Hi,
I'm Anton from Toronto. I'm 34 and I'm rated about 2000-2100 classical on Lichess. I'm looking for training partners to play training games with. My schedule is pretty stable and I'd like to play 2-3 games every week. Just playing some games - we can still study / analyze on our own. Once in a while a joint analysis / discussion is welcome.
I'm available almost every weekday from 7-30 am to about 8-30 am EASTERN time (Monday - Friday).
I play the French defense against e4. Against d4 I play QGD. As white, I'm a d4 player and prefer openings with Nc3 - Classical QGD, slav, Nimzo, etc.
Please message me if you are interested in playing with me in the morning! Can be casual or rated, doesn't matter. Would be great if we could find several people who are all available in the morning, we can create a little play / study group.
See this video Nakamura vs Levy (note that I got 2/4 right beating the IM! :)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dQzTnvsNG4Suggested chessmood format would be to request 2 maybe 3 participants of different ratings.Provide 3/4 positions for analysis, members record and submit videos of them analysing the position (with some time limit for each, maybe 3 minutes) and coming to a conclusion of what they think the best move is. The GM (not necessarily the host GM) also records a video.Videos (in ascending rating order) are played to the audience during the event (if some editing/screening can happen prior the time limit might be increased to 5 minutes depending on the position), followed by the GM's. Solution is then revealed by the host GM and they comment on how the participants analysed, the position and tips on improving related to what they missed in the position, different rating abilities/faults, and calculating in general.
I'm Anton from Toronto. I'm 34 and I'm rated about 2000 classical on Lichess. I'm looking for training partners to play training games with. My schedule is pretty stable and I'd like to play 2-3 games every week.
I'm available almost every weekday from 7-30 am to 8-30 am EASTERN time (Monday - Friday).
I play the French defense against e4. Against d4 I play QGD.
As white, I'm a d4 player and prefer openings with Nc3 - Classical QGD, slav, Nimzo, etc.
Please message me if you are interested in playing with me in the morning!
I am studying the Bd3 variation in the French. In the main line, 3 .. de, after 9. .. Bb4 and 10. Ndb5, there is the move 10. .. Bd7.
The video course mentions that this move will be covered in the advanced section, but I did not see it there.
In my game I played 11. a3 but after some exchanges Black's light-coloured bishop went to c6 and created a lot of unpleasant pressure on the main diagonal.
I looked at alternatives such as 11. Qd4 but they did not look entirely convincing either.
Any ideas?
thanks!
This isn't covered in the course and I've faced it once. Found this model game in Plan Like a Grandmaster which might be worth including in the course as an example of Qe7 being bad.
This has become quite popular of late. I usually play e5 maybe Bc5 etc but what do you guys play ?
