One of the most beautiful and instructive puzzle i've ever seen! Indispensable and subtle chess principles as sustaining tempo, move sequences and maneuvering, and zugzwang were all demonstrated. Loved this.
The sustaining of tempo was unnecessary after the pawn promoted to a queen. The game is ended in white's favor in fewer moves by Qf8, followed by Qg7 mate, no matter what black does. Edit: I was wrong. Qf8 leaves black with Qa1 ch.
More or less my idea. It is quite possible that I would have found every individual move over the board in that given position - not being sure whether it would win the game.
Love the geometry of the queen moves. I was surprised how far I could calculate this without seeing the position. 1. Re7+ Kf8 2. d7 Kg8 3. Re8+ Kh7 4. Rxd8 d1=Q 5. Rh8+ Kxh8 6. d8=Q+ Kh7 7. Qc7+ Kh6 8. Qxf4+ Kh7 9. Qh2+ Kg8 10. Qb8+ Kh7 11. Qxa7+ Kh6 12. Qxe3+ Kh7 13. Qh3+ Kg8 14. Qc8+ Kh7 Here I decided to set the position on the board to calculate from that because I wasn't too sure where the next couple of moves were leading. That was very helpful. 15. Qd7+ Kh6 16. Qh3+ Qh5 17. Qe3+ g5 18. Qxd3 (queen has to guard g6 square so there are only two moves - g4 and Qe8) g4 19. Qe3+ Kh7 20. Qe7+ Kh6/Kh8/Kg8 21. Qg7# 18. ... Qe8 19. Qh3+ Qh5 20. Qf5 (threatening Qxg5+ -> Qg7# and Qg6# so black's queen is paralysed) g4 21. Qf4+ Kh7 22. Qc7+ Kh6/Kh8/Kg8 23. Qg7# Gotta say I had a chess orgasm after solving this. As I said before, the geometry of the queen moves is truly fascinating.
@@Arnav-x6m nah, it might look intimidating but in reality all the moves are kinda forced and repetitive so it is easier to follow than the shorter puzzle but with more sublines. At least for me that's how it is.
i would literally ragequit chess if this happened to me like usually you'd think the queen checks would end after a while but they dont and then u realise that the queen is taking all your pawns and piece slowly, with check and when u think it might be a draw it becomes a checkmate
Apart from the pawn-clearing, I recognized this pattern from the outset. The first 3 moves were literally my first try and it took me a moment to work out the specific tactics at 2 of the checkpoints. A queen out of position is no queen at all. A very instructive video on how powerful the King is in a mating attack in the endgame.
I don't know if someone will believe me but I am very glad to say that I managed to see each move of this fabulous puzzle. I exercise pretty often by doing chess puzzles but this is by far the greatest that I've ever solved.
so this is how you win a level 12 computer since they do not make mistakes like humans and play the best possible moves. I'll keep watching these videos to beat it. Thanks a lot
I think I learned more about end game positioning in this one video than all the other resources I've seen. Of course there are endgames with no queens and just knights and pawns. But it's these sort repeated check opportunities that demonstrate how you can hang on without feeling compelled to resign.
This is like a reverse psychology puzzle. I feel like the super obvious moves are never right in higher level puzzles but that was the case a few times here
Reverse is the key. I suspect the puzzle is indeed designed with the ending first, and then rolled up with forced move after forced move, and putting down black pieces in the path of destruction as you go.
At 10:20, ...Qf7+ forced White to take. It's still a mate, but because the mate is not 1 move later, it's the only "tactic" left for Black to pull off a stalemate if White isn't exacting. It's again mate, but it's worth noting how this final stab Black takes heightens the level of how exacting White must be all the more so, up to this last ditch effort.
When I first saw this, I got the first couple of moves pretty quickly and realised a rook sac might be necessary to allow a white queen to arrive. I thought that White's ability to threaten mate might mean that black wouldn't even have time to promote his pawn, but it turns out that black can make a queen, but white will still win because his own new queen can get active immediately. Tempo is so important. It pans out a bit differently if it is black to play at the start.
At 2:16 Black should NOT promote the pawn to queen, but move the bishop back to attack that White pawn down near the end! There's no way for White to protect the pawn. In that position, it would seem that Black would win if it could (after Sacrificing the bishop and taking the white pawn) promote a pawn to a queen.
