Knight + Bishop Checkmate (THE EASY WAY) 

The easiest way to do is send your opponent a message and tell him that you know how to do it and he should just resign. But you should still learn to do it this way just in case he calls your bluph.

In my entire life I had only one real game that ended in a king+bishop+knight vs lone king. Needless to say I couldn't checkmate! So after this game I was dedicated to learn how to do it. I studied and practiced a lot vs computer to the degree where I knew the moves and I was speed-running it. So one day we were talking with a friend and I told him that I learned how to do it. So he said let's try it. And the funny thing is because he is not a max rating computer he was doing quite a lot of suboptimal moves which are supposed to speed-up the process. But that confused me a lot and I wasn't able to mate him :D Then I realized that I didn't LEARN, I just MEMORIZED a series of moves against a specific moves. So make sure you get the ideas and the patterns and not the specific moves! And this lesson is quite good in that - to show the patterns. Nice one, Nelson!

For the beginning, understanding “opposition” of the king is very important. Learn that first if you dont know it thoroughly.

This end game occurs once in every 650 games according to chess database. Edit: It was actually every 6000 games, no idea why it stuck to my mind as 650 games.

There are harder endgames. Queen vs rook is brutally hard.

In practice, if you are playing the losing side, you should try to keep your king close to the center of the board. Most human players will struggle with forcing the king to any corner. When forced from the center, try to get to the safe corner that is on your opponent's side of the board. They are less likely to have practiced this endgame from that point of view.

Took me 4-5 times of rewatching sections of your video over the last 2 hours but I've finally mastered it! Thank you. I'd tried learning this through Danya and Agadmator's videos in the past but had given up. This one felt easier to learn from.

If you practice this mate, it's pretty easy if you play against the highest engine level. The engine will always make the best move and you can predict what the engine will do. As you get better, you can play against the weakest engine level and you'll get a different game every time. Sometimes you mate in 15 moves, sometimes in 35 moves. Sometimes the engine will run the king to the wrong corner so you have to force it out with your knight, and sometimes the king will run to the right corner and you have to know how to capitalize on that. If you just memorize an algorithm, the opponent can make suboptimal moves and confuse you.

Being able to reliably do this against the computer is incredibly satisfying. Thank you so much! I’m blown away by how easy you’ve made it. 🐐

I feel like the most difficult part is forcing them to the edge of the board.

Really nice video for learning for checkmating with a knight and a bishop

You can explain really well thx

Great vid. We do however need a sequel to explain how to force mate when the opponent tries to keep his king in the centre of the board

I was literally watching your previous video on this last night. Nice to get a quick refresher

Omg you made it look so easy, I’m about 1550 Elo and it took me a good hour of practice to get the mate 3 times in a row on the hardest level but now I will never forget the techniques anymore. Thank you so much for improving my chess!!

Really great video! Thanks!

Thanks for taking the time to explain this thoroughly. The summary was helpful, as it's easy to forget what you have just seen.

Great tutorial! Thanks.

“The easy way” 14 min video 😅 thanks for the insight!!

Thanks for the lesson! Made a lot of sense how you taught it.

I loved this video. You explained the technique really well, and made this look much easier. I practiced this a couple of times, and I actually did it! Your video was really helpful. You're a great teacher Nelson, thanks for making this video!

Great vid thanks

When you misclick a single move and draw by 50 moves:

Thanks!

Awesome video. I wish had this or the computers we have today, 20 years ago!

This is what I love about chess. There are so many individual skills. Like the analogy you use in your 1000-1500 course about all the dots. This is one dot I’ve completely neglected and had this come up in a game I 100% would’ve drawn it. But after a few practices I understand this pattern now and I will practice it some more until I can blitz out the moves relatively easily. It might not come up anytime soon, but when that day comes I’ll be ready. Brick by brick builds the house.

Thank you for explaining this, because thanks to this video I can now do it. I tried to learn it a couple times but finally someone explained it simply enough.

Can you add the move counter for end games like this so we can easier see how close you are to the 50 move limit?

