THE ACCIDENTAL FORK THE MAN IS A GENIUS

NL: *Forks enemy king and queen with the knight, opponent moves the king* NL: "Maybe they miss-clicked?"

Never thought I'd open up youtube and think to myself "yes, another episode of chess", but this is where Im at.

This man really accidentally made the best fork of his career and didn’t notice.

“Chess.com makes bald esports gamer world famous”

And yet Simon owns a screwdriver!

NL is so good at chess he forks the opponent without even realizing it. Like a man stepping on an ant, he doesn't even acknowledge his prey.

A little analysis algorithm tip, the analysis deep mind actually tells you why it thinks a movie is good underneath the move where it shows the next moves that should be played. So at 40:25 when you're wondering why that's the best move, you can see the analysis displays the sequence of moves, and clicking on the move would take you to that board, so clicking on 36. xe1 there would take you two moves ahead and tell you why it's a good move. Also, it's understandable to not want to do analysis on your losses, but those analysis are the ones you can learn the most from :)

2:00 "I thought I was a genius, but actually it turns out I am a fool" sums up basically my entire time playing chess.

I love that he handwaved the rest of the analysis with "and then it all fell apart" right when it was about to show him his absolute pog of a king-queen fork

36:25 And to this day NL still doesn’t know that the knight was forking both the king and queen

I might lose it if NL clicks back arrow one more time instead of "Retry"

This series is messing with my head and I love it. I looked at my sink and thought: “if I place my knight here, I can fork the soap dispenser and the shaving cream.”

This is a weird coincidence: My Blitz rating has risen about 150 points since the dawn of your chess videos after having plateaued for 3 months

I love seeing egg daddy’s mating positions. I even enjoy the analysis afterwords.

if you look under the analysis where it says "best move, good move, missed win, etc" it shows you the line that would follow from that move also if you are doing key moments please hit retry instead of the step back arrow

These videos are nail biters. That first game was hard fought, and that move at 36:09 was amazing.

Straight up pogging with this full length TV special Chess video.

I climbed myself all the way up to 991elo then promptly fell to 754. I have brought it back to 807 but man it's been rough.

Rename the Caro-Kann the Egg’s Gambit

Something I'm really starting to realize about Ryan as I watch him is that he really is bald, huh? Man's got totally no hair on his head.

I picked up a membership to try to understand my mistakes better, and half the game at my elo, which is around 500, has the chess computer doing a spit take. I'm actually having fun in an online game tho, so atleast I got that going.

I am literally crying and shaking after that accidental free pawn into king-queen fork

It tells you what the engine is thinking will happen right under the move itself, so you can tell why it thinks a particular move is good/bad.

A coffee and a chess video is now my morning routine and I'm loving it!

I'm in for the nightmare meta where comments start back seating the way he navigates the game analysis because they can't backseat the games themselves.

lmao my man just like "the king must've moved for no reason"

41:44 that was a missed win by the opponent because: they move Rook to g3, you need to move the Queen away; if you move her to h5, the opponent's Knight goes to f4 and forks your Queen and Rook. If you move her to f7, f5 or e4, the opponent's Queen can grab your Pawn in h6 and you can't eat her back (due to the Rook in g3 not allowing you to move the Pawn currently in g7). Regardless of your next move, White Queen to g7 (protected by the Rook) is gg. Basically your best case scenarios were to either lose a Rook for free due to the Knight's fork but keep the Queen, or directly trade your Queen to the Rook, both of which can be considered a win for the opponent (+2 Pawns on you and Queen + Rook + Knight vs 2 Rooks + Knight)

Seeing NL continue to go back a move instead of pressing the retry button on the Key Moments fills me with an emotion I can’t begin to describe

NL has never failed to teach me that the horse moves like an L

It was fun watching this match only after watching the coaching session he had about it. Cool to see that NL actually thought about the right idea of bringing his rook out and then talked himself out of it.

You actually got me back into chess with these videos

Thank you nl for the daily 1:30 am chess videos for the poggiest good night lullaby

42 minute chess video? we're entering popcorn territory and im totally down for it

Haven't played for 10 years, started after seeing this series, having a lot of fun, keep chess going, NL!

"Lot of pressure" = 2 minutes on the clock and up a queen with one move away from mate

That first guy threw away mate or a significant winning position so many times and yet still won. He is the perfect opponent for the egg.

Another pogged Chess video. Keep em coming NL!

I plugged the Rg3 "missed win" into an engine and it's not really a missed win but it does lead to some scary situations with h6 and g7

42 minutes of pure unfiltered POG?! Buckle up Dorothy..

as someone who's never been into high level chess, I feel like NL and Queen's Gambit have opened a whole new world up for me

I've been waiting all day for this dose of POG!

