Somehow every move is terrible (Chess)

[@asweethockeybody5010]

Anyone else waiting for this? Clock: 3 seconds left NL: its a thinking mans game..

[@Caiiiiiiiiii]

You’re all laughing now, but wait till he gets the upgrade that removes opposing bishops

[@jacobwiggans4470]

It’s the increased shotgun spread that screwed him.

[@DOOMDDS]

"simultaneously going up against best and worst chess player of all time" NL nailed the hippo player vibe

[@Subpar1224]

He said Qg5 and I'm like YES WHAT I GUSSED "No they hate it worst move ever suggested"

[@DEMillerEarl]

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[@disinterBaz]

5:15 "I would love a repetitious draw for checkmate"

[@Szanth]

"You're not interested in that. I can't really blame you. You have a superior position in all ways, including the physical."

[@malte291]

Checkmate is when game end

[@AstridCeleste96]

I love the chess content, and you seeking to learn from the game review is my favorite part!

[@sanyokS1]

nl saying "this is 1400 level chess" to describe the games as being low level feelsbadman as a 800, pog content though

[@CasualYapper]

Yeah I was LUL' ing hard in chat, but after that I couldnt help but BatChest cause the nl take was atleast -2

[@ezra7088]

I wish I was 800 while watching these, it would make the games now entertaining

[@northpenguins]

1400s were the bane of my existence for a while, actually transitioned to d4 to bore my opponents to death out of desperation.

[@sanyokS1]

@@northpenguins i play by checker rules, if I can take something I do it

[@Alex-hj]

Don’t feel bad about it 1500 is around beginner level in terms of playing chess without making obvious blunders, take out the obvious blunders and learn some basic tactics and you can definitely get to 1500 without much work if you enjoy playing, if you’re casual and play shorter time controls 800 to 1500 isn’t much work just by playing 10/15 minute games and really letting the clock bleed on every move

[@dragonx23123]

we love the chess content, thanks for the company

[@Noctoletsgo]

I didn’t realize you broke 1M, you seemed to be on 700k for ages. Well done and very well deserved.

[@Ervalo]

Ah a chess follower returns!

[@TropicalPhysics]

Super Auto Pets is a subscriber magnet.

[@SamuraiPipotchi]

@@Ervalo I've been watching consistently and I didn't notice either tbf

[@BradleyCTurner]

was kinda hoping for a 1mil sub special, like when he played doki doki.

[@tsawy6]

@@BradleyCTurner I believe sub goals sank into the background in the baby-loution

[@chrisegg7936]

32:54 I feel vindicated for getting to this point after muttering "take the pawn take the pawn take the pawn" for two minutes quietly in my room by myself

[@GwynTheDame]

During that second game black was actually playing an opening called "The Hippo". I don't know anything about it, but it's real

[@mostly_happy4248]

Your chess content is the one I watch the most, it's nice to see it back on the channel. Also, I thought it was funny when you played the Tompowsky and said "this is classic London right here".

[@aleksherstyuk8319]

Not to be mean, but I feel like he misses/ is unaware of too much stuff to only watch him. Watch Gotham more, at least

[@mostly_happy4248]

@@aleksherstyuk8319 I agree, and I don't really watch Northernlion to learn from his games. With "Your chess content is the one I watch the most" I meant that I mainly watch the chess videos on his channel as opposed to the other ones he makes, not that I mainly watch his chess videos over all other chess videos, though I do see now, how the wording there was really very confusing. As to other chess creators, I do watch Gotham as well as the other popular youtube chess people, like Naroditsky and Hikaru, so I think I'm in pretty good hands. It's just nice to come back from wonderful and complex tactics seen in seconds and 20 moves of critical bleeding edge theory being played, to less complicated plans, and games you can keep up with without someone narrating over it.

[@aleksherstyuk8319]

@@mostly_happy4248 agreed! Sometimes I find myself scanning to see if I can find more stuff than he finds in his games, but that keeps me engaged! Like, "accidentally finishing a whole video you only wanted to see part of" level engaged. Also, to give credit where credit is due, he must have had a rough day :(

[@tommyshi5731]

Note that in game 3 review, 33:09, the knight is also pinned and under attack by a pawn.

[@Kirisame312]

0:56 Narrator: "He was not, in fact, in the book."

