@@PowerAnjohn Yeah, thats where i'm at now. I used to just make good moves until the opponent makes a weakness and then i can capitalize. Now i'm realizing that no longer works and i need to have a solid plan and provoke weaknesses as opponents no longer blunder regularly. Its a more difficult jump for me from 1500 to 1800 than from 1200 to 1500
This is high-quality stuff for medium strength players. Unlike many channels simply aiming to put something up, your talent at choosing positions coupled with an innate gift of teaching shines through. and makes these postings stand apart. Thanks for the genuine and honest effort that you put in. Greatly appreciated
Outstanding video. A great simple framework for making plans: 1. Get your pieces to the best squares, 2. Make your opponent's pieces BAD, 3. Try to create weaknesses in your opponent's position. Please make more. Thank you.
Great overall instruction! Took notes on what you covered so I could remember and it added up to more than 3! 😉Thanx much, will share.🌈 1. Assess Opening Approaches and Reactions 2. Achieve Best Squares and Structures 3. Weaken Opponent's Best Squares 4. Trade Only for Advantage 5. Force Opponent Retreats 6. Reduce Opponent's Options and Mobility 7. Weaken/Deny Linkages, Interactive Strengths and Structures of Opponent 8. Develop Plan, Be Flexible and Revise 9. Mind Time Control 10. Calculate and Deploy Tactics 11. Create/Force Positional Weaknesses for Opponent 12. Gain Material and Preserve Piece Synergy (like Rooks and Bishops) 13. Execute Winning End Game 14. Close In Time
this is perfect timing, I've been trying to improve and have realized I play without a plan. thanks for your videos. especially liked the one of your parents playing each other!
This was such a great video! I now realize that I have been playing the middlegame without a plan. I feel like I usually rely on instinct and patterns. This has been super helpful.
anna habia jugado ajedrez cuando tenia 4 o 5 años y nunca mas y de mirar estos videos tuyos empece a jugar esta semana, voy por 600 de ELO, muchisimas graciasssss
I always thought i was terrible because i thought having a plan was something much More complicated than this, now not only learned a Bit by seing a New idea i wouldn't have seen by myself but im now much more confident in myself, thank you for this great lesson, One of the Best chess videos ive ever seen
Wow, you are really good at this. Your way of explaining is just perfect. I wouldn't miss one of your teaching-type videos like this for anything. All your content is great but this is solid gold.
Love your clear explanations. Very helpful - if I can just get it in my head, Because it seems that it's not just seeing the position, it is also getting the pieces in the correct squares to kick away or capture.
I watch a lot of chess videos looking for content to develop my game and increase my rating (800). For a few months I watched Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, American, English videos and I can honestly say that this video conveys very clearly and effectively what I was missing in my game and it`s not a content about lines and lines and tricks that don't help us improve our game and we just lose time. If I could give this video 100 likes at once on this video I would. Excellent content, keep it up Anna!! 5 stars!! Kisses from Portugal
Excellent advice, if I could put this into practice, it would take me that one step further to advanced play. Creating weaknesses in my opponent's position is something I need to work on, it does not come intuitively yet. Väldigt lärorikt som vanligt Anna, tack så mycket!
Before you listed the plan options, I paused and decided on Be2, but while that attacks the queen, it doesn't really do much and it blocks the knight from going to e2, which allows their knight to capture ours if white plays f3.
I’m quickly becoming a big fan. I love your logic and ability to make the game fun while being strategic. You are providing me with a reason to stay engaged with the game by creating a Plan in any given situation. Many times after my opening, the London, if the opponent makes some unexpected moves, I feel lost, no plan. But your strategy is on going and now I will try again to play with purpose instead of thinking that I need to memorize certain moves for every layout.
This is something i really needed as i see gms making plans and good players when i dont know what to do in my position and normally i would go for an attack on the king but sometimes that is not the best option
Thank you Anna for a fantastic video. It would be very interesting to see some videos on how you link the opening thinking with the middle game planning and endgame planning with some specific openings like the QGD and other examples. It seems that some openings have inherent ideas that dictate what you do in the middlegame. With thanks for your kind help.
