Love these longer games, gives more time to talk us through your thought process. Learning that even an IM is only playing 2-4 moves out most of the time is eye opening! Gives me hope haha 😎.
John is such a good trainer. i really like that he threats the low rating players with the same respect as for high rating players. other masters tend to Blitz out stuff and dont even look at the board while barely explaining .... thanks john. also let me know when you are open for skype training :D
Thank you, Christian! I'm currently engaged mostly in content creation, but please do go to my "About Me" section on my TH-cam (might need to pull it up on desktop rather than mobile) and send me a message if you're interested in future coaching.
Dude!!! Climbing the Rating Ladder is the BEST!!! Please Please Please redo it in these times!! 800-1000 5 games- 1000-1200 etc. This series is the most instructive series. Thanks John!
This is the greatest series helping me advance my rating. I've gone up 300 points in the last couple months due to these videos. Please please please do not stop them
Great video, as usual... the en passant pin at the end is truly a beauty; it's so counterintuitive to imagine that one creates a pin by *adding* an obstruction on the same rank, and yet there it is!
Amazing concept, I agree! Highly unusual en-passant prevention - you very rarely see that with the king on the 5th rank. I think it's also striking because of White's rooks doubled on the e-file.
This is chess heaven. Closed the day yesterday evening (here in Europe) with a stream from John and starting the day with a new video. Delving into the Sicilian while sipping your morning coffee - can it get any better?
An old subscriber here. I haven't watched your videos for quite a while due to a disabling disease, but you are the man! I like how open you are with viewers, honest in your explanations and your passion for the game, omg.
Would you play with me? I just realised it is more than a decade i played with a female. Not about orientation, i miss playing with women chess somehow.
Thanks for all this content lately, I’m enjoying every minute of it. And that En Pinssant was an awesome idea. That gives me more motivation to really analyze games afterward, so much beautiful stuff could be missed. Cheers
I love your CTRL series. Honestly, this series had helped my game more than any other online content and it's why I throw my twitch prone to you even if you haven't been streaming.
At 53, I just have start to learn chess and l love it. If I am practicing often every day or for a million of times, surely l will improve it, or get better at.
Hi John, great game! Especially, the comp analysis with that surpising pawn to e5 move was a great fun. I have never seen such a strange pin with two paws between the rook and the king.
I'm so happy to see this series is back. It had the biggest influence over my play and helped me learn how to think about chess. Before these I had little ability to construct a sequence of moves, now I'm pushing forward and getting better. Thanks John.
U R about the most instructive teacher on Utube. U explain in straight forward, simple language why you are making each move. I am only about 1400 you are helping my game a lot. Thanks .
Yeah this was a sick video, much better than other streamers and youtubers who don't provide enough detail. Thanks for the instructive game. Subscribed!
Like the way you held on to your strong central pawn structure and looked for play elsewhere. Taught me a valuable lesson, I often get this position but push too quick. Thanks.
I really enjoyed the final phase of the video where we got to see the engine analysis combined with your own judgements and reactions. The ...e5 idea with the en passant pin was particularly cool!
This game was honestly great. I like how some of the rating ladder videos help with knowing how to look for blunders before they happen, but ones like this where they don't make huge mistakes are really useful for showing how important piece activity and pawn structures can be. It must have taken a lot of focus for a 1700 to play like that for 60+ moves so I'm impressed.
Hi John. Since I am going to hit 1700 soon I’ve been facing people above this rating. This video was very helpful to me so you have my gratitude. Looking forward seeing more of “climbing the rating ladder”.
First time running into a video from you. Arguably among the most educational ones I have seen in months. Subscribing and looking forward to more. Thank you.
The climbing the ratings videos are fantastic, super helpful! I vote for more against the 800-1200 range, as that's where I am:) I also vote for a video where JB shares his thoughts on optimal tea selection for chess mastery (I say Irish Breakfast before 8PM, Peppermint thereafter so as not to disrupt sleep).
thanks for this. one 10 minute game is worth 100 hours of 1 or 3 minute games in terms of analysis and learning potential. the games are probably better quality too, and in those moments where the opponent is taking time reacting to your moves you have time to mention stuff that comes to mind which just doesn't happen when you have to make a move every 20 seconds.
One of the most important things to get my head around has been getting a handle on the chess board. It's a huge help to immediately be able to know where the location of my pieces.
Super interesting video Minnesota Fins. You certainly don't look like a person who enjoys administrating suffering. Your love of the game is contagious. Can anyone out there in John-land tell me in simple terms what a "horizon thing" is.
