Started playing 10 months ago. After 6 months I was hovering around 500 with no signs of further improvement. After watching your videos I've gone past 800 in blitz and rapid. My win rate with black is much higher than my white. The Caro Khan is so solid. Feel like 1000+ in rapid is really achievable. Thanks for all the great content, its been invaluable
Yeah Alex is wonderful, when I first started I was at 800 and started watching him (Caro - if Caro doesn't happen just I just play by intuition and try to get back into structures similar to the Caro lmao and if I get white I play the Jobava london) and now I'm 1200 after 1 month. Do more puzzles on lichess, and keep watching his videos and you'll be gucci. Keep up the great work you'll break through 1000 in no time
@@POWERUPEthat jobava London is like a cheat code. I learned the basics yesterday and i jumped from 340 to 504 without any trouble. I'd say it took two or three hours. I'm still a noob but i had no idea how to win or even attack with white until i watched alex videos. my goal is 1400.
I was suppose to attend my other studies after doing chess for 4 hours, and then i see a new Alex Banzea video, i guess there is always time to do the other studies later... Or something.. Lol.
I just played a game exactly the same position as this last game and got a stalemate in the same position, with only King left. Inspirational stuff!! I would normally have resigned, always learning!
06:13 In case White takes the knight, we will take back with the pawn (opening up rook's path towards White's king) which is leading to checkmate because the b6-bishop covers the g1-square. Should have showed that on the board, sorry for the confusion!
Loving the London course, and looking forward to picking up the caro kann when it drops. Do you ever play the HA Dragon? My chess teacher gave me it as an opening to learn, and it seems like a pretty fun position to play, it would be awesome to hear your take on it/see you play it in a video in the future
Very instructive. Its just so funny when you start talking about "risky, shouldnt have done that, loq at dis position, iz so bad" and stockfish is like: "are you high? Its a dead draw" 😂but yeah ik, 1400 elo, not stockfish.
I have been beta-testing Alex's course and can say without reservation that when it becomes available it will definitely be something to grab and spend a LOT of time working through.
Whoops ..... he stalemated you, what a hero!! Too funny. Great video, thanks! I play the Caro-Kann too, so it's really helpful. But seriously, his strategy to stall the game paid off. Let's say you're playing a 15 minutes game and your opponent still has 12 minutes on the clock. He/she can make a move until there's only a few seconds left. Some players can't stand to have to wait that long and will leave or even resign. Others will blunder out of boredom ....
Amazing how in every moronic chess chat room (which I REALLY enjoyed during the WCC, I mean the Ding chilling meme just never gets old, right?/s) everybody seems to be in the top fifth percentile of players isn’t it?
the introduction was so unexpectedly i laughet my ass off :D "i am only 23" :D Nice Vid, thx for explaining. I really improved my Chess game with this Tipps :)
Love the simplicity in your videoes. Im just wondering. Would you consider sharing pgn txt or alternatively linking the games in your video dedcription? (Going forward... not asking you to renovate all your videoes xD) It would make it a bit easier to look at the variations in the lines for us. Not to mention I know at least a handful of other chess-tubers does it.
im 500 and its amazing to watch. but i feel like being 500; i lack the understanding to defend against attacks and unusual moves. one day, i will crush. but i am far from that day
In game 2 when you paused to ask for the next move, i saw Ba5 attacking the queen and rook. I am also 500 rated and make terrible moves constantly haha.
My brother is a real estate agent in Portugal, but he is a pretty good one in case you are interested 😆 Great video as usual, got love the Caro. Looking forward to the course!
Thanks for the tutorials bro. At first I thought you were annoying hhhhh, but now I love your videos and have so much respect for your style of play and being funny at the same time. I love it!
Thanks to Alexandrü, the Caro is the opening I know the best. Recently I suffered some losses with the avance variation, when white attacked me with pawns on the king size, Tal style. Then, I made some blunders on some exchange variations, and thought : OK, I am playing moves automaticaly because I play to much Caro. Now, after some time, coming back to watch this video, I feel energized again. The advance variation (game 6 in particular) games were very good material for me. Thank you very much. PS : by the way, on move 4 ( game 6 ), stockfish 14+ advises 4... cd4. Any reason to play 4... Nc6 instead ? I am wondering as I check the analysis.
