This is by far one of the BEST chess videos I've seen. I'm just learning now. I'm around 1200. I think analyzing my games like this will help! THANKS! :)
I don’t comment often but want to thank you Nelson for your amazingly helpful content! You clearly care about helping the chess community and players like me who are trying to improve their game. Keep it up! 🙏🏻
10:40 was an epiphany for me! I have been hearing all kinds of advice from various players, both of similar ratings, up to GM's tell me not to use the engine. I was feeling overwhelmed while trying to analyze my games, and didn't know where to turn. Your advice has made so much sense to me. It makes perfect sense I don't know why I didn't see this idea sooner in my chess improvement journey! I've said it before...Keep the great content coming!!!
Thank you so much for making this video. I am a beginner and I couldn't figure out a method how to understand computer lines. This surely made a lot easier. Thanks !
Hi Nelson, another great video! I really like this method of analysis, Im going to try it. Last night in a game the report said I had a missed win, so I looked over the game slowly for 10+ minutes and couldnt find it.. turns out it was right at the end where I thought I was lost, it was a very hard move to find (I think) If I used your method it would make my analysis a lot more efficient
Nelson, just a short note to say I really enjoy your videos, and have learned a lot from them. This one was just what I was looking for, as it told me the reasons why some of my moves were good or bad. Keep up the good work. Ray
4:18 or just use the evaluation bar? thre you can see big changes much quicker because its eye catching and a picture, so if that bar jumps it's very clear.
This was a great video. I've been studying, playing for months and this is the best tip I've gotten. I just signed up for your channel. Thanks alot. Richard
Excellent Nelson !! Watched many other videos where they say not to follow the computer moves as they don’t make any sense to us humans. U have just reversed my thoughts on doing what u say 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Nice, thanks a lot. You have the best tutorials. You make everything much easier to understand. Especislly in your Blunders video. I hope you make more blunders videos and some more tactics videos. I still have a lot of practice to do, i'm only like a 900-1000 player.
That is great video! Most chess videos are dumping of a ton of advanced data, that esp. newer player don't even have the capacity to process (or perhaps only few % of all). But this is very thought provoking one, which I really love! Cheers!
Great video Nelson. What do you think about clicking on 'Report' which shows up mistakes and blunders and "moments" gives you key moments in your game where you can 're-try' to guess the best move, or 'hint' where it shows the piece you should be moving, or 'best move' where it just shows what you should play?
I will use the Game Report occasionally when I don't have much time and just want to quickly see the big mistakes. If I have more time I will usually do the self analysis and kind of just do my own thing. Hope that helps!
@@ChessVibesOfficial I really like the way you do analysis. I appreciated your comment that sometimes the computer/engine’s evaluation isn’t totally accurate when still in the first few moves. The idea of watching for big (1.0+) swings in the engine evaluation is a great tip.
I like your videos, cause it addresses the basic questions which are posed by the normal or intermediate chess enthusiasts - keep posting such insightful videos 👍
I don’t comment often but wanted to thank you Nelson, for your insightful content! You clearly care about helping the chess community and players like me who are trying to improve their game. Please keep doing what you do. When did you first start playing chess? What type of work do you do, in general... no specifics of course. You should do my companies programming with your brains that you have.
Hello. Thank you for this video. I'm very new to chess and this is the only video I've found that breaks the process down in an easy to understand way for me . Just one thing though... I can't get how this helps play better in future (totally different) games. If you learn that you should have done this or that in THAT game can that really just automatically help you make better choices in OTHER games with completely different moves. Every game is the first time right? It obviously works but what do I do after I've discovered that in THAT game I should have moved the Queen there. Those pieces in exactly those places will probably never happen again. Thanks for a great explanation of the process though. Best I've seen.
This I really helpful. Thank you. I do have a question: I'm old school and want to do analysis on my local pc, what program would you recommend that would allow me to do this AND keep notes (ie "Left a knight hanging") so that way I can see patterns of mistakes over lots of games? Thank you!
This is a good way of training your brain to see possibilities, using the engine and tempering it to your intuition so you're not just 1) doing the moves the computer tells you to do, learning nothing or 2) playing a losing game against the engine (like I've been doing)
Very helpful thanks I am very new and have mostly been doing puzzles and was wondering if I could play out alternative puzzles using that same program. I get frustrated when I think I see a sound way to play out the puzzle but it won't allow my move.
