In this game, you moved pieces multiple times in the opening, pushed pawns instead of developing, brought your queen out to the side of the board, and didn't castle until it was too late. Your tactical awareness is pretty good. Your opening knowledge is fine. You need to work on playing basic, principled chess.
If you want to "study openings" by all means do it. But spend time learning the basics, namely develop your pieces, don't make unnecessary pawn moves, castle, and fight for the center. The majority of the time you're going to be out of book by move 5, and you're going to have to play chess then.
Love watching your games. Please keep them coming. Couple of comments (helpful I hope) 1. Don't count yourself out too soon, you still had some chances after he attempted his Checkmate and you cleaned that mess up (even though you were down a piece) you had a slim chance to Queen up the right side. 2. Maybe some more aggressive music, you seem to tend towards the less aggressive moves to stay safe. Let her Rip! Good luck next game!
Bro love your channel but you don’t need to study openings, you need to study opening principles (first)! Don’t move a piece twice. Place two pawns in the center if you can then castle kingside. Also….. to take is a mistake! Only exchange pieces if it helps you move your pieces to active or advantageous squares. Best of luck hope this helps
Wait, at 7:57.... Take his knight, his Q takes bishop, you hop back with your knight (discovered check from your Q), he has to retreat left with king, your knight hops back with check, he moves K towards your knight, your knight takes bishop and threatens rook - he either moves rook in which case you take a pawn and your knight dies, or he takes with pawn and you take his rook!
You just don’t get it. My goodness. You developed you knight to f6! It’s developed! It’s on a good square! It’s your best piece! Why are jumping it around into shit squares! Leave it be for one bloody second! Put your shitty undeveloped pieces onto better squares. Love you videos mate keep it up.
Yeah he needs to follow the rules laid out for 500elo. 1) Don't move a piece twice in the opening unless you have a very good reason to do so. 2) Developed all of your pieces to a good square. 3) Castle before move 10. Bro thinks he is Magnus and can play however he wants and would still win.
Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles... you respected the opponents sac but the pawn structure was closed so you could have safely captured and not worried about losing the option to castle. Don't be afraid to call the opponents bluff or miscalculation. Good effort.
If you always do what you always did - you will always get what you always got. Steps to improve: Start playing every other day In the other day do puzzles survival tactics ( and put on UA-cam if you want) Your board vision is poor. Next , don’t use arrows, engine or anything like that. Engine doesn’t tell you why , and you can’t just memorize it. After few Weeks of puzzles you’ll notice dramatic improvement.
chess is a game depending of development. Much too long your Rook on a8 and Knight b8 sits there and doesn't join the game. It was on first view to see that opponent had better development. For example taking of Pawn h2 was not important. Still enjoyable watching the games, thank you Patrick !!
Yes you need to study openings. Obviously. But first of all you just need to not make moves you know are bad. At one point you move a piece twice in the opening then in the next move you say you’ll make you’re opponent move twice. Stop moving all your pieces around in the opening like a schitzophrenic. Just be normal. .
Very disappointing play after yesterday's great game. Terrible abuse of opening principles. Why the knight to e4? Why the pawn push when your King had no way to get to safety? Why waste another move exchanging their pinned knight? This was as bad as anything you did a year and a half ago. If you are determined to play faster in the opening then at least make sure it's quickly following the basics! Don't move the same piece twice, don't push pawns. Develop and castle. It's really not that hard and yesterday i thought it had finally clicked with you. You are better than this. Put into practice the things you have learned and make them habitual. Stop making exceptions to the rule moves before you have made following the rules second nature.
Your lack of pieces developmemt is getting all your viewers crazy. Don't move the same piece twice in the opening, develop all your pieces before trying to attack. At the end of the game your opponent can sacrifice a bishop because your knight and rook are not developed and so they can not be used to defend the position
You still just push pawns to attack for attack's sake while creating a weakness for yourself. b5 was a particularly bad move. Your opponent retreats his bishop and you've got a backward pawn on his half open file. Instead of pushing pawns willy nilly in the opening, look to keep developing. By the way put your own rooks on your own half open files. You tend to put them behind a pawn that may at some point become passed. Don't do that in the middle game. Get your rooks active.
