This is the best channel for learners. I found it by accident after wandering over other "popular" channels. Here, instruction is delivered in simple language, with no drama, no egos, and the content is so practical for beginners and intermediates. I was getting disheartened on other channels where they talk technical jargon at breakneck speed, and move pieces in a blur. Can't thank you enough Nelson. Keep 'em coming.
I really like how organized you are. Chess tutorials can be pretty rough when the teacher isn't well prepared, or tries to record everything in one take. Very well done!
You make the best instructional chess videos on UA-cam. The way you consicely explain principles, patterns, and tactics are incredibly helpful. This method makes learning chess far more fun than memorizing a bunch of lines, especially for a casual chess player like me. Thanks for the great content!
This is the perfect example of a good chess video! It talks about an important topic, gives good examples, and has good puzzles that haloes you know where to find the mate in an actual game. Great work!
You explain chess concepts better than a lot of IMs and GMs; I really appreciate how concise and straightforward your videos are, and I love that there's no sense of condescension or arrogance like I get from other channels. Not naming names but the one I'm thinking of rhymes with chotham gess. Subscribed! Thanks a million, keep up the good work!
@@SG2048-meta absolutely. He's just pointing out fun things in the development of players. He himself said that this is normal and happened to most of the players. On top of that it's an internet persona
@@ChessVibesOfficialRecommendation on what to use to drill these concepts? Example: Learn the concept then do puzzle, puzzle, puzzle until you simply can’t unsee it?
10:15 moving queen to g6 also works because it forces the same pawn capture, and then the knight and two rooks checkmate the king after taking that pawn
Thank you dear Nelson, for another truly awesome lesson! As always, it's very instructive and I love your calm, no nonsense style of teaching. Keep up the good work! :)
I've learned almost 11 checkmate patterns just from leisurely playing chess so if you are just starting chess just play and play for a while, each game becomes a lesson. Then after that, you can take the game much more seriously and start studying or watching lessons such as this one.
I feel like your videos dont help me when and after i watch them but they plant little seed of knowledge for further down the road that have been really helpful, thank you
I recently taught the game dame to my five year old daughter. Which lead me to rediscover chess after 25 years of not playing a single game. And I must say: Your content helps a lot, Nelson. Please keep up the extraordinary great work.
@@ChessVibesOfficial in the intro, after the queen sac, when our rook checked the opponents king, he can play bishop h6 blocking the check... And he's a queen up..? Pls show every variation
To develop my chess skills, I came up with the idea (on my own) to find out what types of mates are. After all, checkmate is the goal of the game. In chess puzzels on lichess I saw that some checkmates have their names. So I decided to check if there were more of them. I found it and looked at them to see and remember these patterns. That was some time ago. And now I see you've made a video on the same issue. :) It will be nice to watch your video to remind these patterns, and I will recommend your video to others as one of the most important videos on the path of a beginner chess player.
What I like about this video is that most solutions involve queen sacs to clear the way. That just trains you to be able to see the pattern even when pieces are in the way. And you can be confident in sacking a queen or rook to clear the path to mate.
I'm not so sure! Chess players don't go around sacking their queens all the time. Those famous games with mating combination involving queen sacs are famous exactly because of that rarity -- a queen sac that works. If you get a chance to throw your queen away, if you do it, it won't lead you to a win. Or if you win anyway, you must've been so far ahead that you could've won with the queen anyway.
At the second example of epaulette mate you could also take with the queen firts beacause Q:g6 f:g6 R:g6 is mate beacause the night on d6 is covering f7 and the rook on the h1 is covering h7. It's not an epualette mate anymore but still a mate.
a little more detail could have gone into the hook mate at 14:10. the king can't take the queen sacrifice because of the hook mate, but what if K-G6? I'm trying to find the mate but it is a lot harder to force. Still, at the least I can see how to get the rook and bishop which should lead to victory, just struggling to find a forced mate in that case. Also... 16:04. huh?? that's still check, mate! :D Really fun video! I loved finding all the mates in the more complex setups, but doubt I would find them not knowing they were there beforehand. Shows the importance of learning the patterns to keep in your mind while playing though!
