I had a classmate download a chess app to play against another classmate in the break and the first thing she did was fall for the fool's mate. The look on her face when she was destroyed in two moves was priceless.
64 pawns is my guess. Thanks for your active contribution to Chess, I've learned a bit from your videos even though it's pretty hard to improve here at 1800
3:16 i had an opponent recently at the 800 level (im 750 as black, opponent was 850 as white) who played this opening (with scholar's mate threats) and blundered the queen on move 6 to a fork, alot of people get caught completely off guard if black plays aggressively after its no longer a checkmate threat
I had the same but made a mistake. Moved the pawn to G6. Giving up my rook because he forked my king and rook. Still won that game and the queen never left the H8 after the move. I methodically kept the queen in place and when I was ready to capture it he just kept throwing pieces at me. Surprisingly his first sacrificial move was actually the best play. Apparently I should have taken that bishop and let the queen go. However next time I am in that situation, that queen will still go down. Screw stockfish. Well actually...the queen still survived. He kept trowing pieces my way till I had a back rank checkmate. So I guess he saved his queen in the end.
As a teen I had a phase where I used to do plan 1 through the King's Gambit, by playing g3 after my f4 pawn has been accepted, which would then also get taken so I could capture back with the h2 pawn. But yeah, it hardly ever did anything of use.
I reckon 49 pawns 😅. I absolutely love the videos Nelson, they've helped me from a hopeless chess player who blunders many times in a game to someone who has a solid chance and makes decent opportunities to take advantage of the game
I had a plan that is similar to the first one free the rook from the queen’s side and then later the bishop from the same side and use both to attack the king inmediatly more detailed: pawn to A4 and other pawn to B3 Rook to A3 to then put him at E3 The bishop then goes to A3 and then E7 with the Rook following up to kill the piece that killed the bishop (if it was the queen then don’t hesitate) of course there are many flaws here but there’s a variant that LOOKS less dumb which is just using other pieces in the meantime
On the 10th one, if you are sure the pawn can be pushed safely, then try to make it a runaway pawn. The triangle/square rule is the best way to determine this.
3:13 Btw this is the Waywards Queen Attack. I wouldn't say I like this one opening because it involves bringing out the queen early and bishops threatening mate. You waste like 5 moves until you get a sturdy position in 11 moves. Watching your videos really helped me with the Waywards Queen Attack. Maybe i would even suggest you to make a video on the Waywards Queen Attack?
idk I usually never lose when I play it, but I'm also very careful with not blundering and using my knights to support if needed and knowing when to change the plan up if it doesn't go the way i plan... also may be due to the fact i've memorized every possibility after hundreds of matches with it 💀
This is not called the wayward queen attack and instead is called a scholars mate. The thing they try to do is firstly take the pawn and win a rook and get a checkmate with a bishop supporting the queen.
@@SolarLeague no it is not the scholars mate is a checkmate trap the idea is that if he attacks your queen with g6 you can take his pawn and fork his rook
11:24 Another common way is in the French, where 1 e4 e6 restricts bBc8. Especially in the Advance Variation 3 e5, where White even blocks bPe6 which might otherwise have advanced to let the bishop out.
Number 7 depends on the opening, in some openings this plan is very effective, but obviously it's because there is compensation. Though - usually you don't hunt the bishop with the pawns after it has moved to g6 or g3. Number 9 is also not true in many openings as the attack creates some time for developing later after getting some big concessions from the opponent to defend.
A pawn vase?! Pretty cool. 😁😁 Plan #5 tends to stick in my craw a lot. I've played several opponents trying to immediately exchange bishops for knights and they don't fully understand that there are more cases of open positions where bishops can thrive and sometimes they can help shut down knights.
My worst plan when playing as White: falling for the scholars mate (checkmate in 4 moves). Getting defeated that quickly is a little embarrassing, but I know to deflect it by playing Knight H3 or Queen E2.
I managed to adapt the fried liver attack slightly to achieve a bishop/knight version of the same thing. Basically, take with the bishop instead of the knight.
