How to teach young people chess

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SQUEAKERISCHESSKING

Hello everyone!! I have created a youtube channel with over 200 videos. I am still creating videos but I am a little stuck and was wondering if you could help me. I want to create more videos about how to help beginners learn chess and get better. It has been a long time since I was a beginner so I do not know where to start. And don't say the beginning!! Like should I cover tactics, specific openings, middle game? What about the endgame and how advanced? 

 

My site is here: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLMPNcd4NZZNFO2xmd9w6Hg

shanlek

Hello,

One of the things I have noticed is that there are many, MANY references to Opening Theory just about everywhere. Wikipedia has a whole wikibook devoted to opening theory. And the tactics trainer and daily puzzels here tend to focus on the endgame. But anything to do with the middle game is generally very vauge or based soley around specific tactics (like the trainers here). While these are incredibly helpful, and I learn something with every puzzle, I still feel lost when I get to the middle game. So maybe some videos on how to best use the tactics in actual games, and most importantly, how to recognize when the best time to use a particular tactic is. 

Just my two cents as a beginner in this mad, mad world of chess.

royalbishop

Created 200 videos. wow. Thanks

GMVillads

Hanging pieces and ( very) simple mating motifs such as qxh7 mate. This is the most important things for absolute beginners.

royalbishop
GMVillads wrote:

Hanging pieces and ( very) simple mating motifs such as qxh7 mate. This is the most important things for absolute beginners.

Players are so booked on that strategy on chess.com. So when they reacher a higher level they are stuck.

A newbie has to learn the basics. Control the center and develop pieces to max mobility. Review the situation on the board and not just on one side of the board. A newbie will often make a move and hope their opponent does not see the way out of it. Then they get surprised that their opponent does see it but now they are in a much worse position.