Can You Predict The Blunder?

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[@TeeGar]

No, I can't. That's why I always blunder.

[@jatindeka7409]

Same here

[@smokeandmirrors-pk6ic]

😂😅😅

[@ronbelanger8812]

Yup!

[@nerodelmonviernes]

then guess the move you will play in that position.

[@bmarrimarri7055]

Lol​@@nerodelmonviernes

[@BobChess]

I didn't predict the blunders. I thought they're best moves.

[@hoopoereal]

0 out of 6, but I compensated by making 6 blunders in my next game 😂

[@dannywidjaya7943]

Perfect zero

[@deinmaoremodu326]

😂

[@learningisfun2108]

Same!😎

[@rauntaft7753]

Same here, too!😅😅😅

[@tianlecheng2656]

Perfect negative 69

[@ryanlind5239]

Almost all of these openings involve a knight going to d2/d7/e2/e7 instead of the typical c3/c6/f3/f6, which results in their king and/or queen being boxed in and exposing themselves to tactics. Very instructive.

[@Ms19754]

Yes, and I would add also moving pons forward for no good reason and not taking into account they were protecting key squares.

[@nikpaul8550]

I always saw some parts of the follow-ups for the other player, but couldn't anticipate the exact blunders.

[@lucastheg6156]

Same

[@jackweslycamacho8982]

yeah like the Nxf2 Bxg3 idea was conceivable but the most natural move in my opinion is still Nf3, which does not defend that idea for black

[@user-ti4di1uh2d]

I thought Nc6 would be played in the first one allowing the fork and the queen trap. That one is too obvious I guess.

[@vitorrodriguez4278]

had the same thought process and wasn't sure if that was it or if I should keep looking

[@JohnDoe-ti2np]

Yes, I thought 1...Nc6 or 1...Qc6 for the first one, 1.f3 for the second one, 1.b3 for the third one, 1.b4 for the fourth one, and 1...Ke8 for the fifth one. All of them too obvious! At least I got the sixth one right.

[@connor_awesome6482]

I would’ve enjoyed this more if I was given the move, and had to figure out *why* it was a blunder

[@justarandomanimegirlpassin5341]

Same a lot of these puzzles actually had worse moves

[@istariknight1]

I just treated it that way, Nelson did pause after making the blunder

[@farmersix4434]

Just pause after he says the move? 🤷‍♂️ this way is best of both worlds

[@TactfulWaggle]

i can figure out the follow up, the initial blunder though, pretty difficult, i did guess the h3 one to kick the knight immediately cause of the alien gambit and intercontinental ballistic missile variation of the tennison gambit

[@jonathan13co]

That's exactly what you got, though? What even?

[@TeamKLP1]

Love this video concept! Definitely more of these.

[@yyyy-uv3po]

More of that please, it's super entertaining!

[@rauntaft7753]

How can a good move be a blunder? Watch these 6 games from Nelson. Just amazing..thx for sharing Nelson!

[@adenmartin4864]

This is a nice exercise, it's actually really hard to consciously look for blunders. I found only #5 (but I did see the follow ups for a few more after seeing the blunder).

[@learningisfun2108]

Great video Nelson! Very enjoyable and informative.

[@KingdomChess10]

I'm thrilled that this guy makes cool content. Let's support him with a like👍. Thank you😉

[@Wand895]

True

[@erickaguirre4888]

I only got one right (#4) As an ICBM player myself, I immediately spotted the similarity.

[@WalacaVencano]

0:52 (puzzle 1) : I predict Nc6, natural looking developpement move but hangs a fork.

[@ericwallhagen3146]

1/6. These were really tough, and definitely a good way to improve your chess-vision! More of this please.

[@arvinderkainth9835]

Which one did you get?

[@justarandomanimegirlpassin5341]

This is hilarious thats the type of content i cant find elsewhere

[@tominmo8865]

I only found the initial blunder on #4, but after you showed us the other games' blunders I found the rest of the sequence in three others.

[@MagnusJonsson82]

Nice video 👍 like your stream alot and look at them almost every time 🙏

[@junj1023]

Wow, that was really hard, those sacrifices are really really hard to see

[@Cerber1994]

Found only the fifth one (and even in that case wasn't able to follow all the lines - just saw that it's a bad idea to trap one's king like that, but not the exact followup). Nice collection, thank you!

