"I saw it, I saw it! I didn't do it Nelson!" 🤓

@bobesponjadechernobyl6412

Жыл бұрын

a

@drachenklinger9401

Жыл бұрын

I saw it! I saw it! I didn’t do it Nelson!

@gabrijellukenda1315

Жыл бұрын

Sameee

@Silence_now

Жыл бұрын

@@drachenklinger9401 ye that’s what he said

@Filipino_ch3ezeeE_insomnian

Жыл бұрын

@@drachenklinger9401and his user isn’t nelson

The most amazing part of this puzzle is that it can actually happen in a real game and the idea of boxing out the king is super important.

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307

2 ай бұрын

Whats the problem white easily wins this!

Hello Nelson, I`m from Poland, and I really like watching your films, you use simple words so i can understand it and I`m learning English thanks to you, keep doing thanks!

@arminulrich2319

Жыл бұрын

I also watch one of Nelsons videos almost every day - I am not an English native speaker, I am German.

6:00 to be honest, I said "I won't take it" because I knew it would be a trick or something xD Really cool endgame though, I love your videos :)

@klutch_edits

Жыл бұрын

me too

@anonymall

Жыл бұрын

We only say we won't take because we know this is a puzzle

@tiletapper4ever

Жыл бұрын

@@anonymall exactly

@wojciechtomaszewski8594

Жыл бұрын

To me both options would win the pawn eventually but since it's is a puzzle only one can be correct therefore It became obvious there is some trick

@plantbefore

Жыл бұрын

i said "dont take" b/c losing opposition is AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

At 6:03, I saw it. It felt like gaining opposition was more important

@jayveeasis7953

Жыл бұрын

ya forgot the quotation marks bruh

@artecobg5441

Жыл бұрын

I saw it as well

@Randomvids72

Жыл бұрын

I also saw it because it looked to obvious

@microwave856

Жыл бұрын

@@jayveeasis7953 why would you need quotation marks

@mfahz4067

Жыл бұрын

saw it

Damn, this channel is amazing. I looooooove these puzzles, they are way deeper than regular quick-shot puzzles and far more instructive. Keep it up!

Opposition is so important in the endgame and this is an example

i love ur puzzle videos man keep up the great work

Thanks, funny and instructive! I saw this a long time ago but it's always good to refresh your endgame knowledge (I had absolutely completely forgotten about it :P).

Fascinating!

Of the two videos I've watched, each puzzle seems to have a theme of teaching you a particular technique that isn't immediately obvious The first was promoting to everything but a queen and this is teaching you how to opposite an opponent's king

Wow great puzzle. Highly instructive ideas

Hey Nelson, do you have a video covering 'metagaming' principles such as wanting to complicate the position when you're losing, attacking to run down the clock on your opponent, or playing tricky openings against lower level players who might not know them?

I saw it, thanks for the consistently great content, Nelson!

Very interesting pawn endgame, TY Nelson!

Another amazing video 👍👍 Mind stimulating. Best Chess tutorial chanel 👏👏

Excellent. Thanks.

The intricacies of the end game. Quite beautiful actually.

I never knew the power of opposition till now

Hi Nelson, I am new to the game. I’ve been watching and learning from your puzzles every day. Very clever and entertaining. Thank you very much. A question: why not start with moving the king along G1, F1, E1, D2?

@1AmTheStig

Жыл бұрын

I wondered this too, I assume once you reach D2 you're in a disadvantaged position but it looks strong.

@woxyjr

Жыл бұрын

Then black plays G6, F5, E5, E4. Then it's a draw. I think.

@jiangchuYT

Жыл бұрын

@@woxyjr If black plays G6,F5,E5, white plays D1 instead of D2, only after E4, then white plays D2. Is that still a draw?

@kirbyheadphones6666

Жыл бұрын

@@jiangchuYT Black will repeat E5 F5 until white plays D2 then it's a draw

@jiangchuYT

Жыл бұрын

@@kirbyheadphones6666 Got it. Thanks.

I'm moving my front pawn forward and letting it be captured

Nice puzzle! It's amazing how rich such positions can be. I did not see that the black King has to be pushed away once the wK is on f5 and NEVER take the black Pe4. I think this technique is called "shouldering away" the King. I wondered in the first place about the pawns on b2/b3, why they are there...

