LIVE Chess Rating Climb to 1600 - Chess.com Speedrun

[@duckman78910]

Hey Nelson, hope you’re feeling better! Love the channel and these videos. Kind of a weird/small detail but it’s nice how there aren’t really any cuts in the video, like when you left for a minute to take a walk and left the puzzle for us to think about. While the videos are still very engaging and informative, it makes it feel more like we’re all just hanging out rather than being fed some content, and that’s a pretty cool/unique atmosphere to be able to accomplish in a video format. Cheers!

[@danylomusic4624]

Your voice is so smooth and calm that I fall asleep to your videos. And then I wake up and watch it to the end.

[@xionix84]

Always sad to see a game end because of time. I really would have liked to see how game 1 would have turned out with another 5 minutes.

[@christopherheckman7957]

0:12 Game #1 24:46 White to play and win. 45:57 Game #2 53:50 Game #3 3:58 Celery is also good diet food. It takes more energy to chew and digest than you get out of it. 10:12 What about ... Bh5 ? 12:50 Now, ... Bh5 doesn't work any more. 16:52 Finally! Only about ten moves too late ... 20:45 Wow. Nelson was outplayed ... 21:49 That ... Bh5 was on the board for a long time. 22:55 Instead of Qa1-b1, Nelson missed a fork! 33:52 Don't take the knight! The ax murderer is in the barn! (Kxa8 Kc7, and black shuttles between c7 and c8, draw, because the knight is on the wrong color) 37:38 Nd5, Zugzwang! I don't like this format for presenting problems. Get back to the games! 46:39 Nice development, Nelson! 8-) 46:47 Nelson: Mouse slips ... d6. Also Nelson: wins the game. [Stockfish later says this is a good move.]

[@MikhaillllKing]

"Celery takes more energy to chew and digest than you get out of it." it's a myth, bro

[@christopherheckman7957]

@@MikhaillllKing Only recently debunked, though. (2016)

[@Faith-vl4lv]

I do thoroughly enjoy watching this speed run. Very informative

[@tuxedobob2]

"Celery." *chomp* "I HATE celery." This guy's turning into a comedian.

[@williamsquires3070]

Try raw carrots, then. They’re nice and crunchy, without the nasty after taste of celery.

[@bucketspree4952]

​@@williamsquires3070 fresh celery doesn't have the same aftertaste, not as bad

[@williamsquires3070]

(@34:56) - answer: nope! The white knight needs to be on e7 with the black king on c7 AND black to move. Black’s only viable strategy here is to move the king between c7 and c8, reversing color each time. The white knight, which always changes (square) color every move, cannot - therefore - get to e7 with the black king on c7; it’ll always be on c8 where it’ll be in check after the knight makes it to e7. White is in zugzwang here (of a sort.) If white had one extra piece or pawn, he could move it (instead of the knight); then black would be in zugzwang instead, as the king would NOT be in check, but could not move to c8. Net result: black would have to move the king, allowing white’s king to move to b7, getting out of the way of his a-pawn for the win for white. This position is a draw.

[@impossiblemovies323]

Only reason black got only 71% accuracy is because a3 was the best move almost the entire middlegame, but neither player saw or capitalised on it. Despite that, black played almost perfect. Very impressive.

[@TwoHonest]

That first game was intense, love watching you play aggressive positions down material

[@peterclaver5579]

Thanks for the vids! On the final game: At 57:00 you do a quick calculation. If I am seeing this correctly, this is a fairly interesting spot to review for how it alters both material and position/future. (If you ever make a compilation of tricky spots) The follow up detail at 1:03:15 for the other key calculation was great. I have made mistakes like that. Thanks again for the sharp and smart

[@88mphDrBrown]

Wow, that's the most powerful gambit I've ever seen. It's like a morra on the other side but you get to castle into an open file is immediately bearing down into the attack. It's a pretty unrelenting attack of serious problems for them to solve. That guy defended well.

[@kshitiz6376]

There are a bunch of similar gambits and none of them are really that great. These positions are double edged swords and you have to be just as precise while attacking as opponent has to while defending. Check out Danish gambit(if you haven't already), it also leads to somewhat similar positions.

[@dalkapur]

The first opponent played like you! Spent a lot of time calculating. Great game. Re the mouse slip, I never move the piece now because of that. Always click on the piece and click on where they are supposed to go.

