@@No-yt9iv I once blunder my queen trying to check his king but he didn't see that his bishop is attacking my queen because it was on the other side of the board
that was a two-way mate in three puzzle... pawn goes south: 1.Bc6 bxc6 2.Kc8 3.Nc7# pawn goes north: 1.Kc6 (self-block) b8=Q 2.Nc7+ Qxc7 (forced) 3.Kxc7# (discovery check) or 1.Kc6 b8=N 2.K ( can go anywhere and have a discovery check) Nc6 3. Bxc6#
I've seen this before and I did eventually manage to solve it. It is so difficult to get yourself to see the first move as a possibility. I managed to "prove" the puzzle impossible several times before I managed to hit upon the first move. I would love to play a move like that in a real game!
Solved this in 30 seconds. After eliminating the obvious, I know most puzzles have a counter-intuitive solution, and C6 immediately made sense. I wouldn't call this puzzle hard since there were very few possibilities, but it's still quite fun.
AndrewB847 is quite correct. I saw this puzzle in the newspaper years ago (Jonathan Berry's column in the Globe and Mail I think). It was built up as the problem you give people who use the excuse that they thought the pawns were going the other way. Well in that case we have the clever 1.Kf3 which leads to mate in 3 regardless how the Black pawn promotes. A good double problem as it incorporates two different pieces moving to the same key square.
So frustrating... I couldn't solve it and came back to look at the solution. It's great. Spoiler hint: Very similar to the Murphy problem, where the king is squeezed and you have to bang on that.
That was pretty good. I was definitely thinking you had to start by moving the knight, but saw the bishop sacrifice. I didn't see what led to mate though, I missed the right combination of the next 2 moves.
some mate in 3's can be very hard. Try this one: W: Ka1, Qg8, Bf2, Ng2 B:Kh1, Pf3, h3, h2, a2. White to play and mate in 3. Of course no computer assistance is allowed!
Holy lizards I got it in under a minute. It's quite clever, you sacrifice knight to give black freedom to move pawn then block in king with king and go for the kill with knight
Loved the puzzle.. all knight moves let king of black to escape.. knew it had to be a bishop move.. and eventually figured out the sacrifice.. took a lot of time like 6-7 mins
My 1st thought: The bishop can only move along the main diagonal, and the pawn will still be pinned, that would be stalemate. Solution: Move the bishop.
I was thinking of Morphy's miniature that's like this but with rook, but didn't think to kill bishop. Funny how the bishop makes it worse, typically you want a bishop on a diagonal like that. Although the bishop does prevent the knight being taken so it's got some use
I don't see how that works. If you do that, black can (theoretically) push the g-pawn on move 2, which prevents mate as follows: 1.Bf6, gxf6+ 2.Kh6, g2+ 3.Kg6, Kg8 etc. It's easy to overlook because in this scenario, the g-pawn is on the first rank which is impossible in a real game. If you have some other way, please kindly share the moves.
What if this position occurs in a tournament game ? After White plays 1 Bc6 black plays bxc6 and when White plays Kc8 black just runs out his time. Isn't it a draw by rules since White has only the Knight ?
First I thought you move the knight but sacrifice the bishop so you can move king to c8 and since the black have only the pawn to move you end the game by putting knight to c7 brilliant!
I calculated too much, and after 15 mins it just come to my mind I won't lie, I felt like IM A MONSTER! Right now I hadn't seen the answer, but I'm pretty sure of my result, I'll tell you if I was right ot not 😉
These people bragging about solving this easy puzzle in the comments lol. This puzzle has been solved by a 3 years old chess prodigy in less than 5 seconds. Search the misha osipov vs anatoly karpov video and see it
So let me ask: If I have a knigh (only knight) and my opponent have a pawn (only pawn) and my opponent's time is over, is it a WIN to me? Because, as we see here I can win with only knight Vs a pawn! Its not a draw. Right?
Interesting. Don't know the rule but seems logical that if it's legal to move into a checkmate (with white and black cooperating) it's a win, which can happen for rook pawns but not other pawns.
