Day 400: Playing chess every day until I reach a 2000 rating

Watch out Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen! I'm coming for you!
This is another day in my quest for a 2000 rating on chess.com.
Caro Kann, Advance, Tal Variation
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[@emptyb9968]

The reality is, Patrick tells wife he wants to learn chess. She plays 4d chess and tells him it's a great idea, but she has one condition, the bed has to be made and room clean if it's in the video. The bed is made everyday for over a year and she no longer has to share that responsibility.

[@erickhrey]

Thats the guest bedroom

[@TC-tp6xj]

@@erickhrey woosh

[@Spiethstar]

Congrats on your 400 days. Don't let the poor game discourage you.

[@XinYell]

Happiest moment for Patrick this game: 9:01 - 9:07

[@stephenwells1559]

Congratulations on your 400th episode. Good content, even if you're not where you want to be yet

[@arjuniyer2247]

Congratulations on reaching day 400!!🎉 Respect your determination and wish you all the best on reaching 2000 soon👍❤️🎉

[@ratatouille6522]

Congratulations on getting to Day 400 🎉!! Here’s hoping that you eclipse 1600 in no time 🥳

[@clashtitan1487]

Sometimes the journey is more enjoyable than the destination because it is filled with unexpected moments and valuable lessons. Keep learning and growing. :)

[@Nuitka]

First of all congratulations, I am following for max 50 days now, and I think when I joined you were at a high. I was very impressed with you doing all the necessary calculations. Also you seemed to follow open principles. You absolutely stopped doing that. Often when you are semi-developed, you start to consider pawn breaks, and single move threats you can make, piece swaps and so on, but you need to finish development. In this game, taking on B2 with the queen was very good, but you let your opponent bluff you, and you single line evaluated their attack in what appeared to be a repetition (then giving another check on f5 after c8). I would criticize you for accepting that as a basis for Qa1, even if the engine will tell you it's best, you would have to look for more. You could have discovered Nf6 as a blocker to the chess. I think f6 would actually have been brutal as then Qc3 which is what we would have to do, was coming at the cost of another piece. But what I find most striking, that seem to feel under pressure to act way too soon. Like on move 4 thinking about long castles is not useful. Get your pieces out first, allow for casting to either side, or pick one quickly, but get your pieces to play. Now also I think you seem to do calculations in places where they are not needed, you would just have to pick ways to develop your pieces. And then calculations are along forcing and semi-forcing lines going too deep, because they are often not going to happen at all. There are golden rules. Get your pieces out, fight for the center. Place your rooks on open files. Deviate only from those rules when there is a very good reason to do it. Qxb2 was e.g. one like that. In critical positions, consider more than one move. I actually liked Kd8 as defensive idea, but you were too quickly satisfied with it. Also for openings, I am not sure if the Vienna and Caro-Kann are good picks. I think you are past a rating point where the Vienna will give you easy wins with an immediate attack. You opponents are more often handling it pretty well. But this play encourages incomplete development and chaos in your play. The Caro is for people who know how to fight from a worse position, with long term ideas about a better end game. It's pretty common to get attacked in that opening, and your defence skills cannot be that good yet. Like e6 completely throwing you off, with no idea bad Qg6+ is really (not). I understand you want to play attacking chess, so against e4 I would recommend a Sicilian, learning the "setup", i.e. where you typically place your pieces in the dragon or the Najdorf, or something like that, and then follow it up with typical attack plans. Just a general wish. Play one game where all your pieces are developed to decent squares and you have a setup where they can help one another. Then, and only then think about pawn breaks. These are pawn moves to open or attack the center, open a line. and then you take advantage of your opponents not doing the same. Right now many of your opponents do that to you. And if you are still reading this. Heads up. You will not be able to appreciate advice until you learn it's true. And you can only learn it in lost games for the largest part. Loosing is part of learning in chess. Recognizing why you loose is hard. I am pretty sure you were previously winning, because you took a slower approach to find forcing variations of piece exchanges and single move threats on move 6 where you move a piece for the second time. Have a very good reason if you ever move a piece the second time before everything is developed. I am not sure if you get that. But there will be plenty of opportunity to see it.

[@user-eu3fi5sn7b]

Tricky opening for sure. Congrats on the 400 days!!

[@diablitosegura]

Dude I love this variation! It’s so good and honestly I would recommend you learning it as a weapon when playing white against the Karo kann! The one thing I would recommend is don’t let people push the pawn to e6 cuz then it will limit your space! Overall good job for reaching 400 videos! I love watching your videos!!

