I now have a video on how to navigate this channel: th-cam.com/video/xJto6tKV6m0/w-d-xo.html. For more on the chess thought process, check out my video Thought Process - What Thought Process? th-cam.com/video/jEojzMdHkKM/w-d-xo.html
Thanks! I had about 400 ICC videos and I am up to about 255 here so I have a way to go, but I am hopeful viewers like you pass the word so as many as possible can benefit :)
Thanks. I think there is only three books that feature full "think out loud" protocols: de Groot's Thought and Choice in Chess, Aagaard's Inside the Chess Mind, and my The Improving Chess Thinker. Mine is the only one that shows the many protocols for all different levels as de Groot and Aagaard feature almost all strong players.
@@danheismanchess Yes..."good practice". Good being they key word. I have had a lot of practice but alot of it hasn't been too good due to my laziness/inattentiveness etc. Hopefully I can get that straightened out. Winning is much more fun I find 👍
Thanks. As I have written many times, the first couple dozen videos (of 300) on my channel were made with a normal PC microphone, but then I switched to the professional microphone that Chess.com gave me for my TV show "Q&A with Coach Heisman" and there have been very few problems since. But I can't go back and "re-dub" my original videos so when someone makes a comment about the sound in the first videos, repeating this explanation is all I can do.
Brilliant video! (One of your recent videos linked back to this one.) I like how you talked through the moves and lines without moving the pieces or highlighting anything. In the second position, I actually did put Bb4 on my list of candidate moves. I thought that Qxf2+ is not fatal (there is no mate), and Nxf2 (forking the queen and rook) might be met with something offensive like a check. Bb4 does address the threats on b4 and on d6, so it should be considered. Of course, a game has a time limit, and we're humans.
yeah @My Chess Notebook ironically my speed chess brain was saying Bb4. Even so I still want to learn how to analyse and this video is excellent. I just found this channel and it's exactly what I need to improve my chess. Have really refined that heuristic handwavy approach but am realising that to improve at actual chess, I still need to actually analyze.
What a great video! Have just begun watching this channel after hearing Dan on the Chess Experience podcast and am seeing so much I need to do to improve. However, I am stuck on not understanding one piece of the analysis in the video. My viewing comes long after posting, but maybe another late viewer will see my question and help me out... In evaluating candidate moves in the second game (around 18:00), Dan says if we consider white's candidate move Qf3 and ask if it's safe, assume black moves Qxc3+. White's only legal move then is Kd1, which allows black's next move to be Qxa1+. Instead of Kd1, why can't white follow black's Qxc3+ with Qxc3? I have watched the video multiple times and am just not seeing why that's not a legal reply?
I just went back and watched the video. At 18:00 I was discussing the candidate move f2-f3 (which I just properly called "f3"). It's a pawn move, and NOT the queen move Qf3. So after 1.f3 Qxc3+ the move 2.Qxc3 is not legal since the White queen is still on e4. Earlier around 17:40 I had mentioned 1.Qf3, but at 18:00 when I said that "1.f3 Qxc3+ 2.Kd1 was the only move", it is. You just missed that I had switched from discussing a move like 1.Qf3 to later discussing the pawn move 1.f3 instead. This brings up the interesting point that inexperienced players, when discussing chess moves, often omit the piece moving to the square, so they say "f3" when discussing queen moves instead of "Qf3" This somewhat works if the queen is the only piece which can move to f3, but can also cause the kind of confusion you had here. Normally if you say "f3" that must be a pawn move. So it's a good habit to say things like "Ka6" in an endgame instead of "a6" even if the king is the only piece on the board.
I will save this video and rewatch it several times very eye opening. I realize bullet blitz and rapid are not conducive to long-term progress in chess especially in the amateur level. There is no way we can mature this thought process playing any of those time controls. If we had this thought process our rating will skyrocket , thanks for making it free Dan
Mitchess, glad to be of service, thanks. Much more on improvement in my other videos here at th-cam.com/users/danheismanchess, my website www.danheisman.com and my Chess Tip of the Day via twitter.com/danheisman. :)
@@danheismanchess, I am so glad that you decided to start making videos Sir. I am a big fan of you and your work. Greetings for you and your family, I am very happy that you will be adding more! :)
Thanks. Yes, it's like teaching a one-room school - I am addressing a certain "average" level and there's just no way around that for each video, it's going to be more advanced/fast for some and more basic/slow for others. I do have a playlist for "Basic Material" for my lower level viewers. I am also thinking of doing an annotated game at a more basic level that the others for that same reason, similar to Chernev's famous book "Logical Chess Move by Move."
