This Chess Queen Tried to Grab Pawn , LIVES TO REGRET IT
- Zachary
- Mar 9
- 2 min read

I found this move in Rapid mode (or was it blitz? Probably rapid) here's how it works. This was actually before I took chess as a serious pursuit, when I was just playing it as a hobby. I think I found this in month 1.5 of playing as a hobby or something like that.
You see, in chess, you always have to be careful of how you attack—otherwise, your opponent's position can "envelop" a piece. Your piece could become trapped, rendering it either useless or outright capturing it. If a position is solid, with the piece coordination and pawn structures being great, that's makes conditions ripe for trapping a piece in this way—because then pieces can just be eaten up, like a pathogen engulfed by the immune system.
Here, the queen took my pawn, thinking it could gain a material advantage there. But look—where does the queen go to after that? The queen often rules the dungeon, pushing other pieces into it as prisoners...but here, the queen has pushed the pawn too hard. And knowing this, the pawn now grabs her, locks his arms around her neck...
...and he says, "YOU THINK YOU'RE SO POWERFUL? WELL IF I'M GOING DOWN, YOU'RE GOING DOWN WITH ME!!!!"
He USES the queen's OWN POWERFUL PUSHING MOMENTUM to throw her inside the dungeon cell. Now, the queen's stuck, and the only doors left for her to escape are the square on a6, and to b3 via the b file.
THEN WATCH AS THE KNIGHT ARRIVES...
AND SACRIFICES ITSELF TO BLOCK THE DOOR!!!
The knight in shining armor, seeing that the queen was inside the cell, takes the opportunity of an era—he RUSHES OVER and BLOCKS EVERY POSSIBLE ESCAPE FOR THE QUEEN!!!
The knight, occupying the b4 square, blocks the b file, and aims at a6!!!
If white takes the knight with the pawn, then white will inadvertently FORCE THE CELL DOOR TO CLOSE, AS THE PAWN ITSELF WILL BLOCK IT AS WELL!!!!!
And so, the door slams shut behind her, leaving her locked inside the same cell as the pawn she tried to take.
But wait... now that the knight's captured, that leaves one small hole left to escape, one small square on a6. The knight was aiming at it earlier, but now it's taken, so a6 is free.
BUT IT IS STILL TOO LATE; IT'S BLACK'S MOVE. BLACK WILL JUST MOVE THE A7 PAWN TO A6, AND THEN GO RFB8—
NOW THE QUEEN IS SEALED FOREVERRRRR... IN THE CELL THAT SHE PUSHED THE PAWN TO FOREVER.

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