Why You Keep Losing | 15 Chess Principles You MUST KNOW
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- Welcome to Episode 1 of this "Book Club" series where we are currently going through the book: Logical Chess - Move by Move by Irving Chernev
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1. Knights before bishops.
2. You should try to defend and develop at the same time.
3. The principles are guidelines, but there are exceptions.
4. The best attacking piece is the king's bishop.
5. Place each piece on the best possible square as quickly as possible.
6. Don't move your pieces more than one time in the opening.
7. Castle early (better on king's side).
8. Two pieces are worth more than a rook and a pawn.
9. Develop all pieces before attacking.
10. Deal with threats first before continuing development.
11. Each pawn you move in front of your castled king weakens your position. Try to keep all 3 as long as possible.
12. Developing a piece that ALSO attacks is a good move.
13. Open lines are to the advantage of the player with more development.
14. The best defender of white's king side is the knight on f3.
15. Whoever controls the center has better chances of attacking.
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5, 11, 15 are my favorite 3! 😊
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That principle with the three pawns and the f3 knight, and how moving them gives chances to the opponent, that was new and very valuable information to me. Thank you Nelson!
Just important to keep in mind that for lower elo players, keeping the three pawns unmoved opens the possibility for back rank mates in the late game. Oftentimes even players around 1700-1800 elo get so absorbed by what is happening elsewhere thinking that their king is safe behind 3 pawns, suddenly get checkmated or lose a tempo because they are forced to defend against that threat.
Nelson, you are the best chess channel and ACTUALLY teach very efficiently, rather than make a big show. Bravo!
totally agree... kudos Nelson! Keep up the amazing content.
Agreed! Nelson is a great teacher! explains why a move/concept/etc is both good and bad
omg i agree with you, gotham chess is such a terrible chess channel compared to this one. Nelson deserves way more appreciation than levy
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Don't play when tired/anxious/frustrated or when on a losing streak and never accept rematches
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This is going to be a great series for the channel. Every two weeks to start is probably fine but I will definitely be looking forward to the next one. Great job!
That last part there really shows that the best defense is a good offense, a.k.a. counterattacking.
What's wrong with just simply moving our king? The took will soon join the f8 square which will win either the bishop or the knight on f3, in my opinion best move for black after that will be d7 or d8 I will prefer d7 if queen checks just move our c pawn the knight will be hanging our king will get open but I guess it will be fine we won't get checkmated our king will be little exposed but we will get lots of material in return
One thing that you didn't mentioned about weakening the king side through moving pawns forward is that it can potentially for lower elo players be a weakness to keep the 3 pawns unmoved. I haven't been back-rank checkmated myself much, but I've done it multiple times in the elo range of 1300 - 1900. People in this elo tend to forget the crucial danger of getting checkmated on the back row so they continue what they do, thinking they have an advantage but suddenly they get checkmated or forced to sacrifice pieces to avoid the back-rank mate.
It's probably obvious to higher elo players how to avoid the back-rank checkmate, even if you didn't move a pawn, but to lower players they are either unaware of the danger or forget it. I'm not particulary good at seeing these kind of lines where you abuse the weakness, so it often prevents me from doing stuff like sacrificing bishop to create attack. And it rarely happens to me as well when I weaken the king pawns.
It is great advice, though just to keep in mind the potential of back-rank mate that people like me and lower elo players tend to ignore.
This was just thinking that I always give the king room to breath by moving that rooks pawn
What a fabulous idea for a series. I have just blown the dust of the book, which I have in the old descriptive notation. Your video lessons will compliment the ideas of the book and bring it more up to date. Great work Nelson, very much looking forward to game 2 - thanks
Nelson is a natural-born teacher. Many thanks for clear, concise, easy-to-follow lesson. I'm never overwhelmed with too much, too fast information as with many other CZcams presenters.
This is a really nice distillation of chess wisdom, thank you! I've played many games where I'm on the receiving end of these attacks and I didn't really know what I'd done wrong. This is a very helpful collection of simple ideas.
Love the new series Nelson! You present the chapter in a really instructive way.
You did a good job on this video, Nelson. Logical Chess-Move by Move by Irving Chernev was the very first chess book I bought, way back in the early 70's, I still have it, and enjoy going through the moves, one at a time. My other favorite chess book is entitled: "Chess World Championship 1972 Fischer vs Spassky by Larry Evans and Ken Smith. The unique thing about this book, is that it takes you through the '72 World Championship, one game at a time, with a diagram for every move, and an explanation for each move. I feel these types of chess books are really valuable for the average chess player, and answer many of our questions on why certain moves were played. Keep up the good work. Ray
This is so cool. Years ago when I got back into chess and needed to learn better this was one of the books I picked up at my local bookstore. I really like the idea of telling the "why" behind the moves. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Finally got over my anxiety to play real games after doing 2k puzzles, from review it seems the middle game is my weak point, when there's a lot of options to choose from. Thanks for all of your videos you explain things very well
The principle is always to look for weaknesses and attack, if possible.
