Bobby Fisher said it best I think when asked if anyone could become great at chess and he answered no, anyone can become good with a lot of hard work but not great.
It is easy to not agree with Bobby Fischer off the chess board, where he was a rank amateur, no sharper than a politically charged, (which seems to be all of them today), college graduate today. But anything with a chess board/play,---you have to take into consideration. He was "The Man" on those 64 squares of unlimited tactics. But how did he define "great"? He was great. He figured out how to beat hundreds of years worth of global study all by himself. He beat the entire operating philosophy of the world today, (communism), that hates individual liberty,----all by himself. There can be nothing more------Great! He was not smart enough off the board to express it that way.
Yes when I first started playing chess and just played with random intuition I peaked at 1402 Elo after over a year of studying, memorizing lines, puzzle rushing, doing lessons and learning what you mentioned in this video I’m now sitting at a solid 1030 elo. It’s just that easy folks.
1% is not so much a rule but rather wishful thinking. We all know that learning happens fast in the beginning and slows down the further you progress, so your skill does not grow exponentially but much more logarithmically. If you know 100 things (like how rooks move, how bishops move, ..., how coordinates work, basic principles) then it is easy to learn one more thing which would be 1%. But if you know 10.000 things (like several openings with lots of variations each, mating patterns, etc.) it is much harder to learn an additional 1% wich would be 100 things.
True, one could argue the main issue is that this was shown as an exponential process when really you would aim for something more linear, with finding 1 new thing to learn each day. Even in the example he showed, the player learns infinitely more knowledge than they once knew on day one; the rules of chess. Then 100%, then 50%, and so on, and it takes a while to even get to 1%. Still, though, the idea of gradual progress does help.
I agree. This video suggests that the learning curve for chess (or any activity, really) is exponential, but in reality the curve is closer to logarithmic, where you have to work x times harder to get 1% better. It's easy to improve when you are starting out, but after about a year the days of quantum leaps in your progress are long gone. I would submit that after you have played a few thousand games of chess, you've gotten about as good as you are going to get. (That's assuming you aren't a kid aged 12 or under - your mind is still developing, so you don't know your limits yet.) Most people want to believe they can achieve anything if they work hard enough, but the truth is we all have physical, analytical, and psychological limitations that put a cap on our proficiency in anything we try.
If one guy can read and digest 1 book per week and another guy can do 7 then the 1st guy will never be able to accomplish anything close to those that can do more than three or more per week. The smarter you are the less brain power you have to call on.
After the free enterprise system is gone, (taken over by government), then there will not be much for people to do other than simply survive,---and play chess. They will then have more time, (people who used to be productive), and I bet there will be plenty of new competition. With no more free market to use your mind to prosper, Communism,---it is why people in russia played chess as an escape, where the rules don't change just because you start winning.
I am addicted, I've discovered you only yesterday and have been binging on your videos, and don't plan on stopping. Really high quality and great content. Great work bro!👍
I'm 1850+ but there are a million things I can learn for example yesterday I studied the epaulettes mate in depth thats my 1% for yesterday,today I'm gonna study another mating pattern or study the minority attack in depth, or how to play with the hanging pawn structure or how to neutralize a passpawn properly, the possibilities are endless
I don't get why everyone doesn't follow the 1% rule. If Magnus Carlson just watched this video he could be 38 times better then he is now in just 1 year.
He is not expressing a value for 1%. It is a expression of one percent of your skill level. But skill level started at Zero, so the rule does not work for me. lol I think it is his way of just saying that you should strive for what is professionally called, "continuous improvement" every day you play, (how many games?). There is just no way to measure 1% of your skill level at any given time, accept mine. :)
the way people are taking the 1% thing too literally 🤦🏻♀️😂😂😂 he just means you have to keep learning a little bit consistently to become excellent at something which is in fact true. great video and one of the best chess channels out there!
