A Chess Puzzle You Won't Believe

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FEN: 8/1K1R4/pp3p2/8/1p3Np1/4Q3/2pppn1r/2qbkrb1 w - - 0 1
Author:
Stefan Schneider, 1st Place
Austria-Switzerland Match 1977
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[@highplayz3655]

Good job on getting sponsored!

[@g1incman]

It looks more like, to me, it's black's game to win. Black does not need to check the king once the white king is exposed. Black can play advancement of it's furthest left pawn. If white tries to contest it, it opens the door for black to move its Queen. White has no pieces to challenge the pawns without loosing pressure on the black king. Any lose of pressure equals black victory. If however White take the furthest left pawn, black forks white queen. Black wins.

[@vixinitydbz]

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[@coc235]

Thank you a lot Nelson, I've lost so many games in this position!

[@anshul3112_]

Lol😆

[@c.jishnu378]

Right? My 9 out of 10 daily games were this only until yesterday.........

[@mattt.4395]

very original.

[@jasonhalverson1180]

@@mattt.4395 like this position!

[@TheDrumstickEmpire]

@@mattt.4395 as is your reply

[@Scurex]

I was so confused because of the pawns, then I realised they’re meant to be going towards down 😅

[@johnhopper9667]

I did the same thing lol

[@athenaprastiti2191]

Same lol

[@hristianslavchev6726]

So was I

[@PopcornMax179]

I find this happens in a lot of the games where my opponent ends up with all their major pieces on my backrank, and my king has gone all the way over the other side of the board.

[@dallaswood4117]

Haha

[@stevedavies1261]

Me, in my last 5 games I've managed to find myself in very similar positions at least 3 times....Glad I watched this vid to the end...

[@hcgreier6037]

This is not intended to be a position which arose from a game. It's so called _chess problem_ 😂

[@littlecow27]

@@hcgreier6037 This is not intended to be a serious comment. It's called a _joke_ 😂

[@hcgreier6037]

@@littlecow27 Ah, irony. Well then!

[@perfectionbox]

i'm deeply impressed how black got his pieces all the way down the board and even white got his king to the other end

[@angelcross442]

Yea a puzzle that will never happen naturally

[@TheBbwannabe]

Yeah, black blocking 3 of his own pawns from becoming queens

[@philipanderegg5973]

I'd say puzzles don't always present exact positions that you'll reach in a game but rather teach you an idea that could be used in a game

[@lajos-berenyi]

Nice puzzle! Though black is in zugzwang, so if white plays just Ka7, Kb7 back and forth, black only can move pawns, and if black plays a3 or b3, then white can play Qg3, after black can not stop Nd3 checkmate. And after some pawn push, black has to play a3 or b3. The reason, why white can not play it immidetaly is, that black can play Qa3. But after black plays a3 or b3, then with Qa3 can’t stop Nd3#. Only this simple solution is not checkmate in 5, but only in 9: Ka7 g3 Kb7 g2 Ka7 f5 Kb7 b5 Ka7 a5 Kb7 a4 Ka7 a3 (or b3) Qg3 and doesn’t matter what black plays, the next is Nd3 checkmate.

[@laomedondardanos5658]

One line I find interesting which you didnt mention, is: Ka8 and then black plays b3 with the idea that then the queen can move to a3 if the rook moves to h7 and attack the white king when the rook takes h2, so that it would not be checkmate in 5. That strategy does not work, because than the rook can go to d8 instead of h7. So the black queen cant leave c1 because of the checkmate at d2. And no matter what black plays, white either wins instantly or white can move the queen to g3 and pin the knight and no move can prevent the checkmate Kd3.

[@ralkadde]

Great! As mentioned above, 2. Kb7! (in place of 2. Rd8) works as well. Both variants will end with 3. Qg3 and 4. Nd3#.

[@MrGoatMan3895]

must've taken long to type damn

[@Rocky64]

You left out the main variation of this problem composed by Stefan Schneider in 1977. After 1.Ka8! Rh8+ 2.Qe8!, if Black declines the sacrifice and plays 2...Rh2, White's threat of 3.Rh7? is now too slow because of 3...Qa3! 4.Rxh2 Qf3+! Instead White must continue with 3.Re7!, doubling on the e-file and Black has no defence against 4.Rxe2+ Bxe2 5.Qxe2. This variation also explains why after 1...Rh8+, 2.Rd8? doesn't work, because of 2...Rh2! and the doubling attempt 3.Re8 fails as the queen needs to be behind the rook.