[@littlecrabgames]

Honestly, I don't understand any of this but the egg talking non-stop is relaxing

[@Arguing101]

That first game was entirely just a display of both players not knowing how to count attackers vs defenders

[@pattininja95]

I loved him ending the game by watching his opponent line up all his pieces for an unstoppable attack and defending it by moving his rook from a square where it did nothing to a square where it did nothing

[@FancifulSKey4468]

The third pog rain in the series, got his opponents crafting conspiracy theories. The egg consorts with no devils, he just knows about a little something called danger levels

[@oivindification]

I dont know how, i dont know why, but this guy playing chess is just the most hilarious thing I have ever seen on KZbin.

[@imjustsomeguy72]

NL: 17:54 "Be very careful about this space!" Also NL: 19:32 *plays the move he just cautioned himself not to make*

[@oskaraltman]

caro-kann you keep playing chess

[@xiricada7121]

NL chess is POGcity. Please don’t stop until episode 20,000

[@brokenzipper7125]

Loved to see NL the Merciless come out to play at the end, very satisfying.

[@kahisawheel]

That last game was great.

[@WheelDragon]

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize why at 3:32 taking d5 wasn't good

[@no1mayorofsimpleton]

Very rarely am I the type of NL user to backseat, as I am well aware of the absolute foolishness that follows, but I found myself yelling at the screen for d5 until realizing like a clown

[@silversylvis]

SAP and Chess both have horses in them, so as far as I'm concerned they're the same game.

[@Lardex.Destroyer_of_Beans]

I do not mean this as an insult, your videos especially the chess ones and SAP are both very entertaining and I love all your videos and streams. But I also use these and SAP to help me sleep sometimes. Thank you

[@BradleyCTurner]

i think 90% of us are here to get some sleep.

[@Moley1Moleo]

At 7:12, I think you could have taken the dark-square bishop with your rook. This would defuse the tactic where their bishop was laser-beaming through your e-pawn, and would end up just being a trade of a bishop and rook from each of you.

[@aleksherstyuk8319]

That still loses a piece though, since white rook takes black bishop with tempo on the queen, and then after the recapture queen takes rook, the pawn just takes the rook on c3. He had a way out completely (where he's only down one pawn) by actually taking the rook with the queen (which he thought loses), and when bishop takes, queen f8. Best white can do is a forced queen trade and winning back the exchange, only being up a pawn with both players having a rook and a bishop left. So if white doesn't know endgames well, that might as well be a toss up

[@Moley1Moleo]

@@aleksherstyuk8319 - Good points; I definitely miscalculated here. My move is a bit better than resigning, but you definitely saw a much better alternative.

[@aleksherstyuk8319]

@@Moley1Moleo no your move is definitely a lot better than resigning! It really requires a "counter-tactic" to beat. Idk whether to call it a desparado, a tempo gaining move, danger levels, or whatever, but he has to see rook takes bishop. So if white recaptures your rook with the pawn (after all, he's getting a rook for a bishop right??) thinking he just went up a further exchange, then hey, what you said works! Below a certain rating, a big issue is people forgetting what's been hanging or not hanging in a long sequence of tactical moves, so realistically, theres a big chance he forgets your queen can take the rook, and then the idea works great! What's your rating? (I'm around 1700-1800). The fact that you saw the idea behind rook takes bishop, but missed certain concrete calculations, makes me think it's around NL's, but you'd benefit from doing a shear large number of short little tactics (like chesstempo or something), focusing on speed and accuracy, cause that's how I actually built my automatic scanning mechanisms for moves like these. Honestly, that and a few good openings are all you need to beat almost everyone below like, 1300 or something

[@biggiecheese3616]

Love the chess stuff

[@Ervalo]

25:07 at this moment, with the H file opened up I would not seek to kingside castle

[@Pyronar]

Doing my part for the algorithm. It does kill me inside a little when NL tries to name openings and gets it completely wrong but I enjoy the tension and great tactical play.

[@jackl8025]

as a non chess player, I love when they call openings stuff like "sizzling fizzer" and "the London ligma"

[@JB-xl2jc]

That's my favorite part tho. I loved when he played the South Cincinnati opening

[@aluminiumknight4038]

The Bishop on d7 is literally worse than it's starting position on c8

[@TheBuckweat33]

NL is a complicated guy, it never fails to surprise me the frequency of his apologies/qualifications for “poor” play. As if even a single NL audience member ranks above 500 elo and actually cares about high-skill chess. Im literally just here to hear him say the word “piece”

[@Rimmy_]

So true

[@Mumbolian]

I love watching NL play. He's clearly much better than me and yet I can't help but scream at the screen when he's not taking an 'obvious' piece. Then I play myself and miss all the hanging pieces. Classic.

