Record details

• ISBN: 1901983056
• ISBN: 9781901983050
• Physical Description: 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: London : Gambit, 1998
• Copyright: ©1998

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Anastasia's mate -- The missing defensive f-pawn -- The Arabian mate -- Philidor's legacy -- Semi-smothered mate -- Single rook sacrifice on h8 -- Double rook sacrifice on h8 -- Damiano's mate -- Taimanov's knight check -- The see-saw -- The Petrosian draw -- The rook h8+ & knight xf7+ trick -- Blackburne's mate -- Boden's mate -- Other queenside mates -- The double rook sacrifice -- The double bishop sacrifice -- Morphy's mate -- Pillsbury's mate -- The crafty bishop g8 -- The rook sacrifice on g7 -- A knight on f5 (1) -- A knight on f5 (2) -- Rook decoy on h7 -- The queen & bishop mate -- Greco's mate -- More queen g6 bombshells -- Korchnoi's manoeuvre -- The bishop xh6 sacrifice -- The queen & bishop line-up -- Removing the f6 defender -- The Greek gift (1) -- The Greek gift (2) -- The Greek gift (3) -- The Greek gift (4) -- Mate on the long diagonal -- Weak dark squares -- Blackburne's other mate -- Lolli's mates -- Back-rank mates -- The refined back-rank mate -- More back-rank mates -- Rook deflections -- Two rooks on the seventh -- Anderssen's mate -- Pawn on the seventh rank -- Legall's mate -- The bishop sacrifice on f7 -- Knight sacrifices on f7 & e6 -- The Fischer trap.

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