will done batgirl nice thanks for sharing this.

thanks for sharing batgirl, i've been looking for these mating patterns for a very long time. cheers!

awesome.

Awesome. Thanks!

Reminds me of the book:

Hi batgirl Sarah!

(How are you hanging? upside down lol rofl!!- sorry only being silly...)

Thanks for your great mating patterns.

I am particularly interested in Morphy's mate (what a genius chess player Morphy was!).

What are the game details for this match(ie who was Morphy playing etc-ideally I would like a pgn file of this game)that led to this mate?

Hoping for your help, regards to you

thank you for the illustrations, i will review them often and in depth.

darn

i had Bodens mate in a game i just didnt realize

A nice list, the only one I truly knew befor seing it was the smothering mate. I actally used it in a game, I didnt do it but the threat of smothering mate made him forced to sacrifice some pawns and I think thats how you should use this list. You probuably wont be able to make a suprice mate on an opponent unless its blitz but the threat of it makes your opponent forced to make unpleasant moves.

smothered mate is beautiful in its simplicity.

Legall's is fantastic; I usually spend so much time trying to set up an ideal position that I ignore those golden early oppurtunities.

All of these queen sacrifices are beautiful.

I can tell now that I will be back to this article many times to learn all these mating patterns to memory..!

it's amazing that you found the actual games in wich the mate was first preformed (and named :]), bravo for the research. {clap clap}

 Legall's Mate was awesome!!!

 batgirl, you're the best!

"may i download them?"

sure