This is the HARDEST Forced Checkmate in Chess

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2 жыл бұрын

Two knights versus a pawn is the hardest checkmate, apparently. I'll never know how to do it.
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@GMHikaruClips 2 жыл бұрын

What's your favourite checkmate?

@vasilijeboskovic5948 2 жыл бұрын

Since we don't know how to do this, we have to go with the smothered mate :D

@ishratkhan768 2 жыл бұрын

Mate:missionary

@whatever751 2 жыл бұрын

Smothered

@user-m8k9d 2 жыл бұрын

Boden's mate with a queen sacrifice

@zelcat5794 2 жыл бұрын

good old and simple rook and king

@savage.kidowww 2 жыл бұрын

Hikaru checkmates with 2 knights me who stalemates with 2 rooks 😌

@fragmeant6044 2 жыл бұрын

🥲

@87hazardpuppet87 2 жыл бұрын

i stalemate with 5 queens

@Taylorism1 2 жыл бұрын

Technically 2 knights vs only the king is a stalemate, in this case it isnt because Elham could still move the pawn.

@zlatan_2197 2 жыл бұрын

@@87hazardpuppet87 Why create 5 queens in the first place, cockiness usually leads to stalemate, they cover too many squares.

@realsteal0003 2 жыл бұрын

Hah!! Me who lost with 2 queens 😌

@billy-cg1qq 2 жыл бұрын

When Hikaru goes silent for a moment you know something impressive is about to happen, lol.

@SamuelPearlman 2 жыл бұрын

I wish something impressive is about to happen more, then

@tommydashed4205 2 жыл бұрын

Then why are you here?

@hasanicahyadi9100 2 жыл бұрын

This is insane 😂 the confidence from hikaru is just different

@maskedman8368 2 жыл бұрын

its understandable, like hes been doing this all his life.

@Dexter-xw3hd 2 жыл бұрын

it's practically his job he's been playing chess since he was young so these things are just there in his subconsciousness no need to think of them everytime because they're not new to him

@TimDaOne 2 жыл бұрын

Well, he lets the pawn live on purpose because otherwise he knew he would most likely stalemate.

@DakHamer 2 жыл бұрын

@@TimDaOne it is impossible without the pawn I think

@TimDaOne 2 жыл бұрын

@@DakHamer 😂 Voor zover ik probeer is het onmogelijk ja

@thechesssavage6400 2 жыл бұрын

Such a rare endgame. It's a shock that he's actually memorized the technique to such a degree.

@isavenewspapers8890 2 жыл бұрын

You mean the technique of waiting for your opponent to blunder?

@JoshuaMarshall745 2 жыл бұрын

@@isavenewspapers8890 I think knowing how to defend a two knights vs pawn is also very tricky, not the type of thing you expect even masters to have memorized (especially not with so little time) because it’s all about forcing a stalemate while you’re slowly running out of waiting moves

@skriabinfly 2 жыл бұрын

You block the pawn with one knight, then corner the enemy king with your king and other knight, then bring the blocking knight over last of all. Memorizing this technique is simple. The impressive thing is Nakamura's calculation and visualization speed.

@TheLucidDreamer12 2 жыл бұрын

@@isavenewspapers8890 2 knights on their own can't force checkmate but can force stalemate. Two knights and a pawn is different in that you can force the stalemated side to move their pawn, forcing a checkmate a few more moves later. The same can only happen with only two knights if your opponent blunder, but this position is a forced mate in 40 at worst

@melchormendoza Жыл бұрын

@@isavenewspapers8890 well yes, thats pretty much what chess is. you play your game waiting for the other player to blunder, otherwise its just a draw every time.

@GMHikaruClips 2 жыл бұрын

I'd have just resigned.

@nalefyealsh6075 2 жыл бұрын

@havardmj 2 жыл бұрын

You didn't though

@assgrabberpremium 2 жыл бұрын

@@havardmj homie hikaru isnt running his yt channels

@groundedgaming 2 жыл бұрын

@@assgrabberpremium oh,

@AKhan0372 2 жыл бұрын

it was easy draw all time. Even the second to last move instead of playing king to corner Ka1 white could have played Kc1

@jonoxes8662 2 жыл бұрын

It's only possible because of the pawn moves. Otherwise 2 knights is a stalemate since there's no way to checkmate the king, with no inbetween move where the king isn't checked, but also has a legal move left. While still alowing you to check him with the next move and taking away all his legal moves. Thus the pawn leaves a legal move, and makes the mate possible.

