CRUSH WEIRD OPENING MOVES - Explaining Every Move | Chess Rating Climb 492 to 540
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Timestamps:
0:00 - The Pirc against 1.g3
13:57 - Gunderam Gambit??
18:14 - Tricky Queen Fork!
19:23 - How should we attack?
26:25 - Opening Mistake in Scotch Game
32:09 - Fishing Pole Trap?!
37:27 - Stockfish is STRONG
37:56 - Pirc Scares Opponent on Move 0
39:01 - Pirc against 1.e4
43:50 - I BLUNDERED! ❓❓
47:43 - Save my knight or stop a fork??
49:59 - Time Pressure!
52:15 - My opponent had a draw!!
53:20 - Pirc Against London - 98.8 Accuracy
56:15 - PRO TIP: How to break 500
1:00:19 - TACTIC ALERT - What's the move?
1:01:45 - BIG NEWS
Just won a game using the fishing pole trap earlier today! 😁 Learned it from you. Thank you, Nelson 🙏
Samsies. 😂 Love this guy's rating climbs.
video idea: user can submit their losing position to Nelson and Nelson will attempt to save the game by drawing/winning while playing the position. The opponent can be bots rated similar to the user who submitted the position.
Check out guess the elo series by Gothamchess
This is EXACTLY what I need as a lower rated player lol. So many weird opening moves
Please, if you ever play the Pirc defence, remember it was named after Vasja Pirc. And since he was Slovenian, it would be a sign of respect if you pronounce it "Peerts". Because that's how his name was pronounced.
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At 35:50 you just know the guy was staring blankly at his screen wondering how he just got checkmated because he didn't realize the F pawn was pinned 😂 poor guy!
probably reported him for cheating 😂
been there. i add it to my library so i can figure out what happened later when i have my 1 free review lol
@@donkeykong1234 look up chess game report for a free chess analysis website.
Every once in a while I'll get absolutely demolished by some significantly lower rated than me. I think I now know why.
I think Hikaru beat me in 4 seconds yesterday
I’m really enjoying these hearing your thought process and reasoning. Please continue the series and will be looking into your course once it’s ready!
Glad to hear it!
MAN, OH MAN, ... NELSON, WE ARE INTENSELY FOLLOWING ALONG WITH YOUR RATING CLIMB. IT'S ALL IN THE HOST DEMEANOR AND GENEROSITY OF YOUR PERSONAL TEACHING STYLE. SUCH SOUND THINKING PROCESSES, THAT ARE IN SUCH PLEASANT DETAIL, ONE CAN'T HELP BUT COME AWAY WITH SIGNIFICANT LEARNINGS! I'LL AWAIT YOUR COURSE RELEASE, AS THERE IS NO OTHER CREATOR OUT HEAR I'D FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE SUPPORTING, AND FOR SO ON MANY LEVELS OF REASONING ON THAT FACT! BLESSINGS TO YOU AND FAMILY, SO ETERNALLY GRATEFUL. BLESS YA MAN, ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SPECIFIC FORM OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT AND YOUR PERSONALITY IS A JOY TO BE WATCHING, BIG TIME MY OLD FRIEND!! ... MIKE.
I really love this series, started it a couple days ago and plan to watch through it. Ive watched chess rating climbs from others but you are by far the best at explaining and teaching. You really are a GEM in the chess community.
I love the way you walk us through your thought process. Excellent video, thank you.
Elo climb is my favorite series especially for beginner like me, many thank!
This Scotch game was actually very instructive for lower elo since this move order happens quite often, also happy to see The Scotch Gambit tries, looking forward to it in the series, much love!
Edit: since the London was played against you, a game with the Jobava London would be nice to see. :)
Nelson - love you and all your material... easily the best instructive Chess content on TH-cam! Thank you for doing what you do.
Thanks Nelson, very insightful. Looking forward for the new course!
Another excellent instructive video , thank you . I'm learning a lot from you !
As you move forward in rating, I hope that we get to see a bit more analysis after each game, on some alternative moves that could have been played at key moments (on both sides)
Another awesome video. Wow, you make it look easy. Hope to get near your level one day. Grinding it out now
Congrats on achieving 500,000 Subs ! Outstanding content !
Love these rating climb vids! So instructive!
The Alekhine defense is pretty rare, but my favorite response is the Krejcik gambit. e4 Nf6 Bc4 with the idea that when Nxe4 Bxf7 immediately, Kxf7, then Qh5. if the king moves back to g8, or if the pawn blocks, you fork them on d5, and if the king moves up to e6, you go Qe2 and pin them, you'll win their knight next move by attacking it with a pawn, and believe it or not, white is no worse than -0.4 in any of these situations. It totally forces any alekhine player out of their comfort zone and I'd love to see your approach to playing it in a rating climb if you get hit with an alekine. I've really been enjoying the series so far and thank you for playing the scotch today, which was my commented opening last time.
