Chess Lesson # 81: Magnus Carlsen Plays The Pirc Defense

[@NMRobertRamirez]

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[@rainerausdemspring894]

The Carlsen game is Jon Ludvig Hammer - Magnus Carlsen, played on 23. Oct.2003 at the Under 14 World Championship in Halkidiki , Greese. Carsen already had an ELO of 2450 - almost 400 higher than his opponent.

[@1968laugro]

Great thematic lesson, I love the approach and how confident MC had to be to play as he did! Got 5 moves correct, but many others as candidate moves. Then I got tunnel vision with the trapped knight as I noted Nxc1 as a move twice then when black bishop moved, I looked for ways to use it in a combination, missing the obvious mate in 2!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Yes, it is hard to not admire Carlsen's performance! Many people agree that his games when he was younger were way more aggressive and looked a lot like this one. But, it only makes sense, it is a different story when one start playing at the elite level. By the way, 5/12 is really good for a game like this one. And the fact that you were trying to find the moves and plans yourself definitely helps you a lot. Also, I know you are using the Pirc so this was another piece of information for your database 😎

[@johnd.hathcoat9223]

I like your training method! I will definitely use this method for openings that I have been studying. Thank you!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

That's great to hear. Let me know how it goes 👍 By the way, thank you for providing your feedback. I really appreciate it!

[@dragadeyt]

The pronunciation thing with Pirc is funny. I noticed it too in your earlier videos and was also one of the people saying "hey it's Peertz not Perk" But it's funny how no one says hey it's "Mahg-noos" not "Mag-nus". So if you can say "Mag-nus" then you can say "Perk" :) Your lessons are totally awesome. I've learned a lot from them. Easily the best on youtube IMO. And honestly much better than Kasparov's Master Class. It's crazy how calm and cool you are explaining your thinking in a 3 min rapid game while the clock just ticks down as you mess with settings or something. If I have a minute left I start blundering left and right :(

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello Dhananjay! The fact that you guys are finding value in these lessons is what truly matters to me. So, thanks a lot for taking the time to let me know 👍 Regarding the pronunciation of certain words, I never gave it much importance because I knew it would not prevent you from understanding the material, but I appreciate the constructive criticism. Like in Chess, I still have a lot to learn about the English language.

[@dragadeyt]

@@NMRobertRamirez what?! Your English is great. Things like Pirc, Fianchetto aren't English anyway. Pirc is a Slovenian name, and the German IM mispronounces it as "Purtz" in the Chessable course on it. But like I said, it's funny how people are aware of Perk/Purtz/Peertz pronunciation but don't care about Mag-nus vs Mahg-noos. My headphones consistently pronounce my name wrong when they connect on Bluetooth 😂

[@kenstephens7747]

When I look back upon my journey so far, what stands out the most for me is the appreciation I've gained of the value of tactical skills. This is the sort of thing you don't get much of when your coach is Mr. Stockfish, who has taken me from being a tactical player to a much more positional one, that's how Stockfish plays and wins. As important as this is, it's great to see your more tactical approach and this has gotten me back to doing more tactics training seeing how well you use this and now wanting to get better at that, devoting a higher percentage of my training time to it again. We really need to be good at both and both are supremely important I'd say.

[@tobiasstockner9528]

What's your rating then versus now?

[@blbreptiles4126]

I like these shorter form content, it's easier to understand

[@lonewolf5238]

Would love to see more of these. A great workout for your brain.

[@daanraven9362]

A very nice and motivating way to study chess games and openings! Thank you very much Robert.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

You are welcome, Daan! Hope you make it part of your training.

[@andrewwilliams2536]

4/12 including the check mate :-). Love your classes !!

[@SleepyOldOwl]

I love this method. Ever since I saw this video, I use it all the time to analyze... YOUR sample games. I pause your videos after every move of the opponent, then I try to come up with the best next move myself, before watching your next move... And so on...

[@SleepyOldOwl]

(And often I also pull up an analysis board to compare it to Stockfish best move.)

