John, thank you so much for this educational video and coming on my stream! It's amazing how you go out on a limb to help us 1400-1700 players grinding their way to the top. As per your recommendation, I'll totally consume "Starting out :1. d4" by John Cox and try out the Botvinik Ne2 concept with the QG!
A couple months ago I was watching your stream and you asked for advice and I mentioned John Bartholomew's Fundamentals videos and how it changed my way of chess thinking. I'm really glad you guys found each other! :D
I love how you start your videos John. Your smile is so contagious I swear. I love you man. Keep it up. No one gets me more excited about chess than you.
My advice to less experienced players: You see how John after 13.f4 spot it weak pawn on e3 right away. After such moves I used to think why is this f4 good move and panicked it looked scary, coming forward on me, overprotecting his knight etc. Just try to think the opposite why is this possible bad move and you will see much clearly unprotected pieces (or pawns) free squares for your pieces and how can you take advantage of your opponent last move. Be calm and confident, not end of the world if you make a mistake that helped me lot to improve my play.
Actually i had the same position OTB u had at 10 ne5 against an uscf expert, in which i ended up playing nf8 too, but he then took on f6. I got a nice initiative later but the catch is that black gets a playable position. Anyways this is one of my favorite series and it helped me a lot
As a 1400 to 1700 player myself... I absolutely love what John is doing for chess and with the joining of twitch bringing not just the big streamers but ALL chess streamers so much closer.. thanks john
Hi John, I absolutely love your videos and find them very helpful. I like how you keep the games very simple, especially for beginners like us (I'm only ~900). So I focus on defending my pieces, gain an advantage and look for sensible trades. But often I do find myself with a minor piece advantage and I highly struggle with it. I have a very weird suggestion and I don't know if others concur with me on the same. But I found myself looking for games comeback or a counterattack was launched from a disadvantageous situation. Or even if there is any compilation of your games in which you overcame a disadvantage, that would be super helpful! Again, everything that you do is super helpful, I am highly grateful to your videos and suggestions. Do let me know if I can be of any help. Please keep these up!
i remember john saying in some videos that if you're down in material, one good idea is to keep the pressure up. look for ways to attack so that the other side is busy defending, and maybe you'll find a way to equalize the material or get a better position
The dedication of you viewers of Fins channel is pretty insane, I didn't expect so many people to be up in the middle of the night like me clicking John's videos every time the notifications from this channel pop up! If you keep this up you might be the top chess You-tuber someday and inexplicably overtake Hutch.
That's so nice of you, John! Edit: Aside from missing the in-between-move, I think the big mistake was playing f5. It did give him some space and some nice king-side squares, but totally restricted his bishop and queen... And it really turned his bishop from a fairly good one to a passive and fairly bad one.
kindly also upload your livestream twitch here i missed it and please do a 5 hour marathon climbing the rating ladder start from 800 rating to upto 2000 am currently learning chess through your videos, standard format especially in less then 7 months since i was here i jumped from 800 now am around 1400
malacor17 It's a great book. I met IM Cox in person a couple years ago at the London Chess Classic, and he's a lovely guy. Fun fact: he has a rock climbing room in his house!
TheBuddhaBilly Yes they will! You can view them immediately on Twitch (they get auto-archived after I end the stream), but I will cross-post here. The 99-game match will be up soon.
Thank you John! I noticed you were playing on chess.com earlier but it wouldn't let me view your game. Is there any way to watch your games? Thanks in advance!
So I record my games from time to time, but when I got back to watch them the audio is not synced with the video. For instance, I'll make a move and then a half of second to one second, you'll hear the audio for the move. I've been looking around and couldn't get one straight answer from youtube. I'd figure I'd ask someone else who records their games.
daniel walker That has only happened a couple times to me on XSplit, so I'm not of much help :/ Uninstalling/reinstalling would be my first step if I were you; otherwise, maybe you need a better video card?
For my curiosity,could anyone tell me how you can enter the Prochess league,enter a team or make one by yourself? If someone had that experience,it would be kinda helpful!
John Bartholomew Thank you very much for bringing back the Climbing the Rating Ladder series. When I was introduced to your channel, that was my most favourite series because you have the time to explain stuff a lot with not much hurry. Been so long since the last video! Good to have em back. 😊👍
Every time I watche your videos I feel unbeatable, I go to chess.com play a few games very carful and slow, win and then get sloppy again, playing to fast, producing real stupid blunders.
