Games are posted here that show a Mate brought by a Queen with the support and/or protection of a Bishop.

I observe a distinction between mating patterns in games that could be saved under the same heading but for the order of the pieces involved. Also, I would not name a pattern by the superior piece first. My methodology is to name the mating pattern by the chessman that brings the mate.

Therefore, there are two separate game collections for what others would call the Queen and Bishop Mate in my work. This game collection is the first one I prepared and there is a different one for the Bishop and Queen Mate.

To keep the header within its brief limit (63 characters) for each game, these abbreviations will be used: =M= if the game ends with mate; =C= when the targeted King is mated in a corner; =W= where both players are women; =G= indicates both players are girls; =Un= is given for players 14 years old or younger.

The notation <Qn> is for identifying quadrants of the chessboard, clockwise from upper right and governed by the position of the defending King. So, <Q2> is the second quadrant, which includes the h1 corner.

ChessCoachClark (CCC) originated this game collection in October 2024 and he updates it on occasion. This project is a work in progress, culling games from various sources, including several chess training books and personal research. The games are ordered by date (oldest first), not by importance.

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