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@harendrasharma8270

7 ай бұрын

Queen on C 3

@iamtheboxer

Ай бұрын

You had me up until Qb3

Please do more of these. Excellent!

I'm 1600 in online rapid, but according to this evaluation I'm 2200, since I saw up to Qe6 and Qd3(I instinctively rejected f5). This actually matches my puzzle rush score. It makes sense since I'm strong with my tactics on the attack, but weak with my positional play and openings. Very interesting and multilayered position. Thanks Igor

@larakalish881

7 ай бұрын

This is me too haha (I am 1038 in daily and used to be only 400 in rapid a few months ago).

@Trelmayas21

7 ай бұрын

@@larakalish881 That's fantastic progress, congrats. We both know we need to study openings and positional play, but it's just so fun to get a game going and throw our pieces forward to victory.

@larakalish881

7 ай бұрын

@@Trelmayas21 what is your advice for better positional play :)?

@Tararasik

7 ай бұрын

I have a similar situation. I have 1400 in 5min, 1600 in 10min, and 2000 according to this quiz. I guess I'm just a slow thinker )

@RandomGuyOnYoutube601

7 ай бұрын

These puzzles are designed to make you feel better about yourself. You are not 2200.

► Chapters 00:00 Chess Puzzle Rating Test - Guess the ELO 00:32 THE PUZZLE 00:58 Your Rating Level is 600 IF 01:17 Your Rating Level is 700 IF 01:44 Your Rating Level is 1000 IF 02:11 Your Rating Level is 1400 IF 04:00 Your Rating Level is 1600 IF 04:50 What separates you and advanced level players 05:09 Your Rating Level is 1800 IF 06:21 Your Rating Level is 2000 IF 07:57 Your Rating Level is 2100 IF 09:00 Your Rating Level is 2200 IF 10:32 Your Rating Level is 2400 IF 12:11 Your Rating Level is 2600 IF 13:20 Your Rating Level is 2830 IF (Level of Magnus Carlsen) 15:32 Summary and Solution

@R.Akerman-oz1tf

7 ай бұрын

First 3 min.) Sadly, 1st thought was "attack"; yet I moved the Q to D3. I guess I shouldn't rush. This is GOLD Igor. Thanks

Hey, thank you, I really love these kind of videos with testing your rating while solving a puzzle. I came up to 1600, I thought it is enough to find the best next move.. should have known that there might be more to calculate.. xD you are also explaining very well and that helps me a lot to know how to think and go on to the next level. I get those Ideas and see myself with a little bit of effort also climbing to a higher rating.. will try just calculating further on next time. :D

Great quiz. Thanks Igor for this and all your other videos. Really appreciate you!

I've only been playing chess for 3 months, but these videos are really helpful to see where my mindset needs to be to get to the next level. I came in at 1200 ELO for this puzzle because I don't quite have the forethought yet to see the move variations. I imagine this will come with time and once I see those moves it will open up a new world for me. Thanks again for these great puzzles!

Dear Igor Smirnov, Would you be making more of these quiz-ratings-thingies? Very helpful!

About 2200, for me it was a winning position once the queen was targetting G7 (from G4) with support from a knight. Not even D2 was threatening at that point. I didn't calculate all the way to m8, but I could see that it was unstoppable.

Damn this is an excellent video! I'm rated about 1700, but recently I've seen a lot of improvements in my play and it was confirmed in this video, according to it i am rated 2200 in calculation (i spent about 3 minutes to get to this point)! This is insane, can't wait to play some games and improve my rating. Thanks Igor

nice. useful, educational.

Such a great video!! Thank you!!!

After the first bishop move was pointed out, I was able to work out the balance of the options for both sides. However, I also noticed (after some Moves) (Queen) D1 to B3 was an option that was not mentioned (17:26 on the video). I do not see why this is not a better option.

Great video!

Great video sir, I’m 1600 but for this video I performed 2000, maybe because I know that tactical moves are highly possible. This test encourages me to play with longer time control: chess is strategic game and time is essential to calculate such those difficult lines.

