116 Year Old Brilliant Chess Puzzle

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FEN:
8/8/8/5pp1/8/1K6/2pp1Q2/2k5 w - - 0 1

Puzzle Details:
Janis Behting, 1907

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[BobChess]

My man literally gave us a random informations at the beginning.

[topquark]

I love winning by the underpromotion to a knight. I did it once and achieved a smothered checkmate! Felt amazing. The fork idea in this video is even more clever.

[travisb]

I knew that Qf3 was the only winning move based on none of the other options working, but I couldn't calculate the position after Pf4. That was fun seeing how it rolled out and glad I was able to get as far as I did!

[jameslegrone]

Really enjoy these love the story telling

[johannequilbec]

I love the anecdotes at the start of the video lol, keep it up!

[KimiiiRaikkonen]

Very cool puzzle, and love how you explain them and let us try for ourselves

[giorgioevangelisti]

Very cool position and nice explanation.
In my opinion it was not so hard to figure it out because there are not so many pieces on the board, but it's still cool.

[camere]

At first I was confused why you didn't cover Qd3 check for black.... then I remembered the pawns are going down lol

[slime_entertainment_inc.]

After Qf2 you didn't show f3, this of all the variants makes it hardest for white.

[alexkapitonenko]

Author stops explaining variants too early. After 1. Qe3 f4 2. Qf2 it is important to show 2. … f3 3. Qe3 and black have a bunch of options: f2, g4, Kd1, but white a good answer to all of them

[maxermrh]

I loved this puzzle, and the way you explained it. It's just at the edge of my skill level, which feels great :)

[tykemorris]

I failed to see both the promotion to a knight and the game plan overall. Once you put the white Queen at f2, I did solve the Kc3 move, but the brilliant move to Qf2 was beyond my vision. I didn't think about freezing the Black Queen and forcing a pawn move. Good puzzle.

[David_Crayford]

Like others say: love the statistics in the opening. Still working on my endgame so not so good on this one but got a couple of the questions right. Here to learn. 🙂

[danielbillings]

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again…Nelson loves himself an under promotion.

[cwalenta]

I got a couple of moves, and I must say the thing about chess puzzles that often gets me is that I know its a puzzle so often times the obvious move doesn't occur to me because I'm thinking, "Well, it can't be the obvious move because its a puzzle!"

[rtpoe]

I love a good chess puzzle, but I rarely have the time to follow an analysis all the way through - especially while having to take notes as to the proper sequence of moves. Would it be possible, in future videos, to perhaps show the complete solution before the closing credits, or in the notes that are hidden under the "...more" tag? Thank you.

[noellsidabutar]

What if instead black promotes to a queen, black promotes to a knight with a check to king I guess.

[undrgroundman]

I set the position up to try out KC3 on stockfish, feeling very please with myself having worked out all the moves to mate, and 0.25 seconds later discovered my error.

[aidanvannynatten]

Loving the rando Snapple facts at the beginnings, makes me wonder if he actually gets them from Snapple caps

[DK-ersy]

I love the random facts at the beginning of the videos!