He could have drawn a few arrows to make that one clearer. It's kinda amazing how quickly good players can see queen traps ... it takes me forever to double check all the possible get away squares.
I've been stalled out ... gradually achieving lower ratings over the past few months ... I maxed at just over 1600 then fell to 1200 ... now ... back up to 1414 this afternoon after discovering and then watching this video last night and playing puzzles all morning and early afternoon today ... just rewatched it so I can move onto your next in the series ... great work ... thanks muchly ...
The common way chess puzzles work in terms of pass/fail is dated and could use revision. Many of them are a multi-move process, on hard puzzles each move is not exactly obvious, and getting any one of them wrong is immediate fail of the whole thing. When you're tackling these things it oftens results in you thinking or out loud yelling at the screen "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?". This is especially the case when there are multiple ways to achieve similar results but one is deemed ever so slightly better than the other. There is an opportunity here for someone to program something a little more dynamic and forgiving.
Yea like puzzles with forced mates, I don't care if the rook sac leads to a faster mate, I wanna mate him without sacrificing anything, it's only two moves slower like
Dude, I literally saw this video and attempted to solve the puzzle. I could not believe myself. I jumped 200 points!!! It's crazy. You are awesome!!!!!!!
@ 15:50 I disagree that its easy. I wish you talked about the follow up. I thin we gotta look at rook d1 attacking the queen and threatening to capture the knight behind it. If the queen moves one to the left of right you capture it with queen and take the knight with check( assuming he blocked your queen check with pawn earlier, attacking your bishop) and since you take with check your bishop can't be captured by the pawn that block check. Atleast thats what I think. Thought on this 🤔 one a while..
Idk about you but I'm 1150 and knight e5 is the first move that came to my mind so it was pretty easy for me. But Rook d1 doesn't work because the white queen can go to e2 defending the knight(knight is now defended by bishop and queen so rook can't take it) and also threatening to take the black queen(white queen can either trade or run).so, in the end we don't get anything.
13:39 the thing is if the rook takes the knight (attacking your queen) black ends up with less material, so it’s a puzzle where I don’t see the point of doing that move.. right? Unless that’s the best move you can find 🤷🏻♂️
Wouldn't it make more sense for white to move their king over to F1 instead of taking the black rook with their queen? White is going to lose the queen anyway, and the white king is better sheltered there, from the black queen anyway, right? (Absolute noob here - never liked chess as a kid, just looking around to see if I think it's more interesting today.)
Whenever i see someone do these puzzles within 1 second after the board shows up they already say "Material is equal". Is that kind of overview of the board state something you develop after playing alot of games? Because i always have to look around a couple seconds and have to count the pieces one by one.
Yeah in chess-board tactics training sessions, they would be asked first to set up the position and see the material first. Then the tactics. This really strengthens their skills. Plus he attended Gary Kasparov's classes so he must have got some rare tips too. Experience is another factor too.
Over time, tasks that used to take mental effort (like counting material or counting attackers/defenders) becomes nearly instant Pattern recognition is a subconscious skill that's done without awareness of the actual thought process
Think of your brain as 2 separate computers working together One is very logical and can work through complex problems but works very slowly One is emotion-based and works on pattern recognition, but is incredibly fast Things like interpreting sounds are handled by the second system, allowing you to react to potentially dangerous sounds before you're even aware of the threat at hand Things like logic puzzles are dealt by system 1, and takes a lot of time and mental effort but it's more accurate
I slept on how fun the puzzles are. It starts at the 400 rating. In 5 hours I got it to 900. Highest was 927. Bounce between 875-925. I wish I could get to this level. Over 1200s
He's International Master (IM) Levy Rozman. He's been playing for most of his life and I believe he has over a decade of teaching experience. Definitely one of the better youtube chess content creators.
At the end of the puzzle, it would be white's turn, so they would would recapture the knight. If it was black's turn again, he still couldn't have played it because the puzzle ended. Still, if black had another turn and the puzzle wasn't over, Ne1 walks into Rg3, no good. Instead, Nf4 captures an extra pawn. If Rg2, then you win. If Rg3, Qxd4+ is simply winning.
14:02 Yep thats exactly why im just a 1400 player.... Sure i didnt examine the puzzle for 2 minutes.. but at first glance my brain was yelling (Fork the queen, pawn is pinned)
Because, if the king went to e6, white can go queen a6 check, 1)if black queen blocks the check(d6) then we have 2 checkmates-(i)rook e8, king d7(forced) ,queen c8 checkmate (ii)white queen c8, two possible moves-king e7 and queen(black) d6.either way, rook e8 is checkmate 2)if king moves to e7 avoiding check, queen f6 is checkmate.