This was an excellent exercise that gets me excited about playing chess. Dan, if you're ever in Beverly hills California look me up I'll treat you to lunch
Excellent analysis with respect to pieces. But what was noticeably absent throughout most of the analysis was key squares. And when you have a meaty position like the last one, it's easy to forget to incorporate a review of key squares. And in time pressure, I think it's often just set aside because you're already overloaded. But, yeah...the Q is hemmed down defending e7 as a mate square. Any square that offers prospects for mate is the key-ist of key squares. Prioritize identifying those before concerning yourself with a threat to a minor piece. Attacking a key square is often the best way to go about saving a piece.
Thanks. There are different methods of teaching (and learning) similar concepts. Obviously you liked/learned "key squares" as an attacking concept, but not everyone uses that term and, when they do, some authors/instructors relegate that nomenclature to just certain types of endgames. When I learned, I liked Vukovic's book "The Art of Attack" where he uses the concept of "focal points" which is not quite the same concept as what you were using as key squares, but certainly related (IMHO).
@@danheismanchess Excellent points...as usual. You're an outstanding instructor. My son and DIL are both teachers. Being aware of different learning styles is so important. I'm not that well-read with chess literature. But it makes sense that terms and their usage haven't always been standardized. I very much enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.
Hi Dan, thanks for your very interesting chess videos! You explain chess so well that I'm desperate about not living in Pennsylvania to be able to take lessons at your home! :-D I have a question for you: in your opinion, for what concerns the practice, playing 2-3 OTB tournaments a year, so let's say about 20 long time games is enough to maintain a good workout and try to improve or is it too little? Thanks in advance for your answer :-D Greetings from Italy.
Hi - I teach people all over the world using Skype and Skype "share screen". In general I have found that players who play ~1 game per week don't do as well as those that average 2+ (~100/yr). This of course assumes you review your games with your opponents, strong players, engines, databases, etc.
M San. All instructive anthology game books deal with this subject. There are some books on analysis which deal with it more directly like Soltis' How to Choose a Chess Move.
The first few videos I made for the channel were on a regular headset. But after that I switched to a more professional microphone and the audio problems were fixed :)
I have English as a second language and understood very well. I think you (commentator) need to listen more hours of easy english so your ears get the accent.
Thanks. As I have replied several times to similar comments, my earliest videos (including the one where you made this comment) were made with a headset but after the first few months I switched to a professional microphone and almost all sound problems went away.
Thanks. I don't know if you read my notes, but of my ~330 videos the first 20 or so were done with a regular PC microphone before I switched the professional mic Chess.com gave me to use for my TV show, which seemed to clear up the problem for the next 300 videos until that mic started to go bad. So for the most recent 10 or so I have a new microphone.
I now have a video on how to navigate this channel: th-cam.com/video/xJto6tKV6m0/w-d-xo.html. For more on the chess thought process, check out my video Thought Process - What Thought Process? th-cam.com/video/jEojzMdHkKM/w-d-xo.html
m glad i found this channel compared to many other channels that don't focus on a specific topic and explain it that deep , thanks a lot
Thanks, much appreciated. Word of mouth is very helpful, so please pass the word! :)
Great content! I used to watch all your vids on ICC, really great to see you putting them out for free now.
Thanks! I had about 400 ICC videos and I am up to about 255 here so I have a way to go, but I am hopeful viewers like you pass the word so as many as possible can benefit :)
His book the improving chess thinker is a game changer
Thanks. I think there is only three books that feature full "think out loud" protocols: de Groot's Thought and Choice in Chess, Aagaard's Inside the Chess Mind, and my The Improving Chess Thinker. Mine is the only one that shows the many protocols for all different levels as de Groot and Aagaard feature almost all strong players.
HI Dan, Very interesting. Once again making my mind work just a bit harder to find the best move. Thank you!
