Handling a Speedy, Aggressive player | Standard Chess
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this 1.d4 game, Black comes blazing out of the gates with a popular reply online, 1...c5. Although I like 2.c3 as a practical option (inviting a transposition to an Exchange Slav after 2...cxd4 3.cxd4 d5), here I play the principled space-grabbing move, 2.d5. My opponent continues their blistering pace, and even sacrifices a piece within the first 10 moves! Against such players it's important to take your time (strictly avoid "matching" their pace) and capitalize on the carelessness that will likely creep into their speedy play.
Review this game on lichess.org: lichess.org/k5...
Support the channel: streamlabs.com... or via PayPal: t.co/VBFOLJHt2m
Follow me on Twitch: / johnbartholomew
Follow me on Twitter: / fins0905
Add me as a friend on Chess.com: www.chess.com/...
My 100 Endgames You Must Know Course on Chessable: www.chessable....
My London System (1.d4 and 2.Bf4) Course on Chessable: www.chessable....
The Checkmate Patterns Manual (with CraftyRaf): www.chessable....
My Scandinavian Course (1.e4 d5) on Chessable: www.chessable....
I offer private online chess lessons. Navigate to my "About" section, and then click on "For business inquiries" to reveal my email address.
Recommended chess books and equipment:
1950 Dubrovnik reproduction set (Bobby Fischer's favorite!) on Chess Bazaar: www.chessbazaa.... You can use coupon code JOHN30 for 30% off!
Wood board: amzn.to/2H9iATl
Tune Your Chess Tactics Antenna: amzn.to/2xJ2auH
Amateur to IM: amzn.to/2Dph3IG
Life and Games of Mikhail Tal: amzn.to/2zq741X
WOW, you guys really came through in the comments! Floored by your responses. Really appreciate it guys - cheers! More long-form content to come 👍
Yaaay! Thanks John, watching your longer games is both pleasurable and instructive.
Hearing you say you don't care about views you care about comments. Thank you John. You have given me so much education and enjoyment over the years. Without you I don't think I would have become passionate about chess. I began watching you 5 years or more ago when I first began playing, and I still love all of your content I have watched probably every video. Thank you for your humility and your willingness to share your high level education skills on this platform. There are other good content creators, but I think in term of if you want a teacher, you're the man as you understand what a learner needs in a way which nobody else in the chess community does. You are a legend, thanks so much.
Fellow Eagan alumni here. I always love the standard time control videos. Gives a lot more instruction and time to think.
John, you have no idea how much I love seeing your content! Please keep these videos coming. Chess world needs a top class educator like you.
I haven't said this enough. You have been the beacon of chess awareness and improvement for many years
Hey, John! Glad to hear that you appreciate our comments! It's nice that you take a personal interest, that really means something! So glad to see two Standard games posted close together for the first time in, well, years! I get so much out of them, I have literally been through your entire set of Standard games at least five times!! There are lots of chess channels that are great for entertainment (Rosen, Gotham Chess, Botez, etc.) but for true instructive content, you and Danya are easily the best. Hope that you find the time and the passion to keep Standard Chess going again, but even if not, I will always be thankful for what you have done for the chess community online!!!
I love your comment about having mentors you've never met. I have learned soooo much about chess over the last couple years and almost all of it has been from people I have never met. Your content is really great and I really appreciate the work you put into it.
Your videos are an educational goldmine for the chess community. Whenever a friend wants to get into chess, I recommend your Chess Fundamentals videos from years and years ago. and you still haven't ceased imparting wisdom. This video really made me think about how I personally handle these kinds of players, and how a slower, calm and thoughtful attitude can really throw them off balance!
John you got me into chess, and now im top 100 in my country. Your content is top notch, and its honestly so relaxing 😌. Thank you for your work 👍🏼
Which country!?
That's sick, congrats!
DUDE that's amazing!
Can’t get enough of these higher rated and longer time control games, incredibly entertaining and educational. Have you consider adding the opening played in the video title and creating time stamps in the description to improve accessibility? Thanks again for sharing these games and your analysis!
Thank you for watching! Yes, I will probably go back and index/standardize these video titles at some point. For now, I think it's better to keep the titles shorter for visibility purposes, but I totally agree that having the opening tagged would be helpful down the stretch.
I like how calmly you think about the position and considers your options. It's really nice to hear your thought process.
This series (and the "original" Primitive Technology) are my absolute favorite UA-cam videos! So glad you both are back to regularly posting videos 😊
Easily my favorite chess channel on UA-cam and one I've learned the most from!
Loving the longer time control 😁 Feel like my aging brain can learn more, and mentally play along with you easier at this pace. Thanks a million for all the amazing instrucive content John!
