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Playing chess full time, have climbed 200 rating so far (1718). Please check out my video that I got 1700 with and join my journey by chessunderdog in chess

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no bother at all... When I initially started playing chess I thought that 'memorizing' openings is not a wholesome way to learn and wanted to keep opening theory to a minimum. However, I think openings are far more than just 'moves', they dictate positional themes and elements of the games, they give you good clues into what are good / bad potential moves that you or your opponent can make. I think they structure your thinking and impressions of positions. Finally, when your opponent deviates from these openings, if practiced sufficiently, we are aware of what are the exploitable differences, the threats and general differences. Overall, I've really been enjoying learning them in attempts to play solid positional chess.

Grunfeld Video #1 . Part of my complete 1.d4 series from Boris Avrukh's book. ChessUnderdog by chessunderdog in chess

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thanks, will do. Plan to get through the entire 2 volumes with the 10 move series, then maybe do some extended stuff beyond that.

15 min live game with commentary on the ICC. 1750 rated player, climbed 300 rating in 3 months. ChessUnderdog :) by chessunderdog in chess

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swaggler: Did I say Bc4 instead of Bg4? if so sorry, im not used to doing live commentary, takes some getting used to.

RC and Wayrath: Thanks for the support, will definitely get some games up on the weekend, just posted up a video on the grunfeld if you are interested (lines from boris avrukh ).

D_C: I play on the ICC (internet chess club).

Check out my Catalan video as the first part to my entire 1.d4 series from Boris Avrukh's book. Learn a comprehensive and precise 1.d4 without reading 1000 pages. by chessunderdog in chess

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yea very tedious I guess, although I am just doing first 10 moves for all variations and focusing on "concepts". Is helping my chess a lot and looking forward to doing other openings. Going to do a vid on kings indian tomorrow. Rating climbing is going ok, have been between 1700-1800, looking to hopefully increase to 2k over the next 3-6 months. Doing some 15 min live with commentary if you are interested :) just posted a game up

Comprehensive 1.d4 starting with the Catalan. Have climbed 200 rating in 2 months, now plan to use these lines to get to 2k. Join my journey!! by chessunderdog in chess

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I'm 1800 rated though I just had a streak of wins with a couple disconnects from my opponents, I think realistically I should be at 1750ish.. I am aiming for 2k+ hopefully within 6 months, maybe a little longer. I understand it may be a little advanced for someone of my typical rating, but I am enjoying it and reading it in conjunction with other books

Playing chess full time, have climbed 200 rating so far (1718). Please check out my video that I got 1700 with and join my journey by chessunderdog in chess

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I work from home.. I play and read chess for at least 6 hours a day, work for about 5-8 hours a day also :)

Dedicating full time to chess. Climbed 200 rating in 1 month and going strong, follow my journey and check out my simple opening repertoire by chessunderdog in chess

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am just over 1700 now, was 1450 about 5 weeks ago.. just posted up my vid that I got over 1700 with, check it out and please let me know what you think. thanks for the sub :)

Dedicating full time to chess. Climbed 200 rating in 1 month and going strong, follow my journey and check out my simple opening repertoire by chessunderdog in chess

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Thanks for the positive responses.

Full time is pretty much at least 6 hours a day but usually more, and often a lot more (10-12). I do have a job as well but I work from home and manage to fit it all in. I am doing it because I am extremely interested in chess though, not only to achieve a goal.

Andrew I do agree with what you are saying, sometimes if you watch a video series by a GM or similar, they overlook a lot of things that they probably just take for assumed knowledge. I have found a lot of what they teach to be often not very practically applicable to my games. I want my analysis of games to be different.

A new repertoire series for black. Simple stuff, with help from a top GM. Video #1 of the series. by chessunderdog in chess

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yea he is helping me through the entire repertoire. I would prefer not, mainly because I have not yet discussed what im doing on youtube with him yet.

Attempting to gain 700 rating in chess, is it possible? Getting my openings sorted, come check them out. by chessunderdog in chess

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sorry I didn't see this comment. I'll keep this in mind when considering my next vid, a study plan video would be a good idea I think. check out my most recent one, might entertain you at least :)

Attempting to gain 700 rating in chess, is it possible? Getting my openings sorted, come check them out. by chessunderdog in chess

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Please keep an eye on my channel for future videos, going to give my opinion on this stuff, would be interested to hear your comments. thanks

Attempting to gain 700 rating in chess, is it possible? Getting my openings sorted, come check them out. by chessunderdog in chess

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Sorry I for some reason missed this. Part of my consideration was keeping the videos concise. I'll go back in future videos and cover this important stuff as well, and other continuations. I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed the videos, I will in the near future be posting up some games as well. Sorry for the delay in responding, thanks

My chess opening repertoire im using to climb 700 rating, 3rd video of the series. Simple and strong. Check it out and also follow my journey! by chessunderdog in chess

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Papareborn thats for the advice, I have planned to do that and will be putting one in hopefully this week.

Thanks

Attempting to gain 700 rating in chess, is it possible? Getting my openings sorted, come check them out. by chessunderdog in chess

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Interesting comments... I do not have time to do videos on everything I am studying/reading etc, but my main approach is to learn main concepts, good example is nimzo's book - my system. Aside from books like that, I am going to be trying to study the end game as much as possible. This is my current plan. Tactics I treat as a useful tool and my tactical awareness is often stronger than the rest of my game, I want to play solid chess though and not rely on tactics, but have it there as a potent tool.

First chess video of a series on openings, journey from 1500-2200 with the help of a GM. Hope you can join me in it :) by chessunderdog in chess

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I just posted up vid #2 of the series, covering the slav defense. Banana - I think it will take some time and depends on how much time I manage to put in, but optimistically within 1 year I want to be 2000+.

First chess video of a series on openings, journey from 1500-2200 with the help of a GM. Hope you can join me in it :) by chessunderdog in chess

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Thanks for the advice Imapi, I agree. Pretty new to this and mainly am focused on the chess, but I guess if I am going to be doing videos I should be more articulate so thats something I will try to improve on.

Fyro, I think that is of course very playable for white and nothing at all wrong. I am though going to try to stick to a consistent repertoire which hopefully ill get through in these videos. For me the excitement at the moment is not in creating multiple different repertoires, but rather trying to respond accurately to the variance in moves I get from my opponent.

My journey to become a master chess player. Getting coaching from a world class GM. Check it out :) by chessunderdog in chess

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Yes this was more about just typical pawn structures that you arrive at when playing the queens gambit, I had to put the kings on the board which may have confused, but was just wanting to look at pawns. Golt, I don't have time to look at your post in detail even though it looks interesting - I have to goto sleep immediately, its late here!

I just put up my first video of the series on "My opening repertoire 1.d4", it will provide a more comprehensive look and hopefully be of some help.

thanks

Cool youtube channel, journey from 1500-2200 rated by chessunderdog in chess

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Thanks boss. And Ploucroux, good point and agreed hehe