The Final Chess Puzzles Before the Real Thing

[@omyyer]

Dan Gheesling: "We could put him in checkmate. Question is, is that the play?"

[@Jindo1]

I love this comment.

[@OrniKArnaud]

it's THE PAGEANTRY

[@TheWorldBelowDnD]

Dan gheesling is the kind of guy to make 3 of the opponents pieces believe he'll keep them alive until the end...

[@robbiekeen2644]

When you see mate in 1 look for better- GM Aman Hambleton

[@doobertonprowsa6285]

Big Brother native here. New discovery of NL, but the fact he is friends with Dan is just crazy.

[@brandonr2906]

"Don't throw the whole run away..." 10/10 comedic timing as always.

[@imienazwisko4109]

GOOD JOB

[@ruffusgoodman4137]

24:28

[@stefanh4nda]

Algebra class can wait mom, I am watching Bald's Gambit right now

[@nopetellingnothing45]

alegebra

[@softhusky]

egg's gambit

[@jofo9742]

This is quality content on quality content

[@clutchmelon4587]

Alge-bruh

[@paulan.5104]

once NL learns how to draw in the board, he'll realize the game can be a series, cause its more engaging.

[@JustAndrewIsFine]

He saw in the previous video's comments, but said he's recorded 4 episodes. Whoops.

[@winstonlangston2504]

InstaBlaster

[@Pyronar]

24:20 "That still would have won." Narrator: "It would not have won."

[@robbiekeen2644]

Anyone missing it, he gave check but hung his queen at the same time. Trading queens was the right move because you could then fairly simply promote your pawn.

[@James-ip5gz]

NL Hangs Queen. "Slightly suboptimal"

[@goalykid1111]

24:20 "That still would've won" Nobody tell him

[@majulahagapao]

It's that sneaky queen sacrifice for absolutely nothing in return.

[@crimeocivcraft5566]

@@majulahagapao Proper term is "Botez Gambit"

[@kiruna9377]

NL playing a game he's actually pretty good at, the average backseater is gonna be struggling for material

[@stealthybong6677]

Engine andy's

[@Jack-dk7uu]

Struggling for material... much like NL's opponents in chess

[@MingofangYT]

You underestimate the power of chess sweat lords

[@zoid_on_youtube]

people still find a way to backseat grandmasters for not finding moves that only a 3200 elo engine could possibly calculate.

[@justinmaher8702]

yeah i sometimes get a little frustrated when NL plays puzzle games because he tends to tunnel and miss simple things for a really long time, but his chess skill is so far beyond mine that I can just chill and enjoy the plays. Hes not gonna get any backseating from me

[@TunaaMan]

Hi Egg, if you click the gear at the top right corner of the board you can enable drawing arrows with right click. I highly recommend this as it allows you to thoroughly think out your moves, as well as better display your thought process to us viewers.

[@MNWT9]

I'm heckin' pogged. Watching a NL spot lethal before I can fully comprehend the board state is just so impressive. I just want to see him play a real game while he explains the thought process behind each move.

[@MNWT9]

I have already watched them my dude. Watched and rewatched them because they were so pog.

[@gwennnnnnnnnnnn]

you just need to practice.

[@kieranbledsoe1317]

"Lethal" lionDemon4

[@maxybaer123]

@@MNWT9 I get that so much NL underates the power of his chess content.

[@Chromatus384]

@@maxybaer123 his chess content is really good, but it doesn't look all that popular. If you compare the number of views of this video and his Isaac and Fall Guys videos released at similar time, you'll notice they are pretty similar, despite this being still fresh. NL would have to build chess audience, and that requires some investment. I hope he keeps pumping out chess videos, and would love for it to keep appearing on the channel from time to time, if it doesn't warrant continuous series.

[@reaganwang1473]

> Blunders queen away at 24:23 "Still would've won."

[@_hoshikuzu_]

I believe you can draw on the board holding right click!

[@sebastianwesterlund8777]

I believe you have to activate that in the settings first, just so NL knows if he sees this

[@namavoid3266]

Someone said this in the previous video, he knows but he’s already recorded 4 vids total.

