A *"Superfluous"* or "Extra Piece" refers to when there's one great square for a piece but two pieces would like to be there. As a result one of these two pieces is called a superfluous or an extra.
Someone said 1000 elo players are mixture of 400-2500 moves. They know a few devastating moves watching GM plays them (often just saw the highlight), but don't know when exactly to, dead set on it, missed a prerequisite so it became a 400 elo play. Also they usually didn't see moves obvious to 1500-2000 elo player, but sometime stumble into moves that not all 2000 elo could even consider because of that. 1000-1500 elo was fun time 😉
It is a special case of a concept called "overprotection". If you have 3 pieces defending a pawn and your opponent has 2 pieces attacking the pawn, then all of the defending pieces can move without losing the pawn, giving you much more mobility than if you only have 2 pieces defending the pawn.
4:09 well of course Bb5 to try to exchange for the knight. - Bb5 is played "We are witnessing world champion level positional understanding" My 500 elo ass: "well thank you 😅"
I have to disagree that Steinitz was unable to handle craziness on the board. He played numerous brilliancies over the time of his career. One of them was his famous win over Von Bardeleben where Steinitz drove his opponents king back and forth across the back rank into a mating net with an unprotected rook while all of his other pieces were hanging and he was about to be mated himself along his own weak back rank. I don't think a game can get crazier and more doubled edged than that. Even in his old age he played a brilliant victory against Emmanuel Lasker by sacrificing a bishop on g3 to build lasting pressure down the h file against Lasker's king, that didn't dissipate even after the queens were traded. The claim that romantic chess only exists below 2000 elo isn't really accurate. Blundering pieces by failing to notice that they're hanging has nothing to do with romantic chess. It's terrible chess. Not romantic chess. Romantic era chess basically relied on tactics which were often questionable because positional ideas (and, therefore, the ability to defend successfully) were not well established. This is the reason why Steinitz created theories of positional play. To get an edge over his contemporaries by refuting unsound attacks without risk, not because he couldn't deal with them . Does that mean romantic chess died? No. It just evolved by incorporating new ideas such as Steinitz's principles and later also hypermodern ideas. For example, during the "scientific" era of chess ushered in by Steinitz, one player stayed persistently and annoyingly (to Steinitz) among the elite at the time. That was Mikhail Chigorin. A brilliant and, according to author IM Craig Pritchett, a romantic, To Steinitz' chagrin, he proved that breaking Steinitz's principles can be equally as effective as following them as long as you arrive at a position that allows it. So he proved that knights can be better than a bishop pair in certain positions, developing the knight before moving the c pawn can be effective (we have a lot of openings with Nc3 or Nc6 with the c pawn at its original spot now), and playing with a terrible pawn structure can have its advantages. Such as unearthing combinations hidden deeply in the position. That was what set him apart from his contemporaries. Not forcing a combination on a position where there is none, as romantic players before him did, but finding ones that the position organically produces and which are calling out to be played. To think of it, its not much different from how other "romantics" such as Tal, Nezhmetdinov, Shirov et al play. I might go out on a limb and say that's how Stockfish plays during the TCEC. Those games would be Nezhmetdinov's wet dream. Romantic chess could, therefore, boil down to a way of playing, where you find creative or innovative concepts or solutions to a problem in the position. Creativity. In light of this we can label players such as Richard Reti, Bent Larsen, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Alexander Morozevich, David Bronstein, etc as romantic players. But, you are going in the right direction by teaching about pawn structure and the endgame. This way lower rated players can greatly reduce blunders. However, when facing stronger players, they might want to be prepared to be steered into sharp variations where the board can suddenly explode into tactical madness. I want to make a suggestion and do a video on Chuzhakhin's system of calculation. This can reduce blunders even in sharp positions and prepare players for it. Thank you.
Chuzhakin's system of calculation..hmm I'll definitely look that up. as for the account on how chess progressed from the romantic era to what we have today.I'm tryna toe a fine line between being dramatic, entertaining and being historically accurate, but the goal was to give players in the "romantic" rating range an idea of how much depth there is to the game of chess beyond fancy sacrifices and checkmates. You sound like you could give me a tough time on the board, maybe we can play sometime.
