In my youth I was a brilliant chess player. Now I'm in my sixties and haven't played for years, however, watching your channel has made me love chess again. Thank you!
@@brianbeowulfhazelett8931 now i read more comments and get to know that if u play g2 to g4 he will do En passant (taking your pawn on g4 by moving h4 to g3 and checking your king) It is a chess rule very less peole know
@@shoopi1234 Yes I saw one that required each under promotion depending on what the opponent did. It was published a year ago with the title: 5 Chess Problems I Promise Will Blow Your Mind.
That is what I thought since it would put the other king in check and then get the pawns into a queen to check him again. And it would stop the other queen from doing anything and constantly being put into check.
What amazes me is who composes these puzzles, and how the hell do they do it? How many hours does it take to test all the possible moves and narrow it down to just one solution?!
One passed white pawn on 7th rank vs. a black one on the 2nd rank on a different file usually draws by force. And 3 queens is usually asking for stalemate
A chance to get 3 queens and yet the best White can do is stalemate or be perpetually checked if he does...🤣🤣...chess is funny like that sometimes. Nice puzzle, Nelson.
5:52 why you didn't move to Rh8 if that happenedes king must move to Kxg5 and then you move bishop to Bxf4 and the king must capture it, so it's a rook endgame. (white wins)
What if at 5:45 Black instead played Qe5+ (instead of Qf4+), couldn't black have forced a draw by checking between e5 and a1? Or did I miss something about that line?
i'm not very good at chess, but i think you could just block with pawn g3. if pawn takes Kg2. if queen takes then just Bg3. i didn't thought through it, but i think it should still be white winning. edit: it's just Be5 because now bishop is not defending g5 and therefore no stalemate. but maybe someone could tell me if pawn g3 would also work after Qf4. this is my idea instead of Kh1
I might just be missing something obvious, but how is 1:18 a stalemate, can't the Black King move to H6 (edit) nevermind realized the pawn is covering H6 lol, it's 3 in the morning so I'm tired
Why wasn't pawn to G3 explored? The king takes the pawn on G4, pawn moves to G8 and becomes a queen, simultaneously checking the king the via the diagonal, and black's queen cannot do anything about the check because it can't block the check. This would force the king to either go back to the h file (something that then would result in another check via the newly promoted queen moving to h8) or the f file (which then white would head to c8 and promote, checking the king and taking the queen) either way, white would win.
i was thinking about g3 too. but not this way. i think you got some notation typos in your description. there is no pawn on g4 to take after g3 despite the white king is still on h2. the promotable pawns are on the b,c and d file, so very unlikely a pawn will promote on g8.
Plz do more videos like this but "How to play as the Underdog" instead, it is way to ez to play as the winning side than at the loosing side. For example if White gets a rook, what is your best move to not loose :D
Coolio! I guess a lot of people think of choosing a Queen [I probably would!]. It's the affect language has on us too. 'Promote' maybe should be used as the norm, as 'queening' is the problem, innit?!
Why can't you win by moving Pawn G2->G4? This checks black, so black king moves to G5. Then, white can move pawn D7 to D8, promote to Queen, and check. Black is forced to move the king. Then, you move and promote another pawn of your choice.
No, it has finite possibilities. As long as you include the 50 move rule, there are a finite number of games. But it's a very large number and crucially not infinite.
Here a chess puzzle i made when i was bored. White’s Pieces: Knight on c4, Bishop on d4, 2 rooks on c3 and d3, and King on h1. Black’s Pieces: King on b8, and 3 pawns on a7, b7, and c7. White to move and win. Find Mate in 3.
This situation is logically possible but also so funny. Coz how would the white have 3 pawns on the 7th rank and leave to black to promote his own pawn ? Coz the simplest idea is that the first pawn to reach the 7th rank promotes before the other 2 and then goes on to stop the black pawn.
er, e5 and A1 instead ? Yep, if you take with a queen B5 is still protected thus another stalemate ... Try the same under-promotion but to a bishop but I guess black STILL has another move ...
