Beginner Chess Rating Climb - 240 to 284 ELO!

👉🏽 Say hello to 1500 ELO 📈

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Game 1 - Queen sacrifice?!
4:28 - Game 2 - Disconnected.
5:33 - Game 3 - Kingside checkmate
16:03 - Game 4 - Queen's gambit accepted
31:24 - Game 5 - Fighting for the center
38:17 - Game 6 - Vienna gambit!

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[Farinhir]

"I know a lot of beginners don't like the tension"

Best advice I ever got in Chess. "Keep the pressure". Usually it is the less experienced or less knowledgeable player that will try to reduce the pressure first, and to their own detriment.

[charlleroux]

I was game number 4. I was wondering why you took some time to move, now I'm finding you were busy explaining 😅 About 2 weeks since I started actually learning more about the game instead of just moving pieces.

Definitely great insight on how someone reads the game. New sub 👊

[jayp]

I love your delivery. Been consuming a lot of chess content, and you not having a loud ego is very refreshing. Love your 25 tip style videos.

[RealityCheck]

You articulate better than other chess channels.

[williamsquires]

I’ve lost track of the number of games I’ve won with the Legall’s trap shown @ 2:00, even against higher-rated players, that I’ve come up with a checklist (for white):
1) is your bishop on c4 (or b3)?
2) is your knight on f3 pinned by black’s bishop on g4?
3) is there no black knight (or black pawn on c6) guarding d5?
4) does only the black king guard the pawn on f7?
Finally:
5) is your other knight on c3?
If the answer to all these questions is, “yes”, immediately and without delay, move Nxe5!! If the answer to any question is, “no”, continue developing normally.

[Lygre]

These 200 rated players must be wondering why this dude is playing so many good moves. 😅

[SaneSociety]

Concur that Nelson has the best delivery of any chess master I've seen. So measured and nuanced.

[FathomMage]

I love how you go into detail while describing your thought process. It's very helpful!

[dragonman]

I don’t even play chess that much anymore but I’ve been loving these videos for ideas for tactics without having to look into other specific videos for theory, and the videos are entertaining too

[stanleysonofYah]

At 42:56 do you think if you took with the knight attacking the queen, instead of the bishop it could have potential created the check fork with bishop to C3 after a2 pawn takes on c3 .Even though once you take with the knight the queen can move up, just a nice curve ball I thought. What do you think? Also thanks for this content, my understanding has increased tremendously!

[OkoYT]

I love Gotham channel but just stumbled across yours and I must say it is my new favourite. You explain things so well and I am learning a crazy amount from videos like this as a beginner player. Thank you very much my friend

[_INIAS_]

I don't know why youtube doesn't ever recommend great content like this one

[MrBabadis]

i've finally reached +1600 elo. Sky's the limit my friends

[AmenallahHagui]

I really want to see this guy play against Anna cramling😂

[sirenbrian]

This is excellent advice and a good guide to solid thinking during a game. Thank you for making it and I will definitely watch the rest of the series as you go.

[Lezjhavier]

"Knight on the rim is grim"
I love that! 27:41

[Ztcctz]

Your speed run is the most realistic. These are the players i have been playing for months, stuck on around 590-650. I have finally moved past it again.

[Trelmayas]

This is really cool. Can't wait to see you get into the 1300 level. Thank you for these videos Nelson, and God bless.

[theanandprasad]

Have been hooked to his videos for quite sometime now esp the speed run. You are better than most chess instructors.

[TylernsuchPvP]

The national master pretending like he doesn't know queens gambit theory for these 200s is hilarious