Chess Master LOSES To Beginner! | Chess Rating Climb 979 to 1012

[@kylecraton9970]

He played 78% and you blundered your rook. No rice 👍

[@ShanSan757]

I see a brilliant comment here 😅😅

[@Verbalaesthet]

Yeah, I think so too. These were not hard to spot.

[@leightonmilton5162]

Well said! Nelson also took way too much time for simple moves

[@mikeallison5549]

Noob here. What’s rice?

[@V3ntyl]

@@mikeallison5549 cheating

[@army1057]

I have also observed that even 1000 are really underrated because nowadays learning from the internet is so effective and easy and most people start playing chess after learning it on the internet. And therefore they are really strong for their elo.

[@MatiasSampaio-uo9rn]

Yes I am 872 and my average game is above 80% accuracy

[@danielward7008]

I don't think 1000s are very strong but they are capable of finding good moves. Underestimate them at your peril, as Nelson has just found out.

[@army1057]

@@danielward7008 exactly what I mean

[@sol_mental]

Yeah. In a good day, stockfish evaluates me at 1500 instead of 1050 which is my actual elo

[@phetolomojela3014]

Lol , 1000's are bad at chess. I am 2000 , what i've learnt is 1300 is where players tend to be good , if you blunder a piece against them you might just as well resign

[@impossiblemovies323]

Not a shadow of rice. Playing The pawn move is not too difficult to see in a 10 minute game, where he had to make forcing moves to avoid losing all pawns and save The rook. Other than that. He played pretty average, and you blundered a rook. Sometimes that just happends. 😢

[@kevalan1042]

what does "rice" mean in this context?

[@themorosov7]

​@@kevalan1042 Cheating with chess engines. It is a Chess Vibes community inside joke referring to (I believe) a guy from the previous rating climb who was clearly cheating and played even the most obvious moves slowly. It was either Nelson joking about the guy cooking rice in between moves, because he was so slow, or the guy actually claiming he was cooking rice. I don't remember exactly.

[@kevalan1042]

@@themorosov7 thanks

[@smalism]

@@themorosov7 yeah a friend of the cheater in the previous rating climb sent an email saying that the guy was cooking rice which is why his time was so suspicious and that the cheater just had a lucky game. and from there it became a chess vibes inside joke

[@mikeallison5549]

100% if he wasn’t explaining moves and trying to find interesting instructional situations, this would have been an easy win. Explaining all his moves got him low on time and blundered rook.

[@jeffreyeschbach8812]

This video is why Nelson is so awesome! Yes, he’s a master, and yes, he normally crushes opponents at this level… but he’s willing to show that he’s also a human being who can blunder. But I REALLY like how you can tell it’s bugging him throughout the rest of the video! We’ve all been on tilt like that after a bad loss, (I was recently tagged by scholar’s mate, after promising myself that I would never, ever let that happen again in my life... still bothering me today), and he’s willing to show that side too. I feel very sorry for the next 100 opponents he goes up against! 😂. (And if Nelson is tallying up the votes, I'd say this game was no RiCE - just a painful loss.)

[@q45ij54q]

This is the main reason why chess is so frustrating for me. I can win five games in a row and then lose one and I don't enjoy any of the wins because I'm so annoyed with the loss. I actually have a hard time recalling any of my wins but I can remember almost every loss. Sometimes it doesn't even feel worth playing because of this.

[@jeffreyeschbach8812]

Well, it’s not just chess…a ‘bad beat’ is hard to shake in any competition: poker, sports, board games… just the way us human beings are wired. That’s why it’s nice to see someone like Nelson feeling salty/annoyed with himself too… goes to show that it’s just part of stepping in the arena!! Stay strong and have more fun knowing you’re not the only one!

[@alexandraison6429]

Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I agree, no cheating here. But thank you for being respectful and compassionate about it as opposed to so,e of the other comments calling him sad. It’s hard to trust people anymore with the ability to cheat, so of course one will always at least CONSIDER it. Anyway, you’re comment made me feel better, so thank you

[@kingzucski8027]

What does rice mean

[@alexandraison6429]

@@kingzucski8027 he has an older video where an opponent was cheating but his excuse was he was adjusting his rice cooker. So no uses the term “rice cooker” as cheater. It unfortunately happens a lot even at my lower level

[@KurtUwe]

Nelson got his First loss and Starts to checkmate opponents in like 6 moves 😂 Great!

[@ashleyharris4114]

Emperor from Star Wars "Yes Nelson, feel the hate growing with every move! Destroy your enemies with the dark side of the force!" 😅

[@Nerb1]

I thought it was the opposite of great. This episode turned from a teaching moment to "watch me destroy low elo players". I think he should have stopped recording and taken a break.

[@JoEisenhart]

​@@Nerb1No, the "destroyed" player just let the door wide open for this attack. Ok, a little salty he was😂. Just human.