Thank you so much! Now I finally know this. I've been scared of learning it for a few months now

Thanks dude... I got this first try.I always thoight this was hard but your video made it very easy for me. Now i will try with white bishop and the other corners. Keep it Up and make more videos for us 1500s 👏👏👏

If the king runs down and you can't imagine the manuevering upside down, there is always the "flip the board" button

This is the best explanation of how to do knight bishop endgames I’ve seen. I tried following along in a few books and had a hard time remembering later.

Thank you!! After watching your video I seem to be able to consistently get a checkmate.

I can easily checkmate computer with bishop and knight as they go to opposite corner and i already know what to do next but when i play against real people who dont know about opposite corners, its far more difficult than checkmating stockfish

the only thing I still can't get about this position is that in the beginning everyone says "if opponent is smart they will run to the other corner" what if they decide to run to the center? computers do run to that opposite corner and from there the w thing is super easy, but against other people I've had it where I just can't get them to any corner and they just run back to the center of the board...

Thanks

acutally first time i managed to do this after watching this video big thanks.

This is awesome because I just had an awesome game the other day and ended up stale😢 with the same pieces! Great tutorial man👍🏼✌🏽

Thanks for this ChessVibes(Nelson)

I watched this video. Maybe 10 minutes into learning I was able to get my first checkmate on oneside.. 45 minutes in, I know all of the mating patterns and lines. Thank you Nelson

if you can show how to win the queen vs rook endgame that would be amazing. It's the last one I still have trouble with. I learned this one several years ago and its not too bad once you learn how to coordinate the knight with the bishop. I tell myself, knight ahead, bishop behind. Keep the bishop behind the king until the king is trapped. The knight needs to be in front of or with the king.

9:01 the patern is to put the knight on h6 with check king moves to the corner and mate with the bishop(sometimes bishop check knight mate)

I prefer the mate in 4 in the position you showed in the end, however for beginners to find Nf5 Kh8 B(a3-e7) Kg8 Nh6* Kh8 and then B(a1-f3) seems kind of difficult so showing the solid option is always a good idea

Audio glitch at 2:10

thank you Nelson 😊 now I'm able to checkmate with a knight and bishop in around 35 moves and I would say that "this is a perfect video to master knight + bishop mate"

Awesome video, sometimes I trade off extra material and promote to knight and bishop to flex this checkmate!😂

Thank you very much Nelson.I have a tournament and now I know how to mate with Knight and Bishop.Even though I was 2000 I didn't know this

2:11 - is it just me who hears that

I had to watch this video 5 times but I finally got it! I like this method much better than what the lichess practice lessons teach. Thanks!

5:02 It is actually more a Double U than on Lychess. In French, the letter W is called a Double V. So it would make more sense on Lychess.

Best chess teacher of all time

after so many failed attemps in the past, I just checkmated with a bishop and a knight for the first time in my life just after I finished watching your video. Your explanation is intuitive and understandable and that's what made the difference. Thank you

Good reminder, thank you! I think you had one on queen against rook?

I learnt this from Daniel naroditsky but I will watch it again

Absolutely based. thank you.

Thanks Nelson, I didn't know how to checkmate with bishop and knight

8:19 it's worth meantioning 1..Kh8 2 Nf5 Kg8 3 Nh6+ Kh8 4 Be5+ mate ..beside the other technique I think it's usefull to know what is in position

8:45 faster way here is Nf5 not Ne6. The rest will be the same except in the end you can save 2 moves.

6:21 the hand got me 😂😂😂

Possible video see if u can beat Martin and his full army with just a king, a bishop, and a knight.

2 Knights with 1 opponent pawn checkmate next please

The black king can only try to stay in the middle, instead of going to the wrong corner.

2:11 that beep killed me 💀

Plz continue fisherman series

Thanks, but how do I do it with black?

hey do you know any chess engines that can still solve this? someone seems to have broken the ones i can use lol

Hi Nelson, this video reminds me of a game I just played. Instead of having both a knight and a bishop against a lone king, it was a knight vs a bishop - this is the FEN: 4k3/8/8/8/3NK3/7b/8/8 w - - 0 1 The game **looks** like it should auto-draw but strangely it doesn't. Black is a bot and it tries to get me to take its bishop or take my knight somehow and force a draw by insufficient material, but somehow because the game is not automatically a draw I have a hope that I can checkmate it. Could you make a video for this kind of case also, please?

