There's A Reason This Puzzle Won First Prize 

when you are better than your elo and you're not playing serious 🙃

@@empirespeech2430 ?

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How satisfying would it be to sacrifice a queen in order to deliver checkmate with a knight?

Well, Anderson proved that in the Immortal Game, where he used three minor pieces to deliver a checkmate. A knight was decoyed by the queen for it to happen.

There’s one I saw can’t remember who it was but they basically sac queen so they could advance a pawn and that’s what won in the following move. That move was massive gigabrain.

@@HardxCorpsxKalithat sounds like Tal, the master of sacrifices

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@@nibir1783 that you?

You should provide a link for reference

@@gw6667 you should provide a link of the person who asked

@@wertyuiwestia he did...

Yes, and I'd say any good chess teacher would do the same. Knowing exactly why certain seemingly intuitive moves aren't the solution is almost as important as knowing why the correct moves win.

@@alhfgsp even more so, id say. im a newcomer but i can’t count how many times ive thought i had a mate in the bag just to realize the move was defendable

I'm trying to figure out why Kc3 doesn't work because of Rc2, but Kc1 is fine despite Rc2 still being an option there.

@@CyberchaoX The king can run to d1, which doesn't land it in bxf5+ next move

@@CyberchaoX Because white can escape to Kd1, which leaves black with no follow up checks nor any effective place to put the rook so white pawn promotes. So black Rc2 loses the game. One thing Nelson did not examine is White Kc3 with black Rc2 followed by white Kb4. This is a better move for white than Kd4 which loses the game as he showed, but it ends in a draw. White king would be in perpetual check because it would need to avoid the d file as Nelson showed but it could never capture the rook due to subsequent check by the Bishop. Any attempt by the trapped white king to capture the Bishop would require going to the 7th rank, which would allow the Black rook to check White's king on the 7th or 8th rank, thereby losing the pawn. The white king can't save their pawn while avoiding perpetual check so it would be trapped.

Seeing first time checkmate with a single knight

@@abhinandansingh4996 night and king

The ending for me was eehh, every moved seemed obvious but I do do a lot of puzzles

@@iflash05 and im the king of mars

@@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821 Objectively this wasn’t that hard. There’s plenty of chess puzzles that I can’t figure out but this one was not hard at all.

realism of the starting position? both kings in the opposite corners in an endgame? xdd

@@AgnaktoreX At least there are no nine bishops of the same cell color.

@@Neprosveshchennyj ha ha true

@@Neprosveshchennyj which puzzle uses nine bishops?

@@mujtabaalam5907 idk, I was just kidding. There are so many crazy puzzles, in the history of chess composition, btw It's called romantic style

lmao nice job

this position happens every week when i am playing

A 257 would definitely not find all those.

@@darkness4839 ur projecting

@@RL_Happy That your only argument? That's as inaccurate as it is ignorant. No, it's just called judging.

I don't even play chess and this made me grin a whole bunch.

If you can't see the mate in 35 right at the start, you'll never be a chess engine.

same

Congrats to both.

Yes exactly, we had women world champion failing to convert that endgame once.

as if it is all predetermined

The trick question tricked you to giving the wrong answer

@@puppergump4117 Thank you, Captain Obvious

@@celesteschott6030 But that's why it's a trick question, it's not obvious that it's not obvious

Same lol, but I didn't have any good rationale, the bishop move just felt right, so I was easily swayed toward questioning it

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Think the reason is its programmed or is defaulted by ICC rules so that's why it does it.

If they do, they don't follow FIDE rules.

You can try to send it to cjx ─ he posts puzzles regularly, and ever since I first sent one of my puzzles to him, he also explains puzzles composed by his own viewers. He's already featured 5 of mine :)

@@maxkho00 What cjx? Where?

@@sparshsharma5270 cjxchess17, RU-vid

Trust me, chess players have basically no idea what’s going on either

Yes, she's beauti. Irina Baraeva is too. She is IM. Also she has a long beauty legs))

It is some shame, I'm from Rus. No war, I dont support Putin 🤦‍♂️

This was my thought as well, and I'm not even sure if it's slower. I couldn't see a way to stop it, but then again I haven't played a game of chess in YEARS and I've never studied the theory, only bits and pieces that I come across by happenstance (such as YT recommending me a video).

What if rook move to D8 instead of F8?

Rook goes to d8 after you fork

@@adampizzi8870 You're right, d8 f's everything up, and suddenly black's winning again. We spent half the game dancing around with the king to prevent black from getting to d8 earlier.

Rook d8 draws. The white king must go to h6 to force checkmate

If rook c2+, then king d1 and white wins

That's something I'd like to know. I decided each mind to it's own. I hope he can't hammer in a nail, lol

No shit

@@taiteyard3567 he is telling right bro

@@prithvisinghpanwar6609 in American English, “no shit” is a saying that essentially means “that’s obvious”

@@taiteyard3567 oh sorry I am not an american i didn't knew thanks for help

If you mean in the main line, yes, it would, as the white king prevents black from escaping on the one relevant square the rook doesn't hit (h7)

You should specify when white would do that, but I believe it would, as rook vs bishop is a draw (at least in this case, since black’s king is in the right corner)

@@Kat-dp4rh I was assuming in the spot towards the end where white can actually promote the pawn to a queen, because black's only legal move is to capture it. The rook or queen isn't actually important, white checkmates with the knight and king. (No, really, watch the whole vid.)

Ah, at that point, then no, it wouldn't make a difference

The typical notation for a promotion would be f8=Q.

What’s your elo?

I fell for that. Believed you, I believed you, should have know better than that.

I'm glad you enjoyed this but could you find another expletive? That one is just so god damned ugly. See what I mean?

You put him in a really tight spot haha

You mean the level with this 💩ton of lasers you have to avoid counterintuitively most of the time?

@@certainlynotthebestpianist5638 Wellllllllll, if its creative!

The queen ain't in check bto

nope, only if u have a brain, which ur lacking

Yeah that’s what I’m wondering too

Not if there's a forced mate.

There isn't insufficient material there. Knight + king vs. king is insufficient material, because checkmate is impossible. Knight + king vs. bishop + king is NOT insufficient material, because a checkmate can happen.

@@oenrn yeah, that's the fide rules, but from what I know, the American federation has different laws regarding to that (which is dumb, and this is a good proof). Now I believe that, even in the USA, no arbiter would declare it a draw, and computers neither since there is mate in 1

@@oenrn More specifically, the side with the knight can mate. The side with the bishop cannot.

Its losing because after 1... Rc2 2.Kd1 Black could no longer give a sacrificial rook check with a bishop chech follow-up. If black rook tries to check, white will just take it for free and win.

King d1 and white wins

To let you know how rare this is, here are the conditions of this very rare king+knight vs king+bishop checkmate: 1. The black king has to be in the right corner. 2. The black bishop has to be the right color. 3. The white king has to be in position already. 4. The white knight has to be in position already. 5. The position has to be forced. In this case, the black bishop is forced to take the promoted queen.

The game logic on most chess sites would make it a draw but over-the-board your opponent couldn’t claim a draw because you can demonstrate mate in one.