[@derekgaffney7344]

I still think he should imagine the chess board on the ceiling with the aid of alcohol and benzodiazepines

[@swissboy362]

not in puzzles

[@_hoshikuzu_]

@@swissboy362 I've definitely watched Hikaru Nakamura draw on the board during puzzle rush... but that being said I've mostly been playing on lichess instead of chesscom so I'm not as familiar with how it works there

[@mybesttoast9605]

NL: refers to simple chess moves Backseaters: "WHAT DOES HE MEAN"

[@Gohmenasai]

I'm pogged out of my gourd for speed chess by this 100Q genius

[@Zziwi]

Here are the next right moves for the failed puzzles, because they were not shown in the video. 4:10 - qh5+ 8:07 - qh6+ 14:50 - rd8+ 24:02 - qxe1# 24:15 - qxh8 (?) 24:26 - qg4+ 26:38 - qh5+ (Pretty much the same the first puzzle) 32:52 - qe5 33:00 - kg6

[@noway2451]

24:02 sorry dont understand 'qxd8#' isnt the right move to take the rook on e1 with checkmate? maybe you misswrote?

[@Zziwi]

@@noway2451 You are right, thanks!

[@Chimaera242]

Shouldn't 24:02 be qxe1# ? (I don't know much about chess notation but I couldn't figure out how the queen could even get to d8 in one move)

[@litapd311]

just so you know at 24:15 the board is flipped for some reason, it would be qxh8. but yea queen trade then push pawn, white knight can't catch up

[@Zziwi]

@@litapd311 Good eye! I should really pay more attention :D

[@TalkySteak]

24:15 *as egg drops his queen with no compensation (Qh8xh5)* "That would have won. It may not be the right move but it still would have won." Great play overall, but I have to razz you over that one.

[@fabianlealghersi]

This is one the series I’ve been the most excited about ever in the Egg channel

[@garblechunk]

I love how NL is like "oh man, I'm scared of the backseating" and I'm here like "Please slow down, I can't keep up!"

[@crimeocivcraft5566]

Bishop would come down and pin your knight instead of the promotion on the last one. You can turn on in the options arrow drawing with right click, by the way (you can also highlight squares in red)

[@Ribcageler]

I enjoy seeing you playing chess, Ryan. I always enjoyed you talking about chess so its cool seeing you playing it. Hope to see more of it too.

[@oliverwarlow]

"No this check is no good, your cheque is gonna bounce here." might just be the funniest thing this man has ever said.

[@gapinggoose3468]

Honestly i hope this is gonna be a longrunning series, getting pogged with chess while learning to be a better chess player myself is extremely poggy

[@Hab2320]

When's the chess board tattoo on your head coming?

[@James-ip5gz]

24:00 it's so funny how he gets the easiest one wrong but gets the harder ones lol

[@marchrobinson]

as someone who knows little about chess, a little explanation goes a long way. even the explanation in this video vs the last one was a great improvement. would love more of these!

[@simpleman4251]

Chess honestly suits your commentary style quite nicely I feel so I'm pretty in on this ^^ hope this sticks around for a bit, regardless of skill level

[@gerkberk]

This is actually my new favorite series by the eggman. Keep em' coming!

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

love the confidence coming from Ryan in this video. Such a cool dude.

[@stephenmoore1606]

Galaxy brain plays! I rubbed my eye for .1 seconds and you solved the puzzle before I even saw the board

[@majorair1]

I want to hear more thought process behind each move. Feel like this would be a fun way to learn

[@SapkaliAkif]

I really enjoy chess when entertaining people talk about the game. I hope the the Twitch and Queen's Gambit chess boom helps you. Love from Turkey.

[@benjaminmaris9267]

For that one puzzle at the very start it is as follows; 1) pawn to f6 is the starting move 2) you correspond with a check with the queen, which gets blocked by pawn to g6 4) Knight takes on g6, pawn on h7 captures on g6 5) queen takes rook. That puzzle shows up quite often as it is a basic tactic.

[@JustAndrewIsFine]

2:26 already practicing the trash talking. The actual 1v1 chess is going to be absolute pog.

[@brycenstratton7581]

This is poggy as a series I’ve been waiting for this my whole life

[@mp3545]

I see a lot of potential in this series and I really hope you continue it.

[@inordirectional]

24:00 is mate in 1: Qxe1 (bishop covers h2). In the other line, as NL saw, there wasn't a follow-up after Kf2, and you're actually just down a rook and a knight.

[@spethjonesdrew]

Northern, "Little Toesies" Lion.

[@Hercziii]

The POG is strong with this one

[@retrofritter7439]

I was so happy when I saw this upload I legit absent- mindedly tried to subscribe again. Also required comment "The dam is cracking, fit to burst with the sheer volume of Pogger pressure we are about to experience!"

