This Gambit CRUSHES EVERYONE | Chess Rating Climb 787 to 835

[@b.trumane]

This episode really opened my eyes to one of my biggest flaws. Focusing too much on gaining pieces instead of looking for a stronger move potentially leading to checkmate. Love all your videos Nelson but this one been the most impactful. Great stuff, man!

[@Fitness4London]

Well said and totally agree.

[@MindsetByDave]

The way you went for the checkmate and positional stuff in n the English (sort of) game was one of the most instructive things I have ever seen. Such a good example of the principle of “when you have a good move look for better”. I get so much from your videos but that game in particular has taught me a lot about patience. 🙌

[@Birdingtheorist]

Missing a checkmate because I immediately just take the free piece is definitely a trap I fall into a lot. This video was super instructive for that!

[@verbosewater2538]

Same here. My reasoning is always “my opponent has less now so it will be easier to win”. But winning would be nice too. :). Several examples here to help us out of that tendency.

[@ItsMika-Dang]

huh

[@ARMON-bt1md]

The "speed-run" series got to be one of my favorites to watch! It has greatly improved my chess gaming as well. Thanks Nelson!!

[@rogersexp]

Do appreciate the EXCELLENT instruction!

[@BrettMoore66]

Your content really improves my game. I am a real "thinker" and I need to understand the "why" before I can actually learn something.

[@Lermontov41]

I was just watching another video of yours and the notification of this video popped out, love your content man 💯🔥

[@fridolfwalter2256]

I know that it was easy for Nelson to beat 700-900 rated players, however, I had a great and fun experience during ALL(!) games, despite my high rating (about 2200 in Rapid), because of the way he won the games.

[@DanielSong39]

You may have a chance to play Nelson in his regular games then (and have a good chance to win!)

[@fridolfwalter2256]

@@DanielSong39 Maybe. However, my Blitz and bullet rating are much lower.

[@witheringhs7766]

the best thing about the halloween gambit is that you can transition into it from the petrov OR the vienna... its very valuable to learn

[@prplt]

in the Vienna you don't even have to sacrifice the knight to get that position 😂

[@Michael-cz2rf]

I don’t know if you look at the comments for opening requests, but I have always wanted to see you play the Alien Gambit. 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nbd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Ng5 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7. Stockfish refutes this opening but it is super tricky and works well into the 2000+ rapid range.

[@NugPlug69]

Complete noob here and have been struggling alot with turning a strong position into checkmate so this video was helpful

[@cobiemason8335]

I've only been playing chess for about 2.5 months. Love your stuff & I massively appreciate your time and teachings 🥇

[@AndyDavisTechnicalDiving]

I've played the Rousseau Gambit as my main e4 response for several years. It's also great fun when it transposes into the Luccini Gambit if they decline with d3. The Luccini has some mind-blowing lines with multiple piece sacks.

[@ChessEntertain]

Just saying, i like to play against Rousseau, d4

[@AndyDavisTechnicalDiving]

@@ChessEntertain that's the best line if declining. Although accepting the gambit and playing Nd4 (gambiting the knight) opens some crushing attacks for white.

[@ChessEntertain]

​@@AndyDavisTechnicalDiving Computer says drawish, at lower level prob really good at like 1800 prob drawish

[@AndyDavisTechnicalDiving]

@@ChessEntertain AFAIK, black can retain near-equality if they take the offered knight, but that requires a long sequence of perfect moves in complex positions. As black, I just wouldn't take the offered knight, developing Nf6 to instead defend the check.

[@WiggTheMobileBarbR]

I had the same position at 49:30 and when I saw it I heard you saying just what you said. I played it and it was a “great move”. So you are helping a whole lot of people to get better. Wish I could have bought your course though.

[@andrewbennett5911]

Another instructive video , thank you , again complementing Breaking 1500 .

[@danielnovak3271]

You can change the engine depth on the game reviews to match your engine depth on the analysis board. That could help the discrepancies match up.

[@Zygnity]

Thanks for using my idea on the Halloween Gambit, you executed it very well too! You should use the O’Kelly Sicilian at some point since you dedicated a whole video to it.

[@Zygnity]

Also, whenever you play the Rousseau Gambit and they accept, you should play E4, force the knight to move back to G1, then you can either play D5 or BxF5 and youll win unless you mess something up.