Hi all of Alex fans. To those of you who have been following his course on London. ….Do you think that is good to pay for his London course without video or only with it? ( full course)Not sure which one to buy …btw great stuff as always!
I really love this style of videos. You're teaching an opening by demonstrating how to use it and what ideas are available in it, instead of just showing the moves. That's high quality content!
Yeah so im 1400 rapid and my win rate with white is 50%. Thanks to your instructions my win rate with black is 66%. I'm planning on purchasing the caro course after I'm done with the e4 for white course. Feel like i should focus more on white right now haha
Even Narodinsky recommends the fantasy and even in his speed run he ends up in sub optimal positions that he wins because he is one of the best players on the planet. But the Fantasy opening is not giving him the advange.
I love the Caro Kann because it's just so easy to play. No stress for the first 10 moves. I play the Botvinnik-Carls every chance I get because of it's similarity to black in d4 openings including the London. Did you know white can transport the Caro into the London?
Been watching you to try and get better at the Caro but I just suck at it lol. At around 1000 and WR on white is like 59% but black all the way down at 48%
Every time he says, “I think we can move on to the….”, I fear he’ll say something like, “end of the video”, but, every single time, without fail, it’s, “following game.” It’s amazing.
your caro and london series is simply the absolute best and most informative series on youtube imo. and I've watched a looot of different creators on these two openings
Should i quit winning occasionally and losing more often with my Scandinavian def? I like pretending im white when i am black but the results aren't so great... Is the caro better for a beginner than the Scandinavian is what im trying to ask.
@@AlexBanzea hey i will take your advice seriously. I learned the jobova London from you and im doing much better now. You have never given me bad advice. Thanks for your content. It really is helping people
I think the most challenging variation against the caro kann especially in those levels is the panov attack. I myself have trouble many times against the panov. Great video as usually 😊
Thanks Alex for all your content. I now play the Caro-Kann and the London because of you(Thanks to your unbelievable course on chessable) When your caro-Kann course will be avalaible?
As usual, I am loving your videos, however I am facing more people playing different variations to the Caro-Kann, and was wondering if you had faced these variations before, because I feel that with the 4 variations I see some play in a totally different way. below is a link to some I face and first few moves (I know I am insignificant, but it is just an option to teach perhaps, or not at all), but thought I would share first 7 moves of my recent black games: 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. d3 Bg4 4. Be2 e6 5. h3 Bxf3 6. Bxf3 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 - Game 1 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 c6 3. e3 Bf5 4. Bd3 e6 5. Bxf5 exf5 6. Nf3 c5 $2 7. c3 $6 Nc6 Game 2 1. b3 c6 2. Bb2 d5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 c5 5. h4 $6 d4 6. a4 Nc6 7. d3 e5 Game 3 Edit: just watched on and you recommend the Carp-Kann rating climb to see more, I think I have already watched some, so will revisit those :). Will leave this here in case it is ideas for you :)
11:30 question-- why only set up the battery in the tarktakower? Like why is it better than other pawn structures? Also, in the caro, is the idea generally always to go for a kingside attack?
The Caro s like the Ali -Foreman fight first 6 rounds white throws everything at you and them yo pick your face through your hands and tell them , Is that all you got George?
36:22 What if he did N3ne4 you take the castle, and he goes Ne4d6 check, losing your queen? EDIT: Never mind, you semi covered it, but after you castled.
you sound just like my romanian friend. Maybe i said this before? He placed top 10 in multiple international olympiads… in the same year. Yes it’s a complement, and also a commentary on how similar the accents are!
your not crushing anyone with the opening. Your an IM playing 1400s and they end up better in the opening slightly but your the better player so you end up wininng later on in the game. So basically if you play people 500 points or more below your level your going to crush 95 percent of the time.
Can't wait for the course. Something that you do well is explain the winning strategies in the middle and end games once we've gone out of the opening. Other courses don't really cover that well. And even though the london is an opening I don't play, your course on the london really explained all those important pawn ideas in great detail. Can't wait to see what you add for your caro course. That said, what do you suggest we play vs D4 or other stuff?
