@@stevenbrule5285 Defending is a really common concept though. When a piece is defended, it means "no matter what takes it, I have a piece to take back" and usually to stop opponent from taking it. BTW, it's usually impractical to defend a queen, since they are too valuable, so trading a queen for opponent's other pieces are often a bad trade
Nelson, you have a great pedagogical approach. I know about this tactic, but it makes it so much clearer in my mind. I always just think of check mates, forks, pins, skewers, and batteries, and that's basically all i'm looking for, despite knowing this tactic. But now adding this to my toolbox, I feel like it'll be really helpful. Just wanted to let you know I think you're a great teacher :)
3:48 Rather than doing what I was supposed to do, I found queen to G6. This forces the king into the corner, than checking with the knight makes the rook take. This wins a rook and pawn of free. If only that was the point of the puzzle. Edit: I guess it was kinda the point of the puzzle. I wrote this before I unpaused.
@Chess Vibes 12:24 I saw the "winning sequence" 1.b5+ Kb6 2.Bxc5+ Kxc5 3.Rg5 but wasn't sure if still winning. What happens if black 14:09 takes the Rook? 3...Rxg5 4.f8Q+ Kc4 5.Qxd8 and now there is a Q+p vs R+B. Although there is a better move for white than taking Nd8. After 5.Qf4+ Rook on g5 hangs and Q+p vs N+B will win. Though I think you should have mentioned this in the video.
Hey Nelson, can you please start posting links to the boards you show? It'd be nice to do some more analysis, explore other lines and see why ideas don't work, and it's a lot of effort to set up the board manually each time. Thanks!
4:00 Okay, for this one, I found black Nxd2B, then white either does Qxd2N or Bxh3Q. If white does either of these things, then the piece they didn't take goes xf1R, at which point white's response is Nxf1. The result of this battle, being black being down 12 pawns, and white being down 8. Another possible response to Nxd2 for white is Rg2, at which black can do Qh4 attacking the hanging rook, or Qg3+ forking the king and rook. Qh4 is met with Qxd2N, protecting the rook once again, or more brazenly, Rh2, attacking the queen. Qxh2R leads to Kxh2Q, ending the skirmish with black once again being down 12 pawns, but white only being down 3. Qg3+ is met with either Kh1 which isn't great, Rg2 which leads to either Ne4 to protect the queen (which is still hanging the queen) or more likely Qh4 to GTFO, at which point Qxd2N finally happens, ending the skirmish with black down only 3, while white is also only down 3. White playing Ng2 to block check is also a valid possibility, though it opens up the possibility of Nf3+. The black knight is protected by the queen, but the king is more important. I find Rxf3N the likely response, and as the white queen is also protecting f3, and the black queen is also under attack, requiring Qh4 to GTFO, leaving both sides down 3 pawns. I'm sure someone smarter than me could activate the d4 bishop, or make Rac8 work, to limit white's moves, but I just don't see the time. Any wasted move leads to a piece getting captured.
Great video! I have never even considered overloading before but it makes a whole lot of sense in retrospect! I will definitely be more mindful of this moving forward 😊
at 3:19, Qg3 probably wasn't the best move, instead, you should've moved Bf3, so that in the end you don't end up with Bishop vs bishop, and now you end up with Queen vs Bishop.
I really like how you explain things. I'm learning shogi and I'm not a good chess player, but the concept can work in shogi as well and it's just such a good way of explaining things. Thanks a lot.
@@rapperx9820 Not arguing... but I was thinking the same and cant see what you mean... would you be willing to explain for those that cant read the letter+number part?... step 1 I get as Bishop to e3 (black bishop takes white bishop) but lost on step 2
@@allenstone9170 No problem. Sorry if my englisch isn't perfect, I am from Germany and still learning in school. After you took the bishop your opponent takes your queen instead of your bishop. You have to take the queen back with you pawn and now your opponent just takes you bishop back with his pawn. Yyou didn't win anything but even damaged your pawn structure and strengthened your opponent's by creating a double pawn yourself and dissolving your opponent's
8:56 pawn to h5 works too because it does the same thing wherever the queen moves black deliver checkmate or lose the queen and I think it way better to win the game with a simple pawn move
5:00 In this position what sticks out to me is Nf2+ which forces a Knight for Rook trade. I don’t know if that’s actually a good trade though since Black is down a piece and the Knight is very active.
I think is because the mate threat forces the queen to move to e2, making the overload tactic available again after taking white's bishop in d2 with the knight, attacking the rook and forcing it to take with queen(losing another bishop) or move the rook and retreating the knight for a full piece advantage, but maybe an engine can calculate it more and say that is better to go for the fork. Is a complicated position for white to defend nevertheless.
