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I Wish I Knew This Sooner - Halloween Gambit Win Rates 😳

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Komentáře • 125

  • @MirinkaiserVODs
    @MirinkaiserVODs Před 10 měsíci +42

    I'd love to know the win rate by time control. It's a lot different in bullet than it is in rapid, for instance. Shorter time controls favor dubious openings by players that know all its lines, where the same can't be said for longer time controls.

  • @user-gg6uz8ew1n
    @user-gg6uz8ew1n Před 10 měsíci +11

    Finally a haloween gambit video, i play this always, i played it in a otb tourny against a 1900 and had the advantage for majority of the game (i ended up losing because of a silly mistake in the endgame) but it make me happy to see it is finally get more recognition.

  • @victorkao1472
    @victorkao1472 Před 10 měsíci +18

    I think, there might be some misconception regarding Hallowing gambits.
    It’s not particularly a “if you are at 1600 and you play Halloween Gambit, you will have a 55% winrate.”
    But more so that if you play Halloween gambit at a 1600 level, you are damn well versed in this opening, and also have an element of surprise

  • @bobdog4379
    @bobdog4379 Před 10 měsíci +16

    Nelson does 'Spooky entanglement ' better than a particle physicist.

  • @jimmytaco6738
    @jimmytaco6738 Před 10 měsíci +5

    Your opponent gets tricked and you get a treat

  • @Nathan00at78Uuiu
    @Nathan00at78Uuiu Před měsícem

    this is an awesome video idea. would love to see more of this analysis for different openings.

  • @misterunknown8923
    @misterunknown8923 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Practice what you preach. Peter Patzer now has to play this until 2200 🎉

  • @peterbago4574
    @peterbago4574 Před 10 měsíci

    Very informative, thanks. Could you do please all other openings as well, so I could pick a new one matching my rating? :)

  • @mikeyC79
    @mikeyC79 Před 10 měsíci

    Gonna try this out, thanks!

  • @Ellinor99
    @Ellinor99 Před 10 měsíci +1

    You could say that this opening is a, *KNIGHTMARE*

  • @waicheng1227
    @waicheng1227 Před 10 měsíci

    Chess vibes could you please make a video about the Danish Gambit, mainly the traps? Thank you if you do

  • @ericst-laurent1194
    @ericst-laurent1194 Před 10 měsíci

    Very interesting i wish you show to us how to play this in your level now in rapid 10 minutes games.Thank you for this video!

  • @GlobalWarmingSkeptic
    @GlobalWarmingSkeptic Před 10 měsíci +1

    Only thing I wonder is what time controls is this played most at to give these numbers? I always hear of this as a great bullet or blitz opening, but not as good in classical.

  • @y.t1670
    @y.t1670 Před 10 měsíci

    Love these type of videos!!!

  • @KimMilvang
    @KimMilvang Před 10 měsíci +1

    It would have helped if you included the win rate for white with all openings for white at the different levels, and possibly for all lines after a 4 nights opening.

  • @haelww1
    @haelww1 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Up until the 9th minute, I was confident that I would have a 59% win rate against Magnus Carlsen using the Halloween Gambit.

  • @MrBabadis
    @MrBabadis Před 10 měsíci +2

    I play this gambit i always play this gambit when i get the chance. Im ~1800 elo now and from 1400 to 1800 climbing i’ve had around 60% wins

  • @dizzyblizzy2806
    @dizzyblizzy2806 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I first learned the Halloween gambit a couple of months ago from one of your older videos. 4.Nxe5 is the only thing I've been doing from the four horsemen and I'm winning 57% and losing only 40%

  • @royaleguardian2361
    @royaleguardian2361 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Ive never seen a video posted 1 minute ago

  • @teambellavsteamalice
    @teambellavsteamalice Před 10 měsíci

    I'm more interested in counters to gambits, traps and other tricks.
    One idea I had was to counter sacrifice a knight for a pawn, I think you should be able to win a second one. You would face being behind in development though...

  • @dhugill9019
    @dhugill9019 Před 10 měsíci +2

    How does this compare the general win percentage when playing with the white pieces?