Hi John, great to see you picking up the consistency of uploads again! I started following you back in 2015, when I was in high school... now I'm graduating from college and it's still a joy whenever I see a new upload from you. Much of what I know about chess is due to your content - thanks so much for all the knowledge you've shared over the years! Regards from Brazil :)
Wow, time flies!! Congratulations on your college graduation!
Thanks a lot for continuing to watch, and best wishes with your personal and chess endeavors going forward.
It's a lot of fun to watch the standard chess videos, just because it's easier to keep up with than the bullet games lol. It helps knowing I can take my time more when playing against these fast & aggressive players. Those kind of players can be very intimidating when you don't know how to deal with them properly!
This is really my favourite format from you! I'm glad you are posting more of these again.
I'll add my two cents John. I love the standard series. It's amazing. I tried you out when I had gotten through a certain amount of Naroditsky speed runs, and a rl friend suggested you.
I have gone through right around 300 videos in this series in a few months. I love it. I'm sad that I'll soon be "done" with this playlist, but you have plenty of other videos. Hopefully I like them half as much as the standard series, if so it'll still be good.
Hey there, I greatly appreciate you watching + your friend's recommendation (please tell them I said hello!).
Amazing that you've worked through nearly the entirety of this playlist. The good news is that I plan to keep it going for years to come, even though I haven't added to it lately. Cheers, and good luck with your chess improvement!
Thanks, John, for the videos. Watching you play chess and listening to your explanations has gotten me into the game!
Hey John, I dont usually comment on videos, but since you mentioned how the comments motivate you more than views/likes I thought I'd let you know that you're one of my favourite chess educators on youtube! Please keep uploading regularly, your videos are always very informative!
Hey John. Hope you remember me. The 60th b-day gift guy. I watched this video and had to send you a comment. I watch a lot of your content. I have to say you’re a terrific chess teacher and coach. Your chess playing is truly beautiful to watch. Keep it up.
Hey Joe, thanks for checking in again! Appreciate your viewership and kind words - cheers.
Yesssssss!!!! Standard games are back. I’ve literally watched all of them. These games helped me improve from 800-900 to 1200-1300
Hey John, this is guys. Love your longer instructional videos dedicated to teaching as opposed to the more clickbaity nature of the more popular chess streamers. Also as an Aussie who moved to the Midwest this year I appreciate your tips on surviving the winters here :)
Long-time fan of your channel, John (say, 2015 onwards)! I join the sentiment that these standard chess videos are perfect. All the variations, tactics and lessons you can unfold in this format makes them my personal favourite. Thank you, and have a great new year!
John, if what you really motivates you is seeing these positive comments, I will give you props on every standard video when you keep them coming on a regular-ish basis. Thank you, these are fantastic.
Thank you John! So instructive to watch you play calm and composed. You and Danya are the best chess teachers.
I found these videos through gingergm. I love these videos from you John. You explain your thought process in such a simple way. The great thing is you have hundreds of videos for me to catch up on.👍
Thanks a lot for checking out my channel, Reuben!
I love this series. I don't have to panic about the clock due to the 15 second increment, and there's more thorough analysis. I look forward to more as your lichess classical rating goes up.
John! Thanks for a very exciting game, with a ton of incredible instruction. I actually found the queen trap right as you were pointing it out lol! So that made me super pumped. Thanks as always for your content, I’m glad you enjoy us as much as we enjoy you sir 👍
Long time viewer. I really appreciate your Standard videos. I learn so much. It is a rare opportunity to see a masters thought process. I also really enjoy your climbing the ratings ladder videos next. It is great to see how you handle lower rated players. Again you have the time to provide comments which are really helpful. Watching you play other masters in Blitz is just for fun as I can't learn as much although it is fun to watch. I own some of your chessable books. Please keep up the great content!
Hey John, been watching you since 2014 and probably have watched >90% of the videos on your channel. It makes me so happy to see the success you’ve had through chess over these years. Keep doing your thing ❤
Greatly appreciated, John. There are a lot of chess players on YT making educational videos, but I just like your style the best.
Are you going to play any OTB tournaments this year? I'm asking for entirely selfish reasons: the videos in which you analyse your own OTB games have always been among my favorites. Sadly, there aren't that many of those. :)
Love these longer games! So helpful to get full analysis and insight into thought process on deeper calculation. Thanks!
Found you through your chess fundamentals series in recent times, brilliant content Thank you John
Great stuff John, i recommended your channel to my coworker who is getting into chess! I watch these when im getting started at work.
You also mentionned the screen capture in the begining, you could also put your camera feed in the lichess chat window on the right, lost of room over there. :)
Thank you for upload, these long games are my favorite!
I love your videos! Sometimes i just put you up in the background to just listen to you comment and talk about chess and your ideas. The long games are my favorite by far!
