Beware Backward Knight Moves | Climbing the Rating Ladder vs. Torres92 (1292)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2020
- In this continuation of the "Climbing the Rating Ladder" series I take on players of various ratings levels while pointing out typical mistakes and spots for improvement along the way (possibly my own!? :)). Here I commentate a 5+5 game against a player rated 1292 on Chess.com. In a main line of the Giuoco Piano (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5), Black plays a less critical move featured in the classic game Steinitz vs. von Bardeleben, Hastings 1895 (which I analyze with a physical board here: • Steinitz's Efficient A... ). I obtain the bishop pair and an edge, but just when I think I'm winning material, Torres92 plays an excellent backward knight move to thwart my attack! #Chess #ChessInstruction #ClimbingTheRatingLadder
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Me, literally 10 minutes ago: Hey I wonder when John B. will do another rating ladder video?
John: Imma blow this guy's fragile little mind
Hahaa bro, same here!
Lmao
Hey John! Torres92 here! thanks for the game. This really makes me want to improve. i'm definitely following your video series. here your new humble subscriber. Cheers brou
PD: You're awsome!
Go Venezuela! John is a great player but you played great chess too, congratulations!
Great game! Your rating level isn't THAT much higher than mine, so it gives me hope that I too can one day make an IM nervous. What a way to keep your composure and play your best chess against a great opponent.
Thanks for the game, man - you played very well! Best wishes for your chess improvement - cheers.
@Edgardo, well played.
Please turn off your assistance quicker next time
The opponent played really well. Kudos to them.
Yea, crazy the difference in skill from a chess.com rating to the same on lichess
Lichess uses a different rating system.
I love just about all of your videos, but Climbing the Rating Ladder is how I discovered you -- and through you the outstanding site chessable -- and this series remains among my favorites of all the work you do.
Glad that you are still doing this series , it helped me a lot , back when i was 1000 I watched most of them , now gladly I am 2100 on Lichess .
Thanks a lot for your efforts
Do you take lessons? How long did it take you to go from 1000 to where you're currently at?
Amazing progress. Happy to have helped!
@@rockydennis9376 ward
Hey, we have the same situation. Really thankful to John I went from 1000 to 2100.
@@rockydennis9376 it took me about 2 years , no couch , just learning from the internet and daily practice .
What a pleasure to watch your videos! I've watched about 40 of your videos and feel that my chess vision has improved a lot. Thank you for being so knowledgeable and kind! Greetings from Russia!
Your videos are honestly brilliant!
So instructive and useful, spent a lot of time watching chess videos trying to improve and yours are the first that actually help me!
Brilliant content !!!
This is my favourite series from you John. Please keep doing many more of these! Thanks
Soy de Puerto Rico, y siempre me encantan tus videos que subes. Espero que todo sea bien en tu pais y siga subiendolos. Buen trabajo, Juan
This series (and the fundamentals) was the first stuff I watched when I got into chess a few months back, its cool to see a new video of it too! Love your channel
Awesome! Thanks for following my channel, sincerely. Good luck with your chess progress 👍
I love these videos man, really helpful. Also great to see your thought patterns and insight. It's helpful to see how a series of strong positional moves and a few inaccuracies from your opponent just leads to a completely winning position!
I really enjoy your videos. They are extremely easy to digest. With just the right amount of theory behind the reasoning of moves. Keep it up man!
My brain shutdown from shock when you said "Many years ago... 2016, I think". And then I realized 2016 was 4 years ago. Holy crap.
Your climbing the ladder videos are really amazing. You demystify the thought process even advanced players use to pick good moves as the game evolves. Just listening to you gives me confidence that I really can improve my game.
Keep it up john, your videos have been very helpful for my improvement in this game. Thanks a lot
You’ve got me completely hooked on chess and your videos have helped me to get so much better!
Man, LOVE to hear that! Chess is an incredible game - congratulations for finding it :) I hope it provides you with enjoyment for many years to come - cheers!
absolutely love this series!!
These videos are why I subscribed, great as always John! 🐑🔥
Cheers, Ivan!
Thank you for sharing your ideas on the board. It helps us beginner to analyze our own games.
Hahaha I've been watching the old videos of this serie for the past two days now and a new video is uploaded, coincidence? I think so. Thanks John!
Never trust an edited comment...
Yay, he's back! Great to see you still doing these John! So instructive! He played extremely well for his rating!
I really like this thorough explanation, thanks!
nice one John, really love your commentary
John my friend. You kill with these videos. I end up staying up way to late for these. Great vids!
Thanks for stretching your sleep schedule, Noah! :)
This is a great series! Thanks for adding to it. MORE please........
Super instructive game and analysis Minnesota Fins. Your opponent played really well, congrats to him also.
