The rarest move in chess
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Disclaimer: I'm not actually good at chess.
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i watched this entire thing without realising it was made 30 minutes ago because this feels like a youtube classic that shows up every once in a while and everyone loves them
same.
same here!
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Exactly!
Exactly.
Wait, hear me out!
"Doubly disambiguated bishop non-capture *stalemate* "
While that would be extremely rare, it would probably be difficult to check for without running the game itself. Standard algebraic notation for chess only includes checks, checkmates, and sometimes draw offers in the actual move notation, with draws recorded separately as the match score at the end. It depends on if lichess records that or not and it would be easy to calculate that score if there were multiple matches in a row and the score were a running total.
There is also similar ambiguity for en passant checkmates. There's no standard symbol for an en passant, so we can really only approximate how many checkmates are en passants without just simply playing the entire board (which would be much more time consuming)
@@BetaDude40 There's only 665 double-disambiguated bishop moves in total. Be pretty easy to check if there's a move after those or not to narrow it down.
@@BetaDude40 The lichess database comes with, above the game notation, a flag called "termination" - which is a text string describing what ended the game, so this would actually be not so bad to find out
"draw by 50-move rule" might be even rarer than stalemate, especially considering under-promotion is involved.
@@BenAlternate-zf9nr 50 move rule does necessitate a non-capture however, so i suspect a doubly disambiguated bishop capture timeout vs insufficient material could take longer to achieve
Just wait until all of these numbers spike after this…
Totally agree, this is like achievements in games. It was very clear that the discovered double disambiguation checkmate, was indeed the two players working together to produce that result. With the number of views that video gets, it becomes likely that someone will try to produce them.
@@KimMilvangI think it was just a guy toying with the other
@@KimMilvangNo that was someone griefing. He probably delivered checkmate with one second on the clock.....
I do it with knights lol. Apparently I need to configure them better so the last move is doubly disambiguated capture mate 😂
I LOVE the little details in this video.
The little right hand gets struck by lightning @10:26 and when it appears again @10:54 it has a bandage over it.
THAT’S SO CUTE WAIT 😭😭😭
Yes
I saw that too
I think it was because it hit glass at 10:43
@@kelinimo The left hand hit the glass, the right (bandaged) hand got struck by lighting.
This is the wonderful type of video that accidentally destroys the data it was based on, as this will encourage people to try and be the first person (on Lichess) to do a doubly disambiguated bishop capture checkmate.
If a lot of people do this, he will not need to classify the moves to diferenciate then
Can't wait for the speedrun leaderboard
A job for Eric Rosen!
I don't think so because very specific sets of circumstances have to happen, however it might see an uptick in uses because of this video. No I don't play chess, however he states in the video that things like this happen because the circumstances behind it are rare.
Kinda like that Veritasium video about 37.
The rarest move is me not blundering in bullet
0 comments? Let me fix that.
so super grandmasters do rare moves all the time
@@user-rw9ef4vs2k 0 replies? Let me fix that.
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@@stan0033x No, because the requirements are that specifically @chessplayer6632 achieves the move
This reminds me of the longest death message in Minecraft.
@@AmazingRofa loser
lol
Lol
Your profile kinda looks like mine
You’re profile is darker than mine
I cannot believe how nerdy this video is. Well done.
the right hand bandaged after getting struck by lightning is such a nice detail
Yes!!!
I'm glad that hand survived its injuries.
i thought it was after punching the glass in the previous frame
No, the left hand punched the glass.
@@joe_z i reckon it wouldve suited more
Amount of doubly disambiguated bishop capture checkmates after this video: 📈📈📈
True. I already did one after stalling for 90 moves against a computer. I tried to make it look nice.
Stonks
I did it also
@@SkreepGaming Ah, I see we've entered the Schrödinger's dataset conundrum.
@@pronoob7296
Was this a game with the 50-move rule disabled?
I assume this is taken from real lichess games, not custom stuff.
This video was basically what was going through Doctor Strange’s mind during Infinity War.
Genuinely the most engaging chess video I’ve watched yet. I love it when people nerd about this stuff
Fancy seeing you here
I feel like the data after this video will forever skewed by people wanting to hunt for rare moves by working with friends
The non-capture doubly disambiguated bishop mate game certainly looks like someone wanted to do that.
oh boy oh boy youve really started a movement now
I think Hikaru next week will crush all of these edge-cases :D
yeah that's me i just did it
Like scorigami but for chess moves! Someone should make a website showing all the not yet made moves for people to hunt
See, the thing is, Eric Rosen is probably gonna see this and go hunting (given Rosen trophies)
maybe if this video reaches him!
Rare move bounties sounds like a blast
@@paralogical-dev at least it reached me, so, i'll try to do it :)
I was wondering just that: what is the rarest Rosen position, or any position at all, if one could analyze that?