Igor this was one of the best ideas ever - keep it up!!

Please sir make more videos like this it is very useful

I've been part of the #igornation for the last few years and find your videos extremely helpful. This one, however, was by far the best you've ever done. I'm proud that I was able to calculate to the 1800 level and to have you explain the mindset needed to push those calculations is invaluable. Please, please do more of this type of video and thank you!

Do you have any tips for increasing/deepening the calculations that we do? It's seems overwhelming to me lol.

I found Ba4 b5 Bxb5 Qxb5 Qxg4. But I didn't actually consider Qe6. But my actual rating is 1250. (My 2500 puzzles rating might explain this discrepancy). At any rate, I love these types of videos and I hope you make more of them. Thanks!

interesting... thanks

i had a variation of the 1600 chain, a few more moves with a discovered check when pawn takes bishop from the rook, but i guess i missed a counter move somewhere in there!

I didn't initially see Qe3+ for black after f5 but while you were analyzing I saw the check before you mentioned it. But the point is obviously I need to assess and understand this move before moving into the explanation. Thanks for this video, It's been a real eye opener. I think playing this way and thinking at this level in every game is difficult for me. I play too many fast games. and loose on time. I found out my rating may be low due to not restarting my router more often due to high and unpredictable latency. I would encourage any player who has trouble calculating to learn and remember co-ordinates of the board. This is something I struggle to do but I know if I plugged that hole in my understanding I would be able to do solid analysis. All to often, I understand an idea and calculating method and that's one thing. But I can't remember the right move order in more complex interactions and combinations on the board. So half the time I play moves that are simply not thought out right.

please make more videos like this

Saw all up until the 2800 “Magnus” endgame, but calculated after f5 black’s counterattack shot of Ne3 (hitting Qd1 & protecting Bg4) which fails as fxQ, BxQ, e6xf7+, K any, f7xRe8+ when white ends up ahead. I didn’t see let alone consider Black’s Queen sac, the stunning Qe3! That amazing sac is type Hikaru, Magnus, or Caruana might see instantly! Cool tactical test. More like this would be highly appreciated. Cheers!

(1500 Blitz 2000? Rapid) First I calculated Ba4 b5 Bxb5 Qxb5 Qxg4 Bh6 Nf5, then I totally forgot to think about Qe6. After you mentioned it, I did calculate f5 Bxd1 fxe6 Bxa4 exf7. This is the best I can do in 5~10 minutes.

But I didn’t play Qd3 just because it save the queen. I calculate that it will forced weakness around opponent’s king and gives me two very good bishop. I properly check that there’re no stuff like fork on d2, e2, e3 forcing black have to save his dark square bishop and after I play Bc2 it becomes safer and more active while at the same time forcing g6 making my dark squares bishop very active. I didn’t calculate further since I don’t know where black will place his dark square bishop (both h4 and h6 looks reasonable) but I do notice idea like f5 (which is different from f5 in the video because this one doesn’t threaten a piece but will be played to force the king open using g7 hook and loose light square bishop).

Thanks Igor - this puzzle was extremely accurate and predicted my 1,000 Elo exactly. I was mindful of Rapid time control, it would've been better for me to go classical and write everything down for calculation. I have a long ways to go with Chess to be really good, I did not see the key move for White that leads to the advanced lines. One possible issue at this Elo I think is "Diagonal Blindness," I am prone to getting blindsided on my diagonals on occasion.

Thanks to Igor! I got 2400 as a result, along with my Lichess rating being 1800+ currently. Also in educational speaking, I just found it pretty instructive to test out one's weak points in chess through this kind of quiz, although to be fair, all of which you have made seem to be focused on tactics and calculation. Besides, I wish there would be more of them being focused on strategies and valuation, given the fact lots of players around my level usually overdepend on their calculation, spending most of the time trying to "solve" almost every position even in a positional play. That would be significantly helpful! ❤️

I saw the a4 queen/rook skewer, black queen to e6, white queen d3, bishop e2, pawn f5, Bxd3, fxe6, Bxf1, exf7+, Kxf7, Rxf1+, K moves wherever, Bxe8, Rxe8 ending on and endgame with most of the pieces traded off, and the pawns on the kingside equalized hopefully leaving a winning endgame for white with the queenside pawns all connected. But like you said at the start of the video, I probably would've never calculated so deep in a live game unless I knew something was there from the getgo like with this puzzle or having seen the position before and studying it. I didn't see pushing f5 in response to queen e6 or the resulting check at e3. I'm not sure if I'm 2000 or 2600.

