Tough break. Don't give up though. One thing I would recommend thinking about is your time management. After move 40 you had a winning position with 4:52 left. Plenty of time. However you then spent four minutes on your next three moves. Worse, on moves 42 and 43 after spending all that time you ended up playing moves you HADN'T looked at much, and in both cases almost immediately realized they were mistakes. Time management is tough. I've always struggled with it myself and I'm a horribly slow player, which is probably why I mostly play correspondence these days.
4:07 Time management is mentioned today and has been in the past, but the issue didn't start in the endgame, it started here. You didn't even look at Nxd4, which is winning, until after 2 minutes. Why it took you so long to see is that instead of looking for possible good moves you got tunnel vision on the (bad) idea of Nd7. That is a habit that you must cure yourself of.
Maybe look for more simple moves (ex: he blundered a pawn, there’s a fork on c2) before jumping in to calculate a more complex idea. Also maybe you could set a hard limit on how much time you’re willing to spend on a single move. For example, you spent 3:30 out of your last 4 minutes looking for a mate idea before opting to play f5 to defend your pawn. If you had even a minute extra at the end, you find that knight fork and win.
28:08 This is a crucial position in the endgame. You are a whole piece up, but White's pawns are much better than yours and so are his Rooks. For the moment your King is tied to the defence of e4. The one pawn that is loose is c6 (and it's an important pawn, because if it goes, he has a pair of connected passers), so you can expect his next move to be Rc1 if you don't stop it. Hence you play Nb3 and then if Rb1 Nd4/Rc1 f5 and everything is covered in the event of Rc5+. Thinking in bursts of a few moves at a time is economical on the clock.
11:03 Bishop F6 bro! Protecting the knight while threatening knight F3 check winning his queen if he doesn't take on a7. If queen take a7 as it was played, then knight takes c4 winning the pawn back while you have a discovered attack on his knight which is actually undefended (he can't defend it with his dark squared bishop because the knight on c4 covers the squares) and pinned to his rook
Keep up the good work man! Love your videos. As a similar level player is very instructive to follow the clear way in which you narrate your thoughts and see which moves I can notice but you dont, and how sometimes its the other way around.
The reason you miss moves like Nc2+ (forking the King and Rook) is that you are not looking for them! You'll never find winning tactics until you start looking for them. At 1650 you shouldn't be missing one-move tactics (except in bad time trouble). At every move, you have to ask what is your opponent threatening and what can you attack. That's just as important as thinking about your position generally. Good positions don't win games. Good moves do.
11:42 You could’ve played Bxb4 since the a3 pawn is pinned. Or even at 16:31 You could play Rxb4 and trade rooks. Also, at 22:42 I think Ra4 would have been a good move to stop the a pawn, and then you could push the centre pawns and it would be difficult for white to stop.
no one has mentioned it yet so 16:49 rook b takes b4 since the opponents rook is undefended you win a pawn and also the game but i digress start looking for undefended pieces
Another loss due to time management :( When up in material and down on time, there's no need to calculate complex mating opportunities, just play principled, trade it down and let the opponent struggle to find something
6:48 - you actually had a knight fork with check, protected by your bishop! So you missed two forks. :( Sorry, not trying to add salt to your wounds but yeah.
6:15 "No reason not to go back to where I was before". Really? Still on that tunnel vision - Nc2+ should have been in your mind when you played Nxd4. Maybe if you hadn't wasted all that time on Nd7 you would have looked a bit more closely at Nxd4 before playing it and seen the follow up. I'd also flag up that when you have a Knight attacking enemy territory you should always look for an alternative to retreat.
Tough break. Don't give up though. One thing I would recommend thinking about is your time management. After move 40 you had a winning position with 4:52 left. Plenty of time. However you then spent four minutes on your next three moves. Worse, on moves 42 and 43 after spending all that time you ended up playing moves you HADN'T looked at much, and in both cases almost immediately realized they were mistakes. Time management is tough. I've always struggled with it myself and I'm a horribly slow player, which is probably why I mostly play correspondence these days.