[@KurtUwe]

@@Nerb1 this lesson was about to not move the f pawn without thinking

[@RepentInReprise]

@@Nerb1 If an opponent gets checkmated in the early game, then it is their own fault that they got checkmated so quickly.

[@praf1069]

what a rook sacrifice that was

[@ninja4O5]

I don't think it's rice. Im a 800 range player and my focus mainly is to push my rapid rating. I hardly play blitz or bullet because i feel it's a waste of time and even when i do play it's for me to get warmed up for my Rapid games. I purposely play bad at blitz and bullet because my main goal is rapid rating. And, I use a separate app for puzzles because majority of us casual players usually dont have premium membership because of which there is a limit to puzzles and it's annoying, hence we use a separate free puzzle app altogether. I reckon that's why you see so many players in the lower ranges with low ratings in blitz/bullets/puzzles but still play good chess.

[@shutemdwn]

What app do you use for puzzles?

[@chriselcombe847]

@@shutemdwn use lichess

[@User-yb3vk]

Lichess has free puzzles.

[@jlle5289]

⁠@@User-yb3vkI find that lichess puzzles are quite easy or I just haven’t found out a setting to make them more difficult

[@KingPanda-lp5ir]

@@jlle5289what ur puzzle rating on lichens if it’s below 3k don’t talk about easy

[@sh0ker]

No rice just bad luck with time pressure because you are explaining everything

[@ViolentRetribution]

There's no luck in chess, it was a poorly played game. Still had some instructive moments for us though.

[@remcovanhartevelt588]

Def no cheat, the sugestion is laughably bad to tiny bit sad

[@bjornlangoren3002]

​@@ViolentRetributionThere may be no luck in chess, but pedantry seems abundant. Plus it is not entirely true that there is no luck. You can make a move early in the game where is seemingly doesn't matter which square is used. But calculating 20 moves ahead that move could mean all the difference. Since we are not computers with unlimited capacity. When a calculation is beyond human capacity, the choice is down to luck.

[@thefourthperspective]

What does rice mean?

[@MackenzeeLee-xs3fs]

​@@thefourthperspectiveI think it means if he thinks the opponent was using stockfish or an engine to cheat

[@viktor4840]

In fact if a strong player blunders a piece, it is inspiration for weaker players like me. Mistakes can happen, and you just go and learn from them. Very helpful format.

[@claygerrard]

I love this format. Crushing blunder and Nelson carried on with poise. Champion chess player. Best chess content on KZbin IMHO.

[@jaideepshekhar4621]

But the cheating insinuation is crazy.

[@gumbykevbo]

You missed seeing a move that only required a little calculation, were down a piece, and were still very likely to win...until you blundered the rook. I think you should appologize for suggesting cheating. This series you have been playing mostly above 90% accuracy. And many of your opponents have been pushing mid 70s. When you dropped you game to low.70s you had an opponent who was just good enough to capitalize on that.

[@mahiiengg]

34:37 just leave it.. it was genuine game

[@deinauge7894]

yes he's just not thinking straight... 1st of all he blundered multiple times and did not look one move ahead. 2nd the next opponnt lost and had 74% accuracy. 3rd it's normal to have ~500 ELO less in bullet compared to rapid at this level.

[@Stinfoxc]

Yes, I feel "saltiness" was clouding a sense of objectivity here.

[@samwinchester1326]

​he said it himself dont need to "feel" anything @@Stinfoxc

[@Chomta]

​@@deinauge7894might be true I'm 1500 in rapid and 1200 in bullet

[@RadishAcceptable]

@@samwinchester1326 It's just discouraging to see even good players get all poor sportsmanship when they lose like this. There's not even a small chance this was rice, and he kept wanting to not accept the loss.

[@GigsTaggart]

Nelson remember people who are 1000 may be excellent in some areas. It only takes one weakness to really hold back people's ELO. And consistency gets you as well. They aren't all hanging major pieces every game. If you mess up every other game or suck at endgames, you can be what otherwise might be a strong intermediate, but your elo can be stuck lower because of those flaws.

[@jamess9623]

Also depends if you're playing your 'a' game or not, if you are tired or on tilt. Nelson was not playing his 'a' game until he got mad that he lost and then he started checkmating people in 6 or so moves. He had a very bad game and I a 1400 would have beat him in that first game. I would get crushed by him when he's playing well though. I can tell you that if I play when I''m tired or am on a big tilt I play really bad. I've looked at some of my losing streaks and there are blunders all over. Look at my winning streaks when I'm playing well and they are high accuracy.

[@GigsTaggart]

@@jamess9623 yeah he also put himself in time pressure from talking too much

[@driesphilipsen2457]

Legit win, I'm 1000 player and 60-70 % off my games I play higher then 78 accuracy. Still keep up the good work, learning a lot since I niticed your channel. Most educational channel on youtube in my opinion

[@mikeallison5549]

I am a 600 and still pull a 70-80% out my bottom occasionally. Not often but not super rare either. But I can say for certain he lost this trying to find instructional situations and got himself in a bind. Also by explaining every move and thought process loses a lot of time and then led to the blundered rook. This thought explanation is so helpful though.