My national rating is 1500 but got only the 1000 mark by playing Qd3, saving the queen and expecting some nice follow up with Bc2 and considering the fact that the bishop on g5 is still under attack. I never considered Ba4, who knows why. But having seen that possibility, I honestly think I would have got a much higher mark that my national rating. All that taken into consideration, the gradation used for this evaluation is not reliable in my situation. It might work for some other players though. Thanks for this kind of content. I think it is quite instructive.

your every video is helpful for a chess player.....

What if I calculated queen d3 as the first move to prepare bishop c2 to setup the battery targeting h7? My line was qd3 bh6, bc2 g6, f5 gxf5/bxf5, nxf5 gxf5/bxf5, rxf5.

3:45 still didn't finish the whole puzzle but thus far my calculation finished at queen e 6 f5 Bishop takes white queen pawn takes black queen and here i am either winning a bishop or an exchange

Thank you Teacher for tonight lessons!🙏

@GMIgorSmirnov

7 ай бұрын

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at 14:00, what if black plays Kd2, forking the rooks, instead of Bc2? What do the different ELOs do for white?

According to this video, my Elo rating is suggested to be 1600, which aligns with my current rating on Lichess. The position featured in the video was captivating, and the video itself, in addition to being interesting, proved to be highly informative-thanks!♥

@GMIgorSmirnov

7 ай бұрын

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plz continue to bring more of these rating test puzzle

Hi Igor - I follow a lot of your fabulous videos and I saw Ba4 quite early on and thus 'claim' 1600. However, I typically play against Chess Pro on my tablet and often struggle to win at 1100 (especially when playing black). How do I *really^ determine my rating? Thanks - Webbo

queen to d3 then bishop to C2 ,,you are then lined up to capture pawn h7 > checkmate

hi , I could not see Ba4 but I seen a lot of the other moves after it. Great video 😃

According to puzzle my elo between 2200 - 2400 but i think thats "potential elo" for me, in expand i can understand or calculate that level but because of my lack of knowledge about openings, end game, traps, conduct proper game or other book things i am not that level on practical game area, but that video fortify my opinions over myself, thank you much for content

I am 1600 rated blitz and evaluated 2100 rated line

Hi, currently my average performance in classical tournaments is around 1900 ELO. I calculated 1. Ba4 until your proposed rating of 2000 and stepped over to 1.Qd3, because I expected more options for bad decisions of black there. I gain a lot of pressure with this mating attack.

Excellent video.

@GMIgorSmirnov

7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

yay, i saw Ba4, f5 and also the Qe3+ move and I actually concluded that in a classical game, I would just move the queen if my opponent plays Qe6, so quite content with myself this time haha, even though I was too lazy to calculate the Magnusian variation :p

That was a great video it totally showed me where my game is 1400 and everything I need to know to get to the next level

i saw everything very quickly up to the 2400 ones, but i didn't see Qd3 because of f5, and generally i never see silent moves, and i'm very bad at dead positions, so i struggle at the level of 2000, i win sometimes against 2300-2400s but only if i get chaos on the board. and of course i didn't see the 2600 one lol that's insane

Really liked this exercise. I only took about a minute to calculate so I didn't go thru everything. I definitely was eyeing pretty quickly ba4. I calculated a few responses past that. I didn't think too much on what to do if they didn't trade queens, but certainly looked at either way keeping the bishop focused at the queen, meaning I would capture on b5. So I guess with this exercise I was between 1800 and 2000. My actual rating is very close to 1600.

@GMIgorSmirnov

7 ай бұрын

Excellent!

