I Made a HUGE Mistake…

[@Pegasus-Chess]

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[@R.Akerman-oz1tf]

"Steady as she goes". A win is simply that.

[@quinnzannoni4353]

I recently purchased your book on the Pegasus System. It would be very helpful if the PGN files for the 18 games in the book were available for download. Thank you!

[@hanssolcer3864]

you missed a checkmate at 15.33. Qe5-e1 #

[@Beery1962]

The perils of having only 36 seconds on the clock.

[@robmo6505]

And again at 15:44 and 15:59

[@williammcguire3426]

He missed it three times!

[@R.Akerman-oz1tf]

@@williammcguire3426 No pressure on Us. My ideas went nowhere. Congrats 2U.

[@Beery1962]

@@robmo6505 Serious time pressure though. People who don't do blitz and bullet miss stuff all the time. Besides, it's not like he lost.

[@gunnysreviews9411]

why do all these low rated players play so well

[@thomasmack3385]

The opponent played okay. The position was super straight forward for white. When they saw blacks clock got low, they played for time and lost because of it.

[@andrewpegman7959]

I agree. Often they read my mind 3 moves ahead. I think they are using AI?

[@Thekaiser4100]

“By cheating” - Kramnik

[@samuelbruyneel]

15:33 Qe1# was a mate in 1 I've spotted while watching Edit: You've missed it again when I continued watching Edit: You've missed it 3 times now (checkmate patterns) Edit: I've started reading and it's already in the comments

[@weswestbrook7902]

Nice example of battling back to save the game.

[@hanssolcer3864]

wonderful educational lessons. I learn a lot. thanks.

[@MrDavePed]

At 13:07 how about Q to c5? Pins the pawn threatening his bishop. Guards the knight. Threatens mate. Also guards a7 for a rook move against the queen.

[@Ryuzaki-x13]

Congrats bro ❣️

[@Ryuzaki-x13]

14:57 absolute cinema 🙏🏻👽

[@Pegasus-Chess]

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[@sirenbrian]

Did you decide in advance you were going for dark square control, or was that choice made after you saw white's first move? You went for white squares when playing white in a previous video - is that generally the way to go? Dark square strategy for black, light squares for white? Or was that an arbitrary choice and you can also go the other way if you feel like it?

[@Pegasus-Chess]

I decided in advance I wanted to make a dark square control video regardless of their first move as you can play this strategy against anything. It's best to go for light square control with White and dark square control with Black. I don't always play this but it's a useful low theory way to get a good middlegame out of the opening.

[@Pegasus-Chess]

Will try to make a new dark square control video where I don't blunder any pieces haha

[@KevinBrown-v4j]

Very good comeback. Maybe it’s just me; but, I sometimes get confused when you “pre-move” such as at 16:17-16:30, when you point out “ he basically has to trade the queen.”

[@Pegasus-Chess]

True Will not premove in Future videos it's confusing for the viewers

[@huskerjpg]

I love chess even though I'm not very good and have decided to try to improve using solid techniques like those offered on this channel. In the last few days I raised my ELO by 70 points playing one game per day. Today, I played a lower rated player and got absolutely smacked. Very disappointing. I'm just going to start again tomorrow and try to improve. I got too big for my britches.

[@GKGregory]

Would be helpful to do a game review with the engine afterwards and hear your thoughts as well 👍

[@Pegasus-Chess]

Yes, I did one but left it out of the video. Whenever I do a game review almost everybody stops watching causing KZbin to think it's a bad video... It's a bit annoying as I would rather do the review, but then the video does badly

[@GKGregory]

@ ah that’s a shame, no worries mate. The videos provide good insight 👌

[@The_Original_Vampire]

Video idea: How to play/sacrifice like Mikhail Tal

[@Pegasus-Chess]

It was on my Todo list for today, but the Paul Morphy and Bobby Fischer videos didn't do great 😬

[@Hdjejejzbcbebd]

You played against my friend

[@ricklanders]

Nice save 👍

[@keithwald5349]

The benefits of your verbalizing your thoughts outweigh (for us) the effects on your time and quality of play. If we watched you silently playing perfect moves, we wouldn't learn as much.

[@Pegasus-Chess]

True, thanks for sharing!

[@TheMichiganFishHunter]

Great video, Jonas! Thanks for sharing. It's refreshing to see KZbinrs making a mistake or 2. Nobody's perfect, and you shouldn't pretend to be. I'd rather see somebody miscalculate and own it than use software on another computer and have 98% accuracy every game.

[@Pegasus-Chess]

Thank you, it's because of comments like yours that I am now okay with poosting these videos that I otherwise would have just deleted.

[@Mark8v29]

Am I correct in understanding that rather than learning and remembering openings by names such as The Modern Defence, you forget all about naming openings and matching moves to the names, but instead you remember it as a strategy and in this case Controlling Dark Square, by which you automatically give yourself an easy thing to remember which guides your moves not only in the opening but also in the middle game? Is The Modern Defence or one of its lines (and its middle game), for example, essentially a strategy to control the dark squares? As a beginner I like the approach of remembering a number of strategies rather than remembering even one opening! I cross referenced your moves with an engine and saw that you quickly went out of book which I also like because it means if I remember strategies I will immediately have an advantage over an opponent who remembers openings, and it feels like I have a FREEDOM to move rather than obeying the rules of an opening. This makes me wonder what other strategies there are. If there are almost 500 openings in the book, how many strategies are there? I hope far fewer. I think your method of teaching/demonstrating strategies is amazingly helpful.

[@Pegasus-Chess]

While teaching I now try not to focus on the names and instead teach the key idea to remember so you can start playing the opening without needing to memorize moves

[@briandwi2504]

Thanks!

[@Karthik-sn3zk]

Awesome Comeback ! 🥂

[@henkoosterink8744]

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