You can play with your imaginary friend

@@mahirushiina2159 and study bongcloud opening theory

Lol

Impress yourself

Lol

Yes indeed!

And that’s with only four pieces on the board!

@@richielavey1565 5

@@richielavey1565 gggggx

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Wait, when you have a pawn next to the king and queen in the corner, you can just block the check by moving queen next to the king. Because if opponents queen takes your queen, you can just take it with king and then promote your remaining pawn. EASY.

lmao I did the exact same thing, I thought for far too long than I should've needed to realize that Kc2 was the *only* way to make a queen with the required tempo, but I didn't wanna think about how to actually win after that

I’m not good enough at chess to figure it out

@@amyli9289 You just need to look for all the possible moves, then remove one by one those bad moves, then what remains must be the best move

Same here, against f2 I'd have won but g2 I'd have drawn.

I found the niggardly skinned people in my basement

No problem!

Yes I found that f4 too and just assumed that as I am now a move ahead I can perpetually check and manoeuvre for a queen exchange.

I would consider that poor sportsmanship if you didn’t resign in such a position.

@@invalleria Im pretty sure most masters/grandmasters could force a stale mate against most non-elo players (ie 99% of chess players) in a K vs KQ situation.......

@@Debbiebabe69 Nope. I’m 1700 and know how to not stalemate in KQ v K endgames. Magnus Carlsen himself couldn’t force a stalemate against me in such a game

@@a-train69420 im not talking about 1700 elo players, im talking about non-elo players, who make up 99%+ of chess players.

@@Debbiebabe69 I'm pretty sure it takes a single queen checkmate tutorial to guarantee a win in KQ end games. Most players will checkmate even grandmasters

Exactly, this was bugging me so much. I feel like he overlook this exact move

I don't get how white wins in the scenario you just described. If the black king is on g2 and the white queen goes to g3, then the black queen takes it. The white pawn can then take the black queen, but there is literally nothing that stops the black king from just taking the white pawn. This just leaves 2 kings, which is a stalemate.

I'm 1100 ranked(last played 20 years ago) and saw the entire winning sequence in under a minute(tho, I had video playing, so I got hint of why my initial idea why d2 failed from the video, so c2 was the obvious fix to that idea)

My thought process exactly.

Same

The problem with this is one of black’s pawn pushes comes with check, causing white to lose a tempo

The video actually details the correct response to kg2 after the part on kf2. The start of it is to promote the h pawn instead of the b pawn, however there was also a lot of additional moves required to force a queen trade and safely promote the b pawn after

(it starts at 5:49)

Unlike 1.Kc2, 1.Kb2? doesn't prevent the response 1...e5. Thus you have essentially wasted a tempo in the pawn race and won't win.

@@rizka7945 what if you go there as a king when you get checked

@@TheRealNiktWazny Give actual moves instead of gibberish, please.

@@rizka7945 Kb2

@@TheRealNiktWazny I already told that 1.Kb2 is met by 1...e5. Then what?

They queen with check and it's perpetual check

The black king can just mirror the white kings moves stopping the king from blocking the pawn

I was thinking the same thing! I can't immediately see what will go wrong there. In fact, the trade will happen much sooner and the pawn will still be secured by the king.

What if opponents check you until repetition

@@anuragpoojary How would they? After Qb2, black can only check with Qe2, Qf2 or Qe4. Either way, Kc3 and either forces a queen trade (Qe2/Qf2) or creates a discovered check (Qe4). Queen trade is winning, and from a quick look at stockfish, discovered check also wins.

​@@MrZerodaim Qb2 is only good for a draw, as is confirmed by checking a tablebase. In this queen endgame, Black doesn't have to rely on checks to draw if the queen can blockade the pawn while it is still a long way from promoting. In a K+R+P vs K+R endgame, having the Black king a long way away from the pawn would be fatal - if the Black rook tries to blockade the pawn, the king just chases it away. However, in a K+Q+P vs K+Q ending, if the Black queen is blockading the pawn, the king can't chase it away. That's not to say this ending is always drawn, but if the pawn is a long way from promoting it's usually a draw. Having the Black king nowhere near the pawn shouldn't matter; in fact, it can even be advantageous, as it can make a maneuver by White to force a queen trade less likely. By the way, even Qb2 Qf2+ Kc3 is a draw, as Black can play ...Kh1!!

If the white king ends up at d4 then it will get checked as the black pawn is moving forward, forcing the white king to move and causing white to lose its advantage. I had the same idea but it unfortunately doesn’t work :(

@@ommahesh8366 black pawn would promote first in that scenario but that queen wouldn't be immediately attacking anything. The white pawn promotes next and is immediately attacking the black King. Is that not an advantage enough position to win?

No perpetual check then I guess.

lichess I believe

Yeah I was expecting him to briefly mention this

But it's black to play though

Its black turn

Its blacks turn genius

@@a.jz19 ok ok i got it

I thought this too and it took me a bit to figure out, but Qa5 checks. And the queen can keep jumping back and forthcoming between a5 and d2 to keep checking.

@@123TheMpoMan321 yeah I realised that after it took me some time 😅

Endgame studies are by definition composed by someone and not from an actual game. Open the video details for the source of this study, including its composer.

@@Rocky64 Of course, I know what compositional chess and therefore study means. But these can be divided into practical and theoretical. The former was used by one of the best coaches in the world, Mark Izrailevich Dvoretsky. If you open any sub-chapter book of pawn endings, there are alternating examples of games as well as studies or even conclusions of studies. Unless you know the author's names of the opponents, you can never tell the difference! After all, I actually saw Réti's famous 1921 study 'Hunt for 2 Hares' 7K/8/k1P5/7p/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 in practice myself!

you can but after the b pawn promotes enemy king goes f5 and things get messy

It winning, I think; U dont have to force the exchange of QQ

Black just loses faster

After 1.Kd2 Kf2 2.Kd3 Kf3 3.Kd4 Kf4 4.b4 Black simply plays 4...e5+ 5.Kd3 Kf3, and wins a tempo. But the position remains drawn.

Simple answer: Queen > knight. If black makes a knight instead of a queen just to give a check, it won't work because white's king can simply move away and black can't really stop white's b pawn from getting queened with just a knight plus white already made a queen with their h pawn while black only made a knight so its just losing for black.