"I saw it, I saw it! I didn't do it Nelson!" 🤓

The most amazing part of this puzzle is that it can actually happen in a real game and the idea of boxing out the king is super important.

Hello Nelson, I`m from Poland, and I really like watching your films, you use simple words so i can understand it and I`m learning English thanks to you, keep doing thanks!

6:00 to be honest, I said "I won't take it" because I knew it would be a trick or something xD Really cool endgame though, I love your videos :)

At 6:03, I saw it. It felt like gaining opposition was more important

Damn, this channel is amazing. I looooooove these puzzles, they are way deeper than regular quick-shot puzzles and far more instructive. Keep it up!

Thanks, funny and instructive! I saw this a long time ago but it's always good to refresh your endgame knowledge (I had absolutely completely forgotten about it :P).

i love ur puzzle videos man keep up the great work

Hey Nelson, do you have a video covering 'metagaming' principles such as wanting to complicate the position when you're losing, attacking to run down the clock on your opponent, or playing tricky openings against lower level players who might not know them?

Fascinating!

Very interesting pawn endgame, TY Nelson!

I saw it, thanks for the consistently great content, Nelson!

Opposition is so important in the endgame and this is an example

Wow great puzzle. Highly instructive ideas

Of the two videos I've watched, each puzzle seems to have a theme of teaching you a particular technique that isn't immediately obvious The first was promoting to everything but a queen and this is teaching you how to opposite an opponent's king

6:13 I first tought take the pawn then i was like it can't be this easy it has to be opposition

The intricacies of the end game. Quite beautiful actually.

Excellent. Thanks.

Another amazing video 👍👍 Mind stimulating. Best Chess tutorial chanel 👏👏

I have to say Nelson, I am finally learning from you. Even after watching dozens of your videos, my improvement was minimal at best. In this puzzle, however, I got almost all of the moves. Watching Carlson's games is fun, but you make us think hard. thanks.

i learned a ton here, ty

Nice puzzle! It's amazing how rich such positions can be. I did not see that the black King has to be pushed away once the wK is on f5 and NEVER take the black Pe4. I think this technique is called "shouldering away" the King. I wondered in the first place about the pawns on b2/b3, why they are there...

Hi Nelson, I am new to the game. I’ve been watching and learning from your puzzles every day. Very clever and entertaining. Thank you very much. A question: why not start with moving the king along G1, F1, E1, D2?

I bet the black pawn on e4 went “phew!” when the king finally stepped towards the other pawn

Muy instructivo y muy bien explicado. Like al vídeo. 😀👍🇲🇽

I saw it! Need to get that 1000-1500 course, too...

A puzzle that is actually instructive! Who'd have thought.

I never knew the power of opposition till now

Thanks you very much.

Awesome sauce!!

For a split second I thought about taking the pawn but then I realised that I'd be losing the opposition that you were just talking about

“I saw it, I saw it, I didn't do it Nelson!”

This is a wonderul lesson in chess stratergy. I wonder how many strong players would not be able to solve it ? I also wonder what percentage of G.M.s would not be able to figure it out ? Many thanks for your videos. Keep em coming !

Notice how opposition is the true power of the king and not to cowardly take the pawn when the opportunity presented itself 3 times

I'm moving my front pawn forward and letting it be captured

I neither saw it, nor did it 😂

I find my pawn end game to be really weak so am enjoying your videos and hoping they help Me improve my end game play.

First time I succeeded in aa puzzle. I didn't fall for king takes pawn because he was stressing opposition so much.

My noob brain wanted to take the pawn but the puzzle prepped me to know I should keep opposition so I have control of the magic squares.

At first I thought I'd directly go for the b3 pawn, but Black is fast enough in taking the white e-pawns and pushing his d-pawn, so that it ends in a draw.

"I saw it, I saw it! I didn't do it Nelson!

I also saw it and went with opposition

The only reason I saw it is that the way you asked it made me think it would be a trick question, lol

7:18 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was super hilarious

Very instructive. I'm not very good at these king and pawn scenarios. I thought starting with h1-g1-f1-e1-d2 might work. When you didn't even suggest that I looked again. At least I found the flaw in that plan. Starting to remember why I stopped playing chess.

1:43 I may be confused but can’t you move the furthest away then move the pawn forward because if he takes it you would get there first if he doesn’t you can push it?

Very very tricky puzzle !

6:07 yes, i saw it. didnt want the black king coming back and the white king is closer to the other pawns

I saw it, instead of taking the pawn, it's better to keep position of opposition with the king.

The first part was pretty intuitive for me, but I missed Ke5.