I would argue the last begginer puzzle is intermediate since if you take with bishop first rather than queen white can get out with a trade rather than the loss of a piece (ignore bishop, capture queen), this doesn't work if the queen captures since then the queen is more valuable than the bishop.
white has -way- more material and would love to make that trade into an end game EDIT: given it's king safety i mean, this would be a good trade for white. it needs to trade pieces and regain safety.
Yeah, I was waiting for him to talk about that, then trying to work out what the problem is that means it's a bad idea I think the point is bishop takes is also threatening checkmate, but instead of rook for knight it is bishop for rook and a pawn, so a slightly better trade, which still allows the second tactic of a fork if nothing changes
You're not winning a full rook. You're winning an exchange, and since you're already down a piece, I wouldn't say you're necessarily winning at the end.
i love these types of videos where you explain one concept in a good amount of depth with several examples. would love to see videos on strategic concepts as well as tactical ones. keep up the good work!
Great job! although I have noticed at 3:20 you could have taken the f pawn fifth your bishop and then you loose way less material, because you still get the same material you just loose left.
no. because if you play bischop takes bishop first. doe does NOT take your bishop with his pawn. instead he will take your queen with his one. than ur take back his queen with your pawn. and at that point that pawn that was protecting both is attacking your bischop and so he takes is. so instead of the +3 material you have now you will end up even
To find some of these moves I use the checklist: checks, captures, and attacks and by examining all of these avaible options I am able to find a move that works well
Great video, in-depth explanations, superb examples/ illustrations. Nelson, I wouldn't be surprised if you were once a teacher! Apart from the tactic: overloading, this video also has some element of another tactic called: deflection! Thumbs up Nelson
3:08 I think that puzzle was a bit too easy; I didn't even notice the overload but there was no way for black to save their queen (no checks, no way to escape) so a desperado queen trade is the obvious best move even if you don't notice that it's actually winning a bishop. 6:48 And yet, on the advanced one, I saw it right away. That's devious, because trying to save the queen just blunders forced mate. 8:28 ...Never mind; completely missed Knight blocks as a response to queen takes bishop with check.
5:27 there are 2 ways to checkmate actually, if the h5 pawn takes g6 pawn is check, then queen g7 has to take but queen g4 takes queen g7 would mean another check, then the king h7 has to move to g8 or h8 but white's queen at g7 goes to h7 and checkmate. and the other checkmate nelson already explained it
You can just move the king back then, which lets you take the rook f8. So the queen would have to take the rook, but the pawn would be blocking white queen from putting pressure on the king.
at 5:20 - couldn't you just play Knight to F2 (fork queen and king) and force black to trade their rook for your knight, instead of just taking the pawn? @Chess Vibes
12:53 my idea in the last puzzle was f8=Q, black has to take,bxc5 threatening a checkmate and attacking the rook and winning it, after they defend Nc6, but while writing this I realized that they can go Rf7 and it's defended. We've got nothing. I'll see the first move and try to solve from there. The puzzle is absolutely fascinating. I considered sacking my bishop, but I didn't see the follow up pining sacrifice. Also Queen against 3 pieces seems like a difficult endgame. In a real tournament I managed to promote a queen but sacrificing one of my two pawns, but couldn't checkmate with the queen against a knight. Would be happy if Nelson covered the queen vs knight endgame so I wouldn't be embarrassed after 50 moves of shuffling.
15:04 wait in f4 can force the rook to not kill the bishop because if it is you will loss the pawn in c5 and if it takes the pawn then put the rook in g1 so that need to move the bishop but cant because you will be take control the lane 1 and if he put the bishop in r2 then put the rook in b1 and nothing will stop that or just kill it with the king from the first place
4:44 Instead of the bishop taking the pawn, why not fork the king and queen with knight to f2 and then when the rook takes knight you can take the rook with the queen and get the rook? Or is it better to threaten checkmate rightaway. The bishop move setting up that is available regardless right? Or more likely I'm missing something obvious and one of the replies can tell me
6:39 I did wonder how what happens if Black responds to 1. Rxf8 with Rg5. In that case, though, there's the Zwischenzug hg+, and Black has to recapture with the queen. Then 3. Bxg6+, and next move, White moves his queen off the g-file. (1 ... Rxh5+ is handled by 2. Qxh5; the pawn at g6 is pinned, and Black still can't take the rook!) 9:35 This looks more like a rook deflection (or removing the guard) than an overloading situation to me. 14:38 I saw 1. b5+ Kb6 2. Bxc5+ didn't see the followup after Kxc5, either, so I thought about the alternative 1. f8Q Rxf8 2. Bxc5, attacking the rook and threatening Ra7 mate. The problem is that Black can play Rf7 and stop both threats.
4:59 he mist knight to f2 (Nf2) forking the queen and king and the only logical move is to take with the rook but the black queen can capure it on the next move
4:45 I think i would have placed the knight in F2 to fork the king and the queen, and white take my knight with the rook and i take the rook with my queen. Is that a good move ?
for 3:09 I'd say Bxd3 is better because it wins without trading queens. Also, 4:58, after Qb3+, Ka1, Nc2+ forks the queen and king and forces Rxc2, and you win the rook.