@@mortalchess Thank you for replying. Yes your view definitely makes sense. If you've had the old Chessmaster program, Josh Waitzkin said something similar. That one should first learn the endgame and basic structures to be able to understand the facets of the game better, so that should they be embarking on a "romantic" way of playing, at least they would know what they're doing. As for us playing, maybe sometime, but I wouldn't promise anything with regard to whether I can give you a tough time. My performance and rating fluctuates wildly, as I never really had formal training, and I play almost exclusively in 3+0 arenas, which sometimes can be a rating point charity.
@@Brian22-up3eu One of Karpov's few losses in his book of best games is where he does just that and then fails to find a strategy for the rest of the game. In the French and Caro, it is dangerous for black to give up his LSB, even though it superficially seems to be a bad piece.
You deserve more subscribers. Way better than those chess youtubers who rather just tell people to memorize moves instead of understanding them. Nice video. Love from Romania.
Ha love 1:20 when you throw shade saying “gambits are everywhere” and there’s a thumbnail of one of your other vids 😝 One of THE best chess channels out there.
This is by far one of the best UA-cam content I've ever consumed and not just chess content. It's so funny and the narrative it pushes makes you want to play chess instantly and try playing KaroKan defense 🤣
I got to know the Caro Kan opening because i came up with it once, and it worked, so my sub 1000 elo kept doimg it until an IM friend of mine saw me doing it and said "ah, the Caro Kan! Wait you are suppossed to now do ... Not that, nope, not that eithrr" I only invented the first 2 or 3 steps of the Caro Kan, apparently.
Your story reminds me of a really old Eric Clapton interview where he talked about his first forays into learning guitar and he said - "So this first time I played guitar, I 'invented' the D chord. And from there I just went on......." I get what you are talking about and so does 'god' .....dry, self deprecation humour mate. Many of these chess nerds possibly are on spectrum more than the average, and humour is not their thing......
Man, first time seeing your channel. Very interesting stuff until I lost myself laughing at the last game and your comments. Admittedly, I am in that elo range and those comments were fucking hilarious
I played Caro-Kann on my high school chess team (over a half-century ago). The opening got dissed as being too drawish and unexciting, but I think that reputation is undeserved. I've seen grandmasters playing it more recently and getting some pretty wild games.
I think the Carro kann works so well for lower rated players because you pretty much always play at the same way and there's only a couple good variations for white to play. You basically take control of the game and there's not really anything they can do to prevent you from getting approximately the same setup every time. Which is weird because stockfish really does not like the opening
That would be incorrect. I think what you mean is that lower rated players don't know how to deviate from main lines. There are many ways to deal with the caro and some are very sharp unlike what we saw in this video.
Amazing content honestly. I usually have difficulty staying engaged when watching videos with a computer voiceover, but you managed to remain engaging and instructional in a way that helps memory retention in the viewer.
See there was a video about Messi, and that thumbnail. It's been used here but Messi has been replaced by Caro Kann. Except he forgot to remove the name of other footballers!
The problem with the Caro is that there are numerous opening traps you can walk into when making natural moves. You have to learn all these traps before playing the Caro in a tournament that you are trying to win.
there's something beautiful about listening to a neutral emotion tts roast tf outta me but do it with the most deadpan execution 😂😂😂 subbed, looking to learn more about chess from mortal chess
Not only one of the best expositions of the Caro Khan that could be done in a few minutes but also the funniest. I have Subscribed. I would join Patreon, but I am too busy playing chess to work at a regular job.
Im a beginner to chess and your vids are the only chess youtube that doesnt give me a migraine plus i went from 120 to 270 in two days after learning the caro kann i dont even want to play white becuase im better with the kann
So true. The most fun chess is when you're good enough to not suck but not good enough to not suck but don't know the openings past like 3 or 4 moves. It's the best game in the world at that ELO!