[@bananamonkeygaming14]

every single game or just the ones you analyze…?

[@kyleolson9636]

I'm also a 1000 player and I get a 90+% game more than 10% of the time. Now that is often when my opponent makes some big mistakes, but people at this rating are still capable of some pretty good games. We just have some gaps I our game and blunder often. But not every game.

[@giacalonebuilding4443]

Check out Alex Banzea and Danya also. Nelson was my first chess channel I followed (I started playing chess June 26, 1050 rated so far) but I really really noticed a jump when I started watching Alex. Nelson style is a little bit too aggressive for me but some of his ideas mixed with solid play really helped. Just search for whatever opening you like and watch lots of vids from different creators it is so crazy how good and how fast your game gets. I play Catalan and jobava mainly and Caro and KID as black

[@andrewbennett5911]

Most definitely !!

[@llamallama1509]

"He gets the rook, just to rub it in", maybe, but I often promote to Rook at times like those because of the number of times I've accidentally stalemated after promoting to a queen. He might be Rook promoting out of safety.

[@poorlittlebiker6476]

Exactly, the rook is my safe promotion 😂

[@Techno_Gecko]

What do you mean? Wouldn't a queen be better in all situations?

[@llamallama1509]

@@Techno_Gecko In the hands of a good player, yeah Queen > Rook, but I'm not a good player. It's just as easy to get checkmate with two rooks in that position as Rook and Queen, but I'm about 75% less likely to stalemate with two Rooks compared to Rook and Queen.

[@mncdssctn9110]

@@Techno_GeckoNot really. With a queen you have more options to checkmate but also it’s easier to miss a stalemate danger. When I have a rook on the board already and promote I always promote to another rook because of that, since checkmating with two rooks is basically as easy and fast as a rook and a queen.

[@poorlittlebiker6476]

@@Techno_Gecko if you already have a rook it’s easier to avoid stalemate by getting another rook instead of a queen. If it’s a more complicated game, or your opponent still has their Queen, then I’d probably get a Queen instead.

[@fabioguggeri325]

As a 1200 who was 900 a few months ago... that's just how 1000-chess is. Sometimes you get opponents who play with 80+ accuracy and know how to convert a game, sometimes you get opponents who play with 25 accuracy and blunder easy checkmates. My guess is that there are those who are "stable" at 1000, and those who are potentially much stronger but have lower elo because they keep blundering easy things, and the guy who won the first match was of the second kind - someone who can play better than the average 1000 elo but still struggle with consistency.

[@Anime_Lover_zxy]

Damn, the master was outwitted by a rookie. Guess that guy was also a Chess Vibes viewer.

[@JackDoesPuzzles]

Rookie as in sacrifice the 'rook' lol

[@TrevorVaubel]

As a current 900 player on Rapid and 700 player in blitz, you run into people playing way ahead of you and way below you. It's a crapshoot at these ranks.

[@andrewbennett5911]

Didn't smell rice this time ! Remember the 800's strengths 😵‍💫

[@NotMoriarty1]

very impressed with the fact that you’re willing to put your losses out there to teach us. I gotta give you props. 🎉 I think you’re one of the better explainers “teachers “on KZbin.

[@aleksf9149]

No rice! I am low 900s, but I am taking this course "Breaking 1500" and my last 5 games all were over 90 accuracy, with two of 5 game having brilliant moves... I bet my opponents thought I was cheating.

[@jdavidteem]

as a 900 player i can tell you he didn't get the rook to rub it in. He got it to avoid stalemate.

[@jdavidteem]

can also varify that 900 still suck. But at this level, sometimes we just pull a solid game.

[@eggy1791]

if you are stalemating as a 900 you shoudnt be playing chess

[@migueljamespacto7386]

yeah no, f6 and h6 are available

[@kevinkonig3892]

​@@eggy1791 🤡

[@jdavidteem]

@@eggy1791 Such a weird thing to say. Lots of 900s stalemate. They should all just quit? How do you expect them to get better?

[@andrewd666]

I think you got beat fair and square, and shouldn't throw doubts on your opponent. You just made mistakes, with limited pieces on the board he just made obvious moves and just got lucky.

[@TheDrokon]

Nelson you blundered a major piece. Give the guy his credit for taking advantage of your rare mistake, instead of insinuating he was cooking rice.

[@RadishAcceptable]

Yes... It's sad to see poor sportsmanship from him like this. There's no chance there was rice and he just didn't want to accept it. He just played a bad game. This happens to absolutely everybody.

[@BasatoFederal]

Guys what's rice in chess? I don't get it I'm new

[@RadishAcceptable]

@@BasatoFederal it means they were cheating. It's not a chess thing. It's a Chess Vibes thing, as a user that actually was caught and banned for cheating had said they were cooking rice as an excuse for suspicious time usage.

