The Secret Formula To Beat Weaker Players
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
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00:00 Introduction
00:31 Game 1 (Ragger playing Black)
08:40 Game 2 (Carlsen playing Black)
16:01 Game 3 (Smyslov playing Black)
20:16 Homework (Anand playing Black)
What should be the right game plan when playing against weaker players? This video answers this question by giving instructive games by the strong grandmasters where they defeat weaker players. They do not force things and let the weak players destroy themselves. We see that the strong player executes patience and gives choices to their weaker opponent. Master relies on better evaluation and chess understanding and wins games by keeping it simple, without giving counterplay to their opponent.
The master does not shy away from simplifications when beating the weaker opponent. On the other hand, going for needless complications and having irrational positions would benefit the weaker player, as the master would not rely so much on their general understanding while handling those irrational positions. - Розваги
Make a video on how to beat stronger players 🗿
We beating magnus with that one🥶🔥🔥
The same way as beating weaker players. Dr. Dan's suggestion about beating weaker players isn't about a trap or trick. It's how you play chess. Play like this against stronger players and you just won't win as often against them as weaker players, but you won't lose as often either. Or you can just ignore the video and work on your "weak openings".
I agree, I'd like to see that video too. He gives a hint of what that video would be about at 15:47 - weaker players should seek out chaotic positions against better players.
Will do!
@@yzfool6639Gotham advises not respecting, and being aggressive towards stronger players.
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That is so amazing to hear, thank you so much for your kind comment and support! ☺️🙏 Please ask me anything while you are studying those courses. I really think they will help improve your game!
@@Dr.CansClinic Thank you.
Very very instructive. My thanks. Love and peace. Tim
Thank you so much Tim ❤️
So good for correction and progress🙏🏻
Thank you 🙏
I really like your ideas, Doctor. You bring a fresh view to the chess youtube scene.
I am so happy to hear your kind thoughts. Really motivating 🙏
Another great video, thank you so much! In the homework position, with the help of your prompt, I would like to activate the bad bishop on g7 by playing 1..Bh6 with the plan to put the bishop on d4 via e3, shielding the weak pawn on d6, and if white trade bishops on d4 black gets a protected passed pawn. I looked at two variations. If white plays 2.Re1 then 2..Be3 anyway because if white plays 3.Rxe3 then black takes back on a1 with 3..Rxa1 4.Rxa1 Rxa1+ and black is better, and if 2.Bf1 attacking the pawn on d6 black plays calmly 2..R8a6. I find it interesting that I completely missed ...e4 followed by ...Qe5, in the Carlsen game but immediately found ...Ra3 attacking g3 later in the game. Similarly, I would never had thought of allowing the exchanges on c5 and e6 due to the resulting pawn structure in the Smyslov game, but the calculation of ...Nxd5 followed by ...Nb4 was easy. My experiences of OTB play with 90 minutes or more is the following. When I was a class B player, rated 1600-1700 between 1991 and 2007, it was easy to win against players rated below 1500 just by not blundering pieces and going for the endgame by "solid play" and blindly going for any exchange possible. At the same time, Class A players, between 1800 and 2000, outplayed me tactically in almost every game. After my tactics and endgame training 2008-2009, I outplay my opponents rated below 1800 by sharp tactical play. I don't think my current positional and strategical understanding is so much better better than the class B players. My endgame play now is much better after studying all the chapters for the levels below expert in Silman's brilliant endgame book, but I don't think thats the reason. When it comes to play against players in the 2000-2200 interval, I agree with you: imbalanced and dynamically rich positions are the key; if it is to complicated to calculate for me, then it is also for them in my experience. In calm positions they still outplay me for the most time. My winning percentage against these players is around 30 percent including draws in this rating range (around 60 games) between 2009-2014. Looking at the games of my club mates having the same strength and my own games, it seems that players between 1800-2000 is an exception from your thesis, because their positional and strategical play is not that much stronger than 1600-1800 players that it actually matter. I think better tactical and calculation skills, and maybe even endgame play, is the big divide. I'm interested hear your thoughts about this, which leads to another related question: When are you going to continue the Climbing the Rating Ladder series? I'm really looking forward for the next installments.
Thank you so much! ...Bh6-e3-d4 is the correct plan, as chosen by Anand!
Thanks for your observations! You may be right when it comes to the difference between 1800-2000 and 1600-1800 ELO. Tactics and calculation are very important separators as well - so they surely play part there.
The rating climb series slowed down a little due to other projects. But I am working on it :) I want a quality product so I don't want to rush. I am looking at 1800 ELO games right now.
Thank you for your answer! Take your time with the continuation of the series. Quality is always prefable before quantity. It will be interesting to see if you can confirm or disprove that 1800-2000 players are an exception. Maybe there is a difference between OTB players and online players in general. Maybe, one shouldn't compare short time controls online with classical OTB play. With shorter time controls, errors starts to pop up more frequently in calculation and evaluation, and if you shorten the time even further you start to miss forks on the level of 1 to 2 ply. Shorten the time control one step more and you even start missing taking free pieces and blundering your own.
Absolutely! I am looking at classical games played online. They are still faster than 90 + 30 otb games though.@@jonnyjansson7320
Fabulous lesson! Very instructive to see how strong players defeat weaker players. Please do more videos with this theme!
Thank you so much for your kind feedback! Will surely produce similar content in the instructive classics series!
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Yes, the formula I use to beat myself is to wait for myself to crack. LOL Thanks for the great video lesson.
