It's incredible how these good players put a stranglehold on the entire board by over- defending every piece and controlling (almost) every open square. The opponent becomes paralyzed. It's impossible to get anything going.
I'm so glad there are still nearly 30 more of these videos in this playlist. Your commentary is incredibly helpful, thank you so much for making/posting these.
Thanks for making another climbing the ratings ladder video John, these are by far the most instructive videos for novices to intermediate players like me. Also please can you continue the Chess fundamentals videos, those are amazing too. Keep up the good work dude, and thanks again. :)
I love this series of Climbing the Rating Ladder, its very instructive. What I take away from this game is that every move must have a purpose and should be played with tempo (whenever possible). For 15 moves your opponent was making good moves with tempo, but lost very quickly after making a couple of passive moves that were not forced (pawn to h3 and rook to c1).
Hey John would you consider doing further lessons in openings? I'm trying to learn the Karo kann at the moment and there don't seem to be many good videos out there. If not maybe something in the future? Love your stuff!!
At 10:33, why would white not play d5? It seems like it cramps both black's knight and bishop, and if black plays ...exd5, white can play cxd5, undoubling his pawns. This move was never even discussed/considered. Am I missing something?
Around 14:45 John talks about Qe7 to get the Queen off the same file as the rook. However, there is a rook on the e-file as well, with even fewer pieces in the way. So why is the e-file not considered as problematic as the d-file?
My thoughts watching at 37:12: "Why doesn't he just take F2 with his queen? There is something I'm missing..." I legitimately paused my video for awhile to try to work out the line and how that wouldn't work and could not figure it out. Excited to see why I was wrong, I unpaused the video for you to immediately say it works haha.
John, please explain me, why he did not take your rook on d1? He has 3 attackers and you just two defenders. I am just 1200 point player but I can not understand why he couldn't take it and win a bishop...
Really appreciate all the videos you publish, has really helped improve my game. I have a question I'm hoping you can assist with. I'm looking to participate in my first tournament early next year and was wondering how best to prepare. I'm not high rated online (~1500 lichess) but keen to get some OTB experience. Once again, thanks for all your lessons :)
I love the time a guy accused me of cheating after a game. I played better that game than the games we had before. I laughed out loud when I looked at the quick review and I had so many mistakes and blunders. If he saw it he would have to eat his words.
Usually, one weakness isn't enough to ruin a position, but rather two. I strongly dislike how so many players of lower rating absolutely jump up and down for joy the instant they can double pawns, thinking they've clenched the game. In fact, I didn't even really think the doubled pawns were that much of a weakness for your opponent, as they actually could have been used to fight for the center. However, once they became double isolated pawns, which your opponent shouldn't have allowed to happen, then we saw how two weaknesses were enough to collapse the position. Long story short,
This is very true. I'm lower-rated and both encounter and fall victim to this error. Often doubled pawns come at the cost of a bishop for a knight, and I've discovered some trade-happy players will let you straighten out your structure anyway later down the road. That said, I have never passed up an opportunity to double-isolate my opponent's structure. Are there reasons, in your opinion, to avoid doing that?
To clarify, I know you can't speak for every single position I might ever encounter, but are there general situations where you might find doubled, isolated pawns actually helpful?
I agree with the principle of just giving up the pawn here; it’s all too easy to look at the position and think, “okay, I’ve got enough pieces, I can defend the pawn”, only to find that - in defending the pawn - you’ve given up the position as all your pieces are too passive, and your opponent now wins not only the pawn, but some material as well due to tactical tricks made possible by the better positioning of the opponent’s pieces. A lot of times it’s better to just give back the pawn and focus on improving your position, or seeing if you can present a threat your opponent now has to solve instead of grabbing the free pawn! But the positional considerations come first; here white was unprepared for the inrush of Black pieces on the queenside; after the pawn fell, so did the game. Where I have a complaint is with white’s h3 move; this accomplished nothing. It didn’t attack an enemy piece, nor was it prophylactic - there was zero chance Black was going to move a bishop to g4 at that point. While it does leave a hole for the king to escape, this was WAY too early; Black didn’t have any serious back-rank mate threats yet. In short, it just threw away a move. Now it might have been worthwhile had white tried a majority pawn push on the king side with h3 then g4 perhaps, but white still needs more developed pieces for that. Still, it was a respectable game against an IM!
John I was screaming like: what about Queen takes f2? What is wrong with that? Queen takes the motherfucking f2!!! Haha and as you said, I was right haha.