[@KhaosTy]

As a relatively new NL fan I always used to hate the backseat gamers but now that he is playing something I know how to play I get why they do it.

[@MarkinhoO]

"Classic London" he says while not playing the London

[@davides6710]

This was so entertaining all around, I wish Levy would react to it.

[@KinG-tz5cm]

hell yeah brother this is my shit

[@KinG-tz5cm]

he namedropped danger levels somebody stop him

[@Pahhu]

This shit is better than The Queens Gambit. At least here I get to mock the player when they make the wrong move.

[@infernalgnu]

Was pretty relieved he found c6 in the last game. Well played 👍

[@bernardshaw7405]

Pump the chess straight into my veins

[@wesleymcbob]

dont worry NL your good at chess and we all respect you

[@Jungleman-dq9kz]

Chess! Chess! Chess! Chess!

[@omhd]

Chess is incredible content, thx egg

[@secretcrocodile7499]

loving the chess content

[@OutOfThisWorldGamers]

oh yes thank the lord almighty for blessing me with another northern lion chess video

[@Ervalo]

Backseating gets a whole nother level when we commenters can also use the superior computer chess programs like stockfish.

[@dnsoulx]

30:25 i feel like the guy's bishop d6 would do some nice pressure on NL's rook, to where he would have to move it back as any other position would risk a loss. the guy then could've guarded his bishop with the rook on h6. or even maybe move the rook to h1 for knight pressure. i suck at chess, but these seem like better move for a set up than that pawn move.

[@rikkatakanashi8767]

black will lose immediately if he went Bd6..bcoz Qxb7 is checkmate.. that's why he took that pawn

[@enigmaticx326]

I’m a noob to this channel. Came for Geoguessr but really enjoying the chess.

[@aidanvitticore3475]

That game against the modern was so painful to watch lmao

[@aleksandraaleksgasic]

Pls give me all the unconventional and crazy moves 😌 I love it

[@ilangated]

THE RETURN OF THE KING

[@WaningLoon]

watching NL play chess makes me want to die but it's also incredibly entertaining

[@Max-pm4qm]

NL: loves to play the London. Plays Bg5.

[@VestAround]

18:37 For a dollar remember how to ladder mate

[@ortizbryan27]

Guy was trying to do the hippopotamus.

[@Jungleman-dq9kz]

Pawn. Pawn. Pawn. Pawn.

[@ethangilworth7891]

Game 2 is was a tragedy but in the third game you played awesome! Please do a lesson with Levy! Your openings seriously need some help

[@Marveryn]

on the first game you could had taken the black bishop with your rook if he take your rook you take his back with the queen. that clear the pressure you were suffering.

[@bugra-yildirim]

What happened to chess 2.0 ? Are we back again the shotgunless chess.

[@derskusmacher]

absolutely pogged out of my gourd about chess

[@aleksherstyuk8319]

6:55 in the first game NL can just take the rook, and defend with Qf8. Idk why he didnt see it, he sort of took his time on that move. And he didnt even bother reviewing the game up to that point! He would have seen a sweet forced maneuver that overall, only leaves him down a SINGLE pawn in an endgame (...Qxd6. Bxe5 Qf8, Qxf8 Kxf8, Bxc7 Rxc7). Who knows, if NL is better at endgames, that could even be a win

[@aleksherstyuk8319]

The only problem is after Bxf7 Kxf7, then it's possible that Qxh7 ideas win for white. But white would have to make that weird extra Bxf7 sacrifice once the queen is deflected, and if he was tunneled on Bxe5, then white throws almost all of his advantage away. So still, taking the rook gives the best chances

[@NearoC]

It's honestly not very common, but it's sick seeing the end of game be like "you could've done [move I personally saw but NL didn't]" Anyways, the other 95% of plays are things I'd have not seen but enjoy NL doing, nice to have chess.

[@RainingArtillery]

a good pallete cleanser after watching the candidates

[@juhonieminen4219]

Lets hope Egg never learns to play the Berlin or the Petroff. This is like Rapport on drugs.

