How to Get Better at Chess Part 4 | 1700 to 1900 | The Amateurs Mind #27
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2024
- A continuation on the previous Amateurs Mind 27, this time with a target rating range of 1700 to 1900 and example games.
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In my view the best chess video series on RUclips. So many players missing out by not watching, preferring to watch bullet and blitz streams and wondering why they never git good.
The great Anna Muzychuk once said that she likes to calculate moves for her opponent before even considering her own position - as if it's an "opponent to move and win" exercise. This advice seems to apply to all of the games shown here. Both the critical position with ...b4 Rg1 g6 and the heartbreaking mate-hang could have been avoided if black had approached the position as white to move and win.
I very much like that idea!
This panicking and seeing ghost threats under pressure are spot on. I've had this in many OTB club games and started to play super defensive and passive. Even trading off and accepting draws in positions where I'm better because of some 'scary' looking attacking possibility by the opponent that actually wasn't there. I feel like it is even worse in 'serious' real games than internet games because the fear of losing is higher. Another common thing at my rating range (at least for me) is getting tunnel vision at the end of the game where I focus too much on one line or move and totally forget other candidate moves.
Yeah, fear of losing, lack of confidence is a killer in more serious games at this level. Rather than pressing on the strengths of your position you can easily curl up in a ball to try to defend your advantage. In these cases it's like the player believes that the other players must have compensation, given that they lost a piece and then they try to hang on to what they have.
Your truths hurt and they are the best ones around. I always wish my chess teacher would be that blunt with me (meant in the most positive way). I always take notes when watching your videos, chess seems so simple then.
Didactically very skilled, very clear explanation. Great (chess) teacher.
Thanks kindly!
Is it weird that I would love to have my games ripped apart by Andras
Always a pleasure to watch Andras evaluate.
Am I glad to have watched this video! I’m nowhere near 1700-1900, but I have the SAME weaknesses as the “protagonist” in the vid. Even the same “strength” as well - I know my openings well and can usually get a slight advantage out of the opening. But my problems always come in the middlegame. I overestimate threats, don’t calculate properly and get pressured into losing and it doesn’t matter how strong or weak my opponent is. Once I’m under pressure through time pressure or an unclear position with threats, I’m dead. So this is really instructive.
Glad you liked it Faiz!
One of the biggest reasons behind adult chess learners (offcourse I don't know if these guys are adults or not) shying away from calculation is probably because they are not proficient with coordinates... I recently bought a tactics book and I have found out that calculation is much easier when use coordinates...for me now it's a bit time consuming...but I guess I ll be better if I keep doing it... Thank u for reminding us every time about centre and development...it is probably tiresome for u but it's a great help for us...
Embrace calculation. As time goes on, I've found that calculating variations -- in a position, in a tactics puzzle, in a study -- gives me great enjoyment. So much so that I really dislike turning on the engine ("why eat that delicious steak when the garbage disposer can get rid of it so much faster and easier?!"). Plus the better you get at it, the more you see and the better you get at ... chess!
How did you train coordinates?
Kept on pressing myself to call out the coordinates while solving tactics from the book... Probably in 6 more months I ll be able to speak like chess players...@Honest_Bishop
@@avikdatta I will do the same
I love your accent, it sounds Australian with a twist of Eastern European. Really lovely to hear
Idk, but the way he mocked things up is so funny lmaoo
Thanks for your lessons! It helps me a lot!
Wow, these videos are just so instructive. These videos, when you dissect games are fantastic. As a similar rated player to these guys I totally get why they made most of their blunders! So again, a big thank you for these videos! As a little thank you I continue to spread the word at my local club about your videos. You deserve way more views!
Its here and Its amazing!!
Thanks man!
Nice I'm around 1803 and this was important 😊
this guy is great, great information but also laughing at his demeanor
I can calculate decantly well while pausing a video or when I teach the juniors. During a game? Forget it!
About breaking down when under pressure. Happens lot to me. My logical thinking in these situations has stopped. I have to think about my opponent next move, but often I can't. And I loose the game, even if I'm a piece up.