Nelson, for me you are the best chess teacher ! Congrats !
Very helpful, thanks Nelson
Amazing video. What can I say? Very instructive. The best of all times. Thank you!
Thank you for this video, i always get weird openings and i didnt know what to do, this really helps!!
Commenting again, I really enjoyed and appreciate this video. Please don't stop these lower rating speedruns.
"Well I am playing AverageJoe and they are 500 ELO. I like my chances with this one!"
It's amazing that in the game against Assh_23, the trapped knight survives till the end
50:58 , yes this knight had a longer life than a king. but they told this knight still randomly appears in >600elo games suffering from not-saving-my-lord nightmares , desperately looking for Average Joe
Thank you always. Every game teaches us such a lot 😊
this is such a cool tool! thx for showing how to apply it in different scenarios :)
Great video, thank you very much. I' watch all of them from start to finish, you're a very good teacher
It would be great if you could mark these vids as the rating climb. Because I'm really interested in those.
Before you get to high rated elo play the rook gambit opening that was played by that guy who got his account suspended recently. Ive seen other people play it since then including hicaru and I believe magnus played it… its where you move your h7 or a2 pawn up two spaces with the first move then bring the rook out to h5 or a3 and trade your rook for their bishop
I like how you teach and share your insights.
Hi Nelson. At 10:44, you play … Kg7, but I think … f5+! is a better move. 1) if white plays gxf6 e.p., you recapture exf6 and you now have two side-by-side passed pawns, and 2) f7 is now available for your king; this puts it closer to the center for the endgame, and it leaves g7 open for the bishop if you need it. 3) if white does not recapture en-passant, you have a pawn-bishop fence that forces the white king back and controls squares in the center. Can you comment on this? What does the engine say?
A very good analysis. Thank you
I credit your last speedrun for helping me get from 500 to 900. Maybe I'll reach 1200 during this one.
It took some time for me to get what you're saying every time you talk about the "fianchetto", I always heard something on the line of "Be a cattle" or something like that 😂
Poor bishop, always cattling around
lol same. when i was a beginner and didn't know much about chess, i was confused about what fianchetto was and i always heard something else
@@floof6896 The fact is that I'm Italian, and being "Fianchetto" an Italian word for me is very familiar, but I struggled nonetherless
@@VexilleThePunisher Yeah, I guess it would be like an English-speaking person hearing the term "flankie" 🤣
I always heard it as "Feed and kettle" before seeing it spelled out lol
I really love these type of videos where you teach us How to Think ❤
You are amazing to watch!
I tried watching two younger girls play each other -- what a mess! One Asian girl was rated at 2200 -- and she lost -- the other player was 500-600, but she promoted a pawn-->Queen!
You go in for the kill and you know what you are doing -- and it makes others feel that they could do it as well.
12:48 Excellent advice. Many times I was defeated by knife jumping here and there,
You're the best Nelson
Excellent explanations and playing at a level where crazy moves abound. Bonus: you didn't edit out your blunder!
39:39 lmfao I love how at this elo it’s so chaotic! Nelson is trying to sensibly explain a tactic assuming the opponent is going to make a half-competent move to counter
39:34
Nice work!
fantastic Series !
"I could have gone" . . . 'corrected to' "I could have went". Love your regionalism!
That fork at 46:28 got the King, Queen Rook and Bishop and a pawn as well.
Your tips help me improve my trading results. Thank you very much!
Waiting for next live session. I miss'em every time from somehow being busy. Not again.
50:49 d4+ Kxe4 Qf5# was the checkmate you were looking for
Memorizing the Nemzi Indian opening or whatever it’s named made me win my last 15/20 games thank you for changing my chess career
Nimzo
Can you try out the Bird’s opening with white? That’s what I play and it’s a lot of fun with white!
Dam I’m late , love this series ❤
@ 28:36 It is the setup for the Urusov Gambit..... I saw you encounter it twice and you searched for the name, came up empty, and simply called it "A tactic that I have seen before"
Love you content Nelson. Can you play Danish gambit
48:21 - I found: Qxh2 pins the bishop so it can't take the knight and defends C7 from the fork. If they go for the fork it's a trade of knights but white won a pawn. What's the downside for that move?
EDIT: lmao pawn on h3 can still take the knight.
"if you want to get past 500 just do a blunder check" in other words, check yourself before you wreck yourself.
@28:30 i have seen this position like this from Nelson's previous videos!
