Keeping the Tension | Climbing the Rating Ladder vs. paluch666 (1633)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this continuation of the "Climbing the Rating Ladder" series I take on players of various ratings levels while pointing out typical mistakes and spots for improvement along the way (possibly my own!? :)). Here I commentate a 5+3 game against a player rated 1633 on Chess.com. "Tension" is a major theme in chess, and it refers to situations where pawns or pieces are attacking one another. Amateur players are usually in a hurry to clarify the tension by exchanging or moving away/past the attack, but stronger players often look to profit from maintaining the tension, hoping to cash in more heavily in the future. #Chess #ChessInstruction #ClimbingTheRatingLadder
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This guy deserves some kind of award for his services to chess education and popularization. There's no one better. Thanks JB!
He _does_ get an award: he gets paid for doing it.
11:02 why take the rook in the corner
A John Bartholomew a day.. Keeps the doctor away 🌹
A John Bartholomew a day.. Keeps the bad chess habits away 🌹
doctor drunkenstein ?
@@valentijnraw 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that was a good one 😂😂😂😂
Keeps the checkmate at bay
13:13
John: I think he played very reasonably
_me looking at the screen_ "one player dominated the entire game"
I wouldn't call it "domination" exactly. White played pretty well for much of the game, sidestepping several traps. Not a bad performance against someone rated 1,000 points higher.
I came here to say this
"Climbing the Rating Ladder" are still my favorite videos. Thank you for your time in doing them, and your instruction, to help us improve our game. The sacrifice you give, is your getting into time trouble. please continue this series, it is very helpful.
John has some of the best commentary with great explanation of strategy and tactics in chess .
I appreciate being able to listen exactly how you are thinking with each of your move as well as how you are guessing what the other player is thinking. Also appreciate your comment about keeping pressure going and not desiring to break that pressure, which I'm totally guilty of. Also, appreciate your comments about tempo as well. Seems like it makes sense to me. I'll keep watching. Thank for making these, they are great learning for me.
Couple of great little nuggets in this. Thank you so much for the video!
I just started watching your videos, but I really like your principled style of play. The explanations are very clear as well.
Hello John, I've been watching your videos for a year now and I'm starting to think something might be off. Every night I click refresh over and over again until your video appears in my recommended. Sometimes it is hard to tell when a new video appears though because all of my recommended is John Bartholomew. Yesterday I waited 14 hours and 6 minutes for the video and my finger was beginning to hurt from f5. But even still, I'm not quite yet ready to say I have a problem ... but I think I might. Someday soon I might have to stop watching your chess videos and it makes me anxious. I will have you know though that through watching your videos I moved from -500ELO to a positive +200ELO and continue to win a game every 3 or 4 months with your help. Maybe with some support groups I can take a knight move back in my life and take the initiative.
Liked before watching!! 😂 Great videos JB!
I love that way you give us the chance to wander inside the mind of a chess master. That's how we can truly see the reason why one person moves a piece. Keep up the great work. thank you.
Just found your channel and really enjoying your videos. Especially appreciate you talking through your thoughts as you play and then coupled with the analysis after is amazing! So many people just tell you the moves and maybe the threats, rather than why or strategy etc. Keep it up :)
Thanks for your subscription and positive feedback, Thomas!
Your vocalisation of your thought process is really helpful. Happy I found this channel. Thanks for all the effort. A 1500 player.
nice game as always, John. Always nice to hear you compliment your lower rated players... :)
Respond a little late, but thanks a lot, katis!
thank you very much John, enjoying your every video. Greetings from Bosnia ♟❤
Just getting back into chess, I am only beginner level, but this is a great channel. well done really enjoy you content and analysis .
“They just lost a piece, but the position was hopeless.” Haha
"if you can contribute to your position, play a useful move and keep a major threat in reserve; it's often good to do so."
This is extremely underrated. There's no point in making a threat if no tactical or positional advantage is gained. Just build up the threat till it's too much to handle then pull the trigger. Huge eye opener for me.
I came into my room with dinner and seen John's new video...priceless!
"You amateurs..." A sprinkle of Finegold
alex moldoveanu you mean Harvey weinstein?
Mel Gibson: YOU CAN'T HANG!
John Bartholomew: He hung with me for quite a while.
Hi John! Did you find it difficult to make the decision to record and upload your first videos? Thank you for sharing your love for chess with everyone! You are a very talented teacher and I have learned a lot from you about chess and also about how to be a better teacher! Thank you!
i love the idea of playing 12. Ne7, opening up the option of taking on d5, renewing the threat of rxh2 followed by qxg3+ in which case you'd win 2 pawns. queen would be overworked
Number of the beast
I love the Vienna as white and have won some expert-level games with it. g3 is entirely normal and is the "old school" version. Yes, white should have dealt with Harry! Otherwise very interesting stuff! Thanks!
Always been curious. Do all youtubers for chess post-edit these games and add the little orange/ green lines?😂
Because thank you. Honestly. Thank you
No, you can draw the arrows live :)
Hi John!
