Ranking Every Chess Checkmate Pattern From Easy to Impossible

Every checkmate that has ever happened is just one of a small handful of repeating shapes — and once your eyes learn them, you start seeing mate two, three, four moves before it lands. In this video I rank every essential checkmate pattern in chess, from the dead-simple back-rank mate beginners miss every single day, all the way up to Philidor's smothered legacy — a queen sacrifice so beautiful most grandmasters never get to play it once. 12 patterns. Easy to impossible. How far can YOU get before you stop recognizing them? Drop your number in the comments 👇 and tell me which mate you're going to win your next game with. ▶ Subscribe for a new chess ranking every week — built to push you one rank higher. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 The Rarest Mate in Chess 0:54 #1 Back Rank Mate (400) 1:41 #2 Scholar's Mate (500) 2:33 #3 Ladder Mate (700) 3:23 #4 Hook Mate (1000) 4:24 #5 Arabian Mate (1300) 5:30 #6 Anastasia's Mate (1500) 6:13 #7 Damiano's Mate (1700) 6:59 #8 Boden's Mate (1900) 7:56 #9 The Greek Gift (2100) 9:03 #10 Legal's Mate (2300) 9:50 #11 The Opera Mate (2500) 10:46 #12 Philidor's Legacy — Smothered Mate (2800) 12:26 How Far Did You Get? #chess #checkmate #chesstactics #chesstips #chessmate