EMERGENCY Lesson from IM Levy Rozman/GothamChess (Chess)

so uh i am going to give you a few examples today uh of positions where one actually i'm involved in all of these games okay some some positively and some negatively um and i'm going to kind of give you uh the prompt of developing an attack okay so in this first one you can flip it so that you're looking at it from white's perspective oh yeah already there okay perfect so i'm gonna jump ahead to move 13 like around here okay after like castles takes takes takes so your first like instinct five seconds of looking at this position what's going on who's better and by how much um well materially is tied but i guess white has both of their rooks available whereas you've taken an extra bishop i as white i hate that like my knight is pinned right here because if i could move that i could uh i could double up with some power in the f file uh which seems like a decent way to get some attacking going i mean i would say to me it looks like white has an advantage right now to some extent it at least in the midterm just because of the they're more developed but i mean obviously black has like complete control of the center so i guess that's my evaluation yeah so so if we take like the four just try to follow like the the formula the first thing you said material equal cool king safety uh probably black's king is weaker okay because right you've got like this i mean i know you said there's this pin but imagine a world where you move now you have this and the knight can move and you'll you'll get a big attack so uh white here is white is actually completely winning okay and that's because white has a jump white can get a jump on black now in the game my opponent played king h1 because he actually agreed with you that's what i was thinking yeah yeah which for better or worse in this particular case the two of you agreeing like king h1 it's a little slow so in terms of being directly hostile and aggressive what is white's most hostile aggressive move most threatening move that i can play well bishop to h7 aha because you want to play here and here but you want to play bishop takes h7 king takes h7 and then this yeah that'd be cool something like this so you win a pawn in this way but losing the losing one of your most powerful attacking pieces uh is is a little bit you don't want that okay fair enough yeah so rather than doing that and i'll tell you why because this gives black time and then after the queen is hit uh black will also go here okay yeah that makes sense and so now white's got like no activity because you're never moving your knight forward because i've activated my bishop i'm gonna put my bishop here guard my pawn so bishop h7 is an idea but okay i mean same line of thought oh then like queen to h5 yes yes exactly because you're threatening you're threatening mate so they have to respond or if not made at least a nasty attack yes so for example if g6 i mean you can already even consider sacrificing yeah because this this this if the king goes to h8 for example you have a very cool little trick uh you can play like for example check so if the king goes to g7 check and now yeah winning two pieces yeah oh sorry sorry you're winning two pawns and you're winning the bishop rather than the last example where you would have just been winning one but yeah of course queen h5 just in general like queen h5 and then in the game my opponent did this knight c6 but now you still have queen h5 right yeah my opponent went here because that was very much their plan so it's actually funny this position is plus eight really despite being equal yeah material that's fine yeah this move is crushing and this position is zero zero zero oh wow yeah so this is when the computer afterward would would not even show you a suggestion it would just say like you know you're an idiot yeah uninstalled yeah i mean literally so queen e7 now i'm trying to stabilize here i mean the threat of of knight g4 was to do what it was to play check here and make me yeah which you're probably not gonna it's easy enough to not get sucked into that i guess right cause you just play you know queen e7 but now my opponent brings the next rook so they've basically done what they think is the best they've mobilized every single one of their pieces now bishop d7 and here a really cool move bishop b1 oh okay so what's the point um i i would think that well like just to be honest i don't really recognize the point to begin with but i would think that maybe they would try to get the queen on the same diagonal to thread in the same mate as earlier yeah like queen to d3 okay so you absolutely understand the point okay then fair enough all right uh yeah it's it's to put the queen here now you know we've given black time so black consolidated which is kind of like one of the biggest lessons of this position is the fact that we didn't have enough time to play moves like king h1 yeah and then you know black gets knight c6 this is defended black gets queen to good square black is fine so time in this game was super important another idea is what my opponent does here a3 to try to maybe go here and take this pawn since i can't you know however bishop e8 white to play and win i actually thought i was a genius here because i was like i'm gonna go here and trade this bishop i'm so smart why to play and win yes what is the most aggressive move that you can think of that also happens to win i don't know the most aggressive move i could think of is uh queen to f8 but okay uh well what's not what's not allowing queen f8 well that the queen would capture you and then you know you would then get captured with the rook and then they would capture your rook so you lose a rook so this is stopping you from doing that yeah so you should play what about um what about rook takes e6 exactly exactly that's exactly right rook takes c6 and the whole house collapses so the bishop on d7 stops rookie six which i i didn't even see when i prepared this game period i like went through it and i was like oh my god like i can't believe i didn't i had missed this during the game it's just and i mean so did my opponent like my opponent just blitzed out this move and then we went like this and the game proceeded but even here queen d3 is a good move forcing me to go king h7 uh and still my opponent has some hope of attacking me but the hope has to rest in the move rook f4 which attacks the bishop threatens to take it because you would get two pieces yeah and then for example the bishop b6 this can get a friend and where are they going uh to f7 yes and uh once you get to f7 you're also going to put something on f6 because that can't take right yeah and then you're gonna hit this together so fighting for the open file with the pieces another idea if you see this what are you thinking with this pawn kind of on g6 what what are you thinking to do take it by the way uh no not right away because you'll just get taken um well i mean i guess you would you would think about in some way pressuring it yeah like like putting the knight on e5 at some point to put some more pressure on it or you know so or maybe being able to put your uh push your panda to h4 yeah yep h4h5 exactly i mean you want to go here but this is covering yeah but if you dislodge it and then get knight to e5 and then put the rook here yeah exactly right uh long story short this game kind of trails off of the instructive path and becomes ridiculous and i ended up making a comeback but it's crazy because i was like you know it was plus 10 for white so and it's essentially this is just about time like you need to identify that you don't have time to go king h1 and make moves that just look like they're improving your position rather than actually creating any sort of threats i think that's really instructive actually because oftentimes it does happen like i get some kind of advantage uh and