8 Truly Remarkable Chess Puzzles 

"yOu Can'T haVE a HuNDrEd qUeENs" 🤓🤓🤓

I would be curious to see the current chessboard lol

There could be only 9 queens In maximum but impossible to get also.

You can’t have 100 queens, because of two reasons: the board has 64 squares and 9 queens is the maximum amount of queens. But it is true, that the imbalance of points is very great.

I get it guys. There's no Santa guys I get it

I'd quit forever if someone violated me like that

@@hirepikepower36 nah i'd let them mate me for the fun

So true XD

@@Charlie_the_dog pp l lol poo

@@Charlie_the_dog llp

@@Charlie_the_dog I have pl

@@Charlie_the_dog I

That indeed was a beautiful iron cage of pawns surrounding their own king. Immediate checkmate would have been too bland. 🤣🤣

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It looks amazing. End result is the same though

The last one making you trap yourself 🤣

My advice: don't get cute - just checkmate.

Agreed. lol

Yeah I was stumped on this one as well, since the ones he showed seemed to be such "obvious bad moves" compared to just taking the rook. So I looked it up and capturing the rook as you described is indeed no bad move at all, actually "the best one" if one disregards moving the pawn forward, so I don't understand why it wasn't shown. Naturally the only good move left for white will be to move the knight to d3 to block the pawn as well as saving itself. So you're not missing anything. It would lead to a pretty even end-game, and is in no way a bad move by black. I feel this could have been emphasized a bit more when he showed the resulting moves.

Noticed that myself

@@arsenic1987 yes, but c4 is so so much better since after you queen after the sequence of moves, there is a fork of the knight and rook. (Or maybe king and rook I don't remember) so c4 is much better than axb6

I was going to ask about that. What was the purpose of it?

@@valerius88 12:32 so that the King is on a dark square so we can line our dark square bishop on a dark square.

@@valerius88 To win an extra tempo for the bishop's maneuver h4-e1-c3. Time - the third dimension in chess ;-)

Yeah at first I thought it was a mistake as it seemed like a useless waste of a knight. It was a sacrifice of a knight as it put the Black King on a black space.

True thats what i thought 😂

Viktor Korchnoi - Mijo Udovcic (1967)

I first read about cross pins years ago when I was learning tactics and I thought they would come up quite often if I looked for them over the board, much like skewers and pins. It turns out that they are incredibly rare, but I had one game where I got one by accident when my opponent made an attack that made me think I had to resign, but then I spotted the only move that didn't lose. In fact, it caused my opponent to resign! It's a really weird feeling when you get in that situation, as the person who had the initiative suddenly finds themself hopelessly lost, while the other one that was under pressure makes a desperate move that accidentally turns out to be a crushing blow.

That would be a blunder, because black needs to convert a pawn into a queen to win. If black takes the rook, white's knight can move to d3 and stop the advanced pawn from queening on c1. White would be up a knight and black would have no chance of winning. That's why black put his rook en prise in the first place. He wants to stop the pawns, and it's worth giving up the rook in order to do that.

oh thx i didnt see that@@AutPen38

This mainly comes from the fact that you have two separate mating threats.

Can't white just move the bishop on b4 to c5? Doesn't that avoid both threats

@@mrjingles2487 Nc2?

if you are talking about when rook takes the bishop, you can't because then knight goes d3, and there is no moves for black to open space to get a queen, if you move the b pawn(that took the rook) you lose protection on c5, if you move any of the c pawns, knight just goes c1 and blocks the way, if after that you try using the b pawn, he can go until he is captured by the white pawn, and on b3 the white pawn is protected by the knight, he can capture your pawn if you use a pawn on c4 to capture it, and defend against c2 becoming a queen at the same time, so you need to stop the knight from moving to d3, the same kind of reasoning stop the knight from capturing your pawn when you move it to c4, it looks like a good idea to capture, but white would lose control over critical space and black can get a queen safely.

I only solved the 1st one

I've already solved the 2nd one. The puzzle literally gives itself away in the name!

Rook to H8 solves the puzzle, and, if White takes the bait, the Queen checkmates immediately after!

Nvm xd

@@lotzy6107 Chess for Soul did a video on the Tamerlane Cage.

how come its not just Nc2#?

chess gm in the comments for the clutch

@@hendrikusendrique2290 rook is on the row and would gobble the knight

What if there was another Henri Koskinen? Henri also sounds like a common first name

@@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache That also might be possible.

