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GAME 1 0:38 We got a Petrov defense with Nf6! And you transposed back to the classic 4 knights ! I don't know if you always do that against the Petrov? It's fine tho but there are other possibilities of course ! 1:01 amazing start ! 1:20 Qf4 here seems to allow Nh5 with tempo on the queen, but then Qf3 is a fork of his knight and his a8 rook !! But Qd1 is also great ! The only other winning move ! 1:57 amazing position YEP ! 2:17 The material is equal so if you want to keep your advantage you have to act now !! I you give them too much they will consolidate, develop and castle and your advantage would be gone ! Qg4 brings the queen with tempo and makes it akward for black to defend, + it opens your light square bishop, + it controls g5 to play Bg5 and developing that dark square bishop more actively and with tempo ! 2:48 Here black is castling next move ! With such a great position you have to try to stop them or make it bad by preparing a huge attack ! Nf6+ would have been very nice ! 5:31 c4 does not put any pressure to black. After O-O you are barely better (you are but compared to before not so much !) 5:39 I still like your position too ! But black has no problem with pieces being out to great squares etc. They will play castle and d6 at some point and you center will soon not be so strong. 5:51 My advice for you on that topic : PUSH PAWNS: - when it restricts the opponent movement / space - when it opens lines (or free squares) for YOUR pieces DON'T PUSH PAWNS: - if it opens lines for your opponent's pieces - if it creates weaknesses that can be exploited easily I mean there is a lot more to this. BUT in this case : of course if dxe6 dxe6 you opened your rook ! But fxe6 opens his rook ! And whenever you take back you also open his light square bishop ! Black has then 2 strong bishops on the open board ! While your bishop is still stuck on f1. 6:55 yeah this is pretty tough then ! 7:27 that's why you never resign ! Here it's tough to find and hold but there are often ways to comeback even very bad positions ! GAME 2 9:29 The Vienna ! Btw here it matters what knight you develop 1st because if Nf6 1st they might play f4 the Vienna gambit ! Which you should meet with d5 ! 9:39 This is fine too ! Here I would neveeeer go d6, way too passive imo ! Na5 is possible yes, but also just move that dark square bishop out before playing d6 ! Both Bc5 and Bb4 are possible ! I like Bc5 because if they play f4 you have your bishop on a very annoying diagonal already ! And if they don't probably Nf3 will be played and it's just a standard italian! 10:19 yeah it's pretty passive. I don't like that way of playing the opening. You are spending like 3 moves (d6 Be6 Bxbishop) to trade 1 pair of bishops while white makes improvements ! Also you blocked in your own bishop with d6 and you are trading your good bishop (opposite color of most your pawns) 11:12 here it's too early for d5.. If yoi develop castle bring your rook to the center, then d5 is a great plan for sure ! Here you lose stability in the center, when you recapture e5 with your knight you can get kicked around while white builds a nice center ! 11:49 honnestly I thought it was a free pawn too 😂😂 Yeah always be careful with the open e file when your king in the center ! Qe2 is usually met with Qe7 but here your queen has another job after Nxd5... Tough game .. I think the passive opening was the main problem here tho ! GAME 3 13:52 Najdorf sicilian Yep ! 14:24 With g6 I like to call this the Dragondorf sicilian 😂 (a mix between the Najdorf and the dragon) 14:46 Ng4 not too scary but quite annoying ! I really like to have my dark square bishop in these positions, to trade it for his bishop and try to attack his king on the dark squares ! So yes it's best to keep that bishop, and if you have the chance, play f3 to prevent Ng4 ! Very common move in these positions ! 15:40 Yes h4 !! Opposite side castling = pawn storm to open files for your pieces to his king !! e5 is not great... your pawn on e5 will be very very weak, your are most likely losing it by force already.. Also it doesn't cause any problem for black.. there is not knight on f6 that is moving around... AND when you attack on 1 side (which you should do with h4) the best for the opponent is very often to strike in the center ! And here you are opening the center for him ... 16:34 But omg they played d5 ! NOW attacking on the side is much much stronger with a locked center ! Also now your pawns are strong and block his bishop !! 16:46 keep your strong pawns there, don't play e6 and give away your center pawn while opening up his bishop... 17:23 this is tough, Be2 looks very normal... 17:36 here you should see that d4 is coming tho ! GAME 4 19:05 e6 b6 ! The Owen's defense ! I've started to play this, very fun opening to play ! 19:43 I would have gone Bb4 as black to put more pressure into e4 ! It leads to very cool lines ! g6 is very weakening yep... 20:44 black is completely lost and they spend only 12 seconds... well deserved I would say 😂😂 Then pretty clean conversion ! (Except for the missed M1s 😂) GAME 5 24:48 scotch game ! I don't have much to say 😅 pretty clean normal game until 29:31 they botez gambit and resigned 😅 Well done ! GAME 6 30:49 Vienna again ! I already talked about that opening where I don't like that d6 Be6 idea. 31:12 Here the reason you can play d5 (and couldn't on game 1) is because they didn't play f4 so there is no pressure on e5! 31:35 I used to do that too ! Playing Bg4 before f5 comes. But if your bishop is not doing anything useful after h6 you are just losing time for nothing... Here you could play b5 and trade your bishop for his bishop ! (Instead of trading a knight) 34:03 Nh4 and there is no way to defend e4 anymore ! But this is tough to see in my opinion ! 36:01 ahah what a crazy sequence ! Beautiful !! 39:28 This is probably the 1st move I will consider 😂😂 sac to bring all the pieces to the attack ! BUT this is very dangerous as then f7 is not defended anymore ! So you need to keep attacking with tempo because of the mate threats ! 43:44 wild game for real ! GGs That was fun !