I'd like to thank you Nelson for taking the time to share your considerable knowledge with us. I'm an intermediate player at best, but going back and reviewing fundamentals with you has helped me to gain some beneficial knowledge only after binge watching a half dozen or so of your videos today. Thanks man ! You have a new subscriber
Wow, I just finished The 1% Rule. I remember why I got it and it was because you mentioned it in this video. This is truly an impactful book, thank you!!!
This seems to me to be very similar to the way Alex Honnold has described his preparation for his free solo of El Capitan. Focus on each step until that step is mastered...then go on to the next step. The whole project becomes comfortably possible when each step has become comfortably mastered. Or as I used to say to myself as an engineering program undergraduate, for each topic, say a section of calculus, "Do 200 example problems and the section will have been mastered". It never took completing 200 example problems to master any one section - but to master a chapter or a course, the process for mastery was focusing on each section until that section was mastered. The five problems assigned as homework were never sufficient, but the number of example problems to master a section was finite and not unreasonable. Mastering each section in that way produced mastery of the entire course material in the context of that academic course.
One thing I’ve done that i think helped me out is only playing 2-3 games of rapid a day, and REALLY focusing on those games, rather than a bunch of lazy attempts. Spend the rest of your time studying theory, practicing tactics, learning strategies and endgames, etc. I’m by no means a great player, but I’ve gone from 700 to 1300 in about a year which I don’t think is a terrible improvement!
Good advice, I've jumped around quite a bit learning a little bit about alot and forgetting things along the way, but its like everything in chess is connected in some way, you learn one thing and it leads to having to learn something else, like how learning the opening principles leads to having to learn about the Middle game which leads to having to learn some basic end games, which leads to having to learn queen v king # or rook v king, then I have to go back and refine my understanding of the opening and middle game and repeat
Based on the volume of a human, a caterpiller793d, and a lego, as well as a caterpillar announcing 35 elephants could fit in their 793d. I can most likely conclude that the elephant was made of 288,351 lego pieces. But yours is probably more accurate tbh.
Based on the volume of a human, a caterpiller793d, and a lego, as well as a caterpillar announcing 35 elephants could fit in their 793d. I can most likely conclude that the elephant was made of 288,351 lego pieces.
I've said it before....Mr. Nelson my Chess teacher....thank you...you make it easier to learn the great game of Chess...I want one of your Chess Vibes shirts. Thank you!♟♟♟
Fun fact: if you start at 600 rating and increase your rating by 1% each day, you will be able to beat stodkfish 14 in less than 200 days. Disclaimer for the people in the replys: assuming you are an active player and didnt cheat your way to that rating. So aka your rating matches your skill level
Thank you Mr. Nelson for teaching 1 percent rule which is a very effective way of improving in all walks of life Take note of my salute to you from India.
Photo copy a blank chess board. Play an untimed game, maybe against the computer. After the last book move, calculate how many times each square is being attacked and write the difference on that square, in black for black's and red/blue for White's advantage. Do this every turn til the end. Just cross out the number and put in the new one. This will help you calculate the best move.
@@TiggerNyeah I am a beginner, but an engineer also, and that sounds like a great idea. I am going to do that after I figure out how to print out blank chess boards. But I am not sure about your color choices. You have black on black and white squares,--and you have no white at all? I am sick of this racist crap,--lol. But, in an expression of individual liberty that the USA was first based on, (which skin color as nothing to do with because it is based on a man's mind and ability to reason, if practiced), I will use white and black markers on 2 different shades of Asian colored squares. OK? :) I hope you got a grin out of that. I can only advance if I see something working, and this is a map to spacial control in "black and white", (easy to see on paper). That is the best tool for chess I have seen by far, and I knew I would see a key comment sooner or later. :) Every lesson I see on YT,---uses different moves than my "Grand Master Chess 3" by GameTop, and that game will kick their butts too. I don't want to, (and can't), remember every move combination ever played. I want to play by seeing "spacial awareness" and using my own judgment. I don't want to be a machine, I want to be human. :) What a great tool to see "spacial awareness". Thank you for that great advise. Best tool I have seen.
