Danya is the king teacher, but Aman is #1 when it comes to helping lower rated players catch on to the fundamental ideas that propel them to intermediate. Teaching beginners is a difficult and unique skill, because it requires you to momentarily delete all of the overly advanced understanding that has layered upon layers over time, and instead see the game with completely new eyes to understand why the beginners are so confused. This is an advanced cognitive skill that Aman both recognizes and has mastered. Kudos
Speedruns are so 2022. Slowruns are the future! Love it. Please keep this series going. Not only does it give Aman more time to flesh out the concepts but it gives us time to play along and do our own analysis. This is awesome.
wow, thanks so much brother. you really explained that as well as Naroditsky even. keep up the awesome explanations and instructive videos. much bruvage
Tips like pushing your a and h pawns against knights in that position are so helpful as an intermediate player trying to improve positional understanding. More videos like this would be fantastic! Thanks Aman!
actually so insane to be getting such concise tips that i haven’t heard anywhere else thus far that will really change the way i evaluate positions from now until forever. thank you Aman! truly a game changer with this educational content
I have gotten so much better thanks to this channel... and so much fun to watch. However, everything comes at a price it seems. now find myself waiting most of the time because 80% of people IRL seem to stall / disconnect after a few blows. either you guys are really lucky in your speedruns or I am really unfortunate with the opponents assigned to me lol
I think I am starting to see why bishops generally are valued very slightly more than the knight because of this video and one of the other SlowBrah videos. Knowing the ability of pawns to totally restrict and lock knights down really does a number on the opposition! Of course they are going to be stronger when you don't play the appropriate pawn moves and allow their knights to jump where they want to.
Yeeees, love the QG. When the position allows, I really enjoy flicking the bishop to a3 preventing my opponents king from castling. Yes it's cruel, but it's so satisfying watching them trying to block or manoeuvre their pieces around to boot it out (completely destroying their position BTW). Happens rarely these days now I hit 1600, most are wise to it :( The QG is riddled with tricks like that and its fun when opportunities present.
I love how Aman's instructional videos have these ideas that can be applied whenever you see a certain formation, in this case the knight on any of four squares. Has a lot of different applications.
If you are a fair player you can't start winning. Above 50 percent players are cheaters. The rest are boring. If you want to play a really good game there's less then one percent of players in your level that you can enjoy. The rest is pure crap