I have never seen any other video that explain it as well as you did. I always had issues with the middle game as a 1400-1600 player. I love your other chess contents but please keep teaching, you're very good at it.
This is really helpful Anna. Please do some more of these. My ideas around planning are a bit fuzzy and I would really appreciate some more examples. Thanks so much for doing these.
This is really useful topic,it will be great to have another videos like this. It is often really hard to find plan so more examples about how to find and how to realize plans in the middle game will be more than welcome.Thank you for your effort.
Superlike!! 👍 Really enjoy this format! It is helpful to understand why the right idea is good but it is at least equally important to understand why the other ideas are worse.
That was a super helpful video. I really enjoyed trying to find the best plan before you even gave your 3 options to see if I could find it. More videos like this would be good to watch.
Im finding your video instructions to be very helpful!! Im 65. I have been playing since i was a kid. And about five years ago i got my elo up to 1560. I stayed in that range for a while. Then ended up where i am today. 1260. But im determined to get better! And youre helping!! Thank you! Btw. Youre not only a great and inspiring player. Youre a great teacher! For all you do. Thank you!
@@isabelsinclair2899 Pieces out and castle is opening. I can get that far lol. My board vision has greatly improved over the years. It's the imbalances and plans to use them that seem to evade me.
@@nilsalmgren4492 checks, captures, threats. Play for threats to weaknesses with tempo. If none of this is possible, improve your worst piece on a square that gets you that much closer to executing the aforementioned.
this helps visualize all 3 segments of a game..start with a solid opening (not too hard when there's so many educational tutorials on openings) continue with plans in the middle game creating and attacking the opponents weaknesses and getting the most value out of your pieces then finalize the deal with an easy-ish endgame as a reward for a great middle game
Hi Anna (and other audiences too), I want to ask something regarding the movements between 11:19 to 11:25. What if we do fxe5 and then Nf4 instead of dxe5 then Nd4? Or is capturing dxe5 is better because we want to keep a pressure on the c6 pawn? (I will evaluate the position myself better later on, but in the meantime while I am watching the video I'll leave the answers to you guys).
Anna, your videos are quite earnest and enlightening to watch but I believe the suggestions show a defensive approach and good only if one wants to win attritionally pawn by pawn. Thus the reason for the Ne8 move in position 2 at 20:31. I believe that the move starting from Nf6 to Nh5 is a more aggressive move and would force Bf4 to either h2 or take the pawn at h6.But then the black bishop can come to g5 and pin the took and knight on the diagonal. If white let's the knight take the bishop at h4 then the g2 pawn would be threatened. The white rooks would still remain out of action while fatally breaching the white castle.
Great concept in this video! Hopefully you do something similar in the future, too. One question: how about Na5 around 14:20 to force the queen to go back?
Just because a piece moves backward doesn't mean it is moving to a worse square. The queen is currently in a mediocre square. So after Na5, black can go Qc2, and your plan has ended without an improvement of the position.
THIS, the middle game is where I’m clueless as a beginner and just move pieces lamely and aimlessly. This is much needed help, but it seems more and more that chess is not really a game anymore just whoever’s memorized more games and situations wins.
Anna you are a gem. You enthusiasm is infectious. Your Mom is so cute. You are kind, appreciative, and fun. The world needs more people like you and your Ma.
You had a very constructive mindset whilst recording this video. Something or someone was inspiring you to patiently explain these things carefully, with detail and examples. I wouldn't mind seeing more of this from you. And now that I've watched the whole video, I can see where we think similarly, but also where I fall short on completing a plan to dismantle. The game is complicated, it has responses, and it is lose track of an aim or to take lightly an opponent's response - at my level. I can see that you have more consciousness or ideas of what your opponent is or might be planning. Thanks again for this content - I must be getting better if I'm thinking better 😊
General principle, control the centre and if the position is closed attack the side of the board where your most advanced pawn is, because you are aiming at the pawn on front of the most advanced square to create a break in the chain and get behind the lines. In an open game attack the side where most of your pieces are. If you start with an open game then you are already deciding where the pieces are going as you develop so should be forming the plan. The other person will be developing with either the oposite plan or to counter your plan.
