I have followed and watched all the major chess channels on RUclips but yours is really the best when it comes to being actually educational. I love your approach and for a long time now, the only chess videos I watch are yours and my rating went up 150 points ever since. Thank you for your awesome content! Stay healthy and keep the great stuff up! P.S. Just joined your membership - can't help much but I want to support your work because you totally deserve that!
"Seekadett" is the German term for "naval cadet". The term derives from the German operatta "Der Seekadett" (1876) composed by Richard Genée in which the "Seekadett"-trap was introduced to the chess world. The original "Seekadett-Move" was first played by the French chess Player François Antoine de Legall (1702-1792) who, by the way, was the chess teacher of François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795) - famous for the so called "Philidor-Defence". Greetings from Germany where your contribution to the art of chess is highly appreciated!
Just recently reached 1000 ELO after a few weeks watching your rating climb and logical chess series. All I want to say is thank you for giving all this knowledge for free, and for being a great teacher.
Yesss let’s go Nelson the rating climb videos are my favorite, it helps beginners like me learn so much and I always get so much out of your explanations and thought processes 🙏
This is the channel I recommend to anyone for learning chess. You speak very clearly and explain, teach only a point at a time , not trying to overflow too many points like many chess youtubers which leads to nothing in the viewers head at the end. Thank you very much
Nelson: Normally when they play this way they want a quiet game. We can force them to have a messy game this way. Opponent: Psych! Triple down on the messiness.
Everytime Nelson asks what move should be done and I think of a move, he always goes "Hopefully you didn't say [insert what I just thought]", it's hilarious lol
Nelson, I have a request. We've seen the fishing-pole trap work several times, and I've since used it to great success (Thanks to you!). I'm wondering if you could quickly explain ways to exploit people playing it against you and counter the position? Say, opening up the rook on purpose, but expoiting their un-castled king? Or are the consequences of the trap unavoidable once you take the bishop? (Chess is complicated!) Thanks for all your work! Im an oldster getting into chess after learning as a kid, and you've been super helpful!
The last game you played was intense to watch! You referenced it as 'wild' and a 'mess' and i couldn't agree more! A pgn copy paste of 75% of my games. Just beautiful complications !!!
Started playing a few months ago and was terrible. Stuck at 300-400 for a bit, started watching your content and am up to 1100 and still climbing every day. Thanks for your great explanations!
Interesting climb, I've stayed stuck at 1100, I feel I'm playing better, but it's a balance between my mistakes and my opponent's. There's a plateau that's hard to overcome. How have you been eliminating the losses?
@@konroh2 i got to 700, learned the London and Englund gambit, from there when I would fall for a trap like the fried liver I would find a video on it as well as go into the explorer and play around with the position. @chessvibesofficial videos do a great job of teaching you to see tactics better and I try to add a new tool to my tool box with every one of his videos. I struggled with middlegame tactics so improving on seeing those helped a ton. I used to try to trade the queens off asap and go into an end game because I'm most confident in winning an even endgame but this rating climb has helped a ton with gaining an advantage and not blundering my middle game. I stopped playing 3 minute games and switched to 5 and 10 minutes games where I have more time and I think that helped as well.
Nelson, at 6:57 it seems like most of the lead in development that you'd worked to build has basically been undone. Can you talk about why this position is advantageous? Is it simply that you've gained the bishop pair? I know you mentioned that it matters that the rook is in the center instead of the corner, is it that simple? You have both bishops on starting squares, queen on starting square, and one rook on starting square, AND all your remaining pawns on their starting square! What was the purpose of the gambit?
The gambit didn't gain much there, but Nelson's not in trouble. It is a pretty equal position. Sometimes with a gambit if you get to equal with black that's a win.
These are the games I am playing repeatedly at 1200. Psycho opponents hell bent on attack and pressure, in these exact patterns. So good to see the counter play. Thanks Nelson, you are a diamond.
22:06 Love your content, this is just a suggestion. When you're opponent plays a move that opens them to a checkmate, please consider ending the game by playing it before taking a minute to talk about it. It let's them move on, and we still get to learn from you afterwards in the game review.
Yeah I was thinking "play the move, play the move!" Also, it's weird if you make a sacrifice then take a minute thinking of the obvious follow-up. I'd rather Nelson play his follow-up moves faster, since they should actually be explained when he sacrifices a piece.
