Quan G
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Quan G posted an update a year ago
One nice thing about Section 4 is I can immediately figure out what is my weakest tactics. So far I have completed up to 4.10 and I actually worked out *all* the puzzles (even the master ones) except forks (which I screw up even the intermediate ones).
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Quan G posted an update a year ago
In 4.2 there is a pattern where a queen defends a rook *through* the opponent’s king, delivering a checkmate. If I remember correctly, this is called an X-ray defense. But there are also more sophisticated patterns (like on Wikipedia which I could not get the idea). Maybe Nelson could talk about X-ray defenses or attacks in some separate video?
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Quan G posted an update a year ago
Went through 3.5 and 3.6. I just noticed that Owen’s defense, Nimzo-Indian and French defense have very common ideas: white has pawns in d4 and e4, and knight on c3, while black has pawns in e6 and d5 and bishop on b4 pinning the knight. So I guess the same principle applies to all of them: c-pawns are important to open things up, black needs…
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Quan G posted an update a year ago
Just went through 3.3. I know that other than Owen’s defense (…b6 and …Bb7), there’s also Modern defense (…g6 …Bg7), which I guess has the same idea except that we fight for dark squares instead?
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Also, I’m pretty sure that chess.com will suddenly have lots of stonewall and Owen players. So maybe one wants to study how to counter them as well 🙂
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Yes but Owen’s defense is more rare and has a lot of surprise value. Modern and King’s indian setups are played much more often so players have a better understanding of how to react to it.
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Quan G posted an update a year ago
Moving on to the Stonewall setup in Module 2. One thing to note is against the accelerated queen’s indian setup:
d4 Nf6 e3 b6 Bd3 Bb7 which attacks g2 pawn.
Then you cannot play f4. Still, you can play Nf3 to block and transpose into a Colle system.
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Maybe play f4 and Nf3 before Bd3 in this case since there no Bf5 to prevent?
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Yes, you are correct. In that situation the best option would be to transpose to Colle like you mentioned.
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Quan G posted an update a year ago
I just started the course and went through Module 1. The story in 1.6 really makes sense. Even a high-rated player can lose, and even losing to a low-rated player is not a big deal because that’s how games work. What I should do is to learn from the mistakes and improve, and nothing else.
P.S. I wonder how David and Robert are doing now.
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David I’m not sure about, but I have stayed in touch with Robert!
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