@@EarthSurferUSA Thank you. Let me know what revelations you've had while practicing this. One thing I realized is the unoccupied squares also need attention.
I’ve learned a lot w y.ou. What a great teacher you are! I’m a 650 player and you have helped me so much. I win a lot morre than I used to" I’m hooked on your channel. Thanks!
Claude Shannon was first most a research electrical engineer and graduated from MIT. Having read many of his papers, I would say that at best, he could also be called as a secondary title an applied mathematician. He pioneered the field of Information Theory and that's where history will most remember him by but he did some work in game theory and loved to beat the casinos.
The chess engine on lichess (Stockfish compiled for the web) is analyzing 2 *million* nodes per second, not 2 thousand. "knodes" stands for "kilo node" (i.e. "thousand nodes").
Your advice sounds good. I was having a desire to want to master chess. I'm still at the intermediate stage and tried to take on too much in chess. The 1% rule makes alot of sense.
one of the best videos to help anyone improve! think 1% can be done by reading a quick article or even just watching one video on a certain topic a day, as you said. Thanks!
could you please make a video on a few of my q's 1. how to start professional chess 2. can a regular guy juggle work life and play few tournaments in a year 3. how good is chess as a career
Not sure how soon I'll get to a video on this, but I can answer some of your questions now. You can definitely juggle with work and life if you can set aside a few hours every week. Obviously the more time you can spend, the faster you'll improve. As far as professional chess and making a career out of it, unfortunately it's almost impossible to play chess as a career unless you are one of the best in the world. I'm talking about some of the strongest GM's. If you seriously want to make a career out of chess the way to do it would be to become a teacher. You can be a 1800+ player and if you're good with kids you can get jobs teaching classes at elementary schools and getting individual students and do alright. It's just so difficult to win chess tournaments and then even if you win the prize money isn't great most of the time so that's why it's tough as a career choice.
I just love your teaching style and pace and information and presentation. Always a thumb up from me. Keep it up. I share your videos because they are really nice to watch. 🤗😊👍
I've heard that masters look at the board and simply don't see (and thus don't consider) bad moves, just like intermediate players look at the board and don't see illegal moves (e.g., rooks moving diagonally, queens jumping over pieces). It's kind of the next level. The 1% Rule sounds like "the word of the day" calendars. 5:36 And Nelson is very good at breaking things down into bite-sized chunks.
Thanks for taking the time to explain your knowledge. Can tell you just want to teach chess and the world to enjoy it. Elo 2000+ in 6 months just practicing a bit a day. ‘Laying a brick every single day’ to soon having a wall. See you soon NM.
I think the most important thing for chess is to understand that knowledge doesn't equal skills. What I mean by that is that a player can have a ton of knowledge in his head but didn't actually practice enough that what was learned and doesn't use it in his/her games. With chess, practicing skills is very hard to do but necessary. If you take the Steps method for example it is all based on giving the student new knowledge and then there will be no new knowledge added until the skill is mastered in his/her own games. Some people go over the books without an instructor and finish them and think they are ready for the next step. Even though they have learned all the knowledge in that volume they don't have the skills and get stuck later on. This can be very frustrating and is something very important to be aware off. If a student learns about the bishop pair then he/she should practice this isolated in tests specially made to see if the student really understands it. Nice video thanks for the upload.
Dont want to be nitpicking but at 1:11 that is 2121 KILO nodes or 2.121.000 positions/moves. Unfortunately that changes nothing seeing the vast number of possible positions but explains (in parts) why computers can be so much better than humans ...
I saw the notification when you uploaded your vid but i had to take my exam so i controlled myself but i was thinking about you the whole exam Lol and thx for your amazing totourials
Thanks for sharing knowledge so freely.. it takes a gaint heart to do that.. and btw with this video you just made me feel better and motivated to work again
I'm a new viewer who has been enjoying your youtube contributions - thank you! If I may make one suggestion, it would be to fix your microphone issues that have popped up on each of the three videos I've seen thus far. Constantly adjusting the volume detracts from the great content you're providing. Thanks again and best of luck!
