Day 425: Playing chess every day until I reach a 2000 rating
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
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This is another day in my quest for a 2000 rating on chess.com.
Queen's Pawn Opening: Chigorin Variation
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How's everyone doing?
My Monday in a nutshell 25:10
Hey Patrick! Doing pretty well, the weather has finally started to heat up :)
I don't know what happened in this video, but you sound a bit like Steve-O sometimes :D
Just finished up a move to a new house this weekend and unpacked everything while entertaining a 9 month old. We’re a little bit tired. 😂
your late upload has turned my day upside down more than yesterday's video but all good now
@@liquidblake LOL!
At 31:18 you try to blame the loss on being unfamiliar with the opening played, but it wasn't the opening that cost you the game.
This one was really hard to watch, the pawn was hanging for 2:30 minutes. The queen fork winning your knight was so obvious a 1265 played it within one second. Blunderinig the rook for nothing was the icing on the cake.
Again, not castling early ended in trouble.
It wasn't the reason Patrick lost. He was in a pretty good position
Hey Patrick! Haven't commented before on this channel but have been watching all your videos! No worries about all the losses, they are just hurdles to get to the final goal! Trust me, to get to 1900 ELO, where i am right now, I lost many many games but then learned from them and did better later. I know you are tackling a job while playing chess so it will take longer than others to reach 2000 ELO. But don't worry, you will get there! ❤
I agree with this. He shouldn't get stressed at all. It takes a lot of games to improve. And he is often only playing 1 game because he has quite a demanding job as far as I can tell.
I comment often but that only reflects my own impatience because I want him to get better quicker :)
Thank you so much Ravi!!
@@stephenwestland942 Really appreciate your continued support!
Your idea of getting better at chess is memorizing openings. Would memorizing openings have allowed you to see that free pawn that was there for several moves? No
That's what he says lol
calling you out as requested
how many `I didn't see that's` were there, when you AGAIN decide you KNOW why a piece moved or its effects
SO
He plays h4 you miss g4 is hang for 3 moves
He moves his pawn attacking your rook with his queen on a diagonal, you decide you already understand he is doing a pawn attack and miss it
You missed your d5 pawn was pinned to your queen allowing his knight to swing over
you missed that when you took the e3 pawn he had a check with his queen winning your knight
you study opening it does NOTHING about any of that, you MUST improve your board vision and your tactics you can get through the opening you can not miss the stuff you are missing over and over again
Patrick the pawnnapper left his rook hanging 😢
Keeping up with your journey, and rooting for you! I think the biggest thing that will take your game to the next level is looking more than one or two moves deep for threats. Too often in these games you make a threat that is easily parried and ends up improving your opponents position. Good luck!
The problem is that he already spends a lot of time calculating while missing important details. This often leads him into bad positions while simultaneously putting him way behind on the clock. Then he makes one-move blunders once he gets into time trouble. I think the things that would benefit him most would be switching to 15+10 to avoid getting in time trouble all the time and focusing on simple positional concepts whenever he doesn't see a very concrete tactical sequence.
@@montagdp So true
OMG this game was so exciting with the time pressure at the end. Great entertainment.🎉🎉🎉
I can’t believe you didn’t take the free pawn at the start
I respect your learning focused mindset :) Once you decide that long term progress is what matters, the individual losses don't feel as rough, as you know you will get better eventually :)
What's with the obsession with one-move knight threats I've seen in game after game? Knight b4 did nothing besides push away his queen a square but you left g4 just hanging. Board. Vision. You'll get there! Hopefully, with fewer losses to 1200s.
I hope I love somebody one day as much as Patrick loves attacking the queen. For sure his favorite thing to do in chess.
Right. Nb4 is a one move threat to the queen which moves to another square. Now your knight is on b4 ready to be kicked back. It is and it does move back to c6. You wasted two moves on nothing. You say you are looking to castle early but, here again, it doesn't happen. Instead of making a one move threat, get the queen off the back rank and get ready to castle.
Doesnt happen.Been said for 15 month now
Dont know why ,just the way it is.
Gl.
Patrick .
N.b
The casteling i mean
@@markneubieser8484 yes, I completely agree with this. I had exactly the same thought whilst watching the game. Nb4 was wasteful when he could have been one move closer to castling.
