Genuinely every video I've seen of yours is tremendously instructive and easy to understand. You're a truly gifted teacher, thank you for making these videos
I really love his catchphrase. I look forward to hearing it in every video of his, maybe even in his livestreams. Edit: Also, interference tactic on his name lmao
Every time I see that you have uploaded a video I have a smile on my face. Thank you so much Nelson for your videos and your crystal clear explanations. I have been watching for around 3 years now and it never gets old.
personally I didn't find the first 2 intermediate ones (or the squire in the 3rd), but I did find the first 2 advanced ones... Interesting how those have a hugher grade but felt easier for me as the opponants follow ups were more obvious for me
If you see it, then it seems easy. But when you play the game and build up to that puzzle moment you know what you want and then you see the solution faster then just opening up a puzzle quick. That is how my brain works at least.
Such a great video once again! Also your t-shirts are the best!! My chesskids at the elementary school where I used to be the chess coach (handed it off to a professional chess coach!) loved the values of the chess pieces and the develop, castle, attack! T-shirts I bought for them!!!
Enjoyed this, thank you. It wouldn't hurt, on some of the less obvious boards, to give a clear indication of which direction the pawns can move. On some I wasn't sure whether a pawn was on its starting position or about to queen.
Great video, most of the puzzles have been very easy for me (except for 2.1 which is missed), but I didn't know this kind of tactic before, so I'll definetly scan for it in my next games. Thank you ❤
Nelson, the Interference substance of this work is definitely valuable. And you've made the lesson entertaining, as well as helpful. But I may have discovered hidden in it a serendipitous summum bonum. In several of the problems, you pointed out moves that I hadn't considered. Generally, such lack of thought is due to my already finding an apparently good move. While I see the wisdom in "If you see a good move, look for a better one," by itself that advice has two practical deficiencies that make it hard for me to follow. First, 'where do I continue looking?' (or maybe the better question is 'what do I look for?'), and the second difficulty: when do I stop searching? I think I found the answers in the eighth problem.
I think the higher level puzzles are not that hard because you told us what to look for. Without this big clue, I think it would take me a lot of time.
I could see the Advanced & Master but not the Beginner & Intermediate. Now I'm confused as to why I can see the more Advanced moves better than the Beginner 🤔 Can someone please explain as to why this is.
@@simonpitt8142 yup bro it happens to me to because while you are playing game you use your normal moves but when u watch his video he gives a hint like there is a great threat or move .
One day I will definitely take the course you mentioned. I am 1100 now, and middle game tactics is definitely the weakest part of my game. You are a great teacher, I learnt a lot and improved my understanding of the game just by watching your videos
In the last puzzle, after the rook goes to the interference position, couldn’t black play Kh8, and be able to defend g7 with a rook before the white queen gets in there to checkmate?
got all of them! The hardest one was Nc5 in 2nd Master. First I thought about Bc5, discovering a double attack on the b2 pawn, but then I realized the d4 pawn would be hanging since i am pinned to the queen. Important to take with the knight though because if they take with bishop, i will unpin with check and then i can save the queen
11:05 black could take our knight with the queen instead of a pawn. We have to take the queen and black have time to defend the b1 square with a bishop or play rook to b8 to defend the b file. It is still better for white obviously, maybe there is still a forced mate which I don't see but not in 2 moves
15:19 in the very last puzzle part - they could go Kh8 to prepare for rook g8 and they save themselves (you still get a great position but it's not checkmate instantly if I'm correct
in the second master level puzzle, doesn't white get a scewer on the rooks in the end? Or is that not a problem because of Rc1, trading the knight for a rook and still being up a minor piece?
I have been trying to use this. At this point, if I see a strong combo attacking, I try to move a piece in between to break them up. E.g.,. If a queen is supporting as piece, I try to break the support so I can just capture the other piece or negate its threat. Now, on with the video to hopefully learn how to do it even better.
Hey, am a new subscriber and i started watching your videos so i can learn about chess ( new hobbie ). Just a quick question regarding the last interference tactic ( master ),afrer pausing the video as a 500 elo i saw king to h8 followed by rook to g8, there would be no mate and the game continues with queens on the board so can you please help
Last lvl3: Black could take the knight with their queen. We would take the queen but wouldnt have checkmate (at least not that fast). Is that correct or did i miss something?
In advanced first puzzle, how is that even possible? If Qa1 to Qa2 the king was already checkmated, with the Q on a1 neither the bishops not the queen could have moved since they'd have been pinned. or am I reading the board wrong?
