Playing chess until I hit 2000: Day 254
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2024
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This is day 254 of my journey to get to a rating of 2000 on chess.com.
This was probably my most informative kind of video yet, if you like these sorts of videos I could try to make a playlist of helpful tips/checkmating patterns etc, I could make it a series, but I hope you enjoy this type of analysis at the end! Sorry we only got a draw! Thanks for watching this sicilian game!
So far on the series:
201 wins 27 draws 166 losses
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It’s your journey brother, do what you want when you want how you want. I enjoy the quick recaps of your offline journeys.
Thanks lad, glad you're just enjoying haha
I really enjoyed your explanation of the checkmate. The teacher in you showed up!
@@asunasposibol haha, glad you enjoyed it 😂😂😂
Really enjoyed the instruction at the end with the knight/bishop, thanks!!
@@mrodock glad you enjoyed it bro! Thanks for watching!
I liked the fact you played the game right to the end. Get all the endgame practice you can while maybe even flagging your opponents.
@@walterbrownstone8017 thanks Walter, I knew it would be hard for him to checkmate so I def didn't want to resign this one!
@@Blunder_Man I watch alit of 2k players and that is a common theme. Never resign and always go for the flag. I could swear some 2k players are bad but fast!
@@walterbrownstone8017 I usually do try to play on! Thanks for watching my 2k series! It means a lot!
Dope checkmake! I need to study more endgames.
Don't we all hahaha
dope, you should do more of this lessons at the end
Glad you enjoyed it, I was thinking of releasing some more educational type stuff at some point, probably would be helpful for people
I was actually screaming windmill tactic and it really hurt watching you not seeing it. I think in these critical positions you just gotta consider more moves, prioritizing checks, captures and threats. You considered moving your bishop to g2 so why don't you also look at rook g2. I know it's harder if you're actually playing the game than just watching, but I think if you went through checks, captures and threats you would have defenitely found it and won the game.
And I really liked your explanation of the bishop+knight mate, I've also been trying to study it but I think the hardest part is if the enemy king starts in the center to force him to the desired corner within 50 moves, especially if you don't have much time.
agree, no idea how he doesn’t see rook to g2, so blinkered in his thinking and I know it’s easier watching than playing but too annoying to watch 😂
Yeah, you see stuff because you also see an analysis board telling you there is a tactic. If I had that I'd immediately be spotting it, but it's hard to always have that habit for every single move
Hi there. Took a break from chess over the Summer, but started the new club season yesterday, now playing board 1, and up a division too.
3:50 The exchange sac is never going to work in that position. You get 1 pawn back, but no positional compensation or attack for the material deficit. The obvious move is Nc4, which wins the two Bishops. I love Knights, but in this position the Bishop pair is a big plus, plus if he takes the N, the Rc4 is in an excellent spot.
4:25 Phantom problems. If he moves the Nc3 he is hitting nothing because the Qd8 defends it. You perhaps need to be a little more aware of which pieces are hanging. Still, it got you to play Nc4!
6:05 When you see R & B in that position you should immediately be thinking of this tactic: Rg2+ Kh1 (forced) Rxb2+ (discovered) winning the Queen.
Great to see you back in the comments brother! Missed you! Hope you've been well
Loved the vid. great job 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
I have only ever done this once in game and it was definitely one of the best mates. The key to doing it in game is to focus on cutting the king off until hes in the 4 corner squares, and then calculating how to actually get the mate. Learning the bishop and knight W formation helps.
Yes, I hope I get an opportunity to attempt it at some point!
the hardest checkmate! Saw one GMvsGM game where they were in the same position and a GM couldn't deliver the checkmate! Have to learn it someday :)
@@lisovyk it's almost definitely the most difficult!
I was commenting a few days ago about a guy you faced that didn't know how to mate with a queen, this is kind of reasonable though lol. Best I can do is mate with two bishops haha! GGs!
Even two bishops is stressful hahaha
I should mention that I loved playing 25 games a day with stockfish 3, every day. But lichess did an update and I suspect they turned Stockfish 3 into a 2k player. Chess was fun but now chess is just hard.
haha, I've never played against a bot
@@Blunder_Man I play for fun only so bots are best. Nobody seems to like these bots but I thought level 3 was great until the update. Every game I would play a full game unless I was dead lost, 3+2 to compensate for stockfish bulleting out moves. It still blunders before move 15 but it often doesn't blunder until move 30. Before I could count on it giving me a blunder between move 10 and 20 and now it won't blunder until I blunder.
@@walterbrownstone8017 haha, computers are better than us brother, it's just a sad reality, that's why playing vs humans is more fun for me
Rule number 1: Look for checks! always look for checks! 😀 (easy to say, harder to do sometimes 🙃)
Facts haha
Bro that’s my teacher
Both our score sheets were flawed (mostly mine). But the pgn here recaptures the game.
I noticed and plugged them in correctly, but thanks for yours. I was not as winning as I thought I was when we played hahaha
@@Blunder_Man At the last move, it was a disguised as a fork, but was a mate threat.
@@timcutler1329 yes, I just didn't use my time to consider properly haha, was a great game!
Hope you get the pgn below of our game last Saturday.
you can play on the other acoount you want and review with this id in the end
@@arnavgovil861 I didn't realize that! That's a great idea
@@Blunder_Man i do it i have 3 ids play on my main one and use the other 2 freegame reviews lol
@@arnavgovil861I have 6 lol
You guys know how to cheat the system 😂😂😂
Do you need to know how to checkmate with a knight and bishop if you're 2k? There is no way that I'll figure that one out.
@@walterbrownstone8017 IDK, it doesn't hurt to learn haha
Owen, again you played great but you're doing the same thing where you're not really coming up with candidiate moves and you're not actually calculating lines, you're just saying lines. Great defensive skills but please work on that
I believe he said he pre-recorded a few videos.
I'm sorry, but coming up with candidate moves is difficult. Yes, I can try to come up with a few, but I may completely miss the top choice. When I see a few moves I am trying to determine which is best, but maybe there is a better way than calculating through one set of lines to where I think it'll go, IDK... I hear you, but I'm also trying to apply this and it's gonna take me a bit I think
@@Blunder_Man ah, no candidiate moves aren't about finding good moves. They're about not playing bad moves. As long as you're not blundering, that's all that matters. That's the point of candidiate moves for people at our level
@@what-on-earth5632 Thanks for clarification. Yes... I need to find moves that just don't blunder. Thanks.... I'll work on this