Yeah, c6 was weak the whole game , and Patrick couldn't have developed his knight because of that. Patrick played most of the middle game with a knight on the back rank... not good
He knows it’s a bad move. He knows the principles of the opening. Control the center: doesn’t do it. Develop you pieces: doesn’t do it. Castle early: doesn’t do it.
I was going to comment this, too. It was the most glaring error of the game. He purposely isolated c6 for zero reason except a one-move threat that aided his opponent. Weird. That's like 900-1100 elo stuff.
As far as today’s game- don’t exchange pieces when you’re few pawns down- that guarantees a loss. Don’t exchange pieces unless you actually gain something . Exchange for no reason puts you usually in worse and worse position.
Keep at it, since once you engage your subconscious, you will do what appears to be magic. The problem is you can't easily convince your subconscious that it is important, though the way you are trying to go about it, brute force, will eventually bear fruit. It is like dealing with a 5-year-old brilliant child though, it's not too amenable to suggestion. So, what I am saying is play a game not disregarding calculation but play the move that presents itself into your mind first your first impulse, which is usually wrong but sometimes you will see things you previously did not, and you will be amazing. Once again you have a backward pawn on an open file. That is a no-no. White will attack that weakness. You could try a5 to get the rook to a6. I think your assessment is correct as your position is probably lost. You could try g5, bet you did not see that, instead of g6. It is weakening but wins a pawn. Blockade white squares. The knight should be d4, not the rook. Though that would have made no difference as you are down too many pawns. Oh, and till I'm blue in the face stop making the same errors and don't move the same piece twice in the opening. Develop pieces, don't lose time. Black is not on the attack, even though you want it that way. Your job, with black is to equalize, not to go galivanting with your knight.
Love the channel Patrick! As someone of a similar level it's fun to play along and think about what I would do in your positions. I do have one tip for you though. I don't think the way you approach the post game analysis is constructive. The key to the post game analysis is to first look over the game WiTHOUT the use of an engine. Try and identify mistakes, improvements you could make or interesting positions in the game where you're not sure how you should have proceeded. Only then should you turn on the engine to fill in the holes in your own analysis. The problem with turning the engine on from the start is that you don't give yourself a chance to think critically. And often just knowing what the engine best move is isn't informative without context. John Bartholomew talks a lot about the right way to approach analysis on his channel. That's generally a great channel for chess learning if you haven't checked it out already. Good luck tomorrow!
Pretty horrendous play from both sides. Your opponent missed a free piece and you didn't capture a free piece when it was given to you (the first time)
Why do you keep saying “How am I doing on time” Most players flick their eyes to the clock every 15 seconds or so maybe more, they always know what the clock says because it’s part of the game, saying “how am I doing on time” is like asking where is my King at the moment, it’s something that you SHOULD just know, develop the habit of keep checking the time
@@Iimnnmii he consistently does not realise how much (normally how little) time he has on the clock .. didn't you notice? .. its very VERY clear he is often surprised by how little time he has left, his time management is AWFUL and often costs him games, or didn't you notice that either?
@@ambluewinner6929 that's bad I am 62 flicking your eyes to the clock should be second nature its as much part of the game as the board you lose by check mate or resignation or time its that important
He does too much puzzles but had no idea of structure or developing pieces. In puzzles you are always sacrificing for a mate, and you can see the result, Patrick is always looking for a crazy combination to win, like a puzzle, but has no clue about chess basics
@@MicroClases_CienciaTotally agree. I actually think Patrick’s tactical vision is good for his level. But the positional understanding is around 1000, IMO. The b5 move was so bad, I’d almost call it worse than a mistake (what the engine calls it). It did literally nothing but cause a permanent weakness, fully preventing the knight from developing.
@@MicroClases_Cienciatotally agree with this. He can spot a mating pattern quite well, far better than 6 months ago because he has been doing puzzles. The puzzles don’t teach you how to synchronise your pieces, get your king safe, defend a mate threat, build a good pawn structure or spot a blundered piece.
