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Back-rank mate
Difficulty: Beginner Rating:
(3) Back-rank mate is a common situation that can be used to create checkmate in beginner level games.
Checkmating with two rooks
Difficulty: Beginner Rating: (1) In this lesson we learn how to checkmate using two rooks to push the king to the edge of the board.
Checkmating with a queen
Difficulty: Beginner Rating: (1) In this lesson we learn how to checkmate using only a king and a queen to push the opponents king to a corner.
Smothered Mate
Difficulty: Beginner Rating: (0) A smothered mate is a checkmate in which the opponent's king cannot move as it is surrounded by friendly pieces.
Breaking the covering pawns
Difficulty: Beginner Rating: (0) Our opponents king is usually hiding in the corner behind pawns, we need to break through this in order to checkmate.
Rooks, Files, and Ranks
Difficulty: Beginner Rating: (0) An introduction on how to use open files to send rooks into enemy territory, and how to use the 7th rank to eat up the enemy pawns.