Almost died laughing, thank you. The "Brandon Gambit", not said but shown, right at the beginning almost killed me, the rest was "the psychopathy that sends you to hell" pretty much... Shows how much Intelligence and Humor are tied together. And I'd drop the AI voice, unless it's there to mask your own for some particular reason, obv. Thanks for the vid, subbed and +1'ed! 👍🏼
The Caro-Kann got me from 1300 not knowing anything all the way to 1950 without much effort. Most people make mistakes in the opening already. Especially under 1700.
Like in the Queen's Gambit modern players, "you're bored with ordinary chess even though it's played by grandmaster, you're bored in the way that you were, when you read Ruben finds end game analysis and then the counter analysis in chess review that pointed out the errors in Ruben finds"
As a 1200 player, I love playing the caro-kann. I play the panov-botvinnik setup (e4 c6 d4 d5 exd5 cxd5 c4) and usually within about 10 moves after that I have a pretty good attack going and cruise to victory. I think the problem is lower rated players listen to masters' advice as to what's "good" against the Caro when the openings masters find "good" against the Caro are way too passive for 1200 level
Gambits are still worth learning though, they helps practicing tactics and attacking ideas in real games, which even if we are playing positional games, we still need to master these aspects in order to win
There's an easier explanation. People who don't like king's pawn openings. People below 2000 do not try to keep the advantage and just exchange on d1, turning the game into a queen's pawn type of position.
A "superfluous knight”: When both knights are fighting for the same square. Since only one piece can occupy a square, the second knight is superfluous.
Fyi, Steinitz was NOT known for his "calm, methodical, positonal style". He was anything but methodical or positional, as contemporary computer analysis showed, e.g. in teh Guid & Bratko studies one using Rybka 2.3.2a (2900 elo) and Rybka 3 (3100 elo). They confirmed that Steinitz played more tactically and preferred wild and complex positions. The total opposite of positional chess.
A *"Superfluous"* or "Extra Piece" refers to when there's one great square for a piece but two pieces would like to be there. As a result one of these two pieces is called a superfluous or an extra.
superfluous clearly is the adjectival form of superflu, meaning infected with really bad sniffles
I learned something new today, thanks
why you make text to speach, please speak yourself...
Almost clicked off the video at that point, gatekeeping nerds.
ex: wanting a knight and bishop simultaneously on g4/g5
Close UA-cam
Open chess
Lost a match
Open UA-cam
bro 😭
More like:
Close UA-cam
Open Chess
Lose 500 Elo
Open UA-cam
Real
dummy
Its happens all the time
"at 1000 elo, the queen belongs on d6, drooling, waiting for the knight to move" that hit too close to home ...
hi
Really made my day
😂that killed me instantly
Someone said 1000 elo players are mixture of 400-2500 moves.
They know a few devastating moves watching GM plays them (often just saw the highlight), but don't know when exactly to, dead set on it, missed a prerequisite so it became a 400 elo play.
Also they usually didn't see moves obvious to 1500-2000 elo player, but sometime stumble into moves that not all 2000 elo could even consider because of that.
1000-1500 elo was fun time 😉
Same here mate
"You would know that if any of your games made it to the endgame" lmao
Why is bro attacking me? 😂😂
and right after "if you defended your king like how you defend donald trump, youd be well above 2000 elo at this point"💀💀💀
Im an 89 too brother
Thanks for the tip about the 1 point piece being supported by 3-5 point piece advantage
Something I never thought about
Great observation!
It is a special case of a concept called "overprotection". If you have 3 pieces defending a pawn and your opponent has 2 pieces attacking the pawn, then all of the defending pieces can move without losing the pawn, giving you much more mobility than if you only have 2 pieces defending the pawn.
Love how he explains the principles in the video. Also the jokes hit different with tts
For AI, You have a good sense of humor.
Is it
@@forsupernovae2401 good humor is good humor yk
just the voice is ai. the script is written by a human
@@nabeelhasan8870 no shit
@@nabeelhasan8870 no way fr?!??
4:09 well of course Bb5 to try to exchange for the knight.