then i think like i i think what's like a good move here instead of what would be like a good objective or like what would be a good plan like how can i keep the like from the first two lessons that we have the advice of like always trying to find uh like forcing moves and high pressure moves that force your opponent to respond have been uh like that's been really really helpful so i i think an extra eye for this is gonna work well for me in the future as well yeah it's just basically not not getting lazy but also this is like and and i don't i i didn't mean that in like a you're lazy uh but i think we're all just a little bit like i'm gonna go here and then here and then here easy boom yeah uh rather than okay i gotta get out before my opponent consolidates everything uh okay good start here's the next one i'm going to invite you okay i'm going to do five of these today already between the smaller board and a little instruction i feel like i'm i'm getting my mojo back and well we're gonna well we're gonna play viewers as well so oh okay this is the position um and you have white okay so i'm gonna go here okay uh you have white so create an attack okay uh queen the e4 okay good start forcing me to do something yeah so the thing about attacking chess is that and again in in these games there's a balance like is it your pawns is it your pieces you're gonna attack with um when you play attacking chess it's not it doesn't always have to end in mate it can end with you know me weakening my structure uh and you can maximize how good your position is by making me make moves like this so queen e4 is good uh f4 g4 are all pretty good options here okay knight f4 is a good option yeah knight f4 is what i was thinking of yeah knight f4 looks very very natural because you have pressure here pressure here um okay what if i play bishop d7 i just want to get developed um i still might consider like uh knight takes g6 okay calculate that like uh explain why well no i mean just tell me what's gonna happen okay well then you know i'll take and uh then they'll take with the pawn or black will take with the pawn i'll take the pawn with the queen check um it might lead to queen to g7 as the protection i mean i guess it almost certainly would um and then i guess that's where it gets a little like it fizzles a little because i don't really want to trade queens having the the attacking advantage so i don't know i would probably just play maybe like queen to h5 is what i'm visualizing at least but oh you mean yeah and i was like now oh yeah that'd be really impressive uh yeah exactly so like and basically you would look at that and you'd go ah i don't really like that it doesn't do enough yeah which is actually a concept i get asked a lot like when do you sacrifice versus when do you not i mean this is a perfect example of you don't have a follow-up uh you know what i like i was what about uh knight to h5 so knight to h5 works if they take you yeah it's more of a like a 1200 trap or something i well yeah uh i mean that h5 the thing is you got to ask like again what's next so okay what it it's there but yeah i mean you would maybe i guess try to create an outpost that f6 but even that doesn't really accomplish much beyond just giving a check i suppose yeah like you go okay i'm gonna go uh you know here here and put my knight here yeah but the second you go here i can take your knight now because there's no yeah that's true yeah there's no i mean what's funny is that moving here the computer wants to completely throw away the attack and just take the take yeah take the hanging pawn and b7 exactly which is which is again a balance that you strike in a position where you're creating threats you gotta also realize that sometimes you can't just get tunnel vision like a it's a pawn and it could be a second pawn and you're just up two pawns and that's good uh rookie three is another good option always a good option and the point is that you know you rook lift yeah and you start bringing this so if black starts to fight back like with f5 the position can fall apart really quickly because now both of these things don't have a guard uh you can take but you can also just like slide forward and who's guarding this let's say king h7 for example this is now the instructive moment i wanted to show i basically like prepared yeah like rook g3 looks good yeah but now we're gonna start incorporating the balance of pieces and pawns so a pawn move here like will kill black's defenses g4 yeah and you say well so what they're not going to take me yeah but what are they going to play what are they going to play actually let me ask that to you what is the what do you think the best move here for black is just you're being attacked what should you do um i just flipped the board for a second here sure sure if possible you like you want to create a threat that they have to respond to instead of dealing with the situation on their terms as they presented it i guess so um best move for black so that's one way to combat an attack but the second attac the second attack the second way to combat it is uh trade your opponent's most powerful pieces oh so maybe you'd play queen to f6 then queen f6 exactly like this move is the first one that i'm drawn to of course like i keep saying there there are pawns over there that we can take but uh and we will actually i would be i wouldn't be surprised if uh well yeah or or for example something like this which would lead to a transformation of the position where we're no longer attacking but we have activity and we're up upon yeah we are up upon it's just really hard to tell because this is four and that's three so we have the double pawn but we're up we're pressuring this we can go check in the future and take everybody and it's like pieces throwing in the pawn to you know dislodge things at a good moment and if you can simplify from being attacking to up two pawns then you should it's probably fine yeah yeah exactly like uh but again it's it's it's thinking like okay in the game my opponent played queen f6 and i just took because i was like okay great and then they went here and i took that too so uh it was a very weird game but again it's the opposite side castling and yeah it's a combination notice how like i didn't go back to b3 i went back to d3 because i wanted to line up to the king yeah and then the plan was like this push the pawns bring the knight rook lift at a good moment all these kinds of things a lot easier when it's when it's opposite sides um okay next one uh speed run these and then we can yeah yeah no it's good some i like hand and brain unless you you you had some other i i think that's good uh it's it's high pressure for me which i think i play up to that level so we're gonna jump i i well we will see we'll see i think last time we had we had a good time yeah i thought so too so this is the position um i guess you wait a second if i i'm trying to find a way like you have the moves on the screen and i'm just trying to find a way if i can like hide them oh i'm not looking i i see them and i know i could read them but it would take too much mental effort yeah i'm just like full training experience like normally you can hide it but i i can't so i just have to rely on please don't so knife b5 queen c8 how does white create an attack here okay it's another game played one of the few games in the past two weeks that i've won a much more complicated position for sure more closed yeah nobody's lost any material either yeah it's astonishing considering i'm playing but um i mean one of the things i guess i would look for is like queen to h3 with the with the hope in the future to find a way to i mean obviously they're they're not going to just let you mate in all likelihood but to try to find a way to pressure the knight out of there mm-hmm queen h3 is a yeah queen is a great move uh i see some questions about