Sabotaging my confidence before Twitch Rivals (Chess)

This came from my stream on August 24th, 2021. Catch me live 11AM-4PM weekdays here: / northernlion
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Chess is coming back again (again)! With Twitch Rivals coming up this week, I thought it was high time to dip my toes back into the world of the 64 squares. Wish me luck!
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About this game:
the horse moves like an L

[@AND626]

Nothern "we have plenty of time left" Lion

[@mp3545]

THE CLOCK IS A PIECE DUDE THE CLOCK IS A PIECE

[@da14a49]

Ryan "I am keeping an eye on the clock" Letourneau

[@chasemelius2454]

10 minute games with analysis is my favorite format for these videos.

[@matttondr9282]

YES!!

[@theworst1210]

The egg is back in his home court, can't wait to see the 5000iq moves he's totally been cooking up during the hiatus!

[@ronch182]

It's measured in ELO

[@axelnilsson6478]

I just want to say that watching analysis is literally my favourite part of watching you play chess, so I was really happy when I saw that this was 10 minutes :)

[@ethanlocke3604]

Ryan’s head looks so different shaped when he takes the headphones off

[@speedfastman]

Definitely in the uncanny valley zone.

[@Wertsir]

Those are load-bearing headphones.

[@kyledenney1940]

its like when someone you know takes their glasses off. could you imagine him with his headphones and glasses off. itd be like nl camouflage

[@NeoBoneGirl]

It’s true, he looks like twenty times balder

[@da14a49]

@@Wertsir +2

[@maor_avisar]

I like your chess and honestly I subscribed for the chess, when I watched for the first time I was a 20p rated rapid, now I'm a 1450 and I really like your play and I understand it much more than I did when I watched you first time

[@HippyAlex123]

me screaming "YOU CAN WIN A KNIGHT" at 15:00 made me realize how much i got into the game

[@ActiveCroissant]

Bro I was literally just watching the old chess videos and closed out to see a new one uploaded "zero seconds ago"

[@nemeanlyan7918]

“About this game: the horse moves like an L” - E-Sports superstar Northern

[@MisterLambda]

Seeing the mastermind behind the Gurgenidze system at play a once more fills me with unprecedented levels of gourd.

[@beeeennnnnnn]

you're the reason i even got into chess and now im rated 750 FeelsGoodMan

[@polychromaa]

750 is beginner though

[@beeeennnnnnn]

@@polychromaa I didn't even know how the queen moved sooo

[@Wertsir]

@@polychromaa Everyone starts as a beginner. That’s what beginning _is._ You can’t run a marathon without taking the first step, and you shouldn’t deride someone for self-improvement just because results aren’t instant.

[@boblobgobstopper13214]

@@polychromaa nothing wrong with being a beginner

[@polychromaa]

@@boblobgobstopper13214 i never said otherwise

[@Papa5murf1]

Using chat is 100% an advantage, so props to NL for not abusing that.

[@JerryGarcia__]

These chess uploads lately are really keeping me goin

[@luke8553]

man watching nl play chess is peak entertainment

[@Pyronar]

Hi, NL, the reason you ended up in the Pirc Defence is because you tried to play the King's Indian Defence against e4. King's Indian is played in response to d4 or c4. You can still use some of your knowledge of the setup, but it's not going to be the book opening and players who start off with e4 may have options against you that wouldn't be possible in a normal King's Indian position. It would be best to learn another opening to use against e4, but you didn't do a bad job adapting the ideas to the position either. Even if I cringed a bit at voluntarily blocking in your fianchetto bishop. The computer thinks it's good though so what do I know. Also, I love more chess content. Hopefully you'll consider adding it to the rotation again at least for a little bit.

[@carlb1874]

Twitch rivals was the most pog chess I’ve seen in a long time ty for the show and congrats on getting so far!

[@GrandWizardBingus]

I haven't watched NL play chess in a very long time and now his vocabulary is beyond my small pogged brain

[@joeyjoah]

This is great content, love the 10 minute games!

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

I never expected watching someone play chess could be this entertaining and interesting. At least it’s not me who’s making the mistakes this way.

[@aaronstrager4247]

I missed the analysis tbh, it always motivates me to analyze my games too! And as someone who plays the Pirc Defense as my main opening for black, this video was golden for my confidence too.

[@MAVIE95]

I've been missing the chess content so bad!

