The way white wins this is amazing!

[@CliffordGate-uo2gk]

I was really flabbergasted to see the correct first move😮 The more I watch puzzles like this the more I love chess. Great study, thanks a lot!

[@RamKumar-gy9nb]

yes absolutely, I totally agree.

[@ModernArtery]

I'm proud that I actually found this one quite quickly -- although it helps on a meta level to know that KZbin videos like this typically feature a surprising winning move, so I was expecting it to be something weird/unexpected

[@xismxist]

I did too... right away, in like 5 sec

[@RamKumar-gy9nb]

Even though I do like 2 or 3 movers, these are the kind of puzzles which helps a lot in tactical thinking, combinations and making way to win chess games. Some people say that its not easy to get it in real games but I disagree. You keep working on it and practicing, then you would find winning combinations from losing positions also. Thank you very much and God bless you.

[@rdbchase]

These puzzles bring home to me how weak a player I really am.

[@RamKumar-gy9nb]

Keep practicing, no one is a great player from beginning. Believe you can and you will.

[@TruthMadeHuman]

Did he just sacrifice.. the ROOOOOOOK?

[@philcolbert7864]

Often the most ridiculous looking move turns out to be the right one!

[@RamKumar-gy9nb]

Yes thats right and thats why we have to be open to any possibility.

[@user-25352]

at very least, the most logical one (putting the rook at "first rank" so it hurts the promoting pawn the most) is second best here

[@p.jhodeflea789]

I found Rg5 by elimination, helped by the fact that all other moves lose without any challenge

[@douglasmckinley-sr1507]

Between (attempting to) solving these puzzles and watching the Eric Rosen Speedrun my board awareness has improved by magnitudes. Maybe this one was easy. Maybe I was lucky, but saw the solution (look for ridiculous sacrifice) immediately and all the ramifications (black King on opposite diagonal). Thank you so much. Definitely see, and feel, the improvement. That is until then next puzzle where I, once again, feel like an idiot.

[@-7-man]

These are great puzzles might not occur in a real game. Can you start a series showing missed wins, blunders from real games of ordinary players where users have to guess what they would have played. That will benefit ordinary players and viewers of this channel I m guessing

[@darryljones7603]

Very nice video!!

[@GeorgeAlexopoulos-o7w]

@akdevendraswamy141 PARTIALLY correct, BUT you left out SEVERAL alternative lines (and MISWROTE several moves)!!

[@petervanvelzen1950]

As often. The first move Ithought off was the right one. I also found the second variation (niot taking the rook) without need for my chess-set. Quite good for a formerly 1950 rated player.

[@BlckJack123]

I love puzzles were the situation look hopeless but you can actually win. I bet I have resigned a few games that were winnable if only I had really looked at my position.

[@НиколайВалерьевич-ъ8з]

Don't worry. Everybody's just like that. Grandmasters and the champions of the world included.

[@kbodhe]

Truly excellent 🎉

[@andreasnystrom1998]

Beautiful!

[@lajos-berenyi]

As I haven’t found the second best move, what draws, I was forced to find the beautiful winning move, because any other logical moves would have been losing. 😄

[@JSSTyger]

My first thought is to go king G3 followed by king F2 to get the king out.

[@jfryer485]

I got the first move as one candidate move but didn’t work out every combination afterwards. The idea is simple as if black takes, you have an advanced passed pawn in exchange Plus a quicker route for the king to attack without the black king blocking you.

[@AbouTaim-Lille]

Queen Vs a pawn on the 7th rank not on A, C , F, H files has a standard patern. Although it is long it is fairly easy. You can memorise it and win. And even if there are other pawns not advanced, the king can take his time to grab them all.

[@hanskoeleman4226]

Wonderful… Thanks.

[@xrich1577]

I think black could win that position at 8:26 if they moved b6 (preventing a5 check) instead of promoting to b1.

[@brettmccann3403]

I woke up this morning determined to solve today's puzzle. Well, better luck next time. This was a true beauty. Given my track record, this isn't saying much, but I wouldn't have found that rook sacrifice if my life depended on it.