[@mychessnotebook8653]

I think we have to allow for different pronunciations of foreign words. GM Yasser Seirawan played the Pirc during his career and he usually pronounces it just like you (even though he sometimes pronounces it "correctly"). As another example, consider "Alekhine." Most people say "Al uh kine," even those who know that it is more closely pronounced "al ee yek in."

[@Orthoshooter]

Sadly, I’ve been away from chess for 20 years. My 12 year-old is enjoying it so I’m dabbling again. I’ve loved your educational series and got several of these moves because of it. I had never played the PIRC before. Keep up the good work!!

[@wolfson817]

You are the best in explaining lessons!😆🙏

[@emmanuelisrael6688]

I would like to ask you that is 12 divided by 3 =4 and X100 is 400 then which column would i be 40 or 100

[@fisstaschek]

Wow this is such a simple and ingenious method! I’ve always been hearing that to learn opening you need to study how misters play it, but watching games and trying to explain their reasoning was so boring. Your method brings so much fun into the process. Thanks from Poland

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello! Glad to see you liked this exercise! It is certainly a good component for our training 👍💪

[@grandmastah2314]

I'm a beginner btw, but wouldn't with the position at 12:25, couldn't rook to g4 and then queen to h5 work too? Or am I missing something? Maybe because the white queen can take the black knight and re- attack the rook, but wouldn't check by the queen be mate at that point either way? Probably a stupid question but anything helps.

[@blueshoter4283]

I still dont actually understand. with your choice there would be a lot of ways to defend. Can you right down the line that you're thinking?

[@PiotrButryn]

The idea with the knight on h5 is very interesting and unusual I think. It makes sense with your explanation 😉

[@MarcelArtsCW]

I love this method. I will definitely use that exercise in the future. Thank you!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Glad you liked it, Marcel! Thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback 👍

[@shikharbaral8235]

NM Robert. You are the best. I am following all your chess lessons.

[@anita3782]

Hey sir i have one doubt how do i connect to you for practice

[@bigredracingdog466]

Al Horowitz used to have a column in Chess Life & Review that had a move-by-move point system. I did it religiously and went from 1441, my first rating, to over 1800 in just a year or so. Many years later, I think Bruce Pandolfini did one too.

[@DT-vo7fg]

Thnaks for this! I got 2 of them right, plus I saw the checkmate pattern....pretty funny

[@stevechoatie249]

Love this lesson and will have to try to evaluate other games as well. I didn't do too badly, 5 out of 12 so I'm pretty happy.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

That's actually great 👍 but yes, try to do it from time to time with other games.

[@kenstephens7747]

I picked Rfd8 as well, with the idea that the other rook can be used on d8, to support both the d and e file. The rook on f1 wasn't really playing a role and is out of position as far as I see it. I found most of these moves pretty intuitive, just looking at what we are trying to do and looking to execute the plan. I think that this is the thing a lot of players struggling to get better need to focus on the most, and why they will tell you that they get stuck so much, they were already stuck as they didn't really have a plan other than moving around their pieces fairly aimlessly and then wondering why they don't know what to do next because they didn't have a real plan to start with. I think there's a lot to be said about the "backward" approach, looking at a position you'd like and then working backward much like we do with knight positioning.

[@C05Mik]

Great format ! I tried it and got these results below with a magnificient blunder in the 7th move ... I would have never dared letting my knight that much advanced, that's a great way to learn ! I'm 900. #1 e5 :D #2 Re8 --> Ne5 :( #3 dxe5 --> Nf4 :( #4 dxe5 --> Ne5 :( #5 Qg5 :D #6 QxBb5 :D #7 Re8 --> Ne2 ~ blunder :( #8 Bg4 :D #9 Rfe8 --> Rae8 (count as correct) #10 Rxe4 :D #11 Qh5+ (only after mate 2 announcement) #12 Rh4# Results: 6/12

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Nice Michael! It is great that you showed me your entire results. This helps me a lot 👍 You must be proud of your final score. 50% in a game like this one is really good. And coming up with Qg5 is also amazing. Hope you do this exercise again in the future with other games 😎

[@fikirfikir]

More of Grand master's games on Pirc Defense using this approach... it's effective and open many interesting possibilities which we failed to materialized on our own - the logic behind unexpected move ie.

