7 MOST COMMON Chess Mistakes

Ladies and gentlemen, when you start your

chess

career, you will make a lot of

mistakes

and when you research the

most

common

types of

mistakes

that beginner and intermediate level players make, you will hear things like you hang too much on your queen you don't develop your pieces you don't focus well on the center in this video I am going to go beyond that by far I am going to give you what in my opinion are the seven

most

important mistakes that you are making that prevent you from gaining elo consistently and since this will be a very funny, deserves a better t-shirt than this, much better, okay, the timestamps will be in the video player, let's get into it.

The first mistake you're making is that you're trading everything and if you're not guilty of this, well, most people at this level are, so let's talk a little about what I'm talking about, let's talk a little about what I'm talking about. doing. I'm talking about wow fantastic english so e4 e5 you've definitely had games like this knight f3 knight c6 you play a bit of this okay a pawn has been exchanged now black decides to exchange a knight then black decides to exchange a queen and you're like, yeah, well whatever you know, let's do it and then you go here and then they go here and now they're going to trade this, oh my god, oh no, and you know it at the end of the middle of the first 12 movements. the armies are gone, they are just gone without even thinking about what the hell is going on, so here is the issue of exchanging pieces in

chess

, which has multiple elements, the first element is what pieces are supposed to be exchanged depending of the opening you are playing.

So the opening we just saw was the whiskey opening. This is the whiskey opening with the knight taking d4. While White plays the knight, he takes d4. This is a really bad move for Black. Normally in whiskey Black plays the knight to f6 or the bishop to c5. Nothing more really, there are a couple of other complicated lines, but those are the two main lines because the goal of the opening is not to simply exchange all the pieces, the goal of the opening is to develop all your pieces in a coordinated way and that sometimes It means keeping the tension because both are protected neither side wants to make the exchange because then they just eliminate one of their attackers from the game.

This would be fine for Black, but usually Black wants to put a knight to attack a queen in the center. They can't do that anymore and if Black plays c5, that's actually a big weak weakness and we'll talk a little bit about the other

common

mistakes. White is already close to plus 1.5 here after simply folding because Black just committed this huge weakness. in the center of the board, the knight will stand there, White will develop the bishops, either castling short or long, and this is simply a much better position for White, but the moment White exchanges queens, now black does very well because black is basically playing with white now you have exchanged queens in a way that you just gave them an advantage in development now black has a night out you have nothing you bring a night out now I'm facing you now there are even more things here like bishop takes This I'm not so sure about this, this is not a very good exchange and in general I would say that this bishop for knight is something like, for example, just taking the bishop and then take control here unless you are damaging the structure or opening the king don't do it don't change the bishop at night unless you are damaging the structure and have a logical follow-up or you are weakening the king, otherwise just It doesn't make any sense in this case.

It's a point where you win a pawn, so it makes sense, but White simply wins another pawn and of course this is a terrible move. There is no need to give away the bishop for the knight. Obviously it is better for white to play. a move like bishop to d4 to hold two bishops and then kick night and then castle and then make sure you know you don't lose this pawn, don't just move this bishop and lose this pawn and white is plus one here according to the engine just a very clear advantage why the bishop pair has a better pawn structure, so three three per side, so the exchange arises from openings and are based on logic, are based on logical exchanges, for example, another opening in london, right, this is the notorious london well, in the london system, this exchange of bishops is something that black really wants if you exchange like this, even taking pawns is completely fine for black because now your general plan Putting your knight here is no longer possible, yes, Black damages the structure. but the pawns are all together, so you know that maybe black can use that double pawn to push towards the center, so what you do here is you try to negotiate on your own terms, you slide back, that's actually a of the reasons why you do this, because if they take you they just open your rook and this knight to e5 is still very much a plan that you take towards the center, your pawns are together and your rook is open and in a perfect world , if Black is not careful, you will simply launch a very devastating attack. attack their king and you won't castle, so you try to make trades on your own terms derived from the openings, but you know, and if you want, go a little deeper on when to trade, why to trade and how to trade.

