Help beating Nelson (computer)

Nelson's hyper-aggressive behavior is easily exploited. I have no idea what I am doing in chess but here's how I crush him as black:

and as white:

Like I said before, I am pretty clueless about chess so I don't really know what strategies I am employing here but if there's one thing that's clear it's that this Nelson character has some easily exploitable weaknesses in his playing style.

Hi!

Nelson can be tricky to beat since he likes to bring out his queen out early.    I created videos on how to beat him:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR5GH_suTBDe4TfiSYRg27UcKd5jigisp

I hope that this helps.  

My piece of advice for beginners is... don't play Nelson. It's frustrating and teaches you basically nothing to improve your chess. If you win against it, you're just beating a dead horse, and if you lose to it, it's only infuriating and/or frustrating. Nothing to be gained from playing it. Not to mention in serious chess, nobody would ever play the way that bot does. Not even people who would set out to play like the bot. Waste no time with that bot.

just play queen odds with him 

he will be completely soulless

I won against nelson this is the list of moves.

[Event "Vs. Computer"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2021-06-21"] [White "DhruvPurohit1929"] [Black "Nelson"] [Result "1-0"] [Termination "DhruvPurohit1929 won by checkmate"] 1. e4 e5 2. d4 Qh4 3. dxe5 Qxe4+ 4. Be2 Qxe5 5. Nh3 Qe7 6. Nc3 g6 7. Nb5 d5 8. Bf4 Na6 9. Qxd5 Bxh3 10. gxh3 Rd8 11. Qxb7 g5 12. Bg3 Nf6 13. Qxa6 Nd5 14. Qa4 c6 15. Nxa7 Nb4 16. Nxc6 Nxc6 17. Qxc6+ Rd7 18. Qc8+ Rd8 19. Qa6 Qb4+ 20. Kf1 Qe4 21. Rg1 Qe6 22. Qa4+ Rd7 23. Bb5 Be7 24. Bxd7+ Qxd7 25. Qxd7+ Kxd7 26. Rd1+ Ke6 27. Kg2 Bf6 28. Rge1+ Kf5 29. Kf1 Rc8 30. Re3 Rxc2 31. Rf3+ Kg6 32. Rd6 Rxb2 33. a4 Rb4 34. a5 Ra4 35. a6 Ra2 36. Rfxf6+ Kg7 37. Be5 Kf8 38. Rd7 Ke8 39. Rfd6 Rxa6 40. Rxa6 Kxd7 41. Ra7+ Ke6 42. Bg3 h6 43. h4 Kd5 44. hxg5 hxg5 45. f4 gxf4 46. Bxf4 f6 47. h4 Ke6 48. h5 f5 49. h6 Kd5 50. h7 Ke4 51. h8=Q Kxf4 52. Qd4+ Kg5 53. Rg7+ Kh5 54. Rg8 Kh6 55. Qh8# 1-0

Hola oscarsaj671, para cambiar el idioma del juego tienes que ir a parámetros y cambiar el idioma.

I don't find Nelson to be very difficult, and I am pretty bad at chess, but maybe this will help:

Nelson brings out his queen early and plays recklessly with her. Don't try to pull a bunch of fancy tricks, play very straight-forward. Develop your pieces to good squares that are defended, and if you can attack his queen as you develop, that's even better.  Nelson does not perform well against solid play, and soon he will start dropping pieces...and soon enough, he will drop his queen.

You didn't flip the board, so I thought you were White the first time I played it through...I was going to post that you play as bad as Nelson  

THEN I noticed you were playing Black! HAHA good game, it's fun to watch him get his butt whipped!

Took me a while to beat him (I'm a beginner). Eventually I learned to beat him as white with an e4 opening, then typically Knight c3 followed by defending against his Queen attacks. Trade Queens as soon as you can. Eventually he will hang a piece. 

You can trap his queen right from the opening when he does the Wayward Queen Attack

How do you do that?

I’ve noticed in the last month or so he plays a lot of Scandinavian defence. Nelson can be devastating with his queen so my best be is to guard against the queen bishop checkmate with some pawns and a knight then offer a queen exchange he almost always takes it.

he sticks her out there and you just keep pushing it around until it has nowhere to go.  

but he may as well be jimmy if you just play an (admittedly dumb) anti-nelson that prevents his first queen move. 

I agree, do kings fianchetto opening.(1.g3) because it prevents the queen from going to h5 then you do  a game plan that I will show you down below

Thanks for the pointers. All really helpful.

If you're opening d4, I think usually you should respond to Nelson's bishop queen attack with knight f3, queen d2. Generally you win if you play solid defensive and structural moves for the first 10 or so moves before the algorithm adds in nonsense moves for balance. You just have to critically analyze all the moves because eventually one will be a blunder.

All the squares I said are incorrect but I don't know how to remove my comment. Just ignore me.