I saw a simpler solution with king g7 and let black promote since you can check mate with rook E7. Basically cut off the king. The king can’t move and if black moves the knight moves to check the king simply move the king to g8 which avoids the knight while keeping the pin on the king. Then when they promote since they don’t really have any other option, check mate with the rook since it’s protected and the king can’t enter the squares next to your king. The pawn promotion does nothing since it’s blocked my tbe bishop and by the time it moves to defend it’s too late
'king g7' Kg7 Kxd7 White is left with no rook, no way to defend their pawn, against a table full of black pieces, with a pawn ready to promote. 'The king can’t move' The king can take white rook.
I thought there was a simpler position for checkmate in 6 white moves from the initial position, diverging at 2:09, but that's because I didn't see that black's bishop was there to prevent that exact ending. At least I'm getting better about seeing paths and solutions!
It almost looks like you can move the queen from D1 to D2, and that would win also.. but it doesn't, K to h6 hides the king from any further check moves from the queen.. black queen then blocks, and the queen would have to move two moves to mate.. giving black an extra tempo, which is all they need to win the game
5:00 - I would have guessed to go Qa1 to check, but I see the king can "escape" to h8, but that does leave open going BACK to h2 for a check to force the same position. So if I was playing this, I would have played Qa1 just in the hopes of a mismove of the king to f8. :P
The only queen that can get to a1 from that position is the black one, but it's white to move, and Qb8 is a check that forces Kh7. There is no opportunity for black queen to go a1. If you want to go a1 with the white queen at some point shortly after, black just takes with their queen and white loses.
the intereisting thing is that a lot of players will play every move but nearly noone of them sees from the beginnint to the end. For me it was oh lets play Re7 i dont see to the end but it looks nice and after that d7 seemed the only one not loosing imidiately and so on . i found each single move but most of them because they where the only ones holding white into the game and not because i saw the checkmate.
What happens if black goes g5 instead of queening? The f pawn is now protected and the white king blocks its own queen from attacking the g pawn if the same strategy is applied.
At 4:05 why not Qc7+? king goes down, now you play Qh2, they have to block with queen, Qf4+ they have to block with queen again or they get checkmated by the lines shown in the video, but you can just take it. edit: the pawn can block that last check and there's no good follow up
After white queen on d7 checks black's king on h7 (at 7:30) and forces it to go to h6, and then follow it up by going to g7, forcing the king to h5, the queen then simply could checkmate the king by going to h8.
However, there is a minor distinction between puzzles and studies. Studies (like this one) could conceivably arise in play; puzzles usually require some convoluted moves. EDIT: The original position actually looks like a puzzle, but the position after ... d1Q looks like a study.
The only move is NOT queen to C7. Instead of queen to C7, do queen to F8 with mate on the next move. It doesn't matter, at that point that you sacrifice tempo; there is nothing that black can accomplish with any possible move. You WAAY overcomplicated your solution. Edit: Never mind. It's not an option because black can play Qa1 ch.
For completeness, after white QxB: If black plays Qh1 or Qh2 or Qg4, white can play Qg6 mate. If the Black Queen moves anywhere else on the d1-h5 diagonal, white can take it and has the upper hand. If black plays Pg4, white plays Qe3+, black either plays Qg5 (blocking), then white plays Qxg5, black plays Kh7, white plays Qg7 mate, or black plays Qe7+, if black then plays Kh8, white plays Qg7 mate, if black plays Qf7, white takes with check and it's mate next move whatever black does.
They have been doing chess puzzles since the middle ages. The old masters would devise a puzzle, so that the soldiers / students would learn tactics. I would presume that making the puzzle will require skill. That may be good practice on the game. Making the puzzle. One that is neither , too difff, nor too easy. Would make good practice .
chess puzzles go back even further, there were already studies when chess was still played according to the original rules around 800/900 AD, they were called Mansubes, lots of them have survived because they were written down by the Arabs. The solutions can be really complicated and could take up to a couple of 100 moves. People were already quite clever back then.
