Wow this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone explain simply why knights before bishops is a thing. Thank you

You know I followed several other chess channels before I found your page. They were all awesome and helpful. But something about your delivery, and how you really break it down to easiest understanding possible. Anyways, since I’ve found your channel I’ve only watched your videos since. Great job man and I appreciate the content. 🤙🏻

I have watched approximately 7,463,229 videos that covered these brief mantras like "knights before bishops" but NOT ONE of them explained the reasoning behind it. Which makes it super easy to remember and deploy in games. Same for the other advice. This is peak KZfaq video content 👌

Thanks again, for making me a better player, and therefore a better man! I'm looking forward to 10 Middlegame Moves.

"Without seemingly to do anything wrong his opponents would drift into a lost position." This was a reference for those who played against Capablanca, and lost.

This is a really great lesson.

This is one of the most instructive chess videos I've ever seen. Not just the game, but your explanation. Thanks Nelson!

Watching Nelson's videos got me to 500 elo to 800 elo in just 1 day. Nelson is the best coach you could ever ask for

Life Lesson 9: Don’t chase after pawns at the expense of development.

Nelson never fails to mention chess principles in his videos.

0:03 >>>>1 sentence

Thanks again , very instructive ! A couple of " careless " moves can cause so much trouble !!

Love these educational videos Nelson brilliant move !!

Yes, Logical Chess series is back tonight!! Lets go!

Love these videos! I couldn’t find a lot of the moves, but hopefully some day I’ll train myself to see these tactics because once you showed the move, it’s obvious why it was the best move. In chess there are just so many possibilities to think about, for me it’s hard to make threats and not blunder something else!

Thanks to you, I'm from 800 to 1100 right now. I learned a lot and will continue to learn from your channel, I really appreciate it man.

I think the real reason we develop knights first is that they immediately control the center

I just want to say thank you so much for the free ebook, it really helps and it is free and you are always here to explain everything in it. I wish you would make more books for us to study as it would be great but overall AWESOME Chess as always and thank you so much for putting in the time !

just bought that book ... and got my other one 1000 best short chess games !! thanks for all your help and suggestions

This video is great. Love it!

This episode was especially instructive and helpful. Thanks

2:23 "Move at most 2 pawns in the early stages" 4:28 Black has 3 out of first 4 moves moving different pawns

Love the video thanks for the 10 middle game moves pdf its really well put together

Great video, thanks Nelson

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Very good content!

this is the best actual explanation of chess concepts i've seen on youtube

Big shoutout to this great man nelson ❤

So much to think about and if you mess up once it’s like an avalanche of trying to fix your blunder. Such a punishing game.

I love your explanations, keep go pls.

Boy, this takes me back. I used Chernev's book a lot in the 70s.

Great video! I need reminding of the principles often 😅

I got the "The 10 Middlegame Move". It is really helpful! Thank you for putting it together and giving it to us for free! 🙂 And thank you for this series. I'm enjoying it!

Really enjoyable, thank you.

Great Lesson!!!

Great video awesome book thank you Nelson so much

My one-sentence-long advice on how to win is, Don't make mistakes. 3:22 Nelson forgot b2/b7/g2/g7 (finachettoing). 7:31 OTOH, if White could play c5, ... d5 would in fact block the bishop. 10:15 One of the general ideas behind "logical chess" is that you should be able to explain why you made each move. 13:28 The pawn on a7 is "tactically defended." 27:48 A pinned piece can contribute to a checkmate, but it does nothing otherwise. 29:18 Where (when) and WHY.

Nelson gives the Best advice Very Legit everything he points out are helpful hints take time and think when you are deciding on your moves have a good reason for the move and try to picture the follow up what will happen what you want to happen and is it a good move or is there a problem with it

Thanks for pdf

That was some beautiful checkmate in 15. Wouldn't call it easy though (850 elo here, so nothing to be surprised of)

Thank you for the video.

Hey Nelson, I hope you're health is doing well! Great vid as usual btw! 👌

S tier chess content. Thank you for the lesson.

Thanks!

