I don’t care if you win or lose to be honest, I just fricken love this series so much. I can’t get enough.

I'm looking forward to three years from now when, due to popular demand, these videos are 59 minutes of analysis for a Bullet game

I echo the other comments in that I'd love to watch you studying chess openings, etc. in place of the daily upload every now and then! It means you don't have to take out of your non-work time and we get to pog up as you pog up.

You are more accurate in blitz because you dont have the time to sit there and think "Lets make it funkie"

Title: I think I've lost my touch... First 10 Seconds: "I think we've been playing pretty well. Better than usual, believe it or not" oh no

A suggestion: Doing a puzzles game every once in a while to see how much you improved since

Yo man loving the videos but I'm sorry that first game had me cracking up during the opening. You busted out the Sicilian and looked super confident and then the main line open Sicilian caught you off guard on move 3 haha

Almost passed out from intensity of ecstasis I experienced upon contemplating the fact that by this time next year we might have 365 new chess videos

I wonder if Ennelle wants to take this series all the way to Pogchamps. Btw I am fine with you studying openings and recording it for us to watch, h*ck I don't think I'll ever learn openings any other way.

One of these days, NL has to play a match against himself

It’s honestly nice to watch someone play the same way I do! I’m not amazing but at the same time it’s fun to see. And on top of that, NL? Like the first KZfaqr that I started to bench watch at night sneaking my Nintendo 3Ds in my room just to watch a Binding of Isaac video? Like how much more POG can this content be?? LYSM happy New Year!

Getting to bed new years eve with a whole new year in front of me, and still seeing another chess video in my feed made the future less scary - thanks NL

I'm on my second watch through of this entire playlist. So great for getting back into chess for me. Thanks NL.

Thanks for the top content in these trying times, Ryab. Have an amazing new year's eve and an even better 2021 with lots of health to you and your family.

It is fun watching you play, you don't have to play fantasticly, the way you played chess so far in the chess series is very entertaining

love this series alot man

Starts using behoove religiously - yep resign territory 😂

I think Eric Rosen could give you some lessons on the traps in the London, and for black the Stafford and Englund for gambits.

i would definitely watch content where NL looks through different lines of different openings through the engine and maybe analyzing some past games and what would have been a better book response. the opening stab in analysis is really useful!

Black moves bishop. Nl: I don't care about that (advances pawns) Nl: how long has my rook been hanging?

Hey man, just wanted to say because I've seen this quite a bit in your videos - whenever, in the sicilian, they push d4, you capture it with your c-pawn. That's one of the main points in the sicilian, that you exchange one of your flank pawns for one of their center pawn, thus gaining a little bit more center control in exchange for slightly slower development. Also, not doing it just gives you good amounts of trouble.

Happy New Year's everyone!

I love this series, you + chess is great

First video on the new year for me, and it’s chess POGGY Happy new year Ryan and to the the EGG community as well

That 22:23 resign without seeing you could literally have just taken the queen if he made that move was pain.

Loving the 90 Day Fiance reference in there! My girlfriend heard it from the other room and loved it, too.

“Is that bahrain?” flag identification ELO: 2500

STUDIES! STUDIES ARE GOOD! But seriously, I would love seeing you study 3 setups+Fried Liver at least.

Don't feel too bad about the losses. The Sicilian just has so many main lines to learn. It is probably one of the hardest defenses to learn without REALLY studying. Love to watch you play the Chess regardless of wins/losses :)

Happy new year

Even from behind these games were incredible. That second game had me looking for some tactics haha

Happy New Year from Vietnam NL

Hey NL, love the chess series. I don't know how many people would like to see it, but I know I would watch the hell out of a series where you just hashed out openings. I learn quite a bit from your sessions with GothamChess and I'm sure watching you learn some more early games would be just as interesting.

I love when NL talks to Tomo

When White plays d4 in the Sicilian, Black almost always plays cxd4, which is kind of the point of the opening. For example, according to Chess.com's Opening Explorer, in master games played in your position in game 1, cxd4 was played 77,753 times. Your move, e6, was the second-most popular, played a grand total of 17 times. (You can find Explorer under Learn on the menu.)

NL has given me the confidence to start my own chess channel, thank you and keep it up with the upbeat content :)

the london fits the way you play very well find something similar for black and study it well so that you don't lose a bunch of time in the opening making suboptimal moves

If you're going to study openings you could do it as the daily chess video. I'm not even that interested in watching opening theory but I feel like it could be fun to watch if it's your content

Happy new years, everyone. Here is to many more pogged gourds!

Make videos of you studying openings. Id love it

Holy moly you are really good at chess

You saw the strong moves for your opponent which means it is not that you are worse then then but that they get into better position in the opening (which means that they know the opening better). Maybe if you get out of theory early, your opponents won't know all the best moves. Sicilia defense has a lot of theory behind it, if you go wrong there, people who are experienced in Sicilian can take advantage of mistakes

does the part in the analysis screen that says the name of the opening with a little arrow to the side that usually indicates 'select for more information' possibly....give him more information about the opening?

Tomo wants to come in, tommoooo

I would totally be down to watch opening study in a video

making a video of u studying openings would be awesome

Cant wait to see how the new monitor effects the chess gameplay.

NL: "I think I've lost my touch" Fans: "HE LEARNED TO PLAY HANDS FREE?? POG"

NL, if you're playing the Sicilian, you don't move the knight on move 2. Most common is e6, but d6 is also absolutely fine.

Have you tried the different variant games NL? Theres few people playing them but 4 player chess can be a fun evening with friends.

28:15 Ryan's Ideal Game. Trades Only.