Sometimes when I watch these kind of games, i get the feeling of clubbing a baby seal. The disparity in rating means he has absolutely no chance of winning. He played extremely well given his rating but i sometimes wonder if these games do more harm than good given that it could prove disparaging to a player at that level.
i find it hard to believe that the guy cheated, he was playing so many of my I would've played moves i have the same rating as he maybe a Little more. I'm going to investigate the game in question
One of the things that made me want to quit chess for the last month was when my chess idol had twitter fingers and threw shade at me on Twitter :/ definitely top 10 saddest things in my life
How hurtful YOU were to HIM!! A viewer who had the unique chance to have an honest and instructive game with him and you hurt him, his viewers, and likely lowered his motivation for the series.
Also, after doing the analysis on chess.com it looks like you played another cheater... 1 inaccuracy, 1 mistake, otherwise all excellent and good moves... um, that doesn’t happen at 1000 while playing against an IM... I could be wrong.
A lot of his moves were simple defending moves, and he took his time to take a look at the threats John was posing. I think he very clearly not was using an engine by his lack of counterattack, he merely defended.
It always baffles me when people accuses someone of cheating against a master just because they didn't get crushed early on. This guy was defending for pretty much the whole game and never put John under any pressure whatsoever. He played passively and when the game became tactical he started making mistakes. He played well for his rating but it's obvious he wasn't cheating.
Stop being a jackass, not that it particularly matters. Mr 1032 just played OK, not well. He had many chances to get a coherent position in the opening. He got outplayed there and got crushed in the middlegame. OK for a 1000 not impressive, not even good.
It's incredible how these good players put a stranglehold on the entire board by over- defending every piece and controlling (almost) every open square. The opponent becomes paralyzed. It's impossible to get anything going.
Day 768. Still waiting for Climbing the Dating Ladder series to begin.
I'm so glad there are still nearly 30 more of these videos in this playlist. Your commentary is incredibly helpful, thank you so much for making/posting these.
slowly turning into wolverine
Don't let this video distract you from the fact that no ladders have appeared in a single CTRL video. Is John Bartholomew even your real name???
0/10 false advertising
"Chess Master climbs a ladder - YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!"
Plays stairway to heaven
Love the youtube videos, been watching for years before i go to bed and i've improved my chess a lot, keep it up John.
Thanks for making another climbing the ratings ladder video John, these are by far the most instructive videos for novices to intermediate players like me. Also please can you continue the Chess fundamentals videos, those are amazing too. Keep up the good work dude, and thanks again. :)
John, you're a big help because you're a really good explainer. Thank you.
These videos are so useful for improving players....which is clearly all of us ! Hard not to love John B's style too.
Another fantastic Climbing the Rating Ladder installment Minnesota Fins. It's always nice when the tactical chess juices are flowing.
Yay! Now I can sleep in peace watching john the beast!! Thanks for another vid. Making my evening already after a shitty day.
GOAT series, thanks for making another!
I love this series of Climbing the Rating Ladder, its very instructive. What I take away from this game is that every move must have a purpose and should be played with tempo (whenever possible). For 15 moves your opponent was making good moves with tempo, but lost very quickly after making a couple of passive moves that were not forced (pawn to h3 and rook to c1).
Thanks very much for the tip about SCID. I've downloaded it and intend to use it.
The discussion about which flight square to create for the king was very instructive. Good game!
Analyzing games without an engine first is a great idea. Thanks for the inspiration as well
UA-cam is broken. No matter how many times I hit the [ Ctrl ] key, I can't get a "Climbing the Rating Ladder" video.
Some great stuff in this game with how to attack the doubled pawns, thanks John!
Here is a newer version of this series enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/_Ayb9pPoPqI/v-deo.html
Hey John would you consider doing further lessons in openings? I'm trying to learn the Karo kann at the moment and there don't seem to be many good videos out there. If not maybe something in the future? Love your stuff!!
He moves the queen away from the file where the opponent's rook aligned at 15:40. The new file also had a rook there! Kinda confused.
I love your thought process
At 10:33, why would white not play d5? It seems like it cramps both black's knight and bishop, and if black plays ...exd5, white can play cxd5, undoubling his pawns. This move was never even discussed/considered. Am I missing something?
Amazing video John, this is my rating later so I thank you
Around 14:45 John talks about Qe7 to get the Queen off the same file as the rook. However, there is a rook on the e-file as well, with even fewer pieces in the way. So why is the e-file not considered as problematic as the d-file?
My thoughts watching at 37:12:
"Why doesn't he just take F2 with his queen? There is something I'm missing..."
I legitimately paused my video for awhile to try to work out the line and how that wouldn't work and could not figure it out. Excited to see why I was wrong, I unpaused the video for you to immediately say it works haha.
