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→‎How many moves away from checkmate?: When an opponent's queen has advanced against your king, beware of your king being trapped on the bank rank behind pawns or other pieces such that there is a surprise checkmate.
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Know the basic patterns for checkmate.  In blitz chess be particularly wary of vulnerability to the "back-rank checkmate."<ref>https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/basic-checkmates-to-know-611597</ref>  A variation on that checkmate is when an opponent's knight controls spaces on the row adjacent to the back rank and thus enables checkmate just as blocking pawns would.
 
Know the basic patterns for checkmate.  In blitz chess be particularly wary of vulnerability to the "back-rank checkmate."<ref>https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/basic-checkmates-to-know-611597</ref>  A variation on that checkmate is when an opponent's knight controls spaces on the row adjacent to the back rank and thus enables checkmate just as blocking pawns would.
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When an opponent's queen has advanced against your king, beware of your king being trapped on the bank rank behind pawns or other pieces such that there is a surprise checkmate.
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