I have no idea how to count these games, I was counting one game per one day and when there was more than one game I was counting the first one, but here we have six games and I think I shouldn't count only one game because you scored three losses and three wins but for the other hand I shouldn't count all six games on one day because one game (one point to statistics) per day. What should I do?

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13:07 exchange french ! Yes it's known to be very equal because it's completely symmetrical ! In the exchange caro kann at least you trade e pawn for c pawn, here even pawns are symmetrical ! But I was thinking it's not too different from the exchange caro kann still, and just developing and playing natural moves should be fine here ! I don't think this is a tactical position with traps or something. 13:28 Nc3 is not considered best, Bd3 or h3 are more flexible I guess and preventing black from developing actively ! Nc3 allows Bb4 which would have been bad previously because of c3 ! But this are all small subtilities ! Personnally I like c4 to try and play actively but it's not the engine preference either (not bad tho) Usually in those d4 d5 positions I don't like to block my c pawn, I'm fine with either c3 or c4 ! 13:31 Here I wouldn't be scared of his last move ! Bxc3 bxc3 does not look bad for you at all ! 13:42 he is slightly better because you developed very passively while causing no problems to black ! And after Bf5 you saw why you can't even contest his bishop without making concessions! 14:01 Nh4 is also fine ! Not to worry 14:20 here h2 is attacked YEP, I guess h3 is the way to protect ! There is also g3 but I prefer h3 ! 14:28 Bxh2+ is considered innacurate because h6 first allows some more forcing lines for black ! And then Kh1 is usually better than Kf1 (and here too!) because you force black to spend a move to save their bishop because g3 is a threat to trap the bishop ! 14:42 the engine really likes g3 instead, trying to block that diagonal and maybe even contest it with your own bishop (g3 h6 Bf4). But this just leads to more solid positions and more trades so I don't hate that f4 idea and trying something !! 14:52 here you could play Bxf6 but after Nxf6 f5 does not trap their bishop anymore (d7 is now free) Also after Bxf6 they have Bxf4 immediately hitting your queen ! That's why Bxh6 w1s best well done ! 14:57 Bf4 great move by black yep ! 15:26 here you could take f7 as it's a check ! Taking the knight is bad as you saw because Rxe1+ wins your queen But yes this is all just very very bad for you ! 15:59 that might sounds stupid to some people but OMG being healthy is so OP in chess (and overall in life !) Sleeping well, eating well, doing some exercice etc ! My best chess always happens when I'm the most healthy ! But the difference can be so huge it's insane ! I wouldn't have expected that before 😅 Black played amazing that game ! Nothing to say about that ! But yes hanging h2 was the beginning of the end ! You should really not overlook these direct attacks during rapid games ! 16:38 Sometimes I like to do this ! Maybe more in blitz but still it helps seeing chess differently, seeing new kinds lf tactics or ideas (even if you don't know the opening). I don't know it frees you from the ideas you already know and you are stuck on ! It makes you think about your moves rather than playing your same plan every game and I think it's great sometimes !

