3 Chess Puzzles To AMAZE You
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- čas přidán 11. 01. 2023
- Puzzle 1 FEN:
k7/2Kp2R1/5P2/8/2b4n/2p5/4p3/n7 w - - 0 1
Puzzle 1 Details:
Duras, 1939
Puzzle 2 FEN:
8/4p3/1P3pn1/k2p4/3R1P2/N7/r6P/7K w - - 0 1
Puzzle 2 Details:
Filaterov, 1926
Puzzle 3 FEN:
2b5/2n2K1k/8/8/8/8/RP6/8 w - - 0 1
Puzzle 3 Details:
Fritz, 1950
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Trapping the knight when there's no other pieces on the board, now I've seen everything
I still can't wrap my head around why starting with a preview is favorable for CZcams statistics. How the hell can people be in such dire need of instant gratification that they want to both waste their time with an intro AND get a later part of the video spoiled? It just doesn't make sense (this isn't throwing shade on the video creator; he is doing everything by the book to have a more successful video).
I'm not sure it's instant gratification. It could be like a "free trial", you see it's interesting right away so the risk of time being wasted on a boring video is lesser.
It helps new viewers at the expense of existing viewers who already have different reasons to believe it's not boring.
Agreed. I nearly skipped the video after rewatching the first 5-10 seconds a couple of times and feeling confused. Just dispense with the preview nonsense, please. Or design a better preview, like a 1-second shot of each of the three scenarios we will see.
He's just trying different things to see how it goes it most likely won't stay anyway
You can look at it that way, except that intro was like a movie trailer you wouldn't understand anyway without a starting knowledge about the characters (the starting puzzle position, in this case). It was just abiding to CZcams's bullsh*t intro format, but not spoiling everything right away.
I want the instant gratification of seeing the puzzle from the thumbnail
Puz 1: There's a reason why you can't go from g4 to g5 directly instead of g4 to g1 to g5, but it's not obvious. You should add that line. I missed the possibility of bishop sacrifice at first look. It's a clever defense by black
It's a very interesting defense indeed =) But if actually playing the situation, there wouldn't be any "damage" to the plan by moving g4->g5 that I can see. The only correct move would be to put bishop in front, and you could just move the rook back to g4 if faced with that, forcing black to move Bb3 again (since Bc6 as defense by black is quite powerfully stopped with white moving Kb6, shifting the checkmate threat to g8).
@@arsenic1987 Oh I completely missed that thx... stockfish struggles a bit haha
@@jean-rogernosecondname1281 yeah this was a cool one with stockfish, cause it wasn't able to find the checkmate moves here and there. Hehe. So it was a cool one to analyse. And also, as mentioned in other comments, best defense for Rg1 isn't Nc2, but rather sacrifice pawn in a e1=Q move. The defense I saw was worse, but still possible: Bd1
3:00 Interestingly Stockfish actually disagrees with moving the knight here. It says the best move is to promote the pawn and have the rook take it, as that delays checkmate by one move since it takes a different series of moves but it also opens up a lot of potential for more mistakes.
Knight and Rook checkmate is called:Arabian Mate.
You should probably make a video about this.
Great puzzles. Love the ones with fewer pieces especially
Puzzle 1:
You should add the line after 3. Rg1 e1=Q
4. Rxe1 Bd1!
I think this looks just as good as the one in the video
You are right, he should have mentioned this.
You mean 2:51
Rg1 e1=Q
Rxe1 Bd1
Kb6 Bh5
Re7 Kb8
Rg7 Bf7
Rxf7 Ng6
Rg7 Nf8
Rg8 c2 or any other possible move
Rxf8# checkmate
Yeah I agree. There isn't anything "forcing" black to defend by moving Nc2. Black "could" also defend with Bd1 (yes, it's worse, but was the one I thought of). But indeed, e1= is the better defense for black.
Hi Nelson, I’ve watched your videos such as puzzles or gambit introductions for a few weeks and I like them much. I’m glad to join your live stream today, and I would like to know which country you are in so I can know more about you. I’m a chess beginner from Taiwan, and thank you for answering my question during the stream. 😀
For Puzzle one, King to B6, then Rook to G8 is forced checkmate, and black cannot stop it
Bishop takes Rook G8, but I also saw King B6 and then Rook E7, which would lose the Queen and still end up mate
14:02 Knight Trap! Nice reference there.
