What is this checkmate?

@VINCENTYU said in #1:
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> what is this called?
It's called A checkmate.

This checkmate is a checkmate wat do u think it is a birdy

@INCOGNITO18 said in #12:
> This checkmate is a checkmate wat do u think it is a birdy
It’s a mate check

Related to the epaulette mate and the dovetail mate.

But mate is mate!

@INCOGNITO18 said in #12:
> This checkmate is a checkmate wat do u think it is a birdy

I'm flapping my wings now :)

I can't see it being a Dovetail @KeithDenning #14 because then you would have to also call it a Cozio Mate. What makes it a Swallows tail or Epaulette is that the king is hemmed in and handcuffed by its rooks.

My chess CAPTCHA was a fools mate. Which is very rare indeed.

@Sacmaniac said in #16:
> I can't see it being a Dovetail @KeithDenning #14 because then you would have to also call it a Cozio Mate. What makes it a Swallows tail or Epaulette is that the king is hemmed in and handcuffed by its rooks.
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> My chess CAPTCHA was a fools mate. Which is very rare indeed.
What about the en passant mate? I got it one time, many weeks ago

@AYUBALLENA

En Passant Mate isn't a regular or named mating motif, per say.

I have a chart that hangs above my toilet with the 33 most common mating patterns. The Swallows Tail is actually the last one on the chart.

The En Passant Mate is beautiful when it happens, which is almost never, so enjoy that win. In my opinion Just knowing the names of mating patterns is enough to be able to find them out of nowhere.

I remember the first time I ever did a smothered mate, I thought I'd cured cancer. Found it like two more times that week alone.

If you know what an Anastasia Mate or Kill Box or Blind Swine, or Damiano Mate is, you will see them quite often.

Names are symbols of the finish line of a tactical combination.

@Sacmaniac said in #18:
> @AYUBALLENA
>
> En Passant Mate isn't a regular or named mating motif, per say.
>
> I have a chart that hangs above my toilet with the 33 most common mating patterns. The Swallows Tail is actually the last one on the chart.
>
> The En Passant Mate is beautiful when it happens, which is almost never, so enjoy that win. In my opinion Just knowing the names of mating patterns is enough to be able to find them out of nowhere.
>
> I remember the first time I ever did a smothered mate, I thought I'd cured cancer. Found it like two more times that week alone.
>
> If you know what an Anastasia Mate or Kill Box or Blind Swine, or Damiano Mate is, you will see them quite often.
>
> Names are symbols of the finish line of a tactical combination.
I don’t know many mates but there are some very rare (but well-known) mates like fools mate and en passant and well, en passant is one of the rarest (if not the one) but I want to find what’s the rarest mate

@AYUBALLENA I was thinking about this subject after I commented.

The En Passant Mate is not specific enough to be given a name like The Box Mate, for example.

Now, there will be some people that will argue this point by saying that it already has a name so of course it is a named mating motif, but they can't show it in a very skeletal form like every other mate because with the En Passant move it is often not a forcing move. A named mating pattern will have a clear photo finish.

Take the Morphy Mate or Pillsbury Mate for example, they are similar because they use the same pieces and there is a clear finish that you can demonstrate with only 6 or 7 pieces on the board, total.

Now trying constructing a mate that comes at the end of a forced combination with the finishing move being En Passant with only 6 or 7 pieces on the board.

The rarest mating patterns are ones like The Fool's Mate or Scholars Mate for me because I'm not playing beginners. For a novice vs novice they might see this a lot more.

For me rare mating patterns are ones like Suffocation Mate, Legal Mate, Reti Mate, Two Knights Mate, Blackburne Mate, Knight+ Bishop Mate, Max Lange Mate, Boden Mate, David + Goliath Mate, Corner Mate...not necessarily in that order, and the fore mentioned mates like Morphy, Pillsbury, Swallows Tail, Epaulette etc.

It is much easier to give example of the most common mating patterns that can perhaps be discussed in a new post because it gets off track here.