[@kingdroplet6879]

fantastic, pog filled video. always love to see you playing chess and i hope this will actually become a series. btw you can click the gear at the top right corner of the board and enable drawing arrows with right click. I think it would really help you understand your moves and us to understand your thought process

[@MrRoblox10]

Me: sees a move that looks good Nl: That's definitely not it Me: pogs out of control

[@Niaaro]

11:37 "I think we're officially at a new PB, a new persoNL best"

[@atravelyan]

18:15 "in a real game where you don't have time to think" -Northernlion playing chess 2020

[@Pattonator14]

? he's right

[@inordirectional]

@@Pattonator14 'Real' tournament chess games generally give each side a couple hours to think: plenty of time. The joke they're making is that in 2020, those games don't exist, and everyone is playing online blitz chess where each side only gets a few minutes to make all their moves.

[@TsukunAP]

absolutely pogged

[@IkEisawesome7]

"Don't throw the whole run away"

[@Treck96]

"I can't believe we only have one strike though, that's pretty sick." KZbin video with one minute left: *sweating nervously*

[@ArticulateDuck]

That very last mistake is super cheeky -- it would work, except for the fact that putting the king on that black square opens you up to a pin from the bishop, which halts the checkmate, allows black to force the knight-bishop trade, and then black's promotion goes through (while yours doesn't, since their king is content to sit behind your pawn).

[@rogerhou27]

Honestly really enjoying this series, can see he's improving very fast and can tell that he's had experience with chess before. My friend got me into chess this year so I'm excited to see how far he can go. Road to GM? Let's go!

[@maxcangaming4576]

Actually the most pogged content I’ve been waiting for more chess

[@Keenencates]

Truly Pogged content

[@Evonic82]

As someone who doesn't play/watch much chess, I'd like to request more chess puzzles! I haven't been this excited for a series since the release of Rebirth!

[@williamlewis8513]

"Guilty of going too fast - Let's caffinate."

[@rogerhou27]

Puzzle 12 queen to h5 they can only move the king or block with a pawn, knight takes pawn and threatens rook so they use pawn to take knight and queen takes rook in corner

[@rogerhou27]

Puzzle 17 i believe you check with your queen on H6 forces king to either go up which a series of checks causes checkmate or he goes to e5 and you can use your pawn to f4 to deliver the checkmate since its early round I'd believe in the latter...

[@rogerhou27]

Puzzle 25 I agree with the pawn move but move the rook first to check the king so its not in the crossfire of the bishop then you can March the pawn up and promote for checkmate

[@rogerhou27]

Puzzle 18x2 your move lets them take your queen... if you move your queen to e1 its checkmate

[@rogerhou27]

Puzzle 17x2 you use your queen to d1 for checkmate

[@rogerhou27]

Puzzle 19x2 queen to g4 king forced, queen to h5, king forced and checkmate from queen to h6

[@inordirectional]

I made the same mistake on the last one. I think the problem with that line is he can pin the knight to the king, take it, and then promote, so you actually have to play Kg6, not Kh6, as then he can't stop the mate because it's all on light squares.

[@Dr.UldenWascht]

The one series that by mere watching it I can feel new synapses form in my brain.

[@NevelWong]

How is the egg so fast? I spend like 30s paused per move, and he just yeets out the strategies...

[@Chromatus384]

I pretty much comes down to practice. To quickly notice patterns, you have to train it slowly, either by puzzles such as this, or in real games. But yeah... He's good.

[@chronchris1486]

Tbh I still don't really get at what's actually the goal of the puzzles. Like in some plays it just end after capturing some unit? What does that achieve if the game ist not finished?

[@AdamGaffney96]

@@chronchris1486 Sometimes you're trying to achieve checkmate, sometimes you're trying to force a free capture. The point of the puzzles is that it doesn't tell you to test if you see the best lines, that's why the lower rating ones are usually 1 or 2 move checkmates, and the higher ones are pushing to capture high value pieces.

[@gerardgag]

@@chronchris1486 think of It this way, if you are playing lets say smash bros and your opponent has a 3 stock lead and has You on critical percentage, the game may as well be over even though It technically isn't because he has too much advantage

[@abluerobot]

Loving this series. Really calming and fun.

[@ruffusgoodman4137]

26:40 The error sound cue is like a subliminar tilt response to EGG...

[@whitewolf6784]

Yo NL great stuff. For puzzles at like 4:03 There is a tactic to win the rook. The notation for the puzzle is Qh5, g6, nxg6. After knight takes pawn black has to take back causing them to go down the exchange.

[@drflaggstaff9008]

"We're guilty of going too fast, let's caffeinate." *SLLLURRRRRPP*

[@allenhelmuth2214]

2 strikes down puzzle 20... more tense than any who wants to be a millionaire moment

[@AdamGaffney96]

The thing with puzzles is that for them to be good as puzzles they need to have exactly one correct answer that's significantly better than all alternatives. So whilst some of the defensive moves might be solid, they're likely on par with a couple moves and as such don't make for a good puzzle. A good puzzle is a nice sequence that results in winning material or gaining some sort of advantage from the only sequence. Also yes I'm rewatching this series like a year and a half later, but when I first watched this I was 600 and now I'm 1500 so I wanna see it with my new chess knowledge.

