A Blunderless Game? (Chess)

[@highlandshereditary1749]

There's something about NL's speech pattern and vocabulary thats oddly addictive, like, I can't get enough of his commentary

[@milangiroux]

He has the cadence.

[@stormtroop007]

*addictive

[@highlandshereditary1749]

@@stormtroop007 lol thanks

[@ragudoctor523]

blink and you’ll have been watching him for 6 years like it’s nothin

[@jahmaniart]

Aaah welcome to the family, brother

[@Keegan3005]

The chess computer hitting him with the blunder after every analysis move had me rolling. Pogcity baby

[@PHeMoX]

It's because he doesn't think it through quite long enough. I don't want to do too much backseat gaming, as it's obvious NL is learning and having fun either way. But his first opponent here wasn't very good. And NL _still_ goes for the queen trade way too quickly.

[@ImortalZeus13]

The correct Danism is “pogicity”

[@waffleisyummy]

“We may be down but they still like us” Me when i text the group chat a meme

[@chickenbeforeegg]

Ah yes, the "I hope they don't see this" strategem

[@Mantosasto]

"I like Rodrigo" Renato M Gregorio 1949

[@desidia847]

NL admonished his students for going "Teacher, Obama!", while he does this, smh.

[@BradPrichard]

"Then he moves there" -> NL chooses the absolute worst move possible for his opponent.

[@robinvik1]

E-Sports gamer barely defeats 70 year old filipino man

[@ubermanana6746]

31 year old boomer vs actual boomer - turns out the younger one wins on time

[@conned2rpi]

@@ubermanana6746 "Speed's what we need; We need greasy, fast speed!"

[@DeineMudda313313]

Spoilers dude

[@444milk]

@@DeineMudda313313 why do you read comments before the video

[@robinvik1]

@@Trash7Trash7Trash7 Sorry, english is my second language, which means I sometimes write words the way they are actually pronounced instead of how latin-obsessed scholars from the 1400s would like me to write them.

[@mizakzee]

17:40 -18:40 Probably the funniest bit of analysis I've seen. I've been in that spot where your a little tilted, and it feels like you just keep stumbling over yourself.

[@ZackBogucki]

That section was extremely "Sideshow Bob in a parking lot full of rakes"

[@mizakzee]

@@ZackBogucki yo I've been right there

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

@@ZackBogucki ZACH IN NL COMMENT SECTIONS WHAT?? dude I love your music!! Ever since the waking kraid track you made wayyyy back!

[@ZackBogucki]

@@ImEverythingYouCrave Ayyyyyyy I don't think I've been recognized out in the wild before! Much appreciated! ...Something, something pogged out of my gourd

[@oivindification]

One of the funniest segments I have seen in a long time. Just every swing of the eval bar, with him like, ok then we do this!, no, the computer is like "what are you doing?". And the ending, "well we deserved to lose that about 20 times" The vibe he had with this chess series was just goated

[@skullbroski]

I love watching NL check the analysis, see that the green arrow shows the best move, then continue to stare and try to figure out the best move after going back

[@dragonx23123]

He doesn't want spoilers

[@duodeath2]

this chess series is the only thing keepin me from losing it

[@AthosJosue]

My dude was meant to be the next hitler, but Ryan keeps him in check 😧... literally

[@whocares4583]

Me too pal, you’re not alone

[@tongpoo8985]

I lost it already and this made me unlose it

[@nextgenwarrior]

Literally first time seeing en passant before, blew my mind.

[@StephenSweat]

I just saw it demonstrated on the Gotham Chess video I was watching maybe 5 minutes before this video was published. Really interesting move I never knew was possible.

[@Doomclown]

It basically exists so pawns can't use their double-move to sprint past opposing pawns.

[@richardmcnamara8715]

Its actually pronouned N peasant

[@AthosJosue]

Look for "northernlion kate en passant" on youtube

[@pervasivedoubt150]

@@richardmcnamara8715 no

[@bobshkie]

My favourite NL series in years. Let’s gooooo!

[@brokenses4418]

NL "Then i guess we do this" Stockfish "nOPE" NL "Then i guess they do this" Guess what stockfish said..........

