How To Learn A New Chess Opening 📘👀
Vložit
- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- 3-step process to learning a new chess opening. In this video explain the process I use to learn a chess opening for the first time.
Chess Links:
Openings Explorer:
➡️www.chess.com/openings?ref_id... ⬅️
♚Play Chess Here chess.com?ref_id=5885046
👍Add me as a friend www.chess.com/member/nelsi?re...
💲Donations Welcome (used to buy extra queens in case of blunders): paypal.me/ChessVibes
Books:
📗 Fundamental Chess Openings (FCO) amzn.to/2PPvSLl
📘 Winning Chess Endings amzn.to/3jraVBB
📙 1001 Deadly Checkmates amzn.to/3jpwXob
📒 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate amzn.to/2VwqwHV
Videos:
🚀Rating Levels Playlist czcams.com/users/playlist?list...
🏁Endgame Principles Video: • 3 Chess Endgame Princi...
💯Chess Opening Traps Playlist: czcams.com/users/playlist?list...
About This Video:
Learning a new chess opening can be difficult. Chess openings range from simple setup based openings, to complex theory based openings, and many new and beginner players get overwhelmed at the process of trying to learn all of the different lines and variations that make up a chess opening. But learning a new chess opening doesn't have to be so hard. In this video I will show you a 3 step process you can use to learn ANY new chess opening. I will go through the Benko Gambit as an example and show you exactly the process I use to learn a new opening.
Chess.com and amazon links are affiliate links.
1. Pick an opening to learn
2. Learn the main line. Play through it a few times from both sides till you memorize it. Learn the ideas rather than the exact moves.
3. Learn variations by practicing by yourself.
Thnx bro
Thx, i was about to memorize 10 chess openings per day so that i can memorize little by little
Thx bro I was about to learn an opening but I’m actually just gonna keep making up moves and losing ELO
"If your games have more than five blunders...." I'll still watch i guess
Lol same i have 6-8
Chess is such a beautiful game
Indeed it is!
@@ChessVibesOfficial ok
@@youaskedforit3896 you smell like metal? Ok
@@wetraccoon99 It can be.
Yes it is
No doubts this is my favourite channel right now, so much good content with simple explanation, no name dropping or egos. Love it.
Man, thank you for your work. Keep it up, the content is always so relevant!
I appreciate that!
Well done. Simple. Good diction. To the point. My youngest son plays on Lichess at around 1700. But he knows the basics. At that level it is incredible the number of hope chess players who don't have a clue. As a teen I was lucky enough to have a very good coach. I studied and played tournaments for about 12 years. That was 50 years ago. You got a new subscriber.
Welcome!
I think a good “level up” from this info is how to use a database to improve your openings…ie, looking for short decisive games between players with larger rating discrepancies to determine common tactical themes, middle game plans, end game outcomes, etc
Chess Opening Study for Advanced and Serious Players by Greg Shahade: czcams.com/video/93kO7OXn9Lc/video.html
Wow that's actually genius
@@munibzain1966 here’s something I’ve implemented since making this comment:
I use the lichess database and consistently flip flop between the “master” database and the lichess database filtered to only show 1200-2000 rated games. It will quickly shed light on what moves are commonly played at my level but are mistakes…then I just work out why…is it tactical? Positional? Etc. that exercise alone helps to crystallize the idea and remember what to play in practice
Love your videos Nelson..so clear and instructive..Thank you
No problem! Glad they're helping!
I lost a game to the Vienna opening and stumbled upon your channel. I am glad I did, this channel is great!! and you are good teacher!. Thanks!!
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you found the channel!
I love playing the Vienna opening and have dedicated about 3 weeks now on learning about the different variations. As black, Ive been spending a lot of time on the pirc especially the Czech pirc. NM Nelson - any vids in your library about the Czech pirc? I've been looking, but haven't seen anything specific to that one
@@brass4235 Shit, I play those same opening for white and black
It's so nice when a chess master teaches. The provided structure, steps, and how to practice has high utility. So many of these youtube chess masters are just talking to other chess masters. I can take this video and apply the method to more than openings. Keep up the great work. I watched the 35 principles yesterday. Typed them out to continue to study them. Thanks so much.