Ok. I see. For example position: White: Kc2, Knd2. Black: Ka1, pawn a3 And now black plays a2 And white answer Knb3# Yes? Paradoxically if you have a knight vs king its a draw. But knight vs a king and a pawn is win to you!!! (In case his time ended) Ty 4 your answer.
First of all, after 1.Nc7+ Kb8 2.Bxb7, Black has 2…Kxb7, which is not a move of their a-pawn, so you’re wrong on that count. Secondly, it is illegal to end a turn in check. White cannot move their king to c8. Thirdly, even if we disregard the rules of chess and just assume that the white king is immortal somehow, then after 1.Nc7+ Kb8 2.Bxb7 and either 2…a6 or 2…a5, then 3.Kc8+ is not checkmate, as Black has 3…Ka7. Obviously, Poe’s Law applies in this case. I can’t tell if this comment is meant as a joke, but it doesn’t seem like one. I want to say that nobody could genuinely have this much trouble with the rules of chess, but that’s not true at all. So, in the end, I simply don’t know.
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took ages analysing and finally gave up. Turns out I never saw the bishop lol
blind eyes
participation award
Blind Bishop, enemy's weakness
Same xD
@@No-yt9iv I once blunder my queen trying to check his king but he didn't see that his bishop is attacking my queen because it was on the other side of the board
This is usually given as a double puzzle: White also has mate in 3 if Black is moving up the board.
Really? how
1. Kf3 g1=Q (if g1=N+, 2.Kf2+ and mate next move), 2.Nf2+ Qxf2, 3. Kxf2#.
wow
Since when can kings also move like knights?
white king moves to f3
I analysed the position sooooo much, but didn't find the bishop move!! A thrilling puzzle
Simply never considered Bc6. I concluded too early that any king/bishop move on the first move would be stalemate (and obviously Bxb7+ was pointless).
that was a two-way mate in three puzzle...
pawn goes south:
1.Bc6 bxc6
2.Kc8
3.Nc7#
pawn goes north:
1.Kc6 (self-block) b8=Q
2.Nc7+ Qxc7 (forced)
3.Kxc7# (discovery check)
or
1.Kc6 b8=N
2.K ( can go anywhere and have a discovery check) Nc6
3. Bxc6#
Dont you hate it when their king excapes
did you mean escapes ?
That's a good question you axed.
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Kind of a stunner once you see it. I looked for minutes and when I saw it I had an “OMG” type of reaction.
I've seen this before and I did eventually manage to solve it. It is so difficult to get yourself to see the first move as a possibility. I managed to "prove" the puzzle impossible several times before I managed to hit upon the first move. I would love to play a move like that in a real game!
My first thought was if the bishop could move anywhere... found this checkmate in like 5 minutes lol
Solved this in 30 seconds. After eliminating the obvious, I know most puzzles have a counter-intuitive solution, and C6 immediately made sense. I wouldn't call this puzzle hard since there were very few possibilities, but it's still quite fun.
Once again, another puzzle showing off the graceful lethality of knights, and the value of tactical sacrifice.
AndrewB847 is quite correct. I saw this puzzle in the newspaper years ago (Jonathan Berry's column in the Globe and Mail I think). It was built up as the problem you give people who use the excuse that they thought the pawns were going the other way. Well in that case we have the clever 1.Kf3 which leads to mate in 3 regardless how the Black pawn promotes. A good double problem as it incorporates two different pieces moving to the same key square.
What's interesting is that it's also mate in 3 if the pawns go the other direction.
The puzzle is better that way too
This puzzle was pretty easy but fun to do
Yeah
Decoy/deflection. Remove the pin.
So frustrating... I couldn't solve it and came back to look at the solution.
It's great.
Spoiler hint:
Very similar to the Murphy problem, where the king is squeezed and you have to bang on that.
1. Bf3 gxf3,
2. Kf8 (pawn move)
3. Nf7+#
Solved very easily after watching the bishop!!
rotate table !!!!! 1. Kc3 b1D 2. Sc2 Dc2 3. Kc2# 1... b1S 2.Kc2 Sc3 3. Lc3#
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rayfangrui is german for knight and queen ^^
Danke
ok. good lack
Not so hard, it took me about 10 seconds to solve it.
