Day 437: Playing chess every day until I reach a 2000 rating 

Ironically, one move before you got checkmated, you missed checkmating him with 45.Rd7#, the classic Hook Mate with a knight and rook.

Didn't even do the analysis properly to see Rd7# (23:02). Was a well played game but again can't be down 5 mins in a 10 min game.

Patrick, I mean this as kindly as possible: MOVE FASTER Why are you taking over 2 minutes to play b3??!! The story of your chess life is time trouble into a horrific blunder. You need a post-it on your monitor that says ‘look at my clock’. Loosen that hat up or something, restricting your vision. You play like you have all the time in the world in a time format that isn’t even long form. I promise you if you focus on your time management you will jump up 200 points.

Was actually a good game. I expected a blunder from you in mid game but you played sharply until the very end where time pressure made you miss that mate.

I started watching your videos around your peak rating so it’s possible I cursed you, my bad :/

Hey Patrick! I play the Scandinavian as black and I could tell you the weaknesses of it. It's a legit opening but since the queen comes out early in the game, you need to keep chasing it around using bishops and knights. For instance at 2:09 you should've gone bishop d2(which you did after 3-4 moves) so that you prepare a revealed attack on the queen. Non only you develop your pieces but gain tempo as well from the queen retreating. Good luck in your next games ;)

The fact you developed faster than usual at the start was excellent (minus the odd pawn move). The main issue I see during the middle game is that we are just missing ONE move of thinking... you're thinking: "Ok, what is my best move?" however you aren't thinking about: "What is my opponent likely to move when I move this". If you can just get to ONE step further in your thinking, you'll be a lot more successful. Finally, you can think of the king as being worth approximately 4 points of material in the end game... so if you just leave your king in the starting position, you're essentially playing without your best piece.

Played pretty well til you ran out of time. Lots of games to be discouraged by lately, this wasn't one. Been saying you need 15 min games for a year now lol...time to switch.

you outplayed your opponent the entire game, take heart in that. you don't need the best move, just make sure there are no blunders and move quick.

No offense Patrick but if I was your coach I would disown you for playing a3 on move 4

I switch to 15/10 instead of 10 min. I find it way better. Some games can take a little longer, but I'd rather quality over quantity

Patrick, my man, you're simply moving and exchanging pieces with no plan at all. You seem to be unable to spot your opponent weaknesses, be it weak squares to move your knights, his king in the center for too long or even his undefended pieces. I don't see you talking about anything about that, which implies that you don't know that you don't know it. A few tips: - Don't pin just because you can. If you can't exploit or capture the pinned piece in 1 or 2 moves, then just don't waste your bishop sitting him in the corner like a pawn. - If his king is still in the center, you want to open the center ASAP to exploit this fact. So go for the center. - If an exchange doesn't benefit you, doesn't alleviate the pressure on you, you simply don't exchange. Keep pieces on the board. The final and most important tip though: - You DESPERATELY need to study how to identify weaknesses on the board. There's plenty of resources about it online. Currently, you're just moving pieces and hoping for the best. Good luck.

12:19. Please, for the love of god, try to keep this in mind, what im about to tell you. It is ok for two rooks staring at eachother along the files. If you take his rook, the d8-rook steps in and is very happy to occupy the c-file all alone. If black decides to take your rook, the e1-rook steps in, and is very happy for the same reasons. I'm not sure you were aware of why, but it was the move after this you noticed his rook was about to infiltrate, which did cost you a headache not to mention a lot of time. ❤

Better principles in the opening, so we'll done for rectifying that. Middle game you still need to limit your thinking to "what does my opponent want to do on his NEXT move" and making quicker decisions responding to that and that ONLY. This is why you are finding yourself in time trouble every game. Thinking about too many things and becoming indecisive. Generally a good game despite the time control blunder at the end (he had mate a couple of moves earlier but you both missed it. Your biggest positional error of the game was exchanging Rooks. Don't give up the open file if possible. You would have been better to move the Rook to c5 (supported by your extra pawn) then try and double up. If he exchanged with you then you could have taken back with your extra iqp and then you could of had a 3 to 1 pawn advantage on the Queen side. Keep at it. Once it clicks I feel you will surge up the rating ladder. At the moment it's just a bit hit and miss as to which principles you remember during each game. But the knowledge is definitely there now. You just need to apply it all at once and do it consistently

You played real chess for most of this game. I know every bone in your body was aching to attack the Queen with your b pawn for literally no reason but you stood strong and actually put you pieces on decent squares.

Patrick why oh why 1. Why do you swap Rooks on the open C.file literally WHY, all it does is leave your Rook stuck defending a pawn and gives your opponent the only open file for the only major piece left on the board, which he immediately uses to invade your position BUT he does not do so by good play you literally give it to him 2. in the ending the King is a fighting piece worth about 3 pawn or a minor piece he moves his king into the fighting zone you leave yours out of combat Love the Westie, I have one too called Jack

your dog, rather than serving as an inspiration, laid stock still, nearly dead, the entire match LOL. Almost like an omen :P

When on a poor run of results it might help you to be a bit more defensively minded and slightly passive. Get the king safe, protect all your pieces and ask yourself, am I about to get mated? Delay any attacks. You’d be amazed how the opponent will make a mistake if you stay solid. In this game your a pawn up. You just have to defend your position. It’s up to your opponent to change the game. Trading the rook was a key poor move as was putting the bishop on the a file. Later in the game pushing all the kingside pawns was also a mistake. You can get your king in the centre by just moving one. I don’t think playing 15 mins will do you any favours and it might lose you viewers with long periods of nothing happening unless you edit them, but that will be time consuming on top if the longer amount of time you’re playing chess. Such time controls are more likely to attract cheaters or people not resigning in losing positions. Keep at it.

