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Tina B posted an update a year ago
I wish I better understood a couple of technical things, but I’ll start with this simple one. I have usually played bots to practice, but I doubt they’re necessarily realistic. When I start a “real” game on chess.com I tend to get put with people whose ratings are much higher than mine. Is there any way to play a “normal” game of chess (one…
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Yes, when you go to start a game just below the big green “Play” button will be a little “Custom” drop-down. If you click on that you will be able to select how much above/below your rating your opponent will be. I have mine set to -400 and +100.
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Joseph posted an update a year ago
Kwik question.
On chess.com is there a way that I can set up a chess board and to move both black and white to try different moves ?
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“Analysis” is the place you’re looking for
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Don N posted an update a year ago
I have a question about a game where I played black with Owen’s Defence:
https://www.chess.com/game/live/124543160601
On move 10, I capture with the bishop thinking that if they take my knight, I can take the pawn on g2 and take the rook. Apparently that was not a good move – can anyone explain how to work through the calculation to arrive at…
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ViGap (1390) vs donsays (1326). donsays won by checkmate in 43 moves. Click to review the game, move by move.
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I think this is one of those cases where the chess engine doesn’t really reflect reality. I looked at what Stockfish thought were the best moves and neither I, nor my opponents, would have made any of those moves. You are a higher level than I am, but none of us are playing like Stockfish.
I thought you had a good plan, however white could…
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Sam C posted an update a year ago
Definitively the best game I’ve ever played. I’m still awful, but improving a little with each lesson.
https://www.chess.com/game/120717574738
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I enjoyed that game so much. Though I adopted the stonewall, I was never able to make the Owens defense work for me. This game made it look so straightforward and you had so many attacking opportunities. Thanks for sharing. That was really an outstanding game.
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Keith posted an update a year ago
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/120714949446?classification=
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Keith posted an update a year ago
What is the chess set in the background of Nelson’s youtube videos? Thanks!
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Pretty sure it’s just the “Analysis” engine on chess.com. Maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
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To clarify, I am referring to the actual board and pieces behind Nelson. It looks like he has a couple trophies and to his left is a nice looking set.
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Paul L posted an update a year ago
Does anyone have any advice on how to use the Stonewall and Owens pgn’s in Chess.com to practice/drill these moves?
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I open in notepad or any text program, copy and paste into analysis on chess dot com
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Thanks for the reply. I got that far but I’m not sure how to proceed from there and Google hasn’t been my friend after that 🙂
Cheers, Paul
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This should have what you need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzpELV10BZ8&t=23s
To setup the board you can step through the Stonewall or Owen’s games and at whatever point click the “Share” button and copy the FEN for that board position and then go to Learn -> Analysis -> Setup position and then pasted in the FEN.
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Thanks so much, I’ll give that a try
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Joseph posted an update a year ago
Question with the Owens defense. After Bishop goes to B4, isn’t the most likely counter move Pawn to A3 driving the Bishop away ? What would be the best move for black ? Trade with the Knight or retreat ?
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Check out this #chess game: xavierdass vs HowzitGrowing – https://www.chess.com/daily/game/720811233 I had good success trading straight away
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Will check out. Thank you
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Trade for the knight and take the pawn with the light colored bishop. Nelson covers exactly this situation in one of the lessons.
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Got it , thanks
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Mitchell J posted an update a year ago
Loving the course, im very new to chess (started August this year). Have been able to go from 200 to 450 rapid and to 700 daily since watching Nelsons rating climbs and learning so much more in the course.
Was just on a winnings streak in rapid games usually getting 80% accuracy so confidence at all time high. Then i all but lose in this game…
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Chess: HowzitGrowing vs Gremlinuss
HowzitGrowing (449) vs Gremlinuss (380). Game drawn by stalemate in 57 moves. Click to review the game, move by move.
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Yeah, those kind of pawn push openings can throw you off. When that happens, I like to really focus on good opening principles. For example, on move 7, you started pushing your central pawns and moved your knight a 2nd time. I think you could have just kept developing.
A couple other things I noticed. You were down a piece most of the game,…
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That was a bizarre opening for Black! After developing my pieces I would have taken some time and picked apart all of Black’s weak pawns. That was a target rich environment.
As Keith F mentioned, take your time. It was a 30 minute game and you still had +18 minutes on the clock at the end. I think if you would have take more time you… Read more1- View 2 replies
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Keith posted an update a year ago
Hello friends! While practicing the owens opening for black, I seem to have trouble finding a home for my bishop after white plays a3 instead of Nf3, which prevents 4… Bb4.
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I think Nelson talked about this in one of the videos, maybe the last coaching call? I like to play 4… Nf6 first, so the knight has a place to go if they play 5. e5. Then probably the bishop is going to e7. I think you need to move the knight first though. If you move the bishop to e7 first and they play e5, then the knight is kind of stuck.
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