Again, your understanding of chess psychology shines through. Challenging instinctual discomfort and replacing it with understanding, evaluation, and calculation is spot on.
Man this is great, Andras! Thanks for putting this content out on a regular basis. It may seem thankless but I’m very thankful for your contribution to showing the beauty of the game!
Amazing video, when you flipped the board and showed it from Black’s perspective, that really hit hard. For some reason I’ve just never thought of chess in that way before, but I’m definitely going to start putting myself in my opponent’s shoes in a psychological sense more often. Thank you !!
Great lesson! Trying to put myself into Kasparov's position before he played g4, I'm sure that I would have immediately gone for Bc2 and Kh1 first. I think that there are a couple main reasons that weaker players, like myself would completely overlook his move: 1) It's so committal. I'd much rather start w/ Bc2 and Kh1, so that I can create follow-up threats sooner after committing the g-pawn forward, and I retain the option to discard that plan if it starts looking less promising as the game progresses. 2) The c and e files are already open. I'm sure we're all pushing comfortable sending the g-pawn forward next to the f-pawn in a typical KID structure since the center is closed, and most of us know that it's okay to push on the flanks in those cases. Kasparov is able to judge that black can't manufacture sufficient counterplay in the center to punish g4, but someone like me just sees the open files and says, "center open, g4 bad" haha.
Chess psychology and learning principles make a lot of your videos really valuable, even for a chess beginner like me (actually I'm a great fan of your coaching logic and style). I'm considering to get private lessons from a chess coach, but first I need a piece of advice on my opening selection to study (I've watched already your video about this topic, really useful to me), just to avoid wasting time in learning an opening that has to be left when you become more experienced in chess. Is there an email address or contact form to get in touch with you? Thanks!
Again, your understanding of chess psychology shines through. Challenging instinctual discomfort and replacing it with understanding, evaluation, and calculation is spot on.
Man this is great, Andras! Thanks for putting this content out on a regular basis. It may seem thankless but I’m very thankful for your contribution to showing the beauty of the game!
Thanks NIck! Appreciate the kind words! And yes, it does seem like an endless and hopeless battle..:(
Amazing video, when you flipped the board and showed it from Black’s perspective, that really hit hard. For some reason I’ve just never thought of chess in that way before, but I’m definitely going to start putting myself in my opponent’s shoes in a psychological sense more often. Thank you !!
Great lesson! Trying to put myself into Kasparov's position before he played g4, I'm sure that I would have immediately gone for Bc2 and Kh1 first. I think that there are a couple main reasons that weaker players, like myself would completely overlook his move:
1) It's so committal. I'd much rather start w/ Bc2 and Kh1, so that I can create follow-up threats sooner after committing the g-pawn forward, and I retain the option to discard that plan if it starts looking less promising as the game progresses.
2) The c and e files are already open. I'm sure we're all pushing comfortable sending the g-pawn forward next to the f-pawn in a typical KID structure since the center is closed, and most of us know that it's okay to push on the flanks in those cases. Kasparov is able to judge that black can't manufacture sufficient counterplay in the center to punish g4, but someone like me just sees the open files and says, "center open, g4 bad" haha.
Chess IS beautiful. Thank you for showing us some of the beauty!
Pawn play is hard. Posted for the algorithm.
Thanks Coach. Always appreciated
Nice topic
Great! Please more of this topic!
Was waiting for a video ;-)
Love the mug moment!!
Super thanks
Chess psychology and learning principles make a lot of your videos really valuable, even for a chess beginner like me (actually I'm a great fan of your coaching logic and style).
I'm considering to get private lessons from a chess coach, but first I need a piece of advice on my opening selection to study (I've watched already your video about this topic, really useful to me), just to avoid wasting time in learning an opening that has to be left when you become more experienced in chess.
Is there an email address or contact form to get in touch with you?
Thanks!
ooh knight e4 is nice...
Bless u!
Not sure Fischer would agree with you on Kasparov being the GOAT
For Fischer himself it was Morphy btw