Nelson idk if you will read this but I think you are a better teacher than a lot of GMs. Like Hikaru is definitely a better player but I struggle to learn from his content because he does not speak clearly sometimes, is distracted by chat, etc. I think being a good teacher is a different skill than playing and Nelson is definitely better at it than a lot of people of higher rating.
@andrewbennett59112 ай бұрын
Another great instructive video , thanks Nelson ! Definitely goes well with Breaking 1500 .
@ChessEvaluation2 ай бұрын
18:20 - 19:03 thiss was pure gold ❤❤❤, I kept on forgetting about this but the way you emphasize it was magnificent!!
@bucketspree49522 ай бұрын
I completely agree, he is gifted in this area 😸
@dominathor2 ай бұрын
Also, GM Hikaru, since he is the top Blitz player in the world, does not have the patience to explain slowly every move he takes(like Nelson does), he just rushes and tries to be cocky with his lines, like "Spaghetti-O time" or "GG why not?". It is funny how Hikaru criticizes Levy (Gotham chess), for focusing on entertainment instead of being educational, when he does the same thing.
@richardmeyer4182 ай бұрын
+1
@brawlhelper90402 ай бұрын
Im amazed this content is literally free. This is literally the best chess content
@jacobg23942 ай бұрын
Ik fr
@brawlhelper90402 ай бұрын
@@prepaidtrash5552 yeh he is, but its not paid for us which is crazy given the quality of the content. Love this man
@DaDitka2 ай бұрын
@brawlhelper9040 And the worker is worth his pay. I have zero problem with Nelson making money. He's doing a good service for chess players.
@alG-hw1xs2 ай бұрын
Don't give him any ideas. ...lol
@brawlhelper90402 ай бұрын
@@alG-hw1xs people are good by heart
@dukeca2 ай бұрын
You feel like the teacher that I’ve always been waiting 🙂
@stuarthartley6824Ай бұрын
superb, really instructive on the restricting the opponents counterplay.
@southerncross49562 ай бұрын
My head is on fire!! Thank you Nelson…..
@NJDJ19862 ай бұрын
loving the logical chess, especially the rook & knight endgame! ‼️‼️
@ertugkaya9192 ай бұрын
Although you seem tired and distracted, this is one of the best educational chess videos I've seen in many years, thank you for your time and please keep making them.
@ChessEvaluation2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1100">18:20</a> - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1143">19:03</a> thiss was pure gold ❤❤❤, I kept on forgetting about this but the way you emphasize it was magnificent!!
@ElektraEisengrim2 ай бұрын
This is such a fascinating game. There's things to learn in all three stages. Thanks!
@PanagiwthsStathakopoulos2 ай бұрын
Nelson you are the reason i went from 1000 elo to 1560!!!!!!❤Thank you so much😢
@bryanrisso7508Ай бұрын
This was a great lesson. Ty. Please do more in depth games like these!
@manuelfuentes45092 ай бұрын
Nelson, I'm loving ❤️ this! Thank you so very much for your educational content!!!
@DaDitka2 ай бұрын
Arguably the biggest lesson I have learned from Mr. Nelson in all of his videos is the importance of tempo/time. If you can do two or more things with one move, you will gain an advantage over your opponent. Don't waste time by making two moves with a piece when only one is necessary.
@ChessVibesOfficial2 ай бұрын
Well said!
@WaldoWizard2 ай бұрын
love my logical chess book . thx Nelson. what a great recommendation from a great guy !!
@codymckeown87652 ай бұрын
Love your content, Nelson. Thank you for all you do!
@thimobaumgartner86732 ай бұрын
Positional play is what I've struggled with recently, I did all my puzzles and fokused on improving my tactics that I messed up my previously solid positional play, this Video helps alot.
@prashantpagare97902 ай бұрын
I didn't find anyone explaining things like him. Thanks!
@benro65642 ай бұрын
I went from 400 elo to nearing 700 this month. My endgame is very lacking and I often panic when my opponent is pushing pawns and rarely create those threats myself. Guess that is another thing to work on
@NoahChuk3452 ай бұрын
Sameee😢
@farouqbaiti43152 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1250">20:50</a> I saw it and man it was satisfying to see it.😃
@thehaitiandrip2602 ай бұрын
i missed it. wats ur rating?
