The 0.6 checkmate was awesome

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

10 ай бұрын

Premoves whole sequence, takes a sip of water like nothing happened. Cool stuff.

@GreenRayJC

10 ай бұрын

Wow.

@toothlessrpm6177

7 ай бұрын

100th like 🤙

Dude wins by 6 tenths of a second and acts like its a Tuesday

@SickSportsTv

3 ай бұрын

i was thinking the same thing😂

Really strong player in the first game, even stronger engine in the second one

@RHCubes

9 ай бұрын

Lmaooo

@starboii568

9 ай бұрын

😂

@carlosfer5899

8 ай бұрын

@@cgm0826 That's the Jobava cheater 😆😆

@KurtUwe

7 ай бұрын

@@cgm0826does he cook rice while playing chess?

@cgm0826

7 ай бұрын

@@KurtUwe ?

That water swig after the first game 😂😂😂 that was so damn close, but you didnt even break a sweat

@bajulybs9021

10 ай бұрын

Yea lol😂😂😂

that 0.6 second checkmate was cracked

In that first game, Nelson could easily have been an actual 1400, right up until the point where his opponent blundered the rook - after which no real 1400 could convert in 10 seconds.

@MellopellowChesss

3 ай бұрын

Im VERY late but, thats because Nelson is very textbook.

I noticed that even after you finished deciding where to move you still explain why for a bit before moving the pieces. As I'm sure you've deducted, if you move and then finish explaining you will save quite a bit of time. I love watching your games and lessons by the way I've learned allot from you and I thank you.

Thank you for all the Videos Nelson! I love all of them! Your Videos got me to 1500 in just 2 1/2 Months :)

@Almashina

10 ай бұрын

from 1480 or 1600? :-) (just a joke)

The biggest surprise is that it took 156 games to come across a cheater Most of us were expecting one much earlier (There was a suspicious 400 and a suspicious 800... but at least they toned it down a tad)

@jojonjef

10 ай бұрын

Cheaters normally wil be higher rated

@TheJoker-rn8zc

10 ай бұрын

Well yeh but most of em get banned when they cheat consistently

First game was just awesome so close on time but still a win😮

I am loving these Speed Run videos. A lot of great details and tactics are reinforced.

LOVING these long chess streams. amazing!

The thing about that cheater beyond the metered precision was just how lost he seemed to be in the endgame. Double checking every move with the engine to make accurate moves. His style didn't even change a bit towards flagging Nelson. Contrast that with Nelson's win in the first game. Once Nelson had that advantage, he just rolled a pawn for a second queen. There's no need for every move to be precise. The opponent could have simply traded the queen for Nelson's last pawn and rolled out 2 queens and there's nothing Nelson could have done. Otherwise, by putzing around with knight pins and the like, he's exposing himself to stalemate tactics (Nelson's king was blocking his pawn progress a lot and a knight sacrifice at the right time *might* have yielded a stalemate) and to royal forks. That's just risky play; even for a GM. It's not just the quality of the opponent's game... it's the discipline, rhythm, and style. Then looking at the player history... there's A LOT of 50%-60% sequential accuracy games AGAINST 1000ish ELO players... and then abruptly jumps to 90ish.

@kingrex1931

10 ай бұрын

Yes, the accuracy jump in the last 6 games compared to the previous games is quite stark.

@MinotaurvsCyclops

9 ай бұрын

Agreed, like Nelson said in the video a person of that calibre wouldn't overthink taking a free queen. Also nothing stopping them from h1 and just taking Nelson's pawns and making another queen, which even a 600 would be able to do.

Your podcast is amazing in every way! This is really educational I think, with live analysis and playing gradually stronger opposition.

I have learnt a lot and improved significantly since I started watching your climb series. Thanks :) :)

Suspicious definitely. But GingerGM's previous course on the jobava london advised pushing the g and h pawns against the early bf5. So that bit looks less suspicious. But why is this guy only 1482?? Right to report him. The timings are way to consistent, even on obvious follow up moves.