Thank you! With "horizon," I'm referring to the depth at which an engine calculates/crunches line. Inevitably there is a bit where it can't accurately forecast further, and in some endgames/closed positions, engines still encounter these "horizon" issues where their evaluation may not be truly correct. Probably someone more familiar with the mechanics of chess engines can chime in, but that's the gist of it.
Yet another great video, thanks John! Some people start hoarding toilet paper and baking ingredients again in these times, but John stocks up on tea varieties :-). Very good choice!
Thank you for the nice content John, I really appreciate having you on TH-cam! Can you please give an advice of how to train constructive thinking rather than being taken by frustration which happens to me most of the time :(
John mentions a checkmate at 27:53 in the video -- th-cam.com/video/W8rB5lIUnnU/w-d-xo.html but I dont see it ? can anyone explain how this is checkmate?
Hey John great video was just about to fall asleep but I saw this upload haha. I also play the Classical Sicilian just like Kramnik, its awesome I like starting with 2. Nc6 rather than 2.d6
Hi John, really great enjoying content lately and i feel like im learning a lot from it. I was wondering if you couldve traded the bishops at 23:16 and played e5? Or maybe its too risky since white gets a passed pawn. Anyways keep up the amazing content and greetings from Denmark :)
Yeah, those chess.com ratings for slightly longer time controls are really unassuming. I made it to 1940 in rapid before discovering alot the 1900 to 2000 rated players were either super underrated titled players or cheaters due to the significantly smaller rating pool. Its weird playing without a consistent frame of rating reference!
White could try to hold after the bishop trade, but it looks tough with the damaged structure. Black will jump on the b-file, and White will likely have to seek activity in a pawn down rook ending.
If I ever get to visit St Louis, I hope to meet you, JB! Honestly, chess streamers get it; respectful, fam-friendly, and detail-packed analysis with a sense of humor (well, at least the ones I watch: GMHikaru🧡🧡, Levy🧡, Agadmator🧡🧡, GMRobert Hess🧡...oh, and Danny as well!🧡😆). Peace! 👍🏼🧡
Thank you - yes indeed, we're lucky to have a lot of excellent content creators in the chess world! I live in Minneapolis and not St. Louis (Eric Rosen lives there - you might be confusing him with me!), but I do hope we meet someday as well 🙏
Can someone please explain how analysis actually helps. I get the concept but I am still struggling with the fact that going through positions and alternative lines, also engine analysis, is actually translated into real improvements. For example every game is different, and surely you can’t remember everything from the analysis, and although there are lots of videos on how to analyse, I haven’t found any specific tips on how to apply it to improvement in a real world case. Any advice please :)
If possible keep the 10+5 format, it makes it easier to follow your thought process and I think it's better for you to explain the position in more detail also. Great video btw!
Great to see another video! Does someone mind explaining the motivation for 24. .. Rb5 rather than Rb8. I think I might have played Rb8 so that the a pawn is still defended, but maybe the rook on f8 is waiting for a potential pawn break?
I think it's a combo of my level, the fact that I've worked with a ton of amateur players, and played many players in this rating range, too. No shortcuts for that sort of thing!
Nice to see thata an IM cant win easily against a 1700 player. Im 1400 playing 10min on chess.com and im finding out that an single error costs you the game most of the times. Trying to improve here and always find great content from JB. 👏
Hey John, on move 48 you said Kf5 would be mate because of the pawn checking on e6, but I'm not seeing it. Couldn't the king escape via f4 after the check? I'm not seeing a forced checkmate further down the line, but I could be wrong tho!
4 moves for IM and 2 moves or so for 1500 that ok? I'm 1300 and feel like I am not getting any better, losing because although I look at theory nobody plays it in my rating range so I don't even realize the concepts behind if they play a move out of theory easily and just wanna improve on my tactics like you are saying
Sad to see him spiral into a herbal tea addict. A few bags at first, but then your clearing out the shelves looking for that next hit!
😂
lol
Kamrul played extremely well. Taking John to 60 moves is remarkable.
Yes, sturdy defense from my opponent
wtf Kamrul best 1700 player i've ever seen
John is a scrub not that hard...
CTRL is back! What a wonderful day!
Yea but where’s ALT and DELETE?
CTRL back and I know that John likes Rush too! Doesn't get much better than that
I thought we lost control
@@mikecantreed nice joke
Everything is under CTRL
Love these longer games, gives more time to talk us through your thought process. Learning that even an IM is only playing 2-4 moves out most of the time is eye opening! Gives me hope haha 😎.
