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Timestamps:
0:00 - The Pirc against 1.g3
13:57 - Gunderam Gambit??
18:14 - Tricky Queen Fork!
19:23 - How should we attack?
26:25 - Opening Mistake in Scotch Game
32:09 - Fishing Pole Trap?!
37:27 - Stockfish is STRONG
37:56 - Pirc Scares Opponent on Move 0
39:01 - Pirc against 1.e4
43:50 - I BLUNDERED! ❓❓
47:43 - Save my knight or stop a fork??
49:59 - Time Pressure!
52:15 - My opponent had a draw!!
53:20 - Pirc Against London - 98.8 Accuracy
56:15 - PRO TIP: How to break 500
1:00:19 - TACTIC ALERT - What's the move?
1:01:45 - BIG NEWS

[@danielshapiro2472]

At 35:50 you just know the guy was staring blankly at his screen wondering how he just got checkmated because he didn't realize the F pawn was pinned 😂 poor guy!

[@criscrisan8569]

Just won a game using the fishing pole trap earlier today! 😁 Learned it from you. Thank you, Nelson 🙏

[@PaulLadendorf]

Every once in a while I'll get absolutely demolished by some significantly lower rated than me. I think I now know why.

[@dragoniousmaximus7304]

I think Hikaru beat me in 4 seconds yesterday

[@iceduckz]

I love the way you walk us through your thought process. Excellent video, thank you.

[@tamerabdalrazaq1298]

Thanks Nelson, very insightful. Looking forward for the new course!

[@davidshowto]

As you move forward in rating, I hope that we get to see a bit more analysis after each game, on some alternative moves that could have been played at key moments (on both sides)

[@andrewbennett5911]

Another excellent instructive video , thank you . I'm learning a lot from you !

[@CuongLe-zl6vj]

Elo climb is my favorite series especially for beginner like me, many thank!

[@rmwTAG]

Nelson - love you and all your material... easily the best instructive Chess content on KZbin! Thank you for doing what you do.

[@Blaxmoke]

This Scotch game was actually very instructive for lower elo since this move order happens quite often, also happy to see The Scotch Gambit tries, looking forward to it in the series, much love! Edit: since the London was played against you, a game with the Jobava London would be nice to see. :)

[@RealTerrainHobbies]

I’m really enjoying these hearing your thought process and reasoning. Please continue the series and will be looking into your course once it’s ready!

[@ChessVibesOfficial]

Glad to hear it!

[@josephgrosso2943]

Another awesome video. Wow, you make it look easy. Hope to get near your level one day. Grinding it out now

[@pertainedorangeman3056]

Love these rating climb vids! So instructive!

[@MarlonEvangelistadeLima-np9wl]

Amazing video. What can I say? Very instructive. The best of all times. Thank you!

[@OregonMikeH]

MAN, OH MAN, ... NELSON, WE ARE INTENSELY FOLLOWING ALONG WITH YOUR RATING CLIMB. IT'S ALL IN THE HOST DEMEANOR AND GENEROSITY OF YOUR PERSONAL TEACHING STYLE. SUCH SOUND THINKING PROCESSES, THAT ARE IN SUCH PLEASANT DETAIL, ONE CAN'T HELP BUT COME AWAY WITH SIGNIFICANT LEARNINGS! I'LL AWAIT YOUR COURSE RELEASE, AS THERE IS NO OTHER CREATOR OUT HEAR I'D FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE SUPPORTING, AND FOR SO ON MANY LEVELS OF REASONING ON THAT FACT! BLESSINGS TO YOU AND FAMILY, SO ETERNALLY GRATEFUL. BLESS YA MAN, ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SPECIFIC FORM OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT AND YOUR PERSONALITY IS A JOY TO BE WATCHING, BIG TIME MY OLD FRIEND!! ... MIKE.

[@drumdalf]

this is such a cool tool! thx for showing how to apply it in different scenarios :)

[@Abraham-rk1ky]

Thank you for this video, i always get weird openings and i didnt know what to do, this really helps!!

