This is the best channel for learners. I found it by accident after wandering over other "popular" channels. Here, instruction is delivered in simple language, with no drama, no egos, and the content is so practical for beginners and intermediates. I was getting disheartened on other channels where they talk technical jargon at breakneck speed, and move pieces in a blur. Can't thank you enough Nelson. Keep 'em coming.

Boden's Mate or as Gotham Chess would call it "Criss Cross Apple Sauce".

I really like how organized you are. Chess tutorials can be pretty rough when the teacher isn't well prepared, or tries to record everything in one take. Very well done!

You make the best instructional chess videos on KZfaq. The way you consicely explain principles, patterns, and tactics are incredibly helpful. This method makes learning chess far more fun than memorizing a bunch of lines, especially for a casual chess player like me. Thanks for the great content!

Lots of positive comments and those are justified, this video is very complete, and shows good examples of how these mates are hidden in normal games

This is the perfect example of a good chess video! It talks about an important topic, gives good examples, and has good puzzles that haloes you know where to find the mate in an actual game. Great work!

Bruh I didn’t even realize you made it on agadmator’s channel. That’s an honor!

Good one. Attaching names to patterns is a great memory aid. For more on mating patterns and their names check out "The Art of Checkmate" by Georges Renard & Victor Kahn. For a ton of practice with these mates get a hold of "5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games" by Laszlo Polgar. There are 3268 mates in two and 774 mates in three to practice on in the Laszlo book.

16:04 HOW can the king go to g7 the rook is controlling that square

You explain chess concepts better than a lot of IMs and GMs; I really appreciate how concise and straightforward your videos are, and I love that there's no sense of condescension or arrogance like I get from other channels. Not naming names but the one I'm thinking of rhymes with chotham gess. Subscribed! Thanks a million, keep up the good work!

This is the single most informative chess video I have ever seen, thank you

5:12 I've lost so many games to Lolli's Mate! Good to know it and have it in my mind. Thanks Nelson.

19:54 I mean you could capture with the bishop first, but I assume that queen sacs have more swag same on 21:30

Just started 2 weeks ago, sitting around 500 now after watching this. Have won 10 in a row , I was missing a lot of wins. Thanks man!

These pattern videos are gold. I have a really hard time memorizing lines, but you always contextualize them in a principle. This is a great channel!

I've learned almost 11 checkmate patterns just from leisurely playing chess so if you are just starting chess just play and play for a while, each game becomes a lesson. Then after that, you can take the game much more seriously and start studying or watching lessons such as this one.

This is probably my favorite chess video ever. Great work man!

a little more detail could have gone into the hook mate at 14:10. the king can't take the queen sacrifice because of the hook mate, but what if K-G6? I'm trying to find the mate but it is a lot harder to force. Still, at the least I can see how to get the rook and bishop which should lead to victory, just struggling to find a forced mate in that case. Also... 16:04. huh?? that's still check, mate! :D Really fun video! I loved finding all the mates in the more complex setups, but doubt I would find them not knowing they were there beforehand. Shows the importance of learning the patterns to keep in your mind while playing though!

Thank you dear Nelson, for another truly awesome lesson! As always, it's very instructive and I love your calm, no nonsense style of teaching. Keep up the good work! :)

Brilliant video filled with useful information presented in a very concise way!

Thanks for another great video, Nelsi. My inner pedant is desperate to point out that’s it’s “The Opera Mate” not “Opera’s Mate” after the mate in the famous Morphy game at the Opera vs the Count and the Duke.

Love these. Super practical. Thank you!

As always smooth, helpful, informative and concise thanks alot man

Enjoying the content, which is clear and easy to follow, and the short 'try to work it out' pauses are ideal. Great stuff. Thanks.

Amazing , I'm be replaying this for weeks to study . Thank you !

Incredible resource. Ty so much for this!

Thanks for the great lesson. The exercises after each one was useful too.

I'm glad you includeded the Legal's mate, thank you for adding an opening!

10:15 moving queen to g6 also works because it forces the same pawn capture, and then the knight and two rooks checkmate the king after taking that pawn

Nelson, great video, thank you. Also, I couldn't help but notice to propensity to queen sacrifice. Cheers!

Very instructive and well articulated like most of the other videos in the channel

I really appreciate the sober presentation of valuable ideas. No background music, no attempt at jokes, no ego being on display; just plain information. Thank you!

Good stuff Nelson! This is going to help my Puzzles score for sure.

Thanks for this! Really helpful.

Very good instructional and practical video and advice. Thank you

Really useful, great explanations. Thank you!

Thanks for the help, you’ve quickly become my favourite go to chess help guy. Much appreciated👍👍👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

At the second example of epaulette mate you could also take with the queen firts beacause Q:g6 f:g6 R:g6 is mate beacause the night on d6 is covering f7 and the rook on the h1 is covering h7. It's not an epualette mate anymore but still a mate.

The best instructional videos I have yet to see. I appreciate most how you get straight to the point and don’t try to be funny or clever.

#21 is the hilarious "Oh no, my queen!" play I've seen with Eric Rosen

Thanks much! So helpful!

I'm so thankful for your videos Nelson. So many times, I'll be playing a match and not realize until I've already done it that I've applied some sort of tactic, strategy, or mindset that I learned from your videos. I have only been playing for about two months but I am without a doubt such a better player today than I was when I started and I have you to thank for so much of that.

Amazing man!! great lesson and puzzle. The best chess video for beginners

Great job, very well outlined

Another great and useful video, thank you!