[@uxieorsomething]

just hopped off watching twitch rivals because they’re taking a bathroom break and here we have a new video

[@xavillinaresgarcia8957]

Nice perc defense Isaac reference

[@ibefullofme]

I know NL is preparing the Pog opening for twitch rivals with this content.

[@bobhogan8210]

Thanks for the company

[@akseliritola1890]

I've been waiting for this so long man.

[@stefanodigenti2941]

"we're playing against Led Zeppelin" LMAO

[@Hassy171717]

He's right about those puzzles ... that's one hellofa Desparado puzzle and getting things to line up for the Knight fork I am horrible at... wish I could find moves like that wow!

[@turbosnail413]

pissing while your opponent thinks, 9999iq plays

[@Octoshark19]

i only know how to play chess, so all these terms/openings/whatever make Nl sound like an expert lol

[@UberGingah]

In the pirc defense c6 is often a good move bc it gives your queen places to move

[@polychromaa]

c6 isnt neccessary, unless you are talking about the czech defense. the whole idea behind the kings indian is to break in the center with e5 or c5, then playing Nh5 or Ne8 to play f5.

[@UberGingah]

@@polychromaa option selects

[@hakairyu1]

Think Andrea brought that up in rivals so he might incorporate it. Or not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@BloatedGoat]

Awesome 10 minute games again!

[@Waghabond]

hey NL dont worry about it being the Pirc instead of kings indian, thats because - technically speaking - its only kings indian if you do d6+Nf6 in response to the queen's pawn opening from white

[@Potatoman-zu6db]

that one guy in chat the first game that said "free knight" was right

[@Doomclown]

I was looking at that bishop sacrifice at the end but completely missed that the knight couldn't defend without being captured by the pawn.

[@PoisonousChickens]

Game where it's dan vrs NL and all the moves are made by chat with strawpoll

[@aluminiumknight4038]

Bh4 is such an evil move

[@jesseengland5967]

As a 1400 I spotted bh4 immediately. Only mentioning this to say you might want to work on tactics/endgame. My openings are horrific tbh though. We all have weaknesses in our game.

[@NinjasOfOrca]

Kings Indian is the Pirc - it's called King's Indian when white does the set up, Pirc for black. Also I think it's pronounced "PEERTS"

[@aninjame]

give up a bishop to get a queen in 3 moves is a great idea to have in mind late game when there are so many pawns locked and blocked.

[@karentring134]

thanks for more chess!

[@Icer3333]

Would Kb5 in that last position not just win the pawn? He can’t defend with the knight and you attack twice with the king and bishop. That was my play; obviously not as good as busting through with the bishop sack, but more straightforward.

[@Nosirrbro]

ITS BACK

[@darkskel7848]

Thanks for releasing a chess match and a real release

[@taipaleenmakips]

For the algorithm brother.

[@SnakeEyeJJ]

NL you have to play your game. it is entirely why i warch da content :)

[@xiricada7121]

Chess!!! Yes!!!!

[@MindGobby]

Chess hype

[@delmattia96]

I like 10m a lot more. Time to do a 30+3

[@Kaptainmykaptain]

epic

[@ethanlocke3604]

epico

[@matttondr9282]

Fyi Pirc defense is pronounced more like “peerts”, not “perk”. Yeah, I had to be that guy.

[@affablegiraffable]

NL, Please please learn the Danish. It's so zany and is really good for white

[@Dowaku777]

You are the inspiration for me to get reintroduced to chess, since I saw your videos late 2020 early 2021. Worked my way up to about 1000 elo. Would you be willing to fit a 3 game match into your schedule? If so I’d really appreciate it. We could even make a bet out of it lol.

[@ratnamani8228]

Wish he did it. He had a Nice Thing going with Regular Chess Uploads. Then he Decided to Move Over to Twitch and that took away his Energy. 😬

[@Hiltonke7]

So are we just giving up on FTL and it’s multiverse Expantion?

[@bearfangmedia]

I hope so

[@Nosirrbro]

I’d prefer just the regular FTL some more personally but I bet he’ll keep it going very occasionally for the foreseeable future

[@armandogonzalez8636]

After saying Ludwig was an obvious win...

[@attention_shopping]

won > draw > loss :(

[@Pablo360able]

Actually, it's pronounced "peerts".

[@djgraham1485]

This is the funniest content, egg explaining chess while being 1400

[@radekwieczorek3913]

I don't remember NL being this terrible at this game last year

[@Nosirrbro]

He’s been on hiatus give him some slack