Author must be Gianbattista Lolli (actually I don’t know is it true or not). I saw many etudes with his authorship that are endings with pawns and queens.

Really 80% struggle? This is definitely one of the easier puzzles

Respectfully, as part of the intro you need to CLEARLY STATE THE POSITION AND THE GOAL COMPLETELY. Like WHITE TO MOVE AND WIN, for example. I ASSUMED this, since you didn't say anything like that at all, but it's ANNOYING. If you can't even do that (as every competent KZbin chess content creator I've seen routinely does), I'm not going to waste my time with your videos. Knowing endgame principles, re the opposition, this was very simple for experienced endgame players, BTW.

Good

I gave up playing chess

Minor detail, but zugzwang isn’t the correct terminology, because that implies black could defend if he were allowed to pass.

Easy puzzle.

Not that hard, it just need to make artificial zugzwang, hardest move is e3

6:40, isnt Rg1+, Kd2 is winning?

King d7 first move.

Nice puzzle! At 5:42 you say that you can play Re1, Rg1 or Ra1 but Re1 only leads to a repetition, doesn't it? At 7:30 Black could go Ke5. I think in this case you have to go to e3 with the white king.

The whole thing is how to keep winning the opposition.

Solved the first move, blundered into a draw.

Wow, that was brilliant. Thanks for that. I couldn't see how White could win!

Kf1

Kf1

Why didn't you put the link to where you posted it on Facebook in the description? Do you expect us to just believe you?

I was thinking 1Kf2 KF4 (gain opposition, if KG4 2 Kxg2, if 1…Ke4 2 Kxe2 and the win is intuitive here.) 2 Rg1 (waiting move, the take the pawn on the side the king moves to

Found the first correct mive:))

Oposision? Triangulation? Skewer? Shadowing? Discover attack?

there is a small trick black has when the kings on d3 and h3 and that is g4 giving up the pawn and if the pawn takes even though you both queen at the same time there is Qh1 forcing the king to the g file and then Qg1 skewers the king and queen i mean you can just take with the king but shhhhhhhh

The important lesson from this puzzle is to always try and maintain king opposition. Knowing where your king is in relation to the enemy king is of absolute importance in most endgames and it’s easy to get distracted from its role as primary defender and divert it away from where it needs to be. In this case the pawns are undefended and the rook covers the entire back rank, they are not going anywhere without the black king’s help. Stopping the black king’s advance is priority number one.

Very good learning experience! Subbed

Well explained EXCEPT that when you take the Distant Opposition you need an ODD number of squares between the Kings , NOT even - so 1 or 3 squares ❤

I'm kinda bad at tactics but I solved it instantly... I've been practicing my speed by playing 3+0 against stockfish 2, 30 times a day for a week. I only win if I get 92%+ accuracy. By the end of the week I was getting 9/10 games 92%+ accuracy.

Good explanation, I'm happy to know I am capable of finding the answer though had I not known this was a puzzle I'm not so sure... Well maybe, the first few moves were pretty clear

90% might be more accurate than 99%, I really hope people above 1500 rapid aren't messing this up

instructive

Блестяще! Во время блица скорей всего ошибёшься и упустишь победу в эндшпиле.

I saw king takes was wrong, and correctly guessed Kf2 as the correct first move, but I definitely couldn't see the entire line, so it was more guess/instinct than proper calculation.

Kf2, white is winning. The white king creates a barrier to the black king by taking opposition.

Damn what a can of worms xD

I saw king f2 immediately before even clicking the video. But my endgame rating is over 2000, so I guess that is good (it is elo and not fide which was only in the 1800s when I did OTB). Basically, this is a problem of opposition. Always keep opposition to the opponent's king. In the variation where the white king takes on c2 and the black king goes to e3 the white king has given up opposition. All other positions that are winning maintain opposition to the king.

When you say, "we have uneven number of squares" It sounds like, "we have an even number of squares" Better to say, "do we have AN UNEVEN number of squares?" I know English isn't your mother tongue, just thought you could benefit for further videos to avoid any confusion. Thanks

The only wrong idea I considered was Rxc2 (which obviously doesn’t work) I never even considered taking anything with the King… It just seemed clear that the King should attack both the other pawns simultaneously with Kf2. (No calculation of alternatives required)

Funfact: King dont here thats checkmate

Intuitively my mind played KF2. It just "seems" Right

Great lesson. Greetings from Düsseldorf, Germany.

It would help if you said who was to play.

I saw king F2 after pausing on the thumbnail for a bit

Brilliant lesson on opposition. Thank you.

Given the title of the video, I was immediately suspicious of pawn captures. Saw that keeping opposition with the king and wasting tempo with the rook were the general ideas. I avoided all the blunders you highlighted, and thought I had essentially solved it. But I definitely had not seen the idea with cutting off the King with the took ahead of you reaching that position, and had to pause for 5-10 minutes and go through a thought process before spotting the idea. Good puzzle, endgame are hard.

It was not so hard, first moves was easy then i had to think, wery nice.

One of the most important rules in ches is don't play for your opponent, play only for yourself.

"the winning move is King to f2" "YEAHHHHHH🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉"

I saw Kf2 and putting the white king in opposition to the black king, but I definitely did not see all the complicated combinations afterwards. This is not an 'easy' puzzle by any means....

Very instructive, thank you. Note that, in English, 1 ,3, 5 etc. are _odd_ numbers, while 2, 4, 6 etc. are _even_ numbers. I hope that this helps.

Kf2, first thing that comes to mind tbh. Probably have to be a bit careful after that, but doesn't look too hard

Woohoo, I'm a 99%'er!!

One more variant: 1. Kf2 Ke4 2. Ke2 Kd4 3. Rg1 Ke4 4. Re1 Ke5 If 5. Kd3 then 5. ... Kf4 with threat to reach f2. So, 6. Ke2 Ke4 and white hasn't achieved progress. The best move is 5. Ke3 Now after 5. ... Kd5 6. Kd3 and black king cannot defend g pawn let alone c pawn. Let's move on 5. ... Ke6 6. Ke4 Ke7 7. Kd3 Kf6 8. Kc2 Kf5 9. Rg1 Kf4 10. Rg2