Can You Be Happy After A Loss? (Chess) 

When's Levy's Binding of Issac lesson?

I’m conflicted because I like falling asleep to NL videos, but his chess gameplay is so pog it keeps me up. How am I meant to sleep when the high octane gameplay never stops?

NL, you don't have to speed through the analysis, I don't think anyone's getting bored. It's interesting to do deep dives into games/other lines and both you and the audience learn more from it. Still loving the series, just am pogged for analysis.

>he didn't spot the mate in 17

I was telling my fam this week about "thin deck daddy" I miss thin deck daddy.. BUT gotta love "let's get weird" NL

Please dont move chess to twitch vods. These are so perfect as is.

Still the best series ever conceived

Finally, NL allows me to eat

One Levy lesson and hes drawin lines across the board like the new Egg Ross painting across a beautiful canvas for the pogs to rain upon I miss the good days when NL gave us commenters hearts

Thank you for going back to 10 minute. 3 minute is too fast for me to think about your moves and I find myself completely lost because I'm not good enough at chess to follow. 10 min is a great balance for me.

9:19 NL realizes that he Almost Played a Botez Gambit there. 😂🤣

I've never watched any of your other content before, but you're quickly becoming my favourite chess youtuber! (behind GingerGM of course). I'm glad you're continuing to make more chess vids :)

An *actual* Egg's Gambit, now this is real chess gaming hours!

I'd be interested in seeing NL doing puzzles. I wonder how many times he'll call the computer crazy after failing one. He seems to be pretty good with openings but psyches himself out as the game goes on which who knows maybe puzzles will help him out

5:20 OMG, did he actually do it?!

Dude my mans leveled up hugely in this vid, great stuff

I hope this is one of the youtube series that stays.... it’s so good!

You never play waiting moves. in that last game you were waiting for him to attack and never even considered improving your kingsside pawns to force their hand

I'm hyped to see you play the stuff you went over in the last lesson with Levy, keep it up :)

15:23 Take the pawn, march the king C1 and D2 after the Queen-Check

If this is the first episode after the latest Levi lesson you can definitely tell a difference

Hey Egg, love your stuff. I would suggest going over to 15-10 just because it enables you to be much more relaxed without it being too slow.

Hope you keep this series up, I'm hella enjoying it

I'm so proud egg boi found a line that forked rooks.

“Instead of that, we get two birds stoned at once” 🚬 🐦 25:25

Can you be unhappy watching this? (Chess)

Man that endgame in the first game was one of the most complicated I've ever seen (I guess it's technically not an endgame since both queens, all the rooks, and three minor pieces were still on the board, but it feels weird saying it's still the middlegame). I put the position where you began your breakthrough into the king's position into Stockfish and it was extremely difficult for white to win unless black makes a serious blunder, and all but impossible for anyone but a GM to win with only 2 minutes left on the clock, since the sequence of moves assuming perfect play is so long until white can mate black. You fared much better there than I would've, that's for sure. Really cool game, though!

My entire steam library is full of games that I’ve bought because I was getting frustrated at NL playing them. I started playing chess as well for the same reason, but damn, he’s actually so good at this game

I'm loving this series. Got me back into playing chess.

It's the circle of life: -NL takes some time to plan out a series of moves. -I get hyped, then impatient and skip up to watch the play unfold. "JuSt MaKe ThE mOvE" I think to myself. -NL does the first move, then realizes there's a flaw preventing the play from properly working (in this case, that knight). -I lean back and wonder why NL is such a big dum egg who didn't see that coming.

Don't know how possible/interesting it would actually be, but I would be pogged out the gourd for a 15/10 or even 30/0 series of games in the future

"Goddamit how did you miss this 12 move win sequence?" -Mr. Stockfish

Please keep this series as is, I love it.

This feeling when u fall sleep in 2022 and wake up to bearded NL 2020 ~Amazin

16:01 what if u just take the pawn with your king? Won't get mate...

First game black showed your attack the absolute maximum disrespect with a4 a5 a6

not sure what the "donka donka" thing is but it always reminds me of the one of three prerecorded lines of male twilek dialogue in Knights of the Old Republic

Congrats to the guy I just played with a 1.6% accuracy vs my 1.3% accuracy. GG.

the second game was pretty good, yeah. you noticed some advanced positional concepts, such as the knight outpost - gg.

