My father taught me chess when I was 4, and made me practice common checkmates, but he never taught me mate with a knight and bishop. I'm 58 now, and this is the first time I've ever seen this checkmate explained. Thank you, Jerry.
Thanks! A lot of time was spent on this video before it reached a quality I was finally satisfied with. Fun fact: This demonstration took approximately 50 tries before getting it how I wanted. As a result, my voice was relayed a bit rough in the final product. Thanks for the compliment.
I remember back in the day requesting this video everytime I could , I already knew the method but wanted to share it with others and I couldn't think of anybody except Jerry to make a superb explanation, so I came here once again to say Thank you.
This was driving me crazy trying to figure this out without any help. Thanks so much for explaining the technique for corralling the king in progressively smaller triangles. Just a matter of playing against the computer a few times from different starting positions to practice it and we're ready for battle.
Yesterday, I won my first game with a bishop and knight checkmate, and it was all because of what I've learnt from watching your videos. Thanks for being the great chess educator that you are.
Asphyxia I think Random Account is looking at it from White’s point of view, where the “pissed off friend” is playing as Black. White would prefer to have an outright win rather than a draw, so it would be counterproductive for White to offer a draw. Black would rather have a draw than a loss.
00:00 step 1 centralise the pieces 2:10 step 2 shift the king one step closer 2:40 step 3 kick the king out of the corner and optimise position 9:20 step 4 use the king anf bishop to vut the enemy king 11:00 step 5 knight repositioning 13:15 step 6 finale position
@Mr. Mongoose it doesnt matter, the video is 15 min long and he only has 2 minutes left, he won't be able to do it even if he just jumps in between the video
You will likely never see this comment but you truly have a gift for teaching chess. Incredible how you are concise but completely capture the essence of how to tackle this position. Calming voice, clear, and understandable you are gifted.
techkidhelp101 same here. I've been a duffer for over 40 years and this is the best explanation I've seen. Sometimes a video is much better than a book!
I did the "knight and bishop mate" tutorial on Lichess, and when I got to the step where I was supposed to checkmate the engine, I could NOT do it. The engine didn't act the way the instructions up to that point had implied, and I had no idea what to do when it went awry. I watched this video, and immediately had a better understanding of *why* I needed to do what I was doing, and with your help, actually managed to deliver a checkmate! Thank you so much for explaining this so clearly.
Thank you for posting this! I've watched a few other videos, but could never seem to reliably use those methods from any position. I'm sure it was a me problem, but with a few replays of your video and after several tries, I finally understand this one. I practiced it from random positions for a few days against a 3000+ rated engine and confidently feel I've mastered this mate. This is a lot of fun! Thanks!
in 40 years of playing, I have NEVER had this case explained so WELL--even by international masters! Excellent explanation!! Also never knew the weak king could be mated on the b8 square--always thought he had to be pushed into the corner. Wow!
Thank you for making a very difficult scenario easy to understand by your use of arrows triangles highlighted squares and your explanation which covered even what if situation👍🏽
I've listened to your Leela analysis a lot. What you do in those games and in demonstrating NB checkmate -- you discuss ideas and themes. It is such a great way you have of describing chess concepts. You are the best person I have seen that can make complex positions understandable.
You took something arcane, and made it simple to understand. This was the definition of genius. Concise and worthy every second I spent watching it. TY!
I actually expected the W-manuever to be covered, since the beginning was a perfect setup to execute this method. I think this is the way to go if you want to learn to mate within a minute, but I think the triangle method is good place to start in understand B+N coordination.
Very well made video!!! Alot of talk videos with people explaining stuff get really boring and I end up clicking off due to not being interested anymore especially with them avoiding answering the main question until the end of the video. But you andwered the question relatively early on and did an amazing job explaining and filling any holes. Keep up the great work!
The great thing about chess end games - it doesn't matter how old they are, the logic is sound or it isn't. This is a nice step-by-step approach to tackling the most elusive of mates. 50 moves is the key, which means you don't have a whole lot to waste (depending upon the starting position). Well done sir!
This is wonderful. There have been times where I had only a King, Bishop and Knight at the end verse only the opponents King and I could never understand how to win!
Hi Jerry. You get to mate in 41, but you mention it could be done in one less move by optimizing toward the end, so let's call it 40. Surprisingly, it can be done in 33 moves by using Fine's slightly modified W manuever, and changing up starting at 4:45 : 15. Be4 Kf8 16. Bh7 Ke8 17. Ne5 Kd8 18. Ke6 Kc7 19. Nd7 Kb7 20. Bd3 Kc6 21. Bc4 Kc7 22. Bb5 Kd8 23. Nb6 Kc7 24. Nd5+ Kd8 25. Kd6 Kc8 26. Ke7 Kb7 27. Kd7 Kb8 28. Ba6 Ka7 29. Bc8 Kb8 30. Ne7 Ka7 31. Kc7 Ka8 32. Bb7+ Ka7 33. Nc8# This is all best play by black.