[@awang_ir]

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[@sebastiandierks7919]

Nice puzzle Nelson! I actually saw the idea of Rh7 to lure the rook away, but saw black takes with check, so I thought about a king move. Then dismissed it because black still has the check on h8 and I didn't see Qe8. (Actually I think it's important to point out that black doesn't have to take the queen, but if Rh2 back, you can get your rook in front of the queen and after Re7, the battery on e2 cannot be stopped; if black's knight moves somewhere to laterally defend with the rook, you have the other smothered mate with Kd3.)

[@johnathanpatrick6118]

At first I thought the first move was going to be a rook move, but then I realized it couldn't be because both White's rook and queen are tying down Black's queen to the d2 pawn and mate threat there. Can't move the knight yet because it's going to be the star of the show (smothered checkmate!!). It had to be a king move, and only 1. Ka8 made the most sense to me because you don't want any pieces (namely the rook) captured with check as to foil the smothered checkmate attempt. Let's see how I did. Edit: Yeah, I thought so. The queen sacrifice was pretty smart, Black's rook is so busy attacking White's back lines, he can't stop the mate threat at g2 anymore.

[@theweekend5764]

What if Black doesn't take the Queen?

[@duderjokes6914]

Skillshare is the first sponsor I heard from nelson

[@medwaysurgery2277]

Im just learning how to play chess but, when the rook moves up for the check, how does the king move down into the two black pawns doesnt the that signify a checkmate move?

[@Z.L.K.]

After Rxe8, could white then sac the rook, as well as the queen? Assuming that's possible, it would be pretty cool winning with only a knight and king. Also, I actually did find the first move, but that was only because you said you'd be surprised if anyone can find it, hinting that it wasn't a logical move or sacrifice!

[@NerdFarts-fd9ru]

No because after the rook takes your rook with Check he will be guarding the d3 square so when the king moves black could move the knight stopping both smothered mates

[@username_wish]

the pawns being backwards while still in the good facing way blows my mind

[@boevoikrikun]

I had a similar idea, but i thought the move would be Kg6. The idea is - the king can't be immediately checked and all the threats still stay there. Sadly this wasn't even considered a move in the video so I will never know where was I wrong

[@christopherheckman7957]

0:52 One of my major pet peeves is software with names like Notion, because you can't google it. 7:42 Presumably, the Black pawns on a6 is to stop ... Qa1+ and similar checks along the a-file.

[@jujucasar2003]

Damn and i thought surrrounding ur king with all ur pieces while blocking ur pawn promotion was a very strong strategy.

[@LucianDevine]

So I, like many people, wondered what happens if the black rook doesn't take the queen and just retreats back to H2. If Rh2 then white just goes Re7, setting up the battery he mentioned at 2:34. The Ka8 that baited the rook to h8 actually helped us get the queen to where we wanted her for the battery. So, as is of course the point of the puzzle, black well and truly has no good moves after white does the semi-waiting move that is Ka8. All of the pieces that can move shouldn't move. So they can stall with pawn moves until a pawn gets to a3 or b3. Once a pawn gets there, white's queen goes to G3, pinning the knight to set up for the Nd3++.

[@ArtietheArchon]

the first step in this puzzle is to realize which way the board is facing...should title this one "eviction notice" as the black king is in white's castle

[@michaellashov3285]

There is no way Rd3 is not winning. There is 4 things black can do: 1. Qa3 right away - that's checkmate after Qxd2 2. Kxd3 right away is checkmate after knight recaptures 3. wastes a move (moves some pawn for the lack of a better move; probably f pawn because that kind of throws me off) - queen goes to g3 and doesn't matter what black plays to defend after their H-rook is captured it is mate on g2. And if he tries to check me on h7 I go c6 and after the next check - d5 and he has no more checks 4. he first goes for a check: after c6, yet again there is no checks

[@coc235]

What about Nh3?

[@kogmawmain8872]

After d5, can't black just play Rd6 for another check? (Assuming f5 was black's first move)

[@michaellashov3285]

@@coc235 whennn?

[@michaellashov3285]

@@kogmawmain8872 yes, he sure can, but how does he continue from there 🤔

[@michaellashov3285]

don't think he can do anything after you capture it, unless im missing something

[@grantmcnamara3661]

Can someone explain how Nd3 is a smothered mate? Can't the knight be taken?

