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Not gonna make it to chess master aye? 🥹

Surely Kramnik's position is a little bit more nuanced than that? I'm not a great chess player, maybe I don't get it.

Damn did your opponent find that?

Hi there! I’m a mere 1900 rapid online, I loved your insights on those moves cause it felt somewhat understandable. Your thought process was very clear and I think this type of content is actually the best for me cause seeing top gms games feels frustrating at times. Wish you the best of luck both in chess and in TH-cam! See ya

this is an observation i made as a teenager. i was a great OTB player but online chess always tripped me up. now in my 20s i play mostly online and i can hold my own with in person matches just because i have more experience than the people i'm playing on an old fashioned board but it's definitely a different pattern as far as my nervous system is concerned. i have to think more and that makes me slower

Definitely a good topic. You can do more videos detailing this topic and it would be interesting.

Good to have you back!

Less bicep more elo

How does English national chess rating compare to FIDE rating?

more vidz like these!!!!!

What a way to punish an early early queen attack!

D4 is a nice move in the opening

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Nice thumbnail

Tournaments are better than ladder, i like them. Not sure about tournaments full of scrubs, like this one.

It’s called the Horrwitz Papa-Ticulat gambit 😮.

That knight ending worked pretty simple. I actually hate knight endings... usually hard to calculate out.

Against this one i usually dont take the pawn, and white doesnt havr actually that much!

I know why you are better at over the board format. Opponents look at you and think-this guy has so many hit points, it's gonna be hard to defeat him.

this 1300 dude has 3,5 points now, which is insane.

First!

Okay to clear confusion - yes this is technically the Caro Kann but my opponent plays it in the French manner which means I play my gambit setup in a setup against the French - hence the title. Sorry for any confusion :)

Thats not the french buddy, change the title

Was the thumbnail satire lmfao

Thats the caro kann

good vid and good explanations!! and love the frequent posting

umm why does title say french

playing without increment is just not good. the only place where its alright is bullet.

At 3:58, you should have just gone w/the knight fork w/out all the overthinking. It's like the cliche movie line: "You should have killed me when you had the chance!"

No increment sucks. Why do people below 2500 play it?

mad attack gg

It seems all of your opponents in this tourney played above their ratings.

Suggestion at 4:22. Put your dark-square B on f4; if BxB, then NxB, threatening mate in 1 (QxP on g2). Obviously, he'll put said pawn on g3, at which you will go N to e2, forking king & pawn (on d4). He can't take your N w/his Q b/c it's protected by your Q.

At 4:06 King Arthur: "What's your bishop like?" French knight illegally on English soil: "Oh, it's very, very nice."

Vid slaps as hard as the thumbnail

Interesting. I've played this at 2100 ECF level in my league games, instead of Nge2 in the Opening I go Qe2 - no-one spots the strong ...Bg4 and everyone plays ...Bf5 which runs into h3! threatening g4. If they stop this with ...h5 then I go g3(engine line) to then play Bg2 and regain the pawn. I always get the pawn back and in general my next few moves are Nf3-Ne5-d4-f4 and I gain the upper hand in a middlegame. It's an interesting sideline of this gambit you might want to try :)

What tournament is this

The knight on f6 is hanging after he moves the bishop.

This game made me want to overlook it if this is typical too blocked up

Common Centurion W

The hippo is difficult to play but it is an option to confuse the opponent. When I am with the white pieces I have some issues against it.

Lol was catching up on your videos, and its nice to see that playing that horribly happens to anyone and when the pieces are down we start playing hope chess. Feels rough losing that bad, mightve gotten a bit of schadenfreude tho since it undoubtedly happens to me more.

At 8:90, I thought it was the alarm for the zombie apocalypse. If you have already zombie-proofed your room, no need to worry; just keep playing chess.

Perfect haircut. Anyway, Hippo is quite good against 1100 mmr, you convinced me.

First to comment again! Never stop making these videos.

You are quickly becoming one of my favorite chesstubers. Nice, realistic, down to earth and great at explaining your thoughts. It’s such a pleasure following your journey.

After 5.Ng5 there is also the interesting 5...Bg4.

At 4:38 I was yelling at you to force a queen trade by going to f2, but you didn’t hear me. Doing so would have forced him to take your queen, to which you would of course have responded by taking his with your knight. The unexpected benefit of such move is that it would have prevented his light-square bishop from putting you in check.

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