Defusing an Aggressive Queenside Pawn Pusher | Climbing the Rating Ladder vs. 1535
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- In this continuation of the "Climbing the Rating Ladder" series I take on players of various ratings levels while pointing out typical mistakes and spots for improvement along the way (possibly my own!? :)). Here I commentate a 15+10 game against a player rated 1535 on Chess.com. In an offbeat Slav Defense (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.a4), I focus on quick development with Black pieces, whereas my opponent goes all-in on queenside expansion. Against such opponents, I've found it's best to either look for a smart counter-break on the queenside (ideally when you're better coordinated), or seek counterplay lesewhere (e.g. a central pawn break).
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8 years and still at it!
Thank you John! I was sub 800 before I found your channel. Now I'm close to 2000, and I owe so much of it to this series.
You've done the chess community a great service.
Man that's incredible progress. Congratulations!
you are easily one of the most wholesome and genuine chess youtubers, hope you keep at it. just games of chess and your insightful commentary, that's all we need!
I'm sure you could say he's the most wholesome and genuine of all youtubers lol. Definitely in the top 100 at least, but he probably doesn't seem quite so wholesome anymore if you find yourself sitting across the board from him.
These are very relaxing
This guy played really well all things considered.
Agreed
You know, the analysis part of these videos is helping my analyze MY games. It's fun to see John play and tell us his thoughts, but going through the game is much more valuable. It's easy to see the lines that I analyzed and played, but it does kinda hurt my ego when I have no choice but to look at the lines that I blundered or missed all together lol. John stays down to earth and I'm trying to learn that. Thanks for the vids John, they're helping me plan your demise soon :)
As an intermediate-level player, I often struggle against opponents who push their pawns. I found this video very instructive. Thank you.
Great to hear - cheers!
"You should allow your feeling be overruled by calculation." Useful advice
Gotta love the pronunciation John. ❤.😅. It’s Indiyantzi…. As in Native American Indians.
This game really brings home to me the concept of being patient, especially in closed situations, and let the game unfold. Also, your advice to keep it tight when you are winning is excellent! Thanks so much!
Solid play! Easy for me to fall into a "coasting" mindset when these kinds of openings happen and expect the win. Better to play patient and convert. Learning a lot here!
I love watching you play games against pawn pushers. It's made it much easier to deal with them because I used to over react to them all the time lol. Now I try to focus on slowing them down and attacking weak pawns. It definitely helps.
Nice! That's the way to do it!
So good to see that you're back at "Climbing the Rating Ladder" content! This is my favourite and so helpful - thanks so much for sharing!
Your mind is beautiful. The way you
articulate thought process is unmatched. Always a great watch. Thanks for the content.
Nice game. I wonder if that was in fact some high-level, modern opening prep by the opponent, but he just ran out of ideas against a better opponent?
Love it John. Thanks for the content!
Redundancy is the perfect term to describe having all your pieces defended to stabilize your position. We use that term in structural engineering to describe something similar
14:43 This side discussion here alludes to something that actually helped me as a player. When I first watched masters commenting their games real time (John being one of the early ones), I thought they were constantly changing their plans (and that their plans were therefore fake). But with time, I realized that they're staying flexible. They're paying attention to their opponents' moves and adjusting accordingly - it seems so obvious now, but I had to see it repeatedly to put it together.
I really like this series and listening to your explanations
Wonderful game, I get so much from hearing your though process and the rationale for assessing your candidate moves. Thanks John.
John calculating queen traps is always astounding to me. Moves I consider basically equal and don't even have the tools to differentiate between the strength of (i.e. they're all "good" and the analysis stops) yet John finds a way to choose better moves through complicated analysis I don't even start to think about.
Thanks John for sharing this great game with us and the overall explanation about your thought proces in the game with every move. like it how you explain it for us in very understandable way. Keep up your great vids, work & chessgames. Cheers!
Even though the premature a4 took this one out of theory, it was still a very instructive game!
Very interesting game. Your opponent played some brave chess.
"Your feelings should always be potentially overruled by your calculation" is a great advice, not just in chess 😁👍🏻
thanks John Barthonskajonyjon!
These videos are so helpful.Thanks!
My pleasure - thanks for watching!
Very Instructive Thought Process! I'll use this type of Q and A in games involving D4 where I get these type of positions more than often. Thanks!
Happy to hear it was useful to you!
I just started looking at your book reviews and Tony Rotellas book caught my eye. Would you be so kind as to make a video playing the Kalashnikov as black? Preferably in the standard category 😃
hey John, can't wait for you vs a 1700 rating guy. love your videos.
Really interesting game Minnesota Fins. I could easily see you as a poker pro, due to the fact that your poker face is beyond compare, as demonstrated in your April Fool's video's!
This must have been so tough to play against. All your pieces were perfectly coordinated.
Sometimes I anticipate your moves but sometimes they come as something of a shock.
When you play e4 e5 it seems like this sort of lack of development gets punished much easier. Feels like they can kind of get away with it vs d4
Perfect chess
Rook c4! Rook c4! That's what I thought without thinking. I should really think through my moves like you do in your videos but my mind is always a blank.
When John says a move is "interesting"...it means it's bad
😅
@@JohnBartholomewChess Thanks for the reply John!
John pls consider turning your camera to manual focus - It zooms back and forth when it's on auto mode. It doesn't know whether to focus on you, the mic, or your tea/coffee.
Happy Saturday!
setting up kxe5 was good
Good instructive video,showing us how not to help the opponent develop (d5xc4) or Bb4 nothing really doing there...
Wow! White played c5 twice ! 6:22
I wonder how much playing a titled player over 1000 points higher ranked impacts playing style. If it does at all, but perhaps that player wouldn't have played so unorthodox in the opening, but felt pressured and decided to get you out of theory?
It's an interesting question, and it's the one variable that's hard to control for unless I sandbag. Perhaps someone with statistical knowledge of results by rating gap will know!
27:50 isn't black immediately winning another pawn if Rxb1 Rxb1 Rxf2 Kxf2 Bxb1
I think that's why the computer says Rc3 was inaccurate.
wondering why taking the knight on c3 wasn’t even considered in the first game specially when the queen moved wouldn’t that destroy king side structure and makes it harder for your opponent to castle anywhere? 15:50
"I prefer the lichess way." John Bartholomew, 2023
One question, why are these single games still in the climbing the ladder series after your first videos of the series where you actually climbed the ladder from 0 to 2000?
The series is not meant to have an end.
What a ridiculous opening for white
Hey john, this is Guys
Reverse London
“Defusing” 😂
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john loyal to lichess at 31 40. great to see it jb, just another reason u a don of educational chess
I hate playing against pawn pushers. I came to play chess, not Connect 4.
John, I love your videos, but isn't the intention with these to climb the rating ladder? And if so, why do you go from playing someone who is rated 1800 + to then uploading a video against a player rated less than 1600?
Thank you!
The aim of this series is educational, so I bounce around and play different rating levels. The goal is not to gain rating or speedrun through my opponents; hence why I'm playing on my main account.
@@JohnBartholomewChess then is “climbing” not a bit of a misdescription of the series? Climbing meaning going up. Surely, “moving around the rating ladder” would be more appropriate
@@jonnybingham1 It's meant to help the viewer climb, not me. I've already climbed :D
@@JohnBartholomewChess ah got it! Cheers!! Love your vids