John is such a good trainer. i really like that he threats the low rating players with the same respect as for high rating players. other masters tend to Blitz out stuff and dont even look at the board while barely explaining .... thanks john. also let me know when you are open for skype training :D
Thank you, Christian! I'm currently engaged mostly in content creation, but please do go to my "About Me" section on my TH-cam (might need to pull it up on desktop rather than mobile) and send me a message if you're interested in future coaching.
Dude!!! Climbing the Rating Ladder is the BEST!!! Please Please Please redo it in these times!! 800-1000 5 games- 1000-1200 etc. This series is the most instructive series. Thanks John!
This is the greatest series helping me advance my rating. I've gone up 300 points in the last couple months due to these videos. Please please please do not stop them
Congratulations on your progres! I'll keep this series going 👍
Great video, as usual... the en passant pin at the end is truly a beauty; it's so counterintuitive to imagine that one creates a pin by *adding* an obstruction on the same rank, and yet there it is!
Amazing concept, I agree! Highly unusual en-passant prevention - you very rarely see that with the king on the 5th rank. I think it's also striking because of White's rooks doubled on the e-file.
This is chess heaven. Closed the day yesterday evening (here in Europe) with a stream from John and starting the day with a new video. Delving into the Sicilian while sipping your morning coffee - can it get any better?
Sounds blissful 😁 Hope you enjoeyd the coffee and the chess!
I think it can... But this is pretty awesome too! :D
An old subscriber here. I haven't watched your videos for quite a while due to a disabling disease, but you are the man! I like how open you are with viewers, honest in your explanations and your passion for the game, omg.
Thanks for watching again! Sorry to hear about your health problems - best wishes in your recovery.
@@JohnBartholomewChess It is a chronic disease, but you made my Friday a bit better. Will try to follow you as much as possible. Thanks.
Eagerly awaiting for these climbing the rating Series John !! Very instructive 👍👍 god bless
I think the ten minute setting worked really well :) Thanks John!
Yes, 10-minute with a nice little 5 second increment was perfect in this one!
As an intermediate player, this series has always been the most helpful, thanks!
Facts!
OMG that's amazing John! I'm often playing sicilian so your lesson will be very helpful:D
Would you play with me? I just realised it is more than a decade i played with a female. Not about orientation, i miss playing with women chess somehow.
Oh and sorry for cringe moment.
@@urospeteh2637 This is definitely cringe
@@urospeteh2637 😂okay I'll play you someday!
I second this.
Thanks for all this content lately, I’m enjoying every minute of it. And that En Pinssant was an awesome idea. That gives me more motivation to really analyze games afterward, so much beautiful stuff could be missed. Cheers
The way you describe your thought process is very helpful to me. Thank you!
Ya same here! He doesn't just make the moves, but really shows why he does what he does!
I appreciate your chill approach to the game, makes it enjoyable to watch!
I love your CTRL series. Honestly, this series had helped my game more than any other online content and it's why I throw my twitch prone to you even if you haven't been streaming.
Love the CTRL series thanks John, Also enjoying your D4 Chessable course.
At 53, I just have start to learn chess and l love it. If I am practicing often every day or for a million of times, surely l will improve it, or get better at.
What is your rating now?
Where you at right now
Hi John,
great game! Especially, the comp analysis with that surpising pawn to e5 move was a great fun.
I have never seen such a strange pin with two paws between the rook and the king.
I'm so happy to see this series is back. It had the biggest influence over my play and helped me learn how to think about chess. Before these I had little ability to construct a sequence of moves, now I'm pushing forward and getting better.
Thanks John.
U R about the most instructive teacher on Utube. U explain in straight forward, simple language why you are making each move. I am only about 1400 you are helping my game a lot. Thanks .
Yeah this was a sick video, much better than other streamers and youtubers who don't provide enough detail. Thanks for the instructive game. Subscribed!
John Climbing the Rating Ladder and Using the Clock as a Weapon are the best series on TH-cam you're the man, keep it up boss
I love your climbing the rating ladder videos! I've watched them all and I'm still hungry for more so was very excited to see this today!
Like the way you held on to your strong central pawn structure and looked for play elsewhere. Taught me a valuable lesson, I often get this position but push too quick. Thanks.
Hey John, this is guys!!!
I really enjoyed the final phase of the video where we got to see the engine analysis combined with your own judgements and reactions. The ...e5 idea with the en passant pin was particularly cool!
