Together with IM Eric Rosen we start a fresh account on lichess.org. Eric tells us to focus more on accuracy than speed. With that perspective, we are able to get over 2200 in tactics in less than an hour. 2018.08.05
Eric Rosen is the best. He's so educational while still being friendly and accessible - no hint of egotism like some other youtube chess players. Wish I could meet this guy IRL.
yeah after see the solution i think that too...the puzzle is hikaru or carlsen level puzzle...hikaru solve this type of puzzle regularly but I agree eric is a nice guy.even an FM wouldn't admit that so easily.
I swear I'm like a snail compared to how fast the audience solved the first, easy, puzzles - but at the same time I'm like an eagle compared to how inaccurate they "solved" the harder puzzles. They be weird.
Maybe you solve these things relatively slow but see very much. In the first few, you solve them slow, and there is not much to see, and later on there will be more to see, so in the same time you see much more.
Only listened to 44 seconds of this video so far and I'm loving everything about it! I love when you include everyone to work together and I love the idea of solving puzzles!!! This video is so amazing. Really helps me learn.thanks so much and I hope your streams can include this sometime as well!!!
I dislike some lichess puzzles as it’s never something like winning pawns which is also very important and sometimes it’s like get 2 rooks for the queen but allow ridiculous counterplay where the other side has far easier play and you need perfect accuracy just to keep an edge
I think Lichess is much easier in terms of getting a high tactics rating than Chess.com. I tried for many months to get 2200 on Chess.com and managed at best 2160, and I got 2200 in three days on Lichess.
Good afternoon, sir. You are doing great ..... amazing chess video content... I have lichess puzzle rating around 2323. What you suggest? Solving puzzles via lichess or from book ?
On lichess I'm 2000-2100 tactics and about 1500 classical. I feel underrated but still.. something is wrong with my game. And blitz and bullet I straight up can't play.
It's not about breaking anything. It's about keeping it there and that's the challenge. I had 2740 and lost 500-700 points. Ever since I've been anywhere between 2300-2500 after solving more than 32,000 puzzles. Getting back to 2700+ seems impossible due to all the blunders. Everybody climbs fast in the begging. But after thousands of puzzles it's a completely different thing.
I broke 2600 at some point, it's pretty tough and sometimes I spend hours, even days to calculate variations. It's pretty straight forward, just don't play until everything is figured out! (I'm only 1950 in blitz, 2000 in classic. )
the only reason I still do the ones on chess.com is they keep track of your rating since you first started and you can see a nice graph, I wish they worked on that on li chess a bit
14:45 puzzle. RxE4 BxE4 PD3 w/ discover check from QB6 King moves or RF2 PxNE2 with threat to queen. QxE2 THEN you PxBG5 That way, as black, you are a rook down, but a bishop and knight up. NE5 is also still an option. Is this not a better position? And if not, why?
I dont get it. I could solve all the puzzles easily except for the last one. But my lichess puzzle rating is 1900(blitz 1600). And the puzzles dont show their rating either
My problem being a beginner is that these sorts of set ups and variations never seem to occur with unskilled opponents. They tend to play wild nonsense that feels good rather than following any sort of logic. It's difficult to learn anything because your opponents aren't followed the 'accepted' moves. And since these sorts of variations aren't covered by IM's for example, I don't feel like my game improves at all and I just lose game after game because I don't know how to respond to my opponents silliness.
kahwigulum use the computer analysis and find the first move that lost you the advantage and remember that one. after some time you will see a pattern or you find many blunders that you didnt punish after doing that you will just laugh and demolish people
You need to be a bit more honest to yourself. If your opponents are playing silly moves, you should be crushing them. If you can’t refute those silly moves it simply means that your playing strength is too low to refute the move.
puzzle 33:48 be4xg6 threatening mate in 1. f7xbg6 Rf1xRf8 check Kxf8 Bd4xBc5 check If queen takes, then free queen If K moves along back rank, we have queen and rook to join attack Thoughts or is the line too messy? Still up a bishop and queens on board but blacks king very exposed.
5:44 This puzzle has me confused. I saw all the options, but the move order made a huge difference to the outcome. I can't seem to see ahead deep enough to figure that problem out, without using a separate board to track the moves... Does that limit me forever at 1600, or is there a way to improve the depth of my calculations?
Just be very patient, some puzzles might take hours, but explore all possibilities, triple check, evaluate, look all over the board, recognize opponents threats, search for targets, loose pieces, etc. If you fail a puzzle, dwell on what have you missed and how could have you spotted the solution. Even if you solve it correctly, take some time to let the reasoning behind the solution sink in. Sometimes it comes down to just crunching the numbers. But often in easier (and some harder) puzzles there are patterns to be found. Perhaps you could benefit from the Practice option on Lichess, by learning these patterns. Good luck :)
@@megalopolik7309 It's still won. If you win the queen there's no way you'll end up losing. If you won the queen you can easily win the game considering you play decently well.
