Welcome To Checkmate

Welcome To Checkmate explores basic checkmate patterns to reveal the common checkmating elements that can be repeated again and again. The clear diagrams, simple language, personified chess pieces (illustrated as cartoons) and puzzles will make checkmating patterns easy to recognize. Welcome To Checkmate will awaken players to opening checkmate traps, reveal checkmate patterns that can happen almost anytime and ensure won end games by motifs players can use with confidence. Readers will easily develop a visual-mental-library of pattern recognition elements to use in creating checkmates. Welcome To Checkmate is a must for budding tournament players who need to firmly grasp the concept of checkmate in its many variations. In a brief 48 pages the multiple illustrations on every page couple the instructional text with graphics for the ease of dual-coding concept learning. Welcome To Checkmate is the third of three books in the Welcome To Chess Primer Series. Checkmates and topics covered: fool's mate, scholar's mate, back rank mate, smothered mate, Arabian mate, hallway mates, ladder mate, roll-up mate, sandwich mate, rook and king and queen and king end game checkmates, stalemate avoidance maneuvers, tempo moves and more.