I call this the "4 triangles method," as opposed to Deletang's 3 triangles method. The last leg of the W is never done, but note how quickly the the triangle collapses with the bishop posted at d3, c4, b5 and finally a6 (at moves 20, 21, 22 and finally at move 28). The 7 moves saved could come in very handy if you should mess up and let the black king escape. The tricky part is getting 19. Nd7 and 20. Bd3 in on time, and in that order. After that, it's very straightforward.
Also, the moves leading up to 1:30 (move 10) are suboptimal when steering for the W system. I generally aim to get the knight to e5 (for easy access to f7 or g6), so the white king goes to e6 or f5 (still one square from f6). With that in mind, I can get the whole job done in 31 moves tops, from your starting position.
I guess I should do a video of this system, emphasizing the "4 triangles" angle, but I'm not set up for it. Don't have the ambition, right now. ;-)
@@techcureservices5953 But it's been a YEAR since I made that post! Much better than a video, I recommend you download a copy of Kvetka, which now automatically hooks up to an online endgame database, with just a few minutes of setup. Because of that setup, I know now the # moves to mate from starting position isn't 41, and it isn't 33. It's 28. Unfortunately, I also know that black can force white to learn much more than Fine's modified W maneuver. However, it's still good to know, and the best way to proceed if white substitutes 15. Be4 for 15. Kg6
It reminds me of trying to solve a Rubik's cube. Regardless of whether you end up in a situation like this, it's still an excellent exercise to practice mating with bishop and knight. It gives you a deep understanding of how the pieces operate both separately and together.
Jerry - Thanks for this. This video is the clearest and most instructional explanation I've found anywhere about how to tackle this endgame. After repeated playings of the video, and fighting it out against Shredder, I mastered it in one afternoon. Great stuff.
Be of good cheer. Keep studying, and little-by-little, you will see your skill level rise. Hopefully at some point, you'll come to see that your rating is much less important than the enjoyment you get from chess. People who obsess over numbers (making snarky comments about "down there," for example, except as an admittedly bad-form joke) are either beginners, or emotionally stunted.
@@bubbahottep8644 It's men like you who uphold the fragile fabric of society, at least reasonably. You Sir deserve an applause. Thank you for inspiring others to be better human beings. This was one of the most moving comments I've seen in my life. It does really disappoint me when I see constant snark and sarcasm in this day and age.
Easily the most beginner-friendly video I've seen on the subject. Once I get the opposing king to the edge of the board and my king to the c3/c6/f3/f6 square, everything else happens on autopilot. My problem is that sometimes it's super hard for me to push the king from the second rank to the edge and I cannot mate in 50 moves as a result.
Fantastic Video!👍 Could NOT be any more SPECIFIC, by breaking down the mating process into easily 'digestible' steps! Been wanting to learn🤔 this for a very long time, EVEN THOUGH it's a seldom seen end game, as are two bishops against an opponents lone king. Great job. I'll be watching this channel more often!
Hello, Thanks for a very good video. But when i give myself a knight+bishop against Stockfish it quite often runs to the centre and makes my life quite miserable. I end up spending many moves to post my own king in the correct position then. Is there some trick to the very beginning that i'm missing?
Jerry, I appreciate your videos very much, especially your comments during the live streams. I learned this mate from one of Capablanca's books, I think his primer, and I try to get the position you show after move 14, but then I play 15.Be4 Ke8 16. Bh7 Ke8 17.Ne5 then either 17....Kf8 and 18. Nd7 will force the B. king closer to A8, or 17...Kd8 18.Ke6 Kc7 (trying to escape) 19.Nd7 Kb2 and 20.Bd3 bottles up the B. king. 20...Ka7 21. Kd6 with an eventual Be4, restricting the B. king even more.
+Ivan Balashov if Black king moves to h6, then Bf5, Black king forced to go back h5, after that white king g5 leaves Black king only 1 option to move to h4
Wow, this is a lot more in depth than I thought. It's good to know it's possible. I've been in this situation many times and stumped into a stalemate. Great stuff!
Thank you. This just made it so much easier to me to learn . The big triangles and medium triangles thing you made up made it so much easier to learn this.
