My son and I just got the book! He might only be 4, but he’s getting really good and he insists your videos are the best to learn from, so thank you for all the great work!
Lol started at a similar age, just start with the pawn and king mini game and see if he is in to it. Do lose sometimes to make him feel like he plays good, even though you can destroy him 1000/1000 times
Great videos, I watched every rapid rating climb stream that you've done in the past, helped me reach from 300 to1200 elo in 2 months ❤ I hope for more streams, really helpful for beginners to intermediate players.
These are right up there with some of the best instruction videos/series for chess on all of RUclips. You should be proud. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I struggle to read through chess books and capture the information well. I sure hope you continue doing this for other well known books. I already had this one and have extracted more information from your past three videos than I did reading the whole book. If I can make one suggestion - please try to keep your thumbnails consistent when they are a part of a series. The little symbol that you used to describe a study should ideally be placed in the same location within thumbnail for easy spotting, and the consistent part of the title (name of the series) should ideally come first, with the descriptive part of the title being last. For this video it would be 12 Chess principles Ep. 3 - How to win with d4 etc etc. makes it easier to spot as well. I cannot wait for more videos and more books from you. You are an excellent teacher. Thank you very much
"Hey Nelson, just wanted to drop by and express my gratitude for your amazing chess principles series! Your insights have truly elevated my game. I'd love to see you tackle the topic of chess calculations in a future video. Keep up the fantastic work!"
Please upvote so he sees-- The playlist is backwards. so if you start at video 1, the next recommended/autoplay is not the next in sequence, its like "Oh heres episode 7 after 1"
Thank you Nelson, you are an amazing teacher. I learn a lot from your summary of books. I have a few books of my own but it’s hard for me to learn from them by myself. I would like if you would summarize ‘How to reassess your chess’ or maybe make a video explaining imbalances 🙏🏻😁
I suppose the London opening was a modification of the Colle opening. I’ve always felt one of the best ways to defend against the London is to castle to the queen side, provided you haven’t moved the pawns on that side. Similar to this opening where the pieces are mostly aimed towards blacks king side.
maybe another category. A waiting move, you like your position so much you don't want to it to change. Waiting for your oponent to either commit to a losing position or make a mistake
Also, a diversion, which pretends to be one of the 4, but is only used to take attention from the real attack. Might not work on a good player, but I can definitely fall for it.
Great piece. Once played Colle system, I won but I didn't quite get how I won. Glad you actually explained. I didn't play the tricky moves you did, but my arsenal got a boost now. 🔥✌️
When Nelson played h4 at 20:18 I was actually considering f4 as more promising move because it does just the same job as h4 but also opens line for white Rook on f1. The drawback is that f4 limits Bishop on h6 but it is not much of an issue.
Hey man, I really enjoy these videos and your explanations, as well as the moments where I can pause and try and figure it out. You make the game really clear and easy to follow. Keep up the good content!
I’m a (bad) Colle player. When I get it to work for me, is when I can play c4, almost like a Queen’s Gambit as a side dish. That locks up the Queen side, so I get the position in the video, where Black castles right into the hell I’m preparing to unleash. When Black caves it in on me, is usually when I push e3-e4, Black takes, then shoves e5, forking the Knight on f3 and my light-square bishop on d3. Timing is everything with the Colle for me. If I time my emergence from the opening into the mid game correctly, it works for me. That’s a work in progress.
Roberto's book, Tratado General de Ajedrez, was updated by Oscar Panno and is one of the best books about chess ever written. It is a shame that no translation was ever made. I have the algebraic version and the descriptive one. For no beginners, one can start with volume 2. The collection (4 volumes) is better than most treatises about chess.
5:22 i would like to add that a lot of openings you might not immediately think of are very reliant on the c-pawn like the Caro-Kann. You get similar pawnstructures a lot of the time and for the black side c5 is pretty much your most important pawn advancement and pawn break in a lot of positions since the caro kann transposes into a d4 opening pretty much immediately. Example: 1. e4 c6 2. d4! d5. And when white plays the advanced variation with 3. e5 your gameplan with black is to play c5 at some point or immediately to challenge the center.