[@Zygnity]

Another suggestion with the Halloween Gambit as well. When you play D4, if they want to keep their extra knight, they can retreat their knight to C6 or G6. But if they go to C6, i recommend D5 instead of E5, even though both are good moves.

[@NJDJ1986]

the Center Game &.the English Opening part have beautiful checkmates done by Nelson! great tactics too! @48:09 black never got the chance to capture the white's knight thats been sitting on h8 to win a material back!

[@vatvslpr]

Not only did he never get the chance to take the knight back, but just by sitting there the knight played a role in the checkmate.

[@ewallt]

You can also think of game 1 as the Latvian counter gambit. 3.Bc4 is the Keres variation, and one of the ways of meeting it is 3….Nc6, which transposes.

[@darthelmo1]

Stockfish is weird. I moved a knight from getting captured from a bishop and it gave me a "brilliant" because what I did would capture a queen. I reviewed what moves would capture the queen and it was like 10 moves in a certain sequence. In my next move I was trapped again. I had no way to save the knight, so I just captured a pawn before I lost the knight. It gave me another "brilliant'. Those were the only two brilliants I have ever gotten and they were in the same game 2 moves apart. I thought for sure my account would be closed for cheating or something.

[@AsuraSantosha]

Multiple times stockfish has wanted me to sacrifice a peice. "This a mistake because you should have captured this pawn." The protected pawn!? I mean, if there are some good obvious follow-ups to the sacrifice, but I just didnt see it even when looking at stock fish's follow up moves. It kind just looks like I'd get a pawn for my knight without any other significant advantages. Three times it's told me to do this. It's really confusing.

[@witheringhs7766]

@@AsuraSantosha this is why people constantly repeat do more puzzles, you just simply arent seeing the tactic

[@witheringhs7766]

also when you analyze something with stockfish you typically want to use a low depth so that it wont find moves that you will never understand

[@prplt]

me watching the Rousseau gambit get played : 😃 seeing d5 instead of e4: 😧

[@ChessEntertain]

As someone who doesn't play that gambit, d5 looks natural

[@ศกรโสมาภา]

⁠@@ChessEntertaind5 is actually very bad. Allowing counterplay with Bb5 pin which attack e5 and you have no good way to defend.

[@killwalker]

I rarely sub to anyone. Hell i rarely if ever hit the like button, but the way you think out loud is EXACTLY what i need to better my game. Subbed. My main problem is not noticing a hung piece right before i make the move, and i have trouble seeing combos that lead to mate. And im slow. 0 confidence in any game less than 20m per side. Im willing to bet your videos can help in all those categories. Just the phrase "blunder check" was like an Air Raid Siren i hope to hear on every turn going forward. 1 video i watched was the "344000 players fall for this". Great info and memory surfaces listening to you strategize out loud. And i just watched the one where you tried multiple openings, using the "Owen's Defense" twice near the end. I wonder what your real rating is Anyways...you'll see more of me i bet 😊

[@Mik1604]

The idea of the Rosseau gambit is to play pawn e4 and chase the knight back to g1.

[@mehome4163]

Exactly

[@AndyDavisTechnicalDiving]

@@Mik1604 Essentially a reverse Vienna Gambit.

[@mstalcup]

That struck me as the obvious move in the position and I would have played it instantly because the white knight is so poorly placed. Edit: Stockfish rates e4 nearly a point higher than Bxf5.

[@allanshpeley4284]

There's a major trap that wins the queen in certain lines if he would have played pawn E4. If he's gonna teach this stuff he should do his homework first.

[@WorkingFromHomeToday452]

@@allanshpeley4284 He's not teaching it. He even acknowledged he wasn't sure about the line. It's a youtube channel bro, relax.

[@zavenoganian8394]

Bought your 1500 course. I’m 1400 and I truly believe that there are a lot of important lessons. I am surprised how I reached almost 1400 not knowing so many stuff and different tactical ideas. Now I’m taking my time to look for some of them during the games and I believe that now I’ve got more confident. Before, every game was like a mental war after which I felt always exhausted for other games 😂, looking for don’t know what and don’t know where but sometimes it was working 😂 now I know what to find and how. Thank you. I believe you put a lot of effort in your work and I like how it’s all settled there!

