The Art of Checkmate - Georges Renaud & Victor Kahn

Contents: 5 Introduction; Part I - Picturesque Mates; 11 Chapter 1: Legal s Pseudo-Sacrifice; 18 Chapter 2: The Power ofthe Double Check; 28 Chapter 3: The Smothered Mate; 34 Chapter 4: The "Gueridon" Mate and the "Epaulettes" Mate; 39 Chapter 5: Greco's Sacrifice; 43 Chapter 6: Quizzes; Part II - Typical Mates; 49 Chapter 1: The Corridor Mate (No. 1); 54 Chapter 2: Variation of the Corridor Mate (Mate No. 2); 58 Chapter 3: Greco' s Mate (No. 3); 62 Chapter 4: Greco s Mate (Mate No. 4); 64 Chapter 5: Anastasia's Mate (Mate No. 5); 68 Chapter 6: Boden's Mate (Mate No. 6); 72 Chapter 7: Blackburne's Mate (Mate No. 7); 77 Chapter 8: Quizzes; 80 Chapter 9: Mate No. 8; 82 Chapter 10: Mate No. 9; 95 Chapter 11: Andersen s Mate (Variation of No. 9); 98 Chapter 12: Pillsbury s Mate (No. 10); 102 Chapter 13: Quizzes; 105 Chapter 14: Damiano's Mate (Nos. 11, 12, 13); 109 Chapter 15: Morphy s Mate (Nos. 14, 15, 16); 117 Chapter 16: Quizzes; 120 Chapter 17: Mate with Heavy Pieces (Nos. 17, 18); 128 Chapter 18: Mate by Minor Pieces (No. 19); 133 Chapter 19: The Mate ofthe Two Bishops (No. 20); 135 Chapter 20: The Mate ofthe Two Knights (No. 21); 137 Chapter 21: Bishop and Knight Mate (No. 22); 139 Chapter 22: The Arabian Mate (No. 23); 140 Chapter 23: Pay Attention to the Ranks!; 141 Chapter 24: Quizzes; 148 Chapter 25: In Search of a Typical Mate; 151 Chapter 26: Solutions to Quizzes.