I LOVE puzzles like this with their complexity. I love the endgame because it is so pure and you have to know / understand so much to play it well, and such puzzles show clearly why that is true. People who claim the endgame is "boring" just are clueless about it, IMO. When I played OTB tournaments 30+ years ago, I won a LOT of practical drawn endgames because my opponents just didn't know about endgames. I also drew the occasional strong player who hoped I would blunder on my end of a drawn game. By the way, I was bad at the opening, as I found memorizing lots of lines boring, so without the endgame I never would have gotten a high rating.
I feel you! I also don't like studying openings, maybe this is why I only covered 2 or 3 on this channel. It's because I feel they are too repetitive, you just need to memorize some moves and that is all. But in the endgame is where the true magic begins. A tiny difference like Kf2 or Kg2, is what make a game winning or drawing
@dark6.6E-34 I didn’t see the entire thing from the start but I get the first few moves immediately just from instinct. And once the position transform after opponent move I think I can find the next move similarly quickly. I’m not sure how much time would count as time scramble for you but if you have 10 sec I’d say this is quite winnable. As long as you don’t fat finger the rook into a square the pawn can take.
no, because black could arrive on D3, and he would be able to promote one of his pawn, forcing a trade. After Kf2 Kf4 the only winning move is to take the E pawn
I'm going to comment, *BEFORE* I watch this video and *guess* the answer King F2, then regardless of whatever pawn pushes to promote you take with the king If no pawn promotes and black moves king instead then you take on of the pawns Now if the other pawn promotes You take with rook and then eventually take the last pawn aswell with rook If yhe other pawn doesn't promote then back to king F2 But regardless the very last pawn you should take is the one the rook is blacking I haven't watched the video yet and this is a complete *guess* Now let me watch the video to see if I'm right or wrong 🤪
*Update* I watched the whole video and turns out I was completely *wrong* But thank you for this video it actually was quite informative and instructional and I actually learned a few things Excellent video 💯
Did you managed to solve this puzzle up until the end or did you blunder the first move as well?
I LOVE puzzles like this with their complexity. I love the endgame because it is so pure and you have to know / understand so much to play it well, and such puzzles show clearly why that is true.
People who claim the endgame is "boring" just are clueless about it, IMO.
When I played OTB tournaments 30+ years ago, I won a LOT of practical drawn endgames because my opponents just didn't know about endgames. I also drew the occasional strong player who hoped I would blunder on my end of a drawn game.
By the way, I was bad at the opening, as I found memorizing lots of lines boring, so without the endgame I never would have gotten a high rating.
I feel you! I also don't like studying openings, maybe this is why I only covered 2 or 3 on this channel. It's because I feel they are too repetitive, you just need to memorize some moves and that is all.
But in the endgame is where the true magic begins. A tiny difference like Kf2 or Kg2, is what make a game winning or drawing
Very instructive puzzle. Definitely not easy to solve.
I am glad you found it useful
Instructive but pretty easy to solve
Up until the end? I think most people would blunder somewhere along the line
Definitely not easy. Imagine playing this in a time scramble 💀
@dark6.6E-34 i would just resing
@dark6.6E-34 of course not in a time scramble, but with time you can absolutely see it
@dark6.6E-34 I didn’t see the entire thing from the start but I get the first few moves immediately just from instinct. And once the position transform after opponent move I think I can find the next move similarly quickly. I’m not sure how much time would count as time scramble for you but if you have 10 sec I’d say this is quite winnable. As long as you don’t fat finger the rook into a square the pawn can take.
After
1. Kf2 Kf4
the correct response is Re1 and then taking whichever pawn black moves toward, right?
no, because black could arrive on D3, and he would be able to promote one of his pawn, forcing a trade.
After Kf2 Kf4 the only winning move is to take the E pawn
Amazing.
Thanks
Got the first move right. Blundered the second (Rxc2). :'D
The first move is still good, you didn't go with the most obvious one ( taking the G pawn).
Congrats on finding that
The clickbaity title makes me think the right play is Re1
nope
1 K-g2 K-e4
2 K-f2 K-d3
3 K-e1 then black cant go to d2 and whichever way he goes white can take the other pawn.
Did you watch the video?
I'm 99% =(
I'm going to comment, *BEFORE* I watch this video and *guess* the answer
King F2, then regardless of whatever pawn pushes to promote you take with the king
If no pawn promotes and black moves king instead then you take on of the pawns
Now if the other pawn promotes
You take with rook and then eventually take the last pawn aswell with rook
If yhe other pawn doesn't promote then back to king F2
But regardless the very last pawn you should take is the one the rook is blacking
I haven't watched the video yet and this is a complete *guess*
Now let me watch the video to see if I'm right or wrong 🤪
*Update* I watched the whole video and turns out I was completely *wrong*
But thank you for this video it actually was quite informative and instructional and I actually learned a few things
Excellent video 💯
I am glad you found it useful. This is the beauty of chess , even a "simple" endgame like this is much more complex than it looks like