Help beating Nelson (computer)

I play the Vienna game with White against Nelson sometimes. He brings his Queen to h4 on the second move, so I can't play the usual pawn f4, and play 3.Nf3 instead. The key is to keep kicking his queen around with the two knights, and eventually he will mess up and lose the Queen, or you can at least fork his King and a rook. If you leave his Queen alone, Nelson will develop a few other pieces, and then he starts to play better.

That Renaissance dude Raphael is an improved version of Nelson. He brings out the Queen to quick to, but doesn't blunder so much.

I’ve found that to beat Nelson, you have to be unconventional. Watch out for his queen and knights. With a lot of these bots, just go after his queen. Keep attacking her and he will give her up. I’m not an expert beating Nelson but he does make glaring mistakes from time to time.

One of my games against him to illustrate:

1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nf6 3. Qd1 Nc6 4. d3 Nd4 5. Qd2 d6 6. Nf3 d5 7. Nxe5 dxe4 8.
dxe4 Nxe4 9. Qd1 f6 10. Bc4 fxe5 11. O-O Be6 12. c3 Bxc4 13. cxd4 Bxf1 14. Kxf1
Bb4 15. dxe5 Qxd1# 0-1

Here’s an example when I got his queen:

1. d4 e5 2. e3 Qh4 3. Nf3 Qe4 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. Bxe4 Nge7

Just beat Nelson, physically or in chess somehow.

You should trade EVERYTHING once you're up even just a pawn. Especially queens. Nelson is horrible at endgames, as seen in this game against me:

its easy to beat nelson just do king pawn opening and develop because he mostly moves his queen and then trade queens if possible and then beat him in the endgame

Nelson isnt hard.... Outside of some good Queen moves he doesn't do anything smart. Blatant errors. If you defend against the queen in the opening and make him waste time while you're developing pieces , then trade the queens and hes beaten easily

Just don't hang mate, and keep bullying the early queen attack. Punish him for violating opening principles. If you get into middlegame and manage to trade queens. That's an easy win. Even if you don't, just play solidly. Nelson makes a ton of mistakes and blunders later on

Your middle game strength can help you beat Nelson

Nelson is easy

Just lock up his queen in the opening so then he can't use his big gun.

I am his biggest knightmare

Ez gg [Event "Vs. Computer"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2024-09-11"] [White "Aserew12phone"] [Black "Nelson"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1087"] [BlackElo "1300"] [TimeControl "-"] [Termination "Aserew12phone won by checkmate"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Qh4 3. Qf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 b6 5. Nd5 a5 6. Nxf6+ Qxf6 7. Qh5 Bd6 8. Nf3 Qg6 9. Qxg6 hxg6 10. O-O Ra7 11. Ng5 Ra8 12. Bxf7+ Kd8 13. Bb3 Be7 14. Nf7+ Ke8 15. Nxh8 g5 16. Bf7+ Kf8 17. d4 Na6 18. dxe5 c6 19. Rd1 d5 20. exd6 Bd8 21. e5 Bf5 22. e6 Be7 23. dxe7+ Kxe7 24. Rd7+ Kf6 25. b4 Bxc2 26. Bb2+ Kf5 27. Bg6+ Kxe6 28. Rxg7 Nxb4 29. Bxc2 Nxc2 30. Rg6+ Kd7 31. Rc1 Rxh8 32. Rxc2 Rxh2 33. Kxh2 a4 34. Rd2+ Kc7 35. Rg7+ Kc8 36. Re2 Kd8 37. Bf6+ Kc8 38. Re8# 1-0

...plz dont harm a nelson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1W6-ErrHls

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Nelson can be a pain, but once you deal with its opening Queen threats it generally will crumble.