For beginners, the best place to start once you know the rules is to learn how to mate. Here are the basic mates, in increasing order of difficulty.
- Mating with two Rooks and a King against a King
- Mating with a Queen and King against a King
- Mating with a Rook and King against a King
- Mating with two bishops against a king
- Mating with a knight and a bishop against a king – although this counts as a ‘basic mate’, since it’s only against a king, it’s a difficult one that’s even fooled a grandmaster.