I was thinking that, if this goes on the Rosen Score site we’ll have dozens of each before the week is over, then we’d have to find new rarer classes of moves!
Hikaru played both "doubly disambiguated bishop capture checkmate" & "doubly disambiguated knight capture checkmate" against a random in blitz just after watching this video. Very cool
[Right hand gets struck by lightning]
[Left hand takes over]
[10:54 Right hand comes back with bandage]
Nice touch of detail! :D
After watching your video, videos without the hands seem weirdly unexpressive
Oh no am I going to experience this
Paralogical is gonna have to edit all videos in the future forever now to add hands
real
hey you worked on redungeon right? 😄 one of my favorite mobile games
@@guyunger I actually did, yes! Thanks a lot, glad you like the game! How did you know though? Don't think the game is even mentioned anywhere in my profile or anything :D
New fear unlocked: being double-disambiguated-bishop-capture-checkmated
New achievement unlocked: Trolling Eric Rosen by resigning the move before he gets to play it
do not tell him about stalemates ...
Imagine how many of these moves could have been played more if not for resignation@@mattc3581
Super GM Hikaru Nakamura immediately made this happen after he saw the video
You rat bastard how did you beat me here by an hour my thing says it came out 20min ago
Gg
I loved this minimalistic video style, centered the attention about the content and your content was AMAZING. I didn't even know such moves existed as a chess player
ok an insane amount of love and care went into this video, and into details that almost NO ONE would ever notice. check this out. at 11:25 he actually can't add anymore lines to this list without overlapping with the little data box graphic. but instead of the obvious option of just having the box fade out or slide off screen or something, the box vanishes while it is hidden behind the image coming on screen at 11:32! that was such an unnecessary detail that he went out of his way to do!!
Wow. It's a nice detail, but it's outright impressive that you noticed such a thing. You're like the most attentive viewer on youtube lol
@@brav3280 i just have a passion for editing and like to analyze how people solve problems :p
Craaazyy
That is very observant! But why couldn't the box just stay in the background? I don't understand that.
@@andrewbernhardt4292 because then the next lines wouldn’t be visible. The pie chart graphic shows up at 11:32 and then the second graphic at 11:33 comes and the box disappears. So at 11:47 when new lines show up there’s space for them (without the text having to go in front of or behind the box, both of which aren’t as neat a solution)
Now everyone will probably get on lichess and try to play games with doubly disambiguated bishop/knight capture checkmates, so I predict that in short order the bishop non-capture variety will become rarest :P
😂😂😂
Came here to say this 😅
Once people have a stupid goal, they will do it.
it's too hard they can't do it, plus nobody cares, and the few people who care aren't good enough to do anything
@@TWIlktitbliktvim-ty7td why do people act like a doomer in every single online space for no discernible reason
I like how at 15:14 he discusses double disambiguated bishop capture mate, but it states "knight" lol
Finally, someone else noticed this!
UA-cam was aggressively recommending this video to me. Eventually, I decided to watch it and I’m really glad I did.
Me: Today is gonna be the most productive day in my life
Me 5 minutes later:
Your first mistake was opening UA-cam
me rn. went to the post office to get a passport and they said nah. now im here
@@beckettherbert6544 rip bozo
Part 2
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I hate you :'(
This is one really professional chess video. Just fantastic!
I give it the rare notation A++.😎
He's ranking it A
He's checking it twice
When Jerry is here
Our time will be nice
Wouldn't the chess equivalent be, like, "!!!" or something?
Jerry! I agree with you, this one is absolutely a top-tier video. One of those rare classics, as a comment on this video mentioned.
This is awesome, both the nerdy topic and the very structured way of trying to answer this question. I love this!
This is part of the next series of videos that will randomly pop up in people's recommended, and I find that really nice.
I'm still amazed by the simple yet genius idea and the perfet execution of those cute little hand animations
There are people who have made one-in-all-history chess moves, who never even realized it.
And we have thier li chess usernames
Maybe, but it certainly looked to me like the 1 instance of the bishop mate was completely planned out
I love data analysis videos like this. Subbed
Brilliant video, awesome visualizations and really cool concept. Great stuff.
I like that the right hand gets bandages after being struck by lightning. Nice attention to detail!
WOW that's kind of hilarious actually. 10/10 subtle humor
i thought it appeared after breaking the glass, but surprisingly, that was the left hand, and it never got hurt from it
Cool
That didn't sound so hard until I realized I've lost 900 rating and I've been playing against 200 elo players for 15 hours straight just for a single checkmate💀💀
"200 elo players"
Then you probably played against me 💀
(JK I don't play chess, but if I did, that's the elo I'd expect to have lmao)
@@vlc-cosplayer Bro, why are you watching exoteric chess theory if you don't play the game ahahaha
@@st4vvvBecause it's interesting? Kinda the whole point of science is to easily disseminate information even to those outside the field.
