okay so kicking off our 1,400 puzzles is a rook endgame kind of a rook endgame but
not really a rook end game because we're going this way so I mean you just go here
just you just gotta you gotta block the rook from the okay that maybe that was you got to
know which way you're going and you just got to make sure that you block the rook
from I mean yeah that was weird that was we that was not a good puzzle okay let's apply
checks captures attacks all the same so we have Queen f2 and Bishop f2 um so queen of two looks
more devastating because you know you get the Queen in there but then you need to ask yourself
what's next Wheaton goes there King goes there that's not mate because the rook covers so this
one is actually Bishop takes F to this one is actually Bishop F 2 is you're not going to win
material sorry you're not mating you're winning material so it's Bishop F 2 check and now you
need to play something called an in-between move and in between move so instead of taking on a one
because then you would again not get recaptured you would just lose your queen you need to take
the Queen first in between taking the rook throw in the capture of the Queen they will take the
Queen back and then you will take the rook this happens sometimes the check is the most forcing
move in chess and then you take the Queen and then you take the wrecking a your up material
1700 level puzzle right sweetens ook okay we're gonna have an in-between move here as well this is
very very nice okay so we're gonna take the bishop because it's free and then well this was not this
was not the challenge I mean now we just moved the King this was this was a terrible follow-up move
if the rook had taken here we do not recapture the rook because then we lose our Knight rookie - oops
rookie - in between move Knight c4 check it is a move that is a more forcing nature than
the other move you give a check the King moves then you take the rook and you're up a knight
that is what an in-between move is and okay he gave us this stupid check so why is the theme
rook on the seventh do you see this theme oh you don't see you don't see it on your screen okay
okay what if I just move my Co sorry I'm I'm a little bit confused about this
puzzle what what does this puzzle want from me what if I sacrifice
queen
they take I take they have to block is that it is that is that a two rooks and six pounds
versus Queen and three pawns so the other the alternative is queen g6 but queen g6 is wrong
all right queen g6 is incorrect because after queen g6 they recapture you play rook f8 check
they play Bishop e8 but now the Queen on g6 guards the bishop all of you people saying
take the knight finish your calculation you know why wouldn't you just take the knight excuse me
why wouldn't you just take the rook it's the same exact position taking the knight is just
far too fancy so you just go here I think and you win all the materials so now this endgame
is considered winning because you have so many extra pawns that's why it's winning but if your
opponent had three pawns on the kingside it would not be a win so this way you just pick up three
pieces for the Queen you would need to obviously win this position but that's why this is winning
all right um oh this one's very tough this is a this is this is officially the hardest one that
we've done this is an even deeper layer this is not a check this is not a capture and this is a
setup to an attacking move a setup to an attacking move this puzzle is very difficult very and which
I see people in the in in my in my stream already shouting out the answer I know the answer and here
here's how all here's how I'll have you think about this as well when you think about attacks
right when you think about that third category checks captures you go to attacks look at what you
can attack the Queen that Queen for white is very precariously placed that's got no escape squares
so you can play bishop f8 to trap the Queen
if you play rook e8 and the way you evaluate if Ruki 8 is a good move is if you're a put so let
me let me let me explain this right now the way you would solve this is you would look at rook e8
as a slow move and you would go does my opponent have a check capture or attack as my opponent they
check a capture or an attack when I play rookie aid that stops me from doing what I want the
answer is no they can take but that does not stop Bishop f8 the bishop f8 just traps the Queen and
again here you do not recapture because then the Queen escapes you take the Queen and you pick a
material that's why this was an 1860 level puzzle let's keep it rolling okay this one we can apply
the same methodology that we always have checks captures and attacks 97 Knight f6 are the only
checks they're not good but you can keep 97 in mind because if you look at this capture you might
not you know you might not like it but it is an attraction puzzle you would track the Queen to the
c8 square and then your next move would be Knight to e7 with a fork of these pieces and that one is
easy we're probably going to gain some points here yeah it's only a 1200 level puzzle though
all right so what is going on here our opponent is pushing the pawn we're not up any material we
have no checks the only captures that we have are taking this and taking this both of which
are wrong which means that it is most likely a cat is an attack and the only attacking move
that I see is the backwards Knight move which Forks the rooks and also conveniently covers the
promotion square so what might happen is Knight here check we have to take then they promote but
then we take excuse me then we take so this one's kind of easy it's a backwards Knight
move and here you might freak out you might go I can't say because they promote is that true
the answer is no it's not true because 95 is a check that's what you have to notice otherwise
you freak out here but it's a puzzle for a reason and now you have to find the best move
what is the best move here this is the final part do you go back to cover the promotion
you actually probably can or do you go Knight d3
very tough one do you go 93r here
you know I'm thinking about this you I think
I think you actually can go back
but maybe not no I think you have to go to d3
you have to go to d3 this is actually pretty tricky I'm not gonna lie
so I think the idea is that if you go back they take obviously
because they want to promote you move your bishop
and they can go here and if 93 and they play this move to attack
you play Bishop b2 they take and then you get out in front still a very tricky position I think you
have to go 93 and that's right but that final move was very tricky so route d1 you need to Chuck your
knight by playing Bishop b2 they're gonna take the knight but since you're up a bishop you can play
rook e1 or c4 check and then rook e1 and I think you have to go here this is very tough though
so tricky tricky puzzle here definitely not an easy one all right I see a lot
of passed pawns check-in moves check King takes the pawn night
