Ah, this feeling when you suspect your opponent, but their accuracy turns out to be 50%.

@adamayup474

9 ай бұрын

lmao

@rogergeyer9851

9 ай бұрын

Which is good that he checked it out and admitted he was wrong. I was starting to suspect funny business too, and I was DEAD WRONG. At least the algorithms showing accuracy give a reason (over time) to accuse vs. just suspect.

@AlexK341

3 ай бұрын

Very similar to the feeling when you play so good of a game you start worrying if you’ll get banned for cheating and then game review just says you suck and are trash.

Love this teacher’s demeanor. He’s so calm. Great teacher because he explains WHY he makes his moves.

@cerebralcomics

10 ай бұрын

He’s the best.

@CM-nm4ov

10 ай бұрын

@@cerebralcomics I’ve learned so much from this teacher. Because he gives so much information, I use a notebook and write down his lessons but only practice one thing at a time.

@kylox6940

10 ай бұрын

@@CM-nm4ovGod bless him he is so good

@tiagopaim3060

7 ай бұрын

He's calm when he wins

@NickEberle

3 ай бұрын

He is one of 2 or three people that I really improve if I watch his videos

I’m kinda stuck at this level of ELO … it’s great to see him say the games are kinda tricky… makes me feel better that to reach a 1000 isn’t easy

It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who sees a good move right after doing another thing

The blunder at the end of the 800 game wasn’t too sus to me. With under a minute left, there’s a good chance the time pressure was creeping up on the opponent. I’ve played great games before that I blunder at the end due to getting under a minute and losing my nerves completely, which leads to spectacular blunders, and I’m right in this range as well. It’s also why I don’t play 10 minute games, but my 20 minute or 15|10 ones get low on time sometimes, probably the biggest thing I need to work on.

@vibecat7101

6 ай бұрын

Bruh, i play 20 minute games too, but i never get under 15 minutes 😂

@robby1816

5 ай бұрын

You are not Robinson Crusoe.

@lucianorodriguez7726

3 ай бұрын

Totally right. When my opponent has low time and no increment is on the match, I used to play a bit faster so my opponent does not "think" during my time, but of course that finishes on me blundering

This channel helps a lot because you explain it at an 800 level. A lot of really high level GMs forget that all the 1500-2500 rated skills and basics they take for granted are already over sub 1200 players heads to begin with. This explains at the level being played at.

I’m 1500 and that 800 definitely plays better than me in a bad day. Even in a good day I’d just be about the same strength.

31:29 The rook is hanging with check 💀 They can block with Rook, but then you take Rook then take Queen.

@battistagiovanni969

9 ай бұрын

Also a rook hanging on h8 lol

@GuardBuffalo

3 ай бұрын

@@battistagiovanni969that’s what he was talking about

@daanw6270

Ай бұрын

My tunnel vision would never allow me to spot that lol

@AntiTubeLess

Ай бұрын

This is the way!

I don’t think the guy you found fishy was that strange, his play reminds me of my own, I’m 1700 on puzzles and have pretty acute tactical awareness but still stuck in ELO hell due to a tendency to blunder by hanging pieces when my blood is up.

@UAPch

5 ай бұрын

Are you an Aries ♈️? This sounds like me what you said, I suffer from impatience and tunnel vision.

@bananamonkeygaming14

4 ай бұрын

skill issue

Nelson killing it as a chess teacher again! Thanks!

You're the best chess-instruction youtuber, hands down. Appreciate you!

I now crossed 1200 in rapid after watching your videos and tons of practice. I was 800 before. Looking forward for more videos and more improvement in my game 😊

i went from 500 to almost 750 :) loving these videos. Keep it up. Amazing videos as always

@KarlAdamPhilipson-px1um

3 ай бұрын

Im currently stuck at 600 do you have any tips

31:29 "and after all of this, they blunder a piece" says Nelson not noticing the blundered rook :D And a queen after that

@danielyuan9862

10 ай бұрын

And the fact that the hanging rook was able to be calculated before the opponent made his move as well...

@CJAcebo

9 ай бұрын

I’m glad you guys saw that too 😂

Love your videos so much because even when you make mistakes and get surprised it's just barely over my head to where i learn from it. Great teacher

Looks like it's very common to do pretty well in the opening and middle game, then suddenly blunder in end game then lose at the range around 1000.

Great channel. Just found this series. Planning to watch them all 🔥

Very nice & instructive explainings!

