3 nice games with a lot of good thought prosess here. You find many good moves that i initialy didnt think of in these games. 4:01 as somebody in the commten section spoted Nxd4 seems to be a free pawn. I did not spot that during the video. I would probably have taken the knight here. As i did not like the prospect of playing a endgame with 2 knights vs 2 bishops, i thought this endgame would be rather open, favorising the bishops.. but its possible the knight would have been better in the first part of endgame and its possible to benefit from that. but is also a good point that taking the bishop and you always have to worry about Bxc6, doubleing pawns inf fornt of our king. Obviously Nxd4 must have been the best move. And i send a not to my self, that i must start spotting those tactics during actual games and not only in puzzles. Training makes master. 6:04. Here i would think Re8 taking the open file would be the most apealing move to me. Rf1 and attacking with pawns is an idea, but seems slow as you still cant play g5. It gets a bit dangerous when white gets so good control on the e file. 6:34 you also loose a bit tempo here moving queen 2 times, witch gives white lead in development, doubling the rooks. 7:38 also when his bishop lands on e4, haveing a rook on e8 gives possabilites to take that bishop with knight. right here it probably would not work. but that bishop with those 2 rooks seems very strong for white. 7:57 and here i think Rf7 witch you almost played must be better than Rh7. The rook on h7 looks so of and disconected, i understand that you want to attack his king with the pawns but you are beeing infiltrated, but parhaps Rh7 is ok after all, you can play g6 prety fast and then have prospect of doubeling your own rooks. perhaps actualy Rh7 was best as after you can play g6. if Rf7 you would have to move the other rook before playing g6. 8:38 Didnt like g4 that much but your follow up Qh4 at 9:06 was clever. I would have playd qh3 if i was white there tho.. blocing that attack totaly .. if white gets to exhange queens black looses defence of g7 pawn.. if you play fxg4 you just have double g pawns that are very hard to attack with and look rather weak. Kf1 is strange from white Qh3 and they have full controll. but ofc desperate situation requre desperate mesures, after they play Kf1. The attack seems to work better. His move Ke2 after that is also strange, they still should have just taken/exhanged your queen, getting you into doubling the g pawns. white must be better in that endgame? 10:58 you fight well after you hung this pawn... it always looks a bit scetchy when white has the double rooks. but they keep blocking them self and gave you pawns back, a bit of time scamble. looks like white playing on your time already and nearly they loose the game. 13:02 i think Rd3 is better than checking here.. after you can play Rd4 and attack the c pawn. and somethings got to fall.. also you are gone loose you f pawn most likely, so you got to get something for that pawn.. also the white d pawn is the most dangerous pawn in the possition, witch i think you understood to.. its hard in a time scamble, not sure i would have played better. i am so bad sometime in time scambles.. thats my weaknes. would have been nice to see some after analysis. that first game was a hard balancing game. Sad you lost on time there in a totaly drawn endgame. 2 sec incriment and you would have secured a drawn. specualy also the endgame in this first game is interesting. secound game: i think you must have been better most of the time. realy like your kngiht manouver here at 23:20 24:10 Nb6 danger levels, realy nice move. 24:50 i saw the pawn was hanging here. But i realy wonder if Bf8, is still the best move for black.. as you say, your bishop is way better than his. taking bishop on e1 for saving the a pawn, witch i initialy thought i would do, helps them connect the rooks, AND your A pawn.. how you gone attack with it when they played a3? i acctualy wonder if them taking your A pawn actualy won the game for you... because that a and b file now is totaly open, in a opposite derection casteling game, black attack seems much faster here. 25:19. i think definitly Qa7 witch you played is best and it looks like white has to trade like they did.. but it looks like they are nearly loosing already because.... 