Otherwise improve your position by developing the least effective piece.
Always look at the whole board , and don't get bogged down in one particular area of the board, is my advice.
Opening and endings can be studied outside of games, but middle game comes from a lot of practice. Having done a lot of puzzles will help you improve quickly
I still carry my anxiety to play real games LOL. But I love learning and Nelson’s channel is my favourite.
Try and stay solid in the middle game and you'll be fine
You got me 😍
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Channel is becoming better day be day🎉
Thanks Nelson, this series is a great idea! So I had read the 1st game in the book, and as I did I thought that black's attack, although very strong, was a bit premature because black's king was still in the center.. I had an eye for moves like Bxf7+ or Qa4+! Even without seeing the perpetual in full, I would not have resigned with white after Bxf2.. nothing to lose at going for a few checks to see where they lead to 🙂
Great first video in this series! Really enjoyed reading the first game and then watching your analysis of it. Thanks for the great insights as always.
I feel every week might be a bit better since each game isn't too long to study, but will be watching regardless!
I’m really looking forward to next lesson. Love this content, thank you Nelson!
You have so many creative ideas for this challenge, keep up the outstanding work!
Thank you!!! Great of you to go over this book
Love the idea to cover books, Nelsi. Keep it up! Learning a lot through this.
Thanks, great idea and book selection. Subscribed and notifications on! 🙏
Great timing! I was given this book for Christmas and hadn't got around to reading it yet!
Thank you Nelson, we're moving up the ranking slowly, from beginner to (almost) advanced. I'm holding my own against 1000 ELO Bots. I find your videos most informative.
Chess Vibes, always love your videos, always look forward to them mate.
I've just recently started getting into Chess without knowing any principles and im glad to say some of these things I've figured out on my own. First chess lesson video ive watched and youve definitely helped alot. Much appreciated
thank you Nelson, this certainly has added value, good job👍!
This is very informative video, looking forward into this series!
Nelson - that was so clear and easy to follow. Thanks. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you for the lesson :) enjoyed it!
Great video... that was brimming with great conceptual stuff. I've had a bad habit of playing a3 prematurely to deter knight b4 stuff but it's gotten me in trouble, and now I understand why.
Amazing video.
Super important points and clean delivery.
I love it
Awesome idea, Nelson! I actually had the book, and have yet to crack the spine, so really psyched to read it with your commentary!!
Thank you Nelson for such a helpful lesson. I'm reading the book and found your explaination informative. Hope to see more videos in this serie.
I had already read the chapter but this was a very valuable recap, thank you!
looking forward for the rest of the series 👍🏻
Great content! Thank you, Nelson!
This series is great for me. I got the book as it was recommended to me but I never got round to going through it properly. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
love this content/book club concept. Awesome idea for the channel.
So happy to see your channel approaching half a million subscribers. You’ve been my favourite since I found you, way back when you had a few thousand subs. I guess I need to thank the almighty algorithm for recommending your vids. Keep up the great work of explaining chess to us knuckleheads 😂
Thanks very much! Ordered the book immediately and looking forward to the nest lesson
Awesome video. Love translating a book into video format. Will stay tuned to this series.
Great lesson! Looking forward to the next one!!
Love this "book breakdown" of a chess classic. Looking forward to future episodes and other books being covered in the future.
This is great, I've been working my way through this book for about a year now and it's very instructional. This is what I needed to push through and finish it.
Love this Nelson! Thanks for all you do!
Nelson the masterful explainer, strikes again! Outstanding stuff!
I don't have the book yet...but can't argue with any of these principles...and you presented them with great clarity...appreciate the unrushed step-by-step!
As far as moving the frequency up to every week rather than every 2 weeks. At least at this point, short games that last only 4 or 5 pages, every week would probably work fine. If anybody needed more time , they could watch the corresponding video at their convenience.
great summary and extra value with the perpetual in the end.
I personally see the series going weekly, since reading through 1 game shouldn't take long :)
Awesome lesson, Nelson! Keep up the great content.
Thank you for your informative videos Nelson, your calm and precise explanations have really helped me elevate my chess play
You're a great teacher, and I really appreciate what you are doing
Take care, and I wish you the best🙏
Nelson, I’m so glad you’re doing this book! I have the original (1957) book in hardcover, that uses old notation (e.g. P-K4). I went through this book in the 1970s, and it had a HUGE impact on the quality of my game. I recently bought the newest edition with modern notation.
hi Nelson, thanks for this awesome tutorial. I can't wait to put these principles into practice in my next match. I feel like a stronger player already.
Great illustrative analysis. Thanks for this!
Great lesson and beautifully paced. Thank you 👍
Great structural video. I really appreciate it!
Thank you for your clear explanation, and time stamps, see you tomorrow for more
Book ordered! This was an amazing lesson!