[@RedGaming23]

I watched this morning and again this evening and I still couldn’t find all the moves some of them are so impressive! I like that you highlight about playing f5 when the centre is locked but not when it’s open. That’s a key point that will help a lot I think!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello! It's great that you went over it twice. The game in itself deserves to be framed and put on the wall 😅 but the most important thing is to make this exercise part of your training. Reviewing games is extremely important and exercises like this one make it more entertaining. Glad you liked it 👍

[@dangatton7138]

that was a good insight

[@andreagobbez6776]

If you do 2750 x (your percentage) you will have a more accurate rating. I guessed exactly 7 out 12 moves, so it's 58,33%, but i'm not even close at 2350... But if you do 2750 x (your percentage) you will get a more accurate value. In fact, the 58,33% of 2750 is 1605 and this is the rating that is very similar to the one that i have. :) Very interesting exercise!

[@juanquntos7123]

Even that's too high. I just started playing a month ago and I'm rated 1000 and I saw 9/12 moves. I feels like this guess the move format is way more obvious than playing them in games, because if I blunder a move in the middle in an actual game, it's game over, but you see the actual correct move here, you can recognize the idea and get back on track.

[@andreagobbez6776]

@@juanquntos7123 I kinda agree because there will be games of just 15 moves or those of more than 60. But it's been 4 months now that i've started doing this kind of training (thanks Robert!) and if you do this training with 5/10 games each day then you can calcolate your average result and see the progresses.

[@andreagobbez6776]

But you can "cheat" this results either selecting short matches of >2750 players or just try to analyze computer games, where their rating is way over 3500 and it will give you a boost (but the downside is that it will be harder to find the moves!). Anyway, if you do from 5 to 10 games per day you can calcolate the average and this is more realistic, and can lead you to some progress.

[@kenstephens7747]

My plan is to watch all of these, apart from the raw beginner ones in the first 10 which I admit I did skip over but I like the fact that someone could come over knowing nothing about chess and be completely taken care of, no one turned away at this school. I've been struggling a bit with all these opening videos strung together though, I've spent hundreds of hours stubbornly watching opening videos before I wisely ditched the idea and came away with little more than a sense of regret for wasting my time as I don't remember much at all about any of them. Yours are a cut above the standard fare like everything else here though and you are explaining the ideas rather than just banging out series of moves and this makes them worth watching. I'm still left to ponder whether this is an efficient use of my training time versus watching something else but you've got me still hanging in there :)

[@roland.j.ruttledge]

Great presentation, many thanks

[@carlbinch898]

Watched several of your videos and enjoyed them all. I play the Pirc black and white. In the game after Nc6. Players at my level are mostly going to play d5. Guess I would be looking for the f5 break after blocked centre?. Where would you suggest I put the Nc6 Knight?. I got 6 by the way. I would be worried about trapping my Knight and would have exchanged it for the white Bishop.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello Carl! Six is really good for a game like this. So, congrats! If your opponent did d5 in a position like the one from this game, you can do Nb8 and bring it to d7 eventuality. The f5 break makes total sense like you mentioned if the center is locked. With that said, you might like to do Bg4 before Nc6 like we covered in lesson # 69 👍

[@mehdila6144]

sorry master for the delay. I rested his last 3 days before tomorrow's tournament. I watched this lesson last night. and to answer your question. I loved this new concept in order to assess our precision more precisely. really as I told you you have a talent for teaching and I can repeat it it is thanks to you that I became the player that I am and that I will become a better player. I will follow the same principle when I will learn other games and see my evolution thank you so much . and to answer your second question about my score. I got 83.33. with two errors. Re8 is one of the two mistakes. I have the same problem I forget to bring back reinforcements and it is a very good reminder for me. otherwise I had the same idea of ​​attack with Nf4. I felt an intuition when I imagined it in f4 and it is the only candidate move that came to my mind without knowing why. and then I calculated it and had the same idea of ​​attack. I hope to improve myself by arriving at a faultless hehe. and also not to forget that even the pieces which do not play one must bring them back because I often forget it or I am afraid of losing a tempo while bringing back and that the adversary against attack. this is the lesson I learned. confidence in my calculations and take it easy etc. and then we explode heheh. this is my answer to your second question: D heheh wish me luck for tomorrow heheh. I had a good rest and today I am reviewing our preparation and I am doing tactics and I will play games against stockfish too hehe

