Punishing Beginner Mistakes | Ponziani Opening

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In this video I play a rapid chess game against fellow Twitch Streamer vengaard_live () who is a relatively new to chess— only been playing for ~3 months! In the game, I unleash the Ponziani Opening and proceed to show no mercy. I hope this game provides some instructional value when it comes to exploiting common beginner mistakes and using basic tactics to seize the advantage. Towards the end of the game (once I achieved a decisive material advantage) I put more of my focus towards answering various questions from the Twitch Chat. After the game, I provide some basic tips and advice and show how black could have improve the opening play against the Ponziani.
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    His first mistake was playing someone like you in the first place…yes I stole that from GoT but it's relevant here haha

    20:39 why didn’t he just develop his other knight? His pawn would have been safe and his queenside knight wasn’t in any danger.

    I thought I was bad bad scaling I think a game against him would be close

    Youtube: Recommends chess video altrought i've never played chess before

    Me: K, then (Proceeds to watch the video)

    Also Yt:Instantly shows me a chess course add

    3:30 wouldve taken knight with knight
    Then his queen would be in danger
    His pawn would take it
    Move queen to where that pawn is and take it then kings in check
    He might move his queen down to prevent this
    Take rook and check king again
    Depending on what happens maybe get another bishop too

    Q: does chess improve concentration?

    A: yes it does (reading questions while playing a chess game)

    Oh hey it looks like he moved something…

    My chess punishing took less than 20-minutes and he was playing 15 players at once.

    subscribed for the Derick = D pawn, Eric = E pawn joke. i like seeing unusual openings at least once even if its not something i would play, and having someone explain general principles of certain situational problems eg. when to keep piling on a pin and when is best to trade and cut your losses 🙂

    Helpful hint: At 28 seconds you said "Seems like he understands basics". I am a native born English speaker and for fun I played that sentence 5x and could not understand you. Honestly its complete gibberish. Hint: Please try to be more self aware that you have a tendency to "Rush Mumble"and you aren't articulating your consonants so its hard to hear each individual word in a sentence. After listening further maybe English is not your 1st language? Regardless you should seriously consider elocution video lessons to tighten up your manner of pronunciation because if teaching is important to you then understand its not just about content but delivery as well. I'm moving on to learn from someone else at this point because I cannot understand what you are saying far to often. I apologize if this sounds judgmental or it is embarrassing to you but honestly I'm a teacher and us teachers try to help one another out when we can.

    What app is this? I wanna learn how to play chess ♟

    1500 rating after 3 months of playing? yeah right

    I’m so new that my best tactic is in game choice – I’ve won more games by letting the opponent run out of time than I have by checkmates, so I don’t play games with timers longer than 10 minutes any more. I am heavily overrated.

    10:20 would there have been a downside to moving Nf7(the move I personally would have played) here, rather than capturing on c6? Nf7 puts pressure on both rooks, and opens the queen to 2 attacks(knight on f7 and bishop on f4), which caught my attention.

    how does he make the green lines without moving the piece? im. kinda new haha

    ᚨᛒᚤᛋᛋᚨᛚ ᛞᛁᚨᛒᛚᛟ says:

    My biggest fear is to play against new to chess players. They would trade anything, 15 and it's almost end game

    Why he didnt resign or why are you touchre him

    I was wondering how at minute ten would bishop c4 fare for white

    "can you play home by phillip phillips"
    I see that someone is a man of culture…

    Could you please swallow a bit louder? IT really helps me to play more agressive.

    why don't you play people better instead of beginners, dork.

    12:15 wasn't at that time better to eat the bishop that is in front of the queen?

    You crazy man loved the video ❤️

    Blunder by you at 7:38 Nf7 would be folk on queen and two rooks

    16:45 I was thinking he could’ve gone F6 knight and force the rook on G8 rook and then fork D7 knight. But then again I am an inexperienced chess player (I’m like 600 in rating lol).

    Explanation: If the rook moved on D8 then he could’ve been able to take the rook, and if the opponent went on D7 then he could’ve been able to protect with knight G6 capturing Pawn and protecting the bishop. What makes this even more valid is that Eric Rosen was 14+ up in material so a sensible guy wouldn’t have done that. The only move left that isn’t a Knight or bishop captures in this position for Rosen is H8 Rook which would leave itself isolated.

    Hello! I enjoyed the video, but I'd the guy that lost. haha Could you advise me on how to start? Any book or sequence of book, knowledge I should look for?

    9LX = chess 960 = Fischer Randim Chess is not a new format! It was created by Bobby Fischer.

    3:30 wouldve taken knight with knight
    Then his queen would be in danger
    His pawn would take it
    Move queen to where that pawn is and take it then kings in check
    He might move his queen down to prevent this
    Take rook and check king again
    Depending on what happens maybe get another bishop too

    Once the black queen is dead, it's no point to continue.

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