[@XBrainstoneX]

The pawns go the other way (even though the position looks like black's starting position, it is not, the black pawns go down the board).

[@ytafshin]

Great puzzle. I kept getting thrown off thinking black was going in the other direction.

[@bishlish]

I thought of Rh7 but didn’t think of king a8 because I didn’t realise it was check

[@bsmoov7]

Am I looking at this wrong? The puzzle starts with white’s king in check. It HAS to be a king move first

[@eriksteffahn6172]

the pawns move the other way

[@jaymarsondar275]

is Qg3 good also?the plan is: A.Knight d3 black knight cant take because its pinned by the queen B. to take the black rook and give smothered checkmate. black can't move any piece except the queen and the pawns, if the black rook moves then the knight can give the checkmate already

[@jaymarsondar275]

the best move probably for black is Qa3, but white has Rd3 black knight cant take the rook because its pinned

[@wiscorpio72]

After 2. Qe8 Stockfish did find what would happen if black played Rh2, the rook would line up under the queen 3. Re7 ready to capture on e2, get captured by the bishop, 5. Qe2 would be mate, still mate in 5.

[@JanVolny-qh4fo]

Nice puzzle, i haven't discovered mate in 5, but i have found following. After Qg3 only move the black has is Qa3, otherwise it is checkmate after Nd3 since black knight is pinned. So my moves would be shuffling king on a7 b7 and c7 until one of black pawns is on a3 or b3 and black cannot prevent mate after Qg3.

[@lajos-berenyi]

I have found this same solution. 😊 It is not checkmate in 5, only in 9, but much more simple to calculate, as it has no sidelines.

[@danielyuan9862]

@@lajos-berenyi it cam be mate in 8 if you first take the b6 pawn with the king, so that was the move I went for

[@thetrainlover2766]

i thought that Q takes f2 N would be good because if take with bishop its mate, if they use the rook they are smart though

[@TheDandonian]

If the Rook doesn't take the Queen and just retreats, what happens?

[@ichinoshina2738]

If the rook retreats the queen can just go to h5, threatening to take the rook while also blocking off the check option black had prior. The rook thus has no good moves to prevent white's knight from delivering checkmate through g2 whist also protecting itself from the queen.

[@TheDandonian]

@@ichinoshina2738 Qh5 is interesting. Struggling in my head to see if it's fast enough though, given Qa3 from black could follow. I'm sure you're probably right.

[@TheDandonian]

@@ichinoshina2738 Yeah, you're totally correct, thanks.

[@eriksteffahn6172]

No, after Qh5 Qa3 black is winning. The only winning move is Re7, threatening unstoppable mate on e2.

[@LucianDevine]

@@ichinoshina2738 What if, after Qh5, black goes Qa3?

[@FrancoisTremblay]

I guessed Rh7 for the first move, failed to see the check. Oh well, I was close!

[@nenadmarkovic4020]

Same

[@paulobouhid6648]

Hi, Nelson... How do I send you a chess puzzle? Btw, I´m brazilian... Well, here it goes: white: Bishop at a4, black: King at d1; Rook at b5; Bishop at d5. Notice that the black King is in check. Question: Where is the White King? Good luck!

[@benjiriayoub3918]

Very instructional

[@Eswar.]

Nice video Nelson

[@alyvav.trauma2440]

What if we just move blacks pawn from a6 to a1? Or b4 to b1?

[@shreyjain3197]

the real mystery is how black managed to conserve almost their entire army of pieces and kill almost every white piece and still managed to lose

[@gamersclips6085]

Make the video of how can find best move in chess. Pls

[@sebastiandierks7919]

I paused in the beginning and found a different solution and I'm not sure what's wrong with it. I thought Qg3 on the first move to remove the defender of the smothered mate on g2. Black almost can't move, except for the queen and random pawn moves. (Legally, the rook could move to, after which it's mate immediately though.) How could black defend? Only possibility was ...Qa3 with the idea to check on f3, but white can just take the rook and allow the check. So my mate in 5 solution was: 1 Qg3 Qa3, 2 Qxh2 Qf3+, 3 Ka7 Qb7+ (or some other check), 4 Kxb7 Bxh2, 5 Kg2# (or 4 ...knight moves to give an escape square, then you have the other mate after 5 Nd3).