Your channel is amazing! I just found it. I follow others, but when you play live games and show us how to react and think, it is super helpful. TY! Where do we get this book you are referring to?
Great video. Much better presentation than the videos that show you every shot. Would have been nice to have brief explanation of each broad head. I cannot identify most of those by a photo.
I could be wrong here Nelson. But in game 3 you had the bishop to C4, I saw the knight to C4 and when he moved the bishop D4 away, you had a fork on B2 with the knight. Love your vids. Thx
20:56 Black could have played d5, white would take with the bishop (Bxe5), and then black could have defended their knight with Bf5, leaving the knight to block the mate threat. Would that not work? (buying them more time to move the rook or add defenders around their king)
Game#3 was probably the toughest non-cheating opponent you faced the entire series! I honestly thought the game was going to result in a draw before that pawn blunder.
Question: do you have any videos pertaining to rook-related endgame tactics/principles for endgames like the scotch game you played? I'm 1150, fairly new to chess, and I find myself in very drawish looking endgame positions or imbalanced ones where I'm winning but one wrong king/rook/pawn move and I lose all advantage...I just had this winning endgame and the move recommended by the engine wasn't intuitive (considering my king wasn't "inside the box/square"). The know-how when it comes to rook, king, and pawn maneuvers in the endgame seem to be the dividing line a lot of the time
I noticed a lot of people move extremely fast. Some opponents will instantly recapture a piece without even considering alternative possibilities. Although the best move is most likely to recapture a captured piece but they don't even consider alternatives. I find that very interesting to me lol idk why
hi nelson, in the fourth game, after Bg4, could you have played Bxf7? after Kxf7, Ngf5+ looks brutal. obviously mate is better, but i dont know if i could resist playing Bxf7
At 8:51 why not b to e6? Then your queen to d7. Is not bx h3 a good threat? What do you think about sacrificing a minor piece to position queen on h3 unopposed in front of enemy's destroyed castle?
Yes most of the time. I have to set that option when I schedule it but lately I've been giving them early access to all my videos when I schedule them.
Nelson since you don't have much in the way of Black against e4, could you play the Pirc Defence and if White opens with e4, d4, Nc3, transition into the Czech Pirc Defence please??? 🥺
Its a matter of how Mr.Nelson plays. He pauses and thinks about each move to eliminate all blunders and also able to think what move the opponents make, even the ones playing really well like in the first game of this video eventually blundered when their queen went pawn hunting.
hey nelson, could you play the double pawn sacrifice goring gambit (basically like the double danish but with Nf3 Nc6) its a really cool opening and i want to see how a chess master plays it so like, e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 d4 exd4 c3 dxc3 Bc4 cxb2 Bxb2
at 21:11 black could have played d5 and after Bd5 followed up with Bf5. Yes you can win a piece but checkmate is avoided and you were already a piece down. Not sure what the evaluation is after that, but black avoids checkmate
In the third game. Why didn't play play Rb5 instead of Ra5? It contests white's only semi-open file and you can use it to start invading the other pawns.
I have followed and watched all the major chess channels on RUclips but yours is really the best when it comes to being actually educational. I love your approach and for a long time now, the only chess videos I watch are yours and my rating went up 150 points ever since. Thank you for your awesome content! Stay healthy and keep the great stuff up!
P.S. Just joined your membership - can't help much but I want to support your work because you totally deserve that!
Naroditsky is another excellent one, once you reach like 2000+ you will get more out of his channel
I come here to get mana, i watch his channel and go up in rating.
Yeah watching this channel alone has taken me from 300 to 500 and I was at 300 basically my whole life. It’s crazy
What's your rating
150 points mean nothing without knowing what it is
"Seekadett" is the German term for "naval cadet". The term derives from the German operatta "Der Seekadett" (1876) composed by Richard Genée in which the "Seekadett"-trap was introduced to the chess world. The original "Seekadett-Move" was first played by the French chess Player François Antoine de Legall (1702-1792) who, by the way, was the chess teacher of François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795) - famous for the so called "Philidor-Defence". Greetings from Germany where your contribution to the art of chess is highly appreciated!
So basically Sea Cadet
@@maximos905 pronounced zeh-cadet (not cicada date :P )
The opponent is all at sea when they fall for this trap 😂
I've watched 90% of your vdos. I rank this one a top 10. No frills. No contrived "excitement". Solid, instructional chess video. Thanks.
