2 Chess Puzzles To Impress Your Friends 👏🏽👏🏽

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Puzzle 1 FEN: 6B1/8/8/6n1/1K6/8/1ppppp1p/bkqbrrbr w - - 0 1
Puzzle 2 FEN: k7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/R3K3 w Q - 0 1
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[@ChessVibesOfficial]

I read so many comments about people not knowing which way the pawns were going I thought I forgot to say it 😂 0:00

[@SoftEngiNir]

It's because the video starts playing silently before you click it (in the mobile version), and once you click it, it will keep playing and not restart it

[@ChessVibesOfficial]

@@SoftEngiNir Ahhh that makes sense!

[@petar8296]

My bad then But this is never gone happened i don't see the point of this :D

[@dostufph]

This video makes no sense without that clarification

[@rumiaiskawaii1930]

And why pawn don't kill king lol

[@TheWAYF]

Love to see my opponent make the classic blunder where they promote a pawn to a rook, line up all 6 of their remaining pawns for promotion, and then methodically move nearly all of their remaining pieces behind those pawns without once checkmating me. Happens more often than you'd think, and they get so mad when they realise what they've done.

[@robertakerman3570]

Simply a silly brain XRcize

[@ketchuput]

very common 3200 elo game tbh

[@MintBunHunter]

Haha undying position classic

[@hamster964]

But why he didn't make a queen ?

[@TheWAYF]

@@hamster964 As I said, it's a classic blunder. :')

[@TheLaprasMan]

Kinda confused until I realised thr black pawns are all moving down the board lol

[@appledanimations1913]

Ohhhh that's why..

[@lysy-zn2gg]

Yeah he said King to a3 I was like Nelson r u drunk?

[@PhO3NiX96]

I struggled for 5 mins watching the thumbnail and ended up saying to myself (there is no way white wins) Then I clicked the video and he says the black pawns moving down. I was like "ok dude" "wait I still don't see it"

[@nathanisbored]

he does say it in the first two seconds of the video... i guess some people were trying to solve it from the thumbnail.. i can barely even parse the thumbnail on my device. also if it were designed to be solved from the thumbnail and only clicked on for the solution, both puzzles would need to be shown for the title to make sense. i just dont understand why people would try to solve it from the thumbnail

[@Amoeby]

@UCJQfkp4l1TfvlDYKkoS-X8A well, even if you don't see notation on the board, how could you miss Nelson saying which way pawns are going?

[@binodtharu8348]

Thanks for leting me know that i could have won this position! Just encountered it in last game i played! Got to know that its Really a well known theoritical position

[@dillon8124]

funnily enough the first position is possible to achieve in game (the second one isn't though)

[@17Murkin]

@@dillon8124 Actually it is lol you have to play like a -1000 elo player but you can do it.

[@dillon8124]

oh wait after thinking about it for a bit longer you are correct, I originally thought that it was impossible to get black's pawns in the right position to be captured I forgot that you can just promot them lol, sometimes I miss obvious stuff like that

[@boymatin5845]

I love these common positions and I see them everyday

[@itsmeshyam1436]

2:50 "Black can get a Queen just in time to get checkmated." ~Nelsi 2022

[@Rocky64]

The second problem was composed by William Shinkman in 1887. This is the most famous unsound problem of all time, with the 1.Kd2 cook (unintended solution) discovered by solvers back in 1929.

[@FellowChad69]

Rocking it like always with these amazing positions

[@fivespy207]

Man this happens all the time! Thanks for giving the solution to this😎

[@tottenvillelegend826]

Love these puzzles!! ❤❤❤❤

[@bestevil.]

Wow I needed to know this. I hate getting stuck in this position

[@warrior_dark]

When Nelson took that rook at the edge. I was like what? Few moves later realized that black can finally make his Queen to lose the game

[@Thpoal]

Thanks for teaching me how to deal with this! My enemies really tripped after having black's position!

[@dentonyoung4314]

Two fantastic little bits of chess, right there.

[@bradleywalker8642]

The second puzzle is theoretically possible to get that position. It takes 15 captures to get all the pawns to the a-file, and Black has lost all 15 pieces.

[@skrrskrrrr99]

the first too

[@user-ej7sr3ow8b]

Wonderful collaboration of both sides

[@will1555]

it is possible in practice too. this feat has already been accomplished, even a man managed it and then continued striving to reduce the number of movements to reach that position.

[@pjotrelfferich5516]

Thanks always found myself in this position

[@landen99]

I would Love to see the game that delivered the first position where all the major pieces including the king got completely stuck on the last row in front of their own pawns while black only had a bishop.