Same
Me too
I did it in school
This is very easy puzzle next time please give hard
Bc6 was the first thing I tried! ALSO, if the pawn moved the other way there is a pretty neat puzzle Mate in 3 as well.
I'm proud of myself of solving this! Nice one :)
Yeah :)
I found it, but I’m 99% sure I saw this puzzle a couple years ago
That was pretty good. I was definitely thinking you had to start by moving the knight, but saw the bishop sacrifice. I didn't see what led to mate though, I missed the right combination of the next 2 moves.
My first thoughts were “it can’t be a king move. And there are no bishop moves..except for..Bc7 and Bxb7+. But how would they lead to mate?”.
Everyone focused on the corner
Me;about to click fullscreen sees bishop
Hold on
some mate in 3's can be very hard. Try this one: W: Ka1, Qg8, Bf2, Ng2 B:Kh1, Pf3, h3, h2, a2. White to play and mate in 3. Of course no computer assistance is allowed!
Holy lizards I got it in under a minute. It's quite clever, you sacrifice knight to give black freedom to move pawn then block in king with king and go for the kill with knight
1.Bc6 2.Kc8 3.Nc7
Works in two directions !!!! Kc6 b8Q Nc7+ Qc7: Kc7++ if black pawns went ahead, otherwise: Bc6 b:c6 Kc8 c5 Nc7++
Loved the puzzle.. all knight moves let king of black to escape.. knew it had to be a bishop move.. and eventually figured out the sacrifice.. took a lot of time like 6-7 mins
Nice
My 1st thought: The bishop can only move along the main diagonal, and the pawn will still be pinned, that would be stalemate.
Solution: Move the bishop.
I couldn’t do it.I never saw c6.I thought first move had to be a knight move-doh!
That was pretty good!
Give up the BISHOP, then move the KING, then the Knight checkmates.
Bro I was calculating within 2 hours and i can't find anything until bishop show up
I got lucky and solved this puzzle in only 1 minute
Just knew I was going to get it but didn't
took me about 10minutes but i figured it out
Can finish in 2 moves, by first moving king upper left and horse to right, thats it, checkmate!!!
Moving the king to c8 puts black into a stalemate.
a very old puzzle. can also be mated in either way black moves i. e. black pawn is queening
Very very impressive
I was thinking of Morphy's miniature that's like this but with rook, but didn't think to kill bishop.
Funny how the bishop makes it worse, typically you want a bishop on a diagonal like that.
Although the bishop does prevent the knight being taken so it's got some use
Against all odds I figured this out.
Very easy puzzle.
This problem has a story: maybe you don't know that if you turn clockwise 90° degrees the chessboard then is still #3.
Try to do it.
I don't see how that works. If you do that, black can (theoretically) push the g-pawn on move 2, which prevents mate as follows: 1.Bf6, gxf6+ 2.Kh6, g2+ 3.Kg6, Kg8 etc. It's easy to overlook because in this scenario, the g-pawn is on the first rank which is impossible in a real game. If you have some other way, please kindly share the moves.
I feel like a genius for seeing this
Cool puzzle
how can you checkmate with only a knight.it can be taken as a puzzle but not a real situation
laxman jha
You are a higher class of stupid.
What a puzzle
Easy for me (adavanced level chess player)
My dumbass brain put the Knight a block lower which is why I couldn’t solve the puzzle because there was no mate in 3
A Mate in three should not be too hard. Also it looks like morphy's puzzle a lot.
Man, it's same if the black king is on 1. Or 8.th lane.
What if the black pawn takes the horse instead of the elephant ?
I ACTUALLY got this one but admittedly took me about 10min!
What if this position occurs in a tournament game ? After White plays 1 Bc6 black plays bxc6 and when White plays Kc8 black just runs out his time. Isn't it a draw by rules since White has only the Knight ?
1:18 he starts
First I thought you move the knight but sacrifice the bishop so you can move king to c8 and since the black have only the pawn to move you end the game by putting knight to c7 brilliant!