Studying "openings" will do nothing for you, you gotta work on your fundamentals. Develop a rigorous thought-process to work on, play longer games, practice puzzles and do some basic engame study. At this point the way you're going about this is vaguely masochistic
You were very good until the pawn g6. I still don't understand why would you opt to move a pawn when you have an undeveloped knoght and rook. First, always first, develop your pieces. B you would never pass 1400 if you don't develop your pieces first
This is a good example of why you don't listen to the peanut gallery, Patrick. This guy wants you to move your knight in that position? To where exactly? The three top engine moves are moving the king(!), and then two other pawn moves.
@@12345678910111213858 engine moves are 3500 ELO moves, that is the problem of trying to learn with engine and not truly understanding your position. If he connected his rooks he would had a chance. With the knight and rook trapped the opponent can easily sacrifice the white bishop, because Patrick doesn't have enough pieces to defend his king. And if you watch the following games in his chess profile he keeps doing the same rookie mistake, not developing pieces, not connecting rooks, and keep losing
@@12345678910111213858 besides the engine plays the best positions, this is, when you opponent plays perfect, but your opponent makes mistakes also. Sometimes it is better to play an asymmetrical, perhaps disadvantaged position , but a position that let you make some improvements
@@12345678910111213858 I thought I have answered this. Engine moves assume that your opponent plays perfectly and found perfect moves. But people don't play like a 3500 ELO machine, he will have better options to win if he develops the knights and connect the rooks, even if the engine doesn't recommend it. Even more, in losing positions engines extends the game as long as possible but always assuming perfect responses by the opponent. A human opponent would make a lot of mistakes so you don't have to be so defensive as an engine would be, like "bluffing", instead, look for a counter attack
In this game, you moved pieces multiple times in the opening, pushed pawns instead of developing, brought your queen out to the side of the board, and didn't castle until it was too late. Your tactical awareness is pretty good. Your opening knowledge is fine. You need to work on playing basic, principled chess.
If you want to "study openings" by all means do it. But spend time learning the basics, namely develop your pieces, don't make unnecessary pawn moves, castle, and fight for the center. The majority of the time you're going to be out of book by move 5, and you're going to have to play chess then.
Love watching your games. Please keep them coming. Couple of comments (helpful I hope)
1. Don't count yourself out too soon, you still had some chances after he attempted his Checkmate and you cleaned that mess up (even though you were down a piece) you had a slim chance to Queen up the right side.
2. Maybe some more aggressive music, you seem to tend towards the less aggressive moves to stay safe. Let her Rip! Good luck next game!
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Bro love your channel but you don’t need to study openings, you need to study opening principles (first)! Don’t move a piece twice. Place two pawns in the center if you can then castle kingside. Also….. to take is a mistake! Only exchange pieces if it helps you move your pieces to active or advantageous squares. Best of luck hope this helps
Wait, at 7:57....
Take his knight, his Q takes bishop, you hop back with your knight (discovered check from your Q), he has to retreat left with king, your knight hops back with check, he moves K towards your knight, your knight takes bishop and threatens rook - he either moves rook in which case you take a pawn and your knight dies, or he takes with pawn and you take his rook!
You just don’t get it. My goodness. You developed you knight to f6! It’s developed! It’s on a good square! It’s your best piece! Why are jumping it around into shit squares! Leave it be for one bloody second! Put your shitty undeveloped pieces onto better squares.
Love you videos mate keep it up.
Yeah he needs to follow the rules laid out for 500elo.
1) Don't move a piece twice in the opening unless you have a very good reason to do so.
2) Developed all of your pieces to a good square.
3) Castle before move 10.
Bro thinks he is Magnus and can play however he wants and would still win.
Of all the skills I’ve seen from Patrick so far, his travel blog career will definitely be the worst
Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles... you respected the opponents sac but the pawn structure was closed so you could have safely captured and not worried about losing the option to castle. Don't be afraid to call the opponents bluff or miscalculation. Good effort.
Don´t to more puzzles. You are a strange combination of ~1500-1600 ELO puzzle (tactical) but below 1000 ELO positional chess.
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If you always do what you always did - you will always get what you always got.
Steps to improve:
Start playing every other day
In the other day do puzzles survival tactics ( and put on UA-cam if you want) Your board vision is poor.
Next , don’t use arrows, engine or anything like that. Engine doesn’t tell you why , and you can’t just memorize it.
