Back in Vegas...again! | 2021 North American Open | R1 vs. Roshen Nair (1988)

Hey folks, back with another series of tournament post-mortems, this time from the 2021 North American Open, held Dec 26-30 in Las Vegas Nevada.
This video features my Round 1 game against Roshen Nair (1988 FIDE, 2120 USCF).
Pairings/standings: chessevents.com/event/northam...
Live games:
live.followchess.com/#!31st-n...
Nowadays I'm mainly making videos for ChessDojo! Follow here:
Twitch: / chessdojolive
Discord: / discord
Twitter: / chess_dojo
Instagram: / chess_dojo
Patreon: / chessdojo
Podcast: chessdojotalks.podbean.com/

[@drewclark1920]

nice start. My preference is to not know the result until the end.

[@jasonbraun3149]

Very instructional for playing these types of pawn structures as black. Good luck here in Vegas.

[@lazydetective4774]

I love these videoes made as the tournament is ongoing. Knowing the result or not is not very important. Slightly prefers to wait for the result, but knowing before is nowhere as annoying as the evaluation bar that is on all realtime commentary of tournaments these days (needed to get that out ;-)

[@Robster543210]

Great video and chess lesson. Thank you. I like going through the video without knowing the result. For the hard work you put into the videos, thank you.

[@perpetualchesspodcast9143]

Belated engagement! I love these vids but would be fine with them coming after the tourney too. Also I’m #teamdontsaytheresult

[@joelscott7613]

Such great analysis, thanks Kostya! Not knowing the result til end of game would be my preference.

[@foxy3.o891]

Yayyy broo new videoo!! I learn so much from your videos, it helps me to know how strong players play :D

[@foxy3.o891]

I can fight good with a 1700 fide rated players now.. still learning to win with 2000 + players

[@siddhantsingh802]

Your recap was amazing bro!!!! :) I am definitely going to tune in to future recaps and check out more of your content! Keep up your great work!!!!!

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Thanks!

[@Chess_Improvement]

Thanks for sharing , and good luck !!

[@maksimshvidler6737]

Thank you, instructive as always! :)

[@derSchachstratege]

Thx Kostya, nice win. My First impression After his e5 was "ohoh, my Bishop". But I really enjoyed your Ideas about Nxe5. Have Fun in the net Rounds! Regards

[@putskan3377]

very instructive! thank you!

[@rudiwiesenblute2111]

Looking forward to the next games! Have fun playing otb and good luck

[@mitchellfabian7694]

Great game!

[@SerLaama]

Prefer not to know unless there is some specific benefit.

[@slowslav6653]

Great Game

[@mariogarciagonzalez4692]

Nice game to start a tournament, sensei! Definitely in this game it is good to know KID plans (closing the kingside when necessary, play Kh8-Rg8 and h5-h4-h3, etc). Very instructive insights. Btw, I would prefer you not to tell the result beforehand but if the rest of comments asks you to tell it, it's OK :) Good luck in the next round! Looking forward to learning with these recaps!

[@TheTitanass]

My preference is as well that we dont know the result beforehand. But I have an idea how you could maybe do it for those who are curious. You could write the result in the description but simply not at the top of it. Something like: Spoiler: I won this game.

[@bluefin.64]

Tells us the result when it's natural, based on how you feel about the game and what the story you want to tell us is. Waiting until the end every time could be artificial and confining. BTW, because you're on the Dojo channel I forget to come here. The fact is your reviews of your games are some of my favorite content.

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Thanks for the feedback, makes sense!

[@anwardivierparedes7138]

Kostya Kostenyvk

[@Evilanious]

I slightly prefer knowing the result immediately but it honestly doesn't matter much to me.

[@foxy3.o891]

It spoils the fun of the game if you know the results...

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

All opinions welcome!