    • @fenryrtheshaman
      @fenryrtheshaman Před 9 měsíci

      on lichess at all levels except 400 it's at least a few percent better, white win rate for starting pos/e4 tends to be the same and goes from 50% to 48% as rating increases and draws become more likely

  • @timm439
    @timm439 Před 10 měsíci

    What time control? Blitz or rapid?

  • @Aletdinov
    @Aletdinov Před 10 měsíci

    Can you do the same for the Ponziani?

  • @cumbrianmountain
    @cumbrianmountain Před 5 měsíci

    If the win rate always drops in your chart from Nc6 box to the Ng6 box doesnt this suggest there are better moves for white after Nc6?

  • @newwavenewwave1035
    @newwavenewwave1035 Před měsícem

    what are those rating more precisely? Lichess, Chess or something else? Bullet, blitz or rapid?

  • @markstott6689
    @markstott6689 Před 10 měsíci +3

    It's not an opening that I would have risked before watching. I may have to give it a go for experimentation sake 😊😊😊❤😊😊😊

  • @BrawlStarsPearl
    @BrawlStarsPearl Před 10 měsíci +2

    I wish that you are gonna win a game with this on the rating climb😉

  • @migssdz7287
    @migssdz7287 Před 9 měsíci

    I think it's realy necessary to see the gamemode as well. I'm 1100 and the halloween gambit really works for me in rapid, but I doubt it works as fine for a 2000 elo. My guess is that as you go up the ratings, the propotion of faster ganemodes increase and it affexts the winrate

  • @Johncenadoingforkinchess
    @Johncenadoingforkinchess Před 10 měsíci +1

    How livestream going?

  • @anthonykohanski
    @anthonykohanski Před 7 měsíci

    Time control? Draw rates?

  • @Overkill9991
    @Overkill9991 Před 10 měsíci

    Fitting you make this video the day after a chance you got to play Halloween gambit during rating climb

  • @Geography_Master69
    @Geography_Master69 Před 10 měsíci +1

    This is a very good gambit, very fun and enjoyable.

  • @dan-us6nk
    @dan-us6nk Před 10 měsíci

    Just like the other common gambits (except for Queen & King),
    Offering a gambit is a mistake before knowing how to utilize the advantageous position from the exchange.
    As for the opponent accepting the gambit, it is an inaccuracy from that point onwards.
    But as the video concludes, at higher levels offering the gambit becomes a risk again just as in low levels.

  • @mattgiguere5638
    @mattgiguere5638 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Thank you Teacher Nelson

  • @busdriver8289
    @busdriver8289 Před 10 měsíci +1

    the best gambit i've seen so far

  • @junj1023
    @junj1023 Před 10 měsíci +6

    I think the winrate goes down in those middle rating ranges because more people plays Ng6 instead of Nc6 as the rating goes up.
    A theory, they see that Nc6 loses a lot of tempos

  • @christophersc2038
    @christophersc2038 Před 10 měsíci

    It's dubious with perfect play, especially if your opponent knows the main line, after taking a free piece.

  • @nasrinsalari1659
    @nasrinsalari1659 Před 10 měsíci

    halloween gambit is crazy ideas

  • @sergeyalexandrovich8443
    @sergeyalexandrovich8443 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Obviously Kg4 after pawn attack is not an option even for low-rated players, but that's exactly where I would move my knight to 😁

    • @riley_028
      @riley_028 Před 10 měsíci +4

      K is for King, we use N for Knight because the king already uses up the K ❤

    • @sergeyalexandrovich8443
      @sergeyalexandrovich8443 Před 10 měsíci

      @@riley_028 Sure, thanks!

  • @rssl5500
    @rssl5500 Před 10 měsíci

    Amazing video :)

  • @Eznid
    @Eznid Před 8 měsíci +1

    You know that at top level this is a LOSING move - if you check the engine at top level it's actually negative (about minus 1.4 cp) for white!. So it's not unexpected that when 2000-2200+ play it (and they rarely would) they are playing other tough players who know how to take advantage of that "blunder/inaccuracy". While anyone < 2000 would have an opponent that isn't so strong to take advantage of that. On the other hand, those < 1000 don't count, they play so badly and randomly it's almost like tossing coins.