like knight takes night uh and then trying to take on f6 but the thing is at the end of all that you've given away two pieces like you don't have enough you need to be absolutely ready to create a final strike before you chop off all the pieces because now your rook's hanging and you can get one move to threaten mate then i go here you go damn he saw it yeah ah all right well i gotta move my rook now and now black is just much better because black has two pawns up i'm sorry sorry uh as the two bishops i don't know why i said two puns yeah basically two ones up computers apparently saying that c4 wins for black and is minus 2.5 so um why is that uh it's because your pawns fall apart oh yeah but okay i mean uh you're right though queen h3 great move okay so you transfer the queen to h3 uh have pressure on h7 opponent goes g6 blocking your bishop uh you see g6 what is the most natural continuation to this move i don't know well what strikes your fancy what looks oh well i mean g4 yeah g4 okay that's great like to me the first most logical move in the game when i was playing was g4 of course g4 g5 uh i think g4 is bad because yeah exactly like if you even i mean computer is funny computer wants a move on the other side of the board it's basically just not afraid it's probably a bad sign yeah is it is it is it this yeah it's basically the fact that the knight can just stand in the way of the queen like and okay you can play this which threatens mate actually that's mate because you're a bishop but it's interesting black just plays here and your bishops out of the game of course it's still a very complicated position at my level that would be a win yeah no i think exactly when i say g4 g5 is not supported by the computer i don't care like that's a great it's great that that comes naturally too people were also during the game saying well g6 weakens this so you should go here and yeah maybe i should have i didn't during the game i didn't just want to camp my queen there because i just thought black would be in time somehow but queen h6 is actually a really good move yeah i would i was worried about this for example and then just here okay yeah but apparently again according to machine i can just shred it all open and even sacrifice my queen well really the computer likes it yeah computer thinks this is winning for white which again in a blitz game is not practical i mean you you just see that you're gonna you know you you see rookie a bishop f8 they're just gonna kick my queen out and if you don't see f5 you literally have no advantage computers two moves here are f5 and queen back right or you know or pier here and then queen back so but i like g4 very good uh another idea remember the rook lift okay yeah yeah so i played rook f3 with the intention to yeah maybe play g4 and maybe play rook g3 just to hit this because at some point you will have sacrifices and that's the that's the whole point of the rook lift is like you're at some point you're going to sacrifice one or two pieces in order to break up the king's side and then having the rook there can lead to like a a checkmate basically yes exactly exactly um because you you need more firepower is essentially the thing and the rook isn't doing anything on f1 and by having it on g3 hitting g6 you have a new piece you just have a the thing is on f1 you're looking at can i break through here with my pawn yeah that's what my rook is supporting that's why g4 is so good because you have g5 and f5 as well um so you you just transfer the rook over now the opponent goes d4 and we're not interested in yeah we don't know right yeah so we leave this all right so yeah we do care i guess uh if yeah well i mean if you if you took you'd you'd go down the rook which is unpleasant but it's it's actually not even like horrible but yeah of course just root g3 knight e5 fe 5 and knight comes to e4 okay is this a good trade and if not then what's the alternative yeah um i so my initial hunch as someone who's taken tests is that as soon as you say if not what's the alternative um that i i'm thinking that the answer is not but my initial hunch is that it's actually i mean i i guess it's kind of not a great trade for the obvious reason of of being a bishop for a night but then i do also kind of feel like the white pieces are kind of closed in on the black king side but maybe having this bishop available like maybe maybe the fact that the pawns are placed on the white squares is actually good because it means this bishop can can sacrifice for them for an attack so i i mean if there's a different way to get that knight out of there because uh right now the bishop is essentially doing nothing um then it might be worth it but otherwise i don't know i kind of i would probably take honestly yeah i in the in the game i took now don't worry i'm not trying to set you traps i honestly no yeah i know it's just uh you only have one other move if it's not take it's here you can't go here because you get forked right so rook f3 knight and you might think oh they're gonna just get this if i go here but no no they're you know that's why you have to go rook g4 uh which is funny at first the the computer's just like of course take and it's not even close but when i let it think for a little bit while you were explaining your thought process it actually saw them evenly it likes roots e4 and also likes uh not and also likes taking right away i took right away my logic was that my bishop has kind of served its duty yeah to my to my position uh and the bishop as you said is not gonna really have a role here because in reality we're going for h7 and the bishop is never going to defend h7 because the the only way that can happen is if this goes here and that's even weaker now so we're really happy plus yeah now that i like the visualization i didn't really see before but now i'm also like i feel like white has a lot of pressure that they can put on by moving the queen up on the the h file you know threatening rook to h3 exactly yeah queen h6 and rook h3 it's like how do you stop that i thought i was just completely winning here uh so i played queen h6 yeah logic was i'm going to go here um and opponent in this position played a6 attacking attacking my knight and you said h3 well what's funny is that that would have made a lot of sense oh no it's it's actually it's it's the best move uh but i was trying to be uber fancy here oh okay and i i thought i was really clever because i was just going to you know equal danger my opponent and hit the bishop so the point is that if take take you just can't stop this at all yeah because the only thing that can stop it right now is like g5 right exactly yeah it was g5 and i had options i could have played um i could have played knight d6 i could have played rook h3 and please if anyone is ever considering playing knight a3 it's time to pick up checkers um i mean you gotta like you gotta go and and get this trade because you remove another defender and you're attacking so um but i i again the concept of a danger level right which i was i made a video about this on youtube and the top comment there while i pinned it was uh accusing me of plagiarism because they're saying i didn't invent this concept so therefore i shouldn't have made a video about it and i was like yeah so doesn't this doesn't this kind of suck for you nello like what if they just go to f f5 right so if they go to f5 what do you do that's a good point you got to go to you just go to e4 yeah okay yeah yeah yeah all right so this was my logic in the game i was like if if d3 you know bishop f5 e4 and i win and i'm right like this this whole thing was correct and if they take my knight i take the bishop and we win they like this is what i was thinking they just can't stop my attack yeah there's nothing that they can do um but what's funny is that there's a constant defensive resource in this position uh and it's