5 Chess Problems I Promise Will Blow Your Mind 🤯
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Position #2 is mindblowing. Literally every underpromotion works under a specific circumstance, and the queen is bad everytime. That's a truly incredible position to me, much more than the others.
The Queen works if the king does not take the bishop. If it takes it, then promote to knight.
@@user-vv7gt2hu7p nope. Queen never works.
@@user-vv7gt2hu7p If they don't take the bishop, promotion to a queen leads to stalemate.
What is crazy to me is that in position #2, after Bh7+ and Kg7, h6+ does not quite work. The reason is because of Kf6! where black ignores both the free pawn and bishop in order to threaten the e pawn as well as take the rook with the queen.
@@user-vv7gt2hu7p That position is drawn...? The pawn on h5 will be taken soon and R vs B endgame is a draw...?
Position #2...love that multi-faceted case where an underpromotion was the way to seal a win while queening likely blows it. 😁👍🏾
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@@pwnmeisterage is for problem
Normally a queen is strictly better than a rook or bishop (I thought only knight could work in some rare cases) but with the special rules of stalemate, we are presented this extreme case that it is not. Btw: In Asia we play Chinese chess where a stalemate would not be a draw but causing the player to move losing the game, so it is even more astonishing to me
@@zhihuangxu6551 The player that would be stalemated is forced to make a move and would end up with a loss...ouch. Sounds cruel. 🤦🏾♂️😂
@@johnathanpatrick6118 Not exactly. The pieces and board of the Chinese Chess is very different. The "knight" cannot move to the two places in the direction where the immediate adjacent square is occupied, for example.
Those puzzles were completely mind-boggling. Especially the second one, where there are 3 underpromotions in the different variations. What this teaches us is to never give up. Even if a position looks completely hopeless there may be some kind of crazy winning move available on the board. Thank you so much for the amazing video!
Lesson #1 is Don't Give Up......Lesson #2 is Know When to Resign......😁
wait did you say never give up?? did I just get rick rolled?
More like never become too greedy and sometimes do not go for the best piece at some situations
@@note5068 no never give up is missing "gonna"
I feel like theres a whole genre of chess puzzles that require underpromotion to prevent these weird stalemate traps, but Position #2 is maybe the coolest one of those I've seen
but theres a simple checkmate there. rock to g1 then king can only move to one square then promote pawn to queen checkmate
6:53 if we move the right side pawn to h6, and the king takes the h6 pawn, it seems to also create a winning move
Doesn’t work cuz king f6 and u cant promote with check.
12:20 the human move here is Ng3+ followed by Ng4. It doesn't force mate quite as quickly, but your two knights and bishop and two pawns will win easily, without having to calculate the weird ending in the actual puzzle.
Well, I'd say it depends on time you have and your skill in calculating. If you have time than you can spend a bit to calculate the Nc3+ line.
Does that mean this position is cooked?
@@cephalosjr.1835 it's a tricky mate in 7 vs a dead easy mate in 21 (per stockfish). In a real game, opponent would resign after you capture his pawn and still have BNNPP yourself.
@@maxscherzer9521 what does bnnpp mean?
@@bolnet632 bishop knight pawn
I actually was able to solve position 1:D finally some progress!
18:09 if anyone was wondering about the Qxf6 sub-line there it is: 2. ... Qxf6 3. exf6 Ke5 4. fxg7 ... 5. g8=Q 3. ... gxf6 4. f4 ... 5. c3# Edit: corrected the typo.
When exf6, why Ke5? Not using pawn to eat?
@@akubukanpfyro I wrote it right under that line. If 3. ... fxg6 then 4. f4 and c3# is unstoppable.
What about 3. ...QxN??? IF f4 Qxf4. Then what? 5. c3# Kxe5??? And then what?
