Day 376: Playing chess every day until I reach a 2000 rating
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- Watch out Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen! I'm coming for you!
This is another day in my quest for a 2000 rating on chess.com.
Alekhine's Defense: Normal Variation
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#chess - Ігри
Dude, credit to you for doing this publicly. We all make terrible blunders, and the failing just makes you very relatable. Your aggressive style makes for interesting games, and I learn from them while feeling your pain. Keep going.
We never did find out which town in Italy Patrick went to and I doubt we ever will.
Asking the important question here! We deserve an answer!
When he attacked your rook with his rook on A8, you had a nice tactic of bishop takes knight on B6. If queen takes bishop, you take the rook with check, winning an extra rook. If rook takes rook, your bishop takes rook winning a free knight. On top of a winning move it would have certainly forced him to think a bit, lowering his clock on top of winning a piece. In chess ALWAYS look for check, capture and threats before every move, in that order. As you get better you will realize that it’s much faster to analyze a position doing check, capture, threats all the time. Here, after rook a8, the instant thought process should be : What if I check on A8, then, what if rook takes bishop with check on G7, no other move can check, ok then what if bishop takes knight and boom, within 3 questions you would have seen the tactic. By looking at the clip, I believe your thought process was threat first by moving your knight, and when you realized rook was lost if you do that, you switched to “I need to save my rook”. By just changing how you analyze a position, you will get better.
OMG knights can move backwards, I missed it too
Getting a case of premature attackulation again Patrick. Learn to focus on position and development again.
Backward knight moves can get even GMs so don't be super hard on yourself. Keep going, you got this!
There was an old comedian that had a joke about when you lock your car door, and just as you are swinging it shut, you see your keys on the seat. He called it an "igna-second". We've all had them. Keep going, really enjoy your content!
No it is not mate, as the Queen frees up the square, d8. You should be thinking on your opponent's time, not just waiting to respond to his next move.
Take it why waste time. You have two pieces under attack you must take. When your next move is virtually forced don't dither.
Still, it was a very interesting opening and you made it exciting. You do have a feel for openings, in this case you had to recalculate.
You could retreat the Queen Qf3. You have to move the Queen, though since you did not retreat your Queen, your best move would be to
. Resign.
Analysis: Your face is covering the board. so, it is misplaced.
A friend of mine had a title for a book on chess, it was Chess: Board to Pieces
I feel your pain, that hurt to watch
19:46 I think you could have won this game on time. Much earlier I was thinking, do two things:
1. Something like h3 to avoid back rank mate
2. Push that a pawn. Push it. You will put them under real pressure. Push it to a4 and it is defended by the knight.
Exchanges don;'t suit you of course. But here, you can win a piece. Bxb6. If queen takes you take the rook.
But you miss that and play Re7. I think your rook is a bit a trapped then. But at least take a bishop for it. Rxg7 Instead you give away rook and knight in two moves. With just a bit of composure here - making sure your pieces were always defended, avoid back rank mate, and pushing your pawn - I think you could have put them under massive pressure.
Backwards knight moves are hard to see to be honest
Apparently so are backward Queen moves, and when it moves back to say f3 the Knight is still under attack and so is the rook.
Hey man. Watch you for a while and admire your consistency. Last few games you play against much stronger opponents, but today you seemed either tired or after few drinks :) I gained only 1100 and stopped as I hated my blunders and misses and I started to play against bots, to get out of time pressure and refoxusing on not to blunder. But it's so hard. What I know is that I have to analyze more my opponent's options. And I saw it in your games that you won. Today it was only a little of this in your game, so I think it was THE reason of the loss. Anyway, keep your head up! Don't mind to blunder publicly. We all do it! :)
Backwards knights are a blind spot
Getting carried away with attacks, matethreads and tactics, before your king was safe, and three minor pieces had gotten out. I assume, you know these principles, so please, please try to avoid getting involved in crazy things so quickly every single game 😊❤
Keep up the hard work
Playing a lot of 3/0 blitz (or any blitz) at your level is guaranteed to hurt your chess.
The Botez Gambit!!
Alas, it's so much easier to diagnose/treat the flaws in someone else's thought process than it is to apply my ideas to my own games! With that huge caveat aside, let me offer an observation, FWIW. (I'm lower rated than you are, so I proceed with caution and humility.) You sometimes say that you play too slowly and therefore you get into time pressure and too-often lose on time. But respectfully, it's not _how much_ time you spend on a move, but rather _how you spend your time_. As I commented a few days ago, too often you play "solitaire chess," thinking only about your goals/plans/opportunities and not your opponents'. You end up spending unnecessary time calculating variations that aren't feasible, because your opponent has a strong response to your first-ply move that you didn't consider. My humble solution (for you and for me, brother) is to focus like a laser on your opponent's best response to your first-ply move and consider whether/how you can meet it. Only then do you calculate that line more deeply. This will make your (our!) thought process much more efficient, saving that most valuable chess resource, time.
Sorry for rambling on, but one more point. Every time in your post-game analysis when you say "I didn't see that coming!" (which you say quite a bit, FYI), it's a learning opportunity, because it means that you didn’t do the three-ply analysis before you made that move. I hope these comments make sense; I'd love to hear others' thoughts.
Patrick. Giving all your pieces away was a problem. Better luck next time. 1400s soon 😂
I do not understand why would you resign when there was a chance to win on time? You would clearly win on time, and if the goal is to get to 2k points, wouldn't winning on time be part of the goal?
It's a 10:5 game so the opponent would have caught up on time as the ending was very easy to win after Patrick had blundered the rook.
He'll fall back to 1200 way before he hits 2000
Supreme irony for Patrick to win on time after blundering a queen. And considering that he’s usually the one in time trouble.
You are just not looking at each piece and actually `seeing it`, if you had you would have realised the Knight on b6 defended that rook on a8, when you look at a piece do NOT `see` the piece its ONLY blocking the actual square its on train yourself to see the squares it can move TOO those are the squares its attacking / defending
It's okay, even super GMs forget that knights can move backwards sometimes.
Knights can move backwards all the time not just sometimes :)
@@imonoke7903 technically not all the time - not if they're pinned to the king. ;)
also you gotta learn how to be way more solid and principled and fundamentally sound out of the opening not lose then try to spend the whole game fighting a lost cause
Yeah, you noted that you had an attack on that knight that was protecting the rook, but it didn't register that it was protecting the rook. That is precisely the type of mistake I make...a LOT. No worries. Cheap tuition for a good lesson. Cazad0r75
DAMN
It’s fine you are better than this. It’s just one of those days