Anastasia's Mate
Part of the Checkmate Patterns I section of Coddy's Tactics & Checkmates journey. Lesson 21 of 40.
A knight on e7 steals two escape squares at once, g8 and g6, and his own pawn on g7 holds the third. Then a rook arriving on the open h-file has nothing left to answer. That is Anastasia's mate: knight first, rook second.
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