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Next: How Magnus responds to checkmate

I now see the difference between Magnus and me. That is, sometimes I ignore the pin as well, but Magnus doesn't lose the queen in the process.

The way I see it, Magnus does not ignore the threat 55% of the times, he just delays his counter by a few moves.

I think it's tempting to focus on the 55%... but it's also important to note that almost half the time Magnus does react. You have to have the right positioning to ignore the pin. And Magnus is probably much better than most at being in the position to take advantage of ignoring it

Timestamps: 1:25-2:29 Moved Queen 2:35-4:00 Defended with Knight 4:06-5:15 Defended with Queen 5:40-6:44 Blocked with Bishop 6:50-9:12 Attacked with Flank Pawn 9:30-12:43 Ignored 12:43-13:22 Summary

A mindset I developped by playing shogi is "if I can't react in a way I'm ok with, I have to attack where it hurts" and it's actually the concept here, focusing on influence and aggro when under pressure.

Damn Nelson thank you for working so hard on one topic for us which occurs a lot in our regular games

3:29 By moving his Queen there he also pins the knight to the white king, which was previously defending e4

I appreciate the effort that went into video. Very interesting. Cheers

“It isn’t a checkmate, it’s just a king sacrifice.”

My favourite opening with white is the Blackmar-Deimer Gambit. With black, it's the Dutch Defense.

Thank you for taking the time to post and analyze this! The bishop pin to the knight is the most common early opening... Almost every game I play my opponent does this, and it's my least favorite move. It's more annoying than anything, and I always find a way to un-pin as soon as possible, and then punish them for daring to threaten my king or queen.

GREAT video! This is becoming one of my favorite chess channels. People talk about chess style all the time with GMs; that's easy enough to see in a broad sense, but the specifics are not. This kind of statistical breakdown over commonly occuring positions (here, a pinned queen) gives real, teaching insight beyond just characterizing style of play in a word. I wish you success to keep making these specific types of videos. This seems like a ton of work, and it's very instructive. Gonna share this with some friends now. Making a contribution to your channel atm is just too hard for me to do (hopefully soon, I'd love to support this channel) , so sharing is the least -- or most? -- I could do. Either way, thanks again for this great video!

You say he "ignores" it but he eventually Castles out of it, that's why his next two moves after the pin was to make room for the king to castle ASAP

Thank You, Nelson! Very enlightening, I will be using these examples tomorrow at my Chess Club. Also, wanting you to know that there are so many examples of such diligent work on your part in the sharing of many such excellent examoles. Your Ch. is always greatly appreciated. Have a Grand Day!! ..... Mike.

I love how your videos are straight to the point and you explain clearly.. most chess channels want to give too much of their input, confuse you with a lot of moves the best players dont even do for a reason, and never get to the point! Great content brother

Excellent focus on the subject about "pin" on the knight! Thank you for your effort in presenting this subject . More success to your endeavors sir!

3:24 me when I'm trying to form a damn simple phrase in English 😂

can we just appreciate the fact that he had to find 100 games that Magnus was pinned ⁉️

Very interesting bit of information. Thank you for putting this all together.

Did you do the data yourself or do you have a team? These are impressive findings

You must have put in many hours in analyzing all those situations, thank you so much for yet another amazing video!

Excellent video! Thank you so much for putting the time to analyze all of these games, NM Nelson!

Such a useful video, great work on the research, this channel is golden

This channel has to be amongst the top 3 channels on youtube when it comes to learning Chess! Love your work mate..

you really do your research. kudos and love your channel, man! can you maybe also share a vid on openings beyond e4e5?

Hey Nelson, I have a challenge for you Play a match against Martin, but "without" your Queen, and both of your Rooks. You are allowed to promote your Pawn to a Rook, but not to a Queen. Good luck!

This was great, please do more of these!

Amazing way to explain, so complete and really full of examples and information, thank you!

So he seems to look for ways to have his defense serve his own attack and otherwise just lets the opponent capture. That's a great lesson!

Wow, really informative. Thanks for all the work you put into gathering this knowledge for everyone!

Magnus' reaction to that pin:

Nice work finding and summarizing all these games, thanks! Since all these pins happen in different scenarios, and not all of them threathen doubling the pawns, it would be nice to see how he responds to the actual threat of doubling a pawn.

thanks for putting in the work on this video. I used to always either immediately break the pin or threaten the bishop. Now I try other things first

I really like your videos, not only are they entertaining but I learn something with every video, thanks.

You should have made two seperate charts for knight pinning to king and knight pinning to queen and other things as there he can move the knight too

I think in the case of a queen pin, you can flank pawn attack because queen just recaptures and pawn structure isn't damaged. It also prepares the escape square for a kingside castle. Additionally, in a king pin, I think its best to move the bishop as it defends the knight and develops a piece. Despite Magnus ignoring over half of the time, my observations are probably better for lower rated players because we may not know how to take advantage of the position and just being a pawn or other down. I'd like some feedback to know if my analysis was good as a low rated player. Edit: Considering the counter attack option, it does seem good but again, its a lot easier for a low rated player to not know how to counterattack correctly and defending may seem like the more solid option.

7:44 thats a solid opening, the anderssen

I like these analysis videos. You might even consider using all grandmaster-level games as an initial starting point, although the dataset would be much larger.

Great extensive analysis. Cracked me up when Nelson failed to say "easily"

Great info. Thanks for putting in the work.

I'm absolutely brand new to chess, so this is probably an example of what I should not be watching at this moment, but brilliant food for thought, so many options scenario dependent. Thank you for taking the time!

