How To PUNISH Early Queen Attacks | Chess Rating Climb 939 to 979

[@rubinkhadka6280]

i have climbed to 1100 from 600, thanks to your rating climb.

[@andrewbennett5911]

Excellent !!

[@f_society9151]

I'm watching his videos too I like them but I was 500 now I'm 350 again...watching is different than playing. I dont know how to improve.

[@andrewbennett5911]

@@f_society9151 I know Nelson always says the best way to improve is to not blunder pieces , if that helps you at all ?

[@rubinkhadka6280]

@@f_society9151 here is few things he mentions that have worked for me; take time thinking about moves, develop and do not move same pieces too much in opening, focus on tactics more instead of gambits, pinning tactics have worked great for me. My mistakes were playing moves too fast , not thinking, and i hanged my pieces a lot. what i can suggest is review the games you have lost, see what mistakes u made there , why u lost and improve on those aspects. i hope this helps.

[@rubinkhadka6280]

@@f_society9151 U r right playing is different. what i can suggest is review ur loss games, see what mistake u made and why u lost and improve on those aspects. my mistakes were i was playing too fast without thinking and i was hanging pieces all the times. some of the things that worked for me what he sugeest are; use ur time wisely , do not move same piece too much in opening and focus more on tatics (pinning tactics worked great for me) i hope it helps

[@NJDJ1986]

@29:51 69% accuracy on the 69th win! very nice Nelson!

[@Archer_Works]

Was coming here to comment the same thing 😅

[@Aba-abdelmasih]

was looking for this comment xD

[@r33th]

I also noticed that 😂 meme moment

[@Birdingtheorist]

nice

[@derfred9081]

lül

[@MaskOfCinder]

13:48 The opponent is under a 1000 ELO and he found a knight sacrifice to checkmate threat that almost worked. Impressive.

[@kkb8510]

I don't know about all the people who comment here, I'm 830-900 elo and I constantly play against players who play at 1300-1400 level even though they are also similar rated as me, makes sense since I myself play at those levels sometimes, only thing is we aren't consistent enough to stay at that level.

[@danielward7008]

They're dangerous at this level. Underestimate them at your peril.

[@lionizedjunkie]

But it was utter hope chess. It's decisions like that that keep people stuck at certain elo ratings.

[@charleschibuzor2570]

The way you stopped the checkmate in the first game was top-notch. Exactly what separates me from good players

[@JamesQMurphy]

I relate to this comment in so many ways

[@danielward7008]

That's all about learning to acknowledge your opponent's threats. Once you've managed that it's half the battle won.

[@anandrahangdalemed]

That was actually very informative. It helped me in developing my game

[@xDRAMx]

While I'm getting better at recognizing checkmate threats, I'm still horrible at seeing it. But I'm learning so much more from Nelson than i am any IM or GM that tries doing what he does. I feel like while Nelson is still among some of the best players, the gap isn't so insurmountable between him and us that he can properly explain what his opponent is trying and explain why it doesn't work. Where as for example, Levi sees a move from a non titled player and assumes he has some wild complicated plane and sometimes doesn't realize his opponent just did not think his move all the way through

[@belue2429]

I was watching your other rating climb thinking that I wish he would do another one. Then I stumbled upon this one. I’m currently catching up but you’ve definitely helped explain why I play in 1800 level game and then turn around and play like a 1000 the very next game. It’s all about, not making mistakes and paying attention to your opponent

[@unnamed4219]

As someone who is afraid to talk to women I can confirm early queen development frightens me.

[@LittleSaintMary]

Oh?

[@MaskOfCinder]

I wouldn’t worry about that. The endgame is longer for kings.

Early King development is worse.

[@jeraldmcgowin4162]

that is funny

[@phoenixirwin8730]

Haha

[@islambouzaher2182]

These videos are my personal addiction

[@kg_vizualz4082]

Nice. Mine is crack cocaine

[@HelmutVolz]

Mr Lopez is just the best teacher, helped me a lot with his patience, humour and knowlege. You deserve a hell of respect.