After few Weeks of puzzles you’ll notice dramatic improvement.
chess is a game depending of development. Much too long your Rook on a8 and Knight b8 sits there and doesn't join the game. It was on first view to see that opponent had better development. For example taking of Pawn h2 was not important.
Still enjoyable watching the games, thank you Patrick !!
Yes you need to study openings. Obviously. But first of all you just need to not make moves you know are bad. At one point you move a piece twice in the opening then in the next move you say you’ll make you’re opponent move twice. Stop moving all your pieces around in the opening like a schitzophrenic. Just be normal. .
Very disappointing play after yesterday's great game. Terrible abuse of opening principles. Why the knight to e4? Why the pawn push when your King had no way to get to safety? Why waste another move exchanging their pinned knight? This was as bad as anything you did a year and a half ago.
If you are determined to play faster in the opening then at least make sure it's quickly following the basics! Don't move the same piece twice, don't push pawns. Develop and castle. It's really not that hard and yesterday i thought it had finally clicked with you.
You are better than this. Put into practice the things you have learned and make them habitual. Stop making exceptions to the rule moves before you have made following the rules second nature.
Your lack of pieces developmemt is getting all your viewers crazy. Don't move the same piece twice in the opening, develop all your pieces before trying to attack. At the end of the game your opponent can sacrifice a bishop because your knight and rook are not developed and so they can not be used to defend the position
The road ahead is long but I’m here Patrick. You can persevere!
You still just push pawns to attack for attack's sake while creating a weakness for yourself. b5 was a particularly bad move. Your opponent retreats his bishop and you've got a backward pawn on his half open file. Instead of pushing pawns willy nilly in the opening, look to keep developing.
By the way put your own rooks on your own half open files. You tend to put them behind a pawn that may at some point become passed. Don't do that in the middle game. Get your rooks active.
Yeah, c6 was weak the whole game , and Patrick couldn't have developed his knight because of that. Patrick played most of the middle game with a knight on the back rank... not good
He knows it’s a bad move. He knows the principles of the opening. Control the center: doesn’t do it. Develop you pieces: doesn’t do it. Castle early: doesn’t do it.
@@tom4115 losing deliberately
I was going to comment this, too. It was the most glaring error of the game. He purposely isolated c6 for zero reason except a one-move threat that aided his opponent. Weird. That's like 900-1100 elo stuff.
@@tom4115 why doesn’t he do it?
Don't listen to the haters, you are doing great Patrick. Just keep doing what you are doing. You have an excellent style.
And Jees, try to connect the rooks!
As far as today’s game- don’t exchange pieces when you’re few pawns down- that guarantees a loss.
Don’t exchange pieces unless you actually gain something . Exchange for no reason puts you usually in worse and worse position.
play simple chess, do basics ... develop then attack ... you rush to attack.
Keep at it, since once you engage your subconscious, you will do what appears to be magic. The problem is you can't easily convince your subconscious that it is important, though the way you are trying to go about it, brute force, will eventually bear fruit.
It is like dealing with a 5-year-old brilliant child though, it's not too amenable to suggestion.
So, what I am saying is play a game not disregarding calculation but play the move that presents itself into your mind first your first impulse, which is usually wrong but sometimes you will see things you previously did not, and you will be amazing.
Once again you have a backward pawn on an open file. That is a no-no. White will attack that weakness. You could try a5 to get the rook to a6. I think your assessment is correct as your position is probably lost. You could try g5, bet you did not see that, instead of g6. It is weakening but wins a pawn. Blockade white squares. The knight should be d4, not the rook. Though that would have made no difference as you are down too many pawns. Oh, and till I'm blue in the face stop making the same errors and don't move the same piece twice in the opening. Develop pieces, don't lose time. Black is not on the attack, even though you want it that way. Your job, with black is to equalize, not to go galivanting with your knight.
Love the channel Patrick! As someone of a similar level it's fun to play along and think about what I would do in your positions. I do have one tip for you though. I don't think the way you approach the post game analysis is constructive. The key to the post game analysis is to first look over the game WiTHOUT the use of an engine. Try and identify mistakes, improvements you could make or interesting positions in the game where you're not sure how you should have proceeded. Only then should you turn on the engine to fill in the holes in your own analysis. The problem with turning the engine on from the start is that you don't give yourself a chance to think critically. And often just knowing what the engine best move is isn't informative without context. John Bartholomew talks a lot about the right way to approach analysis on his channel. That's generally a great channel for chess learning if you haven't checked it out already.