Loved this information.! I was able to follow you and I'm not even rated anything yet. I would love to hear more examples like this for an even lower rated person such as myself. Thank you so much!
Wow, the perfect lesson for me! I usually find my opponent and I know to develop but after that…?I often feel stuck. Here are 3 tips exactly on point! The pawn structure stuff is particularly interesting as I had heard about it but never understood! THANK YOU!
Anna, for an absolute beginner, what should i focus on first? I know the rules, but i don't know any general strategies or anything. I just know I want to "activate" my pieces as soon as I can. What should I do, learn openings?
i shall give tips for you learn your opening but i recommend you use london system as white and kings indian as black cuz its easy to learn and try to learn the ideas of the openings your using and most importantly learn tactics
Thanks! Yes keep up with the lessons. I want to play chess but i just don't know how to think in the game! The hardest part is trying to explain how to think in chess. I have bought tons of books but they did no good!
Just what the doctor ordered Anna. I can't begin to tell you how valuable this is at any level. Well done my friend. If you're ever in Beverly hills, California I owe you a lunch.
I'm a 1600 player (have been for some time) and have struggled to identify "plans" when they're not obvious. Knowing I have foundational gaps, this video was AWESOME!!!
Ive never been rated but ive been playing since i was 13 im 40 now ive lost soooo many times i cant even count😂 youve improved my way of revisiting old manuevers re adjusting my view of advancing even when things fail still having the abilty to re create a plan🙏♥️thankyou so much your a legend
My plan as a 1200: dont lose in the opening, dont blunder a piece, wait for the opponent to blunder a piece 🤣
Works until 1500 to 1600. There you will face a magic barrier preventing you from winning games. This video was perfect for bypassing this barrier
@@PowerAnjohn Yeah, thats where i'm at now. I used to just make good moves until the opponent makes a weakness and then i can capitalize. Now i'm realizing that no longer works and i need to have a solid plan and provoke weaknesses as opponents no longer blunder regularly. Its a more difficult jump for me from 1500 to 1800 than from 1200 to 1500
I must have played you before. Getting much better at the middle game but always blunder in the end game.
good tactics
As a 700 rated player, my plan is usually REMAIN CALM 😱😱
That's a far better plan than just being in sheer terror throughout the game (which is the closest thing to a plan I ever have).
Don't blunder queen don't blunder queen don't blunder queen-ohfucktheregoesmyrook
@@keiganogrady7481 😂so true haha!
Lmao same and avoiding blunders or mistakes.
I'm excited to get to 700 soon!
This is high-quality stuff for medium strength players. Unlike many channels simply aiming to put something up, your talent at choosing positions coupled with an innate gift of teaching shines through. and makes these postings stand apart. Thanks for the genuine and honest effort that you put in. Greatly appreciated
Very well said
Outstanding video. A great simple framework for making plans:
1. Get your pieces to the best squares,
2. Make your opponent's pieces BAD,
3. Try to create weaknesses in your opponent's position.
Please make more. Thank you.
I love how your intros feel like an expert intoducing a ted talk
Lol 😂
@@AnnaCramling true
Great overall instruction! Took notes on what you covered so I could remember and it added up to more than 3! 😉Thanx much, will share.🌈
1. Assess Opening Approaches and Reactions
2. Achieve Best Squares and Structures
3. Weaken Opponent's Best Squares
4. Trade Only for Advantage
5. Force Opponent Retreats
6. Reduce Opponent's Options and Mobility
7. Weaken/Deny Linkages, Interactive Strengths and Structures of Opponent
8. Develop Plan, Be Flexible and Revise
9. Mind Time Control
10. Calculate and Deploy Tactics
11. Create/Force Positional Weaknesses for Opponent
12. Gain Material and Preserve Piece Synergy (like Rooks and Bishops)
13. Execute Winning End Game
14. Close In Time
this is perfect timing, I've been trying to improve and have realized I play without a plan. thanks for your videos. especially liked the one of your parents playing each other!
Anna you’re quickly becoming my favorite chess TH-camr!