What do I do in the Scandinavian Defense as white after 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6? I am stuck and lose as white a lot. Please create a video on this!

THIS WAS SO COOL IGOR

Awesome! I found the ideas for 1600 ELO, and it's clear how far you have to think and advance to get higher. Great test!

@GMIgorSmirnov

7 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

How do you see that many moves ahead in reasonable time? Is it playing experience? Is it a kind of intelligence? How does it work?

I love these positions. So much complexity in them. The more you look, the more you see.

This was great. Next time I will actually pause and calculate what I would have done. Thanks.

Great video! Just one thing- I'm 1200 elo( I suck, I know) but I found Ba4 by myself in 10 seconds and calculated all the variations- Am I still 2200? (Not 2400 because I didn't calculate f5- I calculated Qd3 instead at 10:33)

U1200 isnt about if you spot an obvious hanging queen(most U600 i think would spot it and not completely blunder), its about consistency. Im 500 in rapid and i often play decent 1000-1200 rated games, but sometimes i go on downward spirals of playing poorly. I know enough to be 1000+ easily but its mostly about consistency and mindstate while playing that hinder my rating. This also seems common, ill face 400s who are playing like 1200 and see they also also just have losing streaks and dont consistently play well. Its hard to teach being consistent i guess.

2000. I did see f5 - but failed to see that after ...Bxd1, the B is also attacking a4. Only after hitting play did I notice that the f5 pawn would also attack f7 with devastating consequences after taking the Q. I did calculate ...b5, Bxb5, Qxb5, Qxg4 - but said "well, great position, up a pawn, still attacking the B so great line" without seeing the other ramifications - the checkmating threats first of all - so no 2100 for me. On ...Qe6 I didn't consider moves other than f5 - so failed to see Qd3, therefore no 2200. I was of course completely blind to the idea of ...Qe3+!! - simply because I wasn't looking for it. This move (from the original position) was way way way above my pay grade... indeed - I never had any success playing GMs under equal conditions... My actual FIDE rating is just under 2000. I'm a bit out of shape these days, though, as I'm much more into backgammon (where I'm a regularly competing master).

Continuing K to D2 is a 3 way fork, but then QxP, KxR (either Rook), BxR still leaves 2 black pieces under attack, assuming that black takes Bishop with either the rook or Queen. Is this not correct?

2:24 I'm 780 rated and I thought of the bishop a4 move but also didn't notice that threat on the queen

i calculated Ba4 variation with b5 and further better position for white but didn't see Qe6.....but 2830 level is amazing

Interesing, I have nearly reached 2600 level but considered Be3+ instead of Qe3+!! For some reason did not look at that brilliant queen check! But there king just moves to h1 and black still has hanging rook, queen and f7 if Bxd1 and whilte plays fe. But I play (only) classic on lichess (15+15 and 30+0), my rating being 2100-2200, which could be lower than real rating because I face so much cheaters (and only small part of them is banned, more precisely - only those who play top engine moves every move in many games). Anyway thanks for nice puzzle!

I put this position into an engine, and it is completely winning for white, the best move for white after Ba4 is actually Rc6

Very interesting, I would like other videos like that I mean concretely I calculted the best lines for both player with white being up the exchange so I'm Magnus level right? Even if I missed the whole b5 line and the whole f5 line 😂

What if after Qe6, white moves to a6? QxQ, Rxq, rxr, rxr, then white threatens backrank mate? No?