This game was honestly great. I like how some of the rating ladder videos help with knowing how to look for blunders before they happen, but ones like this where they don't make huge mistakes are really useful for showing how important piece activity and pawn structures can be. It must have taken a lot of focus for a 1700 to play like that for 60+ moves so I'm impressed.
Hi John. Since I am going to hit 1700 soon I’ve been facing people above this rating. This video was very helpful to me so you have my gratitude. Looking forward seeing more of “climbing the rating ladder”.
Hey John! I'm happy you posted again!
First time running into a video from you. Arguably among the most educational ones I have seen in months. Subscribing and looking forward to more. Thank you.
Super instructive, thanks a lot! Love your meta comments about chess such as "calculate 4 moves in advance max."!
I love your content bro, so relaxing and instructive!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I second this!
The climbing the ratings videos are fantastic, super helpful! I vote for more against the 800-1200 range, as that's where I am:) I also vote for a video where JB shares his thoughts on optimal tea selection for chess mastery (I say Irish Breakfast before 8PM, Peppermint thereafter so as not to disrupt sleep).
This is my favorite series. Such great info. Thank you!!
Wow, this en passant pin was the most beautiful thing. Could be as a puzzle, and for sure could be enough of a reason to watch this video.
Amazing video. Learned a ton. Thanks John!
Thaank you thank you so much for another climbing the rating ladder!! :D
Thanks for the 10+5 format. I have to keep pausing, even sometimes scroll back, for my shrinking brain to catch up with anything faster.
thanks for this. one 10 minute game is worth 100 hours of 1 or 3 minute games in terms of analysis and learning potential. the games are probably better quality too, and in those moments where the opponent is taking time reacting to your moves you have time to mention stuff that comes to mind which just doesn't happen when you have to make a move every 20 seconds.
So glad to see you on the channel frequently again John.
It's great to be back - cheers!
Great content John as per usual. I am a big fan of your channel
Keeping this one for the weekend, what a nice surprise John!
Absolute domination in the endgame. Well done and very instructive.
Excellent game and analysis. Longer time control seems to have brought a quality game, well played by the opponent!
One of the most important things to get my head around has been getting a handle on the chess board.
It's a huge help to immediately be able to know where the location of my pieces.
Thanks John, very positionally instructive game!
You’re such a good teacher these days
Yours is the only chess channel I watch to the end and I always play better afterwards.
En passant 📌 never seen that before.
So cool!!
Super interesting video Minnesota Fins. You certainly don't look like a person who enjoys administrating suffering. Your love of the game is contagious. Can anyone out there in John-land tell me in simple terms what a "horizon thing" is.
Thank you! With "horizon," I'm referring to the depth at which an engine calculates/crunches line. Inevitably there is a bit where it can't accurately forecast further, and in some endgames/closed positions, engines still encounter these "horizon" issues where their evaluation may not be truly correct.
Probably someone more familiar with the mechanics of chess engines can chime in, but that's the gist of it.
@@JohnBartholomewChess Thank you sir for taking the time to explain this to me, I know your a very busy man.
@@nomvanhoutte1998 My pleasure!
Damn, a really nice game against Hassan! Superior endgame + connected pawns won the game for you.
I've been watching a lot of chess games lately and John Bartholomew's analysis always stands as the most instructional ones.
Thank you very much for giving us so good instructional content!
Many of you don't know but my man started the whole concept of speed run.
Awesome work...
Love this series..
Good to see you sir..
John is low key The Best Chess TH-camr out there
That en passant pin is awesome 😂
Yet another great video, thanks John! Some people start hoarding toilet paper and baking ingredients again in these times, but John stocks up on tea varieties :-). Very good choice!
Thank you for the nice content John, I really appreciate having you on TH-cam! Can you please give an advice of how to train constructive thinking rather than being taken by frustration which happens to me most of the time :(
John mentions a checkmate at 27:53 in the video -- th-cam.com/video/W8rB5lIUnnU/w-d-xo.html
but I dont see it ? can anyone explain how this is checkmate?
Great game - for instruction, the longer time format works well.
It's great to see Bangladeshi player!! We love your videos here john
Thanks for tuning in! Much love to viewers in Bangladesh and around the world 🙏
Hey John great video was just about to fall asleep but I saw this upload haha. I also play the Classical Sicilian just like Kramnik, its awesome I like starting with 2. Nc6 rather than 2.d6
”I actually do like playing those positions for the side that’s administering the suffering...” 😂
At 27:54 I think John means King f5 would have been mate so the King is forced back. I don’t see the mate though. Am I missing something?