OMG thank you!!! This video is more helpful than any other source I have found online. The Knight Bishop checkmate challenges on lichess were making me CRAZY
hey jerry, there is an other system to checkmate with bishop and knight. I saw it in my chessclub and the teacher called it the W system, because the knight has to move like a W. Could you make another video with this system? At this point i like the triangel system more. Sorry for my english and regards from germany;D
Jerry, your concepts are always fantastic because they break down chess to its most logical form. but in this video there are too many instances where the black king can do other things. 1) sometimes he will beat the white king to the center and is tougher to get out; 2) once he's out of the center he can maneuver around the 3rd & 6th ranks/files instead of passively going into the light square corner for the next sequence to begin; 3) as you try to close the triangle he can keep staying around the bishop which makes it harder to squeeze him
To me the fact that you give all the details about the squares and in depth explanations makes you the best chess teacher I have ever seen on youtube. I also watch IM Eric Rosen and Gm Ben Finegold. This video has helped tremendously with my chess. Thank you for taking your time to share this! 😎👍
That was a huge help Jerry. I was working through Seirawan's chess endings book, but your video gave clearer goals and strategies for getting the king mated.
Finally , after 6 years I can do this without any problems. In fact this is a bad video. This is not a great way to think. I do with the "W"-method. Way easier and you just follow the system. Almost no need to think. These three triagles system is just confusing and not neccessary.
I'm glad this dude shows us what we do if the opponent doesn't have optimal play. Because some other videos only say what to do when the opponent makes the best move, but I don't know what to do if they play a bad move!
Excellente pédagogie ,je ne parle pas couramment anglais ,mais l'utilisation des flèches et des carrés et suffisantes ,il ne reste plus qu'a s'entrainer ! encore merci pour la qualité de vos vidéos .
Thanks! This was the only explanation that allowed me to win Stockfish level 8. With all the other instructions I found this far, Stockfish was always able to escape one way or another and have draw after 50 moves.
As Robert James Fischer famously proclaimed, "The loser plays chess for the sake of chess, the winner plays chess for the 7+/10 chess thots at the high school chess club"
I was told it takes 22 moves to do, and so always thought I was doing it wrong when I passed 22. Your list of objectives along the way makes it much easier to understand.
Step 1 and 2 were very interesting and systematic. I'd never seen that until now. Before, I would just improvise forcing the king to a corner using my 3 pieces. So thank you Jerry! I'm about to practice this newfound knowledge against the computer!
VERY easy to mess up. took him over 40 moves. 50 move rule says it's a draw if no pawns were moved or pieces were captured in 50 moves. a few minor delays and that would swiftly happen
Thanks so much for this video. I don't know how many times I've tried this, but with failure. Very instructive and easy to follow...once again, thanks.
Thank you, Jerry. I´m 43 and as a child I learnt, that checkmate with bishop and knight is imposible, if oponent doesn´t have a more blocked pawn, for making moves for the end, when his king is blocked (probably only with the imagination of the mate just in the corner. They probably pressed the oponing king with own king and mostly with only one of the pieces). And say, that there was a rule of prolonging the rule of 50 moves into 100 moves, when players move without pawns and without taking a piece, to avoid draw for this concret situation. If this I remember well and if that was a serious international rule, I feel like living before in a strange planet or worlds whith restricted mathematical rules. (Now I can´t believe, perhaps that was connected with something different). Thank you again.
I recant my previous commentary, I made a mistake. The only ratio of my memories in connection with this subject is with checkmating with two knights, not with the bishop and the knight. I´m sorry, I badly adjusted my memories.
This is great. I'm just learning and have been watching a lot of clips trying to figure out this checkmate - they all just left me feeling like I was flailing around on the board. This video was SO helpful - thank you!
Check mate means that the king has no legal moves and is also in check. Stale mate means the the king has no legal moves and is NOT in check. Thus a draw.
Really good! This sort of clear, step-by-step instruction, without assuming any much prior knowledge on my part, is exactly what I need! Thank you, much appreciated. :-)
It's not always possible, besides, the problem in the video is learning the bishop-knight endgame. Equally well you could say, great video, but if I were to play chess, I'd go walk my dog.
Yes it is a very hard position to achieve but I understood a lot about positioning the knight and bishop for restricting king movements and how to coordinate them in a end-game to win in a position etc.
And if the black king at 2:40 goes to h6 instead? In all the videos I watch they move the enemy king into a corner although these moves are not forced. When I try it myself I connot force the King in any corner. This, as it is explained, just doesn't work.
My father taught me chess when I was 4, and made me practice common checkmates, but he never taught me mate with a knight and bishop. I'm 58 now, and this is the first time I've ever seen this checkmate explained. Thank you, Jerry.