How about a Halloween gambit video John? (I'll keep asking 😁)
I'm almost 1200 rating... A few weeks ago I was 750... Your videos helped immeasurably.
Dont play gambits when youre 1200 lol
Actually. It is measurable- 450 rating points.
Instructional game
Question, John, but do we actually ever learn anything from our post game analysis? Besides seeing what were the best moves, do we ever learn to use those moves in the future? I ask because I analyse every game I play and regularly train with chess puzzles. I frequently watch your chess fundamentals series and I don't think I've made any progress in 2 years in my game. Only my opening moves seem to gain any benefit, which is where chessable comes into its own.
Do you just train with the computer or do you analyze your game yourself first without a computer? If you’re not, you’re probably not going to get much from the engine.
@@rhpmike Yes, I try too. I know where I went wrong most times, but still never know what the best continuation was, hence why I blundered in the first place. But in my mind, knowing what the best continuation is is only useful if I'm ever in that position again. Which is why I feel I get more from openings than middle game. My weaknesses seem to be sense of danger, poor calculation, poor co-ordination. But ultimately knowing best ways to defend without compromising position; whether that be with a counter threat, a trade or a retreat.
Beginner here! So when John mentions, in the beginning, that "...he's Fianchetto"ing" light square bishop and that's unusual..." Why is that unusual move? is it because people normally castle to the king side and fianchetto attack with light square bishop isn't effective?
I'm no expert, but I think the reason the fianchetto isn't effective here is because the king pawns had already closed the e file, severely limiting the range of that bishop.
This is much ado about not much. The fianchetto is the very old style of playing the Vienna, and if you look at closed Sicilian set-ups you will see what happens with this pattern. It's long term strategy and slow, is all, and those who play against the Kan Sicilian often employ this tool to control d5. That is a very tough line to face as a Kan player because it kills one of black's best counterplay targets. There is nothing wrong with it at all.
I'm curious why the White moved its dark square bishop to E3 in the beginning. Does it not puts it on a risk of double pawning on E3 and E4? which it eventually happened. My rating is few hundred lower than the White so I'm just really curious the purpose of the dark square bishop on E3
You are correct. It's not a great move. I think white wanted to develop one of their minor pieces and bishop E3 seemed natural but it doesn't achieve much as you could see
@@pounro i believe it's a pretty common move
@@simohayha6031 Yeah John mentions it later in the video, but in the particular situation it only creates weaknesses
Agree with comments. Be3 was not great.
*Paluch666 Transformice*
I paused watching Magnus streaming an older Pro Chess league at the Hammers place eating cold pasta and heating the apartment with the oven. Priceless archival video but was hoping for better here😁
JB kicks Satan's ass. What's that fan sound?
9:05 after exf4, what is the reason you didn’t play Rdf8? Looked a lot more natural to me
Yeah agreed that seemed like a nice little move to me that John overlooked and the engine thinks the same :)
0:26 "...you can still get a decent game in [at 5+3 time control]"
This brings it home to me just how slow I am in terms of the speed at which I think. I've decided that for me, the *minimum* time control at which I can play a "decent game", and feel that I actually have time to think is 30+30.
Much as I love John's videos (and I think he's the best chess TH-camr out there), I just can't relate to him when he says things like this. He and I are just in different universes as regards chess understanding and efficiency of thought process.
A little tip. "paluch666" means "finger666" ;)
*Paluch666 to mój nick z Transformice*
Hey John how do you take your coffee?
Shaken, not stirred
Can you argue that playing E4 as white is harder to learn because it requires more theory
BeyondLimits d4 has way more theory than e4, the least amount of theory I think is in the reti because it’s always the same setup
the Sicilian requires a ton of theory.
Saavior Tf? The Sicilian alone likely has more theory than all of d4
Yes, way more good and popular replies to e4 than d4
@@Blue-nt3uy The Sicilian and Ruy Lopez are the two biggest openings and both are 1.e4.
I've always been under the impression that e4 requires substantially more theory. d4 openings frequently have overlapping ideas/structures (of course this is true of many openings).
0:33 you say it's unusual that he's fiancettoing his light square Bishop... Why?
It is actually the old Vienna style. Not unusual at all, just very, very old. It's pushing into d5 with some similar ideas as the closed Sicilian.
Because the first moves were e4 and e5 which fixed the e pawn on a light square, after which it doesnt make sense to put the light square bishop on the blocked diagonal, which was also proved by the game, where whites light squared bishop was completely useless
Why does John only play against weak players ?
john ... I never look at this series. I would like you to play with stronger players. greetings from Argentina
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@John Bartholomew: you did not rebuke this username? Shame on you. To add insult to injury you even made the 666 sign with your hand when you talked about the increment. Do you not know any better? Are you unaware of the evil in this world? Or do you pretend not to know?
@Noah Smits That's a matter of semantics - regardless of the truth value of your statement about Nero. Nowadays devil worship is being normalized and kids seem to think it's cool to reference Satan. It's beyond me how anyone would want to glorify evil but that's why we as human beings need to rebuke such behaviour whenever we can.