White To Play And SAVE THE GAME!

What's up guys ?

Super interesting position for you here .

It's white to play and save the game .

Now , I say , save the game because black has the queen , the bishop and the knight and all white has are some pawns and a night if black has even one extra move , they're gonna bring the queen over , start threatening our king and we're gonna lose the game .

So we have to do something quickly .

Uh But before I say too much , if you would like to pause , what is the only move that saves the game for white ?

All right .

Well , if you had a chance to look at that , uh one of these three moves should probably come to your mind , right ?

Because this is really all we have , we have the pawns which are , you know , preparing to potentially become queens , but black's king is kind of in a good position to stop them and black has a lot of pieces at their disposal .

Um If you play one of these two ponds , the bishop is simply gonna go to D six .

It unleashes the queen , the bishop is helping the queen is helping .

We don't really have anything the same thing if you go here , Bishop is just gonna take it and we can't do anything .

OK ?

But if we play B seven , it's with check , which buys us a little bit of time and this is the only uh saving move .

Now , black has two options here and here .

If they go to B eight , they've made a big mistake and now they go from a drawn position to actually losing .

It's white to play and check .

Made black .

See if you can find this one .

All right , if you had a chance to look at that , the move is knight to D seven .

Check .

Notice how the pawns are controlling all these squares .

The king is forced over to a seven .

Then we get the queen with check .

And after the king moves up , this is checkmate .

OK ?

So that's a pitfall that black can fall into .

But if they were smart , they will play king to a seven .

And now is a , I would say a difficult moment in the puzzle .

What move do we play as white ?

There's only one correct move which saves the game .

What is it ?

All right .

If you guys had a chance to look at that , the move is B eight queen .

And yes , there's nothing defending the queen and black will simply take it .

However , we needed to set something up by sacrificing the queen .

What , why did we do that ?

Can you see if you can find the next move .

All right .

Well , if you had a chance to look at that , the movie is C seven check and black again has a choice .

You can either go directly in front of the pawn or you can go up to B seven .

Now , they kind of transpose into the same line if they go here .

So we're gonna talk about the main line king to B seven .

Now , what should we play here ?

All right .

Well , you may have picked up on the pattern by now , but we are going to play C A queen again with check .

And again , it's undefended and black is going to take it .

So now we have sacrificed two queens and see if you can find the follow up .

All right .

Well , if you said D seven check , you are correct and notice if black moves in front of the pond .

Now we have a fork .

So they don't want to go there .

So they play king to C seven , but we get the queen and force them to go there anyway .

Right .

So here we go , 123 .

We just sacrificed all three of our pawns , but it's worth it because now we can go knight to F seven .

Forking the king and the queen , black plays king to E seven .

We take the queen and it looks like we can breathe a sigh of relief .

But wait a minute , black plays the move king to F six and look at our poor night over here trapped in the corner .

Now , why is this a big deal ?

It's a big deal because if Black has a bishop and a knight , if they take our night and they take both of our pawns , we will lose the game .

You can checkmate with the bishop and knight and the king against the lone king , which means somehow we have to figure out what we're going to do about the fact that our night is now trapped .

Ok .

So if you would like to pause , we are not out of this yet .

What do we need to play here as white ?

All right , if you had a chance to look at that , the only move that saves the game is F five .

And what we are doing is giving our night a place to run to .

So if black attacks us , we will escape here on G six .

Yes , we will lose the pawn .

But then we can hop over here the night escapes and we're gonna be able to draw .

Black is not gonna be able to check me at us with , with just these as long as we have our night still alive .

And well , ok , so that's the idea .

But black says , OK , I have a different plan and they just take our pawn and they're planning to go back to F six .

And again , we , we would be trapped , which means we have to go to F seven .

And now black plays king to E six attacking it again .

Now , notice carefully , we can't go here .

We can't go here because the night we can't go here because the king , we don't want to go back to the corner because we'll get trapped after king to F six , which means only move is check .

And now black plays king to D seven .

Now we don't want to go back this way because the move bishop G7 actually traps our night again .

Look at this .

It's controlling all the places that our knight would like to go .

The king is stopping these , the night is stopping this one .

And again , the night is trapped .

Blacks gonna simply come over here and take our night .

So we have to keep running this way and Black keeps chasing us king to C seven .

Now and now where does the night go again ?

You can't go here , you can't go here , you can't go here .

We have to go to a five and you might be thinking , ok , we did it .

We escaped but wait a second , black plays the move king to B six and you have to be really careful if you would like to pause .

What move do you play in this position ?

All right .

Well , if you had a chance to look at that , the first thing you need to understand is you can't move the king away because you lose your night that the king has to stay there guarding the night .

And if you move Knight to B three , which looks kind of like a logical move .

Like let's get it away from the king .

Let's maybe hop over to the center of the board .

Black plays the amazing night to see three , which by the way is checkmate .

Look at that , look at that .

That's checkmate .

So we can't move our king , we can't move our night .

The only move left on the board is C five check .

But this looks pretty terrible because after night takes C five check , we're forced to walk into a discovered check , which is usually a bad thing .

And it's no exception here because night two B seven unleashes the check and black is about to take our night .

So what do we do ?

Wait to play and save the game ?

Well , if you had a chance to look at that , the move is king to a four and you might be thinking , wait a second , we're losing our night and yes we are .

But guess what ?

It's a stalemate which means it's a draw .

We tie , we save the game .

Black does not win .

Wow .

Yes .

So that just happened .

You give up three queens .

Your night gets in the corner runs all the way across the board gets taken anyway , only so that you can get a stalemate .

I mean , that's pretty cool .

Right ?

Uh I'll see you guys next time as always .

Stay sharp , play smart .

And take care .