You have to watch a video about it, I have a video about it and other people do too. There are many videos on youtube about when to exchange parts. That's something you have to look for and understand that comes from your own openings. Here is a great example, you know White has a very good position here, if White could move, White would play the queen to d3, line up a battery here and try to get rid of this knight, either with a pawn or with the horse, this horse is very powerful. So the bet that one of the best moves here for Black is to try to exchange this relatively passive bishop.

This bishop is never going to break this bishop here to maybe even take and there could be a situation where the bishop takes the knight right away. the best way to do this is to trade your bad bishop and then move the knight out of the way, this is protected by virtue of just a pawn on g6, a nice little barricade there and again the bishop is covered by a ton of square pawns clear as a small barrier and this knight can turn to the other side of the board at the same time if black wants to exchange nights like night for night, yes that would be a fantastic exchange for black because you have eliminated such an active piece and everything what do you have. the thing to do is just not pair up, which we'll talk about later, so it's an art to swap pieces the right way, you have to have a concrete reason for doing it, okay, don't just swap pieces from left to right, trust in me and that's going to be better for your long term improvement either don't put abstract concepts behind traits oh I always change my queen because I'm afraid of getting killed or I'm afraid of losing my queen what if a champion world has never said that?

I shouldn't say that either, okay let's move on to mistake number two, this is something I've decided to call false training, we're all guilty of this, we're actually not even going to use the board much, but I'll start. With this fake training it is the art of convincing yourself that you are doing legitimate and productive things to improve at something that is not only related to chess. By the way, mastering this skill beyond chess is probably what we all need. Fake training goes something like this. You like my videos. a sale you buy the course e4 you study vienna a little gentleman c3 you get very excited you win a couple of blitz games and you say oh and then you don't study the rest of the course how many of you have courses? that you just don't study because you think I don't have time or this or that, you really have to study that, like you have to set aside time and use the resources, whether they are free or paid, and really put them to work if you study vienna you need to leave me alone and be able to explain everything to me right now I can explain everything to you if knight to f6 you have the option of the classic vienna or you can play the vienna gambit and Now I could tell you all the main lines, the best move and the only move is d5 and inside from the main line there is obviously the c3 knight, there is f5 and the c6 knight, those are all the main moves that you should be able to recite. you have to be able to get to the board and not just not know things because otherwise you're fake training, that's the element of courses, the same thing goes, you know, if you get a g6 course with black or the carl con, you're like Well, I know what to do if they play the trade.

I don't really remember what to do here. What do you mean you don't remember? You have it, it's in your power, so go learn it and I like that I always lose when they. play this well, are you playing it correctly? are you playing the correct answer? So that's the right opening state, but we also do fake training in general because you could say, well, I'm playing blitz every day and you're playing 20 games of blitz a day. because you have time you go like 50 sometimes 45 wins sometimes 55 wins are you really learning something? No, not really, and the other thing we do a lot is we'll study tactics, that's the other thing we do, let's just stop the board here. for a moment let's talk, you and I will do tactical puzzles that have a way of getting us very excited because a lot of people have enormous puzzle ratings, but if I pat you on the neck and say, pay attention, you're winning at this. position, well you'll probably find it fine, but you can't, there's no such thing in a live game with the anxiety of knowing your blood is pumping and your heart rate is increasing, you have to be able to locate it. these things in game time, so you have to put it all together, that's what I mean by fake training.

This won't be like a huge chess analysis section. I wanted to show you the openings there, but the other thing is when To solve those puzzles, what you have to do is understand that you have to put the concepts that you're seeing into words, like conceptualize them, mark them in your brain so that your brain picks them up later, the best chess players, I am not. a top-level chess player, but even regular players like me in a live game, we're not sitting there thinking, what's my mindset? What did I internalize about this concept? No, you program your brain almost like an AI and it just chooses it. above, just see the recognized pattern, boom and your brain will just stick to a move, but stop fake training, stop convincing yourself that you're really working, whether it's free or paid content, tactics, finish game openings if not you can recite it. for someone, then you don't know, okay, let's make mistake number three, okay, this one is at a pretty basic elementary level, but I'm adding more to it and I want to call it the only engine, yes, the only engine. you just move your queen and lose it, well good night, but there's more to it than this.