@3:50 I play d7 or c8 too. Most of the time d7. I picked up this opening from you when you were teaching your wife and it’s mostly what I play since I’m rather new to chess theory.
53:48 For those who don't know, that strange sounding italian word is "Fianchetto"
ever play the budapest gambit? i'm quite fond of it but have never seen any instructionals for it
Speaking of the alekhine's defense. It's an opening that i play a lot these days. I'm currently 1500 and i remember struggling a lot with it when i just started out playing it. Would be nice if you could play it once to show how you tackle a comparetievly slow opening such as the alekhine.
@ChessVibesOfficial 48:00 why not saving the knight and stopping the fork 🤔? Queen h2
Queen h2
Could you play the Vienna game? Also great content as per usual
very interewting series. How about a brief review of the opponents mistakes?
Hi Nelson, I've been playing chess for a long time and always look for ways to improve. I love your videos and can you tell me what software you use in your videos to trace the moves and more or less manually move the pieces to show what could have been. Hope I haven't confused you.
Chess.com/analysis
Congrats on 500k subs!
I recently came across your channel from YT recommendations and binge watched all your Average Joe videos. These really helped me understand the fundamentals and also now I can hear your voice every time I play chess 😂😂.
Thanks a lot for these videos
Currently on 600 ELO 😊
Great video, more of Colle system please.
I’d love to see the Nimzo with black or white and the Evans gambit of course.
The irony that I was just studying the perc defense, it's a very interesting defense
Wow 500,000!🎉🎉
22:35 doesn't responding to ..Qe8 with Ne5 prevent black from forcing the queen trade? They can trade knights, but you have the defended pawn in the way then. They could add an attacker with ..f6 or ..Bc7 but that gives you the time to castle to safety and avoid the pin.
At 48:29, ... Qxh2 both pins the bishop (saving the knight) and stops the fork on f7.
At 8,27 if you take the knight, you force the pawn to retake. You then play e5, which sets up Be5 which gives you one more piece targeting h2. Is it still better to trade away pieces?
Nelson, it is your videos that keeps me stress free at night and helps me sleep off listening to your game explanation, after a hard day's work. Some sleep with documentaries, i sleep listening to your videos.
Kinda weird! But it is what it is sir.
Thankyou
@50:33 am I missing something by thinking knight c6 to B4 is checkmate?
I saw it aswell, wanted to comment and saw yours 😅
I would like to see how you would play the Neo-Catalan (c4, g3, bg2 move order), or, more to your style, the Nakhmanson Gambit ;-)
@37:32 that’s not a computer move! That’s the move I thought you were seeing bc I was seeing that. You always told us to open up the king and that move definitely does that. 🤷🏿♂️
@1:00 I like c5 and having them trade the queens bc from there I can open up some interesting lines.
47:45 Qxh2 would both save the knight and stop the fork, right?
Great games,thanks for sharing ..
Hey Nelson, I'm at around 650 (and climbing :) please play me on your climb. I share in your openings frustration. I've been trying to get the Bogo-Indian badge for months. We can play that opening and if I'm white, I'll play whatever opening you want. I always play d4 when white.
The Pirc (prounounced 'Peerts') - it is named after the Slovenian Grandmaster Vasja Pirc.
48:25 How about Queen H2 defending the fork and pinning the bishop to the king
Any perks to this opening?
Nelson, at 58:51 you finally... FINALLY used the correct past participle for "to go" (i.e., gone). Then you "corrected" yourself by saying, "I could've WENT here." You are my favorite chess channel and my least favorite grammar channel...
Love you videos as always. I just feel like you making the opponent wait while you explain the moves to us viewers and then deliver checkmate is bad sportsmanship.
Valuable lessons!!!!
Scotch and petrov defense would be nice!
I noticed that you transposed the pirc into the kings indian on the first game, would that still be considered the pirc defense?
57:14 - Couldn't you also save the bishop he failed to take? And grab another pawn in the process?
I think at 5:00 the knight to d6 would have produced a king queen fork in three moves in game#2
May I know when you are recording this, so that I'll try to play in that time range when you'll reach my ELO (it won't take long, I'm really bad)?
@48:28 wouldn't queen H2 pin the bishop, which would save the knight?
Best ever❤
Kinda crazy in that last game Nelson was up 13 points of material without having lost a single piece including pawns.
I'd like to see the Caro-Kann defense. I'm struggling with getting my black bishop out.
Nelson, in the time 50:33 you have missed mate in one - knight e5
45:30 I kept thinking, “how are you getting checkmate there?..”
At 57:43, why not take the free pawn on C2? (bishop takes pawn)