Can you please make a playlist with all of these videos (of this specific book series) in it? That way we can easily find it! I'd be very appreciative. Ty for all you do! I am LOVING this series!!!
Instead of trading the knight right away you could move the bishop to b1 and then move the queen to b2 and then when you trade the knight, whichever way black captures it will be checkmate the next move.
2:01 when we take with the bishop, rook takes and we take with the knight, the check is with the queen, we go back and they play e4. Here’s the question when we played g4, can’t they capture the pawn with their bishop because the h3 pawn is pinned to the rook? I think that’s why stockfish just lets black take the knight
Nelson, I am late to the party, and am just now going thru the book so I don’t know if you will go back and answer this. On move (3) e3 wouldn’t it be better to move Bd3 first so black can’t play Bf6 to keep you out. Thereby keeping your powerful bishop on d3? Then move e3 on your fourth move?
Against both Colle and London when we get this early structure with pawns on e3-d4 and d5-c5 and Nf6, often also accompabied by Nf3 (and Bf4 in the London), I always go cxd4. I just am used to playing it from the Sicilian, but this time it's a Karlsbad Caro-Kann and it can become quite tricky for White on the queenside. Still I don't think I've met opponents strong enough to understand the minority attack and so far I've never lost in those games, but I don't know if we'll ever see something that complicated in this book.
I’m curious as to how you memorized the squares and can so quickly recognize E4(and so on) as their label without counting. Is there an exercise you did to help? Or is it just from playing so much chess?
There was an old Russian guy that went to the same tournaments as me growing up. He always insisted on using his own board against whoever he played. His board didn't have any notation markings on the sides...The day I was paired against him was the day I learned. 😉 But to answer your question, lots of practice and eventually you start realizing the common moves (like white knights going to f3 and c3 and black knights to f6 and c6) and then just build from there!
5:50 thanks for that tip. I almost always lose to d4 players(unless they are really bad in the middlegame or endgame). 12:15 I always try to bait my opponent into moving the pawns in front of their king and sac a piece to open up their king 14:36 ... I was thinking of Nxf7:(
Little addition to the four types of moves that your opponent can make. I would say if you can't identify the move as development, attack or defense and it looks like a mistake consider that it might be a tactical setup or a tactical sacrafice. And only if you're certain it's neither, it's probably a blunder.
The chess principle is to Castle early; however, in these videos in looks like castling is easy to attack. Can you explain the strategy behind which way to Castle or when not to castle?
Thank you for your videos, you are my favorite chess youtuber. You had a video where you talked about an app game you can download that allows you to practice knight moves. I cant find it now, what was the name of that app? Thanks.
There is no need to solidify an attack, the first thing you should prioritise is your development, and the quick development of 2 bishops and a knight Is better than the the development of the rook and solid attack for no reason.
Yeah in some cases the b2 pawn is actually a weakness that can be a problem for white. Also the bishop on f4 can sometimes get chased around by black's pawns but that's not so in the Colle.
At around the time 18:33, white takes the pawb on h6, black plays queen to f6 and then take the bishop on g7 with a fork and you win the rook and you force the queen away. Why cant you do that?
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This is the book that got me into chess as a teenage some 30 years ago, checked it out at my local library and I went through it page by page with my own chess set to visualize the positions and moves. Thank you for bringing this great book to the masses again.
My son and I just got the book! He might only be 4, but he’s getting really good and he insists your videos are the best to learn from, so thank you for all the great work!
He’s gonna be a gradmaster one day listening to Nelson! :))
No problem! I started chess at 4 also!
Lol started at a similar age, just start with the pawn and king mini game and see if he is in to it. Do lose sometimes to make him feel like he plays good, even though you can destroy him 1000/1000 times
Great videos, I watched every rapid rating climb stream that you've done in the past, helped me reach from 300 to1200 elo in 2 months ❤ I hope for more streams, really helpful for beginners to intermediate players.
Great to hear!
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Whats ur elo now
Now?
You are the goat, I suck at chess, and this principles are the ways I improve.