I want you to think about this in three different ways. Number one, you make a move that creates a very simplistic threat and moves your piece. of position, then you don't even think about where the opponent's piece will go, that drives me crazy, oh my god, for example, take this position, black is a little better here strategically because white has pawns that, as you know, block the bishop, a possible weakness in the center. of the board, but if this is a game between two thousand, it doesn't matter, but here White plays this move from the knight to e5 because it is a good move, the knight moving to the middle and attacking the queen must be a good move, but there is not even a thought behind those eyeballs about where the queen will go.

You don't even think about it, well, it's going to move, what do you think, they'll just leave it there, that's how people think that Well, if they don't move it, I'll take it as maximum danger to you, so the queen could go to d6, the queen could go to c7 e8 b7 a8 and many of us will, I don't know. We'll move it somewhere and then figure it out. No, the best players in the world know what the best moves are for both sides, not just themselves, where the queen will go, she will go to c5 of course, and then the queen will hit you c5. and you're like, oh my god, I'm so dumb, how did I not see that you weren't even looking for it in the first place?

You discard a move like 95 as you improve because you start to wonder if they can attack me in some way. Oh yes yes they can do it yes in fact now in a 30 minute game I need someone with a score of 8900 to already see 95 queen c5 in a three minute game even a 1200 error 95 queen c5 because the board is big and it takes three minutes. game, okay, it happens, so time control does matter, but these moves are just these empty threats of a move, you guys need to stop doing them and I have more examples of course, here's an example, this is, this It's slightly different, but it's not. like a loss of a move uh thisit's very similar to a custom position from a game that a subscriber sent me um here I think it's black to move and black is the same in material a little worse because this bishop is better than this knight but play this move g5 now on a surface not it's a bad move it attacks the queen it can't be that bad and it's defended the problem is it drastically weakens the king the queen slides forward and now it's unbearably difficult to get rid of these two pieces because what are you going to do? do if you offer a lady exchange?

I take g5, so Black said, well, I want to offer a queen exchange, so I have to protect this first, so two king-weakening pawn moves obviously started with just a random pawn attack. the queen and now white played this which almost seems like a blunder because there is a check from the f3 knight and you win the rook, but since you allowed the queen to come in, there is a move that you cannot make because you are immobilized, now I check and just play a five and you lose. you lose you can't avoid f6 and mate you have to plunder your queen it's impossible f6 i take your king gg so that's it the game is over there's nothing black can do at all there's no way to get to this king if this check if it were possible that would be great but it's not um and uh this is game over that's it the whole game is completely lost so one move caused all the problems there was no way for white at all I mean if you ventured here like you didn't I know uh come on just say like queen h6, okay and then there would be f3 knight and I could exchange queens with you, which I would love, but since you only make one very aggressive move, that's it, your only move is gone, you've completely damaged your structure in your position. you have a terrible board position now so this happens all the time here's another example um and this is something I like to call continuity this is um when I started introducing a concept called continuity uh it's similar to the single type of thing. move, but it's remembering how a position is tied together when a move is made, so white just played the queen on b3 the queen was here, she just got attacked, she goes here and attacks b7, you're like I'm sticking with that pawn if they don't.

You look at it, they play here and you're like, well I don't know what that means, I guess I could take, but I don't want to lose the pair of bishops because you know you've heard the bishop here, so you're like okay, I'm just going to take b7 and you just made a mistake on a single move for your opponent, they just went boom, one move, you're like, oh my god, how did I not see that your tunnel vision was an asterisk, a very important term. You, tunnel vision, said, well I'm going to take b7, you just completely forgot what you should have done, probably take take and then take b7 and by the way, that's not even the best move, apparently to the motor here really likes. this f5 move blocks the bishop and actually threatens to win it, which is very hard to see, especially if you're not like 16 1700, it's a very difficult move, it looks like it does nothing, but this bishop is completely blocked and you know . that's how you introduce more advanced concepts when you take b7, there may be a rook on b8 and now they're going to win this pawn and that's it, but that's the nature of a player with tunnel vision in your plan, which you don't realize. you realize completely. what your opponent is trying to achieve and well you pay the price and last but not least continuity oh my favorite you have this position white is definitely a little better here I would say maybe even much better because these pawns are very weak now.