I just learned all my pieces and I’m still losing , how do I learn strategy? Also I don’t get how you all talk about numbers , it’s all new to me , I need some more of your knowledge of chess ,I’ve been challenged and I’m trying to learn a winning strategy,thank you for shing this I just found you today !
Great video. Where i ran into some confusion is i did not have a settings button to set lines at three or depth at twenty two. Thanks for making the content. if anyone knows why that button is missing for me or in general hmu
That's tough... Most of the time when I'm using the engine it's for specific moves in that position. You can definitely make a mental note of why it's a good move, but translating it into a general principles would be pretty tough I think. Good question though!
Try to analyze any game, in Lichess you can see the mistakes of each side and try to find better moves. If you can't find it, see the engine recommendation and then try to understand WHY the move played was a mistake, and try to put it into words. For example in this video White was too afraid of losing pawns when he had development advantage that could have been used to gain something more. Black didn't castle and went for many moves that are trades or opening up the position, that's a blunder because his king was vulnerable, and White could sacrifice a rook but keep Black's king in the center. Lesson: As white is to use activity and development advantage, many tactical opportunities when the opponent has not castled. As black is to develop pieces and castle before opening up lines or trades, exposed king and undefended pieces (bishop on e5) are the main cause of tactical shots, in this case both. So as you can see, the engine said something, but we could make a concept out of it to try and understand what to do next time. Hope it helps!
Hey, I'm looking for the video Chess Vibes did on using Excel to learn from your losses, but I can't find it. Does anyone know what that video is called?
Analysis is hard at first, your mistakes as a beginner are too vast to pin point and fix and it feels like your not achieving anything because every game is different and you'll probably never see that position you botched again, for me it was with time that patterns started to emerge and those situations that all seem so different start to show up more as time goes on, you may fall for the same trick 50 times before you start to realize, hey this has happened before, and then you get better and better
@@kangaroo3223 learn the notation and the board coordinates, you can do the 'vision' drills on chess.com, say the coordinates of the moves you and your opponent make while you play, and while you're analyzing, you might also want to narrow your focus down to one opening right now, I'd suggest the Italian game, get an app like Li chess to use an analysis board, Li-chess has a masters dats base with games from the top players on it, memorize the notation of those games, they're just words, if you can memorize words to a song you can memorize games, memorize the right way to play the positions, Li-chess master db will tell you the most popular moves top human players play, and you can see what the engine suggests is the best move and drill with the computer, I know that's alot but that's a good place to start I think
I'm glad you said that. I'm at about 1100 now and totally new to doing any analysis. I'm at the stage you've described where every game seems so different that lessons about the last game seem irrelevant to improving the next. Like learning how I should have done something yesterday that will never happen again anyway. It's encouraging to hear that I will start to recognise reoccurring patterns after a while. Thanks
Very interesting stuff, indeed. Once you know the mistakes you've made, how do you make sure you'll remember those? After all, the fact that you understand something once, doesn't mean you'll remember it, especially after a while! Do you simply review the same game from time to time (without any particular method), or is there a more systematic approach maybe using spaced repetition?
I'm pretty sure this process only helps you recognize your mistakes. I feel like a different trick is needed to be able to learn from those mistakes. My guess is that just by doing this repeatedly, you'll eventually see it in a real game and be able to not make the same mistake again.
So, what am I really doing here? Am I just hoping that if I get used to seeing the better lines repeatedly, I will start playing them more often, without realizing it? Because I feel like even after seeing the better lines, I'll forget about them the next time I play a game, and find myself in the exact/similar position. Been stuck at 1100 - 1200 for a while now, and not sure how to improve. :/
This is actually some of the most common sense down to earth chess tutorials made. Im a noob even tho i been playin. I play everyday but naturally suck
"Lots of learning opportunities" this is exactly what I needed to hear today. I'm on a losing streak and started to feel very discouraged. Thank you!
Hang in there! Happens to all of us from time to time. As long as you learn from the mistakes, even losses benefit you in the long run. 👍
Yea that’s life. I also was in that situation 1 month ago
Same here, good to know I'm not alone!
