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By YouSum Live 00:00:00 Unique opening variation annihilating French and Sicilian Defense. 00:00:15 Winning the game in 10 moves by checkmating with Bishop. 00:01:14 Exploiting opponent's waiting moves to rush into the attack. 00:02:19 Strategic pawn sacrifices leading to a strong center control. 00:02:45 Leveraging pawn structure to hinder opponent's development. 00:03:07 Tactical knight maneuvers disrupting opponent's plans. 00:03:46 Utilizing positional advantages to maintain pressure on opponent. 00:05:16 Creating threats and forcing opponent into defensive positions. 00:06:14 Transitioning from aggressive attacks to strategic endgame advantages. By YouSum Live
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My second attempt at the puzzle of the day: 1.Qa8 and either 2. Nd6 or Nc5 is mate depending on where the queen or rook moves. For example 1.Qa8 Rb6 2. Nc5# or 1.Qa8 Qc4 2.Nd6#.
Hi Igor, I love your videos, you are for my money the clearest chess concept communicator on RU-vid. If I might make a request, I’d love to see you doing a video of how to evaluate enemy pawn breaks in the early and middle game. When reviewing my own games this is often the most mysterious aspect. Sometimes you’re supposed to reinforce the pawn and maintain your structure, sometimes you wreck your structure and capture the enemy pawn, and sometimes you push your pawn and try to lock the structure. I’d love to hear your approach about how to think about these scenarios
Puzzle (not sure if I missed anything): Knight takes rook. If Queen takes Knight, Queen recapture is checkmate. If any other move, Rook to e3 is checkmate.
Hey Igor you should check out Boris Spaskys Kings Indian defense and attack Wing Gambit with B4 lol 1yr ago 😂 lol yes u can do wing gambit with kia kid what's that against jann tinnmans and fischer did in a king's gambit against a gm 18 move mate
Puzzle:Rook c3.opening check from white bishop...only defense pawn moves in front of check so f3...then b5 chackmate...took me like 20 secconds and im only 1200+ elo
puzzle: Qa8 black is in zugzwang king has no legal moves if rook moves and stays on the 6th rank, Nc5# (black queen is pinned and can't take) if rook moves and stays on the c file, Nd6# (black queen is pinned) Queen must guard Nd6# and Nc5#. d5 is the only square that can do that in this position, but it's already there, so it must yield; whichever square it yields, knight goes to that square for mate. (rook is pinned and can't take) I've seen the Carlsen video like a year ago, still took me 10 minutes but i'm surprised i still remember parts of it! zugzwang and pin are the key themes :)
It's funny how black would want to play a defense where they would be counter attacking or defending solidly but the B4 pawn sacrifice completely subverts their expectations and forces them to play in a style that they did not wish to. Paired with the fact that they usually would not know the opening theory and ideas to this sacrifice and you've got an almost won game!
I know this puzzle is quite famous now since MC did it on camera, but do people not realise that b5+ Rc4/Qc4/Qc5 (the only legal moves), Re3# also works? It might not be as fancy as the Qa8 move, but it's still an unstoppable double checkmate in 2 moves.
It took me under a minute but knowing that it will only take two moves made it much easier. I know I had to get him into check. I can only do that on a couple of instances.
Holy Crap!! I’ve just tried this for the first time and it worked to perfection! Bishop checkmate! I’ve really struggled against the French so now I have a counter 😊
Fun puzzle ... I read someone else's solution; I doubt I could solve in short order. But it's obviously carefully setup as a puzzle. No game would ever result in this position. I mean, look -- white hasn't lost a single piece (only pawns), black has only 2 fighting pieces left and 2 pawns. Essentially impossible.
I was 900 elo on lichess 12 months ago, because of your lessons and lines most especially the Rosseasu gambit and Bishop openings, i rose to 1500 in 4 months, but now I'm stack in 1600 because these players now punish those lines 😅
I think the puzzle is b5+, then black has to block with either Q or R, doesn't matter either way next move is Re3# double check and no squares to move to. funny double discovered check. Took me about 2.5 minutes
LOL That is a tricky mate in 2. Took me a couple of frustrating minutes calculating circles around a ton of forcing variations leading to mates in 3 before finally coming to my senses and realizing that 2. Re3++# just HAD to be key , and that would only work if d4 was unavailable to the black King. Once that idea was established 1. Nf5 jumps right out as the solution but is busted because of Qd8+! Yeah it's 1.Qa8!!
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@@zainquadri1206 Ah, I knew it was to good to be true that I could solve something faster than Magnus. I have been staring at this problem for a few minutes now. No solution in sight. Did you solve it?
The puzzle with mate in 2 is cool, but in real life I'd rather play Re3+, Ra3+, and b5#. All forcing moves with discovered checks, slower, probably less fancy, but simpler to find quickly)
Yes, I overlooked the rook defences. The correct move is 1. Qa8 and it is mate on d6 or c5 with the knight depending on what black plays I.e 1.Qa8 Qc4 2.Nd6# or 1.Qa8 Rb6 2. Nc5#.
I guess the puzzle solution is Nc5+. Black must take the knight with rook or queen. In either case, taking it with the pawn is discovered checkmate, as b5 is controlled by a white knight.
Not checkmate in 2, bc black can take knight with rook, then after pawn takes with discovered check, black can block with queen, so no checkmate in 2 with Nc5+
there are to many options to do it in two moves. Can do it in three easy. Have not found the two moves. Been working on it for two hrs. Trying to find the two. I will keep at it. You can take the queen and win easy by eliminating pieces. I will keep at it. I want to so much get better. So I guess I will still climb the hill of pain.
Sorry, but you didn't solve the puzzle, bc after Nc5+, black can take with rook, then after pawn takes with discovered check, black can block with queen, so no checkmate in 2.
Puzzle solve: rook takes pawn f4 king takes rook, then the other rook f5 checkmate! Ok, then this should be the way: rook e3 doublecheck king d4 then rook c3 checkmate!