If I prepared this position for you and maybe you're looking at this and you're doing well, I can mate you there if I have some protection, protection is good, very important, you play e4 bishop and they take your rook and now you. They are down a tower and then they have to come back and defend this and that is very doable, I mean they can even do it like that and that is why you have to look for maximum danger for your opponent because now they attack and defend and that is very Bad for you, that knight just does the trick, that's something called continuity, you just realize what is affected on the chess board, okay, and if you go here, you stop protecting your rook and the maximum danger increases, you hang a rook, congratulations and by the way, this can happen in things like In a number of ways, if I just edit this board a little bit, I'll do something like this and I'll move this king to g7, let's say in this position, well, I can push my pawn and attack the knight.

That looks good, I'm going to do that, oops, oops, oops, continuity, the board changes with every move you make, so focus on your opponent's pieces, draw little arrows with your eyes from your opponent's pieces to your pieces and the empty squares that will trap you. on the right path and stop making these bad one-move decisions that weaken your position and have no long-term benefit and stop doing random night jumps, piece jumps to attack things and not think about where you're going. they are going to move Let's get to mistake number four, so this one is a little more general, but you're the one making the same type of mistake over and over again.

There are many ways to do this number one. They could be your openings, you're just spamming the same openings. without reviewing the lines, reviewing the concepts and you will not get an optimal situation and what I mean by this is, um, Lucy, for example, I love her very much, my wonderful girlfriend, she plays e4 and she doesn't work on it very much. Vienna, but she has gotten so many positions like this, she has about 900 blitz, about a thousand blitz, 1100 rapids and she is winning completely in the opening, she is complete. This is known to be completely winning for White, but she won't take advantage or sometimes. she won't even take this constantly, she will make a move like knight to f3 in this position, which is not the correct move.

You can say the same thing, for example, if they take, you know she played e5 before and, uh, there's queen h4 on the cards, so you have to play knight f3, which she does pretty consistently now, but for a time I would play d4 and simply allow the queen h4, so you need to develop consistency throughout your openings, you can't just play wrong openings, even win outright. positions that you have to build on previous games um, what you know, for example, uh, in the Scandinavian defense, if we flip this right, we're going to flip it very quickly for Black, um, I've seen this happen maybe five or six times in Lucy's Games when the Norseman plays, you know he's doing his Norseman, he throws his queen there, plays the pawn to c6 so the queen can get to safety, it develops, you know, White attacks the bishop, like this which exchanges and then, in this position, they play the bishop to g5.

Most advanced players will obviously see this and I've actually used this same example in another video and it just won't happen and I was always thinking about using this as an example in a video because I guarantee your opponents. you are making repetitive mistakes in the openings you were playing within the first 10 moves and you are not punishing them for it. That's what I mean by the same mistake that happens in openings. Now another very common mistake and I hear it all the time. The time I'm going to change this to White's perspective real quick is to hang up the queen.

It's kind of a meme, but how many times do we just hang up the queen in the middle of a game? It's ridiculous, you need to stop doing it and honestly it's not. the most difficult thing in the world what you know one day you are playing a Sicilian defense just improvising you don't know your openings very well you know you are supposed to fight for the center okay you change I don't I don't love that exchange there are pawns doubles, but it's not the best in the world. Now you immediately unfold the pawns. How does that make sense?

Well, now you say I can develop knight, bishop or rook, but it's time to move my queen. ready, d5, now you just switch, don't even hesitate, I don't really love that move, I don't know why you would do that, but okay, pretty much the same, move your rook towards the bishop and then here's the devil on your shoulder. Like hey, what if I somehow get to g7, like you know, boom boom or boom boom dude, okay, huh, queen knight d2, oh, queen comes out good, so you could take f6, okay, and that That's all, and you're just a pawn. the big open king position, but in your mind you said, well, I can take and this won't have any kind of defense, because I'll go with the queen g3 and then I'll take, they can't take back, oh, I'm. so smart boom and then this happens and you want to just throw every possession you have out the window, each one straight out the window onto the street, you want to break your phone, you're like how did I do that again? because it's something that I already mentioned in this video, draw little arrows from your opponent's pieces on yours like this, it's not that complicated, since this bishop doesn't have vision this way, so you're looking here, the queen looks at the patrol, the patrol is over and at some point you have to stop making the same mistake over and over again whether it's in the opening whether it's poor time management which we'll talk about later whether it's a movement mistake you all do this everyone is guilty of it there is a culprit behind the madness that doesn't exist you are not making 400 different types of mistakes, what you are doing is probably pretty consistent, maybe you feel overwhelmed by players who play extremely fast, you get frustrated when you play against people who exchange all the pieces, you are not playing your openings correctly, but it is the same thing over and over again, let's make mistake number five.

