“Ironic, he could protect others from The Grob but not himself”

**9 o clock central european time** Me: "IT'S TIME!" My roommate: "Time for what?" Me: "Time to get weird with it."

That “intermediate chess genius???” video was like a kiss of death, you hate to see it

win or lose, I'm here with my NL sign in the crowd

You know you're an egg dad when a 4K, 144hz, 32 Inch monitor is hindering your chess gaming and making you lose that precious ELO score

The Grob Attack... Attacked my ELO. It really did I'm at like 800 now. The Grob opening opened me up to failure.. a Faustian bargain indeed but worth it in the end

I don’t understand why I enjoy watching you play chess so much when I can watch Hikaru or another gm. But I just keep coming back and enjoying it here

18:25 This is a pattern worth remembering when you fianchetto your bishop! The queen-bishop battery that white has is a common theme - one thing they are threatening is Bh6 to remove your fianchetto bishop and therefore weaken the defence around your king. Ng4 is a great was to neutralise it.

It might be a while, but I beleive in NL. He'll become good again.

26:23 NL’s position here is so funky, and the pawn take was just magnificent.

Remember, sometimes you have to take a step back in order to take a step forwards in the future.

Common misconception is that “missed win” means missed mate. It could just mean missed capitalizing and getting a significant advantage 😁

At the 33:55 mark you had an amazing setup I think. Your queen (9 points) was essentially paralyzing their knight, rook, and bishop (11 points). To move any of those pieces at any point would mean losing 1 of the other pieces that does not move. Their currently "free to move" piece (dark squared bishop) can only help this situation by defending the knight. Which still means everything is stuck because if they move their knight, they lose the bishop. If they move the bishop they still lose the rook. They can move the rook, but nowhere useful.

Egg you can adjust the size of the board by using the little symbol just outside the top right on the board, next to the time. You can drag that to change the size whatever you'd like. Big love my dude

33:50 Queen to A4 is a blunder because your queen is ideally placed on C2. Your opponent couldn't move his rook, bishop and knight. If you want to improve your game, you should start to not only think "how to win a piece", but also think on "how to restrict your opponents pieces". If your opponent cant move, you are sure to win.

"We've got plenty of time, I'm not worried about time." Is always down at least 3 minutes at the end of the game.

Honestly, I wanted to write a comment about the inaccuracies in that Sicilian opening and the misunderstanding of tempo, but NL just looks tired. I hope everything is alright. Thank you for the good content, hope you're getting enough sleep and not letting the bad parts of the job get to you.

I appreciate the willingness to branch out and try new things in chess. Keep on pogging egg daddy.

“Let’s give it another try, let’s keep it moving” Video Ends 😢

26:25 that look said a whole lot. Well shit happens

Oh god I'm going through the same shit, but you'll come back stronger than before. Or not. Who knows.

I blame at 40:53 move 25... Qxa3 (at FEN "2b3k1/p5pp/5n2/2Bp1p2/1P2p3/P2qP1P1/3N1PBP/4K2R b K - 0 1" position). This is where everything went wrong. Not later moves. Position begs Ba6 instead of greedy pawn eating. Even Stockfish agrees. Komodo's f4 is garbage. Once battery is formed, it's unstoppable and white at best starts bleeding material as it no longer has time to castle. And it's very forcing. I'm surprised Egg didn't find the line. He had 3 minutes at that point.

The chess titles for the last week have been some variation of "I LOSE!"

at around 10:25 that was really strong analysis. The lines he chose are backed up by the computer and would have won him back the piece.

Went back and liked any chess videos I happened to have forgotten to on. I've followed you for 5, maybe 7 years, who knows. I've wanted to see you play chess and go on the real jeopardy. You're half way there, don't mess this up. P.S. your high intelligence and amazing memory is what I love. Ten minute chess is the lowest time you can go and talk through moves, you're still quickly finding yourself 3 min down the whole game, before you're even out of the early game. I do the same thing in my games, I'll play 4 half games in my head based on the early game that actually happened and then blunder 8 turns later because I don't have the time to run though plays after an unexpected move. Then you go shorter times and you don't even have time to say a midgame move was a blunder so we know here at home, because you're behind on time for talking through early game thoughts. If I'm ahead on time in my game my win rate is 8/10 compared to 3/10 when behind after early game. Not because I had fallen behind in pieces or development and needed to use time to find a best move. But because it's the midgame and I'm 2 minutes up because I pushed my time hard. Instead of overthinking early moves. I know you pushed for same with Gothenchess but your chess will be better if you build some openings. Play one way 20 games, figure out what you r best move is as each opponent takes a different development. That will help you know the answer to some moves I've watched you literally spend 2 minutes on. My opponent is playing faster, unable to check all the outcomes and will blunder, misclick, play a waiting move for time that gives me momentum. All because they need to keep every second because they don't know how far the end game is and need time for checks. I'd love to see you in a state tourny or something. You just have to put more priority on thinking about the game, maybe not taking so long explain a train of thought that plays in your head in a quarter second. Reading chat. Chess players point at pieces and say bang, that's enough info for me to see the action going on in game/your head. It's chess, a lot of new bad players out there who just like hearing ryab talk, sure, but I think if this becomes a long term series your main watchers will be people who watch EVERY video you put out, and people who want to get better at chess. You're very intelligent and you know those Russians figured out your elo is directly related to IQ. You're elo is way higher than mine so don't listen to me. Losing on time after telling a great story or something just doesn't do it for me. Your popularity with Issac was from playing well and talking the whole time. I don't want you to be on mom's heart telling a killer grocery story only to get hit because you wanted to see chat laughing and now the run is done, video is done, I barely remember the story and am left unsatisfied. I sound super critical, I'm sorry, , it's 5am on a sober all nighter, so grain of salt on tone. But I hope you understand it's because I have enjoyed watching your success. You've been a great virtual friend in a decade that was very busy for me. Thank you.

