second video, feedback please.
should i show the move list within the video, then it makes it easier to locate where and when i should of moved?

Bg5 just loses the piece to Bxg5 Nxg5 Qxg5, right?

Also, the volume is a little low, at least on my computer.

Showing the moves is not a big deal to most folks, I don't believe and without the moves list, you can quiz the audience at certain points of the game where a tactic is about to occur. It's too easy to cheat when the moves list is visible.

Do you play on FICS or some other chess server?

yeh just realised that, but i think it was such a bad/strange move that black missed that he could just take it

As long as I watched, here are my thoughts:

It's good to play with a strategic goal. You do a good job of indentifying what is black's problem piece, the white squared bishop. Of course it's not in all variations and it's a bit of a simplification of the truth but it's good enough as a starting point for strategic planning in the French.

I was a bit surprised when you dropped a piece so early after the start because from listening to you speak about chess I wasn't expecting that. It's clear you are more of a strategist but you need to work a little bit on concentration and tactics. Exchanging dark squared bishops is a viable strategy but you just made that decision too quick without examining the consequences.

Also in the line after ...f6 you again lost that bishop after exf6-gxf6 you took on f6 losing a whole piece. You did it again for black in the line ...cxd4 cxd4-Nxd4 but you realized later that it just dropped a piece. Again maybe a bit of stress from doing the video but I emphasize you should do plenty of tactical exercises at this stage in your chess.

Then I want to talk about the Bb5 move. You contradict yourself quite a bit there. You say you didn't want to put it on e2 and you thought you lost a tempo by putting it on d3 because of ...c4 by black. However after you go Bb5 and black answers ...Bd7 you IMMEDIATELY go back to e2! That's just losing a tempo and you are better of going to e2 in one move if that's your chosen move. You however did it on the grounds that you didn't want to exchange light squared bishops which is again a good strategic decision. But why then not leave it on b5 and exchange it for the knight on c6?? After his ...Ng5 you want to play on the queenside but in fact I would take on g5, play Nf3 and then Be2-b5xc6 and stick my knight on e5 and try to murder black on the black squares.

Awful to put your knight on a4 there. You said your knight on c5 was active but it really wasn't. It isn't attacking anything as you don't want to swap it for his light squared bishop. So instead of Nc5 you should have stuck it back to d2. Black could have gotten a good game because of that knight on a4.

Again you miss after you "win" the pawn on d5 that black can just take your knight on b2. Again a common problem it seems like you are not paying enough attention to our opponents threats and what your opponent can do. I have also had that same problem albeit in a different way.

OK I am sorry if this comes of as critical but I am only trying to help. I think it's important to identify our mistakes and learn from them. So mostly tactical mistakes in nature, hanging pieces etc. but strategic thinking is promising like which pieces to exchange and I liked your thoughts about how ...c4 in some lines might restrict his bishop. GL

hey zibbit i don't mind the criticism at all, the reason i posted this video was that players better than me could tell me what i am doing wrong.

in response to your thoughts. i don't usually make tactical errors like Bg5 in a game which is just a terrible move. but apart from leaving my knight hanging on b2 i didn't seem to make any other huge tactical errors. in the game i analysed Qxb2 and i thought d6 was a winning move however i didn't see that black had Nc6 which i analysed in the video.

i think that because it was one of my first videos the lines that i analysed were innacurate namely the Bxf6 line and the d4 line.



this part makes me sad , seemed i could of been a reasonable chess player in your eyes but now i am just another blundering fool. =)

well i am going to do a few more game analysis videos and hopefully they will be better

Don´t be sad :-(

What I mean is that your talk of the opening suggested a higher level. Not pissing on your level but it's only that your tactical awareness hasn't caught up to your strategic thinking. But that's a much easier problem to fix then not having a strategic clue so I think you'll be fine in a very short time!

yeh my tactical awareness isn't great yet but i hope to improve that. is tactic puzzles the best way to do it?

Just play plenty of games, be sure to analyze them with engines or something that has a blunder check to identify and eliminate your mistakes.

Then just doing tactics puzzles over and over, say on sites like chess.emerald.net or chesstempo.com or the excellent tactical trainer on Chess.com.

You'll be fine.