50 Point Comeback? (Chess)

I'm playing on Chess.com -- these aren't sponsored videos but the site seems pretty cool.
Chess has been having a resurgence in popularity this year so I have finally acquiesced to semi-popular demand and started to play a bit. First, let's hone our skills and get a little more warmed up and then let's conquer chess dot com one board gamer at a time.
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About this game:
the horse moves like an L

[@G33KST4R]

_NL Blunders_ NL: Is this a gambit I haven't considered?

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

it's the egg's gambit

[@Nekrumorfiini1]

One man's blunder is another man's gambit.

[@bradleydax8237]

instaBlaster.

[@QWlN]

Literally this series is what got me into chess. Never played more than maybe a dozen games in my childhood, never had more than a basic understanding of how the pieces move, never knew there was a queenside castle, etc. This series was a stroke of genius and in my opinion, it should be your new bread and butter, a la Isaac. Keep it up, egg

[@ahmadjohari4650]

I've never played chess in my life, but ive been watching NL for like a solid week and started playing 3 days ago. its REALLY fun to learn and climb even though im only at 800 elo. NL's an influencer indeed.

[@CZProtton]

@@ahmadjohari4650 Dude, I am at 400 and having a blast. ELO does not matter. As long as you are having fun

[@sonyabladesbooty3890]

I've played chess since I was 4

[@grobattackappreciator5930]

If you use the Grob Opening any game is technically a comeback because of the faulty computer ranking your position as being behind in the start

[@michaelvanzyl9418]

Computer ain’t faulty

[@georgiykireev9678]

Grob opening is Bongcloud tier dogshit, so I have to agree with the engine evaluation on that one

[@michaelvanzyl9418]

@@georgiykireev9678 I don’t like the grob, but it’s certainly not as bad as the bongcloud

[@nothanks5531]

I went to the Lichess opening explorer to look at the Grob and Hikaru played it twice in competition He won one and tied the other

[@Northernlion]

lmao

[@davieslovesfloyd]

So many times I find myself saying "NL, you can take that piece its not guarded!" Then I look for another 15 seconds and realize how wrong I am

[@zacharytheliar]

probably the hardest series to back-seating.

[@boblobgobstopper13214]

@@zacharytheliar unless you’re a GM, in which case backseat gaming is very easy

[@kevin41714]

Chad 10 Min Chess is the superior chess content format. Really enjoying you being able to analyze and talk us through your turns for some of us who're worse at chess and trying to figure out what you're thinking!

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

maybe a one match 30 minute episode would be even better

[@rotchicoman9867]

@@ImEverythingYouCrave At that point we could start talking about the world building and character interactions per match

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

@@rotchicoman9867 speak for yourself I want a pogged 30 minute episode with high octane critical gaming

[@nickwilson3499]

@@ImEverythingYouCrave only problem is a 30 minute per side match + analysis so it would probably be too long. 15 + 10 is pretty pog though.

[@rotchicoman9867]

@@ImEverythingYouCrave Sorry if my previous comment sounded like sarcasm, I'm definitely with you on wanting a 30 minute match.

[@Braktash]

Resigning isn't only respectful of your opponents time, it's also respectful of your opponents chess skill - it's not a ragequit because you're salty (well, it's usually not), it's recognising that your opponent has gotten themselves an advantage that they're skilled enough to reliably convert in twenty, thirty, fifty moves, and not making them go through those motions by stalling and hoping for a mistake that gets you the draw, wasting everyone's time.

[@Bsliggs]

Well said. Also I love Minsc.

[@GodRabbit90]

the only drawback is not being able to practice really late game compositions :\

[@Hakasedess]

Yeah I don't understand how anyone would consider RESIGNING to be bm It's the least bm thing you can do. Offering a draw can be bm, but resignations can't.

[@Berry_Bruiser]

You do actually need to play out a lot of those bad end games along with the good ones if you want to get better in end games in general. Shame that this mindset seems to be wafting through discussions just because Queens Gambit is popular rn

[@Alkuf100]

@@Berry_Bruiser no lol, you should absolutely resign if they have a huge advantage even if its the endgame.

[@CosmicDomo]

Chess has been a very Pogged series

[@panta_rhei.26]

It's pronounced (chess)

[@RealYunoCS]

Imagine playing chess when you can play fortnite 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ you're so boring

[@TheCrybn]

Truth is... It was pogged from the start

[@nickwilson3499]

@@RealYunoCS come back when you’re more mature kid

[@lightman9935]

@@RealYunoCS fortnite is literally the cringiest game in existence, i would rather watch paint dry than playing or watching someone play fortnite. Chess is a very complex game that requires a various tactics and intelligence, while fortnite is a complete meme and everyone that doesnt make money off of it mocks it.

