7 Critical Chess Concepts From A Grandmaster

Please make more videos like this but also more rating climb type videos explaining all of your moves. GM stuff may be too advanced to be practically useful for us beginners.

This game had a great balance of difficulty, I think it's the first time a GM analysis made perfect sense to me. This format is very powerful, your ability to break it down really shines here

Absolutely brilliant video! Here are the concepts summarised: 1- Choose your rooks carefully 2- Turn a bad piece into a good piece 3- Open the "key" diagonals and files 4- Don't allow the king an escape route 5- Increase the pressure 6- Don't trade unless you have a tactic 7- Final blow

This is a brilliant video, sir! A real game between two grandmasters, just played in 2024, seven chronologically choreographed concepts ending with a professional recognizing his predicament and professionally resigning! Chess kiss; I mean chef’s kiss! Thank you, Nelson!!♟

Very helpful and incredibly well explained. Please continue making more videos like this.

YES! more like these, plus your videos where you explain the moves. Great for us chess learners. thanks for all you do to help the chess players. Good job.

The practical examples in a game situation with the follow-up tactics really help understand the reasoning behind the moves. Awesome video.

Definitely keen for more of these. I’ve never been big into watching a ton of recaps for the sake of spectatorship. But in classic Chess Vibes style you break it down and explain things in a way other channels just can’t. I used to think games at this level were too advanced for me to learn a great deal. I stand corrected!

The pauses, what would you do?, then explanations have helped my game immensely. Thank you! Please keep them coming.

Great job with all you're explanations/editing if this was any other creator I'd probably have got bored and left half way through but you kept this very interesting fron start to finish 💯

Been a couple of months since i stopped playing chess regularly because of being super bad at it, but Nelson's vids are just great. Makes it look like I might be able to learn something at some point.

Dude, your videos are the best. You are great at explaining things. Just keep doing what you're doing

Very helpful thank you. Great pacing. I enjoyed how you stop to let us think it over.

A great lesson, master Nelson. Thank you! Yes, DO make more videos like this one. More, please!

Sir I love these concepts. Learned a lot. You don’t talk too fast or slow, and give me a chance to pause and think for myself. Definitely gonna check out more videos

I think the real challenge with chess is not to just know these concepts that you mentioned in the course of the video. It's that concepts compete with each other, and only actual calculation tells you which move you should play. For example with the thumbnail position at 7:54, yes the knight is on the rim and you want to block the king's escape route, but also playing actually Rg8 also improves a piece, and even with tempo. So you cannot just refer to concepts to decide whether Rg8 or Nb3 is better, you have to calculate and actually see the three move line ending with all sorts of forks to find out that the knight move is better.

Great format, Nelson. I would love to watch more videos like this. Thank you very much!

This was so helpful. One of the most instructive translations of a GM game for beginner/intermediate/advanced players. Please make more!

Definitely more concept videos with examples like this one. Fantastic!

watched this game live, very impressive by Nepo! and of course I would love more videos like this so please keep them coming Nelson!