What I couldn't learn in 10 years, I learnt in 10 mins.

Watched this at least 3 times start to finish, and watched several sections over and over, and it's finally clicked. I still have to think hard, and occasionally make small mistakes, but for the most part I'm able to do this in under 50 moves, at least when there's no time pressure. Thank you very much!

Man I've got so many draws because of this bishop and knight checkmate

Bishop to B5 is a double check by rook and bishop which means the king has to move, but since there are no safe square for the king to move, it is a checkmate

Thanks so much! I've tried several times (unsuccessfully) to wrap my head around this checkmate but the explanation in this video made it much easier to understand. Happy that I can finally do it!

I love the you explain stuff. You’re a natural at this and thank you very much. You should have 10 mil subs for real.

Thanks Nelson, it helped. I saw 10/12 tutorials about it but yours was the one, made me successful.

Thank you so much for this video, it helped me so much!

Best chess channel on the Internet!

As always, your videos are great at taking something hard, and making it manageable. A checkmate I find similarly challenging is King and Queen vs King and Knight. It would be amazing if you could make a video to teach techniques for that

Thank you very much, this was extremely helpful.

Excellent Nelson! You’re the best!!!!

Thanx Nelson very helpful!!

Thank you so much! This video helped me out SO MUCH!

thanks so much for this video - this technique is much better to remember then the other techniques i saw so far - finally could do it ;D

You made that seem so easy I was wracking my brain trying to figure out how to get the king confined to the right corner....I had to use stockfish to find the most accurate moves and I still couldn't wrap my head around it but now it's starting to make sense.

Thanks. This is the first time I understood this!

awesome lesson, thanks

You made the best video out of every other youtuber to teach this. Thank you so much for the video. God bless!

The hardest part for me is obtaining the initial position from which checkmate can be achieved from a random position, and that is also the part the video spends less time explaining. Are there any techniques for that or does it come down to raw calculation?

Thanks, this really helped!

Clear explaination than some videos. Thanks for uploading this.

Great. I need to go practice that a ton now.

Bishop on white to B5, controlling one of the two legal squares the black king can move to as well as attacking the king and making a discovered attack with the rook doing the same thing with the other square.

This video is awesome, it's the first time I started to understand that mating pattern ! Quick question though : what if Black king goes to c7 instead of b6 ? Not sure I understand the logic here, to prevent him from escaping on the A file...

Very good explanation

thank you ❤

Thank You

thank you very much

THANK YOU! I got into the initial position but I couldn't figure out how to make it go to a8 without the king escaping towards a1. Great explanation 👍👍

thanks a lot, lichess practice way so hard this quite easy to check the king

hey nelson, i am shmuel stern, thank you! i am well experienced player but many times i had difficulties in this kind of endgames. very good lesson!

thank you so much, very helpful, God bless!

Thanks

A lot of strong chess players fail at this checkmate. If this weren't a difficult enough checkmate, the 50 move rule makes it much harder. This checkmate is so difficult, especially in time pressure, that in blitz or bullet, it's pretty much a guaranteed a draw. There's been a handful of games where my opponent had more material than me and they would easily win. And what I did was traded my remaining material to get the rest of their pawns. And with only a bishop and a knight remaining, my opponents constantly fail to pull off the checkmate. Either the clock or the 50-move rule will kick in and it's a draw. It's very rare to end up in this situation where you need to mate with a knight and a bishop. Don't end up in this situation if you can. It requires a lot of skill to pull this off, not to mention a lot of clock. But if you do learn this checkmate, and can pull it off consistently within the 50 moves, and within time pressure, you're better than a lot of strong chess players out there.

Great video as usual

i had this only twice in my life in bullet and blitz, i was a kid playing bullet back then, basically i had 5 seconds and he had 0.01 seconds and i just flagged him lol, and he got very rude after he lost saying "i would draw you if you had more time because you dont know how" so i told him to "grow up hahahah i won and you didnt :D", and since then i decided i was going to learn it for real, well YEARS later, today i mastered the W method and the 2nd time in blitz i managed to pull it off :)

Looks a little confusing but with practice I think I can get it thx great video

Checkmate In One Move 8:43 Bb5#

Double check! Bb5#

thanks

My meager attempt at a solution. Scanning the board I notice that there is a possibility of 'double check'. In check there are generally three choices. Block, take or move. With double check, move is the only option. For block, you can't block the two checks. To take, you can't take the two pieces. Therefore, the only choice for double check is to move. And if there is no safe move, then it is checkmate. Move the white bishop on E2 to B5, giving bishop check and exposing rook check. Black has only two moves for the black king, neither of which gets out of check. My chess terminology needs improvement. May you and yours stay well and prosper.

this guys a very good coach

Nice, thank you! I used to know the W scheme, but I forgot it over the past 50+ years. Hah! My first re-learning attempt was the shrinking triangles scheme, but W is much easier.

This seems much more elaborate than the 2 bishop mate ngl. Still really good video! Just gotta practice now...

You are the greatest.

Nelson, can you make a video about how to get to the key position?

I cann now finally checkmate with a bishop and a knight! thanks!

