Me to… I had this big elaborate try of letting the d pawn run and then the a pawn as well in order to transfer the king to a6…. Laugh… SmallFish cleared that up for me…wonderful puzzle.
Great solution. Very few players would have thought of sacrificing the only pawn leaving the bishop alone to check mate. But, in this particular position, the bishop could check mate!
Amazing. With the B not being winning material (normally) fixed in my mind, NOT losing the pawn was my focus, and I could see no way to protect the pawn with the K, allowing B mobility to try to force the d pawn to move and win as you showed if he does so voluntarily. A wonderful, elegant puzzle. There is SO much beauty and fascination in the "simple" environment of MANY MANY endgames.
Lasker must have committed some plagiarism, as this 1900-year study exactly follows the famous Troitsky study dated 1895 ruclips.net/video/lY9nzg_vQZ8/видео.html&si=oNTqnk7OWNdndh8C
To be fair, in 1900 things didn't happen fast and he may not have been aware of this. So is it likely he did that? Yes. Do we know that? No? Unless there is a PATTERN of him doing that over time. IMO. And if he did that as a pattern -- that's a huge blow to his reputation for being a puzzle creator, of course. (If I write a college paper and correctly cite 20 quotations, but have one general statement similar to one item in a book on the subject, am I: a). "Obviously" plagiarising? b). Making a dumb mistake (forgetting to do the citation because I'm not organized enough or got distracted once. c). Had that idea (one out of 21) ON MY OWN, and had no idea anyone else had written it in a book? (Again, I went to college in '77-'81 and it was NOT obvious or easy how to look everything up, or even close). That never happened to me, but I used to fear it would when I wrote papers, as professors and schools were EXTREMELY serious about plagiarism (as they should be when it CLEARLY was that). For example, in 1981 when I was writing my first chess program as a research project for a college student, I had to use the post office to order some books I wanted to study when writing the paper for the final result by mail. It was a VERY different world well before we had the web to search for anything in the public domain we want to learn.
Hmm, that Emanuel Lasker was some chess genius. Pity I'm not, but I enjoyed this study and I think I'm improving, slowly by following your terrific channel. Thanks for the daily postings.
Amazing puzzle, loved the thought process to reach till the end of how to pin both pawns and release at the right time. You are just brilliant as always, thank you very much and God bless you.
White could have some fun torturing Black, i.e. having trapped the Black King in the corner, letting Black’s d-pawn advance and promote, and then White checkmates. Or instead of White playing b8=Q ch, play b8=B ch. This wins but can take a lot longer if the Black King doesn’t capture the under promoted B at b8. Why am I even mentioning all this? Well, in a World Championship game Korchnoi deliberately under promoted, and his opponent took the hint and resigned.
OK, but unless your opponent is being a jackass and refusing to resign an OBVIOUSLY lost position for a number of moves, I think "torturing" your opponent is bad sportsmanship. And yes, chess played by humans at strong levels is a sport.
@ I think deliberately “torturing” a beginner would be poor form. However, a strong player who is a “bitter ender” who refuses to resign a lost position deserves everything they get. I do remember one championship junior tournament game, between quite strong players, where I was umpire, where one player refused to resign, so the other deliberately kept under promoting pawns to Knights. This may be considered harmless fun except the tournament was running behind time and this pair were deliberately holding up play. I pointed out to the pair that I had the power to disqualify both of them for bringing the game of chess into disrepute. Don’t know if FIDE has such a rule but this junior organisation did, and it was a very handy rule. The players concerned took the hint and the game ended quickly with a massed cavalry charge. I also had the backing of both coaches of the players, which was nice to know.
Nice. I had no idea initially, but, by following your series ,it becomes clearer with each video and I cracked it. Tell them nothing, take them nowhere 😂.ta for the fun.
