Wow, this Anna-lysis was SO amazing for me because several times we had the same ideas and problems (and I am a player of the lowest league in our area). One example is the "taking-back-issue". Thank you very much for this video. I hope I learned a lot while watching it.
You know Anna, I feel bad sometimes because ma family and friends around me have very hard times and I also have so much stress and pain. Watching your videos and see how much energy you have makes me feel very comfortable. Thank you for this awesome experience :) I also want to say, I love your mom and her commentary. I try to watch the lives as much as I can, but I work late :D
I think she studies her opponent's games & their moves, just like in MMA or poker. She blurs out her screen, you can see it in her past videos, day 1-5. So I don't think she'll reveal it for us.
The Cow can work agains an engine pretty well, I guess. I have used it to draw the Isabelbot (1600) a few times, and I got to like 35 moves against the Questionmaster, but you have to kind of play an "adaptive cow," because there are ways to make a Cow player's day rather difficult. But, what do I know, I almost never win. 🙂
i really appreciate the breakdowns of your matches. it helps me learn and though im not a chess player professionally it is a game i love to play for fun. your content is so inspiring. have an amazing tournament.
Bless for the positive content, always something to turn to if things aren’t going so great during a moment in time. Congratulations on the having a sick tournament so far, momentum is on your side!
i really like this new style with a little vlog section before the analysis :) also, thank you so much for taking the time to not only record but analysing ur games even when it’s already late at night + editing the videos fast enough to post them every day as well 🩵 i really appreciate all the dedication and effort! with that said, please remember to sleep and eat well and to rest a lot!!! kisses from Portugal 💫🫧🪻
I started randomly to look Anna's videos following youtube's suggestions, I stayed for her smile, kindness and positivity.... now I am playing chess :).
Hey Anna, I really appreciate the effort you put into your videos! I just hope it's not too much playing a professional tournament AND filming daily videos at the same time. Even crazier if you edit the videos yourself (which I really hope you don't). Please don't overwork and take care of yourself!
You asked what we might have done differently. I don't play at your level, but if I was in a similar position as you at 10:11 I might have moved the rook to A7 instead of sacrificing the pawn. If he pushed the pawn to B6 I take the pawn at C7 and pin the knight. If he saw that coming, I still get the pawn at B7 for free. One or the other pawn was going to be free to take and maybe the knight too. (All of that analysis was made without pressure from the clock, of course. That darn clock changes everything sometimes.)
Yes, you should have long castled asap, mainly to double up the rooks. Also Qc2, lining up the bishop and queen on h7 would have given him a lot to defend. Or triple up and put the queen on the G file too, between the rooks. If you have an opening, attack, attack, attack! Still, 3.5, really good, keep it rollin!
Thank you very much indeed for your nice videos. I was spending some time in Mallorca until the day before yesterday and I feel so sorry I did not know there was a chess tournament there. Otherwise I would have loved to visit the competitions (if visitors were allowed of course). Enjoy the rest of the tournament. Good luck !
Hi from NZ, Richard. I don't play OTB much but sometimes watch or play chess online or here. Prefer the vibrancy of Anna! She would laugh and smile regardless which is one good thing. The other I used in a tournament was to set a goal of 50%. I was trying to help a stronger player who wanted to beat IMs more! My advice was to visualize winning and feeling good, then drawing also, then losing and getting through. It three visualizations. Then, whatever happened, study for the NEXT game. Also I found some unusual lines some of his opponents played and some fairly unusual replies. A mistake he made was to play the opening he always plays with the Sicilian against a young IM. he was focusing (rightly) on making the right moves etc but needed to watch what was happening. The father of the boy, also an IM, was not doing well. My guess was he was devoting preparation time to assisting his son so they targetted my friends opening. A good switch for that game might have been to the Centre-Counter. Otherwise the main focus is just what Anna is doing. Keeping fit, trying to keep alert (yes coffee was always at tournaments in the good old days, I used to even take a thermos and eat my lunch during the game,a nd walk around etc but the organizers are getting more and more paranoid....hence in balance I prefer a few games on line esp. at my age. But Anna is attractive and more interesting in not only that way but as a commentator than most GMs most of whom are monumentally dull....
Your videos are refreshing, love your energy and the format. Hopefully you continue making this content with other tournaments 🙌🏽 Edit: And the music you put while fast forwarding your games is perfect 👌🏽
at 5.30 - IMHO - rather than juggle to gain extra moves, let the Queen come to D4, it loses ALL momentum in that position - then the idea to shift the Rook to G1 to pin the king, knight to E4, with the threat of bishop to H6. Black King has to move to H8 or F7 - you have three moves that limit his actions and stop his development. It costs the pawn on H2, but you have both bishops and queen lined up onto the King
Congratulations on your victory yesterday and even though today ended in a draw, you have not yet lost in this tournament , so use the experience to make you better for your next match. You are doing really well!!!
