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► Chapters 00:00 How to analyze your chess games with the computer/engine? 00:18 Analyzing chess games with Stockfish/lichess engine 00:57 GM Smirnov argues with engine's review 02:05 The RIGHT way to analyze games with engines 04:05 Positional Understanding + Computer's Ideas 05:27 What to do in the middlegame? 07:26 Computers are there ONLY to ASSIST you! 10:00 GMs DON'T calculate everything 11:39 Same strategic/positional rule applies to a different position 14:31 GM Smirnov feels like he's Hikaru Nakamura 17:23 Summary (2 key takeaways)
One of his BEST videos for those of us trying to use engines to improve our games; much he says I , after time and frustrating review and angst, had already concluded regarding engine analysis versus my own, but nice to have a GM confirm my conclusions. . A "How He Thinks" video (it may be ins a purchased video) is also a great help. Thanks, Igor.
I’ve learned more from you in the last 3 months than all my time playing chess. Your right about the computer chess engines being humbling. Any time I get over 90% accuracy I feel I did good. Also your right about the engine doing moves that dont make sense without explanation. Sometimes I just use the engine for the next 5 moves just to see why it did a particular move. Then I just go back and play the moves I want. The engine has done some amazing checkmate moves that I would have never seen. This is the absolute best chess instruction channel. Thanks
The evaluation + engine lines tells you if the move is good or not. Marking a move as good, best, or excellent is just a reflection of the evaluation, and isn't that useful without seeing the evaluation and engine lines.
I think if you want to get better more quickly at chess you should ditch game review anyways. Looking at an analysis board with 3+ lines is more useful in general. Game review gives that dopamine tho. Best thing is to analyze yourself before using an engine
This is incredible! Thank you GM Igor! But please answer WHY you think the computer disagrees with you. At the 2:05 mark for example, after the exchange of bishops, the black Queen is activated. But yet the computer thinks for white to exchange bishops is the best move. WHY do you hypothesize the computer thinks that and disagrees with you?
A much needed and appreciated video. I have tried to force myself to learn 1-2 key ideas from every video, and that has been difficult enough. This video explains exactly why. Thanks and congrats
I like that you teaching in a very human way, thinking all thoose mistakes we make as human. I don't mean a specific move or a specific blunder, but the psychology behind humans. Some of us overcommit to analyze, some of us wanna win too hard. so on.. And if we are tired all of us makes very stupid blunders.
Hello, Could you consider making a course for players above 2000 fide one day? I'm sure you have lots of interesting tips & advice for this range. Even if this audience is not as large as beginners/intermediate players, I'm sure it will interest many people. Some of your videos on YT like when you analyze your own games, use your mnemotechnic rules & and give insights about your thinking process when playing are awesome and I would love to see 20 or 30 games like that. Or something about typical mistakes you often see in the games of 2000-2200, etc. Thank you & have a great day!
A great example of the top stockfish line not always being the best move from a human perspective is the blackburne gambit, where the top line is Nxd4, creating an annoying pawn on d4 that doesn't let white develop their b8 knight naturally, while after simply castling instead white completely refutes the opening, just up a tempo with no compensation.
It is true that I usually ignore the inaccuracies and mistakes because they can become overwhelming and I may not get much out of it. The blunders though, I study the alternate lines. Still, I have to admit, I can't always see why or what else I could have done.
This Guy really helped me improve my game...In one year I gained 350 elo and the last 30 days I am winning almost 58% of my games. Played 120+ games in this time
A stupid rule I’ve given myself that helps is “When you feel like you’re forced to play a bad move, don’t” it’s rare that there is absolutely nothing that can be done. Maybe there’s a sacrifice that must be made but you should be able to do something to take advantage of the strengths of your position.
I use the engine to focus on what my blunders are and why, and then what would be a better move would have been...it helps, but it can be frustrating at times.
Engines are great, but "+7" sometimes means "if you can find series of only moves in time, you will win". "+0,7" often means "you have an extra pawn, which is enough to win 95% of such positions".
The way how computers approach chess is completely different from how humans approach it. We humans approach chess through intuition, creativity, skill, and knowledge. But the reason why computers do so well in chess is by the fact that they are able to calculate millions of positions per second without possesing any human weaknesses.
