I like your youtube channel but good on you for looking elsewhere, these guys aren't your friends.

That stalemate trap was absolutely disgusting, i love it.

Love the ”who wins with best play from both” type of puzzles rather than knowing the outcome beforehand 😊

im glad to hear youve been doing much better nelson. KZfaq has always been very weird. I hope everything works out for you :)

Good to hear that your health is improving; not so good to hear that KZfaq is messing you around, especially as I've just subscribed to Premium to help out creators like you.

Don't know if you've already tried this but I would try contacting the KZfaq support team on Twitter, preferably in a public tweet and not via DMs. They're surprisingly responsive over there and sadly it's seemingly the only way for a lot of creators to get in touch with a real human at KZfaq.

It is very sad to hear that youtube might cancell one of the channels. I demand an explanation from youtube because all videos are instructive and they shall not disappear. These channels are some of my favourite chess channels on youtube and the content is also very good.

4:22 You should do some "white/black to play and make the best move" but have the twist now and then be that the turn player is doomed with best play and the other side has something like a mate in 7 with optimal play. However, with the best move the turn player can not only force the other side to make the maximum number of moves to checkmate (7 in this example), but make it tricky for the other side so that bad moves lead to catastrophic loss of material and the original turn player can end up something like a bishop or queen ahead or something.

you just have to drop an F-bomb during every video so that it can't be for kids! but really.. I got back into playing chess after 15 years since I started watching your videos. You're a great teacher and I'm rooting for you

Brilliant. Didn't see that one. Hope you get your KZfaq situation sorted. Would hate to stop watching ur videos. I have learned a lot from watching your videos!

Thanks to share your concerns; which you all the best as I (we) need you because your videos are very ENTERTAINING !!!

Alphabet is a horribly unethical company. Them buying and owning YT is extremely disappointing.

I started chess a month ago and i find your videos very helpful. Pleaae continue doing them

Sorry to hear your other channel got taken down, that video was well researched

I recall you can change in the video settings if it's for kids or not, I didn't know they could force it to be for kids

Hello Nelson ! I am glad to know that your health is better and sorry for your troubles with KZfaq. I really love your channel ! You should receive a reward for the best chess channel ! Who's the composer of this puzzle ? Jean-Etienne, watching from France.

I only just found your channel last week and it's already my favourite chess channel.

So sorry this happened Nelson! 😢

So just did a brief Google search and it appears that KZfaq may automatically change a video to be for kids if it has kids-like graphics. So I'm thinking the Chess Adventures video's (as good as they are) or other videos with animated graphics might be triggering this to happen. With regards to the health stuff.. there is a lot of censorship related to health issues so that is not surprising..

I have NEVER seen a position when you can't do anything about Stalemate trap without white checks

Hi Nelson. I´m glad to hear your health is going better. My mother had a cloth like yours and for that she lost her right leg due to amputtation. This is not the first time I heard sombody has problems with YT. Almost the same with another channell Im also subscribed to. Isn´t out there some kind of "YT owners defence assosiation"? If there is not, probably it would be an idea to consider form some. If you rely on YT policy and they don´t like what you are doing, you´ll lose all the time. I enjoy very much your channell as a chess enthusiast. Cheers to you, your family and friends from NE Patagonia, Argentina. BTW: Marry Xmas and a HNY.

Awesome puzzle. Best wishes with your channel and your diversification.

keep well nelson i love your videos

Wow tournament today I would love to play definitely

Can you contact a KZfaq mod to fix the issue? Cuz I'm (and prob not just me but a great number of your subs) so used to following everything here on KZfaq (God, plz, let this channel survive, I love it so much)

Best of luck to you!

Is the cancelled YT episode available in another forum, or can you post it elsewhere and let us know? I'd love to look at it and see why the skunks took it down.

I have heard content creators of similar size mention having a case manager at YT that they can contact with issues. I assume you dont have one which is also strange.

You have all my comprehension. I love your channel because it reconciled me with chess.

I’d love for you to continue chess adventures

You were devilish there for making us think that White could possibly actually _win_ this position: if you'd outright said "White to play and draw" then it would have been obvious to look for a stalemate trap!

Love your videos

By the way, will there be any chess adventure video any time soon? We're missing Bobby the Fisherman and friends ...

That was an amazing puzzle, and I didn't get anywhere near solving it! Best of luck sorting out the KZfaq issues. Hopefully it's just a weird one-off glitch.

Great video

Sorry to hear, Nelson. As a big channel creator like you are, shouldn’t you have direct access to an advisor? You should have a chat option in your YT Studio account, I think…

I hope you get better Nelson

This puzzle is relatable, I keep on getting these positions

finally the situation when you are saved by the fact that the rook gets stuck on the corner

Rumble would be a great way to protect your ability to have long form videos. A lot of youtubers have a Rumble just in case KZfaq decides to go after them with their arbitrary rules. Twitter/X is great also.

0:42 That probably happened because you were giving health advice without being a registered medical professional. That’s a weird channel to make anyway. I can’t imagine you’d have enough to share that would warrant a full channel. In any case they should not have just shut down the channel without going through the strike system.

I got it after KxR. I don't usually do that well on your puzzles. I saw that white sacrificed the knight and the rook in order to force a stalemate, and it reminded me of another game I saw several years ago, but I have never been able to find it. Maybe you've seen it. One player, say white, is in big trouble. His king can't move. He trades or sacrifices three (I think) pieces, each being taken by pawns. But those three pawns are now blocked by white's pawns, and of course, white's pawns are blocked by them. His king still can't move. White only has a rook and puts it right in front of the black king for check. If the king or another piece takes the rook, stalemate. The king moves across the 8th rank, and white moves in front of it for check again -- perpetual check. If you or anyone else can give me a link to that game, I would love to have that position on my computer.