[@Monstralian]

What I like the most in this channel is the feeling Nelson gives us : chess is simple, chill just little focus and chill with the game . Thanks 👍

What Nelson gives you and me: chess is simple when playing weaker opponents.

[@charmeldecastro4109]

I started watching this guy in December as 600 elo then immediately climbes up to 1100 in january and now im 1400. Love the rating climb series

[@waynecwk]

It's funny that I look forward to your new videos more than any series on Netflix lol. Please keep these coming 💯

[@grahamdugan]

Ahh love having my morning coffee with a new Chess Vibes video! Thanks Nelson 🤙🏻

[@freedomiseverything2682]

Best chess channel ever. I'm hooked. You are so good Nelson. 🥰

[@joshualevinson7507]

Loving the new rating climb, thanks as always for all the great content! Can I add an opening to the list? I'd love to see you play the Danish gambit. It seems like it meshes well with your aggressive style.

[@andrewbennett5911]

Another great video ! Always something to learn , thanks Nelson .

[@Fitness4London]

These games are delicious to watch. I love your calm confidence, particularly when you anticipate most of your opponents' moves as they fall into your traps. Highly instructive and entertaining in equal measure.

[@harrygross77]

I started playing the collie and am liking it. Thanks, Nelsi

[@howdoiremovethis]

Thanks Nelson for all you commentary /games / videos. When I'm in a tricky situation (and most of the time when I'm not) I find myself asking "What would Nelson do here? How would he think it through" ...and I feel my game is coming on significantly. I don't "like" enough" of your vids - so that's going to change and I also suspect making comments will help your ranking too. Thanks again!

[@Sommers27]

Always love these videos. Back watching after a while (getting the chess itch again). I'm hanging around 1150 - 1200ish and I really like the ideas behind the Ruy Lopez. Was wondering if you could show a game or two on how to work with that. I focus too much on getting my pieces where they need to be and struggle when there's an attack. Thanks boss! You're the best teacher I've seen!

[@sirMarbas]

i'm a queen's gambit player and i do greeks present a lot. when they move the rook you have forced mate with Qxf7 Kh8 Qh5 Kg8 Qh7 Kf7 Qh8 Ke7 Qxg7# or something like that

[@darrenl3289]

when debating whether to take a rook with your bishop or take his bishop with your pawn in the last game, you apparently forgot to notice your bishop had both rooks forked. You could have taken the bishop, saving a pawn. Granted, it didn't really matter at that point, but still something to consider. Great series. Very informative.

[@ThePropriate]

Watching you has helped me a lot. Thanks.

[@mrnonoman]

I love this channel! such valuable information and really helps expand my thoughts when it comes to critical moments and how to identify them!

[@joshuaa4099]

You're awesome at explaining. Love your content Nelson I'm glad you're healthy and teaching. ❤

[@rogercroft3218]

A couple of very pretty checkmates!

[@Rip_Unknown0408]

1:07:00 noooo take the bishop since your bishop have a fork. so you don't lose a pawn.

[@lifetime_26]

As soon as the knight was taken i was like take with the pawn greek gift sack !!!!!! i was almost gona break my screen if you didnt see. I have climed from 800 to 1000 thanks to your videos thank you so much 36:21

[@NugPlug69]

Great vid as always! Hope you feel better soon

[@praf1069]

I usually just ignore an early queen attack and completing my King's Indian Defense setup. My opp ended up blundering their queen against my Knight's triple fork lol

[@MarkHarrison4]

Best chess teacher on the internet! 👏 👏

[@matthewharding6245]

Thank you, you're a great teacher. You make it look very easy my chess has definitely improved as a result of watching your videos 👍

[@abdullahamin764]

That 99.2% accuracy was good 🔥

[@johncreekpaum4998]

Hey, if you have space on your paper for a Caro-Kann response as White, I'd love it if you tried the Advance-Tal Variation.

[@edmis90]

1:01:45, if Na5 then, surprisingly, a move like Nxf8 leaves to an 'barely advantage for white' position. Nxf8 feel like the first-instinct kinda move there that many of us beginners would make?

[@leonsol4058]

Well explained and fun to watch - thank you....