I know this is old but at 19:00 couldn't u move rook to C6? It traps the knight, he has no safe squares to move to. Well I guess he just plays his rook into c
After Re2,if bc1 then the threat is be4 with the rook and bishop converting on g2 with no efficient way to stop it, there is no mate or anything it’s just a pawn but white has so much play to go for, a far better position. That’s why the computer prefers to sac the exchange after re2 to prevent be4 by black. I feel like eric completely missed kf1 after bf2+
Fley Thanks for pointing out that be4 leads to a strong position for black. So after be4 if white makes a useless move like a3, then Rxg2+ kf1 I guess there is rh2, threatening rh1+. So instead of a3, maybe better for white is Rc4, Rxg2+ Kf1 Bf3 Rd3 Rf2+ Kg1 Be2 Rd2 Rf1+ Kg2 Bxc4 bxc4 Rxc1
Yes a3, is just a useless move and Rh2 threatening rh1+ is a possible follow up. But in the other line u gave there is a slight mistake:Rc4 R×g2+ Kf1 black cant play here bf3 because his other bishop on h4 would be hanging so if bf3 white plays R×h4 and black here cant play b×d1 because black's rook is hanging on g2 the king would simply take it. After Rc4 the best defense for black is bringing his other rook to e8 to defend the bishop on e4, if white sacs the exchange on e4 and plays r×e4 then u must play Rf2+ fist defending this way ur rook on the 2nd, kg2 and only then u can play r×e4 taking back the rook
I'm rated 2300+ in lichess puzzles. Doesn't mean much as there is a lot more to chess than solving puzzles. I think this stuff is more useful to beginners.
@@CazzoneMagrolino . My lichess ratings are 2100-2200 across all time controls. I see too many 1500s-1600s boasting 2500+ puzzle ratings. Its meaningless in the context of an actual game.
@@MrSupernova111 I have to agree with you, my puzzle Elo is 2100 on Lichess but I don't even have a game Elo because I've never played a game. I started playing chess one month ago. Do you also have a FIDE rating? That's a pretty high ELO, you are basically equivalent to a FIDE's CM.
@@CazzoneMagrolino . I find it interesting that people love doing the puzzles but not playing so much. No, I'm in the USA and my rating is years old so it doesn't reflect my current strength. I expect that my USCF rating is 2000-2100 so that might be in line with your guess. I do run into CMs, NMs, and even FMs on lichess on a regular basis but I think I need to be in the 2300-2400 rating range on lichess to comfortably say that I'm playing at NM or CM level.
@@MrSupernova111 how long have you been playing chess? I like puzzles because I like the mental calculation part of chess. I won't ever become a very good player as I'm already 24 y/o, there are so many things to memorise and there are people who basically have interlizaed this stuff as a second language since they were kids. Still, i can use chess to train my mind, everyone can calculate deep into the lines just like a GM with enough focus and mental sharpness.
I must say that as a new player to lichess (two weeks account) the tactics i had were exactly the same (in the same order) which makes me kinda doubt their voting system efficiency instead of random problem generator.
Im rated 2041 on lichess tactics and rated 1875 on three check , but anything positional , strategical or defensive I totally suck at , but when it comes to tactics I'm a beast
35:13, we could have taken the White's bishop by our bishop, bishop d4×C5 , and attacking their rook, black queen wouldn't capture it for obvious reasons and then once the black moves his rook, we can can play d6 and pin the queen to rook and the queen wouldn't be able to take our bishop because our rook is supporting it
JJoeSilver when we capture the bishop if the opponent capture the queen, we can just take his rook or pin the queen to the rook, and the pawn structure of black would be bad and king is kinda exposed, we are up a bishop and a rook and his king side pawn structure is spoiled while he is up a queen.
I kind of don't like that a lot of points get deducted for making a small mistake. Your move might be a good move which could still give you advantage but still if it's not the best you lose points like mad. You get like 5-6points for solving a puzzle and you solve one wrong and you lose something like 15 points. This sucks
With a new account its very easy to reach a high rating simply because of the nature of the rating. What's weird to me is that i would still solve ~1500 rated puzzles at 2000 rating as if there are no harder puzzles
@Rahul Khanduri perhaps because the puzzles are rather short they cant get rated higher. or that algorithm that picks them out is very limited as to not just reward engine moves basically
I don't think so. I have reached 2200 (got very near to 2300 but failed to reach it) but now fairly above 2000, mostly between 2100-2200. And I think my FIDE rating could be around 1400-1500 (haven't played any rated tournament yet)
I as a beginner have gotten to 2150 doing 300 puzzles on lichess and 600 puzzles on chesscom, and the few games I've played I'm no where near that so I don't think so either.
