3 Fascinating Chess Puzzles

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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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@rosiefay7283 Рік тому

I've heard of a king triangulating to lose a tempo, but the way that last problem motivated White's king triangulating is amazing.

@prakash-ry9ot Рік тому

Rook H2 to H1 is checkmate na

@Mr_Pug6 Рік тому

@@prakash-ry9ot how? The pawn takes the rook and promotes queen has to take and then king take queen and promotes other pawn

@vincehomoki1612 Рік тому

@@prakash-ry9ot ye I got confused too

@KolejowySzynszyl901 Рік тому

Triangulation = pyramid. Pyramid = illuminati.

@joshrasmussen9635 Рік тому

@@prakash-ry9ot The board is flipped if you paid attention to which way the pawns were going!

@gianlucatartaro1335 8 місяців тому

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!

@Rammbock 8 місяців тому

Same, and I'm not a mathematician

@bruh_wut Рік тому

"king goes here here here and there and here here here and checkmate" -Hikaru probably

@JSSTyger Рік тому

That looks completely reasonable --Magnus probably

@RGC_animation Рік тому

Black in the last position can prolong his imminent death by moving the H1 Knight thus extending it by 1 move.

@SmithCS Рік тому

If y’all aren’t familiar with the concept of triangulation, it’s a must know for all sorts of endgames

@jacobpage410 Рік тому

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*

@builtin_clz Рік тому

PEPE QUIMBO SIUUUUUU🤓🤓🤓🤓

@abdulsamadumer7660 Рік тому

Rook h1 wasn't mate from the start?

@abdulsamadumer7660 Рік тому

Why moving king?

@SmithCS Рік тому

because of gxh1=Q and then black wins

@leefisher6366 Рік тому

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.

@arlissven1555 Рік тому

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!

@blaisemacpherson7637 7 місяців тому

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.

@BobChess Рік тому

The last puzzle is super fascinated! I really enjoy this video!

@kruksog Рік тому

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.

@irar4665 Рік тому

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.🤩

@togishere Рік тому

That king's path was basically a road trip with one little stop along the way to do something essential😂

@mrtommo9996 Рік тому

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.

@howtobeamess402 Рік тому

Why not move rook to h1

@themagnificentsansandmylaz4115 Рік тому

@@howtobeamess402 pawn takes +queen

@howtobeamess402 Рік тому

@@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

@fifiwoof1969 Рік тому

@@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.

@Ascended55 Рік тому

@@howtobeamess402 0 elo player teaches how to play chess

@johnathanpatrick6118 Рік тому

Last puzzle is basically a battle to avoid zugzwang. 🤣

@gp_playz3849 Рік тому

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!

@silentwatch2260 Рік тому

Thank you for the clear explanation of a tempo.

@RiverLiffey23 Рік тому

Thank you for the nice puzzles, I really enjoyed them.

@jabeavers Рік тому

@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.

@die6122 Рік тому

Exactly, I'm still trying to understand, why!?

@SilverMosty Рік тому

What hes trying to say is that its a mate in 1-2 based one what black plays, becUse black is in zukzwang

@benprescott9217 Рік тому

Hey Nelson, could you perhaps cover some bizarre openings like the Sodium Opening (Na3) and others?

@reubenmanzo2054 Рік тому

Is that actually what it's called?

@gaopinghu7332 Рік тому

@@reubenmanzo2054 it's a joke on the fact that Sodium's chemical symbol is Na

@timesnow6205 Рік тому

@@gaopinghu7332 which stands for North America

@gaopinghu7332 Рік тому

@@timesnow6205 I don't quite get the point of that observation, but cool. Especially Canada, I've heard that its climate is cool.

@kirillzakharov7336 Рік тому

@@gaopinghu7332 yeah because the Latin name for Sodium is *Na*trium

@Jungleali Рік тому

Thanks a lot for your videos, they really helped me become better at chess especially in the endgame

@Superpowerguy11 Рік тому

Same he is amazing

@luuduonghy659 Рік тому

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

@senaluffyzoro Рік тому

#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 ?

@Rocky64 Рік тому

Yes, for the 3-fold repetition rule, the "same position" requires that the same player is to move.

@senaluffyzoro Рік тому

@@Rocky64 thanks !

@Rocky64 Рік тому

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.

@pizzagamingyt7821 Рік тому

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

@thechessmaster2000 Рік тому

The queen takes then bishop has to move then checkmate

@miodragcristianiovanov229 Рік тому

Just one work: Wow! Made me subscribe, you find amazing puzzles, like pieces of art!

@ChessVibesOfficial Рік тому

Welcome aboard!

@christopherheckman7957 Рік тому

Puzzle #3 appears in Andy Soltis's Chess To Enjoy, where it is credited to composer Vitaly Chekhover.