[@thomas_roos]

I was thinking exactly the same, Qg3, and didn't see how black could defend against that, but your post actually helped me find the answer. 1 Qg3 Qa3, 2 Qxh2 Qf3+, 3 Ka7 Qf4, this takes away the smothered check, and black can easily get a queen back after 4 Qf4 c1 into a new queen. Now black is still way ahead but no longer has to fear the smothered check

[@sebastiandierks7919]

@@thomas_roos thanks, that solves it, Qf3+ is a fork, just queen takes knight. And ...c1=Q also defends the mate on d2. Nice composition, everything works out

[@toodsf1]

Yeah to begin with I was sure Qg3 was gonna be correct. Then I disproved that but didn’t find the solution. Was looking at Qg3 (immediately threatening Nd3#) so Qa3, then Rd3 thinking about Qxh2 stuff but it doesn’t work 🫤 I found some fun things like Qg3 Qa3, Rd3 c1=Q, Qxh2 Ba4, Ng2+ Kd1, Ne3+ Ke1, Ng2+ Kd1 perpetual, but black avoid it of course Also Qg3 Qa3, Rd3 c1=Q, Qxh2 Nxd3, Qg3+ Rf2, Qxg1+ Rf1, Ng2# but again requires plenty of cooperation from black lol 😅 I wonder if I would have found Ka8 after an hour or two 🙃

[@hcgreier6037]

Well done again! Here is another one from Schneider: 3KNQnk/3pp2p/R7/R7/pp6/2p5/2b4P/q1n3r1 Mate in 7 moves.

[@anti-nacl]

Nice Nelson finally get a sponsor

[@anti-nacl]

And nice I finally gets a heart from him 😂

[@nikolabakalinov3478]

but how are the pawns not checking the king?

[@grey8478]

the pawns are facing down, not up

[@nikolabakalinov3478]

@@grey8478 yeah but there's no logic in it and the black pawns being down at the king. Like it makes no sense. It would never happen In a real game

[@temonarshk4832]

@@nikolabakalinov3478 that why this is a puzzle

[@PopcornMax179]

@@temonarshk4832 kinda lessens the appeal of a puzzle when it makes no sense.

[@danielyuan9862]

@@nikolabakalinov3478 It's true that it makes no sense, but that's the position you're given. You can't deny it.

[@dentonyoung4314]

Very nice!

[@francomedina6038]

6:03 tell me if i'm wrong but here black have 2 ways to evade de checkmate: either moving the pawn on d2 or the other on e2, making a path to scape the checkmate and still be winning (I speak spanish so sorry for the bad writting)

[@famouschurchill6149]

Black pieces are moving towards the first rank

[@francomedina6038]

@@famouschurchill6149 i'm dumb thanks

[@teambellavsteamalice]

Oh close, I was thinking of Kc6 to avoid checks. But I guess after f5 that doesn't work.

[@knuthansen8524]

ooh yeah i would blitz out king a8 instantly. Easy one indeed.

[@alexrobinet7576]

How are you supposed to know what way the pawns move before you start?

[@Rocky64]

Any one of these options will work: (1) Watch video at 0:02. (2) Check the board coordinates shown on the diagram: h1 at the lower-right corner means White is moving up. (3) Learn chess problem convention: the goal is White to play and win/mate, so you're playing White who moves up.

[@igorxyz8682]

HOW it will be checkmate if after Dd1 black ignores queen and plays Dh6 and later Dc6 ...??

[@AVERYhornyMrDinosaur]

this puzzle was infinitely easier once i figured out why blacks pawns didn't just take white's queen. a more amazing puzzle, is how this position might occur in a real game. but the puzzle is neat, and illustrates a very important point about chess.

[@WeAreToasty]

How did this position happen?

[@malagoyal700]

Hi I was wondering why not Qg3? Because we pin the knight & deliver mate with our knight on d3? Please answer.

[@FidasEternas]

Black Qa3, you take with your queen, black moves pawn forward and promotes to queen and that queen is protected by a pawn, and the situation is lost at that point.

[@Carl-Gauss]

Almost got the 1st move: I’d found Rh7 idea, but forgot my king would be in check😅

[@AlexanderWeixelbaumer]

Please flip the board next time it's so confusing when pawns march down the board

[@tubebrocoli]

no, player's side faces up.

