The Difference Between 1600 And 2400 Chess ELO [My Rating Climb]

what's up today I'd love to share with you how I went from, 1600 to 2400 and became an international master in two years so the first game is when I'm playing Black and my strength at that point was about 1,600 I'm playing against cugy and here we enter the Alan defense now my goal for this video is to show you how I thought back then when I was rated 1600 and how this thinking process should be improved to bring yourself to the advanced level and I do believe that this video is going to be very inight ful so I'm actually quite quite excited about it um so let's go ahead together now c4 KN B6 I go through these first few opening moves rather quick there don't matter too much both sides just develop so let's get to the point where we need to make some decisions all right so let's start from here U prior to that I kind of knew that I should just develop my pieces I did that now at this point I started thinking now I realize here that white is going to play Pawn D5 and that is actually not too good for me cuz have to move my knight away and white gets more space my position becomes cramped after that and for that reason I did not like the moves such as Bishop G4 because white could go D5 and press me and yes black is not lost after that but white is getting better now first they got to give credit to me that I even thought about my opponent at that level that was already pretty good and indeed D5 is unpleasant now however what I did about that is I played D5 myself and perhaps I was secretly hoping that he could take here and I would recapture and land my knight to this great Square he didn't however he played C5 and now there's another unpleasant thing that these Knights got to go and there aren't many good squares for the Knight to go to so in fact I have to bring it back to D to this awkward position and although I can reposition it later like right now kind of these pieces are somewhat clumsy uh anyway in the game I didn't think that there's a problem here I thought that from here I'll be able to reposition the Knight somewhere there and it'll be fine so that's how I thought back then now let me now use the upgraded way of thinking okay and the first thing that I'm think about right now when I look at this position is like you got to also have some general understanding of what the heck is going on here right instead of just thinking about a single move right and in general in chess like what do you want to do um you want to go forward activate your pieces and attack that is it fundamentally right and having this General understanding in your head actually makes many things easier uh because for instance right now when I look at this position um I don't like the fact at all that my Knight has to go backward here even though I can of course reposition it later but nevertheless generally it is against the nature of chest you do not want to go back and make your pieces less active so I would definitely try to find something else instead and the move that comes to my mind right now instead is to strike with E5 because that also creates a threat and whenever you can attack that is often the right thing to do because again in ch you want to activate our pieces you want to attack that's it fundamentally now E5 creates a threat to this pawn and now if he takes here well great I traded off his active Pawn for my less active Pawn there is no D5 threat anymore now I control the center things are cool here's another interesting question to you if white goes D5 like what do we play here if you're a black just think about this for a second I think it's going to be really helpful if we go over this game together because of course you understand that it's not about this game because the same way I thinking will be applied to any position that you play now back in the day I would almost unthinkingly play Knight E7 and nowadays I would almost unthinkingly Play N D4 so that goes to show another difference that in chess again you want to move forward like that's the key idea about Chess you want to activate your pieces and back in the day I'd probably noticed that I can go there but I'd be thinking um I don't know he can probably take it and my Pawn is kind of weak maybe he can attack it I don't know I don't feel comfortable about that maybe I shouldn't go there and after this I would just Retreat to the square that feels safer to me so that would be my way of thinking when I was, 1600 now nowadays I know that I should go forward and I should definitely try to push that thing and only if it's completely does not work and I'm completely lost after that only then I should think about Alternatives so nowadays I would not think about this move at all I will think about Knight D4 with the idea that most probably it is the move that I want to play and maybe I would quickly check if he can actually somehow easily grab this Pawn but if not I'd go for it because then even if let's say white can attack this Pawn um there are many things that you can do I mean you can play Queen of six maybe and defend it that way um maybe you can even some crazy Counterattack Knight A4 going after this Pawn um you can maybe push this Pawn forward D3 and trade that pawn for this Pawn so that already solves the problem there are many things that you can do so I would say that probably in advance it makes no even sense to think about it just you got to play the move that you think is right and if he takes then he'll think about the consequences all right let's go back in the game I played D5 he pushed C5 and now my knight Retreats back to D7 uh after that he played Rook B1 he clearly wants to go B4 B5 now I play E5 now luckily for me this move E5 to some extent justifies the position of this Knight on D7 because now I'm attacking his Center but if he captures which he did I can actually move my knight back to life with Knight takes C5 so I was kind of in luck that I could untangle my pieces but that was more of a luck factor I would say um now white played Knight D4 here and um