How To Cross 1000 On Chess.com

Comments · 193

• LO

  @Lord_of_Pool · 2 years ago

  Do you even know how good you are? Not only as player, but as a teacher! No craziness, no BAM, BAM, or clickbait ... just a relaxing way of teaching... I simply love it!<br>Greetings from Germany!

  61

• AI

  @AirBnBanter · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s the tone that makes this channel so good. So many chess channels just talk down at players below them and have this arrogant smugness about them. Not here. Feels like a real effort to educate and it&apos;s very helpful. Appreciate it!

  30

• SO

  @sol_mental · 3 years ago (edited)

  It&apos;s officially over three months that I&apos;ve been waking up with Chess Vibes everyday. First, WOW, that&apos;s insane. But second, THANK YOU SO MUCH, honestly, your videos make me feel like I&apos;m just watching a cousin doing what he loves doing and that&apos;s soooo chill, I literally have no ways to tell you how much this little routine is precious to me. You&apos;re awesome

  260

• GW

  @GWSkeptic · 3 years ago

  That really sucks when people disconnect <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYb2ym5qBzs&amp;t=2070">34:30</a> that guy was giving Nelson a good game

  8

• NN

  @nno8901 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve been over 1000 rated for as long as I can remember, I&apos;m currently 1430 something. My highest is 1473 and I&apos;ve been trying to get to 1500 for so long it feels like. It&apos;s been a wild up and down with great days and terrible days trying to climb.

  8

• JE

  @jessestern · 3 years ago

  Halfway through watching this very instructive rating climb series. I appreciate how clearly you articulate your thought &amp; calculation process, and how you always seem to stay cool calm &amp; collected, and never seem to get ruffled! <b>slow clap</b> I will definitely support your channel in the near future by buying some of your paid teaching content. Thank you!

  40

• CZ

  @czechmate28 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ve been watching lots of chess streamers on YouTube but Nelson is my favorite. He teaches me how to think during the game. This rating climb is so beneficial! Thanks!

  67

• RA

  @RadishAcceptable · 3 years ago (edited)

  Lion&apos;s Claw is VERY similar to an opening I spotted on Anarchy Chess that was surprisingly very good. They called it the Anakin Skywalker Attack, and it runs very similar ideas to the claw, but it&apos;s a Queen&apos;s Pawn opening that basically starts as a Jobava London and if you see KID, you go for the Queen bishop battery, and you have the same pawn structure as the Claw, and you castle long and attack with the Kingside pawns.<br><br>Good stuff! Love that kind of opening. Throws the KID player completely off his game as they&apos;re used to being the ones pushing King Side pawns, not being pawn stormed.<br><br>1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Qd2 Bg7 5. Bh6 O-O 6. Bxg7 Kxg7 7. O-O-O <br><br>This is a typical Anakin Skywalker Attack setup. You will end up playing f3, taking &nbsp;the center if they let you, and pawn storming their King. Their best reply is to throw their Queen side pawns at you, but you get there just a tad faster, and one of you is going to die, just about every time.<br><br>I play between 1400 and 1600 and last I checked I had something like an 85% win rate against KID thanks to Anakin Skywalker.

  9

• JA

  @javierbanuelos5027 · 2 years ago (edited)

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYb2ym5qBzs&amp;t=1340">22:20</a> you can also remember that knights attack the color they are currently on after they move. So, if it&apos;s on a dark square, it will attack a dark square after it moves. ( Since it can only move to squares of an opposite color, it basically alternates on which color squares it attacks)<br><br>So if a knight checks you while your king is on a light square, moving to another light square guarantees that the same knight can&apos;t check you again on the next turn.

  5

• BI

  @BillLoomer17 · 2 years ago

  In one of these games, he was playing against me...but I didn&apos;t realize it, so I was rooting for him! &nbsp;I think I would have had a chance otherwise. 🤣

  5

• AD

  @adrianpilbrow · 3 years ago

  These are easily the best chess videos on youtube. I&apos;m learning heaps form them. The format is perfect, the explanations are spot on and super clear and your chess skills are excellent!<br>Thankyou mr Patzer! :P

  14

• CL

  @clandeszipp4564 · 2 years ago (edited)

  What a blessing this channel is! I fall asleep to this. The chess game and his voice is so calming. No bullshit, no screaming like many other chess influencers (Cramling, Botezs etc.)

  2