Why Pieces Don't Matter In Chess

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[@TeeGar]

I lose pieces all the time. It's called blundering.

[@Leet.Time.]

Me to but its a brilliant sacrifice(for the opponent not for me if u catch my drift)

[@CheckmateSurvivor]

Scramble, Trafalgar Chess, and Gaugamela Chess, are three great chess variants to play against Stockfish.

[@Tocinos]

Gambit* 🐸🍵

[@yyyy-uv3po]

it's ok because "Pieces Don't Matter In Chess", Nelson said it.

[@everettholbrook3291]

​@@Leet.Time.From now on, that is how I am going to describe my blunders.

[@AlexanderWeixelbaumer]

Kudos to the opponent's rooks that stayed silently in the corners and watched mayhem to unfold

[@plokenv]

Omg, i didnt even noticed that 😅

[@Ennar]

@@plokenv that's the whole point of why sacrifices worked, white's rooks weren't even in the game. If you literally took them out, the moves wouldn't change at all.

[@plokenv]

@@Ennar so he has a - 7 position the whole game! Makes sense now 👀

[@Ennar]

@@plokenv effectively, yes. If black gave white enough time to develop those rooks, black would lose, but that never happened. And that's basically every successful sacrifice ever.

[@farouqbaiti4315]

I agree.😂😏

[@SonicFan134]

The Title: Pieces dont matter. Reality: If they can help attack the king, they matter.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

True but the wisdom to know the difference 😅

[@vencedor1774]

Chess noobs: Pieces matter Chess pros: Pieces don't matter Chess bots: Pieces matter

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Position matters see a good move look for a better one see that you made a blunder than what good can you get from it to compensate if any that is 😅

[@the-lenny-dood7502]

lol 😂

[@Ennar]

Pieces don't matter as long as you have the attacking initiative. For example, if your opponent took the knight you'd be down 2 pieces, but the opponent would have 2 completely stuck rooks doing absolutely nothing, so your opponent can still be overpowered if you can bring your pieces to the attack. The moment you give your opponent the opportunity to develop those rooks is when you are lost, so you either have to checkmate before that happens or force the opponent to give back pieces to prevent it. EDIT: and even though it was in the middle of the video when I wrote above, kind of foresaw the opponents rooks never moving even once during the game. So, it wasn't black that was down a rook right before the checkmate, it was white.

[@user-ej7sr3ow8b]

This also tells us why we shouldn't always believe stockfish evaluation. A blunder is only a blunder if your opponent can take advantage of it

[@kzkaa.]

The thing with Stockfish is that it always assume best play from both sides, which at the human level aren't going to happen. Even GMs will make some inaccuracies here and there(blunders are rare, but they still happen). In addition, Stockfish has the ability to calculate variations that most humans would never see or even consider, and its calculation are so extreme that it rarely translate well to humans. Stockfish could suggest moving a pawn one square forward because it calculated that you'll be in a slightly better position after 24 moves(with best play at both sides) which isn't realistic at the human level.

[@JustRightPinedo]

Right. I’m 1200, I make moves sometimes trying an idea that I know is not the “best” move bc if the opponent doesn’t see the tactic it will be game changing

[@mylesjensen8391]

Pieces do matter! You used all your pieces! The opponent never moved their rooks

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Right but Nelson knew he was going to lose his Bishop no mattter what he did and actually there was something he could’ve done had he seen it as he explained a counter attack on his opps Rook but he missed that so instead he went for setting up positional play that he would benefit from in the ensuing moves

[@DrQuatsch]

To add to the beauty of the checkmate in the end is that the bishop actually played an important double role on f2. It also prevented white from protecting the pawn on f4 with a rook. It was a pinning piece and a blocking piece.

[@DeionBonner]

I tell people all the time, "it's about the board, not the pieces." You don't need every piece to play checkmate...

[@thomasmartin7542]

Nice examples of successful sacrifice of pieces. But when calculating unfamiliar and unusual positions, I soon run out of time and often tend to take safer paths. But sometimes it's more fun to take this risk, even if you lose in the end because you don't have enough time.

[@StrayHumanWizard]

That's why I like classical chess! 😄 It gives me lots of time to think and then I play better and have more fun! 🥲 But then I play blitz and speed and get flustered too easily...

[@thomasmartin7542]

@@StrayHumanWizardyes, I agree. But even half an hour is short when you're dealing with unfamiliar positions and calculating the probable outcome. But for us as amateurs, it's all about nothing and having fun should be the priority.