For the last beginner puzzle, u can’t do Bxe3 1st cuz white will just take your queen 1st, forcing u to trade queens, and then white can take your bishop with pawn
Nelson in the last postion if the black rook takes our rook when we play rook g5 then we promote, then there is going to be a queen for white against a rook, knight and bishop for black and when you add up the material black has the advantage.
Black is in check, and white can take the knight after the check. But even better, you can force the win of at least a rook after a series of checks due to how scattered black's pieces are.
5:20 wouldn’t the best move be to move the knight to b7 forking the queen and the kinda and forcing him to take with the rook? it’s a win win weather they block with the knight or move the king
3:15 I'm trying to understand... Why take with the queen first instead of the bishop? Couldn't you apply the same strategy, but take the bishop first, lose yours and win the queen without losing yours?
chess variant idea: name: Reverse Chess (idk if theres a game called reverse chess already) goal: get your pieces in the order normal chess starts movement:u can take normally. en peasant is not allowed. pawns can move backwards -diagonally -vertically king can move into check and u can capture the king by moving a piece like a knight u can then put a piece where the knight last was -same with bishop, pawns, queen and king if the pawn moves to the its right/left diagonally the opponent must replace it instantly with a his/her piece if u want to replace a piece that takes away ur turn -being forced to wont
Yup. If queen doesn’t take the rook on f8, then you take on g6 with check using the bishop, black queen has to take, then recapture using the white queen. Black king can’t take as the queen is protected by the pawn, and can’t move back to h8 because of the rook on f8
3:15 why would you trade queens here as opposed to simply capturing the bishop? that way if the opponent tried to take the bishop back with the pawn the queen would be hanging
In the last beginner puzzle, i see a move that i guess can be better, Bxe3, cause of the pawn takes they lose their Queen, and same time is attacking 2 pawns.
For the last beginner puzzle, u can’t take bishop 1st cuz white will take your queen instead of recapturing with pawn, and u would have to recapture white’s queen, and then white has time to take your bishop with pawn.
How do I improve “board vision”? Most puzzles I do only have a few pieces on the board. How can I improve vision earlier in the game when most pieces are still on the board? (For example, at 2:40 in this video.)
My trick is to stand up, take a walk, look at board from the side and if my opponent isn't at the board I look at it from his perspective. You will be amazed of how much you now will see. Anatoly Karpov used to look at the display board when playing black, to see it from white's setup.
4:59 isn't knight g2 the best move to win a Rook since it has to take to not lose the queen Bishop takes on f3 wins a Pawn but white can play Queen to e2 and everything holds
3:12 why not start by taking the bishop? Of course the opponent isn't just going to blunder their queen but wouldn't it leave you in a comparable or better position?
It doesn’t leave you in that much of a better position. All you’re doing is trading materials and getting your queen near whites king. Doing his method allows you to be up a bishop which I think is a much better position
Yes, I just made a comment to Nelson about that: "12:24 I saw the "winning sequence" 1.b5+ Kb6 2.Bxc5+ Kxc5 3.Rg5 but wasn't sure if still winning. What happens if black 14:09 takes the Rook? 3...Rxg5 4.f8Q+ Kc4 5.Qxd8 and now there is a Q+p vs R+B. But there is a better move for white than taking Nd8. After 5.Qf4+ Rook on g5 hangs and Q+p vs N+B will win. Though I think you should have mentioned this in the video."
very nice video. I didn't quite manage to solve the puzzle that was before the last one but was quite pleased with myself seeing the tactic in the final puzzle. Of course if I had that position in a game and I had just a minute on the clock then I'd be screwed
I think forking with knight on 1st intermediate puzzle is better as it creates checkmate and queen capture threat and if black defends properly we can get extra rook
This was my solution to the last puzzle: bishop to c5. Black's best move would probably be knight to e6, making a triple fork between your bishop, your rook, and the queen you're trying to get. You then bring the rook to g6 and pin the knight to his king, and he captures your pawn at f7 with his rook, and you capture his knight at e6 with your rook, putting him in check which forces his king to b7. He has a king, a rook, and a bishop. You have a king, a pawn, a rook, a bishop, and better field position. It's not as good a solution as the one in the video but I think it is a solution nonetheless. If there's an interstellar chess wizard grandmaster heavyweight champion of the galaxy who can explain to me what an imbecile I am for missing the fact that I just blundered my king, I'd love to hear it.
Qf2 also looks pretty good to me. We threaten Ng3# and if white plays Rxg2 we play Kxg2+ and trade Queen and Knight for Queen and rook. The only other move that doesn't look bad to me is Kf5.
Day 2 As always, a amazing video course! Try this please You make a wheel with 3 move, 1 capture and check. Try to do the action fulfilled by the wheel. Congratulations on 200k subs!
