A book about Checkmate patterns

Hello,

What book would you suggest me about checkmate patterns?

Thanks!

I don't exactly what you mean by "checkmate patterns".  Any good book on tactics and combinations would apply.  I mean the thing that kills a piece during a game, ends the game when applied to the King.

If you mean endings or the endgame, I would recommend Silman's Complete Endgame Course  or Muller's Fundamental Chess Endings.  I have both. 

Silman advises the reader to stop at various points on your ratings ladder and wait to take up the book when you reach the next "class" or rating, but I haven't followed that advice.  Why?  Well it's because even if my games are not to the level where certain material is practically useful for endings, just working through the material gives one a more intuitive feel and facility with handling the piece in all aspects of the game generally. It's also great practice in calculation.

My First Book of Checkmate by David MacEnulty, published by Russell Enterprises earlier this year, is a nice survey of checkmate patterns.

http://www.amazon.com/First-Book-Checkmate-David-MacEnulty/dp/1936490943

A separate workbook is also available.

(Oddly, the Kindle edition is more expensive than the paperback on Amazon USA, but cheaper in the UK.)

The Art of the Checkmate by Renaud and Kahn is a good book. It's in descriptive notation, but it's worth learning descriptive notation if you aren't already familiar with it.

There is a user named "arkbird23" on YouTube who makes good videos on checkmate patterns.

Thanks!

I personally really enjoyed forcing chess moves and the first chapter or 2 are on "stock mating patterns".   I believe this is what you are looking for

I recommend Torsten B. Mattsson's "Basic Checkmate Patterns" vols. 1 and 2.

www.amazon.com/dp/B00GOLLZJO/

www.amazon.com/dp/B00IICDXA6/

These are books by an unknown author but the mating patterns are well organized with mate in X problems.

The Art of the Checkmate as others have mentioned, stay away from the Murray Chandler book, aside from having a ridiculous name it's very slim and not special at all, no golden nuggets of insight you won't find in the Renauld book. Also Chandler is a very shady author spamming the reviews of hundreds of books in Amazon trying to gaud people into buying his crappy book, I would not buy any of his books just for that reason. Also there is the book 1000 Checkmate Combinations by Viktor Henkin that is very well reviewed and on my list.

Is that you Mr. Chandler?

All kiddind aside there are much better books from reputable authors... Any respectable author will not create hundreds of anonymous reviews for other books and even fake reviews in his own books. It's decieftful and unethical, but even putting that aside it's just not a good book, it's not terrible but you can do a lot better.

I thought the two Murray Chandler books How to Beat Your Dad at Chess and Chess Tactics for Kids were rather well written and good value for money. I liked the use of arrows in diagrams too.

But then I'm not Murray Chandler.

I thought Power Chess for Kids: Learn How to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your School: 1 by Charles Hertan was good too, though it's not specifically about mating patterns. There is a volume 2 also.

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Chess-Kids-Become-Players/dp/9056913301

Getting back to the topic, what I would really like to see is a systematic classification of all the mating patterns seen in play at master level and up (even though most games end before checkmate is reached), with an indication of relative frequency of occurrence. It would be a huge task, of course.

"Checkmate Patterns" from a guy called CraftyRaf, on chessable.com

"How to beat your dad at chess" by Murray Chandler is designed to teach the most useful checkmate patterns and it does a good job

YES! This is an excellent book/resource

book recommendations on checkmating  here...(search "checkmate")...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708085825/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review806.pdf

http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/1001_Deadly_Checkmates.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708111520/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review637.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233318/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review394.pdf

http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Tactics_for_Kids.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093813/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/beatdad.pdf

http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/How_to_Beat_Your_Dad_at_Chess.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708101520/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review803.pdf