I extremely agree!! I think most people watching this series will be chess fans anyway, and the analysis is some of the most interesting bits! Love watching NL react to his own past moves! I definitely will be watching all of these episodes!
The analysis was my favorite part! And I agree with NL, if that tool was around when I did chess in High school I honestly would be slightly better than I am now
It's brilliant because the computer doesn't say "You messed up" and then give him nothing constructive-it'll specifically say, "This was the mistake, the best move you could've made here was this."
I love the post-game analysis, because I'm not someone who plays a lot of chess (yet) and seeing why a specific move might be better than another is super helpful and fun
@@assiaisindegyara4905 the computer analysis is superb but you do have to bear in mind that sometimes it will flag a move as an inaccuracy because it just wants you to do something else first, or because, with perfect play, in 20 moves time the game will simplify down to some weird endgame where you are down a quarter of a pawn. The computer can likely win from a position like that, hence it doesn't like your move that allows it, but no human on earth could play so perfectly.
@@fullfat8112 Yeah, the inaccuracies are usually not a huge deal unless you play at really high ratings. It's whenever you have any blunders that you need to check and see what went wrong because sometimes your opponent misses the punish and so you don't realize that one of your moves that seemed good would've led to you getting forced to lose your queen a couple moves down the line against a better player.
@@fullfat8112 the analysis always makes me feel bad. It's so mean. Way to often it comes to a point where i make figure out my win start going for it. Do my big swing play it works, the look at the analysis just to see that it was a blunder. I'm also terrible at chess, like i am not in any denial that it's right it just makes me sad. I also can never see what was wrong, i wish it could tell you what there options in a few turns were rather than just what the best response to my play was.
Your opponent's last move was "best" because at that point the mate wasn't preventable, so any move was equal value to him. Really, the concede button was best move just to save time.
Any move wasn't equal value. Mate wasn't preventable, but it's still missable, so the game wasn't necessarily over. The move still matters in case the opponent blunders, so the best move was determined based on such scenarios.
@@__Albin__ If there's a forced mate engine prefers moves which postpone the mate. If there is no difference in the number of moves, every move has the same weight.
@@CaptGlorypants its because its not a movie originally the game actually canonically follows the book. It was made by a really passionate new indie studio too rather then just licensing it out to a AAA publisher.
There's a tool out there for generating AI based on an individual players playstyle; I saw an article headline that said they managed to use it on the girl in the show! (doesn't simulate the drug addiction, but hey)
Some tips for operating the site - In analysis, hit the "show lines" check box which will be right below the toolbar. It'll show you a line of about 10 moves where each side would be the computer making the best moves, showing either how you could've won or stomped in that position. It's interesting because sometimes, there's only one move in the position that wins for black or white while every other possible move is just losing. Right click and hold across the board to draw arrows. Can also right click to highlight a square (shift right click makes green ones) Those numbers next to each move during the game are the amount of seconds/minutes the player took to make the move (don't feel embarrassed I struggled to figure it out too) Please don't stop these are so enjoyable
@@otakuage9668 it comes from the expression "baby boomers" - people born just after the World War II during, well, a post-war baby boom. Currently, baby boomers are somewhere around 55-75 years old, so nowhere near 30. If you look at the generation definitions, today's 30 year-olds are actually the oh-so-hated Millennials, and that includes 90's kids! They're literally 2 generations later. So yeah, @Ben Conrad here is apparently a zoomer that doesn't know shit and likes to spew words that don't even make sense in this situation and should probably stick to Blender until he finds something nice to say. Doesn't take a boomer to have been taught simple manners, smh.
I was crying of laughter during the second analysis, I personally played chess like 5 times in my life but seeing all the !?s and ??s literally 5 movements into the game was hilarious. My god please keep the series and DONT skip future analysis, I feel you're gonna get destroyed when you're higher on the ladder so these analysis are gonna help the series go on by learning from your mistakes. Honestly the level you're right now is mind-blowing to a noob like me so I can't wait to see you against the true 700IQ tryhards of chess
I really enjoy the step-by-step look through after the fact. I don't know shit about chess but seeing NL react to what constitutes a good move vs a blunder vs what he did is really fun
Before you explained it was mate in 4, something about going from just numbers to "that was so bad I will have to give you negative m points" got me laughing
They actually do sometimes award more question marks based on the situation and size of the blunder. In 2006 the at-the-time world champion missed an incredibly obvious checkmate against an AI in a tournament (this was when the best AI was still in the range of human skill) and immediately lost. He was awarded a ??????