it's this is really interesting so de4 right and if the plan is this and this yeah how does black defend well i can defend which i completely didn't see in the game so it's it's blank to move here yeah and you just got to make sure that you meet this move with the defense yeah um you could flip it too by the way well yeah yeah i was gonna say that's what i think is uh it would be moving to f6 yeah and then pushing the rook up yeah yeah because okay people saying king h8 but you literally walk into your own death i mean i i don't know why we're saying kha you got yeah you gotta fight back a little bit and sometimes when you're under attack on the king side like this they can move a pawn up and that changes everything because then they can defend yeah which is interesting because look at this if i start with the mate threat look at that that's my real threat right now because they don't have the time to do this and if g5 now i take the bishop's gun mate is unstoppable so i thought i was like big brain uh it turns out i'm my medium brain because when i play d3 black now apparently can play f6 just giving this away but preparing rook f7 but my opponent was so busy reacting to this that the game did end with e4 oh e5 ef5 and opponent just resigned because like what are you gonna do i mean the only way you you you survive rook h3 now by the way you see the difference with f6 i have a pawn here so now i'm just gonna yeah okay it's it's it's you're threatening mate again there yeah and oh yeah that makes sense yeah they came over the rook to f7 anymore right i mean my my my casualty and all of this was my bishop and my rook i won this game with two pieces it's very impressive uh but no i mean the the most you know instructive moment here it's a combination between peace and pawn play and i said you know what you said slide the queen over i like that you said g4 so now you'll be constantly on the lookout for g4 f5 g5 planting the queen and then the rook lift and it was just a combination of all of these ideas ultimately and you shouldn't be worried about moves like pawn takes even though they block your own bishop as long as they can remove the knight from the defense okay and if this just bonus pop quiz okay if they do knight to h5 you just i don't know why i was overthinking you you just take the knight yeah it's been benefit of having the root there yeah yeah yeah the right there is this so you have queen h5 what makes this position so powerful so for example if like knight d7 attacking this what makes this position so powerful for white have have you have i ever said the my like attacking rule of plus two no okay so again it's this thing that i totally invented and has never been known to mankind before me of course um it's your attack will be a lot more vicious if you have at least two more attacking pieces than they have defenders okay in this case you have how many attacking pieces three maybe four they have no defenders the pawns don't count yeah i was like it's kind of rude to the ponds but that's i mean listen we're uh heightened they need to be taller and then uh so like but but the pawns are basically sitting ducks like we're just waiting to chip away at all the pawns but no knights no bishops and we can just there's all sorts of sacrifices looming plus like i said at the end of the day if you want to take a pawn for your troubles then you'll be happy so he takes d4 and you're very you're pleased so uh let's do one more okay back this up to what willful 10 let me invite you okay so you probably have it around like here yeah perfect okay uh you have it from black's perspective i'll flip it yeah okay also i don't know why my name has been in lower case i don't know what's going on on chess.com but they they nerfed my name i'm very sorry about that well you know maybe they they heard what you said about the pawns and then they said let's see how he likes it uh if all the letters are are short i think i've just been making fun of the guy who runs the social media account [Laughter] they got mad um all right you're playing with the black pieces here yeah how do you begin some sort of attack feel like attacking oh on the on the white king i was the first thing i was going to say is that i feel like the the king side kind of uh it seems kind of impregnable i i i like the look of like the the b and c pawns more but i'm open to your your expertise oh no no we uh we're opposite side castling so my rule for you is nine games out of ten where you've castled on the opposite side of your opponent uh you should uh start some sort of attack okay so in that case um feel like we want our bishop to get access to the diagonal before their bishop gets access to it okay which would require moving the knight i don't know long term where should it go uh like g4 i think if we're doing an attack on the king's side g4 yeah yeah yeah yeah so well in that case i mean the easiest way to get the knight to g4 is probably pawn to e5 first oh you want to open the position yeah but i guess i know that i think about that kind of sucks a little bit as well because they can move their rook over to to d1 and in one move were kind of placed on the back foot ah that is exactly why if you want to start an attack you should not open the center with trades because also the queen now patrols okay yeah makes sense the root comes in yeah so you're gonna have to it's gonna have to maneuver so what's what's what's the move then if we want to get the knight to g4 mm-hmm certainly a trip um well i mean it doesn't have to be like to g4 i just mean to the king side well you would do the e7 then yeah knight e7 is the central idea to this position okay like this will happen it's not what i played right now but i i played it shortly but i love the fact that in all this you said we have to win the fight for the diagonal my god what a cultured man at one point i knew what i was talking about in this game oh my god he said we gotta win the you were the first 15 1600 in the history of mankind to say that i i've yeah that's a really nice trust me when i if you look at some of my recent games i'm the first uh 15 or 1600 to make a lot of moves that i've made recently listen we're not gonna look at those games we're gonna look at you know when you you said knight to e7 okay but i want you to go caveman mode first okay when i say caveman mode that means yeah pawn storm okay um so just h5 yes okay let them know you're here because now their knight can't really ever go to attack you anymore sorry gm arrow drawer because the h4 is coming and you might play this you might not you you know if you if you play it uh like knight takes you might not sacrifice you just open your rook it's a lot easier to lose your pawns on opposite side castling because you just put your rooks so opponent goes h4 which makes what weaker um yeah i don't know so those two squares okay all right so like g4 has a little bit of a target and then this has a little bit of you know the pawn has two guards now the pawns moved up uh ruchi8 nothing unnatural right rook d1 all right your plan knight e7 97 and opponent goes c4 so the idea of c4 is to do what um [Music] well if they play c5 if we take with the b pawn it i mean obviously there's a threat on the queen but if we take with the b pawn it totally opens up our where our keys yeah and for that reason i was like nah i'm gonna play c5 you're not gonna do this to me i call the shots around here uh but if we wanna start an attack we have to keep the position closed yeah and if i had just kept up with my plan here with knight f5 now you see i have a sacrifice looming because i'm gonna get the you know the queen and the rook there together and the bishop from a distance pressuring so imagine a position or white is you know just i'll do an arrow i'll draw nothing like for example something like this yeah that looks pretty good it's over game is over