Beginner's Chess Psychology With 'The Backyard Professor'

Okay, is this the most excitable chess player out there?? lol

Gotta love this guy's enthusiasm! He really made me laugh.

This guy is probably around the 1300ELO level (?), but the video is understandable to players even well below that ranking because he talks us through the moves in a simple and entertaining way. What drama!

He also shows us how being intimidated can destroy our play. But my favourite thing is showing how just one wrong move can make all the difference. This happens a lot in chess and is one of my favourite things about the game. Just take a look at this for a great example of a turnaround!





One thing: at the end he says watch the video several times. I disagree. If you need to watch it again by all means do, but the moves aren't spectacular. There are several questionable moves played by both sides. But this is more about the play, which was brilliantly done.

What he's really saying is that he woke up half way through and started looking for the possibilities for the tactics that enabled him to turn the game around, namely forks, pins, discovered checks, and when he got into that nasty fork with the opponent's knight, he simply looked for a weakness, formed a plan and counter-attacked.