John Rain McManus I can agree with that. The only thing I don't like is that he constantly move over and points to the projection screen, which is only beneficial for his live audience since we can't really see it in the video. He points somewhere and say things like "if white had a pawn here I would have preferred white but with the pawn here, black is better" and we can't see where he's pointing. I would prefer that he would stay with the computer and use Houdini more and mark the squares and draw arrows, that way both his live audience as well as the many thousands that watch this online would benefit from his explanation.
He's very good, but I've never heard an adult mispronounce simple words the way he does. "Set up" and "injuring" are very difficult for him. Maybe he needs to calm down.
I think the Maroczy is mostly analyzed on RU-vid from the black side because it poses such a dilemma with the space squeeze. In my experience this space advantage for white is great but converting it into a win isn’t a simple process and it would be good to just sit on the advantage but that option isn’t available forever. It would be great to see more videos on whites middlegame plans in the maroczy. Winning a won position can be tricky!
He has a gift in explaining a complicated opening in a simple to follow way, at least the first 10 minutes. Maybe more people would like chess if they could find a teacher this good.
It's been many years since I've watched lectures on this channel. Interested in the maroczy bind, I stumbled back on this video and launched it. 2mn in, oh god had I forgotten how pleasant Yasser is as a lecturer!
The Accelerated Dragon is one of my pet defense as black in some games here there is hours and hours of study. I am familiar with the Marocey Bind but the video helped me to understand it more in depth with the interesting move made by Ben Larsen. I am going to have to look into this with more study. When you went to the screen against the wall showing move orders to your pupils it did not show up on the screen we are looking at, maybe in future videos you can correct this minor detail.
very helpful that Yasser points out the differences in his evaluation given little differences in the position, like when white has pawns on c4 and d5 that's great for white whereas the same position with the d5 pawn on e4 is perfectly fine for either side, or the same c4 d5 position is fine for black with a knight instead of a bishop. very interesting
Well prepared lecture. Notice how he asks the audience to come up with a move after black's ...10 Bd7 (at the 12:56 marker). This is a well prepared question and shows why Seirawan is a good teacher. In my opinion Qd2 is the most obvious natural setup move but it looks like 11 Qd3 is common theory, and better.
at 25:52 after b4 black can play Qb6 =+ because now after c5 Qxb4 Bxf8 Nxf1 if Bh6? white as Qd4+ the point of moving to b6 provoking c5 clearing d4 for the check.
Are you sure that Petrosian crushed Larsen? According to the database, it was Larsen who beat Petrosian in the Ng4 line: Piatigorsky Cup, July 27, 1966. According to the database, Petrosian only played black in this variation.
Is there a lecture of how black should play in the line where white retreats Nc2 after Bg7 in the Maroczy? Since black cannot trade N:d4 in that line I find it quite inconvenient for black because we are lacking space and have all the pieces on the board which makes them cramped
4:38 "yes it's true its a lament, you can't have everything in life." Yasser's high af in this one, I was laughing my ass off half of the lecture because or the other time he was like "but relaaaaax it's all good..." lololol
it is very depreciative for the course that the video cam forget to follow the GM seirawan when he goes to the screen board to explain so much interesting points of his thinking mind in strategy and tactics actions. Please do it that better.
Too often in chess videos it is hard to tell the difference the letters b, c, d, e when spoken. They should use military radio code by calling them bravo, charlie, delta, echo.
It's tragic that GM Seirawan does not indicate his move suggestions on the computer screen, preferring to show them by hand unlike most other lecturers I've enjoyed watching on this channel.. The lack of activity on the board ruined this for me.
White queen takes knight, black queen takes queen, white pawn takes queen, black king takes bishop. The material is equal, but this is undesirable for white because of his slightly inferior position (with double pawns), and playing as white you usually want to come out with a slight edge, rather than equal or slightly worse.
+Du du e5 is an awful move- it limits the range of your bishop on g7, creates the backwards pawn on d6 and weakens the d5 square (the knight could use this an outpost)
What I dont like is that eventhough he has the computer board, he keeps using the projector one, and I cant follow shit. Hope someone brings it to his attention!