26:56. when watching your game i was thinking Rb8 was the move and that Bxa3 did not work, but i would have pased a bit here... Because this is a very critical tactical position.. and emediataly when i skiped video back here to look this possiton i understand that Bxa3 must work here. think of it like this: when Rook on b6 pins the pawn. that pawn defends nothing for the moment. and you have 2 attckers on a3, white only has the queen defending a3. so if after Bxa3, they do Qxa3, you play Qxa3 and they lost the queen. if they after Bxa3 try Rc3, attacking the bishop, witch actualy is pined to your undefended queen.. that does not work for them as you have Rxb2, forking queen and king... protected by bishop.. so they would have to give up queen for rook and bishop, also you got 2 pawns in the prosese.. so after Bxa3, i think they would have to play Rc2 to protect the b pawn.. and if you then play Rc-b8, i would considering to resign as white. you saw it a bit later tho.. yes its hard see everything in limited time. 28:00 i think Bxa3 still works here.. but its a dificult calculation to do in limited time.. but you did have 5 minutes here... often when like loosing on time in first game, we play a bit to fast in then next dont we? Bxa3 here in that position, if Rxa3, then Qxa3. they lost rook and pawn for bishop.. if bxa3 is iligal due to the pin. If Qxa3 then your rpspons is Rxa3 and they still cant take back with pawn so thatjust a queen trade after giving up the exhange. If after the first move Bxa3 they play Rxb6, you take back with Qxb6. thats a rook trade and the b pawn is still pinned, so they cant take the bishop with queen due to Rxa3 looses the queen. You played so right her positionaly to give you a good tactical possition, but sometime is hard to find the right moves in a actual game Ironicaly At 29:44, when you ACCTUALY play Bxa3 it does not actualy work. Qxa3 and you lost the bishop. now you dont have any rook pinning the b pawn.. so Qxa3 bxa3 is just a queen exhange, yes you win another pawn after Rxa3 but now you have rook and they have rook and knight. But probably due to the long time preasure you put your opponent under, they blunder with bxa3. they was under so much preasure, its hard to not blunder eventualy... I Think you played this game very well positionaly and had a great and funny attacking positon. And in the third game, your tricky openings work, its not easy to meet a gambit like thatn.. and at 40:22 they are in such a difficult possition, and they blundered.
Three fine games, I will let you guess yourself when i screamed no no no louder than last time I screamed it. 6;01 I think pawn takes there must be a reason for what you do. We do not play on feeling except in bullet, and to qoute a movie " we're too old for that sh1t." Thanks Ben
4:41 it was a free pawn on d4 if you did Nxd4. If he took back with the queen you’d have Bh2+ and a discovered attack on the queen. Great content, keep up the good work!
5:00 I think you have NxD4 because if queen takes bishop h2 wins the queen
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First game you were playing a reverse Jobava London. Second game some reverse Advance French Defense 😉
That was hard work, and I mean, watching it :) Good result!
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3 nice games with a lot of good thought prosess here. You find many good moves that i initialy didnt think of in these games.
4:01 as somebody in the commten section spoted Nxd4 seems to be a free pawn. I did not spot that during the video. I would probably have taken the knight here. As i did not like the prospect of playing a endgame with 2 knights vs 2 bishops, i thought this endgame would be rather open, favorising the bishops.. but its possible the knight would have been better in the first part of endgame and its possible to benefit from that. but is also a good point that taking the bishop and you always have to worry about Bxc6, doubleing pawns inf fornt of our king. Obviously Nxd4 must have been the best move. And i send a not to my self, that i must start spotting those tactics during actual games and not only in puzzles.
Training makes master.
6:04. Here i would think Re8 taking the open file would be the most apealing move to me. Rf1 and attacking with pawns is an idea, but seems slow as you still cant play g5. It gets a bit dangerous when white gets so good control on the e file.
6:34 you also loose a bit tempo here moving queen 2 times, witch gives white lead in development, doubling the rooks.
7:38 also when his bishop lands on e4, haveing a rook on e8 gives possabilites to take that bishop with knight. right here it probably would not work. but that bishop with those 2 rooks seems very strong for white.
7:57 and here i think Rf7 witch you almost played must be better than Rh7. The rook on h7 looks so of and disconected, i understand that you want to attack his king with the pawns but you are beeing infiltrated, but parhaps Rh7 is ok after all, you can play g6 prety fast and then have prospect of doubeling your own rooks. perhaps actualy Rh7 was best as after you can play g6. if Rf7 you would have to move the other rook before playing g6.
8:38 Didnt like g4 that much but your follow up Qh4 at 9:06 was clever. I would have playd qh3 if i was white there tho.. blocing that attack totaly .. if white gets to exhange queens black looses defence of g7 pawn.. if you play fxg4 you just have double g pawns that are very hard to attack with and look rather weak. Kf1 is strange from white Qh3 and they have full controll. but ofc desperate situation requre desperate mesures, after they play Kf1. The attack seems to work better.
His move Ke2 after that is also strange, they still should have just taken/exhanged your queen, getting you into doubling the g pawns. white must be better in that endgame?
