What a tactic (Chess)

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[@sledgehammer5033]

NL is a god at converting a win into a draw

[@1133331313131313131]

lmao that first match

[@abbasfadhil1715]

Sometimes I get mad at how bad he plays. Once, I started screaming at him while he was playing

[@ColeckZz]

@@abbasfadhil1715 alrighty, I'm sure you and your 800 elo have a lot of reason to get mad

[@BeaverOfDooom]

Not a very positive chess gamer moment

[@abbasfadhil1715]

I'm actually 1900 elo ,and I laughed a lot at ur comment LOL.

[@sethmoreland1278]

Hey NL, every time you say "I'm in your base killing your dudes", my day is brightened

[@hokiejoe17]

Same

[@timg2655]

I'm in your dudes killings your base

[@kylepatterson6056]

Would like but funny number

[@calebarends9151]

Ayo????

[@calebsutherland5221]

It’s true

[@thingthingsss]

Feels like an exceptional amount of Ryan's commentary this game was "AAAAAGH."

[@rohanswan852]

28:55 just absolute insanity, he highlights the rook and then moves his cursor to the pawn, outstanding move

[@NorthernlionLP]

Best part about that is the pawn move is 'excellent', while his original move was only 'good'.

[@sergiofenoll7705]

Never let them know your next move

[@isaacrobertson4374]

He missed m1 like a turn ago 💀

[@timg2655]

30:46 😂😂😂 Engine checked your excitement "and then uh huh, and then hoo, and then waaa-"

[@sirevilmustache9567]

2:27 Free is too high a price for a bishop these days. I really miss Ryan doing the game reviews. Edit: Though, just to be clear, I'm not whining about how he'll never get better without doing that or something- I just think the game reviews are some of the best chess content.

[@rlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrl]

yeah I want more reviews

[@noam2000stodio]

That was soooo painfullll

[@vakari8507]

Yes there needs to be more game reviews

[@PhoenixIgnisChannel]

Dan blitz games review video was one of the best on history

[@spanzotab]

it's not good content if the guy making the content isn't enjoying what he's doing

[@sambalaskas5082]

“I did stay at a holiday inn express last night” is only slightly behind “I’m in your base killing your dudes” for me

[@NorthernlionLP]

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the egg his end-game theory is goated

[@legopenguin9]

egg is better than you and you know it

[@opiesmith9270]

The last game 😂😂 had me crying. How about a check, moves pawn, that’s not a check. Somehow stumbling via misclicks into better and better moves accidentally. That was incredible.

[@Potatoman-zu6db]

opponent blundering a bishop at 2:27 and the re-blundering the same bishop immediately after is peak NL chess content

[@Potbelly76]

"You wanna push me down? Who do you think you are, Matchbox 20" HAAAAAA. Also, "Jerry, you don't interrupt a guy when he's pogging!"

[@stephenkeller2053]

Multiple draws in the same video means that you're officially playing at grandmaster levels

[@notyourdad]

The fact that he didn't just go in and take the pawns around 24:45 is kind of funny.

[@maxkho00]

More like painful. Out of all the blunders in this video, him not going around to take the pawns was no doubt the most excruciating one, because with the other blunders, they were only on the board for a few seconds and then they were gone forever, but this one, he had the chance to infiltrate for a solid minute, and I was made to suffer through it all.

[@julianhappel8139]

I'm never going to not hit the like button on the chess content. Ryan taking the game not as seriously is very blessed.

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

"I'm not the world champion" is a great topical line.

[@screamingliner]

Sometimes the chess hurts my soul but there is no denying the sheer joy NL is getting from playing the game.

[@nu_jasuu6873]

Him calling out Jerry whenever something big happens is just hilarious 😂

[@Kirisame312]

2:28 that blunder exchange wounded my soul.

[@samlund4410]

12:50 I'm not making hackusations, I'm not the world champion. Based.

[@migduh]

20:52 "I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night" holy fricken cow, that just sent me to the nostalgia zone at a thousand miles an hour.

[@notyourdad]

NL: Let's push him back. Me: You're literally pushing him forward. NL: That's not back, that's forward!

[@stinkybuttrat]

JERRY

[@everupward594]

"We're out of time...in this economy?" That line cracked me up, and I'm not sure why. Such egg.

