How To PUNISH THE LONDON SYSTEM | Chess Rating Climb 835 to 875

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Oops. (Englund Gambit)
1:17 - Early queen attack
17:21 - Simple system against The Pirc
28:17 - Giuoco Piano Game
30:38 - Fishing Pole Trap!
35:46 - How to beat THE LONDON
52:53 - A flexible system as white against passive moves

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[MazurPrductions]

“Kind of lost my mind there on move 1”

Same

[Astrophobia]

Finally found a good chess streamer, who acts like an adult and doesn't pander to all the kids on social media! Excellent content my friend. Im currently at 1200 elo. I believe my rating will rise watching your videos. Thank you for the tips.

[learningisfun]

This is great advice from Nelson that I need to implement: “usually I avoid plans that end in me getting checkmated” 😅

[HighStakesDanny]

This is like pure gold for me. I have access to someone that knows what they are doing, isn't trying to entertain so much as just talk and teach, is super chill and a nice person (or so it seems), super smart, and gives us a shimmer of hope to understand how to know what to do in the middle game. I learned a lot just be watching two of his videos and I am hooked now. Thank you! And I agree, pandering to a group of people might earn you subs, but I appreciate the no nonsense approach.

[ladylisads]

Am overdue in stating my thanks for your excellent YouTube vids. I am 64 and a retired veteran who just took up chess hopefully to help rehab some brain issues. Your content is clear, concise, and understandable. For the past 6 weeks (the totality of my chess experience) I can and have watch and rewatch pretty much any and all of your vids and get something out of it - even if that something is simply listening to you smooth and even comforting narration. Please accept my thanks, gratitude, and a HUGE intrawebs hug <3 Lisa O'

[robchesnutt]

As someone who started playing about a month ago, this series has been the absolute best thing I’ve found to improve my play.

[MikhaillllKing]

so happy I found your channel in october 2023, now chess is my hobby and your videos are my regular daily content. Keep on Nelson!

[kilnmaster]

After 50 years of dabbling in chess, with the last 4 a little serious.. now 63 I finally surpassed 1000. what a climb man. And really the last year all the chess on YouTube has really helped me. Lets not take anything away from guys like you, naturals. talented. you can only be taught to be an ok player, which is great. I love the game, just like pool. I suck at both but love them. Again thank you for your time. And remember Grand masters cannot be made, they are born.

[Pidolosius]

Love the channel. Extra props for the great sound quality. Something lot of creators do not value enough.

[BasilVT]

wow! what a fantastic defense against the london!! you used ideas that honestly id have no idea how to defend against while playing the london, really creative ideas, totally gonna try to use this in my repertoire

[Woodenarrows]

I can't express enough how much your videos have helped me. I just started playing chess about 8 weeks ago. I was an aggressive player in the beginning, capturing everything I could without a thought of the conscience. I've been binge watching your videos for the past few weeks, they have given me new Insite to the fact that sacrificing a piece isn't always a bad thing and to slow down and LOOK!. Thank you so much for sharing these videos...

[justanotheryoutubechannel]

I love englund hartlaub! it cured my stonewall dungeon woes forever. i trapped a queen on g6 when white had a bishop on h6 once and my opponent rage quit. liked what you did in the pirc game. i despise hypermodern and closed games. when under attack, I call it "escalating" making bigger threats. I feel really good that I liked 0-0-0 for defending the pawn and getting castled. castling is very important to me

[shadeburst]

This has been your most inspiring episode I've ever watched. At last I'm beginning to understand how you think. Chess is said to be a refined, elegant game but the winning mentality is nothing short of brutal!

23:49 "What do you guys think I should do?" Ignore sideshows and go for the kill. Just today I skewered a king and went for the discovered rook-- and missed a checkmate! Which I got the next move anyway, but it could just have easily have led to chasing the king around the board for another ten moves. When you're low on time, that's a problem!

28:45 Busch-Gass. I found that if black plays nf6 *before* bc5, white will almost always grab the e5 pawn, though not always immediately. If after two moves white doesn't want it, the gambit has failed and it's time to defend the e pawn before things go bad.

[rolobotoman]

Very interesting games for me, I get these positions all the time at my level and often I don't know how to move forward feeling stuck between attacking and defending (then isn't what chess is all about :). And often I get people that play the queen early, then I go 'easy I'll just kick it around' but sometimes they still get me, seeing you reevaluating thoroughly is a good reminder that you need to keep your guards up. You and Naroditsky are helping me the most with your rating climbs. Thanks for doing these. He infuses a lot of theory and you have this very concrete approach, solid no bs stuff.

[michaelpiper]

me: oooh, nelson is finally gonna play the budapest, the gambit i suggested!
nelson: absolutely not

[Crelids]

Played Chess casually with my dad as a kid, just got back in to playing earlier this year (March). I'm currently progressing through the 900 ELO and I've got to thank you as your videos have been helping open my eyes to new concepts that my eyes aren't trained to see. You do a good job of explaining your thought process which makes it easier to understand.

[alexandraison]

Nelson! I’m on the waitlist for your breaking 1500 course. In the meantime, would you consider making a video on checkmate patterns? Using those lines and stuff to visually show where queen can’t go? I really have a hard time visualizing and sometimes end up checkmating out of surprise, but I would prefer to know it’s checkmate like you! Also, what was the book you mentioned in another video of checkmate patterns? Thank you for everything!

[lawrencemckeon]

I try to avoid moves that result in me getting check mated too. With varying success.

[Pitsenberg]

Great series Nelson! Keep them coming!

[olafschluter]

This video is about a "rule" I heard about when I was a very young chess player: "taking on b2 is bad even if it is good." Which is of course applicable as well of taking b7, g7 or f2 with the queen within the opening. This rule underlines that it is rarely worth the hassle following such a pawn grab in the opening. Even in middle game such a pawn may be poisoned if offered to a queen as there is no worth place to put your queen at. You need a really strong follow-up for such a pawn grab to make it valid.