The Checkmate Patterns Manual

🏆 Third place for Course of the Year 2020! 🥉🏆

Sharpen Your Tactical Vision with Chessable’s Flagship Checkmate Course

Checkmate wins the game - it’s just that simple!

But as simple as this is to understand, delivering checkmate is often anything but simple
- until now.

With The Checkmate Patterns Manual, you’ll practice executing the most common checkmate patterns that arise in real games. By solving hundreds of exercises over 30 themes, you’ll not only improve your calculation ability, you’ll also ingrain these patterns into your memory, so you can quickly recognize them over the board.

Author Raf Mesotten, a.k.a. “CraftyRaf”, scoured the databases to find the most frequently occurring checkmate patterns by the numbers - making this one of the most practical and thorough tactics courses you will ever take.

Here’s what you’ll get with the course:

♚ More than 1,000 exercises to sharpen your tactical vision to 20/20. From the Arabian Mate to the Vukovic Mate, you’ll practice each theme in multiple forms to master it and make sure you get it right every time

♚ Detailed explanations on how each mate works. Understand when the conditions are right to start a mating attack, plus easy rules of thumb to help your calculation

♚ Test chapters to gauge your progress. You’ll start the course with a basic skills test to see where you are, and end the course with a final test to bring it all home

Video Walkthroughs by a Legendary Chess Instructor

This course was such a hit when it came out, even renowned chess streamer and Chessable co-founder John Bartholomew took notice! And he liked it so much, he added 10 hours of his own characteristically superb presentation, walking you through the thought processes and solving methods for each mate. His insights into the history and stories behind the mates, together with his super clear, down-to-earth explanations, make the video course a valuable asset.

This course has helped droves of users improve the most fundamental of chess skills - even experienced players who thought they had it down! Make sure you never miss a mate with The Checkmate Patterns Manual.

Have you checked out the other great courses in the series?
Setting Up Checkmate Patterns
Dazzling Defenses against Checkmate Patterns