This Is Going Viral In The Chess World

[@ChessVibesOfficial]

1:39 To be clear, I didn't mean Aman is an intermediate player lol.

[@andrewbennett5911]

Thought , man Nelson's standards are so high !!! 🤣

[@chriselcombe847]

Fyi, Aman didn't invent this. Ben Finegold does this all the time.

[@ChessVibesOfficial]

@@chriselcombe847 Wait what!

[@chriselcombe847]

​@@ChessVibesOfficial Google "ben finegold sets up for next game"

[@allannortje6440]

Chessvibes means only Magnus and Hikaru exists lol just joking he means what a normal player would do is to mate a ladder mate and not Aman ofcourse because he did not even CONSIDER a ladder mate lol

[@kitebrethren]

The fact that he’s doing all this with 2 seconds on the clock is even more impressive.

[@Fancydaking]

Hikaru would be proud

[@fbrunodr]

I believe the sequence of movements is such that it always work, so he can premove everything

[@Phlegethon]

It’s call time delay

[@AdamtheRed-]

Dude asked for the most elaborate mate by not resigning.

[@xanthius100]

20 year old german and Coach already lol

[@Bruh-bk6yo]

He got respect to appreciate the beauty.

[@SCBB24]

Facts

[@AdamtheRed-]

@@Bruh-bk6yo 💯

[@QDWhite]

Absolutely called for when someone’s holding out hoping for a “out of time vs. Insufficient material” draw.

[@KLightning18]

Imagine disrespecting you opponent on the level of setting up the board BEFORE the level ends

[@laytonjr6601]

The game was an IM against a GM. It's polite to resign when your loss is guaranteed, to save both players' time, because you know that your opponent knows how to checkmate you

[@JannPoo]

That's why you need to resign when the game is clearly lost. If you don't, you deserve to be trolled.

[@kalelpi314]

Having 6 pawns vs a similar rated player would be so hard to accomplish in real life. But, that’s one of the coolest ways to troll someone I’ve ever seen

[@TheShawnMower]

Only fair because he refused to resign.

[@Lankyfool234]

I did it the other day!

[@why-even-try-brotendo]

He started trolling early

[@luckysniper1659]

I watched GM Ben Finegold do this to a subscriber quite a while ago. It's hilarious. Saw another video where he tried again but accidentally made two of the same color bishops and said it was the worst day of his life. Lol

[@GregTurismo]

What is this video called? I love Ben and need to see it.

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

Did Ben Finegold use this (or maybe a similar) line? Only the last few moves are critical. Getting the king to the 2nd to last rank could have been done in fewer moves. But since he was pre-moving and had only 2-3 seconds left, it makes sense to just memorise a pre-calculated sequence that's guaranteed to get the desired result, and then just pre-moving all the moves.

[@ChickenChess-c3k]

This started with Finegold. It was actually not a real game by Finegold...Finegold actually scripted it. According to many discord users, Aman Hambleton then scripted a game in which he used it. Basically, This trick has never been used in a actual real game. Its only been used in staged content.

[@johnpeace1149]

I'm pretty sure I've seen Ben do this once or twice. Maybe not this move order.

[@LostKin69]

Nelson: walking away after winning otb at a tournament Opponent: wait, your pawns!

[@RJSRdg]

The most remarkable thing is that Aman did the whole thing in less than 10 seconds and the 20 move mate in under three seconds!

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

As Nelson said, you can analyse the line and understand this is a guaranteed mating sequence where nothing can go wrong unless the king was in a 'bad' starting position. Once you know how to do it and got it memorised, you just premove everything. It's just how fast you can move the mouse, so 5 sec, 3 sec, 2 sec, isn't incredible - the hard work figuring it out has already been done.

[@HybridDom]

New mate in 20 unlocked.

[@Hnxzxvr]

Without pawns

[@speedyvpf2276]

2:12 bro turned into hikaru

[@Shabrajgaming]

Fr

[@Yarxxter]

we’re talking about THIIIIIIS

[@elliotbennett3917]

nah that would be "takes takes takes..."

[@swagmuffin9000]

If anyone complains, it's their own fault for not resigning with king only vs half an army.