Damn that's pretty cool
cool story
Ok boomer
@@Idham_Maulana Stfu
Idham Maulana unfunny idiot this comment is quite wholesome and a cool story. Get out of here with your lame ass jokes
its like trying to catch a fish with your bare hands.
Hard, but doable
If a fish is a monarch, and your bare hands are a horse guy (?) and a guy with a miter.
And a monarch.
Now i have gloves, not just bare hands
literally chess
Love ur analogy
Thanks!
A lot of time was spent on this video before it reached a quality I was finally satisfied with.
Fun fact: This demonstration took approximately 50 tries before getting it how I wanted. As a result, my voice was relayed a bit rough in the final product.
Thanks for the compliment.
That was time well spent. The clearest explanation I've seen so far.
You invested your time well - there is no better explanation I am aware of, written or recorded!
@@GamesJoblin
I tried to learn this from a book well before we have the internet. Naturally, I cannot remember how it's done until now.
I remember back in the day requesting this video everytime I could , I already knew the method but wanted to share it with others and I couldn't think of anybody except Jerry to make a superb explanation, so I came here once again to say Thank you.
This was driving me crazy trying to figure this out without any help. Thanks so much for explaining the technique for corralling the king in progressively smaller triangles. Just a matter of playing against the computer a few times from different starting positions to practice it and we're ready for battle.
This is a brilliant example of teaching. I have never seen this explained so with such elegance and simplicity.
Thank you
thank you bobby fischer
Wonderfully explained, efficient and egoless
Same to me
Bob Fischer play me
That was a nice rhyme at the end: "Bishop B7, King to B8. Knight to D7, and that's checkmate."
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+Wes R 😐🔫
EnjoyablePerson it’s almost poetic
Yesterday, I won my first game with a bishop and knight checkmate, and it was all because of what I've learnt from watching your videos. Thanks for being the great chess educator that you are.
You really are a cool guy
what's your rating now?
@@0bada905 *2200*
imagine taking this long, and your pissed off friend wants a draw already.
I would rather resign wtf
@@camelofsiberia962 yeah you can do that as well 🤷♂️
Wtf what kind of dumbass you are if u accepted that draw you're literally winning
Asphyxia I think Random Account is looking at it from White’s point of view, where the “pissed off friend” is playing as Black. White would prefer to have an outright win rather than a draw, so it would be counterproductive for White to offer a draw. Black would rather have a draw than a loss.
@@MrCubFan415 Well said 👍
00:00 step 1 centralise the pieces
2:10 step 2 shift the king one step closer
2:40 step 3 kick the king out of the corner and optimise position
9:20 step 4 use the king anf bishop to vut the enemy king
11:00 step 5 knight repositioning
13:15 step 6 finale position
watching this video as i have 2 minutes left in a blitz game lol
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das cheating!
@@trustyballs5147 wtf
@@trustyballs5147 pls see a doctor
@Mr. Mongoose it doesnt matter, the video is 15 min long and he only has 2 minutes left, he won't be able to do it even if he just jumps in between the video
You will likely never see this comment but you truly have a gift for teaching chess. Incredible how you are concise but completely capture the essence of how to tackle this position. Calming voice, clear, and understandable you are gifted.
One more like to him seeing this comment.
Best most concise well paced demo of this I've seen.
Started this thinking, "ok, are we really gonna need 14 minutes to explain a checkmate with a bishop and a knight?! Yes.. You really do.
How to Checkmate with Bishop and Knight
Question when you push the king back and the knight has to make two more moves. can't you make a waiting move with the knight to not waste time.
Sky or Truemu Yes. As mentioned, it is one move slower. The idea was to emphasize the ideal position to get your king and bishop in.
Thank you for clearing that up for me. Did you do a video of the endgame with a black squared bishop. Although It may be useless I can ask.
No. It'd be redundant since you apply the same principles.
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This is a super helpful video. I've tried to learn this before, but I think I'm really understanding it now, thanks!
techkidhelp101 You're welcome! :)
techkidhelp101 same here. I've been a duffer for over 40 years and this is the best explanation I've seen. Sometimes a video is much better than a book!
This one is too hard for someone to learn. I know a much simpler and easier method. If you want I can even make a video for you on this.
You've had a month. Where's your video?
Thanks Chris. Glad you understood it. :)
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I did the "knight and bishop mate" tutorial on Lichess, and when I got to the step where I was supposed to checkmate the engine, I could NOT do it. The engine didn't act the way the instructions up to that point had implied, and I had no idea what to do when it went awry.
