You played well in the first game despite the time pressure and your opponent played slowly like you in order to calculate well but it ended up creating difficulties. An example of improvement is at 4:22 where you ended up spending 50 seconds on calculating a good move in the opening. You calculated a good move you ended up calculating in the first 5 seconds but you took a minute to decide on it by looking at other moves. I don't know what the best way to go from here is, whether it's looking for the best move or playing more quickly with acceptable moves since im only a 1250 but hopefully these observations can be of use to you.
Yeah that's a good point! I think if you're pretty sure it's a good move (and have checked it doesn't blunder something), usually it's better to just play it
Great video, I was wondering on the first game, when you could have taken the free bishop, you have a knight but they technically have a pawn, what’s the chesscom rule on this? (what happens if you just dance with the knight and they timeout with their pawn still on the board)
I think if your time expires it doesn’t matter what material you have on the board, you lose anyways unless the opponent doesn’t have enough material on the board to win, then it is a draw.
@@CestosChannelByElite I hope I understood correctly. With a knight only it is not technically possible to win. So if the opponent runs out of time (with a pawn) it is a draw. If you have a knight and a pawn or a bishop, than it is a win, regardless of the opponent having a pawn or not.
Well if they still have the pawn on the board, then technically they can win. If I were to trade bishops giving me one knight while they have a pawn, then it's not an immediate draw. However, with only bishop vs bishop + knight, if I trade bishops it's an immediate draw as there's no checkmate with king+knight. If my opponent had flagged me with a pawn on the board they win; if we repeat moves or reach the 50 move rule or whatever that is (can't remember) then it's a draw.
@@johnnygattochess Yeah whoever wins on time it only matters what THAT person has to checkmate. If I flag my opponent with only my king then it's a draw because I can't checkmate. But if I flag them with even 1 pawn, then I win because technically it is possible for me to win. And vice versa. However if it all of the sudden becomes king + knight vs king then it's an immediate draw, as for any other situation where there is literally no chance of either opponent winning = immediate draw.
You played well in the first game despite the time pressure and your opponent played slowly like you in order to calculate well but it ended up creating difficulties. An example of improvement is at 4:22 where you ended up spending 50 seconds on calculating a good move in the opening. You calculated a good move you ended up calculating in the first 5 seconds but you took a minute to decide on it by looking at other moves. I don't know what the best way to go from here is, whether it's looking for the best move or playing more quickly with acceptable moves since im only a 1250 but hopefully these observations can be of use to you.
Yeah that's a good point! I think if you're pretty sure it's a good move (and have checked it doesn't blunder something), usually it's better to just play it
Great video, I was wondering on the first game, when you could have taken the free bishop, you have a knight but they technically have a pawn, what’s the chesscom rule on this? (what happens if you just dance with the knight and they timeout with their pawn still on the board)
I think if your time expires it doesn’t matter what material you have on the board, you lose anyways unless the opponent doesn’t have enough material on the board to win, then it is a draw.
@ Yeah but I mean if his opponent runs out of time, it is technically possible to win
@@CestosChannelByElite I hope I understood correctly. With a knight only it is not technically possible to win. So if the opponent runs out of time (with a pawn) it is a draw. If you have a knight and a pawn or a bishop, than it is a win, regardless of the opponent having a pawn or not.
Well if they still have the pawn on the board, then technically they can win. If I were to trade bishops giving me one knight while they have a pawn, then it's not an immediate draw. However, with only bishop vs bishop + knight, if I trade bishops it's an immediate draw as there's no checkmate with king+knight. If my opponent had flagged me with a pawn on the board they win; if we repeat moves or reach the 50 move rule or whatever that is (can't remember) then it's a draw.
@@johnnygattochess Yeah whoever wins on time it only matters what THAT person has to checkmate. If I flag my opponent with only my king then it's a draw because I can't checkmate. But if I flag them with even 1 pawn, then I win because technically it is possible for me to win. And vice versa. However if it all of the sudden becomes king + knight vs king then it's an immediate draw, as for any other situation where there is literally no chance of either opponent winning = immediate draw.