3:00 what happens if black plays bishop to d1
Fax
then you go Rg5 threat for checkmate on a5. Only way to stop it is Nb3 and after that white moves King to b6. The bishop is now trapped so he can't stop mate on g8 and it's still win for white ;)
Not fax at all
I like the puzzle #2, the position is very much gamelike as for such puzzles.
damn didnt expect that that fork in puzzle 3 was just bait. wow
For the clickbait, you move the king, you move the tower, you do a checkmate
Excellent video. Thanks
In a game, I'd probably have missed the knight zugzwang on the 3rd puzzle. I was thinking Ra5 to threaten mate and then slide over to re-fork the lined up minor pieces.
Puzzle 1:
The best attack for white after 1:29 according to me would be:
Kb6 and if black ignores the f7 pawn, and plays any move, then white plays following:
Rg8+ forcing black to play Nf8 then Rxf8#
Yeah exactly, I don't see how this would go wrong(correct me if i was wrong)... i was wondering this move at the very beginning
It cant happen because black has to take pawn on the f7 anyway, its not really a choice and that means rook g8 is not possible because of the bishop on f7.
I found a problem at the end you could sac your knight on g6 to prevent the rook from going to a5 and then you could cover the a6 square with ur bishop
Puzzle 1 was my favorite. It looks like white is losing due to black's defensive teamwork, but in the end, it was all a bamboozle anyway as white changes their direction of attack. Very nice video too!
8:43 -- that's the Arabian mate. 😁😁
That introduction had me thinking as I saw the final of the 3 puzzles. All the while I'm going 'I don't wanna lose my rook, it's the biggest advantage I have, I can't blunder it to a knight fork!!'. Yet when I took another look at the fork, the more I realized that taking the bishop (Rxb7) was a great idea if I knew where to move next, and sure enough, knight takes rook, b4, and the knight is in jail. Where ya goin' knight?! Caught with your hand in the cookie jar!!🤣🤣
Interesting name. I wonder whether it goes back to before the modern rules of chess? (Bishops used to only move 2 squares diagonally but could jump over a piece, and instead of a queen, there was a piece that could only move one square diagonally. The knights and rooks get much stronger in that game.)
Really interesting puzzles.
These are unbelievable puzzles! especially the last one when you trap his knight with a king and a pawn
Position №3 is amazing. Move b4! is cell for knight. Thanks!
Nice! Puzzles!
Mind-blowing!
its like
black: i traped your rock
white: then i trap ur queen
1st puzzle:
e2 black pawn: I'm going to become a queen!
white rook: No, you're not
Amazing puzzles solved puzzle 1 immediately. The rook and knight mate is called Arabian mate.
These are my fav videos from you. I would even like you to use stockfish on a greater depth and explain how to get the draw in puzzle 2.
Thanks mate.
If you’re curious, it ends with White giving a perpetual check with the rook on the first and second rank. If White plays for more and isn’t careful, it can turn into a lost position.
@@electricmaster23 Thanks mate, that was not the point of my comment though. I think what makes puzzle videos good is the journey, not the end result. Otherwise the whole thing becomes pointless. He could just show the starting position and then everyone can go plug it into stockfish by themselves.
@@spindoctor6385 oh, I get your point, believe me. I agree it would have been interesting.
loved the knight trap!
The stream was so fantastic broo🤩
I like how "this guy becomes a queen" is the winning move repeatedly
Mind-blowing
Nice puzzles
I'm commenting here at the end of the first puzzle. I paused to try to guess the right next move after each move and only guessed right once. That was mind-blowing (to me).
Puzzle 1:
I think Pf7 can be replaced with Rf1, Nf3, then Pf7, Nxf1, Pf8 > Q check, Kf7, Qa3 check, Ba6, Qc5 check, Ka8, Qf8 check, Kf7, Qb6 mate.
4:53 what if black plays ng6 first?
Rook takes knight, d-pawn advances, Rd6, black delays a mate with a bishop for a turn, then white mates anyway.