I’m going to guess 52 pawns. Thanks for your amazing videos, they are really helpful and informative, and the best part is that they are easy to follow
55 pawns. When I first started out, I watched your video on general chess principles, and one of them was to avoid bad bishops. One of the most important takeaways I got from that video.
Thanks for giving some useful tips on Plan no.7! I myself get annoyed with that pin, hopefully will improve on dealing with those! And thanks for the in-sights on plan no.10 as well! Had never thought about it.
30 pawns is my guess. In Germany the Word for "pawn" is "Bauer". In the eastern parts of Germany it has been "Arbeiter und Bauer" - but this was long ago.
Number 1, I’ve been playing chess since a child, and for a while liked the opening where you brought both rooks out straight away, they would virtually always get taken, allowing the knights to take the bishops. This broke pretty much every rule in the book, and meant you couldn’t castle, but I also won a lot of games that way because the setup is so unusual.
I haven't played anyone who knew anything about chess in over 30 years, but I played a variation of a rook opening for awhile when I was about 10 years old. I'd start with pawn to e4 if white, and depending on what black played, I'd attempt to free the rook on the opposite color of their available bishop. If unnoticed or disregarded, I'd play rook to e3, queen to e2, castle, rook to e1 when available and have a triple stack with the 2 rooks and queen ready to launch behind an absurdly protected pawn. That was not the exact order of moves, mind you... it was more the goal, but I more often than not would need to use my bishops on long diagonals and/or knights to create pins to allow the setup unless the person I was playing was even less experienced than I was. I jokingly called it my cannon if I could get it, as it made the middle of the board a scary place to be, especially since so many of the (mostly beginners) I played with were so concerned about either a pretty pawn structure or queen-centric play.
if assuming each chess set you got the pawns from has 16 (8black,8white) each then we can get the number of chess sets you used for the vase. because the pawns are so big I could tell that there are less pawns then 40 so using me super cool calculations i could see at least 2 chess sets in the vase which equals to 16+16 or 32.
I feel like I'm pretty gulity with plan 9, for some reasons when I saw my opponent castle, even though I'm playing the Caro-Kann I decided to be crazy and throw all the pawns most of the time. My excuse is it's move 7 and I did get some pieces out and have a relatively locked structure in the center
I like to make pawns storm when the opponent castle. If you make solid center defense(do not trade center pawns and block all possible attack from d or e file), keep the king at d or e file , then push up pawns to attack castle king, then you will probably win the game. My chess rating is about 2000, with the above game plan, I have beaten many opponents because even the opponent make good defense, I will still win the endgame with active and center king.
I'm guessing 172 pawns. Also, congratulations on the newborn. My granddaughter just turned one and she's amazing. I'm hoping to instill a little bit of my love of chess in her young mind.
@@sophykeosuncheng5952 its such a wild guess that it doesnt make sense to come to that exact number it makes more sense for it to be a multiple of 16, because thats how many pawns there are on 1 default chess board!
Well I feel the number of pawns should obviously be close to multiples of 8. Considering the vase size, I feel 86 pawns are present, as you might have removed some to prevent such easy guesses. 86 is my guess
For the pawns I'm guessing 110. For the number of comments you receive before announcing the winner I'm guessing 676, if I'm right I win unlimited free access to all your courses, right Nelson? 🤞
52 pawns is my guess, i love your videos nelson, ive bingewatched all ur videos in the past 2 weeks, even the 1/ 2 hour ones, appreciate the hard work put into them. I also love the studies of puzzles you do and i can never get bored of them. Keep it up!
My guess for the jar is 24 pawns, there is a ton of space being wasted within the jar due to the awkward shape and proportions of a pawn. It has to be in the range of 20 to 28 pawns. Love the content!
Personally I like to trade off my bishops for knights since for whatever reason I have a huge blind spot if there are 2 knights together plus I just want to trade in general to quickly move on to the mid game
When I first learned chess, that is exactly what I did. My chess coach kept telling me to develop my knights and bishop but I just loved the rooks. I played a bunch of other beginners and actually beat them by doing this lol
I think their are 64 pawns because let's say you have 4 chess sets and took all their pawns and put it in the vase. Each set has 16 pawns so 16×4 is 64. So 64 is my guess
Nelson, At 6:20 , the KING'S GAMBIT is all about sacrificing the f pawn. Is that an exception? Cause we're all like "center control" but not paying attention to 50 ELO kinda stuff (Fools mate).