[@user-m8k9d]

when I hear "down by 50 points" I always picture a board with 5 queens

[@caius6019]

5 queens and a rook!

[@bigballerbillionaire]

@@caius6019 how many points is the king worth? :P

[@DylanEsser]

Imagine explaining to my 2012 self that nearly 9 years in the future watching the Isaac guy play chess would be this thrilling.

[@MiokeDokey]

Didn't think it was possible to be this pogged.

[@rglrjhn]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the pogsmanship is unrivalled.

[@RAGINGcajunAsian]

You know I love tomo, he's everyone's buddy. But imagine how pogged the ending of that first match could have been if he had like 10~15 more seconds. I think NL would have pulled out the win! Great chess content as always, even with like 5 seconds i seriously thought you were going to clutch it out.

[@lightlampdog]

At 33:19 you could pin the pawn with the queen so that they couldn't take the bishop

[@kielmeakin4901]

Northern “youwannagetcrazyletsgetcrazy” Lion

[@ChileanIggy]

That's probably the closest a draw is ever gonna get to being rojo caliente

[@stevenjuan5465]

I remember your binding of issac gameplay from when I was a kid. Dude I love your vids. Im glad to see that you are still around

[@JamesV1]

Tomo loudly agrees with your assessment

[@TheItachikiller]

Finally, a series that is watchable at 144p

[@__w__o__w__]

Was waiting for the 50 point deficit and it's just 1 move at the end lol

[@zuliavideos]

"Do I hate this or am I okay with it?" 6:47 - actually my constant thought over Christmas

[@mhnu16]

4:33 What discovered check is there? If his opponent does what he showed he'll gain an advantage as because you can take his rook next to the king and if they take the bishop you can take the knight and black is better

[@DuckGoDuckRun]

When I laugh at the same time as NL, I feel a cosmic connection like no one has ever seen.

[@zanebutler8717]

You are laughing at the same time in the VIDEO he is laughing. But who knows maybe you both laughed at the same time during recording .

[@graealex]

34:50 Picking up pawns while the black king has zero material in front of him and you have two rooks ready to check mate...

[@hainsay]

4:35 Discovered check. Not discovered. Not check.

[@cheilith1031]

hey NL I love your content and I'm not trying to backseat but maybe give some help: The Leningrad variation of the Dutch is: f5, nf6, g6, bg7, O-O, d6 then either c6, nc6 or qe8 :) keep up the great work man!

[@tea1917]

Just happy to be here =) Thanks for always delivering great content.

[@robertbrush6745]

I dont really care for fall guys or geo but i always catch chess and spelunk when they drop so if your readin comments nl know that the variety you work to put out is worth and appreciated

[@yoslo6832]

I feel like the most pogged moment will be when NL gets a brilliant move. I for one can’t wait to see it happen.

[@qrowing]

Like that move Critikal pulled on xQc. Just pure suffering for the player on the receiving end Also kinda funny how even our egglord managed to slam xQc during that AOC stream.

[@elijahamgast]

How likely is it even for GM though? You have to make a move that beats the computer, which is like 3800 elo or some craziness

[@yoslo6832]

@@elijahamgast I just had my first brilliant move today and I’m not GM

[@elijahamgast]

@@yoslo6832 poggers dude that’s sick

[@dragonx23123]

@@elijahamgast every move I make is brilliant when I self evaluate

[@More_Row]

Always so pogged for chess. This series is just completely awesome NL

[@ryandecember1718]

I get pogged off my gourd watching NL do these chess videos. It's really nice leaving a youtube video feeling like I learned something and had laughs along the way. Thanks for what you do, NL, I owe a lot of my COVID 19 sanity to your videos. I hope you and your family are well.

[@benhorne8051]

very poggers videos lately NL especially considering how busy you must be! Hope your holidays with the fam goes well!

[@nicholasbeshel813]

Yooo. Thanks to Queen's Gambit and @northernlion for getting me into chess.

[@TheForwardSlashSlash]

Me and you both. I watched Queens Gambit because it looked good on Netflix home screen and loved it, then NL going through this got me really into it lately.

[@olivermadsen9375]

It's crazy to watch this series and then play some games. Every episode I go "Why don't you.. Oh that's why" and "Oh i didn't see that move, awesome", then I play myself and I get crushed by the exact move I just thought "Why don't you" and think "Oh, I didn't see that move" from the analysis. Great Series. Just had my best performance game with a fantastic 67.9 % accuracy. 800 Elo wup!

[@jesseengland5967]

>You can be rated 1500 on chess com >You have an egg for a head

[@tachometer74]

I would love to hear someone's commentary from the other side, from his opponent. But NL's commentary on the computer's commentary will always be classic.