@electricmaster23 Рік тому

He also worked with Yuri Averbakh, co-writing books and the like. Averbakh lived to 100 years old and passed away earlier this year!

@christopherheckman7957 Рік тому

@@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.

@electricmaster23 Рік тому

@@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.

@manuelgarrido5602 Рік тому

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.

@cdorresteijn Рік тому

Nice puzzle. Will the puzzle quiz ever get back? I really enjoyed those.

@kjellfredrikpettersen2311 Рік тому

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.

@bunpeishiratori5849 Рік тому

Thanks. I was wondering about that and was kinda surprised he didn’t mention that possibility.

@dieschachbrettfee2060 Рік тому

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

@kjellfredrikpettersen2311 Рік тому

@@dieschachbrettfee2060 good point about the Nh4 line.

@nanhitailor6777 Рік тому

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

@AX1Lmv Рік тому

Cuz the black pawns are going down it would just take

@water_sponsored Рік тому

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.

@sunzitra2547 Рік тому

That 3rd puzzle was amazing

@ahmedabbasi5691 Рік тому

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)

@Rocky64 Рік тому

...Ng5, h8=Q Nxh3, Qxh3 B~, Qxg2 mate.

@kontelas8796 Рік тому

That third puzzle was mind-blowing

@hannahgreen6304 Рік тому

For puzzle 3 couldn't we just take the h 1 knight for mate?

@ahmedabbasi5691 Рік тому

Black pawn takes h1 and becomes a queen

@JustAnotherCommenter Рік тому

Moral of the story: Missing a beat isn't always bad when it comes to tempos

@_weebzee 8 місяців тому

King be like: Nah bro imma go get some tea and be right back

@TheEthikos Рік тому

Nice puzzles, thanks.

@h.j.k_ 10 місяців тому

You can also move the king to g7 at the end because the knight is covering the light square

@Leberteich 10 місяців тому

Do you mean King to g8?

@jackmclane1826 Рік тому

I think puzzle 2 was the first one I got right... your vids are working! 😅

@Diebeiden67 Рік тому

Thank you!!

@lewiscook3918 8 місяців тому

cant you also kg8 in the penultimate move as knight blocks that bishop check now

@user-qu4iu7pp5l 8 місяців тому

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?

@TheCursedLonewolf 6 місяців тому

Black gets the queen and you're doomed.

@ejjames1675 Рік тому

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

@SLAFN Рік тому

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

@angelmendez-rivera351 Рік тому

@@KisoDannete Yes, but that is a better defense than getting checkmated. Nelson made a mistake not realizing this is the variation with optimal play.

@dndabke 5 місяців тому

Great! The third one is really great !

@giovannicorno1247 Місяць тому

Bratiful the subtle way to victory of the kast one, losing that time in a8!

@Drawfill Рік тому

That zwischenzug at the end was mastermind. Wow.

@tianlecheng2656 Рік тому

*zugzwang

@Drawfill Рік тому

@@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.

@cnarkoksal9417 Рік тому

10:00 Kg8 would be a correct move too, since the knight is blocking that square

@ralkadde Рік тому

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.

@giovannicorno1247 7 місяців тому

Beatiful! When I understood the King has to reach a8 I smiled, cute idea🙂

@kirillzakharov7336 Рік тому

10:29 LMAO that face says it all

@stantonanderson393 Рік тому

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….

@rebelfaucheur3206 7 місяців тому

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

@alainlaine4854 Рік тому

tempo is an avatar of the odd/even concept

@maheshhatolkar9424 8 місяців тому

I've a question. Why the free knight gets the pass pawn before the king reaches there?

@clueyman4720 Рік тому

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

@KINGCROW54 Рік тому

5:24 rookh1 pawn takes is forced then qg3 mate

@Einsteinium. Рік тому

these were all quite easy i had these positions in my games today

@calebbell876 Рік тому

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?

@Rocky64 Рік тому

...e4+ loses the queen immediately to Bxg7.

@sushilupalekar7075 Рік тому

Amazing endgame

@RAYON10 Рік тому

03:00 even Nelson was puzzled for a sec 😂😂

@svokxz6435 Рік тому

these are so cool.

@bloooddmooonn Рік тому

In that final puzzle what would happen if rook takes horse and goes Check?

@fomori2 Рік тому

Remember that blacks pieces are moving down the board. So you would have gxh1 (g pawn captures rook) promoting blacks pawn to a queen.

@averageasiankid3105 Рік тому

Then it's checkmate with queen g3. So the pawn promotes to a knight, defending g3

@zorm_ 7 місяців тому

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

@OcteractSG Рік тому

In the second puzzle, Black had a discovered check the with d5 pawn.

@maartendejonge978 Рік тому

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.