Yes. What's frustrating to me is, as a player who only really plays the endgame well, this was obvious to me from the start - zugzwang being the key. But with the idea that a B isn't enough to force mate, I didn't even CONSIDER sacing the pawn to mate the K in the corner. Only trying to force the K OUT of the corner. And in hindsight, shame on me for that. Sometimes these puzzles are HARD. This one really was not, but you had to be flexible in your approach, which I was not.
If I'm in the right frame of mind or familiar with the idea, I can sometimes solve master level puzzles on Lichess in a few seconds (re seeing the idea before needing to confirm it of course). Then the next puzzle, I might stew over a 1300 level puzzle, looking at the WRONG ideas for 15 minutes before forcing myself to back up and try enough ideas to solve it. It's funny how the mind works that way.
This is the fastest one I've solved, but it's a neat scenario. There are only a couple possible moves in this position and you've taught me which one to check first.
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Wow! The pawm move that seems obvious to avoid at all costs is the winning move!
I thought white had to protect the pawn and it’s promotion- didn’t consider the checkmate with just bishop.
Me to… I had this big elaborate try of letting the d pawn run and then the a pawn as well in order to transfer the king to a6…. Laugh… SmallFish cleared that up for me…wonderful puzzle.
@@keananspach6341 My mistake, too!
Great solution. Very few players would have thought of sacrificing the only pawn leaving the bishop alone to check mate. But, in this particular position, the bishop could check mate!
I solved this one even more quickly than I solved yesterday's. The great Lasker has nothing on me!
Amazing. With the B not being winning material (normally) fixed in my mind, NOT losing the pawn was my focus, and I could see no way to protect the pawn with the K, allowing B mobility to try to force the d pawn to move and win as you showed if he does so voluntarily.
A wonderful, elegant puzzle. There is SO much beauty and fascination in the "simple" environment of MANY MANY endgames.
Very nice, thanks
Because of your coaching, I started to look first in "how to corner and mate the king !".
Lasker must have committed some plagiarism, as this 1900-year study exactly follows the famous Troitsky study dated 1895
ruclips.net/video/lY9nzg_vQZ8/видео.html&si=oNTqnk7OWNdndh8C
You are right! But word some is too light
To be fair, in 1900 things didn't happen fast and he may not have been aware of this. So is it likely he did that? Yes. Do we know that? No? Unless there is a PATTERN of him doing that over time. IMO. And if he did that as a pattern -- that's a huge blow to his reputation for being a puzzle creator, of course.
(If I write a college paper and correctly cite 20 quotations, but have one general statement similar to one item in a book on the subject, am I:
a). "Obviously" plagiarising?
b). Making a dumb mistake (forgetting to do the citation because I'm not organized enough or got distracted once.
c). Had that idea (one out of 21) ON MY OWN, and had no idea anyone else had written it in a book? (Again, I went to college in '77-'81 and it was NOT obvious or easy how to look everything up, or even close).
That never happened to me, but I used to fear it would when I wrote papers, as professors and schools were EXTREMELY serious about plagiarism (as they should be when it CLEARLY was that).
For example, in 1981 when I was writing my first chess program as a research project for a college student, I had to use the post office to order some books I wanted to study when writing the paper for the final result by mail.
It was a VERY different world well before we had the web to search for anything in the public domain we want to learn.
So proud I got this one. This channel is making me keener.
Very nice puzzle
Wow! Fabulous puzzle. You really do share a lot of wee gems with us.
This is the fastest puzzles ive solved so far. Im happy :)
Found it in about 10s. Brilliant, but easy to find once you realise that white can checkmate with just king and bishop if the a7 pawn remains.
Hmm, that Emanuel Lasker was some chess genius. Pity I'm not, but I enjoyed this study and I think I'm improving, slowly by following your terrific channel. Thanks for the daily postings.
Amazing puzzle, loved the thought process to reach till the end of how to pin both pawns and release at the right time. You are just brilliant as always, thank you very much and God bless you.
