One knight has 8 possible moves. Two knights have 16.On the second move it's 16x16 (yes I know this is bad arithmetic) and no human brain can keep up with that.
@@shadeburst well, one part of it is the combined number of squares they can move to, but the main thing is that they can fork anytime and anywhere if they are on different-colored squares, especially next to each other.
My old boss played chess in Kansas. He met a queens odd player there who used his knights a lot, and as a result he preferred to keep them over bishops. 🤷♂️ The guy could also play with his back turned if that tells you anything. Mark Wood if memory serves.
If you're thinking, "The book goes through everything move by move, so why watch this?" For one thing, Nelson has the luxury of diving deeper into the games than does Chernev. Another is that it reinforces the lessons via a different medium. Third, Nelson, like the author, has an easy-to-understand manner of explanation. This series has greatly enhanced the value I've received from the book.
This book series is great! You are one of my three go-to chess channels for me personally learning the game, and yours is the one I send people to the most, by far. Your Beginner Chess Course and Endgame Course (both in the Playlists) are THE way for beginners to learn the basics, and all for free. 👍👍
21:13 After Nb6, if you try to capture the knight with Kb7, black has the great move Na8! Then if white plays Kxa8, black plays Kc8! Then the white king is trapped and you get a stalemate in a few moves.
Wow, I was wondering myself what would have been wrong with kb7 at that point instead of sacking the pawn. What a great find for black that would have been. Thanks for explaining that!
'Logical Chess move by move' was one of my first, most cherished and instructive chess books. It was first published in 1957. I probably didn't have a first edition (I had a paperback version) but I purchased it approximately 55 years ago!
I recently started playing chess again at 21 ( very old in the chess world i know lol) after stopping at 6 as i had no one to teach me. I doubt youll read this nelson but i think you make the best educational content on this app, thank you for resparking my love of chess, and ive also already noticed major improvements in my play.
As a 1000 rated player, this is exactly my play style. Nelson's clear explanation kinda makes this content even more helpful and relevant to me. Thank you, and wish you all the best for the next session of breaking 1500 lessons
Wow, interesting game. As a low 950-1000 rated player, I see this all the time and I usually crumble against such early pressing attacks. So interesting how the great players see so much more and never falter against such attacks. Also, I think I made every endgame error that you presented. Clearly, I have much to learn.
I have a similar ranking. I don't really struggle with that as I play e4, aiming for Scotch but have really studied the Scandi which is about 20% of responses. I often get to something like the "winning" position at 8:34 or. even better get to be a piece up. I then struggle because I lack Tarrasch' patience and still lose a fair percentage of games. Have you tried 3. Nf3 rather than the technically more accurate 3.Nc3. Most Blacks at this level find it very confusing and if you know how to proceed ...
Buy a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy! I don't panic unnecessarily and then hoo boy do I panic. Keep playing solid chess and wait for opponent to make a blunder, but think very carefully before you take that undefended rook. It's a trap!
13:20 - what do you move here ? me: pawn to b5 Nelson: I hope, I HOPE ... you didn't say pawn to b5 :)) 16:13 - enemy king's going back me: I still want to play b5 :))) 18:24 - Nelson: I now .... me: play b5 :)) 19:50 - me: .... b5 ? :) Nelson: try to think me ... rook e8 Nelson: you have to sack the rook, because you are in check :)))
This video should be helpful because I noticed a lot of people around my level attack way too early. Its easy to panic or get annoyed against overly aggressive play and end up blundering. White's patience in this game is very instructive.
Very nice, these videos are instructive. Keep doing materials for beginners, so helpful. I want to make less blunders and avoid loosing on aggressive openings
I love the what move would you do here "puzzles". I feel they are more useful than the tactics puzzles. Nelson, I think a great series of videos would be non-stop positional puzzles and explanations.
15:04 I can’t believe that I intuited the right move! Granted, my logic was just, “I don’t see a good move, let’s push.” I definitely didn’t see the trap coming.