@backpain100 2 жыл бұрын

Ah I see. Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking how is it possible to check with 2 knights, but I didn't see the pawn. I'm very novice.

@collegewifi5024 2 жыл бұрын

wow so he didn't take the pawn on purpose

@goodester6924 2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a forced mate though (see Troitsky line).

@jonoxes8662 2 жыл бұрын

@@goodester6924 I know.

@albchess8110 2 жыл бұрын

@@collegewifi5024 Yeah, had he taken the pawn, the game would end in a draw.

@ramachandra776 2 жыл бұрын

There is something called the troitsky's line involved when there are two knights and a single enemy pawn involved (Only two knights and king vs king is draw) . Hikaru delivered a masterclass on how to mate with two knights .

@AKhan0372 2 жыл бұрын

The opponent had draw so many times in last 5 moves but he was just premoving. Even the second last move he could have played Kc1 instead of Ka1

@theduck1164 2 жыл бұрын

@@AKhan0372 yeah, I was trying to figure out the mate And realised that too.

@j.d.kurtzman7333 2 жыл бұрын

So I looked it up, the Troitsky line is on g6 for black pawn, which means g3 for white. That pawn is clearly ahead of that square so I think there is no forced mate here

@AKhan0372 2 жыл бұрын

@derek To be fair naka was playing blitz and the other game you mentioned players had more time. It is not not a fair comparison.

@musical_lolu4811 2 жыл бұрын

Still a draw.

@GMHikaruClips 2 жыл бұрын

Sheeeeesh

@ruchirkohli9110 2 жыл бұрын

shheeeeeeeeeeesh

@WarpRulez 2 жыл бұрын

KNN vs KP is indeed one of the hardest endgames in chess. The fact that Hikaru is able to deliver it in a blitz game is astonishing.

@thechesssavage6400 2 жыл бұрын

It's so rare that you'd think to yourself, "why study it?" And even if you did, blitzing it out is a completely different story. Absolutely astonishing.

@isavenewspapers8890 2 жыл бұрын

The fact that this chain apparently has its own pet word is astonishing.

@ParisDorn159 2 жыл бұрын

It's not even a forced mate

@RMF49 2 жыл бұрын

@@isavenewspapers8890 Indeed

@PhantomAyz 2 жыл бұрын

@@ParisDorn159 maybe it is with a pawn to avoid stalemate?

@jeremyjoe7494 2 жыл бұрын

0:33 this position is a tablebase draw, 0:57 is when the mistake happens, Kc1 is draw, Ka1 leads to mate. Unfortunately wasn't a forced mate most of the time.

@Kinjutsuu 2 жыл бұрын

yeah i saw that Kc1 too.. how on earth could the guy blunder like so. Stay out of the corner

@florinz8847 2 жыл бұрын

@jonoxes8662 2 жыл бұрын

@@florinz8847 yes

@adityarallapalli8308 2 жыл бұрын

man, anyway figuring it in a few seconds is just awesome. I think we should enjoy it. Anyways nice info 🤞

@jeremyjoe7494 2 жыл бұрын

@@adityarallapalli8308 Oh absolutely, I couldn't complete 2 bishop checkmate with unlimited time, yet Hikaru did this one while both players were premoving. I just noticed "forced" in the title and wanted to correct it for no reason at all. Chess be brutal

@trallegas6589 2 жыл бұрын

That's more impressive than some people probably think it is

@isavenewspapers8890 2 жыл бұрын

I’m looking around and I have no idea who you’re talking about

@trallegas6589 2 жыл бұрын

@@isavenewspapers8890 there's probably 600s that watch this video and probably just think "oh well hes incredibly good so of course he can do this" when what he did is legitimately one of the most impressive things I've seen hikaru do,even if it wasn't completely forced

@isavenewspapers8890 2 жыл бұрын

@@trallegas6589 He exploited time pressure so that his opponent would make a mistake and lose. That’s not exactly a rare sight.

