Letsplaychess.com presents Endgame Tactics

[Hazedream]

Everything white did was "Beautiful" whether it was moving or just plain out saccing.....

[raquijada]

BRILLIANT I APPLUAD TO YOU

[BalloonFight]

Absolutely great study, thanks!

[phunt114]

Most instructive endgame puzzle I've seen. Thanks Phil

[furrer08]

Pal Benko is/was great!

[Nimzomyth68]

I saw most of this after a long think, but I just couldn't spot what could be done after c5. Brilliant study.

[madcapslaugh]

awesome, great lesson

[marticus42]

Just beautiful. Didn't see anything like that. I'll work harder.

[ytmndman]

I got all the right moves, just not in the right order

[albertagungjohan]

very beautiful! i had not thought a rook sacrifice will solve white for winning :)

[tazeq]

There is one option more for black but it loses too:

1.Kg1 Rh6 2.Re8 c5 3.b7 Rb6 4.b8=Q Rxb8 5.Rxb8

[matewizard]

hi majnu! i really enjoy your videos ...

i wanted to know who's the author of this comp. and i found it surely with luck via google.

i simply feeded my chess program with the position and the program (like many others) shows me the FEN-Code (a worlwide standard to describe a chess position) of it and google says: i know! voila!

you can try this too:

8/3p1k2/1Pp2r2/4R3/8/8/6P1/7K w - - 0 1

[Majnu2006]

Thanks!

I'll mention GM Pal Benko in the video info.

[ric2nd]

i really like your videos. its awesome! thanks

[macnolds]

well, this composition is very beautiful.

however, it really isn't that difficult.

the lack of options for white makes it kind of

easy to see all the interference ideas.

i'm sure this video helped a lot

of the newer players though. thanks, majnu!

[sotov1]

I agree that the problem was not terribly difficult to solve. However, it is pretentious to say that the video only helped "newer" players. After all, Pal Benko would not have created this beautifully simple idea if it had not been helpful for himself; one of the TOP Grand Masters of the world. I see this as art, three variations, on a single idea, or this case a single tactic boiled down to the bones.

[OrangeSpam]

Just shows how bad I am at chess, couldn't foresee any of the proposed combinations :)

Thanks for the video!

[edmalikin]

When I usually play against computer chess program (which is strongest one) I find it difficult to prevent from any promoted pawns to get promoted. I'll take piece sarcrifice in account. Thanks, Eduard.

[greger333]

thats a nice one

[coolking49]

Great video.

[theuppercut]

i loved this video the most out of almost all of your videos

[elbay2]

That's what I like about chess... Even with little material left on the board there still exists the possibility of artistic play!

[brucewallace2]

Nice. It may be a composition but there are many positional similarities with OYB endgames. Worth remembering.

[trixapete]

really good video ty majnu. was the position from a game or did someone invent it for a puzzle?

[Majnu2006]

It's not a real game, it's a composition. That means that it's a position that was set up to show the beauty of chess. I don't know who the composer is.