I would change your challenge settings to -25 and +400. When you play people with 200 less points than you, you are risking way more than they are. You'll climb the ratings faster playing ratings higher than you.
Your opponent had a pawn hanging for many moves. You didn't see that. If you can't take advantage of their mistakes, you will keep losing.
I just want to say that although you don't have the highest rating right now, don't let it get you down. As far as the opening is concerned, I think you did a great job developing your pieces and applying early pressure. You also played very well even when you got into time trouble. Really glad that you didn't let it rattle your nerves and that you didn't get flagged in a winning position, b00mshaka
Day 666: Playing chess every day until I reach a 200 rating
ah yes! The reverse climb speedrun
lol
I think you are burned out
That was crazy at the end, both with only a couple of seconds to play out a mini "hyper-bullet chess game"... A tough loss to take but a learning experience nonetheless, difficult to keep pieces on the board when you are met with these "tricky" openings played only to confuse the opponent and make the game difficult for them to play
You are right Patrick, knowing a bit about the different openings and being prepared to scupper whites plans are key.
The opening played by your opponent is the jobava London. The main concepts are knight to b5 which you knew about and stopped. The other is to attack the white bishop with a pawn storm on the kingside and castling queenside. You can scupper this plan either by keeping the bishop on it’s starting square temporarily or trading it off. You can then plan whether to castle queenside yourself or block up the kingside and attack their queenside.
Your opponent did mess up by offereing a free pawn with their kingside attack and you obviously made some blunders, but knowing these concepts for future opponents should help you.
I agree with @danielward7008. It was not the opening that cost you the game. If you go down the route of thinking that you just need to know better openings I really don't think you will make any progress Patrick. If you believe you can know the right move at 7 moves deep for any opening you may come up against you are making an error. Sorry to say that Patrick. You know how much I love your channel.
But it simply isn't the opening. You miss a free pawn at move 8 which you should see no matter how well you know the opening. And at move 21 you play a lovely knight move. You are 1.8 ahead and about to win a piece. White plays 24 f4 and you are nearly 3 points ahead and we are in the middlegame. How can you blame this on your opening?
But at 36:13 I just knew you were going to blunder. You played Nxe3 blundering a piece. You should have played Nxa3.
In the commentary you said, if you lose this maybe you were never a 1500 strong player. I disagree. You were (and are). You have played some great games.
But you have a very very serious flaw. You make basic tactical errors not because you don't have ability but because you focus too much on what you can do and don't consider what your opponent can do. Nxe3 looks a great move - it threatens the opponents rook. And then you can come back to f5 (which I remember you saying in the game). But you are forgetting to consider what the opponent might do in between.
I am sure you know the advice - before you move check, does your opponent have any checks? Do they have any captures? It is hard to have the discipline to do that every move. I certainly cannot manage it and I am higher rated. But for goodness sake - at least consider the checks. In this case, after Ne3 they have four checks: Qe7+, Rxd5+, Qxd5+ and Qe5+. Three of those can be quickly discounted. But Qe5+ is a serious problem. Until you start thinking about what your opponent might do next rather than focussing on your own next move you will keep losing games like this.
All that said, I still enjoyed the contest and it could have gone either way until you blundered the rook (which was time pressure I think).
SPOILER BLOCKER AAAAAHHHHHH
Good effort, Patrick. When you were up a knight, I would have just focused on simplifying by trying to trade queens. Not pretty, but effective.
You loose less points if you set that you just play with stronger opponents or slightly below your rating.
I have the setting at -25 and open +
If you win you get more points and waste less time
When I am the dark pieces,I tend to use the Pirc defense when my opponent opens with the queen pawn. It works fairly well, when you understand the theory behind the Pirc.
Ive been watching for months now. I like the content! It's become a pretty regular thing in my life lately and I like it. Thank you!
First time reading the comments - interesting to see all the hot takes.
I want to see you run the rubric of checks, captures, and then tactics. Over the last couple weeks you've missed some moves. I think sticking to that rubric on every move will help. Seems like you're going straight to tactics a lot of the time before checking the basics across the board (both sides). But you are a higher rated player than me! Good luck!
