What's up guys, my name is Kenny. Hope you're all feeling good today. Welcome back to another daily chess video.
Um, yeah, no, I have not been playing a lot of chess recently. Um, the most of the chess that I've been playing is really just the chess that you've seen in the videos, which past few videos, it's not really been been much. So honestly, very, very nice. My mental health is so much better because I'm not playing chess. I get very frustrated when I lose and when I, you know, get mated in like 15 moves.
It can be frustrating at times, but, uh, okay. But we're back again for another video here, still at 1500 even, pretty much. Um, because I'm not playing a lot of games, my elo's not going up massively, it's not going down massively.
Um, okay. Yeah, we'll go here, okay. He went there pretty quick. It's almost like he pre-moved that.
I wonder if I could have gone here if he would have still went there. Um, okay. Yeah, we'll chase because we're probably going to want to push these pawns. I wonder if he's thinking about going here. I mean, that's his only other, that's his only move is to go here.
But then I push this and he's got to go either back here or here. And then I've just got a lot of pawn activity and I can just instead of castling I can just push my king up I feel like and yeah, I've just got all my pawns sitting here if If I advance this pawn if he goes here. Oh, he's just gonna let me take okay fair enough Um, now what do I do though?
Yeah, what do I do? That is a question. I guess I'll take some time to think. I need to do this a little bit more, which is just, okay, instead of rushing to make a move, to think.
So, I mean, I'm looking at things like this. Castling, castling might be bad. Castling right now actually gives up this pawn so I don't castle.
I'm looking at this. This seems good actually. I could go here. Then he goes here.
No, because then I take. This actually might be a good move. Let's do it. I guess he-no he can't do that.
Okay. No, he can't push this because I can take and take another piece Okay, man, maybe I should take him with the Queen to threaten this Ah, he's attacking this. But what if I go here? Okay, I'm thinking about, um, taking this pawn, but I'm not sure.
Still can't castle, can I? He is looking at taking this, I just realized that. It always- Move this back here, but then it's not like defended by anything.
Okay, fine, we'll take. I guess I'll just bring the rook over. I don't really know what else to do. Oh, he was looking. He saw my rook there?
Oh my gosh. I didn't even see that. Okay, I'm gonna go here, I guess.
And then here. He can just go here and he's fine, I think. But I do have this as a threat. But, he's got this, I suppose. Oh, that's a check.
I would be happy with a repetition. Ah! Okay. I might be getting mated here.
If this can come over here... If he brings this down, and I go here... No, because if I go here, he doesn't have a check on me.
No, he... No, he doesn't. I'm, like, very close to being mated, though.
Okay, not a good start. I just totally dismissed that my rook was hanging. Maybe he will get a repetition if he keeps doing this long enough. Shoot, no, if I give a check like this, he can go here.
I thought maybe I had my rook coming down. Is this? No, it's not a mate.
No, I think it is a mate. Yup, that is a mate. I'm like, wait a minute, like, he's giving me exactly what I wanted there. That's like the only thing that he could have done to mess that up. Oh my god, that was so good.
Yeah, I just totally blundered that. You know what's worse than blundering your rook? Blundering mate. And that is the only thing that matters here. Is that my opponent blundered something that was worse than what I blundered.
That's really the lesson in chess, isn't it? You don't gotta be good at chess, you just gotta be better than your opponent. Yeah, usually this looks like a good move, but in this case, I was like, wait a minute.
I had to look and just double check to make sure that this was in fact checkmate. See, what I was looking at was like, if he went here, I was like, ooh, do I have a mate of like him going over and then going here? But no, he can just escape right here. And that sucks that that was possible, because if that wasn't possible.
Then, you know, maybe like, maybe that would have been possible. No, no, no, that would have been possible. Yeah, no, there's nothing sitting here. So that, that's exactly what would have happened if I would have done that.
Yeah, so that would not have worked. You know what? I'll take the win.
I'll take the win. First game of the day. Actually, I don't even know if I played any chess yesterday.
No, I think, I think the videos that you watched. the past two days I recorded yesterday. So yeah, this is going to be the only game that I played today.
And you know what? It was not a good game. It was not a good game.
I've not been playing very much chess recently, like I said at the beginning of the video, but that's probably a good thing. I probably need to be taking a little bit of a break. But anyway, here's a game for you guys.
I hope you guys enjoyed. Thank you so much for being subscribed to the channel. If you're subscribed, I'll be back tomorrow to play another game.
I hope you guys have a good one. See you guys next time.