Grandmaster Tips - How to Build Your Calculation Muscles

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  • čas přidán 28. 02. 2024
  • In this video, I talk about how to improve individual building blocks that go into chess calculation. These skills include spotting tempo/forcing moves, keeping track of changes in material, visualizing a position a few moves down the road, etc. Afterwards, I talk about how to incorporate these skills into the more practical form of calculation you'd do in a game.
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Komentáře • 43

  • @FAiRY7ALE
    @FAiRY7ALE Před 3 měsíci +13

    This is probably the best chess video I've watched from the start of 2024

  • @dmaster20ify
    @dmaster20ify Před 3 měsíci +11

    Man It is very scary and inspiring how good a GM can calculate. By no doubt this is the best calculation videos of all time.

    • @gavinjones8543
      @gavinjones8543 Před 3 měsíci

      Irina Krush also does excellent calculation vids, but Josh is superb here certainly.

  • @jgreen802
    @jgreen802 Před měsícem +2

    This is by far the best video on chess calculation on CZcams.

  • @pragunahuja7881
    @pragunahuja7881 Před 3 měsíci +5

    I cant thank you enough sir!.. this is the best lecture ive ever seen on calculation-visualisation , thank you especially for not drawing any arrows and making us visualise it!!

  • @hervebongrain5249
    @hervebongrain5249 Před 6 dny

    Brilliant explanations!

  • @jasonhopkins2912
    @jasonhopkins2912 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Hello Josh it's very late in coming as I stepped out of otb chess 20 years or so but congrats on becoming a GM. Knew you would be successful. Last time I saw you was at mandnoc. I never got to thankyou for convincing me back then that Rxc3 in the sicilian was sound. Rofl I won many games after that after that early lesson. You 8 then and already teaching. This video is outstanding. Hope you and you family are well

  • @secretfish6646
    @secretfish6646 Před 3 měsíci +2

    really underrated video. i dont know how this has as few views as it does. +1 subscriber from me

  • @michaelcarroll5801
    @michaelcarroll5801 Před 3 měsíci

    Good intermediate level instruction

  • @nehadubey8316
    @nehadubey8316 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Very instructional video

  • @eschiedler
    @eschiedler Před 3 měsíci +1

    I just found your channel. This is a great find that certain positions have lots of surprising calculation lessons and are as useful or even more so than studying entire games for the "skills-training" that you propose. Thanks.

  • @saikrishnakasaraguda3703
    @saikrishnakasaraguda3703 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Very good. Instructive video. Thank you.

  • @khandujamanish
    @khandujamanish Před 3 měsíci +2

    Great content with awesome presentation 👍

  • @engboino
    @engboino Před 3 měsíci +2

    Welcome back, GM!

  • @jackm4457
    @jackm4457 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Excellent example. Superb.

  • @junseba3378
    @junseba3378 Před měsícem

    Absolute gem, thank you!

  • @jacklc5575
    @jacklc5575 Před 8 dny

    Such a good video

  • @tigerspaw
    @tigerspaw Před 4 měsíci +2

    Outstanding video. Thank you for posting this.

  • @haydenn680
    @haydenn680 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Great practical video. Thank you

  • @gavinjones8543
    @gavinjones8543 Před 3 měsíci

    Superb stuff Josh, more please.

  • @alejandron301
    @alejandron301 Před 4 měsíci +5

    You're finally back! I was thinking about ending my life but now I have a reason to live again, lol. Glad to "watch you again"

  • @vonbonula8028
    @vonbonula8028 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Thank you for making this video.... 🔥❤❤

  • @tomatoseed1
    @tomatoseed1 Před 14 dny

    Fantastic

  • @svanvoorthuizen2886
    @svanvoorthuizen2886 Před 4 měsíci

    Great content. Very useful

  • @waterbottlexd1298
    @waterbottlexd1298 Před 4 měsíci +1

    wow! This was just an awesome exercise!

  • @hkannan2000
    @hkannan2000 Před 3 měsíci

    Very instructive video, great lecture. Referring to Maya Chiburdanidze as (former) women's world champion (apart from all time great you mentioned) would have been fitting.

  • @timwoods3173
    @timwoods3173 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you

  • @magicode99
    @magicode99 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Thanks for doing this - very informative. One suggestion - would it be possible to draw arrows when you are talking about what moves are possible instead of just moving the little cursor? Think it would be easier to follow. Enjoyed your talk on Perpetual Chess and look forward to your upcoming book.

    • @joshfriedel
      @joshfriedel  Před 4 měsíci +11

      I would normally draw arrows to illustrate concepts, but since this video had a lot of visualization practice, I tried to avoid doing that. I know it can be more challenging, but it really forces you to see the position clearly without hints. Hope that didn't make it too confusing!

  • @adriangutierrez2670
    @adriangutierrez2670 Před 4 měsíci

    I hope you get back to your autopsy video series. I loved it back in that days

  • @webbyjoey
    @webbyjoey Před 3 měsíci

    thank you for your effort putting this up, if I may suggest please use arrows so we can easier follow the moves.

  • @jaafars.mahdawi6911
    @jaafars.mahdawi6911 Před 3 měsíci

    Very nice stuff, and no you're NOT bad at analogies, obviously!

  • @TheSimCaptain
    @TheSimCaptain Před 3 měsíci

    I felt my calculation skills increasing as I watched this video.

  • @dr.deepakgore1079
    @dr.deepakgore1079 Před 3 měsíci

    Very nice teaching sir🎉❤, pl demonstrate with arrows and pl go little slow so that unrated players can understand ,By the way best teaching video 🎉❤

  • @patrickdaly1088
    @patrickdaly1088 Před 3 měsíci

    Lovely example game. I feel like the way I evaluate material *last* has certainly bit me in the butt a few times, but when you first showed the position, Rxb6 with the idea to play Bc4 and gang up on f7 seemed like the obvious natural move. Rxe6 would also certainly be my first candidate move, not Nxe6. The "it's not what's off the board that counts, it's what's ON the board" thing always resonated with me strongly, and those ideas seemed incredibly natural. I did not notice white was down a pawn until you said so, my evaluation instantly preferred white and Rxb6.
    Is material really so important? When things calm down and nothing is happening, sure, I'm not asking about that. But did I actually need to see that white was down a pawn *before* all those calculations, or is it OK to save the count until the end of the tactical complications, when it's going to be more relevant?

  • @crclayton
    @crclayton Před 15 dny

    Great video

  • @blundergoat
    @blundergoat Před 4 měsíci +1

    💪

  • @samwinchester5862
    @samwinchester5862 Před 3 měsíci

    Hey man , any great book recommendations ? Rating is 2100 fide

    • @ryanmurphy1414
      @ryanmurphy1414 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Have you gone through Perfect Your Chess? It's solid

  • @davidshosho1173
    @davidshosho1173 Před 3 měsíci

    found b5 wooohooo 😃😁

  • @luutzennijdam7213
    @luutzennijdam7213 Před 3 měsíci

    Indeed, practicing against chess engines makes your visualizing capability weaker and ingenuity. So use engines only for doublechecking and NOT all the time.
    Bh8 is weird looking and enables many checking patterns.