Hi Northernlion! I'm new to your channel, and if I'm being honest, I only watch your chess content. For what I've seen before, I don't think it's the best idea that you play the Dragon Sicilian: you are more of a maneuvering kind of player, and the Dragon it's about being really aggresive from the start, and where you need to study A LOT on how to get counterplay and not being inferior fast. If you want to play a Sicilian, I think you should check out the e6 sicilians: the Kan (a little bit slower), and the Taimanov (a little bit sharper), that would let you maneuver a little bit more. And even then, I think playing e5 against 1.e4, or the Caro-Kann, would suit you better.

giving up the triple lockdown (Knight, Bishop, and Rook) position your queen has at the end of the second game for free instead of putting pressure elsewhere with your free pieces killed me inside.

I had to look it up to make sure but "missed win" is not "missed mate." It just means a missed opportunity to get a big leap in win probability, like by going up a piece.

I don’t comment often on videos but i just want to say how much i am enjoying these chess videos !! Over all other games out there at the moment, i look forward to these chess videos the most. 😀

I always come back to these older chess videos to pog up.

there is an arrow thing on the bottom right corner and it lets you resize the board

Hey man, it happened to me too. I was at 1505 and dropped all the way to 1330. But its in those type of situations where you learn the most, and I'm now happily back at 1500. :)

always a learning phase with new openings

This is the best title I have ever read in my entire life!

Game one he did the accelerated dragon perfectly without even knowing it. Granted, the one he studied was the Najdorf, but I count that as a big win. Although, on the second game I'm pretty sure he was off book by move three on the Dutch. Maybe give King's Indian, nimzo Indian, or bogo Indian a look. The key in the Dutch Leningrad, aside from knowing the moves is to know when to break in the center. Specifically the e4-e5 squares. Also it might be scary to do a king side pawn storm when you're castled kingside but it can be a valid strategy in the Leningrad.

It's ok NL, my Elo is scrounging into the 1000s, pretty much maintaining my mid 900 rating atm. I desperately gotta learn more openings

I love watching your chess vids

That Travolta in Battlefield Earth impression was pitch perfect and only a handful of people will ever know.

Poor egg is so concerned about his ELO and doesn't realize we'd watch him play some 10 ELO pogged losses and love it.

"hes stealing my bicycle." Well if we didnt know that you lived in Vancouver before...

Btw NL you can probably just resize the browser window (or use Responsive/Mobile view) to get the board smaller.

@Northernlion In the Explorer if you go to the gear symbol, while highlighting it you will see a button appear underneath it to flip the board. Unknown why it is hidden.

When analyzing you can click "show lines" to show the best computer moves if you want them

NL if I can give you a suggestion: make your chrome window smaller. I play on an ultrawide curved monitor and I just have the chrome window with chess as less than half the width of the screen.

Hey nl love your vids. You should try the Vienna System/Gambit it's super fun.

29:50 He is thinking the board in his gourd

To have a great comeback, one must first have a great deficit. Stay strong Egg Father!!!

NL you aren't getting worse, you need to take a break. It only goes up after you take a little break. The same thing happened to me, I was skyrocketing in elo and then one day I just had loss after loss and the next week was basically the same thing and I thought, "I've lost my touch," I decided to take a break and when I came back I was playing much better, because my mindset wasn't focused on the losses but on how I could keep getting better. Even if you keep losing you can learn and if you aren't learning from your losses take a break and clear your mind of the game for a few days. When you come back I promise you will see a difference!

I'd love to see some more opening study stuff, just looking at non-database games, also do you know the Opening Tree website it's amazing, it shows you all the moves you've played arranged in a tree of moves and stats for all! Edit - also please don't just look at Master's Databases

Apparently I am unsubbed even though I've watched the channel for years. Interesting, youtube..

dunka glunka donka donka, honka honka badonkadonka

damn i was so pogged up but i've already seen it : (

Hover near the bottom right of the board, a little stretch symbol should show up. Click and drag to resize the board. I halved the size of my board and it's honestly helped me truckloads. You don't miss nearly as much stuff, in my experience.

