Analyze Better through Puzzles

[@danheismanchess]

Thanks for watching! Don't just hope - want a better chess thought process to improve? Check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/amHVm4yqdr2oerM

[@nacimsadaoui3923]

Excellent puzzles especially the second one. Thank you for the video.

[@danheismanchess]

Thanks, much appreciated. And we thank Dr. Can for providing the instructive puzzles via Twitter :)

[@natalyawoop4263]

Loved the video and Dr. Can is awesome!

[@danheismanchess]

Thanks! Yes, there are some excellent instructors out there (hopefully I am one of them...) :)

[@bbrockva]

Thanks, Dan! Got the first one after much thought. Second one I "got" too since I saw that the knight could be trapped after QxB, but then didn't calculate far enough after ...Qa5+ when white still loses the knight. Seeing how "ugly" KxB is might dissuade some players from playing it, since it involves piece activity and king safety both, but that's better than losing a piece for a pawn. Certainly didn't see that wild computer line.

[@danheismanchess]

Bill, good to hear from you. Glad you found 1.c4 - most U1800 don't. The 2nd is harder despite it's easy appearance but at the least you want to see that 1.Qxd2 f6 2.Ng4 h5 traps the N so you can't just quickly play that...

[@nomoreblitz]

i loved this video!

[@danheismanchess]

Thanks! Much appreciated. If you get a chance, pass the word about kzbin.info to your chess friends :)

[@davidwestwood6850]

Analysis & calculation can be wildly difficult.

[@danheismanchess]

Yup, it took me a while to arrive in the 2nd puzzle at 1.Kxd2 Qa5+ 2.c3 f6 3.b4 Qa3 4.Qh5+ g6 5.Nxg6 Qb2+ and even then I was very surprised when the engine later told me that was the PV (principle variation = best moves for both sides).

[@Sitbear]

Great and instructive video! Unfortunately, the facecam farts out a bit and it resumes amidst dead air at the end of the video

[@danheismanchess]

Did you read my note to the video which explains that apparently my software Camtasia, when I pause the recording, continues to record the camera, so at the end there is more camera footage than screen shot video? This seems to be the cause of the "dead air" at the end of some of my recent videos which contain the inserted camera shots. The only thing I might be able to do about this is edit the video after it is finished to delete those parts; I am not very good at that but I might have to give it a try.