I watched this video, and immediately had a better understanding of *why* I needed to do what I was doing, and with your help, actually managed to deliver a checkmate! Thank you so much for explaining this so clearly.
Thank you for posting this! I've watched a few other videos, but could never seem to reliably use those methods from any position. I'm sure it was a me problem, but with a few replays of your video and after several tries, I finally understand this one. I practiced it from random positions for a few days against a 3000+ rated engine and confidently feel I've mastered this mate. This is a lot of fun! Thanks!
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in 40 years of playing, I have NEVER had this case explained so WELL--even by international masters! Excellent explanation!! Also never knew the weak king could be mated on the b8 square--always thought he had to be pushed into the corner. Wow!
Excellent. So simple.
I learnt the W-method as a kid, but was always forgetting it. This is so much easier to remember.
thanks sooo much for the video! Your explanation of the principles with the triangles, square colors and waiting moves was VERY explicit!
Thank you for making a very difficult scenario easy to understand by your use of arrows triangles highlighted squares and your explanation which covered even what if situation👍🏽
I've listened to your Leela analysis a lot. What you do in those games and in demonstrating NB checkmate -- you discuss ideas and themes. It is such a great way you have of describing chess concepts. You are the best person I have seen that can make complex positions understandable.
Thank you
Excellently explained.
+Menmatters Thanks!
You took something arcane, and made it simple to understand. This was the definition of genius. Concise and worthy every second I spent watching it. TY!
I actually expected the W-manuever to be covered, since the beginning was a perfect setup to execute this method. I think this is the way to go if you want to learn to mate within a minute, but I think the triangle method is good place to start in understand B+N coordination.
Very well made video!!! Alot of talk videos with people explaining stuff get really boring and I end up clicking off due to not being interested anymore especially with them avoiding answering the main question until the end of the video. But you andwered the question relatively early on and did an amazing job explaining and filling any holes. Keep up the great work!
great video. im hope to royally piss someone off with this knowledge one day
Well... Did you?
@@TheDeathstriker123 hopefully!
How about now?¿
What about now? Its only been 3years did you do it?
We're waiting!!
The great thing about chess end games - it doesn't matter how old they are, the logic is sound or it isn't. This is a nice step-by-step approach to tackling the most elusive of mates. 50 moves is the key, which means you don't have a whole lot to waste (depending upon the starting position). Well done sir!
This is wonderful. There have been times where I had only a King, Bishop and Knight at the end verse only the opponents King and I could never understand how to win!
Seeing old comments always makes me nostalgic
@@enlightenment1752 Wait until the year 2500 and really feal nostalgic
Dude, i didnt know you were into chess too? Thats awesome i watch your videos all the time
Clear and concise! 14 minutes and you know how to win this endgame. That's what I call *efficient* knowledge transfer. Excellent work!
Thanks Jerry. You explain exceptionally well.
Thanks laurence
Love the spirit with which these chaps administer these lessons. Thanks.
Hi Jerry. You get to mate in 41, but you mention it could be done in one less move by optimizing toward the end, so let's call it 40. Surprisingly, it can be done in 33 moves by using Fine's slightly modified W manuever, and changing up starting at 4:45 : 15. Be4 Kf8 16. Bh7 Ke8 17. Ne5 Kd8 18. Ke6 Kc7 19. Nd7 Kb7 20. Bd3 Kc6 21. Bc4 Kc7 22. Bb5 Kd8 23. Nb6 Kc7 24. Nd5+ Kd8 25. Kd6 Kc8 26. Ke7 Kb7 27. Kd7 Kb8 28. Ba6 Ka7 29. Bc8 Kb8 30. Ne7 Ka7 31. Kc7 Ka8 32. Bb7+ Ka7 33. Nc8# This is all best play by black.
I call this the "4 triangles method," as opposed to Deletang's 3 triangles method. The last leg of the W is never done, but note how quickly the the triangle collapses with the bishop posted at d3, c4, b5 and finally a6 (at moves 20, 21, 22 and finally at move 28). The 7 moves saved could come in very handy if you should mess up and let the black king escape. The tricky part is getting 19. Nd7 and 20. Bd3 in on time, and in that order. After that, it's very straightforward.
Also, the moves leading up to 1:30 (move 10) are suboptimal when steering for the W system. I generally aim to get the knight to e5 (for easy access to f7 or g6), so the white king goes to e6 or f5 (still one square from f6). With that in mind, I can get the whole job done in 31 moves tops, from your starting position.
I guess I should do a video of this system, emphasizing the "4 triangles" angle, but I'm not set up for it. Don't have the ambition, right now. ;-)
PLS MAKE A VID
Yes, that is the most logic way, not demanding any learning by heart. One principle.
