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“Well hopefully you didn’t say g5.” Me, happily proclaiming “g5” seconds before: 😃

This is helpful for 800 elo players! And Nelson has prepared 1000, 1200, & 1400 players in the future too! Cant wait for 3 other videos!

800 elo mistakes? I only see 6. Where are the other 794? Help I’m struggling

12:05 Of course he spent such low amount of time, his name is Speedrunner after all

jokes on you, i am barely 700 elo

One of the best chess content creators on KZfaq. Keep it up👍

one of my common blunders is developing a bishop and forgetting that it was only defender of the knight's pawn. Good way to lose a rook and ruin everything

Nelson be Like: I really hope you didn’t make THIS move Me: Erhmmm… It didn’t look that bad 😂

Looks like a helpful series. All the different types of blunders (rook blunder, queen blunder, &c.) that cost a piece all seem to be variants on the same theme: piece safety - what you've called "blunder checking." Regarding moving too fast, I'm amazed at the number of people who play Rapid or Blitz as if it were Bullet.

This is a great series! Levy has 10 times your subscribers. Levy is NOT 10 times better than you. You are providing truly great useful content here. 👍👍👍

So happy to see how hard you work for chess, welldone and thank you for educating us !!

in the position at 15:23, there is some counterplay if black decides to focus on taking the rook with Ng5, Bxh8, and Nc7 giving you the fork on the king and rook. here black can force a queen trade and maintain a completely winning position but I'd say its unlikely at 800 Elo level and if black doesn't find the queen trade you end the exchange only down a pawn. if black slows down and plays O-O-O before taking the rook the game is completely lost but when you're that focused on a specific plan its hard to find moves like that. With good play black is completely winning here but I'd love it if you could highlight lines like this as it would show newer players that just because they made a blunder like this there are ways to try and get some compensation for it and especially at the lower levels the game isn't always completely over. great video as always, love the content💛

looking forward to the 1500 course !!!!!

This is a great video, Nelson. Thanks for the work done.

Another great & useful video , thank you - taking my time is something I need to watch !

Very helpul, I feel like seeing my patterns in your analysing. Thx!

these blunders and mistakes are funny but it just shows how easy it is to miss these things.

In the words of Levy Rozman, 1. "You had 9 minutes on the clock and you spent 2 seconds on that move and blundered the queen" 2. "How can you spent 30 seconds thinking and play THAT move. Can't you see the free queen."

This feels like a high-light reel of my last 100 lost games

Jeez and I'm in the 400s. I must REALLY suck

Me when he asks what i would play. Me: 1st how tf he ends up in this position, After thinking best move He: Hopefully you didn't say. Me: Well shit thats why i am 600

Waiting for the 1400 ELO ones... I've been stuck at 1300ish for 3 months! I was actually stuck at 1000ish for 2 years before I found your channel, so thanks very much.

Super helpful! I think that a nice idea would be for you to mention the best move in every situation as well.

Hi nelson. Great spreadsheet. Your passion for chess invigorates me to learn more. Well done. So at 16.35, you asked what moved we would play but only showed the knight blunder. What would you have moved instead? Is b4 threat viable to later remove Queen to capture Bishop on f7?

Perfect, thank you nelson

Would love to see the Dutch Leningrad in your ELO climb! Great video as always!!!

From my own personal chess history, I'd improved my chessplay by following some basic rules - Know the opening principals and understand their purpuse(!) Take for example the French - advance variation. If played correctly, both players start with a lot of pawn moves and often castle very late. The opening principals however suggest the opposite: do less pawn moves and develop your pieces. But the idea behind those is to avoid to have your King exposed with no pieces there to defend while your opponent already has his pieaces out ready for attack. In the French advance, this will not happen - the center is totally blocked and an attack will not happen so soon. Therefore, these rules have a different value than in a Scotch or Ponziani. - Take your time Already mentioned in the video and pretty self-explanatory. Check what is attacked and what is defended. - Keep in mind that your opponent has other ideas. Let's say you want to play a Ponziani, so you start with e4, your opponent plays d6. You continue with Nf4 followed by Nf6 by your opponent. And to play a Ponziani you continue with c3(???). The idea behind the Ponziani is to play d4 to gain a strong center. In the Pirc defense, you can play that immediately in your second move, as d4 is not attacked. As black did not follow your expected plan and play's something different, you end up in a position where your pawn on e4 is hanging and your knight cannot go to c3. So if your opponent plays something unexpected, stop and rethink - Don't panic after a blunder Especially as a lower rated player, blunders are part of the game and occur quite often. A very bad habit after a blunder is to panic and therefore play quick - and blunder again. I've made this mistake very often and to be honest, I still sometimes fell for it. As if a quick move can revent your mistake. Instead, take your time and evaluate your position. Check for the damage - if you've for example lost a rook for a bishop in the opening, your position is maybe still playable, especially if you have a lead in development.Or readjust your goals. Remember - if your opponent is at the same level as you, he may blunder later.

