Improve Your Chess: The Most Common Amateur Chess Mistakes
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- NM Dan Heisman covers about a dozen of the most common amateur chess mistakes. These are not mistakes in particular positions, like missing a pin, but mistakes in thought process, psychology, and strategy. This includes not spending time on the move chosen, playing too fast/slow, Hope Chess and Hand-Waving, not adjusting strategy for the game situation, not asking what are ALL the things the opponent's move does, making decisions based on the opponent's rating, etc.
NM Dan Heisman has been a full-time chess instructor since 1996 and is the author of 12 chess books, the TV show "Q&A with Coach Heisman" on Chess.com and the radio show "Ask the Renaissance Man" on the Internet Chess Club. Howard Stern was one of Dan's students. Dan tries to answer comments on CZcams but for a quicker, more comprehensive answer (or questions about lessons), contact Dan via email, skype, or phone via Dan's website www.danheisman.com. His Chess Tip of the Day is @danheisman on Twitter, which won the award for "Best Twitter Feed" in 2021 from the Chess Journalists of America.
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Thanks for making these videos Dan. This is a real gift to improving players.
Thanks, much appreciated.
Generic / systemic errors are critical to recognize & address, as you show clearly show in this video.
Thank you!
Thanks. I think any good coach who teaches intermediates over a long time and takes the time to figure out the source of their errors will find a very similar list. That's certainly more helpful than just saying "Let's go over the main lines in the Caro-Kann" (of course, reviewing opening tabiyas with students is sometimes very helpful...) :)
Someone in TCEC chat recommended me this channel. I'm glad I clicked!
Glad to have you; please tell your chess friends as well. Have over 260 videos covering a variety (pretty much all!) chess improvement issues.
I struggle very hard to defend my pieces but then forget it during the action; same problem over and over again. I hope to fix that one day 😊
Yes, some of the big chess traits are consistency and concentration. Gotta try your best (good time management) on every move. Need to play lots of long time control games to develop good habits.
@@danheismanchess That's what I feel because your teaching will change the way I have played for years. Oriented on attack and not seriously on defense, I must now focus a lot on defense and the way you teach seems not to be an easy one, because I will have to go deeper in my thinking. I think (hope) it will pay off over time as I develop new good habits; crossed fingers !
Nothing wrong with attack. "Always play with confidence, aggression, and respect for your opponents moves and ideas" But consistently playing safe moves is not quite the same as "defense" although checking to see that a move is safe is a defensive sort of orientation.
much appreciated Mr Heisman
Well, I can't say "thanks, much appreciated" since those are your words! :) So just thanks.
Some really good advice, thanks... although I was a bit lost with the Baseball analogy 😄😄👍 🇬🇧
If you have a great reliever who (say) has only pitched a couple of pitches in the 8th and is well rested for the 9th and you have a 1-run lead and the pitcher comes to the plate with 2 outs and a runner on 2nd, you would not pinch hit for him in the small chance you can get another run, assuming you have no other relievers nearly as good (I am a long-time member of The Society of Baseball Research and applied to be Bill James' assistant in 1981). So when you are winning your strategy changes in all sports, including chess. When you are ahead in chess, it is very often the same strategy as in the baseball situation: you would not usually take risks (say create complications) to gain more material if you already have enough to win. :)
@@danheismanchess Which baseball team is your favorite?
Great as always.
Thanks, much appreciated.
Your channel is great Dan.
Any order you suggest we should watch your videos?
Thanks!
No special order; depends on your level and needs. For example, I have a Playlist "Basic Material" for the lowest rated viewers to find appropriate content quickly.
@@danheismanchess I'm around 1500 on chess.com and have been playing and training for over a year but don't know where to begin with your amazing content. The channel is so underrated, have you tried Twitch?
27:36 Qe1 isn't mate, White can still block with his own queen. I think Black can still force a draw by repetition from there, but I don't see a win.
Actually, looking at it a bit longer, I think there's no draw by repetition, if White doesn't play stupidly, but it looks like he has to give back the exchange and be only a pawn up - might still be winning, but obviously nowhere near as definitively as before he started making the bad moves.
Oh, my bad, Qe1 mate is played after the King moves to f1, so it does work, there's no blocking it with the queen.
Thank you for this lesson. Although I don't think hope chess means to play without paying attention to the possible replies as you seem to imply. Hope chess is when you play a move hoping your opponent will not notice your threats and will play an inferior reply. It may work at the lowest level but it is a terrible habit.
Ivan, I coined the term "Hope Chess" in the article "The Secrets of Real Chess" for the Skittles Room at Chess Cafe in a 1999 article. So it did originally mean what I said in the video. However, you are correct that there are many other things that you can hope for during a chess game (such as making a bad move and then hoping your opponent does not realize it) for which I did not intend (but have been given "credit" for anyway). I have written about these definitions (and my being given credit for meanings I did not originally intend) in several media: online articles, books, videos over the years since that original article.
@@danheismanchess Thanks Dan for your clarification. I was not aware that you were the creator of the term. I guess that makes you even more of a legend than you already are! Anyways, I see how "hope chess" could be used in many ways even in high level chess (e.g. players "hope" their king is safe enough or they "hope" their attack is fast enough, etc) considering our calculation and evaluation power is and always will be limited. Keep up the great work!