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I am a chess tournament player, dedicated adult improver, instructor, and Marketing Director at Progress With Chess, a non-profit chess organization. I started chess in 2015 at 1000 USCF and currently have a peak rating of 1791 USCF which I'm working hard to break. I am in love with this amazing historic game and working hard to become a titled player!
Hey I’ve seen some of your videos and I’d like to give some feedback. I’m around 2000 on lichess and I think 1900 on cdc maybe? Anyway, I think overall you have a good understanding of positional play and openings, though you seem to miss some tactics from time to time. I think if you were to improve that you’d really increase your win rate and rating for that matter. Maybe try doing more puzzles? That’s what helps me anyway though everyone learns differently I suppose. I do think using the evaluation after each game is good and I remember you said at one point your coach said not to. I feel like a lot of high rated people have a good feel for deep calculation so they kinda ignore it. But I mean in general it’s good if you’re having trouble seeing stuff sometimes. I use it all the time in fact. It’s kinda rough losing when you have an advantage and miss it like that but it happens to everyone. I wish you well in your future games :)
Hi Justin thanks for the insight and the encouragement! I have focused on tactics much more the last year and I notice it helped quite a bit! But there is further to go for sure. :) I think I will continue that and see what happens. Thanks again! Good luck to you as well. :)
After 7.ed5, Black can also play ...Ne4!? instead of Bd6. So what's best for White now I wonder? Seems all the games I've found deal with Bd6...but not Ne4?!
just finished the game, I wouldn't count each time the knight left unintended as a sac but that tal quote is highlighted in this game as a good way to look for intermezzos!
After you forked the rooks was there a reason you took the a rook instead of the e rook? I would have taken the e rook to win a tempo on the bishop. Both captures are likely winning though.
You can take a look at 9. a4! and then 9...b5 10. Nd5!! which involves a crazy triple piece sacrifice after 10...Na5 11. Bg5 f6 12. Ne5!! It's very exciting and the position is equal, although it's nearly impossible for Black to find a response on the board ^^
Reason is that the transcript will allow the moves to be analyzed better in Lichess and also we can follow your commentary better. Like if you want the notations!
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interesting video - one observation though - none of my opponents ever play d4 with the pawn on move 3. Also castling king side looks safer if you can find the time to move the f bishop of its start square?
My stats - 976 KGs played (logged in 😊) on Lichess, accepted and Bc4 - 453 games, d5 BxP Nf6 Nc3 - 6 games, Bb4 - zero games 🤣🤣 dang, I love it, but I’ll never feel prepared in this opening 🤣🤣🙏🙏
After white tried Bg5, I wonder if there is Bxf6. 8:12 Because maybe the line would go Bxf6 gxf6 Nxf6+ Kf7 Nxd7. Ooooooooo! Or maybe 8:12 Nxf6+ FIRST! Followed by gxf6 Bxf6, threatening a wonderful Qh5+ after you move the N from f3! 🤔🤔🤔
Did you ask your opponent why he thought castling queenside was a good after the game? It just looks so crazy to me haha. Also give me a message if you want to play a game this week. I'd be down to play a 90+30 if you have the time for that.
@@chessisbest 45+15 sounds great to me! How would Thursday at 5pm sound? I have a slow tournament this weekend and would love to get some slow game practice with a strong player :)
I think it's good to challenge yourself to do mate in 2s quickly (eg like Puzzle Rush / Storm) eg give yourself 15, 20, 30 mins, whatever, and challenge yourself to do as many as possible and to beat your previous best. That's because many of these are pattern recognition puzzles rather than calculation type problems as in many of the more difficult regular ("healthy mix") puzzles.