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Good luck to you, Mehdi, but you do not ned it 💪 Have fun and do not forget this is just another part of your training to make it to your main objective. Even if you lost all your games, that would mean you have lots of games to learn from.You will see you are going to do well and you will be even more inspired to play tournaments. It was a great idea to rest. Now you are good to go. By the way, excellent job with the exercise. That was impressive 👍

[@mehdila6144]

@@NMRobertRamirez thank you so much !!! your words and advice always motivate me !! thanks again and again. I also feel that I will soon reach my goal. and really thanks to you alone really i can't thank you enough. when the covid situation is truly over, it is with great pleasure that you will be welcome to join us. even my family told me to tell you that heheh really thank you very much master :)

[@NMRobertRamirez]

hehehe thank you Mr!

[@mehdila6144]

@@NMRobertRamirez :D i just finishing reviewing all preparation in my notebook and your channel and my lichess studies .and i am going to rest now and wake up early tomorrow hehehe. but really my family keeps telling me to send you this message heheh xD seriously it will be a pleasure. thanks for all really !!!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

@@mehdila6144 that's very kind of your family 😎 I really appreciate that. And yes, no more Chess. Just rest and relax 💪

[@ems3832]

8 out of 12. I was so glad to have spotted ...Qg5 and then the ...Rae8 and over to the kingside theme (like a large Rook lift, in a way). I found the mate in 2 after white allowed it, too. What an amazing game and work of art from Magnus!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Congrats!! 🎉💪 And yes, this game is just amazing!

[@tarzantiger7927]

Hi can you make a video in which you and the opponent both play the Pirc Defense it would be interesting to watch and learn, if you have already covered it could you please share the link with me ?

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello Tarzan! I did a video where I played multiple games using the Pirc. It was lesson # 71. Not sure if you watched it. Now, do you mean where we both use the same set-up?

[@tarzantiger7927]

@@NMRobertRamirez yes Sir both use Pirc Defense

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Got you! I did one like that, but it was for the members-only. I will try to get one game like that the next time I do a lesson where I play blitz. Otherwise, we will have a lesson on how to play the Pirc vs the fianchetto set up anyways 👍

[@tarzantiger7927]

@@NMRobertRamirez Thank You Sir

[@veggiefish4017]

Hi Mr. Ramirez, I started with the regular pirc but have moved more to the czech pirc recently. I watched your videos in the czech pirc playlist, but do you have any other recommendations for middle/endgame goals? I watched a saint louis chess club vid on it as well, but I've always found your content on it to be the best to understand. Also if anyone in the comments could recommend me anyone with more czech pirc content please let me know :)

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello! I think one of the best ways to learn more about it is to use the resource I mentioned in lesson # 57. Reviewing games where masters used this opening will help you a lot 👍💪

[@ArbazKhan-xs9ww]

Coach it is amazing lesson

[@alexandrusandu8086]

Man, u really play nice. Congrats!

[@poongsgothai6637]

Mate in 2 : 1.Qh5 It's like mate but black can capture the queen 1..gxh5 2.Rh4 Replacing the responsibility of the queen Btw thanks for the tips to improving the middlegame , I make blunders right after 20 moves in every game

[@NMRobertRamirez]

You are welcome, Poongs! Just keep training consistently and the number of blunders will soon start to decrease 👍

[@kenstephens7747]

Had a chuckle over this business with how to pronounce this opening. I call it the "perk" as well, you learned about it in Spanish, I learned about in English, I have no idea what language has people pronouncing i's as e's and c's as s's but it's not a language I speak or care to speak :) Let them pronounce this however they wish, but we're also going to pronounce it however we wish, lol. Go PERK!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

😅 that's right. Just be happy and enjoy Life! 💪

[@Centurion-yw5ky]

Great as ever Robert. I got 6 correct, but unfortunately I am not close to 2250 but I play the Pirc all the time, thanks to you! I think this helped. More Pirc games please. I would love to find a white opening to match my Pirc. I play the London, but have difficulty getting an advantage.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Thank you! And congrats on your score. It is not so easy with a game like this one and you still scored 50%. Regarding your opening for white, check out The Cole-Zukertort system. I used it at the end of lesson # 84. You might like it.