[@zavenoganian8394]

And one more thing, I would be more than happy if you could upload more videos of rating climb series for higher rated players like 1300+

[@NicoRTM]

@@zavenoganian8394 He is going up with this account, so eventually he will upload videos with that rating

[@RightHandShot]

Nice gambits, learned a lot. Thanks

[@samermabrouk4813]

thank you so much .. this is one of the best gambit learning videos

[@Fitness4London]

Of all your brilliant videos, I think this one is the best. So instructive, for all the reasons in the comments section!

[@MikeOldani]

35:20 Take rook with bishop, queen retakes, knight check forks queen.

[@christianfarber887]

Halloween gambit at 800 elo has helped me control so many games

[@brettdrk]

Love this type of content! Not sure if you’ve done one, but could you do a game with the Vienna gambit? The Caro-Kann defense would also be great to see!

[@mehome4163]

Nice explanations, but you missed the key idea in the Rousseau Gambit, which is playing e4 after white accepts the Gambit, since the knight has no other squares than to retreat to its starting square, which prevents white from castling. Etc, etc….

[@andragon2485]

Well as a player who has hundreds of rouseau gambits played I know the point but actually you can move knight d4 because when you take it Qh5 will kill you

[@mehome4163]

@@andragon2485 true, but which 800 player do you think knows the exact line?🤨🤔

[@mehome4163]

@@andragon2485 Gambits mostly work against weak players. That’s the reason, why GM don’t play them on n serious matches.

[@esimorp1242]

Pragg playing the Schliemann Gambit to defeat Vidit be like

[@talongodin2253]

I'd like to see Nelson play another Rousseau Gambit with this idea

[@kchinchilla1724]

such great teaching. thank you for making these videos!!!

[@alexfrozen8987]

In Halloween gambit, at 16:00, there was a threat ...Kxe5, it's shredding everything (if we take with pawn, we lose bishop and it's actually fork for queen and bishop, and it defends everything), so Qf3 was a mistake actually, it's losing on the spot

[@alexfrozen8987]

Run the engine, it says answer to that was Qe3, pinning the knight, and we fine (0.10 advantage), not Qe2, because we lose a pawn and it's -3 or -4... Computer is hilarious, it's just impossible to understand

[@army1057]

Mate are you lost?😊

[@alexfrozen8987]

@@army1057 fine and dandy

[@MatsMatsuo]

@@alexfrozen8987 why to you think this is "impossible to understand"? This is pretty normal and findable, including the Qe3, which is crystal clear much superior than Qe2.

[@alexfrozen8987]

@@MatsMatsuo I don't know why, but at my mmr~1500 it's common to not properly move Queens.. or pawns. It's either pawn or queen blunder, no middle most of the time. And queen have pretty wide range. But even in GM's matches, queen endgame or positions where only queen have normal moves, it's not rare to see a blunder from GM. So, queens hard to master, basically

[@damianbenjamin8625]

1:00:22 black to move, pawn d5. tempo on the queen with the bishop whilst attacking whites bishop

[@danielyuan9862]

That's just a trade, although in that line black can mess up white's pawn structure and black might have time to get their pieces into the game.

[@timm439]

Sleeping emoji was to himself waiting for himself to castle someday that never came

[@josephgrosso2943]

68% accuracy is about where most of my games are 🤭

[@allanshpeley4284]

That's not how you play the Rousseau gambit. It's E4 immediately after they capture.

[@trevlince1929]

You're an excellent teacher

[@domc2383]

Nobody explains this game better. Your the goat

[@JesseSteinfort]

Can't get enough of this fantastic series!

[@rahullamba9318]

The game at 48mins was a masterclass! A dead piece helping deliver the mate.

[@poetradio]

At 16:25, if he had gone Knight takes pawn on e5 instead, the opponent defends checkmate and you would not have the option to recapture, since the d4 pawn is pinned to your bishop

[@frankyw8803]

Really awesome,useful tactics and info ..cheers .

[@mitho947]

I really like these videos. Im trying to reach 1300 and this is very helpful. Great explanations.

[@PeterPan-sn6xv]

I NEVER leave comments on anything. Not worth my time or energy. But Goddamm*t, You're a BEAST. I enjoy watching your vidz man... Keep doing what you do.

[@ledisi8250]

I don’t develop just to castle anymore, I like playing slow to see where my opponent wants to attack and then castle if needed

[@pauliussutkus526]

Nice series waiting for another ones. Try to grow with your series 🥳

[@marccathomen]

you are the most useful youtuber! thank you very much!