Hello, Levy. May I ask you, could you also make a video on solving chess puzzles from chesstempo? The tactics seem much more sinister (as they include many side lines with threats, so for example, I am comfortably solving tactics on lichess with rating 2200, but on chess tempo I am struggling around 1600), and I would love to hear your thought process while solving these tactics, if possible? It seems to me that these tactics put more emphasis on evaluating the actual threats. Thanks
This helped me get to 1400 with puzzles but still can't seem to break out of 1000 on everything else - also hard to focus and calculate using my phone.
Puzzles aren't everything in chess. You need to understand positional play/strategy as well. And if you're making simple blunders often advanced tactics won't help with that.
@@prodkomba hanging pawns is probably the best youtube channel I can recommend for that. As a general suggestion, I've tried to learn the general positions my pieces like to be in, and you can start trusting your intuition more as that becomes more accurate. Computer analysis can help too for finding those precise moves, just don't treat engines like gods because they're not. Also this channel is great too :)
Could someone knowledgeable with chess confirm the following: In the first Puzzle, would: Rc8 to h8 be a possible move? Because if white takes the queen, I can go Rook h3 takes h2 -> Check mate? And if white takes my queen with queen putting black in check, i can simply take back with pawn or bishop. Sorry, im new to chess and am not familiar with proper notations (how to speak chess using letters)
After the moves you mentioned, the white king would be free to move to g2, escaping checkmate. Sure, you would be able to win a pawn with Rxh2, but it's better to win the queen as shown in the video.
@@mdiehl192 I don't see a checkmate in the "approved" solution either. Am I blind? The result seems equivalent and this is why I hate puzzles. If it goes Rch8,Kg2,Qxg5+ what is the difference?
Im sorry my brain is too slow for this. There is no "if this then this and this" super fast instead there is "Can I move this one? would that help? what do i even want to capture? am i under attack?" then the computer says "blunder".
I love how you go through the natural thought process of a 1200 player. We don’t see the patterns instantly, and we’re often stuck between 2 choices.
Yea, it's pretty nice how he progresses his thought process as his elo increases, because that really helps me develop
If anyone got confused on the "queen trap" Qe6 there is Nc7+ winning the queen so it is lost wherever it goes.
It took my a little while looking at the available squares to see that. Good comment.
He could have drawn a few arrows to make that one clearer. It's kinda amazing how quickly good players can see queen traps ... it takes me forever to double check all the possible get away squares.
No, Nc7+ does not win the queen because he can just take the knight with queen
@@krrarameralsady6182 I see you're one of those beginners who thinks that queens can move like knights.
i still don't get it😂
I've been stalled out ... gradually achieving lower ratings over the past few months ... I maxed at just over 1600 then fell to 1200 ... now ... back up to 1414 this afternoon after discovering and then watching this video last night and playing puzzles all morning and early afternoon today ... just rewatched it so I can move onto your next in the series ... great work ... thanks muchly ...
The common way chess puzzles work in terms of pass/fail is dated and could use revision. Many of them are a multi-move process, on hard puzzles each move is not exactly obvious, and getting any one of them wrong is immediate fail of the whole thing. When you're tackling these things it oftens results in you thinking or out loud yelling at the screen "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?". This is especially the case when there are multiple ways to achieve similar results but one is deemed ever so slightly better than the other. There is an opportunity here for someone to program something a little more dynamic and forgiving.
Yea like puzzles with forced mates, I don't care if the rook sac leads to a faster mate, I wanna mate him without sacrificing anything, it's only two moves slower like
Went straight from 1250ish to 1400ish, so I guess watching this video worked.
I can do these puzzles fine and this video still managed to be pretty helpful. Good shit.
8:39 I think the point of the puzzle is to do checks perpetually to draw.
Dude, I literally saw this video and attempted to solve the puzzle. I could not believe myself. I jumped 200 points!!! It's crazy. You are awesome!!!!!!!
15:54 "I don't make the puzzles. I just solve them."
I was dying at that part. So funny, because it's so true. chess.com has such random "puzzle themes" sometimes...
He's spitting facts there
Your channel is highly underrated! Thanks for the teaching the tactics 😄
So you call one of the most popular chess channels with over 1 million subscribers 'underrated'?
@@h2rChirag u play bgmi now
@ 15:50 I disagree that its easy. I wish you talked about the follow up. I thin we gotta look at rook d1 attacking the queen and threatening to capture the knight behind it. If the queen moves one to the left of right you capture it with queen and take the knight with check( assuming he blocked your queen check with pawn earlier, attacking your bishop) and since you take with check your bishop can't be captured by the pawn that block check. Atleast thats what I think. Thought on this 🤔 one a while..