Notice how opposition is the true power of the king and not to cowardly take the pawn when the opportunity presented itself 3 times

i learned a ton here, ty

Muy instructivo y muy bien explicado. Like al vídeo. 😀👍🇲🇽

I have to say Nelson, I am finally learning from you. Even after watching dozens of your videos, my improvement was minimal at best. In this puzzle, however, I got almost all of the moves. Watching Carlson's games is fun, but you make us think hard. thanks.

My noob brain wanted to take the pawn but the puzzle prepped me to know I should keep opposition so I have control of the magic squares.

For a split second I thought about taking the pawn but then I realised that I'd be losing the opposition that you were just talking about

“I saw it, I saw it, I didn't do it Nelson!”

I saw it! Need to get that 1000-1500 course, too...

Thanks you very much.

Right at the start I saw the white king trying to move up diagonally would just get boxed in by their king doing the same thing. - What if you don't do that and you move you're king along the [1] rank and then up the left side of your pawns? You can get the white King to [D2] and then the black king of [E4] has no choice to retreat or to offer a pawn trade, which still leaves white ahead, I think. Since after the trade you can move the 2nd pawn back up to [E3] and then the Black king is in check and you still have opposition. Fairly sure this is also a winning endgame for white.

@karelspinka3031

Жыл бұрын

Looked it up in endgame database, the Black king will keep opposition on e5 the moment you go on e1.

I guessed KE5 because I had a feeling taking the pawn was a trick question

I also saw it and went with opposition

I didn't say take the pawn, I was thinking "it wouldn't help to have more opposition". But I wouldn't have gone around to take the left pawn.

I bet the black pawn on e4 went “phew!” when the king finally stepped towards the other pawn

1:43 I may be confused but can’t you move the furthest away then move the pawn forward because if he takes it you would get there first if he doesn’t you can push it?

At first I thought I'd directly go for the b3 pawn, but Black is fast enough in taking the white e-pawns and pushing his d-pawn, so that it ends in a draw.

A puzzle that is actually instructive! Who'd have thought.

The E5 was to push the king further out, opposition was the key to the puzzle I saw it

I saw it, instead of taking the pawn, it's better to keep position of opposition with the king.

"I saw it, I saw it! I didn't do it Nelson!

The first part was pretty intuitive for me, but I missed Ke5.

Awesome sauce!!

My first thought was to move the king left, left, left

6:07 yes, i saw it. didnt want the black king coming back and the white king is closer to the other pawns

First time I succeeded in aa puzzle. I didn't fall for king takes pawn because he was stressing opposition so much.

I did not even notice that the pawn can be taken, and found the correct move 😂

5:57, given the situation, why not go black king to C4 and start work on the other pawn that is the key.

I find my pawn end game to be really weak so am enjoying your videos and hoping they help Me improve my end game play.

7:18 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was super hilarious

I saw that part where 90% of people said to take the pond

This is a wonderul lesson in chess stratergy. I wonder how many strong players would not be able to solve it ? I also wonder what percentage of G.M.s would not be able to figure it out ? Many thanks for your videos. Keep em coming !

Very instructive. I'm not very good at these king and pawn scenarios. I thought starting with h1-g1-f1-e1-d2 might work. When you didn't even suggest that I looked again. At least I found the flaw in that plan. Starting to remember why I stopped playing chess.

I marched white king left across the back g1, f1, e1, d2 While Black king tries but fails to get to pawn e3 which is now protected and Black King has to back away 🙂

BTW, at 6:46, if the black king goes to c1 instead of c2, the promotion will be with check and white will have a big trouble to defend the continuous checking from black queen

@distrezz9919

Жыл бұрын

You mean after king takes b2 right? If that so it's still a draw because white also get the queen first. You're right about promotion with check but it doesn't matter that white will move queen to e4 to block the black's queen and offer a trade for the next move.

@user-ej7sr3ow8b

Жыл бұрын

@@distrezz9919 yes, but forcing a queen trade is much safer than dancing around the queen

I'd have taken the pawn in a heartbeat

Before getting into solving the puzzle, it is obvious White is in a much stronger position haven the two pawns with clear paths.