[@tristanstrain9751]

3:21 I believe (I'm only 1000 elo so take with a grain of salt) that they moved their queen to un-pin the knight so it could protect their d-pawn.

[@catch2297]

Spot on

[@SmolFry_]

When Tomo said "meow" I felt that.

[@KurisuKun]

My favorite chess video yet. That was nailbiting!

[@gabrielf8094]

3:17 The Queen move is to avoid Bxd4 which would pin whites knight against the queen

[@graealex]

NL having 4 pawns advantage: "this is not good" and immediately blunders a rook. 🤣🤣🤣

[@willihv24]

respect this guy for putting these games out, endgame of the last one was pretty brutal though

[@QuardGame]

I just looked at description and i gotta say i laughed at about this game section

[@uwerlmi6120]

22:17 take e55555555555555555555555555555 put it in engine and say ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh thats why

[@Sirmenonottwo]

I know! I lost it there too. I don't know if what he did was blunder but it was definitely a mistake.

[@Hassy171717]

I always have this problem ... learn a new opening and get it confused with other openings and then get a mishmashed opening that I have no idea what's going on. I feel like Sir Egg mixed up his Leningrad vs Stonewall setups.

[@Chizzle69420]

I was screaming at NL to pre-move his heart out. He did well, just wasn't quite enough

[@lightman9935]

he had less than five seconds when he was about to make a queen, even if he did make one, he wouldnt be able to checkmate the other guy with only premoves.

[@Chizzle69420]

@@lightman9935 I mean, it is possible for sure.

[@lightman9935]

@@Chizzle69420 nah, only a gm would be able to pull off such a thing. Imagine having to premove more than 10 accurate non forced moves in 5 seconds, thats not even possible since the enemy king can move to more than 1 square at a time.

[@OzoneGrif]

In the last game, NL missed he could steal the queen with his bishop. The queen was aligned with the king.

[@Reece_Hart]

Dude Tomo really wanted that attention this game

[@KomicGDCD]

4:34 how does this work? does he think the queen is the king LOL

[@EverybodyMooParty]

I was also very confused. But I'm not that experienced, so I thought maybe I was missing something.

[@PoprawnyPolakHD]

It was at e8 after all :P

[@menpower1]

Oh man, I felt that "lost" from Black. At 38:56 the correct move is Rd7. Rules of thumb for rook-pawn endgames: 1) Backside attack ;) 2) Try to squeeze your king into the gaps of a pawn chain

[@johngleeman8347]

That last game had a lot of twists and turns.

[@jvcmarc]

4:50 was NL really thinking that Nxd6 was a check? the egg is broken

[@gustavkrogsbygaard3254]

Yolkaire

[@jvcmarc]

@@Tulanir1 he had very little time, I don't blame him

[@helloitsme7553]

4:04 if they moved the bischop away, you could perform a fork

[@Kronikman07]

I feel like, sometimes, at your rank, but definitely lower, it's not considered bad mannered to not resign if you pretty much lost. There's definitely a chance you or others could come back, and it definitely lets you practice late game where you're down. They still have to checkmate you, and if they don't, it's not your fault!

[@flackbyte]

Against d4 and other non-e4, I also tried the dutch (leningrad) specifically because of your lesson with Levy, but it didn’t work too well for me. Consider, maybe, giving the King’s Indian Defense, the Nimzo-Indian a shot or even going into the queens gambit with 1...d5 and doing the counter gambit with 2...e5. KID is almost like the leningrad, but for some reason works way better for me. Against e5, even though I don’t play the caro, I know it’s super solid and you just need to know at least a couple of the main lines like the advance and the exchange. Also, check the openings tab when you d the analysis.

[@tappy8741]

You should do a 100 daily challenge, start 100 daily games where you have up to a day to make a move, each video you work your way through pending moves and can make each video as long as you want. You'll have to wait 10 seconds before hitting the play button between starting games or you'll end up playing the same opponent a dozen times. If you've never played dailies before your ELO will be trash and you'll end up stomping noobs, so maybe play and win half a dozen games to get the ELO more like it should be first.

[@lostdestroyer8400]

northernlion

[@San-cs6lk]

Thank you egg. Because of you I picked up chess myself and actually understand the principles and how to play it now. Stupid egg making people smarter one chess game at a time.

[@lucasnadamas9317]

The last part of the first match was hilarious

[@qualifiedcornstarch6859]

No joke these videos are making my chess game better

[@That_Awesome_Guy1]

How?

[@FabianPyka]

couldnt you have taken the whole pawn diagonal that has formed at one point in the first game

[@rudiausbuddeln7573]

Actually improving my dude. Keep going!

