Yo, as an old 1850 FIDE I have a few things to say. I realize I'm not the best, but I'm definitely a decent player. I have only watched the first game, but my biggest tip is this: TRADE WHEN UP. At 7:00 when he moves his knight to E4, you said "I don't wanna take his Knight, that's ludacris" Why? You're up a whole piece. Aside from the knight , his queen is out, and his other 2 rooks are stuck behind pawns. Sure, your bishop is in a nice corner and diagonal, but he's offering you his only other developed piece. TAKE IT! You still have your knight out, and your rooks will quickly come out. Same thing when you could have traded queens, you said you didn't wanna "trade down". His queen is giving you issues, and is in the center of the board. Take the damn queen, you're still up a piece. Trust yourself to trade into an endgame and win it. Following up on that tip, you got caught up in the semantics of the current issues trying to win that, rather than the point of chess: to win. You were worrying so much about the current conflict of dealing with his queen and knight and rooks in the center, and none of that would have happened if you traded the bishop for knight or the queens. You wanted to win what was currently going on, rather than moving past it and winning something less complicated later. Especially when you get into a time crunch, you gotta simplify man. You do think a lot which is *good*, because a lot of people play a 10 minute game and don't even use half of their time, but I think you're getting too caught up into some of the semantics of positions.
@KirbChess You'll learn it and get a feel for it. I'm not sure how long you've been playing chess, but since it's a journey challenge and you're sitting just at 1,000 now, I'd assume not too long, or maybe you've only just started to take it seriously, but you've got some decent fundamentals and calculations and thought processes. Most 1000's are not worrying about the not moving a pawn because it's invites inna bishop or noticing to trade their dark square bishop because you have light square pawns. It's a blessing and a curse, because it makes you overthink the simple stuff, which was my big issue at first as well. I used to have a rule that if I could checkmate my opponent in 2 of my own moves without my opponent making a move, I'd strategy for checkmate, but if I couldn't, I would strategy to simplify.
That's not true. You played really well until you blundered the pin and lost the bishop. That just happened to also collapse your position , but up until that you were playing great moves and basically made no mistakes I think 😊
Yo, as an old 1850 FIDE I have a few things to say. I realize I'm not the best, but I'm definitely a decent player.
I have only watched the first game, but my biggest tip is this: TRADE WHEN UP. At 7:00 when he moves his knight to E4, you said "I don't wanna take his Knight, that's ludacris"
Why? You're up a whole piece. Aside from the knight , his queen is out, and his other 2 rooks are stuck behind pawns. Sure, your bishop is in a nice corner and diagonal, but he's offering you his only other developed piece. TAKE IT! You still have your knight out, and your rooks will quickly come out. Same thing when you could have traded queens, you said you didn't wanna "trade down". His queen is giving you issues, and is in the center of the board. Take the damn queen, you're still up a piece. Trust yourself to trade into an endgame and win it.
Following up on that tip, you got caught up in the semantics of the current issues trying to win that, rather than the point of chess: to win. You were worrying so much about the current conflict of dealing with his queen and knight and rooks in the center, and none of that would have happened if you traded the bishop for knight or the queens. You wanted to win what was currently going on, rather than moving past it and winning something less complicated later.
Especially when you get into a time crunch, you gotta simplify man. You do think a lot which is *good*, because a lot of people play a 10 minute game and don't even use half of their time, but I think you're getting too caught up into some of the semantics of positions.
yeah you're right i should have simplified. i have a tendency to overcomplicate games like that. Poor awareness
@KirbChess You'll learn it and get a feel for it. I'm not sure how long you've been playing chess, but since it's a journey challenge and you're sitting just at 1,000 now, I'd assume not too long, or maybe you've only just started to take it seriously, but you've got some decent fundamentals and calculations and thought processes. Most 1000's are not worrying about the not moving a pawn because it's invites inna bishop or noticing to trade their dark square bishop because you have light square pawns.
It's a blessing and a curse, because it makes you overthink the simple stuff, which was my big issue at first as well.
I used to have a rule that if I could checkmate my opponent in 2 of my own moves without my opponent making a move, I'd strategy for checkmate, but if I couldn't, I would strategy to simplify.
@ i appreciate the compliment, i've been playing chess for about 6 months
10:31 Bxc4 and being exchanged up
bro you played really bad first game
lmfao can't win em all i guess
That's not true. You played really well until you blundered the pin and lost the bishop. That just happened to also collapse your position , but up until that you were playing great moves and basically made no mistakes I think 😊
Yo Kirby howzit? I sent u a dm on discord can you respond?
7:03 if he tries to fork you you win a queen