Amazing stuff... I wish the last pawn would have promoted into knight, though. That would have been hilarious!
That's what I thought he was gonna do. 🤣🤣
@@johnathanpatrick6118 "Allumwandlung" I think would be the term.
Still pretty cool. In fact I think I saw more puzzles like the one you describe than a Bishop +2 Rook promotion
*rooks are something else to say as well to promote* !!
What I was expecting.
In my youth I was a brilliant chess player. Now I'm in my sixties and haven't played for years, however, watching your channel has made me love chess again. Thank you!
Whoever came up with this puzzle is a genius.
G2-G4 CM ONE MOVE
@@brianbeowulfhazelett8931 you might want to look up "en passant"
@@brianbeowulfhazelett8931 En Passant, not checkmate
@@brianbeowulfhazelett8931 wow, u just break the whole puzzle in one move
@@brianbeowulfhazelett8931 now i read more comments and get to know that if u play g2 to g4 he will do En passant (taking your pawn on g4 by moving h4 to g3 and checking your king) It is a chess rule very less peole know
I was hoping the third underpromotion would be the knight
I like how friends is in quotation marks 😂
I thought i am the only one noticing that
you know you can't flex out your ''Grandpa' haha
Damn, he knows I got no friends :/
The only way the puzzle could have been better is if you needed a knight as the last under promotion.
Agreed. I was a little disappointed when that didn't happen 😂
Puzzles that showcase every underpromotion are rare but we have seen quite a few of those on this channel I believe :)
@@shoopi1234 Yes I saw one that required each under promotion depending on what the opponent did. It was published a year ago with the title: 5 Chess Problems I Promise Will Blow Your Mind.
*could've looked better, still rook isn't a queen anyway
So, you like knight underpromotions, eh?
N7/PPPPPPPP/K1k3rB/b1pnnb1p/8/1r6/8/8 (FEN notation. William Shinkman (1908), corrected by A. Chéron)
I always learn a lot from these puzzles. Thank You Nelson!
Chess is not just a game, it's an art and a science.
was sure it was going to involve a forced en passant by pushing G2 > G4
That is what I thought since it would put the other king in check and then get the pawns into a queen to check him again. And it would stop the other queen from doing anything and constantly being put into check.
Then black plays G3 if white plays G4 , and ultimately black wins by giving multiple checks
G2G4
I was hoping the winning move would be g4 to provoke en passant
i think that just loses. En passant check then ...Qxc7 and black stops all of the pawns
1:55 "...and we can't ever get away from the Czechs!"
Those darn Czechs...
What amazes me is who composes these puzzles, and how the hell do they do it? How many hours does it take to test all the possible moves and narrow it down to just one solution?!
Mikhail Afanashievich Zinar
You go in reverse order. Create or find an easy puzzle, with some trick, and add previous layer to it. That is just one of the ways
4:32 2. d8Q Qxg2+!! 3. Kxg2 - stalemate.
One passed white pawn on 7th rank vs. a black one on the 2nd rank on a different file usually draws by force. And 3 queens is usually asking for stalemate
Was I missing something by moving the pawn to g4 initially?
A chance to get 3 queens and yet the best White can do is stalemate or be perpetually checked if he does...🤣🤣...chess is funny like that sometimes. Nice puzzle, Nelson.
Nice presentation. I still think stalemate is a stupid rule, but it does create some interesting and challenging situations.
I love these situations where you literally become too powerful to win the game. 😆
the video title is so relatable!!
4:17 Does only ... Qe1+ work, not ...Qa1+ as Qb1 creates a Mitrokhian deflection?
It would’ve been so poetic if the only way to solve the third pawn was to under-promote to a knight
Great! Now I just need friends.
White king: I love you, my queen, but you're just too powerful
Why doesn't white just move pawn to g4 isn't that checkmate or am I missing something?
I've wondered if there was ever a position where you should make a bishop or a rook. Well.
"Friends"?? 😢
I play chess because I don't have friends
Nah our bro hit us with the “friends” in the title
Seems to suggest that when considering promotion it should be looked at from lowest to highest rather than queen and down.
