The best defense for black (at least it feels that way) · Road to 2500, Game 69
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024
- The best opening to fight against 1.d4. This defense is solid enough to ensure no early complications, and it gives Black a ton of fighting chances and opportunities to complicate and attack.
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These are the stats after 69 games:
Starting rating: 2251
Current rating: 2287 (+36)
Current score: W 33, L 21, D 11, C 3
Days left: 393
Rating: 2287/2500
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On a more serious note, thoughts like "I need to play quicker" only deal with the proximate cause of the problem. It's true you play much worse without time to think, but that's even true of D. Gukesh, and he has an outside chance to be World Champion.
The real issue is that tactical vision is poor. It's taking you a little while to see things that should be completely obvious. I can only recommend Woodpecker Method as it has worked very well for me. The point though is that sustained work is needed on improving tactical vision (not calculation yet). I think it's pretty clear that 2250-2300 is your genuine level on Lichess Rapid and 2000 FIDE, so you need to do some long-term work to get to 2500 Rapid and 2200 FIDE and as the weakest area, maybe this should be where you put in a little work.
13:08 black had Ng4+ followed by Qh3+ and Nf2+ winning a pawn with a nice advantage.
Man, at 1:40 you missed Qa4+ by playing Nf3 so fast. According to the engine, you'd have been up about +4 and would have also been up a piece for a pawn at the end of the line. You weren't under any time pressure there, it seemed just more careless than anything. Something to keep in mind.
Good luck at your tournament! And thanks as always for sharing your chess journey!
we are all Hanging Pawns at the end of this video! Been there too many times
After the opponent played d6 there is Qa4 check you missed that on the analysis so i wanted to point it out
Hope you're still going to recap Ding and Gukesh would love your take on that last good game.
I dont know if you both missed attacking initiatives, but that was a pretty passive game
You mantained your composture for the whole game, its reasonable to get mad at how it ended, it would be weird not too. You played quite well, much better attitude. It's just hard to play with increment at the low time because one has to adjust to the available time changing up and down. You were on low time
Insanely intense game really you played well
Don't sugarcoat it, a poor game for both players...
@ what I really thought they both played well
On move 24, Black had a nice tactic that could’ve won a pawn by force. 24… Ng4+ 25. Kg2 Qxh3+ 26. Kxh3 Nf2+ 27. Kg2 Nxd3 28. Rc3 Nb4 29. a3 Nc6. Not sure if that’s the best continuation, but I imagine Black’s slightly better with the extra pawn. Rce1 to control e2 was probably more accurate.
I have seen that too, but both players missed it. Stjepan was aware of Ng4+ but didn't see any danger?! Black had a lot of opportunity to attack the white king and it was frustrating to see both players missing the key moves...
9:44 in other words, “it’s kind of distracting that my opponent moves quickly because it doesn’t allow me to think on his time”
That was an epic game!
It is much easier to decrease your overall rate of blunders by identifying and eliminating the reason for "unnecessary" blunders (such as blunders that happen if you fail to ask the most simple question: what will my opponents reaction to this move be?) than it is to increase your overall strength by so much that your blunders are less severe or slightly less likely to appear.
I am mostly a silent viewer, and I only say this because I want to see you do well, but I am starting to get irritated by the amount of times you seemingly get a fine position, only to then play a move you didn’t even calculate for more than 5 seconds and blunder away the game or full point.
Your opponent had the initiative nearly that whole game. You definitely didn't come out of that opening well.
Pretty sure we're getting trolled at this point.
nice
Time seems like a recurring issue.
cracked under endgame pressure.
e4 better than Bg5
When I saw Stjepan play a4 at 54:34, I knew he had blown it. He had to play a3 and keep his options open. He created a permanently weak pawn on b3 and a hole on b4. It was a horrible choice. I've got just about a 1300 rapid rating and no official ELO, and I could see that right away.
Edit: Still watching the game in progress. I thought that pushing the g pawn was a mistake, as he was not in a position to promote. After looking more carefully, I see that Kc7 pretty much forces a trade of knights. White then has to chase down the g pawn or it will promote. That allows black to put his king in the center of the board, a completely winning position. I see that black missed that opportunity, though.
Don't believe this nonsense in the thumb and description. The best opening is what Stjepan loses to in the coming video.
We can t read the name and the elo of the opponent, it s to small.
Tks for all.
I can read it, even on minimized screen on my phone.
The best defense for black? Why?
Because it feels that way
The Nimzo and the Grunfeld are considered the best tries for black against D4 by most. In this case with the nimzo it provides an exceptionally solid yet flexible defense with dynamic differences between the two players. The Nimzo is also relatively straight forward from blacks perspective as the whole goal is to control E4. White either has to make concessions to achieve E4, or black has to go terribly wrong. Also important to note, from a strategical aspect the main goal out of the opening is to get a pawn on D4 AND E4 at top level play. This is why if you go back to the early 1900's many top players first played the king's gambit as a pawn sacrifice just to obtain the positional plus in the center. They quickly found out the king's gambit was not the best and over half of the top players switched from E4 to the Queen's gambit by the 1930's as they realized Dxc4 leads to a big center and is not in fact a free pawn. The Nimzo fights and stops this strategy straight from the start which is why today 60% of all master games avoid the nimzo with 3.G3 or 3.Nf3 instead of playing 3.Nc3. This also doesn't take into account the players who play 1.c4 or 1.nf3 where some players play those moves on turn one as a way to not enter a Nimzo ie. if you were a C4 player 1.C4 Nf6 2. Nc3 E6 3. E4! where not only has white avoided the Nimzo but has obtained central domination.
Thanks
@@zxien1 thank you for the informative reply, much appreciated.
Its kinda annoying that you analyze properly only after your wins
I agree
Loser’s mentality
I agree. I love Stepan and have been following his channel for at least 2 years.
But these games have become less and less instructive. Maybe it would be best for you the give it some time after the game is finished and then go back to it to analyze and explain.
Anyway, I am a big fan, keep up the good work!
Please please please dont have that mirror behind you when recording.
Crushed like a bug in the endgame...