 Hi, have you ever wondered how do KD developers play chess? No Well, who is it anyway? So I want to showcase a couple of games that I played against other KD developers and this is the first one I was black against David Edmondson and He opens with E4 So I always always go for the Scandinavian because I love the modern version of this Scandinavian And then he throws the knight into the center which he often does in response to the Scandinavian And I actually think this is like a not very good move It's already minus 0.4 because at this point I can just push my pawn forward and his knight is kind of left wandering around without a clear plan and In this case it goes here and then I can immediately attack it to make it go away and develop while he is jumping around and I do the wrong move here because the queen shouldn't go there. I think that goes back to West territory and The reason is that it can just forget about it in theory. I should probably Yeah A pawn move to again make it jump even Further back and this is pretty good for me But I just forgot about it and I played the queen move that makes no sense whatsoever So of course it is already defended so he starts developing and attacking my pawn and I Defend it even if there's the queen already and After removes the bishop I finnally finally realized I can attack his knight the proper way So he jumps back. I actually couldn't Attack it immediately here if I remember correctly Hopefully I do Yes, because if I go for this right now, then it just takes the pawn which was not good So first I defended the pawn and then I threw my pawn against him It goes back and then I realize I have this nice opportunity to First block his bishop and then also make it retreat. So I have a decent in my opinion Develop developed area against these pieces that are quite crowded However, all of my pieces are in the rock spots. This bishop is completely useless on this diagonal And it won't really get far in this one either. This queen just shouldn't be there It's in the way and there's no way that I'm going to castle Within the fur within a short period of time So I make sure to block this spawn because I didn't want it To go on and left this one undefended He immediately tries to open up the position where the pieces are true to crowded Which makes sense and after a bit of thought I decided that taking and passant was actually forced here because Whenever you get a occasion occasion to take and passant you have to so it takes back and he managed to get a bit more space out of the position and Right now I realized that I was kind of in a difficult situation He had many good moves. I think I went like five or six moves deep here but just ideas like moving the bishop here immediately pins it to the To the rook so this one won't be able to move and I remember that in many variations I wasn't able to even move the bishop to defend it, which was annoying so I developed my bishop he castles I developed my knight and He attacks my pawns so again long thought and I decided to advance it and attack his knight Which then I well I did expect the night to go back because it can't go here It can't go here either. So making it go here was like a good move I did not see this pawn going forward. So obviously it's a three-pawn kind of so I take it and He moves the queen forward attacking my bishop Which I did not see and here it was a pretty bad situation I don't think I was like it is one plus 1.7. So yeah, but I wasn't really confident I had a couple of moves, but I Didn't like that. So I took some days like I had a week to think about this one I thought a long time and then I just decided to slide the bishop over Attacking the rook knowing the world that it was probably going to be taken by The knight that then was going to attack my pieces and then the bishop Jumping in was going to attack my rook again, and then this knight was going to be big liability Luckily I have this knight defending So it takes I take back with the knight and at this point He jumps in and pins my queen to the king which I did see so I did not blunder this I realized that after me taking his queen he taking mine I was going to get a bit more material I was not going to get that for sure because it's with check But I was going to be in a better situation. So I took he takes with check I take back and of course it takes my knight Which is good like I did plan this I think he didn't play this like the best way It went back to being Me having the advantage. So I try to play for a win here. I think that castling I don't know it didn't feel right. We were going straight into an end game And I wanted my king to be active. So I threw my pawn Forward yeah, that's it and I just attack his knight first That's hanging around without a clear way through because I'm sorry Because it can't go here. I can't go here. I can't go here. He has to retreat Or defend it, of course, but the point is this knight is currently very stuck and this Rook is not even attacking my pawn So I jump back to defend my pawn. I try to open up here, and I think this is a mistake Yeah, it's a blunder Because at this point I can just Get my free past bone and start going from the wind. So he jumps back with the knight as I thought it was going to and I decide to Throw away this pawn here and there was a good reason for this I thought about it for a long time and the idea was that I don't exactly remember so let's watch it He takes a yes And then I sacrifice a second pawn like this in order to get two pass bones that are much easier to promote He only gets one in this trade and mine are closer and much more dangerous I don't know if I played like nicely Stock fish a stock fish says I didn't but I thought it was a pretty good idea Plus I'm also getting the free rook for well the quality not the fruit so I take it and Then I advance my pawn which are pretty much unstoppable this point it jumps back with the knight I just defend it tries to block the advancement, but a castle. I don't know why Probably to get this rook into the game more easily It tries to attack it. I defend it. I know I in here. I actually just Gave away the knight because this bishop is pretty strongly Defending the advancement of my pawns. So I just threw my knight Undefended here and he takes it and then I advance and at this point I mean I won't like there's no way to stop Sorry to stop my pawns. So I attack the Here he moves back I still cannot promote because you know everything is protect protecting that but I then attack the knight and He goes back and is offering me a free knight But that's just for the night that I gave him So by taking this he takes back and I just lost my best pieces this is I don't know Still completely won but I didn't like it and I thought that a much better move Let's see if stockfish agrees with me. Yes, it's moving forward because at this point there's nothing you can do He tries to again sacrifice the knight and here if I take He takes back and then again same situation as before I need to defend the pawn and then you can attack it and then I'm a bit stuck I don't like this position at all. What would be the best move? To attack the bishop. Yeah What if you're here and it cannot take because that would be checkmate. Makes sense so I Did not take I did what I thought was a better move which is to bring my queen forward and At this point, the only move he has is to go with Go forward with the king because if it takes checkmate not checkmate I guess he has the bishop first checkmate So I just in this case And I actually resigned after playing this move. Yeah, it's pretty lost here because I Just take and then he takes and then check and I win the night and this two two rooks against the bishop is just Completed one. I actually give away the pawn. I don't care. I have too many strong pieces So let's switch to the next one let's go start go back to the start serve at that and I have Black here again. No, sorry. I have white here. Sorry same person I open up with the English because I'm an English player He immediately think I chose the bishop and I immediately block it and Then it doesn't think I try to be shop as I expected but develops. I don't know what the opening is this I don't know and I decide to throw in this Pony here and Then I do this Which is very aggressive Probably doesn't make sense. It's not like probably it's actually a blunder. It's a bad move and if he encounters the bishop eventually and this is pretty bad for me because I cannot defend everything and After a bit I closed down the position and he's just better his pieces are Much better sure this bishop is completely useless right now But as soon as this falls then he has a very good bishop here very good bishop I am just under develop and over extended. I don't like my position at all and This was two months ago. So I hope I got better and it jumps forward with an eye I closed down everything and then he plays a blunder I'm actually In a much better situation here than him. Okay, he plays this which is a weird move the point is that Now he has very active pieces But this is not going down and after playing the only good move luckily I found it Which is Knight here defended by the Queen The Queen just hasn't any good scores It was supposed to give check here, but now it's covered by tonight and sure It's an active Queen, but what are you going to do with it? So He forwards the pawn. I attack his Queen immediately since it's not in a good Position it goes back and then I go forward and I think I'm doing pretty good here I'm actually plus eight. So pretty good. He goes back Attacks my bishop and then here. I think I realized that what did I play now? I just defended it. Never mind this move. Okay, so I Was a bit worried here that if I did something like sledding back He was going to close down the position here and this bishop was going to be useless So I decided to throw it back and make it useless right from the start So that I'm kind of ready when this happens and then I go back because now if it's closed Honestly, I don't know why I thought this was good. Ah, yes Now I was worried that the bishop if this actually close No, I play this he plays this and this bishop is even worse than before. So I decided to go go back forward and then Here I'm plus seven It takes my pawn he attacks my knight The knight is kinda necessary defending this but it could actually just go away. I think yes and Here I play probably the worst move ever a blunder which is this pawn move which Throws away all the advantage that I had. What was the idea behind this move? So the concept is I It's allowing me allowing me to Do a lot of weird stuff. Let's say it takes I don't know. I don't remember the exact lines I calculated I didn't do a good job. I can jump or I can jump forward with my knight here for The rook so he has to take and then I take and then I have a pretty good pawn here And I remember saying hey, I can actually defend this pawn I have a pass spawn and I can just move my rook here to attack on this column I can draw lines and I'm gonna promote it but of course that was not going to happen because That didn't even got played. He actually took and of course I took back and He attacked my queen. So I had to step it Sideways and then it takes my rook which I did not see but I mean it makes sense I had a pawn here completely blocking this bishop and making it useless now I advanced it and now he has a super strong diagonal And he uses it so in here I thought I had a decent move which was bishop here And of course, I did not realize that there was just going to be down our rook, which is bad So a castle's I Go forward with my queen Still hoping to do some mess. I don't know jump forward with the not this one jump forward with my Knight and it takes I take I try to get this Pwn I was not going to do any of this of course Come on Where was I? I'm doing spoilers. I jump forward He attacks my My poor knight so I need to go back to defend it and at this point He gives me check and he won the game because I just take and It gives me check the pawn and at this point. I'm just trade up down a rook and up a knight, but He has not one