[@PeteyPablo1]

homer simpson mode: on. completely winning position blown

[@danielward7008]

Even though today's game was horrible, it's a positive that you've decided to spend less time on Blitz and more time on puzzles. Now if you could just learn that developing your pieces is more important than grabbing pawns...

[@MadM1sha]

Karo kann, in my opinion, is not the best opening for beginners. There is lots of theory you should know before playing this debut.

[@Gwennbleidd_Chess]

There's a lot of theory only if your opponents know it.

[@danielward7008]

It's fine at 1500 level as long as you learn a few basic points such as not letting white's pawn reach e6. It's not easy for white to play against either.

[@user-dj4pq1sh6o]

The name of this channel should be changed to "Patrick The Pawn Grabber."

[@paultharp4626]

Looking sharp

[@XFlyingDutchmanX]

Congratulation to day 400

[@mokertho]

Great victory 🤫

[@timeguy441]

please post your puzzles!

[@OurCommunityYouth]

Who reckons he will throw in the towel?

[@ibiwisi]

Tough loss, @ChessWithPatrick; I feel your pain. I think it's great that you're drilling puzzles rather than tilting at blitz . A suggestion: When it's your turn and you're about to select a candidate move, flip the board and consider the position as a puzzle from your opponent's point of view. As an example, if you had done this at 8:30, you would have seen Bg5 in a millisecond, given your 2400 puzzle rating. (Full disclosure: I've never tried this myself, but it seems like a good idea.) This will force you to think carefully about your opponent's next move, addressing one of your biggest thought process weaknesses. I'm gonna try this myself!

[@samsaauce]

my favorite lawyer

[@pauloya]

Keep going Patrick, we'll stick around for the next 400 as long as you do too! 😊

[@BIGBANGKAMEHAMEHA95]

fk yes go get em pat

[@colinmcgraw9798]

Tricky and trappy opening line. Your 7th move needs to be either e6 or Q-a6, Qxb2 is a mistake punished by the move he played, 8. e6! After that it's hard for black to stay afloat.

[@Lucan23]

The reason the computer doesn’t like you taking the “free” rook @16:06 is if your opponent played Qb3 then your queen is trapped and can be won after white castles and moves the knight. Ok you get two rooks but still is completely winning for white

[@jasonmdt]

Patrick what was that??!??!?!?!? You were killing him and suddenly started playing like a 300! Why didn't you just take that f pawn with your king? He had no attack! Why didn't you push your b pawn so he couldn't have a free rook?? Come on big P.... ha

[@pokemonjynx1019]

with this loss, i'm officially higher rated than patrick now

[@jamesmcavoy5440]

You said you hadn’t come across this varaition before, yet a subscriber played it against you and it ended equally badly.

[@user-cg7zp4sv8s]

my god, this was real garbage. happens. this was a 900 elo chess from both of you

[@user-te3ti9tp9w]

Tough loss. Have you considered working with a chess coach?

[@zigachad7577]

Patrick playing like 500 elo player instead of playing like a 1500 elo player 😂.

[@boblester1726]

It's good that you are doing puzzles, but high volume with a low success rate is bad. You're simply transferring your tendency to play hope chess to hope puzzles. Take the time and expend the effort to visualize the whole line before playing the first move.

[@MrDanielfff777]

Messy

[@12345678910111213858]

The hubris of people thinking they can get to 2000. Its amazing.

[@zigachad7577]

Cause there are a number of channels clickbaiting with the title : How I reached 2000 elo in just 1 year.

[@ozaman1064]

One of the poorer performances in a while.

[@Roberto-bd9fq]

Magical journey, or magical thinking. I think you dropped the ball on that one, kicked it down the field and the opposing team recovered it in your endzone for a touchdown. That's football talk, since you really don't understand chess.

[@jongomes5075]

I don't really understand chess, either, but I'm learning... partly thanks to Patrick's videos. Also, you don't seem to understand football.

[@Roberto-bd9fq]

@@jongomes5075 Well it's what American's call football. I know Europeas hate that. It is good that you are learning, mainly what not to do when playing chess, if you are learning for watching him, which is fine. For instance, Fisher studied games intensively in the losing positions and why people lost, though that was high level chess.

[@jongomes5075]

@@Roberto-bd9fq Learning from mistakes (even other people's mistakes) is clearly a worthwhile endeavor. Also, I know you are talking about American football... but you either don't understand the game or you are just really bad at metaphors.