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@PowerPlayChess There is a Beautiful Study Composed by Vladimir Bron who was soviet Problemist showcasing the best study for the triangulation rule, it took me about 38 minutes to solve from first position until the end and i showed it to many of my Iranian Titled Players and they couldn't solve it in first hand and needed a lot of time. i think the position deserves a video :) i will just type the Piece Configuration for you Mr King W: g2 f4 d7 Bc8 Rb2 Kg6 B: h6 h2 f5 e6 e7 Be1 Kc7 White to move and Win !! Truly Astonishing Composition And as Always Thanks For The Videos :)

@adamfysh-foskett961

27 күн бұрын

Okay, I had a go (without computer): 1. d8=Q+ Kxd8 2. Rc2 h1=Q 3. Bxe6 Bc3 4. Rxc3 Qxg2+. White's mate threat is lined up. Black can defend but checking puts up more resistance: 5. Kxh6 Qh1+ 6. Kg6 Qg1+. Now 7. Kxf5 doesn't work due to 7. ... Qb1+ 8. Kg5 Qg1+ 9. Kh6 Qh1+, with Kg6 met by Qe4+ and Kg7 by Qa1. White has other plans, but needs to be careful, as 7. Kf7 leads to the main line but with White to move in the mutual zugswang at move 11. So: 7. Kh7 Qh1+ 8. Kg8 Qg1+ 9. Kf8. Black cannot defend the mate, and doing so wouldn't work here, but has a stalemate trick: 9. ... Qc5. White can continue though with 10. Rc4 Qc6 11. Kf7 - mutual zugswang. Transferring the rook to c4 means that White can now go after the f5 pawn: 11. ... Qc5 12. Kg6 Qg1+ 13. Kxf5 Qb1+ 14. Kg5 Qg1+ 15. Kh6 Qh2+ 16. Kg7 Qb2+ 17. Kg8 Qg2+ 18. Kf7 Qc6. We have returned to the previous setup, except clearing the f5 pawn out the way means White can use his own f-pawn: 19. f5 Qc5 20. Kg8 Qg1+ 21. Kf8 Qc5 22. f6 and Black's defences crumble: 22. ... Qxc4 23. fxe7+ 1-0.

@hossein.g5685

27 күн бұрын

@@adamfysh-foskett961 brillant ❤ you are correct Did you like the study ?

@adamfysh-foskett961

27 күн бұрын

​@@hossein.g5685 Yes, beautiful, as you say - very delicate manoeuvring. Killed a long train ride nicely!

Beautifully explained. From the myriad chess channels available, yours is my favourite (one other comes close). It's the combination of technical standard, delivery speed, informal/formal balance, humility and ideas. I think sadly, the endgame is glossed over, especially by younger players, as, with the advent of fast finishes, there is often no time to properly calculate and appreciate them. Even world class GM Firouzja stumbled.

Beautiful. Such games prove that chess is more than just a game, it's art.

@med017784

Ай бұрын

Was art time ago. Now machines destroy the art, it is mechanic actually…even though fun

@sebszab76

Ай бұрын

@@med017784 I disagree. Using an engine is an option, and playing such games on the board is pure art, a great human accomplishment.

More Nimzo and classic chess please!!!

Amazing game! That's ridiculous I haven't seen it before

lost many a game due to this trap. now am aware of the trick. thanks a lot for the lesson, daniel :)

Daniel, check out the double triangulation of Dzindzichashvili vs. Beliavsky, in the 1984 Chess Olympiad. From the 80th move forward, white triangulates twice in a row to break black's fortress!! I will not explain the winning idea behind the double triangulation, but it is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen on a chess board.

Great video, as always, thank you! 😃 Interestingly, Nimzowtisch himself got into a famous zugzwang position in the famous San Remo game with Alekhine one year before this encounter 😄

That was astonishing.