@@thekurdishtapes8317 That is what I love about chess. I see it as a sport. But not the kind of sport where it matters how fast, big or strong you are. Chess is purely a mental sport. It is all in the mind. It is about how much you know. How quickly that information can be translated into a winning strategy. A good plan. If your tactics are better than mine. I dont see that as a loss. I learned something. Thats good. I gained some of your knowledge. Once I get my ranking up. I will play higher level opponents and or puzzles. Thus learning more. To me, that is the object of the game.
I have a strong feeling that you dont need to leave the black diagonal and check mate faster. Going to c7, forcing the king to h6, and then h1, you reproduce the check mate pattern faster. The black queen has to defend, then queen to f4 forcing the king to h7. But now the king is blocked by its own queen and the check mate comes naturally at this point. Am I wrong ?
How about from the very first move Rook to check and then white pawn one forward… to block the king? Although this kind of requires for the opponent to fail one move … I like your long sequence … it would come natural…
After you take the pawn at f4, why not go QC7 instead of Qh2? Black has to move Kh6,Qh2,Qh5,Qc7,Kh6/Kh8/Kg8,Qg7? Faster, so I must have missed something but we haven't gone over that option in the puzzle.
White had to get every move correct, it is like snooker at this point. Most of the moves explained feel basic. But in real time, messing up one move would give the baton to black.
Queen e6 7:03 will lead to different checkmate If king go to f8 then queen on f7 If king go to h8 then queen on e8 king only only option is h7 so queen go to g6 king only option is h8 so queen on g7 checkmate Or if king go to h7 queen f7 is the answer if king go to backrank its mate in 1 if king go to h6 its mate in 1
'If king go to h8 then queen on e8 king only only option is h7 so queen go to g6 king only option is h8 so queen on g7 checkmate' Qg6 Qxg6 It's not a check, and it leaves white with just the king.
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I have never seen another puzzle like this one. It's absolutely fascinating. No one annotates these puzzles better than Nelson.
there is a video of his which covers a 130 move study that forcibly ends in checkmate.
I solved the puzzle in 2 minutes
@@EdinoRemerido yeah sure you did buddy
@@EdinoRemerido What took you so long?
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What's even crazier to me is that Stockfish instantly saw that whole sequence of mate in 24
more like mate in 18
@@condor07ukno, that is mate in 24
of course ... other moves for white lead to obviously lost positions so it quickly finds the ones that don't
One of the most beautiful and instructive puzzle i've ever seen! Indispensable and subtle chess principles as sustaining tempo, move sequences and maneuvering, and zugzwang were all demonstrated. Loved this.
The sustaining of tempo was unnecessary after the pawn promoted to a queen. The game is ended in white's favor in fewer moves by Qf8, followed by Qg7 mate, no matter what black does.
Edit: I was wrong. Qf8 leaves black with Qa1 ch.
fascinating puzzle! all of the moves are so intuitive, yet they create quite the interesting combination :D
More or less my idea. It is quite possible that I would have found every individual move over the board in that given position - not being sure whether it would win the game.
Absolutely brilliant. Shows the endless possibilities of Chess moves, the power of the Queen, and finding the way to win!
Love the geometry of the queen moves. I was surprised how far I could calculate this without seeing the position.
1. Re7+ Kf8 2. d7 Kg8 3. Re8+ Kh7 4. Rxd8 d1=Q 5. Rh8+ Kxh8 6. d8=Q+ Kh7 7. Qc7+ Kh6 8. Qxf4+ Kh7 9. Qh2+ Kg8 10. Qb8+ Kh7 11. Qxa7+ Kh6 12. Qxe3+ Kh7 13. Qh3+ Kg8 14. Qc8+ Kh7
Here I decided to set the position on the board to calculate from that because I wasn't too sure where the next couple of moves were leading. That was very helpful.
15. Qd7+ Kh6 16. Qh3+ Qh5 17. Qe3+ g5 18. Qxd3 (queen has to guard g6 square so there are only two moves - g4 and Qe8) g4 19. Qe3+ Kh7 20. Qe7+ Kh6/Kh8/Kg8 21. Qg7#
18. ... Qe8 19. Qh3+ Qh5 20. Qf5 (threatening Qxg5+ -> Qg7# and Qg6# so black's queen is paralysed) g4 21. Qf4+ Kh7 22. Qc7+ Kh6/Kh8/Kg8 23. Qg7#
Gotta say I had a chess orgasm after solving this. As I said before, the geometry of the queen moves is truly fascinating.
