30 Years of Chess Advice in 1 Sentence 

Wow this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone explain simply why knights before bishops is a thing. Thank you

You know I followed several other chess channels before I found your page. They were all awesome and helpful. But something about your delivery, and how you really break it down to easiest understanding possible. Anyways, since I’ve found your channel I’ve only watched your videos since. Great job man and I appreciate the content. 🤙🏻

I have watched approximately 7,463,229 videos that covered these brief mantras like "knights before bishops" but NOT ONE of them explained the reasoning behind it. Which makes it super easy to remember and deploy in games. Same for the other advice. This is peak RU-vid video content 👌

Thanks again, for making me a better player, and therefore a better man! I'm looking forward to 10 Middlegame Moves.

Thanks to you, I'm from 800 to 1100 right now. I learned a lot and will continue to learn from your channel, I really appreciate it man.

This is a really great lesson.

Watching Nelson's videos got me to 500 elo to 800 elo in just 1 day. Nelson is the best coach you could ever ask for

Love these videos! I couldn’t find a lot of the moves, but hopefully some day I’ll train myself to see these tactics because once you showed the move, it’s obvious why it was the best move. In chess there are just so many possibilities to think about, for me it’s hard to make threats and not blunder something else!

Thanks again , very instructive ! A couple of " careless " moves can cause so much trouble !!

This is one of the most instructive chess videos I've ever seen. Not just the game, but your explanation. Thanks Nelson!

just bought that book ... and got my other one 1000 best short chess games !! thanks for all your help and suggestions

Love these educational videos Nelson brilliant move !!

Yes, Logical Chess series is back tonight!! Lets go!

Love the video thanks for the 10 middle game moves pdf its really well put together

This video is great. Love it!

This episode was especially instructive and helpful. Thanks

I got the "The 10 Middlegame Move". It is really helpful! Thank you for putting it together and giving it to us for free! 🙂 And thank you for this series. I'm enjoying it!

I just want to say thank you so much for the free ebook, it really helps and it is free and you are always here to explain everything in it. I wish you would make more books for us to study as it would be great but overall AWESOME Chess as always and thank you so much for putting in the time !

I've watched a million chess channels over the past five years. It wasn't until I ran across yours a few weeks ago that I feel like I'm really learning something about chess on youtube. Very insightful. You are the best chess channels by far!

Great video! I need reminding of the principles often 😅

Great video, thanks Nelson

I think the real reason we develop knights first is that they immediately control the center

Great video awesome book thank you Nelson so much

Really enjoyable, thank you.

Big shoutout to this great man nelson ❤

My one-sentence-long advice on how to win is, Don't make mistakes. 3:22 Nelson forgot b2/b7/g2/g7 (finachettoing). 7:31 OTOH, if White could play c5, ... d5 would in fact block the bishop. 10:15 One of the general ideas behind "logical chess" is that you should be able to explain why you made each move. 13:28 The pawn on a7 is "tactically defended." 27:48 A pinned piece can contribute to a checkmate, but it does nothing otherwise. 29:18 Where (when) and WHY.

Great Lesson!!!

Nelson never fails to mention chess principles in his videos.

Hey Nelson, I hope you're health is doing well! Great vid as usual btw! 👌

Nelson gives the Best advice Very Legit everything he points out are helpful hints take time and think when you are deciding on your moves have a good reason for the move and try to picture the follow up what will happen what you want to happen and is it a good move or is there a problem with it

Thanks for pdf

I'm sure a sentence might summarise 30 years of learning but not contextually hit all the ingredients, but thanks for the insights they guide us all fantastically

2:23 "Move at most 2 pawns in the early stages" 4:28 Black has 3 out of first 4 moves moving different pawns

