How Is This Mate In 1? Tough Chess LOGIC Puzzle Chess Logic Puzzle

Great explanation. Flipping the player to move when there's no legal retraction is kind of the "official chess joke". It appears as Article 15 of the Problem Codex. This is one of the best of 100s of instances of this funny idea. But I would really appreciate, Frank, if you can highlight the composer's name right up front in your screen: you have plenty of space to left or right of the board. There is no IP associated with chess problems, but it's part of the problem culture to always give the composer's name when quoting a problem. This also gives a sense of history which is part of the aesthetic. Please. In this case it's Walter Freiherr von Holzhausen (Akademisches Monatsheft für Schach 1901).

Easy, promote by capturing the rook and promote to a knight MATE

I won't be watching any more of your videos,.

The rook could go to a8 if the kight was in b5. After that, the knight moved to a7

Click bait.

Retrograde or research puzzle but not a puzzle by definition.

I kinda had a feeling It was blacks turn

The best of these I ever saw was one that said "white to move and force mate in as few moves as possible." White didn't have M1 in that puzzle, but did have a check that where the black king couldn't move, nothing could capture the checking piece, and the only blocking move opened up a discovered checkmate on the white king. White couldn't force a win in one move, but could force a loss.

Oh! I see a retrograde puzzle because Mercury was in retrograde. If black moves and then white has to move for the check mate then that was in one? Huh?

Black to move

Give Me back my 7 minutes

Holy crap I actually figured it out. I am lousy at these overall usually.

I felt cheated by this puzzle. It is always standard to get to know who's turn it is, and in my book when the other color who is not mating gets to move first it is mate in 2 not 1.

I thought the pawn captures rook making it a queen is the move, damn I was wrong

MATE IN ONE MEANS MATE IN ONE NOT TWO REALLY CARELESS

seems like an “um technically 🤓” moment

Annoying, not funny, not clever, not subscribing. If you are creating a puzzle then you set the basic parameters i.e. white mates in one , black to move.

click bait

OMG hard

Underpromote to a knight!

This was textbook Bulls#*t, I won't watch a single one of your videos ever again.

Kd6,Rc8

Seems to me that their should be a more pronunced difference between the uses of the word 'puzzle' and 'position'

A position by definition is a situation on the board that can be considered to have been reached in some theoretical or actual game.

A puzzle is a situation where the pieces are set up to create a puzzle to be solevd, an arrangement of pieces which may or may not be achieveable in a game.

I know I'm probably be pandentic... ut have seen a number of uzzles where people complained because the positions depicted were not in fact achieveable, and just thought it would remove all such issues. (also posting this in very early hours after waking up with a slight hangover after cel;ebrations night before... sorry)


Also.. not a good player by any means... but I am pleased to say that I got the answer on first time watching... and loved the problem... thank you

If you trick me with a mate in one puzzle like this and let me think for a while and turns out that the trick is actually It is blacks turn I just Kick you in the balls man, don't

Click-bait af.

Guessing promote pawn to knight.

Edit: yep, that was it. Easy puzzle. Next…..

Very Interesting Puzzle.

There also mate in 1 turn if to set queen to e7. It will mate white king, because nobody said that white shouldn't mate their own king😂

Am I getting catfished here or ?

Me at the start: Queen b6?

I'm blocking this channel.

Ugh. Dislike and not recommend this channel.

You know... i just watched another chess puzzle video and i couldn't solve it and then i watched the video to the end and got the solution. (I'm less than a beginner btw) I left the video with a pretty positive mood however, because i could see where i was wrong. So, it's not like i'm too proud to admit defeat. It's more like i'm pretty annoyed when i have the feeling that i got cheated and that is what this video gave me.

However, black seeing through all the bs moves, desires to resign, thus no check mate is made!

Oh. Black had to make a certain move for white to get checkmate in one move

I would describe this puzzle as:
"Mate in one, with the assumption that this is a real game".

Otherwise you are simply misusing a term, and puzzles do not require a position that must be derived from an actual game.

Right away I was like whose turn is it, mate in one for who. Then you let us down the white path... So I only looked at those options....

Mate in 1 is Queen to b7 eating its own pawn. ChatGPT style victory.

Bad english is the problem: there is a mistake in terminology, the puzzle itself super easy

This is semantics not chess

Literally my first thought was "ok, whose move is it?" After all, I can't solve the problem if I don't have all the parameters. The puzzle was worded in such a cagey way that I suspected something was off and the solution / joke was gonna' be that Black hadn't moved yet. (I did briefly entertain the notion of how Black could mate in one, but it didn't take long to brute force all legal moves.) I've never seen a chess puzzle not divulge whose turn it is before as a fundamental common courtesy, and you don't usually see chess puzzles be termed "chess riddles", all of which sent my smartass-o-meter straight to red alert. Who makes chess puzzles like this? Rian Johnson?

b8=Knight

Oh yeah lies sell better

If it is black's turn, then this isn't a "checkmate in X" type of puzzle. Those assume there is mate on the board from the current player's perspective.

Also, puzzles that start from impossible positions, while not being common, are not strange to see either.

It would be a fun excercise to find mate in every possible move for black, but here the viewer is being missinformed about the goal of the puzzle in the first place in order to cause confusion.

On a side note. I did my first under promotion today to a knight, since it came with a check

I saw this puzzle a while ago and was told that the solution was to capture on a8 and promote the pawn to a black knight (apparently the rules regarding that are a bit ambiguous).

It’s black to move and after black moves white check mate in one move. So there are three options black can move. First K:c7+ and white takes on a8(knight) mate. Second King:a7 white plays b8(knight) mate. Third R:a7 and here white Rc8# mate.

Not fun, deceiving.

Bro then don't mark the black pieces in the thumbnail as if black just moved