How to Win With Insufficient Material? This is Not a Trick Question!

Hello Chess Friends and Fans!

You might have noticed that I have been doing way too many video blogs the past few days. I just wanted to promote my channel, but my videos weren't the best quality so to say, so I'm gonna do those a lot rarely from now. However, if you are still interested in it, you can click here

Ok, back to the main topic:

This position is the basis of most "insufficient material wins." White would've had insufficient material if black didn't have his pawn, but black did, and so this position is checkmate. Here is an example of a quick tactic.

Pretty straight forward to play actually. However, this mate is so rare it has its own name, the Impossible Mate, which I think should be renamed . What do you think?

Anyway, the Impossible Mate is not the only insufficient material mate there is. There are many beautiful bishop mate studies too. Here is one.

As you can see, even 5 bishops is considered insufficient material, even though there is an easy mate if calculated. Nothing is impossible when you compare it to insufficient material mates.

There are many other examples of mates, but the most iconic one and most famous is the 2 knights vs pawn mate.