Let’s go!! Prepping for a tournament soon and this gives me a ton of insight and practice!!! Thank you John for the best content, always!
Good luck in your tourney 👊
Great job thinking out loud on your gameplay. Very helpful and clear.
Hey John, thanks for the great video! I have a tournament this weekend and watching you play some slow games makes me feel much more confident!
These are my favorite games to win and the games that kill my soul to lose. When you have a disrespectful opponent firing off unsound one-move attacks. Nice job squeezing them John.
Thanks John! So glad these videos are back!
You are the one who made me to watch chess and learn it. I really want to see more content from you.
Love all the new uploads John.
You are providing us with so much enjoyment, heartfelt thanks
Love these videos! Nothing else like them, and they’ve led me to explore your Chessable courses!
Much appreciated! :D
Great lesson...look forward to seeing more of these in the future. Cheers!
If it wasn't for climbing the rating ladder, I never would've returned to chess from when I was a kid who hated it. Now I play every day. Thank you. This is the first time I'm commenting
I used to watch you so much. All of your videos are much appreciated. Much love
We all know who is the educational GOAT. Love that you are back John!
John, The longer time control games with analysis are fantastic. I hope your schedule permits you to keep doing these on a regular basis. Thanks!
Your videos are life-giving! Thank you!
Thanks for taking the time again to make this video :)
great to have the uploads back john, fire content as always, would appreciate some titled tuesday again soon as that's my favourite of your series
I love the Standard chess videos. Thanks.
Thanks John, for these great videos you are uploading!!!
Always excited to see you come up in my feed and even better when it is a standard! Little late, but hope your move went smoothly.
Thanks John, great video.
At the 1900 rating level I notice that when I blockade or almost seal a color-complex blockade against an opening where that is an uncommon approach (semi-benoni or black lion) that my opponent will sacrifice one third of the time no matter how dubious so long as they get two pawns for the piece.
always enjoyable to see a new video. thanks for the upload
one of my favourite series on youtube for sure! I hate to play vs players like this, not sure what the point of playing longer time controls if you spend 5 sec at most against an IM on deciding to sack the piece in the opening . I guess they did it for content!
Hey John, thanks a lot for the new videos. For me it’s pure entertainment ❤
Can't get enough! I've got a long way to go but you've helped me so much! Think maybe you could do some remakes on the fundamentals?
Thank you, Coach.
Thank you for watching!
John says he like comments, so here I am commenting for John. Good instruction. Good chess. Yay content
Enjoy watching your videos John! 😄
YESSSS More Standard Games!
This was really interesting, thanks.
20.Rhg1 would have been interesting with the idea of 20. ...Nc7. 21.Rxg6 Rxg6. 22.Nxd6+ Rxd6. 23.Qxf5+ or directly 20. ...Nc7. 21.Nxd6+ Bxd6. 22.Qxf5+ gxf5 23. Rxg8+.
Interesting attempt!
Return of the king
that was a quick and fun game
John, I don't if you've been asked this before, but...What's your advice if a person has an hour to spend playing chess? 10 games of blitz chess (say 5+3) or a few games of 15+15? I know that playing longer time control is the only way to improve, but I also see how playing 10 blitz games can benefit me by exposing me to a larger variety of positions.
Hope you don't mind I'm commenting a year after the fact. I kept wondering, "When is he going to Castle? When is he going to Castle"? Then you Castled.
Move 20 I'd be interested in Rg1 to set up Rxg6 Rxg6 Nxd6+ Bxd6 Qxf5, and of course it puts pressure on the backwards pawn. Computer doesn't like it as much as John's move Rf3, though, maybe I've been doing too many fork puzzles 🤣
*Rhg1
Hi John, what computer specs do you have? I see you have over 10 Mnodes/s in the computer analysis, which is impressive, at least compared to my computer 😆
these videos are the sole purpose I’m 1800 uscf now!
John, you and Danya are by far the best chess teachers online. Thanks for what you offer the chess community!
Agreed
Yes, John and Danya for sure are light years ahead of anybody else. I would like to put Stjepan in the same category because he tries really hard but he just doesn't have the skill level.
For sure! Though my girlfriend can't stand Naroditsky's voice, so she is also very happy about the return of John's "Standard Chess" videos!
@@matthewwesly8018 If you meant his Russian Chess master impersonations (which I love), I could understand. But his regular voice is totally normal 🤔
@@matthewwesly8018 Not everyone can have the Grischuk voice!
Hey John, in the 1990's I used to be a player and director at the St Paul Castle Chess Club, back when Minnesota was kind of a chess desert, at least at the international level. So when you started playing I followed your progress on the scholastic rating lists and tournaments as one of Minnesota's brightest chess lights. Of course when I found out a few years ago that you had a UA-cam channel I started following that as well. I was gratified to find that outside of being one of Minnesota's strongest players you were also a nice person in general. Congratulations on all your successes and thanks for being a great representative of our home state.
