Chess endgame puzzles to see if you have chess talent

[bradenwatkins]

Solution: theres no kings meaning checkmate

[caspera]

no qeen d3 ...then pawn c2 and its promote to queen

[teddykhisa]

After Queen takes d3 you just push the C3 pawn to C2 and you'll promote no matter what

[TitantvMan]

Funfact: King dont here thats checkmate

[sethwaldron]

Technically, black could still promote

[IsaacCrowley-bfrq]

I look at both and was just so lost as i thought both would lose if the furthest pawn moves (closest to the queen)

[ddichny]

This video is scripted very poorly. It first states the goal as "white to move and stop all black pawns", but it doesn't define "stop", especially since later in the video it repeatedly describes a few failed gambits as disqualifying when one of the black pawns is able to "promote".

But that's not the actual criteria, because at the end when it shows the "correct" play, it's black's turn and the final black pawn can still promote on the next turn.

It turns out that, unstated in the video, the challenge is to actually guarantee that the white queen can capture all of black's pieces, whether or not they have managed to promote before capture.

The few times the video disqualifies a gambit because a pawn can "promote", it's not actually that the pawn has promoted, it's that in those cases the pawn has promoted on a square beyond the white queen's ability to surely capture it.

Poorly stated puzzle, poorly explained.