@lucastekobum5017 2 жыл бұрын

@@isavenewspapers8890 True buts its still extremely impressive nonetheless. I mean most people (even some good players) couldn’t do what he just did under the same circumstances.

@isavenewspapers8890 2 жыл бұрын

@@lucastekobum5017 Given how much he focuses on chess it seems like the expected result.

@ankitdubey9310 2 жыл бұрын

This is just super GM level shit, hats off hikaru lord

@lakshmimurugan238 2 жыл бұрын

Opponent giving away all his pieces knowing he could not win 😜

@mranonymous00 2 жыл бұрын

Not win,draw

@j.d.kurtzman7333 2 жыл бұрын

Well his play does at least “force” a draw, but he blundered mate unfortunately

@Jordan-vr7ip 2 жыл бұрын

I love when players blunder then they start kamikazing all there pieces😂😂

@kirbyknifeman2877 2 жыл бұрын

Those weren't blunders but a way to force a draw which the opponent even succeeded in for a second. For eg the Ka1 move was a mistake but Kc1 was a draw.

@ahmet18605 2 жыл бұрын

What makes this checkmate so good is the fact that 2 knights cannot checkmate the king . He has to have a pawn. Just so beautiful.

@jedinxf7 2 жыл бұрын

two knights and king cant *force* checkmate of a king in most positions, but they most certainly can checkmate a king. the pawn makes it possible to force it (and Naka didn't actually force it here, there were a couple of draw by force moves the opponent missed. not that most people would do better, especially in a time scramble, but this was not a textbook endgame win).

@sleeponthefloor9622 Жыл бұрын

@@jedinxf7 To us mere mortals, leaving the pawn in play to avoid a later stalemate was impressive indeed.

@teresfordsaunders4238 2 жыл бұрын

"Sheesh , tough game" says Hikaru while completing a two knights mate while I cant even mate with two bishops😥

@josueramirez7247 2 жыл бұрын

I still haven’t learned how to mate with two bishops yet too.

@rohangeorge712 11 ай бұрын

well at least u guys know how to mate with two queens, i think thats enough. mating with 2 bishops takes it a lil too far, 😉

@adityavv96 2 жыл бұрын

Genius at work

@mugbhary 2 жыл бұрын

Too good Hikaru. No wonder u r a super GM

@SteelBallBell Ай бұрын

Hikaru's the type of guy to make chess look like its a rhythm game💀💀

@deanmarkovich3633 2 жыл бұрын

Sir I really enjoy watching any programs that you are on your style of play has helped me to enjoy playing chess tremendously thank you Sir

@throwaway7899 Жыл бұрын

Premoving on the troitsky line in a blitz game is insane

@lagor76 2 жыл бұрын

I somtimes forget how good this guy is

@TheAntonergud 2 ай бұрын

I love the fact that Hikaru didn't take that last pawn even though he could easily do that before delivering the knight checkmate. Absolutely mad how confident he was in making that checkate just 1 move before a queen promotion for white

@JoeyZhuNovatronDrakaeneon 2 ай бұрын

if he did take the pawn, the game would be unwinnable; that pawn is what the two knights checkmate relies on. for all the only ways to force a king into a mating net, a king trap is inevitable; the pawn prevents a stalemate from happening, but you have land the checkmate before it queens. it is true that any intermediate/advanced player can learn this, but to do it in a blitz game is still just otherworldly

@wojciechsawicki4733 2 жыл бұрын

that's amazing, not every GM knows how to do that, but probably only 2 people can do that in a real blitz game

@hemasingh8033 2 жыл бұрын

Alot of top GM's could do this , I guess top 50 could find this , Magnus , Alireza , Wesley , Nihal , Artiemeiv , Ding , MVL could easily do it , other might take little time but they all definitely know it ...

@fredwalter923 2 жыл бұрын

Its not hard all u gottta do is pay attention to what squares ur pieces cover... like every gm could do it if they had to

@KarlMarxBR700 2 жыл бұрын

@@hemasingh8033 all of these could do it of course, but only hikaru can do that in 5 seconds

@wojciechsawicki4733 2 жыл бұрын

@@hemasingh8033 in a blitz game? You have to be very fast and precise, I think Andrew Tang would do it

@jalshah9108 2 жыл бұрын

@@hemasingh8033 I thought the same. But there's a stream of Vidit Gujarathi who tries the two knights checkmate for almost 40 mins and then finally gives up because he couldn't solve it.