Right at the start I saw the white king trying to move up diagonally would just get boxed in by their king doing the same thing. - What if you don't do that and you move you're king along the [1] rank and then up the left side of your pawns? You can get the white King to [D2] and then the black king of [E4] has no choice to retreat or to offer a pawn trade, which still leaves white ahead, I think. Since after the trade you can move the 2nd pawn back up to [E3] and then the Black king is in check and you still have opposition. Fairly sure this is also a winning endgame for white.

Just what I need on a bad day 😊

I did guess Ke5 to maintain opposition! Not confident I would have actually played that in a game, though. 😅

My first thought was to move the king left, left, left

I did not even notice that the pawn can be taken, and found the correct move 😂

5:57, given the situation, why not go black king to C4 and start work on the other pawn that is the key.

saw it Nelson

Good one.

I guessed KE5 because I had a feeling taking the pawn was a trick question

The E5 was to push the king further out, opposition was the key to the puzzle I saw it

I didn't say take the pawn, I was thinking "it wouldn't help to have more opposition". But I wouldn't have gone around to take the left pawn.

Chess...Never ceases to intrigue and surprise! 🤓

I would have gone with king from below the double pawn to arrive in thr middle of all pawn before black king

I'd have taken the pawn in a heartbeat

Yes i saw it, you lose oposition after taking the pawn. Then black King to C4 and the White King has to go f3 and then black King is going to take the other pawn and make a Queen at time

Time for my Persona!

I marched white king left across the back g1, f1, e1, d2 While Black king tries but fails to get to pawn e3 which is now protected and Black King has to back away 🙂

Hi Nelson. What about the white king moving to g1 - f1 - e1 - d2? Do you think that this can be also a winning line?

In a real game I feel I would have taken on G4, but in the context of the puzzle my gut told me to keep opposition, so that was what I said.

King and Pawn endgames are so crazy that you can have a move that is M in 20ish but the wrong move and you can be mated in 20ish

Actually, I was thinking about rushing with the white king to D2 through the 1st line.

Kinf to e 5 was my move, based on your analysis.

Excelente.

I went with K to E5... For some crazy reason I didn't even worry about taking because it had no real power to move, I was more worried about pushing that king away...

How does white win if black moves king to e5 at 4:07? Love your channel!

8:18. Winning move King to C3.

My first solution was Kh1-g1-f1-e1-d2 targeting the c3 pawn directly. You would lose the e3 and e2 pawn but you will be able to escort the b2 pawn.

I saw what happens when you take the pawn Nelson. If you do take the "free pawn with Kxe4" then black's king would put you in opposition. I didn't do it.

I saw it, but only because I thought "well it's going to be not taking the pawn cause I always get these wrong and that's what I want to do"

I saw it! King to E5 to keep the opposition going

Is there a way to experiment on-line with this puzzle ? I don't have a chess board ... Answer greatly APPRECIATED !

i saw Ke5 idk its the move i didn't see but i think that was for opposition

My first move would be King to G1, then F1, E1, D2, D3, D4. The black King can't come closer and has to go back. White Pawn to E4 for the trade.

BTW, at 6:46, if the black king goes to c1 instead of c2, the promotion will be with check and white will have a big trouble to defend the continuous checking from black queen

What if the white king goes along the 1 row towards the peon on the left? It is able to protect its peons, black cannot mirror due to peon e3 and white can get in b3 first. White king goes h, g, f, e then d2. Black king will be at e4 at this point. It cannot take e3, nor move to d4 (peon check). What happens then?

To win in this position, hit the MERCY button for black's e pawn

I correctly guessed I shouldn't be taking the pawn. Mostly because 1) It was asked 2) we wanted to maintain opposition. In a game I would definitely have taken the pawn if in that position though.

What if you started moving the white king to e1 and swinging around the back to d2 at the beginning instead?

I did not fall for the pawn bait. Saw the opposition trap.

at 7:09 what is stopping the black king from just going to C4 and forcing a stalemate again?

I saw that part where 90% of people said to take the pond

White can also win by moving its king sideward to the left (g1, f1, e1) and then d2 to prevent the black king from taking e3. After black king moves away from e4, WK can proceed to d3 or c3 and there's nothing black can do.

The only reason I saw it is that the way you asked it made me think it would be a trick question, lol. I would have definitely blundered it in a real game, I would not have taken the time to calculate it

I didn't see it, I didn't see it! I did it, Nelson!

Pawns are poisonous. 💀

I'd have been curious to see how the game would have played out if the white king had moved along the bottom rank to get to D2.

6:00 the reason i didnt say to take the pawn is that if it was the move you wouldnt have asked i said king e5

Pretty sure you can just go for a left black pawn and win it sucessfully defending

I saw it and didn't take the pawn in my mind. But without knowing it's a puzzle in a real game I would probably take it

I knew king to e 5 was the best move almost said the pawn move and keep it up like the videos