You had enough ambition for this comment. C'mon bro record it with your phone!
@@techcureservices5953 But it's been a YEAR since I made that post! Much better than a video, I recommend you download a copy of Kvetka, which now automatically hooks up to an online endgame database, with just a few minutes of setup. Because of that setup, I know now the # moves to mate from starting position isn't 41, and it isn't 33. It's 28. Unfortunately, I also know that black can force white to learn much more than Fine's modified W maneuver. However, it's still good to know, and the best way to proceed if white substitutes 15. Be4 for 15. Kg6
This is hands down the best bishop+knight tutorial I've ever seen.
It reminds me of trying to solve a Rubik's cube. Regardless of whether you end up in a situation like this, it's still an excellent exercise to practice mating with bishop and knight. It gives you a deep understanding of how the pieces operate both separately and together.
I can solve a rubiks cube less than 40 seconds but this is beyond hard
@@umurtanrverdi4506 It’s the opposite for me.
Jerry - Thanks for this. This video is the clearest and most instructional explanation I've found anywhere about how to tackle this endgame. After repeated playings of the video, and fighting it out against Shredder, I mastered it in one afternoon. Great stuff.
Great and thanks. This video took several hours to get right. Glad you benefited. :)
I'm down here crying at 900 because this sounds so complicated ;(
Me too us 900 rating players get checkmated in like 3 moves bro
Be of good cheer. Keep studying, and little-by-little, you will see your skill level rise. Hopefully at some point, you'll come to see that your rating is much less important than the enjoyment you get from chess.
People who obsess over numbers (making snarky comments about "down there," for example, except as an admittedly bad-form joke) are either beginners, or emotionally stunted.
@@bubbahottep8644 o_O i still do not understand
@@bubbahottep8644 just started chess, 1-week in, thanks for the heads up.
@@bubbahottep8644 It's men like you who uphold the fragile fabric of society, at least reasonably. You Sir deserve an applause. Thank you for inspiring others to be better human beings. This was one of the most moving comments I've seen in my life. It does really disappoint me when I see constant snark and sarcasm in this day and age.
I must say, you made one of the most hardest checkmate look like a piece of cake. Excellent way of teaching!
Anna Ushenina did not watch this video
+YtubeUserr LOL
It's Jerry's fault, man. He did not send her a link to the video.
who are they and who is this guy called Anna? is there a vid link?
Anna Ushenina couldn't checkmate with bishop and knight in limited moves,so she ended up with draw whereas bishop and knight can checkmate
I was going to say I bet she watched after this video lol.
Easily the most beginner-friendly video I've seen on the subject. Once I get the opposing king to the edge of the board and my king to the c3/c6/f3/f6 square, everything else happens on autopilot. My problem is that sometimes it's super hard for me to push the king from the second rank to the edge and I cannot mate in 50 moves as a result.
How can I play endgames against the computer?
Fantastic Video!👍 Could NOT be any more SPECIFIC, by breaking down the mating process into easily 'digestible' steps! Been wanting to learn🤔 this for a very long time, EVEN THOUGH it's a seldom seen end game, as are two bishops against an opponents lone king. Great job. I'll be watching this channel more often!
Hello,
Thanks for a very good video. But when i give myself a knight+bishop against Stockfish it quite often runs to the centre and makes my life quite miserable. I end up spending many moves to post my own king in the correct position then. Is there some trick to the very beginning that i'm missing?
Jerry, I appreciate your videos very much, especially your comments during the live streams. I learned this mate from one of Capablanca's books, I think his primer, and I try to get the position you show after move 14, but then I play 15.Be4 Ke8 16. Bh7 Ke8 17.Ne5 then either 17....Kf8 and 18. Nd7 will force the B. king closer to A8, or 17...Kd8 18.Ke6 Kc7 (trying to escape) 19.Nd7 Kb2 and 20.Bd3 bottles up the B. king. 20...Ka7 21. Kd6 with an eventual Be4, restricting the B. king even more.
7:55 What happens when the Black King moves to H6 and not to H or G 4?
+Ivan Balashov if Black king moves to h6, then Bf5, Black king forced to go back h5, after that white king g5 leaves Black king only 1 option to move to h4
Hasegawa Satoshi you mean white King To g7, no g5, which is impossible
3:18 Triangles.
My LoL brain: *Welcome to Summoner's Rift.*
Wow, this is a lot more in depth than I thought. It's good to know it's possible. I've been in this situation many times and stumped into a stalemate.
Great stuff!
Saw this on lichess, came here after watching it to click the like button. Thanks.
