Puzzle 1 FEN:
8/7b/6pk/4KPp1/5PPp/5PP1/8/8 w - - 0 1
Details: Bondarenko, Kuznetsov
Puzzle 2 FEN:
8/6q1/6b1/4p2k/8/3n1P2/Q2B2P1/K7 w - - 0 1
Details: Botvinnik, 1925
Puzzle 3 FEN:
7n/7P/8/8/8/7Q/5ppR/K4bkn w - - 0 1
Details: Chekhover, 1937
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I've heard of a king triangulating to lose a tempo, but the way that last problem motivated White's king triangulating is amazing.
Rook H2 to H1 is checkmate na
@@prakash-ry9ot how? The pawn takes the rook and promotes queen has to take and then king take queen and promotes other pawn
@@prakash-ry9ot ye I got confused too
Triangulation = pyramid. Pyramid = illuminati.
@@prakash-ry9ot The board is flipped if you paid attention to which way the pawns were going!
I’m a measly 900 rated player, but as a mathematician, I just shouted “OMG THE CORNER!” as soon as he said that Kb6 was the right move because, even without vast chess knowledge, the concept of color parity is still pretty solid to me. That is a FASCINATING puzzle. Might be my new favorite!
Same, and I'm not a mathematician
Black in the last position can prolong his imminent death by moving the H1 Knight thus extending it by 1 move.
"king goes here here here and there and here here here and checkmate" -Hikaru probably
That looks completely reasonable --Magnus probably
If y’all aren’t familiar with the concept of triangulation, it’s a must know for all sorts of endgames
It’s not quite a simple triangulation though 😂 I somehow put together that the king needed to lose a tempo, and that the bishop couldn’t reach that square, but not that the king needed to go there to triangulate. *facepalm*
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Rook h1 wasn't mate from the start?
Why moving king?
because of gxh1=Q and then black wins
8:32 - If it's any help, I've been studying his tactics and there's a pattern emerging: Every time you make a move, he makes one too. -- Cat, Red Dwarf.
For anyone as dumb as me: on the 3rd puzzle, Rxh1 isn't mate because black's pawn can take. Nelson even told me which way the pawns we're moving, and I still stared at that for way too long.
Last puzzle is basically a battle to avoid zugzwang. 🤣
The last puzzle is super fascinated! I really enjoy this video!
10:06 This move forced black into zugzwang position where it had to make the move it doesn't want because any move it make will lead to checkmate in next move
That king's path was basically a road trip with one little stop along the way to do something essential😂
i dont play chess at all but love seeing these kind of puzzles, and it fascinates me that i actually solved the final puzzle by myself!
You know what I get you. I can't play well. I just don't have the focus for it. And people say "keep it up you'll get better". No. No I won't. I've tried. But I LOVE analyzing puzzles and interesting checkmates for days in end. I like to take famous historical games, back them up a few moves and find the winning move for the losing side. I used to drive myself nuts for days in one game.
Thank you for the nice puzzles, I really enjoyed them.
Thank you for the clear explanation of a tempo.
On the one you did last-the featured event😎- I did think of heading towards the knight with the king, while staying on the dark squares, BUT I didn't think the black knight on h8 was trapped to just keep going back and forth . After that knight goes to G6 ,for example, I mistakenly thought it could move and attack the Queen , forcing the Queen to move -but I missed that White can just get a Queen, let the knight take the Queen, then take the Knight with the new Queen , and it's back to that winning position in the corner.🤩
@10:06, white isn't forced to move the bishop. He could move the knight. This doesn't help since the Queen can take the knight, which then forces a bishop move allowing the mate on g2.
Exactly, I'm still trying to understand, why!?
What hes trying to say is that its a mate in 1-2 based one what black plays, becUse black is in zukzwang
with puzzle 3 i nearly asked why not move the king forward at the end instead of getting the queen for the knight to take; due to the bishop can't take it. but then realized the knight could just put you in check.
Why not move rook to h1
@@howtobeamess402 pawn takes +queen
@@themagnificentsansandmylaz4115 but they’ll be in check so they have no choice but move their king(or defend king) but you can’t kill rook unless it’s king killing rook and going into check again
@@howtobeamess402 incorrect - ANY piece can capture a checking piece to break check. The only time a king MUST move is to escape double check and your example isn't double check.
