5 Things I Wish I Knew About Chess A Year Ago
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Don't lose hope when down material
04:01 - Passed pawns can be your biggest strength
05:35 - Always look for checks
06:35 - Why study tactics?
09:50 - Always expect the best move
13:11 - Thanks for watching
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You are awesome. I’m 60 and trying to learn. It’s depressing sometimes when I lose a lot but I am not giving in. Thanks for the great videos 😀
Keep it up!
I started my journey 8 months ago at 300 ELO, and I'm now at 900. I can't wait to hit 1000. Your videos have been super informative, helpful, and more importantly, supremely insightful. I'm so glad you popped up on my recommendation page. We're all little pawns that could!
That's wassup man, keep pushin 💯💯
keep up! i started from 180 on February and recently got 1070 on Rapid! try focusing on using the most of your game time and always doing puzzles..... i also recommend to watch masters channels bcz they kinda explain the main mistakes of each elo rate or useful tips. keep grinding, bro!
i was a 1400 i lost a game and got to 1394. then tilted lost like 20 games coming to a 1232. i did not watch any chess youtube video or a lot of chess. then one of my friend rated 1700 told me about gothamchess. im now a 1600 rapid and it feels awesome
Damn. I was frustrated I’m only 600 after a month.
Congrats on the rating climb!
As an adult getting into chess (I've messed around on the board as a teen but never got really into the game)... you got from not knowing how the pieces moved to 2000 rapid elo? That's seriously motivating and inspiring.
Your points line up a lot with some steps I've been trying to take to improve. I play impulsively and move way too fast and blunder, so playing longer time formats and making sure to use my time has helped me play a little better. Also, hope chess... yep I definitely do that, well since I'm impulsive, I move then notice my opponent's counter and pray they don't find it lol. And I definitely have to work on not resigning when down material. Thanks for the advice
Really useful! Thanks for keeping up the videos. I find the advice you give much more applicable as a beginner than nearly any other UA-camr.
Totally agree!
Lots of good ideas here. From my experience it's important to know the basic tactics thoroughly and some of the basic endings (K+Q+K, K+R v K, K+P v K) so you have a plan, spot basic traps (for either side) and can win quickly at the end. Much better than relying on some opening traps and then not knowing what to do when opponents deviate! Also, learn with slower speed games so you can think and spot the tactics. If you just play quick stuff (especially blitz) you will miss lots of what's going on and not develop your skills.
Excellent stuff. This is the kind of content that I think will help me improve.
One thing I have noticed as about a 100 - 1200 player is that I sometimes get stuck on a plan of attack that involves a bunch of moves to go right in order to reach the objective, but at some point things change that make the plan unrealisitc but for some reason I keep hoping that I can make the plan work and waste time and material on a lost cause.
5:35 I think blundering the back rank checkmate shouldn’t be underestimated as part of your point as it also holds true to what you’re saying. Your opponent also recognises that those pawns are now more important than what they have on the board and focus on dealing with that threat rather than pushing a pawn to let their king escape. It’s psychology 101 (like why you shouldn’t drive and use a cellphone at the same time), because when your focused on one thing, you are most likely not to notice the really obvious thing that needs your attention.
I can bet your opponent was absolutely baffled about how they got checkmated like that, and will have kicked themselves about making such a basic error and probably are still non the wiser how in their mind they could be so stupid when they’re much better players than that. But their brain was simply doing what the brain does, and that is blocking everything out that distracts you from what you are focusing on. For any photographers out there, think how depth of field works and apply it to chess.
Having thought about the depth of field thing a bit more. I think there might be a good rule which also explains why people like Magnus Carlson as as great as they are. They see the whole of the chess board all of the time, where as most other players have that normal depths of field that limits their sight only to where they’re focused.
And just to prove my point I’ve just missed my train writing this 😂 it pulled up to the platform and I only noticed it when the doors shut.
My rating went up pretty fast as well, and I noticed many of these things as well. I'd also add stuff that seemed to dramatically help my game or help my playing strength go up faster. These are my observations for getting strong faster at the beginning, and wouldn't necessarily apply to already-strong players:
1. Use longer time controls. Fast time control doesn't help you get better when you're at lower strength. It can be useful for high rated players to enhance the speed of their pattern recognition and see a lot of games, but you're going to *build* that pattern recognition at slower time controls. You can't exercise what you don't have.
2. Analyze each game immediately you play it online, don't play another game. Stop and analyze with an engine. Try to figure out the best move yourself at each spot the engine shows your position went down after you move. So, it's easy to play a bunch of games in a row, but I got better *much* faster by analyzing every game right after I played it. You can learn from games you won, and probably more from games you lost. You should work on analyzing if you're not good at that.
