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Improve Your Checkmate Power!

MASTER NG

M A S T E R I N G M AT E S
MATES
This second volume in the Mastering Mate series provides readers
with a serious challenge – 1,111 checkmates in two, three, four and
more moves. By solving these problems, you will develop proficiency

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in all of the major checkmating patterns.
There is much more here than the simple presentation of positions
to solve. Mastering Mates 2 includes a full range of checkmates from
real-life middlegames and endgames. By solving these here, you will be
much more likely to solve them when you meet them over the board,
and you will more likely to reach such positions with the confidence of 1,111 TWO - MOVE, THREE - MOVE

2 & FOUR - MOVE MATES

knowing that you can finish off your opponents in style.
With practice, readers will develop considerable tactical prowess by
confronting and solving these problems. Build your mental muscles
right here, by mastering mate!

Jon Edwards
About the Author
Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Chess
Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational
Jon Edwards
Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. He is the author of the
popular eBook series Chess Is Fun, as well as the critically acclaimed
Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic
Bishop Sacrifice.
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Mastering Mates
Book 2

1,111
Two-Move,
Three-Move &
Four-Move Mates

by
Jon Edwards

2014
Russell Enterprises, Inc.
Milford, CT USA

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 Mastering Mates Book 2
1,111 Two-Move, Three-Move and Four-Move Mates
by Jon Edwards

ISBN: 978-1-936490-98-1

© Copyright 2014
Jon Edwards

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 Table of Contents

Introduction 4

White to move and mate in two moves 5

Black to move and mate in two moves 72

White to move and mate in three moves 114

Black to move and mate in three moves 148

White to move and mate in four or more moves 166

Black to move and mate in four or more moves 183

Solutions 192

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 Introduction

The first book in this series presented 1,111 Checkmates in One Move. For most
readers, these were relatively simple exercises that served to illustrate the many
varied examples of checkmate as well as showing off the harmonious coopera-
tion of chess pieces delivering the final blow.

This second book represents a much more serious challenge. Readers with some
chess proficiency should expect to solve most of the checkmates in two moves.
In evidence here are most of the famous mating combinations and checkmating
patterns. All accomplished chess players are expected to know them.

Many chess books contain such puzzles, but there is much more here. I have
added a full range of checkmates from real-life middlegames and endgames. These
rarely conform to conventional patterns and so, readers will need to revote time
to solve them. The checkmates in three, four and more moves are especially
challenging. It is my expectation that with practice, readers will develop consid-
erable tactical prowess by confronting and solving these problems.

The publisher is making available on the web the games from which I have taken
these puzzles. The most dedicated of you will want to see the context of these
positions. Chess combinations and mating matterns rarely appear randomly. Rather,
they are carefully prepared and constructed.

I expect now to turn my attention towards what will be the most challenging book
in this series, 1,111 combinations. In the hope of providing the greatest possible
challenge, I am turning to combinations played in games by the world best corre-
spondence players. These games have the merit of being lesser known while
employing combinations that will impress and challenge.

Jon Edwards
Pennington, New Jersey
March 2014

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