@@Arnav-x6m nah, it might look intimidating but in reality all the moves are kinda forced and repetitive so it is easier to follow than the shorter puzzle but with more sublines. At least for me that's how it is.
@@Arnav-x6m all of what he said is nonsense. Just typing out the moves. Don't lose yourself in that
U had a chess orgasm? What
Okay nerd
How long did it take u to write all of these?
Outstanding presentation! Videos like this should be used to spread the word about problem chess!
I immediately saw the first move and the next few logical continuations, but I had absolutely no idea of the subsequent complications. Very nice!
Queen deserves a rest after all that eating
At 3:20 I was convinced that the next move for White was to move Queen to F8, but then I saw that Black can just move Queen to A1 to Check.
Oh. Duh (me, not you).
Okay
Your chess videos are immensely superior. You explain it well, and illustrate it well. I learn something every time.
i would literally ragequit chess if this happened to me
like usually you'd think the queen checks would end after a while
but they dont
and then u realise that the queen is taking all your pawns and piece slowly, with check
and when u think it might be a draw
it becomes a checkmate
Apart from the pawn-clearing, I recognized this pattern from the outset. The first 3 moves were literally my first try and it took me a moment to work out the specific tactics at 2 of the checkpoints.
A queen out of position is no queen at all. A very instructive video on how powerful the King is in a mating attack in the endgame.
Incredible position! Black had so many pieces and was forced to lose all of them. Crazy! Amazing video as always Nelson!
Also, for those who like to use software which cannot 1. Import games 2. Edit the board.
Use this moveset:
1. Nc3 Nc6 2. Rb1 Rb8 3. e4 Nf6 4. Bc4 g6 5. Ke2 h6 6. Be6 dxe6 7. Kf3 Qxd2 8.
Nd5 Nd8 9. Nxe7 Qxc2 10. Kf4 Qc4 11. Nc6 bxc6 12. Ke5 Ba6 13. Qd5 cxd5 14. Bxh6
d4 15. Bxf8 Nd5 16. Bd6 Rxh2 17. b3 Rxb3 18. axb3 Rxg2 19. Rh5 Rxf2 20. bxc4
Rf5+ 21. exf5 d3 22. Rb7 d2 23. cxd5 Bd3 24. Kf6 cxd6 25. fxg6 fxg6 26. Rf5 exf5
27. Nf3 f4 28. Ne5 dxe5 29. Rd7 e4 30. d6 e3
Wow, like 9 mini puzzles in one position. Amazing composition. I love how your channel has unusual puzzles like this.
Okay
Judging from the opening position, the key for white was a series of forcing moves. And what's more forcing than a check? QED
I had no idea what the moves were supposed to be, but I did know one thing: don't stop checking. Check every move, no matter what.
I don't know if someone will believe me but I am very glad to say that I managed to see each move of this fabulous puzzle. I exercise pretty often by doing chess puzzles but this is by far the greatest that I've ever solved.
Great job. I couldn’t tell I was going to win until the last 5 moves. But I was able to pause and figure out each move he did.
@@ecospider5 That's good. The most difficult it seemed to me to realize the plan and the moment with the queen moving it to the lighted squares.
Perfectly shows the power of the queen and the importance of tempo.
so this is how you win a level 12 computer since they do not make mistakes like humans and play the best possible moves. I'll keep watching these videos to beat it. Thanks a lot
after queening, Q-f8! Black is unable to prevent mate, Q-g7 😏😏 the point of the game is to checkmate the King, not (re)gaining material.
I think I learned more about end game positioning in this one video than all the other resources I've seen. Of course there are endgames with no queens and just knights and pawns. But it's these sort repeated check opportunities that demonstrate how you can hang on without feeling compelled to resign.
Puzzles like this make me wonder how many times people have resigned seemingly obviously “lost” positions when in reality they had a forced win.
Amazing puzzle, easy to follow and understand yet still complex and full of small details
Watching these puzzles is helping. I actually came up with the correct moves this time.