Good luck tomorrow!
Control the center, Develop and Castle
I live in Switzerland at lake Constance! Most beautiful country in the world!
Pretty horrendous play from both sides. Your opponent missed a free piece and you didn't capture a free piece when it was given to you (the first time)
Why do you keep saying
“How am I doing on time”
Most players flick their eyes to the clock every 15 seconds or so maybe more, they always know what the clock says because it’s part of the game, saying “how am I doing on time” is like asking where is my King at the moment, it’s something that you SHOULD just know, develop the habit of keep checking the time
He is doing it for the viewers. Called commentating. Didn't you notice?
I think also being more old, makes it harder looking at multiple things at a time so he has to make a conscious decision to look at the time
@@Iimnnmii he consistently does not realise how much (normally how little) time he has on the clock .. didn't you notice? .. its very VERY clear he is often surprised by how little time he has left, his time management is AWFUL and often costs him games, or didn't you notice that either?
@@ambluewinner6929 that's bad I am 62 flicking your eyes to the clock should be second nature its as much part of the game as the board you lose by check mate or resignation or time its that important
First.. tough game man, end games are killer
You need to wear sunglasses once. Get mean
You should study openings AND do puzzles. Both are important, I would say puzzles are more important but you should be doing both
He does too much puzzles but had no idea of structure or developing pieces. In puzzles you are always sacrificing for a mate, and you can see the result, Patrick is always looking for a crazy combination to win, like a puzzle, but has no clue about chess basics
@@MicroClases_CienciaTotally agree. I actually think Patrick’s tactical vision is good for his level. But the positional understanding is around 1000, IMO. The b5 move was so bad, I’d almost call it worse than a mistake (what the engine calls it). It did literally nothing but cause a permanent weakness, fully preventing the knight from developing.
@@MicroClases_Cienciatotally agree with this. He can spot a mating pattern quite well, far better than 6 months ago because he has been doing puzzles. The puzzles don’t teach you how to synchronise your pieces, get your king safe, defend a mate threat, build a good pawn structure or spot a blundered piece.
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Studying "openings" will do nothing for you, you gotta work on your fundamentals. Develop a rigorous thought-process to work on, play longer games, practice puzzles and do some basic engame study. At this point the way you're going about this is vaguely masochistic
“Vaguely masochistic” describes my entire relationship with chess
@@deveshkhanal7971 honestly, yeah... lol
You were very good until the pawn g6. I still don't understand why would you opt to move a pawn when you have an undeveloped knoght and rook. First, always first, develop your pieces. B you would never pass 1400 if you don't develop your pieces first
This is a good example of why you don't listen to the peanut gallery, Patrick. This guy wants you to move your knight in that position? To where exactly? The three top engine moves are moving the king(!), and then two other pawn moves.
@@12345678910111213858 engine moves are 3500 ELO moves, that is the problem of trying to learn with engine and not truly understanding your position. If he connected his rooks he would had a chance. With the knight and rook trapped the opponent can easily sacrifice the white bishop, because Patrick doesn't have enough pieces to defend his king. And if you watch the following games in his chess profile he keeps doing the same rookie mistake, not developing pieces, not connecting rooks, and keep losing
@@12345678910111213858 besides the engine plays the best positions, this is, when you opponent plays perfect, but your opponent makes mistakes also. Sometimes it is better to play an asymmetrical, perhaps disadvantaged position , but a position that let you make some improvements
@@12345678910111213858 I thought I have answered this. Engine moves assume that your opponent plays perfectly and found perfect moves. But people don't play like a 3500 ELO machine, he will have better options to win if he develops the knights and connect the rooks, even if the engine doesn't recommend it. Even more, in losing positions engines extends the game as long as possible but always assuming perfect responses by the opponent. A human opponent would make a lot of mistakes so you don't have to be so defensive as an engine would be, like "bluffing", instead, look for a counter attack