We all have bad days and we all have pog days, I think you are doing good NL.

I would love an NL studies openings video.

Northernlion never misses

You can feel the frustration. I think chess is the only game I have seen NL actually upset

Don't study openings, I love how you try to handle them. I also have huge problems with unusual early moves. Love the series. Previously I said that you have no skill only training, now with so many more videos watched with your move explanations I say well done sir :D Mislicks are annoying tho :P Edit: Also Happy New year! it's 2021 overhere now and i'm drunk :D

I’d like these videos more if NL studied a couple of opening lines

NL: I think we have been playing very well Me: *looks at title*

Chess is so peepeepoopoo awesome my broski

Nl i hear you on being tight on time. Idk what a video where you study opening looks like aside from like the coaching sessions you had. I would be interested in watching it though, after all I could do with some opening studying too.

At 17:30 I'd prefer knight to h5 to force the queen back a bit.

Trully pogged

It was at 17:32 that I realized he could pin the knight to the queen with Qb8... Knight can't take rook or NL takes their queen. He was so close to finding that in the analysis!

i don't know anything about chess appart from the basic rules of the game and yet i'm here

LionBlind has entered the game.

Get on that opening explorer

personally i recommend the Alekhine defense it breaks some of the few rules of chess allowing the game to progress in an interesting way while also still being the classy game of chess we come for.

I mean this is just proof that you could play anything and make it entertainment :) I love the insight and knowledge about chess these videos have taught me. But like random af have you ever played Xcom 2? it's kinda like chess with like aliens lol

Sicilian is a very complicated opening most of the opening moves are only possible because of the traps that are there in the position. Otherwise its just bad to put your knight infront a pawn that can attack it after nf6 with the pawn on the e file. If they push the pawn there you actually win there pawn. But not in every case. Sicilian is a hard opening id just avoid it. But you do need to know what to do as white or you will get crushed as white also. The main thing to know is that when white pushes d4 you always take with the c pawn. There are no good positions for black if you don't take the pawn because white will push the d pawn and cramp your position every time. And then they will play e5 sometimes and there's nothing you can do except play f6. Which is bad because there are threats of mate in 1.

He lost his mojo baby

I've noticed that when you're low rated there are so many moves to consider at every turn, and as you get better the number of moves you consider shrinks a lot since you're getting better at weeding out bad moves and zeroing in on good moves. There's really no way around it, you have you have your bad ideas punished until your opponents drill your mistakes out of you.

There's only a letter's difference between Resign and Resin.

30:14 strong move? nononononononono

I also lost my touch very recently... I want it back

I am pogged through the roof.

NL you don't have to justify yourself when resigning - most people think that resigning is actually a sign of dignity and respect, and not a sign of saltiness...

Happy New Year to you, to your beautiful wife and daughter, thank you for all the entertainment you have given us this year, it turned out to be quite necessary. Hopefully 2021 is better. Happy New Year everyone!

NL you can right click to cancel the premoves.

I'm absolutely trash at chess but my best game ever was with the sicilian defense:closed, traditional line. I even got a surprise mate on my opponent. It was a surprise to both of us because I didn't know what I was doing. (700 elo)

I'd like to take this opportunity to retroactively complain about the camera placement in the last episode. That's all, thanks.

Virgin memorized openings vs Chad improvised zane.

anyone ever noticed the "About this game:" section of these video descriptions

the 420th upvote! starting ny as I mean to go on: pogged

From this video you can deduce that K8 does the laundry in the house, as NL hung that rook to dry for like a week.

take a lesson with GM Gheesling

yo NL getting stumped by a normal Sicilian opening is kind of hilarious. The main reason Black plays the Sicilian is to trade their c-pawn for White's d-pawn after they play d4

1 Opening each for Black and White Pieces Offensive or Defensive. 🙂

That period of doing badly because you are addressing habits that got you to where you are but no longer work is deadly to anyone trying to get better. Risk of demoralization and stopping, or falling back on old habits and stagnating.

Next episode is reading time with nl. Where it's just an hour of reading and making dad jokes.

22:03 lmao

If you're looking to improve your opening, I recommend buying one or two opening courses on Levy's website. Upload the PNG files to chessable, and practicing the opening becomes as simple as flashcards.

Bro how do I start streaming and set up chess matches with homies like u?

NL i'm gonna name my future cat Tomo because of you. Also could Tomo get so camera time?

I don't think those numbers (CAPS was it?) represent the accuracy of play but rather the quality of your responses to your opponent's moves, hence the more than occasional high percentage in chaotic blitz games where everyone's playing like madman.

20:40 Bro... :D Could you not attacking their bishop while winnig the bishop, their queen or mate?

Start 100 simultaneous daily games, you only need to make one move per game every 24 hours and it's actually a really fun and stress free way of playing chess. Once you've made a move in one game it automatically switches to the next. edit: Just be sure to have a 5 second gap between clicks when spamming the play button otherwise you end up playing some people half a dozen times.

Open Sicilian: 1.e4 c5 2.nf3 nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.nxd4 nc6 Typical move order. However, as a 1900 player, I would suggest learning more positional chess, and middlegame theory, as opposed to studying openings. The only extent that you need to know openings before about 2000 is just so that when you leave the opening you're not in a lost position, other than that, it's much better to know what to do, and understand the IDEA behind your opening, rather than the theory (book moves) For example... "In the ruy lopez we're fighting for the center and pinning black's knight to contest central control, and the majority of the war is actually over the center while we focus on developing quickly. " is a lot better than knowing "1.e4 e5 2nf3 nc6 3 Bb5 etc..."

Poggeth

Northernlion

22:10 would be hilarious