because this and this whole thing collapses sacrifice at the right moment two you know two pieces on the g file uh and if c5 i i mean i can take it i can also just not take it like that's the thing that i completely didn't like completely underestimated i can i can run my queen into the same diagonal because my opponent doesn't have a knight move that defends the bishop if they go here i just take and i win right so queen takes and the game is over so with that in mind i played c5 because i don't follow my own rules and then after this this this this see this is the issue i kind of let my opponent simplify but queen c2 and now knight f5 so what's the threat of knight f5 uh you they can't capture on g3 if you take it perfect yes i want to go here it's also not easy to defend this for example if king h2 you have you know maybe bringing the rook over you also have this to go here yeah no that looks pretty good to me so knight g4 rook sh8 maybe pushing the pawns in the center uh again computers trying to claim that white is fine here but playing this practically just looks like a nightmare uh and while my opponent just immediately uh yeah it's not so good so blunder uh i went back here here and i i just went back because i wasn't worried about this and now this is on the way so rookie two rook g8 finish the job okay um bishop takes f3 knight to d4 okay then i i'll play rook e3 hold that can we play it out like i feel oh like i i can't visualize it right now so i was gonna do like that you would reply like that that that okay actually i feel like that kind of is not that good i feel like that kind of sucks well what's your most forcing move you said bishop takes f3 do you have anything else i think are your arrows not popping up for me i think that might be the case yeah do you see this i do i see yours yeah uh you draw one uh what if we did like that oh you see it i see yes now i see it all right well there you go oh okay instead what have you just played knight to d4 you yes you also have knight to d4 but you also have something even better this it's forcing but but it seems bad oh no no okay now because then they take you take and then you fork them there yeah and this end game is winning for you because it's winning for you yeah you have yeah you have the extra you have the extra pawn and it you you'll win it but you also have the very cool move knight takes h4 check oh yeah that's good too sorry better actually yeah this one is actually technically better because knight bishop and pawn for the rook is actually knight bishop and two pawns for the rook just win so and this is this is this is just winning um ben rook takes g2 yeah i mean it's it this game again is like a it seems like black didn't do anything special in fact apparently this move c5 you know like wasn't even good like black should just continue with the plan like knight takes g3 getting the the queen and the rook and one more thing i wanted to show you after c4 yeah uh computer was suggesting to just sack the rook which is so funny that's like the mathematically strongest move yes and the point is that after f takes g3 queen takes g3 despite being a full rook down there's nothing white can do like the plan for black first of all you're threatening this and second of all you're threatening this and black like black's attack is just too fast even though you're a full rook down so for instance rook d3 actually loses [Music] uh because you can take and take oh yeah and you also just go like rook g8 here and here it's insane like full rook down but black has full compensation it's like insane like uh but who's gonna play rook takes g3 ever so i would be suspicious let me put it that way yeah yeah if you're playing a game and someone does that against you sus to say the least uh and that that's that i mean that's putting it nicely uh but i mean again the queen's not in the game you know the queen went out to a4 to hit a7 and uh okay it's it it's been completely neutralized but black meanwhile is transferring the knight over and playing here with a combination of pawn weakening the structure with the pawn and then there you go so trying to create some attacking possibilities uh i that that actually was about like perfectly paced i was hoping it would be like 40 minutes that ended up being like 45. uh i have one more yeah let's do it if you want to i i wasn't gonna do this one i was i was debating this is from an over the board game that i played so this is from a few years back and i have the black pieces here against a 2700 gm did you so you had to manually add this game into chess.com is that the i i did i did yeah just for this lesson did you really okay yeah thank you i'm flattered yeah i mean it says mr gotham so you can look at it from black's perspective okay uh this was november 2016. i think it was the seventh round and i think i was uh in dallas texas and i was playing grand master andres du co so uh he uh the opening not insanely important but you'll notice actually we have the same exact pawn structure as the last game yeah so you're probably going to cancel queenside i think it's fair to say yes exactly we're not castle at all okay so now you know i see as i start doing some things with my pawns here i got the queen b4 someone pointed out that was that was an interesting month yeah actually that was an interesting month um okay so right now opponent goes g4 trying to break up my structure and go bishop g2 what's worth more than a pawn everything else that is a that that's right i would hate teaching you kid version um in this position how do we create a threat worth more than a pond um b4 nice yes pawn storm beautiful knight e2 all right now uh this one's this one's a little bit harder but i'm going to give this one to you c5 okay why because if g takes f5 what is the best move for black here because you just opened this and this is defending it so what do you want to play here given you just push your c pawn yes and you see what you're doing you're like this is really good for black and now black has to go here and you know what the coolest thing about this move is the queen now sees the f-pawn so white has to keep the knight guarded and relinquished defense of this so queen f5 and now this yeah this was back when i had a big brain my peak year of chess c4 was my idea and my opponent played knight to f4 okay now again in this position i can play c4 and i did because that was my idea opponent goes here and i i guess i i will just say when when the queen moves here what's the threat it's actually there's nothing to do with the queen white is threatening something else bishop takes c4 yeah so how do you defend that and add more pieces rook to c8 rook to c8 is good there's one more way and add more pieces to the party knight to to b6 beautiful knight b6 imagine if this knight was not here and we would get to go here oh that'd be so nice like it feels good no at some point you're like i'm gonna go here and then here and then i'm gonna mate and it's gonna feel so good you know like knight b6 so opponent goes rook g1 unpinning okay yeah yeah that's what that that's all about now this is this game is kind of like it's it's why i didn't uh i was like hesitant about showing it because the next few moves are a little bit wonky but they're the best that's why i'm like kind of proud of this game so now you go bishop e4 which when i play it it it begins to make sense what what is the idea of bishop to e4 threatening c2 yeah literally by the way like even though it's protected you're threatening to sacrifice and just kill like b3 c3 oh everything so opponent went back and i think just literally missed how strong this sacrifice is and um what's interesting is that queen takes a2 immediately allows rook b1 so i played the in between check queen a4 that is here so opponent has to go here if b3 take check you're dead absolutely that rook is coming just