With King & Queen

The queen restricts the enemy king’s movement by controlling key squares.
With support from your king, the enemy king is driven to the edge, where the queen delivers checkmate.

Watch King and Queen in Action!

Steps to Checkmate

The easiest way to learn how to checkmate with a Queen and King is the Box method. This can be used for a rook endgame as well.

The box method involves closing your opponent into a smaller and smaller imaginary box on the board.

Notice how the queen starts the king off in a box from a4-a8-h8-h4.

Moving the queen to b5 makes the box smaller (b5-b8-h8-h5).

The king must move to e6. Any other move will give a quicker mate as the queen will reduce the size of the box without moving the king

After the king is in opposition, the queen forces the king back another rank.

Once black King is in the corner and hve only 2 squares to mo to. It is time move forward with White King to help he Queen