Thanks, Andrew!
@@ChessVibesOfficialYou're welcome. I bought the book too. Thanks again for the great job teaching.
Precisely the information I was looking for. Bought the book. Subscribed. Thanks :)
Really enjoyed this. Bought 1001 deadly checkmates on your recommendation and it’s great, so just ordered FCO too! Keep on creating 👍
I think for a player under 1600 it's important to remember that most people aren't going to go long into theoretical lines.
You need a response to e4 and d4 (c4 and Nf6 if you have the time). Learn the key lines of these variations, the important part is to punish opponent mistakes and not make any of your own, you probably won't go much deeper than 6 or 7 moves unless you pick the sicilian (gross).
If you play e4 you need a response to c6, c5, d6, d5, e6, and of course e5. Be smart, pick simple lines with a low likelihood of branching out. For example, smith morra is a great response to c5. Orthosnapp to e6. Avoid all the theory that your opponent has put into their opening and piss them off in the process.
If you play d4 (boring) then don't play queens gambit it's a headache. Play london or stonewall and don't be surprised when you come running back to e4. You need to learn your system well and consistently out perform black in the opening. Also you need a response to the dutch (I would castle queenside) and the englund (a bad gambit with cheap tricks that you can and should always crush).
Unless you're like 2000, openings should be a fun thing to catch your opponent out and dodge traps - don't bog your head down with things like the benko. Get through the opening and just play lots of chess, it's the only to get any good really
What if I play c4?
@@engelsteinberg593 what's your rating
@@arya6085 like 1500-1600.
@@engelsteinberg593 do you think you need to learn c4 theory? I feel like black would just play basic opening moves not some prescribed theory
@@arya6085 I like the play style of c4.
Great work thanks! I ordered the FCO book based on your last video and I'm excited to get started.
Awesome, let me know if you have any questions!
No disrespect to the great Garry Kasparov but your videos are better than his Master Class. I gain more knowledge of the game and how to play it from you, keep up the good work!
That's quite the compliment, thank you Steven!
Thank you Nelson for all your help!
As always, amazing videos. By far my favorite chess channel. Thanks
I love your videos and this one is without a doubt the one that I needed most! Thank you!
Nice video Nelson, appreciate this a lot. Working on breaking through 1300 so it's time I really start learning openings and setting myself up better...
Hope you get better
Good video. Seeing you tone down the process is helpful. I have notebook pages on openings where I have gotten lost in the variations. This will help me as I focus on the Caro.
Thank you so much! This helped me A LOT!
Excellent instruction. I am teaching my 8-year-old grandson chess and he is doing all right. He is excited beyond belief. He joined the chess club at school and that is increasing my challenge and this video will help a lot. Sixty eight years ago, my uncle taught me the Rut Lopez opening and started me down this glorious path of chess. I don’t think I will start with the Ruy Lopez however. The London for white is popular right now so I will start there and maybe the PIRC for black. But I will use your approach. Thanks a lot for your help.
Another informative video. Great job! Thanks for posting.
Great way to approach learning a new concept👍🏻 I'm going to try this right away😁 thank you!
Thanks so much for being such a good teacher
Amazing tutorials. Thanks for your time.
A video that is very much needed!!
This is the best instructive video on how to go about learning openings. Thank you for sharing this method.
this is quite instructive, thank you.
This was a super helpful video, thanks for making it!
Awsome instructions!
thank you this was really what i needed actually
Another thing I love to do in order to get my head around new openings, is to maintain the ideas of a general good opening. Therefore I'm going to look for reasons why the opening helps me grasp the center more than my opponent, or can I get my pieces active right from the beginning, or am I going to castle my king safely?
The benko is a double-edged opening, which by you're resigning the center at some capacity by allowing two white pawns in the central squares, however, it could be really tricky with the open lines black would have and the restriction on the white king from getting castle early in the game.
