One of the Most Famous Chess Endgame Puzzles Ever
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2012
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This is one of the most famous chess endgame puzzles (studies) ever. This video demonstrates the solution to this highly aesthetic puzzle. Plaskett's Puzzle
Well I got the first move right...
I got the first two!
Final Gear I got the first 5 😝
Final Gear ii
Hey you're 1/140th the way there my man! And also doing better than me!
I solved the whole thing you intellectuals
im scared of how creative humans can be
Zobek Guerrero same. One day, they'll make robot clones and replace us all
Yeah, wait until they program Alpha Zero to design chess puzzles.
How on earth is such a puzzle conceived?
I know right...talk about a creative mind.
+siratthebox That's what I was thinking; it's extraordinary.
+siratthebox Maybe this was in a game between 2 people that had days to think for a move :P
Most probably by backtracking, backtracking can create crazy things.
Did you just assume this puzzle's gender!?
That is absolutely beautiful. Can't imagine anyone managing to pull this off in a game, from either side really
leerobbo92 Tal solved it after an hour of thought.
+William Jefferson Which game?
+afd3 y53 There is the story that Tal was given this study when traveling in a taxi to solve, and so he did. The origin of the story is unclear, as well as for a long time was the origin of this study. Years later, in 1980, it was published by Gijs van Breukelen in Schakend Nederland. He explained to have shown it around before, and there are the origins of this story. If the story with Tal is true, we can only assume it was someone who saw the study from either Gijs van Breukelen or one of the friends he showed it to. Now you will ask, what are the odds? Well, let us not forget that Tal was widely known. So the taxi driver will have recognized Tal. Possibly he was just there waiting for Tal to take a taxi because he wanted to show it. Possibly it was coincidence. Possibly it never happened. Who knows? The fact is, the study circulated for a long time before officially published, and legends were associated with it. If there is any proof that Tal really solved it in a taxi, I would be glad to have it.
+leerobbo92 Now you see the difference between top GM's and the rest lol
William Jefferson My point was that, even if someone like Tal could sit there and work out the mating idea in the middle of a classical game after an hour or two of play and pressure (which is doubtful in itself), I highly doubt that black finds all of the best moves as well in any case under the same conditions.
I have never seen a sequence where a player under promotes twice to save himself from mate. Usually you see under promotions to create checkmate (with a knight) or to prevent a stalemate (with knight, bishop, or rook) This is EPIC. I would love to see a sequence which features a brilliant use of the En Passant, or multiple En Passant's.
+andrew hall Here is a puzzle for you then: wKg8 Pb7 c7 d7 e7 f7 g7, bKg6 Pa2 f4 g2 h2 - Black is to move (mini-spoiler: his best line starts with 1.-a1Q), White to draw. It was published in December 2011 in a German magazine.
+andrew hall Here is the en passant puzzle you requested. It is by Vladimir Korolkov, Shakhmaty v SSSR 1940, special prize. wKg1 Rb6 Rg6 Sf1 Pb2 c2 d2 e2 f2 g2, bKc5 Ra1 Rh8 Ba7 Sa8 Pc4 d4 e4 f4 g4 h4. White is to move and draw.
+andrew hall I remember one of my games, I took a rook as the diagonal would've caused stalemate in the position. The guy I was playing got so excited until I picked the rook. :)
andrew hall g
Here´s a *different* one:
Black King at d1
White Bishop at a4
Black Rook at b5
Black Bishop at d5
Question:
*Where is the White King?*
Wrecking Stockfish 9 from a position it evaluated to 53.2 against me.. so satisfying. I even threw in some taunts after it resigned. I'm dead if it ever finds out the truth.
That was really satisfying to watch.
I played this out as white vs a computer - after pawn promotion to queen black still thrashed me...four times.
Clearly got some practicing to do
Winning a "won position" is one of the greatest challenges in chess
4 Knights and they are no match for a mere bishop... Wow
Bishop is four times better than a knight confirmed.
Percentage and Position gives bishops a chance.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse vs. one pious boi
Never seen such a strong bishop. The knight and queen sacrifice made it immortal.
Jim Plaskett set up a board at the Brussels tournament in 1987, there were GMs and Super GMs (Including Kasparov, Karpov, Short, & Tal) at the tournament and none of them were able to figure it out despite hours of calculation. Until Tal left the room after unsuccessfully trying to decipher it for ten minutes, and came back about an hour later and solved it. Apparently he had worked it out while walking in the park.
in lichess this is rated as a INTERMEDIATE puzzle i believe if you can solve problems like this you must be a advanced Solver / player
+Richard Sørensen It's probably not given in full length there, is it?
lol that's messed up this is a GM level puzzle
ive solved a lot of intermediate puzzle at lichess but if i were given this puzzle i would probably fail
Richard Sørensen you would have no idea what to do in the first position of this video lol
Wait, a light square bishop?
*Black Picks Up His Phone
'Alpha Zero, come over here
'
Jerry you have been the shit!!!!! for so long now. It fills me with great nostalgia to rewatch some of your old vids. Thanks for being there, my friend.
Got it right away!
said no one
Except Tal
OMFG that was epic
I'm going to analyze this position with my computer for hours and we will see what will happen.
Mat's Strategy you've had four years. What's happened?
I think his computer is too slow to think :) and it took 4 years for the first move
I'm coming from future. It's 2034 and the chess community is still waiting for Mat to reveal his result on this one ...
@@mstfici2685 hahahaha
I'm coming from future.. mat's actually has been died already.. that's y he can't make a 2nd move
wow i would never see that sequence even if i looked at it for a day
I really loved this video! Thank you for sharing.