[@Centurion-yw5ky]

@@NMRobertRamirez Thanks Robert, I'll give it a go!

[@shubhamrohila493]

I got 8 moves correct lol. 2450 for me! All thanks to you. In actual my accuracy has been improving to 80+ percentage a lot now. And many of them are 90+. Thank you for your invaluable lessons

[@NMRobertRamirez]

😎 you are more than welcome! Congrats!

[@NuttyTraxx]

I have just seen this. I got 6, so 2250. I missed taking the centre but got the move knight on a4 because I thought go for that bishop, but then after the knight got taken I thought take back with the pawn. I totally missed that queen move.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Thanks a lot for sharing your results 🙌👍

[@AngeloGene]

I got 6 out of 12 1) c6 Knight development (I weirdly do this more often when opponent's knights are defending each other) 2) I anticipated the e-pawn push (common idea in the Pirc) 3) knight takes on e5 later on (Just because I value my dark squared bishop more to use it to take first) 4) Rook Development to e8 (Obvious developing move. I wouldn't have used the rook beside the King though because I normally try to push the pawn infront of it when needed. 5) Queen check sacrifice 6) Rook checkmate These last two, I only saw when he pointed out there was a checkmate in two. I'm familiar with the "Anastasia mate" pattern. It looked very similar since I thought the knight was already covering the King's escape squares from the side.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Excellent job, Angelo! That's a great score for a game like this one. Hope you use this exercise again in the future with other games. Thanks a lot for sharing your feedback. I really appreciate it 👍

[@AngeloGene]

@@NMRobertRamirez Thank you also for teaching us chess! It's very awesome of you to share your knowledge on our favorite opening. 👍😁

[@ryaneditzcold]

Very nice...other videos are great as well,I have known certain tatics against the pirc defence,This exercise was a bit confusing as well..

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello Pampa! Thank you for your feedback! What made this exercise confusing? Maybe I can clarify something you did not understand 👍

[@shiloazriel3267]

Awesome content!! Why the commuinty dosent grow?

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Thank you! Glad you are finding value in these lessons. The community is growing slowly but steadily 😉

[@sriramadithya4799]

Hi sir.How can I improve my planning skills in chess

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello! We will soon start talking more about evaluating and planning, but basically the more you learn about positional and strategic Chess the easier it will be for you to come up with plans. There are many books on this subject such as Judging and Planning by Max Euwe. eel free to give it a try if you can. With that said, reading Chess books in general will help you because you can see how the authors go over this crucial aspect of the game 👍

[@sriramadithya4799]

@@NMRobertRamirez thank you sir

[@z51racer]

That was a lot of fun. I got 6 of them. Should have been 7--I had written down e5 and then after NM Ramirez's comments about the moves were going to be unexpected I scratched it out and wrote down Bg4 instead. That e5 move seems very normal. ;)

[@pipikos]

I got 10/12 and that would make me 2550 which i am definitely not, for fact i am pretty sure i am not even 1750😅. But all in all i found this training method very effective and i have to thank you for pointing it out. I will definitely be using it to get better. Keep it up buddy!

[@jongler9775]

Very useful video. I am currently rated 900ish, and I found 5 moves. Man ! That was a very great experience trying to guess Magnus' moves.

[@trdi]

9/12, although rating chart is a bit misleading. :) I'm around 1850 FIDE, better to have a bit more realistic values there. I suggest also to give different value of points for different moves. Some are very hard and some are very easy.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Congrats! 💪 Try doing this exercises with other games too and that's how you will see your actual accuracy rate. With that said, it is a great training exercises regardless 👍

[@7000sleeper]

Moves correct: 7, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 - 7/12x100 = 58.33 Great video NM Ramirez!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

👏💪😎

[@phozonn]

This was a great game to look at :) (guessed 9 moves, but the last ones only after you said it was mate in 2)

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Nice too know you liked it 👍 And 7 is really good while 9 is impressive! Thanks a lot for taking the time to provide your feedback. It means a lot!

