Playing Chess until I hit 2000: Day 146

#chess
This is day 146 of my journey to get to a rating of 2000 on chess.com.
In this game we play the Classical Dutch Defense.
I need to study my end games because it seems like a few king moves and I could have won this one. But I'm thankful we didn't lose!
So far on the series:
93 wins 8 draws 74 losses
If you want to join the discord you can here:
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Or my twitch streams at:
/ owen4real
Shout out to my channel members!
Thank You so much for supporting me:
Jofa3099, Alfonso López, André Rodrigues, Firionn

[@elliottwoods5636]

getting back into chess after like 10 years not playing and finding good enjoyable content i can learn from is tough. i really vibe with this though i think i'll be here daily now. good stuff!

[@Blunder_Man]

Thanks so much elliottwoods! Always great to meet new people, and I'm super thankful you enjoy the content!

[@JCivX]

End games are tough man. Just started actually studying them/learning about them for real this week after not bothering for the three years I've been playing. And i love that you're playing the Dutch, keep it up!

[@Blunder_Man]

Do you also play the Dutch?? Yeah man, I could have played much better in this endgame, definitely an area that I can work on!

[@JCivX]

Yeah man, I like Simon Williams' content so I play Jobava and the Dutch hah. That's one reason why your video caught my eye like 100(?) days ago when I started watching your stuff. It's fun to see how you play the same openings with you being a little stronger in rapid. Oh yeah, and not that I know much, but I recommend thinking about fianchettoing the light squared bishop if white doesn't do it (which is mainline theory but we are at newbie level still so white doesn't do it much because they don't know the Dutch). It makes your bishop quite strong and can lead to some really fun attacks and also to a mate on g2 if white is careless.

[@Blunder_Man]

@@JCivX yes bro! I basically play all his openings because I love his style and content haha! Yes, I'm glad I fianchettoed this past game! Hopefully I can play better throughout the rest though!

[@JCivX]

​@Blunder_Man hell yeah! I should probably learn the Black Lion to complete my GingerGM repertoire but I think I'll stick with my Scandinavian against d4 for now hah

[@Blunder_Man]

@@JCivX I wasn't as much of a fan of the black lion. I've really been enjoying the sicilian, it's just so solid and so many tactics arise!

[@Mister-Germ]

Good game from you Owen! I mean, hey, you drew and didn't lose which is a positive thing. Keep up the daily chess content now!

[@Blunder_Man]

Will do Mister Germ!!

[@MilanVanschie-nn2ys]

I like the fact that you think about a lot of options during the entire game, the opponent was clearly throwing random moves (hope chess). Kinda hate these kind of players😅

[@Blunder_Man]

Thanks Milan! I def still play hope chess occasionally and I'm not the best player, but I'm trying to improve and figure the game out more and more as I go! Thanks for the feedback, hope to see you around here!

[@_chipz_]

Great video!

[@Blunder_Man]

thanks for checking it out mr chipz!

[@aimeekerton926]

GGs. Onwards

[@Blunder_Man]

thanks aimee!

[@Aiyousif]

nice game, he tried to flag u at the end though, pretty unsportsmanlike tbh since it was a dead draw

[@Blunder_Man]

I'm totally okay with it, if someone can get a win with their time advantage it's still a win, but yeah, everyone has different views on this stuff :P

[@mikeskora7760]

Wow, these people do not progress at all. He had the same rating a 100 days ago

[@Blunder_Man]

lol, 1v1 me bro