[@UloPe]

Never resign, your opponent might blunder

[@cegalleta]

@@UloPe not a GM and not half of their pieces

[@laytonjr6601]

​@@UloPeHoping that a GM will blunder a stalemate in this position is as disrespectful as what the GM did

[@texasranger7687]

​@@cegalleta8/16 is half

[@koa89]

Never resign, your opponent might get an heart attack

[@AnupamaAnant]

MARTIN -- 250 elo NELSON -- 2501 ELO CONCLUSION -- 1 ELO makes a huge difference

[@arunnath445]

😂😂😂😂

[@l0v0l78]

Lol

[@light_switch708]

You do know 2501 means that Neslon’s way better right? It’s more than 1 elo

[@jampi_2008]

​@@light_switch708of course someone didn't get the joke

[@light_switch708]

@@jampi_2008 ik it was now it wasn’t obvious though

[@jayhache5609]

Here's how you do it: Move here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here,.

[@Orosian5]

Oops. I moved there.

[@maxscott3349]

Thanks, I missed one of those and couldn't figure out how to do it

[@jayhache5609]

@@Orosian5 Big mistake!

[@jayhache5609]

@@maxscott3349 np i’m here to help!

[@jayhache5609]

@@maxscott3349 np I help where help is needed!

[@ebriadhlaceratus6609]

Maximum disrespect: open with the bongcloud then finish with this.

[@pgplaysvidya]

i love how chess is such a versatile game that people figured this silliness out

[@benro6564]

Even remembering all of this and being willing to do it in a real match against an IM with low time is impressive in itself What makes this truly ridiculous is that the end was ALL PREMOVES. Somehow he has memorized how to do this so well that he could execute it without hesitating at all. That is some next-level dedication to disrespect.

[@ChristomirRackov]

Against an *IM, not GM ;) But, yeah, everything else you said is just as valid ^_^ It's amazing how Aman actually not only invented this, but practiced it enough to be able to premove all of it.

[@AnthonyGonzalez-zy5zm]

@@ChristomirRackovhe did not invent this but it’s still extremely impressive to memorize it and play it in a time scramble.

[@masteroogway2438]

@@AnthonyGonzalez-zy5zmhe invented it he’s made multiple videos describing it

[@AnthonyGonzalez-zy5zm]

@@masteroogway2438 no that’s still not inventing something. That’s simply giving it attention. This line was already invented, nothing you say will change that.

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

He clearly figured out the guaranteed mating sequence beforehand. As Nelson points out, memorising the last ~20 moves isn't all that hard. Practice a few times, and you're good to go if you are lucky enough to get the other required conditions.

[@andrewolesen8773]

I was wondering how there is no 50 move rule violation, didn’t realize pawn moves reset the count

[@maxscott3349]

That rule is lame

[@cristif92]

2:29 - this is Hikaru style :))

[@dwm53w1k6]

Next challenge: What is highest rated bot that this can be accomplished against?

[@ChessUnderFireLearningJourney]

Not resigning is always an invitation for a free lesson ;-)

[@IbrahimGnessien]

Imagine if he resigned right before the checkmate 😂

[@manishkumarshukla4389]

An annoying reply to his disrespect👌🏼 opponent's hardwork into garbage😂

[@TobiasReiner-o8g]

Come on, at that point you become so curious yourself what he's actually doing, no way you can resign.

[@manswersrs]

Don’t forget to mention he did this all within a few seconds of premoving

[@AuroWan-v8u]

Yeah you can see it on the timer lmao

[@Chunes3]

I never even thought about the fact that you have to promote your bishops on opposite colored squares. That's wild.

[@sashatay7922]

loooll

[@christopherheckman7957]

You also can't promote all of your pawns at once, because you run the risk of getting a draw by the 50-move rule.

[@AnantMall]

⁠@@christopherheckman7957that’s super rare, after even one promotion one generally has a clear advantage

[@madladam]

​@@christopherheckman7957I didn't even think about that! The 50 move rule could ruin the reset mate if you're not careful.