Really helpful, thank you
No doubt when youtube recommends your videos. Simple and encouraging stuff
Great teaching, thanks
Great tips. Thanks
Very well explained.. bravoo.. you are a gem. I always wanted to learn openings. But have no idea how to do that. Thanks again
the sample blunder game gave me headache lol
I almost threw up
Thanks for showing me how to read my FCO book....much easier 😀
I enjoy your relaxed easily explainable chess i find your style of teaching is very approachable thanks for helping us to become more proficient
Thanks for the video. I just asked for a video in this topic and after a day here it is ✌️😊
Yeah Ari, it was a good suggestion so had to do it fast =P
That was great. Thanks.
You literally make the best chess videos on the internet man, thank you
This is great thanks 👍🏻
Love the longer vids! was wondering if you could do a longer more in depth video on either the king or queens gambit. Love the videos!
Agreed.
Thanks, zee. I will add those to my list of potential upcoming video ideas. Thanks for the input!
Oof, I wish I'd found this channel sooner. This was really well thought-out and created to be as helpful as possible. It really shows. Thanks for all the effort, and it's just fun to learn with you, so thank you for that as well.
excellent review on how to study openings! good option to create a follow video is what if your oponent doesn't follow the theory, what's next? thanks for the amazing video!
Considero o melhor canal de xadrez que eu conheço! Eu sigo vários, tanto do Brasil quanto dos Estados Unidos, mas este é, com certeza, o mais instrutivo.
Great video! Any suggestions on software for entering and practicing opening lines?
i've learned a lot. Thanks
Thank you soo much sir. I really appreciate it
Awesome video. Subscribed 👍
This is a good idea for a video series. I’m interested in this Benko gambit opening.
this is really helpful. thanks for putting this out! how would you recommend building your openings repertoire for a beginner? is there openings that should be learnt first?
This is the best video I’ve seen on how to learn chess openings
Thanks for the tips. I found a copy of Fundamental Chess Openings at the library. It's a huge book.
very very grateful
Your videos are really inspiring me to get back to chess
well said master 😎👍🏻
I agree with others who have also said this is their favorite chess channel right now. He addresses a lot of the issues that I've struggled with in trying to learn a few openings and he tells you exactly how to do it. Unfortunately, the bad news is that there is no shortcut or quick fix. You do have to spend the time on it as he describes. I'm not there yet, but now I know what I need to do next to improve this area of my game. Fantastic video.
As part of your opening study it will benefit greatly to take the main 2-3 lines 20-25 moves deep. It will show you how the pieces usually coordinate, the general plans and recurring themes and the typical structures you will see. It's more about learning the patterns, ideas and plans than it is memorizing specific moves and move orders
In my personal opinion, I'd say rather than learn opening lines, it's better to learn pawn structures. Like out of a Spanish, you're most likely to get either a d5-chain structure, the symmetrical ruy structure, or a mobile ruy structure. Then learn recommended piece placements, likely pawn breaks, and general plans of attack. That's how I tend to approach opening theory.
Thanks!
No problem, thank you!
Great video ma dude
you are my hero bro.keep it up❤❤
Thank you for existing, Nelson.
you have the most relevant content
Hands down the best chess channel imo.
Thanks - so much clearer a strategy for me - coming back to the game after 30 odd years of not playing. What's a good channel for watching someone explain games where you get to see the problems shown by alternate moves - 'if he'd played this instead, then this would have happened' etc.?
Hey man i think a good way for you to grow your channel would be to show 2019/2020 leela/stockfish/ etc games and analyse and teach us the concept behind the moves that high level computers make.
Why computer games? Because the are very educational and some of the move they make are just absolutely beautiful, giving us very enjoyable games to watch at the same time
Thanks, Jon, fantastic idea. I will add it to the list of potential upcoming videos! Thanks for the input!
Agreed with the beautiful move, but not with the educational, human brain cant reach the computer level xD
ADDENDUM: Question below answered in last 5 minutes. Should have waited to post. However, this is one of the toughest aspects of beginner play.
