The Difference Between 1400 and 2200 ELO 

The difference between a a strong player vs normal players, stronger players tend to look much better moves for their opponent

I like this format. I wonder if showing his thought process first would be more instructive. If we see yours first, we kinda have the answers - and when we see his, we're like "that was dumb, man!". BUT, If we see his first, we're going to be like "yea, sure, that makes sense to me" (assuming we're all closer to his rating). But, when we see YOUR commentary, we're like aaaahhhhh.... that's why. And that flow feels more instructive. my 2 cents. Cheers!

1400: "hey i got a descent attack" 2200: "I m not worried by this" ...

I wanna see an entire series of this. Playing people rated at 50 point increments starting from 1000

15:02 his reaction when got forked king and rook 😂😂😂😂

I love this format please make more of these! 2200 vs 1700 next? I volunteer myself for it lol

I'm 1100 uscf and I tend to miss pawn moves like when you pushed f4 winning the knight. Interesting to see the themes that apply across different ratings. Great video as usual, love the dual commentary!

I really enjoyed seeing the thought process of both players during a game. Hope to see more. Thanks guys.

Great content. I would love to see more like this. It's really cool to see you pointing things out and him not realizing it. It really shows the difference in player level.

This is a cool ass concept. I’ve actually never personally watched anything like this. Highly enjoyable as well as instructive. Thanks to you both. I’m about to sub to Jonathan.

Great idea absolutely love the concept. I’m sure you’ll be able to sort the audio disparity in future videos.

amazing format, really enjoyed that one!

The main difference is a normal player plays almost all moves relying on intuition not precise calculation.

This video is excellent! Please share more content like this, Nelson!

Love this video. You normally only get to watch videos for a particular level, but to actually see the thought process side by side of separate ratings offer a good insight into the different mindsets. The opponent was never thinking too far in the future, but Nelson carefully thought out every possible move, including what would potentially happen as a result.

Do lots more of these. What a terrific learning tool. Kudos

very interesting type of content/concept. Was so glad when you went for the rook fork, i was seing that a couple moves in advance and thought it looked neat. A bit surprised he didnt see that at 1400 but then again it's always so much easier to spectate as well as seing the moves from an attacking perspective.

This is great content! This was super helpful and entertaining. Props to your Opponent for playing very resilient. I would love to see more of this.

That was such a good content, please make a series like this

Seeing boths thought process was a great idea. Please do more of this 🧠

Great format! I would love some more of this.

Loved the format! I was thinking of wanting to find something like this cuz it fascinated me to think of how different minds think about the same position and how to go about it.

ChessAmigo is awesome! His reactions are genuinely funny and he actually is pretty good. If he sticks with it, he's going to be a good player. Loved this video

Man these ones are pretty good! Im so happy to have found your channel, it really shows a lot of the technique behind chess. Thanks for your work! 🙏

This is awesome! I would love to see more of these!

Very interesting video concept, please do more of these! Its interesting to see the different thoughts and strategies between different levels. Just subscribed :)

Excellent idea!!! Bravoooo! I would love to see many more of these!

Great format and very instructive to see the difference in attention to looking for all moves and checking there are no tactics, etc. It’s one thing to hear about it, but witnessing it in this context makes it more real for some reason.

That was great. Please do some more of these types of videos!

This was a VERY INTERESTING video! I totally loved it. I hope you do more of this kind

What a fun video. Would love to see more like this.

This is so original. I love this. I wish more people would do this video idea

Cool new concept Nelson!

Such a good format. Very instructive. Well done!

Awesome video, please do more of these!

Great video and this answers a question that most 1400-1600 players ask themselves frequently 👍👍👍

great concept for a video, really enjoyed that

Another great video concept!

Loving this different ratings format 👍🏻. Insightful.

I love how this has been done. informative and classy

cool format and props to both!

Nice, would like to see more of these 👍

This is a really cool video format you should do more of these

Love this format!! My son and I actually wanted to try this live over the board but never really did it - too many mind games would happen.

This was a great video!! hope you can do videos on a similar line as this

This was a really good video...hoping for more like this

I really like this video. This was really helpful

Very enjoyable to observe. Please do this again

A great series this is.... keep it up Nelson!

