After decades of being an avid chess fan and casual player, having read countless chess primers and watched countless tutorials, your videos have allowed me to advance to 1900-2000 rating in a matter of weeks. Thank you.
You are literally my favourite chess TH-cam channel as you break things down in clear, simple ways. I've recently gained 150+ elo in the last 2 weeks and have started looking at chess differently to the point where I'm actually just having fun and not so stressed out every time I play a game of rapid. Play simple chess, develop your pieces to great squares, don't push your pawns too early, use your brain power and calculate lines to take advantage when your opponents make mistakes. This has changed the way I approach the game and for the better.
I started playing chess just a few months ago. In that time, I have read several books and watched countless videos, and you are producing the most helpful content that I have found. Your explanations of *why* you are making every move is so informative that I have seen a noticeable improvement in my own playing using just what I learned from your videos.. Now, I am finally starting to understand the purpose and logic behind moves that, before, I never would have even considered and that I did not comprehend when suggested by the engine or when seen in the games played by others.
Hello jonas, i really enjoy your videos. I d suggest that you play against human player instead of bots. This seems more fun, less dry and with a touch of unpredictability
Just played a 30 move game at 97% accuracy using ur thinking system, my opponent just made 1 mistake and i capitalize it, thank you so much, this thinking system is helping me so much at improving!!
My last three games at 90% accuracy! Game changer for me is not over extending my pawns. I was pushing them too early to “gain space”, not recognizing the weaknesses I was creating.
After i watched your videos and played a couple of games , i can beat stockfish level 3. it was impossible before. Thanks to you i learned a lot! keep up the good work
Would love to see games where you make mistakes and how your thought process adjusts. Great videos, like what everyone else is saying. Thank you! All the best
I really like this stuff. I am nearly 60 and my Lichess rating was 2050 or so for ages, now it is 2120. It's not so much just that, it is so clear what I am trying to do in my games now. If Capablanca was 8 years old today, he would be lapping up this stuff! It's very much the style of play that got him to Wold Champion.
thanks you so much for all your content, i really had improve my game since i've discovered your youtube channel a couple days ago.. it change my point of view, and i´m having fun just like when i was a kid... Now i'll do the 30-30 challenge and report my advance... Muchas gracias y muchos saludos desde Chile, ojalá puedas hacer un canal en Español 😃 (sorry for my bad English)
I decided to play in your style for one day and couldn't believe what happened! Not only am I winning, I am making very few blunders because my pieces are not left stranded. I can see the game now and what my opponents are most likely to do. A gentleman at my chess club is really difficult to beat and you know that when his queen starts moving, you are about to lose, I cannot wait to play him again! Thank you so much for these amazing videos.
Great video, Jonas! Thanks for sharing. Very instructive on the aspects of positional play and the thinking that strong players use. Optimizing pieces where they exert the most influence. Capitalizing on mistakes and conversion. Trading pieces of similar activity. 2 books that helped me tremendously, Silmans Reassess Your Chess and Silmans Complete Endgame Course. Absolutely vital to my progression. Thanks again!
Support, but it's boring to play against bots. Maybe you could try to play tournaments: swiss or arena. Blitz or rapid time control, whatever you prefer more.
Really interesting. There are so many different thinking systems that have been developed. Yours places a special emphasis on developing least active pieces, which is often a feature in other thinking systems, but yours emphasized to a higher degree. I contrast it to Igor Smirnov's idea of putting a piece on the opponent's side of the board and attacking something. That approach seems to increase error creation in the human opponent by the application of pressure. While yours encourages errors through frustration, I guess. If I were using a tennis approach from the 1980s and earlier, moonballing vs serve and volley. But tennis is different in that chess in that one doesn't really win, it is just not making mistakes that wins games. A driving forehand that probably goes in and creates pressure (but could go out) doesn't exist in chess. It is not the creation of tactics but the opponent positionally making errors leading to the existence of tactics. I may experiment with this approach and see how I go. What I have to marry up with this is my slow, methodical, error-prone thought process that is good at finding ideas but requires a lot of double checking. So far I have found success by simplifying towards Morphy-like open positions, where I can profitably find tactics. And thus reach the end-game or a winning middle game sooner. I am terrible at bullet and get better the longer I have to think. Though, perhaps this could help in saving time through avoiding calculation until a tactic becomes obvious? Worth a try.
This is some great advice but until it is played against a human, this could just be Sofia malfunctioning because it is programmed to not overperform. It would be good if you could demonstrate this against other 2300 humans. In any case, thanks for the great instructional videos.
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Very methodical.
After decades of being an avid chess fan and casual player, having read countless chess primers and watched countless tutorials, your videos have allowed me to advance to 1900-2000 rating in a matter of weeks. Thank you.
Thank you! I’m very happy that my videos were able to help you achieve that.
You are literally my favourite chess TH-cam channel as you break things down in clear, simple ways. I've recently gained 150+ elo in the last 2 weeks and have started looking at chess differently to the point where I'm actually just having fun and not so stressed out every time I play a game of rapid.
