Great video man. I think you're one of the best instructors on youtube. A video on chess improvement would be great. Books, programs, subscriptions, etc. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the most effective way to improve for an adult improver in particular with a full time job/time constraints. I feel like I've done a decent amount of study, but it doesn't seem to translate when I play games. Thanks!
@@Pianoman1488 Thank you very much! I really appreciate that! I'll add that to my list of videos, thanks! One thing that I'd like to mention is that all of my students are adults and most of them are employed full time, but one hour per day is plenty for chess if you're using it wisely. I'll try make a video on that, but I just want to recommend the idea of getting a coach to look at your specific situation and tell you the best way forward. I'm still accepting students if you're interested in giving me a try. 😄
Thank you for this video. Even though it is short and easy to understand, it is very powerful. I would appreciate videos on popular pawn structures in the middle games and how to deal with them. Thank you again for the videos.
Very nice video I really liked it. I would like to see more videos on each section separately but the one that caught my attention the most was the one on weak pawns
@@kasthurikrishnen1132 As in more different examples or more moves in the same example? Instead of thinking "What will my opponent play?", I try to say "What would I play if I were my opponent?". It's slightly easier to think like this
third time writing this, i just want to say that this is very cool man i re-learned a lot.And improving ur position slowly, finding the slow improving moves are quite hard.Thank you for the video u have a very nice style of explaining for only 2k subscribers.Yeah you should be titled.I had a lot of chess blindness, especially when u play against amateurs u forget how to play serious games.Love this!
Thank you very much! I'm really glad you're enjoying it. I hope I'll get more subscribers and views if I stay consistent haha I'm two days away from becoming a FIDE Master actually! I was a Candidate Master (CM) until now for years and I finally broke through the 2300 barrier! Waiting for the ratings to be updated and I'll reach my life goal of becoming FM :D
This is good. Thank you. There is a missing component, though. How do you improvise so well? How do you know, say at 16:30, that the endgame will be won and how to find the tricky moves to do so? How do you know at 21:00 that the doubled pawns won't matter and how do you improvise a plan to use your better bishop? Thanks.
@@johnwarren8032 This is mostly from my experience. I'm rated almost 2300 FIDE and 2700 online and have been playing chess for over 18 years now. I've played many such games myself from both sides and have developed an intuition for it. That's why a common piece of advice is to play as much as you can, there's no substitute for experience. I'm happy to be able to use my experience to demonstrate how games are expected to be played out, it tends to be instructive for a student as many other coaches and resources say one side is better, but never prove or demonstrate why or how it's played further. Thank you for watching!
Can you make two videos, one on what do do in the middlegame and create weakness and one on how to play the end game, not like mating patterns but how to play a good endgame and when the endgame starts. Thank you
@LionChess I honestly am. A lot of chess creators online make videos usually assuming that we know certain things when we're just ordinary people trying to get better but not you.
The only thing to know about closed positions is that time is not relevant. You can afford to spend a lot of time to improve a single piece. It's also key to know when and why to open the position with a pawn break. I'll link all the videos you have to watch. Watch this video on How to Optimally Improve Pieces: th-cam.com/video/-4_Gav_Chbk/w-d-xo.html After that the video on Pawn Breaks so you know when and where to open the position in your favor: th-cam.com/video/MIrJMhHYEAk/w-d-xo.html And then these videos about Opening Rules and Principles: 1) th-cam.com/video/DHVIv8OhAUc/w-d-xo.html 2) th-cam.com/video/C-omvEZGiRo/w-d-xo.html
I'll keep that in mind for the next videos, thank you! There's a master game at 2:12 to illustrate using weak pawns and weak squares, here's the entire game: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012322 Also, at 10:28 I took a position out of one of my studies on Lichess and played an example variation simulating a game so the viewers can see how the battle for the weak square is played out and how to proceed after winning that battle. Hopefully that's good enough for now, but I'll definitely try to include a master game or two for each thing I explain in my future videos!
1) Explain minority attacks since its another common plan that typical players scared to do. 2) Explain playing in a semiblocked center positions where there are no D pawn and E pawns locked on e4 and e5 or with an open center what are the most important factors there. 3) Explain the importance of king activity and principle of 2 threats in the endgame. Or how to make plans there in general.
You're the most effective chess instructor I've come across on TH-cam.👍
Thank you very much! I appreciate that.
I hope you enjoy the videos :)
Great video man. I think you're one of the best instructors on youtube. A video on chess improvement would be great. Books, programs, subscriptions, etc. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the most effective way to improve for an adult improver in particular with a full time job/time constraints. I feel like I've done a decent amount of study, but it doesn't seem to translate when I play games. Thanks!
@@Pianoman1488 Thank you very much! I really appreciate that!
I'll add that to my list of videos, thanks!
One thing that I'd like to mention is that all of my students are adults and most of them are employed full time, but one hour per day is plenty for chess if you're using it wisely. I'll try make a video on that, but I just want to recommend the idea of getting a coach to look at your specific situation and tell you the best way forward.
I'm still accepting students if you're interested in giving me a try. 😄
You are straight to the point and very clear in your communication. Thank you.
@@sachmai8708 Greatly appreciated, I hope you enjoyed the video!