I just hit 1700 on lichess, so this is timed particularly well for me
THANK YOU SO MUCH🎉🎉❤
I am the same (Elo 1800-2000). All my life I have been absolutely foolish in blitz games. When I have no time pressure, I play actually quite good usually, even drawing an IM once. But in Blitz or at the end of time control, I just lose any connection to the position and play based on very weird and bad instincts often giving away material for absolutely nothing.
Brilliant stuff.
You just know it would take 3 hours with another coach to get what you would in one hour with Andras.
31:30 I am betting that the player was worried about b4 b5 kicking the knight and winning e5. He/she may have even thought he/she could long castle next.
Not saying it's any good of course - even I winced as the move came up. But I think it's another example of hallucinating the other side's threat and responding to that.
I am on that level and I fing it really hard to figure out your opponents next move
In that last game (29:44 mark), it's pretty clear that Black played ...c7-c6 to protect the d5-knight so he could play ...Qd6-f6 next move. Not saying it's good, just explaining why he made the move.
18:22 the engine also likes C4...
And... I normally see the right ideas and moves for both myself and my opponent, but I always manage to mess up something in my head - a tempo ahead, a piece down in a variation, the wrong move order, think I have a safer move and fail to see that the move in question doesn't win a piece like the other one, missing the opponent's checks, you name it!
Diagnosis? I don't know. Bad time management, sleep deprevation, anxiety etc.
I don't know if this is stated in the video, but is this series based off of the Jeremy Silman book?
Not at all. Just a coincidence.
@@ChessCoachAndras Thanks, the video was very to-the-point and I feel like I have more knowledge of the direction I need to go in!
You are a cool guy
good stuff
I'm uncomfortably similar in the mistakes I make.
I belong to the category, but in a first game I would play b4 even though white would be able to sac on g6/g7, I would just come up with a defense on a way knowing by feel it is winning for me
I agree but this is still a weakness we probably share. We should be calculating those lines not relying on intuition, even if it's decently trained intuition.
Dear owner of this channel, amd dear everybody, especially guys over 1700.
Im 1690 now. i wanted to ask you, how should I approach chess? I mean, how many 10 minutes games should i play per day and how often should i take chess breaks? Is it good to practice chess on a real board? I analyze my games that way... Any opinions?
It looks like lower rated players have learnt their openings well, smashed other lower rated players because of that, but didn't take time to work on other aspects of chess. As much as I have seen in this rating range there are mostly people who can play opening well, but the rest of the game not better than the 1400-1500 and people with excellent tactical vision, but bad opening play
Are these blitz games?
uhh, recorded this ages ago, but from memory they were longer time control games.
I think it is wise to spell out more instead of fast moving and fast talking. The majority of 1800 Lichess, which is about 1200 elsewhere, can't follow this despite the upvotes.
I am 1600 and so bad in endgames too
Just to add something to your 'nothing' repertoire: NIENTE in Italian
I hope he doesn't stumble upon one of my games. Ohh he would be so mad.
On the second game, was bishop h3 possible?😂
On 17:30
21:15 you say that "bishop g5 is okay too" even though Bxg5 and black loses a piece because if Qxg5 then cxd5. Or for example, Bxg5 bxc4 Bxd8 cxb3 Ba5 bxa2 Kxa2.
Weird how you're calling game-losing blunders "okay".
You are so mad at the moves lol! When you emphasize that much about center, does that mean you also don't like modern openinge or are you fine with it since, the center will be attacked later? If you are fine with it, do you think is one superior to another?
To note about the games, I can't believe this 1700 to 1900 15/10 games or maybe it is because blitz players in the same rating range are much better than rapid players.
Seeing this video makes me embarrassed being 1700 - 1900 elo. I think most of these mistakes are not even made at lower level than 1700. What am I doing wrong XD
what time control is this?
All of them are 15-10
Names are exposed in final game
For the life of me I cant see them. If they are, my bad!
@@ChessCoachAndras No worries, love your content
Sorry - check 25:00
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