Such a fun crucial video. Homework answer. Threat is on the loose horsey on e4. ...g4, take the bish. Take the knight. H6 would do it.

So true. I had a game today where my queen was threatened, I moved it back and it just so happened to form a battery on the king. My opponent thought for 15 seconds and played his advance... allowing mate in 1. Lol. It was fun. I feel that sloooow games are required to automatize the process. I've been loving them lately.

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Dr Can, thank you for the video as always very instructive! Re: Homework: "if I don't make a move", white will push g4, threatening black bishop (attacking the sole defender of the black knight) and if bishop drops back, white will do Nxg6 forking rook and other black bishop forcing a recapture, and on the recapture either hxg6 or fxg6, white queen picks up the knight with Qxe4, winning a piece. Bringing the bishop back to g6 proactively will not work because knight will just capture as described above and white will win the black knight as described above. Bringing the black queen Qd5 to defend the knight will also not work because white will push c4 and when white queen retreats, then they will proceed with the g4 plan described above because it will now be their turn! So it seems black best defensive options are to move the knight away to g5, d6 or f6. Clearly it cannot stay where it is or it will soon be chopped... for free.

Did you change the way you say the "r" in rook?

Part of the psychological process is the inability to pull away from the dynamics of the game in progress, you get caught up in the excitement of the back and forth as it happens. Some of this (speaking personally) is a disappointment in having to break the rhythm of that movement of the game, and having to stop and think. It seems like going against the flow of things, the grain. It requires a reframing of a definition of the game away from the dynamics of move versus move, over to the things you are talking of -- where you are required to step back, look, etc, break the hold of the immediate. (Integrating the "step back" into one's definition of the game seems to be the critical "step forward".)

In minute 12.31 creating weakness after black ......b5 Ke1,Bb2 What is the different between : Bb2 and Bd6 the goal is same,please tell me Sir

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Enjoyed this episode, homework position I see two threats following Qf3 and they are Bd3 attacking the knight twice and g4, how to deal with thus from Blacks perspective I'm not sure but I'm looking at Nd6 as the option I'd choose, it certainly stops g4 due to Be4 skewering the white queen and rook, it also leaves the option for f6 to push the white knight out of our territory, I also like the look of Bg5 counter attacking before white plays either move which would iliminate the dark square threat around our king but this one ive found very difficult to come up with a solid defence against the threats

I’d swear you are looking at my games as hitting exactly the errors I make. Tunnel vision and not asking what changed in the positions. Will be a good course I’m sure

I think the big theme you are hitting on is recognizing multipurpose moves. It is an easy trap to fall into to think one move, one purpose. 13:30 I came up with Bc4. I don't like breaking the battery but I'm not seeing a good alternative and my Bxh6 calculations looked bad for white. The natural g5 is a blunder.

Your videos are really helping me to think in a much better way, rather than just what is the best move, it's now where are the weaknesses, how can I make weaknesses etc. In the example the black Knight can't move well so h3 looks good as then the knight can move. Pawns talking to pieces! It's great, thanks for these brilliant resources.

Thank you for your courses and videos. I really like the idea of making your pieces happy and the opponents pieces sad. Keep up the great work.

I really like your videos more and more recently! In this one, definitely, the concept that blunders often happen when the other side makes a reactionary move like a recapture or a retreat is very prevalent in many games. Problems were a bit too easy this time though, compared to earlier videos:)

Candidate moves are ... Ng5, ...f6 and ... Nd6. ( ... Bf6 2 g4 doesn't work.) Too lazy to notate my thought process, but I am leaning towards ... Nd6 (allowing ... Be4.)

In the last puzzle white can now play g4 forcing the black bishop to g6 where it is threatened by the white knight. So perhaps play h7 make a hole for the bishop but white still has attack after that.

Thank you again Dr. Can for excellent lesson! Re: Homework - endgames are a lot harder for me to analyze, but I think the goal here is to eventually put black in zugzwang. I see a couple ideas but they have to be carefully played: 1) Getting the white king to c6 putting pressure on the backward pawn on c7 and tying down black's king to defend... 2) Getting the bishop Bg7 to start staring at the h6 pawn, but note that this gives up control of c5... I think Kc6 is where I would start, get the king up the board and pressure c7 and tie down the other king.

