Hmmm, stopped at min 0:58 and quickly thought of (not totally sure if it could be stopped though). Rook to B6. Black King only has one possible move, but the Queen will probably be moved. I don't think it makes a difference where so far, but Queen moves somewhere. Same rook white to C6, keeping the rooks protecting each other on that side of the board. What can the Queen do now? Does it matter? Queen or King black moves, and rook on C7 moves to C8. I have not developed from there, but i can keep the King in check or take the Queen after losing one rook. Now i will continue, and probably learn something. :)
It is very easy. Check with the rook. Black king forced to move to g8. Take the other rook to e7. The black queen can move within the 8th row only. 2nd rook to g7 check. King forced to move to f8. Rook h8 check.
Very nice. I immediately identified e7 as the key, but the initial check from h7 is the key first step for both your solution and the content creator's. Quite a few of his puzzles seem to focus on subtle tempo changes. I need to learn how to better see these opportunities in my game.
With white king on b8 Black gives check from e5. If the left-side rook blocks b5+ is a perpetual. If the right-side rook blocks it's pinned while blocking the other rook and white can do nothing.
Mikael, a very Happy Birthday to you and your wife! 🎈🎉🎂 That was a tricky puzzle and too complicated for me, but I enjoyed watching the video and seeing how White could win. Thanks and I hope you have a great day!
So, in summary, the strategy is to keep black's pieces up against the wall and keep the rooks mutually supporting until you have a position that lets you checkmate or take the queen with the loss of only one rook.
Happy birthday to both of you from another Libra ⚖💝😉Your chess miniatures have become almost a daily routine to me. I was an active chess player in my salad days but I lost the patience to sit for hours. I appreciate your enthusiasm to present the little puzzles, they have just the right difficulty for me. Hope you will continue 😇
difficult puzzle. Solution is to push queen farther queenside, for example to Qb8, then check king until king is on Kf8, then check king Rh8+ and then when king takes second rook Kxg7, white takes queen Rxb8. Quite difficult puzzle, took long time and many attempts to solve it
Maybe Rinck was the first, who discovered this position. But certainly this position is easy to find (also without computer help), and many study composer after Rinck have made with this position a study. Also Gurgenidze and Gerhard Josten. Happy, happy birthday. It is rare that 2 persons have the same birthday and are together.
It is not possible to checkmate a lone king with one rook and your king? I think if you got the king in a corner (like h8), with your king on h6, you can checkmate with the rook on the 8 file on any safe square from a8 to f8.
They say the third time is the charm. Completely failed this the first time it came up. Today, the second time, reembered the basic strategy, but still could not execute it. Maybe next time it comes up?
It's been probably 20 years since I've played a game of chess. I did okay against the casual players, but I got my butt kicked online. My strategy for this would be a Queen Rook swap, anywhere I could. As long as you keep his King from being in play. And White's 2 Rooks are protecting each other. I'd take a swap any day. I don't understand why he says if you let the black Queen to the middle, it's gonna end up as a draw. He can check me all he wants. I don't even care if it ends up in a fork as long as it comes out, a Queen Rook swap. And I would keep moving my king closer to my rooks. For a third level of protection.
I had a different thought. What if I let the queen check me. I will move my king slowly towards A8. After that I will use my 2 rooks to block the check and move my 2 rooks & king towards h file. So at the end black has to sacrifice his queen for my 1 rook.
Happy Birthday! I think this is your most difficult problem so far. Even after seeing the video, there is no way I could actually win this over the board. There are too many variations to remember.
Moving white king to a7? Thought that might be simpler, but I couldn't keep the king out of check and the rook unpinned to allow winning the queen. Seems like a lot of maneuvering to win that as well. Do you have a sequence for that?
@@debg1424 I'm still learning. When the king was at b8 queen can't check, but can pin the rook, Q to f4. Seems like then either you have to move the left rook, or you have to move the king to a8 or c8 where the queen can check again.
@@debg1424 think walking the king down via c8 through checks towards blacks king and bringing the left rook down to the third rank eventually gave me black's queen. Still seemed to be almost as complex as the rook gyrations the author did.