[@RhombicChthulhuSONIC]

Yeah he blundered but the opponent was certainly having very suspicious time usage at the end game on very obvious moves. I think he was cheating and nelson played bad.

[@BasatoFederal]

@@RadishAcceptable thanks broo

[@jasonw1984]

17:55 he notices the blunder immediately even before his opponent captures Me: hears clicking capture sound, pause, hey where the hell did my rook go?

[@otamanyura5972]

I would like for you to play some games faster at the beginning and then slow down and explain the endgame for us

[@donaldballjr]

Agreed. I’m at the point in my game development where I understand opening principles pretty well and can at least articulate a middlegame plan, but idk maybe a quarter of the time I lose a winning or winnable endgame. I think if Nelson were able to take more time on a series of endgames at the ~1000 rating level to explain the set of things he’s thinking about at more length, I’d be able to improve my own play in the endgame.

[@mariusenache6658]

If he plays faster in the begging he will win in 3 minutes :))

[@GaryFerrao]

No rice. You just blundered your rook under time pressure.

[@giacalonebuilding4443]

And the knight lol

[@claygerrard]

The knight didn’t feel like a blunder. He was just playing ahead of himself. The pawn push was a strong move.

[@giacalonebuilding4443]

@@claygerrard after the pawn push yeah but should have prepared for it a move sooner and would have been fine. Now hindsight is 20-20 and not saying I wouldn’t have done same thing, just that it was his fault not anything the opponent did great.

[@fikretpajalic1224]

Does rice mean cheating?

[@GaryFerrao]

@@fikretpajalic1224 yes. the last time Nelson caught a cheater taking the same timing for each move, the cheater said that he was cooking rice. And the meme stuck.

[@JamesQMurphy]

34:46 The reason I love your channel is because you are the most down-to-earth chess KZbinr out there. Yes, you lose sometimes (like everyone else) but you also _admit_ that it bothers you (again, like everyone else). That’s why I spend time on your channel and not other chess channels.

[@claygerrard]

Best content on KZbin. Another great video from Nelson. I love this series.

[@davidcoyle7125]

Thing i like about this video is Nelson shows that even a great player like himself can blunder yet actually seem amussed as he is enjoying the game so much, an icon to us all well done Nelson for not only teaching us chess but how to enjoy the game win or lose.

[@kshnickens]

I really enjoy your videos Nelson! I feel like I learn a lot. I’m rated around 950, and I’d say that the unevenness you ran into here is pretty typical. Some people, in some games, are really solid, and in the next game, they might blunder a piece right away. So, I think it’s not too suspicious.

[@perfectblue02]

no rice i think that pawn push was very clear even to a 700 elo player cause they'll be just focusing in untrapping the rook and the blunder is normal too cause you were explaining a lot with 30+0 on the clock

[@mahiiengg]

31:13 no.. it's just you blundered.. we all are humans. It is common

[@gordontubbs]

Just wait until you blunder your queen in a 1500 game like the rest of us.

[@carrija]

bullet is the worst. i've played like 5 games and have a 400 or something. but I'm around 1200 in rapid. I'll be happy if i never play another bullet game in my life :)

[@jurajlitvanyi5410]

bullet is mostly about speed, there´s no space for thinking. Its mostly intuitive chess. I play lot of bullet for fun and im still around 650, i can not go higher, almost all my looses are on time, but its still good training to play faster and think only 2 seconds per move. In bullet in this rating I saw so many weak players, im sure they didnt know what they were playing, only moved pieces, but still won on time because I wasnt able to checkmate them on time - thats why even weak players can have good wining score in bullet.

[@JamesQMurphy]

@@jurajlitvanyi5410it blows my mind that people play bullet chess for fun. I think I’d rather do my taxes and laundry rather than submit myself to bullet 😂

[@Sandfox07]

For bullet, you already need to have a lot of experience to play good enough moves very fast. I would just focus on rapid, if you reach like 2000 rapid you will be a lot better in bullet without having played it

[@dg3872]

The blitz/bullet pool is also a lot stronger than the rapid pool. The average difference between rapid and bullet/blitz rating in the 1k area is roughly 400 points (so 1200 rapid equals 800 blitz/bullet rating if you are of similar strength in the three formats)

[@DarrenYork]

lol dude it's cool you're awesome lol mild-mannered Nelson is a bit perturbed lol this is great content bravo

[@masetade]

The thing to consider is, you blundered a rook in the ENDGAME. A 600 should win from that position with that time advantage.

[@hank3004]

No, ‘you’ weren’t outplayed. You’ve accumulated 75ish wins while TEACHING! An obviously strong distraction, yet winning 75 in a row! In addition, your loss was a teaching moment! I get your ‘saltiness’, yet in the situation, laugh, let go, move on, is best, and, always best!!😃

[@sol_mental]

No, man, he won fair and square. No deal, you just blundered a knight and a rook. OFC he'll win, he's not Martin

[@JamesQMurphy]

He might be one of Martin’s kids

[@francescoragghianti6068]

I'm almost 700 elo and I saw that pawn move too, sometimes even Nelson blunders badly, this makes me feel less stupid :D thanks Nelsi

[@francescoragghianti6068]

I would like to add that sometimes I play with 85% accuracy and the next game it'''s 55% and I lose

[@jipiquittot]

You saw the move, ok, but did you really see why he moved the pawn forward in the first place? Really?