If Kg6 then Qh6, Kf5 and Qxh3 prevents the checkmate by black and you're up a piece. But you're absolutly right at the murphy mate I was wondering too 😅
I must be missing something . On the Morphy s mate at 16:06 you say after rook moves to kings file the kings better move would be to the 7rh row. How is that a legal move? Doesnt the King HAVE to move to H8?
You're one of the only chess tutors I genuinely find useful. Most focus on increasingly unlikely sequences of moves (that I'm never really going to be able to use anyway), whereas you break the game down into simple, clean lines -- like a well made sword making a few quick clean cuts.
Thanks for a great video...very helpful. Looking forward to the Middlegame video. (And yes, as pointed out below, it is "an Opera House Mate" since it was a real opera not a person named Opera)
At first I thought this is a really cool idea at 0:40 but after the queen sacks and king takes. When the rook comes over and checks the black king the bishop on f8 can block the rook check and also check the white king. Wait, do you sacrifice a rook as well then bring your other rook in to check as the white knight guards g5?
Thanks, very useful for me. I realised, I'm playing a style like "Take everything you can and then deal somehow in the endgame" )) So that's why I was searching exactly checkmate patterns.
Just discovered your videos; you're very watchable and the videos are pitched just perfectly for the developing self-taught player like me. Thank you for making them.
It is usually difficult to find suggestions for improvement in your amazing videos. This one was no exception however, I may have found some. I would point out that many of the common mating patterns have alternate names. Dovetail mate is AKA Cozio’s mate, Swallow mate is AKA guéridon mate, Queen and Rook combo mate is AKA kill box mate, etc. There is a version of Boden’s mate which replaces a Bishop with the Queen known as a balestra mate. I enjoyed this video very much but was a little disappointed that you did not include the Arab mate or 2 Knights mate. Nevertheless, this video should be used as the third lesson in a beginner’s chess course right after how to setup the board and how the pieces move. Good job!
There is a section in the list of checkmate patterns in the checkmating lessons on Lichess that mentions and gives a tutorial for Arabian Mate. (Haven't heard of some of the other ones, so thank you for giving some bonus content on this.)
The Arabian mate is e.g. 1 Nf6 Kh8 2 Rg8#. But there'd have to be something else about the position which forces the defending king into the corner. A mating position with king and two knights can be shown, but the attacker cannot force mate.
the second example with 9. epaulette mate also allowed the sacrifice of the queen then mate with rook, since knight and 2nd rook were guarding the escape tiles
I haven't even yet watched this video but I know it will be one of the best lessons out there. I know that because your channel cuts to the chase and is one of the best chess improvement channels out there
I think there's a mistake on 13. Hook Mate: from what I can see, after queen takes rook, king isn't forced to take queen. King can move out of check to g6 and then escape to f5 avoiding hook mate. King is on the run and white is still winning but regardless, hook mate has failed.
A bit of trivia on the Epaulettes Mate, 9:47 . Epaulettes are the decorative fringed shoulder pieces on a military uniform, often with yellow braid. If you Google a pic you'll recognize them. The checkmate has that name because the king looks (a tiny bit) like he's wearing epaulettes. So technically the name of the checkmate that makes sense is "Epaulettes" (plural) not "Epaulette" (singular) nor "Epaulette's" (possessive).
Bishop knight combo solution.. would it not make more sense to sacrifice the bishop and substitute the queen ? Obviously changing it to a queen knight combo?
Also, I'm not sure if this is the root for 'pigs on the seventh', but an European guy wrote a book for how to protect against mongol attacks several hundred years ago, where he referred to pigs who stayed in their castles while the mongols pillaged the villages of the empire.
Great concepts. The first mate, however, I think fails if the black bishop interposes since it also gives check to the white king and even though the white knight can then give check as it interposes, this allows the black king to retreat to the white square on the back rank and get away!