6:09, you had a fork.
4:07 Time management is mentioned today and has been in the past, but the issue didn't start in the endgame, it started here. You didn't even look at Nxd4, which is winning, until after 2 minutes. Why it took you so long to see is that instead of looking for possible good moves you got tunnel vision on the (bad) idea of Nd7. That is a habit that you must cure yourself of.
Maybe look for more simple moves (ex: he blundered a pawn, there’s a fork on c2) before jumping in to calculate a more complex idea.
Also maybe you could set a hard limit on how much time you’re willing to spend on a single move. For example, you spent 3:30 out of your last 4 minutes looking for a mate idea before opting to play f5 to defend your pawn. If you had even a minute extra at the end, you find that knight fork and win.
28:08 This is a crucial position in the endgame. You are a whole piece up, but White's pawns are much better than yours and so are his Rooks. For the moment your King is tied to the defence of e4. The one pawn that is loose is c6 (and it's an important pawn, because if it goes, he has a pair of connected passers), so you can expect his next move to be Rc1 if you don't stop it. Hence you play Nb3 and then if Rb1 Nd4/Rc1 f5 and everything is covered in the event of Rc5+. Thinking in bursts of a few moves at a time is economical on the clock.
11:03 Bishop F6 bro! Protecting the knight while threatening knight F3 check winning his queen if he doesn't take on a7. If queen take a7 as it was played, then knight takes c4 winning the pawn back while you have a discovered attack on his knight which is actually undefended (he can't defend it with his dark squared bishop because the knight on c4 covers the squares) and pinned to his rook
Keep up the good work man! Love your videos. As a similar level player is very instructive to follow the clear way in which you narrate your thoughts and see which moves I can notice but you dont, and how sometimes its the other way around.
@6:46 should have played Nc2 winning the rook
The reason you miss moves like Nc2+ (forking the King and Rook) is that you are not looking for them! You'll never find winning tactics until you start looking for them. At 1650 you shouldn't be missing one-move tactics (except in bad time trouble). At every move, you have to ask what is your opponent threatening and what can you attack. That's just as important as thinking about your position generally. Good positions don't win games. Good moves do.
11:42 You could’ve played Bxb4 since the a3 pawn is pinned. Or even at 16:31 You could play Rxb4 and trade rooks.
Also, at 22:42 I think Ra4 would have been a good move to stop the a pawn, and then you could push the centre pawns and it would be difficult for white to stop.
Hang in there bud, this balances out the last game.
You just honestly have to do something with your time management. Your opponent was up nine minutes. You miss moves or blunder because of it
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I think you shld stop looking at chat during live games.
I'd turn off chat completely. It's a distraction at best.
no one has mentioned it yet so 16:49 rook b takes b4 since the opponents rook is undefended you win a pawn and also the game but i digress start looking for undefended pieces
6:34
Brooooo Nc2 😭😭 fork the rook
Another loss due to time management :( When up in material and down on time, there's no need to calculate complex mating opportunities, just play principled, trade it down and let the opponent struggle to find something
Did you go out killing straight after this? You were so angry dude!
6:30 you could play knight C2 or?
chess aint no joke you will lose your mind playing it
6:48 - you actually had a knight fork with check, protected by your bishop! So you missed two forks. :( Sorry, not trying to add salt to your wounds but yeah.
6:15 "No reason not to go back to where I was before". Really? Still on that tunnel vision - Nc2+ should have been in your mind when you played Nxd4. Maybe if you hadn't wasted all that time on Nd7 you would have looked a bit more closely at Nxd4 before playing it and seen the follow up. I'd also flag up that when you have a Knight attacking enemy territory you should always look for an alternative to retreat.
Wasn’t the d pawn hanging after the Ke5?
NM lol
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