[@-WarMapping-]

So I should just play without pieces?

[@arnoudh6203]

Can't checkmate the king if you dont have one

[@philmenzies2477]

@@arnoudh6203 You must be so much fun at parties

[@IB4theAIB]

@@arnoudh6203use your pawns

[@bananamonkeygaming14]

You can checkmate with pawns

[@arnoudh6203]

@@philmenzies2477 Thanks? Im not correcting him?

[@mattgiguere5638]

Thank you Teacher Nelson. Take care and thanks for the lesson 😊

[@rotatingmind]

A truly beautiful game

[@kumagoro]

The title of the video would be quite confusing for a beginner. In fact, material is tremendously important in chess. And yes, there are exceptions. But that's another story.

[@brisakuraba4137]

This video is genuinely really eye opening, thank you sir

[@hyejinahn6174]

bring back the chess adventure series pls

[@vincentpeer5188]

Man, I learn so much from you. Thanx again!

[@MrKarpovy]

Thank you Nelson. Really nice. Cheers!

[@kriss0214]

What a beautiful game, thanks for sharing Nelson.

[@alanbutterworth4219]

Really excellent, instructive way of teaching some core elements. I learned so much that I need to revisit this video so that the techniques become second nature. THANKS Nelson

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Thanks Nelson Great lesson right here looking forward to more of your instructional videos you’re Great Enjoy your day

[@philmenzies2477]

Loved this instructional

[@jarg7]

Awesome and instructional video. Your teaching skill and ability has increased!

[@sidorsky]

Thank you, Nelson. Your videos are making many better players (and therefore better people). Keep up the good work!

[@the-lenny-dood7502]

This is my favorite video from you. Thanks for helping me analyze with you, Nelson. What a fantastic game you’ve played. You have a good day teacher.😊

[@youthinthewilderness9031]

This is brilliant. Learnt a lot

[@Aaryan513]

Me who sacrificed Both my knights and get checkmated:-= I never thought you would do this to me😢

[@jonathancauley5345]

Nelson, this is freaking amazing!! Congrats! :)

[@patricko911]

@13:07 you absolute god, read my mind

[@tamerabdalrazaq1298]

Very instructive game, thanks for sharing

[@JannPoo]

I did think of Qf5, but I thought white could reply with Qd1 which would protect the g4 square and prevent the checkmate as you described. Upon further analysis though, it is still chekmate in 2, because after Qxf4 and Qg4 black just takes the knight with the Queen on g3 and it's checkmate because white's Queen is pinned by the Rook.

[@RR11333]

When I get matched up against weaker players in my chess club I always go out of my way to practice this very principle. It's even more instructive to the opponent- Losing to someone who captured minimal material, or in some cases, captured zero material, is one helluva wakeup-call for the importance of king safety.

[@peterbago4574]

Thank you for this line, I play the scandinavian a lot but I didn't know what to do if they don't try to save the pawn on d5 and just play d4.

[@aliteralperson2137]

Amazing instructive attacking game Nelson!

[@knan5436]

12:16 in this position you could also play bishop to e3, then after the queen moves to a safe field, rock f4 it is mate.

[@lethallohn]

At the end of the day, checkmate is king.

[@danielyuan9862]

I found Qf5 but couldn't understand why I wouldn't play Qd6. My intuition just tells me that I should play Qf5. This happens so often in my real chess games. I have an intuitive move, take a full minute convincing myself that another move is just as good, just to blunder somethjng that wouldn't have been blundered if I followed my gut.

[@govetastream9003]

I really Love this kind of "AHA" 🤩Moments in your Lessons, Thx for sharing with us 😏

[@momedsayed1172]

That queen who just died right before the battle end bcz its cool 😢😢😢😢😢

[@yoav613]

Nice. Can you please make a video about how to find the correct order of moves in chess.alot of time while solving chess puzzels and even in my games,i got the right idea,but i do not get the right order of moves.

[@Lost_soul_0021]

Knights are really valuable cus of forks it can make and it unpredictable too but i always sac the bishops after the king castle just to open it up then i deliver checks comfortably

[@flameakke420]

Best chess teaching and chess entertainment channel in the internet ❤

[@visual6966]

this video perfectly explains how i beat all of my friends in chess they always think there doing better because they have slightly more points or pieces but position and valuable trades are so much more important

[@sryth1]

Now I just have to figure out how to do brilliant move after brilliant move until I win!

[@Dodifayed21]

Hello Chess vibes what platforms do you use for your intro

[@Beery1962]

Great video!

