Once In A Lifetime Checkmate

[@roblodocus2539]

With so few pieces on the board, he would’ve been thinking his king was relatively safe. And then suddenly this!! Very nice checkmate!

[@mareezy]

@9:30 lol " to be honest, that's the only one I saw" 😂 I love it, his honesty is refreshing and hilarious

[@PMA65537]

As well as showing us the failed attempt at the reset checkmate.

[@nathanrobinson4212]

Nelson, I love that you are playing without recording or streaming as you seem to do so much better and you’re over 2400! Congratulations and thanks for sharing this game with us.

[@Ozasuke]

5:08 Nelson: "What does Stockfish say here? Knight e8 is the best move? Okay, I don't know if I would have played that..." Stockfish: "And this is why you fail." God bless you, brother! I always appreciate the games you share and video breakdowns.

[@luckymart893]

I think knight to f7 would be best move??? You get rook

[@ashleyharris4114]

Interesting fact. That was Nelson's 999'th Rapid game of all time! Can't wait to see what the 1000'th brings! 😊

[@RikMaxSpeed]

Chess is crazy - stuff comes out of nowhere all the time and hits you with checkmate. Beautiful.

[@daveawb]

Beautiful checkmate, it's games like this that make you fall in love with chess all over again.

[@realestedm1636]

It's a true beautiful work of art

[@TottenvilleMiddleSchool]

Agreed!!

[@realestedm1636]

You look like a happy ole lad in that thumbnail Nelson. Congratulations 🤝

[@apollosauce]

Mind blowing!! Thanks for sharing, Nelson!! Love and respect from Korea!!

[@jonathanp89]

Happy for you Nelson. You deserve these moments for providing us with the knowledge to pull our version of them off at beginner/intermediate level. Well Done!

[@randysmith8515]

Awesome win and checkmate, Nelson! Congratulations 🎊 🎉 👏👏🥳🥳!

[@AirBornMedia]

That's just the kind of thing I blunder into, usually from a winning position 😂

[@DaDitka]

That was definitely cool to see. Thanks for sharing this.

[@kbentch]

Wonderful video! Thanks so much!!

[@lawrencemckeon6802]

This is world champion level stuff!

[@dragonore2009]

Don't you hate that when you have incredible games off stream eh?

[@MichaelPeters-o4z]

That was a pretty amazing mating net, indeed! Thanks for sharing, Nelson =)

[@Truffle_Pup]

Yeah that is pretty tasty. GG Nelson

[@DanielVancura-li6ts]

Wow Nelson that truly was phenomenal!!

[@JustRightPinedo]

Opponent must have been kicking themselves after not only throwing what was a likely winning endgame but just getting smothered into this wild checkmate.

[@rahullamba9318]

I've actually been in a similar situation Nelsi. Since then I avoid walking a Rook or a King into tight spaces especially when there's a Knight there. I think most people have a blind spot for Knight Forks because there are also ones that emerge a move or two later (incl. ones with a sacrifice) and the fork geometry is such that its difficult to see all of them unless one specifically calculates possible forks for next 2 moves. Did you see that game where Hikaru was in the middle of a King-Rook fork and he tried to save the Rook and ended up walking into another one this time losing his Queen? If Hikaru can fall for it... LoL Thats why I wonder when experts say Bishops are a little better than Knights because they control more squares. Dont you think Knights are more valuable in the middle game with tight spaces and sacrifice setups? Sometimes because of the positioning, even in the endgame.

[@jacovanburen4908]

This was extremely funny. And of course better than the World championship. This can actually UNDERSTAND.

[@CyBrOnE3]

9:47 bro is scared of his own potential

[@danforman6780]

That was cool! En passant checkmate is pretty sweet as well!

[@jonathanp89]

Aha it is! Only ever had one.

[@blunderghostchess]

Now that's a fun checkmate! :)

[@bryanrisso7508]

Check mate qith pawn is always the way to go! That is just beautiful! Good show!

[@oscarserrano5694]

That was beautiful Nelson, great moves with your king mate

[@cougar2013]

Had me laughing out loud like a crazy person at Costco

[@larryhalllith1179]

Now that was a pretty cool checkmate. Thanks Nelson.

[@BB1951]

2409! Congrats, you're slowly improving.

[@nacho__063]

Nice one Master Nelson!!

[@philmenzies2477]

Because....Well thats the only one I saw....LOL

[@bogart7498]

Beautiful mate man

[@mitch9237]

Unique checkmate! Neato!

[@davidecagnin6155]

Very impressive! Thank you so much for sharing.

[@shahmatsimplex4144]

Amazing checkmate, thanks for sharing .

[@mmoncure11]

Pawn checkmate was def way to go

[@Petrochess]

The end looks a bit like the result of a study... great fun to watch anyway :)

[@adithya682]

Awesome 😂 I got checkmated like this but with a rook doing it and my queen and rook blocking me 😢

[@Dexaan]

Took me longer than I'd like to admit to find the penultimate move.

[@ashleyharris4114]

Who ever thought that Pawn could help you win a game of Chess! 😅

[@dominathor]

checkmate with the pawn and ignoring the free bishop(=checkmate with the knight), was so much cooler.

[@Billbarker57]

Great job! I really enjoyed that one.

[@honcho_sah_94]

That was a fascinating knight/pawn/king checkmate! Thank you for sharing!

[@eagarde]

Fantastic

[@Alex9501950]

Obligatory KZbin algorithm comment.

