I also owe my co-founding and participation in Chessable to my YouTube presence. Once my chess YouTube videos began to receive many views, I quickly received an influx of requests for private coaching and was subsequently able to raise my hourly rate. John answers: Having a large social media presence and being a “chess celebrity” definitely helps me business-wise. I’m grateful for all of the doors chess has opened up in my life What are the good parts and bad parts about having such a large social media presence? R endings on Chessable with accompanying videos.Īlexey asks: Speaking of statistics, you have 3,773 followers on Twitch TV, 6,843 followers on Twitter, and 12,144,559 views on YouTube. After that, I would move to 100 Endgames You Must Know and eventually tackle the most highly-regarded book on endgames, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual. I also have a free, brief tutorial on R+P vs. Hawkins provides a concise and engaging analysis of theoretical rook endings as well as general rook ending concepts. One excellent introductory book to rook endings is Amateur to IM by Jonathan Hawkins. If you’re a serious player you should definitely study these endings rigorously. I’ve always felt you can judge a player’s endgame skill and even overall ability by the manner in which they handle rook endings. Double-rook endings bump that percentage even higher. In the introduction to 100 Endgames You Must Know, author GM Jesus de la Villa presents an analysis of hundreds of thousands of games and determines that 8% of them reach a single-rook ending. John answers: The 10% statistic is often quoted, and it turns out to be roughly accurate. Rook endings occur in about 10% of all games I interviewed John via email for this article.Īlexey asks: Wikipedia states that, according to John Emms, rook endings “occur in about 10 percent of all games (including ones that do not reach an endgame).” Should SparkChess readers believe that statistic? John took both of my online courses when he was a chess team member at UT Dallas.
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The best video about how to win the Lucena position is from a former college chess player, International Master John Bartholomew. The Lucena position features a pawn on the b-g files, about to promote but with the promotion square occupied by its own king. This third article for Spark Chess covers both the Lucena position and college chess. Another topic of my first and second articles for Spark Chess was college chess. The Lucena position is a famous king, rook, and pawn versus king and rook position, which the stronger side can win. Either right before or right after you learn the Philidor’s position, learn the Lucena position. In my second article for SparkChess, I taught the Philidor’s position, a famous king, rook, and pawn versus king and rook position which the defending side can draw. Read on to win (and to learn the Lucena position). John will answer all five questions in my next article for Spark Chess.
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The person who asked that “best question” will receive both a one-year Premium Live membership to SparkChess and a three-month PRO membership to Chessable.
Then John will choose the very best question from my top five. Those “five best” will each win a one-year Premium Live membership to SparkChess. On April 22, I will select the five best questions from the comments. However, you probably have more questions to ask John, a chess celebrity. Read on to see my questions and John’s answers.
I (Alexey Root) asked John three questions. Want to win a three-month PRO membership to Chessable or a one-year SparkChess Premium Live membership? In the comments to this article, ask International Master John Bartholomew a question.
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