I didn't find Ba4, I figured that Qd3 was safe, and that the opponent would likely move his bishop to escape the pawn threat (which was protected by the rook), and then you could move Bc2, creating a battery towards the h7 pawn. Opponent might respond g6, but then you can bring in your knight perhaps, e.g. to h5. I am about 1000 elo, but puzzle is ~2000-2050. I feel like I am coming down with a cold, and tilted my puzzle rating this morning. Which is perhaps why I think I didn't see the bishop move, which embarrasses me a little. My puzzle rating has jumped about 1000 in 90 days, after I started doing your advice of 5 minutes a day of puzzles, and bumped it up to about an 30-60minutes or so. 5 minutes of openings, 10-15mins of openings, and 10 minutes of game analysis. I'm doing all that, probably more, through chessable with openings. It is a long grind to even learn a couple openings thoroughly. And I've slowed my chess down, I try to do 15/10s so I can do more calculation. Only about 1 a day now, I figure it makes more sense to drill openings/puzzles than to practice "wrong moves" in games. Reality is though, one puzzle is not an adequate sample size to gauge playing strength. It may be a little of an indication. I just solved a 2070 rated puzzle this morning (also tilting a bunch of others). Does that make me a 2070 level chess player? Of course not. It does give me hope - I figure if I know the first 9-10 moves of an opening, an inexperienced opponent probably makes a mistake, I can capitalize and then convert the position to a win through material or position. 10 moves of a game is 1/3 to 1/4 of a the typical number of moves for a game, so that's very significant - to be able to play perfect chess for up to 1/3 of the time - at 1000 elo, most of my opponents won't be. Meanwhile, puzzles will get my computation ability strong, for tactics. Then it's end game study if I can't get a dominant position by the end game. It might be a year or two of study to get to that point. I like your stuff youtube content often, though I find it seems more geared to people who have a lot of memory and can remember lots, which is not my strength. I tried the Evans gambit for a while, though it seemed not universal enough for my needs. Some of the tips have been very helpful though - the idea of being uncomfortable with having pieces in your territory (and doing the same to the opponent), and "to take is a mistake" are both key nuggets of wisdom. You are an actual GM, which is higher than some IMs I have found most helpful. So I respect that, although I have to select what I think is likely to work for me with my own limitations.

The funny thing is that I see the "correct" line which is 1. Ba4 Qe6 2. Qd3 and black's rook and bishop is double attacked and lose material. I see 1. B*d1 doesn't work for black. And I completely forget the line 1. ... b5. I also do not consider 2. f5 myself after 1. ... Qe6. Although the line I consider happens to be the best line, it still shows huge difference between me and advanced players😂

This is what confuses me so much. I spent maybe two minutes thinking, found Ba4, found b5 for black, saw that b5 didn't work because of the threat against the dark-squared bishop or checkmate, I found all of it. And even in my rapid game reviews, half the time it says I'm playing at a 2000 online level, and yet my rapid rating has never gone above 1500.

I got 2200 here, saw f5 but I wasn't sure how to calculate through with it and what moves the opponent might've played when I was calculating

Hi Igor, my OTB rating in classical chess is 1400 but I calculated your puzzle through to f5 within 2 minutes, which is according to your rating scale much higher. Would that mean that I have potential or is your rating scale off? Thanks for this nice puzzle and the valuable explanations. Cheers Oliver

@hypercubemaster2729

7 ай бұрын

It's off. I got 2600+, and I'm maybe 1800.

Hi Magnus! We are enjoying your beautiful chess in all its creativity, and learn a lot from watching you play. And I have to say, your English is WAY better than my Norsk.

Great 👍 🙏👍

@GMIgorSmirnov

7 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

Honestly at first I didn’t find out the Ba4 but after that I calculated all the lines before GM level by myself. What should be my rating then? Although I was having my Dinner at that time. 😅

Love this style of video. I scored 2000 despite being about 1450 rapid, so thanks for the confidence boost!

I got 1600 for this video. Would love to see more of these, this was so helpful!!

Igor, I got 2100 rating which is about my current level. Pretty good puzzle for rating testing.

At 15:11 black should not take with knight but instead put fork with the horse IMHO:)

Flattering but I'm definetly not a 2400, my rapid rating is 907 and puzzle rating is 1750. This position was somewhat easy to evaluate because having the queen in check clarifies priorities, games tend to be less obvious most of the time.

oh wow i got 2400 and that makes sense coz my Chesscom rating is 2318. M really happy and I hope you will keep posting more such interesting videos. thanks a lot

I calculated a lot some lines not even mentioned in the video. :)

I found the line up to ELO 2100 point within ~4 minutes of analysing (found that white will be up a pawn after exchanges), but I realy don't think I'm even near such high level....

