A Cheater Tried To Solve This...

[@Garl_Vinland]

At this point the old man smiled and placed a 12” tall mechanic Godzilla on the board. “Gojirra wins wins” He exclaimed before making laser sounds and knocking all the pieces onto the floor. At this point the club realized the answer: the old man was crazy, and was promptly escorted off the premises.

[@qerror9465]

LMAO THE FUNNIEST COMMENT IVE SEEN IN YEARS

[@thefastmeow]

chess from ohio 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@mad-xq6xy]

@@Gi0-Dudes lmfao*

[@Gi0-Dudes]

@@mad-xq6xy Not what I meant, but ok.

[@RedoAll]

And then the next day, chess droped a new update adding a new piece called gojirra.

[@onlyapawn4371]

I think probably the young girl instinctively thought this looked like a win for white because of how many pieces white has and the other players (who had seen more of these whacky puzzle positions) instinctively thought black would win or it would be a draw due to the nature of these puzzles and how often one side can do really well when the king has limited squares. Still Bravo to her bet she was chuffed at that.

[@timmytid6997]

Sherlock on the job?

[@alexandrevillela926]

Bro you are so smart!!!

[@LucianDevine]

I expected black to win, given the nature of most puzzles. It's often the underdog that can come back because of the unusual positions and piece placement. When I was trying to solve it though, I couldn't find anything except the perpetual check draw and the stalemate.

[@Tade-1474]

Yeah that’s kinda what was exactly said in the video

[@Classified141]

The story is 100% made up

[@zanti4132]

Very sneaky of Nelson to show the Stockfish analysis while it is only at depth 18. I'd imagine by the time the chess engine gets to depth 20 it notices Qd3 and shows a high plus score or even a forced mate for White. So the other moral of the story is, don't trust chess engines when you haven't given them adequate time to analyze the position.

[@ScorpioneOrzion]

at higher depths it gives about +15.63

[@ciekce]

latest stockfish dev up to depth 65 finds a mate in 24 (after depth 40something)

[@Figgy20000]

Even stockfish needs more than literally 1 second to analyze a position properly.

[@sammarks9146]

18 is the default

[@kub2039]

@@sammarks9146 the stockfish on my phone has depth 24 as the default and got there in like 3 seconds, showing white as +9

[@neobullseye1]

My gut instinct: White can easily draw by simply shuffling the rook back and forth for perpetual check, therefore this is not a win for black. Meta reasoning says that since this is a puzzle, it's unlikely to be a draw either, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a puzzle. Therefore it's likely a win for white through shenanigans, probably with some kind of fork block at some point.

[@sadas3190]

I bet you've taken a few multiple choice exams in your time.

[@andrewberdahl9922]

@@sadas3190 all of the above and none of the above are always right lol

[@akif1598]

'Gut instinct'

[@speedyx3493]

Exactly how I did it too, I didn't find the winning move but also bet that white is winning just cause it's a puzzle

[@DerMichael]

And I was super confused when the drawing position was drawn out so much. If you wanted to show a draw, just show the immediate perpetual. Why would white go the length to bait the queen around if they don't see where that would lead to? -> Because this a puzzle and it does lead to something other then a draw given a different move at the end of baiting the queen around.

[@afiblacksails23]

I think the hardest part would be reverse engineering this puzzle to find out how three hell they got in that crazy position

[@iswearillchangemynamesoon]

thats why i dont play the sicilian

[@ilijalukovic4777]

@@iswearillchangemynamesoon hahah

[@john58011]

Very simple don’t bother is not a played out game it is a puzzle. Great queen sacrifice in the final outcome.

