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The three rules of chess openings: control the center, bring your pieces into the game, protect your king. These rules were recited to me and my peers when we were in elementary school from our coaches like a prayer. It's the most fundamental stuff that I tell any beginner that ever asked me about chess and it brings instant results.
Content fresh out of the oven just for me! Question , what time control should I be playing as a beginner for maximum improvement? I am playing a lot of 15|10 at the moment.
Bro can you make a video on how to open pieces without blundering sometimes I play closed position 😢in opening and how can I improve my thought process and endgame
Well for Starter Solve puzzles but focus on Calculating all lines and possible variations once you get hang of it the next step to make your calculations insane is Practice your visualization how? By calculating but without the move even played do this up to 2moves up to 6moves and above do this all and youll become Tactician
My Probelm is during the game that connection stops working. "Black didn't move • White is victorious" or "White left the game • Black is victorious" So I loose every second game. I guess its only happens in slower game. This games was 20-0 games on lichess. Eventuelly it has an issue with Streensaver (I using Android and "Chessnut Android" App? Before I have used chessUp without this issues. Any support and idea is very welcome. Thanks a lot.
Have you tried adjusting the level on the Maia engines? When set to level 4 and Maia 7 it takes 10 secs to make a move, but is much stronger than level 1. There is a confusing problem though, which is that it doesn’t always work (you can tell by the move time). When it is working is very good for practice, especially endgames where it finds lots of tricky resources 😮.
@@journeytograndmaster Yes. If you select the Bot Match option, then look at the Maia tab, there is a slider at the bottom: "Engine Search depth" that you can adjust independently of the Maia Elo setting. You can tell if that setting is being used, because Maia instead of moving instantly, takes some time to make it's moves. I reckon Chessnut need to clarify this feature, as it is isn't clear how it affects the elo (and it doesn't appear to work reliably, as I said). Note also that the Stockfish tab also has a slider, but that sets maximum time for a move directly. But similary there is no information on how it affects the elo.
It’s amazing your accuracy on calculation. The Rules you mention and the real time thinking process in a slow game are very instructive. On the other hand, it seems that chess softwares decrease their performance by making intentional blunders among really strong moves. Best regards.
@@journeytograndmaster actuallly, all of them are extremely useful. Please, keep this line, far from the most of chess masters where only analize games or play bullet with poor explanations. By the way, maybe you could try your same method with chess endings, at least the most relevant ones. Just a suggestion. Thanks and success!
Well, I am using the Chessnut EVO Maia so to play against it you need the Chessnut Evo board. But you can also find some AI engines to play with online, I suppose
For those wondering what the "system" is, Id argue it is asking key questions prior to calculating. Although calculation is ALWAYS required to play good chess, asking relevant conceptual questions from the position helps organize calculation and creates practical efficiencies that really add up to a big advantage. It gives a gameplan that guides where to target calculation given the lines are endless and exhausting if not tailored to the evolving position.
This mirrors my own philosophy when playing, which is encouraging, since I don’t play at a very high level yet, so it’s good to know that my approach is not crazy haha. I’ll have to study some of Karpov’s games.
suggestion: when you tell the viewers to find a move and hit pause, give them 5 seconds to understand when to do so, as you often just say it and immediately explain the position.
Thanks! Sure, I do it almost always, I think. Maybe occasionally, I forget about it. But definitely always when I really want you to stop and think about the position before showing the move.
Mikhail Tal = no calculation, pure intuition and instinct, "Plaskett's puzzle", two independent undefeated streaks of 88 and 95 games (took 4 decades to surpass with a much lower win ratio), world classical champ, world blitz champ
@@journeytograndmaster I think I'd rather take it from a credible person that knew him well, trained with him, played both classical and blitz tournament games with him. That would be Garry Kasparov: GK: I worked a bit with Tal. Around 1980, he visited Baku, we played a couple of training games, and the chess contact wasn't lost until Tal's very last days. There was a blitz tournament in Moscow, one month before Tal's death. He looked horribly. But Tal was still Tal. In this blitz tournament, I lost my only game to him. I retaliated in the second round, but the fact was that until the very end, he still had this vision of games. He was the only one I knew who didn't calculate the variants, he saw them. EK: Can you elaborate? GK: We calculate: he does this then I do that. And Tal, through all the thick layers of variants, saw that around the 8th move, it will be so and so. Some people can see the mathematical formulae, they can imagine the whole picture instantly. An ordinary man has to calculate, to think this through, but they just see it all. It occurs in great musicians, great scientists. Tal was absolutely unique. His playing style was of course unrepeatable. I calculated the variants quickly enough, but these Tal insights were unique. He was a man in whose presence others sensed their mediocrity.
Thanks, interesting to read. What is missing here in my opinion though is the translation from Super GM language to human language. It's not that Tal was not calculating, he was just doing it exceptionally fast and accurate. It's like those speed readers, that can read a book incredibly fast. It's not like they don't read at all, they just do it very fast.
@@journeytograndmaster I research gifted people as a hobby. Tal likely had a form of synesthesia. Garry Kasparov told us how Tal's chess thought process worked - not only his moves were uncommon moves, they were moves requiring recalculation and re-evaluation of the entire position. It was through an intuition realized in an instant. He knew exactly what he wanted to do and the counters of his opponent. Precise engine-style calculation was the only way to punish him, that's why it was very difficult to do under blitz time constraints. A normal human wouldn't be able to solve "Plaskett's" puzzle like Tal did. It required imagination beyond calculation. Even engines couldn't solve it until the late 2010s. Tal was born different (health issues and deformities), he was different from the others.
@@journeytograndmaster Let me show you analogy of Tal's mind in music. She realized the whole song in an instant based on random input from the audience and performed it fluently unless you've watched what transpired, listening to it, you would never guess it was conceived in an instant. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jDUc9RH5CVo.html
@@jaylenlenear7850 feel free to take a look at these three: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_QHAjW7PJ6A.html (Dominguez) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-psw0G_-l1m4.html (Caruana) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-luqfmGEkpz8.html (Nakamura)
I think king to d2 won't work after knight check then qd7 defending checkmate at g7 and double attacking knight on e8 after knight moves to d6 only safe square for knight, if knight goes f6 we have rook captures knight so i think black can save this position maybe if white moves to king d2, if you mentioned it in video later i am sorry for thinking you did not include it in video, there could be another threats beacuse i did not calculate other moves.
You go to competitions, win games and get a respective rating. After that you also get respective norms to get to IM and GM. Basically, you have to play OTB chess and play pretty good! :)
Black's position is better than White's: Black has a superiority in pawns, with two advanced pawns on the king side, and Black's rook and queen are active, all of which threaten to promote a pawn for Black. The puzzle, I believe, tests our understanding of king safety and then the need to play in a way that protects the king before attempting counter activity. Playing Bf2 does stop Black from playing f2 check, but Black is quickly able to play Qd7 to protect the position of the Black king. So, the only good move for White is to play Ne4, preventing Black from playing f2 check while also bringing the knight to the aid of the White king. I used Stockfish to blunder check White's Bf2 move. The outcome was not good for White, where White ultimately loses in a rook vs. bishop endgame with an equal number of pawns for both sides.
@journeytograndmaster I work with Stockfish a lot. What Stockfish has shown me is to protect the king, and if there are no clear tactical opportunities, play for small improvements in one's position. After I found no clear tactical ideas for White, I went with Ne4 as mentioned in my previous post. I really didn't delve any deeper into the position than that.