That's awesome! I hope there is no copyright issues with you showing us these games...! Very instructive game, the kind of game that really makes you less of a patzer and more of a serious and stronger player! The only CRUCIAL variation that was not analyzed but it should have been, is this: 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 e5 5. Nf3 e4 6. Ne5 f6 7. Bb5+ c6 8. Qh5+ g6 9. Nxg6 hxg6 10. Qxh8 Be6 11. Be2 Basically what happens after move 5 where we play Nf3 and Black does go e5 - we have to play Ne5, and if f6 is played (attacking our knight on e5) we have a great combination starting with Bb5+ and after c6 blocking, yes we have 2 pieces under attack, but we play the beautiful Qh5+, g6 is forced, then we sacrifice our knight with Nxg6 and this is a typical idea... Black has to take our knight with hxg6 and we take the room, Qxh8, and black has no time to take our hanging bishop on b5 because his own knight is hanging on g8
another great logical chess series Nelson! lesson learned: never play Scandinavian when it has 3 drawbacks! @19:18 sacrifice the ROOOOOK even it's the endgame, Andy the A-pawn will promote to queen!
Also worth noting: at 11:48 and (less critically) at 17:32 the W King goes diagonal to the B Knight which would thus need three moves to find an annoying check
Nelson, are you not doing anymore Martin challenges? In the event you still are, I thought of one. You can only move pawns for the first 15 moves and after that you can play normally. If that is too easy, well then bump up the pawn moves to 20 or whatever.
Hi Nelson please can you explain this- i was watching your 30th September live steam and at exactly 1:44:51 time there was a move which kh3 that could have stopped the checkmate ( I'm sure) but you didn't discussed that can you explain that in your next video or in this comment section 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
My move was B5 thinking it was correct. How wrong I was after you showed the Checkmate for Black. Man, this game is complicated. How do these NM's and GM's see all this!
4:14 - 4:15 I saw that Nelson! Principle #4 changes from "Black has attacked before being completely developed to completed developed" lol. What happened there? Maybe you are seeing who is paying attention to the stuff on the right (; 16:26 - 16:27 too, oopponets lol OOP--
Can you or anyone else reading this comment recommend the first book I should go and read. I’m really stuck at around 7-800 epo. I don’t know any actual good openings or tactics. I’m really keen to improve but don’t really know where to start from here I’ve been playing multiple games daily for the past two years and going really not forward or backwards
I know that after sacrificing two pieces for a rook and two pawns, it will be difficult in the endgame when the opponent pairs their knight. Only the strong maneuvering can win you in the end game with the odds of two knights.
9:40 After Nxa7+ i actually reached this position in my head but thought that after playing Rd1 you threaten a discovered attack on the rook. After black takes your knight you can throw in Nc6+ giving up another knight but getting the rook which is now placed super actively and prevents the black knight from ever developing and you're already ready to double up. Probably not quite as bad, and i'm sure there are other ways for black to diffuse the situation but that is what i thought.
I would have gone hyper aggressive. Take the center pawn, bishop g5, queen d8. This wouldn'y work on a strong player, but it will work 90% of the time on a player that blocks their own rooks!
Early in the game, what if black's centre pawn keeps pushing forward on the e file, attacking the white knight on f3, forcing the knight back to d2, then attacking it again?
I pushed B5 and sneak the king instead of the pawn on b6 :) 900 rating here. The problem is I cannot calculate all the jumps of the knight until I fail to get a queen lol
No hate, but.. isnt a draw better than a black win? @martinsederholm786. I mean the solution to avoid the loss/draw is obviously better so it's moot.. just not obvious to a rookie like me without this extra discourse
LMFAO, "what would you do next?" ..."I would move this piece here" ....."I hope you didn't say mive this piece here!".....every time🤦🏼♂️
same - makes me wanna stop playing chess. Maybe checkers is my game...
Always
Only 3 times in this video. I'm improving!
@@CarlSong yes!! Nelson’s a great teacher!
Hahaha. Me too. Every time 😅
The patience white showed is phenomenal. Winning against two knights can be so tricky!
Tell me about it 😂
One knight has 8 possible moves. Two knights have 16.On the second move it's 16x16 (yes I know this is bad arithmetic) and no human brain can keep up with that.