[@virginiawilson4189]

Who loves Nelson's teaching 👇

[@chrisdacosta4182]

Thank you, this was an excellent lesson.

[@truongquangvinh8632]

Better than Gotham chess 10 times. ❤❤❤

[@POWERRACEEYEWEAR]

Grazie as usual for your videos. Ciao from Italy.

[@arthurestunperroquet3682]

yes, a new rating climb from one of my favourite creators

[@neofactor]

You missed that you could have taken the Rook in the corner with the bishop. If they took back with the queen the knight moves in for check with a fork to the queen.

[@Artifactorfiction]

Yes I saw that - he should have recommended that I think - he went for a much more complex bring everything out for an impressive mate but I don’t think I’m anywhere good enough to do that consistently accurately without messing it up. - the rook for free or getting the queen too if he takes the bishop is a no brainier when my elo is less than half his 😅

[@danielyuan9862]

​@@Artifactorfictionalthough true that taking a rook is just a win, you want to try to make your conversion as easy as possible. If you can calcuate the lines and figure out which one ends in a position that you can most easily win, you might ultimately get an easier time checkmating the opponent.

You are awesome. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and strategies and teaching us!

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

Wow you are up to 518k subs! I remember when you were just a wee lil baby at 60k.

[@mrnelgin]

In the game against Anersemlly, I could see Nb4 then Nc2 working with a triple pin on the king, queen, and rook.

[@tyronwoodleysmouthguard7114]

Is there somewhere you can leave suggestions for which openings to play or do you get them from the KZbin comments? If so it would be awesome to maybe see a game of the Caro kann,Dutch defense or Vienna game/gambit. Love the videos/streams man.

[@alexfraughton9938]

Halloween Gambit is my main opening, love to see it here.

[@sadiquej]

Wonderful ways of teaching Hatts off' to you

[@Maxi_Moxn]

Petrov Defence would be nice to be covered :)

[@sesagaming7348]

Yooo in the “playing against Dutch defence game” black had a really good move instead of taking your rook which was knight takes C2 which would fork the rooks and allow black to take but if white takes with queen then it’s mate in one considering queen takes rook e1. So yeah that’s crazy

[@borisslager1906]

Bong cloud. Make it hard on yourself. You are too good for these players. I enjoy your instruction.

[@shivsdutta]

Your videos are very informative

[@trevinize]

Nelson, gracias por ayudarnos a pensar!

[@mcmz4e]

Love your content. Isn't the knight on f3 at 3:10 trapped if you advance the e pawn on it? where can it go?

[@derpymoose9948]

Thank you

[@andypitz1]

It's a goal to get my pieces as "super ultra defended" as possible 3:48

[@InfiniteQuest86]

Haha, man these beginner games always result in the most unusual checkmates because their pieces are in such weird places.

[@carolinejoybarnhart3717]

You did move the wrong pawn. I've played the Halloween a lot. The NC6 retreat is actually suboptimal and when facing this always retreat NG6. But you will see shown black position a lot. If you had done it right you would have had a three pawn center with decent defense of the pawns However I hadn't considered that checkmate idea as I don't usually play that line. But yes, Halloween can scare your opponent to death, or at least to mate. Maybe I'll remember that. Meanwhile I'm working through your 1500 course so have been exploring the Stonewall which is more versatile as there's always a fair chance they'll not play 4 knights.

[@incognito253]

35:07 Im screaming "FORK" as if you take the rook and they take your bishop you have a king-queen fork with your knight!

[@trietang6674]

If you play rousseau gambit and white accept so push e4 to force the knight back to g1 before play d5

[@thales7438]

Great video!

[@TheMouseMasterYT]

At 15:54... I know he was only 789, but I was SOOO hoping Nxe5, so I could see your reaction 🙂

[@williamsquires3070]

(@6:25) instead of 1 … gxh3, what about 1 … Ng5!? Now white has pressure on the bishop, but also on the e4 pawn which now has only two defenders and three attackers. The idea is that white will sack the knight on g5 for the e4 pawn to rip open the center before black can castle. Plus, once the knight on f6 is traded off or moves elsewhere, the d5 pawn is now hanging and white can bring in the bishop as well.

[@Lars-y9o]

Thank you Nelson

[@seankins7173]

One of the things that I have learned watching this is to slow down. Better players take some time while the 400-500 players get checked in 16 moves with 9:35 left on their clock.