[@grahamdugan]

Do you think you could play the Larsen-Nimzo opening? 1. b3 2. Bb2? Thanks 🙏

[@OnRappel]

BEST chess channel ever!! You are amazing.

[@kitanoken5987]

At 25:53 Ra1 wins the queen because after Qb2 and Rfb1 the queen is trapped. Edit: got to the game review and saw that stockfish wanted it. Glad I noticed it!

[@nrame7839]

keep em up nelson. very entertaining

[@nicholassapp6542]

Last game after queen trade your bishop was attacking both rooks take the bishop with the pawn and he can only move one of his rooks so you still trade bishop for rook. It gains you an extra point and costs him an extra move instead of costing you an extra move

[@NickKlamerth]

can you feature the caro cann?

[@LittleSaintMary]

53:30 Wouldn't H6 check leading to KxPF6 followed by Rf6 be faster?

[@StrategistKokomi]

hey nelson! id like to see you add the william graif reperitore into the list of openings as there are some amazing openings in there that are crushing (goring/von popiel)

[@wxule]

29:55 hes getting cursed numbers all over the place

[@Ceidonianphysicist]

Last game you could have taken the bishop first because you forked both rooks, so you get the bishop and the rook without him sacrificing to win another pawn. Everything was winning there though tbf.

[@MikhaillllKing]

bro, if that opponent took a bishop he would lost a queen

[@Ceidonianphysicist]

What are you talking about? The queens are off the board.

[@drakenjosh187]

10:21 "he has to defend with the knight" *immediately hangs the pawn by moving the knight 😅

[@RightHandShot]

Love the rating climb videos......

[@shanedunn4110]

Would rook to f6 been a faster checkmate at the end against mobaghni? Thanks so much for the video. Im only 260 just starting chess , and this helps so much.

[@old-slow-and-tired]

Can you offer any recommendation for "where to start" if someone already plays but wants to learn more? to actually study to advance,

[@AslanAli-kr4zi]

6:15 you could sec the knight for pawn and bishop

[@DuongNguyen-zh7rm]

Hi Nelson can you play the caro kann

[@martinmelhus7324]

At 1:01:00, in the last game, instead of Nxe6, what about Pxe6? If Pxg5 (knight), then Pxf7, is covered by the bishop, and it's check, so with tempo. Downside of opening the h file for the black rook, but it's fun to get a pawn to the 7th rank this early in the game. If Pxe6, then just move the knight.

[@Lord_Volkner]

In that last game you could have taken the bishop first. You would then still have the fork on the rooks. By this path, you would have been a full rook ahead. By the path you took, you traded a pawn for the rook. Either way is winning, of course, but taking the bishop first would have been more precise.

9:36 Knd2-e4 looks promising for white. So many chances.

[@davidperalta9352]

YESSSSS! JUST IN TIME FOR BREAKFAST LETSSS GOOOO

[@sundog1628]

Love you nelson

[@maxheerschop]

Nelson, im normally not someone to comment. But you're work is great I and I want to compliment you for your effort

[@ChessVibesOfficial]

I appreciate that!

[@peraperic6646]

Good game Nelson 💪👍

[@devrajpatil6117]

Hi Nelson, can you say BOOM BOOM and BAM BAM more in your videos??? It sounds very funny😂😂😂

53:16 I would capture Bf2-g1 and enjoy endgame with an advantage.

[@TheSkelett]

53:40 would bishop to f6 and then h6 also lead to checkmate?

[@remcovanhartevelt588]

1:03:00 maybe don't trade with xd5 since triple pawn bad

25:26 my first option is Rb1-a1, black Q goes to b2 and gets trapped by Rf1-b1

[@edmis90]

24:04 not pinning the knight that's defended by a pinned pawn, by playing Bb5, hurts my heart. It's unethical :(

[@drewfenton866]

That was a tough one to see, very nice tactical eye!

[@TP3200]

Truly is cool how many good moves are present every move of every game of chess. Each game is like countless branching multiple realities.

[@drewfenton866]

@@TP3200 yeah it makes my brain hurt!

