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Whitcomb Chess Castle |
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Checkmate combination: mate in two |
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Black has just moved his king to the right. If the black king had been moved to the left, white could have checkmated immediately by moving his queen three diagonals to the upper right (e7). With the white knight protecting the white queen and that queen being directly in front of the black king, it would have been checkmate.
But the black king moved to the right instead. Now this is a “mate in two” combination. White makes a move, black answers, and white makes a second move, which is checkmate. Try to envision what these moves could be, then find the solution. |
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Don’t underestimate the power of the knight. |