A World Chess Champion BLUNDERED (but no one knew)

[@Calibrownsfan]

"You guys won't be playing against stockfish either. Actually that's not true sometimes you might be" Lol rice cooker drop.

[@skiesofarcadia4885]

19:42: "That being said, he wasn't playing against Stockfish, and you guys won't be playing against Stockfish, either. Actually, that's not true--sometimes you might be." *Nelson having Vietnam flashbacks*

[@looserunfortunately]

😂

[@johnbauer6408]

Capa blunders: Stockfish wanted him to find a 15 move mating attack which would have guaranteed the win I blunder: two rooks get forked by a knight

[@IcyPegasus]

Wow, Capablanca was a beast! Well explained as always thank you Nelson :)

[@psymar]

Key point on the rook sac: It's not just that it opens up the pawns around the king, or even that the knight is no longer defending those pawns, it's also that if Black plays Qd8 right away White can play Re1, guarded by the f3 knight, and then Black looks silly. Whereas after the sac the rook isn't guarded on that square, the king has to move instead, and the attack can continue

[@wallysullivan9315]

Good eye

[@andyclark8991]

17:17 Didn’t spot the right move, I went for Queen to d1 straight away. Which was wrong

[@Österreich-f6m]

thanks for the time

[@r33th]

Same. I thought Qd1+ and if rook blocks, Qd3 and then recapture the pawn on the next move. Probably too dangerous

[@Yearofthebows24]

Honestly, I do a decent job of finding these crazy lines from Stockfish when Nelson says to pause the video. The problem I always have is the follow-up. I've grown to understand Stockfish will do some wild sacrifice, but I find it difficult to understand the significance of the sacrifice is. And that's what I find amazing about these moves. It feels so unnatural to do this wild sacrifice, but there is a reason why trading down material is so important for certain moments in a game. Great find and great analysis Nelson!!

[@andrewbennett5911]

Another great instructive video ! Good to learn about the relative importance of a queen's side pawn majority with a castled king side king .

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

That was great game and great explanation. Thank you!

[@heikin5562]

17:26 i was so happy when i thought the exact sequence of moves right

[@NJDJ2]

that was another amazing Logical chess series! in the endgame, Barry the b-pawn was able to promote to queen after all!

[@floodinmon14]

It's Never Too Late To Blunder

[@jesperlykkeberg7438]

17.48: "King has to run." Absolutely not. Black has the option QxRc1 and the game goes on.

[@wallysullivan9315]

Fair enough, but if you're a player at that level you still just resign. The problem isnt just that you're down a knight (knight remains defended after queen recaptures, and the queen counts as roughly equal to 2 rooks) the problem is that the king is still exposed, and in this position with the queen already controlling the eight rank and their own pawns blocking the way, the rooks cannot reach their king and help with the defense. Ofc the queen wont checkmate on her own but you dont need a rook, the knight is still strong enough to help (not to mention the pawns the exposed king is standing right in front of).

[@jesperlykkeberg7438]

@@wallysullivan9315 Right. Except 3600 ELO rated chess bots have proved that even a chess game were one side has sacrifized all its pieces can still end in a draw if it turns out that side has no legal moves left in the end (stalemate). And, for sure, no one has ever succeded in achieving a draw/stalemate by resigning too early.

[@wallysullivan9315]

@@jesperlykkeberg7438 Im aware thats possible, but its not likely here. Stalemate traps are only acheivable in specific positions. And in this position, you have a lot of pawns that can legally push forward. The games where Leela lured Stockfish into stalemate traps are games where Stockfish blundered (because its not actually perfect in spite of being unimaginably strong)

[@jaybingham3711]

2:05 Ackshully...there's nothing supernatural about Nf3. In fact, it's a quite normal, basic move. 🤗

[@olegdragora2557]

19:42 "That being said, he wasn't playing against Stockfish, you guys won't be playing against Stockfish either ... Actually, that's not true, sometimes you might be" Lol! 😛

[@JamesQMurphy]

🍚🍚🍚

[@mohammedkhan1038]

When you talk about pawn islands, it reminds me of the game Netstorm.

[@bryanrisso7508]

I played someone until he resigned. I decided to finish against the computer! I was check mated 13 different ways i tried and tried again! And from a superior position i was annihilated!

[@eagleflight2627]

It happens to everyone, but it's good practice to try to find the best moves , especially in complicated but still winning endgames.