like you said earlier take rook is coming so king c1 and now rather than go here because it gives my opponent like time to potentially maybe get some pieces over here how do we shred it all open using your uh well it's not going to be pieces because only the queen is out there so yeah well i would think uh c3 yeah and it's it's really hard to identify which of these two pawns because they actually right like you probably can why did you decide on this yeah well i i mean in my head i kind of played through uh i guess b3 and i was like well if if you do b3 don't they just respond a3 and then you're kind of like you're more locked in there than than you were before yeah so b3 what's what yeah cold-blooded bastard wants to just take this pawn um a3 i think maybe you can sacrifice okay yeah and in in a game you know you go oh here here boom i'm so smart but wait a second they can just take and you go oh somehow they're covering everything now granted this was a 90-minute game so i had some time to kind of work it out so i played c3 and i was really proud of myself i was like he's going to take i'm going to take i'm going to put my rook here for my bishop take i'm going to win i'm going to get my im title i'm going to get my grand master yes this game had i won it would have i didn't win it spoiler but uh yeah it would have uh it would have clinched me my i am title back in the day uh but opponent went here so what's the threat the rook on h8 and what else uh well then the rook on a8 as well no not the rook on a it's protected it is yeah no there's another threat to this move besides this like white has a move here like rook g8 loses the game bishop bishop to b5 yeah look how disgusting this is right yeah uh okay what is the only move in black's position that prevents both of those things from your rook from getting taken and the fork uh c takes b2 oh yeah i forgot you actually can do that as well okay forget the c pawn can take it you're right honestly hand to god i forgot that that could happen besides that it sucks really bad but you queenside castle it doesn't suck really bad it's the top engine move and it's the only winning move in the game and uh you know what's the craziest thing so first of all c takes b two is is okay but the problem is that like white literally just takes and it looks like you have an attack but you have no attack somehow yeah you're just too slow in this version because this is not what you wanted and now this is still hanging so but that's why i said and by the way you can also you know even take a night but it makes no difference because you you can't defend yourself um and you you don't want to castle king side because you literally hang made in two oops yeah it's pretty bad yeah it's a palm takes upon mate and uh no long castles is the only move and in the game i played queen takes a2 and it we then i'll show you what happened but sometimes in in attacking positions you have to be creative and that that's like the the craziest thing here is that all of this is guarded i'll tell you why i didn't play this i thought this was too slow and i thought my opponent would go here and it like check this out i can go c2 okay rook d2 like take take this is what i saw and i was like where's my attack i thought i was attacking but i have like nothing here i mean of course you know and engine gives whatever but i was like calculating all these lines and i realize that if i if i just take on a2 and i get checked i move my king i by the way if i move the other way it's mate yeah so i lose a rook and then we just repeated moves here so i thought absolutely it yeah it's going to be a draw i calculated this far in my head that's what i saw i'm winning i'm so smart look at me i'm winning i'm threatening mate the queen's hanging but what did i miss from this position yes white to move and save the game and save the game knight takes e6 yes yes had some people in chat reading reading the computer suggestions y'all saw it in two seconds really i didn't see it like for 15 minutes of thought 96 and here's the funny thing so i'm down a lot of material here yeah how much seven points of material if i take opponent goes check i move my king and the opponent goes king c2 and runs away game gets a little weird yeah yeah a little bit weird and i'm i mean i'm i'm losing i i don't i can't you know the po the problem is the queen and the king both get away i had both of them hostage and now they both get away uh and if i take with the knight uh sorry would i take the night with the queen i i'm this what is this yes and last but not least the move that i played in the game which was king b7 and and i just said um look at me i'm so smart no checks now but there is there's this yeah and if i take it the opponent's not going to take back they're going to run their king and i'm still down a full rook and there you go like all this happens and the king just gets away i remember seeing this and realizing that i could draw this game and i was like oh thank god i mean and the game just draws it's like the weirdest the weirdest repetition ever i mean the knight cannot be taken this king c2 king d3id is ridiculous but it's a last resort sometimes when you're king it's like a lot of this is obviously like a a much higher level game in terms of the attacking play because everything is is less caveman-like you're not just chugging it's like very controlled you know bishop goes out sacrifice the in between check the pawn breakthrough but then also this this counter play idea you know not just sitting back and getting steamrolled but you know playing queen e5 and threatening this like i you know i i right here i just thought i was invincible i was like i'm gonna win this this guy's trash like this is like this guy's terrible and then queen e5 happened then i went oh uh-oh and that's where you sit there like this for 40 minutes trying to puzzle it out basically yeah that's what classical chess is like you blunder an idea and you sit there thinking all sorts of things why did i come to this tournament um why am i playing chess why am i not focusing more on school i should really get a girlfriend because it was 2016 so um so there was no lucy and i was just thinking like all these you know existential thoughts um and my opponent meanwhile was just going like this and you know i was telling him that i thought he could have played one of these positions for a win somewhere here i don't remember i think this was a draw but i i don't remember like maybe he had a moment here he could have tried to play oh here here he didn't have to take my rook he actually could have just played king c2 and then like this and this and even if i get this i'm just losing my position is really bad even though material is completely equal because i can't stop his attack and i remember sitting at the game going oh my god i'm actually going to lose this game and after the game i asked him i was like why didn't you just play king c2 right away and he's like no you know i was just so happy not to lose this game because i was sitting you know for so long i thought i was just gonna get killed but you know and he's like i saw the repetition and i just like said screw it and i drew the game yeah he had the same moment he's like i gotta get a girlfriend why am i not you know focusing on a more professional life yeah probably he's like why am i losing to this dummy kid 20 year old goofball you know uh but yeah i mean this this was kind of like the culmination um so i think like for the last part maybe we do a hand and brain you have to go in 15 minutes is that the plan 18 minutes or so okay i can usually i can push it a little bit without getting in trouble we could play one 10-minute game hand in brain why not uh should okay i'll take a 10 minute challenge someone sent me a 10 minute challenge you just have to follow me so just click on my account we're observing