White could have some fun torturing Black, i.e. having trapped the Black King in the corner, letting Black’s d-pawn advance and promote, and then White checkmates. Or instead of White playing b8=Q ch, play b8=B ch. This wins but can take a lot longer if the Black King doesn’t capture the under promoted B at b8.
Why am I even mentioning all this? Well, in a World Championship game Korchnoi deliberately under promoted, and his opponent took the hint and resigned.
OK, but unless your opponent is being a jackass and refusing to resign an OBVIOUSLY lost position for a number of moves, I think "torturing" your opponent is bad sportsmanship.
And yes, chess played by humans at strong levels is a sport.
@ I think deliberately “torturing” a beginner would be poor form. However, a strong player who is a “bitter ender” who refuses to resign a lost position deserves everything they get. I do remember one championship junior tournament game, between quite strong players, where I was umpire, where one player refused to resign, so the other deliberately kept under promoting pawns to Knights. This may be considered harmless fun except the tournament was running behind time and this pair were deliberately holding up play. I pointed out to the pair that I had the power to disqualify both of them for bringing the game of chess into disrepute. Don’t know if FIDE has such a rule but this junior organisation did, and it was a very handy rule. The players concerned took the hint and the game ended quickly with a massed cavalry charge. I also had the backing of both coaches of the players, which was nice to know.
Beautiful!
Really nice puzzle. I could not imagine that pawn/queen sacrifice working out.
Somehow I solved this quickly. Almost counter-intuitive to trap the king by sacraficing the promoted pawn.
FYI - if you mention the pieces involved in the solution you could spoil the puzzle for others.
Wow! I did not see that.
Yes! I got this one very quickly... I think my 6th or 7th success out of about 200 of your puzzles. I'm feeling pretty great! 😅
Nice. I had no idea initially, but, by following your series ,it becomes clearer with each video and I cracked it. Tell them nothing, take them nowhere 😂.ta for the fun.
The most impressive wins to me are those that are acompished with very little material.
ah, i moved the king.
Great example of zugzwang . 😊
Yes. What's frustrating to me is, as a player who only really plays the endgame well, this was obvious to me from the start - zugzwang being the key. But with the idea that a B isn't enough to force mate, I didn't even CONSIDER sacing the pawn to mate the K in the corner. Only trying to force the K OUT of the corner.
And in hindsight, shame on me for that. Sometimes these puzzles are HARD. This one really was not, but you had to be flexible in your approach, which I was not.
Hm, I am not that smart, but this puzzle took me 5 seconds to solve. And I guess many can do it faster. Basic zugwang.
Yeah this was super easy. I actually won a game recently in a similar situation. Bishop and king mate in the corner feels so good.
If I'm in the right frame of mind or familiar with the idea, I can sometimes solve master level puzzles on Lichess in a few seconds (re seeing the idea before needing to confirm it of course). Then the next puzzle, I might stew over a 1300 level puzzle, looking at the WRONG ideas for 15 minutes before forcing myself to back up and try enough ideas to solve it.
It's funny how the mind works that way.
This is the fastest one I've solved, but it's a neat scenario. There are only a couple possible moves in this position and you've taught me which one to check first.
It's often sacrifice something seemingly important.
@exeggcutertimur6091 sacrifice > underpromotion > zugzwang 😁
No, you don't end it like that, you let Black play out till promotion and then ++. 🙂
Saw this pretty quicky actually once I saw the king has nowhere to go if you promote and advance yours
It’s fantastic!
This one I solved pretty quickly.
I did get that one!
شكرا🎉❤🎉❤🎉
Nice!
Found it! 2025 is looking up!
Got it! That's two in a row!
Ill say king E5 for the first move
Too clever for me!😢
I also hate these sacrifices, I always try to avoid them. 🙄
Smart!
Splendid
Clever!
I solved this in 10 seconds by looking at the thumbnail.
Don't worry I saw it some time ago😂😂😂😂.
Not Lasker - Troitsky!
Це форсований мат за 4 ходи..