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I know this video was made 9 months ago. Interesting I am seeing it, only - today - after the Fides Chess Championship. Gukesh won the last game to Ding, and become the World Champion, on that SAME end game (or nearly so). Wow !

Did you find all the moves?

Talking about the limitations of Stockfish: I set up an endgame with only the two kings and 10(!) white bishops on dark squares. Even though White is up 30 points in material, there is no feasible plan for a checkmate. Stockfish 17, however, says it's +13...

Hi All Second puzzle, what about 1...h2! instead of 1...KxRg1?

How many of them did you solve?

King walks over to c5 with the double threat of stopping bishop b5 and catching up with black's pawn. Similar motif to the famous Reti puzzle.

Such a brilliant awesom old puzzle, great explanation. I gave it a thumbs down. Where's the nice woman from the thumbnail? Such a awfull disappointment.

Enjoyed the analysis

I really appreciated this channel, but I find the English of the current speaker very difficult to understand. Where has the previous speaker gone?

Love this. I worked it out, though I'm not a good player yet.

Wow, too complicated for me. A great puzzle but I'd never have solved that. I would have lost! Thanks for that.

If you liked this video I invite you to watch the Reti endgame study as well, i have put the link in the description. It explain in more depth this concept!

I didn’t know you had an Indian accent.

Bored into submission.

At 0:48 when P x Q why does the White King go to h2? Why not g2 to defend the rook?

Amazing puzzle

Very important moves for white to win. Thanks.

I've found all the brilliant moves. I knew that only way to draw this game is sacrifice the queen and create a stalemate trap with a rook.

Found it. Forcing a stalemate or K vs. K+ P ending you can draw. But didn't see all the variations you presented to continue threatening stalemate. This puzzle was very, very tricky!

I did see the first stalemate trap, but wasn’t sure how to stop the pawn.

Did you found all the brilliant moves?

There is not a chance I would have ever figured this out. I'm only about a 1500 and have stayed there for probably forever without a coach which I'm not really interested in.

Did you solved all 3 puzzles?

Enjoy all your videos - they are an education. Thank you.

Be4

Easy Q e5

Queen f5 Pawn h5 Queen x h5++

1:50 what if white playes bh3

critical squares moment

Solution must be Kg1 Bd3 (because if Ke1, f2 and free bishop); Kf2 Bc4; e4 Be2; fe Kc2… and we have a Queen/Rook to win

In the position where Black has K on h1 and pawns on f3 and e3, and White has B on f1 and K on d1, with White to move, why not play B-e2? Wouldn't that lead to a draw for White?

F3 is the key move so easy to see

Wow...I didn't believe Black could win that! Great puzzle. Thanks.

Hello guys, unfortunately Max, the voice of our channel, cannot continue working on this channel. This is why we stopped posting as often as we did. But after some thoughts and because we saw how much all of you are enjoying and learned from our videos we decided to continue posting. So from now on you would be stuck with me as the voice of the channel. I hope you would still enjoy our videos, even if I'm not as charming as Max, and english is not my first langue, so I hope you would forgive some of my pronunciations. Thank you again for being part of this awesome community!

Actually the situation at time 1:00 is NOT a draw. White could actually win. It might take a few moves but it is doable.

Great puzzle and excellent in-depth explanation. Thank you

Very well explained ❤️

I think bh1

This is a magnificent video, thanks! Do you know where I can find puzzles such as your first to practice calculating checks, captures and threats? I find it such a valuable method but many puzzles are one or two moves without much clever mating technique to calculate. This was highly satisfying and this type of puzzle would not only help my calculation, but also my blunder awareness (to avoid moving to covered squares).

Why didn’t you checkmate at 6:47? Put white queen between the two kings?

Have learned enough to know, that a or h pawn are easily neutralized. And there was clear and easy way to force black pawn to h.

1:00 i thought that breaking the rules

White king's sole purpose from the very beginning was to reach d6 to be able to defend white pawn. But while doing that, it chose such a tricky route that black pawn couldn't promote before white king reached d6. Oh my goodness, what an evil plan I just watched.

NOOOOOO NOT PROMOTE HE CAN FORK YOU

After Queen takes d3 you just push the C3 pawn to C2 and you'll promote no matter what

Good one. ❤ Waiting for others from the series. I think with your approach to each position the channel would become great repository of basics for everyone