[@jazdj04]

It's obvious. The move isnt hard to understand why. ​@@jipiquittot

[@jazdj04]

It's obvious. The move isnt hard to understand why. ​@@jipiquittot

[@jipiquittot]

@@jazdj04 So obvious that a NM didn't see it coming. Come on, we're talking about a 900 rated guys...

[@bluebow9347]

0:02 Love the blue background lights

[@jasonfrancis1736]

you are A great player......showing us your mistakes is one of the things that make you A good teacher....👍....🍺....

[@mariosnum1fan]

First one wasn’t a rice-cooker. I think you played bad (and no shame in that; you were explaining it for the player at that rank in-depth and didn’t realize it at the time). Additionally I believe you missed some good moves beforehand that could’ve closed the game for you. After that queen check which pins enemy queen, you could’ve grabbed the pawn.

[@RhombicChthulhuSONIC]

His queen was undefended.

[@mariosnum1fan]

@@RhombicChthulhuSONIC on the pin? The king is there to capture, which is what happened

[@RhombicChthulhuSONIC]

@@mariosnum1fan His queen was pinning his opponents queen and his queen was undefended which means his opponent could have captured his queen for free so no he couldn't leave it there. You got eyes that work right?

[@mariosnum1fan]

⁠@@RhombicChthulhuSONICmy comment if it wasn’t clear was to take the pawn sitting on G4 with black queen. That would’ve been the play I would’ve done as opposed to capturing the queen. G4 is undefended anyway

[@bxmundo]

I've been watching every progression video and subscribed. Plan on buying to support. Gave my first and only like because you admitted you're salty, lol. Great stuff!

[@vassiliosavlonitis5813]

You had a bad game. He didn’t need the rice cooker. Sorry!

[@90sK1dFOr3v3r]

wrong

[@Kenjitsuka]

Still watching Peter Patzer every single day! He's up to 1478 now ;-)

[@Eurisko__78]

34:46 I'm glad you eventually owned it :) was starting to lose respect. There was no rice there.

[@claygerrard]

That was such an honest moment: “I’m just salty”. King. Best content on KZbin.

[@iceyroo]

That’s why I hate 10 min, I need increment so I don’t just lose on time, 15-10 rapid is so much better

[@andavocado]

Nelson, I think the disparity in games 1 and 3 is that 900s dont understand the position. They don't understand key diagonals or files. At that level, they are able to see some tactics (like e6) but they don't actually understand the significance of what they are playing. The difference between games 1 and 3 was that you simply took over the position, and that was something you could have done in game 1. You didn't, which allowed the opponent some opportunity, but even after that, you still may have won if you didn't blunder the rook because your position is better. You're my favorite chess instructor, and I know opponents have cheated in the past, but I don't think there was any cheating involved!

[@zzggjkkkdzdzswhwhsh]

Hey Nelson, you and Hikaru are the only reason I turn on youtube nowadays and I always apprechiate you videos. I just reached 1500 elo mainly just by watching your videos. Thanks for all the years of content!

[@goodspellr1057]

At 14:04, if you move the knight, he shouldn't take the pawn and get a queen. He should just play Rg8 and get checkmate.

[@jamess9623]

I saw that too. I pointed that out to my son while watching.

[@matthewharding6245]

No rice. Just a decent beginner. Not uncommon for bullet to be far lower than rapid at that level (my level!). I guess that's because there isn't the experience to identify the best moves quickly enough to win. My rapid rating is around 1200 but i struggle to get my bullet above 700.

[@jdavidteem]

Yeah, i play 900 ish and my bullet is like 200. Under 5 minutes just doesn't give me enough time to work out the positions. I am not sure I have ever won a bullet game.

[@DuongNguyen-zh7rm]

my bullet is 1200 and my rapid is 1000 lol. I guess my specialist is to play alright move really fast 😂

[@pkelly6618]

My brain locks up under pressure, I lose so many bullet games on time! 😅 Currently 850-920 blitz and rapid, but bullet I struggle at 600 and that's only after increasing the time control from 1min to 2|1. 😬

[@sentientbeing8738]

He literally had one bullet game, his bullet rating is irrelevant. Same with his puzzle rating as he has only done 24 puzzles and you start at 400 elo. Chess vibes mentioning his elo in the other things was short sighted.

[@jdavidteem]

@@pkelly6618 i think vibes was just a bit shaken that he lost to a 900.