The last one was really nice
Pretty sure puzzle 2 is a draw after knight + rook vs queen, they're close enough to their king to make a fortress. I plugged it into stockfish and it says it's a draw with perfect play.
Is it not in a tablebase somewhere?
Last night i worked on the first one and actually found a different but similar sequence
Anyone from the livestream?
Nelson stockfish says that after Rook g1, black can save the game by playing e1=, and after many sacrifices it ends with rook vs a knigth and a pawn and it is a draw
Tomas, you need to include a timestamp. Otherwise how is anyone going to know at what point in the puzzle you are referring to.
You mean 2:51
Rg1 e1=Q
Rxe1 Bd1
Kb6 Bh5
Re7 Kb8
Rg7 Bf7
Rxf7 Ng6
Rg7 Nf8
Rg8 c2 or any other possible move
Rxf8# checkmate
Hi Nelson, so i tryed my self the frist puzzle against stockfish and after rock g1 stockfish didn't play knight c2 but queen up deflecting the rock but still is a puzzle (M8) not as good but the rock moviment is very interesting.
I enjoyed very much this video, i appreciate your work.
In puzzle #1, it appears that Rg1 is superfluous -- White just plays Rg5 right away. In puzzle #2, the name of the mate is Arabian.
Puzzle 2 is a draw going by all best moves I literally sat there for 5 minutes playing around and found ways out of it but realistically wouldn’t happen to stockfish
The puzzles and the livestream were amazing. In the second puzzle I didn't consider the line that Stockfish found. I still however think it is a win for white regardless.
8:42 It's called the Arabian Checkmate
Yeah... At 9:22, looks looks like "Stockfish Has Ruined Chess" once again, Nd4, sacrificing a black knight (not really) turns win for white into a draw.
hard not to appreciate all these Knightmarish sequences
Puzzle 2: pawn to b7 is the only way to prevent checkmate by the way. Otherwise black would move to h4, thus trapping the king for its rook.
How about 1st black move rook a2-a1?
8:43 I think its called the arabian mate.
Really cool puzzles. Chess is truly inexhaustible.
Yes it is
I've commented elsewhere about where that name might have come from (the old rules of chess).
Hey, can you explain what would happen if in puzzle 3 you move the pawn already?
After the fork black can capture the queening pawn
11:00 maybe because both have 11 points of material (1 queen+2 pawns=1 knight+1 rook+3 pawns=11)
Stockfish is smarter than that.
Why in 2 black cant to fully ignore pawn?
Chess puzzles are so much fun! They almost never represent a position that would come up in actual play, but you still learn so much from them.
Last puzzle kinda looks like mine puzzle, i had same idea with pawn
Whats your chess rating Nelson?
This 2nd Puzzle is interesting if Stockfish thinks it is a draw at 11:10 position.
Hmmm maybe let Stockfish duke it out with another Stockfish?
Alternative, maybe, rook to e7, black moves knight to f3 to stop the rook from getting to mate, pawn to f7, Bishop takes it, white takes pawn on e2, black doesn't have any good moves to prevent check and mate
At what point in the video?
First puzzle
Why not Kb6, preventing the black king moving downside the board ?
Next white move Rxd7, then Rd8. I don't think black can stop this checkmate or do I overlook something ?
Black promotes the e-pawn to a queen, and then there just isn't enough time to checkmate black before black starts checking white with their new queen.
This is a win for black.
13:31 The move is B4
Happy Agadmator noises
And then he sacrifices THE BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did not see that the knight got trapped at the end. Interesting position.
10:23 in depth 50 in this position stockfish shows 0,00 but maybe there is a win but not under 50 moves rule. I've tried this puzzle without f6 pawn and this main winning line in that case is working but unfortunately after 1. b7 Rb2 however Nb5 is winning but f5 is than winning faster
I think depth 50 are 25 moves for each player
And then he sacrifices THE KNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For puzzle 3, after Ra1, what if black plays Be6+ ?
I played white against stockfish and it did not move the knight when the rook went to g1. It first promoted the e2 pawn to a rook, which I took. Then it moved the bishop to d1 to block me from taking the knight. If I move the rook and don't take the bishop, then it can move right back to b3 and prevent my moving to a4. If I take the bishop, then the knight has room to move to b3, and I can no longer use a1 or a5 to attack the king. What are the right moves in this situation?