[@peterspagnolo2505]

i prefer your pronunciation sir.. pirc on ! Your teaching is excellent. thankyou.

[@nguyenhanhcpt]

Thank you for your interesting lecture!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

You are welcome, Nguyen! 👍

[@cemlpc]

Wondering which match is this? Carlsen vs ?

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello Carlos! It was vs Jon Ludvig Hammer. Carlsen was really young so probably early 2000s

[@michelecampus9801]

I'm quite a beginner of chess and my score is around 1000-1200. I did 4 moves correct, the latest 4. I'm satisfied but lot to learn from the middle game.

[@archiewoosung5062]

Not sure the evaluation is correct because there were at least four 'gimmees'; don't normally look at GM games as haven't a clue what's going on, but the commentary helped.

[@vijyantmehrotra8119]

Once again very good lesson

[@mrbreezenc]

Many Thx Robert ....your great videos have helped me to reach nearly 900 Rating Keep up the Good Work !!!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Congrats! 💪

[@pifpouf2817]

I got 9/12 and I'm 1300 😅. I'm really enjoying playing the pirc défense thanks for the videos☺️

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Congrats!! 👏💪😎

[@juanquntos7123]

I got 9/12 and I'm 1000 lol

[@vishalblackbelt]

Love you Robert.. This was good lesson.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Thank you! Glad to see you enjoyed this one. Try to use this exercise from time to time 👍💪

[@jeffrey5602]

what a beautiful game and check mate

[@alinevennemann1904]

I got 3 wrong on this quiz and all of them followed the same pattern: I wanted to push a pawn first (d5/h5/f5) and then move a piece upwards (Ne4:/Qb5:/Rf5-6) while Carlsen decided not to push forward and move a piece sideways instead. So the lesson for me here is to not only think forward all the time, but also to step aside.

[@Mood-bd1fb]

Great . this checkmate make me really surprise.

[@hichamanf794]

I got it I got it, I find 7 moves and the check mate 👌 wow. I m very grateful to you. I learned your Pirc and KID plus I took by heart your midlgame courses. Thank you. You re the best.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

💪👏😎

[@showyourselfaman4917]

Great video again

[@Grandcapi]

I guessed 5 and saw the mate. I call it a guess because I am not Magnus, of course.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

💪😎

[@Techfun606]

Thanks for free course sir

[@NMRobertRamirez]

You are more than welcome!

[@tonykora1715]

thank you Mr Robert i got 6 points.the check mate i ddnt got it until u said mate in 2 then i got it in fraction of second.so i just got 6.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

You are welcome, Tony! 50% is really good for a game like this one. The important thing is that you tried to find the moves and plans yourself and that has an incredible power. Hope you continue to use this exercise from time to time 👍

[@Kazutopia808]

I scored well. 8 of 12 for 66%. I'm a little disappointed I missed Qg4, but surprised that I found some of the others. 2400 performance, I'm not 2400 of course lol, but still feels good. That was fun. Great content as always.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Well congrats! This game seems simple to guess the moves, but it is pretty tricky. Try using this exercise with other games from time to time and it will give you a more accurate score over time. It's definitely a great tool to have as part of our training 👍

[@jorgexgomes]

Great vídeo. Thanks.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it, Jorge 👍

[@nicholas612]

I like your videos

[@sanpatkan]

Thanks for a great lesson

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello Sanjay! You are more than welcome 👍

[@ClaudioOchoa]

Great content

[@Shrimphat]

People how completed this far your reviews ?

[@fastasg7188]

Thanks for this lesson, I got 10 moves correct :)

[@darrylkassle361]

I found the knight move delaying taking the pawn only because you hinted it was not what you expect and after all it's Magnus Actually even though I am only a noob I can see the simplistic brilliance behind his moves it's like he says to himself most people would do this but I am going to think a level(s) beyond that but it will still have brilliant reasoning behind it. A lot of his games are like that whereby his moves might not make sense then as he adds more brush strokes to his game a picture emerges that in the final analysis makes a lot of common logical sense.