[@user-ej7sr3ow8b]

It's amazing that in the game against Assh_23, the trapped knight survives till the end

[@maksim3663]

50:58 , yes this knight had a longer life than a king. but they told this knight still randomly appears in >600elo games suffering from not-saving-my-lord nightmares , desperately looking for Average Joe

[@TVGUY333]

Congrats on achieving 500,000 Subs ! Outstanding content !

[@oluwadamilolaadewumi6291]

Commenting again, I really enjoyed and appreciate this video. Please don't stop these lower rating speedruns.

[@SudiptaBan]

Thank you always. Every game teaches us such a lot 😊

[@BigBangGamers]

I like how you teach and share your insights.

[@user-ju9vt7qg6f]

"if you want to get past 500 just do a blunder check" in other words, check yourself before you wreck yourself.

[@georgeloquvam2550]

Very helpful, thanks Nelson

[@petergeorgehill]

39:39 lmfao I love how at this elo it’s so chaotic! Nelson is trying to sensibly explain a tactic assuming the opponent is going to make a half-competent move to counter

[@petergeorgehill]

39:34

[@VexilleThePunisher]

It took some time for me to get what you're saying every time you talk about the "fianchetto", I always heard something on the line of "Be a cattle" or something like that 😂

[@VexilleThePunisher]

Poor bishop, always cattling around

[@floof6896]

lol same. when i was a beginner and didn't know much about chess, i was confused about what fianchetto was and i always heard something else

[@VexilleThePunisher]

@@floof6896 The fact is that I'm Italian, and being "Fianchetto" an Italian word for me is very familiar, but I struggled nonetherless

[@JamesQMurphy]

@@VexilleThePunisher Yeah, I guess it would be like an English-speaking person hearing the term "flankie" 🤣

[@RepentInReprise]

I always heard it as "Feed and kettle" before seeing it spelled out lol

[@martola9855]

Nelson, for me you are the best chess teacher ! Congrats !

[@chunchunmaru6963]

video idea: user can submit their losing position to Nelson and Nelson will attempt to save the game by drawing/winning while playing the position. The opponent can be bots rated similar to the user who submitted the position.

[@emberheat990]

The Alekhine defense is pretty rare, but my favorite response is the Krejcik gambit. e4 Nf6 Bc4 with the idea that when Nxe4 Bxf7 immediately, Kxf7, then Qh5. if the king moves back to g8, or if the pawn blocks, you fork them on d5, and if the king moves up to e6, you go Qe2 and pin them, you'll win their knight next move by attacking it with a pawn, and believe it or not, white is no worse than -0.4 in any of these situations. It totally forces any alekhine player out of their comfort zone and I'd love to see your approach to playing it in a rating climb if you get hit with an alekine. I've really been enjoying the series so far and thank you for playing the scotch today, which was my commented opening last time.

[@davinderjitsandhu9689]

Congratulations on reaching 500k subs!!🎉🎉😊❤

[@user-hv6xn6nd5u]

A very good analysis. Thank you

[@nileshgaur1]

I really love these type of videos where you teach us How to Think ❤

[@wincoffin7985]

"I could have gone" . . . 'corrected to' "I could have went". Love your regionalism!

[@QDWhite]

I credit your last speedrun for helping me get from 500 to 900. Maybe I'll reach 1200 during this one.

[@OrcHunter-yb4ie]

Nice work!

[@martola9855]

fantastic Series !

[@josephastrahan6403]

The irony that I was just studying the perc defense, it's a very interesting defense

[@coenkuijpers1800]

It would be great if you could mark these vids as the rating climb. Because I'm really interested in those.

[@GuteisFinger]

Excellent explanations and playing at a level where crazy moves abound. Bonus: you didn't edit out your blunder!

[@ScottJohnson-cf8fk]

"Well I am playing AverageJoe and they are 500 ELO. I like my chances with this one!"

[@cyberaultrader]

Great games,thanks for sharing ..

[@shad1005]

Next Monday you will be in my ELO, 550-600.

