3 Chess Puzzles I Doubt You Can Solve 🤔

Puzzle 1: Mate in 11 Puzzle 2: Achieve a winning position in 8 moves Puzzle 3: Mate in 15

wow, that 2nd puzzle is mind blowing with the triple underpromotions, very clever! Thank you Nelson for the video!

One under promotion is very rare in even studies, but three is mind blowing. Thanks Nelson for the videos!!!

The knight in the first puzzle also makes queen A4-C6-C1 checkmate impossible.

i already had a staircase checkmate in a real game, that was very satisfying

Nelson, you do a great job with these puzzles. You're going to have more subscribers than you ever imagined as word of mouth gets around in the chess world. Great job.

I really enjoy these puzzles, your detailed explanations and your very nice enthusiasm. You are doing us a favour - and yourself as well, which makes it even more fun to watch. A great thanks.

Puzzle 2 and your way to present is absolutetly wonderful. Thank you!

The way you explain enthusiastically makes me comfortable and easy to understand chess more easily ... thank you Nelson

His content has transformed over the past few months. 1 year to about 2 months ago, he did tips, traps, and tricks videos. Now, he does puzzles.

In puzzle 2, I felt so smart when I found the rook promotion in like 10 seconds, but those knight and bishops once were way beyond me. damn that was a cool puzzle

I was a 1596 at 8, and I recently got back into chess and those puzzles were so cool! Thank you Nelson!

nice, was able to figure out the first and last one, but the underpromotion one kind of got me since I was thinking to promote the e-pawn to a Queen (rather than a rook which wins) when that leads to stalemate, once I caught on, then the rest of the moves were not hard to find because it was all about controlling the a8-h1 diagonal from Black's light square Bishop. Incredible stuff! I mean, who isn't blown away from these mind boggling positions?! Chess is awesome, but not many people see it as such.

It’s all fun and games till you premove the staircase mate and he blocks with the bishop

I'm definitely going to get this book. I just LOVE these endgame related puzzles, due to the concepts they illustrate. Chess is just so beautiful, and such problems are the pure art that shows that, IMO. I find the simplicity and purity of solving a difficult endgame using principles SO much more satisfying than finding some complex middle-game shot, and I always hated memorizing openings (which is why I never got good (above 2000), re rated tournament play. I was often way behind after the opening and would have to grind my way out for 70ish moves against a much weaker player. But if I could get to an interesting endgame against an expert or master, I had a decent shot. (Which would often blow them away after witnessing my opening. LOL)

Wonderful. The staircase problem was simple enough that (re the hint about "staircase" in the video, that I was able to pretty easily solve it. The second one I was close, but I got stuck missing N-G6, but once you showed that I DID see the stalemate and figured out the required underpromotion sequence leading to the win. I don't recall seeing multiple underpromotions as a theme, not that I'm a big puzzle solver, more interested in, say, endgame themes. The first one was logical all the way, the main thing watching out for the checks. Of course, that theme made it easy (relatively speaking) to find the night sac on g6 at the end.

This is the most amazing chess video I have seen so far in youtube. I am not saying this lightly. I think the fact that you are not a Titled Player (as yet) but someone who is not very distant from intermediate/beginner players like us helps too. Like your calm approach. Your presentation style is amazing.

Even though i saw the first one it was very cool. I love these super interesting chess puzzles youve been doing. The game is so clever at crazy depths.

Wow puzzle #2 blew my mind, truly amazing. Is there a name for that puzzle cause I definitely want to show that from now on when someone asks if you promote to a queen everytime. Side note it took me the longest time to figure out why Bd2 didn’t work since it forces the king to the same square and you never move it again but of course it keeps the king from retreating back to its starting square (or C1) out of the knight checks

Wow, thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks! 👌