This is one of those puzzles that's more about understanding the themes rather than just pure calculation.
Happy Birthday! Thank you for all the wonderful chess puzzles!
Congrats to you and your wife. I had some elements right, but not in the winning sequence. Very instructive.
Greatly enjoy your videos, happy birthday!
Hope you both have a great day. Thank you for the present.
Have a great day to both of you!
Happy birthday to both!
Thank you very much for explaining how to do it. Much appreciated…I have SUBSCRIBED!!!
Happy Birthday !!
Great video, and study. Happy Birthday to the both of you.
Happy birthday to both of you! Thanks for the interesting puzzle
Nice strategy. I have never seen that before.
Amazing. Happy birthday the pair of you.
Congrats, Sir!
Happy double birthday! Great video as always.
Hmmm, stopped at min 0:58 and quickly thought of (not totally sure if it could be stopped though). Rook to B6. Black King only has one possible move, but the Queen will probably be moved. I don't think it makes a difference where so far, but Queen moves somewhere. Same rook white to C6, keeping the rooks protecting each other on that side of the board. What can the Queen do now? Does it matter? Queen or King black moves, and rook on C7 moves to C8. I have not developed from there, but i can keep the King in check or take the Queen after losing one rook. Now i will continue, and probably learn something. :)
It is very easy. Check with the rook. Black king forced to move to g8. Take the other rook to e7.
The black queen can move within the 8th row only. 2nd rook to g7 check. King forced to move to f8.
Rook h8 check.
Very nice. I immediately identified e7 as the key, but the initial check from h7 is the key first step for both your solution and the content creator's. Quite a few of his puzzles seem to focus on subtle tempo changes. I need to learn how to better see these opportunities in my game.
Why not just bring the king to a7 then b8? - next move it either mate or rook-queen exchange.
With white king on b8 Black gives check from e5. If the left-side rook blocks b5+ is a perpetual. If the right-side rook blocks it's pinned while blocking the other rook and white can do nothing.
Another great study. Happy birthday to you and your wife. Best wishes John
though I knew Re7 is must, I could not think further
great puzzle
. Thanks dear.
Congratulations to you both.
Happy birthday to both of you 🎉
Mikael, a very Happy Birthday to you and your wife! 🎈🎉🎂
That was a tricky puzzle and too complicated for me, but I enjoyed watching the video and seeing how White could win. Thanks and I hope you have a great day!
So, in summary, the strategy is to keep black's pieces up against the wall and keep the rooks mutually supporting until you have a position that lets you checkmate or take the queen with the loss of only one rook.
Happy birthday to both of you from another Libra ⚖💝😉Your chess miniatures have become almost a daily routine to me. I was an active chess player in my salad days but I lost the patience to sit for hours. I appreciate your enthusiasm to present the little puzzles, they have just the right difficulty for me. Hope you will continue 😇
difficult puzzle. Solution is to push queen farther queenside, for example to Qb8, then check king until king is on Kf8, then check king Rh8+ and then when king takes second rook Kxg7, white takes queen Rxb8. Quite difficult puzzle, took long time and many attempts to solve it
happy birthday 2u both :)
DOUBLE HAPPY BIRTHDAY !
Happy birthday to you two
Happy Birthday to you both, sir!
Happy Birthday
Maybe Rinck was the first, who discovered this position. But certainly this position is easy to find (also without computer help), and many study composer after Rinck have made with this position a study. Also Gurgenidze and Gerhard Josten. Happy, happy birthday. It is rare that 2 persons have the same birthday and are together.
It is not possible to checkmate a lone king with one rook and your king? I think if you got the king in a corner (like h8), with your king on h6, you can checkmate with the rook on the 8 file on any safe square from a8 to f8.
Happy birthday! 🎂
Happy birthday, I hope you have a fun evening.
They say the third time is the charm. Completely failed this the first time it came up. Today, the second time, reembered the basic strategy, but still could not execute it. Maybe next time it comes up?