Cheers Patrick.
Hope you find your confidence back.
You are a worthy player, everyone around our elo is blundering at times.
Leaving a rook hanging is quite a big one but they happen man.
Sad to see Patrick lose... Happy to see Jobava London win (even though he tripped up on pawn storm)
dont be discouraged by the negative comments brother, your content is still enjoyable to watch and can definitely be informative to others still! keep enjoying chess!
Dang dude. Chess is not your Game.
The free pawn at the start!
Just wanted to say the music is beautiful and makes these videos even better than they already are! Keep up the great work mr. Patrick
There’s no shame as a 1500 to lose to a 1200- there’s nothing in it skill wise- usually just they play like 1800 one game then drop a piece the next
you have to take a few steps backwards to go forwards sometimes :) keep going my friend
hey Patrick. If you're reading this, please don't be so fixated on knowledge of opening theory and don't despair.
Urr what boomshakalaka went and done to keep his bishop you could have done , although if you kept your bishop we wouldn't have a clue what the game would have looked like then....
Worst loss in a LONG time.
Why not take the hanging pawn on g4 threatening a fork?
It was a definite miss. Not because of the fork (that's a simple one-move threat that can be solved easily) but it's a pawn and Patrick still had q-side castling, mitigating the open g-file.
I am a 1260 player playing the jobava London, I believe Nc6 is not a good move as it prevents you from playing C5. I am following you from a few weeks now, and I believe you have a bad record against the jobava London. Check out Naroditsky's tutorial on the jobava London and you'll understand better how to fight this opening
So ok, in time trouble you left the rook hanging. That happens tho you should ask yourself every move what new is attacked and what squares are left behind that were previously defended. My main comment is actually on 24. NC4. You had the advantage (3 points material, 2.something by the engine). Why not move the knight backwards? ND7. It wont be the best move. But it is defensive and when you are 3 points up, just stabilize, defend, trade. Simple chess. No need to win another pawn unless its 100% safe. At that point he has to win bc all endgames are winning for you.
Coming back after roughly 100 days, seeing not much has changed... I can honestly tell that you know more about openings than I do, yet my blitz rating is 1950.
Forget about openings, learn endgames, tactics, and general ideas. And play less and more focused. This format is bad for learning, there is no coach that will tell you otherwise.
Please stopp training openings, learn middle game strategy’s to get into a good endgame or do puzzles because it it will help you see things earlyer
This. Folks are obsessed with stupid openings. Study middle game strategy and tactics.
Although you are losing, I see that you are getting better. in the openings jut do classical moves: First central pawn, then knights, then bishops, then castle, and let the queen for the last. You will improve a lot of ELO doing classical. Let the advanced openings for experts
That's my argument I made a few games ago. Rather than memorising openings it would be better to play good opening principles.
For example, at 4:02 he plays Nb4 (breaking an opening principle by moving a piece twice for no obvious gain) when he could have played Qd7 followed by O-O-O.
@@stephenwestland942 Maybe he doesn´t know opening principles
@@blogattacker I think he does. I have listed them quite a few times. And he had a coach for a short while.
I make exactly your point several times before. I am 1800. I know (as in memorise) far less openings that Patrick. But I know some ideas. So when I play f4 at white I know I need to be careful for Qh4+ and should attack f7. That sort of thing. But armed with those ideas I just try to play sensible chess. Exactly as you described. And it seems to work ok. I f I wanted to get to 2000 myself (where I was briefly in the past) I probably would need to study openings a bit more seriously,. But I have a life to live.
1575 to go. Not laughing anymore I bet.ps ..g4 hanging on move 5 hitting f2 next move.
This is too painful to watch, sorry! Wish you all the best!!
I think you should relisten to your commentary you gave during the game about what you were thinking. I'll bet more than 90% is devoted to what you can do and less than 10% to what your opponent can do - that's not a good relationship.
lol @ thinking your lack of opening knowledge was an issue.
I’m sorry to say that I don’t think any 2000 rated player has ever lost to a 1200 player after the age of 13 or so
Patrick is currently rated 1450, he is not 2000
I beat a 2100 player at 1400 something. So it's possible. Don't discourage him for no reason.