@@dirkrommeswinkel1765 I'm really wondering if people can read the comment first before replying. I mean, my original comment literally starts with the answer to your question. Do you understand what 2. ... Qxf6 means? It means that black's queen captured something on the f6 square on the second move, in this case the knight was captured. This sub-line wasn't presented in the video and that's why I wrote my comment. If queen captures the knight then exf6 and white have two threats. The first threat is promotion to a new queen in the next 2 moves and the second one is mate in two if black responses to the first threat and recaptures gxf6 (this sub-sub-line is also mentioned in my original comment) or if black makes any other move except Ke5. So the best black can do is to move the king out of the mating net so Ke5 but then white's pawn promotes in two moves. If you cannot visualise it then set the position on the board and move the pieces according to the line by yourself.
Appreciated this comment as I missed the f4 threat.
At 15:54 surely pawn to C3 is an immediate check mate.
Nope e pawn in unprotected
Third puzzle was the toughest. I got the first move on three of them. Feel good about that.
Puzzle 3 reminds me of some tsumeshogi problems
The amazing position 5 when the rook moves to get ready to capture the pawn, can’t the rook move to B8 and check the king, then the pawn can promote
If you're talking about the point after Nelson showed the possibility of Black castling the first time (1. a7 Rg3+ 2. Kxg3 h4+ 3. Kh3 0-0 4. Rb7 Rf3+ 5. K moves, Ra3 6. Rb8+ K moves; 7. a8(Q) Rxa8) it's winnable for White, but gotta watch out for knight forks. Any one of them happens and the position is drawn because a king and knight can't checkmate the opposing king.
Sorry but isn't there a direct checkmate im position #2, on Rg1? After Rg1, it's a check. So the King is either forced to move to h8, or block it with the Queen or Bishop, which is useless and would lead back to h8. Then p×Rf8 and promotes to a Queen/Rook. Blocking with Bishop, again useless as R×Bg8 it would lead to a checkmate...
After rg1 bg6 an escape route is created on f7, where the bishop was.
Position 2. Why can't we move the rook to g1? Then, in any scenario, we checkmate in 1-2 moves.
Because black's bishop can just go to g6 blocking the threat and white is just winning
25:24 Thank you , your video really motivated me to think with you, try out the positions myself and have fun with chess and play it even though I'm not a good player at all. Great channel.
You might wonder about the Knight in A8 in the third position, but that’s to prevent 6.Ke6 threatening 7.Nc3# mate with 6. … Nc6+
If the knight wasn't there, you could even play it at the beginning: 1. Ne8 Ke4 2. Ke6 then 3. Nf6#
15:47 No.4 Nice deflection by queen sac. I don't recall seeing that sort of deflection before. The sacrificing side forced the deflected piece not to block the king, or to unguard a square, or to unpin something, but to cross a critical square, ending up on the wrong side of it.
Position 4 black is winning🏆💪 if we capture the knight with our queen 👑 we defend the mate theat and also got connected pown on the same time we got extra pown outside the board white king can't stop all our pown and defend his too
@@alok28591 you missed pawn f4 after e5xQf6 and g7xf6 and black king has no move. And c3#
Position 4 gets really interesting if you decide to sac the queen for the knight. Getting the win for white gets tricky. as black has a lot of ways to spoil it. I originally analysed it missing a critical white pawn and was wondering if the study was flawed. Nope, just my eyesight :)
I have a question why in position 4 can't the queen capture the knight on f6?!?! D3 does not offer checkmate because the E5 pawn is not defended. If white plays f4 the Queen is free to capture f4?!? Please help what am I missing?! Figured it out exg6 if fxg6 F4 mate on D3 is unavoidable Forcing K e5 fxg7 and queens
6:56 The first time ive ever seen a good reason to pick a bishop over a queen.