@Kaseancw2 ай бұрын
You’re great teacher bros💯
@mikeaja60532 ай бұрын
Thank you bro. Remain Blessed 🙌
@anshumanpandey85472 ай бұрын
I have already finished the book and recently started playing 1. d4 openings a lot more. One difference I noticed is that e4 openings are heavy on the tactical aspect where one or both sides are always brewing an attack and want to blow up the board but d4 openings always result in a very positional middle game with lots of piece shuffling and cramped board for both sides.
@allannortje64402 ай бұрын
You are probably a super genius by now . My elo climbed a ton with Nelson ! Great guy
@anshumanpandey85472 ай бұрын
@@allannortje6440 not a super genius lol. But my game did improve a considerable amount as compared to before. I also discovered that if you can't afford all those chessly and chessable courses then books are the way to go for a steady improvement. They just require more effort. Currently I am reading how to reassess your chess by IM Jeremy Silman
@akshaydarbar10Ай бұрын
Very nice to see ur game analysis thnks ❤
@sadiquej2 ай бұрын
You are real support, you should get award from fide Keep it up
@Rrr959822 ай бұрын
Thanks for all you do! Great content.
@craigbixel67892 ай бұрын
Legendary perspective
@gustavofiguera17 күн бұрын
Hi Nelson, I'm playing smart thank of you. Great chess teacher.
@sol_mental2 ай бұрын
Nelson, are you making a playlist on this classes? I'm not sure I've seen them all @_@
@chessforfunonly15862 ай бұрын
That book by Irving Chernev is one of my favourites! I read it at least twice.
@gismoogity2 ай бұрын
I do enjoy watching these videos. 600s usually don't play brilliant moves.
@chessforfunonly15862 ай бұрын
I also liked game 20 from this book very much: Rubinstein - Salwe (Lodz 1908), which was also a QGD.
@AgentSmith-w8s2 ай бұрын
Super instructive series...What is your rep your playing at the moment for both sides?
@apstrike2 ай бұрын
I really do want to see the Pillsbury Doughboy Gambit accepted.
@rundmw2 ай бұрын
Insufficient preparation/understanding of the various lines would likely result in... getting cooked. Sorry, I'll stop. 😜
@sundayabe13832 ай бұрын
Superb contents as always
@kevin_mitchell2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="136">2:16</a> Black can't defend the rook directly, but it can indirectly by moving Qd8-c7 with the threat of Bc8-b7 trapping the white Queen if it takes the rook.
@akshaydarbar10Ай бұрын
I see a tons of chess vedio sir I found u the best .
@Five-Star-General2 ай бұрын
Thank you NM Nelson as usual,
@scottpage-zg6bj2 ай бұрын
Tx so much Nelson Currently 975 mostly because of you You're doing a wonderful thing
@davidmasse28292 ай бұрын
Also what a fabulous combination with the seemingly innocuous Ng5 (after Kh1). Many of us would play a7.
@chessforfunonly15862 ай бұрын
Not trading off to a winning Rook endgame with 3 extra pawns really gave Black way too much counterplay!
@CraigRuark2 ай бұрын
At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2383">39:43</a>, White plays Rook to C8 defended by the queen on A6. Black must take with their Rook to C8. Then white Queen takes Rook on C8 and it is check mate on the black king.
@jacobg23942 ай бұрын
Great vid as always
@patriciolomas69042 ай бұрын
How can I get the free course before it ends I would love to have it
@Julian.u72 ай бұрын
The Jovaba London breaks the idea of allowing the c pawn to move. Could you explain why it is still good?
@hans2020082 ай бұрын
At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1140">19:00</a>, why not use knight to e5 now instead of removing the "bad" opponents bishop with your own "good" bishop? I understand you wouldn't have the queen "pin" later on like in the game, but were you supposed to be able to calculate the lines that far ahead and already seeing the rook-captures pawn with queen pin?
@E4openingsac2 ай бұрын
Amazing content 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
@nhn052 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="842">14:02</a> Is there any difference between moving rook to c2 and rook to c3? If there is, what's the pro and con?
@Anonymousgorilla6072 ай бұрын
I think rc3 is slightly better as it leaves the option for Qc2 to create a triple battery idk.