@anshumanp74

10 ай бұрын

I play the jobava got a puzzle rating of 2400+ still stuck at 1300 rapid I tend to make a lot of blunders, although I rarely lose when am playing the jobava london

@christopherheckman7957

10 ай бұрын

He has only played 4 Rapid games (Nelson was the 4th), so there's probably not enough games to get a good estimate. (For instance, the USCF doesn't give you an official rating until you play at least twenty games.)

@anshumanp74

10 ай бұрын

@@christopherheckman7957 oooh, I never checked his profile so can't comment on that but it didn't looked that sus to me atleast

churning these out now! good stuff

Second player was doing his own ratings climb.

the adrenaline from the "cheater" seems to have cured your cough / sneeze

its wild having seen this and subsequent speed runs live, and then coming back 10 months later to rewatch the speedrun and seeing the evolution of the ricecooker gambit live

Thanks for your vids! Learned some good things. I think if you want to save time, maybe explain more with arrows? Works for Eric Rosen.

Another idea would be to do a ratings climb in bullet, Nelson would play 5-10 games then dub the commentary afterwards If he encounters a cheater he can try the hippo. He might fail against the top cheaters using really good bots but he would succeed sometimes too It would be hilarious to see the various premove/flagging strategies

39:53 Alex Banzea plays this line all the time. I love his videos too so it’s not that weird of a move ☺️

Thank you man for this amazing video ❤ please keep it up🎉

Nelson, you hung in pretty well against Stockfish Next time!

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

10 ай бұрын

Impossible to win in this time format, but if it were blitz or bullet I guess Nelson knows to go for hippo and just play for the flag - the old chessbrah strategy, works well

@davidshatto7604

10 ай бұрын

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400not impossible for super gms, but even then very unlikely. Naroditsky has managed to flag a couple players using engines in rapid speedrun games, but I think those players were also very slow to play moves from their engine

@jojonjef

10 ай бұрын

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400by the time you know it’s an engine, it’s likely too late to play hippo

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

10 ай бұрын

@@davidshatto7604 There was also that one dude who destroyed Danya then started playing without engine and stalemated lmao. Good times.

@davidshatto7604

10 ай бұрын

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 don’t think I have seen that one xD do you happen to remember the name of that video?

1:04:37 stockfish like chill its just queen and Rook near the king 😅

39:50 pushing that pawn with the idea to trap the bishop is classic Jobava London.

Nerves of steel in that first game of a cliff hanger. Why was I more nervous than Nelson? Congrats.

i love that you're playing the KID, thank you for doing this rating climb!

the ending of that first game was unbelievable

your content is amazing, keep it up man

That first game race against the clock mate was nice, that 3rd game opponent went through some crazy moves and sacrifices to get the rook on a8 haha 😂, very interesting position I like games like that, last game aggressive player too

Let's believe for a moment that Galadriel97 saw that knight move so quickly. Finding it quickly is not suspicious, but playing it so quickly definitely is. Any other player would spend at least a minute thinking: what if this knight sacrifice doesn't work? What if Black doesn't accept the sacrifice and comes up with some solid counter-attack. It's impossible to think all that in 10-15 seconds. On such a move, a player is likely to spend at least a minute. Maybe two or three. And this reasoning itself proves that there was something suspicious going on. Another thing is: all White pieces were perfectly aligned to make that move possible. The Black didn't have even a single escape. I mean: that's Stockfish level stuff.

@kingrex1931

10 ай бұрын

The fact that he played the obvious follow-up of Bxb5 in the same amount of time is also suspicious. He processed Nb5, a very tactical move, very quickly, yet it took him a while to play Bxb5. He was lightning fast one moment and slow to move the next. He took just as long to play BxD7, winning the Queen.