Can I know why the pawn at a7 couldn't just take the rook at b6? instead of pawn c5 to c6

@@biscy03I believe it's because if the knight can get to d3 after you take the rook, even if you push C4 afterwards it can move back to C1 to stop you from Queening. Then the endgame is much tougher, but I think black can still win it. But it's still optimal to play the moves in the video. Edit: Actually black cant win here. Even in that position once the knight stops you from queening, then it's over. After white pushes A3, black has no way of getting the pawn in the B file past to kick the knight away, before the white king can get over to help. Blacks pawn on the E file can be stopped by the king as well. Best black can hope for there is a stalemate.

@@Ace-hs3ux Thank you so much for answering! I really couldn't think any moves ahead apart from, "rook is ded, this is a win" xDDD But I get your point now

axb6, or the pawn taking the rook, is actually a losing move because White can simply play Nd3, and Black cannot promote either of the pawns. So instead, Black had to play c4, as Nelson mentioned, because it prevents Nd3.

​@@ranchoabilities7928but after nd3 can't you then just push pawn to c4? Same thing?

Nope, ...Nc2 is still checkmate. The king is trapped at a3 as it still cannot move to b4 because of the rook at b8 and the checkmating knight at c2, it cannot move to b3 because of the pawn at c4 and again, the rook at b8, and it cannot move to a4 because of the bishop at c6. The checkmating knight at c2 can no longer be captured by the white rook at h2 because it is now blocked by the black rook at d2.

Yeah exactly

Why can't we take with a pawn on b5, bishop has to take if im not mistaken. Then we just take the bishop with a queen and it's a mate, no? Why can't we do that

@@user-xd7gs5uq5y white queen is protecting that diagonal. You could do that, but white queen takes black queen, black rook takes white queen, then king is free to take black rook

1. ... Rb5 2. b3 Nd1 3. Qxd1 Qxd1 4. Kb2 Qxf3

IQ is a myth

@@ChrisJones-rd4wb You are provably wrong.

@@ChrisJones-rd4wb iq isnt a myth, its a system of meassurement.

@@ChrisJones-rd4wb It’s real. It’s not a great system, but it does in fact exist.

I think what Chris is saying is not that it's a myth, but that it is an inherently flawed concept, because the testing administered to measure it creates an IQ for the individual taking it, but IQ only measures your performance on the test, not your intelligence. You then have to justify that IQ is able to represent intelligence, but you've already established a bias that completely destroys that notion, which is that it is reliant on the test to measure it. Then you have to prove that the test measures intelligence, but it doesn't; It only generates an IQ. What you're then left with is a self-contained system that can't measure anything besides itself. Would you trust the police to self-audit? Would you trust a child with the power to generate cookies out of thin air to never eat one of those cookies? That's ultimately what the test is, and why IQ is bunk. You also have to consider that the test has origins in eugenics, and is used to justify eugenics, and you then have an ouroboros that's also a basilisk.

I believe it's called interference

Can’t the pawn move to e6 ?

they are going the opposite way

Any number of knights depending on position

This is what I'm here to ask.

Someone else found it. Rook at H2.

Aaaaaaand he literally says it later in the video, haha! Serves me right for trying to figure it out first (and failing on that detail).

I don’t understand how you guys cant see the rook.

It's never too late to blunder.

Nd6*

6:11 if you recapture the rook white can go Nd3 Nc1 and your pawns are stuck

@pigsty The b pawn can be prevented from providing support using the a pawn. Example. 1. axb6 Nd3 2. c4 Nc1 3. b5 a3 Pawns blockaded and no progress can be made. There are a few possible lines but the bottom line is that the Knight cannot be allowed to move to d3, as then they are able to blockade and hold the position, which is why pawn to c4 rather than taking the hanging Rook is Black's only chance at a win.

It's insane idea...1 in a billion

I think there is something...

Yes, good eye. I saw that also.

pawn takes b4 or knight c2 mate you can’t defend both taking rook is the only way to delay it

The Knight simply advances past the White Knight, delivering checkmate! Remember, that's what White is trying to AVOID, so they HAVE to take the Rook, which means White is in zugzwang!