Here is a trophy for your hard work and dedication: 🏆
Just because he's a NM doesn't mean you're suck at Chess.🙂
You might have secret special abilities in Chess.👏🏻
These are right up there with some of the best instruction videos/series for chess on all of RUclips. You should be proud. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I struggle to read through chess books and capture the information well. I sure hope you continue doing this for other well known books. I already had this one and have extracted more information from your past three videos than I did reading the whole book.
If I can make one suggestion - please try to keep your thumbnails consistent when they are a part of a series. The little symbol that you used to describe a study should ideally be placed in the same location within thumbnail for easy spotting, and the consistent part of the title (name of the series) should ideally come first, with the descriptive part of the title being last. For this video it would be 12 Chess principles Ep. 3 - How to win with d4 etc etc. makes it easier to spot as well.
I cannot wait for more videos and more books from you. You are an excellent teacher. Thank you very much
"Hey Nelson, just wanted to drop by and express my gratitude for your amazing chess principles series! Your insights have truly elevated my game. I'd love to see you tackle the topic of chess calculations in a future video. Keep up the fantastic work!"
Dude used ai to type gratitude 💀💀💀
@@Chomta nah my math teacher thought me grammer
@@EXROthechoosenone I think you forgot to remove quotations after copying from chatgpt
@@EXROthechoosenone btw 2+2
@@EXROthechoosenone btw 2+2=8
My English teacher taught me maths
Very nice instructive video, it kind of fills inn some holes where the middlegame is where my more weak side is.
Please upvote so he sees--
The playlist is backwards. so if you start at video 1, the next recommended/autoplay is not the next in sequence, its like "Oh heres episode 7 after 1"
There's a lot packed into these episodes. Excellent job, Nelson!!
This is a good lecture. I am a London player, but now I will look into Colle as well. Thank you!
Thank you Nelson, you are an amazing teacher. I learn a lot from your summary of books. I have a few books of my own but it’s hard for me to learn from them by myself. I would like if you would summarize ‘How to reassess your chess’ or maybe make a video explaining imbalances 🙏🏻😁
It's always an amazing morning, waking up to a brand new video from Chess Vibes. To everyone here, hope you have an amazing day!
Colle took me to 1600 back in 89 (all we had was books and chess life). But the 1700s made short work of it.
Thanks Nelson - there is a lot of chess content on here and your videos have been the most helpful for me! Looking forward to the rest of this series
I really enjoy this series this far. Thanks for putting it out there.
Great series. Really enjoying playing through the games and then watching your vids to reinforce the concepts! Thanks for sharing!
I suppose the London opening was a modification of the Colle opening. I’ve always felt one of the best ways to defend against the London is to castle to the queen side, provided you haven’t moved the pawns on that side. Similar to this opening where the pieces are mostly aimed towards blacks king side.
such great tactics Nelson! i love Chess principles series!
maybe another category. A waiting move, you like your position so much you don't want to it to change. Waiting for your oponent to either commit to a losing position or make a mistake
Also, a diversion, which pretends to be one of the 4, but is only used to take attention from the real attack. Might not work on a good player, but I can definitely fall for it.
Thanks for this series, nice idea to go through books adding more comments!
Great piece. Once played Colle system, I won but I didn't quite get how I won. Glad you actually explained. I didn't play the tricky moves you did, but my arsenal got a boost now. 🔥✌️
at 12:26 why doesnt black just play knight to e4 trading knights then bishop to g5 taking the other knight and he’ll be up a piece?
i see now that when queen takes back on e4 its mate in one is that why
this is why im 1000💀
When Nelson played h4 at 20:18 I was actually considering f4 as more promising move because it does just the same job as h4 but also opens line for white Rook on f1. The drawback is that f4 limits Bishop on h6 but it is not much of an issue.
Hey man, I really enjoy these videos and your explanations, as well as the moments where I can pause and try and figure it out. You make the game really clear and easy to follow. Keep up the good content!
Really enjoying the series. Have had the book on my shelf for 30+ years, am getting back into chess.
Thank you, brother!
I’m a (bad) Colle player. When I get it to work for me, is when I can play c4, almost like a Queen’s Gambit as a side dish. That locks up the Queen side, so I get the position in the video, where Black castles right into the hell I’m preparing to unleash.
When Black caves it in on me, is usually when I push e3-e4, Black takes, then shoves e5, forking the Knight on f3 and my light-square bishop on d3.