Hello GM King. A lovely example, thanks! Would you consider doing a mini-series on triangulation using different pieces? The famous Philidor Position in QvR, for example, where the Queen triangulates. May I also suggest a rook "triangulation" in the endgame W: Kd3, Rb1, Pd4; B: Ka5, Rd8; W to play and win. Thanks again!

Of course i remembered this classic, but your joy and illumination made it worth sein again. thanks Daniel.

Nice video, as usual. Karpov wrote a book titled "Chess Kaleidoscope" in which he talks about " The theory of corresponding squares" a closed related topic to triangulation. I'm sure you know about that theory, could you talk in one of your great videos about it?

Beautiful geometry!!)

Fantastic video. No other KZread commentator could produce something of this quality.

@PowerPlayChess

Ай бұрын

I’m sure they could, but they choose not to!

Beautiful ending and very nicely covered! What is the HGM for? Did they award him a Hyper Grandmaster title off the back of this masterpiece? 😅 Not sure there'll be too many endgames as delightful as that!

@rolandkensdale1889

Ай бұрын

Think will be Honorary GM, not officially awarded during his life.

Eleganz in Perfektion, danke!

I'm a very poor chess historian but I see Nimzo and a knight and I feel like there's something familiar about this even though I've never seen it before. :) Double triangulation, of course. Nice lesson. Thanks!

Thx for covering endgame topics. I’ll be a real chess player when I start studying endgames! 🤣👍🏽

I recall a Study by Zinar Mikhail where there is some kind of triangulatio. Here is the FEN : 8/8/8/Pp1k4/1P2p3/4K3/8/8 w - - 0 1 Probably not a impressive as this one, but still you have to lose a tempo without alowing counterplay. Once you get the idea, it's not that complicated.

@PowerPlayChess

27 күн бұрын

Very nice!

At 11;39, what happens if the white king goes to f2? He negates black's triangulation with a triangle of his own.

A very instructive ending . In the position where White plays Bb2 can’t Black make his life easier by just immediately playing Kxg3 instead of capturing the Bishop and having to calculate a still somewhat tricky line ?

The commentators were shocked over Firouzja's move, and so was I. Apparently 90% of the chess world knew that was losing.

In the position after Bb2 in which white's king is on b1 and the black king is on f3, isn't Kxg3 a little better? e.g., ...Kxg3, Bxa3 Kxg3, Bd6 Kf3, a4 g2, a5 g1(Q)+ etc. Although the other line is also winning, it involves Q vs. Q, whereas in this line white never queens.

@michaelblankenau6598

Ай бұрын

I looked at the same thing . After 1…Kxg3 2. Bxa3 Kxf4 White can play 3. Bc5 but after Ke4 4. d5 Kxd5 White has a much simpler win then having to calculate that double Queen ending .

@dhslye

27 күн бұрын

@@michaelblankenau6598 Ah right, Ke4 is better than Kf3... I missed Bc5 & d5.

Alekhine vs Yates Hamburg 1910 !!

@PowerPlayChess

Ай бұрын

A celebrated triangulation, but in my opinion much easier than these.

7:40 Mathematically speaking one would think that when white does triangulate at the same time via f2, the situation would remain the same.

@adamkowalczyk2049

Ай бұрын

I was wondering that too but in case of Kf2 white can bring back the knight

@advandepol7537

Ай бұрын

@@adamkowalczyk2049 The knight can only to d2. The next move the knight will have to go back in order not to be hit by the king, so the balance would remain the same?

@brendan3143

Ай бұрын

I don’t know the answer to this but was wondering the exact same thing as to why white can’t answer black’s triangulation with its own version of it.

@nilsp9426

Ай бұрын

@@advandepol7537 Huh? From d2, the knight can always go back to f3 or e4, so now it is an endgame basically a piece up, given that the white bishop is trapped.

@advandepol7537

Ай бұрын

@@nilsp9426 Yes, you are right.

Nimzo the greatest!!!

What a beautiful endgame!

O.T. Bláthy, 1929 mate in 290 moves. Quite beautiful. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ott%C3%B3_Bl%C3%A1thy