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how much time it took for u to reach from 1200 to 1800 ?

White's opening is called the Grand Prix attack. Just YT it versus CK to identify best lines and tricks (such as gambiting h5 to castle long).

Nice gameplay

You can draw lines so we cam see what ur calculating by holsing right click and drag

The 15. Nxg7 sacfifice is insane

Are you sure you couldn't push d4? looks like 3 attackers 4 defenders ( 10:45 ).

Anstatt Lf5 in der Eröffnung hätte ich Da5 und dann auf Sc3 mit der Dame den Läufer geschlagen. Das wäre doch Figuren Gewinn, oder??!

F4 you want to play H5, Bishop C4, Knight H8, Knight F5, after you push the caro pawn like usual on move 2. The idea is if they push the pawn to attack your bishop you let them take opening you rook. Then you have bishop C5 mate or close to it with the rook and bishop or queen checking, it's just all kinds of nasty stuff. look at it with an engine.

Good game Andrew Tate

he blundered and then you blundered🤣🤣🤣

Black's first move didn't make sense to me because he's just hanging that pawn, so why not just take the free pawn with the bishop? I couldn't see any purpose to sacrificing that pawn? Seems like the only reason to sacrifice that pawn is to get the bishop to move from that square but I couldn't see any reason behind that either.

you should raise your level of calculation more than going deep into the lines in the course. some ideas there require calculation in order to be fully understood. and also in more than half of the positions you face, you need to think for yourself anyway and here calculation and logical thinking usually are enough, even if you don't remember the exact lines. the course helps when you understand it fully along with the nuances, but really the biggest upside of it is when you get to 2000 and above. i am around 2000 in playing strength. that is when you start facing the actual lines in the course more often that it makes learning the lines more valuable. calculation and logical thinking can get you close to 2000, having the course only slightly improves the speed of that progress and only if you understood the course to some degree. so focus on the universally useful things like calculation (this includes tactical vision and evaluation) and technique (includes logical thinking, mostly about how to increase an advantage in a methodical way without creating unnecessary complications, also converting to a win in the same manner.) i personally wouldn't recommend the caro kann as a starting repertoire just because you surrender space voluntarily and mostly you are on the receiving end of tactics when you should be on the other side of that. i always give 1 e4 e5 as a starting opening. the qgd and 1 e4 i have no complaints. the point is just to experience tactical fights that you initiate, not the opponent. qgd is lukewarm in that regard but good enough for me. the biggest improvement i got was when i changed they way i play from very dry and technical ( i had the caro kann, some boring line of the qgd and a boring line in the 1 d4 openings like the london) to tactical. (1 e4 for white, 1 e4 e5 ruy lopez and king's indian for black) i did not like tactical play but i realized i needed it as a foundation for everything else and that i did not have to like it i just need to be good at it and so i made the change. it may not work for everyone else but in my opinion tactical skill is needed if you want to get near 2000, and therefore the positions and consequently the openings one should play should be tactical in nature if it can be done. i am not saying the caro is entirely dry because i know there are some sharp lines there but that is mostly because white chose them and not black. i would prefer to be able to create the sharp position than wait for my opponent to do that. this is also why i wouldn't recommend the french defense either for the same reasons. you can keep the caro but be mindful that you should try to get tactical positions whenever you can as it is already very difficult to get it there to begin with.

earlier in the game, if you want to castle short then be7 should be played. it's possible to castle long and keep the game as sharp as it can get, and there it doesn't matter that white can take on f6 since you are angling to attack his king anyway and gxf6 helps you and not him. so therefore if you intend to castle long qc7 bd6 and preferably ne7 so that you can move all of your pawns and you have a lot of options. putting the knight on f6 is a bit of a committal move here believe it or not. it takes away some of your sharper options. some f6-g5 plans or f6-e5 even. this is why if you can, you should first start with qc7 (stopping bf4 incidentally) bg4 and bd6 and only decide where the knight should go depending on whether you want a sharp position or not. nf6 goes with 00, while ne7 goes well with 000. with the minority attack you can prepare it by first bringing your pieces to their optimal squares, bd6, rb8 rc8 qc7 nc4 if possible, while you should not allow white to meet ..b5 with b4, when he can follow up with a knight reaching the c5 square (nb3-c5 or sometimes nd3-c5) remember that when you play b5 you cannot fight for the c5 square anymore so allowing a knight there supported by 2 pawns is just positional suicide. this also explains why the bishop should be on d6, keeping an eye on c5 and e5 where the knight might go.

