The Swallow Mate; FOR BEGINNERS

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brainiac12358

This is a forum for beginners. It's a kind of simple concept, but it's still good to know for just in case. It's called the Swallow Mate because it looks like a swallow in flight. One time a grandmaster fell for this kind of mate!

This is one version. Another version is kind of like this :
There are all kinds of variations, but these two are the most common. Be careful, or you could get caught in this trap! Or even better, you could mate someone with this!
brainiac12358

Oh wait a minute. You cant even see the positions! Click the magnifying glass in the lower left corner of each board and you should be able to see it

TheEinari

The lower mate is actually a Dovetail mate, not swallow's tail mate

n9531l

Here is a mate I just made up and named the Swan mate, because the pieces are arranged like the five brightest stars in the constellation Cygnus. I don't think you need to worry about falling into this mate.

 








Black king - Deneb

Queen - Sadr

White king - Albireo

c7 knight - Rukh

c3 knight - Gienah

James1011James1011

The second mentioned mate occurs in my games quite often, but I don't think that any of the other mates have ever occured in any of my games.

brainiac12358

Well I can't! The magnifying glass for me is in the bottom left corner. Oh, I know! I'm on V3. Must be a bug!