How to Find Anchor Games

[@kyrollousashraf5374]

You sir might be an IM but by all means you are 10x as good as a chess tutor than almost every super GM out there....cheers 🥂❤

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Thanks a lot mate, imagine if I had GM level views and sub numbers...:(:(

[@bongcloud4442]

@@ChessCoachAndras Gotta amp up your clickbait game, anything with "top 10" in the title sells like hot cakes lately

[@owenkelliher4927]

I’m honestly pretty confused on how this channel isn’t more popular. There’s some really helpful stuff on here I wish I found sooner

[@Joel-vw9mo]

This channel is underrated fr

[@nomoreblitz]

Great video! It's usually clearest if the opponent in the model game is far lower rated. For example, I found Magnus vs. a 2450 playing Scandinavian, which was crystal clear to me.

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Yep, thats how it works best!

[@SweGoat]

You take the expression "criminally underrated" to a whole new level.

[@ChessCoachAndras]

People don't like to accept that chess is hard and takes a lot of dedicated work to get better. "Win with this amazing opening in just 8 moves!" is what they are after!"

[@SweGoat]

@@ChessCoachAndras Exactly! That’s just the reason I appreciate your videos so much.

[@althompson3085]

Great lesson!

[@ifixfridges7792]

Great stuff, coach!!

[@bruhifysbackup]

Finally. Good video on finding anchor games.

[@DuffmanChess]

I've been using anchor games for a while. For example, I learned how to play against the Caro-Kann using the game Gata Kamsky - Yasser Seirawan, US Championship 2012. Kamsky played a beautiful sacrificial attack culminating in this gorgeous 23.Rd7 move. I even beat a player 400 points higher rated than me in an OTB blitz game in that exact line.

[@michaelkrailo5725]

This was really helpful. Now i know how to find anchor games for any opening.

[@elisabetmanero6142]

Great advice. Thanks.

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Thanks a lot, happy you liked it!

[@dkpandey1996]

I didn't even know I needed a video on this topic until it showed up in my feed.

[@treasonouspigeonpeckers957]

That’s so me with most of these videos

[@alfredo4053]

Very specific video suggestion here! Could you do a video on how to handle the f4‐e5 tension (and it's specular e4‐f5)? I realized that I don't have a very good understanding of these situations, which is a shame if the sicilian is your favorite opening (with either color)

[@DaydreamVacations]

WOW Incredible tool Thank you.

[@joebrowse5338]

Was literally struggling with this the other day! Great video idea:)

[@Vishwesh2]

Great video. Very much needed for my rossolimo as black. Thanks

[@AlexAlekhine_]

Educational as always coach!

[@jonasgryte6591]

fantastic!!

[@treasonouspigeonpeckers957]

I like using both the masters and the online database with the online mostly for variations that a GM would never venture. My favorite is when one of your games can be used an anchor game but it has to be something less well known to work

[@bartomiejkuchnowski8024]

Amazing video as always! Do you think that the year that anchor game was played in matters? I often hear that it is better to analyse older games (as shown by your other series) as they tend to show the ideas lurking behind opening more clearly, so would it be beneficial to also sort by the year (at least for a beginner/amateur level players as we don't need cutting edge theory anyway)?

[@dkpandey1996]

It can be argued that older games were more inspired by logical ideas as there was no brute force engine calculation involved, so they should be preferred. Especially at the level you mentioned it would make more sense to analyze older games with clear, human ideas.

[@pi9t451]

Amazing video thanks! Does the time control matter? i.e. if you find a game between two top grandmasters but they were playing blitz, should that impact your choice?

[@ChessCoachAndras]

NOt necessarily as long as the game demonstrates the (right) ideas well.

[@Babyfacenelson1981]

Make more videos where your coaching your students. Loved those older vids

[@KingSlayerSloanvods]

Love the thumbnail.

[@adrianross7615]

Very good video

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Thanks, appreciate it!

[@travisberthold9659]

It is unfathomable that I have never ever asked you this question before ( or maybe I have recently but forgot). You specialize in Nimzo and know more than your fair share when it comes to the KID but how come we have never seen you Tango??? Was looking at Caruana vs Akobian 2017 as my anchor then thought I'd ask before it slipped my mind.

[@454mazen8]

Why we don't see many people play the grunfeld is it a bad opening or what

[@ChessCoachAndras]

It’s extremely theory heavy. Definitely nothing wrong with it !

[@azice6034]

The accidental highlighting in the bottom left corner literally killed my OCD throughout the video

[@ChessCoachAndras]

I have no idea what you are talking about but I believe you!

[@physics2112]

Like or Dislike: Like. How are anchor games superior to analyzing #Stockfish moves?

[@ChessCoachAndras]

Very simple. If you can memorise your openings, plus the engine analysis, you go ahead . That’s what Top gms do. For the rest of us, I recommend the anchor games!😉