1. It's better to trade pieces when you're up, so getting that extra queen trade if good for you. 2. It doesn't work, since white takes your queen instead, and you have to take back, and they take back your bishop, and you don't even win anything.
In the second puzzle why is it not viable to capture the black knight with the white queen first? Then black takes white queen with black queen, then white moves white knight to take black bishop, but also put black king in check, black moves king and then white takes black rook as well meaning they took knight bishop and rook and lost a queen. Is that worse than just trading white knight and black bishop and capturing black knight?
Greed has lost more good positions than anything else. Be a surfer, don't ride the wave all the way into the beach, take your piece advantage and go back to catch the next wave.
@@blacksss4715 White trades queens. Black has to take the White queen, White now has the tempo and the pawn can take the bishop. Back to Square One, except that Black's superior pawn structure is no more.
with the example starting ~3min mark, why not have Bxe3 first, with the hope that you come out of the exchange with your Q still on the board rather than your B?
5:04 Knight f2 Royal fork causes them to sac their rook what is wrong with that? Also ty king is trapped and we threaten mate with the queen on h2 next move
"If you hear screaming, I do apologize" is probably the funniest thing he's said in these videos about chess.
I was like “ you have a baby ? “
Bro has some midgets trapped in the basement
"WE" have a baby is funny
I've never heard of this "defending your pieces" concept
In all seriousness though, great video, as usual!
@@stevenbrule5285 Defending is a really common concept though. When a piece is defended, it means "no matter what takes it, I have a piece to take back" and usually to stop opponent from taking it. BTW, it's usually impractical to defend a queen, since they are too valuable, so trading a queen for opponent's other pieces are often a bad trade
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@@張謙-n3l woooosh incoming
never heard of it as well, but as the thumbnail suggests i’ll stop doing it after i learn what it is
Nelson, you have a great pedagogical approach. I know about this tactic, but it makes it so much clearer in my mind. I always just think of check mates, forks, pins, skewers, and batteries, and that's basically all i'm looking for, despite knowing this tactic. But now adding this to my toolbox, I feel like it'll be really helpful. Just wanted to let you know I think you're a great teacher :)
3:48 Rather than doing what I was supposed to do, I found queen to G6. This forces the king into the corner, than checking with the knight makes the rook take. This wins a rook and pawn of free.
If only that was the point of the puzzle.
Edit: I guess it was kinda the point of the puzzle. I wrote this before I unpaused.
You forget about White's queen bro
This move is impossible.
I believe you mean G3
2:07 - That puzzle also happens to be one of the most concrete 'board vision' examples I've seen
I like how you let us pause to try to solve them first, instead of going straight in to the explanation
Love conceptual educational videos like this! Super helpful
@Chess Vibes 12:24 I saw the "winning sequence" 1.b5+ Kb6 2.Bxc5+ Kxc5 3.Rg5 but wasn't sure if still winning. What happens if black 14:09 takes the Rook? 3...Rxg5 4.f8Q+ Kc4 5.Qxd8 and now there is a Q+p vs R+B. Although there is a better move for white than taking Nd8. After 5.Qf4+ Rook on g5 hangs and Q+p vs N+B will win. Though I think you should have mentioned this in the video.
Hey Nelson, can you please start posting links to the boards you show? It'd be nice to do some more analysis, explore other lines and see why ideas don't work, and it's a lot of effort to set up the board manually each time. Thanks!
4:00 Okay, for this one, I found black Nxd2B, then white either does Qxd2N or Bxh3Q. If white does either of these things, then the piece they didn't take goes xf1R, at which point white's response is Nxf1. The result of this battle, being black being down 12 pawns, and white being down 8.
Another possible response to Nxd2 for white is Rg2, at which black can do Qh4 attacking the hanging rook, or Qg3+ forking the king and rook.
Qh4 is met with Qxd2N, protecting the rook once again, or more brazenly, Rh2, attacking the queen. Qxh2R leads to Kxh2Q, ending the skirmish with black once again being down 12 pawns, but white only being down 3.
Qg3+ is met with either Kh1 which isn't great, Rg2 which leads to either Ne4 to protect the queen (which is still hanging the queen) or more likely Qh4 to GTFO, at which point Qxd2N finally happens, ending the skirmish with black down only 3, while white is also only down 3.
White playing Ng2 to block check is also a valid possibility, though it opens up the possibility of Nf3+. The black knight is protected by the queen, but the king is more important. I find Rxf3N the likely response, and as the white queen is also protecting f3, and the black queen is also under attack, requiring Qh4 to GTFO, leaving both sides down 3 pawns.
I'm sure someone smarter than me could activate the d4 bishop, or make Rac8 work, to limit white's moves, but I just don't see the time. Any wasted move leads to a piece getting captured.
I used to teach chess on schools, and overload and keeping an eye on the whole board were two common topics I tried to show to the children!