Happy birthday 🎂🎈🎉
Grattis to you and your wife!
happy birthday
Many many happy returns of the day to you and to your wife 🎂🎁🎁
It's been probably 20 years since I've played a game of chess. I did okay against the casual players, but I got my butt kicked online.
My strategy for this would be a Queen Rook swap, anywhere I could. As long as you keep his King from being in play.
And White's 2 Rooks are protecting each other. I'd take a swap any day. I don't understand why he says if you let the black Queen to the middle, it's gonna end up as a draw. He can check me all he wants. I don't even care if it ends up in a fork as long as it comes out, a Queen Rook swap.
And I would keep moving my king closer to my rooks. For a third level of protection.
At 8:48 Whats wrong with queen g8 here? Ok, in the end it is the same, but should be mentioned.
(@3:16) white can just move to king to h2 and black is all out of checks; rook controls b2, queen can’t get to b7, and Qh7?? loses instantly.
Complicated, useful anyway
Many happy returns to you and your spouse.
Happy birthday both.
I had a different thought.
What if I let the queen check me. I will move my king slowly towards A8. After that I will use my 2 rooks to block the check and move my 2 rooks & king towards h file.
So at the end black has to sacrifice his queen for my 1 rook.
I got this.
White Rook to C8. Q takes Rook. White Rook to C7... Queen takes Rook.
I lose!
SPEED RUNNING LOSSES, BABY!
Happy birthday to You and your Lady. Sorry that I'm a bit late 🎉🎉🎉
Put the same puzzle next birthday and I might have some chance of getting it
Forgot to say Happy Birthday...
Happy Birthdays!
Please in the end of the vidio one time show correct final solution till we couls remember final way after many calculation in video
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to you🎉
It will take a while but all you've got to is move your king
Birth year of both?
Happy birthday greetings belatedly.
Congradulations
Happy Birthday. This one seems impossible for a human.
Happy birthday 🎉
Zugzwang!
Happy birthdaaayyy!!!
Great fact. You share your birthday with your wife.
Happy birthday
Happy birthdays 😂🎉🎉🎉
Not your birthday here. But have a great day where you is.😀
Happy Birthday!
I think this is your most difficult problem so far. Even after seeing the video, there is no way I could actually win this over the board. There are too many variations to remember.
@viswakumarr above gives a much simpler and elegant solution.
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I would bring the queen to a7 without moving the rooks and then it will be a simple win. Queen alone can't stop the king to come to a7
Moving white king to a7? Thought that might be simpler, but I couldn't keep the king out of check and the rook unpinned to allow winning the queen. Seems like a lot of maneuvering to win that as well. Do you have a sequence for that?
@@patclark6032 yes a7 and then b8 if queen is giving more checks. Once the king is in b8 then that's it.
@@debg1424 I'm still learning. When the king was at b8 queen can't check, but can pin the rook, Q to f4. Seems like then either you have to move the left rook, or you have to move the king to a8 or c8 where the queen can check again.
@@debg1424 think walking the king down via c8 through checks towards blacks king and bringing the left rook down to the third rank eventually gave me black's queen. Still seemed to be almost as complex as the rook gyrations the author did.
@@patclark6032 king won't go to through c8. King will eventually go to b8 and then rook will go to c8. That will either checkmate or pin the queen.
There are only 2 star signs. Those that are Scorpio’s and those that are not. But hey, close enough. HB to you and your wife. Many more.
Done this before blacks are favourite if you don't think about it
impossible for me to win 🙃
That doesn't make sense. Why i shouldn't take a queen with my rook. Why it is a draw ? That's a win
It's a draw if King isn't under check but doesn't have any moves. Which will be the case.
And how old are you now? 🫠 Happy Birthday to you! 🎉 Happy birthday to your wife? Does she like chess too? 😃
I turned 52 today. Yes, my wife like chess too and was talented as a junior but after we met and played some games she gave up on chess 😀
Menudo aburrimiento
i was thinking bout c3 so you could protect king with it and b5 maybe. to atack king from low 😅 but queen must be spoil all that 😴
Happy birthday!