Restless Knights

Knowing and being familiar with certain checkmating patterns is one of the best things you can do for your chess progress. Firstly, by knowing the patterns, you can use them again and again to win your games. The nice thing is that even though the positions are different, key elements of the patterns remain the same. You recognize them, and before you know it, you've checkmated your opponent. Secondly, a checkmating pattern may be the end result of winning combination. By knowing the pattern well, you'll more easily spot the combination in time. Put differently, you'll see the checkmate many moves in advance, which will be the reason why you do a beautiful combination or sacrifice. Below you have thirty checkmate patterns with definitions of them, diagram examples and training puzzles. The training puzzles all start off with one move solutions, then you have two moves, and in some cases up to five move combinations. Most of thes names of the patterns are well known, but looking through both my own games and those of others, I noticed a few patterns that I didn't find names for, so I took the liberty of naming them myself. These are the last six patterns of those listed below.