Nice video! Glad to see you play the Scotch. It is my main opening as well. I like the open lines you get and for a beginner like myself. I have noticed i can really work on sharpening my tactics. I also have a win rate of 64% woth it at the 1100 - 1300 rating range.
Thanks for the comment! It is BTW interesting to look at the games that Kasparov played in the Scotch; even recently he had some good wins against contemporary players - he beat Nakamura, for example: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1820137
Generally, I would agree, which is why I haven't made openings a focus. But I think now you do need to be prepped above a certain level. If you watched the Botez Chess Camp thing recently, they were all very well prepped, even 1800 players.
@@RTAC_1234 The way to deal with players who focus heavily on opening study is simple: do not play main line openings! Which is easy to do if you do not study them! There are tens of thousands of slightly inferior moves that lead to lines totally different from anything book players have studied. If this were not true, then chess should be abandoned, it has been solved. Below the master level, anything can happen, so just do not play book moves and you will win against players whose rating is based on doing well in positions they have studied. These players are over-rated when not playing their pet lines.
I agree, I have advocated this approach in this course. Actually, I saw a video with Magnus the other day where he said at the highest level you basically can't play the mainlines any more, because they've been worked out to drawish positions. It was this one: ua-cam.com/users/shortsUmz7NMYkbXQ
Good question! For myself, I know that I can't play chess as well as I can write, which is my profession. And I also know how much easier writing comes to me, in comparison to chess. It's hard to ascertain whether or not you have talent, but if you assume that you don't have talent, while implementing the practices that I will include in this course, you will improve regardless of whether or not you're talented. I would suggest that if you are talented, your improvement will be quicker than mine. Since the chess boom occurred, there is a lot of emphasis on improving and reaching goals quickly. I can only say for myself that it took me a long time to even reach 2000 online. I was stuck at 1700-1800 for quite some time. Eventually, I worked out how to improve, so I thought this course would be a good way to share that with others.
Nice video! Glad to see you play the Scotch. It is my main opening as well. I like the open lines you get and for a beginner like myself. I have noticed i can really work on sharpening my tactics. I also have a win rate of 64% woth it at the 1100 - 1300 rating range.
Thanks for the comment! It is BTW interesting to look at the games that Kasparov played in the Scotch; even recently he had some good wins against contemporary players - he beat Nakamura, for example:
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1820137
@@RTAC_1234 Oh, that is a great game. Thank you for sharing that. I do have some studying to do for sure.
We all do!
To reach 2000 you don't need to know openings. So don't waste time on them, increase your general chess strength instead.
Generally, I would agree, which is why I haven't made openings a focus. But I think now you do need to be prepped above a certain level. If you watched the Botez Chess Camp thing recently, they were all very well prepped, even 1800 players.
@@RTAC_1234 The way to deal with players who focus heavily on opening study is simple: do not play main line openings! Which is easy to do if you do not study them! There are tens of thousands of slightly inferior moves that lead to lines totally different from anything book players have studied. If this were not true, then chess should be abandoned, it has been solved. Below the master level, anything can happen, so just do not play book moves and you will win against players whose rating is based on doing well in positions they have studied. These players are over-rated when not playing their pet lines.
I agree, I have advocated this approach in this course. Actually, I saw a video with Magnus the other day where he said at the highest level you basically can't play the mainlines any more, because they've been worked out to drawish positions. It was this one:
ua-cam.com/users/shortsUmz7NMYkbXQ
How do you know if you have talent or not?
Good question! For myself, I know that I can't play chess as well as I can write, which is my profession. And I also know how much easier writing comes to me, in comparison to chess.
It's hard to ascertain whether or not you have talent, but if you assume that you don't have talent, while implementing the practices that I will include in this course, you will improve regardless of whether or not you're talented.
I would suggest that if you are talented, your improvement will be quicker than mine. Since the chess boom occurred, there is a lot of emphasis on improving and reaching goals quickly. I can only say for myself that it took me a long time to even reach 2000 online. I was stuck at 1700-1800 for quite some time.
Eventually, I worked out how to improve, so I thought this course would be a good way to share that with others.
Best measuring tool would probably be an IQ test. An average or below IQ and forget about being a strong Chess player for sure.