[@Shamrock2776]

I don't remember seeing an opponent that got under 1 min. He just seized the opportunity, no cheater here imo

[@factoryminis3437]

No Rice. I'm really bad at 400 and that pawn move was a FU pawn move - (FU is beginner emotional reaction move). The one thing I know about bishops and end games is always keep your pieces off their color squares just for that reason. Even at 400 I've had tons of 80% - 100% games, but also tons of 35% - 65%. It usally boils down to 1 to 4 middle game moves, where we get stuck and have no clue what to do.

[@benarjeeramnanda]

Some times it happens me also beat 1900 rated player but lost for 950 rated player because of small unseen blunder

[@benoitb.3679]

20:48 Let's see Paul Allen's game.

[@LordSluggo]

Given how more experienced chess players describe the 800-1200 range compared to the opponents I face in that range, I would say they're stronger than they used to be. It's probably due to the increase in knowledge from chess KZbin and the overall increase in interest during the pandemic.

[@BBl-jx3xu]

Seeing that an NM can plunder too makes you only even more likable! :) Keep up this great content! Thanks a lot for your commitment.

[@resurrectsean2438]

Yeah I agree a very strong 900 Still learned a lot watching 🙏

[@theanandprasad]

My favorite series on chess so far. Please keep it up and going Nelson

[@Froggy.714]

He was getting smoked and Nelson blundered the game away. Can't cry rice every time a guy plays a decent game. Nelson played 70% Accuracy and blundered his rook and lost the knight not paying attention to the pawn. The other guy was clearly showing he wanted to push that pawn in the previous moves and then claim he found a great move. Nelson just missed the obvious...it happens!

[@Mal1234567]

Nelson was focused on practicing his pawn hunting strategy.

[@leerichey4213]

I appreciate that you are willing to show loses. It is instructive.

[@andrewbennett5911]

The 400 bullet rating could be just that they started as " new to chess " ( 400 start ) & hadn't played bullet ??

[@dg3872]

The blitz/bullet pool is a lot stronger than the rapid pool, so a 500 points rating difference is normal

[@kchinchilla1724]

Thank you for showing us this Nelson. It makes you a better teacher!

[@Ceidonianphysicist]

It would be kramnik levels to think that was suspicious. You just straight up hung your rook that he was specifically moving to attack.

[@DJMJRyder]

Easy to hang a piece when low on time due to teaching. This series is super helpful!

[@ltdericjones]

First Levy Rozman goes 0.5/6 in his current tourney & now Nelson losing to a 900. Y’all need to get some rest 😴

[@davidfalcioni]

Nelson has the added pressure of trying to show cool tactics like trapping the rook and that could be the reason why he overlooked the threat from the pawn. Once that went wrong it’s easy to see he was demoralised, lost focus and lost the rook. We’re humans and we all have a bad game sometimes.

[@claygerrard]

Definitely shook by the loss of the knight. He saw the pawn push right after the trap and saw the rook half a second too late as well. Very tragic human moment. The fact he can shake it off and finish the video with a killer run is a testament to his strength.

[@ViktorasMakauskas]

sucks to be reminded that 1000 elo is still in the "beginner" category

[@jamess9623]

I've played beginners and 1000 is way ahead of beginners. I've also watched my son go from 100 to almost 1000 and the difference in play is huge.

[@dg3872]

1000 rapid is a beginner. A 1000 rated blitz/bullet player is definitely not a beginner

[@DamirHadzic-d4q]

​@@dg3872Something like that. I am 1600 rapid,but only 1300 blitz.

[@Jessterrr]

In that first game he transposed into the Scotch game which looked a bit slick for an under 1000 player. Taking the knight felt like a beginner move since some beginners like to get rid of the knights because they're so tricky. That G4 move seemed like a mistake but setup their room for the 7th rank attack which seemed like an advanced sequence. Anticipating E6 seems advanced too because certainly anyone would've seen the bishop rook trap. That game was not the play of an under 1000 player. I do think you got a bit tilted after loosing the piece and then overlooked the rook grab. I also think they picked a rook instead of queen because there's less chance for a stalemate. A sub 1000 wouldn't inow that unless you they've studied the game a lot but not played much.

[@claygerrard]

I think this hits all the points. No rice. Nelson was tilted by the knight, embarrassed by the rook and salty about the loss. Which he admitted to like a King and carried on like a champion. Best content on KZbin.

[@Trelmayas21]

FIrst game is completely legit. Nelson burned his clock explaining things (understandable, as it's the point of this series), made a tactical blunder in the middle game trying to trap the rook, not seeing that it didn't work, and then blundered his rook in the endgame. There's no shame in losing to a lower rated player because you were distracted and trying to teach things, especially after a 72-game win streak, but there is a lot of shame in baselessly accusing that person of cheating because you fumbled a tactic and then blundered a rook. I understand cheating is a problem in chess, and it sucks, but seeing Nelson go down the Kramnik route of baselessly accusing anyone he loses to of cheating sucks even worse.

[@michaelhaywood3106]

I loved this video. Great teaching. In the first game you were in time trouble and banged out the rook blunder. I can learn from that, too.

