10 Levels of Tactics: Master the Decoy

[@gmkatsu]

You NEED to do more of these!!!! Love your content so much!

[@abvxsysa]

YESSSSSSSSSSSS

[@Shrodinguer4321]

I agree

[@deviyamunasenthilkumar1688]

So right

[@realndex]

Yes

[@sereypanhanuth5788]

Much better than gothamchess

[@Tdotttttt]

i like how happy he is, smiling ear to ear explaining this, which is very pleasant.

[@southernrun9048]

Really look forward to this series as a great idea to cover these. Well done

[@thechessnerd]

Thanks Michael!

[@michaeltakahashi3468]

I love this video! Not only are these great examples for my own training, but I often use a lot of them when I'm teaching tactical concepts to my students. Keep up the good work!

[@thechessnerd]

Episode 2 is out!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6uQdKOJobp4mLs

[@GoopyMcGooperson]

I really love the educational content. Thank you!

[@thechessnerd]

So glad to hear this!

[@gymmistskes_9803]

​@@thechessnerd best educational content

[@rgqwerty63]

Fantastic video. at 9:30 would be lovely if you could flip the board to the perspective the viewer is "playing as"

[@earth_human_loves_janet]

As a 1650 rated player on lichess, I am surprised that I can solve lv1-5,7,9. Thank you for the amazing and mind-blowing puzzles.

[@Meteo_sauce]

im 1900, and i found 9 easier then 7. its more of pattern recognition i feel

[@carl3565]

brawl star?

[@earth_human_loves_janet]

@@carl3565 ...

[@alexlaporta6393]

Amazing job! Love this format, it's sooo helpful... Please keep it up bringing to us the rest of the tactics

[@mindartifex6151]

I'm 1200+ and I failed the 1st problem thinking I have to sac the rook for the fork to happen. 🤣 Technically, he decoyed me into thinking that in order to decoy i must give up a piece. 🤣

[@elmorganso]

Im "supposedly" 600, and didnt get passed the 1rs lvl 😢

[@sir_albaxious1909]

Exactly. My intuition felt that I should sacrifice a valuable piece to decoy.

[@BadisXenic]

I stopped at level 6 but solved level 8 . Great video man Love the recent content ❤

[@thokozanisitwayo7696]

Damn it bro, your content is so great!!! I loved how you only dealt with one type of tactic for all levels. The last level was amazing...I loved the Queen sac. I solved the puzzles halfway.....I tend to lose the position in my mind. The only puzzels was too easy for me was the second level. I struggle with kipping track of bishops and knights in a puzzel. i don't know how I can improve in that field!! But you content is amazing dawg. I just subscribed too, All the best!! All the love from South Africa!!

[@greeneffectltd]

STAY HUNGRY !! Ruzzia doesn't want you to have food!

[@Greg763]

You are a great instructor! Thanks for making learning fun

[@masetade]

This is the nerdiest content I've seen from you so far. 1 minute in, Subscribed.

[@Leomarzinho2016]

Amo os seus vídeos meu amigo! Estou aprendendo muito muito mesmo! Estou melhorando o meu inglês com você também. Kkkk

[@mohammadhajibeigy2476]

Excellent video, Never seen like this content before. Please keep making more videos 😅

[@philfrei1]

The ELO rating of the puzzles seems to work pretty well. I stopped playing chess in tournaments after reaching 1803, many decades ago. I still do some puzzles and occasional blitz games. Level 6 (1800-2000) was too much for me, as were the puzzles which followed. But they were also fun to work on. I look forward to checking out your other tactical series puzzles. Well done! Subscribing.

[@am-ms5ud]

This series is gonna lit🔥🔥

[@epiccrumbs8312]

I solved level 8 but couldn't find the complete variation for level 9 and above. Well played, this will help me improve calculation skills.

[@thepharar]

Learning so much, you're the best!!!!!

[@vinitsancheti3408]

Solved first 8 levels as 1500 rated. Great video.

[@adamyohan]

I'm excited for this series.

[@jeff13379001]

I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 8. These puzzles are really beautiful.

[@reginaldd.paperstacks194]

I could see all the variations up to level 5 after that I could see the first few moves but things got foggy after that, thanks for these it's good fun

[@ravish6180]

Am loving the daily uploads keep it up🎉🎉🎉

[@AyoWallace]

Awesome video zach!