Just one thought - on a couple of those puzzles (20&21 I think) with double bishop mates, it might be preferable to sacrifice the bishop then take with the queen rather than vice versa. Whilst in those precise situations it doesn't make any difference, it does mean that if black has a move you haven't noticed, you've lost a bishop instead of the queen. The downside is that when using a queen instead of a bishop, you have to make sure you're not inadvertently causing a stalemate.
At 5:57 he says there’s nothing black can really do but I can see 2 ways he can stop it 1 by blocking the space with a pawn or 2 using the knight to capture the king
The Boden’s mate I regularly delivered in blitz chess against the same opponent. With black he’d usually play the Caro-Kann and castle queenside, and I’d position my bishops and sac the queen on c6. After quite a few wins in this way I began warning him, “I’m threatening mate in two”, and he still couldn’t see it, even though he was a +1600 player. At the end I think he did begin to recognise the pattern without my help, but for a weak or even intermediate player it really isn’t easy to spot.
Bro you are awesome. Your voice is fantastic, very easy to listen to. You are concise and precise in your descriptions. Do not change your style. I see 400 000 subs in 12 months time.
I think for the first game black really had a chance to check mate white or atleast take his knight... Instead of moving the king back block the attack by the bishop mating white king the kind doesn't go anywhere he has to block it white rook or knight then queen to h1 he'll have no option but to take it through bishop then rook to h1 is a beautiful checkmate
While one can find on UA-cam almost everything about anything, more often it's about entertainment and... not much else. You manage to put structure into entertainment and making the instructional fun. 😀 Thank you very much for your time and for all of your chess series, please do keep them coming! 🥇 P.S. As another commentator put it, this channel is "underrated AF!". 🤭
From the initial position, I thought he'd go over what happens after Black interposes the bishop with Bh6 (after Qxh7+ Kxh7, Rh1+). Of course, White sacrifices the rook as well, Rxh6+ Kxh6, Rh1#.
I completely misunderstood the first example and spent ages trying to manoeuvre the white Queen in front of the white King to get a checkmate. Made a whole lot more sense when I realised it was just putting it in front of the OTHER King...
It's so cool to sac a queen killing a pawn and then using piece combos like the last two mates. Smothered mate, the final example is funny :). A relatively new chess Opponent would be in shock after it...lol. I never got smothered mate in a game, maybe I just didn't try to get the opponent to set it up. Cool training Nelson!
This is the best channel for learners. I found it by accident after wandering over other "popular" channels. Here, instruction is delivered in simple language, with no drama, no egos, and the content is so practical for beginners and intermediates. I was getting disheartened on other channels where they talk technical jargon at breakneck speed, and move pieces in a blur. Can't thank you enough Nelson. Keep 'em coming.
Yep that's why we love the Nelson
Same just found this channel recently and it's the best I've seen after having looked through quite a few.
+ Daniel naroditsky
@@turtle_fps Yup
I second that statement. Thank you Nelson.
Boden's Mate or as Gotham Chess would call it "Criss Cross Apple Sauce".
every time he said it I added apple sauce in my head
I think you got it wrong, it's a discovered attack/capture of which its theme may be appealing to young players
@@oldsuitman7762 shut up dude
It's apple saws I guess
Criss cross apple sauce IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOARD
I really like how organized you are. Chess tutorials can be pretty rough when the teacher isn't well prepared, or tries to record everything in one take. Very well done!
You make the best instructional chess videos on UA-cam. The way you consicely explain principles, patterns, and tactics are incredibly helpful. This method makes learning chess far more fun than memorizing a bunch of lines, especially for a casual chess player like me. Thanks for the great content!
No, hanging pawns is better
Yeah, no-this guy is under-rated AF
Agree 100%. The vids have no fluff - which shows he has great respect for the audience's time. Fantastic
Ditto what dawnpatrol said. These are great. Thank you!
I agree
This is the perfect example of a good chess video! It talks about an important topic, gives good examples, and has good puzzles that haloes you know where to find the mate in an actual game. Great work!
Some puzzles were great. Others not so much.
