Lolli's Appalling Call to Maul

Lolli's Trickier Mates..by, Ms Jessica Martin (aka BoundingOwl)

This is a great mating pattern because it also incorporates the side-file mate, Anastasia's mate, and semi-smothered mate, too.  Patterns with more flexibility are even better for you.  Best of all is if you can recreate the patterns in your own games!

What is the pattern here?  Do you know this artist?

They're lizards, head to tail.  The artist is M.C. Escher of course!

Here is the second basic Lolli mate (you've already seen the first article on Lolli's mates).

 

 

 

 

Did you notice the decoy sacrifice?

How does Lolli do it?  See if you can follow the same pattern.  Make a lizard!

 

 

 

There are two ways that game could have ended.  Both are mate in two.  Did you see both?

Here is more Escher.  This is how I feel sometimes when I think about hard chess problems.

 

Nice work!  Reward yourself with a lollipop.  See you next week----till then, try to make an Escher drawing!