@36:38 "Maybe that was a misclick" on this mans absolutely perfectly pogged up fork had me rolling! Well done NL, two very well played games!

I am absolutely loving this series, keep those checkmates coming!

he had you 2 move mated forever until he moved his pawn at 16:18, with queen to f4 into queen to h4. It hurt a little..

I've always loved chess. Never played it seriously, only for fun but NL has really gotten me back into it. He even inspired me to stream chess on my channel against my viewers and it made me respect him so much, like the sheer ability he has to not only play but to simultaneously commentate on his moves coherently and still have plenty of times blows my mind! I really hope these videos keep coming, they're just fantastic!

This and geo are easily my favorite series on this channel. Glad to see chess going strong.

This is one of my favorite series so far.

Favorite series right now

I think NL would truly POG up if he looked for more fork opportunities with the Knights. He didn't even notice the King / Queen fork he had. Imagine if he started actively searching for them

Watched the coop with Gotham yesterday - it was great, I hope to see more soon!

Ennel with the least pogged reaction to forking the royal family

Why is Enelle's audible breathing so soothing to me?

wasn't initially sold on the series but now that i'm watching, this is really enjoyable viewing. might get me back into chess a little, as well.

Posting to support the series and algorithm. Loving this series more than any in a long time tbh

"It's a really closed game" Whole board covered by pieces other than pawns from either side...

is this the fabled GM egg distributing once again another chess video? pogged up for sure

You should look at the continuation of some of the lines the engine suggests during analysis. I feel like you only look at the one move it suggests when the value of the analysis comes from understanding the entire continuation of why the move works

NL, I'm loving this, never stop.

the fork with the king and the queen at the end.. now that's what I call pog

Such a good episode omg the last game was such a surprise!

Another fantastic episode

that knight threw an L straight into the opponent's back yard and completely forked up their game

42 minutes of pure pog? Duuuude

this series got me back into chess

That fork at 36:35 is amazing and totally accidental. Never change Egg

Literally my favorite series on all of this cursed website

Just was watching the GothamChess stream. Much Pog on the chess content.

When NL got that fork on king and queen I pogged out of my gourd

I'm here after your chess lesson. Future chess videos are going to be pogged

Nl, you have an analysis bat to the left of your board for quick reference, you don't need to look at the analysis tab to see who's winning

Sounds like the start to a lovely cake recipe

Love the chess videos

Comment for the algorithm, love the chess videos!! Always look forward to them

It's called a Back Rank, the very first row you start on. I.E. The famous back rank checkmate.

Every time NL hits the back button instead of the retry button in key moments I die a little inside.

I'm a total chess beginner, so spotting the sequence with with the knight made me quite proud (as well as slightly annoyed) :D

Ryan I will watch you play Chess until the sun burns out.

I love the chess content, pogged out of its gourd

NL, as long as you try to calculate checks and captures when they are possible, I'll be proud of you ;)

I love the 10 minute chess, don't change that, only supplement.

Love the chess series

Blunder... blunder! BLUNDERCATS! HOOOOOO!!

Chess fun-fact: ELO is not an abbreviation or acronym of something (as I initially thought), rather it is literally just named after the rating system's inventor, the Hungarian-American physics professor, Arpad Elo.

God Enel continues to shower us in the analysis and thinking man's moves How very pogged

Great series NL. I do think that analyses of your losses are more important and interesting than your wins. For instance in the first game the analysis shows your opponent significantly had the upper hand despite being down a pawn. They managed to keep up the offensive deftly moving through what I thought was a good defense. You did great NL, but I’m curious what the analysis would say what you should’ve done in that position.

i continue to stay pogged for chess, especially for a 40 minute video

That first game was wild

A game or two of bullet chess could be kinda fun to see :)

That last analysis was hard to watch. GG on the wins, bald man

take a shot every time NL trades a bishop for a knight

Take a shot every time Ryan says pressure

Good move, good move, BLUNDER??? Sums up my life too buddy

this is one of the games he analized with Levy

Baron Egg is deadly with his knights. XD

I know nothing about chess, and I absolutely love this series. I legitimately admire your skills at this game...I do wonder how you make a misclick almost every video though >

Simon owns a scredriver

Dublinski 🥇

NL: Ignores big green Retry button and presses back, then is confused why the analysis won't tell him if it is the correct move.

I think my favorite thing about NL is how often he seems to forget Check exists in a game that's all about it