Thanks for yet another supreme and enlightening chess lecture! :)👍👍👍

@Nelson: (no. 5) in one of your rating climb videos you talked about an app to train knight moves. Could you tell me the name of that app?

you're insane in the best way possible that is a crazy amount of work!

Great video Nelson :) much appreciated

But why did he ask the move we’d make and then not tell us his suggestion???

*Nice Intro there ! ❤*

Nelson is the best teacher out there ......better than any chess streamer in teaching concepts.🎉

@ 6:06 - I saw the fork, but I still liked the move. I understood that I'd lose the Knight, if the Queen recaptured... which I think is a natural move. However, once the Queen moves off of c4, the Bishop is hanging and the King can take the Bishop on f7. This leaves white with a cramped position, just like black, but black controls more of the center... albeit, with an exposed King, but no imminent Checkmate threats. If the Queen doesn't capture the Knight on c2, then you win a Rook and eventually lose your Knight. So, I would agree that this was a bad move if the Bishop wasn't taken on f7. I would appreciate you telling us why this would still be a bad move if you follow Q-c2 with K-f7. Losing a Knight for a Pawn and a Bishop is a good trade I would think.

NESLON YOU ARE A GENIUS 👀 Or at least thinking like a genius. Love what you re doing BRO. Keep it up ❤

This is so cool. Would love to see this for the 1200 ELO range.

Hey, cool video, I am ~1000 and I still make a lot of these mistakes. One request I would have for upcoming videos like this: It would be super nice to know what the acutal best move was in each position. For example at the puzzle at 5:30 I don't see any good way to defend against the fork on c6 and now I am wondering if black is just loosing in this position even when not vlundering the queen. Would be nice to know if there is any good move in each position.

Bigger question is how to long time players look at a board and see the potential threats? The problem with my being low level, I have to look at every piece and look at all the squares each one can go to. By the time I've done that I don't have time to much consider what happens next. At least I've played enough I'm starting to recognize some two move tactics quickly but I'm still an easy target more often than not. It's like learning to read where one person is still sounding out words and the other can read an entire phrase in a glance.

5:57 Nxc2+ is not as stupid as it looks ("forgetting the queen"). Two pieces are hanging and you have to give up one of them (presumably). Hard to save both. After knight takes, queen takes, you can check with bishop and take theirs. Problem is the queen fork in the end, but the idea is not that stupid.

Waiting for the longer version where you analyze 1000 games

please do this up to 2000 or beyond

(@2:34) Black could also play b5 denying a4 to the white rook. It also gives the black king an escape square at b7, if white drops their rook back to d3 to renew the threat. 😊

Will the spreadsheet be posted?

good to meet you You have amazing explanations. Thanks. I'm around 2000. And I'm pleasantly surprised by these players. The truth is that for example at 3:12 it's a really good move. I thought at these levels they would just take the turret. It is true that he did not see that he could mate . But we all don't see it sometimes

15:45 Obviously, taking the free rook was an inaccuracy that we'd all play, but what's the best move in that line?

These examples are so relatable…. Like 11:11 I literally did the same and didn’t see Nb4 can defend the bishop.

Is gxh6 in the first move good(taking the bishop on h6), or b5 to capture the rook in that checkmate position in the second position good too?

hey guys at this point Nelson never replied to my question about the course i already enlisted but i don’t know how it works im not asking about the price he made this one clear what i don’t understand why it’s limited what if i want to buy it later why it won’t be available?? isn’t it like a chessable course i buy and keep?? i really appreciate if someone can explain cause im very interested

Amazing idea!