1:00 knodes means thousands of nodes, so they are actually analyzing 2 million positions per second. Still a tiny number compared to the number of possible positions
Bobby Fisher said it best I think when asked if anyone could become great at chess and he answered no, anyone can become good with a lot of hard work but not great.
It is easy to not agree with Bobby Fischer off the chess board, where he was a rank amateur, no sharper than a politically charged, (which seems to be all of them today), college graduate today. But anything with a chess board/play,---you have to take into consideration. He was "The Man" on those 64 squares of unlimited tactics. But how did he define "great"? He was great. He figured out how to beat hundreds of years worth of global study all by himself. He beat the entire operating philosophy of the world today, (communism), that hates individual liberty,----all by himself.
There can be nothing more------Great! He was not smart enough off the board to express it that way.
Yes when I first started playing chess and just played with random intuition I peaked at 1402 Elo after over a year of studying, memorizing lines, puzzle rushing, doing lessons and learning what you mentioned in this video I’m now sitting at a solid 1030 elo. It’s just that easy folks.
That just means u got an inaccurate rating in the beginning
@JesseHallock maybe you cooked it up a bit too much…
Hey Nelson congrats on holding a straight face when u said time management
Lol - almost didn't have time to reply to this comment
1% is not so much a rule but rather wishful thinking. We all know that learning happens fast in the beginning and slows down the further you progress, so your skill does not grow exponentially but much more logarithmically. If you know 100 things (like how rooks move, how bishops move, ..., how coordinates work, basic principles) then it is easy to learn one more thing which would be 1%. But if you know 10.000 things (like several openings with lots of variations each, mating patterns, etc.) it is much harder to learn an additional 1% wich would be 100 things.
True, one could argue the main issue is that this was shown as an exponential process when really you would aim for something more linear, with finding 1 new thing to learn each day. Even in the example he showed, the player learns infinitely more knowledge than they once knew on day one; the rules of chess. Then 100%, then 50%, and so on, and it takes a while to even get to 1%. Still, though, the idea of gradual progress does help.
I agree. This video suggests that the learning curve for chess (or any activity, really) is exponential, but in reality the curve is closer to logarithmic, where you have to work x times harder to get 1% better. It's easy to improve when you are starting out, but after about a year the days of quantum leaps in your progress are long gone. I would submit that after you have played a few thousand games of chess, you've gotten about as good as you are going to get. (That's assuming you aren't a kid aged 12 or under - your mind is still developing, so you don't know your limits yet.) Most people want to believe they can achieve anything if they work hard enough, but the truth is we all have physical, analytical, and psychological limitations that put a cap on our proficiency in anything we try.
Shut up smartarse
If one guy can read and digest 1 book per week and another guy can do 7 then the 1st guy will never be able to accomplish anything close to those that can do more than three or more per week. The smarter you are the less brain power you have to call on.
Or more like a rational function with horizontal asymtotes
Very well explained. Gathering knowledge step-by-step is a better way to master chess. Like an old saying, "Slow and steady wins the race".
After the free enterprise system is gone, (taken over by government), then there will not be much for people to do other than simply survive,---and play chess. They will then have more time, (people who used to be productive), and I bet there will be plenty of new competition. With no more free market to use your mind to prosper, Communism,---it is why people in russia played chess as an escape, where the rules don't change just because you start winning.
I am addicted, I've discovered you only yesterday and have been binging on your videos, and don't plan on stopping. Really high quality and great content. Great work bro!👍
Thanks, Deni, appreciate that!
This channel isnt only for chess its for life lessons, thanks for the advice great video!
Thanks a lot Nelson
I was feeling frustrated of constantly losing in chess , this video gives me motivation to try my best again and yet I won 2 games
1% every single day seems imposible to me. I would be glad if i could get 1% every 2-3 weeks.
the fact that you think that make me think you're 2800 because there is so much to learn in chess.