In example one, moving the queen, it would have been nice to see the next move by Magnus. I'd imagine he defended against the knight but still seeing his next move and (depending on your expertise, 1st time viewer) if he wanted the knight to come in or if he should have just moved the queen to defend against the knight initially. Love the content idea. Edit: just saw you're titled so your expertise is obviously valued.

I think the reason that he ignores for more than half of the cases is that, the king and queen will be moved away a few moves later even without the pin, so it's really not worth to waste a tempo to deal with the pin, unless the opponent has a good follow up to exploit the pin

Your efforts must be appreciated. It is not easy to find 100 good games and analyze them. The video is very helpful and it vanished one of my difficulties

One could argue that moving the bishop in the first example is not ignoring it, but is preparing to castle so the knight is no longer pinned. Great info, thanks

This is a great video. This video will surely improve my future chess gameplay and skills. Thank you very much.

Nice deep dive into studying Magnus' games. Thanks for sharing.

This is a very good idea from you. You can make othet analysises of magnus responses to certain positions/openings/inputs

Note the “ignore” play happens in Q gambit w the pawn gone so no double pawn in recapture. Major factor.

That was so interesting. keep doing great work man.👍

Aren't you assuming that the move immediately following a pin is always in response to the pin which I would think is not necessarily true. The move could be motivated by another factor entirely! 😁 love the channel by the way.

2% of the time he moved his queen. 1:24 3% of the time he defended with the knight. 2:34 4% of the time he defended with the queen. 4:05 13% of the time he blocked with the bishop. 5:38 23% of the time he attacked with the flank pawn. 6:49 55% of the time he ignored the pin and continued developing. 9:26

brilliant!! that is true chess analysis. I wish I could see more like this one!

Appreciate the time and effort you put into this video!! Thank you very much!!!!

"You can do it Nelson" 🤣🤣🤣

TY for the video. Bobby fischer had the same mindset, that the best defense is a good offense.

Great analysis. Thanks 🙏

I really love your sense of humor. And everything else!

There's Magnus ignoring the pin and winning and then there's me ignoring the pin and getting smothered or ending up in a fork

Very interesting study! Thanks

Cut to Hikaru gratefully watching this in his hotel room the night before his next match with Magnus. Fantastic video btw!

Very good Nelson. Thank you for the effort.

thank you nelson now i wont fail to win in a boxing game as i now know dogs bark

Thanks for another excellent video Nelson I have learnt alot from you!

Super helpful! Thank you for this vid!

Nelson, you're a real one! Keep up the good work.

Actually at 3:30 and moments leading to it, it's just the cambridge springs defense and all theory.

When you say he ignores it, it looks like this only happens in specific scenarios: i.e. he sees an easy oportunity to move the piece behind the knight outmof the way in a way that helps him more

What I have always thought about chess strategies is that the offense is the best defense. I guess it is true. You want to constantly create threats to the opponent. And by defending, you're actually giving more chances to the opponent to put you even worse situation since you are not developing your pieces and creating threats, but the opponent is.

Next suggestion: how Nelson responds to hate comments Edited: I don't know how serious Nelson analyze this. This dedication is so underrated

I almost always immediately kick with the A/H pawn. I’m going to mess around with not responding immediately to it and see how that feels.

Dudes actually a watered down Dr Strange 😂💀

How do you find the time? I am learning so much and truly am gratified with your expeertise.

Brilliant narration dear... ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks for the analysis. You must have put a lot of effort in. You definitely got some useful results.

3:16 "..and then they can much easier- much easily- ea-" *contemplates life decisions*

Wow, I actually thought that there was going to be something like 80 % of king up for a late bongcloud 💀💀💀

Magnus truly embodies the saying "The best defense is a good offense"

Incredible job for us, Nelson 👍 Thx a lot 💖

Thanks for sharing the hard works man. Much appreciated..and God bless

I think it would have been nice, if you had included some examples of the flank pawn attack with a pin on the king. Usually the pawn structure feels very awkward if the opponents decides to capture (especially early on in the game). And: Are there any differences in percentage when it comes to "attack with flank pawn" on King vs Queen pin?

Sometimes i realize a pin too late, and in those situations just trade or attack on the other side of the board. Basically trying to make a mess with the board. It works out sometimes

Actually he probably responded like this, he thought to himself "Oh no, a pin"

VERY insightful. Thanks!

Great analysis! I appreciate it very much.

I’d say castling address the pin on the king there, rather than completely ignoring it.

3:17 Nelson.exe stop working

One of your best videos. Makes me wonder how other players handle the same thing

9:37 thanks for telling me something I didn’t know

I noticed in not one of the examples the pin happened very early in the game (as usually happens in beginner games). So I wonder what's the best response for that scenario

crazy video, huge props! you did a really good job there!

Can you do about queen and king fork, queen secured, or queen pin

0:03 He looks like my one karate teacher from 1994-1995 …..and also like that one dad from the movie Searching For Bobby Fischer.

What a hard working man lol. I always wondered what the best move was against a king sided knight fork. I hated having that doublepawn and when you start with something like the italian game i dont want to move the bishop back

At 4:42, wouldn't Qb3 be better, since it defends the knight on c3 but also kicks the bishop? It doesn't waste a move on a3 to kick the bishop, but I suppose you might waste a move on bringing the queen back if you don't want to leave her on b3... (even though it's not a bad square, considering that it attacks b7 if the black bishop on c8 ever moves)

The whole video is spoiled on 0:44, we know what the blue slice will be

These type videos are amazing content

Why does this feel like a boss tutorial