Dude.. just found the most entertaining chess channel here. Also educating. Yay

dont let me catch you around my retirement fund bud

Not sure about 1 Na3 but 1e4 c5 2 Na3 might be worth a look...

Bxg6 was brilliant!

1:10:30 has to be a rook pawn I believe

I enjoyed the drunken Knight's 'theme' at 1:41:17 :)

5.09 Ne2 is unsound, as black has ...Ne7, blocking the white rook and allowing the black king to escape to d7

Top man, Gindge 👍🏼

@GingerGM Damn it, Simon! 20 years later you are STILL playing with lagg from the mouse/computer! It has nothing to to with PC hardware, it's just configuration of windows or the browser you use. Ask for somebody, a friend, I don't know, to go check it out. It's impossible to play at high level if you can barely play the moves when it goes to scramble time because you have video lag. What kills me is that at somepoint you had that solved, and now it got back again. Besides that, cheers! Great content and video as always.

Trees are great! 🎉

This needs a chessable course.

Just watching some older vids because they're so much fun. In the last game you wonder why your opponent starts aggressive and then goes passive. I know I find myself doing that, and I think us lower rated players sometimes "scare ourselves", and start thinking we're over doing it. That's one thing I've learned to work on from watching your content. Start hard, go hard, and enjoy the ride! :)

Simon, as soon as you started discussing the Bxg6 sacrifice, I knew you were going to play it!

26:20 Take down your GingerGM posters, everyone :(

Best variation namn ever!

What on earth was in that miso soup

Loved the reaction after check mate 😂🙌

He even played the variation against Sergei Zhigalko. I cannot believe it^^

I enjoy the cat appearances, esp Charlie cause he is old

Nice game! Enjoyed it!

com's rating estimate thing does calculate based on your current rating. It's a completely meaningless number for this reason among several others. You could make a smurf account at 400, play a perfect game and the thing would probably say you played at 800 level or some nonsense because it won't give too far above the account's rating.

Fun game. And yes, the Elo estimator factors in the rating of both players (if you edit the values in a PGN file, say drop them both to 800 or raise them both to 3000, the estimated rating will drop or rise accordingly).

I love guys who play chess and want to f" Fiona...Dutch humor..😂

WHO THE FFFF.... IS GINGER SM? A NEW KIND OF AGGRESSIVE VEGETABLE, OR SOMERHING?😜🤣

Bxg6 shows up as a brilliant move in game review now

Cows have udders, udders

You are just great. That's all I have to say.

Thanks, Simon! You do help a lot... in good and in bad times! Cheers, mate!🎉

33:05 he is not Radjabov, he is Rasulov

Simon is the very last romantic chess player. Show them GMs what it was like to play Morphy!!

I live in Southern California if you ever in Southern California we could meet

Life’s good when see video by gingergm

If you check the game review now, it gives Bxg6 as a brilliant move.

superb chess content. keep it up!

Thank you Simon. You couldn’t pass up that bishop sacrifice bahaha I love it

Hey Simon, you mentioned your videos helping people to get through tough times, and I felt that I must write this comment. I found you on UKposts in 2016 when my wife and I lived apart on the opposite sides of the globe for a whole 9 months. I felt very low then as it was mostly caused by my not-so-well-thought decisions, but watching your videos was one of the very few bright moments that I had those days. We have been reunited since then and moved to the UK (London, actually), but I have kept watching your videos ever since for 8 years straight. Just wanted to say thank you. Keep it going, and I wish you luck in your chessboxing match! Would love to support you, but North Norfolk is a bit too far!

London sux, ask Andres

Great video indeed

good one 💪

Fckin love your videos Simon - my girlfriend cant believe I am laughing my ass off watching chess xD

So that's what it feels like when the opponent is not cheating, hey ? How refreshing.

whats a dividi?

Alright, something actually good to watch on UKposts!

"chess podcasts are not that exciting, i could be listening to a podcast about aliens, improving my health, the latest developments in AI" - GingerGM ...I hope he was joking. I'd rather listen to 100 hours of chess non stop, than 10 minutes of AI or health. OR aliens hahahaha

Last game was a good classical Drunken knight on acid round the world variation. The point is to eventually develop the knight onto h2 to defend the king. Very thematic play by S. Williams.

Yes, the rating it gives you is based on your current one. I played a 100% accuracy game in 11 moves the other day (1st time ever!) and it told me I'm a 2000. My actual blitz rating is 1300.

And thats why we love watching you Simon, Bxg6!!!!

Always fun and informative!

Been on a huge ginge binge recently! Simon, instead of the crafty bishop sacrifice, why not just a simple Qe5+ which would either win the rook or at least remove castling rights after opponents queen blocks? What did I miss here?

Queen pinned then later king pinned. Slide white king to b1 for safety