5 Tips To Break 1600 For Good! The top mistakes players rated 1600 are making and how to fix them!
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In this video I share the top 5 mistakes players rated around 1600 are making. I will share tips and tricks on how to get better at chess and improve your chess rating quickly and push past 1600 to reach 1700,1800, and beyond. I give some tips on blunders, tactics mistakes, opening preparation and opening theory, and endgame techniques. Please comment below and let me know if you've passed 1600 for the first time! - Навчання та стиль
U deserve 100k likes
Wow thanks, Dominik!
@@ChessVibesOfficial u do more work than channels with 600k subscribes
@@dominikgalczynski6156 2nd a/c of chess vibes?
@@dominikgalczynski6156 Yes his analysis and the work behind it is best I've seen and I've seen most of the other channels climbing ladders and habits videos. Love the spreadsheets it adds a completely new area to study and I feel this is the future of chess and Lopez is a pioneer on this important facet of study.
@@dominikgalczynski6156 you mean 1mill subs
Lots of 1600s hanging pieces on move six as well
I was just listening to the 10 hours version
@Harshit Garg Damn. Damn, damn, damn.
@Harshit Garg And they play like a potato.
@Harshit Garg he saw rooka1, he just didnt like it
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Nelson: "Pawns are the most important thing in the endgame."
Me, playing the Danish gambit for the millionth time: "What are pawns?"
As long as you checkmate them by move 20 you're fine!
same here! fortunately I win 65% with the danish accepted, so...
@@ajtatosmano2 key word accepted how many have you lost declined?
@@landenward5083 In rapid I am 55% with e4 openings and after e4 e5 d4 I am 62%. So the difference isn't too big. Qf6 seems like my weakness, I've lost both of my 2 games I've played against, but that's only two games out of 181 rapid games. Bullet and blitz games the numbers are somewhat similar, 1-3% percent lower. Now that I climbed to 1600 I feel I should start to play something more sound though.
@@ChessVibesOfficial However if they stabilise their position and survive your attack then you're toast in endgame.
I think the reason why more games are decided by blunders is because at 1600, when you blunder, your opponent is more likely to punish you than at 1400.
Yeah i wouldn't be suprised if at 1800 40% of games are decided by blunders aswell.
@Chris Dean How?
@Chris Dean gr8 b8 m8
If that were true, then it would be an advantage to play black since white blunders would occur before black ones in a disproportionate number of cases.
It is generally agreed that white has the advantage, so you'll have to come up with something else.
@@TheDavidlloydjones "white blunders would occur before black ones in a disproportionate number of cases" what makes you think that?
#1. Hang a piece on Move 6.
#2. Don’t trap a man’s Queen.
#3. Put “potato” in your name.
#4. Play like a potato.
#5. Damn. Damn. Damn, damn, damn.
#6. [Hang a piece here]
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Fish
Higher rated players on 5 be like Damn. Damn… He will fuck up he’s lower rated I don’t even care if I trade down with less material. Then they do
Wow, after watching this I went back over my games and realised how I fall for the same traps.
Instead of focussing on more advanced concepts, I just need to get my basic blunders and tactical miscalculations right
I don't see anyone else saying this point, but I think the reason blunders have a higher percent at 1600 is because they do less mistakes in the other categories. Maybe they know openings better, so that percentage is lower. The percentages must add up to 100%, so if some of the categories are less likely then the others must be more likely. So it's not necessarily because they blunder more.
Yeah very true but i think that at any chess rating up untill somewhere in the 2000 blunders are the most decisive factor of either winning or losing
Yep, probably the most common Super GM mistakes are something like 80% positional mistakes, but that doesn't mean they suck at that category
@@newplayer1313 yeah but then again good positions are created with good tactics so in the end its all theoretical and tactical mistakes
There's also the point that they start playing more aggressively leading them to make more mistakes and blunders.
What is not mentioned is HOW he measured the blunders. If he measured the blunders as decisive factors in the losses, then of course higher rated players would take advantage of the blunders. But lower rated players would not, so they would actually lose fewer games based on the blunders, and so their losses would be not decided on that. Is he measuring blunders, regardless of the outcome? Or blunders that result in the loss of a game? Did he say?
