Chess Talent Test [Find Your Rating Level]

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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov challenges you with a special chess puzzle that will help you find out your chess rating level.

Your task is to find the best move for Black and calculate all the supporting variations. Feel free to pause the video, take your time to calculate necessary variations, and then continue watching the video.

Finally, let us know in the comments your solution to this puzzle and your actual chess rating level.

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► Chapters

00:00 Find Your Chess Rating Level With This Puzzle
00:24 Your Rating Level is 800 IF...
00:53 Your Rating Level is 1200 IF...
01:38 Your Rating Level is 1600 IF...
03:14 Your Level is Hikaru Nakamura IF...
03:37 Your Rating Level is 1800 IF...
05:33 Your Rating Level is 1900 IF...
06:41 Your Rating Level is 2200 IF...
07:17 Your Rating Level is 2500 IF...
08:53 Your Rating Level is 2700 IF...
10:18 Comment your solution & rating below

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[darrylkassle]

Can you do one of these regularly please . These are very educational and really show where your thinking - calculation is lacking. I am sure everybody agrees that you should make this a series or common feature of the channel. Sure you have many more

[robertwilken]

I hope that you continue with puzzles like this!

[premshah]

I really love these know your elo puzzles. They give me false hope that I am higher rated than I actually am ! 😂😂
Btw jokes apart, I really love this content

[BobChess]

Bro using puzzle video to roast Hikaru 😂

[GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters

00:00 Find Your Chess Rating Level With This Puzzle
00:24 Your Rating Level is 800 IF...
00:53 Your Rating Level is 1200 IF...
01:38 Your Rating Level is 1600 IF...
03:14 Your Level is Hikaru Nakamura IF...
03:37 Your Rating Level is 1800 IF...
05:33 Your Rating Level is 1900 IF...
06:41 Your Rating Level is 2200 IF...
07:17 Your Rating Level is 2500 IF...
08:53 Your Rating Level is 2700 IF...
10:18 Comment your solution & rating below

[sus]

İ love this videos pls make a series of find your elo

[apiolxi]

Very educational. Yes please analyze more puzzles like this. Thank you.

[jpc]

This pegged me perfectly. Only been playing seriously for a few months and I am around 1000. I saw almost exactly what you said i would at that level. Rook takes, bishop takes, etc. expose king, check with the queen. I stopped there. I have such a hard time visualizing beyond that many moves and my brain stops, makes the move and then hopes for the best.

Keep up the test puzzles like this. Great stuff!

[Polish_internet_troll]

these puzzles are working, I'm on 1600 and I've seen exactly everything for 1600

[cranexe]

I'm a 1530 rapid and I saw Bb4. It has a similar idea as Ba3, but it's more forcing. I saw Nd2(But I simply have Bxd2 because I don't want his knight to come defend the king and also to give up the bishop for the most I can and then I saw Rg2 and stuff) and axb4 Rg2 Bxg2 Rg8(Bxb7+ Qxb7#) Ng3 (Nh5 I thought was winning on the spot but missed that the queen is attacking too so they don't have to take with the knight) and calculated a lot in Rxg3 but stopped when I found no way. Edit: I just saw Qc6 after Bxg2 and it's completely winning

[peterbago]

Yes we like this content, please keep it coming.

[alexeyrb]

Qc6 after Bxg2 (that long range bishop checkmate) is a beautiful line, missed that one (within a minute) unfortunately.
But in your Kh3 line (2:26), Qf3+ is not the only option. I also looked at stuff like Ne4 (to then jump to Ng5 if Ng3 if played). The king can't just go back to g2 yet (then a move like Nc3 wins the white queen), nor g3, which is blocked by the knight. If white plays Ng3, blacks responds with Ng5, drawing the white king even further out, without an easy and immediate way back. If white plays slow, black gets some time to activate more pieces (the other rook, the other knight) against the king.
I did not evaluate to the end here, but I think that this line maybe deserves a bit more attention.

[ptjptj]

I saw upto what 1600 level saw, but actually got a bit deeper into that calculating various king responses. Never saw Qc3 before the light sqaure bishop exchange.Iam 1600-1625 rated, and that pretty much tells where I belong to.

[DarylFell]

Thanks Igor. I did pursue a number of the options you mentioned and some others which would've failed in light of your explanations. I would rate myself on this puzzle somewhere between 1200 & 1600. I very much enjoyed the attempts and your way of analysing the problem. Yes, I think these videos are very helpful in training me to think more broadly.

[venus]

Around 1100-1200 rating and I saw the chaos on G2 square with a sacrifice but didn’t see past Kh3 what is next, so seems pretty accurate to me 👍🏻

[_sakshamsrivastava]

I'm 1450, and got 2500. I found the queen sac pretty fast, but the knight f4 line took me a little while. I wouldn't pride myself a lot as I've watched your other chess rating puzzles and knew EXACTLY how I needed to approach it to get a high elo level
P.S :- Please make more of these!

[elasticharmony]

Interesting; one of best kinds of problems for chess, these level solutions. Good job

[albertdeckel]

Thanks for the video! I really enjoy these videos that include a puzzle and/or a way to gauge how we are progressing in our chess, and hope you will include them every so often in your lessons! Thanks again!

[pieterjdekooker]

There will be a lot of chaos (trades) on g2.

White will have 3 moves after Qc6 check.
He will have Kf1, Kh3 and Kg3...

Kf1 and Kh3 will lose to Qf3 check...

Kf3 is the only line that give some hope to White when Black must coordinate the Queen and the Knights in order to check mate his king ..

The White king is effectively in a cage...

One can play Nf4 check on g3. The King cannot go to f3 because of the discovered check by moving the Knight to d2.

The king will have to move up to the Black camp.

Moves Qh6 can be important in some of these variations...

The White king is trapped on g and h files...

[salamon]

Does bishop d6 work as an initial move with sacking ideas on h2 after e4 followed by ng5?