- Bb5 is played
"We are witnessing world champion level positional understanding"
My 500 elo ass: "well thank you 😅"
World champion: My bishop is worse, I gotta trade it.
500 elo: let's break the opening principle and move same piece multiple times in opening
Wcs know when to break the rules@@RaghavBabbar
@@BREAKocean exactly
I have to disagree that Steinitz was unable to handle craziness on the board. He played numerous brilliancies over the time of his career. One of them was his famous win over Von Bardeleben where Steinitz drove his opponents king back and forth across the back rank into a mating net with an unprotected rook while all of his other pieces were hanging and he was about to be mated himself along his own weak back rank. I don't think a game can get crazier and more doubled edged than that. Even in his old age he played a brilliant victory against Emmanuel Lasker by sacrificing a bishop on g3 to build lasting pressure down the h file against Lasker's king, that didn't dissipate even after the queens were traded.
The claim that romantic chess only exists below 2000 elo isn't really accurate. Blundering pieces by failing to notice that they're hanging has nothing to do with romantic chess. It's terrible chess. Not romantic chess. Romantic era chess basically relied on tactics which were often questionable because positional ideas (and, therefore, the ability to defend successfully) were not well established. This is the reason why Steinitz created theories of positional play. To get an edge over his contemporaries by refuting unsound attacks without risk, not because he couldn't deal with them . Does that mean romantic chess died? No. It just evolved by incorporating new ideas such as Steinitz's principles and later also hypermodern ideas. For example, during the "scientific" era of chess ushered in by Steinitz, one player stayed persistently and annoyingly (to Steinitz) among the elite at the time. That was Mikhail Chigorin. A brilliant and, according to author IM Craig Pritchett, a romantic, To Steinitz' chagrin, he proved that breaking Steinitz's principles can be equally as effective as following them as long as you arrive at a position that allows it. So he proved that knights can be better than a bishop pair in certain positions, developing the knight before moving the c pawn can be effective (we have a lot of openings with Nc3 or Nc6 with the c pawn at its original spot now), and playing with a terrible pawn structure can have its advantages. Such as unearthing combinations hidden deeply in the position. That was what set him apart from his contemporaries. Not forcing a combination on a position where there is none, as romantic players before him did, but finding ones that the position organically produces and which are calling out to be played. To think of it, its not much different from how other "romantics" such as Tal, Nezhmetdinov, Shirov et al play. I might go out on a limb and say that's how Stockfish plays during the TCEC. Those games would be Nezhmetdinov's wet dream. Romantic chess could, therefore, boil down to a way of playing, where you find creative or innovative concepts or solutions to a problem in the position. Creativity. In light of this we can label players such as Richard Reti, Bent Larsen, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Alexander Morozevich, David Bronstein, etc as romantic players.
But, you are going in the right direction by teaching about pawn structure and the endgame. This way lower rated players can greatly reduce blunders. However, when facing stronger players, they might want to be prepared to be steered into sharp variations where the board can suddenly explode into tactical madness. I want to make a suggestion and do a video on Chuzhakhin's system of calculation. This can reduce blunders even in sharp positions and prepare players for it. Thank you.
Chuzhakin's system of calculation..hmm I'll definitely look that up.
as for the account on how chess progressed from the romantic era to what we have today.I'm tryna toe a fine line between being dramatic, entertaining and being historically accurate, but the goal was to give players in the "romantic" rating range an idea of how much depth there is to the game of chess beyond fancy sacrifices and checkmates.
You sound like you could give me a tough time on the board, maybe we can play sometime.
I agree 👍 💯
Great stuff I’m all ears
@@mortalchess Thank you for replying. Yes your view definitely makes sense. If you've had the old Chessmaster program, Josh Waitzkin said something similar. That one should first learn the endgame and basic structures to be able to understand the facets of the game better, so that should they be embarking on a "romantic" way of playing, at least they would know what they're doing.
As for us playing, maybe sometime, but I wouldn't promise anything with regard to whether I can give you a tough time. My performance and rating fluctuates wildly, as I never really had formal training, and I play almost exclusively in 3+0 arenas, which sometimes can be a rating point charity.