Timing is everything with the Colle for me. If I time my emergence from the opening into the mid game correctly, it works for me. That’s a work in progress.
Thank you Nelson. Your lessons are really excellent and also fun. Chess lovers appreciate your work. 😊
Thank you Nelson! Great lessons. I got the book and am excited to go through it with you and all of my friends here.
Roberto's book, Tratado General de Ajedrez, was updated by Oscar Panno and is one of the best books about chess ever written. It is a shame that no translation was ever made. I have the algebraic version and the descriptive one. For no beginners, one can start with volume 2. The collection (4 volumes) is better than most treatises about chess.
5:22 i would like to add that a lot of openings you might not immediately think of are very reliant on the c-pawn like the Caro-Kann. You get similar pawnstructures a lot of the time and for the black side c5 is pretty much your most important pawn advancement and pawn break in a lot of positions since the caro kann transposes into a d4 opening pretty much immediately. Example: 1. e4 c6 2. d4! d5. And when white plays the advanced variation with 3. e5 your gameplan with black is to play c5 at some point or immediately to challenge the center.
Can you please make a playlist with all of these videos (of this specific book series) in it? That way we can easily find it! I'd be very appreciative.
Ty for all you do! I am LOVING this series!!!
Instead of trading the knight right away you could move the bishop to b1 and then move the queen to b2 and then when you trade the knight, whichever way black captures it will be checkmate the next move.
in the 21:17 - I would play Rfe1 , and in case he slides the queen to d6, putting the other rook to d1 would basically disable the queen. Right ?
I'm really enjoying this series. I ordered the book today too. I've learned a lot
2:01 when we take with the bishop, rook takes and we take with the knight, the check is with the queen, we go back and they play e4.
Here’s the question when we played g4, can’t they capture the pawn with their bishop because the h3 pawn is pinned to the rook?
I think that’s why stockfish just lets black take the knight
Nelson, I am late to the party, and am just now going thru the book so I don’t know if you will go back and answer this. On move (3) e3 wouldn’t it be better to move Bd3 first so black can’t play Bf6 to keep you out. Thereby keeping your powerful bishop on d3? Then move e3 on your fourth move?
20:41 g4 and g5 checkmate, why is h4 better?
Why does the quiet move bf4 not work @ 19:53?
8:46 Is it okay to castle queenside if your pawns are advanced? If so, why?
Super video once again nelson. I think I should get the book.
I really like your videos. They have been helping me get better at chess. Thank you!
Against both Colle and London when we get this early structure with pawns on e3-d4 and d5-c5 and Nf6, often also accompabied by Nf3 (and Bf4 in the London), I always go cxd4. I just am used to playing it from the Sicilian, but this time it's a Karlsbad Caro-Kann and it can become quite tricky for White on the queenside. Still I don't think I've met opponents strong enough to understand the minority attack and so far I've never lost in those games, but I don't know if we'll ever see something that complicated in this book.
I’m curious as to how you memorized the squares and can so quickly recognize E4(and so on) as their label without counting. Is there an exercise you did to help? Or is it just from playing so much chess?
There was an old Russian guy that went to the same tournaments as me growing up. He always insisted on using his own board against whoever he played. His board didn't have any notation markings on the sides...The day I was paired against him was the day I learned. 😉 But to answer your question, lots of practice and eventually you start realizing the common moves (like white knights going to f3 and c3 and black knights to f6 and c6) and then just build from there!
Nelson question: at 16:08 the move that Stockfish finds for black Nxd4! What rating would someone most likely be to find that move?
These videos are amazing thank you!❤
Great vid Sir
Ah yes, a comment from SeaCow 0:25
I would consider that move a mistkae
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5:50 thanks for that tip. I almost always lose to d4 players(unless they are really bad in the middlegame or endgame).
12:15 I always try to bait my opponent into moving the pawns in front of their king and sac a piece to open up their king
14:36 ... I was thinking of Nxf7:(
plz put this series in playlist
Little addition to the four types of moves that your opponent can make. I would say if you can't identify the move as development, attack or defense and it looks like a mistake consider that it might be a tactical setup or a tactical sacrafice. And only if you're certain it's neither, it's probably a blunder.