Thanks for your videos. I'm learning a ton from your well organized and clear teaching. It's one thing to practice with yourself making all the mainline moves and responses and another to activate in a game. The reason is that at my level (400-500 just started one month ago) nobody plays the normal moves. I.e. they'll bring there queen out on move 2 and try some crazy clown capture which throws off everything. What do you do when your knowledge knows like 5 responses to 50 scenarios or variations? It's really hard to make progress as every game seems like a free-for-all that progresses from open to middle game with no opportunity for development.
This is a great video. For follow-up content, I would like to know how you deal with dubious responses to your opening. I'm about 1450 on Lichess and I've undertaken learning the Catalan as my main opening for white. I've maybe gotten the main line of the Open Catalan (4...dxc4 5...a6) less than 5 times in the 3 months I've been playing chess. More often than not, within the first 5-10 moves, my opponent will be the one to break out of theory. I struggle to decide which moves are worth commiting time to sequencing out versus just tossing aside as "just play solid chess from this point and you're fine". The same question comes up when I see people play sidelines of, say, the Englund Gambit (not responding with 2...Nc6 and instead maybe 2...Bc5) which is already questionable even in the main lines.
The problem I find is, if *this* opponent played it, surely another will at some point, right? I'm happy to expand further or provide examples if that would be helpful. Thanks!
That's a fantastic question. I personally take it on a case by case basis. So if there's a particular line that someone plays that isn't a book move, but looks very logical, and I feel I will probably face again, I may take the time to pull up the engine and learn the best line in response to it. But other times if someone plays a move that's just so strange looking that I doubt I will ever see it again, I probably will just do like you said and "just play solid chess..." I think as you get to higher and higher levels, you will get less and less of those really strange opening moves. Probably around 1800+ range is when folks tend to stick more to the main lines. I will note this down as a potential upcoming video idea b/c I think this is pretty common for a lot of people. Thanks for bringing this up!
Great question! I'm around 1350, and I like the italian lately. I've been trying to incorporate more gambits/traps/tricks in my repertoire and I'm finding the same issue as the OP. A variation from the lines I expected my opponent to play. A great example is the STAFFORD GAMBIT and the variations of it as black!
Unfortunately, my opponent plays 3.Nxe5 maybe 25% of the time at the most! It becomes incredibly frustrating, but I continue tried and true "best chess practices". A video on various gambits would be sweet! I just found this channel today, and I've wAtched the 8/8 " practical traps and tricks" series. Looking forward to vid 9! Ty for this teaching approach! It's comfortable. U don't assume, like some other NM IM GM streamers, that a 1350 shouldn't make a mistake or an inacuracy, and most importantly u don't brow beat them!
Sry 4 the terribly long post... I just had a lot to say.
Thanks for this comment! I'll make a note to circle back and do more of the opening traps videos soon. Also I really like the idea for a video on gambits. Maybe something like Top 10 Most Exciting Gambits or Top 10 Trickiest Gambits would be cool. And thanks for the compliments, much appreciated!
I'm a bit late but I'd probably say the more important thing is memorizing the ideas of the opening. For example, in the catalan your main idea is to have a ton of pressure with your light squared bishop. It's annoying when that happens but the most important thing is to just keep playing into the ideas of your opening if your opponent takes you out of theory
+1 for this question! It happens all the time for me, whenever i learn an opening i like, opponent breaks out of theory and i'm left there wondering what to do next, and this is where i usually blunder.
So good!!!!!!!!