[@extol2247]

tfw you have danger levels, but then your levels get dangered

[@thrillho86]

egg chess is pog, but i just cant watch without raging haha. good thing im a youtube frog

[@timchronis1584]

That's a great point about the puzzles. You know for a lot of them there's some gambit or gimmick you have to find but you normally wouldn't play like that, at least at the lower levels.

[@NihongoWakannai]

Yeah, just knowing that there is something to look for is a big advantage. You cant afford to spend a minute looking for a gimmick on every move when you only have 10 minutes on the clock.

[@hamsterfromabove8905]

The point of puzzles is to practice pattern recognition. Its to recognize the themes of puzzles. To notice similar concepts in your real games. Its true that noticing a single gimmick in a puzzle wont' matter you a better player. But on the other hand not training your tactics is going to make you a weaker player than you'd otherwise be.

[@timchronis1584]

Oh yeah for sure, I didn't mean to discredit them entirely. Learning to look out for patterns like forks, pins and the like is great for your arsenal. I just think it would be good to have puzzles in more "normal" positions, to help you learn how to make the most of common situations. E.g spotting and setting up for attacks, protecting vulnerable pieces, that sort of stuff.

[@kaleidoscope942]

Nice game at the end

[@samuelsisti4849]

I was screaming to sack the rook in the second game but it was a trash move lmfao

[@ThisIsMyAltAccount]

He's back!!!

[@iamzsdawgy]

caro?!?

[@ravedagger]

said to keep an eye on C6 proceeds to forget NL what are you doing

[@fridgeburns]

great stuff

[@hctaz]

POG CHESS!! POG POG!!!

[@fish.come.from_the_milk]

Yeahh i just got back into chess too. Perfect timing

[@alexrobinson9138]

I’m just commenting so the chess content does better.

[@peterayoub3]

Pog pog pog pog pog

[@Runderwunderknopf]

Poooooooooooooooog thanks NL ♥

[@aragorn420]

YES 2 chess

[@landonsur8059]

7:20 ish couldnt he have done queen f8

[@aleksherstyuk8319]

Still down a piece. He probably should have taken the rook, and when bishop takes pawn, THEN Qf8! Which liquidates into a bishop and rook endgame, only down a pawn. Problem is after Queen takes rook, best is probably the in-between moves Bxf7, Kxf7, and Qxh7 (or Bxe5 before Qxh7), but white is down quite a bit of material and has to find a mate with his 3 remaining pieces

[@mathissch1338]

YASSS we love chess queeen

[@mathissch1338]

noooo 2:32 was horrible king

[@mrvnoble]

Let's go!

[@mackray7595]

My brother in Christ I’m pogging out of my gourd but what can she say about the price of gas these days when it’s her father that introduced us

[@anttroll6685]

Where shotgun

[@PumatSol]

+

[@maxchase]

Need to play more aggressive, too worried about defending and not seeing good counters

[@KinG-tz5cm]

wait til this guy gets to the end

[@maxchase]

@@KinG-tz5cm bold of you to assume I didn’t. Last guy went all in on a non dangerous attack and gave him like 6 free moves

[@TheWarwolf102]

ennel

[@aidanvitticore3475]

Could have sacked rook for bishop on C3 for pressure and then get out of the woods a bit

[@aleksherstyuk8319]

Still loses a piece to rook takes bishop, queen recaptures, pawn takes took

[@aleksherstyuk8319]

It was much better to just take the rook with the queen, then go Qf8, which he missed. Leaves you only down one pawn, and forces a bunch of trades into a rook and bishop endgame. Much closer to a draw than being down a piece!

[@jeydonfal1]

Praise the diversity

[@Sasiskin7823]

Chess? In this economy?

[@JakeFish5058]

Egg kinda washed rn but the content be pogging either way

[@armandogonzalez8636]

bruh

[@Doomclown]

I will always comment on chess videos.

[@M3GAMAN100]

He's so bad

[@SamuraiPipotchi]

I got all of the best moves right during the first game analysis. Shame I'm not this good at chess when I'm the one playing.

[@TheRealPunkachu]

I want to backseat in the comments so bad but I’m resisting the urge because I don’t want the series to go away

[@christmascat7803]

Day 11 of asking NL to stop playing chess, and instead play chess (the chess of chess). Chess Fact: Pog

[@whyevenbother]

I don't understand how some one could be so bad at chess lol. Leave it up to the eggman to deliver quality content