[@rickau]

40:30 I was looking at Qd3+ (top engine move according to Stockfish) I ran it through some situations to see how much drama it created. Black king has to go to h6 or h5, or block with pf5 or nf5. If kh6 then you can just immediately do Qh7# If kh5 then it is a mate in 2. pg5+ -> kxg4 -> qh3# or pg5+ -> kh6 -> qh7# I suspect most people will notice these so either block with pf5 or nf5. if pf5, exf6+. Black is pretty much forced into n5f since kxf6 -> Rxe6#; and if the king does h6 or h5 then you have mate per above. Then you play nxe6, attacking the queen (rook is protected so not a real threat there). The best move for Black is apparently Qc4 but this can eventually loses their queen: nf5+ -> kxf6 -> nxd5+ either the queen takes or the king moves, either way you take the black queen with the white queen and it should be a fairly easy victory after this. Or they go kf7 instead of capturing the pawn -> then you get a free knight with qxf5. If black didn't capture the pawn and you captured on f5 then Black now doesn't really have many good moves. Most moves are going to be losing material almost for free or just getting the king in check easily so they should probably try to retreat their king. They only have the option of g8 then you go qe6+ if they slide their king over, you just play pxg7 and it's mate in 4. If they block with the rook it's a bit messy with a queen trade in there but you go into an end game 4 pawns up. And if they play nf5 the first time around, you end up with a bit of a mess and a lot of trades but can eventually end up with a material advantage going into the late game. So basically after Qd3+ they have a lot of checkmate threats if they mess up, and best case they are going into an end game down a lot of material.

[@BD.647]

Bruh shut it

[@semaht03]

Could you play more D4 openings too ? I know that you like e4 but just for some D4 players here who subscribed your channel :)

[@alekkertv6343]

loveeee these vids! thank you so much for the guidance

[@mannequinplayer]

nice 29:46

[@chrisr236]

Sim racee here. Never played a flying game before. Does this game support VR? Can you recommend cheap and decent hardware to get started? I already have VR headset.

[@RahulThakur-em2fh]

Plz also show your game play rating

[@martinmelhus7324]

At 6:16 in the first game, when the knight on e4 is attacked, what about a line like Nxf2, attacking the queen, Kxf2, followed by black moving Q-c5 check, forking the unprotected bishop to win the exchange by a pawn and expose the white king? Am I missing something here?

[@mrfake9260]

Personally, I see a Qc2 move followed by Qe4 when a knight jumps back on g4(only available), and I don't really see how black protects it with not allowing white attack ideas on king side with h4 and Ng5 or not giving a tempo if you push d pawn to protect with a bishop, but I don't really know if it works and I might be wrong Upd: I just checked this position and stockfish actually says to play Nxf2, and Qc2 is a mistake, but black's sequence of moves to get an adventage of this mistake is not that obvious for 900's

[@martinmelhus7324]

@@mrfake9260 Here's what I see happening on that line (making up the move number to start the sequence): 20 ... Nxf2 21 Q-c2 N-g4 22 Q-e4 d6 The move d6 opens up the bishop to cover the knight at g4 from the Queen's attack, and leaves black with 4 pieces attacking the white pawn at e5 vs. 3 defenders. R-e8 would add another attacker. Another follow up to Q-c2 would be N-H3 ch, if pxH3, white has have doubled pawns on the h file and a totally exposed king. I haven't worked through the lines after that sacrifice, but I suspect Nelson could do something good with it. Further, if pxH3, black Q-c5 ch still captures the bishop at c4, so ripped open castle and plus a pawn on the exchange. Seems solid to me.

[@Not_that_Brian_Jones]

22:46 I kinda like the idea of pinning the knight to the king with my light squared bishop, here. I guess a lot of the pawns are aleady on dark squares, so maybe that's not the best, but it opens up the possibility of check mate. Lol, though, what do I know. I'm, like, 650

[@TP3200]

@24:00 when the queen moves that seems to be really good since you could take the knight and pawn couldn’t recapture without losing the rook to a check. So yup that looks to be a strong idea that popped up in the game.

[@Vansh009]

Can u play some Evan gambit in next rating climb ?