[@lilNick69]

Queen G2 knight d3 works doesn't it

[@aiswallenstein7563]

This is either draw or black wins. Don't fork the white queen. Return black rh8 to rh2, option 1 if the white rd7 move to rh7, don't fork the white rh7 just move qc1 to qa3. If the white rh7 fork the black rh2 then move black qa3 to qf3 to check the white ka8 then fork the black kf4(black wins) Option 2. If the white qe8 returns to qe3 then return the rh2 to rh8 and if the white qe8 covers again then return to black rh2(draw).

[@Rocky64]

Option 3: 3.Re7! followed by 4.Rxe2+ Bxe2 5.Qxe2.

[@AbiGail-ok7fc]

Looked at the puzzle and thought, "the solution is probably 1 Ka8 because it's a puzzle hence the least likely move is often the solution".

[@danielyuan9862]

How many times did that actually work tho?

[@HeDoesntEvenKnowBasicMathCat]

What about queen g3 to kill then checkmate

[@sonsysy4195]

Would it make a difference if you blocked with a rook instead of queen?

[@advaykumar9726]

I have the exact same question

[@danielyuan9862]

Yes it does, because the rook can then try to go for a perpetual check, and if the king ever reaches b8 or c7, then black can play Bh2, but it's impossible to avoid b8, c7, and all the checks.

[@trdi]

Very nice. My first candidate was Qg3, threatening Nd3++. But after 1... Qa3 2. Qxh2 Qf3 there is nothing there. Second move I checked was 1. Rh7 and thought that was it, but the noticed he takes with check. Third candidate was Kc6 and I thought that was working until I saw the rest of the video. But I missed the c1Q response. So I was close, but not close enough. :)

[@jaymarsondar275]

i think you have rook d3 and both black queen and knight cant take if Qa3 just Rd3 dont take the rook

[@trdi]

@@jaymarsondar275 Black is going to respond with c-pawn promotion though.

[@jaymarsondar275]

​@@trdi then queen takes on h2, white will still win but it wont just be mate in 5 moves

[@trdi]

@@jaymarsondar275 Black wins then. All black has to do is get white king in trouble and it's over for white. After Qxh2, black just plays Qc7+ and if king takes (he pretty much has to) then black is pinning the knight to the king with Bxh2.

[@jaymarsondar275]

​@@trdi ohh right, i forgot about that bishop mb

[@a_doggo]

I can't believe it but I got it! I have seen a puzzle with pawns on 7th with king/queen/rook on 8th before like this though, so... you're right, you need to see this kinda puzzle or you'll be trying to stop the rook with one of your pieces instead of just sliding the king... (hearing it was 'mate in 5' tipped me off, i was thinking it had to be 4)

[@a_doggo]

disclaimer: im just very lucky, im not a great chess player and im not trying to brag, im just amazed i was lucky enough to get a puzzle this crazy because its completely out of my league

[@trucid2]

I keep forgetting that black's pawns are moving down, not up.

[@danielyuan9862]

Some people completely forgot and commented without checking to see if someone else had already commented it.

[@cauehirai2130]

After Qg6 pinning the Knitgh, what does black do?

[@danielyuan9862]

Qa3

[@ghost29t45]

Why you use the knight e3?

[@rubylancaster2163]

Why not Qg3 into Knight into d3?

[@roderickmain9697]

What would/could black play against white Q-g3 ?

[@tonynguyen6461]

How is Nd3 mate? Can’t pawn just take

[@rubylancaster2163]

Ok but what if: Ka8, Qb2 Rh7, c1(promotes to queen) Rxh2, Qc8 check After Ka2, black can play either Bc2 or Qc6 to stop the mate and now has 2 free queens

[@ichinoshina2738]

Aft Qb2 white's queen can simply take d2 to deliver checkmate, since the rook guards the queen from being taken by the king, no other piece can take white's queen away and black's king is still smothered.

[@rubylancaster2163]

@@ichinoshina2738 right, forgot about that

[@SergeantShaky]

For the first move, I had a similar thought process where the king had to move in a way that doesnt let the rook get captured with check but instead of Ka8 I instead thought of Kxb6 because if black's knight moves to pin the queen to the king with the bishop then there is smothered mate with Nd3# and if the queen moves there is Qd2#. Otherwise Rh7 baits out black's rook for an eventual Ng2#. Is there a reason why Kxb6 wouldn't work?

[@johnpaulmizzi1268]

Why isnt the white king in check from the beginning?