[@xtra_1807]

Nice to see this video pop off!

[@GAOMaster]

I don't have friends but thank you

[@ranchoabilities7928]

I actually entered the Chess FEN for the 1st puzzle with White to move, and yes, it shows +M7 for White. If I play Bd5 checkmate is unstoppable. Also, I did this for the second puzzle, but annoyingly, it won't allow me to castle queenside, so I have to play Stockfish's Kd2 to get the mate in 8.

[@arahman56]

Make sure to paste the FEN, manual positioning breaks the "castling allowed".

[@giovannicorno1247]

Nice!

[@jsolnis]

Yes, they can. It's all about moving the black knight to g7 blocking the queen, after moving g5. The king should be in h6 and the checkmate is in h7

[@ivyyan]

Bruh so amazing

[@marcelobrunorodrigues7630]

The second problem was included by the Brazilian Professor Luiz Jean Lauan in his book "O xadrez na Idade Média" (Chess in Middle Ages), mentioning William Shinkman as the author).

[@TheWorldsLargestOven]

Thanks, I've been in this position always

[@bibhasdas2578]

Nice helpful one

[@kiraleskirales]

Good one, Stockfish!

[@williamsmith8640]

These chess puzzles to impress my friends speaks for itself

[@KnocktheBlocks]

I've never known what to do in these positions. I lost the game all the time. Now I know for next time. 🙂

[@levistepanian5341]

Neat puzzles

[@Brain-washed2]

stockfish is so good it found a way around a trick puzzle

[@Rooster0505]

In the second one, stockfish variation, the king could move up so it would be 9 moves I think

[@gundarsmiks4889]

I get this position all the time in chess!

[@YonyBear]

Bahaha these were great puzzles

[@abdlt290]

0:20 The white king can't go up to a3 because there's peg b2 standing there

[@DeadPool----]

I know right what's up with that

[@spectacularobman4153]

he literally mentioned that the pawns were going downward at the start of the puzzle

[@TheOliwierr]

@@spectacularobman4153 going downward? What you mean?

[@rorvgames6491]

@@TheOliwierr he meant that the pawns were going to rank 1, so the pawn was not protecting the a3 square

[@ruberine2086]

Black started at the top of the board, the pawns are moving towards rank 1, so they arent threatening the king.

[@jamesthorpe9824]

@Chess Vibes Doesn't the stockfish way, allow Black King to move b8, c7 and delay checkmate for 11 moves?

[@user-uj2mt6nv2g]

If they go there you promote pawn and use the pawn wall for a quick checkmate, exactly 8 moves as well

[@michaelemerson1949]

Nice

[@Mr.Quinge_Twilight]

The entire time on the first puzzle I was like "Push the pawns???" Then I realized what was going on xD

[@cosmic_nrg]

Ah ...just the classic 3 rook 3 bishop game

[@alnitaka]

This makes the supposition that castling is legal. You can't castle with a pawn, for example, not even if the pawn advances to the 8th rank, promotes to a rook, then moves to the position behind the line of pawns. But then there is this other checkmate that Stockfish found.

[@xd3athclawx554]

i would find it so funny if you made up a position similar to the first one, and instead of trying to explain whether white could win or not, you just blank face stare at the camera and say no. Then immediately cut to the next puzzle.

[@MrMali22]

i was going to say i tried both of these and I got the checkmate in 8 on the second one without castling because I didn't know I could lol

[@bean19101]

I spent the first 2 minutes confused which 2 directions the pawns were going

[@xenaguy01]

4:47 That's fine as long as Black captures the second pawn, but what if he moves back to Ka8? Doesn't that make it checkmate in 10 moves instead of 8?

[@ashtonmccloud1161]

Everytime I try to play tactical like nelson does I end up making more blunders than just playing normally.

[@MrCegeb]

Stalemated with like an entire army present, which is kinda funny tbh.

[@aliakseimemelau3]

Of to the bar and the library I go

[@chib4236]

i need a proof game of this

[@denisbernard7922]

The king white fail king is some where! Where is a pawn and is check

[@ReCoNiCiouS]

I know this just to train your mind but just for fun, how would the pieces end up like this? XD

[@komomn826]

Chess but if you sacrifice your queen give Martin a rook

[@emphyriohazzl1510]

For problem 2, no, not intended, it's a demolition. And it' a problem, not a study 😃 "Chess Study" = White (or black) plays and wins or draws, or some variant like black to play white draws, etc..). "Chess Problem" = all the rest (and in particular direct mates in n moves, which is the case here, but "problem" also contains helped mates, selfmates, series, proof games and all the retro-analysis stuff, incuding with feeric rules and pieces, etc..). Good video otherwise as usual, very didactic, thanks 👍

[@ciprianc871]

Isnt it check ? from the black pawn?