now I decided that I need to develop this bishop somehow and I took on D4 so that this knight from D4 no longer controls the square I can bring my Bishop out and win a Tempo okay that was probably fairly nice Rook C1 all right that's not a position where black has a choice of different moves so how would you play here we can also think about that for a second in the game I just played Queen D7 the idea was just to complete my development connect Rooks J speaking it's fine idea and even right now being a grandmas I'm fine with it I'm fine with the move Queen D7 I wouldn't be too critical about this having said that again now moving right now to where I'm at GM I'd say that I don't like the move too much even though it is an okay move why just because it's slightly passive like the queen doesn't do much whether it is on d8 or D7 and if you want to move a piece there is a general idea that you actually want to move it as far as possible and again coming back to that generic idea that in just you want to attack you want to create problems for your opponent if I want to move a queen I would actually first look at most forward available moves something like this or I create certain threats I probably consider those most first like quein A5 going there would potentially attack this pawn and going Queen H4 would hit the Bishop from here and actually if I go there it's not that easy for white to defend it because I also have this bishop can x-raying the same thing so it looks interesting to me so those moves are seemingly more active maybe Rook E8 because at least that's the move that I'm sure about that The Rook is good on an open file so I can maybe play that move and later decide where to put my queen anyway in the game I played Queen D7 a little bit passive but overall fairly okay now white played Knight F3 he also wants to do something he is attacking my knight twice so I got to make a decision about that and that is a really interesting moment um you can also think about this yourself which move would you play here if you were black now I'll tell you my way of thinking in the game I realized that the easiest solution is to trade on F3 and I'm pretty sure that the majority of players would probably do just that because whenever like there's a tension between pieces it usually feels the easiest to just trade off um so so yeah that's the move that comes to mind first but what I didn't like about this is that after this the bishop comes forward to F3 and starts pressuring my weak isolated Pawn on D5 and in fact his Queen is also putting pressure down here and it feels kind of unpleasant so I didn't like it too much but then I thought okay what am I going to do about this so I need to defend the Knight and I thought that maybe I can play F6 and gar that way now I didn't like the move too much because I realized that it blocks my own Bishop however I thought well maybe if he captures it any point down the road I recapture that I have truly beautiful Center and it solves the problem so at the time I wasn't sure like I wasn't happy about Knight of three because that activates his Bishop I wasn't happy totally about F6 because yeah they kind of locks my Bishop so I wasn't sure what to do and ultimately I just played F6 because at least like I'm not losing this Pawn quickly so I felt that like okay I'm still in the game that's how I thought back then again now let's upgrade the level of thinking now the first thing now to the real OG's you know that to take is a mistake right and that's the move that I formulated for myself later on and it's extremely extremely helpful Whenever there is a tension between two pieces such as this tension between Knights usually you do not want to release the tension for no reason when you do that in most cases you help your opponent to activate his pieces such as in this example indeed if you trade on F3 you help white to reposition his Bishop to a more active square and you do that voluntarily with your own move you kind to help your opponent by the way if you continue doing the same mistake if now you take on D4 you'll just keep making the same mistake over and over again so that would be another mistake because now that helps white to centralize his Queen and put it to an active Square now just think about this two moves just two exchanges and it first seems like well we just traded off pieces which are of equal value so nothing changed not at all now look at this his Bishop is active his Queen is active he's putting pressure here he's controlling all these weak squares and he can stack have a pieces along the defile and black is probably already lost just as after making two seemingly neutral exchanges so to take a mistake and you do not want to take unless there is some specific reason of why you're doing that like if you need to take to avoid losing material or you need to take to eliminate a Defender and you have something to do after that that's fine if you have a specific reason to do that but do not exchange just for no reason just because it feels easier to now but here comes the next idea if you don't want to release the tension so what what do you want to do and the rule is keep up the tension that's what you want to do so how to keep up the tension how to keep up the situation and you can play Rook E8 putting your Rook to an open file and at the same time caring this Knight so that is exactly what you want you want to keep out the tension and you want to let your opponent make that mistake of releasing the tension if your opponent is CL clueless about that rule to take is a mistake then he's the one who's going to trade helping you to reposition your Rook to a much more active position now you can stack Rooks along the E file and put pressure down here you can maybe push the pawn forward and now white needs to be careful not to get in trouble so that's how you flip the situation upside down so Rook E8 clearly is the move that I would play nowadays and back in the day um somehow I think I did not even think about this move at all I don't know why but anyway