This is the best channel for learners. I found it by accident after wandering over other "popular" channels. Here, instruction is delivered in simple language, with no drama, no egos, and the content is so practical for beginners and intermediates. I was getting disheartened on other channels where they talk technical jargon at breakneck speed, and move pieces in a blur. Can't thank you enough Nelson. Keep 'em coming.

@chriswaudby1084

Жыл бұрын

Yep that's why we love the Nelson

@JonnyD000

Жыл бұрын

Same just found this channel recently and it's the best I've seen after having looked through quite a few.

@zappyFPS

Жыл бұрын

+ Daniel naroditsky

@PauIdenino

Жыл бұрын

@@zappyFPS Yup

@vanjahruska5661

11 ай бұрын

I second that statement. Thank you Nelson.

Boden's Mate or as Gotham Chess would call it "Criss Cross Apple Sauce".

@deadlypendroppingby

2 жыл бұрын

every time he said it I added apple sauce in my head

@oldsuitman7762

2 жыл бұрын

I think you got it wrong, it's a discovered attack/capture of which its theme may be appealing to young players

@suckysuck446

2 жыл бұрын

@@oldsuitman7762 shut up dude

@lalitkishore3697

Жыл бұрын

It's apple saws I guess

@bigfgreatsword

Жыл бұрын

Criss cross apple sauce IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOARD

I really like how organized you are. Chess tutorials can be pretty rough when the teacher isn't well prepared, or tries to record everything in one take. Very well done!

You make the best instructional chess videos on KZread. The way you consicely explain principles, patterns, and tactics are incredibly helpful. This method makes learning chess far more fun than memorizing a bunch of lines, especially for a casual chess player like me. Thanks for the great content!

@yourbestfriendtm2668

2 жыл бұрын

No, hanging pawns is better

@Noir0rioN

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, no-this guy is under-rated AF

@wbotti

2 жыл бұрын

Agree 100%. The vids have no fluff - which shows he has great respect for the audience's time. Fantastic

@pauldavies5611

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto what dawnpatrol said. These are great. Thank you!

@stanleykee

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

Lots of positive comments and those are justified, this video is very complete, and shows good examples of how these mates are hidden in normal games

This is the perfect example of a good chess video! It talks about an important topic, gives good examples, and has good puzzles that haloes you know where to find the mate in an actual game. Great work!

@majormononoke8958

2 жыл бұрын

Some puzzles were great. Others not so much.

Bruh I didn’t even realize you made it on agadmator’s channel. That’s an honor!

These pattern videos are gold. I have a really hard time memorizing lines, but you always contextualize them in a principle. This is a great channel!

You explain chess concepts better than a lot of IMs and GMs; I really appreciate how concise and straightforward your videos are, and I love that there's no sense of condescension or arrogance like I get from other channels. Not naming names but the one I'm thinking of rhymes with chotham gess. Subscribed! Thanks a million, keep up the good work!

@sheldonhaughton1848

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣 so true

@williamsmith8640

Жыл бұрын

Imma call him chotham gess from now on

@SG2048-meta

Жыл бұрын

Chotham gess is more for a laugh I think, he just acts that way on his channel. On a recent WIRED video we see Levy being non arrogant

@multiverse737

Жыл бұрын

How about a chotham gess vs. chess vibes match?

@adrizzle3352

Жыл бұрын

​@@SG2048-meta absolutely. He's just pointing out fun things in the development of players. He himself said that this is normal and happened to most of the players. On top of that it's an internet persona

This is the single most informative chess video I have ever seen, thank you

@ChessVibesOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@jaybird1806

9 ай бұрын

@@ChessVibesOfficialRecommendation on what to use to drill these concepts? Example: Learn the concept then do puzzle, puzzle, puzzle until you simply can’t unsee it?

Thank you dear Nelson, for another truly awesome lesson! As always, it's very instructive and I love your calm, no nonsense style of teaching. Keep up the good work! :)

Good one. Attaching names to patterns is a great memory aid. For more on mating patterns and their names check out "The Art of Checkmate" by Georges Renard & Victor Kahn. For a ton of practice with these mates get a hold of "5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games" by Laszlo Polgar. There are 3268 mates in two and 774 mates in three to practice on in the Laszlo book.

@Ryan-jz5kr

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendations

@rockyjforay

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I have that Lazlo Polgar book. I need to bury my nose into it. 🤥

This is probably my favorite chess video ever. Great work man!

Brilliant video filled with useful information presented in a very concise way!

16:04 HOW can the king go to g7 the rook is controlling that square

@promise4775

2 жыл бұрын

Just have courage :)

@Norwegianoiler

2 жыл бұрын

If he puts his mind to it, the king can do anything.

@esat6063

2 жыл бұрын

U can’t capture the king soo

@TK5280.

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he meant moving the king to g7 before white had delivered check? Idk man good question lol

@TK5280.

2 жыл бұрын

Okay I rewatched it, I was grasping lol like I said good question 😆

Amazing , I'm be replaying this for weeks to study . Thank you !