[@hugovaz777]

Beautiful game to share :)

[@NidusFormicarum]

There is another related topic, namely when you are up tons of material. If you are up say two pieces and two pawns, of course, anything wins and you can do it the easy way and just trade everything off and take free material. However, I think it is better to use the situation as a learning opportunity and still try to play accurate moves. Should you take that free rook in the corner? there is nothing wrong with that, but you don't necessary have to, is my point. The relative value of winning more material goes down when you are ahead that much so it might be wiser to give one of your pieces away for a centrakl pawn just to get to that wonderful sqaure with your knight and make all of your opponent's pieces immobile. You should of course not go to the oppose extreme and give away everything you hae for a mate attack when you are up a lot of material because then you are taking unessasry risks, but my point is that you don't always need to take anoter bishop when you are already ahead a rook and bishop; it might be ever bettter to just bring the rest of your pieces into the attack, for instance.

[@ParamariboCloser]

Wow, Nelson has multiple brilliant moves in one game. I am trying to get 1 every 1000 games! 😂😂

[@opfer88]

Beautiful game !

[@kurzackd]

3:00 - you *STILL **_DON'T_* save the Knight that way though... Because your opponent can just block your bishop with *HIS OWN* at *Bf3 !!* ... Then, after exchanges, *your Knight is **_STILL_** trapped !! :O* .

[@genericname3904]

Proud to find Qf5 at the end of

[@rssl5500]

Amazing bro

[@vincentbonk6769]

Hi Nelsi, what if you played bishoph e3 in the final position? Attacking the queen and allowing the rook to deliver the check mate.

[@KSKDINGDONGCHESSKERELA]

I've been watching you for a while now, your videos helped me to be a better attacker. i pulled three brilliant moves in a gamme and its in my channel thank you Nelson

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Wow really Great attack I think it’s something I need to try more sacrificing a piece to get a better position or attack going on toward opponents King I see how you calculated the pin on his Knight by your Bishop enabling you to bring your Rook and Queen into a checkmating position and there was nothing he could do to stop it Fantastic also Great is you’re able to see where you could’ve made moves that you missed like bringing your other Rook into the attack earlier hey you’re human like the rest of us a better player and great teacher also I’m glad you punished his early pawn moves many opponents attempt to make things difficult sending pawns at the king Thanks again Enjoyed

[@ScepticPJ]

You are the best teacher ever.

[@mimikyoo]

I really like that rook attack move. Forcing a higher value trade if your opponent attacks a piece of yours.

[@MarkusMischek]

I don’t know the number of the nove but at Minute 5:47 in your Video in that line you could also just Play rook to e1 and the Queen has to take and then bishop takes the knight and white has to move the bishop in then you take the bishop and after that the white queen has to move in and bishops takes queen too.

[@trapxantan-topic9917]

I know im getting better bc i can actually tell what move hes gonna do next half the time

[@devinegamingtv3427]

If you play at your max strength at all times and don't make rookie mistakes then pieces don't needs to be saved as often. In an end game an extra piece would make a world of difference if you blundered one time during the mid game.

[@farouqbaiti4315]

I sacrificed 1/2 piece(s) then I checkmate one day.😎💥

[@BobChess]

Ok. Always sacrifice pieces if you can.

[@mcronrn]

Would you play the Modern Scandi OTB? ☺️🙏

[@bofetada6841]

Excelente video

[@user-jp8vd3tt7t]

At the 4 50 mark that move was good cuz if pawn takes queen takes queen check THEN QUEEN TAKES ROOK

[@thecrimsonking187]

8:13 I think I would have gone in with the rook because I could have then taken H3 because that square is covered by the queen. I think. 😅

[@ztrigger5304]

Im still new to chess 3 maybe 4 weeks in and for the life of me i don't understand forming a castle, I've watched ur castle video😅 I'm a bit slow of a learner

[@npigwnl]

All it means is that you move two pieces in the same turn to specific squares; the king and the rook. Some rules apply, but that’s basically it!

[@ztrigger5304]

@@npigwnl ah ok 🤔 that makes sense by how u describe it 😅 not sure I can do it like how u made it seem but imma work on doing that when i get home from work, thank you very much, if possible i would like more of ur help in the future

[@TromboneAl]

Thanks for your great videos! There's something you say that isn't logical, namely: "If you had a chance to look at that ..." That means that the solution is dependent on whether the viewer looked at it. Consider "Here's the solution" or "I hope you had a chance to look at that. Here's the solution."