First game you showed broke two opening principles immediately

I don’t know how do I thank you but your videos in this channel boosted my rating to 2000+ in just a few years👏😁🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏At 8:43 you mentioned that Black was threatening to play Nb4 to trade off White’s powerful bishop as well as attacking the d4 pawn indirectly. And a3 is a bad move as it wastes time and the rest of the game White had no time to bring defense to the attack and lost quickly. Why was Ba3 not played as it would deal with the threat Nb4 as after the trade the d pawn is solidly defended and if cxd4 then White would trade on e7 and recapture the d4 pawn and at least White followed the principle of developing and defending right? Also, how much Black gets the advantage if he is able to trade the d3 bishop for a knight? Thank you very much again🙏🙏🙏🙏

So basically those Gotham Chess viewers who post ridiculous comments in search of clout have invaded this space too. Wow

I finally catched up with the series. It's really great! A question from me: at 28:20 why not queen to H3? Also, when you answer the first question at the end of the video, I feel there is a nice follow up with the queen to A4 after the black bishop captures the attacking white knight.

How can I catch a livestream? Are they streamed on Twitch? RU-vid?

Do you have a stream schedule? I always seem to miss them. Thanks for the banger content. Wish you well

That was long and cool!😎

30:29 Why not Bc4 or Qc4? The black Queen is so powerful develloped, that attacking (or even trading) improves white's position.

Nelsi I must protect a pawn 6:34

Nelson. Keep making series based on common books. I dont see other channels doing that

For last week, 31:21, would Harry the h pawn be a good idea ? The threat would be 1. Bd3h7ch, KxB 2. Nf3g5ch,BxN 3.Qd1h5ch, Kh7g1 4. h4xB, ... with the threat of g6, and if ..., f7xg6 then Nxg6.

Man you look like Akiba Rubinstein 😂

7:20 Shouldn't White play Bb2? 7:21 How about Black switching the order on exchanging in the center?

Best chess channel. I’ll say it as many times as I want.

Hi Nelson. Thanks for this series. I am learning so much from you and the book. I have a question, and maybe I am just not seeing something, but, what happens if white doesn’t take the queen with the pawn, and instead plays: eNF3 black plays NxF3 NxF3 black plays BxF3 And now white takes the queen with gxH4. Doesn’t that leave white in a pretty good position? They have the queen bishop battery pointing at H7, and the black squared bishop pointing at G7. I’m sure I’m being daft, but I can’t see why it doesn’t work.

16:26 Instead of Qb1 is it better to play Qd1 and solve all the problems by defending knight on f3. Even though they can create queen rook battery on d file we can counter attack queen with our bishop Bc4 and I think white can get a draw even down a pawn

My problem is, I play tons of bullet. I'm rated 1,000 - 1,400 in other categories, but I'm 600 in bullet and it bothers me so much.

Okay you've one hundred percent got me convinced never to move the pawns in front of the king and to leave the knight on f3/f6. But there are lots of openings that involve a king side fianchetto. How do those openings (king's indian for example) avoid the dangers of weakening the squares around the king?

i didn't play chess for a while but then i suddenly remembered it. also how did the blood clot go i dont think i was watching to see

At 16:40 I always struggle to choose which rook to activate. Could you elaborate on that?

Nelson, I’ve been playing the colle and I keep running into problems with opponents attacking our main bishop that sits un defended on d3 in the normal colle setup. Any advice for when the foe attacks this and ruins the colle setup? What counters do we have? More colle videos would be great it’s such a fun system for white but this problem seems to be it’s main kryptonite

Hi Nelson. Thanks so much for this series. I am learning so much from you and the book. I have a question about why white takes the Queen on H4. What happens if white doesn’t take at that stage and instead plays: eNF3 black plays NxF3 NxF3 black plays BxF3 And now white takes the queen with the pawn - gxH4. We would be in a completely different position with pieces blocking any easy passage for black, while white still has the white squared bishop and queen battery pointing towards H7, plus the black squared bishop pointing towards G7. Am I potty? (That’s English for idiotic :-) What am I missing? Thanks!!

Hey, Nelson! Can you please make video with your favorite responses to d4 opening with black? Cause I’m using some of your systems and have nice results with Wing gambit (rook), Blackmar Diemer gambit, Icelandic gambit But I am struggling with d4 very much..

Were you not able to take on e3 here? 14:16

22:27 but why not BF5? Looks so great, more active and target Queen. 😊

Chess is awesome.

