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Excellent examples made in this video. Inspiring to keep focusing in the basic tactics.

Nice Waldner cameo!! 👏👏

"Get crushed or die a slow death" - just described my chess career. Too often I get focused on the defending without realising I have a stronger attacking threat/plan and end up losing a winning position

Kramnik is saying you should practice your tactics puzzles the whole time. Nice video LS. I just saw a video on the woodpecker method by a GM who practices the same 1000 tactics puzzles repeatedly until he can do them all in a day. The repetition improves his GM play incredibly enough.

Nice! What tactics set do you use to repeat?

Criminally underrated channel!

Good stuff. Unrelated to the video, but have you ever played the variant Crazyhouse?

As a 1800 player i can attest that this video is a gold mine. Most of my games are decided by tactical shots either to save a losing position of get a winning position. I tend to play a lot of rapid game thinking i would have large amount of sample size to access my weaknesses but it wasn't really working. I found a way forward now. Thanks

That's it bye,, man, that was a slap.. ha ha.. Love that sigma.

First time watching you, that outro alone deserves a sub🎉✅

Watched a couple of your videos and ifs definetely much better to improve then just watching gms play as you dont understand the logic on most of their moves. Im around 1250, started at 800 six months ago and i would say that learning from players higher than you but not by a 1500 elo gap is the best way for a constant progression. Also your very eloquent and nice to listen to, keep doing what you do your channel will really grow at some point simply because of how relatable it is for most viewers.

read the subtitles at 3:57

thanks for preparing these games i remember watching your videos a couple of years ago and am happy to see you on my recommended again

Love your channel! Always good advice.

Nice work brother

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This is definitely useful advice for a lot of players. It just needs to be considered as part of a spectrum. On the end highlighted here, a player can play too loose and too greedy, leading to positional and tactical problems, failure, and frustration. On the other end, a player can be too scared to trust and test their own calculation, which will hinder their improvement in such calculation and stifle the accumulation of knowledge in the form of instincts/intuition. There may be merit to trying out a seemingly-clever tactic to win a pawn. Hopefully players will eventually develop the instincts to recognize when such a sequence is a bad idea, like when they are underdeveloped and their king is in the center. It seems like you're developing that intuition. But players could confuse it for excessive caution. A bit of a tangent, but part of my concern with players overly relying on this advice is that it may promote a local maximum over longer-term improvement. They might play overly cautiously, rack up wins and rating due to a decrease in blunders, but stall out due to a lack of skill development. It's also a concern I have with system openings (play the same handful of lines a million times so you can gain rating without getting better at chess in other areas) and the "never resign" mentality (spend tons of time trying to eek out wins in losing positions, hoping your opponent will blunder, rather than resigning and using the time to review your mistakes). Not to say that you shouldn't use any system openings or that you should resign at the first hint of trouble. But try to figure out what approach will be best for your longer term development, if you care about such things, and let that guide you.

I'm 14 and almost 1200 on rapid chess. Do you have any tips for me to get better? My improvement has been a plateau 2 years.

This dude one of the top UA-camrs giving practical tips and commenting on relatable experiences for low elo. This kinda stuff makes me think that the advice from the smithyq course is spot on up to 2k cc. Like develop improve pieces, win time, and castle. Forget winning material in the opening. Ever since I started doing that I’ve just been dunking people and spending a lot less mental bandwidth during early game

Excellent advise and points made

Bxf7 is the safest move, i think that white has a better position after that

Good stuff LightSquares. I remember an interview with Yasser Seirawan where he said when he started playing titled players as a junior, that he would measure how long he could resist them. That attitude built up his considerable late middle and endgame skills in the long run.

Couldnt agree more, my rating has gone up 200 points by doing exactly what you said, and by going offbeat as well. Just a random question, but have you tried playing Nf3 first and then b3 as white? Its my favourite opening as white Ive tried so far.

I find the difference in depth between 15 | 10 vs 10 min rapid to be absolutely huge. In fact I think it's the perfect time format for the casual chess player: enough time to think, but not enough time to overthink.

People are way too obsessed with avoiding theory. Being scared of the fact that your opponent knows more theory is holding many people back of playing great positions.

Nice video !

I recommend a simple black repertoire to all my students using 1...d6 with the idea of delaying then forcing e5 no matter what white does. Works especially well against the London! It can also be played as white with 1.d3.

