You can not win a chess game if you can not checkmate. Here are 32 checkmates that every chess player must know. And if you are beginner I will suggest you, master these checkmates before learning anything about chess.

So let’s start.

First of all, we start from basics to advance level. So we will examine some examples of checkmate without enemy pieces, why we are starting without enemy pieces? because we need to clear our mind and focus on methods or positions that often occurs in our games.

There are almost 32 mating names. It’s not forced to remember all 32 names, but we should know the positions of these checkmates.

So let’s start, Please note that these are pictures and you don’t need to press play button :).

Anastasia’s mate

2. Anderssen’s mate

3. Arabian mate

There are two reasons for naming Arabian mate. one is this checkmate found in old Arabic literature and second is that in the past a knight and rook was considered the most powerful piece in chess.

4. Back-rank mate

5. Bishop and knight mate

6. Blackburne’s mate

7. Blind swine mate

This name attributed to Polish grandmaster named ” Dawid Janowski “. Janowski called doubled rook on opponent’s the 7th rank is” Swine”. This type of position also mentioned in Nimzowitch’s book called ” My System “. In his book, Nimzowitch called ” The 7th rank, absolute “.

8. Boden’s mate

9. Box mate (Rook mate)

10. Corner mate

11. Cozio’s mate or Dovetail mate

12. Damiano’s bishop mate

13. Damiano’s mate

14. David and Goliath mate

15. Double bishop mate

16. Epaulette mate

17. Greco’s mate

18. Hook mate

19. Kill Box mate

20. King and two bishops mate

21. King and two knights mate

22. Legal mate

In legal mate two knights and one bishop deliver checkmate.

23. Lolli’s mate

24. Max Lange’s mate

25. Mayet’s mate

26. Morphy’s mate

27. Opera mate

28. Pillsbury’s mate

29. Queen mate

30. Reti’s mate

31. Smothered mate

32. Suffocation mate

33. Swallow’s tail mate

Conclusion:

These were the checkmates that every chess player must know and if you are a beginner then you must practise it at least for one time. These checkmates will often happen in a blitz game. So you have to prepare these checkmate and you should remember the patterns of these checkmate.