Can you solve this classic chess problem?
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This is puzzle is amongst the most famous in chess history! It was originally composed by George Barbier and perfected by Fernando Saavedra after he tranformed it from a draw position into winning for white by finding a genius move in 1895.
White to move and win. Can you find how?
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I did solve it, but didn't notice the Rd4 stalemate trap. Once you showed it, I saw the Underpromotion. Having done so many of these puzzles with underpromotion solutions, it seems impossible that the composer didn't see it, let alone the entire chess world.
According to en.wikipedia : The stalemate trick was proposed by G.E. Barbier on 4th May of 1895, solution published 11th May as a draw, refuted by Saavedra in the following days, republished by Barbier with that correction the 18th May. Comes from a game played in 1875 where they agreed to a draw, while the king could do that little dance and force promotion to a queen and win, as noticed by Zukertort. The initial study published 27th April 1895 after the recent death of the player with the black pieces, focused on that manoeuver and had black king positionned as in the game (but misremembered), additionnal puzzle with the king in the corner and the stalemate trick came like some days after the initial study, as stated above, so kind of an improvisation from Barbier, thus the lack of finding the winning line. The modern form is fixed by Lasker in 1902, putting the white pawn back to c6 (not on c7).
Oh yeah, I remember this puzzle from the book All About Chess by I.A. Horowitz. I love that underpromotion to a rook. From the start of the puzzle, Stockfish has it as a mate in 26. The rook chasing the king is essential to point out for the beautiful rook promotion, but at anytime black can move it's king instead, white would promote to a queen, then it's a game of queen vs rook. I'm actually not good at queen vs rook endgames. Incase my opponent with a rook doesn't resign, I have to study how to mate with a queen against a rook, or it would be a draw. If black keeps with the king chase, do promote to a rook but if it doesn't keep with the chase, promote to a queen and know how to mate with a queen against a rook.
You are just brilliant... Excellent puzzle. Thank you very much and God bless you Sir
This is the most famous chess study of all. Another famous study is Retí's pawn study (Kh8/Ka6). When I started chess as a child, someone showed me this position. I think everyone should know this position...
Amazing!!!
Thank you.... bloody amazing and such a strange way to pass one of my remaining evenings. But sorta fun🤗
5:13 just promote to rook and no stalemate
Amazing. But I wouldn’t just resign as Black even if I knew the Puzzle. There’s always a chance White doesn’t and it’d be awfully difficult for White to figure it out on the fly.
1:18 "to get the draw".. You meant, "to get the win" ?
Great puzzle
Great puzzle.
Exact it is an endgame study. Also called chess study. The word "puzzle" is only colloquially correct. But ALL chess study composers in the world speak of endgame studies and never of "puzzles". Sam Loyd made great puzzles (Mate in 2, Mate in 3 and so on). But Retí, Liburkin, Afek, Didukh, Bron, Kaminer, Mattison, Rinck, Pervakov, Minski, Arestov and Kubbel and so on made chess studies. What is a chess study? A chess study is a composition with the demand: White on move wins, or White on move holds a draw.
4:55 very genius THrick
Wow! So clever!
Surely Rook d2 after pawn c7 threatens a perpetual
Very genius puzzle for me men..
cool!!
Don’t understand why promoting to a rook instead of a queen is the winner. Couldn’t the queen do anything the rook can do?
Because after the queen takes the rook on C4 to remove the check, it has the A2 square covered and the black king cannot move - creating a stalemate. This is a case where underpromotion is needed to give the black king a place to move so that a checkmate can be found. I am not a player and these situations make my head hurt 😂
Unfortunately, queen is too powerful in this case
Queen helps the black pieces not to lose because of its strong power..
Easy draw for BL. Take it and go home.
ok but why is the video 8 minutes
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@@somerandominternetdude1 Nahhh, he explains other possible moves and speaks slowly as he's not fluent. You either just watch it (2x speed) or just skip it if you don't want to give him any possible chance to gain something out of this.
@@ronaldo19ronaldo exactly, ad revenue.
@@somerandominternetdude1you can't just say "exactly" and then go on to say something completely different from what the other person said as if that magically makes them have actually agreed with you
@@Pablo360able what he is explaining is literally him talking slower to gain ad revenue.
Isn't this a draw? Blacks first move should be R d2, then K b1. Black will give checks until the 50 move rule, or until the white king goes to the c file (in which it would take the pawn/queen after the king moves).
Never mind. White queen would move to the h file, then the white king would move towards the rook on the d-g files as the rook gives checks.
No, this is a chess study. It is art. It is a composition. And it is the most famous study composition. An absolut correct endgame study. And by the way: in chess studies the 50 move rule does not exist!!
@@petersiegfriedkrug I think you are wrong. The 50 moves rules apply, and also all rules of standard chess (3x same position, castle, taking pawn en passant, ...).
1.c7 Rd2 2.c8=Q Rb2+ 3.Ka5 Ra2+ 4.Kb4 Rb2+ 5.Kc3 and there are no more checks, so White will mate soon.
@@prestonotes I think he means in chess study, you can go as many moves as you can without capturing or moving pawn. Because of this, they can find all tricky moves and no worries to 50 moves rules. Do you know theres a position that white need to move above 500 moves to checkmate black? And its doesnt look like a elaborated set board. If we need to follw 50 moves rules, it wont be found.
I don't even have an ELO rating, and this still was the easiest chess "puzzle" I've seen on KZhead.
Good for you buddy! Great job!
@@kylen6430 Ligma.
@@Mayhamsdead no thank you
@@kylen6430 Sugma.
At 4:36 can't you also just move your King up 1 square and guarantee promoting the pawn to queen without a stalemate?
No, black will just move his rook back to d1 (threatening Rc1+ after we promote) and we need to go back to c2 with our king. It will be draw by repetition.