Amazing, you explained it very clearly.
Seeing four black knights was so weird.
It took a very long time of sitting and waiting for stockfish to figure out that white is winning
Thank you for all your instructive videos! Especially the endgames, from Swansea, UK.
Gives a whole new meaning to the Four Knights defense :P
This is brilliant.
One of the best videos on chess game
Great job analyzing the puzzle Jerry!
Astounding would be an understatement :). Superb!
Nice! Very clear!
Beautiful.
incredible sequence
That's good to know. I suspect if might find the Bc2+ move also, given sufficient time. However, Deep Rybka 4 found the Bc2+ move on its own and almost immediately, while Houdini didn't.
Beautiful, just, simply, beautiful. Brilliant combination!!!
Brilliant puzzle!
When a bishop is worth more than 4 knights
Wow that was fun to see!!
What a briliant mating threat! OMG
And I like the couple of underpromotion !
Thank you for great explanation Jerry!
Great vid, thanks!
One word: Fantastic!
Truly incredible.
I have really been wanting to see some of your standard rated games
Awesome puzzle!
This game/ending was awesome, i love it
This is brilliant
loved it !!
That is...Wonderful!
Wow! This is realy nice puzle!!!
I found an interesting novelty while on chessbase. My pc with houdini 1.5 finds Nf6+ in 49 seconds and gives it a positive evaluation in 1 minute and 17 seconds. However if you put a pawn on h2 for white then it takes houdini 6 minutes and 51 seconds to reach a positive evaluation even though it only looks at Nf6+.
Chess has such a beautiful depth
i think it was first solved by mikhail tal
Wow Jerry! Really good video and it is amazing how black's up about 13 points and they are no match against the Sparatan!
I imagine an assassin just running straight into the throne room of a king, fighting off four knights, and killing the king.
This is amazing, thanks.
Who would win?
4 knights + bishop + king
Or
1 Pawn, barely advanced + bishop who has to do a lot of moves because he’ll be eaten if not + king, who is easily checkeable
In technical terms, we call this "a final stand", where a side with very small force faces a very big, monstrous force.
brilliant puzzle
Great video Jerry
Brilliant!!
This might be the craziest puzzle I’ve ever seen
That was an end game revelation for me. Thanks Jerry.
THAT WAS SICK!!!
Houdini figured it out after 100 seconds :)
curry4life Stockfish went ballz and hurt himself in confusion when I placed this position.
+Isidro González if only it held a persim ;D
Or you could try to get the following position when you are down a piece: Your king on a1, a bishop on b2 and a knight on c4, your oponent has a queen and a king somewhere on the board (say queen on b8 and king on d1). An unexperienced oponent will probably try to separate your king from your pieces or to enter your little fortress while you can - with a smile on your face - jump around with your king a2-a1-b1 and your bishop a1-b2 in response to any attack that comes up. Beautiful draw!
This is a tablebase position, win for K+Q.
It's so strange that Stockfish still cannot accurately assess the position.
Gijs Van Breukelen is the composer of the puzzle. He made some nice studies. Not much, but fine ones. He has not been active as a study composer for a long time, but he still plays chess.
3:27 - Pivotal Knight sacrifice and then "we allow for an endgame King/Queen fork to occur and we don't even think about trying to recapture on that D8 square." After which all the King's horses and all the King's men ...
That was really something. Subbed.
Ke6 absolutely insane move
Awesome!
that was nuts
That is the most awesome puzzle of Chess I have ever seen. This really demonstrates the real beauty of this great game ! Holy Crap this is unbelievable ! WHOA NELLIE !
wow. this is awesome!
Thats crazy how such a complex looking position could be 100% detetministic. I wonder how often such positions turn up in games but we never see them.
Wow that was amazing
Now THAT was a lot of fun!... I love endgames!
The composer was Gijs van Breukelen from the netherlands around 1975 according to ChessBase. He told friends about it and it started to circle through the chess community.
I was unable to see that the king moving would block the fork, and therefore wouldn't do it. Had I seen this, I'm quite positive I could have solved this one...
You didn't mention that TAL who resolved this , nice analysis good job chessNetwork
so amazing
Dat monster bishop.
Awesome puzzle. Requires some counterintuitive moves.
Wow, that was crazy!
I ran Houdini 2.0c x64 on this puzzle and it did, in fact, fail to get the first move correct, Nf6+. It thought Black was winning (-1.35/23 ply), and this I believe was because it was so focused on queening the pawn. When I played the Nf6+ move, Houdini still thought Black was winning (-5.45/22) but by a larger margin. It got this lost position because it wouldn't give up the knight on h5 by playing the Bc2+!! move. Once I made it play that move, it found the wins in all lines.
very interesting story.. thanks jerry
Back when I worked for IBM they had a poster depicting this puzzle. The title was, if memory serves "Quest for excellence"
I believe that puzzle is called "The dance of the elefant". Very nice one.
From now on, I will try to reach this position in all of my games. That´ll show 'em
Jesus Christ man...
Bender Bending Rodriguez Really mind-blowing :O
this is great
Amazing...
brilliant
and he did that during a nice outdoor walk
OMG I absolutely loved that.
Analysis by Houdini 3 x64:
1.Nf6+
+- (2.22 ++) Depth: 29/79 00:07:22 4871mN
(Duckbeast, Smallsville 18.11.2012)
pff this just amazing!
I've also seen stalemate problems like that In one of them promoting to bishop was the only way, super rare, I wish i could remember the puzzle.
What a game
Thats gotta be the greatest chess puzzle of all time.
This is the area of the game I struggle with, keeping a cool head.
that was awesome!
one word WOW !!!!!