Absolutely love this format with the lofi music in the background!

I think you should have been actively moving your king around move 22 instead of the other moves you made

I was eagerly awaiting his reaction when he realised he had mate in 1 on the penultimate move but he stopped the analysis early 😭

Even though you dutifully press "game review" each match, I don't think you're getting all that much out of the exercise. It feels like you're adding up "good moves," which doesn't help at all. Try this: Instead of stepping through the whole game (and usually getting tired of it by the end), scan the evaluation chart to focus on the big swings. Then go through that moment until you COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND what was happening. Perhaps that way you won't miss that you had a mate-in-1 like this game. Exchanging rooks on the c-file was doubly bad because two moves before you had used your (much better) bishop to pin (your word) a knight on b6 and the exchange removed the pin. OK, you can also argue that the pin was not a good idea so that would knock the exchange back down to bad. At the very least it was inconsistent. Pin with purpose. Don't overvalue checks.

I think you have improved and you should focus on playing a little faster

I have to admit that you played really well, you just needed more time. The only improvement is to move your king to the center in the endgame. Your opponent had an extra piece to attack your pawns, the king

All the problems started when Patrick exchanged rook on c file , and then spent 3 minutes thinking how to save an and b pawns. Why trade the rook and give control of c file? Never exchange unless it’s to your advantage.

Look at every position before and after you actively trade pieces with your opponent. Holding the tension is uncomfortable, but you are bringing his pieces onto better squares with your moves. One thing to implement might be asking yourself if your move is helping your opponent.

I thought you played very well, Patrick! Maybe the dog helped. Keep your chin up.

Keep going Patrick! Just keep going!

Painful mate to miss at the end!

Much better today Patrick

I feel like every game I watch you play, you are just moving pieces around waiting for your opponent to make a mistake while they aren’t under pressure. Studying openings is great and so are doing puzzles… but if you can get into the positions the puzzles are showing you tactics you will never get to use them. Your pieces are lacking synergy through the middle game.

28:16 Actually, after Ne5+ black can play Kc7. So you don’t win a rook, but you can trade rooks. Also, at 23:00 you had checkmate yourself with Rd7#

Is this most commented video in this channel right?

" im questioning my own sanity". Some advice. I have noticed many games now where you have a minute left and just started an endgame. You have lost already. Did you know that 10/ 0 was considered blitz 20 years ago? As i have said before Patrick there is a HUGE difference playing 15/10. you will never lose a game on time again.

Hey Patrick! I've been watching your videos since day 1 and I've seen some mistakes you've done. You should move faster on openings so you have more time to think on midgames and endgames, and stop doing a3 on Scandinavian it's kinda wierd. And you should learn more theory and openings because it is very crucial for midgames and even endgames and it might help you win more games. Hope this helps!

Spolier blocker

Or let’s play 24h game and dedicate a whole video to one move only 😂

what’s with intermediate players randomly pushing A and H pawns before developing.

You should play the queens gambit

I was thinking Ng5 instead of dc, as it threatens mate. Then after black plays g6 Ne4. That was first thought, though I thought Bb4 was good first rather than Re1. but I think your move was better. Bc5, closing the open file. A better diagonal for the bishop. Move pieces to optimum squares. Luft! Or Kf1. Ne5. See now he has the open file, when you exchanged. You are thinking defensively again, Re2? You should be attacking, you are a pawn up, trade down. b3 was good. Then he gets his rook on the 7th, Arghhh! You wanted to exchange knight for knight not bishop. pawns on both sides of the board favors the bishop. You would like to exchange rooks, but it's difficult to do that, there was a simple tactic there you missed, bur rook sacs are hard to see, though get it back with a winning position, plus no prospect of a surprise mate. Then you fell into a mate in a won game, though your time was short. You probably had a draw at that point still with checks Analysis: If you had seen the rook sac you win, because the rooks come off and you will crush him. You missed the fork, because look at all checks first especially in time trouble. All and all, not bad just too many mistakes, and a few wrong ideas. Ba5? An anti-positional nightmare of a move. It's a fork not a pin by the way. K g2 is good because it threatens to kick the rook off of the e file with Kf3. Attack, degrade your opponent's pieces. It also defends g4. Just moving your king up by route is not always good, as you have demonstrated, you want it to have a place to go. Thus, you can think moves ahead and move up as opportunities arise. Good work with the rook and knight. At the very end you play, after he plays Rxh4, Rb7+ then grab f7 threatening to take on g7, and you push the passer as you say.

Good game but time trouble gets you once again. You need to have some time management plan. If time trouble comes, try to simplify and maybe get a draw. Better than L at least

You should control time of your opponents and play more or less at the same speed. Better make a mistake than sit and think for 2 min to make one move

Painfully slow play today.

Maybe let the dog play?

Tough loss Bro

you threw Emma on the bed like she is a sack of potatoes 😁

Emma is so cute

Hey patrick i have noticed you won more when you drank your coffee during the game maybe its time to bring back the mug o coffee? ☕️

Way to slow for 10 minute games

I think it could help you to stretch your vids like 10min longer do 10min puzzles before any game that you play for this channel

22:42 mate in 1 miss was bad.

Tough loss, sorry man

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who a puppy? :)

Puzzles ❤ finally

No offense but 🤣🤣🤣🤣

stop calling it a journey to 2000 you are never getting it.... you could play for 15 more years you arent even gonna get close.... aim for 1600.... 2000's play 10 or 20 rapid games a day not 1... you aint special.