Great video! I have never even considered overloading before but it makes a whole lot of sense in retrospect! I will definitely be more mindful of this moving forward 😊
at 3:19, Qg3 probably wasn't the best move, instead, you should've moved Bf3, so that in the end you don't end up with Bishop vs bishop, and now you end up with Queen vs Bishop.
5:22 This still works. If you play Nf2+ you get a rook for a knight.
Yes I don't really get why Nf2+ is not shown as the way to go in the video...
I really like how you explain things. I'm learning shogi and I'm not a good chess player, but the concept can work in shogi as well and it's just such a good way of explaining things. Thanks a lot.
Ah yes. Shogi is awesome
You might want to check out Crazyhouse, which is like shogi with chess pieces.
3:01 Or, if you take the bishop first, and the pawn takes back, you win a queen! Great lesson as always
u don't win a queen, ur just up a bishop cuz white would never take with the pawn if it means sacrificing the queen.
No.
1. Be3
2. Dxh4, xh4
3. xe3
You dont win anything
@@rapperx9820 Not arguing... but I was thinking the same and cant see what you mean... would you be willing to explain for those that cant read the letter+number part?... step 1 I get as Bishop to e3 (black bishop takes white bishop) but lost on step 2
@@allenstone9170 No problem. Sorry if my englisch isn't perfect, I am from Germany and still learning in school.
After you took the bishop your opponent takes your queen instead of your bishop. You have to take the queen back with you pawn and now your opponent just takes you bishop back with his pawn. Yyou didn't win anything but even damaged your pawn structure and strengthened your opponent's by creating a double pawn yourself and dissolving your opponent's
@@rapperx9820 I see it now.. thank you for explaining and with a kind response
8:56 pawn to h5 works too because it does the same thing wherever the queen moves black deliver checkmate or lose the queen and I think it way better to win the game with a simple pawn move
Actually, white can play Qc4 but it was a nice try
5:00 In this position what sticks out to me is Nf2+ which forces a Knight for Rook trade. I don’t know if that’s actually a good trade though since Black is down a piece and the Knight is very active.
that is what im thinkin
I think is because the mate threat forces the queen to move to e2, making the overload tactic available again after taking white's bishop in d2 with the knight, attacking the rook and forcing it to take with queen(losing another bishop) or move the rook and retreating the knight for a full piece advantage, but maybe an engine can calculate it more and say that is better to go for the fork. Is a complicated position for white to defend nevertheless.
Very good video… never thought about this but in hindsight it’s obvious. This is why I love these videos, you explain things that we should know
I would argue the last begginer puzzle is intermediate since if you take with bishop first rather than queen white can get out with a trade rather than the loss of a piece (ignore bishop, capture queen), this doesn't work if the queen captures since then the queen is more valuable than the bishop.
5:00 I was looking at Nf2+, as that will force the rook to take the knight and then be taken by the queen. It’s a forced knight-for-rook trade.
Yeah that is also what I am looking at
white has -way- more material and would love to make that trade into an end game
EDIT: given it's king safety i mean, this would be a good trade for white. it needs to trade pieces and regain safety.
4:49 if king H1 then we have Nf2 fork and we are winning a rook
Yeah, I was waiting for him to talk about that, then trying to work out what the problem is that means it's a bad idea
I think the point is bishop takes is also threatening checkmate, but instead of rook for knight it is bishop for rook and a pawn, so a slightly better trade, which still allows the second tactic of a fork if nothing changes
@@grapetoad6595 or you know he just wanted to stay on track for overload
You're not winning a full rook. You're winning an exchange, and since you're already down a piece, I wouldn't say you're necessarily winning at the end.
@@danielyuan9862 Why are you down a piece by doing that?
i love these types of videos where you explain one concept in a good amount of depth with several examples. would love to see videos on strategic concepts as well as tactical ones. keep up the good work!
Great job! although I have noticed at 3:20 you could have taken the f pawn fifth your bishop and then you loose way less material, because you still get the same material you just loose left.
What on earth are you talking about
Buddy, are you confused because, the white pawn are actually heading down, because white starts at 1st and 2nd column
no. because if you play bischop takes bishop first. doe does NOT take your bishop with his pawn. instead he will take your queen with his one. than ur take back his queen with your pawn. and at that point that pawn that was protecting both is attacking your bischop and so he takes is. so instead of the +3 material you have now you will end up even
To find some of these moves I use the checklist: checks, captures, and attacks and by examining all of these avaible options I am able to find a move that works well
Great video, in-depth explanations, superb examples/ illustrations. Nelson, I wouldn't be surprised if you were once a teacher! Apart from the tactic: overloading, this video also has some element of another tactic called: deflection! Thumbs up Nelson
3:08 I think that puzzle was a bit too easy; I didn't even notice the overload but there was no way for black to save their queen (no checks, no way to escape) so a desperado queen trade is the obvious best move even if you don't notice that it's actually winning a bishop.