[@alexcsilaban]

That queen trap is brilliant! 😂 great video as usual, drink more, nelson!

[@rfatihkaya6983]

6:10 why didn't we sacrifice the knight on f2, when the king takes the knight queen will jump to c5 with a check forking the bishop there. also we'd have taken the pawn on f2 so white's kingside would've been ruined a little... id be very happy if you answered thanks

[@mrfake9260]

Probably he just didn't see it, but I see a tricky defend (1. Qc2 Ng4 2. Qe4 Nh6 or 2. Qe4 d4(d5)) which in result either gains tempo and activity for a white or there are a lot and scary attacks on the king side with h4 and Ng5 ideas (I might be wrong) Upd: I just checkes what does stockfish says, and the move Nxf2 is actually right, also Qc2 is a mistake, but it's not that obvious to play with black to take an advantage of this mistake

[@rfatihkaya6983]

​@@mrfake9260💪yessir thanks, makes sense. ill check stockfish also see how it says

[@0_0faizan]

Why no Nxd4 at 6:26?? Can somebody explain

[@sundog1628]

If you’re referring to the knight capturing the pawn on e5 it’s because the rook would take your knight on e4

[@davidperalta9352]

Are we going to have a blitz/bullet climb? 👀

[@edmis90]

are AverageJoe and Peter-Patzer twins? Peter-Patzer had more weight 🤔

[@sirMarbas]

58:53 Nf6+ than you have a fork with d5

[@niravapurv4578]

53:47 wasent Rf4 and Bh4 faster mate? I guess they could block with Rg3, so its still mate in 3? Ah they could sac the queen tho. Or even block with rook. So what you did was better.

[@Raul_Reborn_Arc]

32:24 Mark

[@hitrapperandartistdababy]

I gotta say the first opponent played really well for a 900 player. Especially considering he is playing a literal chess master

[@rajendersingh3393]

You know it's over when nelson say's “good game to our opponent"

[@randomamateur3478]

noticed you had a little cough these past few vids, you should probably get that checked out

[@GusHerbert]

I'm currently 970 in rapid. Highest so far is 995. When we playing?!

[@alie.milani3320]

What does "Rice" mean?

[@blue_red_screen]

Cheaters using engines

[@mimikyoo]

Playing the game with a Rice cooker 😝

[@AndyDavisTechnicalDiving]

A previous opponent cheated. In their defence, they claimed to be cooking rice at the time?!?

[@pulkitjain2361]

27:30 what's wrong with King to C6?

[@KidBlazeXD]

When do you think he’ll lose his first game

[@jeraldmcgowin4162]

Still praying for you and your family from SW Florida, Limestone Baptist Church

[@medic_gaming]

Alternative title: IM bullying 1000 elo players

[@jimmyjiang6808]

He is a national master which is a little weaker than a Im

[@medic_gaming]

@@jimmyjiang6808 he's IM for me. Thanks to Nelson, i made my first brilliant move🥺

[@MiniGunTurtle36]

26:00 isn’t blacks queen trapped here? After Ra1 Qb2 Rfb1 the queen has no moves and black loses the exchange

[@MiniGunTurtle36]

Just saw the review portion of the video and missed bishop d2 first but same idea

[@mitch9237]

all the best lunch breaks have chess vibes

[@HybridDom]

48:28 but en passant

[@derpymoose9948]

99.2 wow!

[@JeanneTDeaux]

What happened to the white rook??? It took your black queen, but it just disappeared.

[@daveawb]

Time for my yearly Nelson-driven inspiration to play chess, climb up to 1400 and then not play again until next year... if only I could maintain the motivation to keep playing.

[@hhhhhhhhhhhhh566]

I have reached 1042 rating thanks to your videos , I can’t describe my happiness in words because I never thought I could do it😍😍😍

1042 is the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

[@hhhhhhhhhhhhh566]

What?😹

[@kupotanisTTV]

69'th win with a 69% accuracy... KING

[@thetransferaccount4586]

climbed that ladder reallu

[@FallenEvaneskyro07]

69th win got 69 rating how beautiful is that!