It would be nice if they were ranked not solely based on their rarity but also on how cool they are, the intuitiveness, and how easy or hard it is to spot.
yeah i was thinking the same thing. also i dont think there's a need to throw in a puzzle with a queen sac to make ppl understand that it has potential to be a puzzle.
@@Volclus The opposite order with the most common ones first is more pedagogically sound imo. For a weaker player seeing an esoteric mate first doesn't help me learn anything from it, I instead wind up going back to the start of the video after having seen the end of it..
@@Volclushook Mate is preaty common I got a knight mate when opponent had to move hes knight from the king because of zutswang and get mated by my knight it was such a good mate
I think easy mates should also be b tier max, like doing a ladder mate doesnt really make you proud but finding a queen sacrifice for an anastacia's mate has a feeling to it
En passant Checkmate? Ludwig did this against Magnus Carlson and Magnus allowed this checkmate. This Ludwig is not the Ludwig but Alexandra Botez’s coach.
Glad you're back Volclus. I like the way we set up the checkmate when we sacrifice pieces. This video was Fun and Brilliant. Thanks fro making these kind of videos.
Something neat about the Railroad Mate: in infinite chess, this is at the core of a position which is Mate-In-Omega. Placing a rook in the way of the king's escape route forces the player about to be checkmated to move the rook as far out as possible, and there are also rooks two spaces away from this rook in either horizontal direction to prevent moving the rook out of the way. Thing is, there's no limit to how far the rook can move.
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Can you make a beginner/ intermediate Ruy Lopez video? Maybe system-based, or a few different systems (eg. Anti-Berlin against Berlin, maybe the same style setup against all closed Ruy Lopez variations) just to make the Ruy Lopez a bit simpler and easier to play. Thanks, and again, Merry Christmas!
I'm 1300 and even at that rating some people don't know the rook and king checkmate a lot of people blunder it in the late middle game, early endgame. They are busy capturing pawns and don't notice that the kings have opposition and your rook is just in the position for a checkmate. This saved me a few lost games
1:42 There are about a million things hard in this endgame: rounding up the king if it is not already in the corner, knowing what is won or drawn, knowing how much you can let black push the pawn... if Nd8 is what is hard to find for you there, you are probably not a chess player. Mate in 2 on such a reduced board should take you about 5 seconds, even as a mediocre amateur.
One time I got into a completely losing position with nothing but a queen and a bishop. Meanwhile, my opponent had a queen, two rooks, and three extra pawns. I did see a light at the end of the tunnel, though: The opposing king was castled behind three pawns in the back rank. Seeing this, I knew what I had to do. I marched my king, queen, and bishop to the eighth rank, where the black king was heavily guarded by two rooks. Seeing what I needed to do, I attacked one of the rooks with my queen on a diagonal, then sacrificed... THE BISHOP (!!) the rook took my bishop, and my queen captured the other rook. My opponent sat there for at least a minute, trying to figure out what he could do, but eventually, he broke. My opponent, defeated, blocked with his last rook and got checkmated And this was my attempt to turn a low elo game into a top chess video
This vid had smothered mate, but i feel like u should have added the queen sack into knight mate too and separately. (the one in which u have a pattern following double checks then queen sack rook takes and knight smother mates)
I kinda hoped that you explain the two bishops mate and the bishop and knight mate. I'm 1800 rated on lichess and still can't figure out how to do it, but yeah it's extremely rare
bnk vs k is relatively easy though. there's a triangle-method and a w-method. the triangle method tries to keep the king into an ever shrinking triangle; useful for the first and last part. the w-method is kinda like a complete sequence of moves. it starts, once the enemy king is in the wrong corner. first off the bishop looses one tempo, then the knight hopps their w while the king moves up to protect it. it basically ends, when the enemy king was drivin into right quarter of the board and then the triangle method should win the rest
@@cobalius I appreciate your reply but I kinda need a visual demonstration to fully comprehend what you had just typed. Thank you tho, I will look it up.
I'm 1400 I played a game against 1300 and I found out that they didn't know how to checkmate with king and rook. Granted, they were in a time trouble, but the point is they were just shuffling pieces
railroad mate is actually useless. its very easy to mate with only queen or only rook, so you dont need both of them, unless black has other pieces. also no way youre going to lose if you dont know ladder mate (or lawnmower, idk who calls it like that, aside from you), as i said that 1 rook is enough to mate.
I'm inclined to thinknKing and Rook should be number one. Rooks are more likely to survive to the endgame than queens, but more importantly, if you only know one or the other, you can do the rook mate with a queen but not vice versa.
Another chess mate name in meme chess terminology: no#2 ice skitter(named by GM xqc) no#5 throbbing mate(Moist mate against GM xqc) no#32 lobster pinter(named by GM xqc)
Quietly reminding them that they should blunder a rook and resign in the next 5 moves if they want to see their family again has gotta be up there considering it works pretty well even at GM level.
If you know the rook and king mate but forget the queen and king mate, you can actually use your queen as a rook. So technically if you were to learn only 1 and not the other, the rook one is more universal in end games. But the queen one doesn’t feel intuitive mirroring the enemy king until you see them slowly being backed up into a corner, then it feels super intuitive as their possible moves decrease.
Can you make guides to play simple system against openings like french defence . Most ppl only teach us how to play openings but dont teach how to counter and play against them
Volclus aided me in my holy crusade against the false prophet! I was so heartbroken when I later learned he was quartered by the holy orders beasts in 1304. R.I.P.