Igor. Thanks and very useful. I follow your instructions and read games in books and everything is patently obvious. But when I play against computer I make a mess time and again. When playing I simply do not see what I perceive as obvious when following your teaching (or that in a book). Why can I not translate intellectual understanding into a game? It is so frustrating!! Kind regards, Michael (76) from NI
the best advice i can give is play against chess bots in (advanced or master bots in my situation) "full assisted" mode. those games will teach you a lot.
Thank you for explaining that computer really mess up my thinking, that I'm really bad at chess, while I'm really not that bad. You're really a mind bogling saviour 😂
As newbie I feel like the rule: to take is a mistake needs just a bit more explanation…in particular to take is a mistake (if the recapture by your opponent moves a stronger piece forward)…this could probably be an entire video since I never know when I’m ready and end up playing defensively and inevitably blundering and losing. NOT A FUN WAY TO PLAY….then you just want to quit.
It is only really applying to the edge cases where there isn't anything tactical, but you have to decide if a capture will leave you weakened or rather improve your structure. It is basically saying that of those two, it is more likely to weaken your position. This is of course only a rule of thumb, and good players break general rules all the time when the situation calls for it. The important takeaway is that if you do not find tactics, if you do not find a positional idea, if you do not find some crazy plan, taking is usually going to leave you vulnerable. Use it as a tiebreaker when considering those kinds of moves or at least keep it in mind, and otherwise, just play the board. And if you want to just avoid those annoying miscalculations, do and study some chess puzzles: most games are decided by tactics, and learning their patterns is probably the best way to improve fast as a new player.
Some computer evaluations that are not that useful are like "Bozo, you can capture this knight. After you defend 20 threats you'll be fine, this is an easy way to win a piece"
POV: You get a good dream position with an active double fianchetto. Your opponent blunders his queen. You remember Igor say, 'to take is a mistake' **Leaves the Queen and hangs mate** 😢
Only reason I can see to move Black kf6, as the computer recommended, is because you can brute force, trading your knight and light square bishop for a knight and two pawns, giving your queen a really nice central square, and then kg5 threatens checkmate and your attack is looking ok. Just get a bunch of activity in the center of the board for a slight loss in material, but what do I know. I'm not very good lol Aha see, I forgot to look at the whole board and that just doesn't work at all, thanks to blacks light square bishop also guarding e4. Would just blunder my queen. I need to slow down and actually look
I apologize if this is rude to say, but you do realize a Knight is N in algebraic chess notation, right? K would be King and even then, it would be capitalized.
Grand master Igor , accept my respect. I'm your fan from india. Can you teach about fancy names of chess like Sicilian opening , london system , englund defence , etc. I don't know how they r played. Pls make a video on this. If u have already made then give me link. Thank you very much.
I once missed a mate in 12. I was totally kicking myself for that! (jk, but I have had that happen. I just realize that I am a mere human and don't normally calculate 12 moves ahead.) In reviewing my games, I have learned that it is OK sometimes to say no to what the computer recommends. Why? Well, Stockfish assumes you are playing against Stockfish, basically. I like to change the settings to rapid, classic, and correspondence games in my rating range (+/- 200 or so). I also incorporate what I learn from that, and sometimes I see that one move that Stockfish says is maybe 3rd of 4th best has given players in my range more difficulty to play against, and that is valuable information that Stockfish doesn't incorporate. I think that Stockfish calls the c5 move by black an inaccuracy is because it relieves the tension in the center that currently benefits black. Looking at what Stockfish suggests, it clearly sees the better ideas at this point as aggressive attacking on the king's side and playing a3 to keep the bishop from going to b4, which again helps maintain the tension. For the record, I would be happy to have Magnus Carlsen critique my games!
Theres alot of chess channels that help you get to 1400-1600 elo, but yours is the only one that really helps the intermediate players reach 2000. More of this kind of content please!
I like to study my blunders or study if there was a better move the computer engine is great tool. If the game is 90 or higher it’s not really worth studying but under that you should study some of the engine moves it improves your accuracy it helps with middle game and end game you shouldn’t worry about the engines opening principles because even not so great opening with the right moves in the mid and end game outcome can over come bad decisions in your openings. The engine will not teach you brilliant or great moves that should be studied by doing puzzles and gone over games form every generation of Masters. Developing skills is practice of principles of why move is made and why move is bad it’s based on tactical and strategic skills I great knowledge of why you develop in certain situations. The one thing is the engine tells you moving your piece form getting taken is bad can be two things the development of other pieces or the overall position of the board where you could have developed something more useful, I great tool is if you feel something is good move by sacrificing it well go ahead and do it.