6:53 I did Pawn H6 check. slower but I like it more because this puzzle was trying to force me to never promote to queen. Some black king moves lose to queen promotion this way without stalemate because the pawn is no longer blocking the Kg6 escape route.
i love it man u got that pedagogy that i can see trough the moove b4 you explain them like i dont know if im genius or your just a good profesor, plus 1 sub !
one of the best positions and chess video i ever saw
Your channel is unique while comparing to other's. Keep up the good work. Hope I can improve the rating because of u.
on problem #4 you coulda just moved the pawn up and won when the knight was beside the king instead of making a queen at 16:50
The king could have taken at c4 or e5
yeah i see e5 now you right i retract my statement
@@7pheonix omg I’m so stupid I made a mistake correcting someone else when I was looking at the board!! 🤦🏻♂️
#2 the fork was actually kinda obvious, but I think if you promote to queen it still might work because you are up 3 points and black is kinda cramped in one side of the board
The knight one reminds me of the coolest thing I ever did in chess. I was playing against my computer and there was a big pawn structure from both sides. I managed to maneuver my knight and fork most of the computer’s pieces (by checking with my knight) before finally delivering checkmate. Every move I made was check
On the Internet Chess Club I onced checked an opponent 62 times!!!......in a row!!!!! He finally repeated the position 3 times and I claimed a draw. I told him my 62 consecutive checks was a personal record. I think that only pi$$ed him off further.
I think you can claim a draw if you do 50 moves without capturing a piece. Or you can just say "My name's Anish Giri" and claim a draw before the game even starts.
Great job explaining the positions
In puzzle2, instead of underpromo to bishop, playing pawn to h6 check forces the capture of either the pawn or bishop on h6 or h7
Fing crazy Teacher Nelson awesome stuff...I Love it!👍🤯
I love this video so much I can’t stop watching it 😊😊😊😊😊
Hello, please make video about my composition. Here is the starting position: White: Kh3, Ne5, b5, d4, e6, c7, a7 Black: Kh8, Ne7, Bh1, Rc1. White to play and win
Stuff like this is why I love chess. Such a strategic and in depth game.
Great video! Great puzzles! Thank you for posting this.
The position 2 is mindblowing! Black is lost after a king move and white will be up in material!!
Position 4: c3+ force moves Kxe5, then Nd7+ gives 4 options for the king, all of which are in check once f8 promotes
Exciting to see someone get excited about these cool plays
As a beginner, so glad I found this channel. Explanations so clear.
13:00 And the knight draws the outline of a king around the enemy king! Talk about humiliation!
I’ve legitimately been mind blown just in the morning and I feel really fresh now! Tysm
Thank you. This is fantastic. After Nr 2 its enough for today, I have to continue tommorrow with the rest 👍🏻😀
Great vids, as my end game play is still terrible and I never see these subtle plays.
For position 1 wouldn't moving the king off the rim be the best first move? It lets you take any promotion with the bishop, and if black takes with rook, you aren't in check to promote
That was my solution. If they continue to check with rook you just move king down until there are no more options (as long as you don't block your bishop line). Eventually they promote and you trade with bishop and then white promotes and you have a pawn and queen to a rook
For position two, I jokingly said exf8=B because it would be funny to promote to bishop. I didn't think that would be the actual solution!
21:25 - It’s a double check - Nf5 and Rh8 are both checks.
4 : 13 Rg1 check and kh8 , ef8 mate
At 7:20 after sacrificing the bishop you can iive a check with the queen, you can sacrifice her and then get the queen.
Position 2 is genuinely amazing. Love it.
In position 2 when king moves to g7, push pawn to h6, if the king captures the pawn , u can promote to a queen and win
Position #2. Rg1, forcing the black king to go corner then, promote a queen and mate.
(@20:33) - After 1 … Ra3, 2 Rb8+! K-moves, 3 a8=Q and black has to sack the rook for the newly promoted queen, or try to dance around with white’s king by giving check, while not getting captured by white’s rook or queen, which won’t work as the new queen guards the a-file, and the only other checking move with the rook is 3 … Rh3+??, 4 Kxh3. Black could try 3 … Nf5+, 4 Kg4 Nh6+, 5 Kf4 and - again - black has no useful checks here. (Or 3 … Nf5+, 4 Kg4 Ne3+, 5 Kh5! And black sucks on a dry well, as the knight now blocks the 3rd rank, and has no useful checks!)
