Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Double Pattern
Do you remember the “Legal trap” and “Boden’s mate”? In today’s game, both patterns appear together and the victim is none other than the great Russian master Mikhail Chigorin. It is not rare if...
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Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Boden’s Mate
Boden’s mate is a chess pattern consisting of the simultaneous checkmating action of two bishops on crisscrossing diagonals. The pattern takes its name after the English chess master Samuel Boden who successfully used this...