Hey Igor, @GMIgorSmirnov, Thank you for supporting Lichess, I really appreciate this. Feel free to turn up the heat a little and mention how they are pay to play garbage thats basically ripping off this charitable site lichess that we all love. And more so all you here from a lot of these streamers is how great it is when it really is inferior to lichess and you have to pay also
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► Chapters
00:00 How to analyze your chess games with the computer/engine?
00:18 Analyzing chess games with Stockfish/lichess engine
00:57 GM Smirnov argues with engine's review
02:05 The RIGHT way to analyze games with engines
04:05 Positional Understanding + Computer's Ideas
05:27 What to do in the middlegame?
07:26 Computers are there ONLY to ASSIST you!
10:00 GMs DON'T calculate everything
11:39 Same strategic/positional rule applies to a different position
14:31 GM Smirnov feels like he's Hikaru Nakamura
17:23 Summary (2 key takeaways)
1. Taking is Mistaking.😎
2. Backward is Awkward.🤓
Thanks Igor! Goated chess teacher and channel!
"Backwards is awkward"
My 2 brain cells: 1e4; 2 Ke2
Lets march forewards 🗿
King be like: My soldiers rage, my soldiers scream, my soldiers move forward
One of his BEST videos for those of us trying to use engines to improve our games; much he says I , after time and frustrating review and angst, had already concluded regarding engine analysis versus my own, but nice to have a GM confirm my conclusions. . A "How He Thinks" video (it may be ins a purchased video) is also a great help. Thanks, Igor.
This video feels so wholesome... Thank you so much Igor ❤
Awesome lesson, your rule of asking how to move forward and attack was game changing for me!!
I usually don’t comment on any of the videos that I watch, but this was great. A series on this topic would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I’ve learned more from you in the last 3 months than all my time playing chess. Your right about the computer chess engines being humbling. Any time I get over 90% accuracy I feel I did good. Also your right about the engine doing moves that dont make sense without explanation. Sometimes I just use the engine for the next 5 moves just to see why it did a particular move. Then I just go back and play the moves I want. The engine has done some amazing checkmate moves that I would have never seen. This is the absolute best chess instruction channel. Thanks
I find a lot of times that the "best" move is a move that a human would NEVER play unless they were a 2800 player
analyzing games on lichess is even worse. The engine doesn't tell you if the move was good, it marks the moves only if they were bad 💀
it does give engine lines though, so if you go through those lines it kind of tells you why some moves are good or bad
The evaluation + engine lines tells you if the move is good or not. Marking a move as good, best, or excellent is just a reflection of the evaluation, and isn't that useful without seeing the evaluation and engine lines.
I think if you want to get better more quickly at chess you should ditch game review anyways. Looking at an analysis board with 3+ lines is more useful in general. Game review gives that dopamine tho. Best thing is to analyze yourself before using an engine
This is incredible! Thank you GM Igor!
But please answer WHY you think the computer disagrees with you.
At the 2:05 mark for example, after the exchange of bishops, the black Queen is activated. But yet the computer thinks for white to exchange bishops is the best move. WHY do you hypothesize the computer thinks that and disagrees with you?
A much needed and appreciated video. I have tried to force myself to learn 1-2 key ideas from every video, and that has been difficult enough. This video explains exactly why. Thanks and congrats
I like that you teaching in a very human way, thinking all thoose mistakes we make as human. I don't mean a specific move or a specific blunder, but the psychology behind humans. Some of us overcommit to analyze, some of us wanna win too hard. so on.. And if we are tired all of us makes very stupid blunders.
Hello,
Could you consider making a course for players above 2000 fide one day? I'm sure you have lots of interesting tips & advice for this range. Even if this audience is not as large as beginners/intermediate players, I'm sure it will interest many people.
Some of your videos on YT like when you analyze your own games, use your mnemotechnic rules & and give insights about your thinking process when playing are awesome and I would love to see 20 or 30 games like that. Or something about typical mistakes you often see in the games of 2000-2200, etc.
Thank you & have a great day!
A great example of the top stockfish line not always being the best move from a human perspective is the blackburne gambit, where the top line is Nxd4, creating an annoying pawn on d4 that doesn't let white develop their b8 knight naturally, while after simply castling instead white completely refutes the opening, just up a tempo with no compensation.
Amazing! Please make more videos like this because we all analyze, but it's very helpful to hear comments from a grandmaster in chess!