I was going to enter, but this was a year ago. Regardless, my guess is one pawn, and it underpromotes to a knight because promoting to a queen would result in a stalemate.
I just use my knight to attack and fork and then if it is taken I’ll move the other knight then if that knight is taken I’ll start developing my other pieces
I say there's 1 pawn, but of course reality is subjective
Gg mate I'm totally not salty that u won
@@patosmanh Don't question the demon
subjective? you're absolutely correct, the vase contains a pawn
43 pawns
No, reality is objective.
I had a classmate download a chess app to play against another classmate in the break and the first thing she did was fall for the fool's mate. The look on her face when she was destroyed in two moves was priceless.
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That’s funny lmao
64 pawns is my guess. Thanks for your active contribution to Chess, I've learned a bit from your videos even though it's pretty hard to improve here at 1800
If the # isn't "just enuf"; then My guess is eleventy-Billion!
werid flex but ok
Good thinking Khytron, as there are 16 pawns in each set. However I don't think Nelson would make it that easy.
Looks way more than that
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3:16 i had an opponent recently at the 800 level (im 750 as black, opponent was 850 as white) who played this opening (with scholar's mate threats) and blundered the queen on move 6 to a fork, alot of people get caught completely off guard if black plays aggressively after its no longer a checkmate threat
I had the same but made a mistake. Moved the pawn to G6. Giving up my rook because he forked my king and rook. Still won that game and the queen never left the H8 after the move. I methodically kept the queen in place and when I was ready to capture it he just kept throwing pieces at me. Surprisingly his first sacrificial move was actually the best play. Apparently I should have taken that bishop and let the queen go. However next time I am in that situation, that queen will still go down. Screw stockfish.
Well actually...the queen still survived. He kept trowing pieces my way till I had a back rank checkmate. So I guess he saved his queen in the end.
As a teen I had a phase where I used to do plan 1 through the King's Gambit, by playing g3 after my f4 pawn has been accepted, which would then also get taken so I could capture back with the h2 pawn. But yeah, it hardly ever did anything of use.
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U should let the h pawn fall too then itd work
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I reckon 49 pawns 😅. I absolutely love the videos Nelson, they've helped me from a hopeless chess player who blunders many times in a game to someone who has a solid chance and makes decent opportunities to take advantage of the game
likewise 👍
Hey that's 48
I had a plan that is similar to the first one
free the rook from the queen’s side and then later the bishop from the same side and use both to attack the king inmediatly
more detailed: pawn to A4 and other pawn to B3
Rook to A3 to then put him at E3
The bishop then goes to A3 and then E7 with the Rook following up to kill the piece that killed the bishop (if it was the queen then don’t hesitate)
of course there are many flaws here but there’s a variant that LOOKS less dumb which is just using other pieces in the meantime
On the 10th one, if you are sure the pawn can be pushed safely, then try to make it a runaway pawn. The triangle/square rule is the best way to determine this.
3:13 Btw this is the Waywards Queen Attack. I wouldn't say I like this one opening because it involves bringing out the queen early and bishops threatening mate. You waste like 5 moves until you get a sturdy position in 11 moves. Watching your videos really helped me with the Waywards Queen Attack. Maybe i would even suggest you to make a video on the Waywards Queen Attack?
idk I usually never lose when I play it, but I'm also very careful with not blundering and using my knights to support if needed and knowing when to change the plan up if it doesn't go the way i plan... also may be due to the fact i've memorized every possibility after hundreds of matches with it 💀
definitely my favorite opening besides horsefly defense
This is not called the wayward queen attack and instead is called a scholars mate. The thing they try to do is firstly take the pawn and win a rook and get a checkmate with a bishop supporting the queen.
@@SolarLeague no it is not the scholars mate is a checkmate trap the idea is that if he attacks your queen with g6 you can take his pawn and fork his rook
@@SolarLeague The scholar's mate is rooted from the Wayward Queen Attack.
