5 Tricky Chess Puzzles That'll Stretch Your Brain 

Position 1: En Passant also stops the queen blocking, which was another reason that simply pushing the pawn couldn't work.

For puzzle #3, one can deduce the checkmate in one without the ranks being numbered (and the files being lettered) by the mnemonic "Queen on her color"; meaning that at the beginning of the game, the black queen always starts on the black square. In this setup, the black queen is actually on the white square, which means that the king and queen would be in reversed positions from the initial setup if black were to start on that side of the board. Such a position would be impossible to achieve from the correct setup, which could only mean that black had to have started from the other side of the board.

Good puzzles. For the fourth one, I could be wrong but bishop takes knight on g4 may be another solution.

Look’s like I’m a cheater.😢

I love how the first one is literally impossible cuz he doesn’t say the last move until he reveals it

I saw Bxg4 on the fourth puzzle, and at the last second, I saw N(b)d4. And for the longest time I thought both were checkmate and you made a mistake. But I found out I was wrong! Haha!

4:38 That was soooo funny😂😂😂. I didn't even look the board. I was like what the heck is wrong with you, there is not a checkmate in 1 move. But then I start laughing😂😂😂

8:27 The bishop from another universe:

3rd puzzle was so frustrating haha. I realized the ranks were swapped, but it did not calculate in my mind the way it affected the pawns

6:38 White Bishop to G4 takes the Knight and it's checkmate (maybe)

the 3rd checkmate was so cool, i didnt even think about that

Out of curiosity, for that 4th puzzle, is anything stopping Bishop takes G4 from being mate? Edit. Ah. Pawn block. Yeaaaah those are the little things I miss that have kept me from cracking 1000.

guys for the fourth puzzle Bxg4 is not mate, because f5

For puzzle #1, i thought the checkmate in one was d6 discovered check but then i saw the pawn that could go c4 which i think is a good move because if the bishop that checked captures the pawn, the rook will capture and the white rook will capture and rooks can NOT capture diagonally

These puzzles do stretched my mind 😅, I almost can't find checkmate in puzzle #3 until you revealed the final and true answer. Impressive puzzles.

at first, for the puzzle #4, i thought there wasn't checkmate but the corner bishop and King move is check or checkmate

*founds the mate in 1* "YOU BECAME THE THING YOU SWORE TO DESTROY‘

7:40 or you could take the G4 knight with the H3 bishop instead.

I solved all the chess puzzles except the fourth one, I though that Bxg4+ was the correct move, but then I realized that the pawn could block

Thank ryad this is very useful (and i solved them all) can you please make more of them.

“This is the hardest puzzle” me who solved it in one second

Thanks man i learn something from this vidio to look much deeper for possible checkmate

bro these actually tricked my mind

I saw the solution as soon as I heard to take into consideration the last move played, immediately thought of: en passant checkmate

I guessed right 4 out of 5, the 3rd one I already knew so it kinda doesn't count. I missed the 4th one, I thought it was Bxg4+, didn't notice that the pawn could block.

That was fun, thank you.

Got them all. On the third one, a huge hint is that the black king and queen are on the wrong squares to be in the initial position.

I appreciate your content it does open different avenues of thought I have tried for so long to think from the other person's perspective ...But am s focused on winning that i seem blind figuratively in one eye ..And am developing strategic patterns ..Which work but seem to rob the Random beauty of each move changing the entire game....Thank you!!

Puzzle 1, not even 3 seconds in I screamed EN PASSANT!!!!

Welp the checkmate in 1 is forcing your opponent to resign buy telling them there's checkmate in 1

black was a bit cool in puzzle #3 because he didn't lose pieces and went almost to the eighth rank to promote

The first checkmate is capturing the pond

some of these puzzles are in the Soviet Chess Primer book, which I'm reading so I could figure them out easily

😊These puzzles are amazing 👏

In puzzle # 4, you can also move the bishop to g4 to checkmate

That Castling scenario messed with my head. But then I'd had a few 😎

The second one made me punch myself 😂

The first puzzle gave me enough enlightment to go on to solve every other puzzle correctly

When you touched the king, i saw that you can castle and realized 😅

The position of the puzzle is actually possible, but you need to be able think outside the box 😊

I love these kind of imagination and eysight using puzzles 🎉

I havent even press video on 1st puzzle and I solved it on thumbnail

the fourth one was really easy actually, but it was pretty confusing at the start

You can also capture the g4 knight on the 4th puzzle and checkmate him in 1 move.