[@zelandakhniteblade5436]

The last position is particularly interesting as it has caught out a number of good players, including at least 4 recent Titled Tuesday games. The best known player to have fallen for it is Robert Byrne during the 1946 US Open.

[@timosaareste8655]

Nice video. I got 3 of them. More videos like these would be awesome. Good to know even good players can make these blunders.

[@nattapakniranittikul]

Funny that out of 6 I only see the 5th one. Not because I can analyze correctly but because I literally fall for it myself

[@brandorrrrgaming1544]

Same

[@geethuvarghese9103]

Got three correct.. Thx! Loved the last one..

[@jonathancauley5345]

Almost every single one of them had a brilliant move like that’s crazy!

[@SporkyMcFly]

I understood the one where he boxed the king. I had no idea what the follow-up was, but I knew it was bad. 1/6 for the 500 rated!

[@westleybenson1188]

Finally, a chess video featuring my greatest strength!

[@nopfp416]

On the first one I thought he would develop a knight blocking the queens vision blundering a fork but then you hit me with that 💀

[@giovannicorno1247]

Useful to remember when playing expecially rapid and blitz😊

[@user-yq5ce7ps9w]

I looked for 15 seconds for each positions: 1) Gussed white's trap, but not black's move 2)✅ 3)❌ 4) Same as 1st 5)✅ 6)✅

[@jamesbell1613]

I always intuitively felt like blocking very early with the knights in the center would be a bad idea.

[@tonynorriss379]

That trap in the Fajarowicz version on the Budapest works equally well for...Nf3 or a number of other moves.

[@martinhusfeldt9583]

This puzzle was really hard. I was already prepared to find nothing at all, as I was lucky enough to see the last one.

[@FurganManafov]

I totally got them all right 😂

[@NJDJ1986]

problem #2 was like i. didnt see that move coming tho!

[@user-op1rr1pb5q]

at 3:10 i think Qh4 imediately is also really good cuz it threatens mate and pins the pawn to the rook

[@KonradKoodziejak]

I appreciate Nelson for providing useful chess knowledge without trying to be a rockstar

[@MagnusJonsson82]

Really would like to play some rapid, blitz or bullet with you sometime

[@ranchoabilities7928]

For the second problem, I knew the answer because I saw ChessTalk's video about the Lazard Gambit...

[@Thatoneguy-12]

In the first one I was the fork but I didn’t realize there was a potential queen fork with that beautiful pawn move. I was thinking threaten the queen immediately with the green bishop and then fork the rook

[@ThaddeusMcMonster]

I didn't "get" any - in that my blunder was the same as the one played in the game. But on problem 2, I said f3, which loses to a similar tactic as h3. On problem 4, there are any number of natural looking moves which fail to the same Nf2 attack (I think h3, Nf3, f3, e3, for example). I suppose g3 loses an extra pawn so its technically the worst. Excellent video, by the way, you have a gift for posting original types of chess content without ever being gimmicky. Keep up the good work!

[@omega-roblox]

lets not think about the blunders, but about the moves that the other person found to win

[@l0v0l78]

The first and third blunders aren't what most people would have possibly moved (They made their pieces harder to develop after those moves even if their opponents didn't find the correct moves)

[@robertbennett848]

Oh I see it now, the white bishop comes in to help.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

The thing is you have to spot these tactics in the making to counter I’ve fallen for that fourth one where after Bishop checks king Queen takes Queen my opponent tried the second time as well but I didn’t let it happen that game

[@sidhaarthnair8368]

Same here, In the first position I thought the blunder was Qc6 due to the followup with Bb5. But apparently I was only half right.

[@jpc812]

Blundering is an art form for me. Played a game the other day where my opponent hung his queen and I just completely blanked on that fact. I ended up winning by capitalizing on my opponents blunders as well, but I had no clue I did until I was looking at the post game eval. When I saw the huge swing in my favor, i had to look back to see what the move was that would have swayed the game in my favor. I try hard, but if blunders are currency, I am a rich man.

[@Dream.p.e]

Последнюю решил наполовину) ходы все сделал за белых правильно, вот только то что там можно мат поставить не нашел)) спасибо.

[@simens8646]

I got two, the first and last. In the fourth puzzle I saw that b2-b4 would be a terrible move because it would allow black to play Qf6 forking the rook and mate on f2, but that was apparently too much of a blunder to be the correct solution.