Many like me didn't see the bishop. I saw it when half of the video ended
needed like 10 sec to find it, still a nice puzzle
I calculated too much, and after 15 mins it just come to my mind I won't lie, I felt like IM A MONSTER! Right now I hadn't seen the answer, but I'm pretty sure of my result, I'll tell you if I was right ot not 😉
I did it 😌
Its easy actually!
Found it in only 2 minutes
No nou no nou is not posibell ! The King dont gou.. LOL
How about kc8 and Nc7+?
Don't see anything wrong but please tell me in reply
Black would be in a stalemate
These people bragging about solving this easy puzzle in the comments lol. This puzzle has been solved by a 3 years old chess prodigy in less than 5 seconds. Search the misha osipov vs anatoly karpov video and see it
i swear that i find the solution in 5 seconds... i am quite impressed with myself
Just move the king to c7 and checkmate
but then black will be stalemated
I found solution in 5 seconds
Why is the commentator so confused and hesitant.
Wow !
A 2000 player should solve this under 5 secs or should retire from chess!
very easy..
Question i have to viewers: did you work it out in your head, or did you have a chessboard and tried different moves. The former is harder
pretty simple
Brandon Clark there is a stalemate too that is king to c7
if the bishop was on g2 there there is another checkmate in 3 can you find it
Incredible
Beautiful!
This took me forever lol, once I found the first move rest was essy
Toooooo easy men...damn
Can't you just go king c7, and then bishup b7?
THREE MOVES
very easy for me.
It took 5 seconds for me to find the answer, easy
white first move bishop CUt pawn on g2 white second move king on f1 then knight on f2 checkmate
So let me ask: If I have a knigh (only knight) and my opponent have a pawn (only pawn) and my opponent's time is over, is it a WIN to me?
Because, as we see here I can win with only knight Vs a pawn! Its not a draw. Right?
Interesting. Don't know the rule but seems logical that if it's legal to move into a checkmate (with white and black cooperating) it's a win, which can happen for rook pawns but not other pawns.
Ok. I see.
For example position:
White: Kc2, Knd2.
Black: Ka1, pawn a3
And now black plays a2
And white answer Knb3#
Yes?
Paradoxically if you have a knight vs king its a draw.
But knight vs a king and a pawn is win to you!!!
(In case his time ended)
Ty 4 your answer.
So easy. I solved it from the thumbnail.
Αδύνατον καθώς δεν μπορούσες να ξέρεις πρως τα που πάνε τα πιονάκια, κατά τα άλλα μπράβο σου.
Wow I actually did it*** reads the comment section*** oh people said it was easy 😫 I knew I couldn’t do a hard puzzle
Quick reminder ITS NOT WHITE KING:KC8 then the KNIGHT TO NC7 WHEN YOU PUT THE KING ITSELF ITS A DRAW
I analyesd it and got the solution by myself, but it is quite hard
Surely Knight to c7 would force king to b8, then bishop to b7 makes the Apawn the only possible move then king to c8 is checkmate?
How does it force the king to move? This simply gives black a runaway pawn and a subsequent escape route for his king.
Ari Wells you're right, mine is not checkmate
First of all, after 1.Nc7+ Kb8 2.Bxb7, Black has 2…Kxb7, which is not a move of their a-pawn, so you’re wrong on that count.
Secondly, it is illegal to end a turn in check. White cannot move their king to c8.
Thirdly, even if we disregard the rules of chess and just assume that the white king is immortal somehow, then after 1.Nc7+ Kb8 2.Bxb7 and either 2…a6 or 2…a5, then 3.Kc8+ is not checkmate, as Black has 3…Ka7.
Obviously, Poe’s Law applies in this case. I can’t tell if this comment is meant as a joke, but it doesn’t seem like one. I want to say that nobody could genuinely have this much trouble with the rules of chess, but that’s not true at all. So, in the end, I simply don’t know.
Nc5 and Bb7 will lead to mate. Bc6 kc8 Nc7#
Haven’t watched yet. 1. Bc6! bxc6 2. Kc8 c5 3. Nc7#
Bf6 easy peasy
Quite easy found out solution within 10 sec
King to b3 is chek mate in one move
I solve it in a glance too easy