At 4:01 If they would have taken your knight you would have been fricked, what a blunder, pogs all around I just started getting into chess when you dropped the puzzle vids
DUDE I was thinking the same. He moves his queen to potentially trade, does nothing to protect his knight that is being challenged, and his opponent just moves the queen out of the way instead of taking the knight and checking NL's king in one move... I couldn't believe it. NL was very lucky lol
Have been looking forward to this ever since you handed those 9-year-olds their juice boxes on Clubhouse games. Extreme pog energy here. And the post-game analysis is must-see TV.
Dude this series is incredible. Watched you play a lot of games and enjoyed them, but watching you play this is a whole new level. I think its the fact that you have the background love for it coming into it.
Please continue this! Have been very stressed for time so I have not been watching RU-vid content as much, but this tickles me in places I didn't even know I had and I want more of it.
It's not even that, sometimes it's weirdly easy to see blunders and mistakes from a third person perspective. I see things when I watch others play that I'll miss when I'm playing.
I am honestly so hyped for this! Thank you Enel for delivering quality content basically 24/7 When can we expect the 20-Part NorthernLion master class on chess?? I've been trying to learn but there are very few yt videos that hit the right balance between reasonable skill and agreeable personality.
Looking through the analysis at the end is a great move content wise because it basically gives you a whole section of the video to banter, where it was necessarily limited during the game, and it simultaneously gets in front of any turbo chess nerds who want to stroke their own ego by pointing out your blunders. Great content 10/10 would egg again.
I’m so incredibly hyped for this! The game analysis at the end is very cool and informative! I’d like to see the analysis be a regular part of these videos.
They've gone off the grid! they're operating at such a level that the computer can't even follow any more. This is the sort of strategical thinking we'll need against skynet.
6:55 you had a chance for a classy finish after bishop takes pawn takes queen takes pawn on g6 I do not see a way for black to stop the threat of Queen to h6 mate, he can also delay it ;)
Honestly, chess.com's algorithm, while usually pretty good, is horrible at "blunders". Sometimes while reviewing matches I've won, the way the algorithm plays out what it thinks the correct move would have been leads to mate against me in less than 5
I only have a passing understanding of chess but this series has me highly poggged, just seeing how engaged you get also gets me engaged even though I barely understand what's happening lol
I very much enjoyed this, in no small part because you don't need us to backseat game, you get all the genuine good tips directly from the AI grandmaster with no "will he read the comments?" delay.
This is great I hope you do more of these. It's nice seeing someone that's good but not a master play, I feel like I can relate it a lot more to my play.
I normally don't really like youtube videos (or comment for that matter) but these chess videos are so good I liked them all. Keep it up NL, the dad energy is bringing the channel to new pog levels
I’m so excited for this series, I really hope you continue playing it! As a huge fan of chess, I’ve been hoping you come back to it ever since I heard about your middle school chess career.
The analysis was the best part. And i think that eliminates most backseating, and it's very interesting to see the reactions when you figure out your mistakes.
this is my new second favorite series, and before this there was only one series in my favorite list which was spelunky 2, thanks for being so awesome!
This is thoroughly enjoyable so far. Hope you keep this series for sometime. Thank you for the entertainment even if I don't understand or play chess lol.
This is some really good content. I know that banter is hard but it is fun to see someone talk through what they are thinking. Keep up the great work NL!
Delightful performance, and you manage to balance the desire for banter with the desire for victory. Please do continue with the analysis after your matches--it's both enjoyable to see the level of your play, and delightful to see you process through the machine analysis of the match. Also, the pieces having little emoji thought bubbles adds un soupcon of anthropomorphism to the pieces, which is just delightful. Great work, keep it up!
