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Very good spot I didn’t notice that during the game and you’re completely right.

Goodluck!

Thank you! I’m glad you liked and I will definitely start it soon!

I think I am going to give myself a week off and then commit to trying to get to 1800 elo after that. Thank you!!

Donzo

Thank you!! Yes it really is and puts you in time trouble fast

:((

Ummm

Got it and thank you so much

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm no problem the better you get the more you are going to lose. The more people are gonna throw things at you that you don't know. Best way is keeping a level head

@@the_adc👍🏽 well I’ll always try my best and keep trying to improve always. I’m only 7 elo points off 1500 now, do you think 1800 is an attainable goal if I work hard? Or am I too old now

@@the_adcso I’m playing collegiate football ⚽️ rn and am starting to head back to school in a couple weeks and want to focus on my studies and sport before chess. I’ll still try to upload, but it won’t be as consistent

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm 1800 is definitely obtainable. Even becoming a gm is obtainable if you dedicate your life to. But the only major difference between a 1500 and 1800 is opening knowledge. Once you hits 2000s if you decide to keep playing, your increase of rating will definitely become more stagnant.

Lmao I didn’t even notice my d pawn made a run down the a file 😂 he should’ve let me do it, too bad he got there first. Thanks for watching!

Oh crap he wasn’t in time I could’ve just promoted

I knew it was an easy win and didn’t even cross my mind to promote lmaooo

TH-cam must’ve banned you from commenting cuz I couldn’t even see your comment again. Bro I saw that too, that was my d pawn that could’ve promoted too 😂I think typically I would see that my first instinct was to bait the king out and take his 2 pawns and promote from that side. Thanks! 2 more wins a way from getting there, hope to do so too. And yea Vienna is very fun to play imo, what’s your rating?

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm it’s gotta be bc of “the e word” from last vid…but I’m 1023 elo and almost exclusively play rapid. Ive fallen into the habit of watching vids and doing puzzles (2504) as opposed to playing..I see everything when it ain’t me lol

@@dashaunjefferies1168 I would say to get higher simply calculating lines that you like is the best way to improve and a book called the woodpeckers method helped me a lot with that. Yea I get that, it’s easier to see when you aren’t playing in general and you get tunnel vision when you are playing your own games. Hopefully you get a couple things out of the videos bc that’s one of the main reasons why I make videos

Thank you, you’re insane at chess

Lmao TH-cam wasn’t letting me see your comment

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm #censorship

Yea lol just the execution was off, but good ideas for sure. Thanks for watching

I didn’t see that in the game ;(

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@@jamesswaby5676 Thank you! I probably care a bit too much lol

Thank you so much! I'm glad you like it

You definitely had a good analysis but Kn f6 never works since he can always threaten checkmate with queen h3. The reason h6 is a good move is pretty much just like he said there's a lot more space on the kingside with multiple discoveries 22:02 so it's positionally winning but not exactly winning especially at that level. King to h1 is given to push your king pawns without worrying about king safety you also are planning on putting your rook on the g1 square as well. F5 doesn't actually protect the light square bishop either since he can just play KN a5 forcing you to move back to b3 so a4 was the way to save the bishop though you are right that f5 does allow king side attacks to be easier since the rook is also not in the game as well. F5 also allows a rook lift if need be.

​@@the_adc Hi(●’◡’●)ﾉ. I don't really understand the first part of your analysis as I didn't cover any moves with Nf6. But I'll talk about the f5 move more in depth. Taking it from this position in 21:12 f5 is not meant to save the our bishop from a trade it's meant to save our bishop from trade with blacks light squared bishop. And this is because playing in the move order that black did and arriving at that position. Black lacks space and his main plan in the position is to play d5 opening up the position, thereby liberating his pieces. Keep this in mind. Blacks dark squared bishop is bad bishop because of his pawns on d6 and e5. And now we have an opportunity to make what is his positionally good bishop bad, by putting our pawns on light squares. So in that position f5 is not to save our bishop from being traded. It's to save it from being traded off by blacks light squared bishop. The attempt of Na5 is very much welcome because once the knight takes our bishop on c4 we'll recapture with the pawn on d3. Which further prevents d5, while leaving black with two bad pieces. This is as much as I can say here. As they are still move order variations of the Vienna like an early d6 before we've played f4 that allows black to attempt to trade of the light squared bishop with ours. But even those variations more often than not follow the theme of not allowing that trade by putting our knight on d5. Which also prevents white from pushing d5. And the variations where black does manage to trade of his light squared bishop with ours it always comes at cost. Hope this helps .💯