Hi John, really great enjoying content lately and i feel like im learning a lot from it. I was wondering if you couldve traded the bishops at 23:16 and played e5? Or maybe its too risky since white gets a passed pawn. Anyways keep up the amazing content and greetings from Denmark :)
Thank you so much
Waiting for this
It's time for coffee, because this was a grind. Nice pawn march at the end.
The classical Queen blunder has served me for a long time!
7:30 why king e2? i knew he would take, because i also prefer not to move the king to castle
Yeah, those chess.com ratings for slightly longer time controls are really unassuming. I made it to 1940 in rapid before discovering alot the 1900 to 2000 rated players were either super underrated titled players or cheaters due to the significantly smaller rating pool. Its weird playing without a consistent frame of rating reference!
I want a video of John reviewing the strengths/weaknesses of various types of tea now
@16:20 how was bc3 instead of c3? i don't think the double pawns are that bad since black has no obvious way to attack them
White could try to hold after the bishop trade, but it looks tough with the damaged structure. Black will jump on the b-file, and White will likely have to seek activity in a pawn down rook ending.
45:30 damn that idea is beautiful
Agreed - I've came back to this video and moment the past couple years specifically due to how unusual and beautiful it is 😀
If I ever get to visit St Louis, I hope to meet you, JB! Honestly, chess streamers get it; respectful, fam-friendly, and detail-packed analysis with a sense of humor (well, at least the ones I watch: GMHikaru🧡🧡, Levy🧡, Agadmator🧡🧡, GMRobert Hess🧡...oh, and Danny as well!🧡😆). Peace! 👍🏼🧡
Thank you - yes indeed, we're lucky to have a lot of excellent content creators in the chess world! I live in Minneapolis and not St. Louis (Eric Rosen lives there - you might be confusing him with me!), but I do hope we meet someday as well 🙏
This dude played really well for a 1700
And a Rush fan too? Now I’m an even bigger JB fan.
Climbing the rating ladder, the best series ever!
Can someone please explain how analysis actually helps. I get the concept but I am still struggling with the fact that going through positions and alternative lines, also engine analysis, is actually translated into real improvements. For example every game is different, and surely you can’t remember everything from the analysis, and although there are lots of videos on how to analyse, I haven’t found any specific tips on how to apply it to improvement in a real world case. Any advice please :)
If possible keep the 10+5 format, it makes it easier to follow your thought process and I think it's better for you to explain the position in more detail also. Great video btw!
Great to see another video!
Does someone mind explaining the motivation for 24. .. Rb5 rather than Rb8.
I think I might have played Rb8 so that the a pawn is still defended, but maybe the rook on f8 is waiting for a potential pawn break?
What I notice, John, is how good you are at predicting your opponent's moves. Any tips on how to train that skill?
I think it's a combo of my level, the fact that I've worked with a ton of amateur players, and played many players in this rating range, too. No shortcuts for that sort of thing!
@@JohnBartholomewChess Guess I'll keep practicing. Thanks!
The Return Of The King
#CTRL
At my level ( otherwise described as really bad! ) I learn A LOT more when I have the time to think a move over.
Ah yes the famous Shaven-Engine center at 1:40.
I am a simple man. I see a climbing the rating ladder video, I press like.
Nice to see thata an IM cant win easily against a 1700 player. Im 1400 playing 10min on chess.com and im finding out that an single error costs you the game most of the times. Trying to improve here and always find great content from JB. 👏
Look how respectful he is to his opponent you never see that with these kind of rating differences patience is respect except with maybe rosen
John's living in the limelight, converting the endgame to big money.
Oh man that e5 move was so sweet
Smart guy here, always hear out!
Hey John, on move 48 you said Kf5 would be mate because of the pawn checking on e6, but I'm not seeing it. Couldn't the king escape via f4 after the check? I'm not seeing a forced checkmate further down the line, but I could be wrong tho!
When can I get a chance to play a climbing the rating ladder series with you JB😓
4 moves for IM and 2 moves or so for 1500 that ok? I'm 1300 and feel like I am not getting any better, losing because although I look at theory nobody plays it in my rating range so I don't even realize the concepts behind if they play a move out of theory easily and just wanna improve on my tactics like you are saying
Lets take a min and appreciate that description
Haha, I'm glad many people ready descriptions these days!
Flexing your tea options
At 34:14 the Bishop is pinned. You could play Kxe7.
Unfortunately I cannot. It's illegal, as you can never place your king in check - even if the enemy piece is pinned to *their* king.