Another superb video from Journey to GM! Very well understandable, calm and at the same time high level chess teaching! Without exaggerations, grimaces and shouting. Just pure gold education and knowledge transfer in a friendly and very clear way! 👌👏
I love your video's. Great and clear explanations. A slightly offtopic comment: do you advise playing engines of a certain strength for improvement, like in this example? I feel that these engines make artificial mistakes, unlike human games that are often more messy which makes it even more complex.
Thanks! I have changed my opinion on this topic somehow. Earlier I didn't understand why you would play against engines. Now I feel that it might be very helpful in some cases. For example, to train new openings against a strong opponent without anybody seeing it in the database. So it depends on your goals and availability of real strong opponents :)
Thanks for the video! Do you have any advice on how to find strategic ideas in the middle game? Is there anyway to train yourself to be able to see these ideas more clearly?
I think for some openings it's helpful to watch a good teacher on YT. IMO this is where using stockfish has its limits. Because a good teacher will show you the move and tell you why/when you want to execute a certain idea, and why certain responses by the opponent don't work. Which is kinda tedious to learn yourself against a computer that can just calculate the best move and do "inhuman" stuff, but it's really hard to follow many best lines and understand why.
That’s a very nice game. Thank you for sharing your thought process while you play. As an amateur I think we are not as good finding the reasons to violate chess principles. For instance in this game you moved your knight to e5 and your bishop on b2 to a3 violating the principle of one piece one move in the opening. I’m not saying this to imply you’re wrong about one piece one move in the opening(I agree with this principle), but that we amateurs have a very hard time with this. I can open any opening book and find lines where strong players violate opening principles and it doesn’t ruin their position. This is my frustration with chess and any opening book or general principles. Sorry for the rant but if I’m thinking these thoughts I know there are many more amateurs have the same problems. Just wanted to share this with everyone in the hopes that it may help someone
Thank you! I totally get you, chess is a game of exceptions. So basically you should think about it this way: Don't move any piece more than once in the opening UNLESS you have a very good reason to do otherwise. (I should probably mention it next time) In the game both Ne5 and Ba3 seemed like good enough reasons to me to violate this principle (stop opponent's counterplay)
a very interesting video thank you ❤. can you in the next video bring the camera close to the board so we can see it well. I want to get a good vision in the real board too like the electronic board.
Thank you too! It's tough. It's either just this camera like here or two cameras and then change it sometimes with top-down camera on the board. But some people said it's confusing and hard to understand. So I don't really know the best way to go about it
For exemple @3:50 the black could have played QA5 Instead.This is considered the strongest move for Black in the Scandinavian Defense. after 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 .. He could also have done QD8 retreat imo .. would have been still better choice over QD6
well, not everything? There are a lot of good moves too, it's 90.5% accuracy for white and 81.2% for black. But sometimes there are mistakes as both me and 2300 bot are not perfect :)
2:38 It's also useful to point out that you don't need to know intense opening theory to find book moves. As you said one piece, one move, that rules out Bb5 since the bishop can be attacked by a pawn which would mean you'd have to break the one piece one move rule which really only leaves the bishop to go to either d3 or e2. And like you also said you want to move your pieces to the most active "piece" (😋) which makes finding Bd3 pretty intuitive. No opening theory needed!
You mean the sign? It's missed opportunity, not missed win. White could have taken on b5 immediately as tactics work out and that gives the biggest advantage. But Bc5 is good enough, I wanted to show a simple solid approach without going deep into tactics.
Another superb video from Journey to GM! Very well understandable, calm and at the same time high level chess teaching! Without exaggerations, grimaces and shouting. Just pure gold education and knowledge transfer in a friendly and very clear way! 👌👏
Thank you so much!
"grimaces" 💀
Chess seems so easy when you think about it but so damn hard in practice 😭
That's what I am trying to help with :)
for me understanding game seems easier than to find the right moves when playing 😁
Everyone has to start from somewhere.
These thinking system videos have already made a place in my invented thinking system. It's just that good
Thank you!
Nice video and great training lessons😊
Thank you! 😃
I love your video's. Great and clear explanations. A slightly offtopic comment: do you advise playing engines of a certain strength for improvement, like in this example? I feel that these engines make artificial mistakes, unlike human games that are often more messy which makes it even more complex.
Thanks!