A bit of a bait and switch. The cover image had white's pawns already promoted.
At 4:26 Black has Q:g2+ with stalemate right around the corner)
Good catch, I forgot about the newly promoted queen protecting the g5 pawn.
Title says "friends" with quotation marks because it knows that we don't have real friends
What a strange game! Thank you, Nelson.
I would have moved the g2 pawn forward to put the black king in checkmate hoping the opponent is unaware of en passant
I would push the g pawn forwards two thus forcing en passant.
Deviously brilliant!
I figured it out the first 5 seconds. Because you don’t promote at all
5:52 why you didn't move to Rh8 if that happenedes king must move to Kxg5 and then you move bishop to Bxf4 and the king must capture it, so it's a rook endgame. (white wins)
white's king is in check ;)
Whew ! That one is a lot of work and playing it out !!
You can also push the g2 pawn to g4
I got the same idea. I wonder if something prevents this line ...
then black wins with hxg3+, Kxg3 Qg1+, Kf4 Qxg5+, Ke4 Qe7+, Kf4 Qd6+, Ke3 Qxc7
@mythbusters866 I messed up the notation
black can just en passant
What if at 5:45 Black instead played Qe5+ (instead of Qf4+), couldn't black have forced a draw by checking between e5 and a1? Or did I miss something about that line?
i'm not very good at chess, but i think you could just block with pawn g3. if pawn takes Kg2. if queen takes then just Bg3. i didn't thought through it, but i think it should still be white winning.
edit: it's just Be5 because now bishop is not defending g5 and therefore no stalemate. but maybe someone could tell me if pawn g3 would also work after Qf4. this is my idea instead of Kh1
Why not push the G pawn to G4 and then play it out from there? It's faster and less chances to screw up.
Black would play en passant with check
ok yeah I will use this to impress my “friends” later
Hi, and what happens if u move g2 to g4 ? Im noob so i want tu learn
Chess vibes may not be pregnant but his puzzler
6am comment be like
???
Black about the three queens be like: *we do not care*
ha! ha! ha! 😹🤪
And what if we push the g2 pawn to g4? And then we can promote the d7 pawn to a queen checking the king
I was looking at that, too. Looks like a winner.
I really did bite myself into this G4 to g2 forcing En Passant
“If you dont find this fashinating, maybe chess is not your thing” 😬
in the thumbnail it was checkmate in 1 for white cause it'd be queen to g4 mate
I might just be missing something obvious, but how is 1:18 a stalemate, can't the Black King move to H6
(edit) nevermind realized the pawn is covering H6 lol, it's 3 in the morning so I'm tired
5:36 what if queen go to g1
Also if the queen goes to f3 and the king goes back black goes back to c1 and keeps checking until the game becomes a draw
Would have liked to see why G4 didn’t work
...hxg3+ e.p.
(In layman's terms, Black takes en passant with check.)
Why wasn't pawn to G3 explored? The king takes the pawn on G4, pawn moves to G8 and becomes a queen, simultaneously checking the king the via the diagonal, and black's queen cannot do anything about the check because it can't block the check. This would force the king to either go back to the h file (something that then would result in another check via the newly promoted queen moving to h8) or the f file (which then white would head to c8 and promote, checking the king and taking the queen) either way, white would win.
i was thinking about g3 too. but not this way. i think you got some notation typos in your description. there is no pawn on g4 to take after g3 despite the white king is still on h2. the promotable pawns are on the b,c and d file, so very unlikely a pawn will promote on g8.
The pawn should become a rook
Plz do more videos like this but "How to play as the Underdog" instead, it is way to ez to play as the winning side than at the loosing side. For example if White gets a rook, what is your best move to not loose :D
Coolio! I guess a lot of people think of choosing a Queen [I probably would!]. It's the affect language has on us too. 'Promote' maybe should be used as the norm, as 'queening' is the problem, innit?!
AMAZING!