6:48 And yet, on the advanced one, I saw it right away. That's devious, because trying to save the queen just blunders forced mate.
8:28 ...Never mind; completely missed Knight blocks as a response to queen takes bishop with check.
Thanks. This observation (overload tactic) has added a new layer to my decision making, when playing my next move.
This is awesome. I just started noticing this in my games! Your vid made it so much easier to understand! Thank you!
5:27 there are 2 ways to checkmate actually, if the h5 pawn takes g6 pawn is check, then queen g7 has to take but queen g4 takes queen g7 would mean another check, then the king h7 has to move to g8 or h8 but white's queen at g7 goes to h7 and checkmate. and the other checkmate nelson already explained it
You can just move the king back then, which lets you take the rook f8. So the queen would have to take the rook, but the pawn would be blocking white queen from putting pressure on the king.
9:34 u could put the queen at h5 and it will be still defending the knight
Yes, but black's pawn just takes. And even if there is nothing that can take the queen, black can still play Rh4, and the queen is lost.
at 5:20 - couldn't you just play Knight to F2 (fork queen and king) and force black to trade their rook for your knight, instead of just taking the pawn? @Chess Vibes
2:51 There's a subtlety here. 1 ... Bxe3? 2 Qxh4! gxh4 (else White saves wQ) 3 fxe3 and it's just Q-swap and B-swap.
12:53 my idea in the last puzzle was f8=Q, black has to take,bxc5 threatening a checkmate and attacking the rook and winning it, after they defend Nc6, but while writing this I realized that they can go Rf7 and it's defended. We've got nothing. I'll see the first move and try to solve from there.
The puzzle is absolutely fascinating. I considered sacking my bishop, but I didn't see the follow up pining sacrifice. Also Queen against 3 pieces seems like a difficult endgame. In a real tournament I managed to promote a queen but sacrificing one of my two pawns, but couldn't checkmate with the queen against a knight. Would be happy if Nelson covered the queen vs knight endgame so I wouldn't be embarrassed after 50 moves of shuffling.
Great video!! It is not only nice puzzle, but also a fun way to learn interesting and useful chess tactics. Well done!
At the first intermediate puzzle, after Qg3+ - Kh1 Couldnt you play Nf2+ and be up an Exchange after Rxf2 - Qxf2?
at 5:00 wouldn't the best move be to play Nf2+ to check and fork the queen? Then rook takes Rxf2 and black queen takes rook Qxf2.
15:04 wait in f4 can force the rook to not kill the bishop
because if it is you will loss the pawn in c5 and if it takes the pawn
then put the rook in g1 so that need to move the bishop but cant because
you will be take control the lane 1 and
if he put the bishop in r2 then
put the rook in b1 and nothing will stop that or
just kill it with the king from the first place
Thanks! Keep up the good work.
Thanks Stavros, will do!
4:44 Instead of the bishop taking the pawn, why not fork the king and queen with knight to f2 and then when the rook takes knight you can take the rook with the queen and get the rook? Or is it better to threaten checkmate rightaway. The bishop move setting up that is available regardless right? Or more likely I'm missing something obvious and one of the replies can tell me
6:39 I did wonder how what happens if Black responds to 1. Rxf8 with Rg5. In that case, though, there's the Zwischenzug hg+, and Black has to recapture with the queen. Then 3. Bxg6+, and next move, White moves his queen off the g-file. (1 ... Rxh5+ is handled by 2. Qxh5; the pawn at g6 is pinned, and Black still can't take the rook!)
9:35 This looks more like a rook deflection (or removing the guard) than an overloading situation to me.
14:38 I saw 1. b5+ Kb6 2. Bxc5+ didn't see the followup after Kxc5, either, so I thought about the alternative 1. f8Q Rxf8 2. Bxc5, attacking the rook and threatening Ra7 mate. The problem is that Black can play Rf7 and stop both threats.
I solved all of the master puzzle but couldn't solve the intermadiate and advanced ones.
4:59 he mist knight to f2 (Nf2) forking the queen and king and the only logical move is to take with the rook but the black queen can capure it on the next move
4:45 I think i would have placed the knight in F2 to fork the king and the queen, and white take my knight with the rook and i take the rook with my queen. Is that a good move ?
Great tutorial and great examples. Love these tactics videos! Please keep making them!!
missed a few of the advanced ones. but I will gladly take pride in getting the entirety of the master one lol
for 3:09 I'd say Bxd3 is better because it wins without trading queens.
Also, 4:58, after Qb3+, Ka1, Nc2+ forks the queen and king and forces Rxc2, and you win the rook.
For the last beginner puzzle, u can’t do Bxe3 1st cuz white will just take your queen 1st, forcing u to trade queens, and then white can take your bishop with pawn
Nelson in the last postion if the black rook takes our rook when we play rook g5 then we promote, then there is going to be a queen for white against a rook, knight and bishop for black and when you add up the material black has the advantage.
