Help beating Nelson (computer)

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Avatar of SalmonKing16
I beat nelson for the first time yay     

 

Avatar of neponyne

Trading queens is helpful. Had started patting myself on the back beatring the beginner and intermediate bots without assistance before encountering him. If I can keep myself from getting too excited (and careless) beyond that may actually beat him. Should get an I BEAT NELSON t-shirt or something for that milestone. Current goal is to play offensively like him.

Avatar of SalmonKing16

also pro tip: if u play e4.e5.nc3 he will still play Qh5(that happened to me) then play nf3 

Avatar of SF4C

Like any other bot he also  loves closed positions wink.png It seems if the aggressive queen approach fails he has no plan B:

https://www.chess.com/game/computer/14926141 

Avatar of Kevin-ff

It’s my move & Nelson has seemingly stumped me. Please help with move ideas.

Avatar of applewine
Ng5?
Avatar of pot_ate

I just usually do a Vienna and start attacking his queen

it usually goes like this:

 

Avatar of Drosos_404

What i did was that i used the London system as white myself against him, and beat him eventually. Keep in mind that you need to develop normally and avoid trades early. Im beginner in chess myself, playing almost 2 weeks now, but this is how i made it. Hope it helps.

Avatar of YellowVenom

The only way to beat Nelson reliably is to memorise the best responses in the first 10-15 moves of every one of his opening attacks. In my experience, he blunders quickly when faced with a rock solid defence. Although it's still about as fun as stapling your tongue to the floor...

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"all you have to do is beat him" Yeah, real fricking helpful. Your insight is as enlightening as a lump of wet coal. And as has been repeated hundreds of times on here, openings mean NOTHING to anyone who isn't a GM.

Avatar of magipi

Okay, some real advice:

When you face Nelson, the 3 most important things are:

- piece activity

- king safety

-TACTICS

Concentrate on fast development. Develop all your minor pieces and castle to safety. If you do that, you will already have a huge advantage, because Nelson won't. Now it is only up to you to notice Nelson's blunders (there will be plenty of those) and convert the good position into a win.

Avatar of Chexter_Chess

I'll post a couple of games where I defeated Nelson both as white and black. Hope it helps.

 

Avatar of NotNormLOL

Sometimes if I premove, nelson will just blunder his queen. It doesn't always work, but if it doesn't just trade queens as fast as possible.

Avatar of EuroSchaker

I played as white against Nelson he could have trapped my rook but missed it.

Avatar of dmaniss

beating nelson in 18 moves with a queen pin rip xD

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Nelson is like my stopping point. I can handle every free access bot before him, but after 10 games there is nothing I can do. It's like he sees everything I'm going to do. Every attempt to take or pin his queen ends in an unstoppable series of counters. This is my most recent game (It won't let me insert a PGN).

1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 3. Nf3 Qg4 4. Bd2 d6 5. h3 Qd7 6. exd6 Bxd6 7. e4 Nc6 8. h4
Nf6 9. Rh3 Nxe4 10. Be3 Qf5 11. g4 Qxg4 12. Nc3 a6 13. Nxe4 Qxe4 14. Qe2 O-O 15.
Ng5 Qe5 16. h5 Qxb2 17. Rd1 Re8 18. c4 Bb4+ 19. Bd2 Rxe2+ 20. Kxe2 Qxa2 21. Rf3
Bd7 22. Rxf7 Qxc4+ 23. Ke1 Re8+ 24. Be2 Qxe2# 0-1

What went wrong? 

 

Avatar of Knights_of_Doom

Ok, with so many talking about how tough Nelson is, I tried playing against him.  Basically he wasted some time with his queen, then blundered two pieces.  He plays an active style, but makes lots of mistakes.

 

Avatar of FrostFire7299

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/computer/20258383?tab=analysis

Avatar of SnipzGemron

Somebody beat him as black..

Avatar of blunderbus67

I just beat him as black, and now my day is complete mwahahahahha