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Thank you. This just made it so much easier to me to learn . The big triangles and medium triangles thing you made up made it so much easier to learn this.
thank you so much, this is a brilliant video, i understand so much! I been playing chess for 7 years and first time i understand....
One of the best demonstration videos I have ever seen.. amazing!
Great to hear. Thank you Satish.
Donald trump got inspired by this: "We must build a great great wall."
Big beautiful wall built by the alt knight and bishop border patrol
Shame mexico stopped having a monarch a long time ago
And black will pay for the wall...believe me!
But who is going to pay it?
The wall he doesn't talk about anymore.
OMG thank you!!! This video is more helpful than any other source I have found online. The Knight Bishop checkmate challenges on lichess were making me CRAZY
7:11 the Great Wall of checkmate
Super , Thank You so much! I saw a lot of movies , but nobody explained so good- and this method always working!
hey jerry, there is an other system to checkmate with bishop and knight. I saw it in my chessclub and the teacher called it the W system, because the knight has to move like a W. Could you make another video with this system? At this point i like the triangel system more. Sorry for my english and regards from germany;D
Jerry, your concepts are always fantastic because they break down chess to its most logical form. but in this video there are too many instances where the black king can do other things. 1) sometimes he will beat the white king to the center and is tougher to get out; 2) once he's out of the center he can maneuver around the 3rd & 6th ranks/files instead of passively going into the light square corner for the next sequence to begin; 3) as you try to close the triangle he can keep staying around the bishop which makes it harder to squeeze him
Dang, you're great at explaining stuff
To me the fact that you give all the details about the squares and in depth explanations makes you the best chess teacher I have ever seen on youtube. I also watch IM Eric Rosen and Gm Ben Finegold. This video has helped tremendously with my chess. Thank you for taking your time to share this! 😎👍
Excellent video!!!
Thanks!
That was a huge help Jerry. I was working through Seirawan's chess endings book, but your video gave clearer goals and strategies for getting the king mated.
Good! I recall this video taking forever (several attempts/several hours) to get it how I wanted it.
Glad it helped you. :)
Watched this video three times, still aren't able to checkmate with knight and bishop. Why oh why am I so retarded?
I can't do it either
its hard dont sweat it. just know the concepts and it will come together.
everytime you make a move think about what squares are currently covered by your pieces and what squares will be covered, and practice.
Kylan thnaks for the totsaly real advice and now i solved cancer
Finally , after 6 years I can do this without any problems. In fact this is a bad video. This is not a great way to think. I do with the "W"-method. Way easier and you just follow the system. Almost no need to think. These three triagles system is just confusing and not neccessary.
I'm glad this dude shows us what we do if the opponent doesn't have optimal play. Because some other videos only say what to do when the opponent makes the best move, but I don't know what to do if they play a bad move!
anyone seeing this in their recommended cuz of twitch chess clips?
Lmao spot on
yo this is so accurate it's scary
A brilliant disection of this scenario.
First time I actually understood it properly.
Thank you VERY much.
Just lost a game on time and didn't know this ! Thought I had upper hand noo
I've watched 3 other videos on this subject, but yours is the clearest.
Anna Ushenina needs to watch this
Don't ridicule others unless your own life is perfect!
Excellente pédagogie ,je ne parle pas couramment anglais ,mais l'utilisation des flèches et des carrés et suffisantes ,il ne reste plus qu'a s'entrainer ! encore merci pour la qualité de vos vidéos .
Good video, but I'm sure that one would have to practice.
So systematic and efficient! Thank you so much for sharing it!
I think this video guide is the easiest to follow. Well done and thanks. Now, will I ever get to do this in a real game?
Hopefully not
Thanks! This was the only explanation that allowed me to win Stockfish level 8. With all the other instructions I found this far, Stockfish was always able to escape one way or another and have draw after 50 moves.
i need to be good at chess because for some godforsaken reason, all members of our highschool's chess club are all 7+/10 hot girls...
As Robert James Fischer famously proclaimed, "The loser plays chess for the sake of chess, the winner plays chess for the 7+/10 chess thots at the high school chess club"
Ryan Baker lmao
@@Ryan-dg5mt truly wise and inspirational words by one of the greatest chess player of all time
Doki Doki chess club
@@raphaelserra7573 lmao
I was told it takes 22 moves to do, and so always thought I was doing it wrong when I passed 22. Your list of objectives along the way makes it much easier to understand.
"regarded by many as the most difficult checkmate to master"
Who the hell thinks it ISN'T the most difficult checkmate to master?
