Two Points of Contact | Climbing the Rating Ladder vs. fbkc1 (1829)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- In this continuation of the "Climbing the Rating Ladder" series I take on players of various ratings levels while pointing out typical mistakes and spots for improvement along the way (possibly my own!? :)). Here I commentate a 5+5 game against a player rated 1829 on Chess.com. In the Queen's Gambit Declined (via transposition), my opponent plays a couple a couple too many pawn moves. In particular, 9...h6 gives me the green light to launch an attack with g2-g4-g5, seeking two points of contact (f6+h6) with the goal of opening lines against Black's king. #Chess #ChessInstruction #ClimbingTheRatingLadder
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Nicely done. I got all charged up for a game, like hell yeah...then I got checkmated. Lol you know your chess
GG
Hey John, I was thinking you could do a UA-cam pole on your viewers' chess ratings. That might help deciding what rating range you should tackle more in these climbing the rating ladder videos. :)
Great idea
wiser words haven't been spoken!
Ratings IRL or chesscom.?
Agreed! I've done an informal poll in the past, but might be time for another.
@@smooth_concrete ayeee you make my day. Rating deflator it is!! I'm hovering around 1450 myself. The key to climbing the ladder is perhaps play far too many games.
Awesome game! Love to see John on the attack.
Clear and concise. Very nicely done.
That's what I go for! Thanks a lot!
Glad to see you going in there at the end! I’ve played chess for a few years and I’m really trying to make that push to be better! I love your videos and love seeing you do what you do best!
You and your opponent appear to have had a disagreement about where the game was being played. He thought it was bring played in the center and Queen's side, but you thought it was being played on the King's side. You won the argument
Hard to beat an IM in one of these xD
He must be a pirate with a left-eyed patch.
Blitz is fun to watch. But for climbing the rating ladder 15 +10 maybe the better choice
A dominating performance, very impressive.
I was still expecting you to trade down into a slightly better endgame the whole time lol. So nice to see you attacking for once!
I don't think John likes to play Hope Chess (unsound attacks) ;)
Thank you so much for your lessons. At 28 im still struggling to notice early-game concepts like these. I can usually tell when my opponent is just wasting tempi, but forming an attack on a cluttered board is a skill often left untaught. Ty
It usually require your minors pieces toward the direction you want and a sacrifice to open lines. Moves like h4 are often needed too, they are dangerous if supported by a rook and other things. If the opponent waste time in the first 10 moves, then you could try to go very agressive with your pawns and put pressure. Closed positions are really super hard to defend sometimes
@@vertsang5424 had this game that went well, keeping your advice in mind. Thanks! I was black and made a decision to throw the knight in order to open up an H-line battery.
1. d4 g6 2. e3 Nf6 3. Nf3 d6 4. Be2 Bd7 5. Nc3 c6
6. O-O Na6 7. a3 Nc7 8. e4 Bg7 9. Bf4 O-O 10. Qc1 Bg4
11. h3 Bxf3 12. gxf3 e5 13. dxe5 dxe5 14. Bxe5 Nd7 15. Bxg7 Kxg7
16. Rd1 h5 17. Qd2 Ne5 18. Qe3 Qh4 19. f4 Ng4 20. hxg4 hxg4
21. Rd7 Rh8 22. Qd4+ Kg8 23. Kf1 Qh1# 0-1
@@diskgiant5060 nice! well done:)
epic game ! nice one john !
Big big fan of the way you played this John. Not just because of the nice win but spotting the forcing moves that opened the king up. They had terrible coordination on the king side so it did scream attack but I feel you wouldn’t have gone for this a year ago so congrats! You’re improving a lot lately
So the immediate 15. Nxe6 was working, but it's those little wiggly Queen moves that make it work and they're almost impossible to visualize during a blitz game! Nice game
that was very informative
A great principle of attack: invite everyone to the party.
This is great! John play more aggressive to see you tactic
It seems like you hear a lot more about the rook-queen battery than the diagonal bishop-queen (which you emphasize in your videos). Maybe because it takes a couple of moves to get the queen in front of the bishop in most opening lines?
The John Immortal
Hi Jhon.thanks for ur videos.could you do a video playing always the same opening so we can learn every possible variation against every oponent move??thanks from spain
Hey John it's guys. I know you're not a big fan of modern/flank openings but can you perhaps showcase some pros and cons of these systems? Thanks!
1. b3!
pros: getting away from theory (helps to beat people who depend on their theory knowledge)
cons: losing direct control of the center
Imagine how cool it’d be if you did a gambit/sacrifice video. Like, include in you calcs throwing away pieces for advantage just for the sake of it. It’d teach us noobs how to lure our foe
John you're pretty good at chess!