The light square bishop in carokann is meant to be traded with horse, its his destiny
What a heroic moment
When he get traded
What? No. Many times the lsb trades for his counterpart.
@@Brian22-up3eu both are true tho
@@Brian22-up3eu One of Karpov's few losses in his book of best games is where he does just that and then fails to find a strategy for the rest of the game. In the French and Caro, it is dangerous for black to give up his LSB, even though it superficially seems to be a bad piece.
@@TomJones-tx7pb you mean where he trade bishops or bish for knight? Also what book is thay, am interested, being karpov number 1 fan on this planet.
Yo 6:50 is brutal
Right 😂😂😂
You deserve more subscribers.
Way better than those chess youtubers who rather just tell people to memorize moves instead of understanding them.
Nice video. Love from Romania.
Agree 👍💯
Here is a cloth to wipe that brown off your nose. lol
The AI voice needs to go, then maybe.
@@yssfbll He is from zimbabwe, so maybe he is shy about his voice.
Still would be nice to hear his voice over a video.
the concept of a low point stone binding a more important one is something I never actively thought of. A good thing to consider :)
the concept of referring to them as stones is ancient...I like it😅
detail oriented psicopathy is probably the best concept I’ve heard in years
This is an awesome channel. Informative and hilarious at the same time. Absolutely love it.
I never thought I'll be sitting patiently watching 20:00 minutes video made by aliens, but I i did 😮
the content "high quality chess stuff", the cover "Harry Kane" "Musiala" "Lewandowski"
Yes!!!, finally commented on that.
😂😂😂😂
Ah yes the Harry Kane opening
nah, vini jr opening is way better
Nah, Lewandawski opening is better
What was that thumbnail
Ah yes caro-khan competing with Lewandowski and Rafael leao
somebody told me viewers only look at the thumbnail for less than a second and then click😑 no fair
I@@mortalchessi want to learn Kroos and Pedri Openings 🗿😅😂
@@mortalchess ngl bro that made me click and subscribe
It was funny
@@mortalchesstakes less than a second to think:”interesting”
@@mortalchess I got the original thumbnail recommended to me 5 minutes after this video and I cracked up laughing 😂👏
Ha love 1:20 when you throw shade saying “gambits are everywhere” and there’s a thumbnail of one of your other vids 😝 One of THE best chess channels out there.
What a beautiful and mindful clip. I'm on Caro def in my last 300 games at lichess. Some ends well some ends less.
This is by far one of the best UA-cam content I've ever consumed and not just chess content. It's so funny and the narrative it pushes makes you want to play chess instantly and try playing KaroKan defense 🤣
I got to know the Caro Kan opening because i came up with it once, and it worked, so my sub 1000 elo kept doimg it until an IM friend of mine saw me doing it and said "ah, the Caro Kan! Wait you are suppossed to now do ... Not that, nope, not that eithrr"
I only invented the first 2 or 3 steps of the Caro Kan, apparently.
You didn't invent sht
The amount of arrogance someone would need to move a chess piece anywhere on the board and think they were the first to do it is hilarious
nobody else has a sense of humor apparently
Your story reminds me of a really old Eric Clapton interview where he talked about his first forays into learning guitar and he said - "So this first time I played guitar, I 'invented' the D chord. And from there I just went on......." I get what you are talking about and so does 'god' .....dry, self deprecation humour mate. Many of these chess nerds possibly are on spectrum more than the average, and humour is not their thing......
Man, first time seeing your channel. Very interesting stuff until I lost myself laughing at the last game and your comments. Admittedly, I am in that elo range and those comments were fucking hilarious
I love the Caro-Kann. It's my favorite defense against 1 e4.
As a South African viewer, I was not ready XD
I played Caro-Kann on my high school chess team (over a half-century ago). The opening got dissed as being too drawish and unexciting, but I think that reputation is undeserved. I've seen grandmasters playing it more recently and getting some pretty wild games.
