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I was just looking at the Walbrodt-Baird Gambit, which arises after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.c3 Bc5 5.d4 exd4 6.0-0 (other transpositions are possible) I would like to get your take on this opening. While the opening does not appear to work too well for white at the masters level, white is favored 56%-41% in the regular Lichess database. I normally filter the results to only look at the 1200-1800 level (I am around 1300 currently) and no bullet or blitz games (which have more mistakes/blunders), and the results are very similar. Black's most common move after this is dxc3, which only increases white's edge. I see that after 6... dxc3 7.e5, masters play d5, but in the Lichess database, the most common moves are Ng4, cxb2, or Ne4, all of which are mistakes. d5 is the correct move, but it is only played 16% of the time (unfiltered results).
► Chapters 00:00 Chess Training Plan, from 0 ELO to 2000 ELO 00:41 1) 0 ELO, Novice player 03:11 2) Below 900 ELO 05:44 3) 900-1200 ELO 09:53 4) 1200-1500 ELO 15:31 5) 1500-2000 ELO 18:33 Comprehensive chess knowledge - checklist 21:40 Conclusion
How to maintain consistency, is there a video? One day I beat those with 1800-2000 , other days I struggle with 1400 and so for half a year now my ELO is around 1600. Same things with puzzles...
Do not play online chess only. Play open tournaments in real life. There you find that consistency. If you’re 1700 eg. you will almost never lose against a 1400. In online chess that happens all the time, because they are cheating often. Over the board cheating is rare. In online chess it is omnipresent.
Thanks Igor! I now have a curriculum to teach my daughter chess. But she has a hard time with focusing. If I give her objectives as in mating in 1, she may find more interest.
I'm 1500 and I think one of my problems, especially when playing stronger opponents, is paranoia about non existent threats / weaknesses. I see all kinds of potential future problems for every move, but most times they're not really problems. Like a pawn that seems weaker but it can't actually be attacked and I don't have to worry about it
@@OwnerOfPendu hi, I'd be glad to give you tips, but unfortunately I don't think I have good ones. For me the road from 1200-1500 was just very passive improvements over time. I didn't really play a lot of rapid lately, but I solved puzzles from time to time, played a lot more 1m+0 bullet, watched some videos, played with bots (mostly just to beat them up xd), and my rapid rating just kinda improved on its own over time (like 6-10 months?). Maybe one improvement is that I always play the scotch now and try to develop my pieces in the most basic and "this move can't be wrong" way. Actually overall I try to make moves that are principled and I can't go wrong with, as opposed to trying complicated ideas or plans (this doesn't mean I'm not aggressive when I can!). Also I just blunder less now and I'm more tactically aware because I gave the game a little time to cement in my brain. Summary: keep it simple and have an aggressive mindset
@@OwnerOfPendu Imo It's good to always have an aggressive mindset (punish mistakes, look for attacks), but when it comes to actually making a move there is a big balance to strike between patient / solid and aggressive. So watch out, maybe you lose your advantage with unsound attacks (I did that at ~1200)? I think in most cases it's good to be patient and improve your pieces silently but always look for deadly strikes if there are any. I'm not much better anyway
Can you do an informative speed run Igor? Explaining your way through the various openings, tactics, traps & defence? You'd make a great speed run, with the bishop's, the ponziani etc. You could showcase the ideas of this 'plan', in real time, allowing us to be talked through everything in an ascending series. Thanks, you're still the best.
Fun fact: Mandarin does not have an alphabet, so that would be especially difficult. The writing system is incredibly complex and features thousands of characters, which represent words or parts of words rather than sounds.
@@OwnerOfPendu Play a lot of 3 or 5-minute blitz games to get as much practice in as you can, do a lot of puzzles, focus on 1-2 openings with white and 1-2 with black that you commonly see being played (generally something with 1.e4 e5 as its the most common) Don't focus too much on trap openings as they get countered pretty consistently as you go higher in elo (definitely good to learn the way to counter trap openings though) or openings that you rarely see (once you get higher and see things more often then you can start learning those), analyze your games and look for things that are difficult for you or maybe you don't understand and train those things (open vs closed positions, certain tactics, pawn play, etc) .... Ideally you want to limit the amount of mistakes you make by putting yourself into good playable positions. Always try to play principled chess. There are always minor details in your games that become major details as you get higher but for now focus on the obvious things that you need to work on. (Edit: I am 1950 btw)
@@calviningemi4428 thanks for replying. I play only rapid games all the time so that was a mistake. I also do not analyse the game. I use trap opening which I will avoid now.i always lose when my opponent plays kings gambit and when I counter it , they have reply for everything. I want to say that I won a tournament in my college and my elo is just 1200.
@@OwnerOfPenduthere’s nothing wrong with playing rapid if it gives you more time to think about games but I find you can get more practice in in a shorter amount of time with more blitz games. If you’re frequently seeing the king’s gambit in your games then learn a line you can play against it. And analyzing is super important to find your errors. Congrats on the tournament win! 🥳
Thank you so much for your content, it helps me so much! And on addition to that I learned that if you castle as a beginner when your rook is attacked you automatically draw (3:59) :D
Hey I just got over 700 and then over 800. The trick I use is to just pretend every move is basically the first one. I don't get flustered and I find very obscure options that I wouldn't have before. I try to stay emotionally stable 😂.
@@zacharysherry2910for me I reached 1800 in 1 year cause I didn't care about my rating and played thousands of games in a few months. By the time I reached 1800 I alr played ~3000 games
@@tgoods5049 I am now learning Italian opening not by RU-vid but by stockfish and when I was analyzing I was shocked to see that a normal move was a blunder and I saw many variations in Italian opening and within 15 moves I am winning. I also got success against one opponent and it motivates me to do full research on all variations of Italian opening. I also made legal's mate in rapid and my opponent put this imoge😭 to troll me but I won.
As a 600 elo player I can confidently say that even thinking 3-4 moves ahead is not enough at my level let alone 1 move. I'd be losing every game if I only thought 1 move ahead, it's crazy how people don't realise that chess standards haven't changed but the player levels have. BTW love the video❤
At 600 ELO you literally just have to take what your opponent gives you. 😃 If you would think 3-4 moves ahead correctly, you would crush EVERY game at 600.
@@clientiermedia Absolutely not different. 600 elo players blunder left and right all the time. You just don't realize that, because youre one of them.
Don't diss the cow opening! If I get on a losing streak that's my goto, it's just something different and unusual to throw out there....but you're right, probably not a novice opening.
What ELO should we take into consideration if I have 1710 in Rapid (15|10) and 1430 in Blitz (5|5)?.. Have never played over the board or classical match...
@@OwnerOfPenducome on man, stop asking people for tjp, the tip is to increase your knowledge and play more and analyse your games, are you looking for a magic?
I was 900 about 9 months ago and 1400 now. It's primarily about making fewer one move blunders (That alone is enough to reach 1000-1200) and then you start needing to understand more complicated tactics to rise up to 1500 - the number of one move blunders at that level is pretty low. They still happen in a fair few games but you can no longer rely on them
Thanks Igor for another guidance for elevating chess level. I am stuck at 1800s for more than a year and started studying now. Your guidance would definitely help me.
I recently won a tournament in my college and my rating is just 1200 in chess. come. I blundered many times on the board as I don't have practice on the board. But it was still crushing for my opponents in the tournament.Everyone knew scholars mate but no other tricks. I think watching biggnner videos is better for you. Once cleared your bigner then move advance
Jesus this man's website is selling a $1,000 collection of online lessons. Like bro this is a game I play for fun I'm not dropping 2 ps5s to MAYBE get a little better at it