This is like a reverse psychology puzzle. I feel like the super obvious moves are never right in higher level puzzles but that was the case a few times here
Reverse is the key. I suspect the puzzle is indeed designed with the ending first, and then rolled up with forced move after forced move, and putting down black pieces in the path of destruction as you go.
At 10:20, ...Qf7+ forced White to take. It's still a mate, but because the mate is not 1 move later, it's the only "tactic" left for Black to pull off a stalemate if White isn't exacting. It's again mate, but it's worth noting how this final stab Black takes heightens the level of how exacting White must be all the more so, up to this last ditch effort.
Black has a pawn. No stalemate.
ABC: always be checking!
When I first saw this, I got the first couple of moves pretty quickly and realised a rook sac might be necessary to allow a white queen to arrive. I thought that White's ability to threaten mate might mean that black wouldn't even have time to promote his pawn, but it turns out that black can make a queen, but white will still win because his own new queen can get active immediately. Tempo is so important. It pans out a bit differently if it is black to play at the start.
At 2:16 Black should NOT promote the pawn to queen, but move the bishop back to attack that White pawn down near the end! There's no way for White to protect the pawn. In that position, it would seem that Black would win if it could (after Sacrificing the bishop and taking the white pawn) promote a pawn to a queen.
No, get the queen was blacks best move.
1. Re7+ Kf8 2. d7 Kg8 3. Re8+ Kh7 4. Rxd8 Bb5 5. Rh8+ Kxh8 6. d8=Q+ Kh7 (6... Be8 7. Qxe8+ Kh7 8. Qxg6+ Kh8 9. Qg7#) 7. Qf8 e2 8. Qg7#
Really cool puzzle, beginning was easy but that final trick with repositioning queen escaped me
Jesus. That was a long explanation. Glad you’ve explained it the whole way!
i’m so proud of myself, i actually saw almost all the moves as nelson explained it
Excellent demo. Very instructive. Congratulations
I saw a simpler solution with king g7 and let black promote since you can check mate with rook E7. Basically cut off the king. The king can’t move and if black moves the knight moves to check the king simply move the king to g8 which avoids the knight while keeping the pin on the king. Then when they promote since they don’t really have any other option, check mate with the rook since it’s protected and the king can’t enter the squares next to your king. The pawn promotion does nothing since it’s blocked my tbe bishop and by the time it moves to defend it’s too late
'king g7'
Kg7 Kxd7
White is left with no rook, no way to defend their pawn, against a table full of black pieces, with a pawn ready to promote.
'The king can’t move'
The king can take white rook.
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The pawn does not protect the rook. Pawns do not protect what is right in front of them on the same file.
@@thetaomegatheta I see. I was assuming black would promote its pawn rather than take the rook.
Thank you so much for so instructive moves on that puzzle :) Stay sharp, play smart ! Luvit !
I thought there was a simpler position for checkmate in 6 white moves from the initial position, diverging at 2:09, but that's because I didn't see that black's bishop was there to prevent that exact ending. At least I'm getting better about seeing paths and solutions!
It looks like start of the video white can play two moves for checkmate
Mindblowing is the correct expression, thanks a lot for this wonderful puzzle
Thanks for all these wonderful puzzles and explaining them so clearly.
The greatest chess puzzle I've ever seen in my life.
It almost looks like you can move the queen from D1 to D2, and that would win also.. but it doesn't, K to h6 hides the king from any further check moves from the queen.. black queen then blocks, and the queen would have to move two moves to mate.. giving black an extra tempo, which is all they need to win the game
What are you talking about? Only the black queen is ever on d1, and you seem to imply that it's white queen that is there.
Nice show! I hope your channel will remain longer without another interruption.
5:00 - I would have guessed to go Qa1 to check, but I see the king can "escape" to h8, but that does leave open going BACK to h2 for a check to force the same position. So if I was playing this, I would have played Qa1 just in the hopes of a mismove of the king to f8. :P
The only queen that can get to a1 from that position is the black one, but it's white to move, and Qb8 is a check that forces Kh7. There is no opportunity for black queen to go a1.
