How To PUNISH THE LONDON SYSTEM | Chess Rating Climb 835 to 875

[@Astrophobia88]

Finally found a good chess streamer, who acts like an adult and doesn't pander to all the kids on social media! Excellent content my friend. Im currently at 1200 elo. I believe my rating will rise watching your videos. Thank you for the tips.

[@michaeld.4006]

If you'd like a second source of youtube chess content who also falls in this more "adult" category, I can also recommend Daniel Naroditsky. He also produces highly educative and constructive chess content.

[@Astrophobia88]

@@michaeld.4006 I'll check that out mate. Thank you :)

[@anttt7993]

John bartholomew

[@Scotty__]

@@michaeld.4006thanks for the advice

[@learningisfun2108]

This is great advice from Nelson that I need to implement: “usually I avoid plans that end in me getting checkmated” 😅

[@TakuTePuke-qd6df]

Omg, why didnt I think of that?! 😅

[@MazurPr0ductions]

“Kind of lost my mind there on move 1” Same

[@kevalan1042]

the worry is I don't get it back on move 2 (or 3 or 4)

[@kilnmaster]

After 50 years of dabbling in chess, with the last 4 a little serious.. now 63 I finally surpassed 1000. what a climb man. And really the last year all the chess on KZbin has really helped me. Lets not take anything away from guys like you, naturals. talented. you can only be taught to be an ok player, which is great. I love the game, just like pool. I suck at both but love them. Again thank you for your time. And remember Grand masters cannot be made, they are born.

[@MikhaillllKing]

so happy I found your channel in october 2023, now chess is my hobby and your videos are my regular daily content. Keep on Nelson!

[@robchesnutt]

As someone who started playing about a month ago, this series has been the absolute best thing I’ve found to improve my play.

[@Farinhir]

Not gonna lie. The way to get really good at Chess (at least for someone like me who had no formal training and was forced to play my mother from the age of 4 on) is to lose hundreds to thousands of times and try to understand where you made your mistakes. My mother used to play someone who was an IM and never lost to him. I remember the first time I beat her. She spent an hour looking for a way to get out of the back rank mate I found. Now, to be fair, we never played with timers. Funny story. The only game my father ever "beat" her was when she was in labor with me. She finally had to be taking into the room to give birth to me and my father claimed she conceded the match. I guess it isn't surprising that chess is in my blood. I just have not played seriously in a couple of decades. I am slowly working my way back into it. She would have turned 70 this year. Lost her in 2021 to cancer. An opponent she could not beat. :/

[@shadow234LOL]

​@@FarinhirThat is a very interesting story with a good moral advice when it comes to chess. Thanks for sharing!

[@ladylisads]

Am overdue in stating my thanks for your excellent KZbin vids. I am 64 and a retired veteran who just took up chess hopefully to help rehab some brain issues. Your content is clear, concise, and understandable. For the past 6 weeks (the totality of my chess experience) I can and have watch and rewatch pretty much any and all of your vids and get something out of it - even if that something is simply listening to you smooth and even comforting narration. Please accept my thanks, gratitude, and a HUGE intrawebs hug

[@ChessVibesOfficial]

Thanks, Lisa!!

[@HighStakesDanny]

This is like pure gold for me. I have access to someone that knows what they are doing, isn't trying to entertain so much as just talk and teach, is super chill and a nice person (or so it seems), super smart, and gives us a shimmer of hope to understand how to know what to do in the middle game. I learned a lot just be watching two of his videos and I am hooked now. Thank you! And I agree, pandering to a group of people might earn you subs, but I appreciate the no nonsense approach.

[@rolobotoman]

Very interesting games for me, I get these positions all the time at my level and often I don't know how to move forward feeling stuck between attacking and defending (then isn't what chess is all about :). And often I get people that play the queen early, then I go 'easy I'll just kick it around' but sometimes they still get me, seeing you reevaluating thoroughly is a good reminder that you need to keep your guards up. You and Naroditsky are helping me the most with your rating climbs. Thanks for doing these. He infuses a lot of theory and you have this very concrete approach, solid no bs stuff.