[@contactkarthik1239]

Very useful

[@aridojikatochiri9120]

I really like this idea

[@venumadhav9311]

Great Job

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Thank you! 😎

[@bishwajeetneupane3920]

great lesson that we shouldn't use f pown when center is not locked!

[@mariogilligan841]

41.66 for me. However, you told, by the end, that there was a check mate in 2 moves and I suppose I found it because of that. 😉

[@04alex]

Thanks that’s great

[@NMRobertRamirez]

You are welcome, Alex! 👍

[@jonwalker2929]

I got only 1 right. I would like to know if Magnus has played the Pirc recently.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello Jon! I am sure he has, but feel free to do this from time to time with any other Pirc game. It is a great training exercise indeed 👍

[@kevsteramp2065]

Thank you!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

You are welcome!

[@kitsunewhisker]

I do puzzles all the time but i still couldn’t see the checkmate - i think i got 3 moves right in total.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Thanks a lot for sharing your answer! Try doing this exercise from time to time with other games 👍

[@AlejandroVillanueva]

Great lesson! I got 2.400 but I'm not even near that in real life. Thank you for the great teaching!

[@someguy1717]

same

[@brownkss9710]

Sir i didn't get correct than 4 moves😪

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Hello! Try to do this exercise more often with other games. It will get better 👍💪

[@brownkss9710]

Want to play a game with you

[@NMRobertRamirez]

@@brownkss9710 any time 💪😎

[@brownkss9710]

Can you please share the books that you refered on lesson 100 and 102 ??

[@XFlyingDutchmanX]

I really liked this lesson. I got 9 out of 12. I missed Nxe5 (I wanted to play dxe), I missed Bxg4 (I wanted to play f5) and I missed Rxe4 (I wanted to play Re5 with the idea Rh5+) I guess in a more strategic game my performance would be significantly worse

[@adamblomquist5581]

Love this method! Got 3 right

[@NMRobertRamirez]

So glad to hear! Try doing it from time to time with other games 👍💪

[@seanerasmus334]

fun game!!

[@rickyoungs6429]

10 out of 12. Thank you for your help!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Congrats!! 💪 Trying doing this from time to time with other games 👍

[@Anonymous-eo2kb]

8/12. 2350? Where's my FM title boys!? 🤣😂 P.S. I love your teaching style, Robert. Keep them coming!

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Congrats!! 💪😎

[@cedrics7374]

I had 8 correct, so level 2350. Although the only reason I had the last two correct is because you insisted on checkmate in 2, withiut info I would probably have taken that soldier with the rook first

[@cedrics7374]

But it's funny I could've had 1750 just by moving my king back and forth almost the whole time 😁

[@NMRobertRamirez]

💪😎 congrats! Just try to continue to use this exercise with other games to see what you get consistently. It is definitelya great tool to improve.

[@JeffMoche]

If I get none right, I'm a 1750? YOU ARE THE BEST TEACHER EVER!!! Just kidding. I like your videos a lot.

[@medam9042]

got 11 out of 12, instead of BxNg4 I wanted to play Be6 then Bc4. My elo is 1400 so this game is not rly hard. I am new to chess but got a lot of experience from other games.

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Congrats!! 👏💪

[@FloatingSunfish]

I know it's pronounced "Pierce" and not "Purk," but I kinda liked hearing it that way. 🙂 Perhaps someday, "Purk" will also be a valid way to pronounce it.

[@gabrieldania9521]

mate con patatas atun y tomate muy lindo el mate, muy lindo el mate con sacrificio, pero la verdad es que la pista del mate en dos ayuda mucho, si no hubieras dicho la verda es que no lo hubiera encontrado ya que sacrificar tu dama es un movimiento que se hace con sangre fria JAJA. (por cierto saque 75% con 9/12)

[@NMRobertRamirez]

Jajaja nunca pensé ver un comentario que mencionara un mate con patatas 😅👏😜 Nah en serio, felicidades por su resultado. Este juego con tan pocas jugadas es un poco complicado para obtener tantas jugadas correctas. De todas maneras, seria interesante que repitieras este ejercicio con otros juegos en el futuro 👍 Saludos!

[@ralphgreenwood2469]

I got the checkmate only because I have seen that exact position doing puzzles.