Day 383: Playing chess every day until I reach a 2000 rating 

Wow. That was a really lovely checkmate. Well done, Patrick!!!

You showed perseverance and displayed brilliancy after the opening. Enjoy this W!

Sheeeesh! I knew Nb4 would be a brilliant move! Good comeback from your previous games.

Hey Patrick, congratulation on this beautiful victory. My impressionen is that you hit a plateau recently and you said something very important during the analysis. You pointed out that you fell for this Bf4 and Nb5 idea recently and that you're not learning from your mistakes. The reason is, that you see/learn the idea during the analysis but you forget about it some days later, which is very common. In fact I guess thats what keeps many chess players from improving. Learing new ideas but forget them soon, gives you the feeling you are working and improving all the time but your rating refuses to go up. You need to make the motiv really stick in your brain. And you do that by repeating ideas over and over again. Make a screenshot from the position and look at it once every day for the next days. At some point you will never miss it again. You ate the idea during the analysis but you didn't digest it. The new idea didn't become a part of you and your chess. The same for tactics. Get a book or a set of tactic puzzles. And then repeat them until you can do them by heart. Until you see /know the solution in 2-3 seconds. Why? If you solve a puzzle and you need let's say 30 seconds to solve it correctly, this might sound good but in reality that means you probably never find this tactic in a rapid game. You don't have the time to think 30 seconds for each move and when you need 30 seconds when you know there is a tactic, it will be even harder during the game when you don't know that there is a tactic. You will find the ideas that you digest, that became a part of your chess and that you can spot in few seconds. Thats training is not that time consuming as it sounds, as you get faster and faster at solving your puzzles. When you solve your puzzles in 2-3 seconds you can do more than hundred in 5 minutes. Then you can move on to a new set of puzzles /the next chapter etc. Reapting is key, as Bruce Lee pointed out, "I don't fear the man that practiced 10.000 kicks once but the man that practiced one kick 10.000 times"

Not sure it was lucky Patrick. For sure, you did not play the opening well. But after that you played actively and Nb5 was a lovely move. You needed that one.

Nb4 was unreal. You play so well when you have nothing to lose!

You had a beatiful forced checkmate at 6:10 - You took his pawn on a2 with a check, he can either take your rook with his rook or block the check with his dark bishop, but in both cases you would win

You play with people who have memorized the 5-10 best moves of their favorite openings. You need to do the same thing if you don't want to be in trouble so early in your games.

Awesome comeback and checkmate!

Always nice to win with less material than your opponent!

Good recovery from a shaky start. White got overly aggressive and you picked the right moves. You were close to mate then got a bit tentative but he wasn’t a match tactically and you made great combinations to finish the game. As a reminder in the future, don’t bring out the Queen early for a meaningless check that only furthers the opponent’s development.

I don’t see it as luck, Patrick. You had a not great opening, but you’re keeping your head up and making the slot of a rough situation. Your tactics at least helped to completely shut down their imminent attack and they had absolutely nothing after that to throw at you. I see it as skill too. Cazad0r75.

Good job quickly finding the only moves to continue in the opening!

Really nice check mate there mate!!! Well done!!!

To get to this point, do you do any particular studies or concepts? I've begun playing more regularly but I'm getting bit at the 850 range yet seem to follow these quite well. There must be something I'm missing in my prep/study

Great knight move. Well done 🎉👍

Nice win.. funny when agro's get blindsided

Good, you had him busted he can't retreat to d1 the bishop covers double check mate! You double checked after first rejecting the move sequence, but you went back and figured it out. Nice! WW!! Though you should have seen Qd3 you did find Nb4! Also, b4 was a move though, Nb4 is better. good idea to keep b4 in mind when attacking on the Q side. A surprise checkmate in which both sides are surprised, a rarity of all rarities!

Just found your channel and was wondering, have you ever missed a day?

appreciate the fresh cut for the video ❤

Nice 👍!!!!!!!! Of course I'm not gonna lie and say I saw that checkmate cause I DIDN'T!!!!!! Only afterwards when I was getting over my surprise - "huh? Oh!!!! That's checkmate!!!!!" Cause I was going everywhere BUT there so..... Wow

Very nice checkmate.

Nice moves! Folks who start out aggressively and then lose deserve the loss that much more. Playing traps that they find on tik tok isn’t playing chess.

Pretty gangster

I have only watched about two or three dozen of your games & it seems like you have a tendency to not develop your pieces very quickly or castle. I like the idea of your journey and how you present it, but are you doing any studying outside the games you play? I am not sure if that is part of the video series.

WWWW we take those!

Nice mate

gg Checkmate!

studying is good...but chess is a game of repetition. the more games you play in the shortest amount of time possible is how you get rating. there's no other way to do it efficiently. if you're not getting like 10 hours(around 50 games) of actual play time in a week it's essentially impossible to reach 2000, let alone a man older than 40. maybe it's just a click-bate title? ... as long as you're having fun that's cool, but 2000 isnt happening at 7 games a week.

I don’t think it was a lucky win - you are good at fighting back after going down material, which is a skill. One odd piece of feedback - often in the beginning of games you are speaking to the audience, stating the opponent’s name and rating, among other things. While this makes a better RU-vid video (thanks!), it sometimes distracts you in the first few moves. Most of the time it doesn’t matter, but this game needed a very specific move (a3) to stop an early attack, and you were autopiloting caro moves. Maybe you try not making moves while introducing the opponent. Just an idea

W!

Hey didnt you get more gray in your hair during your last 12 months of playing chess? 😂

Dude this was beautiful!!!

It's very funny to see people congratulate Patrick for a checkmate he didn't see.

Good moves after the opening blunder. Watch out for that early fork.

Congrats good game.