Your videos are awesome thanks. My favorite is your instructive rating climbs

I’m convinced those estimated ratings from chess.com are anchored by the players rating. Some of them just seem massively nerfed against your actual performance in the games. There was one within the first couple of vids that said 700 I think, which is just crazy. I think chess.com might need to look at that as if that’s the case the estimates become a lot less useful.

@DanielSong39

10 ай бұрын

There was one game where Peter Patzer played like Paul Morphy and was given an estimated rating of "1500"

@EddieDubs

4 ай бұрын

They are. They're based on the elo of both players and are essentially useless.

This is so incredibly helpful!

Nelson, this channel really helps to understand the thinking behind moves, the philosophy (of common sense) and your calm calculations make it seem very straightforward. It takes away a lot of the angst and mystique and encourages beginners like me to play. Still, I have not yet managed to completely turn your lessons into unbeatable chess, far from it...but definitely improving! And, if I may say so, you come across as a very decent and patient person. Thank you!

i love watching your videos just for the sake of your calm great teaching.

Good timing, my Chess homie. Perfect rating class too. 1000 ELO posse here woop 😂

Love these vids!

thank you for those excellent explanations

Thanks for everything. Lesson learned... Gotta just keep playing, that first one was scrappy! 🤣

Calm and explanatory, best educative chess content in KZread

Love your vids 🙌

I did not feel like Yuvals91 was cheating. Rather, it felt like they were trying to stay on the offensive and find counter-attacks. They were not best moves, but it felt oppressive because they forced you to defend... until they blundered a piece.

19:22 you missed a possible queen trap by playing bd4

@DerTinker

Ай бұрын

Bd3 you mean

@unejszejnati3370

Ай бұрын

@@DerTinkerright

41:45 Bd3 traps the queen but you didn't saw that sigh

At 20:17 what do you think about the idea of playing Bd3 instead of Nc3?

This series is GOLD!

I feel like when I’m watching a game I play like this but when I’m actually playing I play like a potato lol

I think there was a tactic at 56:39 that wasn't considered. Bb4, if Bxb4, Red1 pins the queen to the queen. Nothing else is defending the bishop but the king and white is so well defended, so if the queen moves instead, you just trade bishops and the king is exposed in the center of the board.

F1 to D3 at 19:11 traps the black queen, right? Didn’t you see that or am I missing a response for black?

800-900 players are really good. Currently at 900 and it seems like we are playing at a much higher level..

@thebcwonder4850

7 ай бұрын

It feels like suddenly my opponents’ strength skyrockets past a certain elo

Bro i just crossed 900 rapid but my blitz and bullet ratings are +1000, this helps a lot!

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

10 ай бұрын

Usually blitz and bullet pools are a bit stronger, so you should improve at rapid even more soon

@arrowofkira5658

10 ай бұрын

Yeah usually your rapid rating is around 300 points higher than your blitz rating. So you should improve or just farm wins in no time. You'll definitely be better in time scrambles in rapid games for quite a while

I love these videos ,also benefits alot no matter what your rating is

12:13 How he moved his pawn from d4 to c5

@madanger6877

3 ай бұрын

It's called En Passant

@yosef38307

2 ай бұрын

What en passant means?

8:20 Bxf7+? What is best move the white?

The second game was crazy. Black made a mixture of enterprising moves and mistakes. If he was using an engine, I don't know what he was doing with it! It must be very difficult to commentate and think at the same time, so Nelson missed some obvious things. Also, when the position gets sufficiently complicated, even a NM doesn't have enough time to look at the variations in depth. So, it becomes a bit wild and chaotic.

now that's just not your day Nelson, great teaching!

I tried to do this challenge, got like 55 wins in row, and lost to an opening trap

This video has conveniently released just like 2 minutes after I got back from school

@Thewoors69420

10 ай бұрын

It’s summer vacation there is no school?

@simonfarmer4005

10 ай бұрын

​@@Thewoors69420the Earth is comprised of two hemisphere's

@bruhifysbackup

10 ай бұрын

Yeah lol

@prawnydagrate

10 ай бұрын

@@simonfarmer4005 oh my god I thought there were three

currently exactly at this rating. i just don’t feel super motivated to keep playing games cuz i feel like my rating isn’t going up. if anything, it’s going down. the thing is that im 2200 in puzzles, so i feel like i should be higher rating

@danielyuan9862

10 ай бұрын

Puzzle rating is completely different from game rating.