I don't understand why you have to threaten the check on a1 with g1; The knight doesn't really seem to be a factor so this probably isn't about him, so I'm guessing you want to take the square away from the bishop, but why? I can't see it.
I tried to simulate the position on the engine, but it doesn't play the right moves to show what the problem is with not playing g1 (it gives up early and start sacrificing everything).
Which point in the video are you talking about?
If you are talking about the first puzzle, then, basically, this is how we prevent the threat of the e-pawn promoting to a queen, and, after that, Rxa1 threatens not just a check, but a checkmate, and forces black into a sequence of easy-to-analyse moves that lead to a checkmate regardless.
Nelson play Mittins and every time he wins remove one of his pawns
And then he sacrifices THE ROOOOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In puzzle 2 black threat is called « Arabian mate »
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Me and my opponents: blunders every other turn, how do I win?
In the second puzzle after the black knight to d4 the white knight can take it and white wins
Great puzzles and even greater presentation and analysis. Although the intro confused me.
The cool thing about the first one is that on my pc stockfish didnt see the win until f7, only does see it on depth 30 and above, and us humans can solve it even 1500 like me
There are also "monsters", problems where White mates in a few hundred moves. Most chess engines would re-analyze (basically) the same position a few dozen times.
Puzzle 2 u could Fork with the horse 💀
The rock and Knight checkmate is "the arabian mate"
4:53 black can play Ng6 first and if Rxg6 then d4 and after Kc7 Ka7 defends so I think the first puzzle is wrong. That's my calculations so idk if stockfish still finds a way to win
NVM, I need to recalculate
White has the time to go Rd6, after which there is not much blocking possible.
After Ng6 Rxg6, d4. Its Rd6,
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8:44 Arabian Mate
A Knight and Rook checkmate is Arabian Mate
In the first puzzle, what if, when it's Rg1, black continues with any promotional pawns on e1?
RxE1, Bd1, RxD1, Nb3, and then? It supposed to be draw or maybe black win?
After Bd1 don't take the bishop, just threaten a back rank mate with Kb6
You mean 2:51
Rg1 e1=Q
Rxe1 Bd1
Kb6 Bh5
Re7 Kb8
Rg7 Bf7
Rxf7 Ng6
Rg7 Nf8
Rg8 c2 or any other possible move
Rxf8# checkmate
The live was good
7:54 why then not just take the knight on b5? And then the pawn on b7?
Puz 2. First black move rook a2-a1?
How to get telegram
1:09 wat if queen blocks
Blunders a queen. White takes with their queen.
11:15 STOCKFISH SAyS SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
IT IS NEVER WONG
8:46 Arabian mate
The 2nd game is a draw. You missed the move black Knight to D4 after white go King to g2. This threaten the white Knight, even if you promote to Queen, a Queen vs Rook and Knight is drawn.
3:01 black can promote the pawn
Does that achieve anything?
@@thetaomegatheta It does you can in fact sac the promoted pawn and your bishop and then get your knight to b3 and in the end it’s a rook vs knight drawing end game
@@divyamgupta9562
White takes the promoted pawn, and then doesn't take the bishop. White still wins, and black has not achieved anything.
9:04 Why didnt black go for checkmate??? Sorry for dumb question?
The black rook is pinned.
Like Xszyr said, the black rook is pinned. A pin is when the own king would be in check if the piece or pawn moves away, this would be against the rules, so black can not go for checkmate.
Got it, thanks
13:22 why not ke6
12:14 Why not Be6+?
How do you deal with Kf6 and the potential Re1 or Kg6 after that?
Black move Ng6?
Puzzle 2. What after Nf4 instead Nh4? Seems Black is winning.
In the first puzzle, What about king to B6. And rook to g8?
Bxg8
2:50 - why not the rook on g5 to thread a checkmate on a5? we cant move this way earlier because knight b3 and a5 is blocked for rook, but after bishop b3 knight cant move there, so white easily do a checkmate
'why not the rook on g5 to thread a checkmate on a5?'
Doesn't threaten anything.
Rg5 Bd5
if Rxd5, then Nb3 protects a5 and gives black the time to promote and start checking white.