I promised my nephew pancakes and chess and he was very eager to play. I was black, he was white. He opened with the popular pawn to e4, but was surprised when I chose to open with my queen side knight ( I tend to be an aggressive player ). Initially, I had center control and castled early, queen side. By mid game, he had half of my pieces, including my queen and had me pinned down pretty good. I had one escape and asked if he wanted to play it out. He said yes.
His first mistake.
An hour later, I was down to my king, a rook, and one lonely pawn. He still had his queen, a rook, Bishop, a knight, two pawns, and king. Of course, he thought the game was basically over, my king was running out of options and I only had one good piece on the board. It wasn't the rook. I let him chase me around, putting each other in check, stole his Bishop, Knight, and two pawns, and got pinned by his remaining rook and queen. Again, he thinks it's over. I'm down to a pawn and king. He lazily chases me again. He thinks he won.
He doesn't see it coming.
I was waiting.
I only needed that one lonely pawn.
Bent on chasing down the King,
he forgot that every Pawn, can be a Queen.
Checkmate in 2!