[@tripslord9029]

Hell

[@Detrebio]

Quite easy, trolling gone weird

[@PlanetLibrary]

That is an Epic solution. This is a perfect reminder for a chess player to think more critically and improve

[@YeaCloth]

nah this reminded me to just go ooga booga points

[@xerooreo1700]

me who was always thinking that why move the bishop when u can get rook at the original area

[@toonyrhythm3173]

@@xerooreo1700 The game wouldnt end since they would go back and forth

[@xerooreo1700]

@@toonyrhythm3173 no now when i studied this puzzle a bit it would result in a tie because of repitation

[@toonyrhythm3173]

@@xerooreo1700 yeah

[@LucianDevine]

There's actually another way for it to end! It's still a draw, but not by perpetual checks. 3:42 If White Bd4, black Qa5+, White Rc5, Black QxR+, White must capture, but whether he does with the King or Bishop it's actually a stalemate. The white Queen covers E1, E2, and G2 while the white Bishop covers F2 and G1.

[@soIatido]

Nice spot!

[@akshay4107]

Although white need not follow this line, that's just beautiful !

[@pascal9814]

What move is Black QxR? I am not into chess

[@LucianDevine]

@@pascal9814 Queen captures Rook on c5. It forces white to capture the black queen, but whether he uses the king or the bishop, it ends in stalemate as the black king has no legal moves.

[@pascal9814]

@@LucianDevine Thank you very much :)

[@zip0869]

And then they realized there was a random old guy in their chess club for kids

[@sarowie]

The little story plus stock fish with inadequate depth for the puzzle gave a lot to the puzzle - very well done. This kind of framing gives a chess puzzle - something very logical, abstract, definitive and solitaire - am open ended and social element.

[@realitant]

I like how the most complicated way to draw is shown when white can literally just move the rook back and forth

[@Qoko88]

Because it's not a draw. Computers always to play the line with most options (even to the point of sometimes 'pointlessly' repeat a position once) if it's otherwise not detrimental to its position. Here, that's up to the winning configuration, but because its depth wasn't high enough it didn't spot the win. If you otherwise mean computer unrelated... well, again, it's not a draw 😁

[@wooshbait36]

@@Qoko88 touch grass 🫳🌿

[@abcdef8915]

Aim is show how white avoids repetition.

[@HulkRemade]

Because white doesn't want to draw.

[@wooshbait36]

@@abcdef8915 So you are saying black people play for the draw and white people only play to win?

[@combustiblefire5510]

I thought it was a draw because black has perpetual checks and white's pieces could shuffle back and forth but I only saw the queen sac when the position before it was shown again

[@BWeManX]

It definitely looked like a perpetual check situation. Didn't see the queen sacrifice! Awesome stuff.

[@mrGhost212]

i was hoping this would be one of those wood block puzzles 😂 I thought solution was getting queen to c4 to deliver check while blocking the check.

[@rosiefay7283]

This is great! I like problems with tries that are plausible but wrong, and this one has tries at various levels of naivety/plausibility.

[@onymous919]

I was thinking about that queen sacrifice as it was the only unconventional option to simultaneously block the check as well as breaking the chain, all other pieces had one and only one way of blocking..although I didn't understand the importance of the sacrifice at first, so I thought it's suicidal, hence didn't gave much thought...but I was wrong..and right too. Another lesson for me, thanks :)

[@Tuck213]

You made up a whole story to make the title 'A cheater tried to solve this...' well, checkmate I guess because I clicked on it.

[@rawtrout007]

What are you smoking

[@lucienli4553]

Da hail·l

[@kentlab3850]

Thank, you saved me time deciding if i should dislike

[@Qoko88]

I noticed almost instantly this would impossibly be a win for Black due to Qa2+ Rc4 Qd2+ Rd4 etc. If it's 'weird', it must be a win for White (as otherwise puzzles like these are drawn) but I failed to think outside the box. Which, is quite literal here 😁. I'll save this one, thanks!

[@witheringhs7766]

i see what you meant.. quite literally black cant even get past a draw on move 2

[@SevenTheMisgiven]

I think it's a shitty puzzle altogether. Actually not a puzzle at all.

[@Imcringe769]

At 0:49 “They will defend with the bishop” Me: why not the rook?

[@k3ose45]

Because then the queen checks on a2 and it’s a perpetual check

[@creanero]

@@k3ose45 Sure, but if you're looking at this and you think it's the type of puzzle where black is expected to win because white is boxed in, then being able to salvage a draw is better than losing.

