The London System starts after 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 This is a set up based opening, our setup will look like this: a bishop on d3, a knight on d2, and pawns on c3 and d3. We will castle. In the opening, we want to control e5. While do...
The Colle System begins after 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 This opening is a system, meaning it can be played against near anything. For example 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3. It can stop anyone trying to play a King's Indian Defense or something els...
Dear Chess Friends, I would like to give you a summary about the contents what I uploaded to my Patreon channel this week. I'm planning on uploading 4-8 hours of educational videos per month. If you are interested...
Dear Chess Friends, I made a video about an important tactical motive, the Greek Gift. Here is the link to that: https://www.patreon.com/posts/greek-gift-nice-119225649?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare...
How many times have you fallen victim to a chess trap during your journey? We've all experienced it—facing that smug opponent who pulls out a flashy trick to catch you off guard. No matter how prepared you are, losing to a trap can feel...
#greekgift #triplebrilliant #chessromance The Greek Gift Sacrifice is a beautiful, devious, and Romantic tactic that I just love playing! 🤩👍 It’s a tactical motif that typically occurs in the early middlegame and can come from many d...
The Greek Gift is the most common sacrifices and its one of the most aggresive and great sacrifices lines in chess. But sometimes Greek Gift could gone wrong due to strong defense and the lack of pieces to attack. For example: you give up a bishop...
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“The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with [Jose] Capablanca.” - Irving Chernev # Introduction Hi classmates,Welcome to the series "Principles of Chess Middle Games". Here we discuss the most fundamental theoretic...
“The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of C...
“A book cannot by itself teach how to play. It can only serve as a guide, and the rest must be learned by experience.” Jose Capablanca # Introduction Hi classmates,Welcome to the series "Principles of Chess Middle Games". Here we discuss th...
"My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again." -Anatoly Karpov Hi chessbros, Welcome to the series where we learn the middle game concepts. Before introducing you to our tod...
"Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything." - Magnus Carlsen Hi chessbros, Welcome to the series where we learn the middle game concepts. Before introducing you to our today's topic, you need to know that...
"An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard." Savielly Tartakower Hi chessbros, Welcome to the series where we learn the middle game concepts. Before introducing you to our today's topic, you need to know that this series has alr...
“Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.” -Magnus Carlsen Hi chessbros, Welcome to the series where we discuss the chess middle game principle. In this series, we hav...
“You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win.” - Jose Capablanca Hello Chessbros. Welcome to the series, Where we discuss middle-game concepts. We have already completed the following topics, Blockade & Restrict...
"We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature" -Rudolf Spielmann Hi chessbros, Welcome to the series where we learn the middle game concepts. Before introducing you to our to...
“Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.” - Hikaru Nakamura Hello Chessbros. Welcome to the series, Where we discuss middle-game concepts. We have already co...
“That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.”-Bobby Fischer Hello guys, Welcome back to this series where we discuss the middle games concept. If you are new here, we have already disc...
One of the most notable tournaments of the 20th century took place in New York, 1924. It was an elite tournament with players such as Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Bogojubow, and Réti, who would all be battling for the top prize of $1500, plus a h...
In 1908, the young 19-year-old Richard Réti played in one of his first tournaments. His ratings were bubbling just under 2300, and he was ranked #220 in the world. And although he was an extremely strong player, he was the lowest seeded person the...
#ViennaGame I’m starting a new series of videos, “chess noob Game Review” where the focus will be on identifying in how a game, whether I win or lose, could have been improved. This gives me an opportunity to reflect more deeply about a game a...
In an open position, the safety of the king should be the first consideration. An extremely important idea we often forget. Maybe we have just won material and forgot about the king, or we are too busy developing our attack that we forgot our opp...
tactics tactics tactics... we see them everywhere, which is why we practice them over and over again. As the tactics get harder, they show more precise sacrifices, which get harder to solve correctly. Along this path, you will pick up a sacrifice ...
It is always satisfying to win a game with a mate you have studied before, whether that is a back-rank rook mate or a delusional bishop sacrifice that stems into thousands of lines. It doesn't matter what. Those are always nice. Now imagine sac...