knowing these General guidelines are just so helpful because if you know that you need to keep up the tension so you are looking for ways to maintain the situation and then Rook E8 will come to your mind anyway I played this ugly move F6 which nowadays I don't like a lot it blocks the bishop on top of that it also weakens a bunch of squares here and pawns don't go back so we can never recover from that and um I remember from a couple of my coaches um like one of my coach uh malanuk who's strong Grand Master at a time he said that he was coached by karoi who was uh the world Challenger at the time and he said that karoi kind of always got angry when they moved pawns like that and weakened their position even today the extent of slapping them by their hands you know why they play moves like that of course back in the day uh teaching wasn't as gentle as it is noway um anyway so like you do not want to weaken your position long term and you only play those moves through is nothing better so F6 I don't like at all back in the day I didn't see anything too much wrong with this and I played it now white played Queen B3 um I went Knight C6 um maybe I was concerned about him playing Bishop B5 or whatever I want to put pressure I don't know Rook D1 um how do you play here if you're black my way of thinking back then was I see the move Rook D1 so I'm asking myself okay what does he want I see that he's probably want to attack this Pawn on D5 and I played Rook d8 to solidify that pawn so that's how I thought back then again we're flipping this to the more advanced level of thinking what do you want to do in chess you want to attack right so I'd first check if I have any moves that attack something and the move that clearly comes to mind is Rook E8 because that creates a threat now that's not a super devastating threat of course white can move the bishop away but nevertheless I'm bring my Bishop my Rook to an active position and I'm attacking a bishop that's nice after he Ms the bishop or does something then I can decide what to do next so that's what I would probably play nowadays then I play Rook d8 which makes some sense but just a little bit passive uh White played Bishop to E3 he wants to open up the Rook so that he can put more pressure to this Pawn although the pawn is guarded right now but he's got something in mind by the way let this be a little puzzle of the day for you if black played something like A6 what would white play here it is white to play if you can find a good move Le write it down in comments below just making sure that you're still involved all right that you're also thinking yourself now in the game I played Queen F7 just solidifying the position uh White played Bishop F4 um now he probably wants to bring the bishop right here attack my Rook I played Rook E8 well that's nice thing so I hit the bishop Bishop went back now what do you do here um back in the day my thinking was that he wants to go Bishop D6 put his Bishop to this active position and after that he probably wants to grab this weak Pawn on D5 because he will cut off my Rook from the defense I wanted to stop that and I played Bishop f8 an normal move but again a little bit passive that's the only thing that I dislike about it again like I got to give credit to myself that I was attentive to what my Pawn is trying to do but the bad thing is that I was too passive in dealing with that so now now I would ask myself the simple question which I always ask myself nowadays when I'm playing a middle game chess like how can I go forward to my opponent's half of the board and create threats because that's how you play middle game generally speaking not always there's a way but if if there is a way to go there that is often the best thing to do and also it simplifies your thinking a lot because usually that territory is controlled by your opponent therefore most squares are just covered and there are only few options like one or two options available so you only consider those two moves and that's it now in this position if I I'm asking myself how can I barge into my opponent's territory and hopefully create threats one move that I see is Rook E4 hitting this bishop so that's one the other thing is maybe Pawn D4 just pushing this Pawn forward and uh yeah after D4 of course you got to check this thing so that you don't lose your queen but right now black can cover with uh his own Bishop therefore that is all right so I would consider either D4 or Rook E4 and I would pick one of these two moves and I would only not play them if they're completely lost only then I would start looking for anything else so that's how I would think nowadays back in the day I just played Bishop f8 you see that in fact like lots of these ideas are actually the same from one move to the other and that's the beauty of this thinking there are in fact very few components that you need to level up in order to get yourself to potentially the level of international Master you see what I'm saying here is not rock in science that's something that you can comprehend and with some training you can get used to playing in this St all right now Bishop of f white went Knight D4 he wants to attack here and here so I trade it Rook takes and actually from here on black is indeed at a pretty dull and passive position this Pawn is weak white wants to longterm to double up a gang State and Capt trate and black does not have much to do there's not much counterplay and it lost the game later on now if you're curious I'll drop the complete game in in comments below you'll find the link there but for now I want to switch on to the next game and we'll see how this whole thing should work together this game was played two years later I'm still playing Black this time against uh arbov grandmas and this is a memorable game for me because that is my first victory over grandmas in an official tournament and right here I'm not an international Master yet but I became an international Master later that year so we could assume that I I'm playing at that strength already now I'm going KN of six