Amazing second puzzle, but could you make a video about R+N vs R/N/B
Rg1+ is also a win for position 2 and yes then you can make a queen
I think some important variations have to be covered in the end of Puzzle number 4. If after Nf6 black plays either Qa8 or Qh8 then f4 does not work because black will give a check with the queen in g2 in the first case and in h2 in the second case. For this reason after Qa8 white should play Ng4 to protect the e5 pawn and the threat c3 to checkmate black's king is unstoppable. If black plays Qh8 (where he also threatens Qh6+ ruining whites position), then white has to play again Ng4 threatening again c3 with checkmate. The only way to avoid this checkmate for black is to play Qh6+ and white has to play Nxh6. If black captures the knings gxh6 then f4 and the threat c3 is unstippable. Thus the only way for black to continue the game is to play Kxe5 and then white has to save the knight by either playing Ng4 or Ng8 or Kf7 (I am not sure if all three are winning, but white has to be cautious because black has a passed pawn in the a row and some precision is required/ In a game I would play Ng4+ followed by Ne3 and then white may protect the f pawn with the king and play c3 and Nc2 having an easy win).
17:49 The Black may take the Knight by the Queen, the pawn takes the Queen, the Black pawn takes the white pawn, and this position is WONE for Black!
position #1... never seen a crazy position like that, ever. I see the point behind Bh1 and Qh1. since the black king is on the a-file, the black rook can't stop the a-pawn from queening.
what if in position #2, after the white pawn promotes to rook, what about moving the king from H8 to G7, there is nothing guarding that position, so moving there could still make for a game that black could win or at least draw, but i guess this was more to show that it isnt always necessary to promote to a queen
I've never really seen situations where the promotion wasn't a queen or knight and started from the same position.
For position 3, can’t you do knight on d6 to b5? Then you can move bishop or the knight depending on the square black king moves on?
King and Rook v King and Knight can be, according to Howard Staunton, a win for the King and Rook. Mind you,, it is a difficult checkmate.
amazing puzzles as always👍👌
Awesome video dude! Those were crazy.
Unmentioned trick in position number two 6:05 : u can move ur pawn to h6 and no matter what king does u promote queen or night on the next move
That's a draw. After Kf6 and Rxd7, Black control the promotion square, win the bishop, and basically has defensive resources necessary to not get checkmated.
At 18:55 (the end of position 4) worth mentioning is: Black had Qh8 so white had to find the move Ng4 to protect h6 and e5
What if in this position queen takes the knight
@@rahuldhar7526 Qxf6, exf, gxf, f4, a5/e5 or c6, c3#
Opening position #4 on May 28th 2022 position was winnable from the first move as the Black King had no place to go at the beginning.
The king can capture the pawn on E5!
Position 2 is one mindblowing stalemate problem
in position 4 there is mate in one if you move to c3
#3,#4,and #5 were mindblowing.
12:20 I was thinking Ng3+ Technically not the best, but after the king moves you block the last pawn and every single piece is defended. Then you can promote one of the two pawns I suppose.
Yes I was thinking the same
Kenadian in a chess video????!!!!!
I was thinking of Ng3 as well, not the best move but you could still win the position. I suggest opening the lichess analysis board, place the position and see what the opponent could do against your moves. I love your vids btw, gl with 100k subs!
#3 with the knights - amazing
In position #4, if you do pawn to c3 it’s checkmate immediately
In position #4 black could have taken the knight with the queen which would lead to 4 pawns vs 4 pawns.
in position #3 14:59 I'm pretty sure they can just get a queen and take the pawn that's defending its square so it's not really a mate
Thank you very much for this tutorial, im new to chess so, for me, this is mindblowing
You can promote to a queen if you follow up by sacrificing the queen on h8 to check the opponent’s king. Then you take the queen and win in a rook and bishop endgame.
Rook vs bishop with king on the opposite colour corner is a draw.
Yep...the ol' invite-the-N-check is a sub-motif found in various tt problems. And it's is a horrific thing to be exposed to...to know it can sometimes used as a way forward. The subtly associated with knowing when you need to incorporate such moves into your analysis is forever a frustrating one since often it turns out to be waste of time and energy. Invariably the time you blow it off...it blows up in your face. Phoqueing chess.