[@chillmode8636]

This is a very good content i have 1500 elo but i survived until level 8

[@ssr_thanos781]

Who else couldn't even clear level 1😂

[@ecs2018]

Great video on chess education. God bless you 🎉

[@ThomasK-o2r]

I enjoyed your tasks and I am looking forward for more of this stuff! ;-) The level 9 task I was able to solve, but it took me ten minutes (only staring at the task, no use of additional boards/ pieces). 2400 to 2700 though cannot be my Elo level. 🙂

[@Newton_Xavier]

Really awesome video.. Do more videos like this

[@aimanfaris2879]

when a 800 elo player (me) could solve 2400-2700 elo puzzles... then there must be something wrong

[@teddymagcawas1332]

I liked this analysis i will used it in my city tournament..so i can win.😊😊❤

[@yohendryy]

Can you imagine a super GM watching this videos about tactics?

[@sezerazgin]

Great Content. I appreciate your time for preparing this amazing content. Juding from the way you present the lesson, You would be also a great coach.

[@jordanmcmorris5248]

Level four is very cool little trick neutralizing the counter attack.

[@anayaaarush2047]

Last one was speechless

[@bechirbenothman5044]

Absolument brillant.I have 1800 on lichess blitz and classic. But couleur not solve the first puzzle. Very instructive. ❤

[@anonym5160]

7:56 This is so easy mate in 2 seen it immediately🤣

[@geometricart7851]

Decoy is a tactic every one should know inside and out

[@akirby2886]

Great video 🙂👍🏻

[@bkerfode8517]

On level 1 i thought of rook e 7 SACRIFICING THE ROOOOOOOK

[@mohammedalkhodairy]

You helped me improve so much thank you my friend ❤

[@lowlowresmesh]

woah! the king and 2 pawn endgame at the start used 2 tactics!, A decoy and overloading; Cool!

[@aphraxiaojun1145]

for all of you saying that you made it to level X and you're Y rating, seeing these in actual games is very different then getting it when you know that there's a good move. often just playing the first check you see works out nicely in these types of puzzles

[@sebb8224]

🤓

[@vaha2007]

fantastic!!

[@ВикторПоплевко-е2т]

5:36 rc8 bxc8 ba3 kg8 re8# also works

[@mwimbamumbimumbi3623]

I reached 2200 to 2400 ur rating great educational vids

[@DemKa646]

I admit that the 10th level was very difficult! After 2 minutes i managed to find it. The rest of the puzzles were EZZ

[@mahnazyadolahi995]

Thanks so much

[@aaravbalaji7737]

very nice video l love it

[@Exotic-food-travel]

Do more tactics love your content

[@thechessnerd]

I gotchu! kzbin.info/aero/PLiEdPeXVPzzH6Dcj3gF2fyMgaSvN0ar5S&si=nlmRL4cw0aTdPtSA

[@simo7215]

your the best thanks for teaching me something

[@neo85ish]

Nice, Thank you

[@arghoroy07]

Was so nice man❤love from Bangladesh

[@MrRedhyena]

Great chess art! I solved all your puzzels to the wery end, still i failed due to the five second limit😖 I spent 4-6 Times more than your limit..... Absolutely the best regards from Viking Sweden🙏🙏🙏

[@thechessnerd]

You killed it!! Well done!!

[@MrRedhyena]

@@thechessnerd Thank's a lot! I did not solve it due to the timelimit... But? You must continue this great (chexercise) U are from now on my Mastercoash nr1👍

[@AspenHyatt]

pls do more of these

[@abhiksaha9692]

good content bro...best wishes for you from India....keep it up!!!!

[@mrcool-mp5px]

I've failed 1-3 but somehow managed to solve 6, I fell once for my life intelligent

[@michaelking7701]

15:46 black doesn’t have to move their king to the checkmating square, they can block with the knight.

[@emilsadykhov123]

Right but then the queen takes the knight and the king still ends up going to d6 where the knight finishes off on e4 as well. Keep in mind the pawn is guarding the e5 square preventing the king from escaping.

[@Qave_]

Banger video

[@thechessnerd]

thank you so much!

[@shamballin3143]

i made it to 2000 leggo! these are all beautiful problems

[@JamToast111]

5:52 He sacrificed THE ROOOOOK

[@jitikashyap1187]

Fantastic video keep going,I reached 8th level 😊

[@tomandjerry7524]

Amazing bro ❤❤❤

[@strongestunited]

great content 🎉

[@thechessnerd]

Thanks Isaiah!