Requinix17 maybe the 2 knight mate, it’s not even possible unless you manage to stop an enemy pawn first
@@BonkLoud actually, it IS possible, but the weak side either has to cooperate (yeah, right), or be galactically stoopid.
R Whut A checkmate is considered possible only if it is possible with perfect play from the opponent.
Q vs R, R+B vs R are not easy too :p
Queen vs rook is wayyy harder
Step 1 and 2 were very interesting and systematic. I'd never seen that until now. Before, I would just improvise forcing the king to a corner using my 3 pieces. So thank you Jerry! I'm about to practice this newfound knowledge against the computer!
really this the best ,,,,,, thanks
+Hatem Said Thanks Hatem. :D
Nicely done. I have never seen this discussed with the triangles before, and that makes this so much easier to understand. Thanks!
just had this endgame and failed hope i learn it this time.
VERY easy to mess up. took him over 40 moves. 50 move rule says it's a draw if no pawns were moved or pieces were captured in 50 moves. a few minor delays and that would swiftly happen
Thanks so much for this video. I don't know how many times I've tried this, but with failure. Very instructive and easy to follow...once again, thanks.
+Oscil Dumakude You are very welcome Oscil. :)
Me: Learns how to checkmate with bishop and knight
Also me: watching carefully on clock.
*7 seconds looks me back*
Thank you, Jerry. I´m 43 and as a child I learnt, that checkmate with bishop and knight is imposible, if oponent doesn´t have a more blocked pawn, for making moves for the end, when his king is blocked (probably only with the imagination of the mate just in the corner. They probably pressed the oponing king with own king and mostly with only one of the pieces). And say, that there was a rule of prolonging the rule of 50 moves into 100 moves, when players move without pawns and without taking a piece, to avoid draw for this concret situation. If this I remember well and if that was a serious international rule, I feel like living before in a strange planet or worlds whith restricted mathematical rules. (Now I can´t believe, perhaps that was connected with something different). Thank you again.
I recant my previous commentary, I made a mistake. The only ratio of my memories in connection with this subject is with checkmating with two knights, not with the bishop and the knight. I´m sorry, I badly adjusted my memories.
me: *10 Seconds left* FORGET CHECKMATE PROTECT KNIGHT AND BISHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then you will get flagged. At that point you can better sacrifice a piece so it will be a forced draw by insufficient material.
@@dekippiesip Is it so...I didn't knew that.Thanks man I will keep that in mind.
Have a Good day!
Best explanation I have ever seen for this mate by far. Great video!
Thank you Alfonso.
Haha i did it in 49 moves !
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then get better
Close call, try to improve it, cause if you can't do it within 50 moves, it will be a draw, even if you're just one move away from mate.
If you deliver checkmate on the 50th move your fine.
Sweet victory!
It answered our quistion and taught us a lot about the end game in general too! Thanx so much!
Thousandth comment!! Hypehypehypehype!
Love the videos though, especially your commentary on alphazero.
This is great. I'm just learning and have been watching a lot of clips trying to figure out this checkmate - they all just left me feeling like I was flailing around on the board. This video was SO helpful - thank you!
Awesome! :)
Check mate means that the king has no legal moves and is also in check. Stale mate means the the king has no legal moves and is NOT in check. Thus a draw.
GuitarSlinger2112 It's not that the king has no legal moves. It has to be that black has no legal moves, not the king.
Wow this is the best-explained K+N+B checkmate video tutorial ever
wow this is so hard to do. just did it in 49 moves lol
Really good! This sort of clear, step-by-step instruction, without assuming any much prior knowledge on my part, is exactly what I need! Thank you, much appreciated. :-)
great video, but if I was up two minor pieces, I would sacrifice them for a lawn and then promote with my pawns for a simpler mate
It's not always possible, besides, the problem in the video is learning the bishop-knight endgame. Equally well you could say, great video, but if I were to play chess, I'd go walk my dog.
BUt there are no pawns!
Yes it is a very hard position to achieve but I understood a lot about positioning the knight and bishop for restricting king movements and how to coordinate them in a end-game to win in a position etc.
Good idea -- better to never think about it and hope it doesn't come up.
Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha
And if the black king at 2:40 goes to h6 instead? In all the videos I watch they move the enemy king into a corner although these moves are not forced. When I try it myself I connot force the King in any corner. This, as it is explained, just doesn't work.
Lmao thats called a wooden shield
I see we listen to the same god
Best explanation/algorithm of this checkmate ever!
It's so hard to checkmate with it!
Great video teaching this endgame checkmate idea.
Also the way your teaching is good,it helped me learn it better.
The message of the video: If you have the knight and black field bishop on end of the game just resign. (: