FM Kamil Plichta on Building Openings That Create Early Pressure

I mean, that's sort of maybe digression, but since you've been there from the very beginning of Chessable's journey, can you see, like, if someone asks you, like, describe to us the evolution of Chessable across the years, you know, how it changed across the years, the platform, do you see it as an improvement over the years? Do you maybe dislike some of the changes? Do you like the, you know, direction that Chessable has taken across the years? And how do you see the platform's future as well let's say five to ten years time from now on like do you have some estimate on that like how do you try because you've been there at the very that's why i'm asking this question to you know content has diversified more authors have came in across the years maybe more competition is now present Can you summarize to me the evolution of Chessable across the years?

There's much bigger competition nowadays and I always say that I decided to ask Chessable about publishing my courses in the perfect timing because It was already a website that was running for a few years, I think.

I think it started like 2016.

I'm pretty sure.

So already it wasn't like a new thing.

There were some people who bought the courses.

There was some traffic on the site.

But it was still not as known as it's now, because now I think that if some noob from Poland writes them, they're like, dude, it's just, you know, who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Go away.

So the timing was perfect.

And I always like to say that the first even years couple of years at least it was like trying different things seeing what works out and what doesn't work out back then when i published a course it was just the only course on the opening so if somebody wanted to play this opening he had no choice i don't like this guy but i like the opening that he's working on so i'm going to buy his course and nowadays you have five six different courses on the topic so my job is to make my course unique so that people you know who like this type of style are going to go to me and it's like I always I'm 100% transparent with everything I work on when I work on some lines people have live updates on that so when I work on the course you have like 50 different posts on Twitter showing the lines I'm working on and people are updated all the time about that So I always try to give people this, you know, a feeling of the process also that it's not like you sit here, you work for two weeks and the course is published.

Before you said that it takes a lot of time to create a course like this.

So the least amount of hours that the course took me was like between 180 to 200 hours was the Damiano Petrov course.

And 800 hours was the King's Indian Attack course.

Approximately 800 hours.

Excluding support, yes.

Because support also takes additional time, you know.

So it was...

There was a pretty big break between my two courses and it was specifically because this King's Indian Attack course was a nightmare to work on.

Huge.

Yeah.

And engine also gives you 0-0-0 everywhere.

So you're not fighting for the advantage.

You're fighting for the fighting positions.

I see.

And maybe that's my advantage of creating black RepairTool, right? Because it's fine to have 0-0.