Position 4#: if the Queen capture the horse after the horse block(f6) there is no check mate from white. And i think, even if white capture the black queen, black wins because the pawn in A line.
this is insane. A Puzzle that not only requires an underpromition, but all three underpromition in the three possible variations and there isn't even a variation when you want to promote to a queen. just wow
12:21 why not just knight back to g3+ check and cover promotion square. That’s what I would probably have done in game and tired to bring my king and pawns closer to promotion. It might be some black knight moves that draw this I guess but it’s hard to see
Wouldn't it make more sense to move the queen to the left of the black pound or whatever it's called and he either defends it by putting it under or defends by going to the left either way you get the pong or tower
In position 4, look at what happens if you move the black queen from f8 to h8 with a plan to move to h2. The potential forks disappear and there is the threat of check if white moves the pawn to f4.
It looks like he missed that line. But after Qh8 black can play Ng4. This covers the check from Qh6 and also protects the pawn on e5. Nothing black can do to stop c3#.
For the first queen move why dont you move it to f3 where the king is in check you can take the rook next move and then you can take the pawn (position 1 btw)
On position 4 we could en passant c7 to b8 capturing b7
At 6:30 ... After Queening throw in Qg7 forcing KxQ, then RxQ
You missed something in position #4. After N-B6 the Queen can simply take the knight and after PxQ, then PxP be ahead 5 to 4 with pawns.
4th puzzle is wrong after Nf6, Qh8 and you cant stop the queen from giving a check the next move and winning the pawn with a fork
The second position is arguably the most beautiful chess puzzle I've ever seen. It looks as a completely natural set of pieces on the board. Was it ever achieved?
i'm not that great at chess , but on #5 i would trade rooks and work my king over to the pawn . i think you could force the knight to leave or you should be able to take it
18:38 the answer to puzzle number 4 is actually the beginning of a new Chess puzzle. White to play and win. Here the knight looks trapped, and black has more pawns on the Kingside. But the answer to this puzzle will blow your mind.
I think in position #3, white don't really need to play Nb5+ after Kd5. Probably the simplest is just Ng3+ to defend the promotion square and just chill. Next we can just move the other knight, kick the black king from d5 and push our pawn.
In position 4 it doesn't seem like you need to block the queen off just go for c3 check right away. These are the best positions ever
Then the king will capture the pawn on e5 and it's game over for white.
@@sc2cooptutorials679 they know that, they're just saying that looking at it they thought that that would work but then as he explained it in the video and understood that that isn't how that would go and how these positions are really cool
For position 2 when king takes bishop after h8 If you promote to queen you can force him to take it by moving to g7 and take his queen and rook vs bishop is winning endgame
I had a different plan in mind in position 2 it was rook to g 1 forcing him to take rhe bishop after that promoting the pawn into a horse forking the king and queen after that taking the queen and etc
in position 4 there's a check mate instead of moving knight up when the black queen takes white queen instead move pawn on c2 to c3 then i
OOPS NVM HE FAN EAT PAEN
Thanks they were amazing. In Position #4 time 17:17 when Knight blocked the queen the queen can capture the knight and f4 can not be played because queen can capture it and give check. The other pawn also can not give check because king can capture the pawn d5.
Bruh if queen takes knight then the pawn takes the Queen and it is a better position for white now
Then c3#
...Qxf6 / exf6 gxf6 / f4 moves / c3 checkmate. But should have been explained.
Qxf6 is pretty freaking obvious. Shouldn't need to explain why this leads to the same line hes explained 4 times already
I guess nelson didnt expect 50% of this community to be brainlets
17:17 position #4, after Nf6 simply QxNf6 and black is winning.
In position #4, there is also 3. . . . Qxf6 4. exf gxf 5. f4 and 6. c3#
Position 2 is one of the best puzzles I've ever seen
I thought in the first position to slide king to the G file was winning because if he promotes you take with the bishop and when he takes with the rook it's no longer Check and you just promote
Literally subbed on promotion to Knight on problem #2. You're amazing.
Welcome!
Been here since the beginning and you are a huge help to my chess