That's amazing! I owe a lot to the Castle - I really cut my teeth with competitive chess there. Cool to hear you were involved in the 1990s.
Thanks a lot for following my chess career - I appreciate your kind words. Cheers, Jeff!
John blessing us in 2023
😅
Always a fun and instructive event when you come back on UA-cam, and the standard series is my favorite. Thanks again for the content!
Agreed!
Thank you John for the awesome content! I credit my love of the game to stumbling across your channel years ago, I've joined the Lichess League based on your talking about it and your enthusiasm for the game is contagious, I tell everyone about your channel. Looking forward to all your content in 2023 and you playing enough classical games to lose your provisional rating ;)
So unbelievably glad John is back
You were the first chess UA-camr I really learned how to play from, it's great to see your videos popping up more! Seeing how this played out for black, you gotta' think a Benko approach would be much better for their style, not sure where they even came up with this f5 idea.
I’ve gone from 800 to 1600, and I can mostly attribute that to your instructive videos. Thanks John!
Fantastic progress 👏 Keep going!
You were my first chess content creator i watched
I really love this series, hope u doing well , really appreciate ur content and teaching 👍🏻♥️
Hey John, love your videos. Very instructive as always.
Have you ever considered making an opening themed video series? Something like Lichess Plays or your climbing the rating ladder series, where you play lower rated opponents, except here you would play with the same opening plan in every game of a single video, or something along those lines. I think it could be very instructive for people (like me) who are trying to learn a specific opening:)
I know your probably busy with different projects. But this is your staple. It's where people discovered you and much of your know about came from imo. Very grateful you are continuing this series 🙏🏻
Hey John - just wanted to thank you for the time and effort you put into making these videos. Your clear and thoughtful commentary has helped me think through my own games so much more. I bounced around the 1100-1300 rating range for years but just by watching your videos I've broken through the 1500 ceiling (which used to feel unreachable) relatively quickly! Upwards from here! Hope you feel better soon and get back to making videos, I'm addicted!
Hi John. Your Chess Fundamentals series was THE BEST series of its kind that I have ever seen. And I recommend it to everyone. I know you have a lot of irons in the fire but your videos have had an influence on me as a chess fanatic and I'm a big fan. Good to see you making youtube videos again.
Loving the uploads John! Thanks for all you do.
Thanks for the video John. This sort of content with longer time controls is awesome and has a ton of value for beginners or intermediate players like myself who are looking to improve their understanding of the game. I remember watching your Chess Fundamentals series when I started my chess journey some years ago. I still go back and rewatch those videos from time to time. Thanks for all the content that you put out!
Cheers to checking out the archives! 😀
Idk why people play these classical time controls as if they’re playing bullet or blitz.
Aw yeah, I can't get enough of these! Seriously your videos in general (and especially the standard games/CTRL) are my absolute favorite YT content. JB THE OG
Love the calm response to aggression. It's so easy to feel like you "deserve" to punish your opponent when they play like that. Straight-forward ideas, thorough calculation, and patience usually deals with these kinds of players pretty handily.
Wow, i always thought these Benoni structures were closer to equality, surprising to see evaluations that high so early in the match! I hope I see my opponents try f5 in the future.
I currently see a lot of Benoni and Benko online, and not as much over the board, which tracks with the data. Great video John!
Computers simply hate the Benoni. Especially these new NNUEs
Glad to see you are back John!! You are one of my favourite chess UA-camrs! Since I found your content years ago, I have loved all your videos!!
I just want to say thank you for posing these!
Thanks so much John for all the instruction, genuine interest in sharing your knowledge of the game, and good old fashioned fun. Love every series you let loose! I think you've single-handedly dragged me kicking and screming from 400 to 1600, and I won't stop watching your videos any time soon!
Love to hear it - that's quite the rating climb! Thanks for watching, and keep up the great work
Created an account to say I love your videos, John. Your Standard Chess videos especially are a great model for how to play and think about positions.
Hey, thanks a lot for that!! Glad my content has been helpful to you.
Comment for the algorithm... my OG chess content creator!! I've had to cheet on you a bit with this Danya Kiddo since you been gone... I'm a grown ass man.. I have NEEDS and wants... sorry. I hope you'll take me back!
That "working hands" product is popular here also in Scotland. People from other countries often have a misconception of our climate, but it's often much colder than England, and we've had it as low as -28 C.
Really enjoyed this video. Especially appreciated the tip about not matching your opponent's time in slower time controls, and the showcasing of concrete attacking ideas and lines in intuitively completely winning positions.