That was the best instructional video I've seen in a while. Definitely need to watch this again as there's a ton of good info here. Just subscribed
Thank you very much! I hope you enjoy my other content too :)
It was really worderful to understand and hellps in thinking forward positionally
I'm happy to hear it!
Thank you for watching and commenting! :)
Thank you for this video. Even though it is short and easy to understand, it is very powerful. I would appreciate videos on popular pawn structures in the middle games and how to deal with them. Thank you again for the videos.
@@jlgoeh Thank you for watching and commenting!
I'll add your suggestion to my list, thanks! 🥰
Very clear and instructive. Like it! Thanks!
Thank you very much! :)
Good luck applying it!
Very nice video I really liked it. I would like to see more videos on each section separately but the one that caught my attention the most was the one on weak pawns
@@edwinsuarez4949 I'm really glad you like it!
I may do a separate video purely on weak pawns!
I liked it . Would love to have some more and on thinking ahead on how opponent will react and play
@@kasthurikrishnen1132 As in more different examples or more moves in the same example?
Instead of thinking "What will my opponent play?", I try to say "What would I play if I were my opponent?". It's slightly easier to think like this
third time writing this, i just want to say that this is very cool man i re-learned a lot.And improving ur position slowly, finding the slow improving moves are quite hard.Thank you for the video u have a very nice style of explaining for only 2k subscribers.Yeah you should be titled.I had a lot of chess blindness, especially when u play against amateurs u forget how to play serious games.Love this!
Thank you very much! I'm really glad you're enjoying it.
I hope I'll get more subscribers and views if I stay consistent haha
I'm two days away from becoming a FIDE Master actually! I was a Candidate Master (CM) until now for years and I finally broke through the 2300 barrier!
Waiting for the ratings to be updated and I'll reach my life goal of becoming FM :D
@LionChess congrutulations Man! İ would like to see tournament recaps from you,maybe u'll reach İM.Good luck
@@babcan3196
Thank you very much!
I'll add that to my list of video ideas, thanks :)
Great,best video post, thanks for enlighten me 🎉❤
Happy to help, thank you for watching and commenting! :)
Wow, thank you for this. I've waited long for it.
@@mathewsamuel1386 Happy to help! Thank you for watching and supporting the channel 🥰
This is good. Thank you. There is a missing component, though. How do you improvise so well? How do you know, say at 16:30, that the endgame will be won and how to find the tricky moves to do so?
How do you know at 21:00 that the doubled pawns won't matter and how do you improvise a plan to use your better bishop?
Thanks.
@@johnwarren8032 This is mostly from my experience.
I'm rated almost 2300 FIDE and 2700 online and have been playing chess for over 18 years now. I've played many such games myself from both sides and have developed an intuition for it.
That's why a common piece of advice is to play as much as you can, there's no substitute for experience.
I'm happy to be able to use my experience to demonstrate how games are expected to be played out, it tends to be instructive for a student as many other coaches and resources say one side is better, but never prove or demonstrate why or how it's played further.
Thank you for watching!
Can you make two videos, one on what do do in the middlegame and create weakness and one on how to play the end game, not like mating patterns but how to play a good endgame and when the endgame starts. Thank you
I'll add those two to my list, thank you! :)
Hope you're enjoying the content so far
@LionChess I honestly am. A lot of chess creators online make videos usually assuming that we know certain things when we're just ordinary people trying to get better but not you.
Do you have video on how to exchange pieces in the middlegame?
@@mathewsamuel1386 Yes! In fact, a series of videos! th-cam.com/play/PLdITCJkexgLQ1ogJPAvmZnSFkaY06WaDF.html&si=u_7SW1wGF-m_pnVt
@@LionChess Thanks!
Can you make a video on how to play in closed position and opening mistakes
The only thing to know about closed positions is that time is not relevant. You can afford to spend a lot of time to improve a single piece. It's also key to know when and why to open the position with a pawn break. I'll link all the videos you have to watch.
Watch this video on How to Optimally Improve Pieces: th-cam.com/video/-4_Gav_Chbk/w-d-xo.html
After that the video on Pawn Breaks so you know when and where to open the position in your favor: th-cam.com/video/MIrJMhHYEAk/w-d-xo.html
And then these videos about Opening Rules and Principles:
1) th-cam.com/video/DHVIv8OhAUc/w-d-xo.html
2) th-cam.com/video/C-omvEZGiRo/w-d-xo.html
This would be so much better if you show us some model games
I'll keep that in mind for the next videos, thank you!
There's a master game at 2:12 to illustrate using weak pawns and weak squares, here's the entire game: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012322
Also, at 10:28 I took a position out of one of my studies on Lichess and played an example variation simulating a game so the viewers can see how the battle for the weak square is played out and how to proceed after winning that battle.
Hopefully that's good enough for now, but I'll definitely try to include a master game or two for each thing I explain in my future videos!
@@LionChess Thank you! I really like and enjoy your videos
1) Explain minority attacks since its another common plan that typical players scared to do.
2) Explain playing in a semiblocked center positions where there are no D pawn and E pawns locked on e4 and e5 or with an open center what are the most important factors there.
3) Explain the importance of king activity and principle of 2 threats in the endgame. Or how to make plans there in general.
@@ComradeReptiloid Added to my list. Thank you!
Liked and subscribed ❤ ♟️👍💯
Thank you very much! Enjoy the channel ❣
@LionChess your welcome