Play simple chess, develop your pieces to great squares, don't push your pawns too early, use your brain power and calculate lines to take advantage when your opponents make mistakes. This has changed the way I approach the game and for the better.
That's amazing, congrats! And thank you 🙏
I started playing chess just a few months ago. In that time, I have read several books and watched countless videos, and you are producing the most helpful content that I have found. Your explanations of *why* you are making every move is so informative that I have seen a noticeable improvement in my own playing using just what I learned from your videos.. Now, I am finally starting to understand the purpose and logic behind moves that, before, I never would have even considered and that I did not comprehend when suggested by the engine or when seen in the games played by others.
Observation is good.
More great stuff. I could easily watch one of these every day for a year.
Hello jonas, i really enjoy your videos. I d suggest that you play against human player instead of bots. This seems more fun, less dry and with a touch of unpredictability
Thank you, will do this for future videos!
This is a very good and underrated channel. I am glad that i found it!!
Thank you 🙏
Most pragmatic and actionable chess advice on the web! It's really helped my game. Thank you!
Thank you!
Just played a 30 move game at 97% accuracy using ur thinking system, my opponent just made 1 mistake and i capitalize it, thank you so much, this thinking system is helping me so much at improving!!
That's amazing, thanks for sharing!
My last three games at 90% accuracy! Game changer for me is not over extending my pawns. I was pushing them too early to “gain space”, not recognizing the weaknesses I was creating.
After i watched your videos and played a couple of games , i can beat stockfish level 3. it was impossible before.
Thanks to you i learned a lot!
keep up the good work
I beat a 1509 rated player with your thinking system...thankyou very much, wish you a great future
Would love to see games where you make mistakes and how your thought process adjusts. Great videos, like what everyone else is saying. Thank you! All the best
Thank you!
this is by far the best thinking system you've made
Thank you!
I really like this stuff. I am nearly 60 and my Lichess rating was 2050 or so for ages, now it is 2120. It's not so much just that, it is so clear what I am trying to do in my games now. If Capablanca was 8 years old today, he would be lapping up this stuff! It's very much the style of play that got him to Wold Champion.
thanks you so much for all your content, i really had improve my game since i've discovered your youtube channel a couple days ago.. it change my point of view, and i´m having fun just like when i was a kid... Now i'll do the 30-30 challenge and report my advance... Muchas gracias y muchos saludos desde Chile, ojalá puedas hacer un canal en Español 😃
(sorry for my bad English)
I decided to play in your style for one day and couldn't believe what happened! Not only am I winning, I am making very few blunders because my pieces are not left stranded. I can see the game now and what my opponents are most likely to do. A gentleman at my chess club is really difficult to beat and you know that when his queen starts moving, you are about to lose, I cannot wait to play him again! Thank you so much for these amazing videos.
That's great, thanks for sharing!
Great video, Jonas! Thanks for sharing. Very instructive on the aspects of positional play and the thinking that strong players use. Optimizing pieces where they exert the most influence. Capitalizing on mistakes and conversion. Trading pieces of similar activity. 2 books that helped me tremendously, Silmans Reassess Your Chess and Silmans Complete Endgame Course. Absolutely vital to my progression. Thanks again!
Those are my 2 favorite chess books of all time
@Pegasus-Chess haha. Instrumental in my progression as an aspiring player.
Excellent. Principled chess. That's the way,
Support, but it's boring to play against bots. Maybe you could try to play tournaments: swiss or arena. Blitz or rapid time control, whatever you prefer more.
Yep trying to work out how to switch to human games now.
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Really interesting. There are so many different thinking systems that have been developed. Yours places a special emphasis on developing least active pieces, which is often a feature in other thinking systems, but yours emphasized to a higher degree.
I contrast it to Igor Smirnov's idea of putting a piece on the opponent's side of the board and attacking something. That approach seems to increase error creation in the human opponent by the application of pressure. While yours encourages errors through frustration, I guess.
If I were using a tennis approach from the 1980s and earlier, moonballing vs serve and volley. But tennis is different in that chess in that one doesn't really win, it is just not making mistakes that wins games. A driving forehand that probably goes in and creates pressure (but could go out) doesn't exist in chess. It is not the creation of tactics but the opponent positionally making errors leading to the existence of tactics.
I may experiment with this approach and see how I go. What I have to marry up with this is my slow, methodical, error-prone thought process that is good at finding ideas but requires a lot of double checking. So far I have found success by simplifying towards Morphy-like open positions, where I can profitably find tactics. And thus reach the end-game or a winning middle game sooner. I am terrible at bullet and get better the longer I have to think.
Though, perhaps this could help in saving time through avoiding calculation until a tactic becomes obvious? Worth a try.
Let me know how it goes
This is some great advice but until it is played against a human, this could just be Sofia malfunctioning because it is programmed to not overperform. It would be good if you could demonstrate this against other 2300 humans. In any case, thanks for the great instructional videos.
Thank you, I play this way against humans as well. I'll start uploading more games against humans instead of bots