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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A truly beautiful game

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

This video is genuinely really eye opening, thank you sir

Loved this instructional

What a beautiful game, thanks for sharing Nelson.

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

This is brilliant. Learnt a lot

Thank you Nelson. Really nice. Cheers!

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

Very instructive game, thanks for sharing

So I should just play without pieces?

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.😊

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

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

Great video!

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

Amazing instructive attacking game Nelson!

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.

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.

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.

bring back the chess adventure series pls

I love how you ask questions about what we think your next move is

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.

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.

Beautiful game !

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

Beautiful game to share :)

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

Amazing bro

Hello Chess vibes what platforms do you use for your intro

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

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.

@13:07 you absolute god, read my mind

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

Best chess teaching and chess entertainment channel in the internet ❤

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

Like the game Nelson 👍. How are you doing lately concerning your health..? Really hope you're doing just fine. Btw bring more games like this into your future contents, your channel is few of the underrated chess channels out there

At the end of the day, checkmate is king.

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.

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

Excelente video

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.

Would you play the Modern Scandi OTB? ☺️🙏

You are the best teacher ever.

Proud to find Qf5 at the end of

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

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.

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

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

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

Superb game...

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

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. 😅

Thanks!

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

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* .

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

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

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

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

some very nice calculating

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

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.

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

Ok. Always sacrifice pieces if you can.

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.

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.

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

After realizing the pieces dont matter, I've been having really good games on completely empty chess boards, maybe the best games of my life. I realized, only the board and your mindset matters.

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."

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

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

Nice game i thought Be3 at 12:00

Nice game

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.

Instructions unclear. Queen got trapped on move 9.

wasn't Re1+ forced mate in 2?

Queen sac?

Why should I sacrifice my king

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

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

There is no peace in war.

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

This is the reason I blundered my queen

The white Rooks must've not got their paychecks 😂

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

I love playing games called Pointless Sacrifices rather than Chess