[@michaelpiper4067]

ever play the budapest gambit? i'm quite fond of it but have never seen any instructionals for it

[@cablestick]

You're the best Nelson

[@dinoj926]

Waiting for next live session. I miss'em every time from somehow being busy. Not again.

[@toothlessrpm6177]

Dam I’m late , love this series ❤

[@Mr-someone-on]

Love you content Nelson. Can you play Danish gambit

[@Ecodro]

Memorizing the Nemzi Indian opening or whatever it’s named made me win my last 15/20 games thank you for changing my chess career

[@ClayMurray8]

Nimzo

[@mvppet3161]

I have a question, i the Gunderam Gambit on his 3rd move where he put his knight on c3 couldnt his opponent Apo0665 just push the d pawn and atack the knight or am i missing something why that is not a good idea?

[@Ciofey]

At 8,27 if you take the knight, you force the pawn to retake. You then play e5, which sets up Be5 which gives you one more piece targeting h2. Is it still better to trade away pieces?

[@jamiewellbourn3609]

Congrats on 500k subs!

[@oluwadamilolaadewumi6291]

Great video, more of Colle system please.

[@Ishbikes]

That battery is fricken dangerous. You’re the only one I’ve heard call it that though

[@stavroschiras8080]

Valuable lessons!!!!

[@agrimreaper2864]

50:49 d4+ Kxe4 Qf5# was the checkmate you were looking for

[@spacemanspif2]

Could you play the Vienna game? Also great content as per usual

[@michaeljohnson8353]

@3:50 I play d7 or c8 too. Most of the time d7. I picked up this opening from you when you were teaching your wife and it’s mostly what I play since I’m rather new to chess theory.

[@davidrigby-yo9zh]

very interewting series. How about a brief review of the opponents mistakes?

[@JamesQMurphy]

I can't even play the 10-minute games... I start to panic so I stick with the 30-minute games. Meanwhile, Nelson wins several 10-minute games in a row, constantly goes under 2 minutes, all while hosting a KZbin channel, and doesn't even break a sweat. The mild blunder just humanizes him 🙂

[@maksim3663]

his ELO is >2000 he easily can win a game against elo 500 (like in this video) with 1min against 10 mins. or 3min and without a few pieces the most impressive thing in these videos: how thoroughly he explains almost every move giving his followers such a good foundation. i mean: he's>2000 when he says "wow, interesting" usually at the end of this phrase he has a solution already. but even with this knowledge he keeps explaining the basics and some tactic though, sometimes we need something crazier, like "let's play Botez gambit on a speedrun till elo 2500" thanks, Average Joe, i really appreciate it!

[@iceyroo]

Can you try out the Bird’s opening with white? That’s what I play and it’s a lot of fun with white!

[@SparkSovereign]

22:35 doesn't responding to ..Qe8 with Ne5 prevent black from forcing the queen trade? They can trade knights, but you have the defended pawn in the way then. They could add an attacker with ..f6 or ..Bc7 but that gives you the time to castle to safety and avoid the pin.

[@NJDJ1986]

@28:30 i have seen this position like this from Nelson's previous videos!

[@andrewb3882]

Before you get to high rated elo play the rook gambit opening that was played by that guy who got his account suspended recently. Ive seen other people play it since then including hicaru and I believe magnus played it… its where you move your h7 or a2 pawn up two spaces with the first move then bring the rook out to h5 or a3 and trade your rook for their bishop

[@Shannan-c3p]

Your tips help me improve my trading results. Thank you very much!

[@ethansiebel2689]

I’d love to see the Nimzo with black or white and the Evans gambit of course.

[@michaeljohnson8353]

@1:00 I like c5 and having them trade the queens bc from there I can open up some interesting lines.

[@toastbrot97]

Speaking of the alekhine's defense. It's an opening that i play a lot these days. I'm currently 1500 and i remember struggling a lot with it when i just started out playing it. Would be nice if you could play it once to show how you tackle a comparetievly slow opening such as the alekhine.

[@adrian_cg]

48:21 - I found: Qxh2 pins the bishop so it can't take the knight and defends C7 from the fork. If they go for the fork it's a trade of knights but white won a pawn. What's the downside for that move? EDIT: lmao pawn on h3 can still take the knight.