I just said I was going to talk to you about time management. When they think about time management and chess, they think of playing too slow, wasting time or whatever, and everyone has a different philosophy when it comes to it. to time management some people say that I am going to play a 10 minute game and if I get a winning position but I lose on time I will be happy because I got a winning position why are you happy that is what I never understood On the one hand, sure you probably played a little better than your opponent in accuracy, but they beat you in timing.

Chess is often a game of efficiency as much as a game of making the best move at the best time. The truth. is that if you are a player with a rating of 1000 and you are trying to improve, you need to discard the idea that you are going to play a perfect game, stop, no you are not and that's okay, you need to play better than your opponent, that is all. to make a little less mistakes and you have to punish mistakes when they are available, that's why you're watching this video in the first place and by the way, thank you, how are you? 20 minutes 25 minutes into the video now no I don't know because I have to edit it together I take breaks in between I don't know anyway let's say you're playing white and you play like a three minute game you play e4 you're like okay I know take the center, okay, that's a bit of a strange move, let me think a little about opponents who play every move in a second, by the way, like the limit bishop before the move, two e3 boom boom, like it's going to take more space with my pawns and I finished my development, I don't know what they are doing and now you start thinking, now you have like 220 on the clock, they got like 255, okay, you think for a moment because you don't know what to do, you have to do it. an overload of options, literally any move in this position with white, except a complete surrender of a piece, is good, whatever you do, it doesn't matter what rook you move, because you have much more space, this is a very non-development. standard, no It doesn't really make any sense this knight doesn't have any fight in the center now you can start stomping on the black one you can start fighting for this you spend like 20 seconds here because you just don't know what to do you're nervous they're like, oh my god, a couple more moves go by, you know, black actually thinks this has to be defended, you keep thinking you know they're still playing solid and before you know it, they're at 240, you're at one, you're like a minute in the clock and you end up losing the game because you panic they, you know, they'll probably play something stupid, you know, maybe you like to slide your queen later and then you hang it up, you're like, oh my gosh, this is what I'm going to say that depending on the time format you play, let's say you play three minute set time goals, okay, if you play a longer game, you have a lot of time to mess around, so, for time management, I would What I would say is if you are playing with a shorter time control you have to move just move and take a little note I am not going to follow my opponent in the clonk for more than 20 seconds it doesn't matter I will play simple and solid moves when I don't know what to do in a position like this I'll play a3 I'll slide a piece over a couple of squares I won't change the position that much and that's how you have to do it because at some point they're going to slow down, that's the truth or they're going to do something really stupid, which That's when you have to be on high alert, that's where tactical training comes in, that's not the fake training we're talking about,Diligent tactical training, spotting patterns immediately, that is.

Difficult, but it's part of the game and the truth is that playing with these small time barriers in mind is extremely important. I don't do much when I stream because I talk in the chat I talk to frequently. much less time and I'm trying to get better at classical chess, but sometimes it's very difficult, that's the truth, but this has the opposite, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes you can play too fast and I don't know why you would. Play a 30 minute game and in 25 moves there are only 28 minutes left. What are you doing? I've seen people send me games where on move 25 they have 28 30 on the clock.

They're down as a piece like me, why would you? play a 30 minute game and play that fast, what's the point of that? So you need to find a comfortable time slot where you enjoy playing ten minutes, three minutes, whatever and you need to play efficiently, don't let that time slot go too far. Hold yourself accountable, you may lose grade in the short term, but in the long term you will become sharper and you are not going to tank all the time and still make a bad move. I'll give you an example of this, one of my subscriber trees, Eric had a game recently where around move 25 if we just take a look at this position um, it's up, it's up, actually a little bit more They later exchanged some pieces, you have a two point lead here, but it's much more than that, the rooks are flying on both sides to crash into h2 this barrier. prevents white from counterattacking, the knight is about to lose and after the knight takes c5, I know you can't see the time because this is an analysis, but in this position black has about 150 on the clock, the White has about two more minutes.

