I almost got it.... I only guessed 20-30 moves wrong.

1 move can change the game. This is so fascinating

This is very good teaching with the main ideas, how strong and tricky the Knight is in making forks and how there is always a trade-off, because the King or Pawn move seemingly improving your position will turn out to be fatal after ten moves. I am very lazy in calculations, and this is a great practice for that. Thank you!

I'll come back to this when my head stops spinning.

Welcome to the world of modern endgame studies! This is a very nice study and most likely rather recent. I don't have it in my database but will update with the source as soon as I can get it. This kind of small apparently insgnficant differences between two lines where one piece (the black king in this case) ends up placed in a different position which changes everything but only at the very end are called "logical tries" and are quite "en vogue" in modern study composition. Edit, source : Sergey Didukh, 9th-10th prize, WCCT 2016 Didukh is one of the most brilliant study composer of the last two decades. WCCT is the world chess composition tournament. Didukh (and his teacher Oleg Pervakov) are famous especially for their work in logical tries, which this study illustrates perfectly. Logical tries were actually the required theme for studies in the WCCT10 (2016) : "A logical study with the foresight theme. In a win or a draw study, there is at least one logical try. In this try a critical position B occurs that is very similar to a critical position A in the solution, except for a small difference. Studies in which the critical positions are based on a reciprocal zugzwang (i.e. the difference is that position A has BTM and position B has WTM) are non-thematic. Further, studies that only feature the 7th WCCT theme as the foresight theme (passive removal of a white piece as a Vorplan and returning to the position and executing the main plan) are also non-thematic."

The real genius is not only the one who solves the study, but the composer himself. According to my database, the author is Ukrainian chess player Serhiy Didukh (2016). If we already think we've solved the problem, let's find a hidden defense! Fantastic! National champion Nelson Lopez really has the best videos to be seen on UKposts in my opinion!

I like how he addressed a scam early in the video. Very considerate.

Very fascinating! Good find and brillant explanation!

I'd like to see more like these please. Brilliant

The knight is the trickiest peace in chess

Realy Nice puzzle!!! Thank you very much for your deep analysis!!

Loved this one. I missed most of the moves, but nailed f6 at the end with a huge grin on my face.

Dude you're the goat. You explanation and the voice is so gripping and good to listen to

Nice puzzles. When I first saw it I was really confused. Hopefully you succeed in things you like to do! Bless You!

Thanks a lot. It was a real pleasure to see the solution.

13:50 also here, if black moves the pawn to d5 with check, your king must not capture it, (or move to b5) cause knight jumps to e7 with check.

awesome video! that was a great breakdown. just one small request. could you please show the full sequence (from the start) to the checkmate after your analysis? it would be nice to see the game without all the possibilities. your video breakdown is perfect. it would just be super helpful to see how it all unfolds move by move. could be a nice way to end your videos ya

my favorite one yet. loved it!

AMAZING!!

This is a phenomenal puzzle. I love ones that I have no hope of ever solving like this 😂

Hey, this is chess vibes, you've won! No bitches.

What a study. Certainly, the knight seems slowest than the rest of the pieces but it's the more unpredictable at a long term.

The source of this excellent study is Sergey Didukh, 10th World Chess Composition Tournament 2016-17, 9th-10th place.

I couldn't see the king behind the time on the thumbnail. Had a little crisis trying to figure out any solution.

yup, solved it a split second after you explained it. Honest. Great video Nelson, love your style. cheers man

I did not like chess problems until I got into your channel. Amazing, Nelson! I take it you understand Spanish - from your family name - Bravo, Nelson, la berraquera!

I quickly saw that Bd2 followed by Re1+ was the plan, however, I didn't see everything that followed. I would have had to set it up on a board and play through to see all of that, and I probably would have missed some of it even then.

I thought from the thumbnail that the puzzle was literally just figuring out which way the pawns are going

6:11 What was wrong with Kg3 here? It gets away from the knight checks and clears the path for our h pawn.

As someone who only plays blitz I never had to think this much before about a "lost" endgame

Wow that is ludicrous!

That was awesome!

Now I'm either a lot smarter or a lot dumber.

How about King to g3, bishop to f2 then rook to e1 and then move the h file pawn for promotion?

I am a 400 just a begginer maybe 1 month into chess, and this this Fascinating, such a Dynamic game.

Krazy! Think you!

No hay necesidad de sacrificar el alfil, si lo movemos a a7, el caballo negro necesariamente tendrá que ir a d7. Explicación: si el negro corona, nosotros movemos el rey a g6. Notemos que la reina no puede hacer jaque. La idea es que si las blancas quitan la dama la fila 1 tenemos jaque mate en e1 con la torre. Y si mantiene la dama en la columna movemos la torre a e2 y en la siguiente jugadas podemos dar mate en h2 con la torre. La única manera en que el negro puede evitar eso es moviendo el caballo a e2.

One final trick in the position with Nf4, white pawn on f5 and pawn on d6: 1. ... d5+. We cannot go Kc5 or Kb4 due to Nxd3 check. So 2.Kb5, 2.Kb3 and 2.Kc3 ( 2. ... d4+ 3. Kb3 ) are avoiding last trick.

can u make a video about the Dunst Opening?

After watching all of Nelson’s videos I’m starting to thing that you should give away your pieces and seemingly not get anything until you checkmate your opponent 267582649291846472736584827 moves later. 😂

That's insane!