Definitely Correct idea when using an engine but it definitely is gonna be a hard position to play for white in the end game especially since your center pawns are very weak. Black has a numerous amount of counter play as well especially since in your position the F5 pawn was pushed. most chess coaches recommended saving the bishop by playing f5 then capturing the bishop with our bishop and then pushing the f5 for good chances. D5 also really doesn't matter especially since the queen side structure is what's being targeted along with being able to slide the light squared bishop if not taken on b7. Each people will recommend different types of playing and you are certainly correct if you follow an engine but that only works if you fully understand positionally how to play. Whereas a5 is definitely a good move that is solid and has good ideas. Now after that the play was kinda messy especially since c5 was open which was the real reason why kn g4 was so bad.

@@ThomasGahagan-qc2wv thank you Thomas 🙏

Thank you!! Much appreciated

yea I understand all the key moments which you mentioned. I do understand and have moments where I do make the most logical moves for a sequence, and then I have other moments where I just turn off and don't think super logically like you mentioned at 32:18. I am practicing every day really and hope to get it where I'm almost perfect in those type of situations. thanks for the insight :)

and it's all good lol, everyone gets busy, no need to apologize. i do enjoy when you do comment tho

Hi I hope you are doing well, I am about to upload a video which I thought was the best game I’ve played besides when I blundered mate in 2 and missed and a free rook. I’d love to hear your intake

@@ThomasGahagan-qc2wv Thanks for the clarification, I had no clue what was happening in the opening lol. And thanks for watching

@@ThomasGahagan-qc2wv danggg you know your stuff. That’s good to know

@@dashaunjefferies1168 hi good question. I played about 2 rapid games a day, the 15 minute games which I think really gives you time to really deeply calculate which I think is very crucial to improve. Chess book.com is very useful to create an opening repertoire and it gives you daily games where you can try to predict the moves of GMs which helps you improve. I did that daily. I also do lichess practice section and it gives you good key concepts and sometimes I did puzzles there too. I know you probably don’t want to spend money but the woodpeckers method is probably the book I think is the best to help for calculation. I would get the chess.com membership too to analyze your games too which is very important but optional too. You can try to analyze your games too but that is kinda hard without engine. And really try to understand the key concepts in your game that went wrong and try to learn from that.

That’s the only opening I play for e4 lmao

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm lmao i play it for every opening but thats probably why im 600 😭

Yup it was the best move as well

Yeah me too, very simple to understand and very effective

Thank you, Goodluck to you too!

got it! You agree that even sacking that c pawn is a good idea for development? Yea I have no clue where my mind was going when i missed the free pawn. For me chess, chess is one of the only things I am passionate about besides football, and I love playing but it kind of becomes a lot sometimes and I get so mad when I lose a game and play poorly. And thank you for your help again, i really do feel I am gaining a lot from you and am sort of carrying it out into my own games. A lot of work to be done tho to get to 1500 elo.

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm so c5 isn't really sacking a pawn since you are almost guaranteed to get it back especially when you were wondering about queen check. Once he checks and you block with queen either has to take or move back losing a tempo so everything you did in the beginning was correct..playing a early c5 is theory that I don't know. if you watch Gotham chess he teaches that. But a delayed c5 is the idea behind the main line of the caro kann

@@the_adc i get what you are saying. I'm not super advanced yet but hope it get there if I work hard.