If you want to go a1 with the white queen at some point shortly after, black just takes with their queen and white loses.
with the help of SF14: This is a true Mate in 24 for white! All other moves are Mate in at most 12 for black. Amazing,
the intereisting thing is that a lot of players will play every move but nearly noone of them sees from the beginnint to the end. For me it was oh lets play Re7 i dont see to the end but it looks nice and after that d7 seemed the only one not loosing imidiately and so on . i found each single move but most of them because they where the only ones holding white into the game and not because i saw the checkmate.
10:09 what if black does Queen F3 which pins the Queen to the king
White takes with their queen.
I was thinking the same thing
You take the queen and it is not stalemate
As a 900, I am proud to say that I found the first half of the moves
Awesome!!! That’s bud. I really enjoy learning from you.
Indeed ,i saw many puzzles,but this one looks like a match's middle game,truely magnifisant.
Fascinating is one of the most used words on this channel 😂
and the most correct one at that
That would be so unsatisfyingly if all those moves lead to stalemate
The nice sample of the meaning of Tempo and using bad position of the black king .
I improvised the win, but was surprised it took so long.
What happens if black goes g5 instead of queening? The f pawn is now protected and the white king blocks its own queen from attacking the g pawn if the same strategy is applied.
Il y aurait mat en quatre coups : Th8+ Rxh8 d8=D+ Rh7 Dd7+ suivi du mat en g7 ou h3. Bien à vous
So this demonstrates the concepts of king safety and tempo
At 4:05 why not Qc7+? king goes down, now you play Qh2, they have to block with queen, Qf4+ they have to block with queen again or they get checkmated by the lines shown in the video, but you can just take it.
edit: the pawn can block that last check and there's no good follow up
@@juniorgaming_0926 edited. It's annoying I can't see the chess board while typing a comment on mobile
Why not Qc7+? Well, it's Qc7+?, so...
I had the exact same question and didn't realize the pawn.
The can block with the pawns
Easier: Check my post above. At 3:30 go Qf8 and it's mate in 1.
You could subtitle this one "whipped between pillar and post"
Nelson, this kind of chess studies surpass any imagination. Thank you.
After white queen on d7 checks black's king on h7 (at 7:30) and forces it to go to h6, and then follow it up by going to g7, forcing the king to h5, the queen then simply could checkmate the king by going to h8.
Qd7+ Kh6
Qg7+ Kh5
Qh8+ Kg4.
Your suggestion lacks a checkmate.
@@thetaomegatheta Ah, the pesky g4 square...😖
Ho hum, this happens to me every time I am up 3 pawns and a bishop.
However, there is a minor distinction between puzzles and studies. Studies (like this one) could conceivably arise in play; puzzles usually require some convoluted moves.
EDIT: The original position actually looks like a puzzle, but the position after ... d1Q looks like a study.
On the 2nd puzzle you should have went down to the white square because from there there is a checkmate in 3 or 4
Amazing puzzle! Thanks for this great explanation.
Superb video! thanks for so nice content and best of luck for your new year
Cool puzzle but the simpler solution at 5:10 would be Queen to C7 check, then checkmate in 4 moves without having to capture 3 more pieces.
The only move is NOT queen to C7. Instead of queen to C7, do queen to F8 with mate on the next move. It doesn't matter, at that point that you sacrifice tempo; there is nothing that black can accomplish with any possible move. You WAAY overcomplicated your solution.
Edit: Never mind. It's not an option because black can play Qa1 ch.
Here's my puzzle -
White - Kg4, f4, Qe5, G5
Black - Kg6, Ba4, Qa3, c2
White to move and win
Qf6+ Kh7
Qf7+ Kh8
g6 Bd7+
Qxd7 Qf3+
Kxf3 Kg8
Qf7+ Kh8
Qh7#
Learning to get check 20 moves in a row really helps win a game like this. If you give them a singe move you will probably loose.
* lose
For completeness, after white QxB:
If black plays Qh1 or Qh2 or Qg4, white can play Qg6 mate. If the Black Queen moves anywhere else on the d1-h5 diagonal, white can take it and has the upper hand.
If black plays Pg4, white plays Qe3+, black either plays Qg5 (blocking), then white plays Qxg5, black plays Kh7, white plays Qg7 mate, or black plays Qe7+, if black then plays Kh8, white plays Qg7 mate, if black plays Qf7, white takes with check and it's mate next move whatever black does.