Black is in check, and white can take the knight after the check. But even better, you can force the win of at least a rook after a series of checks due to how scattered black's pieces are.
5:20 wouldn’t the best move be to move the knight to b7 forking the queen and the kinda and forcing him to take with the rook? it’s a win win weather they block with the knight or move the king
The rook distracts the queen, is how I think most would describe the tactic.
4:46 playing Nf6 forks the king and queen, winning the exchange of the rook
on 4:47 cant you just fork the king and the queen by moving Knight under the rook, then if he takes with rook you can take the rook with queen
8:17 what to do if white moves queen to e2?
Thanks for the tip! This video is the reason Overload is in my Tactics 101 video.
3:15 I'm trying to understand...
Why take with the queen first instead of the bishop? Couldn't you apply the same strategy, but take the bishop first, lose yours and win the queen without losing yours?
If you take with the bishop first, white is gonna take your queen instead of the bishop.
@@kogmawmain8872 Ah, I see. And that would result in a double trade instead of a bishop win.
Thanks!
chess variant idea:
name: Reverse Chess (idk if theres a game called reverse chess already)
goal: get your pieces in the order normal chess starts
movement:u can take normally.
en peasant is not allowed.
pawns can move backwards
-diagonally
-vertically
king can move into check and u can capture the king
by moving a piece like a knight u can then put a piece where the knight last was
-same with bishop, pawns, queen and king
if the pawn moves to the its right/left diagonally the opponent must replace it instantly with a his/her piece
if u want to replace a piece that takes away ur turn
-being forced to wont
Well presented; thank you for sharing.
In the puzzle on-screen at 6:28, white can take the rook and still has a very dangerous mating idea with the bishop and queen
Yup. If queen doesn’t take the rook on f8, then you take on g6 with check using the bishop, black queen has to take, then recapture using the white queen. Black king can’t take as the queen is protected by the pawn, and can’t move back to h8 because of the rook on f8
3:15 why would you trade queens here as opposed to simply capturing the bishop? that way if the opponent tried to take the bishop back with the pawn the queen would be hanging
In the last beginner puzzle, i see a move that i guess can be better, Bxe3, cause of the pawn takes they lose their Queen, and same time is attacking 2 pawns.
Oh Also on the First intermediate puzzle If king moves Knight f2 is winning a rook for black
For the last beginner puzzle, u can’t take bishop 1st cuz white will take your queen instead of recapturing with pawn, and u would have to recapture white’s queen, and then white has time to take your bishop with pawn.
How do I improve “board vision”? Most puzzles I do only have a few pieces on the board. How can I improve vision earlier in the game when most pieces are still on the board? (For example, at 2:40 in this video.)
My trick is to stand up, take a walk, look at board from the side and if my opponent isn't at the board I look at it from his perspective. You will be amazed of how much you now will see. Anatoly Karpov used to look at the display board when playing black, to see it from white's setup.
For the final puzzle, wouldn't black just take the rook, and then be left with a bishop and rook vs queen and pawn?
5:03 what about KNf2? forking the king and queen, forcing white to capture with rook?
4:59 isn't knight g2 the best move to win a Rook since it has to take to not lose the queen
Bishop takes on f3 wins a Pawn but white can play Queen to e2 and everything holds
5:04 you can fork queen and queen with kf2 , rf2 and then queen takes rook
in 5:26 if king h1 then you can move knight f2 too
9:01 the queen is also defending g2 but there's nothing to take it. Also isn't rook a4 deflection tactic?
3:12 why not start by taking the bishop? Of course the opponent isn't just going to blunder their queen but wouldn't it leave you in a comparable or better position?
I was about to ask the same thing and if he moved the queen to protect the pawn we can just take the pawn in the front or the one above our queen
It doesn’t leave you in that much of a better position. All you’re doing is trading materials and getting your queen near whites king. Doing his method allows you to be up a bishop which I think is a much better position
If black takes the bishop first then white takes the queen not the bishop so in the end you trade queen and bishop for queen and bishop
@@kristapsberzins9822 oh lmao for some reason in my mind after the queen trade it would be black's turn, I'm stupid.
Very good Advanced and Master puzzles. Thanks for this video, it is really useful.
This tactic is super cool! I have to look out for these!
On that last one it's Q+P v R+B+N, white is down material and the second pawn may win but it's not clear to us C ;players.
Yes, I just made a comment to Nelson about that:
"12:24 I saw the "winning sequence" 1.b5+ Kb6 2.Bxc5+ Kxc5 3.Rg5 but wasn't sure if still winning. What happens if black 14:09 takes the Rook? 3...Rxg5 4.f8Q+ Kc4 5.Qxd8 and now there is a Q+p vs R+B. But there is a better move for white than taking Nd8. After 5.Qf4+ Rook on g5 hangs and Q+p vs N+B will win. Though I think you should have mentioned this in the video."