[@Crelids]

Played Chess casually with my dad as a kid, just got back in to playing earlier this year (March). I'm currently progressing through the 900 ELO and I've got to thank you as your videos have been helping open my eyes to new concepts that my eyes aren't trained to see. You do a good job of explaining your thought process which makes it easier to understand.

[@BasilVT]

wow! what a fantastic defense against the london!! you used ideas that honestly id have no idea how to defend against while playing the london, really creative ideas, totally gonna try to use this in my repertoire

[@Pidolosius]

Love the channel. Extra props for the great sound quality. Something lot of creators do not value enough.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel3102]

I love englund hartlaub! it cured my stonewall dungeon woes forever. i trapped a queen on g6 when white had a bishop on h6 once and my opponent rage quit. liked what you did in the pirc game. i despise hypermodern and closed games. when under attack, I call it "escalating" making bigger threats. I feel really good that I liked 0-0-0 for defending the pawn and getting castled. castling is very important to me

[@Woodenarrows]

I can't express enough how much your videos have helped me. I just started playing chess about 8 weeks ago. I was an aggressive player in the beginning, capturing everything I could without a thought of the conscience. I've been binge watching your videos for the past few weeks, they have given me new Insite to the fact that sacrificing a piece isn't always a bad thing and to slow down and LOOK!. Thank you so much for sharing these videos...

[@shadeburst]

This has been your most inspiring episode I've ever watched. At last I'm beginning to understand how you think. Chess is said to be a refined, elegant game but the winning mentality is nothing short of brutal! 23:49 "What do you guys think I should do?" Ignore sideshows and go for the kill. Just today I skewered a king and went for the discovered rook-- and missed a checkmate! Which I got the next move anyway, but it could just have easily have led to chasing the king around the board for another ten moves. When you're low on time, that's a problem! 28:45 Busch-Gass. I found that if black plays nf6 *before* bc5, white will almost always grab the e5 pawn, though not always immediately. If after two moves white doesn't want it, the gambit has failed and it's time to defend the e pawn before things go bad.

[@Pitsenberg]

Great series Nelson! Keep them coming!

[@lawrencemckeon6802]

I try to avoid moves that result in me getting check mated too. With varying success.

[@Zimbardo8]

It makes my day to see the London crumble like that. Thanks for the great content! I'm still not magically gaining rating, but recognizing weaknesses after pawn moves is starting to happen, and I've been able to pounce on those occasionally. I thought about buying the course, but these videos are so good by themselves that I didn't feel the need as a casual player. Seeing some of the same fundamental concepts work over and over is helpful. Thanks!

[@alexandraison6429]

Nelson! I’m on the waitlist for your breaking 1500 course. In the meantime, would you consider making a video on checkmate patterns? Using those lines and stuff to visually show where queen can’t go? I really have a hard time visualizing and sometimes end up checkmating out of surprise, but I would prefer to know it’s checkmate like you! Also, what was the book you mentioned in another video of checkmate patterns? Thank you for everything!

[@jamesbrown7991]

Really enjoy you're vids.....thanks for this one especially cause I see the obvious is not always the move.

[@michaelpiper4067]

me: oooh, nelson is finally gonna play the budapest, the gambit i suggested! nelson: absolutely not

[@andrewbennett5911]

Are these 800's getting better ? 😵‍💫 . Another instructive video , thank you ! Looking forward to the live Breaking 1500 chat on Tues ( Weds 1am 😂)

[@Flumpo94]

As someone who was around mid 850 and took a break for a while, I am now a 780… yeah they got a LOT better

[@khangyt2330]

Hello Nelson I love ur Videos its soo Informative and Entertaining

[@shahmatsimplex4144]

Great instructive video. The last game reminded me of the typical goofy setups my school opponents who never read a chess book played back in the 70s. They would blunder something and the games usually ended in my sacrificing for mate. Anna Cramlings cow opening is one of those setups I played against several times back then, as well as numerous poorly played double fianchettos and most often the setup in your last game.