[@jaimonji5503]

its not logical but its iconic

[@pierrecurie]

That was a nice win. I'm too cowardly to attempt such aggressive attacks. If there's the slightest miscalculation, the queen/bishop, and probably even the rook would be toast, and black would have an overwhelming counterattack.

[@harrygross77]

I have no idea of the answer, According to the evaluation, should you have won? or did the opponent miss winning moves?

[@reubenmanzo2054]

0:50 Did I hear that right? The Portuguese variation... of the Scandinavian Defence?

[@michaelcarroll5801]

Next up: The Reversed Sicilian in the English Opening

[@reubenmanzo2054]

@@michaelcarroll5801 That at least makes sense because it does resemble a mirror of the Sicilian Defence. The Sicilian Defence is {e4, c5}, so if you play {c4, e5}, that's a mirrored Sicilian.

[@michaelcarroll5801]

@@reubenmanzo2054 then after 2.e3 it's an English Reversed French Sicilian

[@GregoryHouse92]

at 5:50, instead of ra8 to d8, re8e1 wins the queen

[@NevarKanzaki]

Isn't the knight still lost after Be4, Bf3? If Bxf3, Qxf3 and the knight is still trapped. White has to either take or defend the light squared bishop, the best defense of which I think is exd5. Black follows with a3 to force Bxc3+ as allowing the pin to be broken would free the knight to take on e4. Meanwhile, taking on c3 allows bxc3 which helps reinforce d4. Ideally, black is ultimately forced to play Be7 which blocks themselves off on the rather vulnerable e file. Meanwhile, the knight is still going to be lost as either white will take on f3 or black will take on e4 then ultimately pick up the knight on h5. This whole line doesn't have to worry about the black bishop needing to be defended by the white queen and there's no real threat to the white rook. Black can still get some initiative in compensation but I think they're lacking a lot of the key traits to the position in the game while still losing a piece.

[@jmail7946]

some very nice calculating

[@krishradio1]

Superb game...

[@DKiZZyGamingHD]

Don't save it, it don't wanna be saved

[@-7-man]

I always play like pieces don't matter. It's not how you win that's important.. It's how you lose but still get IMs to cover your game on Guess the ELO.

[@superking100]

But how can you be sure to keep an attack going or that it will work?

[@DeionBonner]

You weren't able to walk as soon as you were born, same thing, it's just a skill you have to hone...

[@superking100]

@@DeionBonner any tips?

[@Mike-zf7lo]

Instructions unclear. Queen got trapped on move 9.

[@adamwatai]

At 5:50, couldn’t you have sacked your rook next to queen, check then had the bishop take?

[@sidorsky]

Thanks!

[@ChessVibesOfficial]

Thanks Pete!

[@LightBluexSkies]

Why should I sacrifice my king

[@secondmouse3533]

Nice game i thought Be3 at 12:00

[@user-px6hv2gh5z]

Well pieces don’t matter as long as you have an advantage in something like an attack, because the opponent never used their rooks, but if he used the rooks the pieces would’ve probably mattered

[@Aienhel]

wasn't Re1+ forced mate in 2?

[@claudedupras2492]

There is no peace in war.

[@pakkiufung883]

This is the reason I blundered my queen

[@scorp263]

Queen sac?

[@zaidsilk6089]

thats exactly why i sacrifice all my pieces and i lose jokes aside, thanks for the video :)

[@michaelcarroll5801]

Nice game

[@Walna222]

I love chess but am not getting better its sad i wanna quit altogether at 1000 elo

[@Alex9501950]

Obligatory KZbin algorithm comment.

[@Chomta]

Don't try it again

[@plokenv]

Bro who invited you 💀

[@Horcauses]

Hey I lost 10 games in a row after watching this. You told me pieces don’t matter uhhh I don’t normally care about my queen nor rook being attacked I mostly can check the king once I give those pieces up I think it’s a good trade

[@rife133]

silly man

[@plokenv]

Nah 💀 Thats why every video title must be clear enough for audience like you.

[@nadonadodo]

The thumbnail should change black and white.

[@arandomgamer5791]

I love playing games called Pointless Sacrifices rather than Chess

[@cloudstrife6911]

The white Rooks must've not got their paychecks 😂

[@balajirengarajan]

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[@Jwhiz24]

Make sure you master the fundamentals before playing like this.

[@robertbennett848]

Hi Nelson. Did I win something? And what is telegram?

[@ChessVibesOfficial]

Sounds like a scam! Be careful