5:12 I've lost so many games to Lolli's Mate! Good to know it and have it in my mind. Thanks Nelson.

@chickenlevi975

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Seems I'm subconsciously obsessed with lolli's

@jestfullgremblim8002

Жыл бұрын

​@@chickenlevi975 Stop.

Love these. Super practical. Thank you!

19:54 I mean you could capture with the bishop first, but I assume that queen sacs have more swag same on 21:30

@Andrew-zi3iw

Жыл бұрын

they do indeed have more swag

I'm glad you includeded the Legal's mate, thank you for adding an opening!

As always smooth, helpful, informative and concise thanks alot man

Thanks for the help, you’ve quickly become my favourite go to chess help guy. Much appreciated👍👍👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Very instructive and well articulated like most of the other videos in the channel

Enjoying the content, which is clear and easy to follow, and the short 'try to work it out' pauses are ideal. Great stuff. Thanks.

I really appreciate the sober presentation of valuable ideas. No background music, no attempt at jokes, no ego being on display; just plain information. Thank you!

Just started 2 weeks ago, sitting around 500 now after watching this. Have won 10 in a row , I was missing a lot of wins. Thanks man!

@Swolhippie

Жыл бұрын

800 now, pushing for 1000 by the end of the year!!

@MalikEpik

2 ай бұрын

@@Swolhippiecongratulations.

Good stuff Nelson! This is going to help my Puzzles score for sure.

The best instructional videos I have yet to see. I appreciate most how you get straight to the point and don’t try to be funny or clever.

I feel like your videos dont help me when and after i watch them but they plant little seed of knowledge for further down the road that have been really helpful, thank you

I'm so thankful for your videos Nelson. So many times, I'll be playing a match and not realize until I've already done it that I've applied some sort of tactic, strategy, or mindset that I learned from your videos. I have only been playing for about two months but I am without a doubt such a better player today than I was when I started and I have you to thank for so much of that.

Great job, very well outlined

Great to have the names of these. Helps to memorize them.

Thank you so much for the video, this should help a lot with my rating climbs

10:15 moving queen to g6 also works because it forces the same pawn capture, and then the knight and two rooks checkmate the king after taking that pawn

@williamsmith8640

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to see that

I've learned almost 11 checkmate patterns just from leisurely playing chess so if you are just starting chess just play and play for a while, each game becomes a lesson. Then after that, you can take the game much more seriously and start studying or watching lessons such as this one.

Really useful, great explanations. Thank you!

Thanks for the great lesson. The exercises after each one was useful too.

Incredible resource. Ty so much for this!

Amazing man!! great lesson and puzzle. The best chess video for beginners

The examples are great-thanks bro

Thanks for this! Really helpful.

Very good instructional and practical video and advice. Thank you

Thanks for another great video, Nelsi. My inner pedant is desperate to point out that’s it’s “The Opera Mate” not “Opera’s Mate” after the mate in the famous Morphy game at the Opera vs the Count and the Duke.

#21 is the hilarious "Oh no, my queen!" play I've seen with Eric Rosen

@oldsuitman7762

2 жыл бұрын

Eric is a good player, but a mediocre teacher, my rating suffers from stafford gambit

Great vid. I learned half a dozen new patterns :D

Nelson, great video, thank you. Also, I couldn't help but notice to propensity to queen sacrifice. Cheers!

Thanks much! So helpful!

Thanks Nelson, helps a lot

Thanks for a great video...very helpful. Looking forward to the Middlegame video. (And yes, as pointed out below, it is "an Opera House Mate" since it was a real opera not a person named Opera)

i missed a few operas mate just recently. yet it was so obvious and right in my face.

Just discovered your videos; you're very watchable and the videos are pitched just perfectly for the developing self-taught player like me. Thank you for making them.

Yours is a terrific channel. I don't know what my rating is but it's definitely gotten better with your help. Thanks very much.

Lol i love how we go from "The Dovetail Mate" to "Damiano's Mate" to "Greco's mate" to... "THE BLIND SWINE MATE"

@jestfullgremblim8002

Жыл бұрын

haha the blind swine sounds so badass

Excellent channel! The only channel that’s systematically going through chess principles

At the second example of epaulette mate you could also take with the queen firts beacause Q:g6 f:g6 R:g6 is mate beacause the night on d6 is covering f7 and the rook on the h1 is covering h7. It's not an epualette mate anymore but still a mate.

Great video! Your chess content is really helpful

Very good. Seen this a couple of times and have it bookmarked for a few more repetitions until it all sinks in.

I have watched this video many times now, still give me lots of value! Thanks for getting me interested in Chess! Keep going, you are the best KZreadr on chess I have found so far.

Great video, thank you so much!

What I like about this video is that most solutions involve queen sacs to clear the way. That just trains you to be able to see the pattern even when pieces are in the way. And you can be confident in sacking a queen or rook to clear the path to mate.

