This channel has become one of my favorites recently! ❤️

You're great! I like that you poked fun at the "phillidor and lucena" positions :D

@ChessVibesOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😄

Thanks so much for your videos, I am new to chess, played roughly 80 / 90 games according to my stats lol.. I’m a huge fan of your content, it’s clear and concise not to forget massively informative.. Hope you are well. Thanks again

@jonathanw8450

3 жыл бұрын

I 100% agree!

@ChessVibesOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, Duke! Glad you're learning some stuff :-)

@ajaysurendran3859

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChessVibesOfficial 1k th like

@Stephen-jj8nc

Жыл бұрын

1year passed, any updates on how your doing / you rating?

@naseebtn7315

Жыл бұрын

💯 percentage agreed

This channel is underrated, keep up the great content Nelson!

@ChessVibesOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@mikemcknight1295

2 жыл бұрын

This channel is really really good. A great teacher can really simplify the very complex.

this was a great tutorial. I was worried that it was just gonna be the lucena position and philidor position that ive seen covered a billion times, but these tips were really helpful!

You have the best explanations and most practical tips in all the chess channels I have followed. Please continue to make good educational content and advance in your chess adventures!

@ChessVibesOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

I’ve been watching chess videos for a year. I’m about 1500. I personally find your teaching technique the best I’ve seen online. Very glad I recently came upon it. Thanks for your help and keep them coming.

@prakash_clt

9 ай бұрын

Id. Jyothi_sithara. Let's play.

Ya actually he does know those positions. What a cool guy.

Thanks a lot, sir, for this video helped me to win an interschool chess tournament. I had 2 Queen vs Room + Pawn endings (Me being with the rooks) and this study helped me win both of them. Your channel is really informative. Great fan of yours.

12:23 isnt ra8# good?

At 20:58, in this position there are other moves that can win for white, Rf2 wins, and Re2 wins. I checked by playing against stockfish

@oenrn

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, both use the same principle: use the rook to shield your king from checks.

@huananko5160

Жыл бұрын

@@oenrn but moving to 4th rank is just harder to understand and kinda unnecessary to waste those moves and give black a chance to keep chasing ur king around

This was some excellent instruction, especially walking us through the first rook endgame. Thanks for making the video!

As usual, great course. Simple and clear! Thanks!

finally a good endgame video for beginners! most endgame videos for beginners are just like pawn and king vs king or checkmating with a rook this was very helpful thank you

Your all videos are very instructive!!! Very easy to understand and very good tips!!!

@ChessVibesOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Thanks a lot!

Love your videos! God bless the algorithm, otherwise I’d have never known about you

@ChessVibesOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

18:12 White: Plays Rb4 Black: I'm done

Brilliant video. Thanks mate 👍

Excellent video, well explained concepts, thanks

Nice explanation! Thanks!

Thank you so much this is really helpful!!! You make chess fun!!!!!!

Excellent explanations Nelson. Cheers.

You do fantastic and useful job mate, just keep doing it.

Great lessons as always...

Thanks. You are great teacher. Best ever.

This is so enlightening.

Great video, I will try to incorporate this kind of stuff into my games

@ChessVibesOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Great! Let me know how it turns out!

This was so helpful man. I recently had 2 rooks and 4 vs 2 rooks and 2. The starting position was white pawns on a2, b3, g3, h2, king on g1, rooks on f2 and f6. black pawns a3, b7, king on a7, and rooks on e2 and e8. I was so confused on ow to proceed but now I know that the outside passed pawns just push up the board and queen and the rooks assist in the queening journey. Very helpful to a 1300 rated player.

When you said that Pihilidor and Lucena position are not so important, you got me hooked. A lot of endgame material starts with those two, because then you can just explain what thousands have explained before, instead of really explaining rook endgames. :-)

Great video. This video deserves more views. You explain basic concepts so well instead of getting lost in minutia of some special rook ending where I need to calculate 7 moves ahead.

really good explanations, really good choice of content and really good pace. thanks.

At 20:10, white can actually win more easily by playing Re2 or Rf2, using an easier technique. To motivate the discussion better, the Black king should be placed on c7 or d7.

@mr.m6117

20 күн бұрын

No lifting of the rook at 4th rank is needed when kings are separated by three files.. when there are only two files this rook lift is a must.

Awesome video, Nelsi! Thanks so much!!

Excellent instruction!

Great video, thanks for such a nice and easy to understand explanation.

excelent video, thank you buddy.

thank you GM Nelson

Thanks for your neat content. I am a big fan of your videos

Great content!

great video !!!!

This is good stuff, ty

Very helpful. Thx

Thanks!

you really helped me improve

Chess Vibes and Gotham Chess are the best teachers / chess channels

Thanks for this video just what I was looking for

@ChessVibesOfficial

Жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

👍 Thank you soooooo much!

Again .. a great video

I just lost a game with rook endings. I was in a much stronger position and I blundered. ARGH!!!

