From the diagrammed position, play continued 27. Īn example is to be found in the game Jan Timman– Nigel Short at the 1990 Tilburg tournament. The technique is named after François-André Danican Philidor this is something of a misnomer, however, as it is earlier described in Luis Ramirez Lucena's 1497 text on chess, Repetición de Amores e Arte de Axedrez, which predates Philidor by several hundred years. This method involves checking with the knight forcing the king out of the corner of the board, moving the knight away to deliver a double check from the queen and knight, sacrificing the queen to force the rook next to the king, and mating with the knight. Philidor's mate, also known as Philidor's legacy, is a checkmating pattern that ends in smothered mate. The scholars mate (also known as the four-move checkmate) is the checkmate achieved by the moves: 1. TACTIC- forces 40.For a smothered mate of this sort to occur in a game, it is usually necessary to sacrifice material to compel pieces to smother the king – a player is unlikely to voluntarily surround their king with pieces in a way that makes a smothered mate possible. (E62) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 34 moves, 0-1 TACTIC- Queen takes Knight (continuation) King at h1 (E62) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 45 moves, 0-1 (B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 31 moves, 0-1Ĭorner Mate with King at h1 after 46. Nc7+ has Corner Mate threat winning the Black Rook! The games are ordered by date (oldest first), not by importance. This project is a work in progress, culling games from various sources, including several chess training books and personal research. Here is that conclusion for you to enjoy:ĬhessCoachClark (CCC) originated this game collection and he updates it on occasion. Possibly the most beautiful and unusual of the missing games concludes with a position that is both a Double Check Mate and Corner Mate! I have found a multitude of games that apply this mating pattern, but they are not at, yet. This is often due to the courtesy trend of resigning once the mate is clear to the targeted player. Often, for the games included below, one needs to look into the continuation to see how the Corner Mate threat was engaged or the mate itself was done. The Corner Mate has also been used as a preliminary tactic for a subse-quent tactic that leads to mate. Not the Corner Mate itself, but just its threat in a combination still won the day. White wins the Exchange for a substantial advantage- Stockfish 11 within CG at d37 gives the position an evaluation of +11.22. The Black Rook is lost after the Black Queen is forced to capture that Knight in order to sort out the check. The White Queen is now attacking the Rook for an En Prise capture with check. So, the Corner Mate pattern is used as a threat. Nc7+ has made a Discovery Attack- the Knight uncovers the line of power from the Queen into the Black Rook- while making check. Even the Queen may fall in the face of this type of Knight check! The Corner Mate threat can force one's opponent to exchange a piece for the attacking Knight, often at a loss. You should even recognize that there is a difference between a Bishop and Rook Mate and a Rook and Bishop Mate- which piece made the final attack on the King?Īlso, students should be ready to use mate threats as tactics for several purposes. However, if you *do* choose to use names, then be responsible and considerate about it.
It may take a little longer for anyone to recognize the mate you have in mind, but you can explain it well enough to remove ambiguity. You may choose to follow some teachers and coaches who avoid naming checkmates in the main. Voltaire said that if you want to converse with him, you should first define your terms.
My point is to establish clarity for students and allow them to be versatile with the terminology or consistent with a given preference. You may decide for yourself what terminology to use. What Schiller describes as the Knight Corner Mate is just a Corner Mate for Wikipedia. However, what Schiller defines as a Corner Mate is the H-File Mate at Wikipedia. Some chess authors use the descriptions given by Eric Schiller. I am using the designation for Corner Mate as described in the Wikipedia article on checkmate patterns. As mentioned in its name, it occurs in the corner of the chessboard. One "stopper" is needed directly in front of the King, usually a chessman from the defending side. The Corner Mate is an interesting checkmate pattern where the Knight attacks the defending King and the Rook covers escape/flight squares.
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