You explain chess concepts better than a lot of IMs and GMs; I really appreciate how concise and straightforward your videos are, and I love that there's no sense of condescension or arrogance like I get from other channels. Not naming names but the one I'm thinking of rhymes with chotham gess. Subscribed! Thanks a million, keep up the good work!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 so true
Imma call him chotham gess from now on
Chotham gess is more for a laugh I think, he just acts that way on his channel. On a recent WIRED video we see Levy being non arrogant
How about a chotham gess vs. chess vibes match?
@@SG2048-meta absolutely. He's just pointing out fun things in the development of players. He himself said that this is normal and happened to most of the players.
On top of that it's an internet persona
Bruh I didn’t even realize you made it on agadmator’s channel. That’s an honor!
This is the single most informative chess video I have ever seen, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
@@ChessVibesOfficialRecommendation on what to use to drill these concepts? Example: Learn the concept then do puzzle, puzzle, puzzle until you simply can’t unsee it?
These pattern videos are gold. I have a really hard time memorizing lines, but you always contextualize them in a principle.
This is a great channel!
16:04 HOW can the king go to g7 the rook is controlling that square
Just have courage :)
If he puts his mind to it, the king can do anything.
U can’t capture the king soo
Maybe he meant moving the king to g7 before white had delivered check? Idk man good question lol
Okay I rewatched it, I was grasping lol like I said good question 😆
5:12 I've lost so many games to Lolli's Mate! Good to know it and have it in my mind. Thanks Nelson.
Same here. Seems I'm subconsciously obsessed with lolli's
@@chickenlevi975 Stop.
This is probably my favorite chess video ever. Great work man!
10:15 moving queen to g6 also works because it forces the same pawn capture, and then the knight and two rooks checkmate the king after taking that pawn
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to see that
Thank you dear Nelson, for another truly awesome lesson! As always, it's very instructive and I love your calm, no nonsense style of teaching. Keep up the good work! :)
I've learned almost 11 checkmate patterns just from leisurely playing chess so if you are just starting chess just play and play for a while, each game becomes a lesson. Then after that, you can take the game much more seriously and start studying or watching lessons such as this one.
19:54 I mean you could capture with the bishop first, but I assume that queen sacs have more swag
same on 21:30
they do indeed have more swag
I feel like your videos dont help me when and after i watch them but they plant little seed of knowledge for further down the road that have been really helpful, thank you
I recently taught the game dame to my five year old daughter. Which lead me to rediscover chess after 25 years of not playing a single game. And I must say: Your content helps a lot, Nelson. Please keep up the extraordinary great work.
Welcome back to chess! Good luck teaching your daughter!
@@ChessVibesOfficial in the intro, after the queen sac, when our rook checked the opponents king, he can play bishop h6 blocking the check... And he's a queen up..? Pls show every variation
@@omi6937ng5 king has to move back
@@omi6937then rook takes bishop n continue w the mate
To develop my chess skills, I came up with the idea (on my own) to find out what types of mates are. After all, checkmate is the goal of the game. In chess puzzels on lichess I saw that some checkmates have their names. So I decided to check if there were more of them. I found it and looked at them to see and remember these patterns. That was some time ago. And now I see you've made a video on the same issue. :) It will be nice to watch your video to remind these patterns, and I will recommend your video to others as one of the most important videos on the path of a beginner chess player.
Bruh omg the exact same thing happened to me :)
Lots of positive comments and those are justified, this video is very complete, and shows good examples of how these mates are hidden in normal games
What I like about this video is that most solutions involve queen sacs to clear the way. That just trains you to be able to see the pattern even when pieces are in the way. And you can be confident in sacking a queen or rook to clear the path to mate.
I'm not so sure! Chess players don't go around sacking their queens all the time. Those famous games with mating combination involving queen sacs are famous exactly because of that rarity -- a queen sac that works. If you get a chance to throw your queen away, if you do it, it won't lead you to a win. Or if you win anyway, you must've been so far ahead that you could've won with the queen anyway.
Amazing , I'm be replaying this for weeks to study . Thank you !