[@k3ose45]

@@creanero either way the boy argued that black wins which means he thinks that white won’t do a perpetual check

[@TheElevenFirst]

Bro made a boss fight 😭😭

[@Gyro_369]

Bro your story telling was good and your inspiration from chess talk was new kind of content

[@Bruh-bk6yo]

The boy was like "Ah, it's mate in 2 for black. White will play f3, black - e6, and now white plays g4, black delivers a checkmate with a queen on h4.

[@logansl4008]

My immediate thought when it got to the last move on the draw is that the queen could make a more offensive play, though when you’ve been moving in a box it’s common to just assume that’s the only place you can move by instinct. I think being bad at chess makes this easier to solve 😂😂

[@Valentino_Crespo]

Ahhh yes, the boy plugged in the moves into the computer in the year 1959.

[@octaviovilchez3096]

0:35 That day the little girl promise herself to take revenge on those who humiliated her

[@kenjimege5027]

The girl is basically a lucky person who always gets the answer right but used the wrong method

[@JaidynGX]

Math in a nutshell

[@awang_ir]

fun fact for me before subscribing to Nelson's Chess vibes, I actually subscribe to Chess talk so basically KZbin thought that Chess talk "promoted" algorithm to Chess vibes in my home page nice video as always

[@awang_ir]

anyway, because of this cute funny plot twist, I finally decided to join membership at this channel. hopefully Nelson could play chess & collab with Chess talk channel someday

[@Person01234]

Hey, I actually got one of these right. It's not that complicated really, the queen's ability to keep checking depends on her distance from the king and other pieces, by offering the queen sac you simultaneously pull her closer and give your king an escape route, or if the sacrifice is not accepted you just give your king an escape route and make your queen active.

[@philw6056]

The black queen can't escape, because the queen and king are forked. If black doesn't want to accept the sacrifice either the king must move away and the queen gets captured OR the queen must block the check and still gets captured. In all three scenarios the white king can escape and white wins, but only in the scenario from the video the black queen stays on the board.

[@qwerty687687]

There is no other move that gets black out of check while saving the queen so if the sacrifice is not accepted, black will lose the queen.

[@teambellavsteamalice]

Great puzzle, I thought black was able to pull of perpetual checks. Giving up the queen to break the pattern, with check so forced, is just brilliant.

[@SamuelPearlman]

"What a Noob". I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to whom I am referring.

[@TVGUY333]

I like the chess stories. It adds a warm touch to a cold game. I'll use some of them at the Library chess club to engage the kids. Thanks

[@sarowie]

that sounds awesome!

[@karadesu8348]

We were too caught up in the cycle

[@williamsmith8640]

This fascinating puzzle speaks for itself

[@DragonFan3166]

I find it funny that none of the people tried to accont for the king

[@eliasvonbrille]

Haven't watched the Video but I have seen this position in some sort of book before and I know that White wins by giving away the Queen in the end just to stop the repetitions. It's actually really funny. A very easy concept that everyone should be able to come up with and yet we don't.

[@blackmoon3452]

its a 3 moves repetition draw because the rook can just move back to d4 and block the queen's check. lol

[@FloydMaxwell]

Coincidence. I watched my first Chess Talk video yesterday. By the way, there is also an easy draw for White line -- just move the rook back and forth.

[@markthompson2874]

That was my thinking, it was obviously either a win for white or a draw.

[@LordMidichlorian]

My answer at 2:54. White wins if it can get to ...Qa2+; Qc3+ to force the queen exchange. But that means white needs to swap queen and the rook that's initially at d4, but I don't believe there's a point for white to do that, as the pawn at e4 can't leave its place without denying e5 to the Queen as the queen needs the rook in a corner to go diagonally but neither bishop not pawn can't get off its path and once c6 is done to block a check, which I don't see how to avoid without getting into a perpetual, I can't see how to make the queen change to go clockwise and even then I don't think it's possible as then it's the pawn at e6 blocking the corner for the other rook to get the queen to swap side with by a diagonal block. Edit: Dang, I saw the ...Qd3 possibility but didn't follow that in the moment I thought of it and then I got too fixated on blocking with a check with the queen as to go back consider that one.