Even the greatest chess players in the world started out terrible
in chess you win, or you learn (winning is also learning but you get the point)
I really like the way you explain chess. It's so relaxed and methodical
I needed this; I haven't been analyzing my games in the most optimal way! Great explanation 👍
This is by far one of the BEST chess videos I've seen. I'm just learning now. I'm around 1200. I think analyzing my games like this will help! THANKS! :)
I don’t comment often but want to thank you Nelson for your amazingly helpful content! You clearly care about helping the chess community and players like me who are trying to improve their game. Keep it up! 🙏🏻
Thanks, bud, glad it's helping!
10:40 was an epiphany for me! I have been hearing all kinds of advice from various players, both of similar ratings, up to GM's tell me not to use the engine. I was feeling overwhelmed while trying to analyze my games, and didn't know where to turn. Your advice has made so much sense to me. It makes perfect sense I don't know why I didn't see this idea sooner in my chess improvement journey! I've said it before...Keep the great content coming!!!
This is exactly what I was looking for. I knew those numbers were important. Now I know how to use them.
This is the best tutorial I've seen on how to use chess engine analysis for self-training. Many thanks! Very well done!!
These videos are hidden gems. All your advice really helps
Thank you so much for making this video. I am a beginner and I couldn't figure out a method how to understand computer lines. This surely made a lot easier. Thanks !
Glad it was helpful, Sayan!
Hi Nelson, another great video! I really like this method of analysis, Im going to try it. Last night in a game the report said I had a missed win, so I looked over the game slowly for 10+ minutes and couldnt find it.. turns out it was right at the end where I thought I was lost, it was a very hard move to find (I think) If I used your method it would make my analysis a lot more efficient
Thanks, rockford! Glad you found it helpful, good luck with future game analysis 👍
I’ve only just embedded a new structured approach to learning chess and this will help me learn from every game I play from now on! Thank you so much
Thank you. I've never used a chess engine and you have cleared up some confusion I had. You are a good teacher, very calm and patient.
Nelson, just a short note to say I really enjoy your videos, and have learned a lot from them. This one was just what I was looking for, as it told me the reasons why some of my moves were good or bad. Keep up the good work. Ray
Thanks, Ray, glad you're learning some stuff here!
4:18 or just use the evaluation bar? thre you can see big changes much quicker because its eye catching and a picture, so if that bar jumps it's very clear.
You are fast becoming my go to tutor. That is the first time I have understood how to analyse my games. Thanks.
This was a great video. I've been studying, playing for months and this is the best tip I've gotten. I just signed up for your channel. Thanks alot. Richard
Welcome aboard!
Excellent Nelson !! Watched many other videos where they say not to follow the computer moves as they don’t make any sense to us humans. U have just reversed my thoughts on doing what u say 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Nice, thanks a lot. You have the best tutorials. You make everything much easier to understand. Especislly in your Blunders video.
I hope you make more blunders videos and some more tactics videos.
I still have a lot of practice to do, i'm only like a 900-1000 player.
Very instructional, concise and valuable tips. Thank you very much, brother 🙏
Really useful video for me sitting here at 1000. I didn't know how to use the analysis function so thanks for the help 👍
Glad it helped!
That is great video!
Most chess videos are dumping of a ton of advanced data, that esp. newer player don't even have the capacity to process (or perhaps only few % of all).
But this is very thought provoking one, which I really love!
Cheers!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH NELSON......PLEASE MAKE MORE VIDEOS USING CHESS ENGINES......WE LEARN ALOT FROM YOUR VIDEOS
love from PAKISTAN
Great video Nelson. What do you think about clicking on 'Report' which shows up mistakes and blunders and "moments" gives you key moments in your game where you can 're-try' to guess the best move, or 'hint' where it shows the piece you should be moving, or 'best move' where it just shows what you should play?
I will use the Game Report occasionally when I don't have much time and just want to quickly see the big mistakes. If I have more time I will usually do the self analysis and kind of just do my own thing. Hope that helps!
@@ChessVibesOfficial I really like the way you do analysis.
I appreciated your comment that sometimes the computer/engine’s evaluation isn’t totally accurate when still in the first few moves.
The idea of watching for big (1.0+) swings in the engine evaluation is a great tip.
Hey man, I found your channel recently, your stuff is a gold mine. Thank you for that and keep it up!