Bullet is cancer.

Doing great, I only can get to 1500 but then I go back down to 1300

Great games

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Yo

nice vid

oh slowly you getting closer to 50 % winrate now. The struggel only starts now :D

farzy how long have you been playing?

9:13 d4 d5 g3 ! That's a move for sure. It's also very very solid for white. I sometimes try to transpose this to a catalan with Nf6 e6 and making them play Nf3 c4 which they will probably do. But some people just delay c4 even more. Also you can think of this like it's a d4 d5 position but it's your move so you can play Bf5 reversed London, c5 reversed Queen's gambit etc ! Nc6 I don't like because you block your c pawn which you want to move in those d4 d5 positions !! I like the idea of a quick e5 but white can prevent this ! 9:20 c3 is very passive by white ! Not preventing e5 at all ! Bg2 or Nf3 would have stopped e5 ! Now it kind of looks like a caro kann with g6 reversed 😂 I know Hikaru loves this system in blitz with c6 g6 d5. And I'm always so confused when I face it ! But e5 was the most accurate now because white could stop it next move again ! 9:25 But here Bg2 does not stop e5 because d5 is already defended enough times ! 9:29 yep it is! Already better development and center control so it makes sense ! 9:59 don't go Bxd5 Nxd5 Qxd5 Bc5+ 😂 11:41 Here you quickly talked about a5 saying it's not a move. And yes it will lose the bishop so don't do that 😅 13:26 I was surprised to see this move giving you the open e file ! That was a huge concession I thought (and I was correct according to Mr fish) 14:07 here you are attacking with a queen and a rook while he had only a bishop defending ! His queen is completely offside ! We saw this a previous game where you had Rxg2+ sacrifice because his queen was offside and unable to defend. Here again your attack is unstoppable ! 14:38 I mean Qe3+ is best BUT just Rxa1 take the rook, still threatening the bishop is crushing ! Apparently the best move after Rxa1 is Qxc4 sacrificing the queen to avoid an immediate checkmate so yes it's completely crushing ! 15:07 Nice little win !! Very well played game !!