@@malcolmz3626 Sad thing is i'm like 1700 but don't see how i can improve 1% in only one day. Maybe i'm just not built for chess...
@@Monika77ful You are built for ANYTHING. You just gotta get your mind into it and work hard
I'm 1850+ but there are a million things I can learn for example yesterday I studied the epaulettes mate in depth thats my 1% for yesterday,today I'm gonna study another mating pattern or study the minority attack in depth, or how to play with the hanging pawn structure or how to neutralize a passpawn properly, the possibilities are endless
@@zachg.4908 Because one number says shit. Everything has be evaluated as a single instance.
I don't get why everyone doesn't follow the 1% rule. If Magnus Carlson just watched this video he could be 38 times better then he is now in just 1 year.
🤣🤣
Each new percent gets increasingly more difficult each time, and there is a stop, where you have to make new concepts, so it’s not so simple
For how many things Magnus knows it would take so long to increase just 1% it isn't that easy.
This is satire
He is not expressing a value for 1%. It is a expression of one percent of your skill level. But skill level started at Zero, so the rule does not work for me. lol I think it is his way of just saying that you should strive for what is professionally called, "continuous improvement" every day you play, (how many games?). There is just no way to measure 1% of your skill level at any given time, accept mine. :)
Glad I found your channel! Clear, concise and well put together. Great job...this is only my 3rd or 4th from you but I will be back!! Thank you🤩
the way people are taking the 1% thing too literally 🤦🏻♀️😂😂😂 he just means you have to keep learning a little bit consistently to become excellent at something which is in fact true.
great video and one of the best chess channels out there!
I'm glad someone understood that =P
Many of us did, your channel is awesome.
Yeah, basically like that poster you might see at school that says "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Quite. We should not take it literally. We should treat it as the untruth it is.
I'd like to thank you Nelson for taking the time to share your considerable knowledge with us. I'm an intermediate player at best, but going back and reviewing fundamentals with you has helped me to gain some beneficial knowledge only after binge watching a half dozen or so of your videos today. Thanks man ! You have a new subscriber
Welcome aboard!
Wow, I just finished The 1% Rule. I remember why I got it and it was because you mentioned it in this video. This is truly an impactful book, thank you!!!
Thank you for adding a generalized pipeline of learning. I find that the hardest part to learn something complex is knowing how to study it.
This seems to me to be very similar to the way Alex Honnold has described his preparation for his free solo of El Capitan. Focus on each step until that step is mastered...then go on to the next step. The whole project becomes comfortably possible when each step has become comfortably mastered. Or as I used to say to myself as an engineering program undergraduate, for each topic, say a section of calculus, "Do 200 example problems and the section will have been mastered". It never took completing 200 example problems to master any one section - but to master a chapter or a course, the process for mastery was focusing on each section until that section was mastered. The five problems assigned as homework were never sufficient, but the number of example problems to master a section was finite and not unreasonable. Mastering each section in that way produced mastery of the entire course material in the context of that academic course.
One thing I’ve done that i think helped me out is only playing 2-3 games of rapid a day, and REALLY focusing on those games, rather than a bunch of lazy attempts. Spend the rest of your time studying theory, practicing tactics, learning strategies and endgames, etc. I’m by no means a great player, but I’ve gone from 700 to 1300 in about a year which I don’t think is a terrible improvement!
I'm just 200😫
Good advice, I've jumped around quite a bit learning a little bit about alot and forgetting things along the way, but its like everything in chess is connected in some way, you learn one thing and it leads to having to learn something else, like how learning the opening principles leads to having to learn about the Middle game which leads to having to learn some basic end games, which leads to having to learn queen v king # or rook v king, then I have to go back and refine my understanding of the opening and middle game and repeat
In my humble observation I can say for certain that the elephant is made of at least 3 bricks of lego.
Based on the volume of a human, a caterpiller793d, and a lego, as well as a caterpillar announcing 35 elephants could fit in their 793d. I can most likely conclude that the elephant was made of 288,351 lego pieces.