This is by far the "educationalest" of all of that chess channels (imo)

I learnt B+N checkmate by confining the King in triangle from bigger to smaller.

wheres the link?😅

what if consider the hardest starting position where an attacking side on the 1st or 8th line and the opponent's king on the 3rd or 6th, then you have very few moves to waste without position improoving until the 50th move deadline... btw imao it's much easier to avoid a stalemate to mate by the bishop instead of knight and there is one more method called "triangle method" in some literature where we're able to mate in any side of the board as well and there are bishop comes above king and the last move we're doing by the knight..

Next plz teach 3 knights checkmate

In practice, it's better to get your king & knight to the center before moving your bishop at all... those are just wasted moves as the bishop can cover all the needed ground quickly. It really doesn't matter what ANY of your opponent's moves are... just protect your material and control the center.

At 5:11 when White plays K to d5 why doesn't the Black King move to c8 instead of e8?

Thank you Nelson! This explanation is the best! 1 out of 3 hardest checkmate along with Queen + king Vs Rook + king AND 2 knights + king vs 1 pawn + king

Recently I went to Paris and I spent most of the flight practicing bishop and knight mate vs the engine 😂

This is better than school

Now that you got the king in the corner, checkmate the rest of the owl

Can any random position of knight and bishop lead to checkmate before the draw by 50 move rule?

What is the best way to learn chess

Aaaahhb my mind 😵

In my early years when I played a lot of chess, a chess master told the group that a king and 2 knights could result in a checkmate. It could not be forced as you say. He demonstrated it and there was a position that if the player moved his king to a certain square it would be a checkmate nest move. If he moved to another square the chase would begin all over again. Is this true?, and perhaps you could show this in a future video,. It was many, many moons ago and I had forgotten all about it.

Nelson, could you, please, make a video of queen vs knight endgame. I had it in a life Tournament and it was a huge 50 moves long embarrassment being up 6 points of material.

At around 0:20 when you said with 2 knights you can’t force checkmate that is true, but checkmate is possible if the opponent has an extra pawn on the board. The reason this is because with 2 knight you can never mate the opponents king because stalemate,

Thanks for the video. First time I tried this method against the easiest bot (Nelson?) I used too many moves and it ended in a draw. Then I rewatched and paused a couple of times, then I got it three times. But If I play a blitz game with little time left, it might be quite difficult, but maybe if I practice enough.

Easier to mate with a king & 2 bishops. I remember having to show some fellow chess club members to mate with a king & rook (box mate) back then.

I just have situation like this 😢 bt endgame is draw which is painful because he offers draw bt i denied

2 knights and pawn checkmate

Two knights can't force checkmate if the opponent only has the king. But if the opponent has a single pawn, then it's possible to force checkmate. But not in all situations, there was a second requirement which I forgot. But it's interesting.

It IS possible to checkmate in the corner of the opposite color bishop it's just not forced alot of videos about this seems to forget to mention this.

The hardest part for me is getting them in the opposite corner

is it inspired from firouzja's game😂??

Do the Three Knight Checkmate. It should be the prerequisite to doing the Knight and Bishop Checkmate. True, the Three Knight Endgame's occurrence is infinitesimal, yet it is instructive.

If anybody make it mate to dark Bishop and Ka8? Or white Bishop and Kh8?

IMHO the trickiest checkmating endgame is two knights against a king and a pawn.

Good to know when the other player won't just resign.

May be you play mattin but the chess in sideway it mean you can choose bot to play but sideway and you have to let out two pawn one on the black one on the white then play as usual

black king be like- why I AM STILL HERE JUST TO SUFFER!

I guess the hardest checkmate is a king and two knights versus a king and a pawn. Is there an algorithm?

I watched the whole video, but it looks like lots of practice for something I will just forget when I need it. Future me is going to be so pissed off at myself when they end up in this situation and can't win the game