As a 1600 in 10 min blitz (I've hit 1700).. I noticed that I don't take my time and think enough to play the move.. I started to carefully think through every game and I started winning much more
Can u give update my buddy
@@samritirana6710 Sure! Plateaued at 1800's in rapid. My current puzzle rating is 2900. I think it was around 1500 or so at the time of the comment. I haven't been as active as before playing the game, but surely improved
Excellent! Thank you for spending so much time on analyzing games and sharing the knowledge.
Very informative. Thanks! Looking forward to more.
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Thank you so much for the compressed knowledge you share with us! I really got something out of the pawn theme at the end. Your explanation is very good!
great series, can't wait for you to get noticed by more people :)
Thanks, Oxey! You and me both!
Thank you Nelson....for you're time and knowledge ♟👍
I really like this series of yours, I believe it did helped me the one about being stuck in 1200, I love you always bring a spreadsheet in, even I went to the stuck in 1000 and was reallt interesting, helped me understand many of my flaws. cheers!
Cool vids man - much appreciated
No problem 👍
I would say blunders are more common at this level, because the pressure is higher. And by pressure i mean the enemy´s strats. In lower levels, the coordination between peaces is not as great.
This is what I was thinking, people start to realize common tactics and focus on achieving them durring games so people at 1600 run into tactical blunder situations more often
You are into key concept here. Play fearlessly because players up to 2200 blunder when facing pressure
Everyone blunders to somebody better..
your videos are great! respect for you and thank you
Great video!
Very nicely said sir. Thanks
Thank you for all your hard work!
loving your videos, thank you!
Great job!
Nice video! This is exactly the wall I’m hitting online... a question for you: how best to practice to improve on blunders and tactics? Would completing tactics puzzles improve perception on both fronts or would you recommend something else?
For most important thing in endgames, I would have said “piece activity” (including king and pawns).
Great job, always love it.
Thanks for the very useful straightforward video, just for curiosity about blundering, I've noticed that when I was lower rated I needed to be very careful not to leave any hanging piece or free pawn and that caused my sudden elo increase whereas now I am trying to introduce more strategic ideas and that reduced a little bit my attention to the basics, this creates an overall better score but with sudden losses due to an unexpected blunder
Yeah very good points, Gnagno. When you start focusing on more tricky and advanced lines, sometimes you do forget about basic blunders. Happens to GM's from time to time also. :-)
Great video ❤
Subscribed and thumbed up buddy
Fantastic video. I love your channel - just discovered it this afternoon! My suspicion about why there is a higher blunder percentage here, in addition to the sample size issue, is that perhaps at the 1600 level, players are more adept at punishing/taking advantage of opponents’ blunders?
From a 1600 player, you are absolutely correct . Never saw it coming ,what I should have done is mind my pawns . I tell ya I'll be playing a little different from now on . Great video from ... Paddy-Duff .
Good series, looking forward to the next one
Thanks! It's in progress!
I've learnt more from this channel then chessable, aimchess and every other youtube video combined. Really appreciate the hard work you put in for this great content!
Thanks, Brice!
Good video. Thanks
When you said you analyzed 100 games and notated mistakes, I subbed immediately when you requested
This is the best chess channel. Your videos are excellent, Sir! I hope you make many more.
Thank you, I will!
I'm not sure if you have made a video on training methods or something like that, but I'd like to suggest this topic for a future video if you haven't covered it yet. It can be tricky to come up with a suitable training plan with the overwhelming amount of material available today.
I really like this series of analyzing games at different levels. Gives me a ton of things to work on
This channel is so underrated! Seriously, good work!
Much appreciated!
Oh wow. That’s a lot of work you put into it.
Yeah I may have to stop this series at 1800, taking a long time to analyze the games!
@@ChessVibesOfficial it’s a good series. Good view also.
Thanks, Reinaldo!
@@ChessVibesOfficial Take your time but please don't stop.
Absolutely amazing!
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I went from 1300 to 1900 in a few years. Problem is. They play for tactics rather than playing for a good positional game. Of course they also blunder more, but hey
in years? adult learner?
@@doniman- yes, but mainly because I cannot afford to play more than part time because of studies
good job man
Very instructive again Nelson for president
I appreciate your analysis. If you have time I would appreciate any thoughts on strategic weaknesses and how to develop strategic skills. There are plenty of tools for working tactics but very little on strategy.
