Easy Knight Mates

By Tim Sawyer

Easy Knight Mates teaches you how to mate with a knight very early in a chess game. This makes you more aware of surprising tactical possibilities in chess openings.

You can win games quicker when you know knight mating patterns. This skill will make you harder to beat. You will be more dangerous as a chess player to all your opponents.

Each diagram shows the position where a knight can mate in one move. Since every game must mate with a knight, it follows that all wins are checks – always with a knight.

Each diagram starts with White at the bottom and Black at the top. Above the diagram, I note whether it is White to play or if it is Black to play. Find the bold mating move.

Below each diagram I provide the previous moves played just before the mating move to give you some context.

The diagram positions anticipate an immediate bold mate. The mate move is in bold type. Look for the bold move.

It may seem easy to mate in one, but the final knight move came as a shock to the players who lost in these games.

How do I know? In a few cases I'm the one who got mated. When it happened, I was like, "What the heck? Oh darn! Didn't see that coming. I've got to do better next time."

I arranged these mates in chapters based on the openings classified by Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO).

These easy knight mates can be fun. Go forth and enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tim Sawyer
• Release date: Feb 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201452612

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Easy Knight Mates

200 Chess Opening Diagrams

Tim Sawyer

Easy Knight Mates:

200 Chess Opening Diagrams

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

A00-A03 Flank / Bird

A04-A09 Reti Opening

A10-A39 English Opening

A40-A59 Closed Games

A57-A79 Benko / Benoni

A80-A99 Dutch Defence

B00-B09 Semi-Open Games

B10-B19 Caro-Kann Defence

B20-B99 Sicilian Defence

C00-C19 French Defence

C20-C59 Open Games

C60-C99 Ruy Lopez

D00-D19 Queen Pawn / Slav

D20-D69 Queens Gambit

D70-D99 Gruenfeld Defence

E00-E19 Catalan / Queens Indian

E20-E59 Nimzo-Indian Defence

E60-E99 Kings Indian Defence

Introduction

Easy Knight Mates teaches you how to mate with a knight very early in a chess game. This makes you more aware of surprising tactical possibilities in chess openings.

You can win games quicker when you know knight mating patterns. This skill will make you harder to beat. You will be more dangerous as a chess player to all your opponents.

Each diagram shows the position where a knight can mate in one move. Since every game must mate with a knight, it follows that all wins are checks – always with a knight.

Each diagram starts with White at the bottom and Black at the top. Above the diagram, I note whether it is White to play or if it is Black to play. Find the bold mating move.

Below each diagram I provide