I can believe i managed to learn this, i only had to whatch once. Now i only need pratice. Its honestly a lot easier that it looks, i thought only gms and title player could do it

Best Trainer in KZfaq < Only Video i understand it on youtube ^_^

Nelson! At 3:29 when u say the only logical move is to go away from the corner cause he will get mated faster. What do u do if he does go to the white corner side

appreciate it

pretty cool thank you. btw, i think on the second option, i think you moved the oponent king twice. not that it matters much since it was kind of giving the king a headstart for escape but following precision one extra move in some other context would make a difference.

thats a W maneuver

Hi. You said that he could either go Kc6 or Kb7 from Kc7 position trying to run away into the empty board. Kc6 is beautifully explained but Kb7 is not and everything I tried after Kb7, Bc4 he always escapes. Any tips? Thanks

Nice video! Even if you missed N to c5, N to d8 is mate in 5.

Last one... The puzzle mate in 1... Bishop from e2 should go to b5... Causing a discovered check a checkmate basically😂... But thank you so much for the lesson of checkmating with bishop and knight... Very educational and easy to remember 👍

wao... very clear and not complex! just beaten stockfish with this two pieces

Can you make how to do a check mate with king and knight i really wanna know it

i learned this by analyzing martin’s moves when i set up knight and bishop for him.

You were such a good help to me thank you so much

Puzzle solution : Bb5 dupple check which will be a checkmate scince it is dupple check king needs to move but in this case thier is no sqaures for king is a Checkmate and game over

Is it possible to checkmate with king and 3 knights?

My teacher said that I should practice KBN mate but I can't remember. So the teacher recommended me this yt vid. Works tho. Finally I can now mate my opponent

Great Video! Bb5#

8:51 bishop B5 double check and checkmate

Theoretically it is possible to checkmate the entire last row and not just in the corner!

What if they choose to move Kb7 as opposed Kc6?

what if black king tries to go to the center, is it doable? and with perfect play, is it possible to even get into that position, i mean black looks like he can always escape to the center easily

The answer to the puzzle: B B5 or F B5#. The black king will be checked by rook and bishop simultaneously,it must be moved,it is impossible, as a result it us mate.

As long as the opponents king isn't on back row when trying to get it there you can't cause a stale mate right?

In the starting position, it's a bit trickier if it's *black's* move and he starts off with 1...Ke8. Now what? It can be done, but it's not very intuitive nor in keeping with the W-method. Basically, white has to find a method to achieve this same position but make it *white's* move. It's a bit awkward. White needs to temporarily push the king back toward the "safe" corner. Knowing when to "waste" a move is important with this method. 1...Ke8 2.Be6 Kf8 3.Bd7 Kg8 4.Bf5 Kf8 Voila! It's the same starting position with white's turn. White can now start the mating net with 5.Bh7. White has to know this little trick, however.

Excellent video! Challenge answer: Bishop to B5

Mam... I thought two bishops checkmate were hard...

Even if the player with the lone king knows that he cannot be checkmated in the corner *not* commanded by the bishop, he should not make a beeline for that corner. The mating net begins once the king is forced to the edge of the board. Don't help your opponent by going to the edge of the board. The lone king should fight to stay in the *middle* of the board as much as a possible. Resist being forced to the edge/corner. But, eventually, the lone king will have to give ground. Only *then* should the king head for the opposite corner. Most tutorials teach the player how the "net" works and assumes that forcing the king to the edge of the board can be done easily. Actually, it's not that easy if you don't know what you're doing. If the player with the bishop & knight do not expeditiously get the opposing king to the edge of the board, he will likely exceed 50 moves even if he has a perfect understanding of what to do once the opposing king is pinned to the edge of the board. On average, it takes about 30 total moves to force checkmate. More than half of those moves is just forcing the king to the edge of the board. Fumble around with that and knowing the mating pattern won't do you any good. From the starting position in this video, it took 18 perfect moves to force checkmate. It can take far more moves than that to force a king to the edge of the board. So, you can see that any fumbling around will cause you to exceed 50 moves.

4:06 there is mate in 2 with white going Nd6, Ka8, then Bd5#

I mark this endgame as a comfortable draw in my book😌

I tried and failed to understand this for the last 15 years. I watched your video several times and practiced for a month. I am so good at this checkmate now, I feel like a grandmaster. Thank you so much for teaching this in a way normal people can understand and actually be successful check mating. You have my respect and sincere gratitude.

it’s like trying to catch a fish with your bare hands

I think I've learned how to checkmake with knight and bishop. Thanks.

Great video, but what if b7 at 5:25?

holy shit i did it omg thanks this is so cool

Bishop to b5 is mate

bishop to B5, winning move, duble check and a checkmate

So move the bishop but the queen and bishop can block right

But how do I get to the initial position?

The answer to the puzzle is Bb5# it is a double check so the king has to move but there is no legal move for the king to go to hence Bishop to b5 is mate... Pls heart and like Chess vibes

In the second option, what if he play Kb7 instead of Kd8

It's possible learn this difficult endgame but you must practice it once in a while otherwise you will forget it, like in my case.

You forgot to show what to do @ the 5:24 mark if the King moves to B7.

But how do you get the king into the key position?!

Bishop B5

Bb5 double check and mate

The most difficult part is forcing the King into a corner, if the black king really tries to avoid that instead of making some random moves like you did in your example, it's almost impossible to make this work

what if king goes b7 at 5:25?? just had that happen and i lost to time

Bishop to b5 for the puzzle at the end

For the last one I think it's bishop to b5

I got a non forced checkmate from a really bad position that my friend gave me asking me for aid he was down 16 points and had knight and bishop but like they are both 500 and I'm 1100 I found a non forced checkmate that the opponent walked into after like 32 moves

Bb5#

Mate in 1 is bishop to b5, its double check You cant take bishop because its a revealed attack of the rook. King cant move anywhere and you cant block the rook because the bishop is still there