I can hardly wait for your next course to be released. All of your previous courses are great! IMO, you are the best teacher of middlegame principles on the Internet...keep up the great work!

homework spoiler - no engine If black makes a passive move, such as developing a piece, Qc7, then white will play b4 Bg6 Nxg6 hxg6 Qxe4 Or b4 Ng5 Bxg5 Bxg5 gxf5 White will be up a piece and black will have no compensation.

Very interesting, this psychological analysis of the thougt processes.

Hi Dr. Can. For the home work, white is threatening g4 and Nxg6 to capture the defend of e4 Knight. So I think h6 is better for black to provide a shelter for light square Bishop. Thanks!

In the Caro Kann, very often in bullet or Blitz games I let my Bishop get attacked by pawns, opponent thinks I'm just reacting. But in reality I am positioning my Bishop to a direct checkmate threat. Very similar to the position at 10:32 - A lot of people fall for it. But then again, when someone does something like that to me, I very sadly also fail to see it very often. The homework: took me a while! But I believe it's g4 Bg6 Nxg6, removing the defender of the black knight. So black should play something like h6 to give the Bishop a square.

Position 4 after g4 allows us to take on c1 with a rook and then take a knight with a queen, I would say it is still very playable at least!

Thank you so much for these videos! These are so much more helpful than all the videos about openings.

In the homework position i think the threat is g4 and maybe trap the bishop or take the bishop on g6 and destroy the pawns in front of the black king. But i also calculate after Nxg6, fxg6 the Queen is attacked by the rook on f8, so i am not sure if g4 is the main threat or maybe i am missing something here

In the homework position, if it was white to move, g4 seems very strong. Bg6 is the only move that protects the loose e4 knight, but after Nxg6 hxg6 Qxe4 white should be winning. Perhaps Nf6 immediately is good for black.

To be honest I don't see a threat, but I am not that good anyways.

Thank you, Dr Can. Whenever I see a nasty discovery looming, I try to remember it. This doesn't always work. As far as the homework is concerned - Black is at a disadvantage, as White's Bishops and Queen are aiming at the Kingside, and his Knight is in our territory. We can advance or retreat to respond. ... Nf6 This is a tame move, and the squares g4 or d5 afterwards aren't very potent. It traps the Bishop on e7 as well. No. ... Bg5 The Queenside is locked out to our dark square Bishop, thanks to White's pawn chain. White's Bishop on c1 will fall one way or another. We would like our Queen to land on g5 to threaten Nd2 or Qd2+ at some point. He might counterattack with g4, but we can play Bg6 if we don't have a tempo. ... f6 The Knight is really annoying, but not worth the effort yet. No. After all of that, Bg5, because we break White's attack.

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Pawn recaptures give new files or diagonals. I will jot this down in my Tal's book. Thank you Prof.

In the homework position white is threatening to kick and then capture the defender of the e4 knight.

Thanks Can, White bishop on a2 is blocked. By far the worst piece. b4 would release the bishop, add a defender to d5, and increase the scope of the rook on a3. Also, the White knight on g3 does not hit anything. It would be happier on e4. Rc3 stops both of white's plans. If the white king tries to move to h2 to unpin the knight, Bxh4.

Thank you.

Rc3 is obvious in that it attempts to trap the bishop, pins the knight, and freezes the backwards pawn. So it's good obviously good but I wouldn't be able to eval the position correctly as "winning" after something like Ra5 unpinning, bishop d7 going after the pawn on f5, and rook f2 defending and bishop d8 trying to improve the black bishop with tempo. It looked like white was holding everything. Computer finds ways to trap the rook on a file or win knight or similar but it's not easy to correctly understand black is winning even if Rc3 appears to be obvious try for an advantage in that it attempts to neutralize various white pieces. So I would play Rc3 but not understand how good the black position is.

In the third position I would have played Qe7 with the fork, it's not obvious the black queen checks on first rank matter at all.

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I am now going through your play lists as your lessons are brilliant!

Great video,multi purpose moves are always tricky for the opponent, cause them to lose a lot of time🎉 great Karpov example 👏💯

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A superb lesson. Rc3. Took me a while. The old adage: If you see a good move, look for a better one. Now I know what a better move looks like. Thank you.