I can officially say you're the only one who helped me retain the technique after watching countless other videos. I can confidently say I'll checkmate 10/10 times if this ever happens in a game. Also going to pass this on you're a great teacher Aman!
Oh my god I've done the Lichess tutorial for this so many times and it never stuck. One watch of this 12 minute video and now I can execute the checkmate on stockfish in under 30s. Insanely good instruction here.
10:28 "its not about efficiency in bishop & knight, its about being able to do it". Thanks for posting GM Hambleton, this video differs from other bishop & knight mates bc it focuses on constricting the king to the side of the board
That is the easiest part. Just get your king as close as you can to the king, and when you can't get any closer, bring your bishop and knight closer to the king. Little by little, the king will get pushed back, pretty easily. But if you're struggling, I guess you can use the L shape he describes here.
Okay, so I tried the lichess video training method. No success. I watched the Agadmator video; no success. I watched a Gerrie video; no success. I watched Daniel Naraditsky's training on it...also no success. Then I watched the Aman Hambleton video, ie THIS one, and BOOM!!! (thank you)
For people having a tough time getting the king to the edge of the board I learned this great pattern on Thechessnetwork's channel: simply start by putting your 3 pieces on the four central squares, with the Knight being on the same colour square as your Bishop and the King complementing them on the other coloyr square. This automatically forces the opponent's King towards the edge of the edge of the board and you can take it from there.
I learned the Déletang's Triangles method a couple years ago and got comfortable with that. But since Gothamchess and Chessbrah used this other method in their demonstrations I'm also trying it out. I tried it out a couple times against an engine and I must say I have trouble finding back into the pattern when at the position like 6:49 if the opponent instead of Kc6, goes Kb7. I checked out what the best moves are according to the engine afterward, but having a hard time finding back to the pattern where the enemy King was always kept on the side of the board.
Update: I think I'm getting the hang of it. With both King moves the Bishop d3 then b5 and our King can come closer. This method mates about 8 moves faster than when I do the triangle method. (edit: ok 8 moves faster may have just been a lucky try one time, maybe on average 5 moves faster. Triangle method is ca. 34 moves when all pieces start from opposite sides of the board and this method is ca. 29 moves)
@@scepgineer Exactly, as long as our bishop is on the a6-f1 diagonal the enemy king only escape route is through b8: in that case we go back to the pattern. If the enemy king decides to stay in the corner I would suggest just bringing over our king. The use of waiting moves with the bishop is also extremely important.
@@fraser46 nice glad it helped 😃 My present me should play some chess again or at least start doing the puzzles regularly. Past me wouldn't want all his efforts go to waste.
Thanks Mr Hambleton. You absolutely helped me. I thought this wouldnt occur but in my otb tourney this very position happened. If i didnt look at your vid on the day of the tourney, it was safe to assume the game was a stale draw
It worked. I just did it for the first time. I tried to do it many times before using other resources, but I always failed. The way you showed the pattern of the king and knight working together with the bishop supporting really made it simple.
great tutorial. i can only checkmate in the configuration presented on the video thou (i'm white, and i got the light-squared bishop). and then i checkmate him in the upper left corner. i tried with the dark-squared bishop, and it seems as though the pattern is different.
It's the same pattern - with a dark squared bishop you'll need to checkmate on a dark squared corner though. Aman showed how to corral the king along the eighth rank, if you need to corral it along the 'a' or 'h' files just imagine the same pattern rotated 90 degrees.
i just watched like 3 or 4 videos.. this is the 5th and only now I got the consept. For real u tought me like a boss . Ur teaching skills is uber tuber Aman thanks.
Such an amazing job explaining. I've tried to learn and forgotten this every time but the way here explains I feel I will always remember. Aman is such a brilliant steamer and teacher props. Better than Eric lol
Wow this is much better than the Lichess one which emphasizes a series of shrinking triangles. Too confusing, too much to remember. This is smooth and nice!
I quote from another comment: "I can officially say you're the only one who helped me retain the technique after watching countless other videos. Thanks a lot! Greetings from Brazil.
How many games have you played roughly? I'm only 2,000 games in and I've never once had to do this mate, not that I could ;) With this video I am goin to get it down. I'm sure of it. Great simple method!
Ok let me say this was one of the hardest challenges I have ever done in anything. I spent an entire day in frustration. I first thought this technique must be flawed and watched a few others vids on this. Really the hardest thing was corralling the king successfully and doing this all in under 50 move draw rule. It turns out this was indeed the best instruction on this I also watched the vid where you do these in puzzle rush and holy crap you're good! Perhaps you can demonstrate efficient corralling of the enemy king with bishop, night and king on Twitch one day as the computer and humans can still squirm out using your pattern. Love the Chessbrahs! Sultan_of_Sack
Some hints. Inicial positions: Kd4, Nc5, Be5 OR Ke4, Nd5 and Bf5. You can always do that. After this you should keeps the bishop and knight "in line" for instance c5 e5 or c5 c7 until you reach the pattern suggested by Aman.
