I thought you were going to see the hanging pawn when you said "the pin remains" after Nd2. I'm the guy who uses irrational amounts of time in rapid in the early middlegame and blunders low on time.

2:48 Interesting. In this position I would want to play a rook to the c-file so as to threaten Nb4. Ne5 right away loses a pawn. Probably Rfc8 makes more sense than Rab8? Unsure and I haven’t checked the engine. But I remember Jesse Kraai saying pawns aren’t people, with respect to the minority attack - he thinks it’s the slowest plan in the Carlsbad and ever since then I think about it differently.

Lmao. Love it Kevin.

So, what you're saying is I can still blunder and get to 1900? I'm always amazed how many defensive resources there are, especially early in the game.

Love your takeaways ... story of my life.

Congrats on the win. Way to fight on.

Dr. Skull looks and sounds a lot like a Mr. Tiny Grimes... 😜

The regular viewer of this Road-to series might have noticed that this is a re-upload...

I think this is Ep.5 Kevin? Wrong video?

Once in a while, i come across a youtuber with a "small" amount of followers with loads of history, most of the time these people are the most fun, keep it up man.

They probably clicked the wrong button when offering a draw(has happened to me before)

But what about blocking the check with …b5 and protecting the Bc4?

Good game. You have the best podcast! Thanks . I’m trying to get to 1500 , they say just do tactics. I do and still not 1500 , lol .

When i was 18, u produced Videos about Star Wars Galaxy Heroes, i worked as a Security and Watches ALL UR vids and played Star Wars at Top Ranks on my server back in Time. I Love your Voice, thank u so much for the experience and memories, I wish U all good bro! I m from Germany, sorry for my english.

Go head to head! I'd love to watch the matches!

Endgames in time trouble ... a slippery slope. Congratulations for your win!

I really appreciate your evaluation at the end. You have a great perspective.

Loving the series

Love your Road-to videos, keep it up!

Enjoying these. Keep it up.

Any chance you can change your openings to match mine to make this more useful for me? No? OK, I'll still watch :-) Nice game. I'd have messed up the mate at the end and cursed myself for not just putting the rook behind the a pawn and pushing it.

interesting video. It looks like you transposed to a french after e6. good luck with the quest!

4:23 ...Bf6 I think you can win a piece with g4/g5 because the only retreat for the knight is g7 and that blocks the bishop's retreat when you play g5. I am talking to you in the video... g4! But -- you didn't hear me.

I learned 1900s can blunder in time trouble like me. Which is kinda inspiring, frankly.

I really enjoyed this! You did a great job outlining your thought process in real time and highlighting your board observations as you noticed them. And it was very relatable to see that even higher-rated players (than me) also have the “oh what about this!?! oh no, that doesn’t work” inner monologue throughout ☺️

Nice Gameplay 😃👍🏻

Great video. Look forward to following along.

Very cool, Kevin! Surely will keep watching. Did you notice your fan being very loud? Sounds like you’re about to take off :) BR

Hey, Kevin! I saw that not too long ago you had your first Chessable course Beta tested. Any idea when Chessable actually plans to publish it?

Thx I got physic and barrier and at 36 lvl it evolved

Thanks I got second evolution on abra

Not always the case. Look at Akiba Rubinstein. He learned to play as a young adult and became probably top 2 in the world during his time.

Hi Kevin, thank you again for having me, after a month now I still think it was a great experience and turned out well. Very best. Yours, Jan

40 cards would be good considering all the new cards that came out

for me it is easier (more convenient) to consume from YT than from other podcast platforms (even if the image is still). Please post here more.

It was a pleasure and an honor to be on the podcast. Thanks for inviting me and allowing me to share my story. I hope it inspires some people. Much appreciated!

Great idea to post the videos. Love the podcast and listen to it in my car.

Very relatable

How did you get that move

I have aphantasia. True to form - I missed the obvious mate on your second puzzle... I calculated what seemed like the forcing line Bxh7+, Kh8□, Bf5+, Kg8□, Bxe6+, Rf7□, Qxf7+, Kh8□, Qh5#. I had 'observed' from the outset that the knight was covering g6 so moving there was simply (incorrectly) chalked off my list of possibilities, despite the discovered check preventing the capture! Crazily, I could calculate the sort-of windmill attack on the black bishop but the seemingly more obvious tactic of simply blocking an escape square wasn't obvious to me, because I've not yet learned that pattern. This is how it always seems to play out - I just play the pattern I _do_ recognise, often at the expense of missing what was probably blindingly obvious to other players (which is either inaccurate or just wastes a lot of time). I'm also so glad you did the third example - the exact same thing happens for me. I didn't see the deflection from the rook taking the knight on the back rank because in my head that didn't come with check (the king somehow wasn't on the back rank any more!) so my queen would obviously be captured on the next move. So the whole line couldn't possibly be the solution...

This is the spiritual son of Star Wars force arena 😢

I have *exactly* the same problem as you - losing track of moved pieces in my story of the attack!

Hmm I also do these stories, but sometimes I get so carried away in my stories that I don't look at what the opponent is doing... Ah if I could see a chess board in my imagination I'd easily be better

Finally the content I want... I have aphantasia too... Can u share any ways to improve... I'm a one move player cause of aphantasia

Thanks for the great video & insights to your process. I love your story process & the way you explained what you were doing.

As someone with Aphantasia I don't really build a story but try to remember all the influences of all the pieces at each step of the calculation. By that I mean what squares are controlled by who. makes me have to start over a lot but works really well for me :) but nice to see someone talk about this more. only seen some blogposts related to aphantasia in chess so far (although I also didn't search that much) But I am curious are you working on getting a mental image? I started doing that, hasn't worked yet though :)

Pokémon Quest is a underrated Pokémon Game whos with me 👇

Nice

Emperors guard had sentinal as long as vader was in play

TINY! Great to see you again with some Star Wars content