What's even crazier to me is that Stockfish instantly saw that whole sequence of mate in 24

I have never seen another puzzle like this one. It's absolutely fascinating. No one annotates these puzzles better than Nelson.

The Queen Dance Checkmate👸

fascinating puzzle! all of the moves are so intuitive, yet they create quite the interesting combination :D

One of the most beautiful and instructive puzzle i've ever seen! Indispensable and subtle chess principles as sustaining tempo, move sequences and maneuvering, and zugzwang were all demonstrated. Loved this.

Absolutely brilliant. Shows the endless possibilities of Chess moves, the power of the Queen, and finding the way to win!

At 3:20 I was convinced that the next move for White was to move Queen to F8, but then I saw that Black can just move Queen to A1 to Check.

Love the geometry of the queen moves. I was surprised how far I could calculate this without seeing the position. 1. Re7+ Kf8 2. d7 Kg8 3. Re8+ Kh7 4. Rxd8 d1=Q 5. Rh8+ Kxh8 6. d8=Q+ Kh7 7. Qc7+ Kh6 8. Qxf4+ Kh7 9. Qh2+ Kg8 10. Qb8+ Kh7 11. Qxa7+ Kh6 12. Qxe3+ Kh7 13. Qh3+ Kg8 14. Qc8+ Kh7 Here I decided to set the position on the board to calculate from that because I wasn't too sure where the next couple of moves were leading. That was very helpful. 15. Qd7+ Kh6 16. Qh3+ Qh5 17. Qe3+ g5 18. Qxd3 (queen has to guard g6 square so there are only two moves - g4 and Qe8) g4 19. Qe3+ Kh7 20. Qe7+ Kh6/Kh8/Kg8 21. Qg7# 18. ... Qe8 19. Qh3+ Qh5 20. Qf5 (threatening Qxg5+ -> Qg7# and Qg6# so black's queen is paralysed) g4 21. Qf4+ Kh7 22. Qc7+ Kh6/Kh8/Kg8 23. Qg7# Gotta say I had a chess orgasm after solving this. As I said before, the geometry of the queen moves is truly fascinating.

Also, for those who like to use software which cannot 1. Import games 2. Edit the board. Use this moveset: 1. Nc3 Nc6 2. Rb1 Rb8 3. e4 Nf6 4. Bc4 g6 5. Ke2 h6 6. Be6 dxe6 7. Kf3 Qxd2 8. Nd5 Nd8 9. Nxe7 Qxc2 10. Kf4 Qc4 11. Nc6 bxc6 12. Ke5 Ba6 13. Qd5 cxd5 14. Bxh6 d4 15. Bxf8 Nd5 16. Bd6 Rxh2 17. b3 Rxb3 18. axb3 Rxg2 19. Rh5 Rxf2 20. bxc4 Rf5+ 21. exf5 d3 22. Rb7 d2 23. cxd5 Bd3 24. Kf6 cxd6 25. fxg6 fxg6 26. Rf5 exf5 27. Nf3 f4 28. Ne5 dxe5 29. Rd7 e4 30. d6 e3

Judging from the opening position, the key for white was a series of forcing moves. And what's more forcing than a check? QED

Outstanding presentation! Videos like this should be used to spread the word about problem chess!

I immediately saw the first move and the next few logical continuations, but I had absolutely no idea of the subsequent complications. Very nice!

Thanks for all these wonderful puzzles and explaining them so clearly.

Perfectly shows the power of the queen and the importance of tempo.

Incredible position! Black had so many pieces and was forced to lose all of them. Crazy! Amazing video as always Nelson!

Excellent demo. Very instructive. Congratulations

Your chess videos are immensely superior. You explain it well, and illustrate it well. I learn something every time.

Amazing puzzle, easy to follow and understand yet still complex and full of small details

Thank you so much for so instructive moves on that puzzle :) Stay sharp, play smart ! Luvit !

At 10:20, ...Qf7+ forced White to take. It's still a mate, but because the mate is not 1 move later, it's the only "tactic" left for Black to pull off a stalemate if White isn't exacting. It's again mate, but it's worth noting how this final stab Black takes heightens the level of how exacting White must be all the more so, up to this last ditch effort.

Watching these puzzles is helping. I actually came up with the correct moves this time.

Apart from the pawn-clearing, I recognized this pattern from the outset. The first 3 moves were literally my first try and it took me a moment to work out the specific tactics at 2 of the checkpoints. A queen out of position is no queen at all. A very instructive video on how powerful the King is in a mating attack in the endgame.

Good stuff, Nelson!

Superb video! thanks for so nice content and best of luck for your new year

i would literally ragequit chess if this happened to me like usually you'd think the queen checks would end after a while but they dont and then u realise that the queen is taking all your pawns and piece slowly, with check and when u think it might be a draw it becomes a checkmate

I had no idea what the moves were supposed to be, but I did know one thing: don't stop checking. Check every move, no matter what.

Amazing puzzle! Thanks for this great explanation.

Puzzles like this make me wonder how many times people have resigned seemingly obviously “lost” positions when in reality they had a forced win.

Awesome!!! That’s bud. I really enjoy learning from you.

I think I learned more about end game positioning in this one video than all the other resources I've seen. Of course there are endgames with no queens and just knights and pawns. But it's these sort repeated check opportunities that demonstrate how you can hang on without feeling compelled to resign.

