The solution to this puzzle is amazing!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Can you solve this puzzle? White to move and win!
This study was composed by Alexey Troitsky in 1925.
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Excellent puzzle... you are just brilliant as always. Thank you very much.
Knight against two Bishops is not a draw
King and 2 bishops vs king and knight is not a draw. You can trap the knight and win it.
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Shut up anonym5160
In the most positions it is not a draw by 50-move rule.
Anonym5160 shut up anyway
In most positions 2 knights vs pawn is rather a draw than 2 bishops vs knight.
Excellent puzzle. I enjoyed it
Got it! For White to checkmate, the king has to get much closer, so I guessed it was a staircase manoeuvre. It took a few minutes to find the right sequence, though. Very neat puzzle! 👍
brilliant
Old Inder motif. This very old sheme is well known. Many chess composers have made studies with this sheme. Certainly also I ´ve tried a study for some years ...
I solved it but only because of a similar puzzle which I think was also your video.
What if, at 6:14, black plays Nd3+?
BxN allows the black king to escape on b2, Kd5 (continuing the staircase) allows the escape on b1. Have I missed something?
That does mess up the stairstep gambit, yeah, since the knight is now blocking the bishop from controlling b1. I ran it through some chess engines and after BxN white still wins, but it's messier. If the black king continues up, white wins in about 8 moves, if the king moves back down and to the right it's mate in 19 moves, but neither is an immediately obvious sure thing. Both involve using the bishop on black to keep the pawns controlled while the bishop on white and the king shuffle the black king to a good place for the other bishop to dive in and finish things off.
I think that this video didn't cover this because after the knight sacrifices, the general rule is that the bishop controlling the pawn promotion square leads to a certain win with good play as long as the black king isn't right on top of the pawns to protect them anymore.
A very very similar puzzle you had posted about 6 months ago and I remember that very well. So its a brilliant strategy and the only strategy to win in order to bring king closer. Thank you very much.
I'm so glad you mention this! That is actually one of the most watched videos on my channel and the puzzle is from the same composer. A link to that video here: th-cam.com/video/dZ1rXNfeaRQ/w-d-xo.html
What if black sacs his horse on d3, first move? Then 2. Bxd3+ Kb2 3. Bd4+ Kb3 .. Wouldn't it mean black can avoid getting trapped in tbe corner and threaten promotion?
After white captures the knight with check, Black goes Kb2 to escape the corner. Than white Bd4+ pushes the king out and ends the threat of promotion. The Bishop could plant himself in a1. This allows plenty of time for the white king to journey across the board to clean up both pawns. Two bishops against a king is a winning endgame, but not as pretty as the mainline.
Sneaky
At 6:48 what if black moves Kt to c3? And at 10:05 what if black promotes the pawn to a queen, giving check?
6:48 Nc3 Bxc3#
10:05 it is white turn, black just played ... Kb1
At 6:48 white would take the knight with bishop resulting in checkmate. At 10:05 black can’t promote since the king is in check and must move to the only open square at A1 which blocks the promotion.
after Nc3 then Bxc3 wins. at 10.05 black does not have the opportunity to promote
Wym bro black doesnt have a move to promote
Because his king is in check. Bishop on d3 is checking the king on b1.