The Art of Checkmate = Good book

This book was recommended by derschwarzeritter, this book isnt a very known of text, but it turned out to be quite good. It has a much more thorough guide to mating patterns than Vukovics Art of Attack had, I went through the trouble of copying each page it introduced a new mating pattern, and I have found this to be quite helpful, when studying Fred Reinfelds 1001 Brilliant Checkmates.

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You should be able to print the image off from this jpeg

I prefer stalemate :-)