Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Back-Rank Mating)
This book talks about
- Introduction: How to play chess
- Description of the Board & Pieces
- Moving & Capturing
- Special Moves: Castling, Pawn Promotion, Capturing En Passant
- Piece Values: Pawn(1), Knight(3), Bishop(3.25), Rook(5), Queen(9), King(Infinity)
- Chapter 1: Elements of Checkmate
- Conditions of checkmate
- Defenses: capturing, fleeing, interposing
- Pins
- Discovered checks
- Mate in 1
- Chapter 2: Back-Rank Mates
- Useful/Useless Interposition
- Amount of power needed to mate
- Chapter 3: Back-Rank Defenses and Variations
- Removing/Capturing the defenders
- disconnected rooks
- sideways back-rank
- Chapter 4: Displacing Defenders
- Drawing away defenders
- Displacing the king
- Displacing the king in 2 moves
- Defense against displacement of king in 2 Moves
- Chapter 5: Attacks on the enemy pawn cover
- Sacrifice leading to mate
Chapter 6: Final Review
Mating Themes
- Elementary back-rank mate
- Back-rank combination (more power)
- Eliminating a back-rank defender, enemy recaptures using
- Rook/Queen
- King
- Drawing away a defender
- Driving away the enemy king
- Queen
- Bishop
- Knight
- Rook
- Queen sacrifice
- Rook mates
- Rook checks 1. enemy rook interposes, bishop mates 2. enemy piece interposes, back-rank combination
- Mating a hemmed-in King
- Hemming the king, sacrificing and mating
The Defenses
- Capturing a checking piece with appropriate piece
- Interposing
- King fleeing
Pins
- Pinned piece cannot capture
- However it can support a checkmate