Thank you so much ☺️ Yes, we should try to avoid destroying ourselves 😅
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😅 That second premise will change if you keep watching this channel!
Hmmm.... the usual priyome for a Bad B, like Bg7, is to get it outside the pawn chain. So, Bh6, planning Be3 and Bd4 swapping your Bad B for his good one....
Excellent! That is what Anand did.
Bold of you to assume there are players weaker than me.
As you keep watching this channel, you will see those people growing exponentially.
Make an early blunder through overconfidence, and win a nailbiting rest of the game by some lucky chances
That is an alternative formula I guess!
Wow I am surprised how well this works. I just played 2 players who matched me for 20 moves, I didn't do anything exciting or provocative. Develop worst piece etc. I was sure they'd win because they were making 0 blunders, then all of a sudden they both did their best leroy jenkins impression. I will have to examine this further.
Happy to hear that! Improving the worst-placed piece is one of the most effective ways of doing nothing in chess!
I like your teaching style, for sure. I see that you are offering your courses on chessable. I find this site hard to maneuver. I purchased another course on chessable and it was mind bending on the site direction. Suggestion, have a tutorial for chessable courses and how to maneuver Just an idea. Or maybe I am old school and know not how sites work today. Just find it hard to go back and review. Or do sections over.
Thanks for the feedback. I will consider making such a tutorial video. But I would still say you could benefit from it, especially by watching the videos that are synced to the puzzles - that is one major advantage of Chessable.
Tough position... I want to go f5, but I feel like need to prepare this move first with Bf8 to cover the weak pawn on d6, but is there time for this?
You are a great teacher sir, thanks for these great videos!
Thank you so much for your kind words ☺️ Anand chose ...Bh6-e3-d4 plan in the actual game and created a monster from that bad bishop.
@@Dr.CansClinicAh, I see, he wanted to anchor that dark-squared bishop with those two pawns e5 and c5. For some reason f5 was my initial gut instinct (with preparation as I mentioned), but maybe that lashes out too early? Thanks for the explanation.
Funnily enough I got the exact same position as in the first game you showed as black and my opponent playing white made the exact same mistakes and I won quite easily.
That is amazing to hear!! I am working on a course about it recently! 😄
thank you, I do get allot of infor on your videos. Keeping the view or over look at the board and how it changes. Good advise
Thanks! Glad it was useful!
This was an excellent lesson on how to play against a significantly weaker player. However, I think that in these games the GMs did not necessarily make the "best" moves...or the moves that they KNEW were the best moves. But instead, they played against the OPPONENT rather than the objective position itself. This can be very risky if you don't know exactly how weak or how strong your opponent is. Because a bad or careless move on your part could very easily be exploited by your "weaker" opponent! And then what? If the "weaker" player suddenly takes advantage of your "less-than-ideal" move, you could wind up in BIG trouble, yes?
Thank you so much for your kind feedback! But notice that those GM's still played very solid moves and took no risks. At no point in their games thery allowed a dangerous resource to their weaker opponents. They controlled the game and they also formed clear strategic plans - like Magnus isolating that bad light-squared bishop. Black's ...Rc8 move was an improving move that gave White choices, and they faltered with the incorrect trade. So ending up in BIG trouble was never a possibility in these games for the stronger players.
My opening is 😢weak how can I improve sometimes I play closed position
You to learn how to play beter first
The weakness may not lie in the opening stage. Focus on the fundamentals. Watching the videos in the channel can be a good step, if you engage with them actively, by pausing at the right moment.
Are you a birder? Crows are the chess players in birds 😂 i love chess and birds. Teşekkürler! Your videos are highly recommended in the chess YT-community… you are a great teacher.
I am so happy to hear it, thank you so much for your kind words 🙏 I am not an ornithologist but I studied the cognitive skills of crow birds during my PhD. studies ☺️
It reminds me how i lose against grandmasters all the time. I always have the feeling that they didn't do much. Just waiting me to self-destruct.
That is their secret formula 😄
What if I can't play anyone 300 ELO lower than me.... like can't mathematically..
Then you will use counterexamples to this one: you will create chaos on the board and complicate matters. You will take your strong opponent away from their comfort zones where they can apply learned patterns.
homework spoiler - no engine
Main idea that I see. White's both bishops are stuck without a clear way to activate them.
If white ever moves Bc2 to try to activate a bishop, Rxc4 and black creates a passed pawn, for example.
On Black's turn, Rb4 and if white Rxb4 cxb4 black creates a protected passed pawn.
Black Rb4 Bc3 Rxb1 Rxb1 Ra3 Bd4 threatining forced mate for white h5 in defense and black maintains very active pieces to control the endgame.
Black Rb4 white's pieces have little activity Kg1 Rb8 Kf2 Bh6 g4 Rxb1 Rxb1 Rxb1 Bxb1 Bxc4 and black has active bishops and a passed pawn and can convert a win.
While perhaps not perfect, a weaker player will fall into one of these weak lines very likely.
Thank you! ...Rb4 is not a bad idea indeed. But Anand improved his worst-placed piece instead. Can you see which one?
@@Dr.CansClinic He probably went Bh6. A patient positional move.
Yes indeed! ...Bh6-e3-d4 he did.@@eschiedler
Strong players often goes too lichess without login where wee have no names its meant for beginners whats the matter cant deal with competition
So they play anonymously on lichess because they want to avoid real competition?
Ok, grandmaster know small advantages in the endgames. So, they take weakers one in the transition to the endgame.
Absolutely!
But I usually am the weaker player
That will surely change after you keep watching this channel!