Number 5. KNIGHT Blunders example 2. Black can get his piece back w bishop check that leads to a number of forced exchanges ending w black King talking whites bishop.

At 6:15, it looks like *potentially* they wanted to take the bishop that the queen was protecting? Or at least that's a trade-off (puts them in a terrible place with the other knight it looks like, idk).

Hi Nelson! How much will breaking 1500 cost?

I wonder how many games were early resignations

I think the type of piece being blundered or overlooked is irrelevant information as those are just the symptoms. The most important mistakes are caused by something like the 2 second moves (simply not thinking) or tunnel vision - and that's what people have to think about and analyse.

How did you choose the games? Was that manual work or is there an API to extract it? In the game I just did the opponent was winning before he allowed my rook to skewer his king and queen.

Im very good at seeing the knight fork 1ms after my move

can you do the same for 1500/1600?

How much does the course cost?

I don't think at 6:01 kxc2 is a blunder because after q takes then king takes bishop it was defending and you get a pawn and a bishop for a knight?????

Nelson can you make one for 2,000 elo. I am completely honest but I have no idea how to progress at this point anymore.

Need 1600 one

Hey Nelly !! At the 6:57 mark, I can hear the disappointment in your voice: “ . . . . and what’s really amazing about this is that white didn’t take it.” Lol !!!!

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If I know anything about being terrible at chess, it's that 'backwards bishop' is devastating

Thanks

Fact, that this knowledge is for free is mesmerizing, your huge Nelson

I'm confused about the Knight fork at 6:14 Yes the queen takes the knight but you capture the bishop. How is this a bad move? Maybe not the best move but still not bad.

Really useful! Yes. I make all these blunders on the regular. I guess the next step is to check out your other videos on calculating and checking to establish a thinking method to catch all these. One question - you mention speed in moves, what sort of speed do you consider normal? I'm mostly on 15 + 10 and maybe if an average game is 35 moves, ~30s per move is optimal? Or doesn't it really work that way?

6:08 nice deflection of the queen, now Kxf7 is possible, you just need to insert Bb4 inbetween, made possible by the same brilliancy Nxc2, FORCING queen to move. Getting rid of the defensive c pawn that would prevent Bb4, multi-purpose Nxc2+ !!!

None of these 800s ever play me I guess, I feel like I'm always playing Magnus lol. Would breaking 1500 be useful for me when I'm only 800? Would like to try a course but I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be working on.

If I'm rated it is accidental; I just enjoy researching analyzing and playing the game.

Impulse moves are death

Bro I love you your videos are very very good I am stuck at 1100-1300 elo can you help?

6:18 can't you just recapture the bishop there?

at 15:45, 1. Bb5+ Nd7 (only good blocking solution) 2. Qxc7 Bxh8 3. f3 blocks the B's diagonal, trapping it; 3. ...Rd8 to save R 4. Qxa7, then b6, then castles. IMO good compensation for the R. OR, 1. Bb5+ Kd8 2. f3 Bxh8 3. castles, and Black is left with an awkward position. Either way there is still a lot of game to be played.

Rated 400 please

wow

I am so away from bad moves.😃

What definately helps you improve in Rapid is only playing ONE GAME A DAY! where you analyse your game afterwards. Making a move in 2 seconds is bad no matter if that was the best move in the position or not. Use your time in rapid! And if you crave for more chess just play meaningless blitz where you can blunder everything and don't feel bad about it.

Sir play a friendly match with Levy (Gothamchess) 😄.... 10 minutes or 15/10 minutes...

Well, this explains my 862 rating! 🙂

Anybody else think Tal has made more than one of these "mistakes"?

Leave a reply a week from now, and I'll let u know if I've recovered from my bad rating drop.

Whats interesting is like at 7:40 before Nelson even asked what was played and without even thinking my brain goes Queen D3 as well..Now this is stupid as hell, but for some reason if im not ACTIVELY looking at the board and all pieces, my brain auto-pilots and will mistake a bishop as a pawn.. I also have horrible memory, i play games sometimes just looking away from the board and back ill forget if im even playing as black or white.. idk if theres something to fix things like that 😅

Title was so clickbaity but I don't care because its Nelsons content and its always good!

hi

15:25 I think this is more the "losing sight of the bishop" variety

Dude, lmao, why did you delete my comment? Afraid people will prefer to practice on Lichess for free?