[@Flum666]

Egg at 1550 not knowing the difference between a bishop and a rook, scary

[@UnlimitedRadioButNoSoap]

down, but not in a good place; not down in a good way; bad down--and definitely not down bad. unless.... *notices your juicers*

[@mattroxursoul]

Felt like in second game while you were trying to get on to A file that you should have been looking for B :) Also was waiting for you to pawn storm. Opposite castling usually calls on that

[@fakebobbyhill296]

I realized last night that I learned chess wrong right from the setup. I never put the Kings and Queens across from each other.

[@alexandrepaulo266]

I love this series, lets gooo

[@goofyahhh254]

The last game with the rooks I cringed when he moved the rook twice he should've moved the other rook to the bottom file to stop the pawn. And push his own pawn

[@jvcmarc]

28:10 if you're attacking without the queen, and the oponnents queen is being strong in the defense, you should definitely trade queens

[@jonathankraig425]

50 pog comeback

[@vertex546]

Bishop to E7 instead of queen and ruining a potential mate in 3 crushed my soul.

[@Punkledunk]

Hey, at the 2:15 mark, be aware pins when your pawns are nearby. You could maybe pin the knight with queen and he’ll be forced to put his queen in front his king, and there’s a decent chance that won’t happen. Maybe that’s not sound, idk. I’m only around 1150 :( I’ve been having tons of success with such tactics, as well as blundering to bait queens to line up with the king then skewer with a defended bishop. So much fun!

[@Jet_1982]

Cheers, thanks Northernlion. I’m a 1700 player and your thinking and analysis definitely gives me some insight into chess. Hoping that we cross paths with a game soon in the foreseeable future

[@NERIFES88]

Shirt idea: chess piece (whatever NL's favorite piece is) and it says "Let's get weird." Make it happen.

[@kvasir121]

pogged that the egg channel is now a chess and isaac channel

[@codybuse7407]

When he called the Leningrad a Stonewall

[@Leeroyj888]

I am speed

[@exquisitemeat5845]

poggy 10 min matches

[@dmanzawsome]

I wanna see how much your chess skills carry over to Shogi it would be really cool to see you try a Shogi match on youtube

[@violetstarsign]

3:22 The point of Qe3 is that, with the queen on e2, you can capture Nxd4 and the knight cannot take, because it exposes the queen AND threatening the Nc2+ fork.

[@KhiTurner]

_This is impressive, yet I'm in the >1000 category I've won games that were M2+ (100+) situations and tied a game with two queens vs two pawns_

[@hyperteleXii]

You should bring roguelikeness into this and play the Fischer random chess960 variation (also available on chess.com)

[@blked1234]

Love the content, I do think you may benefit from learning a couple more openings for black. But that just may be that I hate the dutch defence vs the queens gambit.

[@blked1234]

although i will watch any chess video you upload.

[@sevuz1]

Great stuff, I only now realised that your voice reminds me of TB

[@thomascheckie2394]

Miss him a lot.

[@AJ-vr9hf]

It’s so insane to me (as a 400 player) that I can sometimes share the exact same brain cell as Northernlion. Sometimes I can almost predict the moves this guy makes, it’s so cool to me.

[@Pravinoz]

Wait this is a chess channel? Always has been.

[@GodRabbit90]

Isaac is basically just chess with poop and blood

[@tuckersossaman4485]

Unlike most the comments I see that found chess through you, I found you through chess lol. Digging these videos tho!

[@yasinachekzai2567]

NLs last stand in the first game was pretty impressive though. ^.^

[@OnlyAnE]

Thanks for the company. Love the chess content!

[@CrazyMofoAss]

NL + NARODISTKY Collab... come on Ryan, you can do it man :D

[@Abc-tx4zr]

g6 is the lenenigrad, e6 is the stonewall

[@MattSmithIllustration]

I always try to guess the moves and I’m almost always wrong lol

[@SelfCheckout]

i long for more chess

[@Darckseyes]

Wanted more analysis on the last game. The middle game was so interesting.

[@robbach1285]

4:16 u could have moved the knight to 2c to put presure on the queen which would make them panic and could then move on 3e i see the bushop but they move fast which is anadvantage you could abuse against them to make a bad desicion

[@HCGxreaver]

More like, 50 pog comback

[@traviscowart1043]

2020 - Janton1951 = Janton69 Nice

[@killermelga]

What on earth does a 50 point advantage mean? It's like you lost all your pieces and also lost the pieces of 2 of your neighbours as well

[@PandaFan2443]

I think it means the game is a guaranteed win as long as you don't blunder, but the engine is either too weak or hasnt had enough time to calculate all of the possible moves.

[@ayylmao6113]

Anyone else spent the entire first game begging him to move his pawn to c3

[@Em4gdn1m]

3:38 How do you almost think about a move?

[@rjerrik]

Giga pog