But yours is probably more accurate tbh.
A walk of a thousand miles starts with one step.
i like that saying more than 1%rule
You have a really good channel that should have more recognition. I’ll be sure to share it with my friends!
Thanks, James!
If the elephant is solid, I'm guessing 3 million Lego bricks. If it's hollow, then only 1 million.
I’m glad that’s what you got from this video
Comparing the volume of an elephant to the volume of a Lego brick, I'd guess about 300,000 bricks.
@@zanti4132 More like 300000 legos for the trunk
Or let's say for the whole head...
Based on the volume of a human, a caterpiller793d, and a lego, as well as a caterpillar announcing 35 elephants could fit in their 793d. I can most likely conclude that the elephant was made of 288,351 lego pieces.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing this thought!
Honestly best information on chess I've found. Hope your channel grows well :)
Much appreciated!
agreed
I've said it before....Mr. Nelson my Chess teacher....thank you...you make it easier to learn the great game of Chess...I want one of your Chess Vibes shirts. Thank you!♟♟♟
Fun fact: if you start at 600 rating and increase your rating by 1% each day, you will be able to beat stodkfish 14 in less than 200 days.
Disclaimer for the people in the replys: assuming you are an active player and didnt cheat your way to that rating. So aka your rating matches your skill level
no, actually having a high rating doesn't make me win against stockfish. I need to make better moves than stockfish to win
@@foirstyloasty4347 well if you have a better rating you should be able to beat it
@@alex2005z no, shut up
@@foirstyloasty4347 so you are saying that a difference of over 200 rating points shouldnt make you better?
@@alex2005z I'm saying the rating doesn't decide how well I play, my mind does. also I'm saying you're dumb
Absolutely phenomenal advice my friend!😃👍👍
Omg congrats on 10k!!🥳
Thanks! I was under 5k like last week? What is going on?!
Excellent as always. Thanks!!
Great advice! Another key point I think is "stay dedicated!" If you stop playing for awhile you will lose skill.
Thank you Mr. Nelson for teaching 1 percent rule which is a very effective way of improving in all walks of life
Take note of my salute to you from India.
Ok say it’s 69420 Lego’s in that elephant.
Can you talk about THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to master at chess: proper calculation?
Photo copy a blank chess board. Play an untimed game, maybe against the computer. After the last book move, calculate how many times each square is being attacked and write the difference on that square, in black for black's and red/blue for White's advantage. Do this every turn til the end. Just cross out the number and put in the new one. This will help you calculate the best move.
@@TiggerNyeah I am a beginner, but an engineer also, and that sounds like a great idea. I am going to do that after I figure out how to print out blank chess boards. But I am not sure about your color choices. You have black on black and white squares,--and you have no white at all? I am sick of this racist crap,--lol. But, in an expression of individual liberty that the USA was first based on, (which skin color as nothing to do with because it is based on a man's mind and ability to reason, if practiced), I will use white and black markers on 2 different shades of Asian colored squares. OK? :)
I hope you got a grin out of that. I can only advance if I see something working, and this is a map to spacial control in "black and white", (easy to see on paper). That is the best tool for chess I have seen by far, and I knew I would see a key comment sooner or later. :) Every lesson I see on YT,---uses different moves than my "Grand Master Chess 3" by GameTop, and that game will kick their butts too. I don't want to, (and can't), remember every move combination ever played. I want to play by seeing "spacial awareness" and using my own judgment. I don't want to be a machine, I want to be human. :) What a great tool to see "spacial awareness". Thank you for that great advise. Best tool I have seen.
@@EarthSurferUSA Thank you. Let me know what revelations you've had while practicing this. One thing I realized is the unoccupied squares also need attention.
@@TiggerNyeah you cant play chess if the board is blank.
Best chess channel ever for beginners and intermediates. Thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
What a Great video. Words of Wisdom that can be applied to so many subjects and situations.
