Can You Be Happy After A Loss? (Chess)

[@michaellin6495]

When's Levy's Binding of Issac lesson?

[@mp3545]

Supposedly NL played some Among Us with Dan and Levy, but I haven’t seen it posted up on KZbin.

[@Tcj333]

Before the NLSS

[@andrenogueira673]

@@mp3545 it is on dans channel

[@tommitchell8708]

@@mp3545 It’s on Dans Chan

[@HCGxreaver]

This is something I did not know I needed in my life

[@boyo7918]

>he didn't spot the mate in 17

[@jamesatherton6231]

Embarrassing really.

[@int3r4ct]

And here I thought he was on his way to 2900 Elo, guess I was wrong.

[@ciarancassidy7566]

I wouldn't imagine watching this is anywhere near as fun if you are good at chess.

[@GKinWor]

> chess strategist > I try to make attacking and defensive moves at the same time

[@CssHDmonster]

and he calls himself a grandmaster

[@alexh.9630]

NL, you don't have to speed through the analysis, I don't think anyone's getting bored. It's interesting to do deep dives into games/other lines and both you and the audience learn more from it. Still loving the series, just am pogged for analysis.

[@ChainsawDude2008]

Agreed. Especially skipping over stuff like the missed win rook move near the end of the first game. But as long as NL is having fun I'm happy

[@BenjaminBot]

I was telling my fam this week about "thin deck daddy" I miss thin deck daddy.. BUT gotta love "let's get weird" NL

[@danieljudy2641]

I’m conflicted because I like falling asleep to NL videos, but his chess gameplay is so pog it keeps me up. How am I meant to sleep when the high octane gameplay never stops?

[@johnrozewicki7132]

I feel this so much.

[@LinNeTule]

Use NLSS to sleep, chess pog to wake up 🤔 that's what I so

[@Monkeytoes704]

Please dont move chess to twitch vods. These are so perfect as is.

[@imacanoli897]

Seriously. I don't have twitch and never really wanted one... I can't build my schedule around live videos of gameplay.

[@dingusrevolver]

@@imacanoli897 Vods are the recordings of livestreams. So afaik you can watch whenever you want

[@Monkeytoes704]

@@dingusrevolver but they are typically between 1 and 3 hours long. An absurd time committment for anyone over the age of 16 if you ask me.

[@NicJarcheHook]

NL frequently cuts up twitch vods into bite sized videos, so it wouldn't really make a difference

[@Unordinal]

@@Monkeytoes704 You don't have to commit to watching a VOD all at once.

[@igglemustang2699]

Finally, NL allows me to eat

[@justin2059]

One Levy lesson and hes drawin lines across the board like the new Egg Ross painting across a beautiful canvas for the pogs to rain upon I miss the good days when NL gave us commenters hearts

[@lifelesslife2651]

Ha Levi

[@SunsOfTheNight]

This is before the Levy lesson in pretty sure

[@joehemmann1156]

Happy little lines, just put a little knight right here, this is where he lives 😀

[@justin2059]

@@joehemmann1156 hahahahahahahaha. I would pay an uncomfortable amount of money to watch NL do a bob ross painting special

[@joehemmann1156]

@@justin2059 or actually narrate a chess match in the style of Bob Ross

[@RazorThyOwn]

Still the best series ever conceived

[@johnrozewicki7132]

Thank you for going back to 10 minute. 3 minute is too fast for me to think about your moves and I find myself completely lost because I'm not good enough at chess to follow. 10 min is a great balance for me.

[@johnrozewicki7132]

The key thing is that your brain is fast enough for 3 minute, but at 10 minute you basically play 5 minute while giving great commentary with the other half of your time. That's a good balance.

[@TheUnperson]

I've never watched any of your other content before, but you're quickly becoming my favourite chess youtuber! (behind GingerGM of course). I'm glad you're continuing to make more chess vids :)

[@ajhutchinson8939]

Welcome brother

[@GKinWor]

welcome

[@ratnamani8228]

9:19 NL realizes that he Almost Played a Botez Gambit there. 😂🤣

[@godlyoli7821]

An *actual* Egg's Gambit, now this is real chess gaming hours!

[@Spike-kg5rd]

I'd be interested in seeing NL doing puzzles. I wonder how many times he'll call the computer crazy after failing one. He seems to be pretty good with openings but psyches himself out as the game goes on which who knows maybe puzzles will help him out

[@dombi7972]

The very first couple of chess episodes were puzzles, around a month and a half ago. He did puzzle rush and got to around 1.3k ish elo before losing every time

[@DivyeshVartha]

@@dombi7972 that's funny. I think his rating will stabilise around 1200 if he plays more 10min games.

[@Spike-kg5rd]

@@dombi7972 I can't believe I missed those videos. I started watching from "Playing chess for the first time in 15 years" and assumed that was the first in the "series"

[@Nieru._]

@@DivyeshVartha Puzzle ratings tend to be higher than a person's actual elo, so he would probably be 1600-2000 in puzzles.