18:54 This is the Najdorf sicilian ! One of the most complex opening in chess and one of the most studied ones too ! It's played a lot, even at the top level ! And here there are about 20 moves that white can play !!! They are all great and have different ideas ! Any move that you can think of that does not hang a piece or a pawn is playable here ! It has become kind of joke / meme that people should learn theory after all 20 moves that white can play here 😅 19:20 Bg5 is one of the moves yes ! Just don't play Bf4 instead ! 19:35 I'm not sure what qualifies for a "book move". But this opening have been studied soooo much I'm not surprised that most possible moves are book moves ! It must have been played by some famous chess players before ! 19:56 yes be careful of these tactical lines ! Here it's all fine for you tho ! 20:39 Here you did not have to move your bishop ! But again it needed some calculation (quite a lot actually): For exemple Kb1 Nxe4 Nxe4 Bxh4 it looks like you lost a pawn but Nf3 hits his bishop and the pawn on d6 ! Even if Be7, Nxd6 Bxd6 Qxd6 Qxd6 Rxd6 and it's equal ! And if d5 instead of Be7 (counter attacks your knight and saving the pawn), Nxh4 dxe4 Qd4 is a fork of both e4 and g7 ! Probably O-O Qxe4 and it's about equal again ! But some moves other than Kb1 could change something and make it work for black (Bd3 for exemple would block your attack on the d6 pawn in the end) So I don't hate Bg3 practicly speaking getting out of any of these tactics ! Engine prefers Bxf6 which looks weird but the idea is to not lose time ! Black will probably castle short, and opposite side castle means race to chackmate. And you are quicker to pawnstorm on the kingside if your bishop is out of the way ! 21:15 Nf3 to attack d6 but black has e5 that just shut down your idea and he is better apparently. Also Ne5 they can play. Your knight is blocking your f pawn now and it has nowhere to go really. Engine likes not moving the knight. If e5 then Nf5 is just amazing for you ! And otherwise Nb3 better square because e5 is met with f4 ! 22:04 The sicilian is scary for real ! I struggle a lot to understand these positions and I always make a ton of blunders according to Stockfish in these lines ! Very hard for me to understand it's all very subtil ! This is why I stick with my stupid side lines for now with white 😂 this is too complicated 😂 22:21 but they played b5 and hung d6 !! Free pawn we take it !! These retreating knight moves can be tricky ! 22:49 Rd2 I liked it ! Seemed natural to me Rd4 looked like the rook was getting kicked around but I guess preventing b4 was very important ! And your rook would be safe on b4. 23:17 If b4 was played, Nd1 and it's not that scary because Nxe4 runs into Rd4 and now it's a fork of his knight and b4 ! And f2 is defended by your knight on d1 ! Funky defense but it works ! But e5 is alright / about equal ! 24:00 Here the engine wants Rd4 again but now it's very tough as you just moved Rd2.. So Bd3 is actually the best move besides that ! 24:43 here e4 is defended enough times already ! And it controls d5 and blocks his bishop ! e5 opens his bishop and gives him the d5 square ! 25:13 Bxd5 was slightly prefered for them but with the same threats as what happened, just with Bxf3 coming first ! 25:16 Be2 is losing sadly... here Kd1 and Kb1 were the only moves to survive ! Get out of this c file ! Overall this is also why Kb1 is so useful when castling queenside ! Often we don't play it thinking it's slow, but then the game goes crazy with threats after threats and then there is a tactic but it's too late to go Kb1 ... Here on lichess on move 10 Kb1 was the best scoring move for white ! I guess sooner or later more people in the other lines fell for a trick exploiting the exposed king.. 25:52 we are down an exchange only but the position is just terrible.. black has very active pieces and is very solid, no clear weaknesses. So it's pretty bad here. Also g2 is falling immediatelly 26:10 Yeah somehow you always have a way out here because his king is there on the e file ! 27:07 And this was comeback time !!! Actually I've analysed a little but with very precise play by white it looks like it's a draw after Nc6 ! Because black long term has to give back pawns to get their bishop out of there (you could trap it after f3 Rg1) 27:27 dirty flag then ! Your time management was quite good this game I would say ! I guess it's easier when the opponent is also quite slow ! 27:43 GG !!! 28:00 very instructive for sure !

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Greetings from England 🙂 Enjoying your content, only started watching fairly recently, so began with the first games, but it may be a good idea to watch the current ones too! Best regards.

My Brother how can i be good at blitz

love this

200 elo left from this one

Lets gooooo

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w vid

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light the beam!!

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I've analysed that game but my comment keeps disapearing .. it has hapened already in some previous episodes, no idea what's wrong with it 😬

There was a more beautiful checkmate your opponent missed in the end after ...Nf6+, Kh8 Qc8+ with a queen sacrifice coz after Bxc8 Re8, the final two moves played in the game follows anyway, but much more forcing. your opponent complicated it a bit, and in the process actually gave you counterplay

If bishop took, you could have just taken the rook with checkmate (regarding the post game analysis with your queen on e5)

I found you

what elo did u start at?