I, therefore, would like to ask for some advice. I am rated around 1300-1400 on chess.com and even 1500 in one of my alt accounts. What I've noticed is that, after a certain number of games your rating becomes fixed and not provisional anymore. If I do well in my opening games I can get and maintain my 1400 rating but if I do badly I get stuck in elo hell at 1100 0r 1200. AND I have similar win rates on both accounts(1400 acc and 1200 acc), so I feel like I'm stuck in a hole and doing something wrong. Would love to hear what you think of this.
Thanks!
Also, great content! Keep it up!
There's really only a small difference between 1400 and 1200. I think if you played like 300 games on each account you'd probably end up in a very similar elo no matter where you were placed. It can take that many games to account for variance.
I'm a simple man. I see John's video, I click Like
I expected 16...Bf8 defending, that seemed to be the point of 15...Re8. I also think that your opponent is better than he played here, I have the same issue when facing IM's, we mere mortals tend to get nervous lol!
1600-2000 there's discernment in skill level but I don't think it's colossal. A 2k player has a stronger understanding of the game in every sense by a small margin. However, 2k-2.4k I feel is a major difference. A 2400 can see all the small things that a 2k can't and it's much more difficult to reach that level of play.
Well said
I was looking for a comment similar to this because I also wanted to respond to John's assessment of rating levels. I play almost exclusively bullet and blitz and yoyo between 1500 and 1700 with a peak of 1864 or something like that. From what I've witnessed watching GM and IM streamers play lower rated players, the main difference between players in the 1600-2000 neighborhood and the 2000+ level is that those of us in the 1600-2000 tend to lack long term planning skills. We're skilled enough and experienced enough to not lose out of the opening, but the middle game separates the title players from us because titled players know what they want to do after the opening. Notice how John explains throughout his videos what he generally wants to accomplish with each of his pieces based on his opponents' weaknesses whereas his lower rated opponents often make unnecessary waiting moves that don't seem to fit any theme of an ideal attack.
Hey John, one really unnecessary tip: we Germans pronounce the U in Luft like you pronounce the double O in Look (so, Looft basically). Dunno, if that was helpful. Proceed being awesome ;)
Someday soon I hope to book a lesson with JB!
Nice Sacrifice
Thank you for all these videos.
Genuinely curious, if you wanted to win faster against this level of competition, could you? It seems like you are playing your best but I also see other GM just eviscerate players if this level super quickly, and am curious of how they are able do that
Thank you again for all that you do
Nice game :]
Can you do a Tüte on identifying threats for us lower levels? Pleeeeease?
Do u realize how much ur progressing the game with all this free info ?
Love how u describe the game
That's the goal! Thanks! :D
As time goes by, John plays more and more like Simon Williams!
If he substitutes beer for coffee he will! 😊
Hi,
While watching I was thinking I might have tried to send the h pawn up the board for an attack.
However, I notice its not something you considered (or was mentioned by the engine). Could you possibly let me know why as I'd be interested in learning.
I'm sure it's some super obvious reason that I probably missed (too slow?). But I'd appreciate the learning opportunity.
Thanks,
Alex
Man vs Machine, John, what's the highest level of Chess Titans you can beat?
John, do you ever play the parrot opening?
As in, copying the opponent?
@@JohnBartholomewChess No, 1. F4 F5 2. G4!!
It is an opening developed by GM Simon Williams.
Andrew Costa What a horrible opening
nice
nice
@@JohnBartholomewChess the vid was so good I was at a loss for words....
Did you change your pieces on chess.com John? Or does my bad vision just make them look different lul
He changed the background, maybe that?
I've been switching up the set a bit lately, yup :)
lichess.org/dfytTKph#9 on lichess
Hello John, i love the new content, i watch it every time, very instructive. I notice that in the videos you don't use the new visual analyser from chess.com, with colours to show the best moves. It can be triggered by clicking Analyse at the end of game, there is also an interesting accuracy score that it shows, i think the visual aspect of the new analyser would improve even more the final analysis part of the videos. Notice on thing in the colour codes, green is better than blue. Thanks for the videos 👍👍
why is there fbkc1 (1829) in title?
John, What if black didn't capture the sacrificed rook, what would be your follow up?
Cry
Double up rooks on the g file and white has way too many threats
I don't like the fact that he castled so fast. What was the rush ? Your whole kingside attack was facilitated by the fact that you had not castled yet. I would file this one under the category of "castling into it'.
2:02 Would someone explain what a hook is please?
I believe it's an opponent's pawn or a piece near the king that becomes vulnerable to tactics when it's moved. If John's opponent had left the pawn on h7 then the only thing John's pawn push to g5 attacks is the knight, which his opponent can then simply move, which would also keep the pawn structure intact. But since John moved the pawn to h6, John's pawn push to g5 forks the knight and the pawn, which means after John's opponent moves the knight John can then capture on h6 and open up his opponent's king.
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Play Magnus 😁please?
Magnus is super busy tho? And they don’t know each other. Probably played a few times in lichess arena tho