this game together give me give me a sec i'll figure it out here two observers there we go follow is one of the not add friends no don't definitely don't do that you can do that too so there you go i am following you perfect okay i will ex i'll play uh i'm gonna play somebody i've never played oh i mean i gotta i gotta play this guy see who we're playing pogs gore dude it's perfect wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute this person's only played one game ever they're 13.82 though yeah but the account was made all right we could do it we're fine all right you tell me a piece and i'll go i would say pawn is pretty good here i forgot what what do you play you've been playing uh i've been playing the the london actually i've been but i can't get people to do the uh like they don't respond knight to f6 it's like a five percent of the time they respond knight f6 so i play bishop but knight f6 what are you playing bishop g5 yeah and then doing the raptor variation but i only got like two chances to do it uh-huh i'm sorry i see i mean i i need to some like psychology tricks like before the game i got to be like hey wow knight to f6 is like the best move you could ever play as black to in response to d4 all right well tell me tell me a piece oh they did move yeah right um pawn pogged gourd i hope it's a you bring a good community so i don't think it's someone suspicious oh no i don't think they would they would stock fish you um pawn yeah in general there's this c5 c3 rule that i impose if they play c5 you play c3 but actually taking right away is a line and it's very tricky for black um the very early capture on c5 can actually win you like a lot of games it's actually giving me a video idea it's like a lot you know that you're supposed to play c5 and a lot of people rush it they don't play e6 first which is completely okay but all right queen b6 you know i thought it would be less stressful to be the uh the brain but it's really not it's oh it's all stressful it's all horrible um i'm just wondering if it isn't worth just giving that up probably not let's say you probably move your queen yes and play an end game versus the potential computer would you this would be your move in this situation as well yeah this is the best move in the in these positions okay well i mean i know pawn would be yeah right so uh this position is considered slightly better for white because of the activity of the rook yeah that we've now been granted yeah we also have a threat which is really funny i'm not going to say anything but hey there's just i like the 20 seconds spent on this move because it means that their time balance usage is scrambled so they are not cheating hey yeah i was gonna say don't make fun of the people like i'm playing against 1382's i'd be i'd be like defecating right now okay bishop i'm saying they said they moved i'm not saying we have to see what you're saying um so in my head i'm like we made one good move time to get very passive so my move is night yeah probably just this that's what i was thinking yeah i mean we have oh no that was i should have went to a3 and then to b5 that like totally escaped my mind for a second i was just i was always gonna play knight d2 but knight a3 knight b5 is actually really annoying for black but i thought if you if you move to a3 with your knight you're supposed to go to checkers oh no you only go to checkers when i say so okay uh night yeah yeah knight f3 is nice and solid and this is i think by the way on the last move after bishop f5 we could have taken on c5 and it would have just been a an extra pawn there but now the bishop would take it so now we have to come up with some other ideas bishop yeah you thinking this yeah yeah i would certainly hope so it's it's probably the most active move that you can play here and then you you hope that they play a6 you go a4 and then when they do b5 you just you just scramble their brain well that's what you know ac a6 is a is totally the the best move here for black black should absolutely play a6 um i mean you've got to address our bishop here black is two moves away from getting castled which what what a move blocking the pin with the knight that just happened okay yeah interesting feel like you you like the position here for sure so what i would do is probably castle which doesn't accomplish as much as it probably should okay you know i i'm trying to get more out of it than like i mean i'm not supposed to say the moves so i'm i'm walking through my thought process regardless um i'm thinking like what if you did like knight to e5 okay but then if they they're gonna do knight takes e5 yeah either way i don't think you get enough out of that i don't know i would say king okay oh castle i mean your other idea was also very respectable i mean i could have played kingy too i suppose that's the chance favorite for sure yes it doesn't matter when you play it it could be you know late end game you play king of two it's a funny yeah yes yes the 48th move of a bomb cloud um [Music] i feel like bishop is your move here okay i'm going on intuition only but bishop not gonna lie i don't know what you want from me because it's to me it's so obvious uh-huh it's this it's correct yeah okay and then now you're playing a very me type game because now i'm like oh now you you move your knight but i don't know if that's actually the play give me i mean this yeah no it's not bad it's not bad i would say the position is is equal now but you also have to anticipate the fact that your last few moves opened the b file for black yeah and in the future they could have some pressure but your bishop is going to be really annoying for the rook to ever get to b8 that's true so yeah and then you would do bishop yes bishop let's also try to like do game flow so we're down a minute we want to catch up on time we don't want to be down two minutes in a 10 minute game oh is that a good strategy generally i think i finally figured out my problem yeah i was gonna like make a video about time management soon or if you're watching on youtube in the future hi it already exists but uh i don't have one out yet but yeah generally like in 90 minute games per player i tell myself not to think longer than 10 minutes three times okay so f6 all right so i'm going to bishop yeah yeah let's i guess go back yep maybe this oh all right we're moving quick now let's do rook [Music] okay beautiful a perfect i think you really nailed that one i i i like your plan but i'm very uh i'm nervous yeah ah yeah yeah yeah i can see why i'm nervous i could see why you would be i'm nervous and and the problem is that i i had to play the move on the board i could have played something else but they were going to trap our bishop and you didn't do anything about it i'm more worried about like what if they just play bishop to d3 well uh no they're not going to play that move because they don't see it but um they just played h5 and i was like you got to say pawn because you got to save the bishop otherwise our bishop is going to get trapped no you could always you send it down to uh to c7 yeah no the king oh well speaking of which okay um all right yeah it's not a great spy bishop yeah i think we have to yeah bishop to c7 yeah well that's but it's not i mean bishop you don't like it i i just realized there's there are bigger problems here um is that what you're thinking that was what i was thinking yeah it's not it's it's not this is unrated right yeah it's unrated but it's okay we can make a comeback all right now we gotta we gotta we gotta save some stuff here we don't wanna lose a full rook pawn yeah this is so all right dude come on come on dude don't don't think too long on this one dude now we start playing for time yes standing order pawns only for the rest of the game very confused what is going on right now why is our opponent just not taking the free rook maybe he's like oh