Okk
Wow i see chess different now
lol time to make your opponents suffer
@@mortalchess goat channel man im unstoppable now
yea its insightful
😂
This is brilliant. Don't forego the long intros. Chess needs social context.
One of the best chess videos I have watched, comical but very insightful and simple
Oh finally, a video that shows us how Karo kann is a Better opening than every other football superstar
Gotta say, your humor is brilliant, sir.
I think the Carro kann works so well for lower rated players because you pretty much always play at the same way and there's only a couple good variations for white to play. You basically take control of the game and there's not really anything they can do to prevent you from getting approximately the same setup every time. Which is weird because stockfish really does not like the opening
Stockfish does like the Caro, idk what engine ur using
@@bodooor it gives an immediate, significant advantage to white as soon as you play the first move.
That would be incorrect. I think what you mean is that lower rated players don't know how to deviate from main lines. There are many ways to deal with the caro and some are very sharp unlike what we saw in this video.
@@chicken29843
Stockfish 17 only gives white a .3 advantage after e4 c6.
That's not a big advantage that's a draw at engine level.
@@chicken29843Anything below 50 centipawns is not a significant advantage
one ofthe best chess video I've ever seen. Thanks
LOL The narration on the lower level games is gold. I'd love to see more of that
typically these ai voices are pretty boring. I liked how you injected a sense of personality into the video
Still not enough though lol
wow!! Impressive lecture with historical background, simply fantastic!
I despise playing against the Trasho-Cann as white, so I’ve given more time to study it than any other opening (like a solid 20 minutes).
Try the kings Indian attack against it, has a good psychological angle to it .
Amazing content honestly. I usually have difficulty staying engaged when watching videos with a computer voiceover, but you managed to remain engaging and instructional in a way that helps memory retention in the viewer.
The content is great. The computer voiceover is still an unnecessary and unpleasant distraction, in my opinion.
@howardgraff4084 hell ill do the voice over if OP lacks the mic and pre amp
Strongly disagree it was nails on a chalkboard I couldn't even make it halfway through
This guy is absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂 instant sub!!!
Watched video ✔
Played chess ✔
*Lost*
Continuing surfing internet
these videos have me seeing chess and understanding it better when it's fun to watch!
2:01 BRO 😂😂😂 that is hilarious
Bro I wanted to see Caro-Kann vs Football players
I'm pulling down the win rate for caro Kahn as my win rate is 46%
Caro kann was the best Champions League player of all time. Thank you for that thumbnail.
😂😂😂😂
See there was a video about Messi, and that thumbnail. It's been used here but Messi has been replaced by Caro Kann. Except he forgot to remove the name of other footballers!
This guy is on fire. Best humor I have ever heard!
Great commentary!! THANK YOU!!!😊
The problem with the Caro is that there are numerous opening traps you can walk into when making natural moves. You have to learn all these traps before playing the Caro in a tournament that you are trying to win.
The 1000 elo commentary was very entertaining lol
Thanks for helping me understand the Caro-Kann better.
I'm curious about yourself, this type of humour takes a very particular type of person, I love it!
When you said he'd check his stool 3 times a week just to make sure things were in order, I hit the subscribe button. 😊 😂
One of the best starts to a chess video ever
Nice video! Glad to have found this channel.
THE THIRD GAME IS SO FUNNY, KEEP IT UP, NICE VID ❤
"calm dismantling of your opponents ego" ... classic.
Best chess channel ever, I want a 20 hours video on caro kann and not only!
Analysis and commentary on the last game made my day. Hilarious, entertaining and informative at the same time. 🤣
7:31 That's Double horsey protection protocol
there's something beautiful about listening to a neutral emotion tts roast tf outta me but do it with the most deadpan execution 😂😂😂
subbed, looking to learn more about chess from mortal chess
Not only one of the best expositions of the Caro Khan that could be done in a few minutes but also the funniest. I have Subscribed. I would join Patreon, but I am too busy playing chess to work at a regular job.
That thumbnail is incredible.
