Checkmate! 

Checkmating your opponent is the most crucial goal in the chess.  

What is checkmate?

When a king is attacked, it is called check. A checkmate occurs when a king is placed in check  and has no legal moves to escape. When a checkmate happens, the game ends immediately, and the player who made checkmate wins.

Check, making your opponent should be your top priority. Don't focus on what you lose. If you had a worse position throughout the game, it doesn't matter. Your focus should always be to make checkmate.

In olden times, there was no need to alert the opponent if their king was under attack, allowing players to capture each other's king if they were not paying  attention to the game.

Nowadays, it is legal to leave a king under attack, and you can't move it to a square that is attacked by your opponent. Because of that, the only way to "capture" a king and end the game by trapping it.

Checkmating your opponent is one of three ways you can win a chess game. You can also win the game if your opponent resigns, or they run out of time.

 Checkmating patterns 

1. Checkmate with two-rooks 
2. Checkmate with king and queens
3. Checkmate with king and one rook
4. Checkmate with king and two bishops
5. Checkmate with king bishops and knight
6. Arabian mate 
7. Fool's mate (two move checkmate)
8. Scholar's mate (four move checkmate) 
9. Legal'smate 
10. Back rank mate 
11. Smothered mate 
12. Anastasia's mate 
13. Epaulet mate 
14. Boden mate 
15. Dovetail mate 
16. Swallow's tail mate 
17. Opera mate 
18. Blackburne's mate 
19. Damiano's mate 
20. Morphy's mate.

10 fastest checkmate 

1. Fool's mate 
2. Grob's Attack (fool's mate pattern) 
3. Scholar's mate 
4. Dutch defense 
5. Bird's opening 
6. Caro-kann defense smothered mate 
7. Italian Game smothered mate 
8. Owen's defense  
9. England Gambit mate 
10. Budapest defense smothered mate.

3 move checkmate 

 Move your king pawn forward to e4. In this method, the key piece of your game is Queen. The queen is the piece that you are going to use to make checkmate. So your First move should be to open up space for queen to move diagonally. Moving the king pawn forward two spaces to e4 achieves this (e4). As well as freeing your queen, you need your opponent to expose their king. If black then moves their bishops pawn 2 spaces to f5 to attempt white, the checkmate in three moves is on!

Capture your opponent's pawn at f5. Now use your pawn to capture your opponent's advanced pawn by attacking on the diagonal.

Move your white Queen to h5 (qh5). Checkmate! Now you can move your queen on diagonal to h5, and you have your opponent's king pinned. That's game over! You will notice that if your opponent hadn't moved their pawn forward two their last turn, they could have blocked off your queen by putting a pawn in her way to g6. 

You really need your opponent to play in to your hands to pull off this three-moves checkmate.

Call-out checkmate! Now you can take the king with your queen on the diagonal and celebrate a very swift victory. If your opponent has fallen into the trap, they will likely be a bit annoyed, so don't gloat too much!!  

Conclusion: 

Checkmating is the most important aspect of chess. To improve your chess understanding, study types of checkmates and make sure that you can spot and use them during your games.