@@Hapetiitti try a game dude, it's worth learning the game!
This is the video I probably enjoyed the most this whole year. Keep up the amazing work!
What a high-quality video, I really appreciated the way in which you treated data and the friendly presentation. A very interesting and well made video!
My man is back with a third video out of nowhere
Bro finally remembered his password
😂
Lmao@@alex.g7317
I'd agree on the "must exist to be the rarest" argument, and crown the double disambiguated non-capture bishop checkmate for the time being.
100%, if it hasn't happened, it's not rare. You can't say, for example, mammoths are rare if there aren't any at all.
As noted at the end of the video, that wasn't the only unique move. "1,306 moves only occurred once". so, all of them tie for rarest that happened in the dataset.
@@nathankurtz8045 Which is why saying "rare category" makes more sense than "rare move".
@@dominickmaddox9576 they're very rare. Unless you cook them
I feel the same. It's as if one said that the rarest bird is the Green Raven, because 0 ravens of that color have been found.
Is it possible for a green Raven to exist? I mean theoretically, why not? There are plenty of green birds so it's not impossible for a mutation to occur to a raven, and perhaps it did occur once in our planet's long history. But as long as we don't find evidence that a green raven exists or existed, that shouldn't be considered a "rare bird".
This video was amazing, from all the data research and effort put into it to the stellar editing - very impressed!
Fantastic infographic presentation, major Kudos!
Well... After this video was released it won't be the rarest move possible
Game idea: have one chess move randomly picked and then try to actually get it in a game. Bonus points if you win.
As opposed to getting the move, how about avoiding a move instead. Make a banning phase pre-game, like [O-O, e4, f4] is forbidden, forcing an unusual opening or mate threats
Really cool video! Loved the animation style
This was genuinely such a neat video to watch and I was so surprised seeing how there's only been 3 videos from you XD
Wait dude this was one day ago? This feels like a video that has been on UA-cam for years, a classic, that's why I was constantly getting it on my recommended huh?
I want to see the full game with the double disambiguated bishop non-capture checkmate.
This channel is so cool! Keep on with the awesome stuff
ok but why do i love your editing so much it's actually funny as hell
13:58 glad he didn't surrender.
I went frame by frame, and the game is semi-reasonable with just a bunch of blunders, and then black goes bishop promote (which does nothing), bishop promote (which does nothing, again), queen promote (still nothing is happening), moves bishop for discovered checkmate. It's almost like he set that up just to do a really weird and hard to replicate move for the purposes of this video,
@@kindlin the thought process behind this video is far more likely to occur than the move itself (authentically)
@@kindlin that could well be the case hikaru and other top players also like to do that if they have won already because it's a rare occurance to be able to do that, i don't know about the blunders tho
Now that you made this video I’m gonna use all the rarest chess moves multiple times to outdate this video.
It is more common to think about chess moves in terms of their effects on a game (capture, [discovered] check, fork, promotion, stalemate, [forced] repetition, etc) than standard notation (which of course, does capture most effects, but not all). For example, most cases of double check(mate)s might not ascertainable by (standard) notation alone. Neither would "post-missed-castling/en-passant stalemates" (a board position repeats, but with one of the players no longer being able to castle / perform en passant, it becomes a stalemate).
Regardless, this was a really interesting question and notation is probably the best place to start. Your video was enthralling from start to end, and I wouldn't even have these minor criticisms if it hadn't caught my attention as much as it did.
I love how humble this is as if it isn’t one of the most epic data analyses in all of chess history
Those hands are so cute and somehow express so much emotion. I love it
Im gonna do a couple of doubly disambiguated bishop capture checkmates tonight
You savage!
the editing of this video is so high quality! those little cursor hands are so expressive. well done!
PLEASE do that video on all possible move notations. I love your writing and delivery and I'm already interested in fun algorithmic challenges omg girl pleaseeeeee!
Just a few seconds in and I already love it. Your visual style is just so engaging and fun. Really excited for this one.
Edit after having seen the full thing: Yeah, my excitement was not misplaced. This video is awesome. All the little details in the animation are so fun! I especially loved the increasing timer at 5:05, as well as the bandaged hand after 10:55
3:36 You son of a gun, I wanted to do this myself!
And you didn't even tell how many unique algebraic chess notations there are?!?!?!?!
I guess I'll keep that for the next video! :D
Man this video is great keep up with the great work
Amazing video! Informational and interesting whether you’re a chess beginner or stat nerd. Love the attention to detail and dedication in general!
15:14 it says "doubly disambiguated knight capture checkmate" and not "doubly disambiguated bishop capture checkmate".
I was gonna comment that 🗣️❎☠️😭
@@GivingOthersAMentalBreakdown me 2!