Just recently reached 1000 ELO after a few weeks watching your rating climb and logical chess series. All I want to say is thank you for giving all this knowledge for free, and for being a great teacher.
@@agentraydg839😂
This hour just flew by... Thank you!
Yesss let’s go Nelson the rating climb videos are my favorite, it helps beginners like me learn so much and I always get so much out of your explanations and thought processes 🙏
This is the channel I recommend to anyone for learning chess. You speak very clearly and explain, teach only a point at a time , not trying to overflow too many points like many chess youtubers which leads to nothing in the viewers head at the end. Thank you very much
Honestly. No one holds a candle to Nelson.
How I wish I had discovered him years ago!
It was cool to see the Sea Cadet Mate! I don't think I've ever seen that before.
sounds also like Seek a Debt lol
Between the Fishing Pole and the beautiful Sea Cadet Mate this has to be one of my favorite videos you've made.
Thanks for taking the time to make such great content. Really appreciate it!
Game 2 the checkmate options were Very educative! I would've definitely missed some of them. Thanks!
Nelson: Normally when they play this way they want a quiet game. We can force them to have a messy game this way.
Opponent: Psych! Triple down on the messiness.
lol
İ was actually bamboozled when he didn't even consider blocking with the pawn as a 1000~ rated myself this was my first choice
Everytime Nelson asks what move should be done and I think of a move, he always goes "Hopefully you didn't say [insert what I just thought]", it's hilarious lol
I love how down to earth he is and doesnt approach the game with a smug approach. A true gentleman
This one is actually one of the most useful video of the channel. Different kind of common positions and tactics patterns in them. Good job.
42:56 . . . . “Hold the phone !” I really thought you were gonna say something else !! 😂😂😂😂
Nelson, I have a request. We've seen the fishing-pole trap work several times, and I've since used it to great success (Thanks to you!). I'm wondering if you could quickly explain ways to exploit people playing it against you and counter the position? Say, opening up the rook on purpose, but expoiting their un-castled king? Or are the consequences of the trap unavoidable once you take the bishop? (Chess is complicated!)
Thanks for all your work! Im an oldster getting into chess after learning as a kid, and you've been super helpful!
The last game you played was intense to watch! You referenced it as 'wild' and a 'mess' and i couldn't agree more! A pgn copy paste of 75% of my games. Just beautiful complications !!!
Excellent video, very instructive!
Just reached 1400 at Rapid!!! Great video Nelson
Great content! Last game was wild.
Fishing pole, Sea Cadet, blue chessboard, this is a very nautical chess video
Started playing a few months ago and was terrible. Stuck at 300-400 for a bit, started watching your content and am up to 1100 and still climbing every day. Thanks for your great explanations!
Nice! 👍👍
Interesting climb, I've stayed stuck at 1100, I feel I'm playing better, but it's a balance between my mistakes and my opponent's. There's a plateau that's hard to overcome. How have you been eliminating the losses?
@@konroh2 i got to 700, learned the London and Englund gambit, from there when I would fall for a trap like the fried liver I would find a video on it as well as go into the explorer and play around with the position. @chessvibesofficial videos do a great job of teaching you to see tactics better and I try to add a new tool to my tool box with every one of his videos. I struggled with middlegame tactics so improving on seeing those helped a ton. I used to try to trade the queens off asap and go into an end game because I'm most confident in winning an even endgame but this rating climb has helped a ton with gaining an advantage and not blundering my middle game. I stopped playing 3 minute games and switched to 5 and 10 minutes games where I have more time and I think that helped as well.
@@ChessVibesOfficiallet's goooooo!!!
@@konroh2Same situation. Went from 400 to 1100 in like 2 months and never went any further. Maybe learning opening theories will help us
Nelson, at 6:57 it seems like most of the lead in development that you'd worked to build has basically been undone. Can you talk about why this position is advantageous? Is it simply that you've gained the bishop pair? I know you mentioned that it matters that the rook is in the center instead of the corner, is it that simple? You have both bishops on starting squares, queen on starting square, and one rook on starting square, AND all your remaining pawns on their starting square! What was the purpose of the gambit?
yea i think it's slight but black has the advantage cuz of those two things
The gambit didn't gain much there, but Nelson's not in trouble. It is a pretty equal position. Sometimes with a gambit if you get to equal with black that's a win.
