The knight can see the white victory coming in two moves, but hasn't told the anxious pawns.
A huge, huge nod to Julia's great chess sequence at http://www.photoblog.com/JuliaGotz/2007/12/09/im-no-good-at-chess.html
It would probably never have occurred to me to take the pieces off their native board and into other places. The fridge may be next.