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New Day, new Farzy video, New Poca analysis comment 😂 13:06 3 knights opening, expecting Nf6 for the 4 knights, but d6 is played ! Not the best but very solid ! So yes d4 is great but there is no immediate win of course ! 13:27 a6 not the best by black because it's slow but still developing normally is the best way to continue ! The engine really likes the idea of castling queenside and playing for a quick e5 push ! 13:40 that's why here Bf4 or Be3 were slightly prefered ! 14:19 here again engine slightly prefers to develop the queenside to castle long Honnestly I don't hate castling short with that open b file for black. And also it shouldn't change much your plans I think. 14:30 Qf3 is fine but I guess moving the dark square bishop first was better. Also the queen on f3 blocks future f4 ideas maybe (to prepare e5). 17:09 Here I guess you should realise that f4 is your idea ! So yes bringing a rook is great but your f4 rook is fine there if f4 is coming ! Maybe play f4 or bring the other rook that is for sure doing nothing there. 17:23 And now you thought of f4 but your last move just made it incorrect... Sadge 17:30 BUT here just play down the exchange with Qe3 ! Down the exchange is very much possible to save !! Making things more complicated is a great idea. BUT here Bg5 just makes you lose a full rook and trading queens ! Bad counter attacks often leads to a loss of material + a lot of trades which just leads to a dead lost endgame... In our blitz game today during the live stream I was down material but I still fought and made it as tricky as possible. You still won (GG) but I guarantee you most people will struggle or even fail to convert the material advantage (if you try to be very annoying)! So yes just accept the material lost sometimes. Avoid making it worse 😅 Yeah not much more to see then it was pretty lost .. 19:32 Check out the live streams guys ! They are awesome ! Blitz grind is also very fun and you could play VS Farzy ! 🥳

keep up the grind

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General Kenobi

16:19 QGD, semi tarrash defense ! Quite symmetrical at first But it can transform quickly !! 16:44 a3 prepares dxc5 Bxc5 b4, so cxd4 is correct ! (I mean it's also fine to allow it) 16:50 Be7 allows c5 ! Which is fine but that's why the engine like dxc4 first ! 16:55 but it's even better after they moved their bishop once ! 17:04 very common structure that emerges from this opening ! One side has an IQP ! I usually like to have the IQP but it's equal so just a personal preference I guess ! 17:20 a5 is very unintuitive I agree ! But It looks great in the end ! 18:38 Nd5 is not great because your knight on f6 is important to defend your king and important squares ! And here Nxd5 exd5 leads to a completelly symetrical structure where they just have better pieces with Nd5 coming, also Qd3 Bb1 forcing g3 ! 20:31 I likes a5 here trying to break thag structure and create weaknesses. Nce7 is fine tho, and the innacuracy is not deserved. Sometimes the engine just missevalutes during the game review 😅 20:48 Here Nf6 would be the best and more solid way to block the attack ! I would 100% play Nf6 here ! Nf5 allows g5 right away and after f6 Qe4 you defended but your position is still very bad ! 21:33 Qc6 allows Nd5 which is very strong ! But they play g4 which is here a huge mistake !! 22:55 Now Nf6 !! It blocks the mate And counter attacks his knight on f3 and then mate !! f6 defends and counter attacks BUT after Qe4 knight back, your position is still terrible and will fall apart.. nd4 is coming again ! 23:46 But Qe2 is a huge blunder again !! After Nf4 you are crushing !! The queen and the knight on f3 are hanging + some X-ray to mate his king ! 23:53 Move the king yep ! Even simpler ! But Nxe6 is also crushing !! 24:54 Here Nf4 is crushing ! If Qe7, Re8 and white is just dead lost with all the threats !! Ng5 is also crushing with more pressure on the knight ! Trading rooks is fine but now you need to be accurate to not allow counter play ! I wouldn't give the d file for no reason ! 25:22 Now Ng5 is the only winning move ! Nf4 fails to Qe7.. White has a draw as soon as you take on f3 ! And if Re8 then Rd8 by white !! Rxd8 Qxd8 Kf7 Be5 !! OK this is crazy 😂 But white has a draw If you take on f3, white wins if you take the bishop on e5 (Nxe5#) And if you don't take anything you are down 1 pawn in the endgame 😂😂 25:56 But they didn't find it !! 26:29 GG !! 🥳🥳 Crazy game !!