Great content, not loaded with tactics and gambits. Play solid, know what’s going on and use “tricks” when they present themselves 👍
Thanks again Nelson for an extremely helpful video. I actually saw that f6 move on the last game! Think your lessons sinking in to my old brain!
My friend recommended this channel for beginners. he's good at explaining following this guy!
I love your videos! I've been learning A LOT by watching you! Thanks!
These are the games I am playing repeatedly at 1200. Psycho opponents hell bent on attack and pressure, in these exact patterns. So good to see the counter play. Thanks Nelson, you are a diamond.
Thanks for my Monday morning pleasure!
22:06 Love your content, this is just a suggestion. When you're opponent plays a move that opens them to a checkmate, please consider ending the game by playing it before taking a minute to talk about it. It let's them move on, and we still get to learn from you afterwards in the game review.
Yeah I was thinking "play the move, play the move!"
Also, it's weird if you make a sacrifice then take a minute thinking of the obvious follow-up. I'd rather Nelson play his follow-up moves faster, since they should actually be explained when he sacrifices a piece.
Very much appreciate and enjoy these videos!
I was waiting for this
wow that sea cadet mate was amazing
10:26 “Ooooooooh !! That’s exactly what I’m talkin’ about !” 😂😂😂
Almost Halloween. How fitting for the Halloween Gambit!
Fishing pole trap kinda insane
44:16 beautiful
57:46 "It's a beautiful one... " - the man is an artist!
Another instructive video , right at my rating ! Interesting to just play solid & see if there is a mistake ( then spot it !!! 🤣 )
Oh snap you're approaching my ELO at this time control, i'm gonna start playing this week and hope to run into Average Joe :)
43:54 played it 4 times!!! love it
Your channel is amazing! I just found it. I follow others, but when you play live games and show us how to react and think, it is super helpful. TY! Where do we get this book you are referring to?
20:30 ,here c6 and d5 by the opponent can save the knight, because if he takes the knight....he can fork the bishop and queen....All missed it
White can just play Qh7# after d5
Well, they misregarded that because... it does not work. Qh7#
Great video. Much better presentation than the videos that show you every shot. Would have been nice to have brief explanation of each broad head. I cannot identify most of those by a photo.
Your trading style is very refreshing compared to other traders out there
I could be wrong here Nelson. But in game 3 you had the bishop to C4, I saw the knight to C4 and when he moved the bishop D4 away, you had a fork on B2 with the knight. Love your vids. Thx
Sea mate checkmate is crazy😮 44:55
Excellent!
That c cadet mate was amazing!
33:23 F6 seems like move that stops the undoubling of the pawns and an equal trade.
Inspiring. The WORLD will be far better with people like Lilly and James.
What a beautiful mess the last game was. Actually good you missed f6 and went into the fried liver line. 😊
Hey Nelson I dare to try to beat Stockfish with 3 Minor Pieces against a Rook (use BBN) not NNB
20:56 Black could have played d5, white would take with the bishop (Bxe5), and then black could have defended their knight with Bf5, leaving the knight to block the mate threat.
Would that not work?
(buying them more time to move the rook or add defenders around their king)
I love the fact that you felt sad that your opponent blundered his queen.
Ive climbed to 1200 and now im stuck... my elo fluctuates from 1180-1220. Love watching these videos, you make it look so easy.
22:09 - I would sack the rook and then check mate with the queen on h7 :)
Have you considered doing this as a top ten list?
Game#3 was probably the toughest non-cheating opponent you faced the entire series! I honestly thought the game was going to result in a draw before that pawn blunder.
Cool as always, Nelly, but which part was the "quickly" part?
Great video.
24:44 Fun fact: Zwischenzug (pronounced „tsvishen-tzoog“) is just the German for „between-move“
Chess vibes, explaining everything i do wrong in chess.
Question: do you have any videos pertaining to rook-related endgame tactics/principles for endgames like the scotch game you played? I'm 1150, fairly new to chess, and I find myself in very drawish looking endgame positions or imbalanced ones where I'm winning but one wrong king/rook/pawn move and I lose all advantage...I just had this winning endgame and the move recommended by the engine wasn't intuitive (considering my king wasn't "inside the box/square"). The know-how when it comes to rook, king, and pawn maneuvers in the endgame seem to be the dividing line a lot of the time
Thank you teacher ❤
44:58 another gambit would be if you sacrifice another pawn then your both bishop looks at the kingside
58:52 I thought F6 was the better move instead of Bishop E7 in that situation, nice to see stockfish confirmed it.