Idk about you but I'm 1150 and knight e5 is the first move that came to my mind so it was pretty easy for me. But Rook d1 doesn't work because the white queen can go to e2 defending the knight(knight is now defended by bishop and queen so rook can't take it) and also threatening to take the black queen(white queen can either trade or run).so, in the end we don't get anything.
Wait i just realised u commented 4 years ago 💀
His face from 14:17 - 14:32 is him thinking about how dumb most of us are😂
I need a video like this except it's slower and explained like I'm five years old
This was so helpful! I got my puzzle rating up to 1400 :)
Awesome. Saw this link on Twitter.
3:42 is smart
The reason behind 15:50 is that you're already up the exchange so the theme is actually simplification
a rare video without dislikes. for a reason! u are the best!
13:39 the thing is if the rook takes the knight (attacking your queen) black ends up with less material, so it’s a puzzle where I don’t see the point of doing that move.. right? Unless that’s the best move you can find 🤷🏻♂️
Okay but why would you take the rook back with queen? Keep the queen and bishop vs two rooms. Winning
Wouldn't it make more sense for white to move their king over to F1 instead of taking the black rook with their queen? White is going to lose the queen anyway, and the white king is better sheltered there, from the black queen anyway, right? (Absolute noob here - never liked chess as a kid, just looking around to see if I think it's more interesting today.)
Whenever i see someone do these puzzles within 1 second after the board shows up they already say "Material is equal". Is that kind of overview of the board state something you develop after playing alot of games? Because i always have to look around a couple seconds and have to count the pieces one by one.
Yeah it’s probably just because he’s an IM
Yeah in chess-board tactics training sessions, they would be asked first to set up the position and see the material first. Then the tactics. This really strengthens their skills. Plus he attended Gary Kasparov's classes so he must have got some rare tips too. Experience is another factor too.
Over time, tasks that used to take mental effort (like counting material or counting attackers/defenders) becomes nearly instant
Pattern recognition is a subconscious skill that's done without awareness of the actual thought process
Think of your brain as 2 separate computers working together
One is very logical and can work through complex problems but works very slowly
One is emotion-based and works on pattern recognition, but is incredibly fast
Things like interpreting sounds are handled by the second system, allowing you to react to potentially dangerous sounds before you're even aware of the threat at hand
Things like logic puzzles are dealt by system 1, and takes a lot of time and mental effort but it's more accurate
what chess content goat this man is
Thanks bro 😊 !your video helps me a lot to grain confidance 👍
Really great guide :)
I slept on how fun the puzzles are. It starts at the 400 rating. In 5 hours I got it to 900. Highest was 927. Bounce between 875-925. I wish I could get to this level. Over 1200s
Update: just hit over 1100 tonight.
You must be much better now
Can you please tell me your elo now? Im curious
Just please dont say you left chess please
Dude who are you and why are you so good at solving chess puzzles!!!!!!!!!!!! Subscribed! Liked! Commented.
He's International Master (IM) Levy Rozman. He's been playing for most of his life and I believe he has over a decade of teaching experience. Definitely one of the better youtube chess content creators.
Knight E1 at 14:17 would be the ultimate, but u forgot, correct ? so there was one more move to catch the rook
At the end of the puzzle, it would be white's turn, so they would would recapture the knight. If it was black's turn again, he still couldn't have played it because the puzzle ended. Still, if black had another turn and the puzzle wasn't over, Ne1 walks into Rg3, no good. Instead, Nf4 captures an extra pawn. If Rg2, then you win. If Rg3, Qxd4+ is simply winning.
Very instructive for beginners like me😊😊
It's amazing how you can quickly analyse the structures the moment they appear. Give us time.
I am 1200 rated player and can solve 1400 puzzles.. but still seem stuck.. however your vids help a lot.. love you comrade
@@Leo-zu5yl ahh.. well.. still trying... got to 1300 and dropped back again..
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Whats your rating now lol? im only 1100 rated and 1800 puzzles
@@rAnDoM.199 I am now 1800. Nearly hit 1900. My puzzles is at 2860
@@0bada905I m 1150 but my puzzles 2650 Why so?
This guys a legend
8:40 seems to be a perpetual
Could you do more videos like this please? Thank you!
It's a series where he climbs the puzzle ladder
Very helpful thanks
14:02 Yep thats exactly why im just a 1400 player.... Sure i didnt examine the puzzle for 2 minutes.. but at first glance my brain was yelling (Fork the queen, pawn is pinned)
This is amazing, you make it look so easy
10:20 why did the queen nor go to E6??