[@neilcartmell2882]

A lot of people are saying Ben Finegold did it first, so I'd just like to let people know that there is a video of Aman doing this in 2020. This is not first time he's done it. It's just this time it's against an IM, and it was all premoves.

[@chabrew]

You almost had this in a real game yesterday…

[@rlstine4982]

Me following a cheat sheet with my smartphone at a chess tournament: - Magnus: "is your phone vibrating?"

[@Aphixx]

I feel like Finegold has been doing it for well over a year. He even did a sideways one a couple weeks ago.

[@Aphixx]

And by "I feel like" I mean I know he did because I've watched him do it at least 3 different times.

[@alanclarke4646]

Aman first did it 2020.

[@VibratorDefibrilator]

Chess arbiter here. In my practice I saw a player setting up his pieces all the way down to their initial places only once, but without the checkmate part, which is new to me. Old idea with fresh touch, wow! Stubborness giving a birth to a new level of disrespec, what do you know.

[@John73John]

"I'd rather not have to re-setup the board after the game. Instead I'm going to do 7 promotions, walk the pieces back to their starting squares, be careful the whole time not to stalemate, also be careful not to mess up this overly elaborate mating pattern, and then still have to re-setup the pawns afterward anyway."

[@irrelevant_noob]

The trick with the pawns (vs all the other pieces) is that it won't matter which one you pick up and where on the remaining starting squares you place them. ;-)

[@John73John]

@@irrelevant_noob Ah yes I can see how chess masters might struggle with remembering which of the pieces goes where. Thanks for pointing that out.

[@irrelevant_noob]

@@John73John requiring less effort doesn't mean the default would've been a struggle. -.-

[@FeWi-YT]

1:25 just do a quick simple queen checkmate and then you have a lot of time to set up the board again 🤦‍♂️

[@userjk7]

2:12 Bro obviously think he's Nakamura 😂

[@OriginalAlbert]

My face was actually in disgust when I saw the mate

[@RydarkVoyager]

This game was pure sadism, and should've been labeled a war crime. Glorious.

[@jasonuerkvitz3756]

A few months back I was watching some Ben Finegold clips and he was chatting with his wife while playing students or stream followers and he did this exact checkmate. He promoted all of his pawns to his starting pieces and escorted the king to the second rank. It's odd he got no recognition for it.

[@MrCheeze]

Ben Finegold does this frequently, yeah.

[@x_MoonlitShade]

"It's odd he got no recognition for it." Not quite that odd considering he didn't do it first, so.... There's video proof of Aman doing it since 2020, and he might have been doing it even longer. Fingold just jumped on this mate when it became viral, he isn't really special for that.

[@jasonuerkvitz3756]

@@x_MoonlitShade Are you sure about every single one of your assertions?

[@andrewbennett5911]

Wow , that's incredible ! Fancy being able to even conceive of such an idea , then to work out a learnable method !! Hats off !!!!

[@Dogen3]

I learned this from a friend back in the 1970s, and I have called it after him since then. I have routinely used it against players who refuse to resign in informal games and blitz. Urquhart's Mate is what i will always call it. Thanks Don.

[@benro6564]

I reached 1000 rapid today since creating my account around 8 months ago. Pretty cool to finally get there. A little worried about cheaters getting more common going forward but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

[@sadegh4982]

Nice man

[@Kuest0786]

1000 in 8 months ? wtf… I needed 2 or 3 weeks for this… 1000 is pretty low…

[@Kermit4415]

​@@Kuest0786some ppl learn faster some dont. No need to be an a*shole about it

[@benro6564]

​@Kuest0786 ok good for you, people learn at different speeds and I had a lot of times where I was tilting for even days at a time not getting anywhere.

[@r33th]

​@Kuest0786 wow you are insufferable. How does it feel to have zero friends?

[@6zel]

“do your worst” ahh game 😭🙏

[@JoshuaAyandokun-te3yo]

Bruhhh!! the amount of mockery in that game is deadly.

[@MrJed87]

If they don't resign at any point during this beautiful, elaborate mess of a checkmate, and then they get upset enough to quit chess, the chess world is better off without them.

