Hi there.
In this lecture, we're going to be checkmating with just the queen, you can do this and the king's
going to help, though the king is going to help on this occasion to make the palace king.
Believe it or not, that's do this.
First, we have the process of restriction.
We want to make the king on the frank.
Let's decide to checkmate the king on the eight franc.
So restriction.
We don't want the king to come back on board.
So what we can do here is restrict the king immediately.
So immediately restrain the king, it's not stalemate.
The king does have two moves, you know.
So make sure it's not stalemate.
So we restrain the king and say they go here now, we need support for the queen, we can't go and checkmate
the queen like this because they can just take OK, we can take our queen with that king.
So we need a support kind of checkmate.
We need to bring support to that queen.
And we do this by bringing all king on the board to say we bring our king on the board.
They hang around and let's say even if they did decide to go for this, the queen, they can't go there.
Now, hear that last move.
We've now got support for the queen.
And we can actually can you spot that we can chat right here.
We were kind of support mate with queen C7 and that's checkmate King can't take because we'll take the
king is check my kingdom, check the escape squares.
The queen is supported by our king.
So generally, yeah.
You want to sort of restrict the opponent's king of your queen
and then bring up support for the queen to checkmate.
So say they went on this side of the board.
Similar kind of idea.
And in fact.
We can mate with two different moves so we can either go here, that's Germany, or we can actually
check mate like this again.
The Queen is doing the check by the Kings, actually restricting the opponent's king here from going
anywhere.
So this is also Germany.
On the other hand, there's two which aren't chameides.
Can you spot the ones that aren't checked my hair, which look tempting.
OK, this is not Chameides, because the king can go there and nor is this Chamique because the king
are there.
So it's G7, which is checkmate.
It stops is CHAC plus it stops the king from going to any escape square.
And quite often that principle of checks, which also covers squares, is important for you to kind
of use in other situations as well.
So the process of taking Artscape squares is the you know, the beauty of checkmating the art of chat
makes the opponent take out escape squares and then that that check is often checkmate.
Now, there's a pitfall here, guys.
There's a pitfall that you're actually there's a slight risk of stalemating the opponents if you don't
play this carefully.
This is a careful way.
But say for some reason, you wanted your queen right.
Next, the opponent's king.
You always want to make sure the opponent's king has got moves if he did this.
Believe it or not, even though you're a queen up, it's a draw by stalemates.
You know, the king has got no moves, which seems very positive because I haven't I just said, you
know, like restricting the king and then checking them later.
Yeah, but you don't want to restrict the king so much.
It's a balance so much that they haven't got any move because this is this is stalemate.
You've just stalemated the opponent.
Yeah.
So you've got to be careful about stalemate.
It's a real risk and it's a little bit embarrassing when you're up in Brazil and you still make the
opponents, so be careful about that, you've got to at least give them one move.
A little bit generous, one move.
This is not generous.
So here they've got, for example, one move and that's enough and then you can make them like this.
So to recap in this example here, we use our queen to restrict the opponents king fast.
And then we kind of bring up the reserves.
We bring our king to help the queen support the queen in delivering a checkmate in such a way that if
the king in theory could take.
But they can't you you know, you've got it covered.
So this is checkmate, but you definitely don't want to stalemate the opponent.
So bear that in mind, OK?
This is a nice way of restricting the king on this occasion and then bringing up the king for that Charmings
head.
That's clear.
You won't want to practice with friends and relatives, as usual until you get this perfect and try
and avoid the stalemate situations, OK?
As much.