25:22 isn't knight g4 one of the winning move if white plays h3?

Do the same principles hold for Chess 960?

I think white would have been better off with Ba3 instead of a3; it develops a piece, it controls the b4 square, and it connects the rooks. 😊

Random idea. But I think it would be cool to ask your subscribers to share their most underrated games (as in the computer gave it a rating like 65.0 accuracy) when it should've been a much higher rating.

nice look with the new glasses

Damn, 30 years, where does time go... It seems only yesterday you got married and had children.

@EricaPani-uh5vr 0 seconds ago Hi Nelson. Thanks for this series. I am learning so much from you and the book. I have a question, and maybe I am just not seeing something, but, what happens if white doesn’t take the queen with the pawn, and instead plays: eNF3 black plays NxF3 NxF3 black plays BxF3 And now white takes the queen with gxH4. Doesn’t that leave white in a pretty good position? They have the queen bishop battery pointing at H7, and the black squared bishop pointing at G7. I’m sure I’m being daft, but I can’t see why it doesn’t work

Life Lesson 9: Don’t chase after pawns at the expense of development.

Why couldn't white play Bc4 to save the bidhop with a tempo on the queen?

PDF is well done

@11:32 but how do you calculate all those lines and know what you can take or let them take? That’s the part I struggle with bc by the time I calculate all the possibilities I’ve wasted 5 mins 😂

How is "begin with e4 or d4" a chess principle??? Engine shows that for example that 1c4 and 1f4 are also fine

Well, so much for the Cow!

My chess tip is this: before you play figure out if your opponent is left or right handed. Then slap them with your dominant hand.

I dont understand why white would play Pa3 when they could have played Ba3- this defends the b4 square, develops a piece, connects the rooks, pins the pawn on c5 with an xray attack on bishop, and relieves some of the pawn tension.

French defense players do not castle before exchanges at d4 and f6. It is suicide otherwise.

That was some beautiful checkmate in 15. Wouldn't call it easy though (850 elo here, so nothing to be surprised of)

Long ass sentence you got there

I'd say another for knights b4 Bishops is that Bishops are better in open positions (less/no Pawns in the center), and the game has just begun, and the board is "cluttered."

At 19:50 could white play Bxh7+?

20:05 What if White played Rook takes E2 instead of defending with the knight?

16:08 what if queen goes c7?

Instead of 10. a3 to keep the knight out, Ba3 would've served that same purpose, as well as developing the remaining piece and connecting the rooks. Activate those pieces quickly: thanks for your Three Decade Mantra!

White's battery basically stood there whole game and didn't do anything, do you think white should have abandoned the battery at some point to get a better position ?

21:27 me flexing my position against my 300 elo friend

Timestamps would be nice

(@32:14 - after Ng5+ Bxg5) white now has Qh5+ forking the king and bishop. Unless black wants to give back the material, then … Bh6, Nh3! threatening to come to g5 again, AND exposing an attack on the pinned bishop on h6 from the bishop on c1! Black won’t survive this, I think. 🤔

Lets gooo

Your glasses reflection of the screens is very irritating i find. Maybe there are glasses that dont reflect? Else i like your channel!

i dont believe in these principles. i think they are generally good but some instances like anchoring a pawn center ... not so much. i honestly like using the legs of the board for my pawns. the english is such a good open, and the reverse version for black. its so versatile as an attack and a defense. begin with e4 or d4 is absolutely outdated trash.

Like and subscribe … oh no that’s what you’re supposed to say.. as always thankyou 🙂

Old Stockfish? 😂 Logical Chess was published in 1957!

Many players would benefit more from the sentence. "Don't hang pieces in 1 move."

I wish I could afford to subscribe

are those safety glasses?? protect the eyes from explosive queen moves 😅

1 sentence = 35 minute video??

No views in 1 minute? Bro fell off

So your best advice is not even your own advice that says a lot and then you made it thirty-five minute video yeah I'm not going to watch the other thirty-five minute video because it's not even your advice

If it "in one sentence", why is this video 35 minutes long!!?!?