Heads up, some cheaters will use an engine, but often play the second best move because it still wins a lot and doesn't look like they're cheating. Eventually, they get caught, but with new accounts, there's reason to wonder

I just signed up for an account, can you make a quick video explaining how to nagivate the site and use the engine?

game 3 - cheater. 800 ELO doesn't play like this. Game assisted with stockfish.

@retentionpond7402

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, don’t think he cheated every move, but he was finding some absurd moves like the queenside castle.

19:38 you could've won the queen if you played bishop+D3. It would've been trapped....

Nelson if you play the 4 knights game as white you should try the Halloween gambit

I love the sarcasm, lol😂

I love that you are slightly annoyed at the last player for trying to flag you when they have a ton of time. I feel half the time I play rapid, my opponents try and play like it’s blitz. It drives me insane

Can you do gambit openings next time? Like queen/ kings gambit Vienna gambit or gambits like those

I noticed when white blundered the piece you missed the rook in the corner which would’ve been check and you could’ve won the queen and rook for free.

Nelson does have a calm voice and explains the moves well. Would make a very good chess teacher. I can learn a lot from him

I was rated around 900 for a few years. Over the last 31 days, I started doing puzzles for an hour a day, watching chess videos, and playing a few games each day. My puzzles went up by 600 because I'm more careful, but I got way slower at solving them and even seeing simple moves. I was ok with bots up to 1300, and occasionally got a win over bots in the 1400-1800 range, somehow. Now I'm losing to 1100's, and my blitz rating has dropped to 650. IDK if I have a brain tumor developing or what, because it makes no sense that I'm getting _worse_ with practice... But I'm thinking it is just time to quit. It's clearly not my game. It's demoralizing AF and I'm constantly on the edge of trashing the closest thing I can grab.

@carlkligerman1981

9 ай бұрын

Dude I always lose ELO right before a major jump in rating,what you are describing is pretty standard as you improve, it takes time to consolidate new ideas and while you are forming those neural connections boggling blunders, a slow down in your thinking and calculations (becasue they are deeper and more complex) is entirely normal. Nobody improves on a smooth parabolic curve but the engines, in fact cheaters are found if their improvement is too smooth, one step back before going forward is the very definition of human learning!

@davidserra6206

8 ай бұрын

You will not always improve in a straight line. It is frustrating and I have seen ,any people give up hobbies and activities just as they started to become "good" because their progress would plateau or regress. I feel like it is easy to become "good", because you can just use your natural strengths (in the case of chess: take time to practice, have an analytical mind etc.). But it is very hard to become "very good", because then you have to identify and work on your weaknesses. This is where I think that a tutor can really help.

@thebcwonder4850

7 ай бұрын

How often are you playing?

It's VERY VERY difficult for humans to consistently see tactics like the pin you're discussing around 1:00:30+, and see them accurately enough to act on them in a rapid game. That's why I prefer slow chess. In slow chess you can take your time, evaluate the position carefully in context, really carefully consider ideas like that specific piece configuration in context, not just "it feels like there must be something here", and act on it. Then if you mess up (as I still do at times, like everyone does) at least you can learn from it.

At 31:29 you had Qxh8+ and you win the queen and a rook instead of just a knight.

At 31:29 Qh8 is missed opportunity, time pressure!

20:09 bishop B3

I am amazed how well some players played. I once played a game against a 400 (as a 2100), because I had aborted too many games (still crazy that there was such a mismatch). Honestly my 400-rated opponent played a great game (78%, opponent, against 89%, me)

@thebcwonder4850

7 ай бұрын

I think players will unconsciously step up or down their play based on their opponent

At 20:19 game three can you play bishop d3 queen looks trapped

2:30 now you play d5 to get the bishop to f5

that hole time you didint know what to play i was yelling pawn b-5 lmfaooooooooooooo

33:28 you could've captured his rook and end up getting two rooks and a queen for one rook and a queen

@divizianationalacom

10 ай бұрын

I have also notice this. Double check. I was searching for a similar comment cause I was thinking I am missing something. I believe Nelson just was under time pressure.

@31:30 I feel like Queen H8 would’ve been better then simply winning the knight

31:31 do you not think the better move would have been to take the rook in the corner with check followed by taking the queen with your King well protected

@GuardBuffalo

3 ай бұрын

Would’ve been a lot better but what probably would’ve happened is rook comes back to block. You take that too with check. King takes your queen and then you take the queen with your rook.

4:13 Can you just move d5? threaten quenn also removing the pin and starting to develop white square bishop?

