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!
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?
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
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?
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...
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).
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?
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.
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 didn't solve the full puzzle but I did refrain from capturing the e file pawn to keep the Black King in boxed out. This puzzle is a good way to learn the importance of opposition.
your B pawn is protecting A3/C3 and the black pawn on B3 then means the black king has to get to D3 to sneak around, so you need to prevent the black king from being able to get to D3.
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?
What about walking the king h1-g1-f1-e1-d2, black king will be on e4 forced to go back or play d4, exd4-kxd4, e3 and you kan take the pawn on b3 while black has to take care of the e3?
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.
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.
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.
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
You mean after king takes b2 right? If that so it's still a draw because white also get the queen first. You're right about promotion with check but it doesn't matter that white will move queen to e4 to block the black's queen and offer a trade for the next move.
I got it wrong from the very first position, I guess; I thought that instead of 1. Kg2, White plays 1. Kg1. Then after 1. ... Kg6 2. Kf2 Kf5 3. Kf3, doesn't White have the opposition? What am I missing here?
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 🙂
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.
Was thinking that as well. But Black is fast enough getting his queen. 1. Kg2 Kg6 2. Kf1 Kf5 3. Ke1 Ke5 (!) 4. Kd2 Ke4 5. Kc3 Kxe3 6. Kxb3 Kxe2 7. Kc3 Ke3 8. Kc2 and it's a draw.
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
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 !
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.
Pretty sure there's more than one way to win this. When he goes K-g6 I'm going K-g3 and no matter how he responds, I am eventually reversing the opposition and getting my King to e1 while he's still on the 5th rank.
Chess Vibes Do you like my chess puzzle. White to play. White win, a draw, or black to win. Black pieces. King H8, Knight H4, Rook G6, Queen G4, Pawn G3, Rook G2, Pawn F4, Knight E6, Bishop E5, Bishop D3. White pieces. Pawn H6, King H1, Knight G5, Knight E3, Pawn D7, Bishop D2, Pawn B7, Bishop B3.
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...
"I saw it, I saw it! I didn't do it Nelson!" 🤓
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I saw it! I saw it! I didn’t do it Nelson!
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@@drachenklinger9401 ye that’s what he said
@@drachenklinger9401and his user isn’t 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.
Whats the problem white easily wins this!
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 :)
me too
We only say we won't take because we know this is a puzzle
@@anonymall exactly
To me both options would win the pawn eventually but since it's is a puzzle only one can be correct therefore It became obvious there is some trick
i said "dont take" b/c losing opposition is AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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!
I also watch one of Nelsons videos almost every day - I am not an English native speaker, I am German.
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!
At 6:03, I saw it. It felt like gaining opposition was more important
ya forgot the quotation marks bruh
I saw it as well
I also saw it because it looked to obvious
@@jayveeasis7953 why would you need quotation marks
saw it
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?
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
i love ur puzzle videos man keep up the great work
Wow great puzzle. Highly instructive ideas
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 wondered this too, I assume once you reach D2 you're in a disadvantaged position but it looks strong.
Then black plays G6, F5, E5, E4. Then it's a draw. I think.
@@woxyjr If black plays G6,F5,E5, white plays D1 instead of D2, only after E4, then white plays D2. Is that still a draw?
@@jiangchuYT Black will repeat E5 F5 until white plays D2 then it's a draw
@@kirbyheadphones6666 Got it. Thanks.
I bet the black pawn on e4 went “phew!” when the king finally stepped towards the other pawn
Fascinating!
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...
Very interesting pawn endgame, TY Nelson!
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).
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?
Another amazing video 👍👍
Mind stimulating.
Best Chess tutorial chanel 👏👏
Opposition is so important in the endgame and this is an example
I saw it, thanks for the consistently great content, Nelson!
I neither saw it, nor did it 😂
The intricacies of the end game. Quite beautiful actually.
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.
Looked it up in endgame database, the Black king will keep opposition on e5 the moment you go on e1.
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.
5:57, given the situation, why not go black king to C4 and start work on the other pawn that is the key.
I didn't solve the full puzzle but I did refrain from capturing the e file pawn to keep the Black King in boxed out. This puzzle is a good way to learn the importance of opposition.
6:13 I first tought take the pawn then i was like it can't be this easy it has to be opposition
your B pawn is protecting A3/C3 and the black pawn on B3 then means the black king has to get to D3 to sneak around, so you need to prevent the black king from being able to get to D3.
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?
What about walking the king h1-g1-f1-e1-d2, black king will be on e4 forced to go back or play d4, exd4-kxd4, e3 and you kan take the pawn on b3 while black has to take care of the e3?
why not race for b3 pawn inmediatelly from start of the puzzle (h1)? leave E234 pawn unguarded and race on 2 line to C3 with white king...
6:07 yes, i saw it. didnt want the black king coming back and the white king is closer to the other pawns
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.
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.
Hi Nelson. What about the white king moving to g1 - f1 - e1 - d2? Do you think that this can be also a winning line?
The E5 was to push the king further out, opposition was the key to the puzzle I saw it
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.
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
You mean after king takes b2 right? If that so it's still a draw because white also get the queen first. You're right about promotion with check but it doesn't matter that white will move queen to e4 to block the black's queen and offer a trade for the next move.
