How to Stop Blundering and Start Improving Your Chess Game: Advice from a GM 

Doesn't he get money from youtube? Why would he need to ask viewers to pay?

He has so many videos up from lectures about things like that, most around 45 mins to an hour

@@trout3685these videos make barely anything

​@trout3685 1st small creators are not welp paid. Around 1500 to 2000$ per good video that are viewed 100k to 200k views. I checked, and he maybe got 15-20 videos like that over maybe 4-5 years. 2nd, chess players don't make a lot. Chess is fun but he sadly closed the chess centre because he was not making money with it. If Ben makes 20k$ a year with youtube, it's a good year. You get more money working at McDonald's flipping burgers but Ben studied all his life for this. So pay the fucking 40-50$ to get a lecture and be grateful that a guy with that much knowledge work for almost free because he loves people and chess.

@@trout3685 i'm assuming it was a joke since 90% of his videos are him talking at length on general advice

There's a recent @csqpod short titled "The Most Difficult Thing In Chess" where Fabi talks about being able to just wait and wait as the hardest thing. And I find at the club level, it so very often is the player who blinks first being the one to blunder first. Rating difference is almost completely irrelevant on a game by game basis.

@@lollycopter I couldn’t find it. My black opening is the only thing stopping me from ranking up now. My goal before I take a break is 1200 and everytime I’m right at 1180 I fall back down lol. 😵‍💫

Sus

You need at least 3: one for white, one for black in response to 1. e4, one for black in response to 1. d4.

Contact karen@atlchessclub.com

I don’t think he coaches anymore.

Good is to go somewhere and let you help with analyzing and also to play some over the board games. An older 1700 or better a 2000 or an even better player could tell you a lot. They see yor mistakes and can tell you exactly, how to avoid some things. Look for a chess club or even better a chess pub (if you are old enough 🙂) next to you. Of course online chess you should keep playing.

You get free puzzles tailored to your game after every game if you click "Request Computer Analysis" followed by "Learn From Your Mistakes".

I remember Ben saying that if you don't spend a lot of time playing chess outside of weekly, 1 hour chess lessons, then the chess lessons are meaningless, not that coaching once a week is meaningless

Ineffective

“I’m not bad, everyone is just sandbagging!” Every chess nooby ever

@alphadoughnut2651 "We have detected that one or more of your recent opponents has violated our Fair Play Policy...." all day everyday in my inbox which means cheating and sandbagging are huge problems even for CHESS NERDS like you 🤓

serious bullcrap cope. The bigger problem is that they cry and stop playing for weeks if they lose 2 in a row. Get used to losing, play more.

@onnoquinten2944 cheating online isn't a problem? ... lol 😂 next time ypu lose to a 1600 who plays like Bobby fucking Fischer just know that's why

Smurfing is definitely discouraging, but I have yet to play someone in a random game that played far above their rating