10:58 you fight well after you hung this pawn... it always looks a bit scetchy when white has the double rooks. but they keep blocking them self and gave you pawns back, a bit of time scamble. looks like white playing on your time already and nearly they loose the game.
13:02 i think Rd3 is better than checking here.. after you can play Rd4 and attack the c pawn. and somethings got to fall.. also you are gone loose you f pawn most likely, so you got to get something for that pawn.. also the white d pawn is the most dangerous pawn in the possition, witch i think you understood to.. its hard in a time scamble, not sure i would have played better. i am so bad sometime in time scambles.. thats my weaknes.
would have been nice to see some after analysis. that first game was a hard balancing game. Sad you lost on time there in a totaly drawn endgame. 2 sec incriment and you would have secured a drawn. specualy also the endgame in this first game is interesting.
secound game: i think you must have been better most of the time. realy like your kngiht manouver here at 23:20
24:10 Nb6 danger levels, realy nice move.
24:50 i saw the pawn was hanging here. But i realy wonder if Bf8, is still the best move for black.. as you say, your bishop is way better than his. taking bishop on e1 for saving the a pawn, witch i initialy thought i would do, helps them connect the rooks, AND your A pawn.. how you gone attack with it when they played a3? i acctualy wonder if them taking your A pawn actualy won the game for you... because that a and b file now is totaly open, in a opposite derection casteling game, black attack seems much faster here.
25:19. i think definitly Qa7 witch you played is best and it looks like white has to trade like they did.. but it looks like they are nearly loosing already because....
26:56. when watching your game i was thinking Rb8 was the move and that Bxa3 did not work, but i would have pased a bit here... Because this is a very critical tactical position.. and emediataly when i skiped video back here to look this possiton i understand that Bxa3 must work here.
think of it like this: when Rook on b6 pins the pawn. that pawn defends nothing for the moment. and you have 2 attckers on a3, white only has the queen defending a3. so if after Bxa3, they do Qxa3, you play Qxa3 and they lost the queen.
if they after Bxa3 try Rc3, attacking the bishop, witch actualy is pined to your undefended queen.. that does not work for them as you have Rxb2, forking queen and king... protected by bishop.. so they would have to give up queen for rook and bishop, also you got 2 pawns in the prosese.. so after Bxa3, i think they would have to play Rc2 to protect the b pawn.. and if you then play Rc-b8, i would considering to resign as white. you saw it a bit later tho.. yes its hard see everything in limited time.
28:00 i think Bxa3 still works here.. but its a dificult calculation to do in limited time.. but you did have 5 minutes here... often when like loosing on time in first game, we play a bit to fast in then next dont we?
Bxa3 here in that position, if Rxa3, then Qxa3. they lost rook and pawn for bishop.. if bxa3 is iligal due to the pin. If Qxa3 then your rpspons is Rxa3 and they still cant take back with pawn so thatjust a queen trade after giving up the exhange.
If after the first move Bxa3 they play Rxb6, you take back with Qxb6. thats a rook trade and the b pawn is still pinned, so they cant take the bishop with queen due to Rxa3 looses the queen.
You played so right her positionaly to give you a good tactical possition, but sometime is hard to find the right moves in a actual game
Ironicaly
At 29:44, when you ACCTUALY play Bxa3 it does not actualy work. Qxa3 and you lost the bishop. now you dont have any rook pinning the b pawn.. so Qxa3 bxa3 is just a queen exhange, yes you win another pawn after Rxa3 but now you have rook and they have rook and knight.
But probably due to the long time preasure you put your opponent under, they blunder with bxa3. they was under so much preasure, its hard to not blunder eventualy...
I Think you played this game very well positionaly and had a great and funny attacking positon.
And in the third game, your tricky openings work, its not easy to meet a gambit like thatn.. and at 40:22 they are in such a difficult possition, and they blundered.
Long message, hope you like it.. lots if time stamps, so if they are right it should be fairly easy to follow what i thinking about :)
Three fine games, I will let you guess yourself when i screamed no no no louder than last time I screamed it. 6;01 I think pawn takes there must be a reason for what you do. We do not play on feeling except in bullet, and to qoute a movie " we're too old for that sh1t." Thanks Ben
Cheers.
4:41 it was a free pawn on d4 if you did Nxd4. If he took back with the queen you’d have Bh2+ and a discovered attack on the queen. Great content, keep up the good work!
I, too, was surprised to see Ben miss that shot, given his experience in the Charlick.
Yeah, excellent point!