[@bunnyben5607]

*literally anything happens* NL: It's a thinking man's game

[@MelMelodyWerner]

that's right, Bun Shapiro.

[@StephenSweat]

With every added pog, I expect my gourd to burst. But I insist on depositing the pog, and the sacred rite continues. The Egg Lord blesses me with this strong gourd.

[@colinpaton3304]

I hate this so much but I can’t help myself from loving it

[@Hakasedess]

He keeps blessing us with chess, and every day I get more pogged for the next PogChamps I fully expect our egg to take the crown, although Hafu is really strong as well.

[@darinmany5397]

dude i played a bit of chess like 10 years ago. it was a lot of thing you are getting now, which move is better. I got a lot of what you are getting now you see the move, but there is another move, that makes the move better. LOVING THE CHESS.Dude you are a mega star

[@adamcrook4611]

The last game probably was the best I've seen from both sides. It felt truly like both had to parse out what each was doing and didn't feel like any made major mistakes. NL played wonderfully and his opponent did as well, really great watch.

[@andreasj6926]

Instant like on every one of these, I already know I'm going to enjoy it

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

honestly this has been a must watch for me daily.

[@HCGxreaver]

Same for me!

[@AthosJosue]

Yeah, now i have the urge to learn to play chess

[@bigbangboom74]

i dont like any videos on youtue besides this and what was slashers keep i instantly liked both of them since they starter now

[@lilshoes8700]

Just wanna say as a fan for years, watching you play clubhouse games chess got me excited. I'm happy you decided to stick with it, you seem to be having a ton of fun, and it's been very cool seeing how much you have learned since starting this

[@AceTheBraveIT]

9:38 "I would rather be white... They have an advantage" - Northernlion 2020 -

[@Level80Sorcerer]

minkuS

[@mdaily318]

I mean he’s sadly not wrong

[@realityisenough]

@@mdaily318 sadly...? ;o

[@EIIlast2791]

@@mdaily318 lol when it comes to chess yes he’s right but if youre talking about “white privilege” in the real world then not so much

[@lucasnadamas9317]

@@realityisenough Well yeah NL is playing black

[@PureLionHeart]

Title: A blunderless game? First five minutes: Hmmm.

[@TheInverseGentleman]

"1949" this poor old man has had a hard year, just give him a win. After he has a newborn.

[@Livestreamlurker]

41:18 I think the main reasons the computer doesn't like b3 is because, for one, it puts literally all of your pawns on light squares. Leaving them to maybe become targets for that light squared bishop. And the second reason is that it's the endgame. Your King's a fighting piece. It wants to be active too. So, it didn't activate your king and it created potential weaknesses.

[@TheSemicolon7]

Once NL figures out how to view the computer lines in analysis, it's all over for us.

[@ronaldduttweiler1578]

The Egg is doing a solid job of playing a little quicker without rushing too much and getting too sloppy. I love this series it's so good

[@valenciansun]

The number of missed wins is actually delicious

[@dylanb2990]

39:55 I’m pretty sure h3 here is to stop the knight from advancing.

[@tortilini2194]

New to the channel with the chess games. I couldn't breath watching you analyze the end of the first game. Thanks for that laugh.

[@TheBicycleRepairman2]

Incredible respect for sir 1949, we should all hope to have such clarity and sharpness at that age.

[@Joe-nh8eq]

I had a blunderless game today too. Always feels good. Like see I can win even if my opponent doesnt fold like a ton of breaks.

[@bruhjenkins6482]

6:46 Dude actually pulled out the ‘thinking mans game’ card whilst playing chess

[@SoyUnGanador7]

@10:52 would it not have been better to take the D3 Pawn with the Rook? It messes up the pawn structure but is it better overall?

[@slimeball555]

During the second game analysis, if you want to see the best continuing line (like how you were trying to step through the endgame), click the move notation or the magnifying glass right under "X is best"

[@iPerfection68]

ah my daily pog is here, thank you NL

[@anthonyepertle]

Paging Al Gorithm...Code Pog, Northern's channel. Repeat code pog, respond immediately, Al Gorithm.

[@FilledCircle]

That first game was a really good lesson in continuity of pressure. Loving the content NL, I feel my brain gaining wrinkles.