So like 340 150 minutes and 50 seconds for black, now the way to win is you don't even really concentrate. In this way, you turn the queen. This is devastating because you can no longer avoid it if the tower desperately enters. trying to defend everything now you can sneak into the back row and the king has nowhere to run, the king officially has no squares so black is winning completely and white will need to lose the queen and everything, but in the game Eric passed some time and exchanged. rooks and he allowed this small defensive formation and then here, with time down, he decided to retreat to an endgame exchanging queens winning outright.

I love the strategy, great strategy, but he only has about 75 seconds left on the clock because he couldn't find a way to get through. It's not a bad strategy, I actually like it. Here's the problem when you're on high alert with little time. Look where the counterattacking game is going to be. This bishop can win any of these pawns if you allow it because they are all light. square pawns and which of the white patrons are the most dangerous no this this one and this one this one is very close this one is quite close to the promotion maybe the apon so your king needs to stay here and your rook needs to find the quickest possible way to eating the entire king d7 is not a bad move I don't like letting the king fall behind letting the rook do the damage but since you don't have time you're just flying well you're just trying to play moves like why is the king running out let let the rook do the damage the rook is the most powerful piece on the board right now and look what happens he allows this then which pawn should he take the pawn that will become a queen or the pawn that is not going to become a queen take the wrong pawn he's still winning then play the rook h3 that's like a check like oh my god I don't know what to do I don't have much time give another check and take the wrong pawn again and now he's in big trouble and he only has one way to stop this and it's with his rook, he has to stop it with the rook somehow like rook h1 rook c1 and instead he just instinctively moves the king because he's been getting into the running game and now he's losing and now he's completely lost and now he's got a queen down and well, that's even a terrible move, I mean, just the b8 queen picks this up, but both players are short on time and then boom, that's it.

The b7 bishop is done in one and you get very angry when you throw games like this, but you have to manage your time better, okay, too fast or too slow, figure it out, mistake number six is ​​coming, this one is not innovative either, huh, but it's a concept I like to call the selfish brain, we just sometimes don't pay attention to our opponents in chess games and like what they want and what they are doing. You'll notice that throughout this video I've drawn attention to that in the form of one moving, like when you're trying to make a move and you're not paying attention to what your opponent wants, but this one is a little more like your opponent he just made a move and you don't even step and ask. yourself what they want like they want to mate you in fact if you are a strong player this is hypothetically in your mind anyway the other thing you are thinking about is will my opponent exchange pieces and try to advance this pawn with my opponent try playing down the middle they will try to sneak in and get these pawns it's a constant thought process of what do they want they go here you play oh oh my god I've been training my whole life for night forks kabam I'm so smart and then you hear a little window appear from chess.com and says: oh game closed, you almost have it and you say, but that's completely your fault, who are you mad at?

Beat yourself up, maybe what's coming is right there. just avoid it prevent mate push the pawn I don't know push this pawn push this pawn exchange queens I don't know everything stop mate or here is another example f4 although that doesn't really make much sense because obviously there is even the rook takes, but that is very elementary Wow, that would be really cool, that was a very elementary example, but you get what I'm saying, this happens in all your games, you want another example, here's a full game example, okay? you are playing with the black pieces you have as a london opening, you vaguely know that against london you are supposed to attack with dnc, you watched some videos, no you don't know much about that, you try to exchange the bishops and now white just does this where they place the knight on e5 and then start attacking the king.