Thanks for the help, you’ve quickly become my favourite go to chess help guy. Much appreciated👍👍👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
At the second example of epaulette mate you could also take with the queen firts beacause Q:g6 f:g6 R:g6 is mate beacause the night on d6 is covering f7 and the rook on the h1 is covering h7. It's not an epualette mate anymore but still a mate.
a little more detail could have gone into the hook mate at 14:10. the king can't take the queen sacrifice because of the hook mate, but what if K-G6? I'm trying to find the mate but it is a lot harder to force. Still, at the least I can see how to get the rook and bishop which should lead to victory, just struggling to find a forced mate in that case.
Also... 16:04. huh?? that's still check, mate! :D
Really fun video! I loved finding all the mates in the more complex setups, but doubt I would find them not knowing they were there beforehand. Shows the importance of learning the patterns to keep in your mind while playing though!
If Kg6 then Qh6, Kf5 and Qxh3 prevents the checkmate by black and you're up a piece.
But you're absolutly right at the murphy mate I was wondering too 😅
Lol i love how we go from "The Dovetail Mate" to "Damiano's Mate" to "Greco's mate" to... "THE BLIND SWINE MATE"
haha the blind swine sounds so badass
Backrank can also happen if the B or G Pawn is advanced and there is a Bishop that covers the opened squares
#21 is the hilarious "Oh no, my queen!" play I've seen with Eric Rosen
Eric is a good player, but a mediocre teacher, my rating suffers from stafford gambit
Brilliant video filled with useful information presented in a very concise way!
I must be missing something . On the Morphy s mate at 16:06 you say after rook moves to kings file the kings better move would be to the 7rh row. How is that a legal move? Doesnt the King HAVE to move to H8?
You're one of the only chess tutors I genuinely find useful. Most focus on increasingly unlikely sequences of moves (that I'm never really going to be able to use anyway), whereas you break the game down into simple, clean lines -- like a well made sword making a few quick clean cuts.
Thanks for a great video...very helpful. Looking forward to the Middlegame video.
(And yes, as pointed out below, it is "an Opera House Mate" since it was a real opera not a person named Opera)
Some of those were hard for me to see...mostly the queen sacrifices. Gotta learn to see a few moves ahead. Thanks.
You sir are by far my favourite chess channel, others are too boring or like Levy too energetic but then don't deliver it good enough
At first I thought this is a really cool idea at 0:40 but after the queen sacks and king takes. When the rook comes over and checks the black king the bishop on f8 can block the rook check and also check the white king.
Wait, do you sacrifice a rook as well then bring your other rook in to check as the white knight guards g5?
After you sacrifice the other rook, it's mate.
1. Qh7 Kh7
2. Rh1 Bh6
3. Rh6 Kh6
4. Rh1#
Deeeeeeep one
Thanks, very useful for me. I realised, I'm playing a style like "Take everything you can and then deal somehow in the endgame" )) So that's why I was searching exactly checkmate patterns.
Just discovered your videos; you're very watchable and the videos are pitched just perfectly for the developing self-taught player like me. Thank you for making them.
Very good. Seen this a couple of times and have it bookmarked for a few more repetitions until it all sinks in.
Well this isn't the most exciting mating tutorial I've ever seen, but it is the best one I've seen involving chess.
My thoughts exactly
As always smooth, helpful, informative and concise thanks alot man
It is usually difficult to find suggestions for improvement in your amazing videos. This one was no exception however, I may have found some.
I would point out that many of the common mating patterns have alternate names. Dovetail mate is AKA Cozio’s mate, Swallow mate is AKA guéridon mate, Queen and Rook combo mate is AKA kill box mate, etc. There is a version of Boden’s mate which replaces a Bishop with the Queen known as a
balestra mate.
I enjoyed this video very much but was a little disappointed that you did not include the Arab mate or 2 Knights mate. Nevertheless, this video should be used as the third
lesson in a beginner’s chess course right after how to setup the board and how the pieces move. Good job!
There is a section in the list of checkmate patterns in the checkmating lessons on Lichess that mentions and gives a tutorial for Arabian Mate. (Haven't heard of some of the other ones, so thank you for giving some bonus content on this.)