Excelente. Baile de Reinas, con una Reina más lista y más astuta que la otra.
Good stuff, Nelson!
Wow! Brilliant puzzle shows vulnerability of king pinned to side of the board!
Superb...
Keep posting this kind of puzzles
They have been doing chess puzzles since the middle ages. The old masters would devise a puzzle, so that the soldiers / students would learn tactics. I would presume that making the puzzle will require skill. That may be good practice on the game. Making the puzzle. One that is neither , too difff, nor too easy. Would make good practice .
chess puzzles go back even further, there were already studies when chess was still played according to the original rules around 800/900 AD, they were called Mansubes, lots of them have survived because they were written down by the Arabs. The solutions can be really complicated and could take up to a couple of 100 moves.
People were already quite clever back then.
@@thekurdishtapes8317 That is what I love about chess. I see it as a sport. But not the kind of sport where it matters how fast, big or strong you are. Chess is purely a mental sport. It is all in the mind. It is about how much you know. How quickly that information can be translated into a winning strategy. A good plan. If your tactics are better than mine. I dont see that as a loss. I learned something. Thats good. I gained some of your knowledge.
Once I get my ranking up. I will play higher level opponents and or puzzles. Thus learning more. To me, that is the object of the game.
Superb puzzle & analysis.
wow, more than imagined at the beginning!!
What a beautiful windmill combination.
*SENSATIONAL* 😎
That's what we call the "Queen & Slim" mate 😂
Chess is such intriguing game.
Ancient say it imitates battle field and I agree
I have a strong feeling that you dont need to leave the black diagonal and check mate faster. Going to c7, forcing the king to h6, and then h1, you reproduce the check mate pattern faster. The black queen has to defend, then queen to f4 forcing the king to h7. But now the king is blocked by its own queen and the check mate comes naturally at this point. Am I wrong ?
A queen can't go to h1 from c7, nor can a queen go from h1 to f4. This queen can also not go from c7 to h2 right away because of the pawn on f4.
@@thetaomegatheta OK I'll give my solution from my computer it will be easier
@@lucasbo3904
Well?
Love this timing!
Amazing windmill queen tactic checkmate
I will try to imagine this man talking and explaining in my brain next time i play chess
Nelson,thank you for sharing this gorgeous puzzle.
How about from the very first move Rook to check and then white pawn one forward… to block the king? Although this kind of requires for the opponent to fail one move … I like your long sequence … it would come natural…
'How about from the very first move Rook to check and then white pawn one forward… to block the king?'
With what?
He sacrifices... THE ROOOOK
Truly thrilling and Mesmerising
Was nice, thank you!
BEAUTIFUL!!
After you take the pawn at f4, why not go QC7 instead of Qh2? Black has to move Kh6,Qh2,Qh5,Qc7,Kh6/Kh8/Kg8,Qg7?
Faster, so I must have missed something but we haven't gone over that option in the puzzle.
'Black has to move Kh6,Qh2,Qh5,Qc7,Kh6/Kh8/Kg8,Qg7'
White Qc7 after black Qh5 is not a check. This allows black to start checking white.
@@thetaomegatheta So obvious when you point it out!
Modern Queen: "aight, imma head out" (divorce)
White had to get every move correct, it is like snooker at this point. Most of the moves explained feel basic. But in real time, messing up one move would give the baton to black.
Queen e6 7:03 will lead to different checkmate
If king go to f8 then queen on f7
If king go to h8 then queen on e8 king only only option is h7 so queen go to g6 king only option is h8 so queen on g7 checkmate
Or if king go to h7 queen f7 is the answer if king go to backrank its mate in 1 if king go to h6 its mate in 1
'If king go to h8 then queen on e8 king only only option is h7 so queen go to g6 king only option is h8 so queen on g7 checkmate'
Qg6 Qxg6
It's not a check, and it leaves white with just the king.
Really nice and educational
I have never been into chess before but I like your videos
At 5:00 , Qc7 is a faster mate I guess because although we give black a free move, nothing it can do will prevent a mate in 1. Am I missing something?
Black responds with stuff like Qa1+ or Qf1+, and begins to perpetually check white, or even mate.
Yes. Black will start checking us (Qa1+) and we'll lose this
Always love the queen puzzles!
Excellent !