The Queen works if the king does not take the bishop. If it takes it, then promote to knight.

@@user-vv7gt2hu7p nope. Queen never works.

@@user-vv7gt2hu7p If they don't take the bishop, promotion to a queen leads to stalemate.

What is crazy to me is that in position #2, after Bh7+ and Kg7, h6+ does not quite work. The reason is because of Kf6! where black ignores both the free pawn and bishop in order to threaten the e pawn as well as take the rook with the queen.

@@user-vv7gt2hu7p That position is drawn...? The pawn on h5 will be taken soon and R vs B endgame is a draw...?

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@@pwnmeisterage is for problem

Normally a queen is strictly better than a rook or bishop (I thought only knight could work in some rare cases) but with the special rules of stalemate, we are presented this extreme case that it is not. Btw: In Asia we play Chinese chess where a stalemate would not be a draw but causing the player to move losing the game, so it is even more astonishing to me

@@zhihuangxu6551 The player that would be stalemated is forced to make a move and would end up with a loss...ouch. Sounds cruel. 🤦🏾‍♂️😂

@@johnathanpatrick6118 Not exactly. The pieces and board of the Chinese Chess is very different. The "knight" cannot move to the two places in the direction where the immediate adjacent square is occupied, for example.

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wait did you say never give up?? did I just get rick rolled?

More like never become too greedy and sometimes do not go for the best piece at some situations

@@note5068 no never give up is missing "gonna"

Doesn’t work cuz king f6 and u cant promote with check.

but theres a simple checkmate there. rock to g1 then king can only move to one square then promote pawn to queen checkmate

When exf6, why Ke5? Not using pawn to eat?

@@hendrikteguhjaya I wrote it right under that line. If 3. ... fxg6 then 4. f4 and c3# is unstoppable.

What about 3. ...QxN??? IF f4 Qxf4. Then what? 5. c3# Kxe5??? And then what?

@@dirkrommeswinkel1765 I'm really wondering if people can read the comment first before replying. I mean, my original comment literally starts with the answer to your question. Do you understand what 2. ... Qxf6 means? It means that black's queen captured something on the f6 square on the second move, in this case the knight was captured. This sub-line wasn't presented in the video and that's why I wrote my comment. If queen captures the knight then exf6 and white have two threats. The first threat is promotion to a new queen in the next 2 moves and the second one is mate in two if black responses to the first threat and recaptures gxf6 (this sub-sub-line is also mentioned in my original comment) or if black makes any other move except Ke5. So the best black can do is to move the king out of the mating net so Ke5 but then white's pawn promotes in two moves. If you cannot visualise it then set the position on the board and move the pieces according to the line by yourself.

Appreciated this comment as I missed the f4 threat.

Puzzle 3 reminds me of some tsumeshogi problems

Well, I'd say it depends on time you have and your skill in calculating. If you have time than you can spend a bit to calculate the Nc3+ line.

Does that mean this position is cooked?

@@cephalosjr.1835 it's a tricky mate in 7 vs a dead easy mate in 21 (per stockfish). In a real game, opponent would resign after you capture his pawn and still have BNNPP yourself.

@@maxscherzer9521 what does bnnpp mean?

@@bolnet632 bishop knight pawn

If the knight wasn't there, you could even play it at the beginning: 1. Ne8 Ke4 2. Ke6 then 3. Nf6#

After rg1 bg6 an escape route is created on f7, where the bishop was.

Position 4 black is winning🏆💪 if we capture the knight with our queen 👑 we defend the mate theat and also got connected pown on the same time we got extra pown outside the board white king can't stop all our pown and defend his too

@@alok28591 you missed pawn f4 after e5xQf6 and g7xf6 and black king has no move. And c3#

If you're talking about the point after Nelson showed the possibility of Black castling the first time (1. a7 Rg3+ 2. Kxg3 h4+ 3. Kh3 0-0 4. Rb7 Rf3+ 5. K moves, Ra3 6. Rb8+ K moves; 7. a8(Q) Rxa8) it's winnable for White, but gotta watch out for knight forks. Any one of them happens and the position is drawn because a king and knight can't checkmate the opposing king.

Nope e pawn in unprotected

Kxe5

On the Internet Chess Club I onced checked an opponent 62 times!!!......in a row!!!!! He finally repeated the position 3 times and I claimed a draw. I told him my 62 consecutive checks was a personal record. I think that only pi$$ed him off further.

I think you can claim a draw if you do 50 moves without capturing a piece. Or you can just say "My name's Anish Giri" and claim a draw before the game even starts.

of course it is

Because black's bishop can just go to g6 blocking the threat and white is just winning

The king could have taken at c4 or e5

yeah i see e5 now you right i retract my statement

@@7pheonix omg I’m so stupid I made a mistake correcting someone else when I was looking at the board!! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Yes I was thinking the same

Kenadian in a chess video????!!!!!

I was thinking of Ng3 as well, not the best move but you could still win the position. I suggest opening the lichess analysis board, place the position and see what the opponent could do against your moves. I love your vids btw, gl with 100k subs!

That was my solution. If they continue to check with rook you just move king down until there are no more options (as long as you don't block your bishop line). Eventually they promote and you trade with bishop and then white promotes and you have a pawn and queen to a rook

The king can capture the pawn on E5!

Welcome!

Rook vs bishop with king on the opposite colour corner is a draw.