@AhmedAzzamAzzam Жыл бұрын

I bet his opponent was impressed 😂

@DarkRedZane 2 жыл бұрын

This is only possible because Hikaru knew the recipe for 2 knights mate, leaving an enemy pawn alive to avoid a stalemate...

@89Valkyrie 2 жыл бұрын

That was an insane checkmate!

@gachastar8170 2 жыл бұрын

He sacrificed a knight and a bishop to get him a chance to promote, but wouldn’t sacrifice a pawn for a draw in a losing position

@matthewviramontes3131 2 жыл бұрын

At 0:33 when it gets down to just the Knights and 1 pawn, it's not a forced checkmate; it's a tablebase draw.

@cardscook7721 2 жыл бұрын

game 6 of carlsen nepo was a tablebase draw too but look what happened there. Also that was a classical game and this is a blitz game with the opponent only haveing 10 seconds remaining.

@matthewviramontes3131 2 жыл бұрын

@@cardscook7721 but the title says "forced checkmate", and it's not a forced checkmate. That's my point.

@isavenewspapers8890 2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewviramontes3131 I can affirm this

@lukew6725 10 ай бұрын

White had a chance to draw all the way up to 0:57. if you ask me it seems insanely weird for a player of that level to not push the pawn to force a draw.

@joeblowgoes 2 жыл бұрын

that sheesh at the end got me

@jaredwoolsey5692 2 жыл бұрын

His opponent missed the draw with g6 after the knight moved away from blocking the pawn

@ranveerjadhav928 2 жыл бұрын

he came like tornado and went the player down and i was seeing only

@karanasiosdimos4772 2 жыл бұрын

What a legend.

@Hedning1390 5 ай бұрын

The reason Hikaru could win was because his opponent couldn't go for the 50 move rule with so little time, so he had to gamble for stalemate.

@boatm4920 2 жыл бұрын

If white king had moved to c1 when he was on b1 instead going to corner (a1), it wouldn't have been a forced mate.

@MrDannyg77 2 жыл бұрын

You’re the shit, Naka. Just amazing.

@Chris-rb8ox 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, so that's how you checkmate with two knights!

@kaszaspeter77 6 ай бұрын

Unbelievable.

@denji5680 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know man, the Queen vs two bishops on some positions are hard

@Verbalaesthet 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, 2 knights checkmate. Im impressed!

@omoliemi 2 жыл бұрын

If white stalled until they timed out it would have been draw by insufficent material lmao

@stephenolis5753 2 жыл бұрын

that was actually pretty gnarly

@chessteo3588 2 жыл бұрын

What? Are u kidding me? Genius!!!

@zitternden 2 жыл бұрын

THAT was fantastic!

@emlameyer 2 жыл бұрын

good thing his opponent had a pawn, this could have easily been stalemate

@luisitogonzales3169 2 жыл бұрын

No force mate there, it was a draw, his opponent just commited mistake

@penniesshillings 2 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable...

@abdullahasem3245 Жыл бұрын

Nice win against pam beesly

@andreacalise4953 2 жыл бұрын

That's what you do when you learn how the knight moves

@seanmander 2 жыл бұрын

Hikaru hit em the SHEEESH

@djconnel 7 ай бұрын

Her only hope was to promote the pawn and in theory the pawn can advance 3 squares before the mate happens, one advance forced by "stalemate", so her defense wasn't the best, but given the time... I could maybe have found this mate in a daily game but nothing with any time pressure.

@MichaelSmith-pp3wp 2 жыл бұрын

You can tell it's difficult when Hikaru is completely silent as he plays.

@Tidoublemy 2 жыл бұрын

What's insane is that Hikaru is one of the greatest chess players in all of chess history. One of the greatest ever. He just happens to live in the era of monsters. I don't even play chess but that was just beautiful.

@pedestrian2530 2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't forced most of the time, the opponent blundered. However, Karjakin pulled it off in a classical game, which is absolutely mind boggling.

@musical_lolu4811 2 жыл бұрын

Troitsky would be proud.