[@stuarthartley6824]

that puzzle was a real tricky one!

[@arrowofkira5658]

I'm 1600 too so I'm glad Nelson finally gets to play the people I'm playing. I'll take notes to improve!

[@trevorsgaragemusings]

I can induce gout easily by eating way too much sugar. Aside from celery, perhaps cutting as much sugar from your diet as you are comfortable with will be beneficial.

[@choimdachoim9491]

If you don't like chewing on celery, get a cheap juicer...run a few stalks through it and drink it down in a few seconds. Add a couple carrots to make it sweet and cover the celery taste.

[@roy7661]

Instead of knight g5 check at 6:30, c3 knight to e4 (blocks our queen vision to our knight and threatening their queen), if queen takes knight, knight to g5 is a queen fork, if queen takes pawn just attack while queen is away s

[@mitchelljones9696]

Celery is delicious brother, don’t be afraid of the bitter it’s good for ya liva

[@TheSlickIzzy]

Hey Nelson. Thanks for still making content while you're going through this. I hate celery too. Here's a trick to make it wayyyy more palatable. With the hump facing you, dig your fingernail into the celery stalk and pull the end all the way down and get rid of all those strings and throw them away. Then dip them mothers in some peanut butter... if you can have that, i know nothing about gout. Hang in there.

[@lancelvanderhaven]

I love this Channel, Nelson. It has improved my game significantly and it has translated to me winning games that I never thought that I could.That said, I have beaten high-rated players in the tournaments. Get well soon and appreciate your time and effort to make these videos. *

[@SirSoaks]

Put some peanut butter on that celery. You might actually like celery then.

[@voraciousreader5473]

extra cool games today, and a really nice puzzle intermission

[@skyrimdovah420]

Imagine being the one guy that beats him and then coming across this video and feeling like you could become a top player

[@medineilbak2948]

53:38 why did the rook take the knight when it never happened in game????

[@DanielSong39]

That first game was legend

[@zainquadri1206]

It's called the rice cooker counter gambit... Black almost always wins in these positions if the engine (oops I meant to say rice cooker) gives out the suggestion fast enough...

[@DanielSong39]

@@zainquadri1206 I don't think black was cheating but even if he was, soft cheating doesn't bother me as much. At least the games are interesting to watch (and play)

[@eviekai]

@@DanielSong39 21:12 king f7 is a very unnatural move from a human perspective, idk where the player with the black pieces could have gotten it from.

[@eviekai]

@@DanielSong39that being said, the position is tricky and the guy actually took his time to think about the move

[@TheFreeM93]

@@eviekai I'm rated around his rating and i saw the only move that doesn't worsen the position is kf7

[@alanbrown9705]

First time watching and riveted. Where do I best start to learn?

[@hodgeknobbler9848]

You’re the best, Nelson!

[@PeerlessScarred01]

you gotta put peanut butter on the celery.. its pretty good

[@arthurrtang9670]

Was not there live but when solving that endgame. I pretty much saw every winning move (before the move was mentioned, as I paused to solve the puzzle before resuming). At 43:05 I knew Kc6 was winning because it puts Black in Zugzwang, but I found it a little funny that many didn't choose that move, only because Nelson purposely mentioned it as the last move to not make it obvious, and he did trick a lot of people. Anways, was a fun puzzle. Was not difficult, but a fun technical one as White can go wrong when Black plays the best line.

[@exuviumisopods]

30:39 it's because of the other tab that you have open from the game you played. You had to close that tab.

[@cominoengenharia]

Very interesting that Black kept spending 3 to 4 seconds per move even when only 10seconds left

[@oldsuitman7762]

"never play f3" Ben F

[@PlanetT1000]

f pawn stands for “forget it” pawn John Bartholomew 😊

[@NissanLucino1996]

De6 at 7:52?

[@loganharrington8271]

51:26 missed bishop F4. Pins the Queen to the castle

[@shadeburst]

Nelson you play as if there was no time pressure. You always ask yourself, if there is a winning move, could there be a better move? What you taught me is to develop temperament and stay calm. Then I don't blunder so often! Both you and Anna Cramling have taught me, when there is no good attack available, to build a solid position and wait for the other player to blunder.