[@Theturtlefam69]

4:45 the stock fish m8 can be countered by play kb8

[@RekhaKumari-nf2nh]

How can I send the puzzle chess vibes sir

[@jasonanno3881]

Tbh if you don’t know which way the pawns are going based on position then you need to do some easier puzzles

[@AndrewNov7]

The king is checked by the pawn if he go to that square

[@balil7677]

He mentioned the pawns are going downwards in the first 5 seconds of the video

[@Amoeby]

The solution to the first puzzle: 1. Bd5 Ne4 2. Bxe4 Ka2 3. Bd5+ Kb1 4. Bxh1 Ka2 5. Bd5+ Ka2 6. Ka3 h1=Q/R/B/N 7. Ba2# I gotta be honest about the second one, I don't see the point of solving puzzles like this when you can win by playing basically any legal move.

[@nicothenu8903]

Maybe a too obvious comment, but is in this specific game the different rule is that the black pawns can’t check the king? Or is there a different rule I’m not aware of?

[@PyrusLex86]

Pawns are headed in the wrong direction to check the king (Black started at top heading down”

[@ethanbeachy6593]

If I'm not mistaken there's quite a lot of ways (in exactly 8 moves) for the second, assuming promotion is allowed as normal. 1. Rb1 Kxa7 2. a1 Q Ka8 (or a6) 3. Qb2 ka7. Then waste four moves with your king (or Q/R, just get them back in position), then 8. Qb4/b5/b6/b7 as needed.

[@Datboy1991]

I thought white's pawns were going up the board not down?

[@aydindamood9413]

brilliant absolutely brilliant!...not only crushing the puzzle but wasting moves in the process!!...playing like that you can beat any computer ever made...I wonder why Magnus can't come up with something like that

[@Setherina]

You have to reach a8 to queen as white here

[@jebbush3130]

white pawns move up the board

[@ethanbeachy6593]

@@Setherina Oh I guess I just assumed it was the same direction as the previous one but it's not. Tired me was wrong...

[@giovannigino3675]

The first puzzle is nice, but it is impossible to reach this position in real game: why should Black underpromote two pawns?

[@mr-brokenml-0750]

Oops bro turned the board upside down

[@Regenhasser88]

Step 1: get friends

[@knights266]

how did u move your back

[@MasterSergius]

Just regular positions in my matches

[@BobChess]

This is mind blowing puzzles, I love these puzzle

[@TheEthikos]

What if at 4:40 the black knight went up? Still 8 moves?

[@luisenriqueper9476]

When you force the checkmate and losing your pawns in the progress 5:00

[@BoxofMadness]

but... the king is in check when the king is in that position lol

[@fanglin5146]

When you moved king to a3

[@ZjEditz222]

When the king move in a3 from b4 while the blak pawn was in b2. How can that be possible

[@limonlx7182]

The last move by black should explain this to you.

[@Ukyuu9]

Was confused for a moment that black pawns cant take the king

[@Alesnouille]

4:44 King can just go b8 then after rook e8 or a7 it can just escape, right ?

[@Sandokiri]

Let's look at all lines, after 1. Kd2 Kxa7 2. Re1, black to play. Black can't escape, but we'll see if the lines allow black to escape a MATE IN 8 that way. First line: 2. _ Kxa6 3. Re7 Kxa5 4. Re6 Kxa4 5. Re5 Kxa3 6. Kc3. Then if Ka4 7. a3 Kxa3 8. Ra5# ; or Kxa2 7. Re1 Ka3 8. Ra1# Second line: 2. _ Ka8 3. Re8+ Ka7 4. Kc3 and mate after 7. _ Kxa3 8. Ra5# And now for the b8 options. 2. _ Kb8 3. Re7? Ka8, and it's the second line delayed by a move: no mate in 8. If 3. _ Kc8? trying to chase the rook, 4. a7 Kd8 5. Rh7 and 6. a8=Q# 2. _ Kb8 3. Re8+ Ka7 is just the second line. 2. _ Kb8 3. Re8+ Kc7 4. a7 followed by a8=Q and Qd8, then either Qd7 -> Rc8# or Re7 -> Rc7# depending on where the black king tries to run. In conclusion, unless white commits the error 3. Re7? or moves his king at the wrong time, the mate in 8 is forced. If you want to test the lines, the FEN is this: k7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/R3K3 w Q - 0 1

