I think bh1

This is a magnificent video, thanks! Do you know where I can find puzzles such as your first to practice calculating checks, captures and threats? I find it such a valuable method but many puzzles are one or two moves without much clever mating technique to calculate. This was highly satisfying and this type of puzzle would not only help my calculation, but also my blunder awareness (to avoid moving to covered squares).

Why didn’t you checkmate at 6:47? Put white queen between the two kings?

Have learned enough to know, that a or h pawn are easily neutralized. And there was clear and easy way to force black pawn to h.

1:00 i thought that breaking the rules

White king's sole purpose from the very beginning was to reach d6 to be able to defend white pawn. But while doing that, it chose such a tricky route that black pawn couldn't promote before white king reached d6. Oh my goodness, what an evil plan I just watched.

NOOOOOO NOT PROMOTE HE CAN FORK YOU

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

Good one. ❤ Waiting for others from the series. I think with your approach to each position the channel would become great repository of basics for everyone

If that 80% is under 1200 than I'd understand why they'd struggle with this

Sorry for the long waiting time for posting a new video, but work was like crazy and I didn't had any time. I hope you would enjoy this new series I would make about openings!

As a beginner, I thought there were many solutions, with the bishop being the first move in all of them. However, as a beginner, I failed to see the rush to corner for black and would have been stalemated every time despite having the instincts to know the bishop's first move was the critical one. Great video and thanks for the complete analysis!

I thought with one lawn I could ALWAYS gain opposition unless it was a corner pawn ?

The kings are chilling in barcelona

WHERE ARE THE KINGS??

Pus plan from f 6 to f 7 king goes to h8 promote the f pawn ro a queen and it's checkmate

No, sir. This chess study by Richard Retí is world famous and very, very, and very, very often published in millions of chess magazines. Every good chess player who studies endgames knows the Retí chess studies!

Knighttttttttt

It does not matter if black has opasition because after kf6 the pawn is guarded and there is no stalemate

Technically, black could still promote

Make a Queen & go tô a8

Does anyone know who the author is? (or players if derived from a real game)

Underpromote

What if they play c2

The Queen would lose either

Kb3

You know the part when white king takes the pawn on f6? Black king blunder by going h8 instead of f8 because white king and go to f7 but the creator of this video did not think so

1. f7 Qe5+ 2. g5 Qxe6 3. f8=N+ Kg8 4. Nxe6 *

I prefer the original format.

Brilliant!

One problem WHERES THE KINGS

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Promote to a night

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

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.

Making a rook cus quees qould make an stalemate🎉

3:33 My answer is king b6, it achieves everything that king c6 would but stays off the diagonal and the pawn still blocks the e7 square

f8=N+

f8=N

3:19 why does black play h4 instead of Ke7 (and then blocking white's pawn at Kd8)?

It's very neat with the black king not able to move but the black pawn forced to take and left with moves that only serve to skupper his stalemate plans. You have to remember to force his king in the corner before committing the pawn then the rest should be easy to recall.

The only one I got was the en passant one.

If black goes Qe5, white could check with Qg5, black has only one move to go h8 and you have mate with pawn trasnforming into queen or rook... Or am I wrong?

Kf8

How does this puzzle show whether one has chess talent? I call BS

You can still move to Kh6

Ke7 works after black captures and you take back, black king goes to g file and you play kf7, taking opposition

I solved immeditaly but j must agree, in a game there would probably times when i play f6 and times where i play Kd7, its treaky yeah

That's pretty good😮😮

Awesome puzzle, thanks for sharing. Definitely was challenging, but I was thinking Rc1.