How to Beat your Dad at Chess

005 Introduction
006 Algebraic Notation
008 How Chess Masters Think

The 50 Deadly Checkmating Patterns
014 1) Anastasia's Mate
016 2) The Missing Defensive f-pawn
018 3) The Arabian Mate
20 4) Philidor's Legacy
22 5) Semi-Smothered Mate
24 6) Single Rook Sacrifice on h8
026 7) Double Rook Sacrifice on h8
028 8) Damiano's Mate
030 9) Taimanov's Knight Check
032 10) The See-Saw
034 11) The Petrosian Draw
036 12) The Rh8+ & Nxf7+ Trick
038 13) Blackburne's Mate
040 14) Boden's Mate
042 15) Other Queenside Mates
044 16) The Double Rook Sacrifice
046 17) The Double Bishop Sacrifice
048 18) Morphy's Mate
050 19) Pillsbury's Mate
052 20) The Crafty Bg8
054 21) The Rook Sacrifice on g7
056 22) A Knight on f5 (1)
058 23) A Knight on f5 (2)
060 24) Rook Decoy on h7
062 25) The Queen & Bishop Mate
064 26) Greco's Mate
066 27) More Qg6 Bombshells
068 28) Korchnoi's Manoeuvre
070 29) The Bxh6 Sacrifice
072 30) The Queen & Bishop Line-up
074 31) Removing the f6 Defender
076 32) The Greek Gift (1)
078 33) The Greek Gift (2)
080 34) The Greek Gift (3)
082 35) The Greek Gift (4)
084 36) Mate on the Long Diagonal
086 37) Weak Dark Squares
088 38) Blackburne's Other Mate
090 39) Lolli's Mates
092 40) Back-Rank Mates
094 41) The Refined Back-Rank Mate
096 42) More Bank-Rank Mates
098 43) Rook Deflections
100 44) Two Rooks on the Seventh
102 45) Anderssen's Mate
104 46) Pawn on the Seventh Rank
106 47) Legall's Mate
108 48) The Bishop Sacrifice on f7
110 49) Knight Sacrifices on f7 & e6
112 50) The Fischer Trap

114 Test Positions
121 Test Solutions
123 Glossary
125 And Finally... What to do if Dad is Garry Kasparov
127 For Further Improvement