  • @q-tuber7034
    @q-tuber7034 Před 9 měsíci

    Lots unsaid here. What are the ratings of the opponents? What are the baseline win rates of starting with white? What are the win rates when forgoing the gambit? I’ve heard the Chinese are good at chess-maybe I should move to China?

  • @jeremyready8030
    @jeremyready8030 Před 10 měsíci +2

    You should do this for more gambits

    • @christopherheckman7957
      @christopherheckman7957 Před 10 měsíci

      Yes. It appears better win rates are coming from just being better to me.

  • @odiumimbues
    @odiumimbues Před 10 měsíci

    like 5 minutes in and all i can think is knight G4 after first pawn attack.

  • @Cortu01
    @Cortu01 Před 10 měsíci

    How do these numbers compare to the success rate of simply starting as white for each rating?

    • @fenryrtheshaman
      @fenryrtheshaman Před 9 měsíci

      win rate for white on lichess is 50%, black is 47%

  • @user-xg7kz4oc3t
    @user-xg7kz4oc3t Před 10 měsíci

    יכול להיות שזה עולה בגלל שאנשים לא משחקים את זה ברמה 1200 ומעלה ולכן שנתקלים בזה זה מבלבל ומפסידים חלק אבל אדם עם טיפטפה מכיר את הפתיחה יקטול אותך בנוסף לזה בקושי משחקים את זה ולכן אולי אין הרבה על מה להתבסס צריך הרבה מאוד משחקים כדי לעשות סטטיסטיקה מדויקת ויעילה

  • @danielyuan9862
    @danielyuan9862 Před 10 měsíci +10

    Have you considered comparing the win rates of playing the Halloween gambit with playing other moves in the same position? That might be useful in figuring out whether or not a move is good in a position.

    • @D1rtyD3bra
      @D1rtyD3bra Před 10 měsíci +1

      Well if you wanted to know if a move was good wouldn’t just checking the engine lines probably suffice?

    • @delayedhoe9714
      @delayedhoe9714 Před 10 měsíci +2

      ​@@D1rtyD3braNot necessarily imo. The halloween is losing by Stockfish's standards, but it has high win rates

    • @astros7242
      @astros7242 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @D1rtyD3bra only against a computer. According to the computer the Halloween gambit is not good but as you can see here against a person if you know what you are doing it is good. Remember people aren’t computers and you have to play people not theory.

    • @D1rtyD3bra
      @D1rtyD3bra Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@delayedhoe9714 Well sure but stockfish will still tell you the best moves in a bad position. But there may be moves that are good practically that it won’t show you because it sees some obscure refutation

    • @cubsfanman-nx6pg
      @cubsfanman-nx6pg Před 10 měsíci

      To be fair though all the other openings in the 4 knights are trash

  • @Verbalaesthet
    @Verbalaesthet Před 9 měsíci

    I had no idea it's that successful! Wow.

  • @lammatt
    @lammatt Před 10 měsíci +4

    1350 here
    i think you saying at this level we are starting to get an idea of how to attack is partly correct,
    i'd say, at my level, people start to know a couple openings as white, but not quite as black
    and 4.Nxe5 is definitely not what we see everyday, that probably throw black out of their comfort zone.
    (i think in the 4knight opening, i see 4. Bb5 and 4.Bc4 are a lot more)

  • @DungeonDragonBall
    @DungeonDragonBall Před 10 měsíci

    Nelson having some serious murderous eyes, peed a bit in my pants

  • @grumpylibrarian
    @grumpylibrarian Před 10 měsíci

    Given that various comparisons of win rates for white since 1851 have placed the base first-move advantage anywhere from 52-56%, I'm not sure this gambit is helping you that much. Your base win rate never exceeds 55%.
    What this does seem to show is that if you're black and this is played on you, it's significantly better the retreat the knight to G6 than to C6. Moving the KN all the way back to G8 looks silly, but the combination of the other knight at G6 and later moving out the KN to H8 are probably providing a pretty decent king-side defense.