The hardest part I think about chess is creating an image of the possible moves 4 moves from now 😅

For last week, 31:21, would Harry the h pawn be a good idea ? The threat would be 1. Bd3h7ch, KxB 2. Nf3g5ch,BxN 3.Qd1h5ch, Kh7g1 4. h4xB, ... with the threat of g6, and if ..., f7xg6 then Nxg6.

I've watched a million chess channels over the past five years. It wasn't until I ran across yours a few weeks ago that I feel like I'm really learning something about chess on youtube. Very insightful. You are the best chess channels by far!

16:26 Instead of Qb1 is it better to play Qd1 and solve all the problems by defending knight on f3. Even though they can create queen rook battery on d file we can counter attack queen with our bishop Bc4 and I think white can get a draw even down a pawn

I'm sure a sentence might summarise 30 years of learning but not contextually hit all the ingredients, but thanks for the insights they guide us all fantastically

I don’t know how do I thank you but your videos in this channel boosted my rating to 2000+ in just a few years👏😁🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏At 8:43 you mentioned that Black was threatening to play Nb4 to trade off White’s powerful bishop as well as attacking the d4 pawn indirectly. And a3 is a bad move as it wastes time and the rest of the game White had no time to bring defense to the attack and lost quickly. Why was Ba3 not played as it would deal with the threat Nb4 as after the trade the d pawn is solidly defended and if cxd4 then White would trade on e7 and recapture the d4 pawn and at least White followed the principle of developing and defending right? Also, how much Black gets the advantage if he is able to trade the d3 bishop for a knight? Thank you very much again🙏🙏🙏🙏

Man you look like Akiba Rubinstein 😂

Best chess channel. I’ll say it as many times as I want.

Thank you for this video and for the whole series. I tried to analyze this game with Stockfish, and I noticed that this opening variation bear the names of 20th century GMs, namely Yusupov and Spassky. I don't think that this fact adds much to the analysis of the game itself. However, I guess that it may be retroactively seen as another hint that the players had to be extremely precise, and the situation was likely to arise in which just a small inaccuracy may be enough to bring the player down. I mean, modern chess is highly theoretical, and an advantage of 0.5 in the evaluation is considered almost definitive at the highest level. So when I see a relatively 'contemporary' opening, I expect it to provide an advantage which would be relatively small for amateur chess players, - while what may seem just a slightly sub-optimal move may later turn out to be a grave mistake. Maybe I oversimplify, but it seems that the less contemporary openings are just not that unforgiving.

That was long and cool!😎

Do you have a stream schedule? I always seem to miss them. Thanks for the banger content. Wish you well

How can I catch a livestream? Are they streamed on Twitch? KZfaq?

Thanks for the excellent series. Please mention the game so I can study it on my kindle, without having to scroll for a game with the same first opening moves.

30:29 Why not Bc4 or Qc4? The black Queen is so powerful develloped, that attacking (or even trading) improves white's position.

Okay you've one hundred percent got me convinced never to move the pawns in front of the king and to leave the knight on f3/f6. But there are lots of openings that involve a king side fianchetto. How do those openings (king's indian for example) avoid the dangers of weakening the squares around the king?

7:20 Shouldn't White play Bb2? 7:21 How about Black switching the order on exchanging in the center?

i didn't play chess for a while but then i suddenly remembered it. also how did the blood clot go i dont think i was watching to see

Earned a fricken sub.

I finally catched up with the series. It's really great! A question from me: at 28:20 why not queen to H3? Also, when you answer the first question at the end of the video, I feel there is a nice follow up with the queen to A4 after the black bishop captures the attacking white knight.

I played this guy when I was 1400 and he was sandbagging at the same level. Beat me on the clock from a losing position. Still pissed

22:27 but why not BF5? Looks so great, more active and target Queen. 😊

I think white would have been better off with Ba3 instead of a3; it develops a piece, it controls the b4 square, and it connects the rooks. 😊

Hi Nelson. Thanks for this series. I am learning so much from you and the book. I have a question, and maybe I am just not seeing something, but, what happens if white doesn’t take the queen with the pawn, and instead plays: eNF3 black plays NxF3 NxF3 black plays BxF3 And now white takes the queen with gxH4. Doesn’t that leave white in a pretty good position? They have the queen bishop battery pointing at H7, and the black squared bishop pointing at G7. I’m sure I’m being daft, but I can’t see why it doesn’t work.

