4 Spectacular Studies -- I couldn't believe the last one!

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[DunklerZebralord]

I honestly keep being floored and utterly stunned at just how ridiculously deep chess is. It's just beyond words. Which is why I love this channel, a beginner/intermediate like me would probably never see these amazing studies. Stuff like that gives you a whole new appreciation for the game.

[erickpoorbaugh]

It's a mathematical fact that the king moves over 41.4% faster when moving diagonally.

[keymasta]

Some fun facts:
In first puzzle we have 10736 unique positions which we get summary in 3 plies
Second puzzle - Mate in 45
Third puzzle - every move is winning. We have there:
1 mate in 4 (c8=B)
1 mate in 5 (c8=Q)
20 mates in 6
6 mates in 7
1 mate in 8 (c8=N)
1 mate in 13 (Rb2+)

[davidj.a.]

There's an episode of Seinfeld where George sees a dime from an extraordinary distance then takes a bit of of an onion like an apple. I figured out 2 and 4 in about 30 seconds each. I could've stared at 1 and 3 all day, but in the end I was always going to eat the onion.

[VincentPeer]

Wow. This is the first series of puzzles that I couldn’t see the solution to any of them. Brilliant stuff. Thanx!

[hollyloveschows]

As a beginner player (17th week), your diagrams and explanations are the clearest and most instructive. I said it before, but sometimes it's a small comment or aside that has me rewinding, thinking, "what? What did he just say?!" Thank yoi so much!

[JoytotheWorld]

Dude, I just wanna say this is easily my favorite chess channel. The way you explain things is perfectly paced so that it's really easy to follow, and your topics are interesting and memorable. You don't use extra words so that my mind wanders, and you don't use too few so I'm confused and wondering what just happened. You also enunciate your words well which is important to me because I have some audio processing issues, and I absolutely LOVE the fact that you don't have a jingle at the beginning of your videos, and the jingle at the end isn't too loud!

(Loud jingles are so annoying and unnecessary and grating for me. It's like there's this sensory assault first thing and between each video! Ugh! 😅)

The topics you cover are also really helpful at my current level of learning, and you're good at explaining them, so thank you for what you do! :)

[dfkdgy]

The last one is from Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual.
The concept is the box of the queening pawn. All we need is an extra tempo which we got by attacking the black bishop and then coming inside the box.

[LetsPlayCrazy]

I actually saw Qa5 as the only feasable move, but I thought Bc5 prevented everything, but I didn'T see Qa1!
Qa1 is SO GOD DAMN DIRTY!!! I love it.

[張謙-nl]

I've found that in many puzzles, opponent's pieces are more useful than our own pieces, as long as we can force them into preferred locations

[wiscorpio]

With some assistance from Stockfish, I played the 2nd puzzle and beat it in 52 moves. For the phase of capturing the pawn, I used Stockfish because it's hard, but once it was just my bishop and knight, I stopped using Stockfish. Pushing the king to the side was hard. I got it to the bottom left corner, had a hard time transpositioning the knight to the W maneuver, I finally got the knight on the W and I mated it on the bottom right. Your video on the knight and bishop checkmate helped me. Thanks

[MKTubik]

In the third one, could it be worth mentioning c8=Q b3; Rfc1 b2; Qh3 bxc1=N, with black escaping the mate next move only by the underpromotion?

[FFICERPROBLEM]

I loved the first one, took the time to solve it.

First I was certain that Qf7 was the answer because it threatens mate on both Qa7 and Qc4, I was about to unpause before I realized Kc5 lets black get away.

So you have to prevent Kc5. Qa5, black can't defend everything!! There's mate threats with Qb6 too which you didn't cover. Super satisfying to solve, and the other positions were great too, thank you for showing!

[oenrn]

2nd puzzle was the only one I figured out. And while the other ones might have more brilliant solutions, this one is just aesthetically beautiful on a whole other level.

[turolainen]

I was thinking of Qb5 checkmate threat and immediately realized that it can be blocked, but I would've not believed the first puzzle had that many checkmates.

[TigerChess]

I solved the first three puzzles pretty quickly. Seems like my puzzle skill has really improved a lot over the last year. But I couldn't solve the last one. It was really fascinating

[yoav]

Amazing!! Please give us more like this 😀💯👌👌

[johndrake]

Mind blowing stuff - the chess rabbit hole really doesn’t seem to have an end.

[ngoquangthai]

In positions like the last puzzle (nothing short of amazing btw) it's so hard to find the solution, even if you slowly go through the process of elimination. You would easily discard Kc8 (that's if you consider it at all!) after seeing b5 then Bf5, like how on earth are you stopping the pawn. In a practical game I'd expect few humans to actually find this.

[MrJsintic]

When I attended the high school state tournament for the first time, (Illinois) there was a little store you could buy things from between games. There was also a guy who set up puzzles with complex solutions that you couldn't just plug into an engine because you had to find the moves.
Long story short the first puzzle was one he presented us, between like 20 of us from different teams we solved it in like 10 minutes