[@hikari1690]

For me the moral of the story is that the longer you are in a field the more disillusioned and pessimistic you become. Give the girl a few more weeks and all the puzzles will make her think it's either a draw or loss too

[@christopherheckman7957]

The moral of the story I got is that you can be right for the wrong reason. More pieces doesn't always translate into a win.

[@SlyNine]

The moral of the story is its better to be lucky than good. That's why the story sucks.

[@hodayfa000h]

Moral of the story, use high depth stockfish

[@RigoVids]

As soon as you paused, the queen move stuck out as an obvious oversight on blacks part, the characters in this story overlooked the ending of the line.

[@a_doggo]

Mind = blown. Thanks for the FEN and mentioning where you got the idea, that was fun.

[@sulfuras1985]

And then there's me, just moving the rook back and forth from the very beginning.

[@SudiptaBan]

Your storytelling is as nice as your teaching. That made the Chess puzzle so interesting. Thanks Nelsie 😊

[@walterswonderfulworld]

"The old man then smiled and flipped the board and began screaming."

[@diophantine1598]

While this is an epic solution, after the first move is given, a chess engine can replicate this win for white move for move.

[@MrLordFireDragon]

I like how for all the sophisticated logic used to demonstrate a draw no one bothered with the trivial draw by repetition of moving the rook back and forth.

[@j-69]

If white is playing to win, they won't want to do that.

[@EricOneOneNine]

That wouldn't happen because White doesn't want to draw. White wants to escape the checks and then use his massive material advantage to win.

[@ImRick420]

Everybody gangster until the pawn starts moving backwards

[@customarylover3857]

I still remember thinking at first that Black had a sneaky win up his sleeve until I realized that White could respond to Qg5+ by blocking it with his queen (Qe5). After I realized that, I figured at first that it would be a draw by perpetual check- until I realized that, just as Nelson pointed out, after several more checks, White can block Qd2+ with Qd3+, thereby sacrificing his queen in exchange for the positional advantage of being able to block the resulting check via Bd4 without the danger of keeping his king trapped in the box and forced to be put in perpetual check. TL;DR- I first thought Black would win but then saw Qe5 as a way out of being checkmated. Then I thought it would be a draw by perpetual check until I saw the counter check of Qd3+ as a way out of perpetual check.

[@mrglibb]

This chess video has the same plot as a Dhar Mann short and I love it.

[@vincentprime740]

The rule is, if all your pieces combined can cover the whole board movement and you have more of them, you win.

[@McGravyboat]

Reminds me of a similar story where the answer was "it depends whose move it is".

[@Moldylocks]

Literally what I expected, but I should've assumed the old man told everyone it was black to move at the chess club and tried to think harder to solve it. But honestly wouldn't have found the solution either way, pretty nice puzzle

[@andrejstojanovic5455]

1:34 why doesn't white just block with the rook again

[@koreanésealé]

but white will want to win

[@SandJuice213]

draw repetition

[@Gamingforfun5057]

3 fold repetition

[@Jiyoon02]

That part is omitted. The player wearing a suit at 1:34 is describing how the game ends in a draw. Move R4d4 only further proves his point. Thus, he doesn't even have to mention it. If black's motivation is to draw, which it is in his case, black will welcome a such move.

[@33LB]

100 IQ- surrounding the king with pieces to ensure he is well guarded. 400 IQ- sacrificing the queen to allow the king to escape.

[@eddiegness]

If anyone's looking for me, I'll be busy picking up pieces of my brain from off the floor. Great content, Nelson!

[@itslullas]

I found some on my lawn and wanted to give them back. 🧠 🧠 🧠 Must have been really mind blowing for them to land all the way in Germany! 🤯

[@perpetualbystander4516]

@@itslullas No, it was brain blowing. 😅

[@prince_youtube12345]

The girl was just lucky in being right. More pieces on the board doesn't always mean a win.