[@keesbruijns8654]

Glad you're back 🍀

[@pulvinarpulvinar6749]

13:30 why not first take the rook? 🤔

[@Deadeye1967]

Because that would be a rook for a rook, evens , 5 points each, whereas if he grabs the knight (up 3 points) then loses the rook (down 2 points) then grabs the rook (up 3 points). So he ends up a Knight up as opposed your way rook for a rook. These type situations come up quite often, if a piece is going to die, take something with you

[@mattpalmer7515]

Couldn't you work the knight to b6 citing off c8? Then the black king would either have to take the knight or let white out?

[@mattpalmer7515]

Oh, no. You can't. Had the tempo wrong in my head. White would need to move and can't cut off the c8 square at that point.

[@dwanecrow3622]

Gout is no joke. I came down with it so yes, I understand everything you’re going through.

[@marcoporta6319]

Thank so much master!

[@AS260478]

Add cream cheese for your celery 🤪

[@arturrzepka6955]

you don't added videos from 1375 to actual 1600 to speedrun playlist on your youtube channnel to have all videos in one playlist.

[@rjohnson615]

Try Philadelphia cream cheese in your celery, with a little salt….

[@thetransferaccount4586]

the first guy defended really well though

[@Shaun_GTI]

Game 1: -NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER.....crunch!!!! Epic

[@danielyuan9862]

You're just about my rapid rating now, I lowkey want to stream snipe you. I hope I get the chance!

[@GoodmanMD]

Any chance we could get some d4 games for the d4 boys like myself. Queens Gambit Catalan London Stonewall anything

[@zzzaphod8507]

Great idea to do the puzzle during the break--that was fun. But the puzzle took so long that you almost needed another break after the puzzle?!

[@alexandrawolde7315]

Did u ever played brilliant move

[@arashkamangir331]

is nelson on twitch?

[@karlbe8414]

I saw black's bishop to H5 move! He would have captured your rook. Dunno after that...

[@Everythingeveryone17]

Nd5!!!!!!!😡

[@darekisrael469]

You don't look very happy about eating that celery...is there any way you can make it taste any better for yourself within dietary guidelines? Also Do you not accept friend requests on your speed run account?

[@KevinAllen619]

I hate celery 2, i always make my stuffing without it at Thanksgiving

[@bjarniorsigursson9103]

Didn’t you miss a checkmate in 2 in the first game?

[@michaelmcgee335]

As a 1900 player I need to know how to get to 2000+ and stay there.

[@Deadeye1967]

Game 2 white was lost when not in the comfort of the London.

[@michigan53105]

Rice was cooking today 😂

[@ch3681]

Whether I spend excessive time on an only legal move it’s because I eat while playing and probably have a mouthful of food haha

[@ch3681]

Not like a minute but like 10-15 seconds sure

[@Deadeye1967]

White Celery is nicer than green, I think they are different varieties.

[@ernie898]

You had checkmate real easy when queen had support by knight black bishop the check mate

[@Ryukuss]

scotch games would be cool no one plays it but it is good

[@James--Parker]

It's a common opening, though?

[@senthamizh10]

Why don't you try playing 15|10 format

[@jaysonwhiteford4531]

As a Caro player I need to study game 1 from blacks perspective 💯

[@ustobolta]

1645 😂

[@GoodmanMD]

These players that play well with no concern for time management and then lose on time are always quite suspicious. Most people manage the clock more human (unless ur strat is to win before u get too low on time…) suspicious but never good to assume anything

[@Everythingeveryone17]

Yesss

[@DawidRoos-y7g]

You should try the carnivore diet......Also drink milk kefir & supplement with iodine. Short term treatment = Voltaren

[@Anomaliayt]

First game seemed a bit fishy 🤔🤔🤔

[@Blinky888]

Who hates celery!

[@Chris-hs8qh]

Love these awesome tutorials. But what if the 12 second only legal move was another KZbinr explaining what’s going on to their subs? Just sayin. Cooking rice and an e-mail from a chess professor , really guys? Come on. Others could say the same thing on this side as well. Again, just my opinion. Thank you for all your time and knowledge Nelson!

[@golden7254]

Good game

[@CamG6]

Your big toes hurting?

[@PositivityBeatsNegativity]

Night to c5

[@صفوةعليالعثمان]

Hello

[@rjohnson615]

Kd2