@@howtobeamess402 0 elo player teaches how to play chess
Nice puzzle. Will the puzzle quiz ever get back? I really enjoyed those.
Puzzle 1's task is incorrectly given as a "White wins" study. If it were a study, the alternative 2.fxg5+ which also wins (mentioned at 1:04) would have spoiled the problem. The correct task is "White mates in 4" which is necessary to make 2.fxg5+ faulty as it's too slow.
Thanks a lot for your videos, they really helped me become better at chess especially in the endgame
Same he is amazing
Hey Nelson, could you perhaps cover some bizarre openings like the Sodium Opening (Na3) and others?
Is that actually what it's called?
@@reubenmanzo2054 it's a joke on the fact that Sodium's chemical symbol is Na
@@gaopinghu7332 which stands for North America
@@timesnow6205 I don't quite get the point of that observation, but cool. Especially Canada, I've heard that its climate is cool.
@@gaopinghu7332 yeah because the Latin name for Sodium is *Na*trium
Nice puzzles, thanks.
Thank you for these beautifull puzzle you give always for us. That's remind me every time pleasure when I started chess and it is a renewal.
Hey Man! We did not Analyze Kb2 Kc3 Kd4 Ke3! Idea Qh4 Rxh1 gxh1=Q Qxf2 mate but it is not working as after Rxh1 there is gxh1=N! Protecting f2! I did not thought to go all over to the knight I just saw this mate thinking I was correct… I was confused on why you did not consider this move and that’s when I looked at it again I realised I made a mistake… Great Study BTW!
What if black moves the knight instead of the bishop on the third puzzle? Edit: nvm white queen takes the knight and the bishop needs to be moved next
The queen takes then bishop has to move then checkmate
Great! The third one is really great !
Puzzle #3 appears in Andy Soltis's Chess To Enjoy, where it is credited to composer Vitaly Chekhover.
He also worked with Yuri Averbakh, co-writing books and the like. Averbakh lived to 100 years old and passed away earlier this year!
@@electricmaster23 I didn't know he was still alive; I thought he'd died a long time ago. And this is the first I've heard of him passing ... I didn't see it at Wikipedia.
@@christopherheckman7957 he is only chess grandmaster to reach 100 years old, but that’s not that surprising considering only about one in 5 million people become grandmasters.
In puzzle#3, at the very start when the king is on the other side of the board, the black knight can just go to f7, (followed by king move from white), and then knight g5 forking the pawn and the queen. He wins one of the two and no matter what happens next, the bishop can come out. Or if the bishop doesn't come out (if Queen keeps eyeing the checkmate square, knight just wins free pawn)
...Ng5, h8=Q Nxh3, Qxh3 B~, Qxg2 mate.
Just one work: Wow! Made me subscribe, you find amazing puzzles, like pieces of art!
Welcome aboard!
If Ka8 is played, you can play Ng3, efficiently losing a tempo, but it leads to: Qxg3, Qh3 and Rh1# or Qg2#. You probably can win with Qh4 after Qxg3 but I'm not sure yet.
That 3rd puzzle was amazing
That third puzzle was mind-blowing
#3 : what if you get twice the position with the knight blocking your 2 cases while trying to find your way and realizing the tempo issue and then you come back while having gone through A8, would it end up as draw since 3 times the same position ? Or does the rules also include that the same player has to be the one playing in that same position ?
Yes, for the 3-fold repetition rule, the "same position" requires that the same player is to move.
@@Rocky64 thanks !
On 3rd puzzle, some ask about Ng6-f4 or Nf7-g5 attacking the Queen. But White still wins after Nf4 by h8Q Nxh3 Qxh3 and zugzwang.
Thanks. I was wondering about that and was kinda surprised he didn’t mention that possibility.
Black might try to move the bishop after Nf4 h8Q because g2 is defended now. But in this case white wins by Rxh1+ gxh1~ Qxh1+ or Qxg2+ Nxg2 Rh1#. The latter also works after Nh4
@@dieschachbrettfee2060 good point about the Nh4 line.
Thank you for this great puzzle. 01:07 Despite it is longer, I prefer 2. fxg5+ Kh7, 3. fxg6+ Kh8, 4. g7+ Kh7, 5. g6+ Kh6, 6. g5+ Kh5, 7. g4#.... with quadrupled g pawns.
You can also move the king to g7 at the end because the knight is covering the light square
Do you mean King to g8?
