Words are not enough to describe my thankfulness emotions for you brother...my rating now 1230...before it was 980...I just applied your tips related to blunders and opening...and it is very helpful ....keep it up brother....
Awesome! Your support means the world to me! I'm so grateful that my tips made a positive impact on your rating. Thank you for watching and applying them!
I agree. Since that video came out I've been looking at openings in games between strong players to see how well the way they play matches the five rules. I have been surprised how much of opening play between strong players can be explained by the five rules.
I like a kind of early queen move you didn't mention. (Which may mean this kind of move is not good, but I don't know.) I like to move my queen away from a pin. In its simplest form this would go something like this. 1. d4 d5 2. Bg5 c6 definitely intending ... Qb6 on the next move. If White defends the b pawn that's a bonus. The main point is that I can now play ... e6 safely, or if I play ... Nf6 and then ... e6 the knight will not be pinned. Sometimes this becomes an actual book opening. For example 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 c6 6. Nf3 Qa5. This eliminates the pin and is a book opening so it can't be bad. Sometimes it's not a book opening but I still like it. For example, in the Sicilian Defense White may play an early Bc1-g5, and then I want to move my queen from d8 to c7, or b6, or a5. The idea is to unpin. These are not book moves as far as I know so they likely are not good moves, but the practical danger of allowing a pin to persist seems more important. Allowing the queen to stay where it's at the end of a pin seems like walking on thin ice. It's fine till it suddenly isn't.
Hmm, I don't recommend this strategy with early Qb6 because the king stays longer in the middle. These early pins most of the time should not be so dangerous so we don't need to escape. But I would need to illustrate that to explain it better. 'is a book opening so it can't be bad' - Actually based on my experience teaching students for many years I've noticed that following book moves quite often lead to creating bad habits and confusion when your opponents play similar moves to which you expected. That's why I recommend my students relying more on patterns than a theory. Of course if you are advanced player opening theory should be very useful. I'm sorry, but what you are discribing about the queen doesn't align with my strategies, but it's always nice to hear a different ideas. Thanks for sharing that.
Please can you make a video on how to play against players who open by pushing pawns on the a-, b- and g- and h-files to prevent one from developing one's knights to their natural squares (c3 and f3)? Thank you!