That guy who did a doubly disambiguated bishop non-capture checkmate must feel like a god rn. The fact that is was even on the 22nd of 1st month of 2022...The amount of twos...and even his elo was 2020😮 imagine this happened on February😅
this is editing is genius and so fun to watch, i love the bandaged hand and the "x seconds ago" and the cursor hand movements. it's all so full of personality, great video :)
This video is so cool and informative! Really enjoyed this!
Tacking on "rare move" scenarios feels like crazy joker multipliers in belatro lol
Holy crap this one of the best art themes for a educational video I have seen in years
I would definitely love to see a full video on how you calculated every possible move!
Favorite video of the year so far I reckon
This is an outstanding video. Thank you for taking the time to do this!
Very high quality video mate. I like your objective, numerical approach to things.
Animations and graphics looks so clean good job with it
Technically, we could add promotion itself to the complication. So bxa8=Q# would be a capturing pawn move with a queen promotion that causes checkmate.
so only roughly 30824152725330 (≈ 308 trillion) Bishop moves need to happen for one instance of a double disambiguated bischop capture checkmate
*moves
@@timothymclean u right, thank you
For it to be considered rare I think it has to at least happen once. I also think you are making a confusion between the rarest move, and the most complicated notation. In this instance regardless if a move needs to be disambiguated in notation, that move would look the same on the board, even if the notation is different, you are still moving the same knight or bishop. To find the rarest move I think you should look for the most uncommon instances of checkmate, and even the square in which the piece was moved or where the king got checkmated. I think you should also consider moves that end in stalemate, as in some cases that could be even rarer than checkmate.
Totally agree, even though the video is obviously very high quality and a good watch
It also sort of bothered me that so many of the example positions would have been stalemates on the previous turns, which makes me feel like many of the ~30% of unplayed moves are just not actually possible
I honestly found it pretty silly to even consider disambiguations to be different moves, kinda diverts the question into finding the rarest gamestate.
Agreed, disambiguation doesn't necessarily make something a different move. I think standard algebraic notation doesn't actually lend itself well for answering the question at hand, because the same notation can also mean different things in different games, or even in different phases of the same game. Still, interesting video.
Wow congratz on the video! I thought this is going to be short video about en passant checkmate or something similiar. I did not expect so well thought analysis of the data.
I love how random things just keep some people entertained-
thx for the vid bro
Your videos are always superb. Wish you posted more!
I definitely didn't mean for this to take 6 months since my last video 😅
Since i saw nobody else point it out, i will say that your animation style is absolutely beautiful and unique
did anyone else think this video would be just about the "rarest move of a specific piece from one specific square to another" instead of "rarest chess move notation"
I love the little detail of the hand having a little bandage after getting struck by lightning
Thank you! That's the first time I've learned Standard Algebraic Notation appropriately since I started to play chess (nearly 2 years ago).
You don’t upload very often but when you do, the videos are really good.
I like how his right hand sprite didn't come back out right after the lightning, and that it had bandages on it for the rest of the video.
i hope this blows up, so much effort and information in an easily digestible way. thank you for this, subscribed.
I'd definitely welcome more videos on chess statistics. The results of this really surprised me, like that fact that around a third of possible moves haven't been played on lichess.
Ah yes, the bishop double disambiguated discovered attack capture checkmate from F1 to G2
You mean at 13:54? That's not a capture.
Oh yeah just realized that, not a capture so it's just bishop double disambiguated discovered attack checkmate
The way you explain things is just best!!
Dude I really freaking love your animation with the hands and stuff, it's really unique nad makes you stand out!
Also, really great video generally
I'm excited to see more from you in the future :D
i rediscover your channel and you upload again omg
The weird part about this is that if anyone does either of the moves that happened, 0% of the time, they'll retroactively prevent themselves from completing the rarest move by making it less rare.
i would watch the hell out of a video about every chess notation
Lovely video. I was extremely entertained while watching it.
Holy crap, why doesn’t this have more views? The smoothness in your animations is amazing!
It’s been up 22 hours… give it a chance!
LET'S GO I MADE IT ON YT 13:50
did you plan that move on purpose or did it just happen by chance
@@lamusicadepedrovicente Well I needed a Bishop discovery mate so I did that, not planned to be rare. I can show your proof because I probably could still retrieve my old acc
@@-petrichor-7263Is it really you? Do you have the rarest move on chess?
@@ivantolosana5594 I can show you proof if you don't believe me
@@ivantolosana5594 I hope the creator sees me, but unfortunately I don't think that would happen
Did anyone else notice that halfway through, the hand wore a cast, and it just stayed on the rest of the way through. Like, where did that come from?
thats the hand that got struck by lightning earlier in the video
I definitely need the video of how you found every possible move in chess
Now create a game using the highest number of rare moves possible.
16:24 we're doomed
Super well done video! It's really rare to find this kind of creativity on youtube this days.
bro these types of videos are amazing