Model mate

<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>

<p>This example shows a problem by Miroslav Havel. The <a href="/facts/Glossary_of_chess_problems/UgYUfjxg">key</a> 1. Bc5<a href="/facts/Chess_annotation_symbols/3LG0bJ87">!!</a> gives a flight square for the black king and threatens 2.Rxf6+ Ke4 3.Nf2<a href="/facts/Algebraic_notation_(chess)/gU96RuM3">#</a> with a model mate. The main variations end with model mates from white batteries:
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 1... Kf4 2. Nxf6 (threat 3.Qg4#) 2... e4 3. Nd7#, and
 1... Ke4 2. Nf2+ Kd5 3. Rc7#
<p>There are several other variations (after 1...Ne4 and 1...Ke6), which do not end with model mates, and allow for multiple continuations. In the Bohemian school they are irrelevant, as long as they end with a mate in a prescribed number of moves.
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<p>This example shows a <a href="/facts/Helpmate/8VP7thnj">helpmate</a>, in which both sides cooperate to achieve a mate to the black king. It has two solutions ending in model mates (Black moves first in helpmates):
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 1. Re3 Ke6 2. Ke4 Rh4#, and
 1. Kc5 Kc7 2. Rc4 Nc6#
<p>If all units of both colours are involved in a model mate, then it is an <i><a href="/facts/Ideal_mate/e1Wf0Kwk">ideal mate</a></i>. Both mates in the presented helpmate are ideal mates.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Chess_problem_terminology/UgYUfjxg">Chess problem terminology</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Genrikh_Kasparyan/9x2dkS2z">Genrikh Kasparyan</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Andrzej_Piotr_Ruszczy%25C5%2584ski/doHj9lgC">Piotr Ruszczyński</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Mating_net/bh0g4wCP">Mating net</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="/facts/David_Vincent_Hooper/t9VTSeDs">Hooper, David</a>; <a href="/facts/Ken_Whyld/jwmoGpzo">Whyld, Kenneth</a> (1996) [First pub. 1992]. "model mate". <i><a href="/facts/The_Oxford_Companion_to_Chess/X4aMlkw7">The Oxford Companion to Chess</a></i> (2nd ed.). <a href="/facts/Oxford_University_Press/CYyTzzWG">Oxford University Press</a>. p. 262. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-19-280049-3.</li></ul>

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