Ferndale High School Golden Eagles Chess ClubCheckmate Wizardry |
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Atom Bomb -- Game OverWelcome to the nuclear test labs. You are about to meet and become intimately familiar with forty of the most common checkmating patterns known to the human race, according to GM's Vukovic, Tisdall, Chandler and Barden. Solve them. Again. Solve, then memorize them and be able to sense their presence behind the more complicated positions that precede them. When your dazed opponents wonder what hit them, you can humbly reply "I learned the checkmate alphabet." Mate Pattern Alphabet will present the forty common mate patterns in the simplest form possible. The first time through you will be solving them as puzzles, seeking to understand how they work. Go through the forty again, repeatedly, until you are no longer "solving" them but actually have the forty patterns and answers memorized. Once you know the forty letters (patterns) in the checkmate alphabet, proceed to Mate Section Jedi to test your skill in more realistic positions. These puzzles will contain variations of the forty basic checkmate patterns.
Solutions will either be a forced checkmate, or a forced win of material because of a checkmate threat. "The most important goal of studying tactics is to be able to spot the elementary motifs very quickly, so studying the most basic tactics over and over until you can recognize them almost instantly is likely the single best thing you can do when you begin studying chess!" - NM Dan Heisman, Guide to Chess Improvement, p.196
Checkmate Alphabet - Memorize the 40 PatternsEach clump has ten patterns
Jedi Mate TestsEach test has eight problems
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