initially it's the Catalan opening just develop moves again I don't stop here that much now what are you do in an opening General speaking well you just develop your pieces right so that's what I'm doing here B6 Bishop B7 Pawn E4 perhaps the first interesting moment how would you play here if you're black well I guess that after our analysis you know that there is a catch here right most players in such positions take here unthinkingly and what strong players do is unthinkingly they don't take at all right they just know that to take is a mistake shouldn't do this if you take you help your opponent to relocate his Knight to a more Central position also to unblock the bishop and you do that with your own move therefore I'm not saying you should never ever in your life take anything but I'm saying that you should be very thoughtful about this and only do this if there is a specific reason of why you do this don't take just because there is an opportunity to do that and in the game I played Knight D7 just completing my development following my own plan white goes B3 now what do you want to do now well probably like wants to play C5 just to activate the bishop because it's currently blocked by this Pawn chain and also to counter strike in the center I play Rook C8 first which was also a decent move just preparing myself and then playing C5 notice that in this case I'm not releasing the tension I'm actually doing the opposite I'm keeping up the tension and I'm increasing the tension and that is what strong players do they want his opponent to take and to help them like if white for instance takes right here at some point guess what it's going to help me open up a file for my Rook of course black will recapture but down the road is going to be helpful if B ever takes on C5 that's going to help me activate either my knight or my Bishop which is also nice right so that's what I want I don't want to release the tension I want him to do that now at this point white took on D5 I recaptured and white realized that there was a little bit unpleasant opposition of The Rook against the queen and he played Queen F5 now what do you do here that's an interesting question um like the first thing which I'm proud of is that I haven't played G6 remember in the last game played F6 and then suffered because of those weaknesses so this time I'm learning from my pastor say know that I shouldn't weaken my position unless there was a specific reason and if there is nothing better so G6 is a move I'm I'm not saying that it's a bad mistake it's a move to consider to kick off the queen from here but it weakens these weaknesses right and long term he's got a bishop standing there and there could be some problems I mean again you may consider this but I'd say that if there's something better you should probably prefer that and if there's nothing better then maybe G6 so I'm looking for other ways in the game I took here on C4 and you may argue that hey I'm violating my own rule to take some mistakes why am I doing this well the thing is you got to consider forcing moves but which doesn't mean that you should make them you got to consider in the sense that you got to think about them because sometimes you can play a force and move and win something or play a force and move and there is some followup that lets you have certain advantage and that it's all right to play them but if there's no followup then you don't for example C D4 would be just that standard that would help white to activate the Knight that would open up a diagonal for his bishop and that's pretty bad for black so that would be just that common example of the take is mistake but taking on C4 is a little bit different because I'm also opening up a diagonal for my Bishop also after Knight takes C4 I realize that I've got a followup which is a move Bishop to E4 and I'm kicking this queen away without weakening my position and generally speaking as we know from the previous example I always love the idea when I can move my piece forward to po half the board and attack something that's just perfect right so here I was pretty happy about this move Bishop E4 white goes Queen to F4 now what do you do next same question in the middle game after you have completed your basic development you developed your minor pieces you castled then you want to attack you want to go forward and create threats now with that being said I can see Pawn B5 hitting the Knight or maybe bishop D3 now which one do you love more uh on a side note I realize that this video is going to going be lengthier than usual it's not a 10-minute video and I'm sorry about this but I really want to share this with you I think if you stick around it's going to be super helpful and within this like 20 minutes or so you may possibly learn more than in two years of studying chess because these are the insights that took me years to comprehend and I'm just trying to present it to you you know as much as I can within this one short video all right so um Bishop D3 although looks like an attacking move but I do not like it too much uh because normally an intent of an attack is to activate your position and push your opponent backwards force him to worsen his position right and Bishop D3 y hits the rook in on one hand but he can move the Rook either to E1 to an open file or maybe to D1 and even Counterattack your own bishop and put a rook to this open file so I don't see how it creates any troubles for white it rather helps white and that's why I would not say that it is a real an attack move right it's more of that one mover which doesn't make much sense beyond that in that sense B5 is something that I like much more I'm expanding providing some more space for my own pieces to move around and also even this Pawn can go forward to C4 in the future possibly now after B5 white played Knight D2 to gain a Tempo attacking my Bishop now how do we play here a lot of players in such positions when they realized that the bishop was handing they just mov it back to safety and strong players know that you should first and foremost