Thanks. Very kind of you. I am glad to be of service. Look for my next book something like "The Best of Chess Tips" - should be out Apr/May 2025, I hope :)
Good stuff as usual, Dan. Thanks for the video. I recall discussing this with you a long time ago. It may be helpful to viewers if you also put a link to your article on this matter from your website. This is quite interesting mathematically, and also useful from a practical point of view---work on finding the best move every turn.
I think it’s a little too simple to say you can’t increase your evaluation by moving. Suppose you are +10 with a big material advantage. If both you and your opponent keep playing the best moves, the eval will eventually become Mate in X moves. Of course, there are also certain positions where engines can’t evaluate properly until you’ve played the moves (this especially happens in studies). You could say that evaluation increases are only due to technological limitations. But if you had a perfect chess engine that could look infinitely far ahead, the evaluation would always be either 0.0 or Mate in X moves, as all positions are either won, drawn, or lost. You can only look at regular evaluations like +3 as a reflection of the computer’s level of certainty looking into the future. But then, making the best moves logically does increase the certainty of a win.
You are entitled to your opinion; I've had this discussion before :). Sure, there is the famous "horizon effect" seen mostly on early engines where they look deeper and all of a sudden change their evaluation dramatically as they see further. But that is a feature of the limitation of the engine, not the fact that you can't improve your position when you make a move. With the blessing of Dr. Noam Elkies, I published the article Steinitz, Zermelo, and Elkies about this at Chess Cafe and now on my website: www.danheisman.com/steinitz-zermelo-elkies.html.
Coach I play Most of the moves without spending much time and thought my problem is I don't know at which move or position I should play instantly and where I should use the time thinking help me out.
Two parts to this answer: 1) You have to consistently play long enough time controls that you get used to thinking when necessary and recognizing critical positions. If you mostly play fast like 15 10 or faster you probably will just develop bad habits difficult to break, and 2) For each position you develop a criticality assessment capability where you know whether this is the kind of move that could easily decide the game one way or the other, and thus requires much more time. See this video: th-cam.com/video/sl_8xqqrL_c/w-d-xo.html
@@danheismanchess I am playing 15|10 rapid for couple of months now and I am left with 5 mints more than with which i started the game. Some times I win and most times lose. I was 1680 but now I am down to 1450
Yes, sometimes I think 10-25 min games are the worst you can play if your goal is to eventually become a good player. Please watch the video "Intermediate Time Controls Can Hinder Improvement" th-cam.com/video/_-UKPDB-s98/w-d-xo.html
Coach the point of the move d5 in Nimzo Indian/Queen's Indian Defenses in my opinion is more about square control(e4) rather than break move and c5 move is more towards break move or fighting back against the white's spatial advantage in the center. More over I can't make any sense of d5 move as a break move because it attacks the flank pawn. So tell me if I am wrong or correct.
Depends on your definition of break move. Mine is a pawn move attacking a pawn that cannot easily move past. So if Black plays ...d7-d5 to attack the c4 pawn & it cannot safely play c4-c5, that can be considered a break. The "threat" to take d5xc4 is much stronger in some openings than others. You see d5xc4 often in the Catalan, for example, but less so in many Queen's Gambit lines except the Queen's Gambit Accepted and some like the Meran variation. In any case you are correct that fighting for e4 is a major reason for any ...d7-d5.
"use these pieces" - not sure what you mean. If it means you don't like the piece design, it's one of the standards on LiChess and used regularly, if I understand. But for things like that, it's difficult to please everyone; I hope you understand.
@danheismanchess yes Sir ...the design... regular ones you have used in the past are ok....but as I said,it's just a request.....I'll tell my reason.....with this piece design it's not easy to follow thr video for a long time...could be just me...just like out of many colours of chessboard they found that green colour is more soothing to the eyes for long time play ...but again..upto you Sir...thanks
Interesting. I did not change the piece design selection (pretty much ever on LiChess) so I assumed it was exactly the same design as in all the other videos that used a LiChess board.
13:37 I really thought you played the Phili-Damiano Defense xD
Thank you, godfather. I've learned a great deal from your collection of chess videos. Dan the don Heisman. The godfather of chess authors.