Thank you!!
Beatiful! When I understood the King has to reach a8 I smiled, cute idea🙂
2:25 Black king can move his pawn and it is chek, then move his knight to b4 and it is chek and next move he takes queen and white lost
@@KisoDannete Yes, but that is a better defense than getting checkmated. Nelson made a mistake not realizing this is the variation with optimal play.
I put this in an engine and #3 can be solved in a couple ways other then bringing king to the corner, you can brute force it and take the knight with a queen, take the pawn and put the king in check and promote pawn….
10:00 Kg8 would be a correct move too, since the knight is blocking that square
Moral of the story: Missing a beat isn't always bad when it comes to tempos
For puzzle 3 couldn't we just take the h 1 knight for mate?
Black pawn takes h1 and becomes a queen
I think that the puzzle shown at the beginning 00:01 can be solved by just moving the white rook to the last column . Correct me if I'm wrong. Thank you
Cuz the black pawns are going down it would just take
I think puzzle 2 was the first one I got right... your vids are working! 😅
Puzzle 2 - stockfish moved king to F6 instead of moving knight and there is no checkmate possibility. At least not that stockfish can see it. And yes, you take a queen and you are ahead but for me it was still impossible to beat stockfish with so well placed bishop+knight+pawn... edit: stockfish vs stockfish finally won after 70+ moves but for like 50 moves it looked like a draw and they were repeating a lot of moves
I'm pretty sure that you can solve puzzle 3 in two moves : rook to H1 check, black has to take the rook with a pawn, gets a queen, white queen to G2 check mate. If black gets a knight you can move the queen around to keep checking the king until you have eaten the knight or the king's guard
1.Rxh1+?? gxh1=Q 2.Qg2+?? Qxg2, or 2.Qg3+ Qg2 and Black wins.
How is Queen to G2 checkmate? The Bishop and King can take it
Bratiful the subtle way to victory of the kast one, losing that time in a8!
In the second puzzle, Black had a discovered check the with d5 pawn.
9:56 I think we can still win even if opponent gets queen because we are 1 move away from a second queen and we will get it right after black gets his queen And its 2 queens+rook vs queen+knight+bishop
Amazing endgame
these were all quite easy i had these positions in my games today
9:08 What if the black knight moves to F7 rather than G6? Then the king can't go to D6. I guess D4->E5 will accomplish the same thing, just in a more circuitous route. Heh, the one shown at 10:25. :)
Puzzle 3, push pawn, Knight takes, Queen takes bishop moves, now just pin the pawn, king can't move or checkmate Then bring your Queen back to position and bring the king in
03:00 even Nelson was puzzled for a sec 😂😂
cant you also kg8 in the penultimate move as knight blocks that bishop check now
I may just be a noob with no rank, but what if on your lost tempo with the king the Knight takes F7, and then G5 next turn? Is there anything that way
10:29 LMAO that face says it all
I’m relatively new to chess so pardon me if this is a dumb move, but at 2:17 why doesn’t black move the pawn with discovered check?
...e4+ loses the queen immediately to Bxg7.
Hi Chess Vibes. Love your videos, this video/puzzles way cool and awesome. Chess Vibes want to send you a puzzle, how do I do this mate, appreciate a reply back, thank you. Thanks
5:24 rookh1 pawn takes is forced then qg3 mate
on 10:00, King g8 would be smarter as it forces the knight to move, the Bishop cant come out to protect it and if the knight moves anywhere else, you just get the Queen afterwards, no?
That zwischenzug at the end was mastermind. Wow.
*zugzwang
@@tianlecheng2656 The zwischenzug (German: pronounced [ˈtsvɪʃənˌtsuːk], "intermediate move") is a chess tactic in which a player, instead of playing the expected move (commonly a recapture), first interposes another move posing an immediate threat that the opponent must answer, and only then plays the expected move.[1][2] It is a move that has a high degree of "initiative". Ideally, the zwischenzug changes the situation to the player's advantage, such as by gaining material or avoiding what would otherwise be a strong continuation for the opponent.