@nibrasalchoufi3450 2 жыл бұрын

Hikaru is the boss

@buff7069 2 жыл бұрын

INSANE

@frederikpeters7353 Жыл бұрын

I think Queen vs Rook is equally hard if not harder to convert

@brianwalker2201 2 жыл бұрын

That is literally so cool 😂

@gamingforever7336 2 жыл бұрын

and i struggle to mate with king and rook and blame it on time pressure, cool.

@isavenewspapers8890 2 жыл бұрын

That seems like something you should learn.

@skahler 22 күн бұрын

dude that is super sick that's why GMs are GMs

@pahngyauh13 2 жыл бұрын

BLITZ 🐐

@shashlik7959 2 жыл бұрын

Didn't know knights could do that, damn

@leemarshal3329 2 жыл бұрын

with 30 seconds on the clock too

@praveenrawat6574 2 жыл бұрын

Saw this on r/chess, my mind was blown away

@gurkiratsinghanand5838 2 жыл бұрын

Haters say Elham sacrificed himself for content

@jill7546 Жыл бұрын

why cant clip channels link full video ffs

@hasanicahyadi9100 2 жыл бұрын

I just realized that white only need to let the pawn die to make a draw 🤦🏻‍♂️

@priyanshukumawat4142 2 жыл бұрын

same 2 knight check mate was delivered by Sergey in a boarrd game

@playinsanity5133 2 жыл бұрын

Me, rated 1000 and have no idea that’s going on: “Interesting”

@aliffahrizi 2 жыл бұрын

Sheesh from hikaru never disappoint me

@teddonaville1151 2 жыл бұрын

tbh his opponent made i super easy for him

@NotJames37 2 жыл бұрын

Do You see the music? Holy Jesus!

@Sw4ggB055 2 жыл бұрын

I struggle to checkmate with a queen and a rook lmao

@fanjin Жыл бұрын

0:38 Is Ng6 even a safe pre-move if white plays g6?

@conormcgreevy1327 2 жыл бұрын

This might just be the most impressive chess sequence I've ever seen.

@lukew6725 10 ай бұрын

Except that 90% of this video isn't a forced mate, white just blundered mate in 2 at the end. If you don't believe me, plug the position at 0:57 into a computer and see what you get.

@patrickplayz6576 2 жыл бұрын

The sheesh 😆

@JamesJoyce12 Жыл бұрын

you can't force checkmate wit two knights unless your opponent boobs it up

@pas5word409 Жыл бұрын

You can if you go through a stalemate, which the pawn prevents. So 2N vs a pawn is very possible

@lukew6725 10 ай бұрын

@@pas5word409 Only if your opponent is dumb enough to blunder mate in 2. Seriously, the position at 0:57 is a dead draw but white moved the king to a2 instead of c1, which is what enabled the checkmate.

@pas5word409 10 ай бұрын

@@lukew6725 Damn that's an old comment. Yeah I made that when I first started chess and thought Hikaru was some sort of god, but now I'm 1800 and I agree, it was a draw. Idk what I was thinking back then.

@coopersanders2340 2 жыл бұрын

It would take me 20 minutes to figure this out wtf

@AgnaktoreX Жыл бұрын

How did he pull that off in under a minute😳😳😳

@oldnewtimer4662 Жыл бұрын

I'm just learning chess but I saw a stale mate & not checkmate. Somebody please tell me where I'm wrong. The last black king move trapped the white king where it had no moves & then quickly the black knight moved before the white king ever moved.

@oldnewtimer4662 Жыл бұрын

Now I see it. I didn't see that there was still a white pawn on the board that moves after the last black king move. I figured I must be missing something.

@haleshs66 2 жыл бұрын

Horsey go brrrrrrr!!

@mathiasbeltranvizarreta5941 2 жыл бұрын

you miss g6 when you premove the ponys i can´t do the checkmate with the bishop and the knight :(

@anupamsharma9226 2 жыл бұрын

can someone tell me why didn't the opponent pushed the pawn @ 0:37, can't take the pawn because then its a draw and white king is not in check, so why not just push the pawn?

@jeremyestey 2 жыл бұрын

He could have, but he only had 10 seconds remaining so he had premoved his king in order to preserve his time