Mastering Chess: FULL Coaching Session with a 1900 Rated Player!

[@noneylx]

Thanks for the lesson! Really enjoyed it and appreciate the support and coaching over the last few years.

[@LionChess]

@@noneylx It's a pleasure watching you grow as a player. Really enjoyed it too, it was a great lesson!

[@MattduCouloir]

I’m only a few minutes in, but got to say : what a great coaching session ! Great coach, but the student is also very actively analyzing. Great stuff !

[@LionChess]

Thank you very much! I hope you enjoy it, there's a ton of really instructive moments :)

[@rickymendez306]

This was extremely extremely helpful. Especially the fact that the analysis was done without the engine being on throughout. Very insightful seeing the thought process and not just the "right move" from the engine. I hope to see more of this if possible. Keep up the good work!

[@LionChess]

Thank you very much! I'm really happy you found it so insightful :) I'll try post more of these for you and others who like it!

[@manuelfuentes4509]

Awesome coaching¡ I feel I’m on a similar level as your student Noah. This was so beneficial for me just to watch

[@LionChess]

@@manuelfuentes4509 Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it 🥰 If you're interested, I'd be happy to help you out too and look at your specific situation!

[@whimsnickal]

Will never cease to amaze me how all the tiny, seemingly inconsequential decisions - each one unique but also cascading from prior moves - earlier in the game add up by the end to decide the result. A very instructive video, thanks coach!

[@LionChess]

@@whimsnickal Agreed! Thank you! I appreciate your support 🥰

[@raymondwandell8880]

Thanks!

[@LionChess]

Happy to help! I hope you found it useful and instructive :D Thank you very much for the $$, really appreciate it ❤️

[@mathewsamuel1386]

An absolute gem of a training session. Sent you an email query about coaching. Never got a reply. Maybe it was delivered to your spam folder?

[@LionChess]

@@mathewsamuel1386 Thank you! Apologies, it must've gone to my spam. I'll check it now

[@honestloz]

Very instructive. Great to watch. Thank you 👍

[@LionChess]

Thank you for watching and supporting! :)

[@ketonicm8504]

I wonder about the outpost statement tbh, because isn't blacks e6 pawn kind of the equivalent to whites d4 pawn? Black normally tries to put pressure on the d4 early on and white wants to break on e6 so in theory shouldn't that be an important square? Otherwise I only can agree to the other comments, great video Sandro, very instructional! Also thanks to Noah to agree to putting the training sessions online👍🏻

[@LionChess]

Can you please specify the time in the video? I can't find the outpost statement 😅 Thank you for the kind words, happy you enjoyed it :)

[@ketonicm8504]

Minute 13:45 , that "all of those squares seem completely useless" to you. I'm confused by this especially because the plan for black is to push the c pawn for the break so the e6 would lack it's defender and be an easier target (but maybe I'm not understand something).

[@LionChess]

​@@ketonicm8504 Oohhhh okay, I see what you mean. Thanks for the timestamp. You are correct in your thinking, but there's a vital difference you're missing. d4 is ALREADY a weakness (base of the pawn chain) while e6 is not. I agree that it WILL BE if they successfully pawn break with f5 and go fxe6 and we have to recapture fxe6. In that case, it really would be the equivalent of their d4 pawn, making the outpost very valuable as it targets a weakness! However, they are by no means guaranteed to succeed in that pawn break and we will do our best to stop them. For that reason, I don't see the value in the outpost immediately. In the game, Noah was scared of the immediate Nc5 and I wanted to explain that this is not a worry whatsoever, but in hindsight it would've been even more instructive to specify that this is not a problem RIGHT NOW, but it can be in the future if e6 becomes a weakness as a result of their pawn break. Hopefully that clears up what I wanted to say, let me know if you'd like me to rewrite it in more precise terms since at the time of writing this it's midnight and it's been a long day 🤣 P.S. the capitalizing of words is simply to put emphasis, it's not meant to be aggressive hahah Thank you for the comment!

[@ketonicm8504]

@@LionChess Just for the understanding, that would also mean that in case they occupy the outpost we would neglect the plan of pushing the c pawn for the break and exclusively expand and break on the queen side right?

[@LionChess]

​@@ketonicm8504 F pawn, but yes, exactly The plan would then be to pressure the outposted knight because it's more of a target than a strength There's going to be many removing-the-defender tactics on that knight. For example, there's a tactical pattern: Let's say they play Nc5 and we play Qb6 and they play something irrelevant. We have Nxd4 and when they recapture on d4 with anything and we can take on c5, winning a pawn

[@MacsGambit]

Me next! I'm very interested in coaching. Great video.

[@LionChess]

Thanks! Love your username btw :D Great choice, reach out to me through one of the top 3 links in the description (Twitter, Discord or E-mail) and we'll get started! Looking forward to helping you out :)

[@raymondwandell8880]

Great video. Struggling to see how this student is 1900. Must be really strong with white?

[@LionChess]

He's a pretty strong player overall, I wonder why you say that.. What specifically makes you "struggle to see how he's 1900"?

[@MattduCouloir]

We all have different strenghts, good time management and playing solid chess definitly seems to be enough to get to 1900-2000. The student is very active and open to feedback during this session, I can see how he got there.

[@Duck.elephant]

I want to be taugh by you what should i do

[@LionChess]

Reach out to me directly using one of the top 3 links in the description of the video, whichever you like :)