@@shadeburst well, one part of it is the combined number of squares they can move to, but the main thing is that they can fork anytime and anywhere if they are on different-colored squares, especially next to each other.
I often trade off the enemy knights to stop their sneaky tricks.
My old boss played chess in Kansas. He met a queens odd player there who used his knights a lot, and as a result he preferred to keep them over bishops. 🤷♂️ The guy could also play with his back turned if that tells you anything. Mark Wood if memory serves.
The fact that this game came down to such a tricky endgame doesn't instill me with confidence that early attacking is such a disadvantage
If you're thinking, "The book goes through everything move by move, so why watch this?" For one thing, Nelson has the luxury of diving deeper into the games than does Chernev. Another is that it reinforces the lessons via a different medium. Third, Nelson, like the author, has an easy-to-understand manner of explanation. This series has greatly enhanced the value I've received from the book.
This book series is great! You are one of my three go-to chess channels for me personally learning the game, and yours is the one I send people to the most, by far. Your Beginner Chess Course and Endgame Course (both in the Playlists) are THE way for beginners to learn the basics, and all for free. 👍👍
21:13 After Nb6, if you try to capture the knight with Kb7, black has the great move Na8! Then if white plays Kxa8, black plays Kc8! Then the white king is trapped and you get a stalemate in a few moves.
Wow, I was wondering myself what would have been wrong with kb7 at that point instead of sacking the pawn. What a great find for black that would have been. Thanks for explaining that!
'Logical Chess move by move' was one of my first, most cherished and instructive chess books. It was first published in 1957. I probably didn't have a first edition (I had a paperback version) but I purchased it approximately 55 years ago!
I recently started playing chess again at 21 ( very old in the chess world i know lol) after stopping at 6 as i had no one to teach me. I doubt youll read this nelson but i think you make the best educational content on this app, thank you for resparking my love of chess, and ive also already noticed major improvements in my play.
I started playing at 32 and after 9 months im already at 1260 at rapids, so it is never too late to just have fun, you don’t have to be a grandmaster
You can start playing soccer at 40. Just for fun, not at a professional level. Same here.
I started playing chess at the age of 3, but I swallowed one of my opponent's pawns, which apparently is an illegal move.
@@gustavopimpao7823 1260 is a strong rating, well done.
As a 1000 rated player, this is exactly my play style. Nelson's clear explanation kinda makes this content even more helpful and relevant to me. Thank you, and wish you all the best for the next session of breaking 1500 lessons
Wow, interesting game. As a low 950-1000 rated player, I see this all the time and I usually crumble against such early pressing attacks. So interesting how the great players see so much more and never falter against such attacks. Also, I think I made every endgame error that you presented. Clearly, I have much to learn.
I have a similar ranking. I don't really struggle with that as I play e4, aiming for Scotch but have really studied the Scandi which is about 20% of responses. I often get to something like the "winning" position at 8:34 or. even better get to be a piece up. I then struggle because I lack Tarrasch' patience and still lose a fair percentage of games. Have you tried 3. Nf3 rather than the technically more accurate 3.Nc3. Most Blacks at this level find it very confusing and if you know how to proceed ...
Buy a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy! I don't panic unnecessarily and then hoo boy do I panic. Keep playing solid chess and wait for opponent to make a blunder, but think very carefully before you take that undefended rook. It's a trap!
13:20 - what do you move here ?
me: pawn to b5
Nelson: I hope, I HOPE ... you didn't say pawn to b5 :))
16:13 - enemy king's going back
me: I still want to play b5 :)))
18:24 - Nelson: I now ....
me: play b5 :))
19:50 - me: .... b5 ? :)
Nelson: try to think
me ... rook e8
Nelson: you have to sack the rook, because you are in check :)))
This video should be helpful because I noticed a lot of people around my level attack way too early. Its easy to panic or get annoyed against overly aggressive play and end up blundering. White's patience in this game is very instructive.
I’ve learned from Nelson in these trick questions. I didn’t say B5, but I didn’t see the fork or that gangster checkmate by black.
Very well explained making the moves easy to understand.