That pre-move stuff blows my mind every time. Even if I knew how to enable it, I'm not sure I would know how to do it. Like when he move the g pawn all the way down the board in one motion and it automatically filled in the moves. That's the only way he could win.

Sorry to ask but I don't see a link for it, on which platform do you stream ?

At 28:07 you could counter attack and trade rooks instead of losing the queen by bishop to e4. If he takes with bishop you take the bishop with queen throwing him in check and forking the rook, if he put you in check and takes your rook once he takes it you take the rook with diagonal and his knight is stuck in the corner

By watching continuesly, 500 to 700+ and going up. Thanks for these amazing videos.

@krstev29

10 ай бұрын

This videos are very educational

@xhago605

10 ай бұрын

you are still bad , iam 1400 elo

@imrannajir5184

10 ай бұрын

@@xhago605 DAMN 😁

@frisky8548

10 ай бұрын

​@@xhago605you are also bad, i am 1600 elo. Git gud

@CarlosMagnusson07

8 ай бұрын

@@xhago605no one likes you

Galadriel: currently 19-9-2; he must be a quick learner.

20:11 I wondered if you had stuck to your original plan of moving the pawn.

At 5:40 rook to E1 is a FAR better move. Would defend the pawn, IF they take it pins the knight. Allowing you to take the bishon on D7 with yours if they did. So many tactics.

@firstlast8858

9 ай бұрын

Stockfish at depth 21 has the position as +1.2 after Nc3 compared to +0.6 after Re1. Black isn't forced to take the pawn after Re1, and if he doesn't then Nc3 is simply a better developing move

Maybe try 15 min games like danya? Love these videos

Would love to see a video for lower ELOs with a segment focused on end game mate moves. So much focus everywhere I watch on openings, and it’s made me a much better player…but I can’t close out games effectively. Give me two bishops and a knight vs a king and I’m running him in circles. Would love to know how you mentally approach some final mate moves.

Nelson At 28:07, why isn't the following playable? Your move: Q-d7, (also defends the back rank knight) black can still fork the rook and the king, and if doing so, pins the white bishop to the queen, K-e7 white knight can still take the rook (but is stuck in the corner) you can throw in a Q check and get your knight to safety. You end up down a rook but up a pawn. and still playing? Thanks for the education. (even though I have probably missed something in my analyses)

@kudeku1296

10 ай бұрын

What if you just dont take the knight or retreat the queen so that it protects the c7 square? White has nothing. You could also push your a pawn and the knight would just drop back. I don’t understand why nelson was afraid?????

@lokeshpatel6540

10 ай бұрын

Qd7 just loses a rook, while in Nelson’s line you get a knight and bishop for queen. That is slightly better because two pieces will be better able to create some counter play in the middle game. Though against an engine, almost impossible to see a tactic that engine doesn’t see.

Wow! O-O-O(!)... that was pretty sweet. I wasn't looking at anything like that, either. I thought the check and then the block was best And then ... Kd8 defense, too. Yeah, Nelson. You're not alone in that "weakness". I didn't see either of those candidate moves, either.

I'm getting stressed by all this talking about "not gonna spend much time on each move to fall back on time" then you spend 2 minutes on saying that during your turn rather than doing a move. Insane speedrun towards game 1

First game he couldve very easily lost bcs worse pawn structure ( that seemed like a bad queen trade then the forced bishop knight trade after ) and his opponent somehow just had terrible endgame skill despite being 1450

1:04:37 😂😂😂 "Nope, im not going to play chess like that "

Thanks dear Nelson

the castle queenside counter-intuitive strat...I bet the second game player would've loved the third game

I watched your other video about the first game before this one & think I was wrong. I did think of the knight move as a 1500 myself, but only after I paused the other video & stared at the position for a good 30 seconds or so knowing there was a suspicious tactic to come. Here, your opponent definitely seems suspicious, particularly in regards to the time usage during follow up parts of the tactic & for fairly obvious moves near the end of the game.

@11:40 y not go after hanging knight from pawn movw w q?