[@itsdaniyaal]

need longer videos nelson this series is a treat to watch every monday! Great games in this one🎉

[@onlyapawn4371]

Nelson these rating climbs are absolutely amazing thanks muchly for all you do 😊

[@adamstyle2445]

Does anyone else hear Nelson say "chasing the knight away" and immediately think of the song Tubthumping by Chumbawamba? Just me?

[@theepitomeofrad]

Well, now I'll think of that.

[@fahd2372]

Its so funny to me when nelson says "what would stockfish do" it sounds like a reference to sheldon's "what would spock do" from big bang theory 😂😂😂

[@negocpu4739]

Oh wow, I'm finally early for once. Is your opening list still open for suggestions? If so, I'd really recommend you to add the old benoni defense and dutch defense for black against d4, they're probably the two most aggressive responses against d4, and, most important of all, your opponent doesn't need to follow any specific line for you to play them! Great video as always.

[@Markaras]

10:42 I think that white can get out of the problem by taking the rook and after you recapture they take the knight, you get 9 but they still get 8 which is preety good.

[@olafschluter706]

This video is about a "rule" I heard about when I was a very young chess player: "taking on b2 is bad even if it is good." Which is of course applicable as well of taking b7, g7 or f2 with the queen within the opening. This rule underlines that it is rarely worth the hassle following such a pawn grab in the opening. Even in middle game such a pawn may be poisoned if offered to a queen as there is no worth place to put your queen at. You need a really strong follow-up for such a pawn grab to make it valid.

[@XIIISerpents]

You make it so simple and logical, I make 800's look like Bobby Fisher. Great video!

[@toothlessrpm6177]

Love these Monday uploads

[@onlyapawn4371]

Happy Mondays 😊

[@adel811-gd2zf]

I watched the video from Saudi Arabia and watched the entire series. You explain excellently and I hope you never stop explaining. 🌷🌷

[@gosukiwi]

Love the series, and would love to see you play the Englund Hartlaub-Charlick gambit!

[@FelixRigg]

I’m enjoying your series very much. Thanks for posting. Great fun.

[@KingFool505]

This series has single-handedly won me like 80% of my games, mostly because of time control and the thought process.

[@cimnairobi4742]

What's your rating rn?

[@KingFool505]

@@cimnairobi4742 currently around 900 but actively rising as I stop blundering. Started getting games without a single mistake or blunder!

[@mitch9237]

2:00 I was watching your last rating climb, and around the 800 Elo level, somebody did a similar queen attack, and you handled it in exactly the same way

[@mannequinplayer]

Nelsi coming through once again with an effortless fire video!

[@FreeFormFemi]

I saw the first video of the series then this one and its so crazy to me you have had 56 WINS undefeated, If i make it to 6 wins in a row i'll buy myself some icecream

[@patriciozazzini8302]

Best channel by far

[@DevAloshe]

I watch your videos just to sleep faster 😂❤❤❤

[@michaelpiper4067]

idk if anyone else does this but premoving checkmate is such a fun and disrespectful way to end the game. here nelson could have premoved double checkmate i.e. checkmate whichever of the 2 choices the opponent chooses to move their king to

[@jaspreetmodi]

absolutely rivetting these videos are. You are just toooooo good.

[@giacalonebuilding4443]

U r the chess teaching goat Nelson! Thanks for the video❤

[@briansmith5239]

Excellent content as always Nelson, keep up the good work.👍

[@ednelson2501]

Monday morning tactical videos. Start the week off right.