@@distrezz9919 yes, but forcing a queen trade is much safer than dancing around the queen
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.
Muy instructivo y muy bien explicado.
Like al vídeo.
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I got it wrong from the very first position, I guess; I thought that instead of 1. Kg2, White plays 1. Kg1. Then after 1. ... Kg6 2. Kf2 Kf5 3. Kf3, doesn't White have the opposition? What am I missing here?
I think black would still be able to block our king until we sacrifice our lead pawn anyway.
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 🙂
A puzzle that is actually instructive! Who'd have thought.
"I saw it, I was it. I didnt do it, Nelson"
Notice how opposition is the true power of the king and not to cowardly take the pawn when the opportunity presented itself 3 times
Can you explore white king g1, king f1, king d1, and king d2, I think black can't do anything
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 never knew the power of opposition till now
at 7:09 what is stopping the black king from just going to C4 and forcing a stalemate again?
I think a bee line along to back row for position D2 also wins.
How does white win if black moves king to e5 at 4:07?
Love your channel!
First time I succeeded in aa puzzle. I didn't fall for king takes pawn because he was stressing opposition so much.
At 7:09, after the white king came to e5, why does the black king go to b5, instead of c4?
Before getting into solving the puzzle, it is obvious White is in a much stronger position haven the two pawns with clear paths.
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.
Was thinking that as well. But Black is fast enough getting his queen. 1. Kg2 Kg6 2. Kf1 Kf5 3. Ke1 Ke5 (!) 4. Kd2 Ke4 5. Kc3 Kxe3 6. Kxb3 Kxe2 7. Kc3 Ke3 8. Kc2 and it's a draw.
Is there a way to experiment on-line with this puzzle ?
I don't have a chess board ... Answer greatly APPRECIATED !
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
(6:03) - of course, you warned us, but the right move would be ke5, for the right tempo :)
Excellent. Thanks.
6:03 I chose King e5 instead of taking the pawn cuz mostly i think the obvious choice is wrong
6:07 I said to not take the pawn
Is it because im smart tho? No
Its bc in the puzzles I swear the stupidest move I usually the correct one lmao
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.
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
The first part was pretty intuitive for me, but I missed Ke5.
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 !
A year later… "I saw it, I saw it! I didn't do it Nelson!" 😂
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.
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.
1.. at the time when black king takes white b3 pawn, white king has better go to d5 instead of f5 from e4.🎉
“I saw it, I saw it, I didn't do it Nelson!”
7:08 here black can play c4 which is again draw!
what you think?
still a draw position
isn't it is?
Loss for black.
White responds with Kxe4, and now black has to retreat from c4, while previously, it was white that had to retreat from e4.
If Kc4, _now_ you take on e4. Keeping opposition on the king. I'm a bit surprised Nelson didn't cover that.
I'm moving my front pawn forward and letting it be captured
7:18 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was super hilarious
What if you started moving the white king to e1 and swinging around the back to d2 at the beginning instead?
Pretty sure there's more than one way to win this. When he goes K-g6 I'm going K-g3 and no matter how he responds, I am eventually reversing the opposition and getting my King to e1 while he's still on the 5th rank.
You left out the king attacking that pawn from the beginning back rank
7:09 Kc4 seems better, why would black play Kb5?
7:12, (again don’t do it, don’t take the Pawn)
All your doing is allowing the king back into the game if you do that.
3:04 That's called a Trebuchet by the way.
I saw it! Need to get that 1000-1500 course, too...
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
I saw it, instead of taking the pawn, it's better to keep position of opposition with the king.
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.
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.
Chess Vibes
Do you like my chess puzzle. White to play.
White win, a draw, or black to win.
Black pieces.
King H8, Knight H4, Rook G6, Queen G4, Pawn G3, Rook G2, Pawn F4, Knight E6, Bishop E5, Bishop D3.
White pieces.
Pawn H6, King H1, Knight G5, Knight E3, Pawn D7, Bishop D2, Pawn B7, Bishop B3.
I would have gone with king from below the double pawn to arrive in thr middle of all pawn before black king
Weird question, but what if white just moves h1>g1>f1>e1>d2 at the start, is that just a draw then?
They lose the pawn on e3, and yes, it's just a draw.
Actually, I was thinking about rushing with the white king to D2 through the 1st line.
Something I’m confused on - why would black not play king C4 when you play king E5?
Because that allows white to go E4, while previously black had Kc4 as a threat to respond to white Kxe4 with.
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...
i learned a ton here, ty
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.
Pretty sure you can just go for a left black pawn and win it sucessfully defending
6:00 I didn't say take the pawn, I said Ke5 to get the opposition again.
Edit: glad to see I was right.
Pawns are poisonous. 💀
I guessed KE5 because I had a feeling taking the pawn was a trick question
from the start the king should go straight across the bottom of the board and attack the b3 black pawn..The black king cant get over to protect it.
Whilst I did think we capture the pawn, after some thinking I realise the correct move ( 5:49 )
@6:03 I saw it. We need to stay in opposition one more time, so taking the pawn there is wrong.
Okay, I got the answer right, and then wrong on the next move because my reasoning was wrong. bummer. lol
My first thought was to move the king left, left, left