[@LinNeTule]

I like this playing out the timed out endgame, it seems like something that would help learn a lot of endgame strats, and Levy said it's hard to start to develop a wide range of endgame skills

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

Man this content is incredibly addictive. The chess plays, they're so good! I need more.

[@Rosenator1]

Very strategic endgame with the two knights. Top-tier play.

[@JacobWalker909]

I like that you specify (chess) before anyone gets the idea you wouldn't blunder any other game

[@thatsmidnight]

Blunders or not, I'm still as pogged as ever about the Chess series. I hope we can continue to see more in the future. Thanks.

[@Godigentil97]

I gotta say, that episode was the most interesting to me so far, the game again Gregorio was super interesting.

[@ballzymclronshaft]

No disrespect, but you puzzling out the analysis on the first game cracked me up. Lovin the chess series!

[@angelobonicelli651]

Nl please use higher depths stockfish at depth 18 is sometimes unreliable especially in the endgame.

[@hctaz]

As somebody who plays the Caro-Kann as well, watching you fall into the Accelerated Panov attack hurt me. I've totally been there. You're just like... WHAT?! C4?! What's this?! Throws you off entirely.

[@terezi4real]

you know the opponent blundered when he leans to the right

[@kaynovamusic]

At his position in 18:25, is there a way to get check mate soon? Or would it still take a while after that?

[@johngleeman8347]

I loved that defensive game at the end. Well-played Baron Egg!

[@Tyletoful]

That first game was definitely not Rojo Caliente

[@Davidjune1970]

42:34 I actually expected you to trade knights by forking his king by moving the other knight to e4

[@mattevans1643]

The knight was defending E4. Which is where the pawn was supposed to go on that move.

[@imienazwisko4109]

I was really impressed by your solidity in the 2nd game!

[@kaym2043]

“Actually it’s not better, it’s just losing in more steps” amazing hahhah

[@jacobsocia3966]

Love the series

[@sid3620]

The day that we get to the part or the backlog where he knows about the magnifying glass in analysis is the day we truly ascend

[@Rhineson]

Both games were intense and fun to watch. First one was a tad rough, always to want to see NL dominating. The second's analysis was fun to see the possible endgame.

[@tomerssh]

10:38 rook takes d3, if queen take rook, queen takes queen and get a threat on f1. If white trades queen instead, your up a pawn, unless im dumb

[@gavinjenkins899]

Zero blunder game, immediately following 27-blunder analysis lol (

[@UJackU]

Hey NL if you are having trouble trying to figure out why the computer likes a move you can click the magnifying glass and advance through the moves that are best following that move.

[@bentheswitchsportsfan06]

0:59 his reaction to queen to a4 had me crying with laughter 🤣

[@dementedpenguinz]

Ryab: you wanna get crazy let's get crazy Everyone at chess dot com: ?!

[@yatoayo]

i’ve been playing chess for years and never heard of that pawn move thank you!

[@Socrates...]

Every decent move he plays is even miraculous to himself

[@rennysama9752]

I am READY for this blunderless game Mr Nor Thernlion. I am SO READY for this.

[@rennysama9752]

I am strangely disappointed

[@rennysama9752]

Ah, but that last game; very good, very good, nice work.

[@mikeykapp]

Hey NL I'm a big fan, It would be really cool if you did a video with the jalalabad opening! It has a cool backstory and is very dynamic

[@firei11]

"45% accuracy but zero blunders, just a lot of book and a lot of eeeeh moves" 3 missed wins: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@miguelrodrigues4796]

26:00 just let him take the bishop then if he takes the knight with the queen you take his rook and it's mate

[@litapd311]

blunderluss game? definitely not the first one :p that second game was so tense though. a true battle of wit, but even with the commentary somehow egg comes ahead on time. extremely pogged as usual

[@scull0234]

Such a pogged series

[@xeno9768]

What happened to the e5 pawn at 2:00

[@Arsenov92]

A move called "En Passante", when your pawn does the 2 block move and lands next to the enemy pawn like Egg's did, then the enemy pawn can do a diagonal take on an empty square behind the pawn. I'm bad at explaining it, it's a weird move but it does exist.

[@micalishis]

@@Arsenov92 Why is that a thing? That seems like something a big brother would make up to beat his little brother. "According to this very specific situation, I can bend the rules to still kill you".

