byGeorge Renaud and Victor KahnPaperback: 208 pagesPublisher: Dover Publications; New Ed edition (June 1, 1962)ISBN: 0486201066 "One of the most difficult situations in chess is seeing potential mates...All players, even grandmasters and champions, have missed such mates in actual play, to their chagrin and the bystanders' delight, for it is all too often easier to play for a momentary advantage than to force a mate....Since this book analyzes ideas rather than setting memorization tasks, it will enable you to see basic patterns, give directions to your game from the earliest moves, help you to foresee forced mates and counter effectively, and most important, improve your style of play so that you can force mate." Thorough classification of 23 mating situations, including Legal's pseudo-sacrifice, the double check, smothered mate, Greco's mate, the Corridor mate, and many others. Learn from 127 games by Tartakower, Janowski, Rubinstein, Blackburne, others, illustrating positional maneuvers leading to these mates. Review quizzes test progress.