Hey guys, this is subscriber. All right, unusual comment here. I just got done with about 3 hours of scanning your channel and I couldn't find anything on four player chess. -----> I know my comment is lame but is there a reason why you haven't tried four player chess. It's on chess.com www.chess.com/4-player-chess
Malcolm Shorts Do tactics as much as possible than anything else. Do it on a real board and look for all kind of variations even if you find the right one.
Imran Khan thank you. I will keep trying. I feel like middle and end I am decent. It's just my openings. I get in positions where I can't advance without blundering. I need to know how to dominate the board
John, thank you so much for this educational video and coming on my stream! It's amazing how you go out on a limb to help us 1400-1700 players grinding their way to the top. As per your recommendation, I'll totally consume "Starting out :1. d4" by John Cox and try out the Botvinik Ne2 concept with the QG!
A couple months ago I was watching your stream and you asked for advice and I mentioned John Bartholomew's Fundamentals videos and how it changed my way of chess thinking. I'm really glad you guys found each other! :D
Thank you! You have started my path of finding JB on TH-cam!
Hi, Sam try to work out with your pawn structure its a big help.
And so say all of us. John seems to be a genuinely great guy and a first class teacher.
Sam Park My pleasure, Sam. As a 1.d4 player, you'll find that book very helpful.
YES!!!!! Climbing the rating ladder is my favourite series of yours. THANK YOU JOHN.
I love how you start your videos John. Your smile is so contagious I swear. I love you man. Keep it up. No one gets me more excited about chess than you.
I wish i could look that fresh at 3am
My advice to less experienced players: You see how John after 13.f4 spot it weak pawn on e3 right away. After such moves I used to think why is this f4 good move and panicked it looked scary, coming forward on me, overprotecting his knight etc. Just try to think the opposite why is this possible bad move and you will see much clearly unprotected pieces (or pawns) free squares for your pieces and how can you take advantage of your opponent last move. Be calm and confident, not end of the world if you make a mistake that helped me lot to improve my play.
Actually i had the same position OTB u had at 10 ne5 against an uscf expert, in which i ended up playing nf8 too, but he then took on f6. I got a nice initiative later but the catch is that black gets a playable position. Anyways this is one of my favorite series and it helped me a lot
its great to see that u give him the opportunity to play against you. That must be a dream-come-true for him =)
Always excited for a new video!
As a 1400 to 1700 player myself... I absolutely love what John is doing for chess and with the joining of twitch bringing not just the big streamers but ALL chess streamers so much closer.. thanks john
I live for climbing the rating ladder videos, so instructive.
Hi John, I absolutely love your videos and find them very helpful. I like how you keep the games very simple, especially for beginners like us (I'm only ~900). So I focus on defending my pieces, gain an advantage and look for sensible trades. But often I do find myself with a minor piece advantage and I highly struggle with it. I have a very weird suggestion and I don't know if others concur with me on the same. But I found myself looking for games comeback or a counterattack was launched from a disadvantageous situation. Or even if there is any compilation of your games in which you overcame a disadvantage, that would be super helpful!
Again, everything that you do is super helpful, I am highly grateful to your videos and suggestions.
Do let me know if I can be of any help. Please keep these up!
i remember john saying in some videos that if you're down in material, one good idea is to keep the pressure up. look for ways to attack so that the other side is busy defending, and maybe you'll find a way to equalize the material or get a better position
The dedication of you viewers of Fins channel is pretty insane, I didn't expect so many people to be up in the middle of the night like me clicking John's videos every time the notifications from this channel pop up! If you keep this up you might be the top chess You-tuber someday and inexplicably overtake Hutch.
Bless ur heart John this series is bae
These are my favorite, very informative!
Thank you for your channel! You are a great teacher.
These videos are great. Thank you very much for this.
Appreciate the book recommendation!
You bet!
John is the Keanu Reeves of the chess world.
That's so nice of you, John!
Edit: Aside from missing the in-between-move, I think the big mistake was playing f5. It did give him some space and some nice king-side squares, but totally restricted his bishop and queen... And it really turned his bishop from a fairly good one to a passive and fairly bad one.
More of Climbing the rating leadder 1400-1600 pls! Nice video!
another golden nugget Minnesota Fins.
Hi John you have convinced me to start a chess comp with a bunch of other schools and now I’m in the finals
Alex McNugget You know what to do! :)
John Bartholomew play the Scandi?