@Lordridam14

2 жыл бұрын

haha

@phase0400

2 жыл бұрын

Ii used to be quite good at them. Now at 1500 im really bad and lose them all when im 3 pawns up. A key concept which wasnt covered here is get your rook on an open file first. This is really important as then you can go very offensive on your opponents pawn and your opponent can too if your opponents rook is on an open file. There is no way to defend all your pawns and you will lose.

Thank you

A good instructivve ending thank you

Best rook endgame video for beginners by far! Surprised I haven't found your channel until now :D

Trick at 14:06, if black doesn't push his pawn, but moves his king to a1, DO NOT take the pawn. Yep, stalemate trick. Just do a waiting move with your rook and black will be forced to move away.

@oenrn

Жыл бұрын

Or just play Ra8 and it's checkmate.

An excellent video

I lost an early tournament game in a theoretically drawn position because I did not know Phillidors position. I certainly learned it after.

I just want you to know that I watched this video a few days ago and today I got a tactic almost exactly the same as the one at 7:05 that I probably wouldn't have seen before and it won me the game a few moves later. Thanks :)

Thank you Nelson! My Cess tutor 👍😀

This video is so helpful! I'm new to chess, have been playing it for 4 months, and I've noticed that I am losing too many rook endgames where my initial position seems better simply because I don't have a clear strategy in mind. Looking forward to put your advices into practice!

These videos are gold

I just have to say, this is the best endgame course I've ever seen !

Nice lesson sir :)!

The best educational chess channel.🥂✨

thanks

I follow your things in every chess game

Great Video …

As a beginner I just played a game where knowledge of the Lucena position was much needed.

This is great. Do you have a playlist of pure rook endgames? I could watch hours of you explaining the thought process on how to win different rook endgames 👍🏻

Very helpful.. I have learned a lot from your video. Thanks ❤️❤️ 🇮🇳🇮🇳

20:48 again, because the Black King is so far away white can win simply by Re1 followed by Ke7, no bridge required. However if Black's King was not cut off and was at d7, for example, then a proper Lucena bridge would have to be built

@user-ch2kt8mz4b

Жыл бұрын

you mean Re2 not e1 i guess? i also thinking "why not bringing Re2 in this position, looks like its win too bcs black king too far", bridge ofc make sence as universal tool for all kinds of same situations no matter of black king position, just for this exact situation)

My man knows the Italian plural of tempo, respect!!

nice

Nice video! My son wanted me to write that at 15:29 you could have forced the pawn to advance

It has been my experience that King and Pawn endings are the most common.

Great Video! Also Weird question... why does your right click arrow look different from mine? XD

@ChessVibesOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

You mean on the lichess analysis board? If you mean why is it red instead of green, you can hold down the Ctrl key while you right click and it changes the color to red. And holding Alt gives you blue instead. =P

In your example at 15 minutes about the rook separating the king and the pawn, it seems like that would only work before the king is on the 5th rank. It takes 3 moves for the rook to take the pawn on the 2nd rank no matter what rank the rook is on while it's blocking the king because it has to go down to the first rank, over to the file the pawn in on, and up to the second rank. If the black king is on the 5th rank, it only takes to moves to defend the pawn on the second rank. In the Lucena position, it seems like it would be simpler to just move the rook to e2 so black's rook couldn't check on the e file. Black could go Kc7 or Kc8, but it doesn't matter because white could still move Ke7 or Ke8 and there's no way to stop him from queening. It would be different if the black king was on c7 instead of b7 and the white rook was on d2 instead of c2 because if white moved Re2 then black could play Kd7 and white wouldn't be able to play Ke7 or Ke8.

at 12:23 am i mistaken or instead of taking the pawn, rook a8 is just checkmate?

@drone231

2 жыл бұрын

no you're absolutely right! it is checkmate i saw that too

@stag6161

2 жыл бұрын

Good catch

@keegami

2 жыл бұрын

Was wondering if I'd see another comment about this, or if I was just crazy. I'm by no means good at chess (I'm only like 1300) but I saw that pretty immediately and was surprised he said to take the pawn instead. I love NM Nelson's content though, that just surprised me.

@karlstp

Жыл бұрын

It is checkmate, but for practical purposes of teaching this, it's not always gonna be checkmate in this type of positions, once you get to that point, you usually take the pawn, but looking for checkmate is a good habit in endgames!

@coconutwholesaleandretail7108

Жыл бұрын

12:23

So very helpful, as is the rest of your content.

@ChessVibesOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, Conner!

Could you make a video on Queen endgames? I feel it's rather hard. (say with +1 or 2 not very advanced pawns for one, (0 for the other)) Last time I had a position with 2 queens and my 2 pawns remaining it's winning but from my view rather hard to not draw vs the AI, I looked it up later and found the DTZ saying 40 (table base until first capture on most optimal move). What principles are there that help better position Queen and King, to prevent perpetual checks and make a progress to promoting your pawn? If your interested here is a pos, edited the correct position: edit: 8/7k/8/5q1P/1P6/8/3Q3K/8 w - - 0 1

Can you also do the Vancura position?