Thank you
what abt g4+? blacks only options are Kxg5 and hxg4 e.p., both of which remove the stalemate threat
The answer to all of these puzzles is to do the least obvious thing.
The problem with that is that there are alot of non obvious moves which you could make and you need to pick the right one
Wow nice puzzle!
Why can't you win by moving Pawn G2->G4? This checks black, so black king moves to G5. Then, white can move pawn D7 to D8, promote to Queen, and check. Black is forced to move the king. Then, you move and promote another pawn of your choice.
Black also has hg: en passant and check. Black then has eternal checks.
3:44 Qb2 is hard to find
I wonder whats happening with the 3 fisherman on puzzle Island 🤔
This is another example of how chess has infinite possibilites.
Well, technically speaking, no. However, the number of possibilities is bigger than the number of particles in the universe.
No, it has finite possibilities.
As long as you include the 50 move rule, there are a finite number of games.
But it's a very large number and crucially not infinite.
@@christopherheckman7957 my bad😓😓
Great Stuff
Crazy!!!😱😱😱😱😱😱
still think stalemate needs to be taken out of chess lol. its the only rule that makes 0 sense
Here a chess puzzle i made when i was bored.
White’s Pieces: Knight on c4, Bishop on d4, 2 rooks on c3 and d3, and King on h1.
Black’s Pieces: King on b8, and 3 pawns on a7, b7, and c7.
White to move and win.
Find Mate in 3.
@mythbusters866nice! What happens if Ka8?
@mythbusters866 nice! And what happens if Kc8?
@mythbusters866 nice 👍
Bxa7, Kxa7 Ra3+,Kb8 Rd8#
@@CMPomozi 👍
Please explain why moving the pawn on G2 to G4 won't win the game?
hxg3+ en passant and any reply allows Qxc7 and all the pawns fall because there are no pawn checks on the black king
from the start I thought the answer was pawn to g4 but I was wrong
Why does pawn to g4 not work as the first move?
Could the G2 pawn not go to G4 and checkmate?
"Friends"
I watched half the movie, why not move G2 pawn to G4 check? King can only go to G5. Than D7 to D8, make queen, check? Rinse and repeat?
I would have moved pawn to G4 check
The good old saying. You dont need a wife to live, you need a castle to live
can't you move the pawn on g2 to g4 for checkmate
What about move the pawn to check then queen check then defend
whats with pawn at g2 to g4 check? (g4+)?
Lol the intro had a lot of voice cracks
"friends" lol
This situation is logically possible but also so funny. Coz how would the white have 3 pawns on the 7th rank and leave to black to promote his own pawn ? Coz the simplest idea is that the first pawn to reach the 7th rank promotes before the other 2 and then goes on to stop the black pawn.
I played that game (but it seems that the position is added more pieces)
AMAZING CHESS PUZZLE by me:
It's short but cool
White: Kd1, Bd6
Black: a2, Kb2, Na4
White to play and draw
Every white's move is forced
Good luck
Cool puzzle :)
Nice! Got it first try
I think I got it too
Be5+ is a draw because you can put your bishop to a1 and there is no promotion
I think I've seen that position before. The solution is very familiar.
How in the world would a chess board EVER get to this position?!
Well I am shocked that the solution involved under-promotions
er, e5 and A1 instead ? Yep, if you take with a queen B5 is still protected thus another stalemate ... Try the same under-promotion but to a bishop but I guess black STILL has another move ...
Why is friends in quotation marks?
Dude, you can win in one move, just move the pawn to g4 💀
What about pawn G2 to G4? What happens
... Rook still protect C1 but avoids stalemate.
Very cool puzzle, thanks for sharing. :^)
What about G4? They have to en passant, you take back and the game goes on
Black wins if you go g4
Why not g4? It feels like white can always promote to a queen?
what's your level if you recognize these moves in advance?
I wonder if there a puzzle in which you should underpromote to a rook three times.
thumbnail ; 3 quuens vs 1 .
actual video 3 pawns that queen is trying to stop
Did not see. Amazing.