Play the Caro-Kann Against EVERYTHING | 1800-2000 

All the way to 450,000 elo

I've met both Aman and Eric in person and I can attest that they are both gentleman.

​@@sash4593you saying support these guys?

Like who?

@@Alpacastan21m like u

@@die8956awww thank you

IM NOT DONE YET

@@ericgilmore5949 ok, sir.

is this theory?

@@oussamael162I ask myself that all the time when an opponent does some weird shit in the opening 😂

34:19 he miscalculates😅.... 34:41 he realizes

I want to know the same lol

@AFatherToTheFatherless ITS SO GOOD! HAHA I bet it's on their spotify plylists but haven't dove in far enough yet

Not me

nah trade queen better when ur up a piece...white queen so annoying btw

@@monasagain You can win the rook then force a queen trade a couple of moves later the king is safe from threefold genius

Yeh, I think he missed the fork.

G4u!

yes they do

1900 rapid here, for me it was openings because it stopped me from blundering early in the game by being familiar with the kinds of positions I was getting into while also being aware of the kinds of blunders my opponents could make or of plans in the positions in the middle game which arise from that opening if my opponent doesn't blunder.

Tactics. Helps you avoid blunders, and helps start building up pattern recognition.

This is mostly for middle games: understanding what your and your opponents goals in specific games are is quite important. Like when your opponent makes a move, think 'what are they trying to do with this/build towards?'. Pay attention to the position and where weaknesses are. This is things like noticing pieces are pinned, noticing that if a certain piece moves, you can move to a strong square or capture something, seeing what pawns or pieces you can attack and might make them uncomfortable to defend. A big way to improve this is look at the engine after you've played a game. The engine obviously sees where you should apply pressure. See what moves it suggests, and be sure to to try rationalise why these moves are good! Also I find Danya's speedrun series very very helpful in getting into this mindset of thinking about the moves and their purpose

@@kaspervercruysse5710 should look at engine. But develops a better positional understanding, by analysing without the engine first.

But after 1...Qb2 2. Qxb4 axb4 3. Rxa8 - and black's knight on b8 is hanging with two attackers and zero defenders. Overall white trades their queen for a bishop, a rook and a knight, which seems favourable. I didn't consider Qxb4 while watching the game, but from white's perspective its the only thing worth looking at after ...Qb2. Starting FEN: "rn2k2r/1p3p1p/2p1ppb1/p7/1b1P1B2/1PQB1N2/q1PK1PPP/R6R b kq - 0 1"

he plays the bird opening with white. it's another series.

@@jonatanandvanie7493 Makes sense, thanks

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Why should I care?

@@doublej4129 Why should we care if you even care or not GTFO