I understand your feelings after this game, but you are good at keeping everything in a balanced overall perspective, which in the case of this tournament is really quite positive. Glad for you. BTW, have you given an update on how things have gone for your father?
Good game. You're going well in this Tournament, and still taking the time to provide valuable content. Your opponent did well, this time, in rescuing a poor situation for him, to make the draw. Pretty solid play there.
I would've tried to squeeze the king and a piece between E6 and H6, either winning a piece or trading off a rook for 2 minor pieces and entering the endgame up a pawn and the exchange.
First, I love the videos. Hate that you had to draw... My question, and I may be missing something, but at the 8:33 mark in the video, could you not have taken the knight at G7 with your Queen, while being covered with your Rook, forcing checkmate? Am I missing something? Anyway good luck the rest of the tournament Anna, I'm definitely pulling for you!!!
Hi, you are so funny :) It is a great pleasure to watch your videos. In fact it gave me the will to start play chess again after several years. This is may be an obvious question, but what is the chess engine you are using in your videos ? And for my comments on the game, I guess you were too confident when he did a mistake, so you did not play as strong as when you are threatened.
Great Job! I admire your mix of being smart and being a regular person.... sleeping in but studying hard before the match...and going to the pool..HAHA! You gotta go to the pool! Good luck I am rooting for you! Great video!
Getting exercise & sunlight will put more oxygen in your blood & therefore your brain. Exercise will always help. Clay Millican a professional dragster driver actually has his blood sugar level checked minutes before he drives because his reaction times have been faster when his blood sugar is within a particular range.
@@joshjje of course it's not her, just a stupid bot spamming everywhere. It's a well known disease plaguing RU-vid for a long time. If you see such accounts, report them instantly
Maybe instead of check on h6 I would have gone for Rook takes knight on d7, then he takes with the king. Then you take with your king on b7. Next you king b6 back again. He can't check or take anything so he moves his king to d7. Then C5. If he takes, you take with your king and you have a pass pawn and your king to protect it. That's maybe a win. But just maybe.
I can't see why you didn't take the knight on G7 with your queen at 8:32. I can't see anything that would be able to take the queen, and the queen is protected by the rook. Wouldn't that have been checkmate? (Very novice here, just wondering why something that looks to be a game finishing move was ignored).
It always looks easy when the GMs play something in an even position and it works. How do they find those plans? Aren't their games even more difficult than this one? Bobby Fischer said, "You have to give squares to get squares" and generally that's true with plans against strong opponents. To have a plan that works you have to give up something else -- and that goes against everything we've learned to do to avoid losses.
At around 9:19 you moved your king to d2. Why not simply move rook (f4) to g4 doubling rooks on the g-file and winning one of those pesky knights (g7) before it could go horsing around? It wins a piece with no counterplay and quickly enough the queen side pawns (or more black pieces) come off. Black is powerless to defend the knight. He could play the bishop to g6 but then you advance harry the h pawn. shuffle a rook around but one way or another that would do the trick. The advanced black pawn on f3 can be picked off with the king at leisure.
"Goodnight everybady, don't forget to eat your vajtables! Ah've eaten them, and thar good!" Brilliant sign-off, has absolutely nothing to do with chess, and it was made all the funnier with your quirky accent and super-close-up! It was ultra-geeky of you, but I actually laughed out loud. 😂
Could have won this game easily! 5:42 the Queen is already trapped! You go Bishop g5. Queen must go d4 You go Knight e2 Queen must go a7 (anything else loses Queen) Now you go Bishop h6. From there you win the game in less than 10 moves!
Chess principles are for support begginners high level players break the principles all the time because they know when Anna could have had a bigger advantage if she castled in the right moment but in the macht she was never worse
I was watching live yesterday and please do not let the clock run down to 0.03 before making a move. That is cutting a bit close. Now to bring up twitch as round 7 has started
Believe it or not, apparently, June 17 in the United States is the "National Eat Your Vegetables Day". I did not make it up ... Internet did 🤣. So, if you are happy for Anna or just want to celebrate something... go and have your five servings on vegetables :))) (timestamp: 14:03 = "I have eaten them... and they are good!!!") 😄
Let's see what I would do... I would leave the playing room, jump into the pool, come back drenched dripping all over the place. My plan being breaking all my opponent's lines of thinking and (maybe) win.
Thats not how it works in this case having a lot of pawns is a problem for Anna because the opponent has more pieces so is hard to defend then all to win these end games you get to have a better structure than his opponents and to do that you have to make the right pawn breaks to create more weakeneses on the opponent position só they cant attack you because they pieces are occupated defending their pawns