The Arabian mate is e.g. 1 Nf6 Kh8 2 Rg8#. But there'd have to be something else about the position which forces the defending king into the corner.
A mating position with king and two knights can be shown, but the attacker cannot force mate.
Amazing man!! great lesson and puzzle. The best chess video for beginners
the second example with 9. epaulette mate also allowed the sacrifice of the queen then mate with rook, since knight and 2nd rook were guarding the escape tiles
Very instructive and well articulated like most of the other videos in the channel
16:04 king can't move forward for the same reason the king is in check.
16:05 are you okay? The Black King can‘t move to a square which is attacked by White‘s Rook
Ikr i thought the same thing
The bishop was on the line, just look carefully.
The author was correct, and you saying wrong)
@@ЕвгенийНебавский Nelson recommended the move King to g7, which is illegal, due to the rook on g1. I don't know where the confusion lies
Ikr
@@ЕвгенийНебавский nah Bishop is on the H-file
This video was ridiculously good. Thanks Nelson
I haven't even yet watched this video but I know it will be one of the best lessons out there. I know that because your channel cuts to the chase and is one of the best chess improvement channels out there
Great to have the names of these. Helps to memorize them.
Can we all just leave comments and likes to blow up the youtube algorithm. This guy deserves it!!!
Number 5 Lolli's Mate: after white moves pawn to f6, black moves knight to d7, effectively threatening the checkmate
I don't see how N-D7 ends the threat of white checkmating black with the lolli.
@2:32 I don't know why I do this but I took a longer forced route. 1. Ne6+ Kg6 2. Nf8+ Kh5 3. Qf3+ Qg4 4. Qxg4++
Thats an awesome video. Im sure Ill watch this many times. You forgot the Arabian mate. Will you be doing a part two on this series ?
I think there's a mistake on 13. Hook Mate: from what I can see, after queen takes rook, king isn't forced to take queen. King can move out of check to g6 and then escape to f5 avoiding hook mate. King is on the run and white is still winning but regardless, hook mate has failed.
yeah I noticed this too. Is there still a forced mate I can't seem to find?
Love your teaching style - highly practical without unnecessary chit-chat!
gotham chess has too musch chitchat
I randomly clicked on this video from my recommended feed, and it got me back into Chess. I’m now playing almost every day!
Nice! Glad to hear!
A bit of trivia on the Epaulettes Mate, 9:47 . Epaulettes are the decorative fringed shoulder pieces on a military uniform, often with yellow braid. If you Google a pic you'll recognize them. The checkmate has that name because the king looks (a tiny bit) like he's wearing epaulettes. So technically the name of the checkmate that makes sense is "Epaulettes" (plural) not "Epaulette" (singular) nor "Epaulette's" (possessive).
Ladder mate is definitely the first one I learned as a kid.
10:21 queen takes also works fyi
Love these. Super practical. Thank you!
Bishop knight combo solution.. would it not make more sense to sacrifice the bishop and substitute the queen ? Obviously changing it to a queen knight combo?
Nelson, great video, thank you. Also, I couldn't help but notice to propensity to queen sacrifice. Cheers!
that opera's mate was used in the Queen's Gambit when Harmon beats the highschool coach
Excellent channel! The only channel that’s systematically going through chess principles
Also, I'm not sure if this is the root for 'pigs on the seventh', but an European guy wrote a book for how to protect against mongol attacks several hundred years ago, where he referred to pigs who stayed in their castles while the mongols pillaged the villages of the empire.
Great job, very well outlined
Great concepts. The first mate, however, I think fails if the black bishop interposes since it also gives check to the white king and even though the white knight can then give check as it interposes, this allows the black king to retreat to the white square on the back rank and get away!
I do a lot of these mates but I didn't even know their names. I probably just picked the patterns from my opponents or youtube videos haha.
What’s your elo?
Sameeee!
@@gusemery5475 1700
@@dionel1388 same I’ll give ya a game
@@gusemery5475 Nicee!