[@thedogswang]

I'm making it my mission to comment on every chess video you upload to prove how GOAT they are

[@FlavaxLP]

This video was soo much fun, making my day everytime you upload chess. Last game I was pogging so hard

[@johnnydoe3603]

Rumbleverse: Someone lands a Shot on NL NL: They know What they are doing Chess: Someone Plays Quickly NL: I am Playing with a Chess Prodigy 😂

[@MrMoorfrosch]

Please bring the analysis back on losses, discovering unseen horrendous blunders is the best part of the chess content :)

[@ColeInTheRough]

Man it feels good when u notice the 5 blunders a game he makes, you can pretend you're good at chess

[@cday0075]

28:55 When the intrusive thoughts win

[@asweatymelvn]

For someone who knows no theory. He's actually a really respectable chess player

[@obviouslynotanalien3512]

100 percent my favorite series in this chapter of my life

[@skybean]

I never thought I would be saying that Northernlion chess is my favorite KZbin content on the internet

[@thmanderson]

12:05 you can take on a6 i think - if they recapture you can mate rb1+ rd1, rxd1# right?

[@calebfarmer331]

Good call. I wouldn't have seen it with 12 seconds either probably though

[@aetbhieiils]

Honestly, I think NL could easily make it to 1600 if he played more slow chess and practiced taking time to calculate a bit more. Slow chess would really help improve some of the weaknesses: like not taking advantage of his opponent's one move blunder like hanging a piece, losing a completely drawn endgame, or losing tempi in the opening and middle game for no reason.

[@alexchimi7093]

That last game was great, the missed -M1 but the great tactics and the fake rook check had me pogged

[@MachoDagger]

The end of that last game is pure chaos

[@Tchakkazulu]

Rollercoaster of emotions, that last game.

[@Galardomond]

That last game was insane

[@paranormal17]

As much as I, a Fried Liver player, love seeing h6? get steamrolled, NL had a few opportunities for winning tactics in that game. Like at 12:04, Rxa3! was possible. Rook can not take back because Rb1+ leads to mate

[@maxkho00]

He had many far simpler and far more decisive tactics than Rxa3. Terrible example by you.

[@troublesome6074]

2:28 this man has a free bishop but decides instead to double up his rooks, his chess prowess is otherworldly

[@fusionfall34]

A chess video a day makes the pogs never go away

[@kadirbeneathmomoteh854]

I'm once again asking for more game reviews, they're really fun to watch

[@axeldealex]

There truly is nothing more iconic than NL trading towards an endgame and losing his advantage in the conversion towards a lost position getting a draw in the end My cardiologist hates you and I'm loving every second

[@violetstarsign]

Proof that Chess, when played perfectly, is a draw.

[@number2pensyl557]

Hans Eggman

[@mathees479]

Loving the Chess content!

[@RaymondSequenza]

Absolutely riveting

[@Tomppanen96]

If he had just analyzed a couple of those games... I was facepalming so many times when he wasn't punished/didn't punish.

[@user-bv4cd1qy6q]

Avenged Sevenfold on your profile picture! Nice

[@Tomppanen96]

@@user-bv4cd1qy6q Indeed! foREVer \m/

[@adanr8233]

Incredible gaming in this video tbh

[@dadyasuo8151]

These games were 🔥🔥

[@Drdoomerang]

Keep the chess content coming!

[@Qu1ckRev1ve]

Favorite game of the lineup these days

[@dadyasuo8151]

Try the alapin (c3 on move 2) against the Sicilian. U get a really good position 90% of the time.

[@Doomclown]

Missed lethal for the content, I love him.

[@tomiii7143]

Glad chess is back, ty nl ❤️

[@theronerdithas2944]

24:24 I was loooosing it, how many chances did he have to take the pawn .... whyyyyy

[@NeuroticNav]

SAME i was screaming 😂

[@terrancejames7059]

“Honey wake u- oh shhhhhh got ya baby is sleeping “ *honey the pog is back on the menu *

[@the_rockerfly]

more chess POG!

[@okdotlama]

I like how being down on material NL still goes for the endgame

[@spiralflames4721]

Bless for the chess

[@theronerdithas2944]

I've started yelling AAAAH! when I blunder too now please help me

[@xCateyez]

I like it when he goes ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆ

[@deveneb8409]

POGGG MORE CHEWS

[@navinsafferling1923]

Call him Brady the way he throws games away

[@valukk738]

oh my god

[@slayermanful]

JERRYYY

[@GameAlicornLuna]

NL missing a Queen's Trap in the second game sorta hurt me.

[@Gabu_]

I think I lost some hair when he didn't take a free bishop then proceeded to hang his own. Let's go, I'm becoming more egg'd!

[@jerome4387]

NL: Who’s position is better? I don’t know, everyone’s position is bad 😂

[@zarkork-1217]

Whose

[@DukeChameleon]

Local canadian snatches three draws in a row despite loosing drastically

[@Bohlnore]

Is chess making a comeback?