Very weird indeed, would love to see the video on the other channel

start biking every days or fast walk, you are an excellent teacher, I love your 4 trap video

Great video as always. Maybe get in contact with KZfaq to ask what’s happening.

Truly crazy stuff 😮

I was just thinking that the adds that often seem to come up for your videos are for kid's fast food, including this one until i clicked to view on youtube. Also not possible to comment on them ( until you click through to KZfaq. Is someone reselling your videos?

Hello Nelson. You have a good channel. I like it. Just appeal several times, a lot of times say I don't understand please say me what am I doing wrong. Sometimes it works... All the best!

hey dude i was wondering is it possible to end up in a double checkmate

Shift to tele mram 😂

might want to move to Rumble

Challenge : play martin but you have to promote all the pawns and if martin grabs one of your pawns u lose (no promoting to queen for more harder version)

The duration of this video 💀

Was the video that got re-listed as for Children only the one were you talked about your health problems?

What’s the name of the channel that shut down?

But why black need Bishop b1 and pawn c2? Positions is still Stalemate if you take off Bishop b1 and pawn c2 to board.

Really good puzzle..

Maybe you should try to talk to bigger youtubers like Levi or Hikaru to help resolve those issues. Unfortunately, youtube will just give you an automated response unless a big channel gets involved.

you should contact youtube and tell them about the preblem

Totally support you on your issues with You Tube. Disgraceful service by them.

Twitter is a simpiest way out in your situation. But I am not sure about monetization possibilities.

KZfaq should definitely update their bot system.

@chessvibesofficial can you link the video and channel that got flagged?

Ill tell you something else re:your yt channel I did notice i stopped getting recommended your videos around this time up until a few days ago

idk why but when i opened the video my eyes were immidietly drawn to the video's length....

Every potential white move is to a square covered by black twice. No one move by black can remove both.

please play with stockfish with rooks

What was on the other channel in one video that got you I'm such hot water? That has to be an error on youtube's part, I cant see you putting up scandalous material.

Excellent

This one is not set for kids. I noticed the comment problem when I set some of my sailing and knot-tying videos for kids and switched it back when I realized that this turned off comments. I've purchased a set of your courses and am working on them. I look forward to your posts here and hope they can continue.

Oh, a few years ago, I created a puzzle with the exact same rook promotion stalemate idea!

Hope you're doing well, and I hope KZfaq stops messing with you >_> weird AF Awesome video, nice save for white lol

by cutting out a man's tongue, you don't prove him wrong. you only prove you fear what he has to say.

I could solve this puzzle because at the first glance I saw that I'm not winning and atleast I can get a draw if I promote to a rook in corner which can't even move and it's stalemate

Yo, dude, that's crap. Which variants of moving to do you have?

KZfaq have this problem with videos made for kids for a long time, and it's even more threatening than it seems, because if they set q video that shouldn't be for kids, as a video for KZfaq kids, they can later take down this video because it's set for kids. Some people says that using swears in description works to avoid it, but it puts a chance of age restriction, which is even worse. So there is no good way to defend yourself.

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Never put yourself in a situation where your income depends upon some content site like KZfaq. it's only a matter of time until they screw you over.

I loved the transformation of the Pawn to a ROOOOOOOOOOOOOK. It was easy.

What a crazy beautiful trap. Amazing!

weird vibes should be your back up channel name.

A ton of different content. What content do you make?

Man. I ditched my Chess coaching business to do computer programming and you ditch IT positions to do Chess videos. We have something in difference. Hope you do well, you have fun videos. I have my youtube Channell since 2009 and its amazing how you newbies conquered it over me in less time. Way more subscribers, likes, shares, comments, not to mention dislikes. You guys understand how to monetize youtube. I never thought that one could make a living from youtube. I dont even know how KZfaq makes money. My mind hasn't opened up to the vastness of things. In my community I dont see people making purchases from KZfaq Ads; but then again, KZfaq ads really target people in America.

if you are demonetized, just take down the video, and share it on your own platform, leaving a short video with link.

Funny the timing of this!? Just after you created your twitch channel hmm....

If you put snippets from pohrhn movies then youtube can't auto-classify them as made for children ... just saying....

The real puzzle is how the heck then ended up in this position

just having more places to post your content is always a good idea youtube moderation can be very unfair

Clearly, having content where you are trying to commit regicide marked as "for kids" is pure evil and you must be stopped. Seriously though, wtf.

Hi

I feel bad though

RUMBLE

Give black more pieces: queen on b5, pawns on a3, b2, e5, h3. Still can't stop it.

Save Nelson. Best KZfaq chess channel ever!

KZfaq: Black to play and win. What’s the winning move? Chess Vibes: If you had a chance to look at that… KZfaq: *Random Checks*

7:17 Intentional Stalemate

If KZfaq takes your channel, we riot (figuratively, on Twitter)

Count under-promoting to a Rook as a Queen sacrifice.

... now I have traded a rook for a Knight, thanks the Lord I saw the light))))

Sounds to me like your account may have been hacked and someone perhaps deliberately posting videos that severely violate you tube policies so that they can complain about them. I would suggest changing all your passwords on everything, resetting which devices are authorised to log in on all accounts, turning on 2 step verification and checking that only your real phone numbers and email addresses are associated with your accounts. I would also do a detailed virus check on your computer and phone and change any pins or passwords on them - and not share them, even with friends or family.