he saw the im tag maybe king yeah i would take with the king here i like that and now you can bond cloud next turn absolutely and we we need to give cpr to the king i like that we've caught up on time so we can totally if we just stop like the chit chat and we just get down to business then all right we could win this okay um night night sorry it's too late now though yeah um are you are what's what i told you it's the monitor levy it's the monitor all right we still aren't totally totally losing we okay let's try to stabilize please okay stabilize starting now stabilized this is a move where you would want to move your bishop yes bishop c3 pog okay we're back we can't even use that anymore correct yes now we say komodo hype komodo hype please speaking of komodo um dc4 dc5 maybe the h pawn is under attack all right we're up on time so yeah by five seconds it's pretty it's really good komodo hype is a is a really funny one i love isn't that pack chump or is that not packed jump i have no idea what that is the heck is peg chomp um okay this is a tougher one for sure gotta move quick though yeah let's do night again okay oh they're moving quick now too all right um you're going to move a pawn ah is that what you were thinking i honestly just thought let's move fast and that gives you a lot of options right right i respect it i mean i think h3 is good because now the opponent has difficulty moving on that side of the board okay rook see here oh i'm i'm i'm hanging around man i'm not leaving you know bishop um i think pawn was better now that i look at well i don't know it's been the the defining characteristic of this game is i don't really know [Laughter] uh bishop yeah i think we have to go here all right it's a three-minute game now we gotta we gotta keep this pace up i can if you need me to just send them i can send a bishop all right you can even hit me with pre-moves oh rook right here rook damn that was a good move i'm like trying to think if i wanna oh man that was a really annoying move i i'm not gonna trade because i think i want to preserve winning chances yeah the more tools you have at your disposal probably the better it is king yeah it's the strongest 1380 i've ever played night uh rook king all right rook b2 check and black wins all right levy take it away [Laughter] rook b2 when the game is over oh we got a bomb cloud on move 32. there you go 32 move bomb cloud opening night pawn yeah i'm thinking here and it's a little hard for black to develop but king yeah this game is going to be a whole lot of doing nothing basically oh but look at that there you go there you just bought 20 seconds there you go do do night anyway um you wouldn't understand it's 1500 level strats any time you can put them in check when they're under two minutes especially with a night i'm gonna i'm go i'm going for glory okay even better night yes we're going for it we are not gonna we're not gonna sit here and rest night i don't think this is gonna work but damn it i'm gonna try [Laughter] oh uh um pawn yeah that's it we're breaking out it's game over here we go still uh pawn uh-huh still got a seven second advantage king man pressing the time advantage oh um oh sorry oh hey miss click yeah i actually was like fake dragging it i didn't even mean to i like how the opponent is thinking what is the opponent possibly thinking about they're probably like tweeting right now like i'm about to beat on internet dude uh night yeah i wish they could take their own e-pawn night yeah look at that come back kids right here doesn't look like that that's bad 30-second lead king uh-huh question is where i'm moving this guy i guess here night [Music] yes night yes maybe maybe draw offer maybe a draw for now well yeah i mean it's repetition i'd never move that oh i see yeah yeah because otherwise it would be yeah draw i mean it's repetition i mean it's like two pawns each it's end game oh there you go i don't know i i think they're messing with us oh okay all right so now what pawn yeah i like that i like that i mean i've seen better positions but pawn okay night yeah i'm trying to try to figure that that night move out maybe this i'm gonna have to okay uh night yes pawn i think we could do this i think we could do this man it's pi they're getting low uh pawn i suppose and then king yes you know just kind of a standing order on king i would say yes let's see if they can mate with 15 seconds i've got to start pre-moving oh god oh god they're going to get oh they're oh my god they're playing the best moves oh my god even in a low time situation they are playing literally the best moves oh my goodness oh we just repeat hey let's go oh my goodness look at that we just repeated moves this is like it's your exact game with the grandmaster like they had the chance to to take down a title player and then the attack just slipped away i mean chess is just one big draw huh it's a villain origin story that was amazing yeah not my not my finest game for sure well i played the move so actually it was my fault well um so i had some i said no yeah that was that was an interesting game yeah i wasn't pretending when i said i've dropped uh 200 points or 150 points recently like i just you know i think it's a combination of new monitor newborn infant sleep is at a premium you know i'm playing such high-level chess the uh the meal situation the nutrition becomes very important making sure you get a little cardio in the morning so that everything's like all the blood's moving through the system nicely i think i'm just out of my routine right now you uh you going for runs in the morning well no not at all but oh i would love to though i love the idea of it oh wow oh you got me yeah i was gonna say that's really commendable because i don't uh i i i keep wanting to do that and i don't that's the end of my sentence i just don't i i wanna but ah yeah it's definitely a good idea uh how much time you got left you i got zero unfortunately but uh i'm i'm always down for a lesson uh and and uh even non-chess content as well like i don't know if you followed my own uh work schedule but we're doing way more streaming lately which is great because i got more freedom to do stuff that is not uh just like playing the same three games over and over which i understand i'm preaching to the the choir on that one but yeah no i like to mix it up so yeah so let's uh i don't know let me know what your schedule is like in the next uh the next week or two and we'll we'll find something to to get it going okay we can do it i'll join for the uh i did i think i said this to my chat i don't know if i said this to you but every time i hear nlss don't just don't follow the thought up with what i think you're gonna say i was gonna say it sounds like a ship okay that's way better because most people say anal lingus which is eating someone's butthole i mean no and even if i thought that i would never say that to you that's much more wholesome than than what most people say to me no i just i think yes you know the nlss it's like a big you know ship that's what i wow well now i'm going to have to tell the kids watching with their parents what oh sorry uh yeah let me use the medical term for it i can't believe no i didn't i didn't think no i thought it was a big ship so it'll be like a big ship uh you know of homies just hanging out and playing games but yeah pretty much kind of like that but you don't want to know what happens in the in the bunks that's where the that's where the other part anyway i'm just gonna go um yeah and thanks thanks for the lesson again as always i hope that you get something out of it as well and then your viewers uh i think they do and i i just have a good time because i can mix it up for two hours unlike just playing blitz and losing so i'll hit you up about other content all right later

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Published: Sat Jan 09 2021