@LordQuorad Рік тому

That's what I was thinking. Knight H6 check would probably follow.

@c99kfm Рік тому

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. :)

@vojtechsejkora1554 Рік тому

Second puzzle... King can go back to h4 (and loose queen and king and bishop is probably not sufficient?)

@kotikblox8526 9 місяців тому

In puzzle 3 , we can take the knight on h1 with our rook and it’s checkmate

@RealKayd3nYT 9 місяців тому

Pawn on g2 be like:

@kgyo Рік тому

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

@jayveeasis7953 Рік тому

these are very good puzzlesl

@ARandomGuitar Рік тому

Quite interesting

@conrrr Рік тому

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

@thechessmaster2000 Рік тому

What if nf7 kb2 ng5 attacking the queen?

@st4rk1113r Рік тому

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

@Rocky64 Рік тому

1.Rxh1+?? gxh1=Q 2.Qg2+?? Qxg2, or 2.Qg3+ Qg2 and Black wins.

@balil7677 Рік тому

How is Queen to G2 checkmate? The Bishop and King can take it

@degesvseobecby4433 8 місяців тому

9:08 why knight did not go Back at samé position? It will block white king again

@davidbnpl 5 місяців тому

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

@unholykidd2842 Рік тому

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?

@cedsgm9205 Рік тому

10:00 what about king to g8?

@grim3646 Рік тому

Wait, @ 5:27. Isn't Rh1 just mate? Nvm they can just take with the pawn

@thorham1346 Рік тому

Pawns always go forwards, though, including the white ones 🤣

@-racine-9485 8 місяців тому

I guess it will not change the result, but if the Knight doesn't take the Queen at the end, then what will happen ? I guess it will be too much to handle with White having an extra queen who isn't locked on a specific location, and Black will end up losing anyway ?

@38FerreroX Рік тому

9:44 king g8 also works but longer

@You-hp3rl Рік тому

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

@38FerreroX Рік тому

@@You-hp3rl True, missed that

@frinpi7473 Рік тому

i was hoping that we would have to underpromote to a knight in the last puzzle to deliver the checkmate

@zombiedino184 Рік тому

i was excited to test the less puzzle in the engine only to find stockfish doesnt follow that path

@PrestaPretzel Рік тому

Can anyone explain why in the last one white can't just move the rook to h1?

@tsukimi7497 Рік тому

I thought the same, but then I remembered that they're at the end game and both team's pawns are about to promote to a queen. Therefore if you take knight with rook, the pawn will just take it and promote to a queen... I was too focused with solving puzzle three that I forgot what he said at the beginning ╮⁠(⁠╯⁠_⁠╰⁠)⁠╭

@PrestaPretzel Рік тому

@@tsukimi7497 damn I thought the black pawns were going up

@cav94rojo Рік тому

Kb2 in to Kc3 etc.

@iroegorchannel9335 Рік тому

Uhhh... What if in puzzle 3 Nf7 and Ng5?

@eyadahmed5401 7 місяців тому

Bro in puzzle 3 rook h1 is checkmate all this time

@martincupito1208 Рік тому

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)

@You-hp3rl Рік тому

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

@akuohoy7734 Рік тому

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

@Digg3rL3ss Рік тому

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

@azulonme Рік тому

in the third puzzle, the knight can make a fork for a pawn and a queen with the move f7-g5))

@oenrn Рік тому

... Ng5, h8=Q N×h3, Q×h3 forced bishop move followed by mate.

@sergeyalexandrovich8443 5 місяців тому

At 9:30, what if the Knight moved to F4, attacking h3?

@connorscripps9483 Рік тому

For #3 isn't it mate in 1 if you take the knight with the rook?

@connorscripps9483 Рік тому

Oh, I see, the pawn would take...

@faheemsameer1598 Рік тому

10:06 can somebody explain why can't we move the knight instead of the bishop in this position?

@evanwhitfield4859 Рік тому

The knight can move, but then the white queen captures it, maintaining the checkmate threat. So the bishop still needs to move after that.

@faheemsameer1598 Рік тому

@@evanwhitfield4859 wait, after knight moves to g3, isn't it defended by the pawn? Black can just move the knight back and forth right?

@faheemsameer1598 Рік тому

@@evanwhitfield4859 ok. I am sorry. Pawns are facing this way. Got it

@tianlecheng2656 Рік тому

Otherwise rxh1 would just be checkmate

@thecomputerlibrary-8199 Рік тому

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

@neobullseye1 Рік тому

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.

@You-hp3rl Рік тому

Kd5 Bc4+ KxB f1=Q+ and game is a win for black

@thecomputerlibrary-8199 Рік тому

@@You-hp3rl oh yeah you’re right I didn’t see that