it is okay to count the material at the start, and see which pieces are loose. pieces with 0 defenders are loose, pieces with equal defenders and attackers are still subject to tactics but require more advanced execution, but in order to make this as close to a game thinking process, you should ask yourself what the opponent is intending to do on the last move, and after that, what changed as far as safety of the opponent's pieces is concerned. after bxc4 immediately the knight on a4 becomes loose. so here logically you should try to exploit that. the most direct attempt is qb4 which is what you found. if you continue to calculate this to where it fails this may give you an idea of how it might work if you improve on why it fails. the key here is seeing that 1..qb4 fails because of 2 rxe3 when you have to take on e3 again because re8 is hanging, and white takes on e3 again no matter what you take with, because here additionally your bc8 is hanging and your king is weak, this maybe the hard part for you to appreciate right now, as usually you need to reevaluate piece safety in a tactical sequence like this since the safety swings erratically, here when the rooks disappear suddenly both your king and your bc8 are tactically weak because of a check on e8, and this makes white resist in the qb4 line, since now he has qe8+ at the end if you take the knight on a4. but what if white did not have counterplay on the e file, and how do i eliminate that, this should help you find 1 ..rxe1 forcing 2 nxe1 when now white has no counter anymore to 2...qb4, additionally now the queen has to guard ne1 so that he cannot even go qc2 to save both na4 and rc3 as ne1 drops to ..rxe1. so you should try to overcome resistance in your calculation. a line that fails sometimes fails for one idea that the opponent has, and if you manage to find a counter to this idea the line can be improved to where it actually works. so when you calculate a line that fails, try to make it work by tinkering your calculation a bit. ask yourself why specifically does it not work and maybe you can do something about that.

I think blitz is fine for improvement but you should first establish a base first, like focus on longer time controls first, if we are being honest, people say 10-0 is long but 5-0 blitz is practically the same thing unless your playing 15-10 or 1:30:00 then i think its fine also i find myself thinking and calculating in blitz granted i mainly play 5-0 also implementing puzzles with no limit on time also helps you definitely can improve but yes, the only way to improve long term in chess is longer time controls but once you have a base and have chess understandings, deep analysis of your games also helps, chess is mainly a game of pattern recognition and this is amplified in blitz, tactical awareness is key in shorter time controls

Thnx big bro. It really helped me a lot!!. Keep it up!!

You can treat early f4 against Caro-Kann as very bad French defense for white. The most frequent scenario is something like 1. e4 c6 2. f4 d5 3. e5 Nh6 4. Nf3 e6 5. c3 c5 6. d4 Nc6 7. Be3 Nf5 8. Bf2 cxd4 (8... Qb6 is also possible, but it transposes to the given line) 9. Nxd4 Nfxd4 10. cxd4 Qb6 11. Qd2 Bd7, and black has good French-type position: black lightsquare bishop is not so ugly there, and certainly it will have some activity on the board, and even in the worst case of scenario you will be able to exchange it for knight.

why not Nf8 earlier

I do watch your videos and post comments. But what I get in exchange is not a fruitful conversation. Therefore I shall stop because u have nothing to share about the positions.

Indeed. For adults who are under 2000 FIDE, Blitz harms improvement. But it's not the same for masters, or kids.

In Pump Up Your Rating by Axel Smith, he says a maximum of five blitz games per day, is sufficient. When u get in zeitnot, it’s good to have a little practice. Plus it helps your repertoire. Consult and correct each line played with the KIS books u have.

This is a very good workout u r doing. Time is not essential. U r improving your visualisation over the board. Don’t be discouraged by the rating. A very good book to start tactics, is Learn Chess Tactics by John Nunn.

Now please try a different setup chess such as Barbaric Chess. Setup: krbnqbnr/qnpppppp/ppp5/8/8/5PPP/PPPPPPNQ/RNBQNBRK/

I don’t like this Nxe7 as Black lacks space, he’s trying to exchange pieces to create more room for the remaining. I would have tortured my opponent by backing my knight despite what computer says.

I’m not so scared of Black taking the b pawn. Giving a little material knowing that his king is in full center plus u r much better dvp should not cause any problem. U don’t need to find these computer lines, just trust the instinct.

I like this c3-d4-cxd4 as u establish a strong center. Plus u have this c3 square for the knight. Usually black players don’t allow such play, as the main strategic advantage in the Open Sicilian for Black is to have a 2 vs.1 in the center. But your compensation is the quick development of pieces. Here u get a 2 vs.2 plus good dvp. So u r much better already I believe. …Rc8 is a natural square for the rook. But he should first castle to protect his king. This …e5 move is curious with a Dragon setup. It looks like your opponent wanted to play a Najdorf pawn structure, he confused both I think. h3 justification could be to protect the back rank so that your king has an escape square on h2. But the tactics in the position call that waiting move a blunder.

Instead of playing blitz, u should learn your pawn structures so that u know the plans in the position. There is a very good book called Chess Structures : A Grandmaster guide by Mauricio Flores Rios.

i also like playing the queen gambity

Good game

Hey I wanted to know is the book good and helpful what would you recommend