[@lekhnayak]

nelson in position #5 a type of same game happened with when the queen checkmated me from the diagonal like you showed that to in a tournament's last game in which all of my last games I had won

[@qazzaqstan]

3.5 got 3, 5, and 6 saw black's idea in 4 but assumed it was Nf3 trying to develop and defend against Qh4 and Qf6. 1 I assumed Nc6 blundering the fork after accidentally underfunding the square. 2 I spent several minutes trying to analyze why Nf3 was a blunder after #1 made me realize the mistakes are more complicated than I thought at first and obviously couldn't find anything (Stockfish doesn't love the move but definitely agrees it is okay), only to find out white played a move I would have never remotely considered.

[@Qoko88]

Technically 6/6, because on the first I had Nf6 (pretty much identical) and on the fourth f3 to attack the knight, both moves still run into the continuation. Bit tough to anticipate exactly what wrong idea goes through the opponent's mind 😂. On the other positions they were the worst moves. Interesting, a lot of these motifs are from openings I play or have played in the past. The Bxf7-Ng5 combo is dangerous in the Modern or Sicilian, Ng4-e3 and Ne4-xf2 are Budapest motifs, I lost terribly once after the fork trick with Bxf7+? (it's really not a good counter, Black's king is fine if they know what they're doing and play d5 which my opponent did). The only real novel one was the queen trap, but Qa5-c5 is relatively uncommon so early.

[@Gingnose]

I love people back in the day played wacky stuff even with correspondence game😂

[@michaelmassaro4375]

People back in the day actually played some masterpiece games Paul Morphy is back in the day before engines and the man was gifted

[@Gingnose]

@@michaelmassaro4375yeah, those "beautiful" games were only told about

[@kazuya6852]

On problem #3, can’t you just move a knight for an escape square?

[@user-qd5sb5he3p]

I think no. 1 is Either ne7 or qf2

[@istariknight1]

I saw the tactic in Problem 4!! I'm proud of myself 😅 The blunder was any move that didn't address the threat

[@VicktoRUrosAndrijasevic]

@Chess Vibes @4:53 If white moved the knight to e4 there would be d2 square for king to run away.... Right?

[@quangan1288]

For the second game I thought f3 was a solid move 😂

[@tiborgrun6963]

Looks like knight on the second or seventh row and not pushing the middle pawns out makes it easy to get your king or queen trapped.

[@msl758]

can you do another ratings climb series please?

[@andragon2485]

Only got the 5th one just because I saw a similar problem in a line I looked at.

[@robo3007]

Only got #5 correct because my instinct was to try to protect the king from future checks

[@1002l]

2/6 but i only really saw all the moves in the first one, didn't see how it was checkmate after the bishop move in the last one

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Great Queen trap but that takes a bit of planning 2nd one I would’ve reacted once that knight entered my side of board yeah but that third one if you move a piece next tithe king to let the king escape to white square that Queen blunder in fourth example is actually a trick many players try

[@Whimsical418]

5:18 why doesn't it work to go Nf3 or something? give the king an escape square? I guess it would still be majorly bad, since the king would be out in the open and there's probably a checkmate, but it is another option surely...

[@Pannlord]

Yeah, I saw all of these except five of them.

[@thealphabetsong4585]

I only predicted 2 blunders but I saw all the ideas before they were revealed, pretty cool

[@rashminambudiri5736]

5/6 nice puzzles 😀

[@dragoncarver287]

I got 1 or 2 but I'm not that good any more if I ever was. But I do enjoy the opportunity to ponder them a bit.

[@lethalty6055]

I only got 1, and that was the king blunder to either checkmate, or white winning a free queen.

[@andymitts251]

I had each of the blunders considered in my top 3 options, but didn't actually get any of them right.