[@Volt_Bolt]

On the first puzzle black can move pawn to where king was and win

[@somerandomdude4588]

The pawns are moving downwards

[@Volt_Bolt]

@@somerandomdude4588 I know. But as an chess hack client maker I can confirm that black wins or black can force stalemate

[@ICEDSummer]

Oh its black pawns move down

[@winiegramata2353]

You poot the white King beside the pawn the pawn can just eat the king

[@sealandball3043]

YOU FOOL! I do not have friends!

[@Francesco_Di_Pereira]

xD

[@Lusc1nt]

Chess is your friend 😏

[@kevin-js8gq]

2:28 give ne square hole vibes

[@ahmadihamid]

Me @ 2:30 : hey taking the rook is unnecessary Me @ 2:50 : oh...

[@sangtruong3912]

4:59 so what if black plays Ka4?

[@robohonkey990]

Is King to A 3 is a legal move? Blacks pawn has control of that square. Maybe I'm missing something.

[@Deoxail]

Black Pawns Are Moving Downwards

[@robohonkey990]

@@Deoxail thank you.

[@luciuskessler7821]

I found Bd5!

[@taneweliat1608]

2nd puzzle, what if black plays ka4 instead of taking the last pawn after white played kc3? Oh...saw it, white to play a waiting move, rc5 to rh5, then the only legal move for black is ka3, then white ra5#, still mate in 8...

[@Sandokiri]

White can also play a3, letting the black king have his last meal before being executed.

[@taneweliat1608]

@@Sandokiri the last supper 😆

[@Hito_no_Tamashi]

The king cannot move from b4 to a3, he would be in check by the pawn

[@vinievinie1724]

Black Pawns Go from Rank 7 to Rank 1 Not from Rank 2 to Rank 8 that would be the White Side then

[@lisatran847]

Umm chess vibes the king is in check(I forgot to say for the first part of the video)

[@ersinulku1884]

kral, piyonun çaprazına nasıl gidiyor?

[@ikarienator]

I don't get it. Isn't it illegal for the king to move there? Am I missing some rules?

[@CaelLovell]

I just wanna say the white king is in check by look at how thepawn can take the king.

[@balil7677]

He mentioned the pawns are going downwards in the first 5 seconds of the video

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

For the first one, why can’t black take the king with pawn to a3 or unlock a bishop to cut off that black diagonal with- Ooooh, we’re on white’s side of the board. Wow, that’s different.

[@jeremyhansen5706]

At 0:20 seconds how can he move the white king their there is litterally a pawn THERE i dont get it???? @chessvibes

[@spectacularobman4153]

he literally mentioned that the pawns were going downward at the start of the puzzle

[@jeremyhansen5706]

@@spectacularobman4153 ohh i didnt know that mb

[@user-zv1wi7rg3v]

Take the king to A2, but you won't see a pawn on B2.

[@spectacularobman4153]

he literally mentioned that the pawns were going downward at the start of the puzzle

[@Apenimon444]

Soooo the pawn can't just take the king there huh?

[@bogdanerakovic9482]

Bro,the king couldnt move because the pawn blocked that square💀

[@balil7677]

He mentioned the pawns are going downwards in the first 5 seconds of the video

[@bogdanerakovic9482]

Oh sorry then i didnt see

[@Wendygiraffe]

Awesome puzzles! Now let me go tell all 0 of my friends.

[@onlyapawn4371]

lol friends are like "how does the knight move again?"

[@DilmurodOlimov-ul6lc]

In the 1st puzzle, isn't the white king isn't being attacked by black pawns?

[@balil7677]

He mentioned the pawns are going downwards in the first 5 seconds of the video

[@abbylopez6746]

wait wait wait hes already checkmate

[@leinardesteves3987]

Ha! Unfortunately for you, I have no friends.

[@ayooitzrko]

I was gonna prepare a paragraph o slangs untill I found out that black is going the other way round

[@jingxue3764]

I solved the 1 puzzle

[@harutkhachatryan7814]

W T F whaaaaat!👍🤩the first puzzle is amazing!!!! i dont have to say anyword.Wooow!. I i i cant say anyword.hooow?now i can beat my friends and parents.And my grandpa because he is chess teacher.I am a boy from Armenia.I like your videos!👍