How to beat the Advance Caro-Kann (in 16 moves!) · Training Game

[@Sejdr]

Blowing up the Caro-Kann with the Unabomber cosplay.

[@Kyle-ys3cv]

Teddy’s manifesto is excellent. Epiphany-inducing.

[@Roadto-sp3iu]

I like to see Stjepans being happy and excited, and glad it happens more and more in the recent videos :) maybe the tactics trainings do pay off, something that was suggested to him in the comments for a long time. thanks for sharing Stjepan and good luck

[@pablourosa1443]

I feel that recent opponents have been weaker / have played badly but also that Stjepan "sees more". I am still in love with the Qb7, Qb1+, Qg6 resource to save mate from a past game

[@michaelf8221]

That was the cleanest refutation of one inaccuracy I think I've ever seen you play

[@koxukoshu]

10:33 this is exactly my rollercoaster of emotions. Glad to hear you're finding progress Stjepan!

[@MartinVega-oh1tk]

These training games are such great companions to your other involved explanations. It would be very helpful to add these games to the descriptions of your other videos as references because sometimes the concepts get so deep that it can be hard to lose the bigger picture of what’s being discussed and how it plays out in actual game play. Great content though. Please keep it uo

[@unh0lys0da16]

I think it might also be valuable to do lower level tactics perhaps Puzzle Streak on Lichess, I noticed if I do a lot of high level tactics, my lower level tactics start to diminish because I get into the habit of overthinking

[@amarthurfurniture860]

I’ve recently started the Woodpecker Method on Chessable, and am already seeing the benefit. You train a specific set of tactical problems multiple times through, with the goal of cutting your completion time in half each time through. Once mastered, you move on to the next problem set with increased difficulty.

[@thedilletante4401]

I like how you were proud of your tactics and then the engine is like "Oh, you silly human."

[@SEAKPhotog]

Nice game! You're tactics training sure seems to be paying off (altho I don't know how you have the mental stamina for 4 hours a day - that's truly impressive).

[@egor-prime]

Keep making great videos

[@ahmadastewani8354]

Stjepan, well done here, and nice to see you on somewhat of a winning streak. As others have suggested though, it is easy to dump the tactics again once your rating goes back up, but the tactics training should now just stick and be a part of your daily/weekly routine, although maybe not at the current intensity, which seems somewhat unsustainable!

[@BallisticaMetal]

Don't you like tactics book like Sharpen your Tactics (1125 puzzles)? What about compositions? Mates in 2 (compositions)?

[@Pilotprox]

12:36 Congratulations on reaching 2300

[@abushaitan1188]

wow 4h tactics a day. Do you have any tips on chess stamina? I have a 2500 puzzle rating on lichess but I get already tired after 3-5, I can't imagine doing 30+ edit: Also attention tips maybe! I recently started to take Ritalin so It's going to be a bit better but I still struggle with that

[@mattdean1435]

Exercise and good diet. Chess at this level is a sport.

[@shanindtheeed]

Well done 👍🏿

[@turtulus]

Great game! Yet I'm surprised you didn't look further into Bg4? What should've been played instead and if you were still winning after Kd2

[@billagap3213]

Why don't you break the centre immediately with c5 and then play Nc6? Instead of the more passive Nd7?

[@stoutlager6325]

Wow, thirty 2600+ rated puzzles a day is a lot.

[@styenwanninayake3]

Nice🎉🎉

[@parker_chess]

His opponent is kinda suspicious. I don't know why his provisional rating is so high.

[@bluefin.64]

... f4 Qg4+ f5. One school of thought about tactics training is that you shouldn't do only hard puzzlles. You should in fact do mostly easy ones. The idea is if you do easy ones you complete many more, see the same patterns more often, and the repetition helps them stick. Lichess has a feature where you can set puzzle difficulty below your rating, apparently for this purpose. Not so long ago Lev Aronian credited an excellent tournament performance to tactics training. It didn't sound like it was routine for him, but it still says a lot for us mere mortals. In the past you seemed to treat tactics training like taking medicine for an illness, after which you stopped. Players at your level need to treat it more like changing to a healthier diet, and keep up a significant amount until you get to a much higher level.

[@pablourosa1443]

I don't think that's right about what you say about solving easy tactics. I think we way you improve is forcing your brain to look for resources in hard tactics so that easy tactics come naturally. Maybe a mix of both is the way to go. I love hard tactics. The way you feel after 10+ mins in a single position to solve it correctly is very nice.

[@bluefin.64]

@@pablourosa1443 It's a popular belief that to improve at chess study has to be hard, but there's something that puts that into question. Magnus never did it. He said he was never able to just sit down and make himself work. He didn't even do puzzles as part of his training, because he didn't find them fun. He just did what he enjoyed. Jeremy Silman said if you want to get good you should look at at least 100,000 games without thinking, just going through them quickly. It's the same idea as doing easy puzzles, exposing your brain to enough material that you pick up patterns unconsciously, and it's even less mental effort. I don't know if it's right (I'd like to hear what cognitive scientists say) but I think it's worth trying. I also think working your brain hard some of the time is necessary, and I'd bet Magnus did that when he was motivated to figure something out. Anyway, like you suggested, I think a mix is the right way to go.

[@Herschel3991]

As hikaru would say, its time for the cheese

[@curtissleypen9395]

Seinfeld is best sitcom of all time

[@jefftaylor1186]

3.Bf5? 3. Bf5?!?!?!?! in this house we are BOTVINNIK people. we go 3.c5 here.

[@gr8ness-personified]

A nice easy win… not that there’s anything wrong with that

[@HangingPawns]

:D