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Lets gooo! You are my favorite Minnesota player!

Do you have a Scandi course available on chessable that covers Qd6 lines and 2. e5!? lines? Cheers 🍻

In all fairness, you're right that those that play this system likely know it much better than players on the black side who might not see it often. You know about the Esserman-Vishy game so you also probably know the Esserman-Van Wely game which followed a similar line as the one you played and Esserman blew Van Wely off the board. No disrespect to you but this game shows the hypocrisy of titled players when they say opening theory isn't so important. Respect to the opponent for defending as best he could deep into the opening stage. If anyone wants to avoid the main line (...e6) but also doesn't want to go into the Alapin there is also 5...d6 which cuts out much of the nonsense from the white side and its far more practical in my opinion.

*bullied arena

Game with Eljanov was totally fascinating and full of different imbalances, happy to see your open and honest streams!

Is this titled Tuesday?

I liked you actually used the clock as a weapon.

1 inaccuracy was 1..d5 im crying

I'm sitting here like... yep, in the bag with those rooks, then... Mouse slip!! Doh! Stunning your opponent, and thus sealing the game!! Rofl. Thanks, John!

2:56 What about Rxd7 ? It looks so good but Idk I need to confirm

I love this series! Thanks John

I think at 8. QxD8 RxD8 NE5 would have given White a positional edge with a central knight rather than 8. BE3

9:43 I like how John says "some day" like it's not a 3 minute blitz game :)

At 2:59 does white RxD7 Black RxD7 White NxB6 Black QB8 White NxD7 Not work?

That nacer player turned the god mode on in some of the games, especially in the 2nd game. That was super gm level. And the final NM player turned the mikhail tal mode on but it didn't work out well for him. Thanks for these speed chess videos, sir. I'm a long time follower. I hope you will make bullet and 3 min blitz videos more often as they are my favorite, thanks again dear John.

Hey John, its guys. Cheer for the great content

Good stuff!

Love this series

Hey John ! Thanks for the content! Come visit us in Colombia one of these days! We all need a jungle holiday sometimes, im a professional mixologist as well. Lots of love

Very enjoyable to watch these. I am also learning quite a bit with you walking us through your moves.

What’s up with all the new fancy animations?

After the microphone gambit, John is working on the mouse slip gambit!

That was a satisfying first game 🔥

two rooks!!

Fun vid and some good games!

Using the Mouseslip as a Weapon

Sounds better today

21:50 Why not Qg5+, winning the rook?

Your webcam microphone didn't work. 😞

Nice work, John. Definitely more attentiveness to the clock in this one. Now the key might be when playing "real games" (like TT) to keep the same mentality, even against stronger players in more formal situations.

more john, longer videos more games

Much nicer seeing the full screen rather than the microphone blocking maximum John real estate

Those games were amazing, we had swindles, tactical fireworks and crazy sacrifices. What more can you wish for? 😊

Nice games John!

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really nice effort - calm and smooth overall with some excitement tossed in for good measure

Way too fast to follow

Watch that slippery mouse.

You also gotta love those extremely rare times you mouse slip and accidentally make a better move than your original idea.

Man this is nerve wracking waiting for the mouseslip. Every move I'm willing you to keep it steady!

I don't always mouseslip... but when I do, it's essentially the worst move I could make. 😒😒

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I love all your videos but using the clock as a weapon and your bullet videos are just the best. It’s how I found your channel like 5 years ago or so.

Hey John this is guys

Watching an IM commentate on an improving players live game might be the most instructive thing I have ever seen on CZcams.

Chess coaches: Develop your pieces in the opening, get castled, don't make too many pawn moves... John and his opponent in Game 4: Hold our beers

Fantastic video! This series and the lichess piece positioning studies are skyrocketing my elo and understanding of the game. Thank you!