[@andyb281]

28:10 "get two birds stoned at once" Nice.

[@hamyshanky8794]

currently overdosing on pog, these chess strats are too good

[@Pattonator14]

You actually had the right idea for the last puzzle, it's just there's one sneaky move that prevents it: Be3, pinning your knight so you can't immediately mate, then trading with the knight ASAP. Kg6 is therefore the move, not Kh6, as it leaves him with no way to prevent Nf7 mate next turn. Very close though!

[@a4ga67ga]

For the last "fail" the reason why you move the king to g6 instead of h6 is because it'll make it so you'll have checkmate. Why? Because if you move to h6, your knight will be stuck once the black bishop moves to e3 (causing the knight to be pinned, unable to move to checkmate) Move knight to F7 and that's mate. I still don't know what the other 2 solution is with my smol brain :

[@yoyokid9102]

Hikaru, i wanted to say thank you for organising the POG Champ tournament back in the summer. You are one of my idols and I can t imagine how my life would be if I didn t discover my true passion, chess, through you. Much love! P.S.: What s up with the baldy head?

[@rowanmilligan1828]

I'm loving the Chess stuff man, you probably dont know it but you're teaching in these videos to my inexperienced brain at least

[@jared1792]

Absolutely pogged for some Chess content

[@whodoesntlovecookiz]

I love you NL thank you for always being there for me

[@murkyshadow72]

i just started watching this video and hearing nl say "dips his little toeseys in the water" was absolutely jarring

[@mfuller3398]

please continue I enjoy this

[@SamuraiPipotchi]

You can use right click to highlight/draw arrows but you need to activate it in the board settings (Cog at the top right of the board)

[@TheMeny92]

Im really enjoying this videos, also he should draw arrows on the board

[@Jacques.Bodaire]

What I love about this is that because this is so foreign to most people and it gives you the answer after, there's less backseating. Like, I'm not watching wondering why you're not doing something, I can just lean back and pog, brother.

[@Gakulon]

That description is actually straight up s-tier

[@TheGrimmShado]

Gotta love Egg's Gambit.

[@newdayatmidnight]

NL's biggest weakness in these puzzle games was forgetting that the King can attack

[@davegski]

Really looking forward to the actual games!

[@VinzentZeppelin]

7:30 - Club-level chess player here; tempo is exactly the right term

[@GarrettElton]

Is it finally happening?!!?!! The chess series we’ve all been waiting for?!?!!

[@zahara5681]

Love watching you play chess NL

[@jankowitte5753]

I'm actually really enjoying this

[@jessethomas4109]

OOOH baby my gourd is pogged out of its mind for some more high octane chess action!

[@antonioferris461]

You can right click and drag to make arrows on the chess board! It's probably your best bet for being able to explain your thinking and have even the rest of us be able to follow along.

[@pedrocrespo48]

Yo NL, I know the system was kinda broken this episode, but I would love for you to keep going back to the puzzles you got wrong like you did on the first ep. Great content as always Egg!!

[@Beefstrip97]

I’m loving this content, it’s very pogged

[@d3fyre_rett]

i like how NL refers to these puzzles as runs

[@i_am_ergo]

He refers to series of puzzles as runs.

[@jacobmorris9239]

God tier content. Thanks NL

[@brumiebear]

ah yes the slightly less obtimal move of giving your queen away for nothing! Joking aside, really like the chess content NL

[@OneMoreMeme_INeedYou]

Watching your Chess-brain activate is pure pog.

[@lazydictionary]

Dang, I can already tell you are loads better than me. You see lethal faster like 25% of the time. I'm excited to see actual games!

[@Lucario2564]

love this, thank you!

[@irisodijk9070]

I'm loving the chess content! Would love to see way more

[@entilliumn]

When chess egg says fork is that a chess term or does he mean fuck

[@janifromhell666]

Love these chess videos! Ty NL.

[@koiiinu]

Keeping it coming brother

[@alexhutcheson8467]

NL: Does the pot play Also NL: If I move here then they move there then I take their knight then they challenge then I put in check then they move king then I take queen then I win My man is an actual genius (sometimes)

[@olx8654]

24:15 *Sacrifices queen* "That still would have won

[@ericm1152]

this guy is a forking legend

[@KyleRoller24]

The fact that NL thinks im smart enough to be yelling at the screen during a 1300 rated chess puzzle is very flattering