    • @fenryrtheshaman
      @fenryrtheshaman Před 9 měsíci

      win rate for white on lichess is 50%, black is 47%

  • @zzzaphod8507
    @zzzaphod8507 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Interesting video! Would be good to know the sample sizes. The win rates of 53-55% in the first column might be statistically virtually identical depending on how many games are included, similarly for 59-61% in the second column and 52-54% in the last column.
    And is the average game length (time control) correlated with the rating at all? Would be interesting to see split by time of game.

  • @virginiawilson4189
    @virginiawilson4189 Před 10 měsíci

    Hey who was it the stream

  • @PMA65537
    @PMA65537 Před 10 měsíci

    So all I need is to reach 1600 by end of this month?

  • @FuturePast2019
    @FuturePast2019 Před 10 měsíci

    And then the Q f3. Mate (400)?

  • @alexander7032
    @alexander7032 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Yay almost first! Imma play only Halloweem gambit. Tis the season 🎃🎃🎃

  • @pranishshrestha4603
    @pranishshrestha4603 Před 10 měsíci

    Make a video playing Chess 960

  • @user-gg6df4xr3i
    @user-gg6df4xr3i Před měsícem

    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5 Nxe5 5.d4 Nc6 6.d5 Ne7....i get this a lot from the black pieces.

  • @spunoza808
    @spunoza808 Před 10 měsíci

    Why do you say a 50% win rate is "pretty good" (2200+ Move 4 WR)? Isn't the win rate for White, before the game even begins, 52% or more? Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't that suggest that an opening like that is a sub-par opening? Thanks.

    • @ChessVibesOfficial
      @ChessVibesOfficial  Před 10 měsíci +1

      No because draws most "good" openings only have winrates of like 48-49% or so

  • @ayushrudra8600
    @ayushrudra8600 Před 10 měsíci

    I think I’ve only lost 1 game with the Halloween gambit

  • @Dare_Mage
    @Dare_Mage Před 10 měsíci

    А теперь тоже самое по всем своим основным дебютам.

  • @BobChess
    @BobChess Před 10 měsíci

    Who is here after Halloween 🤔

  • @SevenSizzler
    @SevenSizzler Před 10 měsíci +1

    Thanks for the info, very useful as usual! I'm 991 Elo and I always play this gambit when in the four knights position. I really thought it woild get less success starting from ~1400 elo, since people would have learnt to counter this, but the results you showed completely proved me wrong^^

  • @LetTheNewDayBegin
    @LetTheNewDayBegin Před 10 měsíci

    It's Halloween!

  • @recumbentrocks2929
    @recumbentrocks2929 Před 10 měsíci

    Ah statistics, don't you just love them? Thanks for your research on this. As an unrated player I think I could have some fun with it against my friends.

  • @josephsalmonte4995
    @josephsalmonte4995 Před 10 měsíci

    Interesting. But what do you do after those four moves? Lol 🤷‍♂️

    • @MikeNaples
      @MikeNaples Před 10 měsíci

      He has a vid dedicated to your question in his links under the title.

  • @rkalle66
    @rkalle66 Před 10 měsíci

    The real lesson is for black not playing the main line chasing of your knight.

  • @mawesters
    @mawesters Před 10 měsíci +1

    Nelson! I just tried this for the first time.. I hammered a player 200 point above me to smithereens in a very fun and interesting game.. thank you! Also I got tired from playing the Queens gambit all the time :)

  • @isaakvandaalen3899
    @isaakvandaalen3899 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Halloween Gambit has to be one of the most sound unsound sacrifices in Chess.

  • @Sunnernite
    @Sunnernite Před 10 měsíci

    Why is this called the Halloween gambit?

  • @user-mo2sg8mf5k
    @user-mo2sg8mf5k Před 10 měsíci

    What to do next after all these moves????? How to win??? We still behind in material, still looks like a waste of a knight.