[@moipallo9613]

I didn't find the blunders, but I found 5/6 of responses to the blunders 😂😂

[@misharatkevich9808]

1. Nf6 (eh, close enough, it loses the same exact way, it just felt more natural than Ne7) 2. I saw this one before (also the game seems to be apocryphal, at least in its 4-move version, Tim Krabbe has some info on this) 3. Guessed Ne2 correctly, but was thinking through forceful sacrifice. I didn't realize that black has the time to literally just threaten and white can't respond. Half a point there, I guess. 4. b4 (loses the same way, shows that I want to attack instead of defend, but black wins the same way I'm pretty sure) 5. Seen this one before, but had to remember the specifics of how white actually punishes black for the mistake. It's an interesting line for sure. 6. For some reason I guessed a6, which loses in a similar way, but isn't as natural of a move. Why did I _not_ pick the most natural version of the blunder possible is anyone's guess. So, did 4/5 on "how is this punished" (2 is excluded since I saw it), but picked some different moves that lost in these ways.

[@henczzz2035]

I saw the first puzzle idea however the first thing that popped into n my mind was Qc6

[@danmurtaugh441]

I got Bg7 on the final position only because it seemed like the most obvious next move for black. Couldn't find the follow-up for why it was bad unfortunately

[@Dream.p.e]

Вторую задачку я снова угадал). Я не понимаю смысла хода белых, но ход черных напросился после минутного раздумья. Хотя возможно что все очевидно после ваших намеков. Классный челлендж.

[@bugoobiga]

that 5th one was evil

[@josephmarinucci9073]

Cool challenge! Those blunders are particularly seductive since they appear to be normal moves.

[@lillithplays6514]

Just have me play the position.

[@nopfp416]

I got 2 right but got 1 of the follow ups wrong and 1 I guessed based on what they last played

[@vladislavshevchenko634]

Problem №4 is the easiest, any move that doesn't deal with the threat of knight sacrifice is a mistake, i play similar openings as white and a different version of a Budapest gambit so im familiar with these ideas.

[@DanielSmith-pf2mq]

I predicted all 6 . . . incorrectly (had you for a second 😂).

[@bm9tube]

2/6.. positions 5 and 6

[@jamesknapp64]

Lesson: don't develop Knights in the opening to e or f file if you don't have center control.

[@Alex9501950]

Just got done watching your sleep video. Couldn't sleep because right at the end, I was yelling at my phone, hoping you'd see the queen skewer. Definitely a suspicious account. Took a long time to make obvious moves.

[@luqmaanhay4957]

What?

[@maximos905]

Yea I think the other guy was cheating too

[@Buffalo_Soldier]

#3 is not a blunder according to engine, it's mistake. It loses one lower piece. Take attention that many of these blunders could be not as bad if not for knight in front of queen/king. Be sure of what you want to do if you ever decide to put knight such that it blocks bishop.

[@tcgaming4304]

It was so hard but I solved 1 and last

[@assassin01620]

I get the point, but this might be a bit subjective. Especially the whole "what looks like a good move" and blunders being "obvious." What may be obvious to you, might not be to others. Sinilarly, what may look like a good move to you, may not look like a good move to others.

[@harikumars1487]

These were so hard I didn't even solve 1

[@dustlass]

I figured out the last one because i figured out he was trying a King's Indian Defense (My favorite black opening), so i just had to ask what i would've done here lol

[@user-tp2vc4fd8s]

I think there's a way to survive but I don't know if it's good enough to survive moving your black square knight somewhere else

[@zspectre6133]

Just finished watching the video, I got 4 out of 6 (glad to have found last one), I could say I'm a very tactical guy, sometimes goes well, sometimes goes wrong, it's about that.

[@frankvandorp2059]

1:24 I had predicted Qc6. That would have allowed the light square bishop to pin the queen to the king, queen would be forced to take, but then Kc7 would have forked king and queen. That would be a mistake I could make, I probably would have missed the bishop as a threat because it was undefended itself. EDIT: Oh LOL, that was the immediate followup. I still count my answer half right then.

[@rkturan7542]

I once played the 2nd trap

[@JaumeBoixRibes]

got the 2 last ones

[@RS-handle]

really hard to switch your mentality from finding good moves to bad moves

[@qazzaqstan]

More difficult finding the bad move that still looks reasonable. Like #1 I thought maybe they played Nc6 accidentally undefending the c7 square but yes #2 I was trying to figure out why Nf3 was a blunder because it felt like the obvious move everyone would play but I couldn't see what black's possible followup was. Turns out Stockfish doesn't love it but it is perfectly playable and white played something I'd have never considered looking at.

[@AdamtheRed-]

I feel like I got a -1 on correctness. All these players would have whooped me.

[@patrickdebonis6493]

I got 3 of 6. You're right. They aren't easy.