I just look to remember the first few moves of an opening because that's the limits of my memory. I have watched 15 or 20 hours of a series on an opening and am lucky to remember the first couple of moves. However what I look to get from these videos is ideas with the particular opening, which does serve like a sort of road map so you at least have a sense of what you are trying to accomplish. This also has the advantage of taking your opponent off of the beaten path, you don't know the standard moves like your opponent does but now you've taken it off the road where you both are down to just playing chess. I recall a recent game where I played a move early on that wasn't even played once in the database. My opponent went into the tank and then got into trouble, it's tougher when you need to think more at this point of the game and you're not used to it. This is my home turf though and by move 12 he got into so much trouble he resigned. That's my kind of chess :)
Interesting. I've always considered "Openings" as applied to white, but you flipped it to apply to black. Thanks for the insight. Now I have to re-think some things. I love chess. Thanks for a great channel. I've watched a lot of your videos.
This is why blacks initial moves have their own name...
Hi Nelson I really liked the way you presented how to study new openings . I have been playing for quite a few years now and I have made some progress, but I thought I’m kind of stuck with just very few openings.
I have a question just to clarify: why did you choose the Benoni opening? Is it because it’s one opening you can play against d4?
If you don't have the book, how do you determine what the idea is behind an opening? Also, would you recommend going from an alternate opening based on the 2nd move or 1st? (My second question is saying would you go from the Benko to a 1. d4 Nf6 2. e4 line? Or would you go to a 1. e4 line?
Your videos are great. Did you ever play competitively?
Sorry for dumb question, but how you make your videos? I like how you have the chess board and you to the right corner. Nice light and background. Is it the program OBS you have to learn to make videos?
Make a video on blunder check, please!
Your last point about practice, if you have someone about on your level agree to learn openings together and then the practice part is playing against someone else learning the lines from the other side. Flip the board and go again.
Wikipedia is a good free resource as well !
Thanks for sharing that!
Thank you so much,
i got the MCO book recently (looked for FCO but couldnt find it at the store near me)
but i was having a hard time studying all the lines,
this video was such a help.
keep going
Simply wow
Good vid!
Thanks! Btw haven't forgotten about your game, just haven't had time to analyze it yet =P
Nelson, what are you using to demonstrate what if scenarios? You make moves and the initial and subsequent move is high lighted...and then you reset board. Thanks, John
In your view, is there any benefit in limiting openings to one/two for black (KID/Pirc) and one for white (KIA)? My "philosophy" is that time not spent on task A can be (better) spent on task B.
Very useful - i always got bogged down and felt sleepy with the variations
Glad it was helpful!
You deserve more views
Thanks, I appreciate that!
As an Old Benoni player, this made me smile
I watch some other programs as well but it feels as if I'm in a blitzkrieg or blizzard or something. Then I lose interest for days. Thanks for taking it slow. It gives me time to focus and absorb better. I'm progressing a lot better now that I'm sticking to the basics.
As a new chess player
Actually I watched the whole 22mins and sadly it didn't answer my only question
my concern is not how to learn the opening and remember the line that's a straightforward thing
I want to know what to do if the opponent plays a different move or unexpected variation that is completely not in the main lines?
What if he started like we wanted with the d pawn and then played like 2or 3 other moves as we desire
Then suddenly he goes unpredictable and plays other moves
Are we going to stick to the plan and continue to try as much as we can to follow what the main line says, or we abort the opening and try to keep up with his moves
That's the thing that is confusing me
Can you do London system explained? Thank you
I would also say that maybe one of the ideas behind it is to prevent the white king from castling with the bishop exchange.
lol 19:13 gave me a great laugh. :)
I do own FCO but the continuation lines get a bit complex and confusing as to the best way to utilize the book, Do you have a fundamental tip; on this issue?? Thank You!
.. Mike.
Currently, on Amazon, the kindle edition of Fundamental Chess Openings is very reasonably priced at 8.09 GBP!
HA! ,.. You answered my question later in the Video :)
learning chess openings is like learning all all of OLL and thinking it was easy, then looking at the PLL list.....
Wdym by OLL and PLL?
They're cubing terms. In the CFOP method theres 4 steps to solve the cube. 1) Cross. 2) F2L. 3) OLL. 4) PLL. The last 2 are algorithm sets. OLL has 57 and PLL only has 21. The joke is that PLL takes much less time and effort.
How do you decide if you learn openings for white or black? Should it be like 50/50?