11:24 Another common way is in the French, where 1 e4 e6 restricts bBc8. Especially in the Advance Variation 3 e5, where White even blocks bPe6 which might otherwise have advanced to let the bishop out.
Number 7 depends on the opening, in some openings this plan is very effective, but obviously it's because there is compensation. Though - usually you don't hunt the bishop with the pawns after it has moved to g6 or g3. Number 9 is also not true in many openings as the attack creates some time for developing later after getting some big concessions from the opponent to defend.
A pawn vase?! Pretty cool. 😁😁
Plan #5 tends to stick in my craw a lot. I've played several opponents trying to immediately exchange bishops for knights and they don't fully understand that there are more cases of open positions where bishops can thrive and sometimes they can help shut down knights.
Plan 1 was my main plan when i was playing chess at the age of 6-8, this was like "wow" thing to me
Same case for me
Same for me but maybe only at the age of 3-4
I think about 48 pawns, but it depends from your definition of pawn: for me a pawn is 1/48th of the matter inside of the vase.
I thought 46... Did he ever say?
Not as first step, but sometimes i use number 7 to block the movement area of enemy queen and bishops, so they cant pin my horses.
My worst plan when playing as White: falling for the scholars mate (checkmate in 4 moves). Getting defeated that quickly is a little embarrassing, but I know to deflect it by playing Knight H3 or Queen E2.
I managed to adapt the fried liver attack slightly to achieve a bishop/knight version of the same thing. Basically, take with the bishop instead of the knight.
Well everybody falls for that at their "beginner stage"
A worster plan is 1. f4 e6 2. g4
wow, thats some killer g-pawn plan. At wich rating are you allowed to make two moves in a row?
But why make an illegal move on move 2 if you can at the first move?
I remember how plan one was always my strategy many years ago when I first made contact with chess. And for the pawns I'll guess 46.
I’m going to guess 52 pawns. Thanks for your amazing videos, they are really helpful and informative, and the best part is that they are easy to follow
i still remember doing most of these mistake thinking it was a fantastic plan
I've seen Carlsen in mischievous mood doing a lot of this stuff!
55 pawns. When I first started out, I watched your video on general chess principles, and one of them was to avoid bad bishops. One of the most important takeaways I got from that video.
Thanks for giving some useful tips on Plan no.7! I myself get annoyed with that pin, hopefully will improve on dealing with those! And thanks for the in-sights on plan no.10 as well! Had never thought about it.
30 pawns is my guess. In Germany the Word for "pawn" is "Bauer". In the eastern parts of Germany it has been "Arbeiter und Bauer" - but this was long ago.
Number 1, I’ve been playing chess since a child, and for a while liked the opening where you brought both rooks out straight away, they would virtually always get taken, allowing the knights to take the bishops. This broke pretty much every rule in the book, and meant you couldn’t castle, but I also won a lot of games that way because the setup is so unusual.
Mostly because you were playing equally weak players and not because it was “unusual”
@@MatsMatsuo How often do you see that opening, both rooks brought out before any other piece, king staying central?
I haven't played anyone who knew anything about chess in over 30 years, but I played a variation of a rook opening for awhile when I was about 10 years old. I'd start with pawn to e4 if white, and depending on what black played, I'd attempt to free the rook on the opposite color of their available bishop. If unnoticed or disregarded, I'd play rook to e3, queen to e2, castle, rook to e1 when available and have a triple stack with the 2 rooks and queen ready to launch behind an absurdly protected pawn.
That was not the exact order of moves, mind you... it was more the goal, but I more often than not would need to use my bishops on long diagonals and/or knights to create pins to allow the setup unless the person I was playing was even less experienced than I was. I jokingly called it my cannon if I could get it, as it made the middle of the board a scary place to be, especially since so many of the (mostly beginners) I played with were so concerned about either a pretty pawn structure or queen-centric play.
I have played since I was a child. I remember my opening was to always go for the fools mate (Maybe it was fools, it was the one in 4 moves not 2)
@@TheDantheman12121 4 move checkmate is the scholar's mate
if assuming each chess set you got the pawns from has 16 (8black,8white) each then we can get the number of chess sets you used for the vase. because the pawns are so big I could tell that there are less pawns then 40 so using me super cool calculations i could see at least 2 chess sets in the vase which equals to 16+16 or 32.
