num_pages: 208
description: Thorough classification of 23 mating situations, including Legal's pseudo-sacrifice, the double check, smothered mate, Greco's mate, the Corridor mate, and many others. Learn from 127 games by Tartakower, Janowski, Rubinstein, Blackburne, others, illustrating positional maneuvers leading to these mates. Review quizzes test progress.
language: English
title: The Art of the Checkmate
titlecomplete: The Art of the Checkmate
genres: Chess, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 69
publisher: Dover Publications