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Corner Mate

Corner Mate

This mating pattern is called Corner Mate because when the opponent's King gets checkmated, it is confined to one corner of the board.

The pattern involves a Rook and a Knight attacking a cornered King. The Knight delivers mate while the Rook dominates the open file adjacent to the opponent's King. In some variations of this pattern, the Rook can be substituted by a Queen and the Knight by a Bishop. In the simplified example shown in the diagram, White uses the pattern and wins with 1.Nf7#.

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