Is that a blunder of black on the third puzzle ? when Kc5 it's Nf7 and not Ng6, it's longer and more logic than the Nf7
question from a totally amateur chess player: at 9:34. what would happen is the knight goes to F4 instead, targeting the existing queen? if the pawn promotes, you loose the queen already in play (H3)
And then after u lose ur queen in h3 u simply capture the knight and maintains checkmate threat while black can't do any good moves
at 9:45, i yeleed to myself Queen! as a joke, and then you said that taking the knight was wrong and that you should just promote. I was very happy
Kb2 in to Kc3 etc.
tempo is an avatar of the odd/even concept
Not sure if it's "better", since you win anyway, but you can take the knight without saccing the pawn. King G8 doesn't result in check, since the knight blocks the bishop.
That's what I was thinking. Knight H6 check would probably follow.
I've a question. Why the free knight gets the pass pawn before the king reaches there?
these are so cool.
Second puzzle... King can go back to h4 (and loose queen and king and bishop is probably not sufficient?)
these are very good puzzlesl
6:59 can't you do king to d5 or c6 because if black does check with the bishop the king can simply take it?
Black gets the queen and you're doomed.
Imagine someone sat around for hours devising this puzzle.
For the last move, what about the knight?
4:42 wait I can’t understand why can’t the rook move and just take the night, isn’t it checkmate? The king is in check and can’t take it or move
i was excited to test the less puzzle in the engine only to find stockfish doesnt follow that path
One more move, instead of moving bishop black can move knight to G3, but then white king will come.
In that final puzzle what would happen if rook takes horse and goes Check?
Remember that blacks pieces are moving down the board. So you would have gxh1 (g pawn captures rook) promoting blacks pawn to a queen.
Then it's checkmate with queen g3. So the pawn promotes to a knight, defending g3
Queen g3 would not be checkmate since queen and bishop can defend on g2. Promoting to a knight instead still wins for black but it's a difficult game of NNB vs Q
9:08 why knight did not go Back at samé position? It will block white king again
in the third puzzle, the knight can make a fork for a pawn and a queen with the move f7-g5))
... Ng5, h8=Q N×h3, Q×h3 forced bishop move followed by mate.
Promoting to a rook at the end would be savage
Actually, it seems White still wins on puzzle 3 after KxNf7 (9:46), but much harder: Kxf7 Bc4+ Ke7 f1Q Qe3+ Nf2 (if Kxh2, h8Q mate and if Qf2, Qxf2 Nxf2 Rxg2 Kxg2 h8=Q) h8Q, Black has no immediate check and White should win. If nothing else, he could give the R for Pg2, and then try to force trade of Queens, since KQ vs KBN theoretically is a win in most positions.
9:44 king g8 also works but longer
It doesn't because after Kg8 Ng5 and ur queen is under attack+u are on a white square, so u end up either losing ur queen and letting black get a new queen, or don't lose ur queen but get checked and then let black get a new queen
@@You-hp3rl True, missed that
i was hoping that we would have to underpromote to a knight in the last puzzle to deliver the checkmate
9:10 - Knight could have moved to f7 (not g6), prevent the King's advances. Which makes this puzzle incorrect.
if the king moves to f7 king moves to d4, then the knight has to move
Nh8 ke5 ng6+ kf6 zugzwang
King be like: Nah bro imma go get some tea and be right back
Why not King to G8? The knight blocks the bishop from checking? Is it a slower m8?
Wait, @ 5:27. Isn't Rh1 just mate? Nvm they can just take with the pawn
Quite interesting
At the end, couldn't black move the knight to G3 instead of moving the bishop at all? That would stuff up the end for white
7:01 kd5 is safe, because of if black want to chek with bishop he will lose it, and the white will be able to checkmate easier
The bishop itself is irrelevant. The point is not the check itself, the point is that white is forced to make a king move, and so they lose their chance at checkmate. No matter what white does, black will get a queen next turn, taking away white's checkmate chances.
Kd5 Bc4+ KxB f1=Q+ and game is a win for black
@@You-hp3rl oh yeah you’re right I didn’t see that
At 9:30, what if the Knight moved to F4, attacking h3?
puzzle #3 what if you put you horse on h1 to g3 and then if Queen takes you can move you bishop anywhere then Queen has to take because the pawn on f2 goes to f1 will make a Queen so that will lead into a sacrifice
umm on puzzle 3 if white rook just moves to h1 isnt it a checkmate?
For the third puzzle, why not just take knight on h1 with the rook and then it's checkmate
The Last one had mate in 1
Pawns always go forwards, though, including the white ones 🤣
After king c5 around 9:32 why doesnt the knight go f7 to stop the king?