I also play this opening a lot. So it will be very helpful to learn some new ideas and know my mistakes. And always jhon is a great teacher
Yes more climbing the rating ladder please
I seen sabastion from the tournament earlier today dominating people. I was excited
kindly also upload your livestream twitch here i missed it and please do a 5 hour marathon climbing the rating ladder start from 800 rating to upto 2000 am currently learning chess through your videos, standard format especially in less then 7 months since i was here i jumped from 800 now am around 1400
Will have that livestream up soon! It's uploading, so I'll publish it later today. Congrats on your rating increase :)
Thank you so much for the content John. Would you maybe consider uploading all your streams you do? The demand is there! :)
dipdim dipdim Thanks for watching! And yes - I'll be cross-posting the streams to TH-cam.
Thanks John
I just started reading "Starting out 1.d4" by John Cox and its been really helpful!
malacor17 It's a great book. I met IM Cox in person a couple years ago at the London Chess Classic, and he's a lovely guy. Fun fact: he has a rock climbing room in his house!
Haha awesome!
+John Bartholomew :will future twitch streams also be shown on your TH-cam channel? I would love to see your 100 game bullet match :)
TheBuddhaBilly Yes they will! You can view them immediately on Twitch (they get auto-archived after I end the stream), but I will cross-post here. The 99-game match will be up soon.
What’s your twitch handle John? Maybe worth adding to your standard description in future.
His twitch handle is johnbartholomew
Thanks
After 22 ... Nh7, what if 23 h4 ... as a prophylactic move to discourage your knight from getting into the game? Good? Bad? Meh?
I love these videos.
What kind of product do you put in your hair?
Im a 700 rated player at chess.com any advice on how i can improve, i love the game alot and i want to be good at it
Thank you John! I noticed you were playing on chess.com earlier but it wouldn't let me view your game. Is there any way to watch your games? Thanks in advance!
Todd Kennedy Hm, weird! You can type /follow fins0905 in the console. Try that next time you see me playing.
Just curious if you use OBS to record your games? And also how did you resolve the audio/video lag from the recording
I use XSplit. And what do you mean by audio/video lag?
So I record my games from time to time, but when I got back to watch them the audio is not synced with the video. For instance, I'll make a move and then a half of second to one second, you'll hear the audio for the move. I've been looking around and couldn't get one straight answer from youtube. I'd figure I'd ask someone else who records their games.
daniel walker That has only happened a couple times to me on XSplit, so I'm not of much help :/ Uninstalling/reinstalling would be my first step if I were you; otherwise, maybe you need a better video card?
John Bartholomew possibly, I'll look into it further. Thanks for the reply and and love the channel btw!!
John are you going to upload your live stream??
jake fremont Yup! Will do this as much as I can.
Awesome thanks for all you do man.
The last thing you do is talk too much in these climbing the ladder games! Keep up the great work, John!
great vid
For my curiosity,could anyone tell me how you can enter the Prochess league,enter a team or make one by yourself? If someone had that experience,it would be kinda helpful!
Great!
nice vid! tnx!
erm....a bit confused
I think he played pretty well for a 1400
Darshan Sen - The Composer Indeed. Also impressive because he was streaming at the same time.
John Bartholomew Thank you very much for bringing back the Climbing the Rating Ladder series. When I was introduced to your channel, that was my most favourite series because you have the time to explain stuff a lot with not much hurry. Been so long since the last video! Good to have em back. 😊👍
Watched liveee
wow great just go on
go on
Every time I watche your videos I feel unbeatable, I go to chess.com play a few games very carful and slow, win and then get sloppy again, playing to fast, producing real stupid blunders.
Hey guys, this is subscriber. All right, unusual comment here. I just got done with about 3 hours of scanning your channel and I couldn't find anything on four player chess. -----> I know my comment is lame but is there a reason why you haven't tried four player chess. It's on chess.com www.chess.com/4-player-chess
I'm stuck at a chess rank of about 1200 to 1300. I'm one of fins biggest fans. I need help
Malcolm Shorts Do tactics as much as possible than anything else. Do it on a real board and look for all kind of variations even if you find the right one.
Imran Khan thank you. I will keep trying. I feel like middle and end I am decent. It's just my openings. I get in positions where I can't advance without blundering. I need to know how to dominate the board
I've got the same problem, only my games start out well only to fall apart near the end
gimme a heart
Second
First lol i never do this