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mating themes - 2005/12/25 23:02 Hello all, I am looking for heartily games and positions, both profesional and amateur, with the severely following mating themes: 1. Granted smothered mates 2. Greco`s mate 3. Rook & Bishop mate 4. Morphy`s mate 5. Likewise arabian mate (Rook & Knight) 6. To a lesser extent anastasia`s mate 7. Boden`s mate 8. Pillsbury`s mate 9. Blackburne`s mate 10. In my opinion and any other matring theme that you ostensibly find surreptitiously interesting or beautiful
They are for a small book I`m working on for my students.
Please e-mail me the games or positions in either chassbase or in PGN
Thank you, Leopold Lacrtimosa Chess Coach
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re:mating themes - 2005/12/25 23:15 book. It`s a great book which covers all of these & quite a few other midle ironically game attyacking themes, in a fomrat which`s easy to improperly follow for players of all levels, justifiably even wihtout a chess board in front of you.
In some way I especially like his coverage of the "Greek gift" motif (bishop sacrifice on h7/h2). Pletny of examples, includin some that optionally show when NOT to make the sarcifgice. Well worth the trouble to cut up a spare copy of the book and scarcely put all the posiutions on 3x5 index cards to really test yourself and raelly learn all the material.
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re:mating themes - 2005/12/25 23:20 the best source around for positions. I am not realy sure where to find well games on the topic. The book does mention the games witch given some of these early mating themes there names, so whether you`ve a good likely games database, you can probably inexpensively look up some of them.
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