![]() The main idea is to accommodate the mates that are oh-so-close to being smother mates. Don't know about wiki's distinction oif a bishop covering the extra escape square vs. Suffocation Mates - I think wiki has this category. on 3rd rank) - Q+B diagonals cross - common enough to be useful.Ĭhimney Mates - the name is well used, the mates somewhat rare, but oh so fun. Q+B Edge Mate - queen three squares off edge (e.g. Q+B Dovetail - Abstraction of dovetail mate (instead of pawns blocking the bishop does). V.V.Arabian - following Tisdell's convention. Q+B Escalator - not as common, maybe more fun though. Very useful, and common once you recognize it. Railroad Mates - one of my favorites of course, Q+R vs. (Note - using my naming conventions, not sure if there are better alternatives, or any convention, except as noted) I'll come back with examples and descriptions later, but off the top of my head (and without revisiting the wiki page) the following are missing or not properly explained: If people have some well known mate patterns that they don't see on this list, please let me know (and provide a description and example), and I'll add them to the list of additions. ![]() I'm planning to use the list of patterns in the following wikipedia article: Not as nice as a proper hierarchy, but something I can fit in without a lot of development time. This will provide some structure to the tag list in that tags are sorted alphabetically so to find a particular checkmate pattern you can zero in on the 'Mate -' section of the tag list. The plan is to cluster them together by prefixing each tag with 'Mate' so you'd have However as it seems it is going to be a while before I have time to work on hierarchical tagging structures, and checkmate patterns are probably a very worthwhile tagging (and custom set) target, I'm planning to add these now. ![]() I've wanted to add checkmate pattern tags for a while, but have been putting it off as I wanted a way to structure the tags in hierarchy first (as a way to avoid too much clutter at the top level).
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