consider forward moves so I play Bishop D3 in this sense is Justified because the bishop had to move anyway so not wasting a Tempo I'm winning a Tempo by attacking The Rook also with this Knight on D2 he cannot that easily counter attack me uh White played Rook C1 he's trying to you know put some pressure along the C file now how do we play here same question can you move forward and attack anything right so I saw the move Knight D5 I played the move Knight D5 playing strong moves sometimes is actually even easier because what I realize uh while looking at you know a ton of games with my students as well as my own games back in the day quite often the problem is lack of clarity lack of priorities so to say because back in the day I would be looking at this position and kind of feeling puzzled of like should I take here should I do something about this tension um or should I maybe bring my queen out or activate my knight somehow or maybe I should put my Rook to an open file and I would be thinking about all these moves and feeling overwhelmed and not sure what to do and I would ultimately randomly pick one of them probably so that's how I would I think when I was 1600 so it's not that I at that point didn't know anything about Chess of course they knew different ideas but there was just a bunch of ideas in my hand and I didn't know which one to prioritize and which one really to think about now as we upgrade the level of thinking when you understand generically what you want to do and in the middle game you want to attack go forward create threats expand so that's what you want now that gives you a clear guideline and you just think about that first and foremost and if that works and usually it does work you just play that without thinking about anything else so you see that it's not only stronger but it's also Al way easier actually so here I'm going Knight E5 because I moved my piece forward and attack the queen queen comes here now following the same pattern and go KN F6 moving my own piece forward and hit his piece plays Queen H3 now what do you do now about this situation hope that now you already have some Clues right you already know that you should be skeptical about Pawn takes D4 and you should only play that if there is certain specific followup certain specific reason of why you want to do that because otherwise that only helps him to activate either his bishop or n now in the game I ask myself how can I move forward to my opponent's half the board and create certain threats and the solution was simple playing Pawn C4 now not only I'm avoiding the the pressure right here but also after this exchange my Pawn is ready to go forward and double attack these minor pieces therefore that is also an attacking move now white played KN E5 and here there's another interesting position to think about um you may also think about this yourself for a second if you do I mean that I think will be a nice insight now finally enough uh the way I think it remains to be the same now with the Knight E5 move why wants to attack this Pawn on C4 so that's the immediate threat white wants to take it with either of his Knights it also possibly put some pressure to this bishop right so that's what he wants and indirectly this also opens up diagonal for that Bishop from G2 so Knight E5 makes perfect sense for white and um a lot of players would just start thinking about this pawn and how to guard it but my way of thinking remains to be that simple I mean I'm just asking myself the very same question how do I move forward and attack just in this case it happens to be a Counterattack because if you are under the attack your own attacking move technically becomes a counter attack but the fun fact is nothing changes the way I think it remains to be the same and I played C3 the move that my opponent probably overlooked because it hands the bishop right here but it counters this Knight and this bishop and countering moves are so strong you know I remember I actually won a number of games against Grand Masters even by using counter attack lose because that's what people typically Overlook because the natural pattern of thinking is that I attack he defends that's what people are expecting from you but when I attack and all of a sudden I'm attacked back that often comes as an unpleasant surprise for people but you see that finding counter attack moves can actually be very simple because the way of thinking remains to be the same anyway Pawn C3 so white took right here and recaptured on D2 this time it hits the Rook as well white traded everything on C8 now I'm also putting pressure here so white traded now this pole on D2 on one hand of course is an asset it's close to the square of promotion on the other hand is far away from the rest of my Army and White Blade King F1 he just wants to go here and capture this Pawn so we got to do something about that now in the game I followed my way of thinking and I played Knight C3 not the best move now there were two better options actually one recommended by stockfish is to reposition the bishop back to d8 and A5 and to guard the pole in this unusual way now frankly I didn't see this maneuver at all just because for human it's usually unnatural to put your pieces to an edge of the board and the classical rule suggest that you should bring them closer to the center rather than moving them to the side so yeah it was a good maneuver I overlooked it I wouldn't be too critical to myself about this because again in most cases moving your Bishop back to d8 is a bad move just in this particular case it was necessary to use this round maneuver to guard the pawn that was the second thing which I missed and that is I would say was run from my side so I'm not happy about that that was a move Rook to C2 which I saw but the problem with this move is yeah you're going inside you're putting a little bit of pressure it's not an attacking move yet because this bishop is already guarded and the problem with this move is that white wants to go King E2 and then King D1 attack The Rook push it back and