[@franion524]

5:20 OMG, did he actually do it?!

[@pixlark4287]

I hope this is one of the youtube series that stays.... it’s so good!

[@dog1783]

Dude my mans leveled up hugely in this vid, great stuff

[@timefororbit]

15:23 Take the pawn, march the king C1 and D2 after the Queen-Check

[@ldcldc6371]

I'm hyped to see you play the stuff you went over in the last lesson with Levy, keep it up :)

[@rutgerius123]

You never play waiting moves. in that last game you were waiting for him to attack and never even considered improving your kingsside pawns to force their hand

[@JellyBlockLP]

Hope you keep this series up, I'm hella enjoying it

[@BostonFenian]

Man that endgame in the first game was one of the most complicated I've ever seen (I guess it's technically not an endgame since both queens, all the rooks, and three minor pieces were still on the board, but it feels weird saying it's still the middlegame). I put the position where you began your breakthrough into the king's position into Stockfish and it was extremely difficult for white to win unless black makes a serious blunder, and all but impossible for anyone but a GM to win with only 2 minutes left on the clock, since the sequence of moves assuming perfect play is so long until white can mate black. You fared much better there than I would've, that's for sure. Really cool game, though!

[@oivindification]

Hey Egg, love your stuff. I would suggest going over to 15-10 just because it enables you to be much more relaxed without it being too slow.

[@physicssumo774]

“Instead of that, we get two birds stoned at once” 🚬 🐦 25:25

[@Mr.Bellafante]

I'm loving this series. Got me back into playing chess.

[@ShadowedAgony]

Please keep this series as is, I love it.

[@starship1701]

That was a fantastic sequence in the last game to win material. It's unfortunate that it does not win the game, but that is the kind of thing you can only predict with some intense endgame study under your belt as well as more time left on the clock.

[@RazorThyOwn]

If this is the first episode after the latest Levi lesson you can definitely tell a difference

[@TheSarcasticKing99]

Yes by him thinking too much now. Losing on time management both times. Thinking too hard on attacks and not defense now, and not taking pieces or trading as much

[@heykak]

@@TheSarcasticKing99 that's the nl way. The moment he takea critique/learns something new, the old ways get tossed out the door.

[@FUTrading]

also NL can u please turn on the "show lines" button in analysis!!

[@etopowertwon]

I'm so proud egg boi found a line that forked rooks.

[@arciks11]

"Goddamit how did you miss this 12 move win sequence?" -Mr. Stockfish

[@Triskitout]

analysis owns. I really enjoy the chance to see why I was wrong about what you should have done.

[@kte4423]

not sure what the "donka donka" thing is but it always reminds me of the one of three prerecorded lines of male twilek dialogue in Knights of the Old Republic

[@sjsharks0510]

My entire steam library is full of games that I’ve bought because I was getting frustrated at NL playing them. I started playing chess as well for the same reason, but damn, he’s actually so good at this game

[@talalal-kuwari1243]

Can you be unhappy watching this? (Chess)

[@terranloudenback2102]

If you start the video unhappy lol

[@FirstLast-gm9nu]

First game black showed your attack the absolute maximum disrespect with a4 a5 a6

[@TheUntamedNetwork]

the analysis of the game around 19 minutes is a brilliant demonstration of just how laughably bad even a fairly competent chess player like Egg is. Every single move is a game changing swing, almost every predictions of the best move is wrong, mate in more then 2-3 moves et c. Wonderful

[@IKENIRO]

16:01 what if u just take the pawn with your king? Won't get mate...

[@torcon462]

This feeling when u fall sleep in 2022 and wake up to bearded NL 2020 ~Amazin

[@yop1010]

Congrats to the guy I just played with a 1.6% accuracy vs my 1.3% accuracy. GG.

[@chrism0066]

Best series my gord has been pogged !

[@dominiks5068]

the second game was pretty good, yeah. you noticed some advanced positional concepts, such as the knight outpost - gg.

[@Dexirock]

Don't know how possible/interesting it would actually be, but I would be pogged out the gourd for a 15/10 or even 30/0 series of games in the future

[@user-vs6ck3ht5d]

15|10 would be nice just because he wouldn't be as trapped by a low time limit in the end game. I know 15 minutes is too long for two games per episode but an increment helps so much with endgames and would give him time to talk out each move.

[@michaelscofield2652]

Loving these vids. Subbed just for the chess

[@IkEisawesome7]

Is it time for the Vienna stomp?

[@BeAsTMoDE528]

NL spending 3 minutes and several moves setting up a plan that blunders his queen in one move is so frustrating i cant look away

[@lucasnadamas9317]

Northern " if it's forced it's good" lion

[@bitterbatterdog]

For my own benefit, missed win at 12:30? If rook checks and knight takes rook than E6 is checkmate? Edit: Nevermind bishop takes. Still think NL is teaching me well.

[@rockguy2154]

Dear NL, the Reti opening lacks center control because one of the foundational theories of the hypermodern school that the Reti comes from is that a large center can actually be a burden for the player controlling it, due to how many places a large center can be attacked from.