Some hints. Inicial positions: Kd4, Nc5, Be5 OR Ke4, Nd5 and Bf5. You can always do that. After this you should keeps the bishop and knight "in line" for instance c5 e5 or c5 c7 until you reach the pattern suggested by Aman.
This is basically one of those things which technically helps you fully "learn" chess. Once you are done being able to checkmate with any tough combination of pieces, you technically are done with the non-opponent-related things which would make winning "impossible" for you. Now it's just about not letting the opponent put you in a position where you can't win.
Would you elaborate a bit on your 2nd paragraph? Specifically what do you mean about "non opponent things " making winning "impossible " for you....did you mean making losing impossible or am I missing something? Thank you.
@@loc7909 I was referring to the fundamental things that can cause you a loss through sole ignorance over the opponent being good. Not being able to checkmate with certain pieces makes a non-accidental victory impossible. Getting into intermediate territory in chess is about preventing reoccuring scenarios where you have to guess because there's no time for you to figure out how to do a certain thing.
I can officially say you're the only one who helped me retain the technique after watching countless other videos. I can confidently say I'll checkmate 10/10 times if this ever happens in a game. Also going to pass this on you're a great teacher Aman!
but are u really sure?
get off his nutsack man, wasn't that good
Oh my god I've done the Lichess tutorial for this so many times and it never stuck. One watch of this 12 minute video and now I can execute the checkmate on stockfish in under 30s. Insanely good instruction here.
10:28 "its not about efficiency in bishop & knight, its about being able to do it". Thanks for posting GM Hambleton, this video differs from other bishop & knight mates bc it focuses on constricting the king to the side of the board
That is the easiest part. Just get your king as close as you can to the king, and when you can't get any closer, bring your bishop and knight closer to the king.
Little by little, the king will get pushed back, pretty easily.
But if you're struggling, I guess you can use the L shape he describes here.
aman's explanation is so smooth
Damn, Aman was still an IM here.
It was probably 2 or 3 years ago
I think
Of all the other Bishop/Knight checkmate guides, this one actually helped me understand. Cheers!
Okay, so I tried the lichess video training method. No success. I watched the Agadmator video; no success. I watched a Gerrie video; no success. I watched Daniel Naraditsky's training on it...also no success. Then I watched the Aman Hambleton video, ie THIS one, and BOOM!!! (thank you)
For people having a tough time getting the king to the edge of the board I learned this great pattern on Thechessnetwork's channel: simply start by putting your 3 pieces on the four central squares, with the Knight being on the same colour square as your Bishop and the King complementing them on the other coloyr square. This automatically forces the opponent's King towards the edge of the edge of the board and you can take it from there.
I learned the Déletang's Triangles method a couple years ago and got comfortable with that. But since Gothamchess and Chessbrah used this other method in their demonstrations I'm also trying it out.
I tried it out a couple times against an engine and I must say I have trouble finding back into the pattern when at the position like 6:49 if the opponent instead of Kc6, goes Kb7. I checked out what the best moves are according to the engine afterward, but having a hard time finding back to the pattern where the enemy King was always kept on the side of the board.
Update: I think I'm getting the hang of it.
With both King moves the Bishop d3 then b5 and our King can come closer.
This method mates about 8 moves faster than when I do the triangle method.
(edit: ok 8 moves faster may have just been a lucky try one time, maybe on average 5 moves faster. Triangle method is ca. 34 moves when all pieces start from opposite sides of the board and this method is ca. 29 moves)
@@scepgineer Exactly, as long as our bishop is on the a6-f1 diagonal the enemy king only escape route is through b8: in that case we go back to the pattern. If the enemy king decides to stay in the corner I would suggest just bringing over our king. The use of waiting moves with the bishop is also extremely important.
@@scepgineer I had this same problem and you solved it for me. Thanks from 3 years in the future!
@@fraser46 nice glad it helped 😃
My present me should play some chess again or at least start doing the puzzles regularly. Past me wouldn't want all his efforts go to waste.
Really love Aman's content. He's an amazing instructor.
Thanks Mr Hambleton. You absolutely helped me. I thought this wouldnt occur but in my otb tourney this very position happened. If i didnt look at your vid on the day of the tourney, it was safe to assume the game was a stale draw
Thanks for this Aman, I'm a patterns guy so this really helped me out!
It worked. I just did it for the first time. I tried to do it many times before using other resources, but I always failed. The way you showed the pattern of the king and knight working together with the bishop supporting really made it simple.
made this way easier than the way i did it lmao
great tutorial. i can only checkmate in the configuration presented on the video thou (i'm white, and i got the light-squared bishop). and then i checkmate him in the upper left corner. i tried with the dark-squared bishop, and it seems as though the pattern is different.