This is a very common idea in London, right, and at this point you say: hmm, well, I see they want to attack. I, oh sorry, let's play f4, actually let's protect our knight like you know what they want to attack me, so I'm going to attack them too. I'm going to attack them on that side of the board. I'm going to bing. bang bang take it all bam bam bam, but you're not really counting who attacks the fastest, you're just absentmindedly nibbling, nibbling, nibbling, nibbling on that side, now white plays bishop to h4, you say, well, if they take me, like this is. stupid because then this and then I attack the knight which is so stupid I'm going to keep attacking and now you lose the game because after the bishop f6 pawn f6 yes you are attacking this but you stopped your thought on I'm attacking that when in reality, something like check the king h8 like no one can protect this so even the queen on h4 can't take your knight because there is a mate threat now you have to go here and now white can play like the Czech for example the king g8 and has this very good winning idea uh, even taking very calmly c6 and if you go back to castling alone and no one can stop this, you have opened your king and in the meantime you say, well, I'm so close, so good, that would be it.

It would be nice too, but no, no, no, you're not, your attack just arrived in time to get mate, congratulations, you did a great job, wonderful, amazing, so the selfish brain exists in one-move situations, but you also like the big picture on the board. Don't pay attention to what the opponent wants, where their pawns want to advance, how they want to coordinate their pieces, the truth is that the 27 2800 know where both players are thinking about moving constantly, their differences at that higher level do not result in these checkmate. attacks but in the evaluation they both see abc and say okay, I think b is better for that guy and he will go for it, the guy looking at it says, actually I think b is not great, I'm going to go for c , that's where they have Silent disagreements and the margin of error is very small and adds up over time.

Very slight inaccuracies, whereas when you're an intermediate watching a Gotham chess video, it could be fatal and you could say, "Well, they're not going to accept me." That's very silly, right, but then you could also say, well, they want to take me, that's really scary, I'm going to move my knight out of the way and then you could still be attacked, but at least you say, well, I see I want to. go here, so I'm going to take this out of here and maybe I'm going to negotiate tonight because it's very strong and maybe they go here and that's how you start. setting traps like you understand you're going to think they're going to do something like this and then all of a sudden you just poke holes in their defenses and now your attack is much faster, you set a trap for them because they can't.

They don't really break through, so you start predicting what they're going to do, setting the defensive trap and overwhelming them. This is how you improve a lot in the game. Let's move on to the final mistake you make in this last one. I'll go full screen no chess board required the seventh and final mistake everyone makes is a combination of two things number one leaning number two elo anxiety now I can't sit here and tell you that anxiety is a mistake everyone suffers from with some kind of inhibition with some kind of doubt self doubt uh confidence uh ego right we all deal with something we are all human uh including myself um I have a certain degree of anxiety when it comes to classical chess obviously I haven't played in a long time um and sometimes too with inclination, but some of us handle the art of losing or winning in a very bad way, you shouldn't get mad and play like 10 games up to 300 points and I know you are guilty of that. some of you, sure, suddenly all your progress to get to 950 is your rating has dropped to 680, it hasn't gone down there in four five months, you don't want to play chess again, it happens, you understand, it happens, you want to do it . delete the app you want delete your account you're never going to get better at the game you need to see the long road with all of this um and you need to understand that your value is not tied to your elo at all if you're actually trying hard you're not actually training faking it you are trying hard you are progressing you are going to get better at the game you understand that eight hundred today is much stronger than eight hundred five or ten years ago because there is an unlimited amount of resources today people are stronger beginners are stronger there are also many more cheaters but beginners are much stronger intermediate players are much stronger everything moves up so the truth is you need to have that little reset button like take a break when you need it and if you're getting red hot, obviously you will continue playing because you think: oh, I'm doing very well, but don't get attached, try not to get attached, your self-esteem, your intellectual capacity, your level.

What you think about yourself and your grade will come, will come over time and I could say this right now and it could be completely empty, you could go back and continue leaning, but try to get out of it, try to play. in focus mode on these different websites where you don't see the person's rating and when you're experiencing a bad situation, walk away for a moment, um or clean it up, just play five games a day, I don't care if you win. the five or lose the five to just do ten puzzles try to solve ten puzzles every day to, that's how you'll improve and if you just want to play chess for fun, that's completely fine, but you've reached the end. from this video, so I'm assuming you also want some tips on how to really improve, that's all for this video, let me know your thoughts in the comments below if there's anything I missed, if you have any ideas for future content that you might want What do you do and as always I thank you all very much for having arrived here in peace, see you next time, get out of here