but two past bones. This is completely lost It could potentially even make a third one by advancing these two But I decided to play on because I had two very active nights where has His night is shitty because he cannot jump here. He cannot go here He cannot go here. He come is completely stuck He has to go here and then here and then here if he wants to join the action So I thought let's try to defend this for a draw. Let's try to pick up two ponds while Well while waiting for his night to become active. So I slide making Behind the pawn to make it more defended. He attacks me knight. I go back. It tries to advance I Make my knight go back and then he plays this to attack my other night I jump forward and then he moves a bit around not realizing that he lost the first one So I'm one pawn up. I'm happy and of course he attacks immediately this Hanging knight. So I move it back to also win the other one, but Then he builds a pretty powerful attack here So I need to go back and defend my knight, which is now pinned and Then he attacks again So I need to slide over at the king which is pretty much in the way right now to defend my knight And he takes the pawn just a clean pawn and this is very important Because now I try to go back with the king to make it less Because he was going to do I saw this I saw the pin. I didn't want to get pinned So I jump forward trying to defend this area somehow He jumps forward with he moves forward the pawn and at this point I'm lost because his knight which was like the most useless piece and I was playing because it was the most useless piece It's not active. So I go around but in a few moves jump server with the knight I play a bit and In here, I mean it doesn't play I think best because it gives me a pawn, but the point is It forks me and there's really no point in playing this like I just resigned it because I'm completely lost. I think I'm minus 14 I remember here if he had played something like I don't remember what what was the best move here sorry Yeah, okay the one he did okay fire fear now before that Okay, he played at the best moves. Yeah, I remember a variation where I would have resigned much earlier Because I did not see the point, but here is completely lost. Let's switch to the next one Which is a bullet game. I wanted to include a bullet game So let's talk about this so I'm black I open he opens up with the queen pawn Which I actually don't really know how to answer Currently I play this move which sucks the entire point of it being Attacking the pawn but of course But of course after After moving this one forward It doesn't actually have to take you can just go forward and then I hate my position already although, you know, this is just opening but Yeah, I never know how to reply to queen pawns, but this is bullet I throw away some pawns like I just do The usual stuff we get to this position which I hate so I take which is probably not a good move Computer, please let me yeah, I should have taken should have taken the other one, but never mind I actually take both because it doesn't defend them, but then he also angst the knight So I exchange queens because I'm up A piece and it takes with the king instead of the rook which probably would have been better because He would have preserved The ability to castle But then I just throw a bunch of pieces forward give a bunch of checks He takes a pawn hopes Goes back I give check and then I go here because it's defended by The rook so we exchange pieces. I get the quality Through pawns forward suck Sacrifice A couple of them try to get an attack going, but it doesn't quite work. So at this point, I'm a clean I'm a clean no many points 14 points of material up This is bullet like it's not like you can play an actually good game in bullet if you're not using ease to it and After a bit of moving around it's clear that I'm just going to win this game And then I need to carefully think how to checkmate my opponent. So I do this with idea, you know, just doing this I have one minute left of the One minute original I played very fast. Okay, I played with increments He does this and then I had Stupidly removed this move to give check. So I go here and it's a draw. It's stalemate Everything is Protected stalemate. I didn't see it So this is how I played bullet. I managed to play a good bullet game and I just screwed up cleanly so One last game. I want to show if I'm okay in here. I'm white and I open up with Knight to see three which was actually Back then my preferred opening now I play the English. This doesn't make any sense to me What's other he plays this I play this I much prefer to play this actually, but I didn't like this this Didn't like it again. It's the knight just jumping around doesn't make much sense So I play this to stop him We develop pieces. This is the standard stuff. It's not like we know about Opening theory that well. So it's throwing pieces forward I exchange Knights here because uh, why not again? This was seven months ago And I didn't know back then that I was not supposed to just throw away pieces like that Castle attacks me I exchange pawns because why shouldn't I? And Now he has two damn good bishops sliding through a very nice queen That's really to attack me So I take one of them and then I have a queen. That's really to attack me So I try to Bring forward a bishop of mine and then I try to take off the diagonal It jumps forward with the knight I should probably take it but instead I decide to just give back the diagonal to the bishop because I was a good player He takes I take he takes I take Did he hang a piece here? Yes, he did. I know I didn't because he gets mine back with check So brings forward the rook I need to move my queen and then This is this should actually be fine Yes, almost zero Would have been 2.5 if you did this. Okay Makes sense And I defend my pawns. I take one and he checksmate me So what? I just didn't see it. I had seven minutes on the clock seven minutes And I just did not see that queen. Uh, what is it g? Uh, two Is checkmate and that's it like um Chess is tough sometimes