At 12:23 White can play Ra8 for checkmate.

"Where's the confounded bridge?" Bonus points await.

@21:10 if you play just Re2 .. it’s winning easily

Till today, i was able to make the game equal for me and my opponent and bring it into these rook and pawns endgame. But unfortunately, i lost in most of the games because I didn't know these although both my and opponent's points were equal. But , after seeing these i got to know so much that I hope to win in the next games

I was in a Lucena Position twice at a winning position, and the game both ends in a draw.

@danielyuan9862

Жыл бұрын

Now they will be wins

One question: On 21:10 (after ..Rg1) can white play Re7? It looks to me that he can still get the queen promotion this way (Lucena`s position is still better, because in this way black would capture the queen and white would remain with K+R instead of K+Q). Just wondering.

Nelson if he want to get Queen on h8 you can let him by not going diagonal to the king si let him make the Queen and than give him a chech with rook and he have to lose a Queen

14:29 can we play Kb1 instead of Rb8?

Hey what is better 2 rooks or 1 queen?

oh!

for the lucena position at 21:00, why cant white play e2 or f2? if the point is to use the rook to block check, isn't it better to just use the rook to control the file in the first place so that the black rook cant even deliver check?

@IngTomT

2 жыл бұрын

If white plays Re2 black can bring the rook to the side and give you side way checks but then you can just hide the king behind the pawn at b7, then black will pin the pawn with his rook but then you just play Kb8 and in case of check you can block with your rook which is then coverd by the pawn

15:20 doesn't Rf3 after pawn to b3 win on the spot? King can't defend it and the pawn will get eaten by Rb3 if the pawn goes to b2.

In the first example, would a more experienced player for black just leave their rook in defense against an A file pass pawn and leverage their king and doubled pawns against white's FGH pawns?

At 21:9 white could also win by playing Rook e2... Am I right please reply sir

At 20:35 could white also just go Re2 to block for the king on the next move?

@jaideepshekhar4621

Жыл бұрын

I think that is drawing. Just move Rook to h1. King moves to e7, bring Rook to h7. Pinned. King moves to e6, check. King moves back to e7, Rook to h7. King moves to f8, bring Rook back to h1. Can't really do much.

@huananko5160

Жыл бұрын

@@jaideepshekhar4621 nah that will work , u probably forgot King to e8 option if the rooks checks on h8 simply queen and Black rook will need to sacrifice for it ,and get a king rook endgame

12:21 Ra8#

In the last position doesnt Rf2 work? Cant you also bring your rook to g7 to hide the king?

@ChessVibesOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Great observations! Yes, both of those ideas actually do win in this position. However, there are certain cases where those ideas won't work, for example, if white's king and pawn are on the g file and black has his rook on the h file and his king on the e file, then white will need to resort to the building a bridge method to win. In hindsight, I probably should have chosen a different example position, but props to you for finding those alternate ways to win!

Great video. One question is in the example where the Black King is cut off from the pawn. If the Black King continues to wait on the sixth rank, what happens when the White King finally steps across on to the f file potentially blocking the Rook. Then b2 cannot be met by Rf1 and Rb1. Does White have another winning method in that case?

@jaideepshekhar4621

Жыл бұрын

Easy. Move Rook back to h5.

In the shown Lucena, isn't RF2 also winning? Because no matter what your opponent does, you can bail your king to the side, then behind your pawn and in front of the rook, and then there are no more safe checks, and you get a queen.

Thanks for another great video. I just wondered: At 16:01 if black dont play b2 but leaves the pawn on b3 and king on b5 and c5. how do white actually win? But actually i found out my self. I dont think it matter so much where white king is as long as the pawn has moved to b3. Because as long as the pawn is 2 squares in front of black king. If white play Rf3 it attack the pawn from side... and black cannot defend it with king anymore. So pawn is forced to move forward.. where white again will be able to win pawn for free with Rf1, Rb1 and Rxb2.. black king is just not in time to protect the pawn... so instead of Moving king around... as soon as pawn is 2 squares from the black king.. rook can attack from side to force it forward to second rank.. then go and take it.. If black leave the pawn on b4... white king will be able to go down on 1 or second rank and can cross f file in front of rook without loosing right? And it works only if black king is cut of on 6, 7, or 8 rank right?

@lehmamoo2627

Жыл бұрын

After b3 comes Rf3 b2 Rb3 winning the pawn even faster.

@niravapurv4578

Жыл бұрын

@@lehmamoo2627 yeah ofc, thats a.. why didnt i think of that :) infact white could have played Rf3 directly, did not need to advance to g3 with king.

In the second to last position why not waste a move or 2 on moving whites rook back and forth until black blunders? Because instead of moving the pawn like black wants you to wouldn't black be in position where they don't want to move but they have to then move your king up in front of the pawn?