King and Pawn endgames are so crazy that you can have a move that is M in 20ish but the wrong move and you can be mated in 20ish

In a real game I feel I would have taken on G4, but in the context of the puzzle my gut told me to keep opposition, so that was what I said.

To win in this position, hit the MERCY button for black's e pawn

Actually, I was thinking about rushing with the white king to D2 through the 1st line.

White can also win by moving its king sideward to the left (g1, f1, e1) and then d2 to prevent the black king from taking e3. After black king moves away from e4, WK can proceed to d3 or c3 and there's nothing black can do.

Yes i saw it, you lose oposition after taking the pawn. Then black King to C4 and the White King has to go f3 and then black King is going to take the other pawn and make a Queen at time

8:18. Winning move King to C3.

How does white win if black moves king to e5 at 4:07? Love your channel!

I did not fall for the pawn bait. Saw the opposition trap.

My first move would be King to G1, then F1, E1, D2, D3, D4. The black King can't come closer and has to go back. White Pawn to E4 for the trade.

Hi Nelson. What about the white king moving to g1 - f1 - e1 - d2? Do you think that this can be also a winning line?

I neither saw it, nor did it 😂

I'd have been curious to see how the game would have played out if the white king had moved along the bottom rank to get to D2.

What if you started moving the white king to e1 and swinging around the back to d2 at the beginning instead?

6:04 black's just gonna win the other pawn and win the race

I saw what happens when you take the pawn Nelson. If you do take the "free pawn with Kxe4" then black's king would put you in opposition. I didn't do it.

Excelente.

Pretty sure you can just go for a left black pawn and win it sucessfully defending

The only reason I saw it is that the way you asked it made me think it would be a trick question, lol

I saw it and didn't take the pawn in my mind. But without knowing it's a puzzle in a real game I would probably take it

What if the white king goes along the 1 row towards the peon on the left? It is able to protect its peons, black cannot mirror due to peon e3 and white can get in b3 first. White king goes h, g, f, e then d2. Black king will be at e4 at this point. It cannot take e3, nor move to d4 (peon check). What happens then?

I correctly guessed I shouldn't be taking the pawn. Mostly because 1) It was asked 2) we wanted to maintain opposition. In a game I would definitely have taken the pawn if in that position though.

I also saw the trick where you don't take the pawn.

(6:03) - of course, you warned us, but the right move would be ke5, for the right tempo :)

6:03 I chose King e5 instead of taking the pawn cuz mostly i think the obvious choice is wrong

I didn’t see it. But once you said not to get the pawn the first time I realized I had to go for the other pawn.

Always push the opposing King out of the way. The King can sneak around & cause a win ♟️ or draw ☝️

Is there a way to experiment on-line with this puzzle ? I don't have a chess board ... Answer greatly APPRECIATED !

Pawns are poisonous. 💀

That's why the king is 3.5!

I would have gone with king from below the double pawn to arrive in thr middle of all pawn before black king

saw it Nelson

6:13 I first tought take the pawn then i was like it can't be this easy it has to be opposition

Can you explore white king g1, king f1, king d1, and king d2, I think black can't do anything

My first solution was Kh1-g1-f1-e1-d2 targeting the c3 pawn directly. You would lose the e3 and e2 pawn but you will be able to escort the b2 pawn.

@philburns5656

Жыл бұрын

Was thinking that as well. But Black is fast enough getting his queen. 1. Kg2 Kg6 2. Kf1 Kf5 3. Ke1 Ke5 (!) 4. Kd2 Ke4 5. Kc3 Kxe3 6. Kxb3 Kxe2 7. Kc3 Ke3 8. Kc2 and it's a draw.

Good one.

Pretty sure there's more than one way to win this. When he goes K-g6 I'm going K-g3 and no matter how he responds, I am eventually reversing the opposition and getting my King to e1 while he's still on the 5th rank.

i am guessing the solution is advance the pawn, lock them and bring your king

at 7:09 what is stopping the black king from just going to C4 and forcing a stalemate again?

I did guess Ke5 to maintain opposition! Not confident I would have actually played that in a game, though. 😅

1.. at the time when black king takes white b3 pawn, white king has better go to d5 instead of f5 from e4.🎉

6:00 the reason i didnt say to take the pawn is that if it was the move you wouldnt have asked i said king e5