[@mannequinplayer]

great content, Nelsi :)

[@anthonyquinn2704]

In last game vs Gennady fradun you chose to push pawn to D6 to force black to take the pawn and block view from their bishop protecting the knight. You took the free knight. Could you run into trouble if they push that black pawn which opens an attack on your queen, at the same time attacking your bishop.

[@nevkaiser]

At 15:24 what would you play if Black responded by playing Nxe5? The Knight is defending the pawn on f7 so you can't mate in 2. You can take the Knight with your pawn dxe5, but Black can counter by taking the bishop Qxc5. Now you're a pawn down and Black's queen is preventing White from castling. If you don't take the knight and decide to move your White queen to safety then black just takes your bishop Nxc5. You can't attack the Black queen with g3 , coz Black will take the white queen with their Knight and it's check! I feel Nelson got away here with Qf3. A higher rated player may have seen that.

[@tomekprzybyowicz3723]

vs Andresmelly: am I missing something, or you could have gotten the queen there? Bxa1 Qxa1 - Nc2.

[@deeteenw]

I'm about the same level as mur0, After your knight d5 I would have given you check with my rook and then moved the knight to f3 to defend the mate and attack the queen. I think you would be quite in trouble after that because I can gain a few tempos from all the threats that white has going.

[@cablestick]

You're the best Nelson

[@helxis]

Saw the flag, was shocked at two pawns getting moved first aaaaand there's the early queen, yup.

[@vinsanity982]

I’m not a fan of D5 at the time u played it because of what you mentioned. If he pins the knight, that makes the situation a lot trickier. I usually play e4, followed by kf6, then d5.

[@peterz7752]

At 37 minutes I can hear the guy screaming: HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!?

[@DaleHawkins]

98! Damn, dude! Nice!

[@christianfrost8660]

Nelson, can you take another go at the Czech Pirc Defence please? That's the version when your third move instead of g6 is c6 looking for Qa5.

[@donkeykong1234]

this is great stuff

[@victorsantiago5997]

Hey @chess vibes @36:00 you could have took the rook with the bishop, queen takes the bishop, then fork the queen with the knight on g2

[@SweetDream2346]

Chess vibe, I hope that as the rating climb goes on, you can still explain as well as you do now. if you can't explain everything during a game, don't mind to spend A LOT of time after the game to explain your every decision❤❤❤ I saw one of your previous speedruns when you were 2100+ elo and you didn't explain many details, and I am worried same thing will happen in this speedrun you spent time thinking silently during the game, but you didn't explain much after the game

[@R0dman91]

Could you please clarify - when reviewing first game stockfish shows inaccuracies which you call "good moves" - do you see different things that are on the video? Or do you sometimes call inaccuracies good moves? I mean, from my undersanding, this is exactly why stockfish gives low accuracy for the game. 11:05 - d5 is a good move. I feel like moves that are generally fine/good will be considered inaccuracies in particular openings where there are other key ideas.

[@anugrahkm7255]

same think. Isnt the star green symbol the best move? and im not sure on thumbs up and checkmark icons

[@AgentSmith-w8s]

lol just doing this gambit chapter of my new e4 rep im making....Perfect timing

[@kaushikashtekar3350]

Could you play and explain the scotch and its variations

[@SteveK-ir9zw]

Fried liver attack you have to take the f7 pawn with your white bishop. What you played wasn't Fried liver attack

[@InsanityRulesUsAll]

In the game played around 30 minutes in, when he looked at B takes Rook, doesn't it follow by Q takes B but then fork by knight at c7 forking K & Q ? ( time 34.34)

[@guang-wen]

Seeing those checkmates is crazy to me. I can never do them and I only ever get ladder mates. Any way to practice seeing them and developing this skill?

[@danielyuan9862]

I believe seeing checkmates is one of Nelson's strengths since he mentioned he once had a book focused only on checkmate patterns. If you're in a crushing position like that, it's more practical to find a way to win material and convert to a winning endgame than to find checkmate, but if you can find chexkmate then absolutely play it!

[@oshiezz]

5:04 bro thinks hes hikaru

[@AiresOne]

never heard of her 🗿

[@donkeykong1234]

yeah i would have never seen that last bishop checkmate as an attacker or defender.

[@kuldhirsingh]

Live game please