I feel like I'm pretty gulity with plan 9, for some reasons when I saw my opponent castle, even though I'm playing the Caro-Kann I decided to be crazy and throw all the pawns most of the time. My excuse is it's move 7 and I did get some pieces out and have a relatively locked structure in the center
I like to make pawns storm when the opponent castle. If you make solid center defense(do not trade center pawns and block all possible attack from d or e file), keep the king at d or e file , then push up pawns to attack castle king, then you will probably win the game. My chess rating is about 2000, with the above game plan, I have beaten many opponents because even the opponent make good defense, I will still win the endgame with active and center king.
@@anthonyrooksac that sounds exactly like what I do lol
I'm guessing 172 pawns. Also, congratulations on the newborn. My granddaughter just turned one and she's amazing. I'm hoping to instill a little bit of my love of chess in her young mind.
172 is a fucking wild guess
172 isnt even divisible by 16 ???
@@therealsuper5828you know the number could NOT be divisible by 16? What if he removes some pawns to troll?
@@sophykeosuncheng5952 its such a wild guess that it doesnt make sense to come to that exact number
it makes more sense for it to be a multiple of 16, because thats how many pawns there are on 1 default chess board!
Plan 7 is what I do most of the time when there’s a bishop mostly to trap and not to release the pin
Number 7 Bad plans is actually the most common move when the Bishop pins on ur Queen or King
63 pawns is my guess. I already know these tips, but it is great to sometimes step back and learnd the old. Thank you Nelson!
Well I feel the number of pawns should obviously be close to multiples of 8. Considering the vase size, I feel 86 pawns are present, as you might have removed some to prevent such easy guesses. 86 is my guess
For me, this is the compilation of my chess strategys😅
KF3 KG5 premove KH3 premove unless I'm mistaken is forced mate in 3 from the position you said your king is "most likely" going to get check mated.
157 pawns is my guess from counting up pawns vertically, and counting pawns across and using the formula for the volume of a cylinder.
You need the size of the bottle and each pawns
That doesn’t work lmao
There is space between the pawns. And it's not even a cylinder.
@@CubeforFun fr, my guy tried to sound smart
I’m gonna go with 53 pawns. Thank you so much for the instructive videos!
For the pawns I'm guessing 110.
For the number of comments you receive before announcing the winner I'm guessing 676, if I'm right I win unlimited free access to all your courses, right Nelson? 🤞
I'm gonna guess as 66 pawns in it. Love your videos and these definitely help my gameplay improve!
Dude, 8 can’t even equal 66 😂
For anyone who wants a pawn vase:
You know the amount of pawns in a chess set is usually fixed, so the number is likely to be a multiple of 16
*16
@@Legendendear yeah, my bad
Yeah, but it’s unlikely that exactly a multiple of 16 pawns fills the base. Seems unlikely
the pawn vase isn't the prize
its 69
52 pawns is my guess, i love your videos nelson, ive bingewatched all ur videos in the past 2 weeks, even the 1/ 2 hour ones, appreciate the hard work put into them. I also love the studies of puzzles you do and i can never get bored of them. Keep it up!
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My guess for the jar is 24 pawns, there is a ton of space being wasted within the jar due to the awkward shape and proportions of a pawn. It has to be in the range of 20 to 28 pawns.
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Bro there are literally more than 24 pawns visible if you just count it.what the hail is that guess
Personally I like to trade off my bishops for knights since for whatever reason I have a huge blind spot if there are 2 knights together plus I just want to trade in general to quickly move on to the mid game
plan #11: attack the center pawns with your king at the start
I’m going with 43 pawns. Thanks for all the hard work
I'm gonna guess you made it tricky so it's around 67 pawns in it. Love your videos and these definitely help my gameplay improve!