check takes this pawn night here we win we solved it push pause check
and what you would be against here is pushing this pawn because you
would see that you're losing this and you might not want to play it
but it's g64 to the night and then this is winning because in this position
Knight takes f7 you just have to pass pawns that he can't stop this is the final move of the puzzle
what do you have to play here do you play 96 and then if takes you have a fork what do you play
no you block the night sacrifices itself or the promotion and now you have to promote
to the right piece bishop obviously just kidding what can make a queen alright nice so the knight
gets in the way and there you go then you would have to win this endgame by taking all this stuff
tough one but it's nothing that you can't solve all right checks captures
attacks check rook takes rook takes back rank mate we solved it congratulations
difficult the hardest part about this puzzle is
the x-ray defense seeing that the rook guards the Queen through the rook
alright cuz it you need to look at the most forcing moves first the most forcing moves
are the checks you have three of them right so you're down a bishop I mean put it this way if
you're down a bishop you either need to win about six points of material or you need to
play queen c1 and make the guy that's what you have to do that's that's simply you know
that's simply the truth of the matter all right let's keep it rolling ah this looks
like something from our openings courses this is called the Greek gift sacrifice
Bishop h7 only possible when there is no night covering this square the Greek
god sacrificed the Greek god X sacrifice check and the Queen comes to h5 of course
there is some resistance your opponent can put up like this but h4 h5 is coming and
yeah all right the first thing I see is a check that forces the King
to the back rank followed by rook c1 we solved it
there is only one tricky thing here rook c1 there check here
check it back that's how wait yeah so check at any time a rook in a queen are checking a rook
like this and it's shielding the king there's little sidestep checks where you utilize the
pin and the King comes back and then the root comes back and we are covering every
single square by the enemy King all right again you're down to Bishop so you need to deliver
either a mate or win back a ton of materials so that's how you have to approach these positions
ah check but then the Queen just takes and I don't have a follow-up check check Queen just
aches I don't have any captures so it must be an attacking move since it's an attacking move
what is an attacking move we start with the Queen is there any attack on the Queen no
we start with the rooks after that Queen g7 attacking the rook and attacking the knight
easy peasy right that's Queens you're seven and now we don't take this don't
Auto recapture take the rook check take the Queen then you will take the knight and you
pick up material Queen g7 okay oh this one's a little tricky cuz this is some
weird endgame so black is here we're playing black we're going this way we are checked huh
so how do we saw oh my god what is this puzzle I think this is the puzzle I think we take
and then he's gonna try to promote and we're gonna try to make so we
have to play this to stay and now I think it's push here push Queen check
to sacrifice the rook and we mate the guy now how did I come up with this well the fact that
the King has no legal moves is a big hint all right I think that's that that's really the best
way to approach this position is the king has no legal moves and the guys I found a promote
and we need to win so it's got to do something with the king is you're not gonna win the rook
all right and you're not going to stop the pawn so you need to push push and make the guy it's
a very hard puzzle because what you've done here is you've weave the mating net around the enemy
King no you do not have to mate with the bishop that's the whole reason the rook is covering so
that is why you need the pawn to walk forward and then yeah so there you go all right this one
where what's going on so we are down to pawns it looks like we have a check but we actually don't
um we can't take anything but I think in this position we do have one very
useful attacking move do you guys see it yes see the attacking move
you
everybody does see it nice queen c3 NBL while bishop g6 would be nice unfortunately the queen
is just gonna take the bishop and and you don't want to play this because when you play Queen
Bishop here you're like oh he's gonna move away from the square no he's not why is he
gonna do that he's just gonna go Queen here so it's Queen c3 with a little x-ray on these two
pieces and it's very difficult to defend he's got to play something like rook e1 and I'm not sure
that fully defends everything but it's probably just this okay and now we just pick up the knight
let's be careful because there is a check you always need to look for the checks King we'll
go here but it looks like we're safe because if Queen takes let's not forget that we have
yeah so king goes here and he cannot take because we have an eye and that was the
hardest puzzle that we've solved yet 1938 all right let's make this the last one Knight g5
he's got two attacks on us we're gonna look for the check or this check first let's start with
Bishop c4 Bishop c4 he's gonna move his King to the h-file and don't we just win the Queen then
and if Bishop here the ruga blocks we just take the rug and we got out of the danger and then
probably ruiji 1 is coming anyway so I mean it's obviously Bishop c4 okay he just gives
us the Queen it just gives us the Queen ah looks like we don't have anything here we need to take
I wish I could take the rook maintaining the pin on the Queen unfortunately that is
an illegal move because then I would lose my king but I would love it if I could take this
and he can't take me back because of the pin unfortunately that's not how chess works so
we have to take the Queen ah we got to solve one more puzzle because we're not 1,600 yet
okay this one's nice his Queen age five force mate captures attacks is queen h5 force maid
we shade all the the subs by the way guys very much appreciated it's not made because this night
is going to come here attack you and defend so what do you do you got to take the night first
very simple to take the night then you play queen h5 then you may not a difficult puzzle
not a difficult puzzle so you got to get rid of the night and then it's just force made this
is a very common checkmate pattern you want to play queen h5 and basically here mate is
unstoppable and we cross 1600 a lot of the same excuse me a lot of the same themes that we saw
in the 12 to 1400 rated puzzles but these were a little bit more nuanced there was more setup
puzzles and there was more puzzles that had um you know these kind of bailed attacks so
try to incorporate this into your tactics we're gonna keep climbing though let's go 1600 plus now