John this is by far imo the best educational chess series on youtube for beginning to mid players. It's one thing to review lines from other videos but nothing can replicate real amateur players moves. PLEASE keep this series alive and thanks for the content
When you’ve only been playing for 45 days (Me), you truly realize how wonderful the game of chess is, how much thought goes into every game, and how terrible I really am
Great video, as always, John. Only discovered your channel recently, but have been busy since hoovering up information from your back catalogue.
I *love* these clips John! I’ve climbed from 1140 to 1365 thanks to you! Please keep em’ coming!
Love your videos! So helpful!
Glad to see you back posting content and streaming, John! But wow, this vid showed that I am soooo lazy now. I completely missed the rook getting trapped after Nc4, but I'm heartened that JB didn't see it either. ;-)
Love these videos. Make them more often.
Thank you for these videos John! I'm around 1300 blitz and these games help me immensely 😁
I love your videos Jb. Thank you!
Hey John, you are doing a wonderful job. The content on your channel is very helpful. Also, you are a really humble person.
Thank you for the very nice comment, Rahul! Greatly appreciate you watching - best wishes for your chess improvement :)
@@JohnBartholomewChess wow you replied. Thank you very much, John.
Always enjoy these videos against the lower rated players, it's cool to have something I can relate to! I love how clear and easy you make it seem to find good moves, when I'm playing I'm invariably looking at the wrong thing XD
Thanks :) Keep at it - chess takes years to absorb and understand, but it's well worth the clarity that struggle brings.
The hardest move to find is with the knight back. Even harder when it's your opponent who needs to find it
I LOVE this series!!!!! Ty John. Guys.
Thanks for this video! Great instruction!
Hey John, this is Swedish guy. So glad to see a new video, perfect to watch before I’m off to work. Stay awesome!
Happy to hear! Skol!
Thank you for doing this video John. It was very helpful for a novice like me.
Very entertaining and clean game. Black played really well too, definitely did not earn his rating as Ben Finegold would say. I'll make sure to play the c3 c4 line when I play Italian instead of the occasional fried liver. Thank you John. I'm glad to see you uploading more videos amid this global lockdown 🙏
10:05 "Black anticipated that, defending the bishop, attacking the pawn." Top 10 anime betrayals
Do more! Love these!
Such a polite and calm person, I like it.
That guy played really well against John. Very astonishing that he found some great moves in a 5 minute game against John.
Excellent video! Hope to see more, might make quarantine a little better. Also, considering the engine depth was only 15, white's advantage from the opening might have been overstated.
Nice one, keep climbing!
Love this series John! Maybe consider doing another match video some time. Was thinking Fins vs Astaneh streamer match, both IMs with 1 norm each.
Thanks for these videos. They are really helpful in my chess progression. Can you get back into your Archives series from your old tournament games? Those are some my favorite videos of you.
Thanks John, the Italian is one of my favorites in openings. Yeah people do miss backward Knight moves. Made one of my games much easier that way to win. Thx again.
been waiting ever since I’ve started playing chess for climbing the dating ladder.
I learn more from your chess games than any other chess videos thank you
Good stuff, John
Hey John, really love your videos and wonder how you acquired such awesome positional understanding and quick decision making. Would u mind making a video on how to improve these aspects?
I saw Nf6 and kept thinking I must be missing something because you didn't mention it. I didn't realise it would end up being the title of the video!
Hey John! Thanks for making these great videos. Are you planning on streaming at any time in the future?
these videos help so much
Thanks John, we missed CTRL series
Hey thanks John - a month ago I asked if you could make a CTRL video at the 1200 - 1400 level and featuring the Italian game and you did this. Cheers
Hey John! Love these videos. Extremely helpful to me. By the way, what theme do you use for the board and pieces? I want to use that theme as I am currently using ocean pieces and don't like it
Knight moves cause me problems as well. So much so , that I trade them off . I definitely need practice. I always seem to get forked .
Dude this is a mine of gold for beginners like me. Keep it on you're my hero John
Thank you for sharing your wisdom to lower rated players in these series.
My pleasure. Thank you for watching and commenting 👍
I love this series! and it's my favourite opening!!!
Italian got me from 1300 to 1650 online I'm not even Giuoco(ing)
I'll see myself out.
@Gil Monteverde I googled it and still spelled it wrong
You know someone is good at something when he makes it look so easy! :)
He played really well. I hope he knows he was playing an IM.
I mean its literally next to John's name (the IM tag).
these are the best videos
Those original climbing the rating ladder videos where you had lower rating were so useful to me.... still are lol
Love the videos, John. As a beginner to novice level player, I tend to shy away from playing 1. e4, because I do not like all the different ways that black has to dictate the opening from there (e.g. playing a Scandinavian, Caro Kann, etc.) Any tips for getting passed this?
Yes! I was wondering when u would make more of these, especially VS under 1800. I used to average from 650- 830. After watching these types of videos, I'm now around 850-1100; slowing climbing the rating ladder LoL
Everyones favourite series, nice
bring this back plz
That guy played pretty well. Nice game.