[@jamke6170]

I could instantly tell you were following a different theme of doing the chess puzzles with stories.

[@sebastien5048]

The name of this young girl ? Albert Einstein.

[@sheulidas451]

The name of this young girl? Mangus Carlsen v2

[@ekki1993]

@@sheulidas451 The name of this young girl? AlphaZero

[@sheulidas451]

@@ekki1993 The name of this girl? Stockfish

[@potatosei2103]

No no no, the real question is: how did the black king travel that far without getting ladder checkmated?

[@williampapadopoulos8145]

That was an AMAAAAAZING PUZZLE!

[@orelas167]

Queens are so powerful sometimes you forget they're also so damnably tricky.

[@thebuffman5597]

I was at first like "wut how would this even be a win for black this is a dead draw but even more a win for white." Then you proceeded to explain my thoughts lol. Tho yes queen sac is something I do often so that is the only reason I knew this. *Also looks at the amount of times someone messed with me by putting the king on h2 with pawns surrounding it as it is horrendously strong defense, same with opposite corner*

[@Dupletor]

I'm 100% sure the cheater would have seen that coming.

[@Trollllium]

Here's how I solved it (rather logically): I realized quickly that shuffling the rooks would give white at least a draw. So I considered why white wasn't clearly winning, and deduced that the king having no other escape squares kind of forced white pieces to constantly defend the checks in the 3x3 grid. If any piece made it outside the grid then the king will have an escape square and things could change. I then hypothesized that a queen, being the most versatile, had the best chance of blocking the check outside of the 3x3 grid. I searched for this and found the solution Qd3.

[@Trollllium]

@Anonymous yeah, what's up

[@ryguy2006]

Beautiful reasoning! The best thing about puzzles is that they can be constructed to show a specific tactic or idea. That's why I try the daily puzzle if I can, because it helps me miss less in actual play.

[@sentinel8185]

I find it funny how black didn’t use its king, even putting him into jeopardy and breaking the cycle.

[@imamasterbaiter6645]

Who woulda thought a young girl would outsmart an engine and a strong player

[@daniilvaino6077]

actually enginge calculates white win in 24 moves if u give it enough time to alalize until depth 49

[@puppergump4117]

The key here is that she can't explain how to win. There's many positions where too many pieces leads to a smothered checkmate.

[@repplayz65]

Its either depending on who you're playing against.

[@thewizard6092]

Congrats to the young girl for the answer! If she continues to practice and analyse positions, she might well become the best imaginary chess player that ever was!

[@chrisdawson1776]

🤓

[@MarkIsTiredAlways]

🤓

[@orangecitrus8056]

-Plot twist she is named Beth Harmon-

[@SlyNine]

First we will have to pretend she actually thinks things through.

[@somanken]

great to see a chess puzzle where the thumbnail is the actual puzzle and not a random middle step!

[@turnuphat3538]

Dude for a draw you can just constantly block with the rook on qa2

[@samuelallred2058]

Whites goal is to win though, and they can.

[@shieldphaser]

I mean, you can tell straight from the start that it's not a win for black. The rook can just go back and forth between C4 and D4, always getting in the way of the queen's checks one way or the other.

[@33niboR]

Oh no my queen

[@taaque_tv]

I don't know what engine the boy uses but Stockfish litteraly depth 1 says +10.81 for white - depth 36 he sees a mate in 27 - depth 45 he sees a mate in 24 (which is the fastest mate)

[@heerakumar1608]

Nice puzzle, boring story. We already liked your style of narrating, Nelson.

[@rotorblade9508]

“because it has more pieces” is only one of the reasons

[@LetsPlayCrazy]

please stop with the fake chess stories! They are so long, overblown and boring. We are not here for religious apologetics, but to learn :D Give us the ideas without these made up characters please :-/

[@jakefromstatefarm6969]

Disagree

[@HTen-sh1nc]

But... but this way, the lesson will become more interesting, learning will be more fun :'(

[@davidfleb]

It's a fun video to watch. You can just skip it if you only want straight to the point learning videos.