[@broeycubing]

I just did it against Martin myself (900)

[@bcsa8079]

0:28 how is that even possible without checkmating the king earlier 🤨

[@brawldude2656]

King do be dodgin today😅

[@SCBB24]

The Machine came out on the wrong side of history

[@BKNeifert]

Wrong side of history? You mean the side with narcissists, eating buttholes and having thirty spouses that you have orgies with every night, with BDSM and losing all free speech? Or the side with compassion, tender affection, monogamy, mercy and freedoms?

[@Phlegethon]

It’s so brilliant you spent 15 minutes setting the board instead of 30 seconds

[@joseph-fernando-piano]

The craziest thing about this is that the checkmate position doesn't even look like it would be checkmate on first glance...

[@ltdericjones]

Nastiest thing is he calculated this checkmate 100 moves before end of game. And removed nearly ALL the moves 🤯

[@simohayha6031]

I remember that Aman Hambleton came up with this! So fun. The fact it goes viral now though, that was yeaaaars ago.

[@MrBrain4]

The positions at 0:30 and 0:39 are impossible.

[@NicD]

A bit of a faux pas!

[@WeaponsRemorse]

Bro was playing stock fish 25 levels

[@ASAMAHSH]

Note that it may be useful when placing the GM logo, this does not indicate that he is one of the great chess players, this means that he is a chess player, and when placing the IM or IM logo, this indicates that he is one of the great professional players in the world, and its meaning is I'm, meaning I am the world champion, while GM is an abbreviation for the word GM or unknown player from the champions

[@flake8382]

Disrespect by not resigning a losing position. Disrespect by making him an example in another amazing checkmate for the ages.

[@pullupterraine199]

I also do the same in this situation, I always promote all my original pieces and put them back to the starting square. I did it so many times and it is so much fun.

[@Idontreallyknow-o5z]

disrespect gambit: reconstruction variation

[@chastitywhiterose]

This is the best checkmate I have ever seen in my life.

[@NickKlamerth]

Why are you doing this? - Because I can.

[@L3monsta]

Hardest part of this challenge is finding an opponent that doesn't surrender

[@adamkhalil5524]

The best response after initially not resigning would be to catch on two what your opponents is up to and then before they can see the plan to its conclusion, resign

[@nilsvanderplancken]

This ending is also known as the Ben Finegold Immortal

[@GregTurismo]

I just did this too! Thank you for the lesson, that was fun and I've never memorized 20 moves in a row before. I didn't know I could do that, which makes me want to teach this to others.

[@kattoboi]

has this dude ever figured out martin always takes when his piece can't be taken back, he doesn't trade

[@DrewMunson-qz3ni]

In hindsight, it should have been easy to figure out. Just reverse engineer it: put your pieces in the starting position, ask yourself where the enemy king needs to be for a checkmate in that position, then figure out what the previous move had to be to force the king there, then figure out the move preceding that move, the move preceding that move, etc. You know what they say about hindsight though. I'd have never thought to begin figuring this out. It's brilliant.

[@siddharthannandhakumar6187]

Needed co-operation from both sides ... Imagine how he would feel when the opponent resigns when he is about to set the last piece in place

[@Jivvi]

2:12 it's giving Hikaru

[@BonnieBecker-q7k]

I congratulate you for your channel and I thank you for what you teach, I would like to recommend that you include in your videos Spanish subtitles because we are many Latinos who follow your channel and that would help us to be more sure of what we learn thanks to you, and God bless you and may you continue to succeed day by day.

[@jhudson_tiedye]

he figured that last part out with 2.8 seconds on the clock whatt

[@dustykh]

In the past I've looked at how you could get this mate but I always assumed it wasn't possible.

[@nemotube3304]

2:12 here here here here here here

[@underdrow5572]

I remember hearing about this before a chess game with a friend. The guy telling us didn't say he checkmated in the starting position though. Anyways, he said I should put all my pieces back on their spots before checkmating, so I did, and my friend put his King back on it's original spot too

[@Capt.Thunder]

He's got swag for sure. Styling on someone so hard because they disrespect you by not conceding.