The chess principle is to Castle early; however, in these videos in looks like castling is easy to attack. Can you explain the strategy behind which way to Castle or when not to castle?
Thank you for your videos, you are my favorite chess youtuber. You had a video where you talked about an app game you can download that allows you to practice knight moves. I cant find it now, what was the name of that app? Thanks.
21:27 - how about dxe5#?
8:05 why did he push e4 right away he could have also moved his rook to e1 before he pushed the pawn to solidify the attack
There is no need to solidify an attack, the first thing you should prioritise is your development, and the quick development of 2 bishops and a knight Is better than the the development of the rook and solid attack for no reason.
Thanks for this series . I have only one question whats the difference between h4 and f4 after Bxh6 Rhg8 my guess a tactic with the Qb6+
21:20 What if we take on e5?✋🏻
Nice Video again!
nelson i love your videos very much thank you🎖🏆🏅🥇🥇🥇🥇♟
the colli seems like a copy of the london system but worse.Why would anyone play it nelson?
Not an expert on d4 openings, but Bc1 protects b2, which the London doesn't have. I'm sure there are more reasons too.
Yeah in some cases the b2 pawn is actually a weakness that can be a problem for white. Also the bishop on f4 can sometimes get chased around by black's pawns but that's not so in the Colle.
At around the time 18:33, white takes the pawb on h6, black plays queen to f6 and then take the bishop on g7 with a fork and you win the rook and you force the queen away. Why cant you do that?
I think black queen and king are both defending g7 bishop. So it would just be an even trade
where is the episode 2 of the series? I can't find it. Can you please clearly put something in the title that could be easier to find
Ne.nelson,if castle on queen side,the pawns are pushed,Knights are stuck,how you can say that queen side is better
Have got the soviet chess primer and struggling to read any tips nelson
Great 👍 information 😅
Sometimes I have read the chapter and still don’t know which move to play. Bh5 is one I would not normally see or consider so good to know.
I like the Queen’s Gambit
Too many principles to remember. For me, just find ways to eat and mate more! ❤❤
5th category, positional? Also 6th passive?
1:07 a mistake or a *mistkae?*
Will this book be sold in other country?
CCTP Check Capture Threat and Pawn Break
In the second game after Nxa5 Rxa5 Bxa5 Qa4+ dont u just have b4?
In game 2 a5 should be incorrect because after nxa5 rxa5 bxa5 and after the fork qa4+ black can counterfork with b5.
What's up Nelson?👋🏻
I hope you have a great day.🙏🏻
In Game 3 after Black ''played'' e5, how about Bg5?☝🏻
Same doubt
Why not B H5 on principle 10 before you did B H4. That would skewer the king and the queen?
I'm from Iran where did I could find this book?
If Nf5 was played then bishop captures knight and after the recapture that is where the loose knight falls to the horizontal queen sideswipe.
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I made 2 brilliant moves in same game using colle system
Why can't you play Neg5 instead of Nfg5 because Neg5 opens up the light squared bishop and potentially we can might a greek gift sacrifice.
Good question! Will try to answer this in the next episode!
5th category could be a bluff or distraction
This is the book that got me into chess as a teenage some 30 years ago, checked it out at my local library and I went through it page by page with my own chess set to visualize the positions and moves. Thank you for bringing this great book to the masses again.
i use this system an lost when black played bishop an took my rook?
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Bf5 and g6 opening lines counter Colle so it's too situational.
& the continue line
Sometimes they are planning to pin queen
Can we find logical chess in chrome
At minute 12, if you trade knights, isnt there just a greek gift, totally winning the game?
do I get like? As I’m doing homework number 4,
How do you manage to go back to game 1 and STILL not notice that after a6, a5 no longer works due to Nxa5 Rxa5 Bxa5 Qa4+ b5!
@@ashleyharris4114 Not so deep at 1:50 of this video.
The Colle System is a dog of an opening.
The Collie system?
Why isn't Nelson a bot yet.
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Absolutely love it! I ordered book. And I really like how you explaining all moves why it's bad and why it's good. Keep going 😌♟️❤️