You're the best Nelson

42:00 Indeed suspicious but you never know for sure.

Have you considered playing with an increment? It would help with the time pressure.

@DanielSong39

10 ай бұрын

Nah this is better, makes for better content

@CST1992

8 ай бұрын

The "increment-haters" would be booing him to no end. I play 15|10 myself because I like to take time to think and now after 500-ish games I can play 10|0 technically speaking, but I still stick with 15|10. That way you can take 10 seconds to think in the endgame regardless of how much time you have remaining.

@DanielSong39

8 ай бұрын

@@CST1992 As an "increment-hater" I love seeing dirty flags and I think it's a great part of the game

I love this man

Wow.... .6 sec checkmate!!! That was slick

Maybe play 15 | 10 time control so that you don't find yourself in a time pinch while narrating.

@danielyuan9862

10 ай бұрын

I'm sure Daniel Naroditsky plays in that time control, but clearly, that means the games are going to be longer. His videos are just as long as Nelson's longer speedrun videos, but they're only one game. But to be fair, he does go through the game more thoroughly. It makes sense though, since he's a GM and probably has more to say about a position.

If you see this message before your next recording I would say to save on time make your move First then explain. Or explain As you're making your move. In one game you spent 35 sec explaining the move you was going to make when you could have mentioned it first, made the move, then continue explaining on your Opponents time.

Game 1. Wins with .7 seconds on the clock. Cool takes a sip of water...

So at the 1:58 mark you put your white bishop on B5. HOW is it even possible that they dont move up their pawn to A7 threatening your bishop? Forces you to move to A4 or move back to possibly C4. Either way, thats where they lost the game. Changed everything i think. Also. why did they at 1:30 move there Knight to from D5 to B6? What a pointless move. How are they rated in the 1400's ? Back to back waysted moves. The people i play aint that stupid and their rating is much lower. Mine too. Is there something i'm missing? Splain Lucy ! Thankjs

Where does he stream at?

In the crucial position of the cheater loss how about Moving knight to A6 ? Looks to me like it neutralizes the attack.

1:04:42 stockfish is very daring 😹😹😹

Can you please play the pawns gambit?

Yes you're right. Some people cheat even with premium accounts. b4 or b5 is what I play too, mainly in italian.

Why couldn’t you go knight a6 to protect that c7 square vs the cheater? wouldn’t change the outcome but not considered, why?

1:03:31 wow castling totally forgot about that I mean pawns are completely fucked, enemy pieces are right there castling there is scary so that’s why it got overlooked 1:03:46 yea

Dear Nelson, I have noticed in your previous few videos how your chess board is blurred. It used not to be the case in the past. While your cam video shows nice and clear in HD, the chess board and pieces are blurred. It would be great if you could fix it. I even mentioned it once on your live stream and a few other viewers also noticed the same issue. Thank you. I'd also like to mention how this series is the best series on KZread to learn chess. Thank you for all your efforts.

@ChessVibesOfficial

10 ай бұрын

Can you timestamp where it's blurry? I'm not seeing it on my side I guess.

@intellectuallyinsane

10 ай бұрын

@@ChessVibesOfficial Hey. Thank you for the reply. Actually, the board seems blurred during the whole video. In each rapid climb video, it is a bit off. It's not super blurred, but even at 1080p it seems like the board and pieces are displayed at 480p or at a slightly higher resolution. I watch the videos on a laptop.

@Mr-Hoot

8 ай бұрын

@@intellectuallyinsane You might be having a weak connection or something because it looks pretty clear to me.

18:45 that was cloooose!

28:35 knight to a6

Hold up. Isn't 9:56 check mate? Sac the bishop check, then move knight to g5 check, then queen to b5 is unstoppable checkmate? Can someone help me here I want to know if I missed something... if they move pawn f7 it's still covered by the knight. If the rook moves aside then queen h8 is mate.