I have changed my opinion on this topic somehow. Earlier I didn't understand why you would play against engines. Now I feel that it might be very helpful in some cases. For example, to train new openings against a strong opponent without anybody seeing it in the database. So it depends on your goals and availability of real strong opponents :)
Yes. Chess is easy but only when you have mastered it😊
Practice makes master :)
I think mastering it makes it harder..
Thanks for the video! Do you have any advice on how to find strategic ideas in the middle game? Is there anyway to train yourself to be able to see these ideas more clearly?
Thank you!
In this video, I go deeper into the topic of finding the plan in the middlegame: th-cam.com/video/VPRRgPA-jJM/w-d-xo.html
I think for some openings it's helpful to watch a good teacher on YT.
IMO this is where using stockfish has its limits. Because a good teacher will show you the move and tell you why/when you want to execute a certain idea, and why certain responses by the opponent don't work. Which is kinda tedious to learn yourself against a computer that can just calculate the best move and do "inhuman" stuff, but it's really hard to follow many best lines and understand why.
That’s a very nice game. Thank you for sharing your thought process while you play.
As an amateur I think we are not as good finding the reasons to violate chess principles. For instance in this game you moved your knight to e5 and your bishop on b2 to a3 violating the principle of one piece one move in the opening. I’m not saying this to imply you’re wrong about one piece one move in the opening(I agree with this principle), but that we amateurs have a very hard time with this. I can open any opening book and find lines where strong players violate opening principles and it doesn’t ruin their position. This is my frustration with chess and any opening book or general principles.
Sorry for the rant but if I’m thinking these thoughts I know there are many more amateurs have the same problems. Just wanted to share this with everyone in the hopes that it may help someone
Thank you! I totally get you, chess is a game of exceptions.
So basically you should think about it this way: Don't move any piece more than once in the opening UNLESS you have a very good reason to do otherwise. (I should probably mention it next time)
In the game both Ne5 and Ba3 seemed like good enough reasons to me to violate this principle (stop opponent's counterplay)
@ Thank you for the clarification. 👍😊
I wish the books I’ve read would have put it the way you did.
Happy to help!
a very interesting video thank you ❤. can you in the next video bring the camera close to the board so we can see it well. I want to get a good vision in the real board too like the electronic board.
Thank you too!
It's tough. It's either just this camera like here or two cameras and then change it sometimes with top-down camera on the board. But some people said it's confusing and hard to understand. So I don't really know the best way to go about it
@@journeytograndmaster Take your time, don't worry, and do what helps you
Hi,I’m 11 and 1500.How do I convince my parents to play chess 6hr/day to make chess a career from India pls help
Show them the story of Gukesh :)
Chess opening is most important thing in chess .
Today all prepare with engine.
@@diwakarsharma3228 if you are 2700 - yes, that's a big deal. If you are 1300, it's not the most important thing by a huge margin (in my opinion).
Why does the feedback say everything is a bad move?
For exemple @3:50 the black could have played QA5 Instead.This is considered the strongest move for Black in the Scandinavian Defense. after 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 ..
He could also have done QD8 retreat imo .. would have been still better choice over QD6
well, not everything? There are a lot of good moves too, it's 90.5% accuracy for white and 81.2% for black.
But sometimes there are mistakes as both me and 2300 bot are not perfect :)
Well everybody is now an expert on chess.
Well, chess requires not only knowing but also implementing the right way to be successful :)
2:38 It's also useful to point out that you don't need to know intense opening theory to find book moves. As you said one piece, one move, that rules out Bb5 since the bishop can be attacked by a pawn which would mean you'd have to break the one piece one move rule which really only leaves the bishop to go to either d3 or e2. And like you also said you want to move your pieces to the most active "piece" (😋) which makes finding Bd3 pretty intuitive. No opening theory needed!
Makes sense :)
Unfortunately, it's not always that simple but I like your mindset!
@@journeytograndmaster got me to 1700! To this day the only moves I know in the Sicilian are e4, c5 lol.
BC5 seems like a missed win according to engine
You mean the sign? It's missed opportunity, not missed win. White could have taken on b5 immediately as tactics work out and that gives the biggest advantage. But Bc5 is good enough, I wanted to show a simple solid approach without going deep into tactics.
0:18 Hundreds? 🤣🤣
why not? :)
2300 bots aren't as strong as you think
How strong you think that I think they are? :)