Always very instructive video's ! Thanks !
Very strong game by your 1000 rated opponent. Always nice to see that.
that rating is obviously not correct...
doublejay how do you figure?
Thanks for the video John. This kind of video help us (beginner) a lot . Am around 650 rating
nice video sir, learned a lot of chess from all your videos, thankyou sir
More of this John! I hope next climbing the ladder will be against 1500-1600ish player.
Thanks for the video, John! Your channel is full of super helpful content!
30:33 that combination made *ME* reach for the resign button, and I'm watching this on YT... goddamn
Your videos are very instructive :-)
John, your videos are always very engaging and instructive. What are you using to annotate your games (the arrows, key square highlights, etc.)?
john barthalomew A.K.A best teacher ever
What openings do you think we will see in Caruana/Carlsen? Petroff and what else?
Thank you
I love his username.
John, why do you remind me of Daredevil on Netflix? Lol!
Keep up the quality content!
Might be the lighting and I’m sorry to ask this but is that a tracheotomy scar you have John? Feel free not to answer
"Very Nihilist User name" lmao
love all those war analogy in chess !
"Caruana has a chance"
Didn't you beat him once? lol
What is the black-hole right under John's neck?
Chest hair? Shh, John is beautiful.
That black-hole is hair, John is a real man.
I tried to shoot him but i missed... no! I would never shoot a chess - player!
if i could delete a comment i would do it now! Please dont read my comments...
Walküre Unruh You can delete it through both the website and mobile app lol. Also... What?
John, please explain me, why he did not take your rook on d1? He has 3 attackers and you just two defenders. I am just 1200 point player but I can not understand why he couldn't take it and win a bishop...
I was thinking of qf2 and i was like, why not ? lol
Can someone link the video with the cheating please? Thanks in advance!
Nothing is found out of the beginning.
Found out who that cheater was and you guessed it...
Frank Stallone.
Good game, allislostintheend!
Really appreciate all the videos you publish, has really helped improve my game. I have a question I'm hoping you can assist with. I'm looking to participate in my first tournament early next year and was wondering how best to prepare. I'm not high rated online (~1500 lichess) but keen to get some OTB experience.
Once again, thanks for all your lessons :)
I love the time a guy accused me of cheating after a game. I played better that game than the games we had before. I laughed out loud when I looked at the quick review and I had so many mistakes and blunders. If he saw it he would have to eat his words.
Your opponent was listening to your comments
When John played C5, couldn't white just have played D5? Am I missing something? That just looks better for white...?
What video is it where you played the cheater?
ua-cam.com/video/fQux4ceMNqw/v-deo.html
John Bartholomew yessir check our game out!
Still well worth watching!
curtsher11 thanks man
@@thecharliecai do you admit to cheating?
I also saw the rook is pinned but didn't see Qxf2, heh
Loved it
Quick question John, do you know how to draw the arrows in live games after the new update? for me it does not seem to work. thanks!
Great series. Do you coach over Skype or other long distance program. Or just in person?
Position looks similiar to Fischer vs Izac Aloni ...a nimzo indian game.. 🤗🤗🤗
I'm right around 1009 when I play a no mistake no blunder game I post to Facebook
John, why would anyone want to play someone with a high rating like yours from the 1032 stand point?
I think it is a great opportunity, especially since you can then watch John analyze the game after.
What was that annotation program that John is mentioning?
Scid
@@elj4176 Thank you!
Is playing against myself a valuable option to improve my game if my level is around 1300 Elo?
I found playing with myself very helpful in improving my game.
John Bartholomule, I've just remembered that mules can't have babies. I'm sorry for your plight.
Usually, one weakness isn't enough to ruin a position, but rather two. I strongly dislike how so many players of lower rating absolutely jump up and down for joy the instant they can double pawns, thinking they've clenched the game. In fact, I didn't even really think the doubled pawns were that much of a weakness for your opponent, as they actually could have been used to fight for the center. However, once they became double isolated pawns, which your opponent shouldn't have allowed to happen, then we saw how two weaknesses were enough to collapse the position. Long story short,
This is very true. I'm lower-rated and both encounter and fall victim to this error. Often doubled pawns come at the cost of a bishop for a knight, and I've discovered some trade-happy players will let you straighten out your structure anyway later down the road. That said, I have never passed up an opportunity to double-isolate my opponent's structure. Are there reasons, in your opinion, to avoid doing that?
To clarify, I know you can't speak for every single position I might ever encounter, but are there general situations where you might find doubled, isolated pawns actually helpful?