Any sufficiently difficult subject (chemistry, math, tennis, chess...) takes a lot of "good practice" time to get better. Talent helps, too :)
@@danheismanchess Yes..."good practice". Good being they key word. I have had a lot of practice but alot of it hasn't been too good due to my laziness/inattentiveness etc. Hopefully I can get that straightened out. Winning is much more fun I find 👍
These videos are absolute gold but man I wish you had a pop sheild on that mic.
Thanks. As I have written many times, the first couple dozen videos (of 300) on my channel were made with a normal PC microphone, but then I switched to the professional microphone that Chess.com gave me for my TV show "Q&A with Coach Heisman" and there have been very few problems since. But I can't go back and "re-dub" my original videos so when someone makes a comment about the sound in the first videos, repeating this explanation is all I can do.
Thanks Dan, another great vid. I`ll definately be working on my Visualisation and calculation skills this coming season!
Thanks. It's been a while since you posted this. How did you do?
Brilliant video! (One of your recent videos linked back to this one.) I like how you talked through the moves and lines without moving the pieces or highlighting anything. In the second position, I actually did put Bb4 on my list of candidate moves. I thought that Qxf2+ is not fatal (there is no mate), and Nxf2 (forking the queen and rook) might be met with something offensive like a check. Bb4 does address the threats on b4 and on d6, so it should be considered. Of course, a game has a time limit, and we're humans.
Thanks. This video was meant to mimic my popular earlier Novice Nook, which had the title "Making Chess Simple".
yeah @My Chess Notebook ironically my speed chess brain was saying Bb4. Even so I still want to learn how to analyse and this video is excellent. I just found this channel and it's exactly what I need to improve my chess. Have really refined that heuristic handwavy approach but am realising that to improve at actual chess, I still need to actually analyze.
Thank you for the videos. I appreciate you not playing out all of the moves and forcing us to visualize. Challenging but helpful.
Thanks, much appreciated.
What a great video!! Your youtube channel is a hidden gem for ameture chess players!
Thanks! I try not to keep it hidden :) If you pass the word to your chess friends, it will be a little less so :)
Really nice video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! This is one of my "fundamental" videos :)
What a great video! Have just begun watching this channel after hearing Dan on the Chess Experience podcast and am seeing so much I need to do to improve. However, I am stuck on not understanding one piece of the analysis in the video. My viewing comes long after posting, but maybe another late viewer will see my question and help me out...
In evaluating candidate moves in the second game (around 18:00), Dan says if we consider white's candidate move Qf3 and ask if it's safe, assume black moves Qxc3+. White's only legal move then is Kd1, which allows black's next move to be Qxa1+. Instead of Kd1, why can't white follow black's Qxc3+ with Qxc3? I have watched the video multiple times and am just not seeing why that's not a legal reply?
I just went back and watched the video. At 18:00 I was discussing the candidate move f2-f3 (which I just properly called "f3"). It's a pawn move, and NOT the queen move Qf3. So after 1.f3 Qxc3+ the move 2.Qxc3 is not legal since the White queen is still on e4. Earlier around 17:40 I had mentioned 1.Qf3, but at 18:00 when I said that "1.f3 Qxc3+ 2.Kd1 was the only move", it is. You just missed that I had switched from discussing a move like 1.Qf3 to later discussing the pawn move 1.f3 instead.
This brings up the interesting point that inexperienced players, when discussing chess moves, often omit the piece moving to the square, so they say "f3" when discussing queen moves instead of "Qf3" This somewhat works if the queen is the only piece which can move to f3, but can also cause the kind of confusion you had here. Normally if you say "f3" that must be a pawn move. So it's a good habit to say things like "Ka6" in an endgame instead of "a6" even if the king is the only piece on the board.
I will save this video and rewatch it several times very eye opening. I realize bullet blitz and rapid are not conducive to long-term progress in chess especially in the amateur level. There is no way we can mature this thought process playing any of those time controls. If we had this thought process our rating will skyrocket , thanks for making it free Dan
Mitchess, glad to be of service, thanks. Much more on improvement in my other videos here at th-cam.com/users/danheismanchess, my website www.danheisman.com and my Chess Tip of the Day via twitter.com/danheisman. :)
Excellent recommendations for thinking before making a move
Thanks. Appreciate your feedback :)
Great video, your channel is the best Sir.