[@Jindo1]

Missed mate in 12 = Egg Scrambit Declined

[@mp3545]

Look at this way, if you scramble the AI’s eggs then you know you must have been on to something. Incidentally, I think it was a good gambit, you probably just need to play around with it a little bit to see how the pieces fit together but you should feel good that you had an interesting idea that could be something powerful with a little more refinement.

[@sucipto9089]

the Dunka Gambit

[@Kyranth]

Regarding your analogy at around 14:35 I bet 11 times on the same color. Lost 10 times to the opposite color. My last 11th loss was on green, 0. 50/50 means nothing. Just my luck ...

[@Pravinoz]

I can sense it, this is just the Pogchamps training arc

[@dingusrevolver]

He's way too good to be in pogchamps. It wouldn't even be fair. I feel like they can't have people who play so much.

[@MrGustavier]

I'm sorry you didn't go through the 11 steps to see the mate at 19:00

[@FUTrading]

10min games are pure pog

[@Nowolf]

When he got to around a three minutes deficit while having already identified a line that would leave him up a pawn...I said 'hm'

[@H311crozz]

NL's worst enemy: Talking

[@johnlee9468]

Ah my daily dose of egg

[@lucasnadamas9317]

35:40 Dont you just take their queen then? what do you mean it's not good?

[@jaysee17]

Man took 3 minutes in 10 a sid e chess thinking out trades just for the opponent to push a pawn and ignore it all.

[@ridwanrahman3523]

18:43 I'm dumb but why is bishop to d7 a blunder?

[@ronch182]

NL has become one of those Queen-side Castle fetishers 😆

[@helloitsme7553]

I can be happy with losses where I don't blunder nor lost on time but my opponent simply was very smart to beat me

[@mad_sentinel]

Pogged for the dunka-dunka

[@d0ub1ex]

Times not a problem, loses on time

[@HCGxreaver]

Win or lose The eggs gambit is always big pog

[@johngleeman8347]

Baron Egg playing the beautiful game is tickety-boo!

[@mityakiselev]

yes Kreygasm

[@cobaltsky6872]

I love it.... I mean...... POGGERS

[@affablegiraffable]

It's mate in 12 obviously!!

[@Radiohead_68]

BRO WHY DOES HE TAKE 50 SECONDS FOR EVERY MOVE LIKE MY GOD-

[@avvvqvvv99]

i think i'm seeing improvements

[@tougs]

I'd like to see some 15min&10s in order to get that nice during-the-game chess talk

[@rickhammer7204]

"mate in 12!?!?"

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

I bet NL would blow the competition out of the water if he didn't need to focus on entertaining us

[@yoyokid9102]

20:59 How bees are?

[@riley7036]

Great games in this video!!!

[@arkurianstormblade4109]

Am I the only one who thinks NL thinks way too hard on "if they take..." mentality, and then they do something other than taking and NL's brain goes "wut?"

[@DivyeshVartha]

It's a common mistake. I think they call it "hope chess"

[@TobWAR1995]

Pogchess!

[@nopetellingnothing45]

dunka, dunka, dunka... dunka, dunka? dunka?? i dunno is a little hot

[@brettpoole7888]

Chess is a great game...be prepared to lose a lot of games as it definitely tests a person's perseverance.

[@SapkaliAkif]

I am trying that m8 in 12 in the checkered board lads

[@TheWorldBelowDnD]

It's the circle of life: -NL takes some time to plan out a series of moves. -I get hyped, then impatient and skip up to watch the play unfold. "JuSt MaKe ThE mOvE" I think to myself. -NL does the first move, then realizes there's a flaw preventing the play from properly working (in this case, that knight). -I lean back and wonder why NL is such a big dum egg who didn't see that coming.

[@raynegro666]

Aight dad, time to get weird

[@DoctorShroom]

Around 30:00 is where I started to see the possibility of a... *SPOILERS* Timeout coming.

[@lewismartin4306]

Time is a dimension of the game. If you use all your time and have a winning position, but not the time to convert it, you played worse.

[@ElektrikMuffins]

PUSH D3 MY LORD

[@BobbyFlay14]

If you learn something then it’s not a loss.

[@lostdestroyer8400]

northernlion

[@seanseen_]

Yes (Chess)

[@brbbabes3473]

Nice vid nl

[@Kiteon]

Thanks eggdad

[@justlexii7689]

Was king's indian covered in the last lesson?

[@gmansplit]

Can I get a pog in the chat? Also, I must agree with everyone else. This chess format is perfection right now. Moving it to twitch/vods would detract from that.

[@jam860]

dunka

[@Rosenator1]

That last game was bizzare, I actually disagree with the engine on it being a draw until the endgame. Part of me wants to take the game and analyze it a bit further, but pogs were had regardless.

[@Elleander1]

Best content.

[@godfryopa339]

Next time try offering a draw only after making your move.

[@Tofuwabofu]

Danke danke danke danke danke