Well done Sir. Thanks.
I’ve learned a lot w y.ou. What a great teacher you are! I’m a 650 player and you have helped me so much. I win a lot morre than I used to" I’m hooked on your channel. Thanks!
Awesome! Glad you're learning!
Claude Shannon was first most a research electrical engineer and graduated from MIT. Having read many of his papers, I would say that at best, he could also be called as a secondary title an applied mathematician. He pioneered the field of Information Theory and that's where history will most remember him by but he did some work in game theory and loved to beat the casinos.
What a great video. I hope you get the recognition you deserve. Keep on keeping on brother 👍
your stuff is one of the best chess channels on youtube. thank you.
The chess engine on lichess (Stockfish compiled for the web) is analyzing 2 *million* nodes per second, not 2 thousand. "knodes" stands for "kilo node" (i.e. "thousand nodes").
🤦♂️ I stand corrected! Thanks for pointing out that there is indeed a "k" in front of nodes!
This is actually helpful, thanks Nelson
Your advice sounds good. I was having a desire to want to master chess. I'm still at the intermediate stage and tried to take on too much in chess. The 1% rule makes alot of sense.
By far some of the best advice I've found on TH-cam so far. Fantastic video, almost feels like a Naroditsky video
Gotham, this is how to treat your students...with love & respect! Nelson, you're great. Thanks.
Thanks, bud! 👍
Great video Nelson, thanks! I like the idea of narrowing down the vast number of possible moves via principals!
1:07 that is not 2000... that is 2 million. The k in knodes stands for kilo, thousand.
one of the best videos to help anyone improve! think 1% can be done by reading a quick article or even just watching one video on a certain topic a day, as you said. Thanks!
'One percent at a time'
Very impressing amd helping video.
could you please make a video on a few of my q's
1. how to start professional chess
2. can a regular guy juggle work life and play few tournaments in a year
3. how good is chess as a career
Not sure how soon I'll get to a video on this, but I can answer some of your questions now. You can definitely juggle with work and life if you can set aside a few hours every week. Obviously the more time you can spend, the faster you'll improve. As far as professional chess and making a career out of it, unfortunately it's almost impossible to play chess as a career unless you are one of the best in the world. I'm talking about some of the strongest GM's. If you seriously want to make a career out of chess the way to do it would be to become a teacher. You can be a 1800+ player and if you're good with kids you can get jobs teaching classes at elementary schools and getting individual students and do alright. It's just so difficult to win chess tournaments and then even if you win the prize money isn't great most of the time so that's why it's tough as a career choice.
@@ChessVibesOfficial thankyou guess I gotta become very rich before I can quit and start chess XD
@@ChessVibesOfficial btw don't want to Nikhil Kamat too :D
This was great, thanks for making this video.
above all channel's on yt, this is the channel where i learned the most
I just love your teaching style and pace and information and presentation. Always a thumb up from me. Keep it up. I share your videos because they are really nice to watch. 🤗😊👍
Thanks for sharing!
I've heard that masters look at the board and simply don't see (and thus don't consider) bad moves, just like intermediate players look at the board and don't see illegal moves (e.g., rooks moving diagonally, queens jumping over pieces). It's kind of the next level.
The 1% Rule sounds like "the word of the day" calendars.
5:36 And Nelson is very good at breaking things down into bite-sized chunks.
I did this for 3 months and I really improved a lot! thanks!
Great video! Thank you!
Excellent! Thank you for this video!
Outstanding video sir!!!
Thanks for taking the time to explain your knowledge. Can tell you just want to teach chess and the world to enjoy it. Elo 2000+ in 6 months just practicing a bit a day. ‘Laying a brick every single day’ to soon having a wall. See you soon NM.
