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**'''Two-movers''': White to move and checkmate Black in two moves against any defence.

**'''Three-movers''': White to move and checkmate Black in no more than three moves against any defence.

**'''[[Grotesque (chess)#Moremover|Moremovers]]More-movers''': White to move and checkmate Black in {{mvar|n}} moves against any defence, where {{mvar|n}} is some particular number greater than three.

*'''Many-movers''': White to move and checkmate Black in a great number of moves. Problems have been composed in which White must mate Black in over 100 moves; the current record for such a composition is over 200 moves. These usually involve frequent repetitions of the same manoeuvre in order to force deletirious pawn advances.

*'''[[Helpmate]]s''': Black to move first cooperates with White to get Black's own king mated in a specified number of moves.

*'''[[Selfmate]]s''': White moves first and forces Black (in a specified number of moves) to checkmate White.