This was such a great video! I now realize that I have been playing the middlegame without a plan. I feel like I usually rely on instinct and patterns. This has been super helpful.
anna habia jugado ajedrez cuando tenia 4 o 5 años y nunca mas y de mirar estos videos tuyos empece a jugar esta semana, voy por 600 de ELO, muchisimas graciasssss
You’re the only chess TH-camr that explains in a way that makes sense to me. Thank you for your clear and concise insights, you’re a great teacher! ❤
This is a great video, I literally have no plan when I play (been playing 2 weeks), this will really help, thanks Anna!
Rhyme, I get ideas, typically the wrong ones. Well, back to the drawing board.
Watching this video made me remember how hard it's actually to create educational videos that are also entertaining and fun.
I always thought i was terrible because i thought having a plan was something much More complicated than this, now not only learned a Bit by seing a New idea i wouldn't have seen by myself but im now much more confident in myself, thank you for this great lesson, One of the Best chess videos ive ever seen
Wow, you are really good at this. Your way of explaining is just perfect. I wouldn't miss one of your teaching-type videos like this for anything. All your content is great but this is solid gold.
Love your clear explanations. Very helpful - if I can just get it in my head, Because it seems that it's not just seeing the position, it is also getting the pieces in the correct squares to kick away or capture.
Great video Anna! Thanks for the plan. This helps alot. I hope you make more of these chess tutorial videos.
good teaching... Levi teaches openings & end games well, you teach middle game well, so you compliment each other.
I watch a lot of chess videos looking for content to develop my game and increase my rating (800). For a few months I watched Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, American, English videos and I can honestly say that this video conveys very clearly and effectively what I was missing in my game and it`s not a content about lines and lines and tricks that don't help us improve our game and we just lose time. If I could give this video 100 likes at once on this video I would. Excellent content, keep it up Anna!! 5 stars!! Kisses from Portugal
Excellent advice, if I could put this into practice, it would take me that one step further to advanced play. Creating weaknesses in my opponent's position is something I need to work on, it does not come intuitively yet. Väldigt lärorikt som vanligt Anna, tack så mycket!
Positional chess is one of my weakness, I'll work on this & not always be looking for a tactic
Exactly what I need. Sometimes people makes moves as how they read in books but for no specific purpose at all.
Anna with her really easy to understand, and well explained tutorials 🤔🧐😊. Thx
Before you listed the plan options, I paused and decided on Be2, but while that attacks the queen, it doesn't really do much and it blocks the knight from going to e2, which allows their knight to capture ours if white plays f3.
thank you for this lesson - so well delivered
Magnífico vídeo. Te empecé viendo con el GM Matamoros. Me alegra verte de nuevo y con videos de tanta calidad y tan didácticos.
I’m quickly becoming a big fan. I love your logic and ability to make the game fun while being strategic. You are providing me with a reason to stay engaged with the game by creating a Plan in any given situation. Many times after my opening, the London, if the opponent makes some unexpected moves, I feel lost, no plan. But your strategy is on going and now I will try again to play with purpose instead of thinking that I need to memorize certain moves for every layout.
This is something i really needed as i see gms making plans and good players when i dont know what to do in my position and normally i would go for an attack on the king but sometimes that is not the best option
Thank you Anna for a fantastic video. It would be very interesting to see some videos on how you link the opening thinking with the middle game planning and endgame planning with some specific openings like the QGD and other examples. It seems that some openings have inherent ideas that dictate what you do in the middlegame. With thanks for your kind help.
Thank you, Anna. This is very helpful.
This is a freaking GREAT instructional video, great job Anna!
I have never seen any other video that explain it as well as you did. I always had issues with the middle game as a 1400-1600 player. I love your other chess contents but please keep teaching, you're very good at it.
This is really helpful Anna. Please do some more of these. My ideas around planning are a bit fuzzy and I would really appreciate some more examples. Thanks so much for doing these.
It never occurred to me that part of my planning process should include sabotaging my opponents position. That's definitely a new idea. Thanks!
Hey Anna, Ive really enjoyed these teaching videos you’ve been making lately! Thanks and keep them coming! Very instructive.