[@Zygnity]

I want to see you try the Trompowsky Attack if you get white, I think many people could benefit from this opening. Also, does anyone know where he got the colorful thing in his background from? I’ve always wondered

[@truongquangvinh8632]

Better than Gotham chess 10 times. ❤❤❤

[@spd7693]

36:58 - I can confirm that since I started playing the early c5 against the London I have never lost. There are two goals here. First, like you said, taking advantage of the b pawn. You can also rely on the move cxd4 and that either opens the c file permanently or transposes to a Karlsbad Caro-Kann. In all three cases you have a plan - either it's c-file play or it's a minority attack or it's pressure on b4. Still I haven't faced that good players though to try and beat me into this.

[@jonatanandvanie7493]

This is very educative. Thank you!

[@NicoRTM]

This was an excellent demonstrarion on how to sacrifice pieces to get a better position. I'm around this ELO and I struggle a lot with this, I'm always afraid to sacrifice pieces, mostly because I don't see a clear follow up move after the sacrifice.

[@yissssss]

I like how the guy tanked for like a minute deciding which space to move his king into for checkmate.

[@azazel7942]

Perfect ive been learning the london so this is sick

[@whitedeath1753]

You really help me to play chess great ❤ thank you🙏❤

[@exofiuszero2594]

Great vid mate

[@_photonx6017]

1:04:11 Damn, dude! For a second there I thought I was watching "Law and Order"!

[@toastbrot97]

I would love to see the alekhines defense played at some point. I understand that it's a very technical opening to play and very much not beginner friendly, so maybe when you reach a higher rating it would make sens!

[@riorinaldi4378]

An hour of chess lesson, what a win for me!!

[@nou-nouchantha8929]

I like watching this guy, very good commentary and explanation while you play, dont know how the hell you do that!?😮😅

[@Alex9501950]

Obligatory KZbin algorithm comment.

[@onlyapawn4371]

Unneeded reply

[@Chomta]

'Why am I writing this' type of comment

[@lekmannen9990]

The usual ”Let’s get everyone angry” comment.

[@AdamtheRed-]

All hail the algorithm

[@EroticPlatypus]

Standard angry comment provoked by "let's get everyone angry" comment

[@donkeykong1234]

i've never seen you play the london system even though a lot of people like it. is there a reason or can you try to play it once. what i don't like about it is the grind and congestion, and prefer the more aggressive and attacking open game so if there was a way to play more aggressively with the london then that might be good

[@Kenjitsuka]

Still catching up on the Peter Patzer rating climb, so saving these for now. I'd love to see Dutch Leningrad if possible (sorry if you already used it) :D

[@Non-disjunction]

This is exactly my rank. I notice that you are much more willingly to sacrifice pieces in order to put heavy pressure into a checkmate onto the enemy king. Guess that's where I need to improve

[@dubudubu2442]

Id love to see you play the englund gambit (properly/intentionally) , thats my only response as black to d4

[@adrian-pw6kj]

love this series this is awesome

[@Yur4ik412]

"What would Stockfish do in this position?" Now THAT'S the right question to ask in chess.

[@stefanweidner1192]

Sometimes things Chance quickly at around min 50 look how amazing my bishops are and how much space they control. 20 sec later maybe i should sacrifice this bishop he is not doing a lot

[@marneuscalgar1560]

4:52 "oh we could do the following...." as he starts to analyze all moves like 15 moves into the future, getting all complicated. ".....oooor we could just move the bishop and be fine" 😂😂😂😂

[@donkeykong1234]

i think some day our brains will get there but right now we're not there. or those people who say takes takes takes like they are actually sure what they are seeing. if i do that in my head, at the end, i'm down a piece

[@anttt7993]

Yeah...

[@mrbrianakias1]

Impressive games, especially the last ones!

[@Amoeby]

20:55 ngl, O-O-O looks much better than h5. You get your rook closer to the action, get your king out of the center and defend the b2 pawn in one move. Black still couldn't stop h5 and this would've been even better position for white.