@Thatoneguy-12

3 ай бұрын

What is queen to b5 gonna do lol

is it possible to force a stalemate against an engine?

Can you please play the pawns ioni?

Someone explain this to me...obviously his ratting is much stronger ...but if I have new account anywhere my ratting jumps directly to 2000 in few plays..so what is the fuzz about??

I do think the guy might be a cheater but up until he wins the queen it’s possible that he just knows the opening. I’m also around 1500 and I do know about this line (Jobava London) despite being e4 player. I think some other KZreadr show it. Alex Banzea if I’m not mistaken.

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

10 ай бұрын

At some level you have to know Jobava cause it can destroy you in couple moves if you don't.

@user-ti4di1uh2d

10 ай бұрын

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 I actually don’t need to know it. This is because I play 1.d4 c5 (Old Benoni defense) and if white still want to go into London they’d need to play c3 (e3 blocks in the bishop) which removes the option to play Jobava London because you can’t put knight on c3 anymore.

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

10 ай бұрын

@@user-ti4di1uh2d Ahh, fellow Benoni enjoyer. Nice to meet another one.

@kyz6227

9 ай бұрын

I watch Banzeas Jobava London videos, nearly all of them and I’ve never seen this line. Maybe I’ve missed it and I don’t want to say this guy is cheating

In the last game, how could you castle queen side, if the rook is looking over it ?

Lol. Bet that first end game had you sweating!

I am suspicious of gadriel. 93% accuracy in a game that long is hikaru level stuff. Nelson is also 2200. A 2200 doesn’t just lose to a real 1400 level player. Would be like a 1000 level losing to a 400. Took it with class though. Keep up the good work 👍🏼

@Cyberangel39

10 ай бұрын

He is a friend of mine (I'm his chess teacher), sent me this VOD. I probably would have reprted him too because of Bxb5 taking such a long time (he said he was turning on his rice cooker at that moment). But, to be honest, the rest of the game looked pretty normal. Nelson just blundered his queen and there was nothing he could do anymore. Just for the info, he always plays this slowly.

@davidshatto7604

10 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@Cyberangel39I find this hard to believe. I am at this rating level and perhaps it is true that this person is very underrated but Nb5 is not a move that I expect anyone at my level to find, and certainly I don’t think I would have found it

@DaveLK2000

10 ай бұрын

Nelson premoved the queen without checking all the options the way he usually does, so I think he just missed a line the opponent saw.

@pauladkisson1138

10 ай бұрын

It’s also pretty distasteful to immediately throw around cheating allegations on a SMURF account - like c’mon… I love these videos, but Nelson is basically cheating against everyone he plays! I know the rating points get refunded but it’s still not really honest play.

@user-qg7wu3xn6u

10 ай бұрын

i am more suspicious later on that nelson was left with a pawn and a knight and he gave him the chance to fork his king and knight twice... and he did not find it...i mean i cant believe he found all the other moves and missed the one in front of his face ...38 30 or sth like that the timer@@Cyberangel39

thought that was gonna be your first loss !

1:03:40 how can stockfish castle queen side while there's a rook in the way?

@perfectyoutuber8557

9 ай бұрын

You can castle if your king doesn't go through check which in this case, it doesn't. However, the rook legally can go through check.

@UnMondeRiant

9 ай бұрын

@@perfectyoutuber8557 aaaah right, I thought the whole space between the pieces had to be cleared from any checks, thx for clarification :)

@perfectyoutuber8557

9 ай бұрын

Kind of like you can still castle if your rook is under attack. You wouldn't say, "oh why can you castle if your rook is in "check"?". The rook is irrelevant. It's the king that can't be in check, go through check, or go into check, when castling. I hope this makes sense.

