1000 games wasn't enough to learn an opening · Training Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2025
- The Caro-Kann is my favorite defense against e4, and I keep thinking that I know most of the early traps and blunders white could play. Well, again, I have been proven wrong. My opponent gave up a pawn for no reason very early in the opening and I didn't think it was a good idea to grab it so I spent almost no time actually calculating the capture. Needless to say it led to a great position for black. What happened next should be forgotten quickly.
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Thanks for always showing the games no matter good or bad! Always a teaching moment for us as well.
Stjepan you changed my life
I appreciate you showing your losses! I think it’s even more instructive than wins
Awesome stjepan that you are playing training games again :D looking forward to them in the future
Love your videos bro, very instructive. I haven’t watched yet but I’m sure I will enjoy ❤
lol what was Nxe4 in the opening simply you could have taken the d4 pawn.
He saw that and said that Rd1 looks scary 1:43
@@michal55935ich loses a piece bc after Rd1 you can go Qxe4 bc the knight is only defended once
My iPhone Lichess engine says he had a 1.4 pawn advantage if he took the d4 pawn, zero after NxN QXN…
@@michal55935 Re1 was -8
@@mcronrn also it was so obvious to take the pawn... i don't understand why he did not even considered it.
I really like your videos they are both fun and useful they helped me to improve a lot, I would appreciate making videos about the English opening studying it without your videos is really tough. wish you the best ❤
Really aggree. While trying to learn the english i was surprised to see no videos from the channel on it
@@ДанилаТыринов same here!
Rough game. Everyone has them - Aronian just had a one-move blunder, if I recall… hang in there! Good habits!
I think Aronian allowed his knight and king to be double attacked by a rook. He carefully amassed a winning advantage and lost it to a simple tactic. Chess is brutal.
Hi Stjepan, nice game all the same. Seems you overlooked the principle of "checks captures and attack" making it possible for the doomed knight on g6 to escape to e7 with a check!
Thanks for sharing all your games: whether they are wins or losses.❤
Always enjoy watching your training games and your commentary. At 1:44 I felt like I can relate to your thought process here. I feel that knowing when to or not to grab free pawns is one of the most challenging aspects of chess, at least for me, because we assume our opponent is focused enough to not blunder a pawn so early. There must be some deeper idea, we think. However, I think that in general, unless you are playing at a very high level and expect your opponent to have prepared very deep, we should take free pawns by default unless it clearly gives our opponent something or we know for some reason such as theory or calculation etc that it is a bad idea. In this particular case I feel like you dismissed the pawn grab too easily, since Qxd4 comes with a threat of Qxe4, forcing a queen trade and just being up a pawn in a position that is nearing an endgame, which can only favor you, as well as many other advantages of that move which I am sure you have seen for yourself in your analysis of this game. You mentioned that the queen is misplaced on e2 which you should have considered.
Point is, I think that it is always a good idea to consider grabbing a free pawn unless it clearly gives compensation to your opponent. If your opponent played Rd1?? as you feared it would have actually blundered a full piece. I think you overlooked this because you were too subjective in your analysis, saying this move "looked scary" instead of looking down another ply to see it is perfectly fine for you, which is normal, we all make this type of mistake from time to time, especially in quicker time controls. Another very hard thing in chess is knowing how deep to look down certain lines before coming to a conclusion instead of discarding candidate moves immediately. Best of luck.
Love your teaching style & grateful for your channel. I have to reduce the speed by 25% to keep up, aka so inspiring! Praising your skill & expertise. Namaste 🙏🏽🌞
At 4:40 did you ever consider Be6? Forces white to play a3, b3 or Kb1. Black can follow up with Bg7, Qd6 or Qa5 respectively. Black looks to have an interesting attack.
20:25 does Bxd4 not work?
20:49 I thought Qa5 was better because of Nf5 but then he can rescue his bishop.🤦♂ I guess everyone makes mistakes like this 😂😂
We can always improve in our opening knowledge, even early on :)
(Ps. In the B. Fisher tier u wrote personalozed monthly training routine in stead of personalised)
Can you share a bit more about your training regimen?
Try the tartakower variation just for a change.
stjepan i hoppe you are doing well ! i love your videos :D learned alot ! thanks !
Bit disappointing to see that getting so afraid of taking a pawn but glad to see you back doing training games.
I think because he seems to see himself as an future GM let alone Fide Candidate Master taking a simple "pawn" is not the thing you do at higher levels of chess. That is why Korchnoi was considered a bit of an "rebel" at that level as he was not afraid to take an free pawn from time to time.
@@kimw200blaze4 yeah but you can overthink it sometimes. He left a pawn on the table there, plus a knight too later in the game. Sometimes you can overthink things. I think he's doing great, but he gets in his head a bit sometimes. A bit more confidence would do him good.
Also as he looks at openings from a pure theory perspective, the problem arises for him when someone deviates from an opening line and just plays from a more tactical response, and this leads to him getting confused.
@@strategygames1026 yea, I've barely even played chess compared to him but I quite often see tactics he overlooks which has stunned me.
I'm getting skeptical about his GM aspirations unless he doesn't get over his "I don't know this move, I'll play something safe" mantra when there's an obvious pawn take.
@@lew3733
You are right. However it's also the fact that statistically, the odds are weighed heavily against him at his age at achieving GM status. His just too old to achieve it at his relatively young age. Great if he could defy the odds however. Even Gotham said it is a extremely hard task for himself to achieve GM, and he is already an IM.
Stejphan you spend too much time calculating at the beginning of these training games. Always check for sideways and backward moves (in this case queen was attacking sideways) because those are hardest to spot
Nice attacking 🎉🎉
I try to avoid these positions by going for the Korchnoi. Plans are much easier in that variation.
You avoid winning positions like those after ...Qd4 in the opening? OK.
you over think brother. I learn from you, checks, threat, capture. Attack the knight. Love your work Bro. ahh!! Brah
great content!!
Strange you didn't at least try to calculate Qd4 after Bg5. Thanks for sharing the game.
Not strange, typical. Caro Slav London players hate calculating. That's why they play these solid lines - to avoid positions that must be resolved by calculation. This tells you how to play against them and what they need to study (its NOT openings).
it seems that you will never take the d pawn ever in your life
"It looks scary" is not an evaluation
taking that free pawn can't be bad right? the knight is under attack.
It seems that this game was lost due to simple tactical errors, not theoretical knowledge.
Bruh
how a 2000 rated player can miss qh5 is not a move,queen is hanging with discovered check bxc2
That loses but he also has a line where white sacs the bishop on f7 then plays qa5 check and picks up the bishop picking a pawn overall
@@ishaandubey145 no rook g8 and rook can block check he showed later
@@abhijitsarkar7257 yeah i just said that qh5 was not missed, what he missed was that rg8 move in defence
@@strategygames1026 wrong
@@strategygames1026 As a 1700 player he isn't close to 1700 at tactics lol. Way, way higher.