Superb... Keep posting this kind of puzzles

Nice show! I hope your channel will remain longer without another interruption.

Indeed ,i saw many puzzles,but this one looks like a match's middle game,truely magnifisant.

Wow, like 9 mini puzzles in one position. Amazing composition. I love how your channel has unusual puzzles like this.

Superb puzzle & analysis.

Mindblowing is the correct expression, thanks a lot for this wonderful puzzle

Really cool puzzle, beginning was easy but that final trick with repositioning queen escaped me

Love this timing!

i’m so proud of myself, i actually saw almost all the moves as nelson explained it

At 5:00 , Qc7 is a faster mate I guess because although we give black a free move, nothing it can do will prevent a mate in 1. Am I missing something?

Excellent !

Very cool study!

Fascinating. Thanks.

This is like a reverse psychology puzzle. I feel like the super obvious moves are never right in higher level puzzles but that was the case a few times here

I don't know if someone will believe me but I am very glad to say that I managed to see each move of this fabulous puzzle. I exercise pretty often by doing chess puzzles but this is by far the greatest that I've ever solved.

Nelson,thank you for sharing this gorgeous puzzle.

Was nice, thank you!

Really nice and educational

BEAUTIFUL!!

I saw all these steps in the beginning during the short pauze. Easy puzzle.

wow, more than imagined at the beginning!!

On the 2nd puzzle you should have went down to the white square because from there there is a checkmate in 3 or 4

Mind boggling moves !

Amazing windmill queen tactic checkmate

Always love the queen puzzles!

When I first saw this, I got the first couple of moves pretty quickly and realised a rook sac might be necessary to allow a white queen to arrive. I thought that White's ability to threaten mate might mean that black wouldn't even have time to promote his pawn, but it turns out that black can make a queen, but white will still win because his own new queen can get active immediately. Tempo is so important. It pans out a bit differently if it is black to play at the start.

I saw a simpler solution with king g7 and let black promote since you can check mate with rook E7. Basically cut off the king. The king can’t move and if black moves the knight moves to check the king simply move the king to g8 which avoids the knight while keeping the pin on the king. Then when they promote since they don’t really have any other option, check mate with the rook since it’s protected and the king can’t enter the squares next to your king. The pawn promotion does nothing since it’s blocked my tbe bishop and by the time it moves to defend it’s too late

What a beautiful windmill combination.

Beautiful moves.

Awesome video

The nice sample of the meaning of Tempo and using bad position of the black king .

I improvised the win, but was surprised it took so long.

Nelson, I know you did a video on how to destroy a fianchetto, but is it possible to make a video on how to fianchetto effectively and use it as an attacking and a defensive weapon?

Truly thrilling and Mesmerising

Great puzzle!

Excelente. Baile de Reinas, con una Reina más lista y más astuta que la otra.

that was amazing!

The greatest chess puzzle I've ever seen in my life.

So this demonstrates the concepts of king safety and tempo

Excellent

Brilliant.

Awesome puzzle

As a 900, I am proud to say that I found the first half of the moves

so this is how you win a level 12 computer since they do not make mistakes like humans and play the best possible moves. I'll keep watching these videos to beat it. Thanks a lot

Incredible

Jesus. That was a long explanation. Glad you’ve explained it the whole way!

got it, simple and elegant

So mindblowing

Beautiful 💙

It's an unbelievable win!

Brilliant

ABC: always be checking!

Nice! Q: Do you wrestle with these until you solve them, before you present them to us?

Can also repeat the queen move and then checkmate :) as in, after taking the first pawn, instead of continuing the line, isn’t it possible to go Q back to c2, have that Bosnian king go to h6, queen to h2.. and GG?

Nelson, this kind of chess studies surpass any imagination. Thank you.

Wow that was beautiful!

5:44 What if Black under promoted to a knight?

Wonderful

Amazing video

It would be cool to have such a position in a game.

At 2:16 Black should NOT promote the pawn to queen, but move the bishop back to attack that White pawn down near the end! There's no way for White to protect the pawn. In that position, it would seem that Black would win if it could (after Sacrificing the bishop and taking the white pawn) promote a pawn to a queen.

the intereisting thing is that a lot of players will play every move but nearly noone of them sees from the beginnint to the end. For me it was oh lets play Re7 i dont see to the end but it looks nice and after that d7 seemed the only one not loosing imidiately and so on . i found each single move but most of them because they where the only ones holding white into the game and not because i saw the checkmate.

I thought there was a simpler position for checkmate in 6 white moves from the initial position, diverging at 2:09, but that's because I didn't see that black's bishop was there to prevent that exact ending. At least I'm getting better about seeing paths and solutions!

I have never been into chess before but I like your videos

That was really good. Of the 4 or 5 trick moves I only got 2 of them. I would have lost.

How do you find all these fascinating puzzles! Thank you so much 😃😃

You could subtitle this one "whipped between pillar and post"

Cool puzzle but the simpler solution at 5:10 would be Queen to C7 check, then checkmate in 4 moves without having to capture 3 more pieces.

with the help of SF14: This is a true Mate in 24 for white! All other moves are Mate in at most 12 for black. Amazing,

5:00 - I would have guessed to go Qa1 to check, but I see the king can "escape" to h8, but that does leave open going BACK to h2 for a check to force the same position. So if I was playing this, I would have played Qa1 just in the hopes of a mismove of the king to f8. :P