Nelson. Keep making series based on common books. I dont see other channels doing that

Damn, 30 years, where does time go... It seems only yesterday you got married and had children.

Random idea. But I think it would be cool to ask your subscribers to share their most underrated games (as in the computer gave it a rating like 65.0 accuracy) when it should've been a much higher rating.

Chess is awesome.

My chess tip is this: before you play figure out if your opponent is left or right handed. Then slap them with your dominant hand.

Hey, Nelson! Can you please make video with your favorite responses to d4 opening with black? Cause I’m using some of your systems and have nice results with Wing gambit (rook), Blackmar Diemer gambit, Icelandic gambit But I am struggling with d4 very much..

Hi Nelson. Thanks so much for this series. I am learning so much from you and the book. I have a question about why white takes the Queen on H4. What happens if white doesn’t take at that stage and instead plays: eNF3 black plays NxF3 NxF3 black plays BxF3 And now white takes the queen with the pawn - gxH4. We would be in a completely different position with pieces blocking any easy passage for black, while white still has the white squared bishop and queen battery pointing towards H7, plus the black squared bishop pointing towards G7. Am I potty? (That’s English for idiotic :-) What am I missing? Thanks!!

25:22 isn't knight g4 one of the winning move if white plays h3?

At 16:40 I always struggle to choose which rook to activate. Could you elaborate on that?

How is "begin with e4 or d4" a chess principle??? Engine shows that for example that 1c4 and 1f4 are also fine

nice look with the new glasses

Were you not able to take on e3 here? 14:16

I dont understand why white would play Pa3 when they could have played Ba3- this defends the b4 square, develops a piece, connects the rooks, pins the pawn on c5 with an xray attack on bishop, and relieves some of the pawn tension.

PDF is well done

Nelsi I must protect a pawn 6:34

I'd say another for knights b4 Bishops is that Bishops are better in open positions (less/no Pawns in the center), and the game has just begun, and the board is "cluttered."

Nelson, I’ve been playing the colle and I keep running into problems with opponents attacking our main bishop that sits un defended on d3 in the normal colle setup. Any advice for when the foe attacks this and ruins the colle setup? What counters do we have? More colle videos would be great it’s such a fun system for white but this problem seems to be it’s main kryptonite

French defense players do not castle before exchanges at d4 and f6. It is suicide otherwise.

​@ChessVibesOfficial but why white just didn't trades everything around 15:30 min (tip6), by moving Bc4? It seems right to me, attack in answer of attack, when things seems bad otherwise, and position look like a draw (i didn't use engine so i don't know what's happens next)

Do the same principles hold for Chess 960?

@11:32 but how do you calculate all those lines and know what you can take or let them take? That’s the part I struggle with bc by the time I calculate all the possibilities I’ve wasted 5 mins 😂

Instead of 10. a3 to keep the knight out, Ba3 would've served that same purpose, as well as developing the remaining piece and connecting the rooks. Activate those pieces quickly: thanks for your Three Decade Mantra!

My problem is, I play tons of bullet. I'm rated 1,000 - 1,400 in other categories, but I'm 600 in bullet and it bothers me so much.

At 19:50 could white play Bxh7+?

Well, so much for the Cow!

@EricaPani-uh5vr 0 seconds ago Hi Nelson. Thanks for this series. I am learning so much from you and the book. I have a question, and maybe I am just not seeing something, but, what happens if white doesn’t take the queen with the pawn, and instead plays: eNF3 black plays NxF3 NxF3 black plays BxF3 And now white takes the queen with gxH4. Doesn’t that leave white in a pretty good position? They have the queen bishop battery pointing at H7, and the black squared bishop pointing at G7. I’m sure I’m being daft, but I can’t see why it doesn’t work

20:05 What if White played Rook takes E2 instead of defending with the knight?

Why couldn't white play Bc4 to save the bidhop with a tempo on the queen?

16:08 what if queen goes c7?

Long ass sentence you got there

So basically those Gotham Chess viewers who post ridiculous comments in search of clout have invaded this space too. Wow

Lets gooo

21:27 me flexing my position against my 300 elo friend

White's battery basically stood there whole game and didn't do anything, do you think white should have abandoned the battery at some point to get a better position ?