Guys, look at this endgame.
How many times have you ended up stalemating
your opponent from such a winning position?
You definitely don't want a draw, you want
to win this, right?
Well, in this video, I am going to share with
you a simple step by step strategy to easily
win such a queen endgame.
Let's get straight into it.
Your first aim is to drag the opponent's king
to a corner.
Now how do you decide which corner you need
to go for.
To keep it simple, I would advise you go for
a corner where your king does not interfere,
which means a corner which is far away from
your king.
For example, in this game, don't go for this
corner since your king is close to it.
You can go for any other corner you like.
In this game, let's drag this black king to
this corner.
Once you have decided on the corner, the next
step is to get your queen to a square that
is a knight's jump away from the opponent's
king.
Let's do that.
Since we are targeting to get the king to
this corner, we will aim to get our queen
on this side and then push him in this direction.
So let me go here first.
If you see, we have formed a box like this
so the king can't escape out.
Now we need to get our queen a knight's jump
away from the king.
So we can play any of these 2 moves.
Let's play queen d3.
And this is how we are a knight's distance
away from the king keeping him within this
box.
The next step is quite simple.
You need to just copy whatever move black
plays from here.
If he moves up, we also move up.
If he goes down, we go down.
If he moves diagonally, we do the same, it's
quite straightforward.
We just keep following him maintaining a knight's
distance.
You need to keep doing this until he touches
the corner.
If you notice, the box keeps getting smaller
and smaller with every move, and black is
left with very little options.
Ultimately, you will reach this position when
the king touches the corner.
That's where you need to stop.
Don't follow him now, otherwise it will be
a stalemate like this.
Ultimately, we will keep these 2 squares for
the black king to move and bring our own king
into the game.
The important thing is that you need to keep
your king outside this box, just don't get
him inside this otherwise it could be a problem.
The best square to get your king to would
generally be the one diagonally opposite to
the corner square.
This is how it looks for each of these 4 corners.
So let's get him there.
Black will keep moving back and forth since
he has no other squares to go.
Finally, our king is there and now you deliver
the final blow with your queen by moving it
to this square which is one square diagonal
from the corner and its a checkmate.
This is where your queen will be for each
of these corners.
This is the most basic example of a helper
checkmate where the king defends the queen
and helps her out to deliver this checkmate.
Now sometimes, you might also end up in this
position where you have 2 queens.
I know this should be quite an easy win, but
still I have seen many new players end up
stalemating their opponent.
See, in this type of a game, you don't need
any help from your king.
You can use both your queens to finish the
game off.
You don't even need to drag the opponent's
king to a corner, you just need to drag him
to any of these sides and that's good enough.
The most important thing I advise all beginners
is that they simply keep giving checks so
that the question of a stalemate does not
even arise.
Your simple strategy should be to keep blocking
off lines with your queens and then finally
checkmate your opponent on any side of the
board, just like this.
You can go this side as well and ultimately
after a series of checks like this, you can
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Okay, so here's a Chess puzzle for you all.
It is White's turn and you need to find the
best Move continuation for white.
Do share your answers in the comments section
below.
If you liked this, then you should watch this
video as well, which is a step by step tutorial
on how to checkmate with 2 bishops in the
endgame.
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