@thirdycelebrado96062 ай бұрын
Nelsi I have questions what if equel material endgame without taking free pieces and no mistake like grandmaster
@ellynoo6722 ай бұрын
At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1699">28:19</a> when white played pawn to g4 I thought it was a bad move because it stops defending squares around the king and allows black the opportunity for counter play. (You did show this weakness later in the video with the knight coming in to f3 to threaten a draw or checkmate, which was instructive.) In the next video could you please give a suggestion for a better move for white? I was looking at king f1 and pawn h3 but don't know which one would be better
@thirdycelebrado96062 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1610">26:50</a> I always i play that to prevent counter attack in Middlegame
@aaronklemm2 ай бұрын
Is there a playlist where all videos are in order in one place?
@williamsquires30702 ай бұрын
Right as Nelson said, “game 18 on page 111”, it was <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="71">1:11</a> pm here on my iPad watching the video on YT! 😊
@Muladeseis2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1366">22:46</a> If black plays Qb4, it threats a back rank check mate, so the white knight can't capture the black one right now. Nd3 I guess, the black queen threats the b2 pawn, and about an attack on the rook on c8 looking for a back rank mate on black's king, I guess it can be defended by Nf8.
@StillRimo2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="462">7:42</a> How is White loosing a tempo here? I don't get it. - After Bd3 => the Bishop is developed and it's black turn. - After Bd3, dxc, Bxc4 => the Bishop is developed and it's black turn. For me, the outcome (tempo wise) is the same.
@ellynoo6722 ай бұрын
White is not loosing a tempo relative to black but relative to what they could have if black took the pawn before you moved the bishop. Black ends up in the same position either way, but in the variation without bishop b3 white got to play rook c1.
@gagavon92372 ай бұрын
Killer game!
@michaeljohnson83532 ай бұрын
I saw the practice at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1295">21:35</a> but why doesn’t black slide the other rook over instead of taking whites rook?
@MontclairUniversity-q9e2 ай бұрын
ty nelson
@jokeybob2 ай бұрын
When black moves his knight to f6 I see that he did it to stop bxh7+ followed by ng5 and then the queen to h5 or g4 depending on what black does.
@toni.santiago2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="922">15:22</a> black played nf6 to defend against a greek gift sacrifice, no?
@Snowy-p2k2 ай бұрын
I was just reading comments to see if anyone else saw that. It is NOT a "strategic mistake" to move the knight there (and i'm only 850elo) but it was pretty obvious wasn't it?
@farouqbaiti43152 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2003">33:23</a> Is here Nd2 also working?🤔 Because it stops the King from coming up otherwise they would play a discovered check winning the Knight and the Rook.😏
@blue_red_screen2 ай бұрын
Ke1 and the white king has more freedom
@borisslager19062 ай бұрын
This game shows why knights are 80000 times better than a bishop
@MarkLeinhos2 ай бұрын
Agree... but only sometimes. Whenever there's some exciting endgame action it seems like a knight is involved. But knights can also be shut down by just a single well placed pawn. Knights need help from other pieces, like in this game it coordinated well with a rook. Queen and knight are a DEADLY combo.
@MoMo-pf7to2 ай бұрын
Most GM's prefer bishops. Why is that?@@MarkLeinhos
@shitpostmania60612 ай бұрын
@@MoMo-pf7to bishops cover more square than knights. Bishop can sometimes totally a whole diagonal and can take advantage of weak colour squares.
@TimSchmelter2 ай бұрын
This game shows the strength of rooks especially if they get support from knights.
@akshaydarbar10Ай бұрын
Knight is powerful then bishops in close end game
@gogogadg3t2 ай бұрын
I have an idea.. to teach maybe play a subscriber where they are live, thinking out loud Whereas after we could hear your thoughts process?
@マウ-x7w2 ай бұрын
At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1926">32:06</a>, why not try getting the king out of the drawing and checkmate threats by playing Kg2? Black might collect back some pawns and make white lose time but they become unable to initiate another attack in time, no?
@DuongNguyen-lh3ru2 ай бұрын
I think so too
@LostKin692 ай бұрын
The author says nf6 ignores what's going on in the position, but idk if that's true because nf6 prevents the greek gift sacrifice
@FilthyFrugal17 күн бұрын
@27 mins 43 secs pawn to a3 is potential black check mate with knight to b4 and after pawn takes rook a1?
@FilthyFrugal17 күн бұрын
So knight to b4 was essentially a free move
@FilthyFrugal17 күн бұрын
Woops forgot about white knight
@ChessEntertain2 ай бұрын
W's for helping us for free
@TheMouseMasterYT2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1380">23:00</a> but... do you HAVE to take the queen with the rook? what about using your knight to take the pawn on F7?