That was a very nice checkmate! I didn’t spot it

14:00 Sicilian defense by black ! 14:10 yes this is open sicilian ! And here the most common move for black (and the best one) is Nf6 attacking e4, and after Nc3 defending, then a6 is the Najdorf variation, or g6 is the dragon variation. But here black played a6 immediatelly. And every move except Nf6 (or e5 but it's not a great move either) allows you to play c4 immediatelly and get the Maroczy Bind structure ! It's usually very good in sicilians because you have great control over d5, a lot of space, a better control on the center etc. And it's quite difficult for black to do anything then ! Nc3 would be played next behind the pawn ! The idea of Nf6 1st for black is to provoque Nc3 and block c4 from happening ! But Nc3 is also very fine ! If you are more comfortable this way ! I guess you can just remember in open sicilians, if you have a chance to play c4 before Nc3 this might be a good idea to try it someday ! 14:17 If Nf6 instead this would have transposed to the Najdorf ! But e5 is played ! Here I did not consider Nf5 because Bxf5 and you surrender control of the center. BUT actually it's great because you still control d5 enough, with Bc4 is coming and black can never achieve d5 anyways ! And there is no good way to target f5 for black ! I'm also surprised but this is cool to know ! I think it's very specific here and Nf5 is not always great tho ! But here any knight move to a safe square is still fine ! 16:15 From here I think it's very important to understand that d6 is the main target as it's a backwards pawn ! You don't want black to play d5 without problem EVER. And you want to target d6 as much as you can. Also you never want your pawn blocking the d file (Nd5 Nxd5 exd5 would be bad for exemple) because then you block your attack on d6. Yes it's still backwards but you can't attack it anymore. And this is why Bg5 is very normal, and if h6, just Bxf6 ! When the knight is gone black loses control over d5 and it just becomes an amazing outpost for your knight !! Also if his bishop took back on f6, it must come back to defend d6 again ! So yes your next moves were all fine but don't be scared of Bg5 h6. It's great for you !! 16:23 Nd5 is fine here ! Bb3 was also possible ! If Qxf4, Nxe7+ Kh8 Qxe6 free pawn ! If Nxd5, Bxd5 is forced ! (exd5 would lose the bishop, and Qxd5 would lose to Be6 !) But even if it was possible exd5 must be avoided in these strucures to keep pressuring d6 ! 16:38 Here trading is okay BUT it opens the f file for him, and gives him more control over d5 (not an outpost anymore for your knight as there is a pawn controlling it) ! c4 (engine move) is kind of weird as it wants Bxd5 cxd5 but I guess there you have more space and his pieces are kind of weird. Not exactly sure tho. But Be3 or something ignoring this could be played. If Bxd5 then Qxd5 ! 16:45 The engine does not love this because after Bxg5 Nxg5 Qb6 black is targetting a few weak pawns, while making more threats. e6 is not too important when black is winning pawns in exchange and activating pieces (he will double rooks on the f file for exemple). 16:47 But Rxf3 is played and as you saw it's not best ! But that's just because they had better ! It's not that bad for them ! 17:01 yeah.. I mean taking e6 makes sense ! But after Qb6 black won back his pawn ! e6 is still weak even if you let it live for now 😂😂 Bh4 just defends f7 again and stays very solid ! 17:24 I mean the engine did not hate b4. Even after defending f2 instead it was tough to play in oy opinion ! 17:37 Rd8 is strong. Very annoying move ! It's always hard to play when your pieces are stuck: your bishop is pinned to your queen, your queen is tied down to defend your bishop but she also blocks the rook connection... But yes c4 would have been great to untangle !! c5 next and then you can move your queen and all your pieces are free again ! 18:26 Qd3 made sense tho ! Rd7 Bc5 is quite nice to only lose a pawn but free yourself ! Rd7 Rf1 was also possible (as you considered it during the game). 18:43 After all the trades, you are down 1 pawn on an endgame but pawns are completely symmetrical, their extra pawn is on e6 not doing much yet ! And you have a bishop VS knight imbalance ! 