"We view commentary on a game of two very strong Grandmasters, with which we learn a very strong lesson, even Grandmasters flub up with. It doesn't take us weeks to grasp or put into our chess games either. It takes just one video to correct this, this video, right here. Guaranteed." - TBP
youtu.be/nyV_QzGZjpQ?t=2050One 30-minute video will prevent me from making a mistake that "even grandmasters make"?
The guy may be a good teacher and player, but such a silly claim makes me completely uninterested. It's like ads for apps or web sites that sucks idiots in by promising they'll learn a new language in a few weeks. The video may be enough to explain the concept - but that's true of virtually anything. But to actually learn from it will take plenty of practice and repetition, regardless of what the mistake supposedly being analyzed in the video is. And that is the case with any chess concept.
Good point, I've updated the video URL to skip the first 34 minutes.
Do you have an opening plan for each piece?
Maybe the pieces that were not moved during the opening are planned to be moved during the middle game. If there is no plan, then the opening plan is not using the full potential of all the pieces.
The pawns are the reserve force. The reserve force appears when the pawn reaches promotion. In the middle game, plan out the reserve force.
Imagine if it was you on that square, waiting to be picked, so you can go out there and play with the others.
There will always be, a last to be picked to play. Luckily the chess pieces have no feelings. There's no fun in always being last.
Have you noticed your weakest piece that always seems to be last to be played. If so, then think about changing your opening to help develop that piece. It might not be an easy task. Picking which side to castle will affect which pieces gets developed first, and so you then know which pieces will be developed last.
Balancing the Queen and King side development might help generalize the development of all the pieces.
Never play the same piece twice !?
Never play pieces on the same sector twice !?
Never play with only two pieces mobilized !?
33:38 lol.. If you come here all you have to do is Rd8+.. eeeeee wrong, all you have to do is Qxe7#
Rd8+ have sense only if queen comes to f8...
I'm glad he's started making videos again. His videos might not be the most instructive but they are very entertaining.
Man, he has so much enthusiasm and I do think he explains simple positional ideas well, but watching him repeatedly miss mate-in-ones while extolling chess insight is so cringeworthy.
Yeah...and also when he calls a skewer a pin or oher shit like that lol...I like his enthusiam but many times when he explains the purpose of a move he misses it completely.
