This Chess Problem Won 1st Prize In 1958

Puzzle FEN:
2K5/2P5/1r6/8/7B/8/b3k3/8 w - - 0 1
Puzzle Details:
Joseph Peckover (New York)
1st Prize Problem 1958-59
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[@BobChess]

To draw is throw the bishop in the rook face. This is so fascinating!

[@merrillphilips1117]

I found it in seconds lol

[@JustAnotherCommenter]

@@merrillphilips1117 nobody asked bro, too bad

[@Johnathan19439]

@@merrillphilips1117 Wow you’re so good but you see who asked?

[@merrillphilips1117]

@Jayden Lam it’s cool, they’re probably still trying to beat Martin lol

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@@merrillphilips1117 -Fire department arrives- “we were told two little kids just got seriously burned!”

[@chessopeningtraps]

Amazing! Forking pieces with the king is so easy to overlook, especially when it comes up only after multiple moves.

[@devyishere1]

at the beginning i thought this was easy. Now im just surprised and i don’t know how to feel about this amazing puzzle, and the concept behind it

[@KolejowySzynszyl901]

Never stop making chess content

[@DrLawIrk]

What a deep, clever puzzle! Every single move has an idea behind.

[@joelbell6413]

Hope you’re doing ok with the incident!❤ thanks for another great video

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

I saw the bishop sacrifice right away

[@ghb323]

“rooks are more powerful than bishop” bishop:

[@thestopmoguys87]

Hey happy new year 🎈

[@YanGabriel39]

5:15 Bishop or knight and king against a king is automatically a draw, theres no more game to “try to stalemate”

[@djsvarietychannel9664]

If the rook goes to a6 instead of h6 it is a draw from stockfish

[@danlee9049]

Awesome puzzle

[@OfficialDaRcade]

Nelson: there's no other way to draw Me : 50 MOVE RULE

[@Qoko88]

Always amazing stuff. Interestingly, computers are devious when it comes to this stuff. If you SF it on Lichess with tablebases on, it just says the dry 'Kd8 draw'. SF decides to trade bishop for pawn early and play the exchange endgame, because that's where the winning chances are. They don't 'think' (ie consider) that the main line is the most challenging for White, requiring foremost 4.Bf6!! and less so 5.Bg5!: it's technically the easier draw as Black has to repeat the position or draw by insufficient material.

[@ounalan]

👍Clever puzzle. I hope you are OK with the flood. Happy new year.

[@williamsquires3070]

(@7:04) The problem with 1 Bg5 … is 1 … Rh8 since the white bishop is off the a1-h8 diagonal. Sure, white could play 2 Bf6 …, but black will just go 2 … Ra8 and white’s king can’t go chase it, or black will get his bishop on the h3-c8 diagonal and white will never be able to get it off. Black can also post the bishop at d3 where it can swing over to a6, or to f5 where it can control the h3-c8 diagonal.

[@user-ns6kg6hv2t]

Did you even watch the video? Rh8 is also countered.

[@sahildas.]

3:25 knew it!

[@ruiliu3612]

This is such a cool puzzle

[@athiefinthenight6894]

really cool puzzle

[@SonicBlueTyphoon]

So as a noob, my question is at 4:18 why can't you just push the white pawn up at that point and get a queen? Cause then the black rook takes the white bishop, but then you fork the king and black bishop at c2, causing you to win the black bishop, which makes an easy fight against the remaining black rook. What am I missing here?

[@canadadry5449]

I have no idea, and the only reason why I'm commenting here is so that if someone does answer this, I'll be alerted and also find out the answer, lol.

[@lucoa460]

if you make a queen. the bishop will skewer your king and the queen and after your king moves, the bishop will take the queen and after you take the bishop, the rook will then kill your white bishop.

[@lucoa460]

im a noob. but i think that is why that move will make you lose

[@canadadry5449]

@@lucoa460 I see it now. I believe you are correct.

[@RedditR33ls]

@@canadadry5449 he is

[@draketheduelist]

My thought was that the pawn promotion was actually a trap and the dark squared White Bishop that at first seems deader than a bacon double cheeseburger was gonna' be the deciding hero of the game. I was thinking Bg3 and protect, not promote, the Pawn forever, thus keeping an otherwise dead-looking Bishop in the game. The King can only threaten at most two potential Bishop squares, while the Rook can only threaten one per diagonal (and only one diagonal matters) and Black's opposite color Bishop can threaten a grand total of zero, while the White Bishop has five squares to move to that still protect the white Pawn. No way that rodeo ever catches the defending Bishop to finally allow a clean Rook take, and you run the game to fifty moves. If the King ever gets attacked, get to a dark square and stay on dark squares forever. When tackling the puzzle on a meta level, I thought the gimmick that won it an award was that it was designed to run to indefinite moves and that there was no way for Black to stop that from happening in spite of the seemingly insurmountable material advantage. ...Turns out I _was_ supposed to see the Bishop as dead and worthless and try to sacrifice it off. Eh, can't blame an 800 for trying.