18:54 Here you should make a luft to avoid some backrank ideas. The problem with Rf8+ is that your a pawn is attacked ! And b5 does not work if they have Ra1+ (and then axb5). 19:25 so here Rxa3 is the move for black that wins a pawn as b5 does not work ! 19:29 but b6 was played. And you reacted way too fast !! You must trust your opponents a minimum 😂😂 You need to find a compromise between trusting your opponent a lot (and seeing ghosts / overthinking) and not trusting them at all (and blundering like this). This is not easy but just double check quickly if there is an obvious idea. And likely when a 1900 hangs something that obvious there is an idea ! But yes the endgame was interesting after Rc8 ! 20:38 it's not Rc7 it's just pawn c7 😂😂 21:28 Another game 🥳🥳🥳 21:43 4 knight scotch, main line ! The main move for white is Nxc6 bxc6 Bd3. The reason why white trades on c6 is because Bd3 immediatelly would block the defense and hangs the knight on d4 ! But Bg5 was played here ! 21:57 But this trade only helps you ! 22:05 Nd2 back or a3 is forced for white to defend this but it's already not great ! 22:08 Bxc3 is just completely game over. You only win a pawn + white can't castle anymore. But his king is way too exposed !! And it's not too hard to see.. I know Nxc6 is usually fine / great for white in this opening. BUT it's not because it's a known / common idea that it always works ! Don't tunnel vision on this ! BTW I also prefer dxc6 or bxc6 a lot more than Qxc6 ! Yes you double your pawns but you open your bishop, and open files for your rook so you can develop more quickly !! 23:02 Qd4 is better than Qd3 because the queen on d3 blocks his bishop ! Bd3 or Bc4 would be more active than Be2 (which was played in the game 23:25 here) 24:11 Re5 Rc5 is a funny manouver 😅😅 Sometimes it's great to physicly prevent castling, but sometimes it's better to just make threats and indirectly prevent castling ! Here Qb6 can be met with Qd4 and white will still be able to castle next or at least play Kf2 and avoid danger ! 25:12 So they castle ! But a pawn is a pawn ! Be careful to not get your queen trapped tho !! 25:48 Well done on playing Qb2 ! Not such an easy move in my opnion. I mean it is when you realise the danger and you did !! Rf2 was an immediate threat to trap your queen ! Among with many other moves that would end up still trapping it. 25:50 I woud have played a4 as white just threatening to trap your queen again 😂 but Rfb1 is fine ! 26:17 yes Rb4 is a nice thought ! a5 kicks the rook away but cuting of the queen like this is a great idea overall !! 26:59 Ba6 is the best move yep ! 27:15 c6 is also the best move I think 😅 together with d6 ! No idea why it says innacurate ! 27:24 Qe6 yeah just leads to an endgame where white dominates the open file ! Very tough to win ... The engine likes b5, queen back somewhere, and d5 !! Strike in the center by exploiting the pin on the e file ! 28:21 free pawn !!! 😂 ok d5 is also great ! 28:43 here white should have waited with like h3 or something. Because then if dxe4 (terrible move) Rdxe4 and you have 1 move to survive which is Red8 ! Very tricky ! But Rd1 allows dxe4 without problem for you ! 29:06 Qc8 here would have forced a queen trade ! 29:17 Be careful to not trade pawns too quickly ! It's still winning here but endgame up 1 pawn are not so easy to win !! 29:26 here if they played Rc1 you would have to convert that rook endgame up 1 pawn which is not always easy ! But Rd6 just loses a 2nd pawn ! And they resign ! GG !! 30:05 2000 blitz is way harder yep ! BUT the ratings get closer in rapid and blitz around 2000 ! The repartition is not the same so it's normal that below 2000 the rapid is higher than the blitz ! 30:21 See you there ! (On the next video or live stream !)

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as a 2000 myself i think this video was highly informative for beginners and even intermediate players.

i’m new to chess and i’m really enjoying this series man keep it up

me playin chess every day for 200 days straight and on 800 elo 😭

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