I feel like your videos dont help me when and after i watch them but they plant little seed of knowledge for further down the road that have been really helpful, thank you

Thanks for a great video...very helpful. Looking forward to the Middlegame video. (And yes, as pointed out below, it is "an Opera House Mate" since it was a real opera not a person named Opera)

The examples are great-thanks bro

Thanks it REALLY helped.

awesome channel! thank u for ur time, energy, and wisdom!

Yours is a terrific channel. I don't know what my rating is but it's definitely gotten better with your help. Thanks very much.

Great video, thank you so much!

I have watched this video many times now, still give me lots of value! Thanks for getting me interested in Chess! Keep going, you are the best KZfaqr on chess I have found so far.

Great to have the names of these. Helps to memorize them.

Great lesson: many thanks. 🙂

Great stuff. Thanks.

Great video! Your chess content is really helpful

I must be missing something . On the Morphy s mate at 16:06 you say after rook moves to kings file the kings better move would be to the 7rh row. How is that a legal move? Doesnt the King HAVE to move to H8?

Just discovered your videos; you're very watchable and the videos are pitched just perfectly for the developing self-taught player like me. Thank you for making them.

i missed a few operas mate just recently. yet it was so obvious and right in my face.

To develop my chess skills, I came up with the idea (on my own) to find out what types of mates are. After all, checkmate is the goal of the game. In chess puzzels on lichess I saw that some checkmates have their names. So I decided to check if there were more of them. I found it and looked at them to see and remember these patterns. That was some time ago. And now I see you've made a video on the same issue. :) It will be nice to watch your video to remind these patterns, and I will recommend your video to others as one of the most important videos on the path of a beginner chess player.

Very good content again Nelson especially with the time stamps

Very good. Seen this a couple of times and have it bookmarked for a few more repetitions until it all sinks in.

Great vid. I learned half a dozen new patterns :D

absolutely beautiful video Nelson

Thanks Nelson, helps a lot

What I like about this video is that most solutions involve queen sacs to clear the way. That just trains you to be able to see the pattern even when pieces are in the way. And you can be confident in sacking a queen or rook to clear the path to mate.

Very Well explained!

Thanks for the great lessons!!!

your teaching style is impeccable it has helped me no end and i have you on repeat. thank you very much

Very Interesting! What about the Nimzowitch Sixors?

Backrank can also happen if the B or G Pawn is advanced and there is a Bishop that covers the opened squares

@ChessVibesOfficial- recommendation on what to use to help drill these concepts?

Appreciate the video, find your content informative and super calming. Subscribed!

Super helpful video good looks

OMG Thank you so much. You're an absolute legend I don't have any words for you.... I came here from the attacking pattern video and hopped in a game right after and one of my most beautiful games I've ever played. So followed the tips from the first video and decided to create weakenesses in the opponents kings defense it did manage to mess up his pawn structure but didn't find any ways to win material or deliver checkmate. As the game progressed we somehow ended up with the exact same material and position only difference was that he had a pawn extra. So I'm looking for checkmate patterns and time is chipping away and finally find one by pinning a pawn next to his king . Unfortunately he resigned instead of letting me deliver checkmate :(

Excellent channel! The only channel that’s systematically going through chess principles

Very nice tutorial...Thanks!

This is a very well presented video, thanks! I really like the not-too-difficult pause and think examples, although I think there maybe an undesirable pattern in them: every checkmate follows a queen sacrifice. Elo, goodbye!

Thanks, very useful for me. I realised, I'm playing a style like "Take everything you can and then deal somehow in the endgame" )) So that's why I was searching exactly checkmate patterns.

Great vid as usual thanks

Thanks for the video. Very instructional. I am an "eternal beginner" struggling to improve my game so this helps a lot. Question: At 3:30 would it be possible to play in the opposite order? First take the rook on A7 with the white rook. Black, as it seems to me, wouldn't have many options to contest A8 field and can only postpone the inevitable QA8, so would that also be a possible solution or am I overlooking something?

You're one of the only chess tutors I genuinely find useful. Most focus on increasingly unlikely sequences of moves (that I'm never really going to be able to use anyway), whereas you break the game down into simple, clean lines -- like a well made sword making a few quick clean cuts.

Love your teaching style - highly practical without unnecessary chit-chat!

At first I thought this is a really cool idea at 0:40 but after the queen sacks and king takes. When the rook comes over and checks the black king the bishop on f8 can block the rook check and also check the white king. Wait, do you sacrifice a rook as well then bring your other rook in to check as the white knight guards g5?

Lol i love how we go from "The Dovetail Mate" to "Damiano's Mate" to "Greco's mate" to... "THE BLIND SWINE MATE"

What a video..! Thanks for sharing it.

You sir are by far my favourite chess channel, others are too boring or like Levy too energetic but then don't deliver it good enough

Sir, thanks for such lessons. Just one thing.. if in the example 7-8, black plays pawn D 5 instead of D 6?

Thanks for this man

Great content Nelson

Thank you!!!

That was a good one, I bet(some I know for sure, with after game evaluatin, some had some visual similaritis) I have seen some in games I lost, lol

Brilliant Subscribed!

Bishop knight combo solution.. would it not make more sense to sacrifice the bishop and substitute the queen ? Obviously changing it to a queen knight combo?

the second example with 9. epaulette mate also allowed the sacrifice of the queen then mate with rook, since knight and 2nd rook were guarding the escape tiles

This is the most I have learnt from a chess video thank you

Bro, this video along with middle game, changed everything for me. For a while, I would just trade pieces during the middle game cause I could never threaten mate with out it being obvious! Not I'm planning games and seeing mate in two or more ways and worse case just taking advantage of positions! Thanks so much!

Smothered mate definitivly my favorite.

Thats an awesome video. Im sure Ill watch this many times. You forgot the Arabian mate. Will you be doing a part two on this series ?