Hey Nelson. Love the videos and they’ve helped me tremendously to break 1000 recently. Question about your Breaking 1500 course: is it a live course where we have to login at a certain time, or a recorded course that we could access on our own time? Thanks for all you do!
Pin: If they move the pinned piece, I get the bigger thing behind. Skewer: If they move the bigger thing, I get the skewered thing behind. Interference: So that they don't get the bigger thing, I interfere by putting something in front which is now attacked instead. With Interference, we are potentially putting ourselves in some kind of pin situation if we want the interfering piece to be our own, or we are potentially putting ourselves in some kind of discovered attack situation if the interfering piece is the opponent's piece. So is there also a tactic where I leave myself in a Skewer situation? You could look at an Interference as a Skewer, if you suddenly value the interfering piece higher than the piece behind (but then it wasn't really an Interference situation in the first place).
Last one after Re7, why can’t black go d4 ready to take the bishop with check and follow counterattacks from there? If king moves, push again to threaten the queen check, etc.
just calculate and you will see that black not in time to do anything to prevent a mate (unless they sacrifice their queen). after black goes to d4, white goes Qh6 then black bishop takes white bishop with check, but white king just takes the black bishop back, and if black continues to check with Qd5, then white king just hides on g1 and that's it.
No because there is no check, meaning that white can move the bishop. However there is a discovery so I think it wins an exchange rather than a piece??
I swear to god, I get done watching you and go destroy players, usually scoring high 80's low 90's in accuracy and by the 4th game Im back to 42 percent accuracy getting my azz handed to me. Then come back and watch some vids....rinse repeat...so I know you have the winning formula for me. I just need to sustain it. Swear to god it looks like I cheat or something.
Very random but I just watched a video of someone who's trained for 8 years and has barely put on any muscle. Looking at you, you seem to have a good amount of arm size. Not sure if you train or not but I feel like you'd have great overall muscle mass potential. Especially if you don't already train, that's an even better sign that you have great muscle potential. You might not have the aesthetic muscle insertions of a bodybuilder but you probably have great potential on becoming a competitive powerlifter/strong man or even arm wrestler. Not saying that to make fun of you because I'm fat myself but my bone structure and genetics seem to be similar to yours and I've developed a great amount of muscle naturally over past 2-3 years but I focus on strength first and foremost and one day I will look at becoming shredded but not until I reach my mid-long term strength goals.
@@user-sk8qh2nv5w can u speak normally there are two kinds of people who use analogy in their sentence which sounds cool and convincing and the other are people who sprout nonsense analogy with sh*t you are second one .
@@danielyuan9862 There are only two feasible moves to get out of check. One leads to checkmate, and even if the beginner does not realize it is checkmate, I can guarantee you that he will go for the move that gives him check. I sponsored my school's chess club for two years, and I watched dozens of beginners gleefully making moves to achieve check everytime the opportunity arose. They seem to get a rush of adrenaline or endorphins from calling out check. Regardless of the outcome they will do it every chance they get. So, even if they don't realize this move leads to checkmate, they will make it. Beyond that, just a little thought makes it obvious that of the two blocking moves, this is the better. I stand by my post, this is not an advanced move.
Nelson, the Interference substance of this work is definitely valuable. And you've made the lesson entertaining as well as helpful. But I may have discovered hidden in it a serendipitous summum bonum. In several of the problems, you pointed out moves that I hadn't considered. Generally, such lack of thought is due to my already finding an apparently good move. While I see the wisdom in "If you see a good move, look for a better one," by itself that advice has some practical deficiencies that make it hard for me to follow. First, 'where do I continue looking?' (or maybe the better question is 'what do I look for?'), and the second difficulty: when do I stop searching? Theoretically, I could search for ever, or at least until the flag fell. "I've already looked, why waste more time," tends to prevail. I think I found the answers in the eighth problem, the one that you pointed out "has a lot going on". The solution to the position that occurred to me first was ...Bxd2; Rxd7, Bxe3+; Kc1, Rxd7 and Black is up material. Of course, there is no Interfence tactic in that solution, so I had to look for a better move. That's when it occurred to me. What if we married the protocol of looking for CCTs (checks, captures, and threats) with the advice regarding looking beyond the first decent move to suggest itself? That position didn't have any checks to consider, but it was brimming with captures, each of which was worthy of a thorough examination. Examinations in turn would produce data (intelligence) leading to an informed decision. Thus I now have an articulable and finite process that I can practice in problems and apply in games. All thanks to you, amigo! By the way, I'm naming this insight in your honor: Admiral Intelligence Gathering. (Yeah, it's a hokey handle, but I'm hoping the hokiness helps it stick.)