[@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd]

Interesting i Will report to Kramnik 😂

[@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd]

Interesting i Will report to Kramnik 😂

[@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd]

Interesting i Will report to Kramnik 😂

[@JamesQMurphy]

Mandatory comment to boost engagement 🍚

[@VRNocturne]

Wild game and awesome checkmate, GG

[@WeaponsRemorse]

Nasty af nel

[@JamesGannon-iz7yh]

8:45 i had kc4 and NC2 good game bro

[@JohSmith]

You're right I'm gonna enjoy this more than the world championship

[@TottenvilleMiddleSchool]

Awesome game, thanks for sharing!! Yeah, you really were granted a boon of unprecedented magnitude.

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

That is an insane and awkward looking checkmate but that's happened to me too where I've been too aggressive with my king and wasn't aware how close I was to being in a mating net and got mated, not in as spectacular way but where there were pawns and one piece involved, I think it was a rook in my case.

[@alexandraison6429]

Nelson I’m down for a playlist of videos of just you and your cool checkmates. So fun! Just from watching your lives I know you could make one video a week of cool checkmates. Or even last minute checkmates.

[@islambouzaher2182]

I've been flowing your channel for over a year and this is the first time you passed 2400 in rapid, and I've been waiting for a celebration or something haha congrats nelson

[@anthonyrooksac]

Nelson should have lost if the opponent moved the king to "king of the hill". In fact this game shown the importance for keeping the king at center files. Once you survived the attack and traded pieces, then you will reach a must win position. I always keep the king at center and not to castle king.

[@Ordinarytone]

amazing, thank you.

[@MichaelLewchuk]

Hi. Interesting and entertaining! At around 5:35 why did you check with RDE1 rather than RFE1? Did you want an unattackable rook as an anchor for the attacking rook ("Let's keep the rooks on the board")?

[@thecakeredux]

That's a really cool checkmate.

[@fantomghost6213]

Great win!

[@chrisgrow22]

Bravo

[@Kelly-i5z9g]

Nice one!

I would have used the same pawn for mate and not the knight just coz it's cool and a bit of show off too ...congrats on the win enjoy it brother you deserve it.

[@RightHandShot]

Very nice checkmate, weird position for sure.

[@jacekjot1273]

Dear Nelson, just to let you know. You are not only my best and favorite chess teacher. You are my best English language teacher. Your diction is excellent. Thank you!!!

[@remcovanhartevelt588]

2:12 Rd1 would by my first guess

[@stellakemner4847]

How about that?! A killer pawn!😊

[@GregKirkpatrick360]

Nice net!

[@OneMic876]

At the point you took the pawn with the queen then traded queens. Their was also bishop to b5 and pin their queen

[@llamaelitista]

Wowza

[@mikemck4796]

Yeah, I don’t know if we want people walking into m3 in the world championship though…

[@remcovanhartevelt588]

really a lovely game

[@avinashcm]

Exiting

[@DanielSong39]

Not sure whether it tops that comeback a rook down in your rating climb to hit 2200 But this one was a doozy

[@melk100]

0:17 Literally LOL /edit

[@V305G]

?

[@melk100]

@@V305G Hmm. Do yo mean, what does LOL mean? "Laugh Out Loud". In the time stamp he told a joke. " My games are more entertaining than the World Championship of Chess" So I Lterally laughed, bc it was a pretty good joke :D

[@V305G]

@ ah my bad! It flew over my head lol. I thought one of his kids yelled something. I was just wondering what I missed

[@DanielWalvin]

I think the confusion is likely to have been because at 0:14-15 he says "you're gonna enjoy this" and at 0:15-16 he says "I had to share it with someone" (both of which could hypothetically be laughed at but at which it would be weird to do so), and then the joke you're mentioning starts at 0:17

[@melk100]

@@DanielWalvin Wow, I had not Considered that. Thank you for that, that makes quiet a bit of difference. LOL I promise I meant the joke :)

[@6ARE8]

So cool! But for me, I’m the one who usually gets his king in such a position 🚶🏼💔

[@114fv]

Gothamchess thumbnail looking ahh

[@isabellec9631]

great !

[@remcovanhartevelt588]

3:54 Ke8 is a great move? more like a force move if you ask me

[@therealzonkgd]

there was Kc6 too

[@leandrovasconcelos8528]

Awesome

[@danielhowell8808]

nice game

[@Sinicul87]

Epic. 🎉

[@張謙-n3l]

0:56 At this moment, you played Qe1 and engine agrees it's a best move, why would you play it instead of Qd2 or Qe2 to connect the rooks?

[@sfrancfrancnrm8640]

Good game

[@k0u0s0h0a0g0r0a0]

Why don't you share a close game which you lost (at least once)? Now there is no suspence.

[@rubinkhadka6280]

i said quesn takes, like teacher like student huh

[@TonyHank131]

Wow wow wow

[@davidcovington901]

... wow

[@johnwilson5307]

I saw one of your videos the other day when you said to put the pawns on the same colour as the bishop if they only have one. Now you say that's not a good idea? Maybe you mean it's not a good Idea when going into an end game, but it's good to do in the early game,??

[@nelsonlopez1228]

Wow!!❤

[@mauort6870]

Hell yes

[@zed91]

Cool.

[@loremipsum916]

GG

[@tessg4799]

❤

[@andreasw.hvammen3946]

🎉

[@leomogura]

❤❤❤😂😂

[@trutty]

I just voted in the poll to title this video 30 seconds ago

[@theeightytwentytd]

!!

[@DeZomer35]

3rd

[@RonaldoSpido-e2v]

Don't downplay the World Championship that's so Petty. You just checkmate your opponent because he just makes a blunder. As you said wc are exciting gukesh and ding fighting great and that's fine. Just say things better don't be disrepectful

[@MohamedElmessoudi-l8e]

He never was.

[@samwinchester1326]

Did u even listen to him?