[@artursverza]

1:04:42 Nelson blundered Rxf6 :)

[@BananaDope]

Well, yes, it's a mistake but I wouldn't say a blunder. You got those dangerous pawns while he has two knights and a rook and your king is gonna come in to support them.. F5 is incoming somewhere, kicking the knight away and progressing with a tempo. Rd8 and Rc2 maybe, making an attack on the pawns, forcing him to be kinda stuck at the corner with his rook and knight. If knight reroutes to a1, you simply go back to C1. That also achieves control of 2 files. You may argue that one of the knights can infiltrate from the queen side, but what does he do after a6? So I think black is still winning if played right.

[@brooksiet1555]

Hello nelson! Love your content! I don't know if you've already done this one because i've just been recently binging all your videos, but I would love to see the catalan opening if you're willing! Thanks for all the content, you're my favorite youtuber!

[@MatiasSampaio-uo9rn]

I am 872 and over half of my games are above 80% accuracy

[@greg1198]

I'd imagine it's easier to get higher accuracy on lower rated opponents where you're capitalising on simple mistakes ,as opposed to a higher rated player who made no particularly bad move.

[@MatsMatsuo]

@@greg1198 well, it was a short game where Nelson was not very precise, allowed counterplay, and made 2 big blunders, so he kind of played like a 1000, and the opponent was kind of lucky because the way to punish the blunders were obvious, not a complex tactical shot

[@greg1198]

@@MatsMatsuo Oh yeah I didn't mean this game in particular, I was just generally speaking, which might've been a bit airheaded out of me lol.

[@張謙-n3l]

@@greg1198 Even top players like Kramnik could have blundered away a totally winning game, combined with the fact that Nelson didn't play well in the first game. After missing the promotion threat, the position was probably still holdable, but after hanging the rook, I'd say even a 600-rated player would probably be able to destroy Stockfish at such huge material gap

[@MatsMatsuo]

@@greg1198 in general you are absolutely correct about the relativity of accuracy by elo, and yeah, I assumed you were talking about this scenario of the video. But I guess we’re on the same page. See ya.

[@FranckGomboc]

I like your attitude and humility re blunder. Makes people like me (trying to [consistently] get above 1100) smile (and feel better). Many tx for your wonderful narratives and explanations

[@jamesmyers9150]

You beat yourself. Is what it is. He didn't do anything special the pawn move was kinda obvious and so was the blundered rook. You Just played a bad game.

[@andyclark8991]

Awesome video love your videos mate

[@msl758]

Personally I don’t think there was any cheating in that first game. I’m about the same rating and the pawn move was not impossible to see. You also would have won if you had not hung your rook. I got slaughtered in blitz when I started out… so I now prefer longer games. It’s the reason my rapid rating is much higher than blitz now (which was I think the reason you were suspicious of the opponent)

[@seankins7173]

I am 550 Eli and saw the pawn move. As he was explaining the rook trap, I was thinking “what if he brings that pawn down”. Doubted myself because Nelson always seeing things that I do t.

[@Fly2SkyGAMING]

not suspicious at all in my opinion, he found 2 great moves in the end with pushing the pawn and the bishop forking your pawn/rook, nicely done, I was actually surprised you didn't take his rook forcing him to go back with the knight, that was my first instict, good lessons, keep them coming

[@SoulHuN7eR]

I believe he beat you clean. You were stuck on the thought of the rook trap from before and didn't consider the new position with the pawn change. And well, the rook blunder was unacceptable for your skill lvl. 😅

[@claygerrard]

Very human moment. He saw it as soon as he moved the pawn. Probably still shocked by the pawn push sacking the knight and trying to explain and move fast. 71 wins is still a great streak. Champion chess master putting themselves out there for the content and I’m here for it. Keep on Nelson!!!

[@keeto9766]

Hi Nelson, thanks a lot for you amazing videos!! I improved my rating by 400 points in a month just learning from you! God bless you 🙏🙌

[@VocalSammy]

"it makes you wonder" lmaooo you blundered a rook in one move in a winning endgame. The bullet rating of an opponent who was never under time pressure is not relevant here. The one "good find" you mention here is the most obvious move to look at when trying to figure out how to untrap their rook.

[@James--Parker]

4:29 Why not take with the queen instead of the pawn? It seems like a logical move to me as it saves your pawn structure and gets your queen out of the way of your Knight. Am I missing something obvious or some theory line?

[@Marky909]

He's recapturing the piece while opening up his bishop, ready to be developed. He doesn't want to take with the queen because he has already moved it. And he doesn't want to waste time moving one piece only in the opening

[@Dodifayed21]

Yeah Nelson, you just blundered your Rook haha. As a 900 elo player myself, we are kinda strong nowadays

[@xaviergovindan9966]

Calling yourself strong is cringe

[@Dodifayed21]

@@xaviergovindan9966 😅😅sorry your highness

[@100geemo78]

I’m between 800-900……and I’m 💩!!