H4 is a good idea if your opponent weakens the dark squares with g6 bg7 e6
When I first learned chess, that is exactly what I did. My chess coach kept telling me to develop my knights and bishop but I just loved the rooks. I played a bunch of other beginners and actually beat them by doing this lol
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@@jevilsugoma1743 hi! yes, I remember you.
65 is my guess
also thanks for the videos and tutorials in chess, really helped me to improve
Well, I definitely fell into a few of these habits when I started out as a beginner, especially #10. I'll go with 72 pawns
It is really hard to guess but a random number that came to my mind was 89. So I guess that there are 89 pawns in there.
I think their are 64 pawns because let's say you have 4 chess sets and took all their pawns and put it in the vase. Each set has 16 pawns so 16×4 is 64. So 64 is my guess
My guess is 43 pawns, also thanks for the videos and tutorials in chess, really helped me to improve
i'm gonna go with 69 pawns just to meme it :)
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1:52 you told me to develop my pieces. 3:59 4:58
Number 3 is my plan since 7yrs old now im 11 and i used advanced methods, but still getting checkmated
#1 reminds me of a relative I once played who, in his words, "uses his rooks for everything".
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I say it has 69 pawns.
9:48 quick-trick-seconds as a respect of watching. ❤️
50 pawns, but in my heart, the center of the game
You just bought back a memory from me in the past that I started with A4 H4 or A5 H5 to bring my rooks out quickly,and this video is also old.
Nelson,
At 6:20 , the KING'S GAMBIT is all about sacrificing the f pawn.
Is that an exception? Cause we're all like "center control" but not paying attention to 50 ELO kinda stuff (Fools mate).
you can use the queen early but only if you trick them into a few moves first. which if they know what the trick your doing is it won't work.
#8 is the cow opening invented by anna cramling and turns out to be quite decent opening to play for beginners..
So thats why my opponent beat me when i was a beginner
Watch the vase have a really obscure number like 136 or something
I was going to enter, but this was a year ago. Regardless, my guess is one pawn, and it underpromotes to a knight because promoting to a queen would result in a stalemate.
How do you have a circular highlights and those type of arrows
11:00. You could transpose that to the hippopotamus, right?
1:40 You know none of them can't get the answer, that's why you are challenging fearlessly 😂
2:00 a friend of mine always does this and loses the rook on move 2 to the bishop
When the board is little more messy its now mid game right? Try to do a 2 move check with bishop or queen (not mate)
4:30 black playing build the wall Gambit
I know this is completely irrelevant and all. But doesn't a sandwich at the right time taste so fricking good
6:41 pieces other than knights can fork too!
Between 1 and 100 cause he said “don’t choose between 1 and 1000 cause u will get it right “
I just use my knight to attack and fork and then if it is taken I’ll move the other knight then if that knight is taken I’ll start developing my other pieces
42 pawns
There is evidently the square root of negative one pawns in that vase. I know I can't win the prize now but if you didn't know, that is the answer.
9:37 im about 750 elo and about 80-90% of my opponents at this lower level actually trade when i play h3
64 pawns I guess because I think you Got 4 sets 4×8=32 and blaxk's pieces so 32+32 is 64 i guess
117 pawns
Where does throwing the board across the room, fit in this list?
32 pawns
Is it 249 pawns in that case?
I used to do plan one because I didn’t know castle existed lol
I only did pawn push the rest of the game me and my friend are playing chess and I decided a pawn push and after a few moves later I won
Plan 4 = vienna gambit :D
Plan 6 be like: knight: what about meeee WHAT ABOUT MEEEE EE EEEEEEEEEE
I think that there are 34 pawns in there
The number of pawns 287
Bring that vase to the pawn shop
37 pawns. It's been a year now but I think I should share
atleast 1 pawn
Encountered a lot of plan 1 just took their rooks and they resigned
0:45 my guess is around 40-50 pawns... i'd say maybe 46
53 pawns
The true worst plan is whatever the thumbnail person was doing
Strange hearing the word "vase" pronounced as "vayze", here in the UK we pronounce it "Varz".
0:21 - The number has GOT to be a Multiple of 8
When I was a starter,I thought I could move pawns sideways
I often play "bad plan" #9
Thanks for this Video it helped a Lot!
My guess: 65 Pawns