It's little known, but "Alekhine" is pronounced as "a-LEH-in" (like how you'd say "Alexa") - it's in the Russian wikipedia. By the way, his opponent Bogoljubov is the GM after whom the "Bogo-Indian" defense is named.
Learned a lot AGAIN! Wasn't positionally aware when to trade queens and when not. The only thing I remembered was that the queen can replace (or act as) a bishop if that bishop had been traded. And thank you coach 🙏 for all that you do!!!
Well, at least I said "no" more quickly to the first 2, lol. I wasn't quite sure on the 3rd but was also leaning toward "no." Nice lesson. This is the 1st time I've seen this subject covered!
I feel the biggest oversight on my part is the effectiveness of the pawn in breaking down the opponents structure. I feel it’s easier when it’s a pass pawn because I know the purpose so I need to study your pawn videos. Overall I’ve actually become a much better and confident player because of your videos
Just caught the end of your live stream. Normally Thursdays?. I was surprised in the Alekhine game that is was ok to allow Nb5 especially after playing g5. Sure I would have wasted a tempo with a6. So it was ok for Kd8 and Rb8?. Why was that?
White should trade Qs. White is attacking, so that is possible reason not to trade. But trading gets rid of black defender on Q-side and allows my King to get active after I get my N to g4.
I would offer the queen on E3 because if they take my bishop is in a great position on A2 so I would have an opportunity to exchange rooks for a check, I could also attack the center pawn to put my Knight in better position to corner the king. I’m not worried about blks inactive rook or bishop at the moment
I beat a 2000 rated player in the end game the other day with white, traded down to a queen and pawn endgame, but when I offered the trade, I saw my pawns were already set to promote on the QS it was a4 b4 and c5 vs a6 and b7, his king was on f7, after the trade I played b5, he took, then I played c6 and he resigned, casual game though, that would've been a big rating boost
Nice lesson, coach. I would not have offered a queen trade in any of the 3 positions. But I am not Botvinnik! Unlike the hypothetical player who likes to trade queens to make the game simpler or to protect themselves from stronger players, I hate to trade queens because I like attacking. When a queen trade is offered in my games, 90% of the time it is my opponent offering. This lesson is very timely for me, because I have been trying to improve my endgame. Too often I lose winnable games because I don't want to abandon the king hunt and simplify to a winning endgame. Thanks for the help!
If I see Nd1 then I’m assuming the opponent is getting ready to attack with the Queen. Usually with Knights if it’s a good player he’s anticipating a future position once the Queen moves that Knight can take the place and have good control of the center
Hey sir, can you make a video on how to evaluate middlegame and endgame positions? Would be useful to navigate through the middlegame and endgame knowing that....
2:57 At my level (around 1600 Blitz on Lichess) 90% of the opponents would still snatch my Queen immediately. Where do you find these flattering pictures of these famous grand masters for the intro?
@@NMRobertRamirez The pawn to e5 (a few seconds later), not followed by en passant and then trading Qs. Anarchychess is going nuts when they see this game! 😉
I think You can get REALLY high with tactics training IN blitz but NOT rapid or classical. my guess is something like 2000+ blitz . But you would probably have to play Open positions for the rest of your life with ONLY training tactical ability. Why do i think so? 1.You will not blunder if you are good tactically. 2.If you outplay your opponent in the middlegame tactically. you will get good endgames which will make you win. infact,Bobby Fischer said "Capablanca is admired for the wrong reasons", "He was not good at endgames ,but rather he was so good at tactics and middle game strategy that it lead him to better endgames . which resulted into him wining games". 3.Good intuition . being good at tactics makes you really good at lower time controls. i myself went on a 15 win streak in bullet by training tactics. 4.Know how to punish Greedy people. You will be able to slaughter when your opponent gets too greedy in taking a pawn but sacrificing development. 5.Making Tactics out of thin air. A good tactical player will know how to make tactics and attack the enemy . These are my assumptions. Though i could be wrong.
It can easily get you to 1000-1200 or even 1500 But you have to know what you're doing after that level with strategy and stuff coz people will stop blundering tactics at that level