@rosiefay7283

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure! Chess players don't go around sacking their queens all the time. Those famous games with mating combination involving queen sacs are famous exactly because of that rarity -- a queen sac that works. If you get a chance to throw your queen away, if you do it, it won't lead you to a win. Or if you win anyway, you must've been so far ahead that you could've won with the queen anyway.

Great lesson: many thanks. 🙂

your teaching style is impeccable it has helped me no end and i have you on repeat. thank you very much

Thanks it REALLY helped.

Another great and useful video, thank you!

Thanks for the great lessons!!!

awesome channel! thank u for ur time, energy, and wisdom!

Very good content again Nelson especially with the time stamps

I must be missing something . On the Morphy s mate at 16:06 you say after rook moves to kings file the kings better move would be to the 7rh row. How is that a legal move? Doesnt the King HAVE to move to H8?

@ChessVibesOfficial- recommendation on what to use to help drill these concepts?

You're one of the only chess tutors I genuinely find useful. Most focus on increasingly unlikely sequences of moves (that I'm never really going to be able to use anyway), whereas you break the game down into simple, clean lines -- like a well made sword making a few quick clean cuts.

Backrank can also happen if the B or G Pawn is advanced and there is a Bishop that covers the opened squares

Very Well explained!

absolutely beautiful video Nelson

I haven't even yet watched this video but I know it will be one of the best lessons out there. I know that because your channel cuts to the chase and is one of the best chess improvement channels out there

To develop my chess skills, I came up with the idea (on my own) to find out what types of mates are. After all, checkmate is the goal of the game. In chess puzzels on lichess I saw that some checkmates have their names. So I decided to check if there were more of them. I found it and looked at them to see and remember these patterns. That was some time ago. And now I see you've made a video on the same issue. :) It will be nice to watch your video to remind these patterns, and I will recommend your video to others as one of the most important videos on the path of a beginner chess player.

@camoraz

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh omg the exact same thing happened to me :)

Great vid as usual thanks

This is a very well presented video, thanks! I really like the not-too-difficult pause and think examples, although I think there maybe an undesirable pattern in them: every checkmate follows a queen sacrifice. Elo, goodbye!

Great stuff. Thanks.

Thanks for this man

Thanks for the video. Very instructional. I am an "eternal beginner" struggling to improve my game so this helps a lot. Question: At 3:30 would it be possible to play in the opposite order? First take the rook on A7 with the white rook. Black, as it seems to me, wouldn't have many options to contest A8 field and can only postpone the inevitable QA8, so would that also be a possible solution or am I overlooking something?

the second example with 9. epaulette mate also allowed the sacrifice of the queen then mate with rook, since knight and 2nd rook were guarding the escape tiles

This is the most I have learnt from a chess video thank you

Super helpful video good looks

a little more detail could have gone into the hook mate at 14:10. the king can't take the queen sacrifice because of the hook mate, but what if K-G6? I'm trying to find the mate but it is a lot harder to force. Still, at the least I can see how to get the rook and bishop which should lead to victory, just struggling to find a forced mate in that case. Also... 16:04. huh?? that's still check, mate! :D Really fun video! I loved finding all the mates in the more complex setups, but doubt I would find them not knowing they were there beforehand. Shows the importance of learning the patterns to keep in your mind while playing though!

@PatrickMettchen

Жыл бұрын

If Kg6 then Qh6, Kf5 and Qxh3 prevents the checkmate by black and you're up a piece. But you're absolutly right at the murphy mate I was wondering too 😅

I like how so many of these examples involve a queen sacrifice. I'm not the most strategic chess player and very queen-heavy on offense so I wouldn't normally even consider it but about halfway through the video I started to catch on.

You sir are by far my favourite chess channel, others are too boring or like Levy too energetic but then don't deliver it good enough

Thats an awesome video. Im sure Ill watch this many times. You forgot the Arabian mate. Will you be doing a part two on this series ?

Awesome content. Keep it up 👍

Very Interesting! What about the Nimzowitch Sixors?

Sir, thanks for such lessons. Just one thing.. if in the example 7-8, black plays pawn D 5 instead of D 6?

I like how calmly and politely you explain how to DESTROY the opponent 🙂

Appreciate the video, find your content informative and super calming. Subscribed!

@ChessVibesOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Thank you!!!

Love your teaching style - highly practical without unnecessary chit-chat!

@alt-32

Жыл бұрын

gotham chess has too musch chitchat

Smothered mate definitivly my favorite.

@dionlindsay2

2 жыл бұрын

I remember being shown the smothered mate in between games in a tournament when I was a schoolboy, and I was so happy, the next game passed in a blur.

@Drawfill

2 жыл бұрын

@@dionlindsay2 You can use puzzle mode to train for only smothered mates, if you really wanna hone it. This is what i've done and I rarely miss smothered mate now.

What a video..! Thanks for sharing it.

At 16:28 would rook to g1 work causing a pin on the pawn and the just take with bishop and the do that mating pattern?

Thank you Mr Lopez for another great Vid

Best instructor I've found in three years of searching

10:20 You can also play Qxg6 fxg6, Rxg6#