Thank you a lot and next time I’ll know to take the white bishop when he plays that. I was just kinda wondering what would happen if that line happened. And yea I’m missing tactics I really should not be and got to consider more than a couple moves ahead. I played decently today, I missed one key tactic but had a set idea throughout the entire match and it paid off in the end.

thank you! I did see that h3 move and I have been doing chess puzzles and puzzle rush and I have a calculation book I’ve been working on. And thank you once again for your advice, very much appreciated! I’m gonna upload another video soon where I did win in a caro kann, had difficulty on move 4 lol, but played very well and had a brilliant move which pretty much won on the spot. 20 move game rated like a 2050

What’s your elo btw?

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm highest I've hit is 2200, rn I'm at 2132 but I've only been playing blitz to get faster so id say blitz rating is around 17-1800

I’ve been taking chess seriously for almost a year

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm I just started taking private lessons

@@angelcarias1680 how's that been going and do you think it's worth it?

Wow very impressive! Thank you! I just hit my highest elo 1379 right now and will take your advice for openings

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm just wanted to say I usually play the scotch gambit or Vienna for white and always play the nimzowtch defense as black

I knew the rules when I was 8 but started trying last year

I am just pulling up my game right now to check your move suggestions. For your first comment about developing the bishop to c4, then he takes the pawn and the Nf3. I think I would be worried once he plays a move like Kf6 targeting my weak e pawn. Do you think it's worth the development for a pawn? I do understand what you mean when you say I was responding to his moves. I do not think it is like that in most games I play, I was just having an incredibly hard time having any ideas at all in trying to attack the king or get into better positions without giving up pawns. Do you think it's worth the time to get familiar with all these openings like the Nimzowitsch? I rarely see this which is why I think I got destroyed in the opening. I feel like once I make it out the opening, I generally do have good ideas to try to win. And once again, thank you for the time you spent on writing this comment as it probably took a long time for you to write, but I do genuinely appreciate that effort :) and I will take a look at the Scotch.

​@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm ye so after kf6 it is the Scotch gambit game so ye I was showing a line for it. You push the pawn castle and then you'd have to know the lines. So just like a line for a gambit that can give you good ideas for attacking. As for getting used to openings not really but you should understand what each side is trying to do with the opening the nimzo is very positional so it mainly fights for the center. So yeah you don't really need to know specific lines but you should understand what the opening does for both you and the person you play against. Most people suggest the London system for white since it's very solid and can be played against pretty much any opening. Really it's up to you what you want to try out. also I do prefer development instead of a pawn, but some other people will say otherwise. I like playing complicated stuff that starts opening up tactics. That's just how I play.

@@the_adc thank you! I’m planning to take more risks and actually consider sacrifices so I play more aggressively and not boring chess like I have been

@@the_adc won again today with my favorite opening the Vienna gambit, thought I played solidly, but still have a lot of work and tactics to catch up on

@@worstchessplayer-kr1pm nice! Always good to win. Tactics will always be something to work on for everybody. As long as you keep at it youll get it!! Would be nice to see a video

Thank you for the insight and yea I do get what you are saying. It’s gonna take time but I’m hoping to implement better ideas like you mentioned into my game. Thanks for watching and giving me tips. Much appreciated 👍🏽

@@the_adc hi is it ok if you can briefly review my game I’m about to upload. I guess I played like a 2000 even though I didn’t have any real ideas to attack and had to defend for the majority of the time. Is there anything you can point out that went wrong?

So id highly recommend learning your openings more you had some lines in which it gets complicated for white but you let him just slowly smother you in the opening. I also recommend paying more open positions since the more closed it is the more complicated it gets and the higher chance you make some mistakes. You won the game pretty nicely but I also noticed you do miss some tactics. Play puzzle rush. Helps with tactics..other than that though it was a pretty solid game.

@@the_adc thank you, that’s an awesome response and will be trying to take your advice in future games.

Really?? I’ve never thought of that. I feel like there would have to be more tho to do that feat as opening aré important but actual calculation is probably the mosy

Lmao yea

@@sss-tm6ro thank you! Still a lot to improve on tho