Day 617: Playing chess every day until I reach a 2000 rating

[@Fuzzow]

I stumbled upon your channel two weeks back and immediately subscribed! Love the way how calmly you play and analyze the moves. The music is soothing as well! Keep it up! I’m 1300 as for now, so I am also learning a lot

[@chesswithpatrick]

Welcome aboard!

[@stephenwestland942]

Well played Patrick. Sometimes you can win on time because you are so used to having only a few seconds left. Whereas perhaps your opponents are not. Anyway, that was a well played game against a tough opponent. I can quibble about a few things. You plated f6 prematurely before developing all your pieces. I also thought your bishop on e7 earlier was good even though you thought it was bad. But you played a strong (1600+) opponent and held your own in a tricky position. Great to see!!!!

[@TimTim3000]

I've just accepted that he loves to weaken the pawns around his king for no good reason.

[@virtualsnake1994]

WHATA GAME!! our kid flagging a high rated opponent... that's beautiful.

[@robbespel8393]

hi Patrick. Just found your channel. I'm on a similar journey, im about 1950 right now, and i really enjoyed your video. It has a very relaxing and authentic vibe. Good luck on your journey!

[@chesswithpatrick]

Thank you so much for your feedback. I appreciate it!

[@AlexShushpanov]

Spoiler Blocker!

[@mikesuppa7706]

Patrick, I liked your joke about the bishop pair☺️. Gg

[@chesswithpatrick]

Hahaha I don’t really know what to do with them haha

[@montagdp]

Nice game. You have definitely improved compared to how you were playing for most of last year.

[@chesswithpatrick]

Thank you so much for your support! It means a lot that you're watching my journey.

[@Marenqo]

Nice one, Patrick. Well played

[@stephenwestland942]

I have not seen the outcome yet. But at 6:42, yes, I would focus on getting your other rook in the game. I notice you are often talking about attacking this pawn or that pawn or checking here or there. But if I was you, here I would be thinking how do I get my pieces out. For me, Bd7 is a no-brainer here followed by Rc8. And you should try to control the open c file. Things like check on h4 don't achieve anything at all. But you play f6, breaking up the middle but you are anywhere near developed. Remember a few days ago we were talking about how you often don't develop your queen rook and I think you said you didn't notice it. This is another example. You are nowhere near sufficiently developed to be thinking about playing f6. You can play f6 a little later. To be fair, you do play Rc8 a few moves later. Well played. But I still think it should have been played before f6.

[@Nuitka]

I am actually highly in favor of f6 to break up the center. A bishop on c8 can count as developed. Playing f6 to open up the center was also well time due to the pin/obligation of the d-pawn, such that the king on f2 was in danger if the night were to take after a fixed move and cause white to be under pressure. Some variations would have had Rxf4+. The bishop on d7 was't going to do actual stuff. I don't think he lost time that way, but gained it, esp. as Re1 ended up doing nothing for the opponent. I also liked his reasoning to improve the bishop pair by those break-ups. What it definitely did, was to make a dumb piece of out of the knight on f3. That said, the advice is totally correct, to not break before you are developed. On the other hand, the king of f2 was weak and could have been punished if exf6 happened. And if it does not, the break is not real.

[@stephenwestland942]

@@Nuitka Yes, I can see that. It is certainly the only pawn break available to black and has to be played at some point. Well done for Patrick for seeing it. Personally I would probably develop the queen rook first but I totally see your point.

[@TonyHank-i4k]

Another BIG WIN for Patrick :D

[@chesswithpatrick]

Thanks Tony!

[@BenchPressEveryday]

PATRICK YOU NEED TO READ THIS ❗ please heart this message Patrick 😢 You NEED to add this middle game thought. Ask yourself this question EVERY.. SINGLE...TIME you are about to move. "Is there a piece I can move, that will increase the number of attackers on one of his pieces". And even better is if you can do this WHILE DEVELOPING a piece at the same time (but not mandatory) 4:00 is a CLASSIC and simple example of this. If you asked yourself this question right away you would draw the conclusion that Queen to b6 adds another attacker to his d6 pawn. Wow, now you have a plan to: A) go up in material B) ruin his center setup C) expose his king more D) check his king after he captures back with his knight E) have your queen x-raying his b2 pawn anyway as a backup F) have developed your queen G) force him to respond to the threat (IF HE EVEN SEES IT) Now who knew that SO MANY things come come from asking ONE...SIMPLE...QUESTION. And the best part about these overload attacks is all it takes is for them to not see the plan just once, for you to break their spirit. Next example of thought process is at 20:15. Hmmm what do I do... Hmmm.. so many things going on. KEEP IT SIMPLE. Theres a backwards pawn on a3. Any defenders? NOPE. Slide your queen to a4 and now you have more attackers than defenders. Oh... His queen protects it.. Now slide your rook to c3. CAN HE DEFEND THE PAWN.NOW?? NNNNNOPE. Now you win a pawn

[@KGrant88]

He did play b6, what are you talking about?

[@BenchPressEveryday]

@KGrant88 I'm saying his thought process in the middle game needs to be to think about putting more attackers on pawns and pieces. He moved his queen there but it wasn't because he was trying to double up on the opponents central pawn. He moved it there for some other reason. I'm trying to give him a strategy in the middle game to actually do something and get some attacks going.

[@Tony22715]

At 20:15, if black moves Qa4 white could move Qxf5 with the threat of Qe6+ the next move. I wouldn't want my opponent's queen invading just to have an attack on the queen's side that hopefully has long-term success.

[@BenchPressEveryday]

​@@Tony22715Yea but still, you get my point about having SOME sort of middle game strategy. I mean to use this strategy while also considering potential threats I guess

[@Lazzoboy]

Nice moves

[@ryandonaghy8627]

Go birds!!!

[@chesswithpatrick]

Let the games begin!!!

[@KGrant88]

Everyone is a chess coach. LOL

[@colinmcgraw9798]

not me, I am a chess coach coach. Your chess coaching needs work.

[@youtubeaccount1718]

will you stop at 2000

[@chesswithpatrick]

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves!

[@vahtang0002]

You look a lot like Michael Adams)

[@golfdoc1950]

Ironic you won on time. White had a winning position

[@imonoke7903]

Spoiler. I just finished my morning coffee. Its soon 11am and now i start watching chess with u patrick, i have a glass of white wine and a fatass joint. This is awesome!