[@garblechunk]

I'm POGGING.

[@AgentChiliFri]

5:25 i lost the game

[@tearenn3046]

30:28 Can someone explain why Rc6 is a great move? I don't get it

[@nathanbishop2886]

Chess: tactics

[@DillPickle420W69]

Chess content is the best

[@matthewapple9546]

chess me chess me chess me

[@ImTheFool08]

pog more chess

[@ChileanIggy]

5:12 is why I'm here

[@cristiancabrera6564]

yay

[@AndeeRoemoe]

Pogged

[@shcottam]

Nl is the only chess player i watch and im about it

[@andreww.9342]

12:10 pause

[@JakobS92]

i love NL chess

[@TheMasterMakarov]

Is Just realized is NL saying Jug Djwong or is he meaning to say Zug Zwang [ Tsook Tswahng ]

[@eden3669]

definitely zugzwang ...which i just now realized isn't normally pronounced how he says it, lmao

[@khornii8129]

5:15 i lost it

[@dvxdvx93]

8:55 the bishop is actually trapped, Ra4 kicks the queen away from the defense.

[@apatheticmioz9671]

But did you consider white playing Bxd6 after your Ra4? Both queens are hanging and white wins a piece, then black takes the queen and white escapes with the bishop up a piece?

[@dvxdvx93]

@@apatheticmioz9671 you're right, I had an extra pawn on my analyisis board

[@Linkfanoftheyear]

You need to review your king and pawn endings. That stalemate game was a draw many times. And you blundered it many times. Your opponent is just an idiot. A year ago you were very good at your endgames.

[@coolbeans2223]

Chess

[@mrskwid1]

Always poged for a draw.

[@timg2655]

Wooot wooot egg daddy time 🥚♟️

[@michael8815]

Play a 10 minute game!

[@butdutwut]

Second game was truly horrible

[@comatensor7080]

I also felt prone to accuse the opponent at 13:00. The speed at which he made his best moves was suspicious.

[@armandogonzalez8636]

Nls move were bad though, kinda made sense to play those moves if you’re a 1400-1500 player

[@Worldsportstalk24]

It was definitely a but sus but NL had plenty of chances to take free stuff in that game and just didn’t

[@maxkho00]

Lol the other guy played like a solid 1300-1400, making loads of errors throughout the game. There is literally nothing to be suspicious about. NL just played bad chess.

[@maxkho00]

@@Worldsportstalk24 Wasn't sus in the slightest. Gave away the bishop pair in the opening, got his queen locked out for no reason, kept hanging the e4 pawn for like 5 moves in a row, hung the f4 pawn in the endgame/late middlegame, hung both the c3 and the a6 pawns in one move in two different ways in the endgame, thus throwing his entire advantage away, and almost ended up getting flagged if NL were to play a little bit faster. It was literally the least suspicious game imaginable. Both players played bad chess.

[@Worldsportstalk24]

@@maxkho00 k

[@JohnFKennedy420]

Play 10 min chess again you aren’t good at 3 min you are good when you have time to think about your moves

[@whatlez]

Am I the only one who gets triggered when he says ‘queen swap’

[@HumbleSlays]

My bald gentleman could have had a check mate in 3 moves on that last guy and even mentions putting him in check when in reality the opponents king would have been trapped and it would have been check mate

[@QBeeIII]

pog

[@AndouilleSlim]

1:05 absolutely cursed pog structure only a minute in

[@AndouilleSlim]

14:16 missed tactic cxd5 exd5 nxd5 nxd5 if queen takes then you you play bxh2

[@maxkho00]

That pawn is a thorn in Black's position, and Black will never get rid of it because it's perpetually defended by White's light-square bishop. Moreover, worst comes to worst, he just plays c3/c4 and d4 and adds another defender to the pawn all while fixing his pawn structure. Honestly, if this was the only problem you had with NL's play, then you probably aren't that good at chess lol.

[@maxkho00]

@@AndouilleSlim And that's not even a missed tactic. His method would also win the pawn back all the same if it wasn't for Qa4+, which was the thing that he missed ─ not the elementary tactic that you describe. Lol, out of all the countless blunders NL made in this video, you had to pick something that's not even a blunder lmao. Let me guess ─ you're sub-1000, right?

[@AndouilleSlim]

@@maxkho00 this is so embarrassing for you

[@maxkho00]

@@AndouilleSlim How? You're the one that embarrassed yourself lol.

[@primeministersinister4541]

Algorithm based comment

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

I really feel like you should review your games. Like you missed a free bishop in the first game.