@anshumanpandey85472 ай бұрын
Lmao. That literally hangs every piece on the board. Nxf7 Rxf7 then Rxd6 Nxa6 and you are down a knight in the endgame. Also Nxf7 Qxc6 and both your queen and Knight are under attack and you can save only one so you end up a rook and Knight down in the endgame.
@TheMouseMasterYT2 ай бұрын
@@anshumanpandey8547 I was thinking a followup to Rxf7 with Qc8#, but I see the issue now. derp.
@GodLiro2 ай бұрын
Yooooo!! Nice vid ❤
@harrygross772 ай бұрын
Do you know something about Pillsbury? I can't find anybody else using "they" rather than "he" or "him"
@thirdycelebrado96062 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1140">19:00</a> if have a threat I don't trade it off ohh ok get it
@williamsquires30702 ай бұрын
(@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1526">25:26</a>) And the knight controls b4 so black’s knight can’t come in!😊
@DiamondWolfX2 ай бұрын
What if you chase the knight with H2?
@farouqbaiti43152 ай бұрын
Hey Nelson please answer my questions. I might can't infiltrate in your course because of money but it would be so nice of you answering my questions in your Logical Chess Videos.
@nelsonlopez12282 ай бұрын
❤great video!!
@complimentpeople2 ай бұрын
Why is the black rook rook defending the knight when the white king is in the corner? This is in the endgame when you explain how it could be a draw
@ChessSagePro2 ай бұрын
Best content
@thirdycelebrado96062 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1264">21:04</a> ok you are right I miss that i against the my cousin I miss a tactic
@thirdycelebrado96062 ай бұрын
Always do excellent move without draw
@Farren2462 ай бұрын
Even if there wasn't a pin from the white queen and they had traded away all the pieces on C5 ending with the black queen owning the square, the white knight would have followed up with a fork on black's Queek and F8 Rook... so even without that pin, white would have been good to trade away with abandon.
@張謙-n3l2 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2269">37:49</a> Kramnik left the chat
@theatrobert2 ай бұрын
The sound effect from the piece moves are driving me nuts. There's some weird echo that's supposed to like add depth but since it's always identical it just sounds jarring
@chessforfunonly15862 ай бұрын
Harry Nelson "they" LOL
@thirdycelebrado96062 ай бұрын
Or control the center
@RobertPiotrowski962 ай бұрын
It's an instruction video, but when in the endgame there was a danger of draw or even checkmate, I got stressed like I would actually be in the middle of it as white 🤣
@m132532 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="920">15:20</a> I think the Nf6 move is trying to add another defender to the h7 square. Stockfish says Bxh7+ is a bad sacrifice, but black may have miscalculated and thought it’s a bigger threat than Rc1.
I can not wait for game 26, I mean I would probably stop playing chess if this happened to me lol.
@farouqbaiti43152 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1792">29:52</a> I would have played this move instead.😎
@thirdycelebrado96062 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1579">26:19</a> then rest it
@ajjattejajuuli84372 ай бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="426">7:06</a> Bb7 Not Be7 😅
@thetransferaccount45862 ай бұрын
so it's good games from g6 over there
@BrrveC-hess2 ай бұрын
How did i get here so early???
@Thatoneguy-122 ай бұрын
You clicked on the video
@farouqbaiti43152 ай бұрын
That's why I never resign.😂
@ezz4ky602 ай бұрын
Bro u r my favourite youtube channel ❤️🫡
@andyclark89912 ай бұрын
White shouldn’t play F4.
@Arscell02 ай бұрын
4th 🥳
@Thomas_Shelby_0772 ай бұрын
Who's watching in 21st century 👇😂
@farouqbaiti43152 ай бұрын
Did anyone realized he didn't answer the questions from the previous video in Logical Chess?
@jeroen36572 ай бұрын
Well, maybe he can answer this one in the next video :)
@davidmasse28292 ай бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson. Your pace and teaching methods are superb. But please stop committing pronoun shifts. When you use the pronoun/ “them or they” you are implying more than one player is playing. This game involves two males players so use the pronoun he. If women players use she. Please
@syndicator51932 ай бұрын
I'd say about 70% of my losses are just like what you said at 38 min mark. Not as nice as moves, there's a finnese displayed here that I definitely haven't got but all the same.