Analysis of that last 1000 elo game was super funny from start to finish.
Im a beginner to chess and your vids are the only chess youtube that doesnt give me a migraine plus i went from 120 to 270 in two days after learning the caro kann i dont even want to play white becuase im better with the kann
So true. The most fun chess is when you're good enough to not suck but not good enough to not suck but don't know the openings past like 3 or 4 moves. It's the best game in the world at that ELO!
Almost died laughing, thank you. The "Brandon Gambit", not said but shown, right at the beginning almost killed me, the rest was "the psychopathy that sends you to hell" pretty much... Shows how much Intelligence and Humor are tied together. And I'd drop the AI voice, unless it's there to mask your own for some particular reason, obv. Thanks for the vid, subbed and +1'ed! 👍🏼
Surprisingly, a machine voice that didn't bore me. And pleasant surprise, it comes with good content....
I've subscribed, hoping for more... 😊
Bot
Great commentary while focusing on strategy.
The Caro-Kann got me from 1300 not knowing anything all the way to 1950 without much effort. Most people make mistakes in the opening already. Especially under 1700.
I just noticed the only opening on the thumbnail is caro kann the rest are football players 😂
All I am saying is, this is how you explain a chess game. Thank you I love it
Creative and educational content, this is why I subbed
Man you deserve millions of subscribers
thanks man, I hope I make it..
Ah yes, remember the vinicius jr opening? Such a good opening
11:50 Dude, I’m offended 😂😂😂
Bro same 😂😂😂 im like wtf siyenzeni?
Caught the wildest stray 🤣
The commentary on the last game had me in stitches
"You would know that if any of your games ever made it to the end-game" broski low key throwing shade for no reason
I used to joke that the Caro is strong for black because the center is so strong it unlocks the secret super-short O castle move.
Anyone else came for the thumbnail that included a statistic graph of footballers.
i love your narration style
best video ever seen, insta subscribed, gg
Like in the Queen's Gambit modern players, "you're bored with ordinary chess even though it's played by grandmaster, you're bored in the way that you were, when you read Ruben finds end game analysis and then the counter analysis in chess review that pointed out the errors in Ruben finds"
"You would know that, if any of your games ever made it to the endgame." 😂 perfect
I never intend to play the Cc. But what a great upload. Highly entertaining. Thx!
amazing breakdown!
one of the best chess tutorial video
Man this is way too important to risk having nightmares to push through...
I agree. I agree. Even I, a modest 1,200 have a higher winning rate with black than with white and that's because I always use this opening.
As a 1200 player, I love playing the caro-kann. I play the panov-botvinnik setup (e4 c6 d4 d5 exd5 cxd5 c4) and usually within about 10 moves after that I have a pretty good attack going and cruise to victory. I think the problem is lower rated players listen to masters' advice as to what's "good" against the Caro when the openings masters find "good" against the Caro are way too passive for 1200 level
Gambits are still worth learning though, they helps practicing tactics and attacking ideas in real games, which even if we are playing positional games, we still need to master these aspects in order to win
17:48 engine recommended move 😂😂😂😂😂
He said they are out of control
I like your content
Educational ,funny, and short ,the perfect combo
There's an easier explanation. People who don't like king's pawn openings. People below 2000 do not try to keep the advantage and just exchange on d1, turning the game into a queen's pawn type of position.
This video convinced me to learn Caro Kann.
Superfluous - Unnecessary, more than already needed (more than enough).
A "superfluous knight”: When both knights are fighting for the same square. Since only one piece can occupy a square, the second knight is superfluous.
SO GOOD, I love content like this
Great video. Putting in a crappy game at the end was hilarious.
Fyi, Steinitz was NOT known for his "calm, methodical, positonal style". He was anything but methodical or positional, as contemporary computer analysis showed, e.g. in teh Guid & Bratko studies one using Rybka 2.3.2a (2900 elo) and Rybka 3 (3100 elo). They confirmed that Steinitz played more tactically and preferred wild and complex positions. The total opposite of positional chess.
@18:14 commentary peaked here😂😂
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