How about the Modern & the Dutch from the perspective of Black?

some unsolicited advice, lawrence trent is a racist terrible person, there are definitely some better books for you! completely agree with your philosophy :) (as a 2250 whos writing a book on 1.f4)

Really good, thanks! Q.3 my favourite! Hope all is well, best wishes & happy chess you 1800 beast! ;-)

I used to play this. e6 - b6. i saw Levy's video way earlier when i was around 1500-1600.. now i am 1900 and i currently play caro kann, sicilian against 1.E4 and QGD and nimzo against 1.D4.

you dont look 40 years old you look maybe 33, 34

The best way to delude yourself about chess is to look at your percentile ranking on these sites. The 97th percentile suggests you are practically elite. But I think most people who understand these things would consider a 1509 rating intermediate (at best). The disconnect is that the 97th percentile includes everybody who's played a game on that particular site, including little kids, people who play a couple games and never return, etc etc etc. My guess is that among the pool of players who play semi-regularly and who are serious enough to post a video about it, a 1500 rating is middling.

I think "offbeat" is especially effective in Blitz and Bullet, as your opponent is forced to generate a plan, consuming lots of time.

Bird best opening

How do you feel about longer time controls helping your game and/or rating? (30/0,60/0 cc). It seems that there are some serious sweats at around 1300 and I’m like should I go faster time controls or what. At the same time I don’t have time for such long games, but also want to get better!

The Duras is the GOAT ua-cam.com/users/shortsF_LBp24iItQ?si=XvpBfL3BoIxzIa55

Recently, to mix things up, I started playing 1..g6 against everything. Once I got comfortable playing against 1.e4 2.d4, I switched to the Sicilian against 1.e4, keeping 1..g6 against 1.d4 (my nemesis to face as black). I’ll let you know in a year how it’s working out! 🤣

I recently started playing ...b6 and I feel icky getting into the cramp positions I get into. Good for you guys go for systematic rubbish but everyone plays mainlines against me. My results have been fairly good but thats more due to my level of play (1900s Slow) but after the opening im often like um.....

First off, nice work making so much progress in just a few years. Second, totally agree. In fact, I play basically only 1. b4 with White, and it's fine and good. And with Black I play whatever I feel like. It literally doesn't matter, everyone under 2200 (including me) is terrible and routinely loses games from plus 2 or more. Actually, I'll go further. I think it's valuable and important to actively stay away from studying openings until you're coming up on IM/GM type levels. The sooner you get YOURSELF out of book, the better. Let your opponents do the studying for you - they can show you why you shouldn't play this or that (or can they...) (about 2100 rapid, been playing for a long time)

After wasting a lot of time switching between main lines and more offbeat stuff I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't really matter what I play so long as I have some idea how to play the middle game. For me this is slightly easier in main line stuff since I can find more model games in, say, the giuoco pianissimo than in something like the Nimzo-Larsen, but of course I also give up the advantage of putting my opponent in a middle game they don't know how to play. Really a matter of taste, your philosophy definitely worked pretty well when I played that way and seems like the most practical approach for those who want to minimize their time spent on openings (which we should all strive for to some extent)

Excellent video - what openings are you looking at for black?

I totally agree - At any level below Master, the best you can get from the opening is to get your opponent out of their comfort zone while remaining somewhat in your own. With black, I play the Black Lion. It is an unsound opening, if the opponent plays the critical line. Only once have any opponent played the critical line against me, and this was in a daily game against a WFM.

Playing offbeat openings may have another advantage. If you study one of these openings properly, you'll be better prepared to face it yourself when playing opposite colour. And if you play the best lines (the ones you fear the most to face when playing opposite colour) and meet considerable opposition, this may give you new knowledge and better understanding to play these lines later yourself. In fact it seems to serve me well sometimes that some people try to evade my go-to opening for Black against e4, the Scandinavian Defense, by transposing to BDG, which is what I play as White. But I have yet to find a way to make the Leningrad Dutch work for me as Black against d4, and I struggle against b6 when I'm playing White... So I guess the stars have aligned for me to adopt b6 as Black 😉

I think the overwhelming advice of "PLAY PRINCIPLED CHESS. LEARN GOOD LINES. AVOID UNSOUND OPENINGS." prevents a lot of people from realizing how bad most amateur players are when they're out of prep. When people don't know what they're doing, they try to "play principled" but often leads to them having no plan or understanding of the position. As a result gaining and edge, finding, tactics, and time management are all harder for them since they're in 100% unfamiliar territory. Plus, you already know whats happening because it's YOUR opening, you'll spot their mistakes and missteps quickly and know what to do. Definite life hack for adult learners like us. I switched to 1.Nf3 from 1.e4 and in the ~1 year since I've got a little over a 60% win rate with white across over 1,200 games in all time controls (classical included!).

It's like you read my mind, literally today been thinking of trying to go off beat with the van geet as white and nimzowitch as black.

Play 1b6 against everything. Got it.

Fantastic video.....I was worried of just Jobava - London...and this your video is sooooooo helpful !! Thank you very much

no way bro that's the amount of time I train tactics

why is your door hobbit sized