Actually I got to where you attacked the queen with the pawn but didn't see that, instead I calculated R-E1 attacking again his queen, Q-F5, Q-C1, R-E6, PxB, Q-D3 stifling my position but didn't calculate beyond there it's too far lol ;)

I saw ... Qe6 threatening the rook and having time for my queen to dodge still. but not ... b5 even as a possibility. (after you pointed it out I still saw it was an overworked queen) am I still 2200?? lmao

I’m about 1600-1700 according to the puzzle (I’m about 1400) because I didn’t see b5 but I thought about my opponent’s moves and saw their queen moving. When you showed b5 though, I immediately saw Bxb5.

@heremansmarc

7 ай бұрын

Same for me, but I saw b5 before and rejected it immediately (because of BxQ) to be focused on Qe6. Then, I only thought about Qd3.

I'm a 1400 USCF and somehow found the 2000 answer in a few seconds. Then a 1 minute in to the video and I found the 2400 answer. But before I found f5 you showed us the 2200 answer. So I thought I was incorrect, I watched further and I realized I was correct! What I think is that I have a mind of a stronger player, but human error and intimidation during games makes me play like a weaker player. And whenever I analyze grandmaster games I know the moves in all the important positions, but fore some reason I always doubt my self. How do you think I can overcome these cons so I can FINALLY advance 1500? And how do I make my game stronger in positional play, because that seems like what I'm lacking since tactics are much easier than positional chess?

I am 2000 elo with Bb5 counter blow though my official fide rating is 1710 and online rating is 1747

I see everything (i get 2200), but I somehow lose to my lower rate opponent player(I'm 1600, and he's 1200). My tactic is sharp but I just can't see anything in real games. What's wrong?

@BobChess

7 ай бұрын

@JonaasK Sorry for the mistakes, I don't remember which rating before Magnus rating

I had calculated upto the rating of 2200 and i'm just a 1100 elo player

I got 2000, this video certainly helps me to think more about counter intuitive ideas

Got 1800, saw some of the stuff beyond but didn’t calculate it all out. I’m currently 1200 but haven’t had a lot of time to actually play the last 2 months so I’ve just been studying

Probably will be depressing to find out, but how long does it take to solve this puzzle for each of the provided levels? I spend 20 minutes and got a rating of 1600. Seems like that is very long for a player of a true rating of 1600.

i get a level off 2000/2100 but tell me igor pls i am only 1300 Rapid and 1250 Blitz (Blitz peak was 1443) but how do you say i am 2000 i think i can du sooo much more but i simply make 1 moves Blunder aka Black outs every 1,5 Games

It’s interesting how Ding is the WCC but I hardly ever hear him get mentioned. It’s like the guy disappeared

Thank you, Igor, I made 2200. In a real game, I'd play Qb3 at some time, allowing the Nd2 triple fork, so I'm a 600 IRL :-)

I made it to 2400 ❤😂. But i Struggle a bit on my first ideas. I needed rly time to find that Bishop move i was thinking about sacrificing my Rock to get a kingside attack. 😅 But i couldn't find a working one😢. I think i bring that Puzzle friday in our Chessclub.We talk a lot about Igor in the last time because i am his fan and the most of them have a hard time to take the time for even 1 video per week.

I saw all of them . . . as the video played them 😂😂😂

Idk if Magnus would've found the variation you showed for 2830 because that's actually -0.5 lol, I think you messed up the line around when you should've played Qd3 because it says black is just better in the line you showed at the end

Why not Nd2 instead of Bc2 in the 2830 section?

I am about 1940, but got 2100 here. Could probably get even higher just didnt put any effort to calculate after Qe6. Even consider f5, but for some reason i thought it dowsnt work or something.

BA4 was my move and I'm rated 1600 in tactics so it lines up well!

@hypercubemaster2729

7 ай бұрын

Tactics rating will always be far above actual playing strength. I'm 3000+ tactics, but more like a 1700-1800 otb.