The Checkmate Patterns Manual by IM Christof Sielecki Chessable

It has everything you need to level up your checkmating chops — and your win rate!

🔥 The 34 essential checkmating patterns. Instant game-winners explained through nearly 14 hours of video and over 23 thousand words of instruction.

🔥 Over 1,000 MoveTrainer® exercises to hone your instant pattern recognition for these mates. So you hit the right combo as soon as they appear in your games.

🔥 Test positions to gauge your progress, and pinpoint how you can refine your checkmating technique.

🔥 Plus spaced reviews to embed everything you learned into your memory.

The Checkmate Patterns Manual is brought to you by Raf “CraftyRaf” Mesotten and International Master Christof Sielecki.

You may have heard of these two Chessable OGs.

With over 1,760 star-studded ratings from members, Mesotten is one of the finest authors from our community — and the first to have his MoveTrainer course republished in book format.

Then there’s Sielecki — the 2022 Chessable Author of the Year with more than 30 titles to his name.

Inside, Mesotten and Sielecki refine your execution of classic checkmates you may already know — like the backrank, lawnmower, and Arabian mate.

The Arabian mate clears the way for the rook
with a BANG! Followed by a knight check to
drive the enemy king to the mating square

They equip you with patterns invented by the “father of romantic chess” Gioachino Greco… American champions Paul Morphy and Harry Nelson Pillsbury… plus other legends of the game.

See chapter 12 to checkmate like Morphy — combining
lateral attacks along the 7th rank, while the bishop
provides long-range support

And feed your tactical creativity with the smothered, epaulette, and balestra mate.

Magnus Carlsen — Sipke Ernst, 2004
One of the first games that catapulted
the 16th World Champion to fame
ended in an epaulette mate

Every chapter introduces a checkmate pattern in its pure form — only including the pieces necessary for the tactic. So you can…

Absorb the “Ins and Outs” of the Pattern
with Zero Distractions

Whether you need to zigzag the bishop or dance the knight away…

Position a pair of pieces on opposite-colored squares…

Or start the combination with a sacrifice…

Count on Mesotten and Sielecki to break down every step to making the pattern work.

Next, they follow through with exercise positions taken from actual games.

Every MoveTrainer exercise and variation from the first 33 chapters is painstakingly explained through video. So you move up from “merely knowing” the patterns… to blitzing out checkmates in seconds.

And with Chessable spacing your reviews for maximum learning and retention…

The checkmating patterns become a “trained skill” you carry with you everywhere!