[@ArjanD78]

I'd like to see the Caro-Kann defense. I'm struggling with getting my black bishop out.

[@astros7242]

Kinda crazy in that last game Nelson was up 13 points of material without having lost a single piece including pawns.

[@Deja_Vu.]

I noticed that you transposed the pirc into the kings indian on the first game, would that still be considered the pirc defense?

[@williamsquires3070]

Hi Nelson. At 10:44, you play … Kg7, but I think … f5+! is a better move. 1) if white plays gxf6 e.p., you recapture exf6 and you now have two side-by-side passed pawns, and 2) f7 is now available for your king; this puts it closer to the center for the endgame, and it leaves g7 open for the bishop if you need it. 3) if white does not recapture en-passant, you have a pawn-bishop fence that forces the white king back and controls squares in the center. Can you comment on this? What does the engine say?

[@VexilleThePunisher]

May I know when you are recording this, so that I'll try to play in that time range when you'll reach my ELO (it won't take long, I'm really bad)?

[@ninjawatchdog]

@50:33 am I missing something by thinking knight c6 to B4 is checkmate?

[@timm439]

45:30 I kept thinking, “how are you getting checkmate there?..”

[@RugbyRuga]

I would like to see how you would play the Neo-Catalan (c4, g3, bg2 move order), or, more to your style, the Nakhmanson Gambit ;-)

[@snowyandwispa3890]

Wow 500,000!🎉🎉

[@mboe]

@48:28 wouldn't queen H2 pin the bishop, which would save the knight?

[@QDWhite]

Im trying to learn the latvian gambit better so any opportunity you have to play it would be appreciated.

[@NarrativeCMBSports]

More Chest Vibes content when?????

[@elperro3683]

With the Pirc, can d6 and Nf6 be safely pre moved?

[@soheilazizi5306]

Love you videos as always. I just feel like you making the opponent wait while you explain the moves to us viewers and then deliver checkmate is bad sportsmanship.

[@Engineer262]

When would you be doing this live, like last speed run

[@user-wr3rm3cs7z]

What website are you.playing on?

[@thetransferaccount4586]

man's a content powerhouse recently

[@Verbalaesthet]

Any perks to this opening?

[@willbishop1355]

47:45 Qxh2 would both save the knight and stop the fork, right?

[@Drew_goo]

Hey. You should do the fried liver uvlestead variation!

[@BTimelessC]

how does the opponent in the last game had 0 blunders when they blundered the queen? Was there some crazy tactic?

[@Maxi_Moxn]

Scotch and petrov defense would be nice!

[@NekaSulia]

halloween defense please. I want to see more of it in action as opposed to in theory

[@TalesOfHeilotia]

Quick question. If they do see the battery against that pawn in pirc isn't then the bishop move kinda just loosing tempo?

[@hilibpleybey5503]

Yeah, kinda. But 1) this h3 pawn move wasn't so useful anyway. So it also loses a tempo. Kinda. 2) that's a pawn move in front of a castled king, which makes king's position less safe. So - even if Nelson's opponent would defend with Kh2 or something, he would have to keep always watching for all sorts of tactics and sacrifices against this f2-g3-h3 pawn structure.

[@arvinderkainth9835]

Please do not choose the Barnes Opening, the Barnes Defense, the Grob Opening, the Borg Defense, or the Borg Gambit. I am serious. Oh, by the way, I would like you to play the Van't Kruijs Opening.

[@hugiee]

At 57:43, why not take the free pawn on C2? (bishop takes pawn)

[@mehranshahbazi7175]

Best ever❤

[@sadegh4982]

48:25 How about Queen H2 defending the fork and pinning the bishop to the king

[@McLKeith]

Blunder checking is a great idea.

[@nendwr]

Play the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit!

[@KipIngram]

57:14 - Couldn't you also save the bishop he failed to take? And grab another pawn in the process?

[@salimnasiru69]

Today I had an opponent who always took free pieces when he can and got mated in the 39th move