Keep up the great content boss

I love how every bad play or devastating response happens right after NL comments on it

There should be settings on the site to shrink the chessboard and if everything fails, shrink chrome. *he said, expecting no technical development past the first 30 seconds of the vid*

Sad Splunkey & Chess were reruns today, but understandable. Have a nice day.

The chess arc has unleashed his true pogtential

You should try those 15|10 games. Those seem like a middle ground for learning and entertain.

"checks, captures, attacks" both sides, especially after the midgame

NL plays with literally zero aggression and lets his opponent dictate the game. L’s after L’s because he plays every game the same: opening, confusion, desperation, realization, loss.

33:27 doesn’t queen to c2 just win a piece?

You win some you lose some eggo! Still pogged out of my gourd for the content

I couldn't tell you why but I open the description on every chess video to read "the horse moves like an L"

Best series

You've got this NL!

The major difference in this losing skid is NL playing reactive and not proactive chess.

Ah yes. The standard dunka, glonka, monkaS play xD

fyi nl you can increase/decrease the size of the board by dragging the corner.

The key to improvement is playing at slower time controls.

26:25 was somehow really funny 😄

oh man, it hurt me that the video cuts when he says "lets give it another try, let keep it moving"

At 4:14 I don't know why you were so worried. I haven't watched the full video yet, but your knight protected that piece. If they took there you could take back. You'd have a good knight. And you'd of been able to make a more progressive move.

Thanks to NL i know what i means for a piece to be pinned and the concept of a discovered attack, but i still dont know any basic play patters because i dont play chess. So whenever he tries to hype up the board state i can only realize that i watch this man purely for his style of narration.

I'd watch an hour long game, I mean this video alone is 42 mins.

This incredible loss streak is kinda painful, you hate to see it

I'm feeling POGGY tonight

Honestly I feel like you're not doing as bad as you might think you are. There's always a decline when you're learning new things and trying to apply them until you're more comfortable. But once you are, you're gonna start shooting way up

That first guy did some computer moves for sure

Yo i might be biased towards clever girls, but i think you should try the raptor that Levy showed you! no real reason other than it sounds fun

Why not take ND4 w/ B? You had check to evade Queen capture

When was the last time nl played a ranked mode? Dips are common with online competitions especially when it's only over the course of several days some people drop hundreds of points in a single day in league of legends xDD special case that game is though

tfw he complained about the resize of the board on stream but my comment was lost in the wave :( Nl you can resize the chess board itself. Bottom right corner you can mouse over it and you can drag the symbol that appears. Right next to h1 if you're playing white or a8 if black

I'm a ~1450 and most of my opening knowledge comes from your videos. Get your ELO down to my level so we can have fun playing

he said lets keep it moving but the video ended :(

There was a move in the last position but you were v low on time to be fair

Try a game with increment... 15-10 or 10-05

You ever check out HangingPawns channel? He has a big course on the London system. May be of interest to you in free time. He goes over a few variations and how to handle different approaches black can take. Videos have stuff on the Dutch as well as King Indian. They do not change London system completely but give some ideas on things to do when facing off against different defenses. As well it really goes a long way in explaining the system

have u tried zooming in instead

You gotta get worse before you can get better. Learning openings is tough, and that shift in play is definitely hitting you hard, but i have faith it'll pog you up in the long run. Edit: i typed this too early lol the man acknowledged this fact already

you can tell his feelings are hurt when he loses

These titles are killing me lmao

Can’t spell progress without POG

Please put chat into future VODs, otherwise totally supportive of replacing most YT content with Twitch VODs.

Hoping he found out the board can be resized.

The London Accelerated is bad? I knew I shouldn't trust the Metro and should have stuck with owning a car.

I believe in your mind

It looks like some cracks are starting to form in your chess playing. Those games were over too easy for your opponents. Sometimes when your brain is scrambled from repeated losses, its best to lay back for a while until you have some time to hatch some new winning strategies. Dont worry, you'll be back to beating your opponents in no time!

London is simply op

At the start of the game/video when you played knight e5 and the opponent responded with f4, unfortunately it looks like you need to admit your mistake and move the knight back to c6. But did you see how much effort you put into getting out of the mess and how little effort you put in that put you in that mess? We all do this sometimes, but if you're commentating it seems like you need to be extra careful! At your level, that one positional innaccuracy can be enough to cost you the game. At best, you're going to be then fighting for equality. On another note, learning new openings, tactical motifs, and other ideas in chess can strangely temporarily reduce your ability to win because you're learning to apply new concepts. This is important to know so you don't think you're going backwards in progress.