I like your videos, cause it addresses the basic questions which are posed by the normal or intermediate chess enthusiasts - keep posting such insightful videos 👍
I don’t comment often but wanted to thank you Nelson, for your insightful content! You clearly care about helping the chess community and players like me who are trying to improve their game. Please keep doing what you do. When did you first start playing chess? What type of work do you do, in general... no specifics of course. You should do my companies programming with your brains that you have.
Hello. Thank you for this video. I'm very new to chess and this is the only video I've found that breaks the process down in an easy to understand way for me .
Just one thing though... I can't get how this helps play better in future (totally different) games.
If you learn that you should have done this or that in THAT game can that really just automatically help you make better choices in OTHER games with completely different moves.
Every game is the first time right?
It obviously works but what do I do after I've discovered that in THAT game I should have moved the Queen there.
Those pieces in exactly those places will probably never happen again.
Thanks for a great explanation of the process though. Best I've seen.
Many thanks Nelson! This video has been a big help to me! Thanks for adding the spreadsheet of principles!
Thank you very much! That was hilarious teaching! Please make more tuitions for working with engine.
This is really good ! since a lot of time when I check analysis and it says mistakes I didn't know exactly why !
This I really helpful. Thank you. I do have a question: I'm old school and want to do analysis on my local pc, what program would you recommend that would allow me to do this AND keep notes (ie "Left a knight hanging") so that way I can see patterns of mistakes over lots of games?
Thank you!
Wish I could upvote this twice. Great content!
I just started trying to learn, gonna be watching your vids 👍🏼
Awesome! Glad you found the channel!
It was definitely helpful Nelson! I know that I will need to watch it multiple times so I can take notes.
Your videos are the best. Learned a lot. Love from IN.
Awesome, thank you!
Very nicely said sir . Thanks
Finally a great vid to learn how to actually use the engine. Thanks a bunch for this
This is a very good video. I used to just get the computer analysis real quick and move on. Very helpful!
Earned yourself a subscriber with this. I really like how you teach.
Thanks Nelson
Your content on UA-cam is among the best
Im learning a lot from your channel, in many of your videos you put education into a pretty fast pill
This is really helpful thanks - your videos are really accessible for lower rated adult improvers.
Thank you! Glad it was helpful, Dara!
This is EXACTLY the info I needed!!
Another great video. Love how you are giving the tools to self-improve and understand the game.
Oh man that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot!!!!
This is a good way of training your brain to see possibilities, using the engine and tempering it to your intuition so you're not just 1) doing the moves the computer tells you to do, learning nothing or 2) playing a losing game against the engine (like I've been doing)
That was helpful Nelson. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks mate 😀
Really very very useful. Thank you. Expecting more of such
Very nice, I subscribed because of this video along with your 35 principles one.
Love these kind of videos! A great example of teaching how to learn.
Thanks Nelsi Bro!
Very Good Content.
This is pure gold!
Wow this was helpful! Thanks Nelson
What a great teaching video. I learned SO much!!
It is an amazing video. I found what I was looking for. Thank you.
Very helpful thanks I am very new and have mostly been doing puzzles and was wondering if I could play out alternative puzzles using that same program. I get frustrated when I think I see a sound way to play out the puzzle but it won't allow my move.
Yes it was great. What other, how to study, videos you got?
As with much good advice, everything you say here is obvious - AFTER you've said it. Thank you. Very good video.
Amazing as always
Thank you, Sturla!
This was very helpful. Thank you
I like it when you post teaching videos like this one.
Thanks for the well put explanation.
GREAT VID!
Just excellent explanation. Just wow....
Back with another banger
Hey I understood that this time around =P
@@ChessVibesOfficial =)
What a video man thanks
Do you stream ? Your videos are really helpful
Currently not right now, but if there's enough interest, I may stream at some point in the future!
@@ChessVibesOfficial will for sure watch hope it happens !
This was an extremley helpful video
i often don't comment but at this point i should say thank you, it was really helpful
Super helpful!
Thank you!
Another really helpful video
This was an amazing tutorial!!!. Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much for good method!!!
Thank you for this video...
This video was lovely, great job
Thanks for this wonderful lesson
Hugely helpful, thanks.
Very helpful--Thanks!! :)
I just learned all my pieces and I’m still losing , how do I learn strategy? Also I don’t get how you all talk about numbers , it’s all new to me , I need some more of your knowledge of chess ,I’ve been challenged and I’m trying to learn a winning strategy,thank you for shing this I just found you today !
