Hi there.
In this lecture, I want to emphasize to you about choice of opponents.
Ideally, you want an opponent that's slightly stronger than you and you can use maybe the rating system
generally as a guide and in your initial start.
OK, just just play with players, say hundreds until you get a few rated games and there's more accurate
determination of your kind of initial rating strength.
But, you know, initially you're probably, you know, looking at, you know, players a thousand to
fourteen hundred for the first few months or weeks.
Depends on how much how well you digest this course, actually.
And if you do get a rating above like six hundred of em, like three weeks of this course from scratch,
please do let me know.
That would be a great success for this cause I'll be really happy for you.
But anyway, try and play with slightly stronger opponents.
So hopefully there is a ratings guide if you play online and also you know, so the stronger part is
on a slightly longer time control than maybe you're thinking you that that seems popular, you know,
quite popular online of the very full time trolls, but sometimes try and play five minutes each or
five minutes with free second increments or maybe ten minutes each with three second increments.
So the increments will give you a bit of extra time of each move.
So that will improve the quality of games.
Generally, that won't be about winning on time in the end, hopefully as much as playing the position.
So if you play an opponent that's much stronger than, you know, in real life or online, first of
all, you could be completely obliterated.
And if it's over, the boards and hopefully the over the board season will be available at some points.
At the time of this recording, our estimates of the kind of down.
But if the over the board season did open up, then it's great to be able to go over again in general
with an opponent after the game.
So you have to have a thick skin.
So a slightly stronger opponents ideally, and you get some insights from them.
And hopefully you can relate to that in science, in the game discussion.
So essentially you're looking at these learning opportunities.
You're seeing chess as a learning journey, and you're not just looking to extrinsically get rewards.
You know, just smash are going to get massive.
Right.
You're intrinsically if you're on the intrinsic side, the internal quality side, you all value just
learning about the game for learning sake.
You all value try and get as much time with strong opponents to see what they have to say to really
build your understanding of chess.
The emphasis is on building your understanding of the game.
Results can come later.
It was a natural side effect of actually understanding the game more and more.
So this kind of internal intrinsic quality perspective.
You want to get slightly stronger opponents in general, though, and if your writing improves, then
level that aren't going to slightly stronger opponents again.
So maybe online writing will give you a rough idea or some time control how strong you are and maybe
you find your bit strong on the first time with trolls.
But that might be because you're playing very quickly, you're winning on time.
You want to try and be in your initial steps as sort of purist as possible, try and win on the position
as much as possible.
Winning on time.
Is is a good skill later, and you want to maximize your win probabilities later today when you need
to win competitively, everything you've learned can be taken as a sort of tool, you know, for maximizing
winning probability.
Sure.
But in your initial stages, the intrinsic heuristic, pure motives of just trying to maximize your
understanding of the game cannot be understated.
That should be the primary goal to find out more about chess and your strengths and weaknesses.
So in that process, use perhaps the rating systems as a guidance in your initial when you don't have
any rating, you know anyone, not 100, then just just challenge them then after maybe challenge as
you get more confident people of higher and higher ratings.
So the rating I know it's an extrinsic measure.
And we do want all a high rating to win lots of games, but you want that really is a side effect of
improving your understanding.
So later, ideally, if the over the board's world of chess opens up, maybe maybe there's a chess club
near you, an actual real life chess club as well, because that can give you that post-mortem discussion
experience that when you play a game with people at the chess club, you can talk about it after.
And there might even be, you know, matches against other clubs.
There's sometimes a chess club scene where there's a storm of chess clubs to participate in called like
usually so.
And you find yourself being placed in a certain board member in a team.
And that's a lot of fun in its own right.
But again, it's not all about just the was swimming.
That's nice.
Try and maximize that in your initial steps, especially your understanding of chess generally.
You might also acquire, you know, some chess friends around the place or and you're playing and learning
and improving off each other.
So that's great as well.
But basically the tip here is.
Especially in the over the both worlds, you want to play slightly stronger opponents to have a meaningful
discussion at the end of the game in the post-mortem analysis online, you don't want to be also blown
to smithereens and losing just like that.
So maybe have some thought about picking slightly stronger opponents that you might estimate to be slightly
stronger.
And, you know, if if you win the old game.
One out of 10, you know what, you've just got nine lessons to analyze.
Look at those games in some states, you can put them in a study, study those games.
You can organize them, maybe even get a coach and go over those games.
And then the next 10, you might actually do better.
You might win two out of the ten and then the next batch of games, you might do better as this process
of learning and attraction, but.
You know, trying to get the more abstract lessons from each game example, but try and focus on not
changing the superstrong class first because you're not really going to understand or have any clue
sometimes why you actually lost.
Generally speaking, so OK, so in a nutshell, the advice here is try and play opponents, hopefully
on a slightly longer time trial where it's not all about winning and opponents that are slightly stronger
than you, not vastly stronger.
So that's the core advice here.
OK, as much.