Thanks. I hope to be adding more videos to the channel soon :)
@@danheismanchess, I am so glad that you decided to start making videos Sir. I am a big fan of you and your work. Greetings for you and your family, I am very happy that you will be adding more! :)
It's been two years and I have added about 250 more :)
A very good lesson Dan, my only criticism is, maybe you could slow down little for us beginners.
Thanks. Yes, it's like teaching a one-room school - I am addressing a certain "average" level and there's just no way around that for each video, it's going to be more advanced/fast for some and more basic/slow for others. I do have a playlist for "Basic Material" for my lower level viewers. I am also thinking of doing an annotated game at a more basic level that the others for that same reason, similar to Chernev's famous book "Logical Chess Move by Move."
Also, anyone can use 0,7 or 0,5 speed for watching the video.
This was an excellent exercise that gets me excited about playing chess. Dan, if you're ever in Beverly hills California look me up I'll treat you to lunch
Well, I went to Caltech and then went back a few years ago for my 50th anniversary (yes, I'm old) so I was in Pasadena :)
Excellent analysis with respect to pieces. But what was noticeably absent throughout most of the analysis was key squares. And when you have a meaty position like the last one, it's easy to forget to incorporate a review of key squares. And in time pressure, I think it's often just set aside because you're already overloaded. But, yeah...the Q is hemmed down defending e7 as a mate square. Any square that offers prospects for mate is the key-ist of key squares. Prioritize identifying those before concerning yourself with a threat to a minor piece. Attacking a key square is often the best way to go about saving a piece.
Thanks. There are different methods of teaching (and learning) similar concepts. Obviously you liked/learned "key squares" as an attacking concept, but not everyone uses that term and, when they do, some authors/instructors relegate that nomenclature to just certain types of endgames. When I learned, I liked Vukovic's book "The Art of Attack" where he uses the concept of "focal points" which is not quite the same concept as what you were using as key squares, but certainly related (IMHO).
@@danheismanchess Excellent points...as usual. You're an outstanding instructor. My son and DIL are both teachers. Being aware of different learning styles is so important. I'm not that well-read with chess literature. But it makes sense that terms and their usage haven't always been standardized. I very much enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.
Hi Dan, thanks for your very interesting chess videos! You explain chess so well that I'm desperate about not living in Pennsylvania to be able to take lessons at your home! :-D
I have a question for you: in your opinion, for what concerns the practice, playing 2-3 OTB tournaments a year, so let's say about 20 long time games is enough to maintain a good workout and try to improve or is it too little? Thanks in advance for your answer :-D Greetings from Italy.
Hi - I teach people all over the world using Skype and Skype "share screen". In general I have found that players who play ~1 game per week don't do as well as those that average 2+ (~100/yr). This of course assumes you review your games with your opponents, strong players, engines, databases, etc.
This video has a microphone 🎤 problem . Other then that i like your videos
A couple of videos after this one, I changed my microphone. Everyone said that fixed the problem. :)
@@danheismanchess www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/10570/getting-rid-of-plosives-in-your-audio
Hello! What books would you recommend for step 5?
M San. All instructive anthology game books deal with this subject. There are some books on analysis which deal with it more directly like Soltis' How to Choose a Chess Move.
Good material, but your mic needs a pop filter or something.
A couple of videos after this one, I changed my microphone. Everyone said that fixed the problem. :)
@@danheismanchess Excellent! Looking forward to watching them.
Needs a pop filter, But great video
The first few videos I made for the channel were on a regular headset. But after that I switched to a more professional microphone and the audio problems were fixed :)
I really would like to understand all of this videos, but his accent is very difficult to me. Also I guess his audio captations is not that good.
I have English as a second language and understood very well. I think you (commentator) need to listen more hours of easy english so your ears get the accent.
Please... get a microphone pop shield.
Thanks. As I have replied several times to similar comments, my earliest videos (including the one where you made this comment) were made with a headset but after the first few months I switched to a professional microphone and almost all sound problems went away.
Excellent chess lessons! Terrible production, terrible sound.
Thanks. I don't know if you read my notes, but of my ~330 videos the first 20 or so were done with a regular PC microphone before I switched the professional mic Chess.com gave me to use for my TV show, which seemed to clear up the problem for the next 300 videos until that mic started to go bad. So for the most recent 10 or so I have a new microphone.