3:16 I would take the bishop so I still have a queen
You won't have a queen because white is just gonna take it with their queen.
After u take their bishop, they’ll take ur queen forcing 2 trades
1:48 that Bishop on e7 is the saddest Bishop I have ever seen in my life!
Why in 6:40 capture with a pawn on g6 wouldn't do the job done? After that black has to capture with a Queen and white do the same.
At 5:00 wouldn't Knight f2 be the best move?
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very nice video. I didn't quite manage to solve the puzzle that was before the last one but was quite pleased with myself seeing the tactic in the final puzzle. Of course if I had that position in a game and I had just a minute on the clock then I'd be screwed
I think forking with knight on 1st intermediate puzzle is better as it creates checkmate and queen capture threat and if black defends properly we can get extra rook
At 5:00 when white king goes to h1 why not fork the king and queen with knight f2 to trade the rook?
What software are you using to show this?
This was my solution to the last puzzle: bishop to c5. Black's best move would probably be knight to e6, making a triple fork between your bishop, your rook, and the queen you're trying to get. You then bring the rook to g6 and pin the knight to his king, and he captures your pawn at f7 with his rook, and you capture his knight at e6 with your rook, putting him in check which forces his king to b7. He has a king, a rook, and a bishop. You have a king, a pawn, a rook, a bishop, and better field position. It's not as good a solution as the one in the video but I think it is a solution nonetheless. If there's an interstellar chess wizard grandmaster heavyweight champion of the galaxy who can explain to me what an imbecile I am for missing the fact that I just blundered my king, I'd love to hear it.
If I was black and my opponent played bishop c5 I would just take the pawn with my rook. This takes the pawn without sacrificing the knight
5:00 I think that Nf2+ is the best move, since it either wins a queen, or the exchange.
i agree this wins the rook or the queen for a knight
Qf2 also looks pretty good to me. We threaten Ng3# and if white plays Rxg2 we play Kxg2+ and trade Queen and Knight for Queen and rook. The only other move that doesn't look bad to me is Kf5.
5:20 Fork the king and queen so there is a forced rook trading for your knight.
Day 2
As always, a amazing video course!
Try this please
You make a wheel with 3 move, 1 capture and check. Try to do the action fulfilled by the wheel.
Congratulations on 200k subs!
Yes, he deserves the 200k
Who would you play this against? Probably too tough against martinbot, you would have to play against FRED to make it even......
You like buzz?
puzzle 11:00 you could block the check mate with your queen
then you lose the queen
true, but in the end it doesn't really matter what you play as white. After Rd1 the game is over and black wins.
In the second beginner example, isn't it better to take the bishop first? Then your queen is still on the board
No because queen takes queen and its basically a trade and you get no advantage
1. It's better to trade pieces when you're up, so getting that extra queen trade if good for you.
2. It doesn't work, since white takes your queen instead, and you have to take back, and they take back your bishop, and you don't even win anything.
9:38
What happens if you go queen to f3?
I mean it’s guarded so the only thing is to trade rook for queen
11:11 After Bishop takes G2, wouldn't Rook Takes A2 Check be a better follow-up than Queen D2 check, or am I missing something?
What are you _not_ missing is the better question. Or, rather, what does your move do in the first place?
In the second puzzle why is it not viable to capture the black knight with the white queen first? Then black takes white queen with black queen, then white moves white knight to take black bishop, but also put black king in check, black moves king and then white takes black rook as well meaning they took knight bishop and rook and lost a queen. Is that worse than just trading white knight and black bishop and capturing black knight?
5:17 isn't bishop to b7 a good move
Coz if the bishop on d2 takes, then the queen can take the knight
4:58 I would have forked the king and the queen with the knight
The Rock basically has to take and we can simply Take it with Threads on the C pawn
11:35 Can't the white king go to f1 which will protect the rook, and will also not be in check?
4:59 Nf2 wins a rook, I think
Tysm this is going to help me so much
In puzzle 3, I think it’s better to take the bishop first
That's what I was saying, if white takes your Bishop back with pawn then u win a full queen
Greed has lost more good positions than anything else. Be a surfer, don't ride the wave all the way into the beach, take your piece advantage and go back to catch the next wave.
@@blacksss4715 White trades queens. Black has to take the White queen, White now has the tempo and the pawn can take the bishop. Back to Square One, except that Black's superior pawn structure is no more.
8:10 i saw rook to a5, and if the bishop takes, we fork the king and queen
At 5:43 would it not be better to take with the pawn?
at 5:00, horse to c7. rook must take, then queen takes rook.
with the example starting ~3min mark, why not have Bxe3 first, with the hope that you come out of the exchange with your Q still on the board rather than your B?
5:04
Knight f2
Royal fork causes them to sac their rook what is wrong with that? Also ty king is trapped and we threaten mate with the queen on h2 next move