[@Arsenov92]

@@micalishis because when the rules about pawns being able to do a two-square first move was added, motivation for en passant was to prevent the two-square first move for pawns from allowing a pawn to evade capture by an enemy pawn.

[@inordirectional]

Even after you got out of the opening 'trap' down a pawn, that Caro-Kann game was complicated af

[@omhd]

Love the chess videos! Bright spot of every day.

[@madisondampier3389]

37:00 hate to see you give up that fork man

[@samdombeck7118]

i like that NL found an equal in chess, and by the date in his name it is a 71 year old man. very fitting for the egg dad.

[@Soulessnight4]

so far my favorite opening as black is the alekhine's, though of course it is only applicable if your opponent does e4 as first move

[@FUTrading]

man opens up his third eye & see 7 moves ahead but can't even see a tinted rock

[@tiagogaya4141]

"i like rodrigo" the nickname: renatomgregório

[@444milk]

made me laugh so hard

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

Imagine a 30 minute game.... That would send my pogs to the stratosphere

[@conned2rpi]

Egg would inevitably, out of misplaced fear for boring his audience, pull a "let's get weird" min. twice per game

[@beatlesrol456]

nobody: NL: we don't have a ton of time

[@Jipni]

2nd one is a Filipino grandad like my dad. Very intriguing that my dad may play NL at some point cause he also plays a ton at similar ELO

[@latersatyr]

Even though I also have no idea what the best move would be I really like NL doing analysis "Then they do this" *blunder* "Then they'd do this" *blunder*

[@LinNeTule]

Algorithm I submit this engagement to demand more pog NL chess to be recommended to the world

[@untotenvasser4233]

I'd love to see NL do some training puzzles and stuff around the endgame

[@Romanticoutlaw]

I feel like I must have been taught chess wrong growing up because I am completely bamboozled

[@teddyrueckert2989]

Very interesting that the man from 1949 is playing the "Old Indian Defense". Seems appropriate!

[@nimeshajayatunge4007]

15:35 I dont get why taking b5 is the best move, and a missed win if he doesn't. Doesn't he just exchange a rook and a pawn for a knight and a bishop? That's an equal point trade

[@f00ky3w2oob]

May the series live as long as Isaac

[@legendhero-eu1lc]

Thank you for the video! You friends are all super awesome! Oh, moments of this video are so very sad.

[@DimiPetrevski]

Analysis at the end wanted h3 tonstop the f6 knight from coming to g4 I think

[@Webfra14]

I wish you would give more GGs. Looks like your so eager to go to analysis, that you forget to GG most of the time. Renato would have deserved it at least. :(

[@PierceTheHandsome]

every time he king side castles i giggle a little. E>G

[@jerome_david]

Ryan, I think your Elo would improve by studying a bit of endgame technique. You don't seem to have a firm intuition regarding maintaining the opposition, for example (a concept relevant to the point swing in the final position of the second game)… it's not a tricky technique to learn, but you'll lose a lot of endgames so long as your opponent knows a space/tempo controlling method you do not; particularly when material is low. Similarly, you'll end up winning a lot of closely contested matches in situations where you're aware of this technique and your opponent isn't.

[@Ch4rmander]

The analysis of the first game was so funny

[@SHAMAN79]

When the cops pull me over 9:33

[@jbreitz87]

I can't wait to see the games where he's rated grand master go up

[@miguel7888]

He said in an Isaac episode they gave him the title on his off day so he didn't record any episodes, played a few bullet games off camera though.

[@jbreitz87]

@@miguel7888 Damn that is such a shame, I wanted to see if the guys on the other side made any mistakes due to nerves. I read that apparently he won 2 and lost 1 while marked.

[@ajhutchinson8939]

So when is the chess tournament stream gonna happen?

[@TheIbney00]

I’m pogged out of my mind with raising engagement through comments

[@Abc-tx4zr]

if i were the first guy i wouldve eliminated both your rooks so i had two rooks and a bishop vs your queen

[@jasonmccord9778]

Yesssssss

[@xplosionrule]

LOOK AT THE COMPUTER LINE UNDER THE MOVE THE COMPUTER RECOMMENDS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (also I love the series!)