[@vanjavukanic6849]

Why not first move queen h3?

[@goku9955]

I’m so confused are the pons not checking the white king?

[@speedy_brennan]

LOL....took me a moment. I didn't realize all blacks pieces were on the first the opposite side of the board going down.

[@distort1onyt]

is it just me or the pawns aren’t putting white king in check

[@Mr.ArtisticSketcher]

I wonder why after Rh8 check we guard with Qe8 but not Rd8 because in both of them the idea is same so do there is any difference in that variation 🤔

[@georgegeorgopoulos1861]

because if 1. Ka8 Rh8+ 2.Rd8 ? Rh2! ... In the solition after 2.Qe8 Rh2 3.Rd7! and the battery works now

[@eriksteffahn6172]

Yes, after Rh2 white has nothing better than to put the rook back to d7, repeating the position, which is obviously not what you want. At least white is still winning though

[@georgegeorgopoulos1861]

@@eriksteffahn6172 Actually the puzzle is Mate in 5 moves .. not white wins... This is not mentioned in the video and it is a well known awarded composition. Stefan Schneider First Place, Austria v Switzerland composing match, 1977 8/1K1R4/pp3p2/8/1p3Np1/4Q3/2pppn1r/2qbkrb1 (4+15) Mate in five

[@exist0142]

LOL I actually guessed the first move correctly XD I just picked the most random senseless move and it happened to be the right one XD

[@hkgaming2842]

I dont understand the knight to d3 checkmate, cant the pawn just take the knight?

[@hkgaming2842]

Nevermind, i forgot the pawns only can move down so the knight is safe 😅

[@LolBit215GamerCherry1]

6:05 white doesn’t win, black can take the knight with the pawn

[@danielyuan9862]

0:03 listen carefully

[@dudethebagman]

You can start watching at 1:14 to avoid his ad.

[@domenicoragozzino857]

Why a pawn not control nuffing?

[@seneryldrm4382]

I wanna ask something In 4:55, why do we have to block with the queen? Can't we just block with the rook? It still lores out that rook

[@keda1981]

Black's rook would then be defending d3, allowing them to move the knight and create an escape route for their king.

[@nenadmarkovic4020]

I new that we needed to place rook on 7

[@nenadmarkovic4020]

H7

[@GirlGeekLovesStampin]

The board looks backwards no?

[@abruh5666]

What if we play Kxa6

[@katsu4673]

Why font u play queen g3 then horse d3 Mate in 3

[@roadtogmchessacademy392]

Does kf7 works

[@scottodonnell7121]

At the 8 minute mark, after black moves his Knight to give his King an escape, you said K-D3 is smothered mate still. So, why can't that Knight be taken by the White pawns?

[@scottodonnell7121]

I meant at the 5:47 mark. The Knight giving check can be captured, no?

[@FBernkastel]

@@scottodonnell7121 same question. Also, he can move pawn to give himself space

[@scottodonnell7121]

@@FBernkastel Are we missing something here?

[@FBernkastel]

@@scottodonnell7121 I don't think so? It's anyway not mate in 5. Though strange that noone wrote about it in top comments

[@eriksteffahn6172]

the pawns move the other way

[@quincy882]

but doesn't the pawn put you in check?

[@danielmclean3733]

What if black rook doesn’t accept queen?? In the situation where you moved the knight for an escape, the checkmate was protected by pawns

[@danielmclean3733]

Wait, black is moving down??

[@Sam-tl4ho]

@@danielmclean3733 yeah thats the weird thing

[@justsomealligatorwithinter2115]

5:35 is that not illegal???? The pawn is guarding that square, im confused Edit: just realized that black is going down, not up

[@meight8771]

What about white rook h7 black rook kills in h7 and knight in g2

[@nobody.7784]

Wait didnt pawns could kill kimg

[@vedranb87]

Amazing how the black army totally stormed the white's "capital city" and still lost :D

[@wmanthebeast]

Can't the knight be taken by the pon?

[@orucnsrullayev4326]

I said queen g3 isn't useful?

[@evanguillory5046]

I actually solved it from the thumbnail

[@ankitnayak9734]

Ill be honest I got the idea but not the first move....

[@sartipimh8111]

Nd3+?? 6:00

[@whatkidsandbabieslike7884]

I figured out the first move fr YES ACTUALLY FR

[@HIHAXX77]

i got that move so fast after the explaination 3:16 also 4:56