Although there are many ways to checkmate with a king and queen, the easiest method is to keep the king and queen together and march toward the enemy king until the king is sent reeling with its back to the wall against an edge of the board.
At this point you must be careful to avoid stalemate. The next step is to pin the king against the edge of the board with your queen. So if the king is on rank 1, you want your queen on rank 2. If the king is on rank 8, you want your queen on rank 7. If the king is on file a, you want your queen on file b. If the king is on file h, you want your queen on file g. If the king is in the corner, you must be careful not to stalemate with your queen - for example, if the King is on a1, a queen on b3 or c2 is stalemate.
In the above diagram, what is White's best move?
What are some of the worst moves?
Answer: Worst Kd3 or Ke3 which are both stalemate.
Other worst moves would be Qe2+, Qd1+, Qf2+,and Qf1+ which give away your queen.
Best move - Qg2 pinning the enemy king against the edge of the board.
Checkmate: 1. Qg2! Kd1 2. Kd3! Kc1 3.Qc2 checkmate. This is the position I call the
"Kiss of Death". (See the 3rd position below. The first position is also a "Kiss of
Death" position, this time in the corner.) There are several other basic checkmate
positions as shown below.
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