It's the same pattern - with a dark squared bishop you'll need to checkmate on a dark squared corner though. Aman showed how to corral the king along the eighth rank, if you need to corral it along the 'a' or 'h' files just imagine the same pattern rotated 90 degrees.
i just watched like 3 or 4 videos.. this is the 5th and only now I got the consept. For real u tought me like a boss . Ur teaching skills is uber tuber Aman thanks.
Such an amazing job explaining. I've tried to learn and forgotten this every time but the way here explains I feel I will always remember. Aman is such a brilliant steamer and teacher props. Better than Eric lol
Have you learned bishop and knight better? I like how Aman's technique focuses on using the side of the board.
I played against Stockfish with 1 knight odds and the damn fish knew I didn't know this checkmate, gonna get you next time fish!
Wow this is much better than the Lichess one which emphasizes a series of shrinking triangles. Too confusing, too much to remember. This is smooth and nice!
the best or among the top 2 videos on this topic, thank you Aman
Well holy crap this is actually the only understandable pattern out there.
Thanks for the pattern 👍
Yeah this video is incredibly helpful
I straight up did not know how to do this until now.
I quote from another comment: "I can officially say you're the only one who helped me retain the technique after watching countless other videos. Thanks a lot! Greetings from Brazil.
This was the easiest explanation for my simple mind. Thanks heaps!
You're welcome!
I don’t know what to do when their king moves towards the ‘right’ corner
OMG this was so helpful!!! I've never thought I would be able to do it!!!
Finally I have a working Method to follow!
❤♥❤
That's how I feel! It's great :)
Wait it's been this easy all along? I could never figure it out before!
Helped me understand square control better
I LOVE THIS VIDEO AMAN! THANK YOU
As a 2000 elo chess player, thanks you so much, this is so helpful even though i havent play any game end up like this.
yeah but when it does happen, you will be glad. oh so glad.
How many games have you played roughly? I'm only 2,000 games in and I've never once had to do this mate, not that I could ;)
With this video I am goin to get it down. I'm sure of it. Great simple method!
Holy holy holy this is amazing
Oh shit this *is* pretty simple.
Great method ❤
i've finally mastered it!! love aman!
My man saving me everyday
I can finally under promote and humiliate my opponent with B + N#
Ty Aman 💕
Easiest explanation to understand
Ok let me say this was one of the hardest challenges I have ever done in anything. I spent an entire day in frustration. I first thought this technique must be flawed and watched a few others vids on this. Really the hardest thing was corralling the king successfully and doing this all in under 50 move draw rule. It turns out this was indeed the best instruction on this I also watched the vid where you do these in puzzle rush and holy crap you're good! Perhaps you can demonstrate efficient corralling of the enemy king with bishop, night and king on Twitch one day as the computer and humans can still squirm out using your pattern. Love the Chessbrahs! Sultan_of_Sack
triangle method seems harder than this
Chessbrah is the only fun and insightful channel to watch
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you Aman! I'll never forget this simple method. [smile]
Pattern > memorization
Need to make that pattern my avatar. I'll never remember.
i cant figure out how to get the king to one of the edges
Some hints. Inicial positions: Kd4, Nc5, Be5 OR Ke4, Nd5 and Bf5. You can always do that. After this you should keeps the bishop and knight "in line" for instance c5 e5 or c5 c7 until you reach the pattern suggested by Aman.
Damn good video
oliver queen looking good as always
Still can’t do it
Some hints. Inicial positions: Kd4, Nc5, Be5 OR Ke4, Nd5 and Bf5. You can always do that. After this you should keeps the bishop and knight "in line" for instance c5 e5 or c5 c7 until you reach the pattern suggested by Aman.
YEAH BABY
BEARDBRAH
Wow, I did it.
Where did the beard came from? Artificial or just too much bromons?
back when he was an IM he made this self promise or something that he wouldn't cut it until he became a GM
POV: You are here because of Amans tournament game
Can i get a bro fist from Aman for being a pioneer viewer of this channel?
I can officially say that this method doesn't work. The position he starts off with is literally impossible to obtain.
This is basically one of those things which technically helps you fully "learn" chess.
Once you are done being able to checkmate with any tough combination of pieces, you technically are done with the non-opponent-related things which would make winning "impossible" for you.
Now it's just about not letting the opponent put you in a position where you can't win.
Would you elaborate a bit on your 2nd paragraph? Specifically what do you mean about "non opponent things " making winning "impossible " for you....did you mean making losing impossible or am I missing something? Thank you.
@@loc7909 I was referring to the fundamental things that can cause you a loss through sole ignorance over the opponent being good. Not being able to checkmate with certain pieces makes a non-accidental victory impossible.
Getting into intermediate territory in chess is about preventing reoccuring scenarios where you have to guess because there's no time for you to figure out how to do a certain thing.
@@TechSupportDave I had to read that a couple times but I understand 100%. Thanks again...