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Home » Chess Strategy » Checkmates Patterns » Anastasia’s Mate – Checkmate Pattern With a Rook and Knight

Anastasia’s Mate – Checkmate Pattern With a Rook and Knight

Editorial Staff by Editorial Staff
in Checkmates Patterns, Chess Strategy
Anastasia's Mate Checkmate Pattern

Knight forks are incredibly powerful for forcing your opponents King to move a square and possible capture another piece that is forked with the King. With that being said, let’s introduce a Knight and Rook mate.

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  • What is Anastasia’s Mate
  • Examples
    • Example #1
    • Example #2
  • How To
    • Removing The Pawn
      • Queen Sacrifice
    • Decoy
  • Frequently Asked Questions

What is Anastasia’s Mate

Anastasia’a Mate is a checkmating pattern achieved with a Rook and a Knight by forcing the enemy King into a corner after castling. A Rook can then move to the file where the King moved, either the H or A file, resulting in checkmate.

Examples

Here are a couple examples of how you would achieve Anastasia’s mate.

Example #1

In this example, white has mate in two. The knight puts black’s King in check, forcing the King in either the Corner or H7 square. It doesn’t matter which square the King moves, white’s next move in Rook to the H file checkmating Black. The knight prevents the King from moving to G6.

Example #2

In this example, White has mate in five and there’s not much Black can do about it.

How To

With this mate, you force the King to move into a corner after the opponent castles. When the King is in check by a knight after the King is castled, the King usually only has one square to move, which is the corner. If the pawn in front of the King isn’t there anymore, a Rook can move to that open file resulting in checkmate.

Having this checkmate as a possibility obviously requires some strategy before hand. Removing the defender will have to take place a couple of times. The pawn that would otherwise be in front of the King after moving to the corner needs to be removed, as well as any threats that would be able to capture your Knight after putting the King in the initial Check.

Removing The Pawn

Here are a couple different ways players commonly use to remove the pawn that would be in front of the King after moving to the corner.

Queen Sacrifice

One of the popular and beautiful ways to remove the Pawn defender is with a Queen Sacrifice. If you can get your Queen in position to capture the Pawn directly, that is always an option.

An example of a Queen sac is shows in Example #2 above.

Decoy

Another tactic you can use is a decoy. A decoy is simply moving a piece to a position that would cause a serious threat to your opponent if not dealt with immediately, even though you don’t have any intention of proceeding with said threat because you are using the piece as a decoy to launch an even bigger threat, a checkmate.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you checkmate with a knight and a rook?

There are multiple ways to checkmate with a knight and a rook. One of them being a checkmating pattern called Anastasia’s Mate is achieved with a Knight and a Rook.

I hope this guide on how to do Anastasia’s Mate helped you. If you liked this post, check out the other checkmate patterns you can use to win games.

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