Is it time for the Vienna stomp?

analysis owns. I really enjoy the chance to see why I was wrong about what you should have done.

Loving these vids. Subbed just for the chess

the analysis of the game around 19 minutes is a brilliant demonstration of just how laughably bad even a fairly competent chess player like Egg is. Every single move is a game changing swing, almost every predictions of the best move is wrong, mate in more then 2-3 moves et c. Wonderful

That was a fantastic sequence in the last game to win material. It's unfortunate that it does not win the game, but that is the kind of thing you can only predict with some intense endgame study under your belt as well as more time left on the clock.

also NL can u please turn on the "show lines" button in analysis!!

Northern " if it's forced it's good" lion

NL spending 3 minutes and several moves setting up a plan that blunders his queen in one move is so frustrating i cant look away

Missed mate in 12 = Egg Scrambit Declined

NL has become one of those Queen-side Castle fetishers 😆

the Dunka Gambit

Am I the only one who thinks NL thinks way too hard on "if they take..." mentality, and then they do something other than taking and NL's brain goes "wut?"

Pogchess!

Best series my gord has been pogged !

Ah my daily dose of egg

Look at this way, if you scramble the AI’s eggs then you know you must have been on to something. Incidentally, I think it was a good gambit, you probably just need to play around with it a little bit to see how the pieces fit together but you should feel good that you had an interesting idea that could be something powerful with a little more refinement.

I can sense it, this is just the Pogchamps training arc

Pogged for the dunka-dunka

For my own benefit, missed win at 12:30? If rook checks and knight takes rook than E6 is checkmate? Edit: Nevermind bishop takes. Still think NL is teaching me well.

Win or lose The eggs gambit is always big pog

10min games are pure pog

I love it.... I mean...... POGGERS

Times not a problem, loses on time

NL's worst enemy: Talking

I can be happy with losses where I don't blunder nor lost on time but my opponent simply was very smart to beat me

I'm sorry you didn't go through the 11 steps to see the mate at 19:00

Baron Egg playing the beautiful game is tickety-boo!

dunka, dunka, dunka... dunka, dunka? dunka?? i dunno is a little hot

yes Kreygasm

I am trying that m8 in 12 in the checkered board lads

It's mate in 12 obviously!!

Regarding your analogy at around 14:35 I bet 11 times on the same color. Lost 10 times to the opposite color. My last 11th loss was on green, 0. 50/50 means nothing. Just my luck ...

Around 30:00 is where I started to see the possibility of a... *SPOILERS* Timeout coming.

Dear NL, the Reti opening lacks center control because one of the foundational theories of the hypermodern school that the Reti comes from is that a large center can actually be a burden for the player controlling it, due to how many places a large center can be attacked from.

20:59 How bees are?

35:40 Dont you just take their queen then? what do you mean it's not good?

BRO WHY DOES HE TAKE 50 SECONDS FOR EVERY MOVE LIKE MY GOD-

Great games in this video!!!

Nice vid nl

Man took 3 minutes in 10 a sid e chess thinking out trades just for the opponent to push a pawn and ignore it all.

When he got to around a three minutes deficit while having already identified a line that would leave him up a pawn...I said 'hm'

18:43 I'm dumb but why is bishop to d7 a blunder?

PUSH D3 MY LORD

I wonder what ELO Ryan would be if he didn't talk

I bet NL would blow the competition out of the water if he didn't need to focus on entertaining us

Aight dad, time to get weird

I'd like to see some 15min&10s in order to get that nice during-the-game chess talk

"mate in 12!?!?"

Time is a dimension of the game. If you use all your time and have a winning position, but not the time to convert it, you played worse.

That last game was bizzare, I actually disagree with the engine on it being a draw until the endgame. Part of me wants to take the game and analyze it a bit further, but pogs were had regardless.

Chess is a great game...be prepared to lose a lot of games as it definitely tests a person's perseverance.

i think i'm seeing improvements

If you learn something then it’s not a loss.

Was king's indian covered in the last lesson?

northernlion

dunka

Next time try offering a draw only after making your move.

19:20 So you're just barely gonna acknowledge the atrocity you did at the end there?

Can I get a pog in the chat? Also, I must agree with everyone else. This chess format is perfection right now. Moving it to twitch/vods would detract from that.

Best content.

Yes (Chess)