[@LetsPlayCrazy]

@@HTen-sh1nc is it though? Maybe I am just way too much into the apologetics debunk channels xD I've heard these kinds of stories 100 times. They always have a moral you can see by sentence two, could have been shortened to like 30 seconds and padd everything out to the absolute last, giving some filler info inbetween to make it more believable... This was like an apologetics clone video for chess xD If you've never heard these kinds of stories, I guess they could be fun... but since I've seen 3 videos in the last 2 days like this for chess... I just wanted to voice my opinion.

[@liomurasaki]

I also thought on queen to e3, it was kind of the best solution because you could get out of check and put the enemy on check

[@theliamofella]

That little girl sounds like it might have been my daughter, she is a little “know it all” aswel 😂

[@ZJasmineDragon]

“Here is a made up story that makes this novice right for literally no reason other than plot device”

[@grandoldone2552]

The only reason we didn't believe her was because she didn't have a logical explanation.

[@Hivatel]

Casual chess player here, I went through all possibilities in my head and realized that sacrificing the queen using its omnidirectional movement would allow two spaces to be opened up, and thus an escape route. I voted for white's win.

[@LiterallyAnythingg]

I was dead ass looking for a way to get my queen to c4 for a check. But couldn’t figure out how to make one always getting checked. The second side pawn push is what I didn’t see thought it would lead to mate lol

[@frax8696]

Martin: I'm about to ruin this man's whole career

[@miguelebina9451]

Man my classmates would lose the pawns instantly then get stalemated

[@noone-_-314]

Wait... Isn't it possible to draw like: q b 3 check, r c4 , q d 3 check, r d 4 and repeat for a force draw?

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

Exactly! This is so dumb?

[@FavvvvazM]

Do you know that the stupid and the genius often have the same answer? That's what happen in this case.

[@rexrqc]

moral of the story: use higher depth stockfish

[@EliasHasle]

I was kind of hoping for the first move to be a king move. That would be another cool plot twist.

[@justfrankjustdank2538]

perfect example of the einstelung effect

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Usually the solution with hard chess puzzles is to sacrifice the queen. I mean, getting rid of one of white's pieces so the king has more room to move sounds very intuitive, doesn't it?

[@Tibovl]

Surprisingly I actually recognised that the solution would have to involve a diagonal block with the queen. I just didn't have the time to play it all put and realize it was a queen sacrifice.

[@WofWca]

It's at least a draw for white, because after the rook moves, the bishop can keep blocking.

[@Repetoire]

Now this is a really good chess puzzle that helps to demonstrate the difference between bad, good, and great moves.

[@demonic7610]

based on skill is only way to determine a winner if draws can be tossed out white is obvious because the multiple chances, but can also go both ways based on skills.

[@SlyNine]

It wouldn't inspire that because I care more about solid reasoning than a lucky guess.

[@nicknam4d657]

Sometimes in life you have to let go of something to gain something.

[@lancetheking7524]

Ngl, I assumed at some point they'd be able to push the pawns so fun

[@sausthabbirsinghtuladhar1729]

the old man needs to explain how such a position even happens

[@WoodRabbitTaoist]

I really appreciate that you encourage people not to look down on new players. I've been watching a lot of chess videos lately and I have to say, GothamChess can be very cocky, and condescending when it comes to games by less experienced games. I appreciate your humility chessvibes. Thank you.

[@cougar2013]

In 2022 are there any people under 50 that are thinking “she can’t play chess…she’s a girl!” I highly doubt it. But yeah, fun puzzle.

[@Nanbread-bw7nq]

I think it’s more that she’d only been playing for a few days at the time

[@lavignebui906]

i was just screaming to my screen that both can win and fail

[@joelmarders4106]

Nelson about to be sued for $100M.💰💸

[@darknessblades]

The fact stockfish couldn't figure out white winning is hilarious