[@deadlineuniverse3189]

There is one other (non-tournament legal) way to draw. Showing your opponent this video and asking for remis

[@user-im5mg9yl8g]

good setup but the black wins the here is the setup white moves d8 the black bishop moves e6 not the rook then white bishop f2 then black rook c6 after that any space for black bishop move then the black king moves towards the rook so the white loss match and the white cant do a draw at all...

[@kamikazexd1125]

I checked and found that this puzzle is stockfish approved

[@sravanichalla978]

Which app are you using for the video

[@victorpetchenev4119]

Мое почтение! Интересно, Магнус за какое время справился бы с решением этой задачи? Первая блокировка слоном неожиданна.

[@djdchdeed]

Это элементарно, даже я моментально решил

[@thorham1346]

Dude, we all know that pawns move forward 🤣

[@hyumiliatedbs3355]

Funny enough that's the first thing im trying to do is looking for blunders and i found a way to get -M1

[@lonewolf42923]

Bd8? Be6# ;)

[@Jay57T]

Great channel but often when he gives us time to solve the puzzle, the logo obliterates the screen.

[@lucasseymour8725]

play a game were you cant sacrifice pieces so each piece acts like a king

[@fantomghost6213]

Nice puzzle. I didn't get this one

[@realndex]

Kd7 be6+ rc6 shuffle the bishop

[@adamweinberg2532]

What about rook h3?

[@VanillaLimeCoke]

Nelson's repeated line 5:01 I love it

[@awang_ir]

Happy new year 2023

[@dog45boi99]

I found a different way to draw get times out

[@tomohawk4563]

waiting for and stockfish ruins this chess problem and heres why video

[@Tymon0000]

Any position with 7 or less pieces is solved. We have a table with all possible positions for 7 or less pieces called syzygy tables.

[@alexandrudanciu7874]

Always is a draw when you have some extra pieces to defend yourself as a pawn and a bishop... How can they chack mate you 8f is not a clear line for check?! You always can hide behind your pieces, then 50 moves will pass and would be draw. It's so simple. In that situation only a queen can pull out a mat.

[@thekurdishtapes8317]

you seem to know very little about endgames, if White didn't have this special trick up his sleeve it would be an easy win for black, checkmating the white king either before or after taking the pawn.

[@notcoachfou7841]

1.Bd8!!!!!!!!

[@andreasedvinsson7410]

I don't understand, why can't white just put the bishop on D8 and just keep it there? (after you moved the king away from the pawn ofc)

[@FuturePast2019]

"after you moved the king away from the pawn"... the rook can take the pawn

[@andreasedvinsson7410]

@@FuturePast2019 yea, but there are several times during this where he is not in check, like 3:30 for example, you can just move the bishop down

[@lonewolf42923]

Your pawn would be protected but can never promote, and what is worse your king is kinda shut off from the action with opponnent bishop and own bishop taking the square. So at one point black king will be on c8, black rook can then move from c to d and threaten your d8 bishop, the king cannot protect it with the black bishop on d7 and zugzwang, the pawn will be lost, and black will win the theoritical R+B vs B.

[@flylaputa]

@@lonewolf42923 The bishop (D8) is protected by the pawn (C7). If you want to take the pawn or bishop, you have to trade a rook for the pawn and bishop. Game ends in a draw.

[@lonewolf42923]

@@flylaputa Yes actually, I guess you should put in on stockfish, the win involves just controlling the pawn and weaving a mating net, it's too complicated to describe in mere words.

[@lilah2412]

G6

[@tactical3122]

To think i actually got it right lmao

[@juicetin6425]

Couldn't you just play king e7 first 4:25

[@lucoa460]

you cant. the bishop will go e6 anyways and after that, rook will go h8 and threaten to take your queen if you make one

[@lucoa460]

i think. in a noob

[@unicorneater6111]

@@lucoa460 you don't have to take the bishop with your king, because you can save your other bishop at h4, but even if you do take it, he can't take your bishop at h4 again, because that would cause a draw due to insufficient material

[@WithYourArms]

If you want to load this on a board, here's the things and the ans and some thing Starting: Ba2(Black) Bh4(white) Ke2(black) Kc8(white) Rb6(black) Pawn C7(white) Pawn going front W. B Kd8 Rd7 Ke7 Rc6 Kd7 Rh6 Bf6 Bb1 Ke6 Rh5 Bg5 Rh8 Bd8 I wrote this for no reason at all unless u wanna challenge ur friends

[@Yuito-bs]

I managed to solv that puzzle somehoe am i a genius??????

[@tiletapper4ever]

"If the bishop in the front you throw, the game will finally be a draw" Yeah idk why but yes

[@runningrock124]

cool.

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I am First, nice video.

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