King and Queen only checkmate

Hello,

How do I get a checkmate with only a king and queen? This is my last game. Ended up with only a draw after being in a winning position.

Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSA9se6t82I&t=1s

Thanks.  Learnt quite a few things

You're welcome.

Btw, you can practice it here if you don't want to play through a whole game to get down to just those pieces: 

https://www.chess.com/drills/practice/queen-mate

Same way you checkmate rook+king vs king.A little bit more complicated but the same priciple.

It is actually very easy to win with king and queen vs a lone king. 

My gf knew nothing about chess. On the very first day I

I started teaching her she learned how to win with king and queen vs a lone king.  She also learned how to win with king and rook vs a lone king.

If you do not know these 2 end games there is something seriously wrong with your method of learning chess.

He asked HOW to do it, not whether he should know it.

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/how-to-checkmate-king-and-queen-611600

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a chess coach based in California.  Instead of you moving the king to c6, move your queen to e7 to trap the white king on the edge of the board. This also avoids stalemate.   White’s only move is to move the king to b8.  Then you move the black king to b6.  White’s king must move.  If the white king goes to a8, then you can checkmate by moving the queen to b7.  If the white king moves to c8, then you can deliver checkmate by moving the queen to c7. 

I hope that this helps.  

Other tips: Consider all checks and captures.  I offer a free ebook for beginners on my website, www.ChessByLauren.com

A good piece of advice is to keep your queen a knight's move away from the enemy king until you push  him to the edge of the board. Once he's there, bring your king up until you can deliver mate with the queen. Remember, in a K+Q vs. K ending, the first check should be checkmate.

A good coach can demonstrate how to do it--using words is not as effective as a demonstration. 

need to ask a person who is a chess player to demonstrate for you. 

Keep the queen a knight’s jump away so you don’t stale mate.

My mental trick for this one is just think of the queen as putting a fence on where the enemy king can go. She's not mating she's just fencing. Enemy king can't approach the queen so when ever the king gives up ground pull the fence in tighter with the queen or king. Eventually you will get to the stalemate/mate position where your king has him pinned against the wall and there it is just tactics puzzles. no real quiet moves other than don't stalemate while keeping enemy king against wall.

On 42 where that rule would have helped you is by moving your queen to your king dividing the board into quads for enemy king. Then later on 46 you move to qb3 with check but that doesn't help pin the king in. Better was qc3 then qc6 pushing the king into a quadrant and squeezing. After keep manuvering your king for queen moves that reduce where the enemy king can go. They might check but that isn't the actual point.

Cool. I checked it out. For some reason I had the idea the only way was to get him into the corner.

This is great. I really need to practice some of the endgame drills. Recently, too few of my games make it this far which is why I messed up here.

Damm. You have to pay to continue with. Does Gold membership give full access to drills?

There's a free chess engine app on android that lets you setup positions. Three piece positions are easy to setup. Btw after queen immediately to rook king because the idea is similar but you'll never think queen is hard again. Rook moves work the same: when the enemy king gives you an opportunity to shrink the portion of the board available to it then shrink it. So you aren't looking for checks you are looking to corral. The details are more nuanced but the idea is basically the same.