I try to analyze chess to the best of my ability on this channel, For the videos, I'll try to keep them about the chess and not veer off into some faraway land, I'll try to keep clickbait out of these videos, and just focus on being instructive.
Love your channel. Perfect for beginners like me. Your analysis speed is perfect. Even some really big channels do analysis so fast that you learn nothing from it. It also takes a lot of guts to acknowledge ones mistakes. Keep going
Assuming the title was mostly clickbait, it’s always funny to me when I see / hear in videos “Was a strong 1800” (when someone loses or almost loses in a speedrun) or this type of comment regarding 2100s. Its variance. I, as a 1300, will accidentally play the game of my life and beat a 16-1900 player 1 out of 25 times, and I have also lost to 900s at the same frequency.
Wow, I had really thought Ra1 and Rg1 after Qg2 was it, then sort of playing g6 myself down the line for either a promotion or Rg5 (which ends up failing to a few checks). Giving up the pawn at the start was something I completely overlooked, and it felt so simple after you revealed the move. Great explanation of the puzzle, even I as a 1900 fide player missed this one :p
I think the best first move is knight to f3, then black has to move the king somewhere back towards their side. Whether they take the pawn at d5 or not, you check them again with your rook and just chase it down until you corner their king. I'm a novice so that's the best solution I got. Not sure if it's impossible to checkmate the king with the rook and maybe there's a better choice to take out of the queen, or set up some kind of trap, but I'm too inexperienced I think to do that, or see it. Knight f3 is huge for trapping that queen though and that's blacks' only good piece and your biggest threat as white.