I Don't know
Bishop goes g4 and trap queen
Beacause Nc7 check and take the queen
Very Instructive
Nice initiative.
Hi, in the 5:40 why the king not goto e6?
Because, if the king went to e6, white can go queen a6 check,
1)if black queen blocks the check(d6) then we have 2 checkmates-(i)rook e8, king d7(forced) ,queen c8 checkmate
(ii)white queen c8, two possible moves-king e7 and queen(black) d6.either way, rook e8 is checkmate
2)if king moves to e7 avoiding check, queen f6 is checkmate.
If you have any more doubts feel free to ask.I hope you understood my explanation :)
1:10 is good
Hello, Levy. May I ask you, could you also make a video on solving chess puzzles from chesstempo? The tactics seem much more sinister (as they include many side lines with threats, so for example, I am comfortably solving tactics on lichess with rating 2200, but on chess tempo I am struggling around 1600), and I would love to hear your thought process while solving these tactics, if possible? It seems to me that these tactics put more emphasis on evaluating the actual threats. Thanks
Awesome channel and video
4:04
10:28 why not queen e6
Because Knight C7 would fork the queen and the king, winning the queen anyway
u are best instructor.
This man is the jeremy renner of chess
2nd puzzle clearly missed kh8 and Ng7
This helped me get to 1400 with puzzles but still can't seem to break out of 1000 on everything else - also hard to focus and calculate using my phone.
Puzzles aren't everything in chess. You need to understand positional play/strategy as well. And if you're making simple blunders often advanced tactics won't help with that.
@@harleykf1 you're right, how can I improve on my strategy and positional play?
@@prodkomba hanging pawns is probably the best youtube channel I can recommend for that. As a general suggestion, I've tried to learn the general positions my pieces like to be in, and you can start trusting your intuition more as that becomes more accurate. Computer analysis can help too for finding those precise moves, just don't treat engines like gods because they're not. Also this channel is great too :)
@@harleykf1 thanks a lot :)
Shankland’s two books on pawn play are really good if your up to the challenge at some point (chessable or forwardchess)
9:36 based rating
Thank you for this video.
Could someone knowledgeable with chess confirm the following:
In the first Puzzle, would: Rc8 to h8 be a possible move? Because if white takes the queen, I can go Rook h3 takes h2 -> Check mate?
And if white takes my queen with queen putting black in check, i can simply take back with pawn or bishop.
Sorry, im new to chess and am not familiar with proper notations (how to speak chess using letters)
After the moves you mentioned, the white king would be free to move to g2, escaping checkmate. Sure, you would be able to win a pawn with Rxh2, but it's better to win the queen as shown in the video.
@@mdiehl192 I don't see a checkmate in the "approved" solution either. Am I blind? The result seems equivalent and this is why I hate puzzles. If it goes Rch8,Kg2,Qxg5+ what is the difference?
Just curious how you are able to play so many puzzles without getting any pop-up like 'enough puzzles for today but premium'
Instead of getting lasik you should replace your eyes with chess rooks!
"What's so hard about this puzzle?"
We get it, you're a 2700 rated IM. Some of us struggle at "easy" puzzles.
Thank you for making this kind of video sir. :)
New to puzzles. Is this a website? Or is there a free website to solve puzzles? Thanks!
Im sorry my brain is too slow for this. There is no "if this then this and this" super fast instead there is "Can I move this one? would that help? what do i even want to capture? am i under attack?" then the computer says "blunder".
1294 was glossed over but not solved! Where is the mate?
That's 1303 one is draw actually
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I can’t solve the puzzle and he says what is complex about this 😂😂
And another thing, I’m 1900 in puzzles now why are these so difficult to me😂
The rating of the problem is just random
I have 2200 rank in puzzle but 800 in blitz
Is wired that I am 1150 and solve 1700 puzzle rating?
I am 2900 rating in puzzels
What is that app?
Looking for it too
the vids good
No more questions?
12:28 does IM Levy Rosman not know what a skewer is...
This guy is my new favorite chess coach. Unfortunately all of a sudden my girlfriend is beating me. So I’m not sure what’s going on.
Not understanding anything
Rewatching...
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Dope vid my guy also first
Good video. My chess twitter @morphy73
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dude wtf, i get harder puzzles at a lower elo rating😂😂 solved most of these at first glance
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great video.. too bad I'm already a 1700 on chess.com puzzles 😂
Nice. I'm 2319 on tactics puzzles, but doubt I am even 1800 elo if I had an official USCF rating. 😂