Day 447: Playing chess every day until I reach a 2000 rating 

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Thanks for your support! I also enjoy a nice cup of coffee with chess 😊

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Yeah I think you are right. It’s so satisfying to get a clever mating sequence but the risk is definitely not worth the reward I’m finding

@@chesswithpatrickI am 62 played Chess 50 years .. players talk of a three result game that’s Win/Lose/Draw sometimes like your game above the choose to swap if ahead to a two result position that’s Win/Draw , you had a chance at the end to remove his center pawn and force queens of the board, then you are a endgame Knight up, thats. Win/draw as you virtually can’t lose anymore

He does it almost every game. The engine gives it an orange question mark. He skips past it in the analysis without thinking about it and goes and does it again in the next game.

Maybe he dooesnt like the white bishop.😊 But wow its a strange play , specially as he keeps doing it. Everybody and also the analysis keeps telling its a bad play . Something is a bit weird i.m.o But wish Patrick the best. 2.000 ELO is of course totally out of reach keep on playing like this

@@jacobpallesen3558 which leads to Patrick's other problem - the computer analysis will only point out tactical errors, never give him any positional advice, so he's really not learning the fundamentals, just repeating his mistakes

I’ll try to keep this in mind David. I think I saw in a video that in the Grand Prix exchanging is ok.

@@chesswithpatrickmy question Patrick is why exchange - what is the rationale behind it ? You've just spent a tempo on developing the B and then you immediately exchange it off, leaving your opponent's QB in charge of the white squares, opening the b file for your opponents rook and strengthening his pawn centre.

He literally does it EVERY game!

It’s pretty common in the Grand Prix to do that. However I do agree he has that tendency and there’s no reason in that situation because he has the pin and there’s no threat to the bishop

It’s a move in that line. But in general he does do it too often.

In the Grand Prix I think I’m supposed to. At least that’s what I saw in a video lesson I was watching. I also trade in the caro kann to get rid of a defender of a center pawn. But I’ll try to remember that moving forward thank you!

@@chesswithpatrick In the caro kann yes, but I believe only in the advanced variation since your position is cramped...

Yeah, he doesn't even look at the engine lines, just tries to figure it out like a puzzle and eventually takes a hint. Not a bad approach to begin with, but sometimes you really need to see the engine line to understand why a move is the best in a given position.

You mean Nd5 not Kd5, right?

​@baka1949 yh analysing your games correctly is so important irregards to improving

Some board blindness going on. I mean, I also get it, so I’m not being critical. But I’m seeing it even in the replays.

@@muhammedga7303 thx

Worst case scenario!!! I thought I had it!

Thank you will!

thats why ive always asked him why he doesnt play 20 or 30 minute games

@@21-Average Umm, because his videos will go on for over an hour and he won't have any viewers?

Amazing how he keeps throwing these games away

No he won't!! HE WILL FAIL AHAHAHAHAHAHA :D :D :D

Here's an easy exercise, in the next game, predict your opponent's next best move (the response) before you make your move. Do this for every-single-move of the game and you'll develop the habit of predicting your opponent's move. You'll be back to 1500 in no time with this.

that's what I do when I play, I huff, and I puff, and I blowwww the board down!!!! Whoa that was bad

Disagree, I think he often moves too slow in the opening. Openings should pretty much be memorized.

@abdielneris4957 you can't memorise every opening and certainly not every line in it. Every move deserves some basic considerations. It doesn't have to be long, but there were multiple positional mistakes made in the first 6 moves.

Patrick usually wastes like 4 minutes in the opening, when he reaches middle game he is usually 5 minutes down and endgame like 7 minutes down.

@blogattacker I know. But the issue is not the time taken, but the reason why he wastes time. It's WHAT he dithers over when he spends minutes on a move, not where in the game he does it. Opening, middle or end game, it's what he is obsessing over that is the problem not what stage of the game he is at when he chews up his clock. He spends minutes on "if this and IF he does that, THEN IF I do this..... BUT IF I do this, then IF...." Instead EVERY move just a few seconds on the NEXT move of his opponent ONLY in response to whatever move he is thinking of, then IMMEDIATELY reject that move OR if his opponent can't do anything bad in response IMMEDIATELY make the move, then at all stages of the game he would make his moves in a timely manne. The Chess Vibes channel with Nelson is a great place to learn this basic way of approaching each move. If he combined this way of spending his time, combined with the principle of ALWAYS develop and ALWAYS look to move a different piece if possible, then he would choose good moves faster and check them for blunders and positional errors faster. As it is he is now rushing through openings and making beginner mistakes and then STILL wasting time later in the game and running into time trouble

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