The next example is slightly different:. Nobody wins. The first one I will show you, is how to checkmate their king when you have two rooks and your opponent has only their king. The trick is to trap their king to one of the sides of the board. And this is how you do it. And in this case, it is not just a pointless check, because you are in fact forcing their king to move closer to the side of the board. Instead we check with the other rook. He moves here,. So, what should white do?
So, this is how you would checkmate someone if you had two rooks and they had only a king. You use the two rooks to force the enemy king to the side of the board and then you checkmate them there. The trick is that you use your queen to trap the enemy king in a cage. And then you keep making the cage smaller until their king is trapped on the side of the board.
The black king can never move outside the cage. Black must move. Of course, white must be careful the whole time. If he now moves the queen to c5, then the black king could capture her. Now instead of moving the queen, white brings their king closer to support the queen. So, you can see the white king plays an important role here to support the queen.
The black king goes to f5 and white, again, makes the cage a bit smaller by moving the queen to e4. Black goes to g6, and now white must again be careful not to play their queen to f5, otherwise the black king could capture her. Instead, white bring the king closer to help:. You can see the cage is getting very small now!
Black moves their king to g8 and now there is two ways to make the cage smaller:. White must again be careful here because if he moves the queen to f7…. It would be a draw and that is not what we want. Instead, white leaves the queen on d7 and brings their king closer to support the queen.
Black has two options but both lead to checkmate. If he goes back to h8, then Qh7 would be checkmate. Or the other option black has… if he moves to f8…. To conclude this lesson, I want to show you something interesting. KNNkp is possible if you blockade the enemy pawn and use it to avoid stalemate while forcing the king into the corner.
It's very tough. Dennis There's nothing tragic about the knight. His strengths which are formidable easily make up for his weaknesses. Knights are about the most common piece to be undervalued, especially in lower ELOs. You can't blame your stalemates on the knight. Or any other piece for that matter. AlwaysLearningNewStuff Kenis Kenis 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. The game ends in a draw by insufficient material.
Tony Ennis Tony Ennis Stalemate may be possible, but the player with the bare K will have to help. But this is still a draw. Explaining the why is generally encouraged. No it is not possible to checkmate a lone king with king and Knight Even a lone king king cannot be checkmated using King and a bishop Even two knights and a king cannot mate a lone king True fact Deepan Swaminathan Deepan Swaminathan 21 1 1 bronze badge.
Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Version labels for answers. Linked 1. Black can move the queen to d4 or b4, or d8 to put the white king in a box! Note that d4 is the best square for Black's queen as it puts the white king in the smallest box! Let's try another one. In the following position, White has just played Kh1. What should Black do? Freezing our queen and starting our king walk is correct!
Kf3 is the best move, while Qg3 would be stalemate! Ok, one final test. In the position below, Black has just played Kh7. How can White deliver checkmate? Very good! There are multiple checkmates in this position! Bonus points if you recognized all four checkmates Qg7 , Qh5 , Qh4 , and Qh3! You now know a proven method for checkmating with a king and queen against a lone king. This is one of the most common checkmating patterns, as it can arrive naturally or after promoting a pawn to a queen in a king-and-pawn endgame.
Enjoy putting this new knowledge into practice in your own games! Checkmate With King And Queen. Step Three: Freeze the Queen! It consists of four steps: Putting the opponent's king in a box by moving our queen a knight -move away, Decreasing the size of the box by "dancing with the king," "Freezing the queen" after the king is in a corner, and Walking our king over to deliver checkmate!
By moving your queen a knight-move away from the enemy king, you put their king in a box. The queen on e4 puts the black king in a box.
Now that we have the enemy king in a box, we can start "dancing with the king. How can White dance with the king? After Qd5 the box that the black king is in grows smaller. Here is a great GIF that illustrates the white queen forcing the black king into the corner: The queen chases the black king into the corner.
The game is drawn because Black has no legal moves! After the opponent's king reaches the corner, we must freeze the queen! The black king can only move back and forth while White brings their king into the action! Since we already know Black's moves for the rest of the game moving back and forth from the a7-square to the a8-square , our king continues to walk over until it reaches the c7-square: The white king moves into the action until it is across from the black king.
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