@perfectyoutuber8557

9 ай бұрын

@@UnMondeRiant no problem

At 28:37. What if you just dont take the knight or retreat the queen so that it protects the c7 square? White has nothing. You could also push your a pawn and the knight would just drop back. I don't understand why nelson was afraid????? What do i dont see

@alemansa

10 ай бұрын

The knight will go to c7 regardless as its protected by the bishop, that will fork king and rock, instead of being rock down he prefered the 2 pieces for the queen.

@kudeku1296

10 ай бұрын

@@alemansalol bishop sniper out of nowhere. Didnt even see that bro

.6. Unreal.

looks like opponent was aware u r live and got hints from urslf n won

Isn't pawn f6 a free bishop? 1:13:45

@specialuset8022

10 ай бұрын

Nope, the bishop can go to h4.

26:44 at this moment why you don’t go for Bishop f5 after that you can threat checkmate!?

59:49 Does Qe4 not just win the rook next move?

@mythbusters866

10 ай бұрын

No, white play Nf3 and black win only Knight.

@Trelmayas21

10 ай бұрын

@@mythbusters866 Oh yeah, duh. Still a free knight.

1:03:27 how can you castle queenside when whites rook is attacking squares between your king and rook?

@mythbusters866

10 ай бұрын

Castle is possible, if King is not a check or step check squares. This rules no meanings the Rook

@mythbusters866

10 ай бұрын

If white Rook is c7 now castle is legal

@mythbusters866

10 ай бұрын

White Rook attack only b8 squares, so castle is not legal.

@specialuset8022

10 ай бұрын

The king isn’t castling through check or ending up on a square where it’s in check, so it’s possible.

Galadriel97 hasn't been banned so I guess the PTB decided this game wasn't too egregious to be impossible.

@hilarycraig5360

16 күн бұрын

Thank you I was wondering

You missed N A6 to protect the Knight fork.

Nelson, get some delsym for the cough and some chloraseptic for the sore throat. It actually works better than ginger and will make it easier getting through these vids ;) Signed, a chess fan in the medical field.

Wow 1400 hundreds are really strong

Nelson. You should post your lives as video Upload

"I don't want to waste time by over talking"... .6 sec checkmate.

I say add a "Cheater" section under "Draws", then you can track those separately. That last game was great, though.

@christopherheckman7957

10 ай бұрын

You could do what they do in the sports world and put in an asterisk (which is read as "contestable").

You know they can get away of cheating right by only using the engine if it is necessary.

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

10 ай бұрын

Not for long, it starts looking like a pattern when you play solid game, make a mistake and suddenly play best moves for a couple games.

Edit: The guy seems to be smurfing. While looking at accounts with similar names I found Galadriel 87, also from Germany, but higher rated. I dont think that guy was a cheater. Im pretty sure that up until the brilliant move is covered by a jobava London course, and then after that most of the moves were easy enough to see, speaking as a player of similar rating. I agree the time usage is a little bit suspicious, but even after I calculate a tactic and an opponent falls into it I scan one more time just to make sure I havent missed anything.

@elisha2358

10 ай бұрын

If you look at his history it's very convincing that he's a cheater

@user-ci5xg7us6b

10 ай бұрын

His moves were so obvious

@user-ci5xg7us6b

10 ай бұрын

They could not be the best move. But they were.

@bartholomewtheiiijr.386

10 ай бұрын

@@elisha2358 It looks more like he is smurfing.

@tenderloins_

10 ай бұрын

The way he was pushing the pawns on the king side is actually Jobova London theory. But I still believe at some point he turned on an engine.

When you say let’s play a trap let’s play a trap

I dont like the hoard of people shouting cheater. It certainly doesn't look good. Take a wait and ser approach, thats all I'm saying. I assume we'll get an update if anything newsworthy happens

@christopherheckman7957

10 ай бұрын

Especially because of the "boy who cried wolf" story.

@carlosedwardos

10 ай бұрын

no, it was definitely cheating, he found a series of moves that even a GrandMaster wouldn't find, and he found them all in 12 to 15 seconds each 🙄

No time to switch the rice cooker on...

I think you destroyed everyone