For the 4th chess puzzle first i see there are many pieces in the board i see that bishop takes knight and it also covering the square of f5 and it would be a checkmate i experting that he say bishop takes knight but he say knight d4 checkmate i was really confused there are two checkamtes and he didnt say bishop takes knight

pawn d6 discovery checkmate i noticed at the start

after the 2nd one i just looked for the most retorted moves

I think I also got the third one - the pawns are going down the board and we deliver checkmate with the knight!!!

got the checkmate from castling move but my mind was blown.

1. If that guy move his pawn double step at last step, then it's solvable. 2. If king and rook didn't move, then it's solvable.

I actually had a similar win to the second. There were hust more pieces on the board.

This is what i call a real puzzle because its a tricky puzzle that you need to use your brain cells by the way thank you for all the videos i have learned a lot from you like oppositions and many many more😊

on the 3rd one u could have taken with the BISHOP

I think I saw this video before, because I immediately saw the solutions. That usually doesn't happen to me.

Pitbull is playing chess. Awesome material

martin always see mate in one

For the fourth puzzle you can take the knight with your bishop to checkmate

i just looked at yhe thumbnail and thought d6 immediately

there's a chesskid short just like puzzle #2 and i want to tell my chess club friend

7:30 doesn't Bxg4 also work in this position?

last one is very relatable

1st position could be even better if the king was on f3

These are more like mind puzzles than chess puzzles, but im not complaining

Great fun. Thx. Great accent too. A bit of Yul Brynner here.

The 3rd and last i saw the solution immediately

I knew #1 in like 20secs lets go!

i got the right idea on 4 just missed the pin and got 5

BRILLIANT VIDEO!! 🙂 What is the music in the background though?

The third really got me

nice,very nice

One the second puzzle I knew instantly 😂

You can also do bishop takes knight on g4 for the 4th puzzle

3:20 If the ranks weren't swapped then this would be a possible position. The black knights can jump out and capture the white pieces, then hop back

The bishop in last 💀💀💀

I solve puzzle 5!!

Found it right away 😂

you can also take with bg4 that,s a mate number 4

1st puzzle: En passant# with the d6 pawn (rarest checkmate btw) 2nd puzzle: Castle queenside/longside castle (another rare checkmate btw) 3rd puzzle: ? 4th puzzle: Bxg4/Bishop takes knight g4 but thats also checkmate right 5th puzzle: King c5/Kc5 (I promise i wrote the answers before seeing the answers from the video i promiseeeeeeee!)

In the 3rd position, I figured out by myself that the answer is 1. Nd3#

damn this video is great

on the 4th one bishop takes G4 checkmate

On 4th puzzle bxg4 was also a mate there were 2 mates and second one was kd4 😮

The clue on puzzle 3 is the queen is on the white square

3:19 I got to this exact and I mean exact position in 90 moves. Do you know anywhere I can paste the PGN?

For puzzle 2 when you showed that moving the king was not a checkmate it showed that you could castle so I knew the answer

Love these videos

first one i got because of the hint

in puzzle 3 you can move the white bishop and puzzle 3 i surprisingly saw the bishop

On #4 you have bishop to g4

Position 2 castle checkmate👍👍👍

1. Dxc6 en passant mate 2. Castles queenside mate 3. Nd3 mate 4. Nbd4 mate 5. Kc5 mate

For puzzle #4 Bishop g4 would also work

I did it in under a second.

The positions are so simple

Fun fact: just now when I played someone he took the pawn but then (the bishop from the corner)

Chessescape you can also deliver checkmate in the 4th puzzle by taking with the bishop isn’t it correct

Who is he talking to at 0:10?

I want more of this stupid puzzles😅

You're fun, I like this site!

Damn I got everything but the 4th