Good point, knight back to e2 would have to be played - though this would make Bf4 stronger too. I guess castling first followed by Nf4 was a better option then.

Thanks! It was really cool to be able to play out the trap I set in an OTB game, my opponent thought I blundered and played g4 to trap my bishop pretty quickly, but the look of shock on his face when I quickly responded with Ne5 is something I will remember.

Yes I would say that I visualise the pieces moving in my mind’s eye, it is not clear like playing the moves out but similar to closing your eyes and imagining and apple for example. I didn’t used to be able to do this when playing but calculation exercises and practicing blindfold chess really helped develop my mind’s eye visualisation. Alternatively you can just make a mental note of the changes and square control in the position if you are struggling to visualise, I often do this for shorter and more chaotic calculations, while having mind’s eye visualisation for longer calculations/planning (e.g. a King and pawn endgame race).

@@MagnusChessUK ok thanks

I’m glad it helped!

Coming soon

That’s okay! If you’re struggling with clear plans try playing an opening with more open files (like the Scotch) where price placement is more obvious. Then you should make less mistakes!

I’ll make a video on this separately, but you can actually use many of the tips from this video like piece improvement and attacking weaknesses. Though more specifically you should learn principals for each of the endgame types, like rooks going behind past pawns, queens centralised, same coloured bishop endgames with pawns on opposite colour to bishop etc. Once you have learned many different principles from endgame types the best thing you can do is gain experience against other players in those endgames!

If you are interested in lessons then feel free to send an email to [email protected] with some information about the goals that you have, your rating and chess.com account, ill reply with some more information about what my coaching involves. If not then you can come along to the next time I livestream where I often play viewers and do free group lessons!

Sure that sounds like a a good idea! Probably 2 separate videos though.

It’s more that you want to understand first before committing something to memory

Of course!

@@MagnusChessUK great

I’ve been sick this past week which is why no videos, but I’ll be back this next week so maybe sometime then!

@@MagnusChessUK oh sorry!

Thanks! I always appreciate these comments!

So true

No problem!

Probably the Kings Indian, I’ll do an opening stream on it like the Dragon soon!

He is a great player, and very underrated I think!

are you on any kind of medication?

@@ND00923 m also mad= pure intelligence without involment of memory= Brain That's why it appears NOT NORMAL or MAD OM SHANTI

@@gabar6541 take care, rooting for you

Also please do a speedrun for this opening only if it’s possible

I would like to but I’ve asked chess.com and they require some twitch partnership (I think affiliate). So I’ve been doing multi streams to twitch and KZbin to try and grow there too. Hopefully this will be possible in the near future though!

Yeah which is why it’s important to analyse your games with an engine afterwards to personalise how to play against your opponents mistakes. Though the lichess rating band tool is also pretty useful!

I’ll get around to it in the coming week

Yeah I can do a more in depth Alapin video at some point

Thanks!

I will do the KID fully (already have 1 episode out) and am going to cover the others with the white side.