Black in the Exchange Caro-Kann ⎸Road to GM , Game 1
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Bogojevic Ranko vs Stjepan Tomic, Caro-Kann, Exchange Variation (B13)
5th Croatian League Center, Round 1
This is the first game I played since I began my channel. My plan is to analyze all the games I play, regardless of the result. I believe that will provide a lot of useful information for players who are close to my rating, since most videos out there cover games of players who are 700 points higher rated. That's useful as well, but learning from the mistakes made by players similar to your own level can help you improve faster.
I also think than analyzing my games in front of you will force me to improve my chess faster, and covering each and every defeat I suffer will definitely force me to right my mistakes as soon as possible.
This game was played in the 5th Croatian Chess League. Today we played the first round. My team, HAŠK Mladost Zagreb played Vrustun Vurnovec, who are higher rated on average. The league is played on six boards. I was playing on board 3 against an opponent rated 1832 (I’m currently rated 1761).
We played the Exchange Variation of the Caro-Kann and he blundered a pawn early on which he shouldn’t have given away. I was better throughout the game and we entered a same colored bishop ending in which I was a pawn up. It looked drawing but I managed to find a winning play and won the endgame! I must say I’m glad that the first game of my own I covered on the channel wasn’t a loss:D On all six boards my team played 4.5-1.5 with four wins, a draw and a loss, so we won as a team too!
I hope this helps and that you can relate to the level of play closer than when you look at grandmaster games. See you soon with more analysis! I’m not sure when I will have time and/or money to play a tournament, but I will be playing round 2 in the league two weeks from now. Cheers!
Here is the chess results link to the 5th Cro. League
chess-results.com/tnr332261.as...
If you have any advice about the game please leave a comment below!:D - Zábava
Very interesting. I think this type of analysis is helpful, as it shows the thinking process. Congrats on the win !
Thanks a lot:) I'm very happy you found it useful!
very nice video. I would like to suggest that try highlighting the square and drawing arrows when you are explaining because it would be much easier to follow even if you speak a little fast.
Ok, thanks for the feedback. I will try to highlight key squares as I speak.
Please keep sharing more of your games. They're instructive and fun. I suggest that you use arrows as many of us are not very good at visualising continuations.. so just a suggestion. 😅
Great video though 👍
Your idea to analyse without engine is great! I like this game, especially bishop's ending! Thank you for video and I'm waiting for another one. :)
I'm glad you like the analysis! It's good to be able to share your thinking throughout the game, even though it might have been wrong.
There are over 200+ videos in this playlist and I’m going to try to watch every one in order! Thanks Stjepan for all the amazing content.
Wow, i really admire your dedication. I'm from Colombia and i met your channel one week ago. ¡Let's go for the GM!
Hey man, i appreciate all of your videos! I have been using them in my journey to becoming a better chess player.
I love the idea of this playlist. I am coming back from 2005 when I stopped playing and was thinking on doing something similar but just not to the GM level as that is really difficult. I wish you all the best and I hope you get there! Thanks again for your efforts.
You sound happy hpy. Good job on the win. Love the caro myself. Your videos have helped me alot.
Thank you. This was helpful.
Thank you for this video and what you said is very true watching gm games sometimes a lot can go over our lower rated heads haha
I have just recently discovered your channel via your opening videos, so I am planning to watch, annotate and work through all your games in this series! I've been away from chess for a while and want to study more. I'm also trying to pick up the Caro-Kann so this was very instructive. I think with the final g4, you give Bxe4 Bxe4 Kxe4 but I think Bxe4 gxh3 is instantly winning. The bishop cuts off the h1 square and they will get traded immediately with the king now being being a tempo down and the pawn 1 rank farther, so you just queen and win.
You are correct:) Good luck with your Caro-Kann experience and with getting back to chess! And thanks for watching!
Always nice to see a win with black
Great game well played
Just found your channel, beautiful insight.
very good pawn maneuver in mid game!
Thanks! Yeah, I thought the e5, e4 push was a good idea, but perhaps e4 wasn't precise
I was watching game 70. Road to gm. But then i wondered that have i really watched the game 1. So here am i. Nice like alwayd
It's heart breaking to see you have gained only 200 points in 5 years
Superb very helpful Ur video thank you so much dear friend...,
You are welcome! thanks for watching:)
Cool game
I just started watching this series as it seems interesting. You play different openings then I do so you are bound to have some interesting idears. The one move that jumps out to me this game is when your opponent played Ng3 and you took it with your knight. I have not checked any of this with an engine, but surely Nf4 is a much stronger move for black, since the white knight suffocates the darksquare bishop on h2 and has no real prospects from the g3 square. Followup moves for black could have then been Qg5 and Rad8 or Rac8.
Awesome
Thanks!
Always nice to see the Caro-Kann in action and the ending was quite interesting :-)
I would like to point out one instructive mistake, which could have occurred in the game: at minute 16:30 concerning the variation 1...g4! you say 2.Bxe4(!) Bxe4(??) 3.Kxe4 g3 and you will eventually win the c3-pawn. While that is true, the resulting position K+h4+g3 vs. K+h3 is a well-known drawing constellation if the defending king is controlling the promotion square. White's own h3-pawn enables some kind of "stalemate fortress" whenever you advance the g3-pawn.
Still, 1...g4 was correct, of course since you can meet 2.Bxe4(!) with 2...gxh3!-+ and promotion of the h-pawn is inevitable.
Yeah, true. Thanks for the input!
Nice endgame ;)
Thanks! Yeah, I'm proud of g4:D
@@HangingPawns you SHOULD be proud of it
Love the series! Had to start at game one. Looking forward to the first losing game (sorry)
so this is where it all started
I always seem to play a6 in most of my Caro kann games I hate that bishop pin
which platform I want to use analysis to free
Lol watching some old videos.. anyways, is g6 and Bg7 a normal thing in the exchange caro
why you exchange the last rook?
game is really trilling
Also at 6:30 it sounds like “rook takes c4” but I think you want d4
At 4:10 you say “I would play bishop f7 with check” but I think you mean f2. But good video nonetheless.