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Attacking The Castled King Tactics! Concepts + Examples of Checkmating Your Opponent’s Castled King
Nelson, at 5:15 isn’t it directly checkmate if you just move the bishop to B1? I mean you open the checkmate from the rook again and the pawn is still pinned!
This is really helpful thanks.
Maybe the next one in this series should be how to defend the castled king against such tactical attacks.
Thank you for this high quality chess puzzles! Glad I solved each and every one of them.
2:37 I assume the best move for white would be Qxh6?
I would wonder how good exactly it would be, if Mr. Lopez and Mr. Rozman, coop at at least one Videoproject? Instructive calm meets instructive entertainment 🙂
The thumbnail… why is no one talking about it?
Today i reached an rating og 1148… yessss.
you were that guy that the chess nerd cruched in a blitz game 😂right
Alternative "Brilliancy!": Sacrificing the ROOK! 5:30
In puzzle 2 it's completely winning but white would likely not attack your king. They would take the rook for their queen and hope you slip up in a more complicated state.
You know… 3 queens usually hit the spot… But it's hard to start with them.
on 8:54 the black can win the queen
Last position shows how important it is to detect key squares (h4 here).
Funny cause the only one I got right was the 2600 one haha love the videos 🙂
8:55 is blunder from white tho
Queen h3 should also be winning in the second example. White has no checks and can't do anything about both mating threats
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Great video! I actually was able to figure out some of the moves!
10:58 and also I see the checkmate
Why is the rook there?
With all due respect, this is a much better video than playing against Martin with ridiculous rules.
Thanks, good content!
16:54 Ha! I solved one that Nelson didn't! (Incidentally, I followed his logic with Qg6 and saw up to … g5 and decided to bail out there. My only uncertainty was whether White had time for the next move of that piece.
(Later:) I didn't know that puzzles had specific ratings. I knew the came at different levels, but I didn't know that they could be correlated that way.
the master ones were easier for me.
Very nice lesson! Liked how they got progressively harder.
9:15 if king goes g1 queen to h3 won’t check and then knight h4 protecting g2 sacking the knight but preventing mate
Nelson, have you any videos talking about what moves or what kind of game you'd like to play, as opposed to what an engine would say is optimal? For example some e4 openings lead to exchange of pieces and I might prefer to have more choice what pieces to keep. Your video on playing (or not) the Fried Liver as black was an example of choosing what kind of game one is comfortable with. Are there more?
I found the last one easier to visualize than the previous.
This video boosted my confidence because I spotted g5 in the last puzzle and several other ones in the video. I'm not that great at chess but I play puzzles a lot and find them a lot of fun.
In the first intermediate puzzle I see Rh8+ is also interesting because of Qa4+ Kg8 Be6 Rfe1 I wonder if black is still somehow winning or if black can tuck in the king safe in the center somehow
at 8:58 if you take white's queen and they recapture with the rook you have a fork
3:49 but cant the white knight go and attack that square?
What happens in last puzzle if after you go rook f4 opponent play a5 or c5? I dont see the following
I always end up on the defensive end of these situations and get checkmated from way downtown, usually due to a battery attacking my castled king with three pawns on the 7th rank, and perhaps even the castled rook next to the king. There is one principle that says castle before move 10, there is probably a 36th principle which dictates when is the best time to dismantle the castle structure. I cannot find a reference (video or other) for that. Nelson or anyone ?
I have started playing chess again, and you are as helpful as you were few years ago 🙂 Thanks Nelson for being Bob Ross of chess❤
13:33 why Knight e7 dont work
Best channel for chess to provide wings to master anyone especially,subscriber regular viewer of it
Excellent content! Concise! Information-packed! Multiple take-aways! 18-minute total time!
Ben Finegold, take notes!!
He sacrificing the ROOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m a bit confused about third puzzle because after all that they still could play nf3 preventing qh4. After you play qh8, white can play g3 giving space for the king to run. You can’t play rook to h2 because the knight is protecting that square. Plying rook to h3 doesn’t help either because the white king can go to g2 and protect the pawn and get an escape route. If you play Queen to g8 now, it’s already too late. The king has an escape route and white can threaten winning the bishop by playing rook to b1 then pawn to b4.
Another awesome video. Without doubt the best to explain chess on you tube. Beautiful work. Thank you
well explained, good stuff. what are the questions to ask to find these moves? its easy to spot when you ask us to find the right move. but what are the questions you ask every move?
for 2:26 puzzle why couldn't you have sacrificed your rook on h1 king takes then you play queen h4?
how did i not solve the intermediate ones but solved one of the master ones???
Last puzzle, what about Qh6 Kf3 kf5 Qh7?
8:52 You can actually win an exchange here after Qxd1 Rxd1 and Nxf2+. So yes, there is a follow-up, but it's not as good.
You are reaching the quality of channels like Danya, fine gold or even Igor Smirnov! Keep up man, very instructive
And then he sacrifices THE QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!!
Khabibi where hsve you have been all this time🔥🔥🔥👌👌👌👌
9:43 rf2 and queen takes then bishop e3 wins us queen and creates a checkmate threat