[@peterpaker9996]

I only made it to level 6, but I am still happy with my results cuz I only have around 900 elo. Very happy.

[@ΙάκωβοςΠαπαμαγκανάς]

I am a 1100 elo player and I solved the first 8 puzzles.

[@jinxplayz3866]

Really informative

[@John_Carbajal]

See, the thing is I can barely visualize even though I can find the solutions. I got to level 8 but it's mentally hard to picture the pieces on the board shifting as I find the solution. Good video though👍

[@itz_sam6635]

I didn’t understand the first puzzle because i saw the solution and saw it as a fork tactic instead of a decoy tactic😂😂

[@jamesperse5510]

I am a 600 elo player and managed to solve Level 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8 :D

[@bethmendoza6965]

I pass every level!!

[@thre3x416]

I almost solved 8, because I thought rd8+ and then rh8+, king takes and mate in 2, but absolutely forgot about kg6

[@Blinkers2007GameDev]

I found that queen sac! If you look for checks and captures these tactics are actually quite easy! i found Rook H8 as well. I managed to solve 7 levels!

[@Prakhar_chaudhary]

Chessbaseindia is in really good hands fr

[@ngocbuilenhu1432]

me somehow finding sacrifices but not getting past level 1 at the start be like: 💀

[@phanleo1889]

Level 6 is the level i stopped pain

[@IN-pr3lw]

Nice

[@ShubhangK-qb5zq]

In the 8th puzzle instead of nf5 i thought it would be nc8 but that doesn't work for the queen sac variation. Good puzzles, also I believe in the 1250 - 1500 there's another tactic where you can take the night with the king and then trap the bishop, but the opposite side has too many pawns so maybe it doesn't work.

[@Terr_o_wrist]

Solved everything until 7th

[@AbouTaim-Lille]

So what is the difference between the decoy and the deflection ?

[@pekkacomunista8420]

19:23 and he sacrificed... THE ROOOOOOOOK

[@ratpshaminda2540]

one word : WOW

[@WssW506]

Do you think that the checkmate at 15:57 is really a checkmate. The pawn could capture your knight...

[@fantiscious]

"I'm going to give a problem for every rating, starting from 0 up until 2700 Super GM" Magnus with 2800: 😞😞😞

[@IDKLOL-vw9yy]

well there is level 10 with is 2700+ so magnus could try that one

[@kingJaCoB122]

Chess nerd I’m a fan

[@prashanthkumar7349]

in level-8 I found something more slower yet a mate with double decoy! correct me if I am wrong, or why is this not really possible? Re8 , bf3, Rxf8, kxf8, Nf5, kg8, Rd8, kxh8, Qf8, kh7, Qg7 mate!

[@nirvandinodia2304]

Level number 5 had two ways to do it , we could take the pawn with our bishop aswell

[@suryanshusingh8863]

Level 8 seemed easy because I've seen it before

[@ruggedxris6767]

What about Pawn D5 captures night on E4 and thwarting checkmate?

[@larbiayoub4064]

Ty

[@Stickwar0748]

Bishop takes pawn ♟

[@jacobdrollinger4802]

These tactics are really hard to find!

[@ChessAnalyze-w7w]

I sloved 1 to 10 of puzzles and i sloved level 10 puzzle

[@keithgabriel4055]

There is a fork in 8:32 qg6+ king h8 kf8+ forking the queen and the rook

[@rogergperson]

Got to level 8 being an 800… 800** not 1800 💀

[@senychan1106]

The first lvl was the hardest lvl for me

[@mattia5980]

Lvl 1: Rb8+ Lvl 2: Qg6+, lol I overcomplicated it, and I was happy about winning a piece Lvl 3: g2, really funny Lvl 4: b4, nice double attack Lvl 5: intuitively I thought about Qxf6+, but after Kxf6, Rg6+, fxg6, Rxg6+, Ke7 I didn't find f6+, I just sow a dumb repetition, I started thinking something else and I found Bxf7, you know, a pawn is a pawn😂

[@mydogsolofiction]

In level too there is a triple queen rook king fork first after bishop block the check queen to g6 cheeck if black goes to the corner then knight to f7 triple fork but anyone can see this