Great series, already looking forward to game 2
Great lesson Nelson! Thank you!👏
Very nice explanation dude. keep up the good work ❤
I definitely missed the perpetual counterattack when going through the book, I'm glad you pointed it out! Don't resign unless it's forced mate!
Capturing the bishop isn't forced and there isn't an immediate follow up check so it's perpetual check if you blunder it
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Perfect lesson. Thank you Nelson for making us better players
Great vedio. I learnt a lot of key concept in kingside attack. Thanks
Thank you Nelson for this great video! Much of this is intuitive, but it's good to hear you describe it.
Outstanding instruction. The real deal.
Grat content! You & naroditsky are the best
Great video, i love your content. Very instructive
Awesome information!!! Thanks, Nelson!!!
Great tips, thanks for sharing!
Actually an insanely helpful video thank you
Thanks a bunch! At least half of these are new points for me.
What an instructive video, thank you so much
Great video series. I order my books from Amazon Canada, so perhaps you could add the link for the Canadian site. Thanks again and I look forward to this series. Your videos are always excellent. Your explanations are clear and lucid.
Great effort. Education, entertainment and engagment 100%. Thanks
Good information. Sounds like a good book but I'm generally too busy to sit down and just read a book. Family like and such, so this "recap" is really useful and a good reminder of what most of us should already know.
You should try it! He has assigned 4 pages of reading over two weeks. Not all that demanding.
Effective fundamental principles to keep in mind... well explanation
Very valuable information. Thank you so much.
Hi really like this idea of a series. Please proceed with that!
This was fun being able to study the book beforehand and see what I learned. First time doing a chess book and took alot of the intimidation away. Would be happy to see this move to once a week as the chapters are so short.
Start to a great series!
Very instructive. Thanks!
Thank you sir, excellent work
This is a very great video! Me and my friend struggle to play chess even in the opening due to our lack of knowledge In principles, so this definitely helps! Thanks, Nelson! :D
Principle number 14 is new to me. Thanks Nelsi
Thanks for the video. A couple of questions stand out to me.
First, you advocate the queenside castle to get to the point that is shown at 19:07. At that point, the position is vulnerable but not terrible for white. If white moves Bf4, the bishop is now defending the h2 square. That temporarily means that two pieces are preventing the black queen from moving to h2 for a checkmate. That also prevents the black queen from checking g3 again. Black pawn moves to h6 and g5 can deny g4 to white's bishop, but in the time needed to make those moves, white's bishop could take the pawn on h7 and be in a position to check on e5 before trading bishop for knight. I imagine something like
.... 0-0-0
Bf4, h6
Bxf7, g5
Bh2, Rdf8
Be5+, Kb8
Bxg4, Qxg4+
Kh1, Rxf3
That's still a bad position for white, but maybe I've missed a move that white could have made to save the position and maintain a piece advantage. Maybe the sequence for white would be
..., 0-0-0
Bf4, h6
Nh2
At this point, the white bishop is still protecting h2, so black can't just hit h2 to force checkmate. Now, the knight at h2 and the white queen are threatening the black knight on g4. The black knight can go to e5, but that seems to mean losing the initiative with white still a piece ahead.
I wonder whether the bishop should capture the f2 pawn at the 17:38 mark. If black captures with the knight, then white has to respond to the fork. That sequence might look something like the following.
...., Nxf2+
Rxf2, Bxf2
White has now lost a pawn and a rook in exchange for a knight. I understand that the white bishop sacrifice can lead to perpetual check. Maybe black counters by refusing to take the bishop.
Bxf7+, Kd8
Bg5+, Kc8
Be6+, Kb8
White now has both bishops, a knight, a queen, a rook, and four pawns in not so great structure. Black has a queen, a bishop, two rooks, and six pawns, but one of these rooks is trapped behind the king. I don't know whether this position is decisively better for either side.
Brother, this video is AMAZING!!!! These aren't just principles, they're practical heuristics that can really change your game really fast. I feel like masters of chess have a skillset that composes of hundreds of these principles/patterns. More of these videos, please!!
When I started playing chess more seriously, this book was the first that was recommended to me (although some grandmaster apparently don't like it that much)... But my young ADHD self couldn't go through it. Too dry, too abstract... But your video made it so clear, so vivid ! I can't wait for the other ones ! Bravo maestro ! 👏
boy, this takes me back. one of my first chess books . . . somewhere around 1962. unfortunately, i long made these 'guidelines' into hard and fast rules, and consequently had about a 20 year career of losses against imaginative players.
Love the series. Please do more rapid games where you explain your thoughts (watched the rating climb multiple times)
Fantastic lesson.. Thank you
You are my motivation to continue playing chess💯
Awesome video, thank you.
thank you very much for every thing :) you have taught me alot, now i have a decent ELO
Great video, thanks!
Saving this for my daughter. She’s 9 and has just got interested in the game because I play on-line every morning. But I’m a crap teacher, this will really help her! Thank you!
Thanks for a very good lesson.
Super stoked for this series