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Can you find checkmate in two moves for white in this position? Today we're looking at another Polgar study and I want to start with where the black king is going to go if white did nothing. And when you do that, you see that the black king has nowhere to go. He's blocked in by the bishop. Out of black's remaining pieces, the pawn can't move, but the bishop and the rook can. When you start looking at where the rook can go, it doesn't actually matter as the queen can take the pawn on g7 and it will be checkmate, which means the rook is also stuck there. Which only leaves the bishop. So when you think about where the bishop can go, there's lots of squares on that diagonal. So if you picked just a random place, like bishop to c4, how on earth would white get checkmate in two moves in this position? The knight can do a check in two moves, but the f7 square is covered by the bishop. So that means that the queen is going to be the one to do checkmate. And therefore, the queen is going to have to be able to take both the g7 pawn or the h7 rook. The problem is, no one is protecting her when she takes the rook on h7. However, the knight could come to f6 and protect the queen when she goes to h7. The only thing you have to watch out for after Nf6 is gxf6, but that frees up the queen to take the bishop on g8 checkmate. Did you enjoy this puzzle? Let me know in the comments and I'll see you in the next one.