[@BlackSheep_216]

I love this channel.

[@Lermontov41]

You are the best

[@NJDJ1986]

Nelson did a good job for punishing his opponent for developing his queen too early! ‼️‼️

[@ManilAgarwal]

Isn't the last game opening played by black Anna Cramling's cow opening? Funny to see Nelson just wave it away. Much like Anna's Mum and Dad did

[@abdullahalayoubi3096]

There is a famous trap for the poison pone in the second game push the pone in A2 to a3 then if he take with the queen put the knight in A3 and you trap the queen .. your queen is work as the black bishop .. try this next time

[@DrumFFx]

“usually i avoid plans that end in me getting checkmated” -chess vibes

[@captainsceptic3559]

Nelson said the risk of the knight being locked up may not be worth the gain of the rook changed my entire view of the game.. That one comment may help me get to 1600. Thank youm

[@arrowofkira5658]

So far no rice got cooked, very nice for the speedrun.

[@thomasmartin7542]

It's a bit frustrating to see how quickly you destroyed the Pirc defense. Pirc with RobRam took me from 1000 to 1200, but it only went higher after beginning with London, Zuckertort and Indian. If the Pirc-player had taken the bishop it would have been more interesting. Another very interesting video. Right now I'm stuck at 1400 and I think I need to focus on avoiding mistakes.

[@benbatt21]

Join us in breaking 1500 my dude!

[@martinbigatti4241]

I screamed "Yes" when I saw there was a new video lmao

[@l3rucewayne1]

The first game was hyper-illustrative of using the queen poorly vs well

[@danielyuan9862]

At 5:18 have you considered just not taking the knight, letting white take your _only_ inactive piece, and using your other pieces to attack?

[@davidmasse2829]

Strong players keep the opponent from getting counter play. That is evident in these games. I need to remember that in mine.

[@johnnycharisma162]

I never knew David Walliams was an accomplished chess player.

[@pickaxe4248]

I wonder how the eprson reacts to someone beating them with a 93+ accuracy

[@donkeykong1234]

can you play the french defense sometime? i played it for 50 to 100 games because of some one's video (prob igor) but never really understood why it was any good. it just led to a defensive game kind of waiting on the other guy to blunder it away. which i didn't enjoy even though i was winning at a good rate

[@spondoolie6450]

I play the London any time I'm white and the way I stop that queen attack is to just push the pawn to B3. BTW if they don't move the queen off the starting square I like to antagonize them by putting my knight on F3 (normal development anyways) and then moving my bishop on F4 to G5.

[@southerncross4956]

14:54 “I’m just going to take the queen because I don’t want to lose my Knight” Only Nelson would think like that, me would be Oh! Oh, take the queen, take the queen!!

[@4343george]

I definitly enjoy his site. Can definitly help bmy game

[@JackLancaster96]

Basically checkmating the queen in the 1st game is wild

[@lolodarkness]

genial tus ideas y consejos de juego

[@Ak_Draws_]

Plz sir upload 2 rating climb videos a week I can't wait so long 😶

[@Fayerty]

49:15 position is beautiful

[@celesongo]

is the breaking 1500 link supposed to be in the desc?

[@erezkrispel1024]

love you nelson

[@Chomta]

Without chessvibes outro. it feels weird watching video ending lol

[@anthonyrooksac]

Nelson played wrong move against Pirc. Nelson should move the bishop to f4 and knight to f3, then push the e file pawn to e5, this is a very aggressive opening against Pirc to force the opponent f6 knight away from defense and potential queen trade. Then white will be completely winning with more space and pieces are ready to attack. I always play like this to destroy the opponent to play Pirc defense.

[@yagimichi]

Qe6+ is i think first line of engine in Scandinavian, after be2 Qg6 is a Scandi prep

[@jonaaaaaaah]

What time do you stream?

[@johnnycharisma162]

I usually go first thing in the morning and once during the night.