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I rate your new haircut 2000+

Did you transpose into Caro Kann Advance Botvinnik-Carls? Looks like it.

22:00 it looked very "tempting" indeed 😂

You had your blitz hat on, but won all the same,😁

11:13 I think the main issue was that you decided to overprepare your position before making a responsible move. That led to you playing Qe8, because you didn't want to have your pawns doubled. You sort of overcooked your position. You should have played Bb5 or even better Nb5 right away, the position was already ripe.

Since you're talking about playing the French more often I thought I'd offer some ideas based on the first game (just my humble opinion), hopefully they'll be interesting. At 1:20 when your opponent played e5, the best engine move was Bf5 which makes sense because it gets the often terrible French bishop outside the pawn chain. The only thing you sometimes have to watch out for is Qb3, targeting the pawn now weakened by the bishop moving, but in that position it doesn't work. Similarly, the dark squared bishop is super valuable in these lines, which is why the computer didn't like Bb4. Sure, there is the Winawer variation as you talked about where it gets traded off, but in that variation you give white doubled pawns. Here there is no c pawn so trading on c3 would just help white by giving them a c pawn to solidify their center.

Nice recovery after game 1. Was worried the tilt would get you, even after game 2 you weren't happy haha.

Nice video, happy days!

1900 elo soon come and a rematch/revenge match vs ApexChess incoming? NM title OTB in the next few years?

Bring the tash back (100+ ELO guaranteed)

Really interesting that in the second game the engine was screaming out for you to play D5 and you were lost for several moves without it but neither realised. I guess there are just some fundamental “power moves?” In chess we need to learn

Wow you won a trophy in a chess tournament!?!?!? Congrats brother!! Im excited to see your vid on saturday about it🎉🎉♟️

Congrats on the trophy!!!

Hey Owen! Pretty nice games today. Just a little tip that in the smith-morra gambit, declining the gambit with Nc6 is generally not all that great, as it transposes to what is also considered a subpar variation in the alapin (e4 c5 c3 Nc6 d4 cxd4 cxd4). I think instead you could accept the gambit, or if you want to decline it, you can play 3. d5 or 3. Nf6, both of which transpose into 2 of the alapin mainlines, essentially any move that isn’t accepting the smith-morra will transpose to an alapin.

I'm from the future. He gets a haircut. As his chess power grows, he continually loses his hair before long he won't even have eyebrows

Super cool format with the analysis board in the corner !

Hey Owen, congrats on getting the 3rd place trophy! I’m happy to see you improving and learning your mistakes. You should be proud of yourself of how well you achieved. Looking forward to see how well you played in your tournament. Thank you for being a great chess content creator. :)

Enjoying your content bro! Keep it up!

congeats on the trophy and nice games today. second one was rough though but I feel like you're improving.

Congrats on your 3rd place!

I also won a trophy yesterday actually 2 got 2nd overall in the DMCA Ankeny k-12 quick chess and 2nd overall in the blitz in the quick I didn't win the tiebreaker for 1st

Bully

Lol you took his queen and then you said "and now I feel like I am winning"

First

Nightmare😂

I like the Dutch.

Good games man both had fun it seems which is all that matters

Everyone's elo approaches 1000 the close you get to the end of the endgame (myself included lol)

I can't believe you get this jobava play against 1800s. Also can't believe that was your first 100%. I'm 900 elo 1300 games and I've had possibly 10 perfect 100 games.

Congrats on the new ELO high!

Really good games my man….good stuff. Nice to see you getting fun games against stronger opponents

lol told u to stop second guessing yourself. Sometimes, you talk yourself out of the correct tactics. For example, that last game

Love how you jab at him for blundering his queen when yours was just as bad! Edit: how was it not a blunder!

Wow. These are some accurate games!

11:28 when you hit play and watched the computer show you this 20 move sequence in which you'd eventually win one pawn was pure comedy :D your reaction lol (I had the exact same one)

You do not talk trash. You said there's going to be good games, and we got three in a row! All that was needed to bring about this success was thinking before making a move. 👌

LOL at the "I've never met someone so bad at chess, literally open a book and read it for 5 minutes and you'll improve" This was me though. I literally was a 100 ELO (the lowest it goes, I lost at 100 and it didn't go lower, haha) . The advice is sound - just learned an opening or watch a single video and I got to around 800ish without any other training.

E5 is actually a mistake if he finds Nh5 immediately.

Nice games!!!!...Love it....keep on going

Lezzzz gooooooooooooo. I've enjoyed watching you so much I started my own journey and am on Day 24. Hoping by day 900 I'll be 1800 haha

31:50 lol

Chessbrahs did a Taimanov speed run that was cool. Aman explains really well.

Hey man, checked back on you and realised we are pretty much the same elo. I also play the taimanov and like you, I've been on the most incredible run! Race you to 2k? 🤣

Congrats Owen this was fantastic chess today!! Bit sad you didn't see Rxh2+ queen is forced to take and then Nf2 smothered mate. The taimaniv honestly looks like a very nice opening, I've been playing the french but it's a bit too passive and solid for my style, so I might give the taimanov a shot, these bishops look delicious

Wow wow all 3 games awesome

Game two awesome too.. your on a roll..😊

Nice game 😛

Yes sirrr!

27:58 i found a beautiful mate I swear I didn't look at analysis Rxh2+ Qxh2 only move and then Nf2#