Chess Tactics: Back Rank Checkmate

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National Master Kostya Kavutskiy teaches one of the most common tactics in the entire game of chess: the back rank checkmate. Starting with the basic mating pattern, he shows how you can build more complex tactics around it, going through a couple examples, and capping it off with the most famous and incredible back rank checkmating combination in history.

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[Dart11112]

@songa520 did you watch the vid? thts all irrelevant for this strategy

[songa520]

@Dart11112 I forgot to add that white also has a knight, but black is still stronger with more pawns and better pawn structure

[songa520]

How? If the game progressed as in my first comment, after the exchanges black would have one rook, one bishop and more pawns whereas white would only have one rook left and fewer pawns, unless there are more variations that I didn't see

[Dart11112]

@songa520 yes but if black didnt move its queen then it would lose it because whites queen doesnt matter and black would be fucked

[songa520]

I don't get the third scenario. When White rook e4 threaten black Queen a4, (5:18) black doesn't have to move Queen back, can simply move other pieces. If Ra4 then Re1 check Ke1 Rc7, which is more or less of a draw

[CallOfDutyKid05]

the queen could have just gone to C8 from C3 as after recieving the rook, if the queen took, the rook on E2 and the rook on E1 would have just gone to E8 and checkmated

[kikook222]

@omidistroyer Second scenario. 1.Rb7, Kf8 2.Rxb8 Rxb8 3.Qe7 Kg8 4.Qe8 Rxe8 5.Rxe8. White would have mated. At any time black moves the king he would lose.

The third is easier. If black moved his king to f8 he would have left his queen hanging, white would take and it would be childs play to mate him from then on.

[kikook222]

@jcurran2k11 In every position the queen is moved if it took the white queen, the two rooks will mate because the black queen will not be able to defend re8.

[jcurran2k11]

in the 3rd example why can't the qyeen just take the rook ?????????? or queen

[omidistroyer]

Why can't the black king help a bit by moving to f8?