 Kg8 (Note that if Black plays 5...Ke8 he gets mated in 2: 6. Rd1 zugzwang. Black is forced to go to the square f8 here he gets mated: 6...Kf8 7.Rd8#) 6.Rd8+ Kh7 7.Rf8 again Black's K is in zugzwang and must go to the h6 square where he gets mated: 7.. Kh6 8.Rh8# )

Thanks for contributing,many thanks,fr.ChessTrainor,the whole tribe is alive!Im using a different computer one that is rented it is cheap at Ten pesos an hour,left my LapTop at home just to feel in the crowd,and it is really crowded like a market.,together with my Champion kid Joymee,the Internet explorer is not adequate.might as well get to my Firefox Explorer.I hope i could stir as many  members to contribute it is really good to share one's knowledge even skills and even trying is very commendable,see in a better circumstance.fr ChessTrainor!

Thank you Matalino, I've heard about zugzwang before, but have never used it and really understood it, and makes the mate easier.

7.MORPHY'S MATE>>>Contributor:ChessTrainor/Philippines

In contrast to the Arabian mate which is (R and N) ,this mate uses the(Rook and Bishop combination).

Endgame Study example;position of pieces,White:Bishop on b2,Rook on e1,White Queen f1,White King on h1.Black:Knight on f6, Rook on f8 ,pawns on f7,g7,h7 and Black King on g8.

The moves,1.Qxf6 gxf6;the acceptance of the sacrifice,which in this case is forced,opens both a file and a(g file) and a diagonal (a1-h8 diagonal)2.Rg1+ Kh8 3.Bxf6# Checkmated,White wins.1-0.

Added insight,in this game against L. Paulsen at the New York tournament Paul Morphy astonished the onlookers by sacrificing his Queen for a knight to obtain a mating attack.This has become a classic sacrifice.(Source/Reference>Junior 6.cbh 319,900 Games)

Paulsen vs Morphy Rd 8,site:New York 1857

C48 Four Knights Game

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bc5 5.O-O O-O 6.Nxe5 Re8 7.Nxc6 dxc6 8.Bc4 b5 9.Be2 Nxe4 10.Bf3 Re6 12.c3? Qd3 13.b4 Bb6 14.a4 bxa4 15.Qxa4 Bd7 16.Ra2? Rae8 17.Qa6 Qxf3! 18.gxf3 Rg6+ 19.Kh1 Bh3 20.Rg1 Rxg1+ 21.Kxg1 Re1+ 22.Qf1 Rxf1# Checkmated,Black wins,0-1.