[@wolfdogalsatian]

Hysterical 😂 The time he saved setting up the board again, he spent extending the game

[@dgeorge04]

Another great video. Thanks Nelson

[@vnXun]

2:12 close your eyes and think of any chess game ever, you will hear Nelson narrating it

[@timm439]

5:40 Calvary is what Jesus did on the cross.. Cavalry is a military unit :) and this is silly, hilarious, and fun content..

[@brianlane723]

omg I hear people do this all. the. time.

[@richardberenyi6064]

Only to be completely precise (and firemost to argy-bargy), Calvary (with the capital "c") is the Latin name of the mountain (or hill) where Jesus got crucified (the Aramaic name variant is Golgotha) - the verb variant ("calvary", or maybe it is "do", "make or "walk a calvary" in english) is based off this

[@timm439]

@@richardberenyi6064 good point, thanks for the better clarification

[@FocusLRHAP]

2:41 Look at the time 0:00.9 :O

[@n0vitski]

This is a chess analogue of breaking Elder Scrolls games with alchemy loops. This man has achieved chim on the board.

[@greatguytv]

Just found out that my 32 rule It has not been used by the world for a long time. It was still very common in the 70s and 80s

[@paultapping9510]

I once got a game where I managed to promote 4 pawns to queens and then placed them in all four corners. The guy had been extremely rude over chat, so I wanted to embarrass him a little.

[@CobaltPerseverance154]

2:11 Bro really thinks he's Hikaru!

[@AT-qm8gv]

I’ve been able to do the before thanks to Aman. I love the board reset.

[@raghardeishi972]

That's called cooperative mate.

[@Jzojzojzo]

That was beautiful , i think there is hope for chess because that was so creative yet brilliant that i think elevated The situation to be like piece of Art rather than just ordinary chess match. However disrrspectful this kind of playing is i think is still more artistic and brilliant as such more good than harmful. Makes me think of freestyle rap battles just beautiful.

[@mjp121]

Fun to show live with someone- “Just start with your king and play like it matters, trust me it’s cool”

[@Alexandertygreat]

He premoved like 50 moves in under 9 secs , shit is insane

[@CarlSong]

I thought there was a stalemate rule for no pieces captured after 50 moves?

[@Dman222000]

No pieces captured or no pawn moves. If a piece is captured, or if a pawn moves, the count is reset.

[@Jivvi]

Yep, pawn moves reset the counter. Also a draw by the 50 move rule is not stalemate; it's a draw by the 50 move rule.

[@larry_berry]

Imagine if the opponent resigned on the last move before the checkmate :p

[@insylem]

I've done that playing chess with my younger brother when he was a kid, but not the reset part.

[@itsxela9617]

Imagine you are 1 move away and opponent claims draw by 50 move rule.

[@Jivvi]

Well that wouldn't be a valid claim, so the game would continue.

[@greatguytv]

This was not done under 32 moves so it was a stalemate

[@Natalie_the_Fae]

The sheer disrespect of this maneuver! 🤯

[@binghambud]

I think the worst way to lose is if you're caught in this way.

[@Verbalaesthet]

Someone did that in game? Unbelievable.

[@paulsnow]

This doesn't seem to require as many moves as you made. Seems you just push the king to the back tank to the left any way you like. Then, push the king forward as is required to get the king to follow that path to C2 while the queen then returns home.

[@mrnelgin]

Good to see Martin back again. I missed good ol' Martin.

[@AresiusMajere]

7:28 what the actual... Queens don't move like that...

[@Jivvi]

?? The queen moved from g7 to g4, and then from g4 to f4.

[@tdrusk]

awesome you were able to reproduce it.

[@GamingandcraftswithScarley]

2:24 so simply

[@TymexComputing]

Interesting. There is a better class of positions in standard chess that white can Force Black to checkmate him, not to let that kind of play :)

[@nukularpowar]

this is genius. also congrats on 2500

[@BiggestEnergy]

Aman finds a new way to disrespect people every week

[@WhatsThePointPicture]

I think this was more than fair to be honest. Yea I guess it could be seen as humiliating at such a high level but he could have also just resigned at any point to avoid that. The other factor to consider is that to pull this off he also gave his opponent a fairly decent chance to play for a draw by flagging him, which he almost did with .9 seconds left on the clock.