I have been stuck in the 1000 range for some time now. I will occasionally break 1100 but then inevitably slide back down toward the 1000 range. I have watched 3 or 4 of your videos and it's like something has clicked inside my head. I have sprung above 1100 with ease suddenly! Please keep the videos coming, and I will keep watching.
are you playing on the lichess website? Im 2000 rapid(lichess) and would be happy to play with you
@@myfuzzyanimals67 I’m 1200-1300 on lichess and trying to get up towards 1400
Great Video
Ur content is incredible
hi Nelson.....always love to watch your videos.....please tell us about stafford gambit in detail. And also make video series on different opening lines and gambits in details (what to do according to black or white perspective)....you said the high probability video traps will be comprised of 30 videos (so still eagerly waiting for more of those videos).....stay blessed brother
End game strategy with pawns. Thanks for highlighting that, will work on this
I've already jumped about 100 rating points from these videos, I love it.
Great video, Nelson! I play on Lichess (pwstamps) with players rated between 1400 and 1600, so it was perfect for me! I analyze all the games, and yes, we still blunder. Not the obvious blunders of beginners (leaving a piece to be taken) but avoidable blunders anyway. You did not specify the games’ length; it is easier to blunder on a 3 minutes game. Instead, I play 30 minutes+ games, which gives me time to think, but as an older player, I get more easily tired and... blunder!
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This is an amazing channel! Just found it
Welcome aboard!
Would love a video on managing time
super presentation and explaining very well u deserive 1000k likes
I was just reading Keene's book about the Karpov-Korchnoi WC match in 1978 (yeah, the one with the hypnotists and meditating gurus and all that :-) and a lot of blunders were made there too, even by two super-strong GMs!
Hey great channel. You’re a hard ass worker.
Most important thing: protecting your advantage.
Most important put pressure on your opponent to make difficult decisions. They spend more time, make more blunders. Also very important to realize everyone below 2200 going to blunder in every game they are under pressure
Yess i love the Stafford.
One of the best tips I picked up was to NOT taking a piece automatically. Maybe its better positionally to look at alternatives.
Good point, Etherglide!
gracias amigo... voy a ensenar esto a mis alumnos.
Blackburn shilling gambit and the tennison gambit got me from 1400 to 1700 because I kept playing them so much I started understanding how to use them
"Pawns are the most important thing in the endgame" - thank you, this is a brilliant advice! I must have fallen into the wrong priority endgame many times, trying to activate my king asap
Try to balance both
Yeah, the pawns are most in important. Activating the king (piece activity) is less important than the pawns (concrete material)
Thanks
I like this series because if I look at "under 1000" mistakes I'm taught how to Castle and take the center. It's hard for people past 2000 level to understand what under 1000 means... It's closer to these tactical mistakes (also ridiculous blunders). Calculation for people above that level is much better and they have much clearer vision.
Upvote this? Heck yes! When a lot of work finding the truth is compacted into a handful of practical points that can be remembered and applied, that's valuable.
Can confirm the thing about blunders being more decisive here, because 1600s usually cope pretty good at other aspects of the game. Recently, I have decided to start a new account and sort of not take it as seriously as the main one, so to play without stress or see how far I can go. It was difficult getting through some of the 1600s, comparable to 1700s and some of them even higher, in my opinion. I did not lose as much to 1700s. Now reached 1880.
It also depends what site you're playing on. Lichess, chess.com, classical, blitz, bullet, etc. 1600 is kind of vague unless you specify.
Nice teaching
id love to see a vid against stafford
I'd say most important endgame thing to do is probably trade into a winning position. Like a pawn ending with an extra piece. Just so you don't get into something complicated and difficult.
I would REALLY like to see a video where you analyze the games of Masters. THAT would really be interesting, seeing the difference between the mistakes of Masters and C class players.
Against the Stafford gambit, I like to accept, then play moves like d3, Be2, c3, h3, O-O, with the plan of letting the knight stay on g4 for awhile with the plan of d4 and e5 and maybe Nd7 and Nf3. The move order depends on what black does, but in my experience it’s been pretty solid and black often gets forked by e5 if they’re not careful and they play a line with Qd6. The dark squared bishop on c5 allows d4 to come with tempo. And even if they don’t get forked, the pawn chain on dark squares blocks out the bishop which is the source of most of the staffords tactics
Learned about the importance of pawns! I would love to see a climbing the rating ladder series like @johnBartholomew’s on your channel!
My answer to your question about the endgame was to trade off pieces. Since black was up a piece they could trade off pieces and be the only player with a piece left other than the king. I'm glad to hear your answer though because that seems a lot better. And applies to endgames where you have an equal amount of pieces.
you're great! yes please to how to play against Stafford as white.
