You make this shit look so damn easy lol. Thanks for the jobava videos. Rating been on a steady climb since I started playing it consistently. Used KID when I first started playing but abandoned it because the congested board would often stump me. Think my skills have gotten better now, time to give it another go
The billiards triangle is just called a triangle, if I'm not mistaken. The act of using it to arrange or "rack" the balls into the triangle is "racking."
I keep getting swamped as soon as I castle, they just trade off the knight or bishop and pawn storm and I'm losing my mind with this! I do well against the normal white openings but some players seem to know how to destroy KID.
You have great videos, I'm learning a lot! I've been enjoying the Jobava London and Caro-Kann videos also! Those plus King's indian are all I play while I'm trying to improve.
outside of the mainline, KID and Grunfeld can use some of the same stuff, where would one be better than the other? would you cover that in a video? for example the f3 lines
I’m honestly so confused when you don’t take the rook in the first game, you can do the same move after he takes back woth is other rook and your up in material
Alex, can you recommend a book for getting better with the pawns? My biggest weakness is knowing when to break and the end game with pawns. Sometimes I think I'm too passive with the pawns, or I take too much. Usually when I analyze with the engine it always wants me to take, even if it effs up the structure.
I love this new trend of your videos to teach ideas and strategies apart from the great work that you do with opening sequences, keep it up Alex. Big hug from Argentina!
37:16 I think I'm the only person who finds it kinda unstylish to promote more pawns when you already have a rook or a queen 😭 Y'all just want to apply salt on the wound.
Sometime in the future yes! I wanna make a perfect craft on the Jobava first tho, and that’s gonna take most of my time still for the next 2-3 months. I know I’ve been saying that for a while, lol
@@AlexBanzea sounds good!! We are eagerly awaiting your Jobava course. I’m btw trying to shape my repertoire around yours, since your teaching material is best. So Jobava with white (transposed to different openings depending on Black’s response which I assume you’re covering in the course), and Caro/Slav/KID with black? What do you recommend? 😄
@@AlexBanzea I am super stoked to hear that! The KID just perfectly fits the gap between the London and the Caro-Kann. And I jut haven't find any course that is practical for my level, like your courses are. Robert Ramirez comes closest, but his is a little thin compared to your courses. So I'd be buying your KID course as soon at is released.
yeah I finally fixed it, but felt the games were too instructive to miss. the sound from the second games (and intro) is what I will usually have. Happy for feedback tho, I am still working on this thing...somehow my SM7b started going nuts recently
your chess can only get better by watching this dude's videos. seriously, he breaks down the positions like nobody's business! i hope to see Alex become a GM someday because he is that deep into chess. P.S. Alex please don't ever wear an un-ironed shirt for your videos again. you are better than that. please don't present yourself as somebody that just woke up...you are a professional, an adult, so please present that. just sayin my dude....