[@Mister_Pedantic]

I have a Chess Challenger that I bought in 1981 and I play these puzzles with it. I am not a good player, far from it. Today I set the Challenger to the strongest level and gave it the white pieces. It didn't make the rook sacrifice move but it could have won, I think. But then it made a bad move and the result was that black was able to promote the pawn.

[@peterbauer7271]

What a great puzzle. A rook sac. Always make the key move hard to find.

[@petersiegfriedkrug]

Rg5!! is very surprising. The German Kissling only composed 5 endgame studies.

[@mehmettosunoglu2372]

Fantastik..

[@rogerkearns8094]

I am not a strong player (a lapsed, avaerage at best, English club and county player, ECF 120) but I did not find this at all difficult. Nice idea, though, which I might not have found in live play. Cheers :)

[@LiamWakefield]

Nice

[@ceejay0137]

That is amazing! Of course the correct move was the one I discounted immediately 🤦🏻‍♂. Still got a lot to learn, I guess . . .

[@marcbush2796]

First move: to G7, than to B7

[@VRietySociety]

honestly it was harder finding the draw.. found the win in like a few seconds because nothing else could work

[@mieses-te9yl]

Have a look: Tg5 maybe

[@EricPoirier-n6t]

What if black doesn't take the rook and push the pawn to promote instead?

[@christopherandrews9232]

I figured it out!!!! After he went through all my other ideas though lol

[@TeroKoskinen-xy2zz]

I think no one beginner new chess player will find that Rook move.

[@RamKumar-gy9nb]

You are right but these ideas help you develop your own creative thinking and change one from beginner level to a better player.

[@parlinh8400]

Why not check king with rook and then wait till the pawn promote and take it. Meanwhile the king take the pawn at f..

[@khotamkomarita4318]

Thank u

[@adnane945]

rg5 is my answer before continuing.

[@SideOfPepper2]

I solved it but ain’t no way I’m seeing this in a real game😔

[@johnfrancis4401]

Astonishing

[@nitreall]

SPOILER BLOCKER ❌🔴

[@chonamallari4080]

Sacrifice the rook I think g5

[@daniellassander]

Lets see if im right, we sacrifice rook on e5? Promote on h8 check. If he doesnt capture our rook we take pawn on f5 and win anyway.

[@KhinMaungSan-qc9uv]

Diagonal technique.

[@dennisroijers]

Apparently I am a strong player😂 You also have to see the idea of checking on the a file to win the queen

[@balukrishnan5105]

What will happen if the pawn does not cut rook

[@НиколайВалерьевич-ъ8з]

Then the rook knocks out the f5 pawn on the next move and has just enough time to sacrifice itself for the b pawn of the Black. Then the f4 white pawn marches forward promoting.

[@markdagley4213]

Why not RG1, then start moving White king. According to my calculations, white king can beat the Black king to f5 (or take b1/2/3 Pawn to sacrifice R to make Black king retract giving WK passage) and escort its f4 pawn to f8. Of course, I could be missing something!

[@lust1gerlurch]

But white has to sacrifice the rook and then either blacks b7 pawn promotes first. And if white stops it, black is in time to take the other pawns.

[@НиколайВалерьевич-ъ8з]

​@@lust1gerlurch I am terribly sorry but I don't think the White can get at the b7 pawn _in any case._

[@comrade_marshal]

I won by myself 🎉

[@Lyra0966]

Thought I had this. Thought wrong.!

[@akdevendraswamy141]

1)Rg5 -- hg;2) h6 -- b2; 3) h7 -- b1Queen; 4) h8 Queen ch -- Qb2; 5) Qxb2 followed by f x g5 & g6--g7--g8 Queen Wins (if b2 -- g xf followed by Ra5 ch & b5 ch & Rxb1 (Q) & marching f6 --f7 --f8 Queen wins.

[@GeorgeAlexopoulos-o7w]

PARTIALLY correct, BUT you left out SEVERAL alternative lines (and MISWROTE several moves)!!