I just started playing chess within the last week so I was ranked like
Very nice, these videos are instructive. Keep doing materials for beginners, so helpful. I want to make less blunders and avoid loosing on aggressive openings
Love your videos Nelson! So super helpful! You are an amazing teacher! 🔥😊
Yet another great video , thank you - did fall for b5 , not enough thought again !!!
My exact quote, Nelson: “b5 for sure!” And I don’t usually say it that confidently. Wow that was a sneaky trap!
I love the what move would you do here "puzzles". I feel they are more useful than the tactics puzzles. Nelson, I think a great series of videos would be non-stop positional puzzles and explanations.
15:04 I can’t believe that I intuited the right move! Granted, my logic was just, “I don’t see a good move, let’s push.” I definitely didn’t see the trap coming.
That's awesome! I hope there is no copyright issues with you showing us these games...!
Very instructive game, the kind of game that really makes you less of a patzer and more of a serious and stronger player!
The only CRUCIAL variation that was not analyzed but it should have been, is this:
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 e5 5. Nf3 e4 6. Ne5 f6 7. Bb5+ c6 8.
Qh5+ g6 9. Nxg6 hxg6 10. Qxh8 Be6 11. Be2
Basically what happens after move 5 where we play Nf3 and Black does go e5 - we have to play Ne5, and if f6 is played (attacking our knight on e5) we have a great combination starting with Bb5+ and after c6 blocking, yes we have 2 pieces under attack, but we play the beautiful Qh5+, g6 is forced, then we sacrifice our knight with Nxg6 and this is a typical idea... Black has to take our knight with hxg6 and we take the room, Qxh8, and black has no time to take our hanging bishop on b5 because his own knight is hanging on g8
This ending was super tactical. No way I would have figured out all these moves on my own.
This book is great, I love your videos about it.
another great logical chess series Nelson!
lesson learned: never play Scandinavian when it has 3 drawbacks!
@19:18 sacrifice the ROOOOOK even it's the endgame, Andy the A-pawn will promote to queen!
Some amazing tactics to remember at the end.
I should have tought better b4 playing b5
Epic cheese
nice!!!!! Thanks!!! I like it.
Also worth noting: at 11:48 and (less critically) at 17:32 the W King goes diagonal to the B Knight which would thus need three moves to find an annoying check
@Chess Vibes at 21:14 would moving the king to b7, threatening the knight, get you a queen..?
20:14 is there specific rule after c5? Can you take pawn with king because knight is pinned?
nice lesson thanks
I want to thank the guy who suggested this book specifically to nelson 💯💯.
His a Great teacher
Nelson, are you not doing anymore Martin challenges? In the event you still are, I thought of one. You can only move pawns for the first 15 moves and after that you can play normally. If that is too easy, well then bump up the pawn moves to 20 or whatever.
Might be a dumb question but when you read the annotations this video are the quotes by Chernev or by Tarrasch? eg 15:20
I'm just starting out on my chess journey, currently rated ~700. I played b5. I accept all responsibility.
I always boot up a few games after these logical chess videos, and I always play much better with it fresh in my mind.
good commentary.
Man, I guessed that A4 move correctly! The one at 15:03. I was very happy hahaha
Great Video. :)
Can you give me some advices to get titles
How I play chess: Hopefully you didn't say [Insert what I just said], Repeat.
Hi Nelson please can you explain this- i was watching your 30th September live steam and at exactly 1:44:51 time there was a move which kh3 that could have stopped the checkmate ( I'm sure) but you didn't discussed that can you explain that in your next video or in this comment section 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
My move was B5 thinking it was correct. How wrong I was after you showed the Checkmate for Black. Man, this game is complicated. How do these NM's and GM's see all this!
I moved b5. I've now given up on chess. Thanks Nelsi!
4:14 - 4:15 I saw that Nelson! Principle #4 changes from "Black has attacked before being completely developed to completed developed" lol. What happened there? Maybe you are seeing who is paying attention to the stuff on the right (; 16:26 - 16:27 too, oopponets lol OOP--
Good to know that Nelson doesn't suffer from pre-jacs.