Best line for black against the evans gambit:
7. Nf6 8. e5, d5 9. exf6, dxc4 10. fxg7, Rg8 11. Re1+, Be6 12. Bg5, Qd5 13. Nbd2, Rxg7 14. Ne4, Rg6 15. Nh4, Rxg5 16. Nf6+, Ke7 17. Nxd5+, Rxd5
White could also play 8. Ba3 but nearly nobody is playing that.
49:05 Almost fried liver attack. If white goes for Qg4+? Repeat with Kf8 or go Kd7 and what about Knb5+?
what program or engine are you playing with? I love it and want to get involved!
Hello! Nelson ❤
good chess vibes
I believe that 2nd to last game is called "legal's mate" learned it many years ago
I noticed a lot of people move extremely fast. Some opponents will instantly recapture a piece without even considering alternative possibilities. Although the best move is most likely to recapture a captured piece but they don't even consider alternatives. I find that very interesting to me lol idk why
hi nelson,
in the fourth game, after Bg4, could you have played Bxf7? after Kxf7, Ngf5+ looks brutal. obviously mate is better, but i dont know if i could resist playing Bxf7
I laughed out loud at 49:18 "and that's why this is a total mess"
At 8:51 why not b to e6? Then your queen to d7. Is not bx h3 a good threat? What do you think about sacrificing a minor piece to position queen on h3 unopposed in front of enemy's destroyed castle?
Hey Nelson
Do members have early access to rating climb videos?
yes i think
Yes most of the time. I have to set that option when I schedule it but lately I've been giving them early access to all my videos when I schedule them.
@@ChessVibesOfficialit's no wonder I've seen anyone's comments were from few days ago just cause they're members when the video just come out
Nelson since you don't have much in the way of Black against e4, could you play the Pirc Defence and if White opens with e4, d4, Nc3, transition into the Czech Pirc Defence please??? 🥺
Chess Vibes don’t respond to comments.
@@anonym5160 He responds to some comments.
Wow your stream quality is awesome
QUESTION: How is it that at the 1000 level, NOBODY I play blunders their Queen but 1200's blunder against Nelson???
Its a matter of how Mr.Nelson plays. He pauses and thinks about each move to eliminate all blunders and also able to think what move the opponents make, even the ones playing really well like in the first game of this video eventually blundered when their queen went pawn hunting.
Or you just dont notice that they're blundering their Queen... We've all had games like that.
hey nelson, could you play the double pawn sacrifice goring gambit (basically like the double danish but with Nf3 Nc6) its a really cool opening and i want to see how a chess master plays it
so like, e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 d4 exd4 c3 dxc3 Bc4 cxb2 Bxb2
What is the app your using to analyze your games
Hey Nelson are you planning on doing blitz/bullet for this account?
rodeain was waiting on you to resign and still has no idea what just happened a day later
Nelson always seems like a disappointed dad when his opponent's blunder.
I notice that whenever someone blunders their queen, they immediately lash out foolishly. Or resign. Chess can be a mind f
Can you try the bird’s opening with White? I play it and it’s a lot of fun!
Can you do the Caro kann?
41:58 Bxf7+, KxBf7, Kxg5+ to win the bishop QxBg4?
Fun games!
at 21:11 black could have played d5 and after Bd5 followed up with Bf5. Yes you can win a piece but checkmate is avoided and you were already a piece down. Not sure what the evaluation is after that, but black avoids checkmate
agree...
Nelson went from chess you tuber to sea cadet
Can u play some king Indian defence want to learn some of the lines
10:27 I actually anticipated that the opponent takes the "free" pawn on b7 😂
Lol.
What exactly is free about that pawn?😂😂
@@amaechivictor2292 Obviously it is not, but is easy to overlook, that the Queen is defending it
49:43 You are attacking the queen after you move the king so he can't take your knight
In the third game. Why didn't play play Rb5 instead of Ra5? It contests white's only semi-open file and you can use it to start invading the other pawns.
Never learned so much from a chess video.