I think the most important thing for chess is to understand that knowledge doesn't equal skills. What I mean by that is that a player can have a ton of knowledge in his head but didn't actually practice enough that what was learned and doesn't use it in his/her games. With chess, practicing skills is very hard to do but necessary. If you take the Steps method for example it is all based on giving the student new knowledge and then there will be no new knowledge added until the skill is mastered in his/her own games. Some people go over the books without an instructor and finish them and think they are ready for the next step. Even though they have learned all the knowledge in that volume they don't have the skills and get stuck later on. This can be very frustrating and is something very important to be aware off. If a student learns about the bishop pair then he/she should practice this isolated in tests specially made to see if the student really understands it. Nice video thanks for the upload.
Dont want to be nitpicking but at 1:11 that is 2121 KILO nodes or 2.121.000 positions/moves. Unfortunately that changes nothing seeing the vast number of possible positions but explains (in parts) why computers can be so much better than humans ...
You are correct! Thanks for catching that 👍
Thank you for this video sir, Greetings from Philippines 🇵🇭
Nice video, at 1:09 it is even more ridiculous and stockfish analyses 2000 kilonodes(2,000,000 nodes) per second.
Sometimes difficult things can be easily explained... thank you
1:09 its 2000 kilo nodes per second. Which means it probably solves 2 million moves per second.
Im literally facepalming lol
Thank you man
I appreciate you made this video
Really helpful
1:05 fyi its 2 million. cuz its knodes, k for a thousand and nodes for positions
dude that puzzle at 3:03 has to be the easiest puzzle I ever saw in my whole life.
I saw the notification when you uploaded your vid but i had to take my exam so i controlled myself but i was thinking about you the whole exam Lol and thx for your amazing totourials
Haha at least you got your priorities right - exams before youtube!
Thank you for the great work 👍
Thanks for sharing knowledge so freely.. it takes a gaint heart to do that.. and btw with this video you just made me feel better and motivated to work again
Glad I could help! Stick with it!
Thanks for sharing this very well-presented video. You articulated an important message to all. Well done.
Can you please let me know where you found that openings flow chart at 57 seconds? Looked incredible. Thanks in advance.
Google "chess opening tree graph" and look around under images
This is a great channel guys! I've discovered a treasure!
Welcome aboard!
This video will motivate you more than any "motivational billionaire quotes/ video's" out there. Great one!
Nelson u took us 20 moves deep into 5 different draxler lines and the next day u release a video about keeping it simple man on man!!
Haha good point! I guess as you get stronger the 1% chunks can get a little more complex. =P
I have already got a knowledge of chess. Thanks Mr.Nelson for this great video. This really motivated me.
Thank you, Manny!
2:20
c4 and f4: am I a joke to you?
I'm a new viewer who has been enjoying your youtube contributions - thank you! If I may make one suggestion, it would be to fix your microphone issues that have popped up on each of the three videos I've seen thus far. Constantly adjusting the volume detracts from the great content you're providing. Thanks again and best of luck!
Pefect video. Adequate explanation. Great Visualization.
Thank you for this...I decided yesterday, that I'm going to learn how to play chess & this is my first video :)
Great advice, I love it.
Watching one of your video a day and practicing will give me the 1%! Thank you.
Nelson, your videos are fantastic! One thing that I feel I have to correct you on is that the plural of Lego is still Lego. Ik ik I'm a tool!
1:00 knodes means thousands of nodes, so they are actually analyzing 2 million positions per second. Still a tiny number compared to the number of possible positions
You are a natural grand Instructor of chess!
I need to learn more matting patterns.
Inspiring. Thanks
very great video! thanks
Great stuff! As always, your videos are filled with good ideas!
Perfect video, thank you so much
Absolutely right... Keep going
Good stuff!!
Great video Mr Nelson. At 6:00. That’s me exactly
i love chess! dont get me wrong but you may not know: in Skat there are even more possible variants/dispensations...
I am definitely going to make a pdf e book on all of your videos.
You make real high quality videos! Don't forget me when you have 1M subs 😆
I love your videos man keep it up
Absolutely love this video
Truthfully, the 1-percent rule is not only applicable in Chess, but in real life, too. Thanks for this great tip!