Mating Patterns - forced mating sequences

Checkmate - 'Queen and King' v 'King'

The king cannot be mated in the middle of the board, it must be driven to the side of the board.

White to move

	White	Black
1	Kc2	Kd5
2	Kd3	Kc5
3	Qf6	Kd5
4	Qe7	Kc6
5	Kc4	Kb6
6	Qd7	Ka6
7	Kc5	Ka5

Now White can checkmate as follows:

Qa7(#) - checkmate

OR QB5# checkmate.

Another example

Black to move.

	White	Black
1		Kf5
2	Kd5	Kg6
3	Qf4	Kg7
4	Ke6	Kg8
5	Kf6	Kh8
6	Kf7	Kh7

Now White can deliver checkmate in two ways:

Qh4# checkmate

OR Qh2 # checkmate

Here are some other checkmate positions showing King and Queen against a solitary King.

The diagrams have extra pieces on the Board, but is is the Queen that delivers the checkmate. That is why they are in this section.

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