then grab this Pawn on D2 and I rejected the move for that reason but while analyzing the game with computer here suggust here killing blow you can think about this for a few seconds and find tactics that I missed in the game it was the move bshop A3 beautiful move that would W the game now I'm attacking right here from here is going to attack The Rook as well but the problem for white is he can't take because if he takes here there's Knight C3 check to the king and I'm controlling this Square as well so I can't move there with his King he has to move away somewhere and after this I could either promote right now and win some materal win the exchange or even stronger I can actually take on A2 first trying to deflect the rook and The Rook has no squares to go to on the first rank because they all are controlled by black and after The Rook moves away let's say somewhere here I can just Queen and that would win the game on the spot so that is the tactics that I missed that was the best thing for black to play back to the game I played Knight C3 which is inferior but not too bad so at least I'm not losing anything now Knight C3 aims to promote which forces white to trade now Rook takes attack the KN white goes K2 he wants to take the pawn and what do we do in such cases just as usual we are looking for attacking move so I play Rook C4 even to Counterattack white play D5 the pawn is G it so I can't take it with my knight but I can go Rook D4 and put the second attack so now he's taking my Pawn I'm taking his and initially it looks like a drawish situation CU we exhausted most of the material but things are not that simple for white still black is more active this Rook is still on the corner on his T position and right now Knight B4 is a threat actually taking advantage of this pain so although it's of course objectively speaking should be a draw ultimately but still needs to be careful there are certain threats that they still need to Parry now he played A3 correctly stopping this move and here I played well by the way that's another interesting question what do you do if there is no attack like you ask yourself first that question how can I go forward my PA's half the board and attack something but what if there are no attacking moves what do you do then well the answer is pretty simple straightforward as well you prepare an attack on the next move if you can't attack immediately now I realized that the move I'd wish to play generally is Rook A4 and attack this Pawn twice that would be an attacking move my P's half the board that creates a threat but I can't play right now because that would drop the Knight on D5 so I just played Knight B6 uh with the intent that I can after that either go Rook A4 and attack the pawn or I can maybe go Knight C4 with this double attack to the king and pawn white noticed that and played King C2 now I play G6 probably slightly inferior perhaps it was better actually to go KN C4 and to execute that attack and move I play G6 which is not too bad either just providing this Escape Square so that there are no back rank problems in some lines um now white play N5 he's trying to control this Square so that I can't go there and attack him I'm going Bishop F6 attacking the Knight goes Rook E1 now what do you do now as usual you're looking for ways to attack anything I play Rook A4 hitting this Pawn King B3 and although temporarily looks like white actually neutralized all the threats but what helps black is little tactics and remember I said before that you should calculate force and moves which are CHS captures for the most part which doesn't mean you should always play them but you should consider them because sometimes there is strong followup so in this case I realized that I can trade here and generally speaking this exchange would be a bad mistake because we release the pressure we help our opponent but here I have one more force to move Rook takes C3 which is a little tactics because after that I've got Knight C4 follow up with a fork the king is in check it has to move now Knight a C5 and ultimately black got to win an end game where I've got this extra Pawn but white can't easily just move here and try to capture it because that would abandon the king side and I can then in that case go forward go after these pawns and start capturing them and Advance my own King there and pick up these kingside pawns which would be left undefended so I ultimately won this game I mean there were many moves so to not waste your time I'll skip this again if you can see complete games there will be a link Down Below in the description one thing that I love about these different principles which are helpful for you while playing chess is that you can see that yes it requires like new ways of thinking and some practice however it's not rocket science like you don't have to be supernaturally gifted person who started studying chess as a toer to comprehend that like anybody can right and of course I tried my very best to help you with this video hopefully you saw those clear CLE ideas and how you can level up in chess if you want to have my complete help with bringing you to the level of 2000 I've got a dedicated course level up in ch where I really have it all figured out for you where I'm having this section for the opening where you should know about openings middle games end games how to study chess and also how to avoid blunders which is plus 300 rating points at an instant if you just reduce the amount of bunders that you make so I put it all together in single course together with practice where you can practice practice these skills I recorded games where I'm playing live and I'm showing exactly how I think and how you can do the same so put it all together and if you're curious you can find this course by clicking the link below the video either way I hope that you got a lot of value let me know if you have any comments or any feedback about this and let's say in touch

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Length: 33min 15sec (1995 seconds)

Published: Mon May 13 2024