Thanks very much gbidari. If it blows me away, I'll let you know!
Keju, please do. The main reason I liked it so much is because I always deeply wanted to know how high-level players really think, and I never really understood until listening to his thought process which he articulated so crisply and clearly.
And forgive the typo, I know how to spell probalby.
LOL ... it sounds like exactly what I need. Am a little averse to reading and would much rather listen to someone articulate think out loud. So I'll certainly give it a shot. Thanks for starting this thread!
Excellent advice. I realized early on in my chess.com career (but sadly late in my chess career generally) that I would so focus on my own attack plan that I would pay too little attention to my opponent's plan of attack. The result was sudden checkmate syndrome. This realization has helped a lot but clearly I have many more glaring weaknesses; but the problem is, as has been mentioned, they are not so glaring to me. More to be done.
For me I always knew what my weaknesses were -- actually working on them was the problem.
For me I always knew what my weaknesses were -- actually working on them was the problem.
get off the forum for a start. 
My biggest weakness is pawn pushers. When I play the caro-kann defence, I dread the advance variation. Same with the French defence.
My second biggest weakness is not being able to castle. In positions like the king's gambit when they try to launch a counter-attack against my king.
Too many of you people are way too eager to improve. Who will be left for me to defeat?
me of course lol
My biggest weakness is pawn pushers. When I play the caro-kann defence, I dread the advance variation. Same with the French defence.
My second biggest weakness is not being able to castle. In positions like the king's gambit when they try to launch a counter-attack against my king.
This is a joke right? 
My biggest weakness is pawn pushers. When I play the caro-kann defence, I dread the advance variation. Same with the French defence.
My second biggest weakness is not being able to castle. In positions like the king's gambit when they try to launch a counter-attack against my king.
This is a joke right?
Castling is hard, man!
Of course he was joking. If not...then what???
You know, I never did like the King's Gambit. It does leave the king open and castling difficult on the king side. No...these comments would come from a novice, which he is not.
Now...I am getting very close to figuring out how to mate with only a knight...or only a bishop. I will post the answer in the near future.
My biggest weakness is pawn pushers. When I play the caro-kann defence, I dread the advance variation. Same with the French defence.
My second biggest weakness is not being able to castle. In positions like the king's gambit when they try to launch a counter-attack against my king.
This is a joke right?
Why do people say I'm joking? I'm serious.
Caro-kann advance variation is one of the hardest defences for me to play as black. I MUCH prefer the panov-botvinnik attack because I love open games.
As for king's gambit, if you know of any good lines that white can play against the Cunningham defence, I would love to see it, because I have tried everything, from 4. h4 to 4. Bc4 and nothing seems to put me in a good position.
I went from 1390 to 1260 in about 3 weeks and the reason is that the more I study the worse I seem to get! Dose anyone else have this problem? Am I studying wrong? One thing is for sure, I seem to have lost the aggressiveness in my play!
I went from 1390 to 1260 in about 3 weeks and the reason is that the more I study the worse I seem to get! Dose anyone else have this problem? Am I studying wrong? One thing is for sure, I seem to have lost the aggressiveness in my play!
Let me ask you, why are you no longer aggressive in your play? How is that connected with what you have studied? Is the killer instinct gone or is it still there but you're manoevering your pieces where you think you're supposed to instead of what feels right? I'm not sure what you're studying but if it's detaching you from your better instincts, I would say you're studing wrong yes. The other possibility is what you're studing is right for you but it may take some time to integrate. I'm really curious why you decided to play less aggressively after studying though.
I went from 1390 to 1260 in about 3 weeks and the reason is that the more I study the worse I seem to get! Dose anyone else have this problem? Am I studying wrong? One thing is for sure, I seem to have lost the aggressiveness in my play!
Let me ask you, why are you no longer aggressive in your play? How is that connected with what you have studied? Is the killer instinct gone or is it still there but you're manoevering your pieces where you think you're supposed to instead of what feels right? I'm not sure what you're studying but if it's detaching you from your better instincts, I would say you're studing wrong yes. The other possibility is what you're studing is right for you but it may take some time to integrate. I'm really curious why you decided to play less aggressively after studying though.
A simple case of identity I see it a lot. If someone is more positional but wants to be aggressive and may study material on such topic but since most positions said player gets into require more positional finesse he may still play overly not necessary aggressive moves or vice versa in his case since he's more aggressive. This may sound dumb but I've seen Class A's sometimes confess this. Simply put know thy self (know what style of player you are and study that style)
I remember when I used to think josh was boring and went on way too long; later I was impressed at the depth -- thought he should be world champion; now he's not especially impressive to me -- just a normal IM. But the vids are still nice and in-depth, though I certainly wouldn't call it a religious experience.