I agree with the principle of just giving up the pawn here; it’s all too easy to look at the position and think, “okay, I’ve got enough pieces, I can defend the pawn”, only to find that - in defending the pawn - you’ve given up the position as all your pieces are too passive, and your opponent now wins not only the pawn, but some material as well due to tactical tricks made possible by the better positioning of the opponent’s pieces. A lot of times it’s better to just give back the pawn and focus on improving your position, or seeing if you can present a threat your opponent now has to solve instead of grabbing the free pawn! But the positional considerations come first; here white was unprepared for the inrush of Black pieces on the queenside; after the pawn fell, so did the game.
Where I have a complaint is with white’s h3 move; this accomplished nothing. It didn’t attack an enemy piece, nor was it prophylactic - there was zero chance Black was going to move a bishop to g4 at that point. While it does leave a hole for the king to escape, this was WAY too early; Black didn’t have any serious back-rank mate threats yet. In short, it just threw away a move. Now it might have been worthwhile had white tried a majority pawn push on the king side with h3 then g4 perhaps, but white still needs more developed pieces for that.
Still, it was a respectable game against an IM!
allislostintheend was closed for fair play violations in June 2019. I guess all really was lost in the end.
For Johns opponent all was lost in the end (?
His account was banned for cheating so yep...
he played very good if he keeps it up he will find out that not all is lost in the end
John I was screaming like: what about Queen takes f2? What is wrong with that? Queen takes the motherfucking f2!!! Haha and as you said, I was right haha.
even though allwaslostintheend he played very well im sure his rating will climb ..nice instructive game
Unfortunately he won't. Allislostintheend's chess.com account was closed for fair play violations, it seems.
@@dutlech425 Damn... that's actually really sad. I guess all really was lost in the end.
Fischer Random prease
Is the cheater video still up? I'm curious about it.
Could you play someone a little higher rated lol? Like someone around 1500 would be nice
Sometimes when I watch these kind of games, i get the feeling of clubbing a baby seal. The disparity in rating means he has absolutely no chance of winning. He played extremely well given his rating but i sometimes wonder if these games do more harm than good given that it could prove disparaging to a player at that level.
I’m 1000 n I can relate lmaooo
Will you favorite this John?
No way. That'd be like encouraging Scholar's Mate :)
Already thumbs upped before watching coz these are my fav videos. Play me next please, because I'm 1200+ on chess.com.
I like the indian openings,
Love the pin threat that comes with the indian
Sucks that last viewer was cheating. This game was legit though and this guy played very well for his rating.
His account was closed for fair play violation.
Looks like someone accidentally clicked dislike.
YAYAYAYAYYAAY
Yeah. Chess is great game. Sad that most online players are boring or cheaters or both. Doesnt worth wasting time
i find it hard to believe that the guy cheated, he was playing so many of my I would've played moves i have the same rating as he maybe a Little more. I'm going to investigate the game in question
the best move that game was queen take g4N
One of the things that made me want to quit chess for the last month was when my chess idol had twitter fingers and threw shade at me on Twitter :/ definitely top 10 saddest things in my life
Were you cheating? Are you saying you weren't cheating and the ban is wrong?
How hurtful YOU were to HIM!! A viewer who had the unique chance to have an honest and instructive game with him and you hurt him, his viewers, and likely lowered his motivation for the series.
Also, after doing the analysis on chess.com it looks like you played another cheater... 1 inaccuracy, 1 mistake, otherwise all excellent and good moves... um, that doesn’t happen at 1000 while playing against an IM... I could be wrong.
AND ME they made a lot of exchanges along with how long the opening was... just enjoy the video...
A lot of his moves were simple defending moves, and he took his time to take a look at the threats John was posing. I think he very clearly not was using an engine by his lack of counterattack, he merely defended.
None of his moves were amazing computer moves, they were all natural moves responding to John's threats. A computer wouldn't play so passively
A computer doesnt make mistakes...
It always baffles me when people accuses someone of cheating against a master just because they didn't get crushed early on. This guy was defending for pretty much the whole game and never put John under any pressure whatsoever. He played passively and when the game became tactical he started making mistakes. He played well for his rating but it's obvious he wasn't cheating.
I like lichess over chess.com because on lichess they deal with cheaters better. this was amazing play by a 1032 no way he didn't cheat
it wasnt amazing at all, a computer would never do those moves; he just played well.
Stop being a jackass, not that it particularly matters. Mr 1032 just played OK, not well. He had many chances to get a coherent position in the opening. He got outplayed there and got crushed in the middlegame. OK for a 1000 not impressive, not even good.