More videos like this,that was so interesting,original and helpful ❤❤

This needs to be a regular thing! I'd even like the live stream details and become a subscriber.

I love these style of videos, thank you for making me a better thinker in Chess!

What a brilliant concept!!

Long time watcher of this channel content but now subscriber because of this video. I think Nelson is on to something original & instructive here. Hope we get to see a lot more content like this with different ratings. I think seeing some post game commentary on his opponents thought process would be instructive as well.

this is SUCH GOOD content... please more of this!!

Loved it. What a great idea!

Great content! Thx for the vid! :)

Hey man. I was wondering if you would consider making a video about how to effectively learn to convert winning positions with equal material. Can't find any good videos about that. I'm an adult improver, playing since 4 years and am rated around 1800 FIDE. In classical OTB games I would often have great positions in the middle game against higher rated players. Often something like +3 or +4 according to the engine, while having equal material. but then I usually struggle to convert that advantage. I started working on my calculation/visualization by looking at similiar positions with winning combinations from GM games and it did help a little bit, but I was wondering what else I could do to get better at this specific thing. Would be cool, if you would consider doing a video on that topic one day. Anyway, thanks for all the content. Really like your channel, lots of dense information and really helpful content. Keep it up and all the best!

This is super helpful!

Other than being a great Chess teacher, Nelson is also a very creative and thoughtful content creator.

Me watching this with 100 elo 🤧

This is really good content for me as I just started playing last month and I'm trying to learn how to think about chess.

This another informative content by yours sir😊

Great content idea👌

Very interesting concept of a video! I might have to try this at the club I'm running at my school

This is an excellent format. Very informative. With this game in the bag as a baseline, it offers a good opportunity to explore differences in time control. Try a 15+10 game and see if it noticeably improves his game play. Also, Nelson could agree to a tighter control and manually track it (maybe agreeing to not ever go below 10m on clock).

This is like watching a well directed movie about a situation experienced through the POVs of opposing characters

Stellar content. Hopefully a new series. 🙏

love this format...!

Love this! Which move was the 'brilliant' you made btw?

love watching you play

this is a super interesting video concept

More like this please!

I think you have potential to do something special here. An entire series of this would take off.

This is a really cool series idea

Do more of this please.

Another great video ❤

Really liking this format.

Good stuff!

Dude this was awesome

GREAT CONTENT BRO!

nice concept

Great video! Jonathan played really good!

It's like you made this video just for me. Thanks!

Thianis such a nice idea of videos!!!

Just got I'm watching your channel for more than an year :)

you should do this again next year!

This whole game went bad because he failed to play h5. I never let my opponent push h4-h5 if I can stop it with h7-h5

Great video

great vid

His a7 pawn was never hanging as he can trap the bishop with b6 after bishop takes pawn very good video 👍 He actually ends up saying that in the vudeo later on

A slightly longer time control would also be interesting or even a friendly game with take backs, because here it was he just didn't calculate a tactic and the game was mostly over at that point. While in many ways far less important at the 1400 level given games are decided by dropping pieces and pawns the bigger difference is almost definitely when it comes to positional understanding and strategic play where you'll have extremely different things to say than he does.

Extremely useful to see somebody make the mistakes I could make. Please more of this!

This Good Experience ❤ Pls, regular upload such kind of videos 🙏 It's good Learning content for Lower rated players.. 🙏 Thanks

I LOVE THE WAY U EXPLAIN UR CONTENT. THAS GREAT. LOVE IT. 😍

"I could do just nothing "😂 that os most cases my thought process too😂😂😂

We want more of this please...

that was a great vid

Best stuff ive seen on all the chess channels in a long time, unsubscribed from all the chess channels even yours, but have resubscribed

Let me be honest, i resemble Jonathan in certain things - the way he was so cautious in losing pawns is something even I'm not comfortable at Definitely shows that even 1400s miss simple remove the defender tactic, even i might have blundered that.. But obviously he has improved since last year And i think the result wouldnt have been in doubt, still an instructive game to him and all other learners Was really looking forward to seeing Jonathan after a year and he did not disappoint!