How to Adopt the Right Defensive Mindset | The Amateur's Mind #34

[@aluminiumknight4038]

A few days ago I played Carokann and my opponent blundered a random piece on move 4, o kinda lost interest in the game and just "developed" my pieces passively, I got smoothered mated in 15 moves.. I deserved that humiliation. I learned that you should never have mercy, kill your opponent whenever you have the chance. And never underestimate a man who's got nothing to lose :(

[@aluminiumknight4038]

@Neil Prabhu thx :)

[@PrinceTiger-r8l]

As a person who plays such useless moves, I thank you for telling me the better way.

[@lp4969]

I usually do the opposite when playing a strong player, a video about the hyper aggressive mindset would be awesome too

[@sakuragi_hanamichi3263]

What do you mean by hyper aggressive? Do you beat them with a chair on their head?

[@g.h.g.1106]

This would be a topic for the amateur mindset series

[@hosiahjones]

Wrong. This lesson is GM-level stuff.

[@niceandflowy5952]

Extremely instructive as always! i feel sorry for the people who don't know this channel

[@Shellback13202]

You just don't get this kind of consistent, invaluable advice anywhere else that takes such a holistic approach to the game. There are all kinds of opening, endgame, etc. videos out there but very few really teach players how to THINK. Great stuff, thank you. Congrats on 10k subs.

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Thanks dude, appreaciate it!

[@trlspann]

Another video, another knowledge bomb. Super video.

[@scoobot81]

Just a great lesson! I need to change my mindset exactly as you showed us here 😌 Thanks!

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much for the continued support!

[@joeperry1188]

Really excellent video as always. I remember a game I played once against a 1500 or so rated opponent where they opened the H file against my castled king and tried to mate me on the H, but I calculated it and it wasn't quite working. Basically my opponent continued anyway and ended up sacking their queen for my rook in a totally unsound way. It's a funny thing in reverse, where if you DO react to threats that aren't threats, you can go down in flames trying to "defend". But if you DON'T respond to an unsound attack, occasionally your opponent carries on with their unsound plan and goes down in flames themselves. On my level at least.

[@Rohan-xc3kl]

My god andreas that were just the instincts of mine that u challenged on thinking twice on our first defensive instincts we can always find out that we are not playing macho chess and that we are giving our opponent way more respect than he deserves truly awesome lesson

[@КириллЕлисеев-л7ю]

- Hey, Andras, what is your favorite dota 2 hero? - Centaur

[@patrickcole3571]

One of the most informative chess channels on KZbin, hands down. Thanks for doing what you do Andras.

[@GabrielSilva-mv4fm]

Greetings from Brazil! Thanks for sharing your perspective Can't wait to read the books on the tier list

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Hey Gabriel, welcome onboard!

[@BundyChess]

I whish I watched it earlier. great explanation coach!

[@stitch5604]

Excellent video Andras, thank you for your insight

[@Kgwm83]

Instructive stuff as usual, Andras and great choice of examples! 😃

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Too kind sire!:)

[@pedrodaffunchio675]

Andras, I really like your content! I want to ask: I see that reacting to a non-threat can be worse for your position than not reacting at all. On the other hand, when one is with a winning position it is common practice to try to be as solid as posible in order to avoid unnecessary complications. I mean, trying to be solid can also be expressed as playing suboptimal moves in order to have a simpler game, where it is harder to blunder something. Are these ideas contradictory or I am missing something?

[@2kgodwannabe571]

Andras do you like the french?there are some sharp variations

[@alexanderperchov2417]

Great video! Thank you for taking the time to share these insights with us.

[@erikhanek4902]

knight e3 was brutal

[@Socrates...]

So basically it is the ability to work out if you can interpose an intermediate move to the threat or not.

[@dominiks5068]

you are getting close to 10k subscribers, not bad!

[@Rohan-xc3kl]

Just wanted to ask something can we take on h3 so that after kh1 and rg1 we can use the kingside for our own attack 😀 in the hikaru game

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Nope , we have no business whatsoever to play on the kingside .

[@SoulPredatorX]

Great video Andras!

[@yurisam00]

Before your video I saw an Ad about the new Loki movie. Very disappointed that you weren't in it. Felt a little bit betrayed to be honest. Anyway, fantastic lesson as usual.

[@davea.9761]

Danke!

[@davea.9761]

Thank you Andras for your great videos and chessable courses

[@titojosito]

The arrow for the knight is annoying, it distracts from the true move of the knight and when you draw several of them the confusion is complete 😕

[@alexqdn8210]

Unfortunately there are no subtitles ((

[@alexqdn8210]

subtitles appeared ))

[@unknownalsounknown4238]

nice

[@kmode7936]

First,but does it matter?

[@RaptureReady2025]

Congratulations! No it matters not. But it feels DaYuM Good doesn’t it?!!! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

[@lp4969]

Have my like sir

[@sashaboydcom]

What's the threat to being first?