3. This one is a little idiosyncratic, but might work for others. My personal observation is that my intuitive sense of the position is pretty good. I'm rarely winning or losing by more than 1 pawn stockfish-type-eval without knowing it--which, oddly, doesn't mean I can list the reasons why I'm winning and I often don't know how to convert it and will still lose. However, I can leverage that intuitive sense by pretending I'm my opponent and seeing what move I would make that would just feel the most annoying to me in the opponent's position. If I find a move where if I had the opponent's position I'd think "that's really annoying", that's almost always a pretty good move.
4. Try to make the best move every time. Corollary of "don't play hope chess". That might seem obvious, but later, I know every single move I made was the best thing I could come up with, so when I analyze, that each individual move is a learning opportunity. If it wasn't the best move possible or a very high contender, how/why did I not see the best move possible? What do I not understand about the position, or the game, or what did I miss?
5. Evaluating checks, captures, and threats generally take precedence over positional improvements or general rules at every single move. I've found that a lot of chess youtubers (not you) repeat hackneyed phrases like "play the position" and don't explain what that means.
6. Mirroring your point above,
This was amazing, thank-you! More videos like this !!
Your content is so good. Helps my chess a lot.
Working my way up to 1000 and your videos really help. Thanks!
Good stuff. You've got some.good beginner mindset content. Helps me a lot. Started playing a few weeks ago. Never played before in my life, 29 years old and trying to learn!
Love that you continue making content❤
Superb video, thank-you!
These are great tips thx
Thank you so much for making these helpful videos!
I think in example 4 Qg4 might have been better or at least equal though trading the queens is also a solid option. In 5, I actually play the London a lot and that’s a common idea for black. You could try to push the H pawn and pressure the dark squares in that position. But those 2 things aside, this was a really good video for beginners I feel like. I might share it with some people at a club I just started going to. And 2000 in 2 years is really good. It took me a long time to get to 1900+ on lichess (1800+ cdc).
Superb video!
I'm guilty of hope chess in some games 😂 You are so right. I definitely need to start playing games with a different mindset and stop wasting my time on, hopefully they won't see my plan.
Thank you for the 5 tips. Im going to work more on the puzzles to and try and understand and recognise patterns more.
On resignation. OK, I might win or draw. But the chances are slim. And it will take some time. There is a better chance of winning the next game. That's where I should spend my time. I'm interested in my overall rating improvement, not just the one game in front of my nose.
However, there is a flip side to that. You could resign so many games you could have drawn or even won that you waste more time than you save on games you're going to throw away. And this "more focused on overall rating improvement" excuse might just be a story I tell myself to feel better. Because I suspect the real reason I'm more prone to resigning when I'm down in material is because I feel too vulnerable if I'm not dominating the board.
Thank you for the awesome tips.
#3 I like to take it a step further beyond checks. Every move I try to find a way to sacrifice material, not cuz I like to gambit, but to help find hidden resources. Especially when defending. Can I jam a Queen or something somewhere uncomfortable in their position? Can I ignore their threat and just let them take? What if I don’t care and find a bigger threat like a check, capture or sneaky pawn move?
Then finding moves like that mate in one becomes very easy to find… so long as you have a couple seconds and increment :)
I’m well below your level, but found out that thought process is where I lack the most (CCT, chess captures treats) and figuring out opponent plan vs assessing safety of my move. That’s where I’m working now.
5:50
Damn the Fools Mated themselves! That would have been an embarrassing way to end the game haha. Lucky them ;)
Hi Kamryn, thanks for your channel. I’ve subscribed ! Can you advise how much time everyday you could devote to chess ? Also any books that you felt helped you ?
If you have access to podcasts, she has an hour or so interview on a podcast called chess journeys
Im new to the game but struggling to improve. Thanks for the video I will keep going!
Great content Kamryn.
I am 40 and learning a lot with you.
Keep the good work!
Last one looked familiar as I play the London a lot
I realized a few days ago how strong passed pawns are. As a beginner, I thought they were mostly worthless if I had more rooks or minor pieces; then I got destroyed by passed pawns 😅. Now my mind shifted to "passed pawns that have protection are worth at least a knight or bishop, cause that's the least I'll have to sacrifice to kill that pawn or prevent his promotion". Btw, loving your videos.
