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Con la técnica de la "triangulación " del Rey, se gana en muchas posiciones. Muy bueno el video. Tanks.

There is one variation you didn't cover. After white goes Bg5 covering c1 square, black does not have to rush Ke1. They can shuffle Kf1-f2 until white goes Bc1. After white goes Bc1, black go Ke1. Bd2+ Kf1 back doesn't give white anything. So white try diagonal c1-a3, and black have to shuffle between e1 and d1, cause the moment they retreat Kf1, white have Kd2. Now white should lose a tempo, and to obtain position with black king on e1 and white bishop on c1 with black to move! So it goes Bg5 Kf1 Bc1 Ke1 Bb2 Kd1 Ba3 Ke1 Bc1. And then Kd1 Bd2 or Kf1 Kd2 with variations you showed

A hard puzzle. The Bishop must protect e3 and f2. Or he must be sacrificed far away from these fields.

Really cool. Thanks man.

1)Bxc7 -- Kf5; 2) Ba5 -- Ke4;3) Bd2 -- d3;4)e3 -- Kf3;5)Kb5 -- Ke2;6) Bc1 -- Kd1;7)Kd4 Wins

Brave Bishop!😂

ouf ! multi puzzle --- all in one.

Yes, this was really wonderful!😊

After lengthy analysis, I have concluded that protecting the white pawn to promotion is impossible. Impossible for me, that is! Thank you for another fantastic study.

Wow. That last variation was so elegant ! So beautiful !

Fantastic study, may be subtitled: "White is on diet" :)

Mate, can you please *STOP it already* with those 7+ minute studies ?? >=( Seriously, either speed up your speech / moves to shorten the videos' durations, *OR* just switch back to 2-movers entirely, with only *VERY RARELY* resorting to LONG studies... .

Bishop Finesse!

Got the first part, then worked out how to force the king down, but didn't have the skills to avoid all those draw traps.

1)Bb7 ch --- BxB; 2) Nd7 followed by Qb8 ch & Nb6 ch mate

Good one!

After Ne6, Qf3, what's wrong with Qg8+?

I saw Ba7

I found the solution by realizing that a smothered mate requires the black bishop to be at b7

Not as flashy, but Q-f4 looks pretty good to me. Threatens checkmate on f7, and provokes f7-f5... then Q-d6 threatens checkmate on e7, and locks the Black King in place.

Beatiful mate in the last variation!

I didn't solve it but this was an absolutely beautiful puzzle.

my god, got it quickly for a change

Great puzzle, nice video

Proud to solve it. Thanks to you

Smothered mates are the most poetic for me. :-)

This one made me smile.

Find it! Rip Elephant 😅

Why over complicate white's response? 2:00 .... just check on g8 and win

King and knight versus king.....unwinnable. King and knight versus queen, bishop, knight.....checkmate. Makes me chuckle at the illogical, logical beauty of this "simple" game. Thank you.

I agree that the solution was beautiful and sadly that I were unable to have seen it at all. But chess is (or can be) the intellectual match of a game like football... in a league set up, you will find your own level over a run of games but also it can be said that occasionally - just like in football's FA Cup - a much weaker player can put together a string of moves to absolutely slaughter the grandest of masters. It's the reason why we both play and watch both games, football and chess.... you just never know where that moment of brilliance is going to come from. Thank you for sharing with us and explaining.

Excellent end game tactics, thank you very much.

I blew another one. Mr. von Bargen, you may as well be posting geography trivia videos, because I know as much about geography as I do about chess strategy.

A6-B7ch

GotA admit a check mate with one nice is SOOO BEAUTIFUL 😂

Brilliant! 🙂

2:00 -- why not try a *CHECK with our Queen* on the *8th rank* in this position?? O_o .

Wow, I actually solved this one!

This is a famous chess study (White: Kf2, Qg1, Be2, Nd3, d7 Black: Kf7, Qf8, Na7, Bc6 White to move and win 1.Qg5! Ke6+ 2.Kg1 Kxd7 3.Nc5+ Kc8 4.Ba6+ Kb8 5.Qg3+ Ka8 6.Bb7+ Bxb7 7.Nd7 Qd8 8.Qb8+ and 9.Nb6#) by Alexander Seletzki, which G. Kasparov and Hikaru Nakamura also knew about long ago. As I have more than 30,000 chess studies in my memory since 2015, this one is also familiar to me. This chess study by Seletzki was published in 1933 and got first prize. At that time (ca. 2012-2015) I had the Harold van der Heiden database. But I haven't had it for a long time and so I can no longer use the best database for chess studies.

Masterpiece!

Very beautiful solution, and for once I managed to find the entire line! Woohoo!! 👍👍👍

The final move was incredibly beautiful.

1) Ng5 -- Kg6 ( forced to promote h pawn to Queen); 2) h7 -- Kg7; 3) Kc5 taking King to support e pawn to Queen.

He never looked at Ng5 Kg6 Nxf7 Bd4 e6 Kf6 though. For some reason he looked at Kf5 in that position when e7 is obvious, but after Kf6 I don't see it. It looks like e6 will fall and the bishop is in position to sacrifice itself on h8. What's going on? I guess Ng5 again protecting e6, but far from obvious. Ah no maybe Kc4 because if Kxe6 Ng5+ is winning, so the bishop would have to move. so Bb2 Kd5, and then if Ke7 h7 is good enough because the e pawn is defended by the king. And after Kg6 maybe Kd6 Ba3+ Kd7 and uhh, no still not obvious.

I solved it, but I really wanted my king to move a step or two closer, but eventually decided it wasn't needed. Good puzzle.

Why wouldn’t you promote to a queen??

Funny 😁

too easy this time

Best puzzle yet!

I'm getting better at these! Who else among subscribers is improving from these puzzles?