@Aryan-xl1df

10 ай бұрын

Yeah and 31:28 also didn't take that free stupid roook on h8. Some mistakes at 69% accuracy.

@EyoEsu-et2ux

10 ай бұрын

@@Aryan-xl1df YEah I saw that too.. but I think it's because of time pressure ^_^

@Aryan-xl1df

10 ай бұрын

Yeah you are absolutely right but He is 2400 high rated player. They play the game in such time control every time. I don't want to say but it's not good sign. But as a 1800 player I can get it what you say......

@megauser8512

10 ай бұрын

The queen could then just take his bishop with check, forcing his king forward to take the knight before it takes his queen.

@Aryan-xl1df

10 ай бұрын

@@megauser8512 bro are you drunk I am telling about game 3. Also given time stamp 31:28

31:29 you could’ve taken the rook with check and won the queen

In the game 3 was there a queen trapped Bd3?

Thumbnail reminds me of something that this Ed guy does often

Goood game ❤

At 20:09 you had Bd3 which would have trapped and won the Queen EDIT he could've played Bxf3, which would've resulted in a trade and freed the Queen

I still wate for your first draw

How come at 25:05 you didn’t even consider moving knight to H3? Threatens the queen and when it moves it’s a discovered attack on bishop G3. If something else moves, such as bishop takes e2, king can take or ignore and threaten the queen again (depending on where it goes)

@derrickmarsh6136

6 ай бұрын

I assume you mean Knight h4? That move loses to Bxc3+. From this position white has 4 legal moves. Bd2 leads to a forced mate in 6. Kd1 leads to a forced mate in 2. Kf1 doesn't lead to a forced mate, but leaves black +6. At a glance it should be clear that whites best response to Bxc3+ is bxc3, however even that move loses material after...Qc2 threatening mate on e2. Whites only option here is Qxc2, which loses a rook for a Knight after the Knight recaptures Nxc2+, with the fork.

Do the opponents know they play against someone stronger? Are they told afterwards when they get their elo back?

@paulbrennan4163

10 ай бұрын

That's what I've been wondering. If so I think they should be informed _before_ the game because some of them might not like the idea and are only interested in playing against equally rated players.

Whenever a 900 plays a good game, the master always thinks he's cheating! 😮

@RooterDelWifiXs

4 ай бұрын

I'm 900 and I think he's cheating

We'll see when the occasional draws and losses start coming in I'm guessing very very soon The opponents are getting tougher

@jebbush3130

10 ай бұрын

probably not before 1600

@jebbush3130

10 ай бұрын

if they're not cheating

I feel like you’re my best friend! Really too bad I can’t stop you to ask questions, because that would clear my mind up radically!! (By the way, do you even see new comments on old videos?

Don’t feel bad Nelson. I miss most moves most of the time.

at 19:41 bishop to d3, queeen was trapped right o.o

What about Nb7 in 38:40 ? You’d be forking the bishop and rook

In the end u could take the rook in the other corner was hanged

In game 3 after 6.qe3+ it's already -1 to black!

at 31:20 nelson goes ''and after all this tactic he just blunder in reality what if nelson did : take on h8 ; 2 option for black block or move to d7 if he block just take again and sac the queen for the 2 rock , and you have still the discover attack on the queen with your rock , it will go to end game 1knight vs 1 roock

@GuardBuffalo

3 ай бұрын

End game would be Knight & Rook vs Knight. He would also still have his knight left

31:40 what do you mean little bit sus dude is clearly under time trouble lol. also you missed the free rook in the corner right there, rather than winning a knight you could have had a free rook

@Nestor__Makhno

Ай бұрын

Yeah he couldnt look at stockfish in the end lol

27:44 1.----N×P

What does ‘flag your opponent’ mean?

18:44 why not Qe2? Also, 20:06 Bd3 would have trapped the Queen, no?

6:09 isnt Qxb2 possible and get a free pawn + rook?

My rating range, going to like this one.

As you get past 1000, can you start doing other sorts of openings? I play caro and queens gambit and I'd like to see what sorts of tactics and gameplans are available from other openings in some detail before you get high enough they can punish you for playing stuff you're not that familiar with

31:28 Why you didn't take that free stupid roook on h8

@user-kx7tx2xl7c

10 ай бұрын

Yeah

Does he do what I used to do? Resign when he realizes he made a mistake? Causing his elo to tank?

that low elo reverseroo lol

31:29 just take the free rook in the corner

27:01 is there nxd5?

Last opponent was playing Blitz 😂😂