This study won the 1st prize of the competition "Socialistychna Kharkivshyna" in 1963. Lev Olmutskiy composed only a few studies from 1959 to 1970. But this one is a little gem !
Excellent combination and variations. I still wonder how much efforts you put in to plan the puzzle, go through the variations and then create this content. Obviously this 9 minute video requires much more time to prepare and present it. And of course you present it beautifully every single time. Thank you very much and God bless you.
Very good question. I would say I spend around 2 hours on a study like this with preparations, shooting, editing etc. With daily uploads and combining with a family and a full time job it can be tight schedule sometimes. The 2 mover puzzles are less time consuming, maybe half the time so when I upload a lot of those you can tell I have a busy week outside UA-cam 😀
@Chess-strategy it's excellently presented. Thanks. There's something oddly reassuring about the way you say "Look at this!" "Such a beautiful move!" Etc.
I didn't solve it but I do have a note about the variation at the 4:00 mark. Instead of promoting, the king is trying to escape checkmate. That variation doesn't lead to ladder checkmate because the King has time to get to the f file. However, as black king gets further from his pawns to avoid mate, he allows Rg1 stopping promotion and soon capturing pawns.
Great. Black gets two pawns promoted to queens against two rooks of white, but still loses the game. Either the black loses both the promoted queens or they remain as the silent spectators.
After Kb6 white doesn't have to move the rook. Instead he plays Rb8+. It follows Kxc7, Rxb1 and black king doesn't have time to go down and protect his pawn on d2.
I wonder if grandmasters would figure it out in real game, because it looks almost like realistic position from the game ( many puzzles are just ridicilous positions, which would never occur in real game )
Problem arises when king always escapes black squares diagonally towards rooks. This solution seems to have flaw explained below : 1. Rfb6, g8Q 2. Ra4+, Kg5 3. Ra5+, Kf4 4. Rb4+, Ke3 5. Ra3+, Kd2 6. Rb2+, Kc1 and now Ra1+ is no more a checkmate since rook on b2 is attacked by king. So rook on rank 2 moves away to make some room for ladder checkmate. 7. Rf2, but now queen reaches g7 to solve two motives. One avoid Ra1+ second e8Q comes with check. 7.....Qg7 And white rooks get clueless on what to do
when the king reaches f8, drop the rook back to g1 to cover any promotions. after Ke8, bring other rook to b7 and you're going to win both pawns with the king way too far to help.
When the two rooks are just above each of the pawns, and black king at C4, why not just move white king to H3 forcing black king to C5. Then rook RxB2 or RxD2… Isn’t that a cleaner way to eliminate the pawns?
This study won the 1st prize of the competition "Socialistychna Kharkivshyna" in 1963. Lev Olmutskiy composed only a few studies from 1959 to 1970. But this one is a little gem !
This was much tougher for me than I thought it would be. I didn't find the solution, but it was fun trying.
Excellent combination and variations. I still wonder how much efforts you put in to plan the puzzle, go through the variations and then create this content. Obviously this 9 minute video requires much more time to prepare and present it. And of course you present it beautifully every single time. Thank you very much and God bless you.
Very good question. I would say I spend around 2 hours on a study like this with preparations, shooting, editing etc. With daily uploads and combining with a family and a full time job it can be tight schedule sometimes. The 2 mover puzzles are less time consuming, maybe half the time so when I upload a lot of those you can tell I have a busy week outside UA-cam 😀
@Chess-strategy it's excellently presented. Thanks. There's something oddly reassuring about the way you say "Look at this!" "Such a beautiful move!" Etc.
Wow, the variation where black promotes both pawns is amazing😅
I didn't solve it but I do have a note about the variation at the 4:00 mark. Instead of promoting, the king is trying to escape checkmate. That variation doesn't lead to ladder checkmate because the King has time to get to the f file. However, as black king gets further from his pawns to avoid mate, he allows Rg1 stopping promotion and soon capturing pawns.
Beautiful. Your channel need more viewers. Nice content.
Simplicity at it´s best, beautiful! :-)
Wonderful study, thanks for the thorough explanation.
Great. Black gets two pawns promoted to queens against two rooks of white, but still loses the game. Either the black loses both the promoted queens or they remain as the silent spectators.
Lovely set of moves for the win - thank you for sharing that.
really instructive looking at the promotions as light squares with a ladder mate on darks. thanks.
Starting at 8:26, black plays Ka5, so white responds Ra8, black moves Kb6, now white has to move the c7 rook, which gets black back in the game.
After Kb6 white doesn't have to move the rook. Instead he plays Rb8+. It follows Kxc7, Rxb1 and black king doesn't have time to go down and protect his pawn on d2.
I wonder if grandmasters would figure it out in real game, because it looks almost like realistic position from the game ( many puzzles are just ridicilous positions, which would never occur in real game )
I was sure that this was a simple puzzle, but it turned out to be quite complicated.
Problem arises when king always escapes black squares diagonally towards rooks. This solution seems to have flaw explained below :
1. Rfb6, g8Q
2. Ra4+, Kg5
3. Ra5+, Kf4
4. Rb4+, Ke3
5. Ra3+, Kd2
6. Rb2+, Kc1 and now Ra1+ is no more a checkmate since rook on b2 is attacked by king. So rook on rank 2 moves away to make some room for ladder checkmate.
7. Rf2, but now queen reaches g7 to solve two motives. One avoid Ra1+ second e8Q comes with check.
7.....Qg7
And white rooks get clueless on what to do
First move is not Rfb6 in the video though. Kg5 is no longer possible after Rfb6 is played in the video.
Simply brilliant, but i could not find the last key :(
The explanation at 4:15 fails because the black king can reach f8 and will not be mated on the eighth rank
In fact Rh4 still looks good due to white controlling the dark squares
when the king reaches f8, drop the rook back to g1 to cover any promotions. after Ke8, bring other rook to b7 and you're going to win both pawns with the king way too far to help.
When the two rooks are just above each of the pawns, and black king at C4, why not just move white king to H3 forcing black king to C5. Then rook RxB2 or RxD2…
Isn’t that a cleaner way to eliminate the pawns?
2:15 why not move the other rook to D3?
And then?
@@Omer.Dusunsel Attack whichever pawn promotes - they both have a rook behind them.
D1
Rd1
Kb3
?
No win
@@Omer.Dusunsel You are right - edge case missed.
8:00 queen on h7?
To complicated for me. I could never manage this
I watched the video a second time, only this time I found the solution. Ha ha!
Nice!
You have to check the king first at any cost. And bring Black king to b pawn file for double threat?
Nice
Jättebra!
@@whisperwalkful Tack!
2:40 blocking with the queen can save you from checkmate
Fantastic