First example- you can block with with bishop and escape taking the queen
Just try and see if you can sac your queen to get the mate for the second puzzle.
Thanks it REALLY helped.
I love how to deliver mate ez is to sacrifice the queen.
Thanks for your videos, Nelson. You’ve helped me reach 1300!
14:22 But what if the king refuses to eat the queen and moves to *G6* instead?
Probably Queen to G8 then once king F5 Queen H7 then grab the bishop
Thanks for this! Really helpful.
Thanks much! So helpful!
absolutely beautiful video Nelson
Just one thought - on a couple of those puzzles (20&21 I think) with double bishop mates, it might be preferable to sacrifice the bishop then take with the queen rather than vice versa. Whilst in those precise situations it doesn't make any difference, it does mean that if black has a move you haven't noticed, you've lost a bishop instead of the queen.
The downside is that when using a queen instead of a bishop, you have to make sure you're not inadvertently causing a stalemate.
Another great and useful video, thank you!
I watched this video and I kid you not- the next game I played I hit the most satisfying Blind Swine Mate.
Excellent video!
10:20 You can also play Qxg6 fxg6, Rxg6#
At 5:57 he says there’s nothing black can really do but I can see 2 ways he can stop it 1 by blocking the space with a pawn or 2 using the knight to capture the king
I couldn't solve the Dovetail and Swallow's Tail Mate problem because black actually has c5 which prevents both mating patterns from working.
Very good instructional and practical video and advice.
Thank you
The Boden’s mate I regularly delivered in blitz chess against the same opponent. With black he’d usually play the Caro-Kann and castle queenside, and I’d position my bishops and sac the queen on c6. After quite a few wins in this way I began warning him, “I’m threatening mate in two”, and he still couldn’t see it, even though he was a +1600 player. At the end I think he did begin to recognise the pattern without my help, but for a weak or even intermediate player it really isn’t easy to spot.
Bro you are awesome. Your voice is fantastic, very easy to listen to. You are concise and precise in your descriptions. Do not change your style. I see 400 000 subs in 12 months time.
On the first example, the dark squared bishop for black side could block the rook
Then rook takes and it's still forced mate
Not gonna lie, this is the best one I’ve found so far. (On this topic). - 10/10
Thank you, GM Nelson.
Great video once again!
More mating patterns, please
I love how obsessed he is with teaching us to sacrifice the Queen.
awesome channel! thank u for ur time, energy, and wisdom!
I think for the first game black really had a chance to check mate white or atleast take his knight... Instead of moving the king back block the attack by the bishop mating white king the kind doesn't go anywhere he has to block it white rook or knight then queen to h1 he'll have no option but to take it through bishop then rook to h1 is a beautiful checkmate
Very good content again Nelson especially with the time stamps
While one can find on UA-cam almost everything about anything, more often it's about entertainment and... not much else.
You manage to put structure into entertainment and making the instructional fun. 😀
Thank you very much for your time and for all of your chess series, please do keep them coming! 🥇
P.S.
As another commentator put it, this channel is "underrated AF!". 🤭
From the initial position, I thought he'd go over what happens after Black interposes the bishop with Bh6 (after Qxh7+ Kxh7, Rh1+). Of course, White sacrifices the rook as well, Rxh6+ Kxh6, Rh1#.
I completely misunderstood the first example and spent ages trying to manoeuvre the white Queen in front of the white King to get a checkmate. Made a whole lot more sense when I realised it was just putting it in front of the OTHER King...
It's so cool to sac a queen killing a pawn and then using piece combos like the last two mates. Smothered mate, the final example is funny :). A relatively new chess Opponent would be in shock after it...lol. I never got smothered mate in a game, maybe I just didn't try to get the opponent to set it up. Cool training Nelson!
Everyone interested in the true enjoyment of chess should learn these patterns. Excellent !
That was a good one, I bet(some I know for sure, with after game evaluatin, some had some visual similaritis) I have seen some in games I lost, lol
The first checkmate pattern, how do we make white queen at the h1 square ? Thanks very much Coach, this is very helpful.