Knight vs. Pawns | Two Incredible Endgames | Principles of Chess Endgames | GM Naroditsky

In this video, we continue our exploration of knight vs. pawn endgames by carefully analyzing two extraordinary endgames that I came across while preparing material for the practicum. While they are dissimilar in almost every way, both of these endgames are tremendously complex and inordinately rich in tactical and positional details. I walk you through each and every important concept and variation in both of these games, with an eye toward cementing key concepts and ideas that I introduced in the introductory conceptual video.
The Introductory Video on Knight vs. Pawn Endgames: • Knight vs Pawns | Begi...
Part 1 of the Knight vs. Pawns Endgame Practicum: • Knight v. Pawn Endings...
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[@goodmorning1147]

Figured out the concept of the second puzzle pretty much immediately. Bring the king to the left to force a knight concession then move back the other way. Of course in a real game where I wasn’t in puzzle mode I would run to the right side of the board immediately and lose/draw. Wish there could be a flag that popped up announcing I’d officially entered a naroditsky endgame puzzle in my online games…

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Me: spends 5 minutes analyzing the first position shown. Also me: presumed it was from black's POV with white threatening to queen.

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I was feeling good about myself for finding the winning idea: all three phases then Danya started showing the lines and I realised I had almost seen nothing. I have called myself to a meeting to discuss performance improvement in calculation. You see, not only had I seen the idea, I had also "calculated" lines. I missed the nose on the face every single time! I didn't actually see the key positions and lines! Didn't realise how strong d4 was. I thought I'd just come back and gobble the pawn and I "correctly" rejected Kh4 BY ACCIDENT because I miscalculated: thought black was losing but the reason? You'll laugh. So, I'm attending a meeting with myself to improve my chess. What do you an amazing video! Chess is hard but fun! Thank you Danya!

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First puzzle is in Chess Fundamentals by Capablanca. Cool sequence.

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seeing the bigger picture instead of "move by move" calculation in second position, made me fall in love with chess again and again . thanks danya

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Great video as always. Much of it goes over my head until explained, but I'm still new to chess and find it fascinating.

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Thank you so much for the video, I loved being able to pause and do the calculations on my own for the first part. The second one I got lullued into the facade that moving the king to h4 was winning, so i stopped prematurely. Could you do more videos that teach concrete calculations?

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[@EfficientRVer]

Another tour de force. It was well worth the time to me. I hope it was worth the time to you. My Stage 1 plan of course marched exactly as shown to the blunder on the kingside. Of course after seeing that, my march to the queenside was, like yours, better than the postal player's, which I find to be amusing. Maybe they like playing the 2nd or 3rd fastest way of getting there if the ways are equally effective. Or maybe there is a trap possibility they are hoping to lure the opponent into, after the impression of a less than perfect move.

[@rgqwerty63]

My biggest pet peeve is when Danya and many other chess educators say "1 square diagonally" when it is a mathematical fact that the knight and king are 2 squares apart, like at 1:05:20

[@jordan19241924]

No. It's sq. root of 2

[@rgqwerty63]

@@jordan19241924 even using the euclidean metric it would be 2sqrt2 not root2, but the chessboard is governed by Taxicab geometry

[@DanielNaroditskyGM]

Chess is not comparable to math, "one square diagonally" is a completely viable phrase in chess that explains the situation most clearly because there are pieces that move diagonally...

[@rgqwerty63]

@@DanielNaroditskyGM 1 square diagonally should mean from a1 to b2. W describe the knight movement as 2 squares one direction then 1 square perpendicular, as opposed to 1 and 0 I love your chess content by the way and am actually very shocked you replied, but this was just something I've noticed a lot as a mathematician.

[@DanielNaroditskyGM]

@@rgqwerty63 I see what you mean - sorry, I was looking at the wrong position. You're right, the K and N are definitely 2 squares diagonally :)) The reality is that I misspoke and meant to say "the king is one square away from attacking/making contact with the knight" or "there is one square between the K and N" and it ended up as a jumble. My bad.

[@ashbash9103]

It was undoubtedly a fascinating study and an inspiring appreciation of the complexity of endgames. It demonstrated some ideas in action, which is great. The downside of it though is that for a 1500-1600 like me, there is absolutely no way I would know how to apply those ideas in a position such as the one given. There is no way I'd be able to calculate so far just to know I need to back track and waste a tempo. If I were able to do that I wouldn't be 1600. In that sense the instructional value of this video is diminished. I am however really looking forward to your practice videos where I could have a go at solving increasingly complex positions using the tools I've acquired, while concreting the knowledge gained.

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Before Naroditsky's first video on that topic, I lost every single drawn knight vs. pawns endgame, whether I had a knight or some extra pawns. There were between 10 and 15 of those. So a very important topic. P.S. Since he started making knight vs. pawns endgame videos, I've never gotten one in any of my games. I am not yet sure whether I should have added 'fortunately' or 'unfortunately'. But I didn't play all that much lately.

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I put this position into stock fish and it said +0.5, then did E2 and immediately jumped to +2.8, and when you go back to the original position it finally realizes white is winning and stays at +2.8

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@42:22 you said "Nc4, Ne4, dorsnt matter" but i think yiu have to play Ne4, because if yiu try to checkmate on b2, the Queen takes.

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In the second position after Ka3 isn't this zugzwang forcing the Black knight to lose its grip on h6?

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If you flag your opponent when you only have a knight is it a draw or a win? And does it matter if your opponent has pawns and which columns the pawns are on?

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see i assume that you mean the opponent still has atleast one pawn left because then only the match can continue; and for the second part yes it will be a win regardless of column because if the opponent plays the absolute worst moves then he can get himself checkmated(just think of a situation where the pawn has promoted to a rook, and then opponent's king and rook is on h8 and h7 whereas your king and knight is on f8 and g6)

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It is impossible to discuss the knight in depth without coming to the point that it jumps, but, with standard rules, it cannot lose the move by itself, nor does a pair of knights cooperate well enough to be able to force checkmate alone. And chess is based on taking an absolute piece and the features of the knight. Thus do we see 1,000 competing proposals for non-standard rules where a piece has a feature of the knight without one of the bugs.

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You need to study how to mate with 2 knights. Back when I learned chess, the forced mate was not known, and taught as impossible. So I never tried. After it was discovered, I wish that I had tried and maybe discovered it myself.

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@@EfficientRVer the other side has to have a few pawns and you have to avoid taking them all, but it is easy for a bare king to defend against two knights.

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In the second ending my engine gave 3 winning moves in less than a second. Not only that but even if black was playing first, it gave a losing position in less than a second again. Maybe this game was played decades ago were chess engines were not that evolved...

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@12:00 you play Ka2 and you say that this is a draw. Yeah, no. Ka2 loses to Nb4+ Ka1 Kc1 a2 and Nc2#. The position is a draw but only after a2 trying to force the stalemate.

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