It is true that I usually ignore the inaccuracies and mistakes because they can become overwhelming and I may not get much out of it. The blunders though, I study the alternate lines. Still, I have to admit, I can't always see why or what else I could have done.
Excellent video Igor. Love the motivation given. You are right, being beaten by the computer is depressing
I think that this video has given relief to thousands of amateur players who were feeling that they were dummies !!
This Guy really helped me improve my game...In one year I gained 350 elo and the last 30 days I am winning almost 58% of my games. Played 120+ games in this time
What is your elo
A stupid rule I’ve given myself that helps is “When you feel like you’re forced to play a bad move, don’t” it’s rare that there is absolutely nothing that can be done. Maybe there’s a sacrifice that must be made but you should be able to do something to take advantage of the strengths of your position.
This dosent work when you are down a queen
I use the engine to focus on what my blunders are and why, and then what would be a better move would have been...it helps, but it can be frustrating at times.
8:32 "Human opponents, not Magnus" LMFAO
Engines are great, but "+7" sometimes means "if you can find series of only moves in time, you will win". "+0,7" often means "you have an extra pawn, which is enough to win 95% of such positions".
I completed 1000 elo today❤🎉
Nice well done
when I become a master you were always my grand master GM igor
The way how computers approach chess is completely different from how humans approach it. We humans approach chess through intuition, creativity, skill, and knowledge. But the reason why computers do so well in chess is by the fact that they are able to calculate millions of positions per second without possesing any human weaknesses.
Igor. Thanks and very useful. I follow your instructions and read games in books and everything is patently obvious. But when I play against computer I make a mess time and again. When playing I simply do not see what I perceive as obvious when following your teaching (or that in a book). Why can I not translate intellectual understanding into a game? It is so frustrating!!
Kind regards, Michael (76) from NI
Igor's 'the Magnus' of coaches. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
the best advice i can give is play against chess bots in (advanced or master bots in my situation) "full assisted" mode. those games will teach you a lot.
Thank you for explaining that computer really mess up my thinking, that I'm really bad at chess, while I'm really not that bad. You're really a mind bogling saviour 😂
Sir I really like to use Shredder app to analyze my game. Is it good or bad?
Thanks for your great advice about computer reliability,🎉❤
That's all I need to play a Legendary Chess Game.😏
As newbie I feel like the rule: to take is a mistake needs just a bit more explanation…in particular to take is a mistake (if the recapture by your opponent moves a stronger piece forward)…this could probably be an entire video since I never know when I’m ready and end up playing defensively and inevitably blundering and losing. NOT A FUN WAY TO PLAY….then you just want to quit.
It is only really applying to the edge cases where there isn't anything tactical, but you have to decide if a capture will leave you weakened or rather improve your structure. It is basically saying that of those two, it is more likely to weaken your position. This is of course only a rule of thumb, and good players break general rules all the time when the situation calls for it. The important takeaway is that if you do not find tactics, if you do not find a positional idea, if you do not find some crazy plan, taking is usually going to leave you vulnerable. Use it as a tiebreaker when considering those kinds of moves or at least keep it in mind, and otherwise, just play the board.
And if you want to just avoid those annoying miscalculations, do and study some chess puzzles: most games are decided by tactics, and learning their patterns is probably the best way to improve fast as a new player.
1:40 why would you want to double your pawns and lose a center pawn?
Cuz it opens up a file for your rook
Could you show the scores for black / white ??
You are a really great teacher. Wish you lived in Florida!!
Why? If you want him to coach you I'm sure you can do it online
Whoever develops an AI chess learning system that *explains* why moves like a4 are a good idea....will make a fortune.
I feel like a GM after watching your videos... and then I play a few games xD Thanks for your videos, they're still very helpful :)
@remote chess academy I have a way to tell the reason for every engine move.
Some computer evaluations that are not that useful are like "Bozo, you can capture this knight. After you defend 20 threats you'll be fine, this is an easy way to win a piece"
POV: You get a good dream position with an active double fianchetto. Your opponent blunders his queen.