I have no evidence for this but logically this works. Gm Finegold always says you need to play and notice mistakes and if you remember you won't make the mistakes again and will get better at seeing tactics even without looking. So after you said look for checks every move I thought like this: How are checks going to help me I need to see the tactics. But how will I see tactics that start with checks if I don't look for the checks. Wait if I can train my tactics vision the why not break it down further? Before looking for tactics why not improve my ability to look for checks which then after checks become one of those things you notice without looking all tactics starting with a check are a whole move easier to see. If I do this with checks, captures and threats and after seeing them clearly with simple tactics then after enough time I might see a whole tactic just by looking at the position of the pieces and maybe if I can see that then after more training I could see a tactic that is just one move away which would increase my depth by 1 whole move in every position. Combine that with training to look at forced(ish) lines and bam gm here I come. 😂
7:24 Another thing that might happen when looking for checks is that you can see tactics in the future. I had this in a game today where I hadn't calculated far enough and then I was in a bad position with one of my knights attacked by a pawn and the other knight unprotected if the first knight moves. So I looked for checks and the soon to be unprotected knight had a check. This check however wasn't useful at all. What was useful is that I saw that if my knight can give check from. There any knight that could go there would fork the piece that captures my unprotected knight. Here the moves move 16 is the position if you want to see yourself:
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Bb5 cxd4 6. cxd4 Bd7 7. Nc3 e6 8. Nf3
Nge7 9. O-O Nf5 10. Bf4 Bb4 11. a3 Ba5 12. b4 Bb6 13. a4 Bxd4 14. Nxd4 Ncxd4 15.
Bxd7+ Qxd7 16. g4
Spoiler
[ Nh4 17. Qxd4 Nf3+ 0-1]
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I reached 1500 rapid by myself, thank u for continuing inspiring us!
Kamryn 💜💜💜 you’re the best
Thank you 😀
Good to see another video!
On #1 - my impression (by observation) is that until a player is better than most tournament players a pawn difference isn’t substantial. And at lower ratings even dropping a minor piece or a rook isn’t a solid predictor of the outcome.
Never give up, never surrender😉
Never give up, never back down
Imo even a minor piece difference isnt much in some very high level matches (2400-2500) because there are mostly titled players who just play for fun there and arent hyper focused
I've been playing off and on my whole life. My rating for rapid never really rose above 1000 and realistically always hovered around 800. I'm sure with focus and study I could maybe get to 1200 (I've surpassed 1200 online, but online ratings are inflated, generally).
And 800 that is just fine with me. I'm a decent player, an average player, who enjoys the game.
Awesome! ❤
which rapid time is the best to learn?
Please make this sort of vid an annual update!
Brava!
@Kamryn, can I play 1 game with you. And then afterwards, can you pls tell me where I need to improve on?
I literally just won my first pawn endgame because I just know the sequence
In no. 5 isn't Qg4 the best choice?
How do you guys draw those arrows on these E boards?
Hold right click and drag
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Longer games are like working out and playing blitz is like flexing in the mirror
Been stuck on 1100 blitz for months now😭😭😭
Puzzles, and Watching informational content will help build your board vision
Hello mam Kam, I suggest you to make videos on opening as many channels gained views and subscribers initially by those videos.
where can practice spesific tactics in puzzel rush for free?? id like to practice trapped pieces
Lichess
i cant increse from 1500?
Reaching elo 2000 in 2 years, damn
@@v5e762I was 700 September 2022 and now I’m 1980-2000 July 2023. Less than a year. It’s not genetic just gotta work hard
@@macdonaldnnadi Me too I was about 800 in September 2022 and now I'm about 2050-2100
@@MasterInHD W! I’m currently like 2010 rapid but you’ve done yourself well too!
@@macdonaldnnadi Lol, natural talent is real. Plenty of people work hard, but don't improve.
@@DarthMessiaswhat u mean natural? he improved because he worked hard he started from 700. It's not a natural talent it's a work hard.
Im a 2455 player yes mostly this is accurate
You look like what I'd imagine if sid the sloth and jennette mccurdy had a daughter. Great tips!!
❤ i got elo 400 .
Great video, almost lost me on number 1 because it was a bit repetitive. Just a note for retention, repeating the same point can lose people and rank yor apv...
Recently, I reached 1360 rated, and yes I did use engine in some games, but it helped recognise patterns and I have just beaten someone who was 62 points lower than me, as well as people who are the same rating as me. I started doing this at 900, and I have made new accounts without cheating and gained high ELO as well. Slowly, I am stopping to use it, but it really helped me gain knowledge and understanding of patterns and tactics.
I’ve been playing for 2 years blitz mainly I played 5000 plus games and I’m only 600.. what do you suggest?
Play as slow as you can stomach, ideally 15+10 or slower. Even 10+0 is much better than blitz.
@@PaulHobbs23 Absolutely agree. If you only play fast, you don't have time to think, spot the tactics, your threats, opponent's threats. Take it slower. That's how people used to learn before online chess. Learn the key tactics, forks, pins/skewers, discovered checks/attacks, basic endgames. When you've mastered the key techniques, then you can start speeding up. Even then, blitz is too fast for even a strong player to think properly, and lots of "silly" mistakes happen. It's fun, but it's not real chess.
Join a chess club and play friendly game of slow chess where each player explains their thought process and offers commentary as the friendly game progresses.
If you simply do not hang pieces you will improve by a lot
You aren’t playing to improve, you seem to just play for fun. To improve, try to analyze your losses and actually learn why u lost. Also play a slower time control
but Kamryn you're a genius compared to me 🥲