Thanks. Very kind of you. I am glad to be of service. Look for my next book something like "The Best of Chess Tips" - should be out Apr/May 2025, I hope :)
Good stuff as usual, Dan. Thanks for the video. I recall discussing this with you a long time ago. It may be helpful to viewers if you also put a link to your article on this matter from your website. This is quite interesting mathematically, and also useful from a practical point of view---work on finding the best move every turn.
Alen, good suggestion. Done! :)
I think it’s a little too simple to say you can’t increase your evaluation by moving. Suppose you are +10 with a big material advantage. If both you and your opponent keep playing the best moves, the eval will eventually become Mate in X moves. Of course, there are also certain positions where engines can’t evaluate properly until you’ve played the moves (this especially happens in studies).
You could say that evaluation increases are only due to technological limitations. But if you had a perfect chess engine that could look infinitely far ahead, the evaluation would always be either 0.0 or Mate in X moves, as all positions are either won, drawn, or lost. You can only look at regular evaluations like +3 as a reflection of the computer’s level of certainty looking into the future. But then, making the best moves logically does increase the certainty of a win.
You are entitled to your opinion; I've had this discussion before :). Sure, there is the famous "horizon effect" seen mostly on early engines where they look deeper and all of a sudden change their evaluation dramatically as they see further. But that is a feature of the limitation of the engine, not the fact that you can't improve your position when you make a move. With the blessing of Dr. Noam Elkies, I published the article Steinitz, Zermelo, and Elkies about this at Chess Cafe and now on my website: www.danheisman.com/steinitz-zermelo-elkies.html.
Coach I play Most of the moves without spending much time and thought my problem is I don't know at which move or position I should play instantly and where I should use the time thinking help me out.
Two parts to this answer: 1) You have to consistently play long enough time controls that you get used to thinking when necessary and recognizing critical positions. If you mostly play fast like 15 10 or faster you probably will just develop bad habits difficult to break, and 2) For each position you develop a criticality assessment capability where you know whether this is the kind of move that could easily decide the game one way or the other, and thus requires much more time. See this video: th-cam.com/video/sl_8xqqrL_c/w-d-xo.html
@@danheismanchess I am playing 15|10 rapid for couple of months now and I am left with 5 mints more than with which i started the game. Some times I win and most times lose. I was 1680 but now I am down to 1450
Yes, sometimes I think 10-25 min games are the worst you can play if your goal is to eventually become a good player. Please watch the video "Intermediate Time Controls Can Hinder Improvement" th-cam.com/video/_-UKPDB-s98/w-d-xo.html
Coach the point of the move d5 in Nimzo Indian/Queen's Indian Defenses in my opinion is more about square control(e4) rather than break move and c5 move is more towards break move or fighting back against the white's spatial advantage in the center. More over I can't make any sense of d5 move as a break move because it attacks the flank pawn. So tell me if I am wrong or correct.
Depends on your definition of break move. Mine is a pawn move attacking a pawn that cannot easily move past. So if Black plays ...d7-d5 to attack the c4 pawn & it cannot safely play c4-c5, that can be considered a break. The "threat" to take d5xc4 is much stronger in some openings than others. You see d5xc4 often in the Catalan, for example, but less so in many Queen's Gambit lines except the Queen's Gambit Accepted and some like the Meran variation. In any case you are correct that fighting for e4 is a major reason for any ...d7-d5.
@danheismanchess this is more general answer but wanted to clarify the purpose of d5 and c5 moves in nimzo/queen's Indian defense
reasonable time is another chess skill for the practitioner
Correct. Determining what is a reasonable time for a given position, time control & clock situation is a skill and clearly requires some experience :)
Thanks for watching! The article about not being able to make your evaluation better when you move is www.danheisman.com/steinitz-zermelo-elkies.html
Just a request Sir ... please do not use these pieces in the videos...if possible
"use these pieces" - not sure what you mean. If it means you don't like the piece design, it's one of the standards on LiChess and used regularly, if I understand. But for things like that, it's difficult to please everyone; I hope you understand.
@danheismanchess yes Sir ...the design... regular ones you have used in the past are ok....but as I said,it's just a request.....I'll tell my reason.....with this piece design it's not easy to follow thr video for a long time...could be just me...just like out of many colours of chessboard they found that green colour is more soothing to the eyes for long time play ...but again..upto you Sir...thanks
Interesting. I did not change the piece design selection (pretty much ever on LiChess) so I assumed it was exactly the same design as in all the other videos that used a LiChess board.