You remember Igor say, 'to take is a mistake'
**Leaves the Queen and hangs mate**
😢
"We grandmasters are lazy"
Hikaru giving a death stare
Needed this so bad
Only reason I can see to move Black kf6, as the computer recommended, is because you can brute force, trading your knight and light square bishop for a knight and two pawns, giving your queen a really nice central square, and then kg5 threatens checkmate and your attack is looking ok. Just get a bunch of activity in the center of the board for a slight loss in material, but what do I know. I'm not very good lol
Aha see, I forgot to look at the whole board and that just doesn't work at all, thanks to blacks light square bishop also guarding e4. Would just blunder my queen. I need to slow down and actually look
I apologize if this is rude to say, but you do realize a Knight is N in algebraic chess notation, right? K would be King and even then, it would be capitalized.
@@RuyVuusen told you I don't know much lmaooooooooooooo. Thanks, I must have not realized I put k and just thought "knight starts with K!"
@@medude420024 It is actually a surprisingly common mistake. No worries.
When I win and the engine says the opening was sloppy I just accept it as constructive criticism.
Grand master Igor , accept my respect. I'm your fan from india. Can you teach about fancy names of chess like Sicilian opening , london system , englund defence , etc. I don't know how they r played. Pls make a video on this. If u have already made then give me link. Thank you very much.
Was waiting for this video.
bro will beat magnus using "take is mistake"
1 analyse your games don’t get overwhelmed or demoralised by fuckfish
2 to take is a mistake
3 backward is awkward
I miss checkmates in one move frequently.😬
very good video im a big fan
I once missed a mate in 12. I was totally kicking myself for that! (jk, but I have had that happen. I just realize that I am a mere human and don't normally calculate 12 moves ahead.)
In reviewing my games, I have learned that it is OK sometimes to say no to what the computer recommends. Why? Well, Stockfish assumes you are playing against Stockfish, basically. I like to change the settings to rapid, classic, and correspondence games in my rating range (+/- 200 or so). I also incorporate what I learn from that, and sometimes I see that one move that Stockfish says is maybe 3rd of 4th best has given players in my range more difficulty to play against, and that is valuable information that Stockfish doesn't incorporate.
I think that Stockfish calls the c5 move by black an inaccuracy is because it relieves the tension in the center that currently benefits black. Looking at what Stockfish suggests, it clearly sees the better ideas at this point as aggressive attacking on the king's side and playing a3 to keep the bishop from going to b4, which again helps maintain the tension.
For the record, I would be happy to have Magnus Carlsen critique my games!
Igor is better than AI.
Yup❤❤❤
How long does it take on average to reach 2000, I'm currently an 824 elo. And most of my moves are best, according to stockfish
I think between 1.5 - 2 years
If you take free knightt you can activate rook and maybe Wins back knight with queen check
Qxe2 taking the bishop, youre lost
Theres alot of chess channels that help you get to 1400-1600 elo, but yours is the only one that really helps the intermediate players reach 2000. More of this kind of content please!
I like to study my blunders or study if there was a better move the computer engine is great tool. If the game is 90 or higher it’s not really worth studying but under that you should study some of the engine moves it improves your accuracy it helps with middle game and end game you shouldn’t worry about the engines opening principles because even not so great opening with the right moves in the mid and end game outcome can over come bad decisions in your openings. The engine will not teach you brilliant or great moves that should be studied by doing puzzles and gone over games form every generation of Masters. Developing skills is practice of principles of why move is made and why move is bad it’s based on tactical and strategic skills I great knowledge of why you develop in certain situations. The one thing is the engine tells you moving your piece form getting taken is bad can be two things the development of other pieces or the overall position of the board where you could have developed something more useful, I great tool is if you feel something is good move by sacrificing it well go ahead and do it.
Absolute S tier thumbnail 😂
thank you
Nice ❤❤
very very interesting...
If I stop caring about the computer analysis, then I can proudly say I'm a grandmaster (who cares if you accuracy is 70%)
Why aren't you playing competitive chess like hikaru and co
Thanks a lot you have helped me gain elo from watching your videos and I really appreciate it thanks!
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Igor is better than stockfish. Stockfisher!!!!!
Really??!!
hi
Nooooooo.
You are using 2000 elo as a carrot ( bait) 😂
777 VIDEO LIKE! TRIPLE PERFECTION!
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Wow this came out 22 seconds ago
wow, no one cares
@@FerrisMcLaren wow if no one cares then why are you responding to this comment
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Hey Igor, @GMIgorSmirnov,
Thank you for supporting Lichess, I really appreciate this.
Feel free to turn up the heat a little and mention how they are pay to play garbage thats basically ripping off this charitable site lichess that we all love. And more so all you here from a lot of these streamers is how great it is when it really is inferior to lichess and you have to pay also