[@bryanrisso7508]

@ yeah i try im just not good! Sometimes i hit like a champ then other times im mated quick. I have no consistency

[@eagleflight2627]

@@bryanrisso7508 some positions are just harder than others, if the position is complicated enough the engine can beat grandmasters from lost positions so don't feel bad about it. As for simpler positions you ll get better at converting them the more you practice

[@eagleflight2627]

@@bryanrisso7508 as for the consistency, it's also reasonable, you will not have the same performance every day, it depends on a lot of factors

[@bryanrisso7508]

@ ur awesome ty!

[@Sal-cx1wn]

9:02 wouldnt the same logic from earlier apply though? You take pawn with knight threatening a queen trade thats leads into a royal fork

[@nickmeyer1030]

HAHAHA! 19:45 cracked me up.

[@douglasbrown8288]

In the blundered position, isn't Qxc3 best? It's a free rook or else ...Rxc3, Re8#. Right? Am I missing something?

[@giacalonebuilding4443]

I don’t remember the reason why or how to punish but I know if white pins the f6 knight it is a bad move. I started to study the nimzo recently (only a few hours deep so far) but that pin I remember specifically is a bad move

[@danbarkles8499]

Oh dude, this is a good time to do a review of Hamilton.

[@helljackalll]

Im curious how did you get the piece animation you use when the pieces move

[@danielhowell8808]

nice game thanks

[@tessg4799]

Rise and grind 💪🏽

[@Chechov-t9f]

19:46 😂😂

[@John-cv9yf]

Nothing hurts more then a nice winning game to end in a draw lol.. I had two games a little while ago that were just like that. So when you mentioned the game in the video could have become one somehow.. I just had laugh about it. Anyway great informative video :) God bless

[@prasunacharya1]

Why can't you take the R c3 with Q c3?

[@user-qc3ik5by6v]

what is Ra2?

[@nelsonlopez1228]

Very nice!!!❤

[@chrisinselwyn]

Anyone who has watched Ben Finegold would say always sac the exchange 😂😂

[@EmadIbrahim-j1e]

Hello I sent an email and I have not gotten a reply back!! I don’t have a computer, can I access your course on my I phone? Thanks.

[@mikemck4796]

I have only accessed the 1500 course on my phone.

[@DJF1947]

Doesn't this mean that any klutz, armed with Stockfish, can go through all of the 'great games' of the history of chess and show that many of them were not really that great? I predict that there will be a glut of books on that topic in the future.

[@konroh2]

Chess is the most written about game in history. There are a few missed moves in the great games of the past, but not as many surprises as you think. Most of the time it's something like this where instead of losing stockfish finds a way to draw the game. It's not like players of the past weren't great and their moves were all bad. It's that in some obscure positions stockfish finds a missed move that could have changed the course of the game, but it's usually multiple moves deep. What we find are great games of the past are still great games. And there have been books written about this, every game has been analyzed, believe me.

[@DJF1947]

@@konroh2 I am well aware of that; I used to have a chess-library of several hundred volumes, including all of the Informator editions then available. Use of engines for criticism will obviously not change the opinions of serious players, but it could well contribute to the general, and growing, mood of smug anti-expertise which is infecting everything these days.

[@konroh2]

@@DJF1947 Why did you ask the question then? You don't really think there will be a bunch of books about this since there already are. There is some anti-expertise, there is also in chess at least lots of new players quickly becoming experts with the use of the improved tools.

[@DJF1947]

@@konroh2 The 'question' was clearly rhetorical. By the way, there is a hidden irony about the above game, in that Capablanca once suggested that chess was too easy (for him?) and that extra files should be added.

[@konroh2]

@@DJF1947 Capablanca probably would have enjoyed Chess960. I actually think that's the future of chess.

[@msolec2000]

Whoa, fancy board

[@SparkyForce]

19:48 lmao

[@bennyaiizen8733]

15:15 if you want to skip the boring part

[@Chechov-t9f]

when it comes to nelson i never get bored

[@Chechov-t9f]

and the whole video is very instructive, i don't see the point of skipping more than half of the game

[@demekneme1706]

hi nelson

[@Alex9501950]

Obligatory KZbin algorithm comment.

[@andyplayz3745]

This was an easy backrank puzzle

[@andyplayz3745]

I’m 1700, but this took me about 10 seconds

[@dustinbarnes7471]

Capablanca (kah-pah-BLAHN-kah) - please, please pronounce it correctly!

[@rrrstar8156]

Please turn off those annoying animations

[@dwali76]

Yes please. I agree, I find them very distracting.