    • @elithemitzu
      @elithemitzu Před 10 měsíci

      You have greater center control and a huge lead in development, should be really helpful in the opening

    • @user-mo2sg8mf5k
      @user-mo2sg8mf5k Před 10 měsíci

      @@elithemitzu pointless if no extra knight

  • @seilaoquemvc2
    @seilaoquemvc2 Před 10 měsíci

    I have been playing halloween gambit nonstop since Nelson posted that first video and I have been super succesful with it for quite a while now. haha

  • @Jerk741
    @Jerk741 Před 10 měsíci +41

    Who is here after the live?

  • @ScarletDeathweaverLegacy
    @ScarletDeathweaverLegacy Před 10 měsíci +2

    Missed first🥇 by 23 seconds :(

  • @scienceenthusiast9858
    @scienceenthusiast9858 Před 9 měsíci

    I am 1300 😊player.

  • @abdush3268
    @abdush3268 Před 10 měsíci +4

    If you play this gambit against highest level Stockfish (from the gambits starting position), according to Stockfish you're in a -1 position, but with perfect play (both sides playing best moves) I managed to beat Stockfish from that -1 position, shows how strong those centralized pawns are.

    • @ifbfmto9338
      @ifbfmto9338 Před 10 měsíci +1

      You know what else you can do against it? Mainline Halloween gambit after 5d4, black can just answer with Bd6 and has instantly, fully equalized the position, and it’s easy to play
      Is it the best move? Of course not, but it fully neutralizes the gambit, and white literally gets absolutely nothing from the opening 🤷🏼‍♂️

    • @uduehdjztyfjrdjciv2160
      @uduehdjztyfjrdjciv2160 Před 10 měsíci

      Stockfish depth and moveset please

    • @eriksteffahn6172
      @eriksteffahn6172 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@ifbfmto9338 Interesting, that directly transposes into the Nxe4 line of the 4 knights italian with reversed colors.
      What I like to play as black is 5.d4 Nc6 6.d5 Ne5 7.f4 Ng6 8.e5 Bc5, white gets the piece back, but has overextended pawns and thus a weak king, black is significantly better.

    • @ArguedLlama
      @ArguedLlama Před 10 měsíci +4

      So you beat max level stockfish? that sounds legit

    • @cubsfanman-nx6pg
      @cubsfanman-nx6pg Před 10 měsíci

      Wow youre so cool you beat max level stokfish from a -1 opening yea bro I definenetly believe that

  • @longao3180
    @longao3180 Před 10 měsíci

    check!!

  • @aliessam4544
    @aliessam4544 Před 10 měsíci

    NICE

  • @frogger2513
    @frogger2513 Před 10 měsíci +1

    A guy

  • @drofJ
    @drofJ Před 10 měsíci

    lets go

  • @s--cn8ee
    @s--cn8ee Před 10 měsíci

    .

  • @christopherheckman7957
    @christopherheckman7957 Před 10 měsíci

    2:52 The Irish Gambit is 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nxe5 Nxe5. The guy who was asked on his deathbed why he took the pawn, and he replied, "Because I didn't see that it was protected," and then died.
    I'm not so sure that the Win Rate itself is a good statistic; it's been tried many times over the past century or so.
    If White blunders a queen or checkmate later in the game, that really didn't have anything to do with the opening. And longer games ought to be thrown out as well, after the position gets back to equality, because the opening doesn't really affect things, either.
    Also, a century or so ago, someone pointed out that if someone won a game 9 times with a certain opening, and the 10th time, a refutation was found, then no one would ever play it again, yet it would have a 90% win rate.

  • @woshinideaihao
    @woshinideaihao Před 10 měsíci

    Come from the stream :D

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    @danielbattle7620 Před 10 měsíci

    First

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    @user-jy6xe9so2d Před 10 měsíci

    I’m first viewer

  • @Hossein13M
    @Hossein13M Před 10 měsíci

    First comment

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    @adityachk2002 Před 10 měsíci +1

    1st

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    @bogdanioan2668 Před 10 měsíci

    We want Kristen