[@Dodifayed21]

@100geemo78 This might make @xaviergovindan9966 really happy 😂

[@meatonthetable1602]

Thats why i love your videos because your so REAL ! It happens to everyone but when you dropped that rook on a white square saw it coming lmao..

[@thewrittenlegalist8110]

It’s hard to say if the first guy was cooking rice.I’ve heard it’s a new trend that cheaters only start cheating when they feel they’re losing. This would indicate their accuracy is on the lower end since they played human moves up until the point they cheat. It’s possible he cheated on one or two moves and then Nelson panicked and blundered his rook, creating a messy situation on both sides.

[@r33th]

Nelson's opponent made inaccurate moves throughout the whole game, definitely legit. Also, Nelson never had a winning position. He was slightly better at times but never totally winning.

[@alexandersemenov9588]

There is no reason to suspect him, Nelson just blundered two pieces

[@BananaDope]

8:16 I think if Nh6, h3, then. Qh4+, Qf2, Rxd1, Nxd1, Qxe5? But of course he can just take the rook and avoid that, but we get the open file in exchange for a badly positioned knight. Does that work? Can someone confirm?

[@derfred9081]

Many people don't understand that cheaters don't automatically play 100% Stockfish. Rather, they often play themselves and then in critical situations they resort to Stockfish or they specifically choose only the moves that they themselves hold just above +, etc. So just because someone is not very accurate doesn't mean that they haven't cheated. If an experienced player like Nelson has doubts about whether this player is legitimate, then there is often some truth in it. Of course, there can be exceptions who occasionally simply play a much better game than in their ranking range, but as a rule, that is not the case.

[@alexandersemenov9588]

He blundered two pieces, that's not his opponent's fault. 1000s are not 200s, they can beat people up two pieces

[@keithkesler2315]

I agree. The way opponent played in key spots were way beyond 900 players I've seen and I'm 880. I wouldn't have played that way. Give me a pawn and piece and Nelson still beats me 49 out of 50 times...

[@brandonsmith2888]

I’ve been watching this channel for a while now… Nelson always crushes this elo range (which I’m in) so I got a weird sense of hope from seeing someone like me beat someone like him.

[@ThorsteinnAdalsteins]

You are salty and need to get over it. You blundered the trap with the bishop and then you blundered your rook. It was one of those "wow, I played super well" in the life of a 970

[@jaideepshekhar4621]

31:55 You can play the entire game well, but blunder your only piece in the endgame and down to seconds, you can't expect to win, Nelson.

[@justicebaker372]

Legit game, no rice cooking, sorry Nelson.

[@romanmohr5686]

Had tons of games where I lost in the 900 range with 70 to 75 accuracy. Won most if I had 70+, but not uncommon to run into someone in that range who plays between 70 to 80 accuracy (was stuck there for a long time). I am around 1000 still and was wondering right away how you would deal with that pawn. I think a pure oversight and people in that range can capitalize on that often already, especially with your time situation.

[@RadishAcceptable]

No rice, dude.

[@90sK1dFOr3v3r]

was

[@mikemurad7490]

Another excellent educational video, thanx buddy .

[@AlienBros]

Idk I mean its possible he was legit but they also have a new browser extension that will help you win without all perfect moves. Basically it purposely lowers your accuracy so it looks like a human played the game but in reality it had an engine playing all the best moves at critical times. There is a video of someone on KZbin showing how it works. Makes it hard to tell who is honest and who isn’t anymore. Kind of ruins the game.

[@Dtchmastrkilla7]

15:56 what's wrong with Rh1 pinning White's bishop and then also adding your white square bishop to the attack by going Bd3?

[@Marky909]

Its fine but he might unpin by playing like kf2 and then you wont have the chance to grab the free material he grabbed

[@Alex9501950]

Obligatory KZbin algorithm comment

[@szlatnik]

You still pretty much had him if you saw that your rook was hanging. He just had a really good game. Honestly though, if a 900 can beat a NM... that is interesting, and a statistical anomaly. Maybe he was underrated? All the same, I THINK you should message him and tell him he played well. Beating an NM at ANY TIME CONTROL deserves a pat on the back. If I beat an NM, it would be very classy if the NM told me "GG"- I think he earned it.

[@phetolomojela3014]

Lol You lost to a 900 , Embarrasing

[@phetolomojela3014]

Lol then he also said the 900 was strong😂😂, embaracing

[@army1057]

Are u 8?

[@sol_mental]

@@army1057 Probably, any regular 8 yrs old nowadays is already @ 1500 elo anyway xD

[@chelovek10117]

​@@phetolomojela3014bro turned off the autocorrect

[@army1057]

@@sol_mental fr

[@matthewhook3375]

I've recently gotten into chess after my 6yo son asked me to teach him how to play. Loving this series. I think the first game was legit. It was a pretty strong player for sure, but perhaps he's inconsistent and just happened to be having a great gate. Also you were under time pressure and were distracted by teaching/explanations when the rook blunder happened.

[@dennismbuthia3108]

No rice, guy had a good day