Good to hear an advanced player can admit to a weakness re' backward knight moves ,I struggle with back and forward knight moves so try and get them off the board especially if my opponent likes their knights
i had the check the date to see if this was really new and yes it is
Hi there I’m relatively new to chess really enjoying these climbing the ladder series, how do I play against you for a lesson?
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Aye John is back!
That rook trap blew my freaking mind. Anyone else get chills by the genius of that play?
This is my favorite variation of the Italian, but black is fine as long as they give up the dark square bishop and push d5. Some Ng5 ideas are always available in the position though so that makes it a bit dangerous.
On move 23, did you have c4 followed by d5 with a fork after the d5 knight moves?
Wow these guys are really 1200s until they play a titled player :). Tough game, very well played for a while there.
Maybe the structured way he plays leads them to play better as opposed to the regular sort of random play at that level that can throw you off if you're not ready.
@@Mohammad-zc7gn very possible, but there could also be a selection bias going on here. Many 1200 players would shy away from the chance to play an IM unless they were already ardent students of the game. I suspect this means he ends up playing a better class of 1200 than the average. It's the 1200 and rapidly rising rather than the 1200 and stagnant type (if that makes any sense). One possibly anyway.
@@JusticeStiles That seems possible also. I forgot that he was opening challenges and not just using the regular matchmaking.
Yeah I was looking at Nf6 thinking “why isn’t he even considering Nf6? Looks to me like it defends both pieces. I must be missing something so obvious that it isn’t even worth his time to mention. He’s the IM and I’m just 1500, no way is he missing Nf6 if it isn’t a blunder.” Lol
😂 Yup, totally blanked on that one
more videos please :)
That's strange. I literally just came back from doing this very opening tutorial at chessable only to start watching it in the first video i selected. ;)
I like the Evans gambit after Bc5 in the opening, but idk how well it would work against higher rated players
Who else thinks that there was an engine involved for a period of time?
Everyone that knows even a little about chess
knight back is always tough to see
Can you do a casteling guide?
I play the Italian so it's good to see this. I think the Italian is underrated. I rarely see it played.
Yup, it's a fundamental 1.e4 e5 line. I learned much of the theory when I was 8-10 years old.
The one dislike is from that poor knight that was pinned on f6 towards the end.
At 14:00 you can play Nxa5 and if he plays Rxd2 you can trap his rook with Nc4!
we want to see Evans Gambit also
You really deserve those GM norms
I hoped you wouldve done Evans gambit :(
Good game! Ok, Next is, Dating a Climbing Lady series.
You have inspired me to also do a climbing the raring latter series. It will be up on my channel for everyone interested.
Yes!! Go CTRL!!!
Hey, John, (or anybody really) i have a peculiar question. I'm at 1650 on lichess and I've read only two books; Book of Morphy and Modern Strategy. (Age 22, started playing 8 months ago)
The thing is tho, analyzing my games, but particularly playing, I sense a bizarre blindness which I can't really explain, is almost like my brain is forcing me to do the wrong move.
Example, often i see the idea and the right move to do (according to engine after the game), but for some reason i suddenly decide that is not really a good idea or that i should prepare before or whatever. The result is always an average of 5, 6 imprecises moves. On bad days even 9. Is like an urge, a craving feeling that makes me not analyze the positions the way it should, and even when playing rapid or classical, often i found myself making moves within less than 30 seconds.
Im trying to work on it but is really only a time thing? Im being too hard on myself bc I have only 8months of chess?
The games that i play "with open eyes", its a grotesque difference. I feel different playing, even beated a 1800+ once without much effort. But what it takes to get to this state more often? Is like i play 10 games completly blind and delusional and one crystal clear...
Anyone have had the same thing? Or can comment on that?
I think you’re not appreciating the difference between “easy” games and sharp games. You’re probably playing about the same but our brains learn certain patterns faster than others. If your opponent gets in a bad position early it’s a lot easier to play. It’s like the good moves are the only moves that jump out at you.
8 months isn’t very long to play, so you’re still new. 30 seconds per move is pretty fast. Do a lot of tactics. If you start doing tactics you’ll see that you’re spending minutes to see them. So keep that in mind during live games.
@@rathelmmc3194 Thanks for the answer. I do tatics everyday for the last month, I've getting better on that but then arouses another problem, convert a won game into a win is pretty hard lol
Erick Sallieri, endgame is hard. It just takes a lot of practice, and people don’t get a lot of practice when they have lower ratings. I’m sure most games you win because people hang a piece and you just mop up. Just give it time. It probably takes 10000 games to really be “good”.
@@rathelmmc3194 Yes, thats correct. And more often than I would like, most of my losses are in the endgame. I pretend to read an endgame book soon, I'm sure that it will help