Pattern Recognition Resources
BOOKS (Free)
Basic Checkmate Patterns MoveTrainer™ Tactics course by CraftyRaf & IM John Bartholomew - FREE Chessable Course
🕒 Lesson 1: Anastasia's mate, Greco's mate, Arabian mate, Hook mate,Vuković's mate, and Smothered mate
🕒 Lesson 2: Suffocation mate, Corner mate, Morphy's mate, Pillsbury's mate, Lolli's mate and Opera/Mayet's mate
🕒 Lesson 3:
Damiano’s mate, Max Lange’s mate, Damiano’s Bishop mate, Dovetail /
Cozio’s mate, Swallow’s tail / Gueridon mate, and David & Goliath /
pawn mate
🕒 Lesson 4: Boden's mate, Balestra mate, Double knights and double bishops mate, Blackburne's mate, and the blind swine mate.
🕒 Lesson 5: Epaulette mate, Back rank mate, Lawnmower mate, Triangle mate, Killbox mate, Fool's mate, Scholar's mate and Legal's mate. (This is a pretty simple course you Can do in about 10-15 Mins. Use the MoveTrainer to Practice all of these problems a couple times a day until they become second nature)
(Really Cant beat this if you want to learn a bunch of these patterns. Can use there Movetrainer to practice all of these patterns)
Articles on Chess Patterns
Articles on Chess.com by GM Gregory Serper
(This is a nice set of Articles of patterns you see in games)
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know Part One
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know. Part Two.
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know. Part Three.
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know. Part Four.
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know. Part Five.
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know : That vulnerable f7 pawn...
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know : Pin, unpin...
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know : The Dangerous Diagonal
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know : The Dangerous h-file Part 1
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know : The Dangerous h-file Part 2
Kenilworth Chess Club Mating Patterns 1 - Mate with Bishop & Rook
LiChess Studies
(Some Really Nice Studies Here to Learn Each Pattern)
Chess Videos on Pattern Recognition
(Mating patterns, Tactical Patterns, Strategic Patterns and Endgame Patterns)
@1:23 Mate pattern #1 - Anastasia mate
@6:30 Mate pattern #2 - Boden's mate
@10.28 Mate pattern #3 - Blackburne's mate (called Stefansson mate in the video)
@13:32 Tactical pattern #1 - Undefended bishop on b7 in hedgehog type positions
@20:53 Strategic pattern #1 - Gligoric's pawn sacrifice
@33:33 Technical pattern #1 - Self pushing rook + two pawns
@36:06 Technical pattern #2 - Queen ending, pushing and defending against checks
@1:25 Mate pattern #4 - Anand's mate: Qf3 + h-file battery
@8:45 Mate pattern #5 - Bacrot's mate: Qf7 + check on h-file
@14:04 Mate pattern #6 - Stellwagen mate: Ba7-g1 diagonal,pawn g4, Qh3 mates Kg2
@19:18 Mate pattern #7 - Arabic mate (Kramnik mate in video) Rg8 or h7 with Nf6 mates Kh8
Endgame pattern #1 - Philidor positon plus thoughts on f- and g- pawns in R+p vs R
Exercises from previous videos
@3:46 Strategical pattern #2 - Anand's King
@20:20 Tactical pattern #2 - Loman's move
@27:43 Tactical pattern #3 - Knight on the rim
Tests from earlier PR videos
@6:48 Tacitcal pattern #4 - Petrosian's move
@17:52 Tactical pattern #5 - Protecting b2
@23:28 Mate pattern #8 - The Karpov choke
1. Exercises from previous PR's
2. @11:33 Shutting down Spassky
3. @25:36 Engels' Superpawn