I’m 1850 but found this very instructive.. I totally missed the last pawn move and moved the king up..😅
I played B5, couldnt see that comming!
always good
19:17 - "You have a really nice tactic to finish off the game"
me: pawn a7 😅 (before sackin the rook)
I absolutely moved b5!!
Nelson makes these videos just to call me out on my decision making
Can you or anyone else reading this comment recommend the first book I should go and read. I’m really stuck at around 7-800 epo. I don’t know any actual good openings or tactics. I’m really keen to improve but don’t really know where to start from here I’ve been playing multiple games daily for the past two years and going really not forward or backwards
I know that after sacrificing two pieces for a rook and two pawns, it will be difficult in the endgame when the opponent pairs their knight. Only the strong maneuvering can win you in the end game with the odds of two knights.
I wouldn't have known to move the king to the left side of the board once the queens were traded.
Yeah, I fell for the trap. I played b5. I think one of my biggest weaknesses is that I sometimes become too much fixated on a single plan
Why you calling me out for playing b5 and Kb6... :P How long is Breaking 1500 open for?
9:40 After Nxa7+ i actually reached this position in my head but thought that after playing Rd1 you threaten a discovered attack on the rook. After black takes your knight you can throw in Nc6+ giving up another knight but getting the rook which is now placed super actively and prevents the black knight from ever developing and you're already ready to double up. Probably not quite as bad, and i'm sure there are other ways for black to diffuse the situation but that is what i thought.
a7 or h7
@@blue_red_screen a7, sorry i'll correct it real quick
Yeah... B5 player here. Cooked it!
@14:30 WOW 🤯
I would have gone hyper aggressive. Take the center pawn, bishop g5, queen d8. This wouldn'y work on a strong player, but it will work 90% of the time on a player that blocks their own rooks!
you're rushing me !! I'm only on game 22 in the book 😆
Early in the game, what if black's centre pawn keeps pushing forward on the e file, attacking the white knight on f3, forcing the knight back to d2, then attacking it again?
The thumbnail shows black pawn on d7... how did the light-square bishop get out?
14:45 I would have played b5
yea i definitely fell for the trap
Why not after Bishop to G4, h2 ?
I pushed B5 and sneak the king instead of the pawn on b6 :) 900 rating here. The problem is I cannot calculate all the jumps of the knight until I fail to get a queen lol
21:14 what if I just go kg7 to force the knight away?
Hey Nelsos just so you know the thumbnail has a mistake in it, there should not be a black pawn on d7.
I fell for it
Doesn't the position at 21:14 just wins after king b7?
Not quite, Na8 Kxa8 Kc7 just blocks the white king in the corner and it's a draw after white loses all pawns and can't move
No hate, but.. isnt a draw better than a black win? @martinsederholm786. I mean the solution to avoid the loss/draw is obviously better so it's moot.. just not obvious to a rookie like me without this extra discourse
The sad thing is I would still be inclined to play B5 even after you explained it. :(
Yep, I would have moved that pawn.
after getting b5 wrong i got that last position correct. pretty happy with that
1800 lichess rapid and I did not see the b5 trap at all. Very sneaky.
I DEFINITELY played b5. I didn't think there was any way to get checkmated so I didn't calculate anything XD
Obligatory RUclips algorithm comment.
I played b5, and then found the knight jump myself
b5
B5 blunder!
b5 guilty ❤
20:38 - "what's the winning move for white ?"
me: king b6 (invading )
Nelson: I hope you didn't said king to b6 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (now it was the pawin b5 :)) )
I didn't see any reason not to play B5, but I missed the knight not being pinned anymore.
My wife asked me what I wanted for my bday, and it is this book because of this course :D
B5
I actually thought A4. Mainly because I forgot about the B5 plan. Probably why my ELO is 600.
I get tricked, thank u for the free lesson, sir
I fell for b5!
I actually sad a4 instead of b5 but not because I saw that trap lol.
Confession, I would have played that b5 pawn...
20:40 what's up I realy say Kb6
Yeah. I played b5
I fell for the b5 trap
I played it
I would've pushed the pawn...oopsie!
The b5 would have got me 😢
b5 team ☝
I DID play b5 1100 elo