I've learned a lot from this channel and YES I incorporate what I learn into my own games. Most of what I learn typically comes from dynamic positions where I used to be much more hesitant to leave my positional comfort zone. Like Botvinnik, I have an affinity for closed positions and Karpov-esque positional play. We have to play the needs of the position though and I'm much more willing to now go for some dynamic positions with gusto. I'm still not 100% comfortable there to be honest, but I'm learning and improving :)
That's crazy, Andras. When you put out that video I immediately thought of a recent game I had from this exact same position. I had recently taken up the Sicilian and was fed up with the Bowdler attack. Yeah, it's anti-positional but it's not losing by any means and it was annoying the hell out of me. In my case, I learned these lines with an engine but was very pleased to see these principles work out and to use them in my own game.
This video really resonated with me. I used to play until I was 18 and thought I was pretty good. I then re-joined the game at 54 to find I was rated 800 and felt truly insulted. Over the last two years, with a lot of work, I've improved my rating to 1225. But even with watching hours of useful coaching videos, i sometimes follow old bad habits that are hard to break. But, your course Chess Principles Reloaded King Safety is great. Its helping break my materialistic habits and letting me ATTACK!!!!
Glad you are back in full swing. Yes, I have repeated mistakes, even after writing a detailed analysis of prior games. Nice to normalize this. Thanks for the sample game.😊
I have to say that I've watched hours and hours of UA-cam chess content. And recently I have started analysing my games with a book and a notebook a million miles away from a computer. Actually spending time to work out what my assessment of a position or variation is massively beneficial, and I found it's deepened my understanding of a whole series of things I've heard higher rated players discussing. I have had to give myself the space to think about what I'm doing when I play and why has enabled me to learn the lessons, which the videos alone wouldn't have done. I've jumped over 100 points since I started OTB analysis after every game.
I can really relate to the first half of this video. I'm an adult learner and I actually had a coach quit on me because I struggled removing a specific knight maneuver from my game planning.
In my own experience, a lot of my chess knowledge comes one way or another from yt 😆. Few days ago i was playing blitz and landed in an identical position to the one that was played a day earlier in WC match and was well analysed by like 10 different ytbers. So I was feeling pretty confident while my opponent, who likely didn't watch recap of that round yet didn't know what to do😅 It was kind of simillar when I used your queen sac line in Panov Caro and got to demolish my opponent in a beautiful fashion like 2 years ago, therefore I will be forever grateful, even if just for that one nice win coach;D. I may add link to the game later
I've learned a lot from this channel and YES I incorporate what I learn into my own games. Most of what I learn typically comes from dynamic positions where I used to be much more hesitant to leave my positional comfort zone. Like Botvinnik, I have an affinity for closed positions and Karpov-esque positional play. We have to play the needs of the position though and I'm much more willing to now go for some dynamic positions with gusto. I'm still not 100% comfortable there to be honest, but I'm learning and improving :)
That's crazy, Andras. When you put out that video I immediately thought of a recent game I had from this exact same position. I had recently taken up the Sicilian and was fed up with the Bowdler attack. Yeah, it's anti-positional but it's not losing by any means and it was annoying the hell out of me. In my case, I learned these lines with an engine but was very pleased to see these principles work out and to use them in my own game.
This video really resonated with me. I used to play until I was 18 and thought I was pretty good. I then re-joined the game at 54 to find I was rated 800 and felt truly insulted. Over the last two years, with a lot of work, I've improved my rating to 1225. But even with watching hours of useful coaching videos, i sometimes follow old bad habits that are hard to break. But, your course Chess Principles Reloaded King Safety is great. Its helping break my materialistic habits and letting me ATTACK!!!!
Glad you are back in full swing. Yes, I have repeated mistakes, even after writing a detailed analysis of prior games. Nice to normalize this. Thanks for the sample game.😊
I have to say that I've watched hours and hours of UA-cam chess content. And recently I have started analysing my games with a book and a notebook a million miles away from a computer.
Actually spending time to work out what my assessment of a position or variation is massively beneficial, and I found it's deepened my understanding of a whole series of things I've heard higher rated players discussing. I have had to give myself the space to think about what I'm doing when I play and why has enabled me to learn the lessons, which the videos alone wouldn't have done.
I've jumped over 100 points since I started OTB analysis after every game.
Great. Thanks for the video. The two Alex' did it (Alex and Alex Colovic) with the great help of Andras, of course.
I can really relate to the first half of this video. I'm an adult learner and I actually had a coach quit on me because I struggled removing a specific knight maneuver from my game planning.
Which one?
Hi, having a link to the video you mentioned at the beginning would be super useful, thanks!
In my own experience, a lot of my chess knowledge comes one way or another from yt 😆. Few days ago i was playing blitz and landed in an identical position to the one that was played a day earlier in WC match and was well analysed by like 10 different ytbers. So I was feeling pretty confident while my opponent, who likely didn't watch recap of that round yet didn't know what to do😅
It was kind of simillar when I used your queen sac line in Panov Caro and got to demolish my opponent in a beautiful fashion like 2 years ago, therefore I will be forever grateful, even if just for that one nice win coach;D. I may add link to the game later
I wish it only took 50 iterations for me to learn from my mistakes 😂
A game which i played with the same concept,
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Nxe4 8. Bxb4 Nxb4 9. Qb3 d5 10. Bb5+ Nc6 11. Ne5 O-O 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. Bxc6 Qf6 14. Bxa8 Qxf2+ 15. Kd1 Bg4+ 16. Kc1 Qf4+ 17. Kc2 Bf5 18. Qxd5 Nf6+ 19. Kd1 Nxd5