I have not seen it yet (I will tonight). I want to thank you for all the entertainment and free lesson you provide. Chessnetwork is the first channel I subscribed in youtube. Cheers from Italy
Thanks as always Jerry. Over the past few months I've steadily worked my way from 1300 to 1600, and I frequently play games with estimated performances into the 2000s. I even find myself beating players up to 2400 in unrated games, thanks to the valuable lessons I've learned from you. You may not be as "entertaining" as some chess content creators, but you are #1 in instructive content. Big fan of your work 🙂
hi Jerry ,thanks for the constant uploads and the quality of your analysis as always. Lot's of great games covered and this one is another example of how aggressive Ding can play sometimes!
Jerry I love your videos. Been a long time subscriber. Hope to keep watching you for years to come. Great game and great breakdown. Especially move 17 Re2, I took a lot away from that particular analysis. My instinct would have been to move the pawn in this kind of position and I plan to keep that correction in mind for future games.
They key is that Re2 can be undone and b3 kept as a reserve if needed. If you move b3 right away you can't undo it and it becomes a hook for black's a-pawn.
Good one. I like all the crazy fireworks in a lot of games, but I do feel like I learn a little bit more and become maybe slightly better of a player with these types of positional games. Thx Jerry
I think Black was foolish not to take up any of several opportunities right after the initial moves, to play…PK4. It would have established a safe, ideal pawn center, and more importantly, kept White from establishing his own “Alpha Zero Pawn” at e5 - which, with all its ramifications, allowed White to win. Thanks Jerry.
8:00 but after en passant, couldn't black trade queens and follow up with h5? The knight retreats, black recaptures on f6, and now black has more space and a connected passer. Edit: I looked at the position on an actual board and discovered why I'm still low-rated.
Taimonov is very strong vs the white side of sicilian. Almost disbelieving of the title, but it is Ding afterall. Dude has laser vision. Let's see how it goes. (Jerry, I know you love the H file traps, we could go fishing and I could show you a thing or two in the real world. Lake with real fish is a lot broader than 64 meager squares only.) Pop quiz at 2:41. Denied that pressure. Move forward and dont worry about it. Only on the small board would it matter, never on the lake itself. That's the difference between chess and real life, and why we should go fishing for real.
After black plays Be7 and then g6...... I'm left staring at the worst black queens bishop of all time....perhaps black should have playing g6 first then Bg7.....still not great bishops but it looks a lot more tolerable than the game