Great vid thanks 😊
Great video. Where i ran into some confusion is i did not have a settings button to set lines at three or depth at twenty two. Thanks for making the content. if anyone knows why that button is missing for me or in general hmu
Very instructive!!
Do you have any tips on using the engine to extract some general principles that you can practically use the next game?
That's tough... Most of the time when I'm using the engine it's for specific moves in that position. You can definitely make a mental note of why it's a good move, but translating it into a general principles would be pretty tough I think. Good question though!
Try to analyze any game, in Lichess you can see the mistakes of each side and try to find better moves. If you can't find it, see the engine recommendation and then try to understand WHY the move played was a mistake, and try to put it into words.
For example in this video White was too afraid of losing pawns when he had development advantage that could have been used to gain something more. Black didn't castle and went for many moves that are trades or opening up the position, that's a blunder because his king was vulnerable, and White could sacrifice a rook but keep Black's king in the center.
Lesson: As white is to use activity and development advantage, many tactical opportunities when the opponent has not castled. As black is to develop pieces and castle before opening up lines or trades, exposed king and undefended pieces (bishop on e5) are the main cause of tactical shots, in this case both.
So as you can see, the engine said something, but we could make a concept out of it to try and understand what to do next time. Hope it helps!
@@Life-Sky outstanding comment. Thanks
Thanks for the content bro
Hey, I'm looking for the video Chess Vibes did on using Excel to learn from your losses, but I can't find it. Does anyone know what that video is called?
If I could like this video 1000 times I would bravo sir
So the numbers are numerical chances of winning, or does it relate to the point value of lost/soon to be lost pieces?
it analyzes positions, tactics, and the best possible moves, then shows how much of an advantage someone has, the unit being pawns.
Fantastic video!
Analysis is hard at first, your mistakes as a beginner are too vast to pin point and fix and it feels like your not achieving anything because every game is different and you'll probably never see that position you botched again, for me it was with time that patterns started to emerge and those situations that all seem so different start to show up more as time goes on, you may fall for the same trick 50 times before you start to realize, hey this has happened before, and then you get better and better
Good points!
This is exactly my problem... I can't remember any analysis in my previous game..
@@kangaroo3223 learn the notation and the board coordinates, you can do the 'vision' drills on chess.com, say the coordinates of the moves you and your opponent make while you play, and while you're analyzing, you might also want to narrow your focus down to one opening right now, I'd suggest the Italian game, get an app like Li chess to use an analysis board, Li-chess has a masters dats base with games from the top players on it, memorize the notation of those games, they're just words, if you can memorize words to a song you can memorize games, memorize the right way to play the positions, Li-chess master db will tell you the most popular moves top human players play, and you can see what the engine suggests is the best move and drill with the computer, I know that's alot but that's a good place to start I think
I'm glad you said that.
I'm at about 1100 now and totally new to doing any analysis.
I'm at the stage you've described where every game seems so different that lessons about the last game seem irrelevant to improving the next.
Like learning how I should have done something yesterday that will never happen again anyway.
It's encouraging to hear that I will start to recognise reoccurring patterns after a while. Thanks
Very interesting stuff, indeed.
Once you know the mistakes you've made, how do you make sure you'll remember those? After all, the fact that you understand something once, doesn't mean you'll remember it, especially after a while! Do you simply review the same game from time to time (without any particular method), or is there a more systematic approach maybe using spaced repetition?
I'm pretty sure this process only helps you recognize your mistakes. I feel like a different trick is needed to be able to learn from those mistakes. My guess is that just by doing this repeatedly, you'll eventually see it in a real game and be able to not make the same mistake again.
So, what am I really doing here? Am I just hoping that if I get used to seeing the better lines repeatedly, I will start playing them more often, without realizing it? Because I feel like even after seeing the better lines, I'll forget about them the next time I play a game, and find myself in the exact/similar position.
Been stuck at 1100 - 1200 for a while now, and not sure how to improve. :/
This is actually some of the most common sense down to earth chess tutorials made. Im a noob even tho i been playin. I play everyday but naturally suck
really helpful
14:04 Qxb2?
By the way, I really like the way how you explain chess. It is clear and focussed.
Nice video thanks 👏
Where is this analyzing tool available?