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Chess Patterns

This document provides instructions for practicing different checkmate patterns in chess. It outlines several exercises to set up checkmates using a king and rook, king and queen, two rooks, king rook and two pawns, and two bishops. It also discusses stalemate situations and includes a checkmate puzzle to solve. The goal is to help the reader learn how to deliver checkmate using different piece combinations through hands-on practice of setting up the board in various checkmate positions.

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Chess Patterns

This document provides instructions for practicing different checkmate patterns in chess. It outlines several exercises to set up checkmates using a king and rook, king and queen, two rooks, king rook and two pawns, and two bishops. It also discusses stalemate situations and includes a checkmate puzzle to solve. The goal is to help the reader learn how to deliver checkmate using different piece combinations through hands-on practice of setting up the board in various checkmate positions.

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Checkmating patterns

Name: ___________________

To win a game of chess, you need to checkmate the opposing king. It helps to practice setting up pieces in a
way that gives checkmate. Work through all of these and write your answers on this sheet.

Checkmate with a king and a rook


First, put the black king in the center of the board and pick up the white king and a white rook. Can you
place these white pieces on the board to put the black king in checkmate? Answer: _________. Next, put
the black king on the edge of the board, not in a corner. Can you use the white king and rook to put the black
king in checkmate? Answer: _________. Finally, put the black king in a corner. Can you put the black king
in checkmate? Answer: _________. For the last two, is there more than one way to put the king and rook to
give checkmate? Edge: _________. Corner: __________. On the back of this sheet, show your solution or
solutions. For the black king, write K and circle it. Label the solution(s) King and a rook.

Checkmate with a king and a queen


Now try the same thing with a white king and queen. Can these two pieces checkmate the black king in the
middle of the board? Answer: _________. On the edge? Answer: _________. In a corner?
Answer: _________. Show your solution or solutions on the back of this sheet and label them.

Checkmate with two rooks


Pick up two white rooks and leave the white king off the board for a moment. Can the two white rooks alone
checkmate the black king in the center of the board? Answer: _________. On the edge of the board?
Answer: _________. In a corner? Answer: _________. Show your solution(s) on the back.

Stalemate
It is also possible to set up the white pieces to leave the game in stalemate: black is not in check, but cannot
move. Show how this can happen in each of the three situations above. This would be bad news for white!

Checkmate with a king, a rook, and two pawns


Pick up the white king, one rook, and two pawns. Can white checkmate the black king in the center of the
board? If so, show how on the back. Is there more than one really different way to do this?

Checkmate with two bishops


Give white two bishops. Is there anywhere on the board that these two
bishops alone can checkmate the black king? Answer: _________.
What if black had two bishops and a pawn? Answer: _________.
Two bishops and a knight? Answer: _________.
Two bishops and a king? Answer: _________.

Checkmate puzzle
You can add one white piece to the board at the right to checkmate black.
What piece would you use, and where would you put it? In fact, there is
more than one piece you can use. Find all of them and write them in
chess notation, like Knight at c7. Dont just use the queen!
Developed by Craig L. Zirbel, see http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~zirbel/chess

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