Okay, at 1:56, seeing the position, the first plan that comes to my mind is to capture the white's Knight on h3 with Black's light square bishop. The queen is under attack. If the queen takes the rook, black gives check with his dark square bishop at e3. If the king goes to h1, then black queen on e2 grabs the pawn on e4 - threatening mate. The pawn is now pinned. Therefore it cannot grab the light square bishop on h3. This plan came to my mind within 10 seconds. So, I didn’t calculate any farther. What do you think?
thanks :)
No problem!
Yes please do a video on Stafford gambit, it is my go as black against e4 and it has done me very well, you can never know to much so would love to see what lines you would show.
When I tried defending against the stafford gambit, when I accept it I instantly play pawn to e5. Im not sure whether that's good, it normally ends up me winning in the endgame
So e4, e5, Nf3, Nf6, Nxe5, Nc6, Nxc6 dxc6, e5. White is winning with 1.4 advantage with correct plays which counters stafford gambit:
@@wonderfultime03 Hey thanks for that, I will be sure to look over it. :-)
Good jobb
My end game thoughts:: Increase piece activity (including the King); And if you are up a piece try to exchange down. If you are down then try to create chances by attacking and using complex positions and don't exchange pieces.
the line you give against the stafford is pretty crazy, I like (and I hate to promote a bigger chess content creator on your channel) Naroditsky's video on the stafford. Its the line I play into the stafford. Its pretty easy to learn and fairly natutal.
Where can I get your lighted chess pieces wallpaper on your PC lol :D
Me, a 900: interesting...
8:53 in Stafford gambit I like to play pawn to e5 attack the knight then D4 to defend the e5 pawn. The ln I'm just up a pawn and white's attack is almost over. I'll defend with queen that weak pawn
Well I learn something new!
Most important thing in an endgame where im up a piece is trading pieces and looking for checkmates for both players.
Salamat....Philipines...thank you...
Hi Nelson,
Thanks for the great video. Do you have a twitch channel?
Right now I'm just streaming on UA-cam on Wednesdays at 8:30 PM CST. I'll see about Twitch in the future but for now I don't have one.
@@ChessVibesOfficial Hi Nelson, my friend Peter, and I are doing some last minute studies before tomorrow's provincial inter - club tournament. Your content is extremely educational. We would love to contribute to your channel.
Do you provide one on one lessons? Could we chat privately about other interactive opportunities?
Kindest, Arie.
my tried and true against the stafford is d3 and be2, with a timely c3 and d4 to shut down the scary dark square bishop. the best lines for black are already +1.2-5 ish.
Could your show the users ranking in the future?
Great
Your videos are great. Thanks for all this hard work that you do!
I appreciate that!
Had to throw a like for the effort put into the video alone
Much appreciated!
I'm surprised Lack of Opening Knowledge isn't higher on the list. I'm at ~1600 (unofficially) with basically no knowledge of openings, but some understanding of tactics and opening principles. I thought that's how everyone did it.
Because not knowing the opening isn't an automatic loss. It only happens some of the time.
nah bro I learned around 4to 5 openings and that's what I play. If white comes with some absurd opening then I follow basic principles of opening
Clicked on this as a Lichess 2000 rated player figuring that this was 1600 FIDE as opposed to Lichess. Well, still seems to be Lichess ratings but I did get a bit out of it, such as the Qe2 Nd1 idea for the Stafford or, uh, realizing that Be8 was also a legal move and so there was a way to protect the g pawn. There are a lot of games that come down to massive blunders, though; one skill I'm kinda proud of is my ability to make opponents blunder in slightly winning or drawn positions by, for instance, defending pawns through tactics instead of directly to imply that it's free for grabs. Though I'd imagine it's a bit harder to make your opponents blunder when playing classical... I spend all my time in 10+5, or 10+0 when arenas come around.
I had one game today where my opponent had a crushing attack going and was up a couple pawns. Then he did a bad push and lost one... but was still winning by a lot, until he recaptured it and blundered the pawn his queen was defending with check. Neither of us played optimally from there but in the end I won a clean rook and was completely winning... and to seal the deal the very next move, I grabbed a pawn with check and blundered the rook back for a pawn. Still won the game with connected passed pawns though.
Nice
I love ur videos sir
Thanks!
Yes on the whites answer to Stafford Gambit
Coach, is it reall we need to change our opening when we reach certain ratings? Or we can still use the same opening & improve on others area?