Okay I saw the initial sacrifice to stop the queen but how much adoral did it take to follow that convolution of knight, pawn, king cat and mouse… holy moly

Whenever you do these sort of puzzles, with end In a "this will lead into white winning", it would be interesting to sometimes see how you would achieve that victory. Maybe try to play against Stockfish from such a position, to show how would achieve that victory.

Excellent.

its like the king is in a mine field

I swear if im ever in a possition like this and somehow make it to the end and get a queen, im somehow gonna lose the queen and still lose the match.

steal the king, bang, thats mate

continues to stalemate with the queen

Found the winning idea in under 30 seconds and hit play to see if I was a winner. Maybe I'm a genius after all.

a5 to protect knight next move (if rook think about... you know). pawn can comfortable transform... you know

I will take few days to remember and understand it

Chess Vibes Love your video, I have one question for you, After playing Bishop to D2, What happens if the Knight on B3 doesn’t take the Bishop on D2. Instead moves King to G2

ah yes i saw that mate in 34 from the beginning

Wow... I mean, wow. It's almost unhumanly deep.

Sweet!

I couldn’t even see the black king at first because the video time was covering it up 🤣

Amazing 😍

THe cool thing is I got all of the moves that he asked for, but some moves he just played and I thought in my head "I would never find that in my life"

Very fun puzzle, it was 500 elo level at the beggining but the end with manupulating the opponent to block their pieces with their own was pretty fun to watch and try to solve

6:30 Kg3

What a fun puzzle!

14:33 Ke6 worth mention

duck chess at the back😂

I will play smart, and stay sharp.

fun drinking game: take a shot every time he steps into the fork

Is it also winning if black goes for the other pawns and keep his Knight and pawns. Is it easily to stop the pawns with only Q+K?

2:51 play Qh1 forking the king and queen then the has has to either go to f2 or d2 and when you take the queen trade you can push either the f3 or d3 pawn and it allows 1 of them to make a queen and it would be an easy make 2 pawns queen?

I am not a genius 😂 😂

After you explain these puzzles, you should challenge the bots to see how high you need to go until they solve them (up to stockfish if needed).

When do you get the gifts?

what if instad of bringing queen black brings knight

what a cool puzzle

Bishop to f2

I am no genius but I have the feeling that I can just use my king to drive away the knight's defense on the queening square, I am talking about that final move on this study.

around 15:08 why wouldn't you push the D Pawn to check the King?

Knight c1 u cant stop black sp forst bishop moves right then u get knight c1 if the rook comes down u promote to queen as its blockig but if the bishop takes then the pawn can capture promotong and check on the queen soooo

really really great

Yes but when the knight is on f7 "stopping" from qeening, can't I just bring king over to him and scare him off that square, get my qeen and win the game?

Why not Ba7? If the object of the 1st move is to allow the rook to get to e1, then that move accomplishes the same thing, takes a pawn and saves the bishop.

So i Paused the Video on 0:34 to share my idea. I looked at the Puzzle in the Beginning for about 5 minutes and the Only Winning Move i see is Bf2. Let me Explain: The Pawn on b2 is one square away from Queening so we need a Strat to let it not happen. The Bishop blocks the Way for our Rook. If we move the Bishop to f2 the Rook has the entire e-File to came back and stop the Pawn from Queening. With Bf2 the e1-Square is protected by the Bishop and if the Pawn Queens we have simply Re1 with a Royal Fork with check and we trade our Rook for the Queen. If the Pawn doesnt promote and the King moves to g2 to capture the Bishop we play Re1 anyway to cover the b1 square. If the King takes on f2 we play Rb1 and win the Pawn and have a winnig Rook Endgame. I hope it was right. Edit: I was completly wrong, didnt see the move Nc1. But bruh, seeing 18 Moves into the future with all these Tactics? its nearly Impossible to see^^ I think even Magnus Carlsen didnt see this xD

You never mentioned what if Kg3-Nd4.. Bf2-.. And so on.. Can you pls reply on that! Ty

Very important

If I set this up on Lichess board editor and play as White then, after White's Rook move at 4:25 in the video, Stockfish (default level 8) curiously under-promotes the pawn to a Rook. Why should this be?

Thank You for those WONDERFUL 16 minutes in my Life. You guide us thru a beautiful ride in a brilliant labyrinth. I am not a great Player, and I don’t intend to be. I simply LOVE Chess, and your Videos are a great GIFT for me! Regards from Brazil, from a big Fan!

2:32 isn't Bishop e3 better than g3? If king f1 then we take the queen and Bishop vs knight is a win

I already saw it all

at 2:55 why not ck black instead of taking queen?

Anyone noticing the duck chess game in the background

This right here illustrates why humans will never equal the top tier chess bots. I'm pretty damn sure even Magnus could never have seen the G2 idea so far ahead. But Stockfish could.

1.Kg3 b1=Q 2. Bf2 and Re1+

what about king to g3? he gets the queen then bishop to f2. he cant check or move his queen bc of the checkmate threat and whatever he does rook e1 is coming and its bishop vs knight

Bishop f2 and then check and got queen

Everyone is genus because they can solve it by using stock fish

This video fully proved n confirmed I’m NO genius 😂😂😂😂😂

This make's me think knight and a bishop are equal

can't hurt something that doesn't exist 😂

"... now X is in the way!"

guess im a genius, some of the black moves werent top engine (played against stockfish 15.1 in chessbase to solve this) so I had to do them 1 at a time along the video

there are some flaws in the puzzles like in beggining rc3 is possible and after ng2 kg3 wins

aahh super complex