Anna thank you for your videos! You really helped me in chess!!!!
This is really useful topic,it will be great to have another videos like this. It is often really hard to find plan so more examples about how to find and how to realize plans in the middle game will be more than welcome.Thank you for your effort.
Thank you for this free informative content! You explain things really well
This is a fantastic instructional format. Would definitely like to see more like this.
Mike Tyson once said, everyone's got a plan until you get punched in the face. In chess terms: everyone's got a plan until your in a double fork...
Superlike!! 👍
Really enjoy this format! It is helpful to understand why the right idea is good but it is at least equally important to understand why the other ideas are worse.
Great video. I rarely smile when playing the middle game, but this video had me smiling the whole time. Hopefully that'll carry over to my matches.
Thanks for a create training video. For someone who has never had a formal training this is great.
These board state/analysis videos are so helpful, thank you!
For me, this is probably the most helpful chess video that I've seen in a very long time. Thank you for your efforts.
That was a super helpful video. I really enjoyed trying to find the best plan before you even gave your 3 options to see if I could find it. More videos like this would be good to watch.
Definitely one of the most useful instructional chess videos I have seen - thank you.
Awesome tips. More like this would be gold !
Thank you !
Im finding your video instructions to be very helpful!! Im 65. I have been playing since i was a kid. And about five years ago i got my elo up to 1560. I stayed in that range for a while. Then ended up where i am today. 1260. But im determined to get better! And youre helping!! Thank you!
Btw. Youre not only a great and inspiring player. Youre a great teacher! For all you do. Thank you!
thanks Anna. This was very instructive. Please do more like this video.
I love practical + educational video like this one
Love how you explain your thought process and how you evaluate which pieces are good or not. I'm too slow to play chess with a clock though.
Yes, please do more videos like this one! It’s really good and really helpful!
A plan is something I have heard about, but never really grasped. My plan seems to be react to what my opponent does.
@@isabelsinclair2899 Pieces out and castle is opening. I can get that far lol. My board vision has greatly improved over the years. It's the imbalances and plans to use them that seem to evade me.
@@nilsalmgren4492 checks, captures, threats. Play for threats to weaknesses with tempo. If none of this is possible, improve your worst piece on a square that gets you that much closer to executing the aforementioned.
Napoleon scoffs at you from his grave, lol
this helps visualize all 3 segments of a game..start with a solid opening (not too hard when there's so many educational tutorials on openings) continue with plans in the middle game creating and attacking the opponents weaknesses and getting the most value out of your pieces then finalize the deal with an easy-ish endgame as a reward for a great middle game
Good explanation of strategic thinking. Thanks .
This was a fantastic lesson, really helpful. Thanks!
This lesson was excellent! Anna, your explanations are crystal clear and really useful. Keep up the great work.
I love this kind of content! I'd love to see more videos like this.
Such a nice and clear way to explain things. I will not forget these ideas anymore
Hi Anna (and other audiences too), I want to ask something regarding the movements between 11:19 to 11:25. What if we do fxe5 and then Nf4 instead of dxe5 then Nd4? Or is capturing dxe5 is better because we want to keep a pressure on the c6 pawn? (I will evaluate the position myself better later on, but in the meantime while I am watching the video I'll leave the answers to you guys).
Thanks Anna, very informative video 💜
Anna, your videos are quite earnest and enlightening to watch but I believe the suggestions show a defensive approach and good only if one wants to win attritionally pawn by pawn. Thus the reason for the Ne8 move in position 2 at 20:31. I believe that the move starting from Nf6 to Nh5 is a more aggressive move and would force Bf4 to either h2 or take the pawn at h6.But then the black bishop can come to g5 and pin the took and knight on the diagonal. If white let's the knight take the bishop at h4 then the g2 pawn would be threatened. The white rooks would still remain out of action while fatally breaching the white castle.
17:20 Ne8 right now just drops an exchange with the one move tactic Nd7, I think.
Which further looks like an exchange down with no compensation.
Great video & yes please - more examples like this would be great! I feel this is really teaching me practical and new ideas. Thanks!
Great video, Anna! enjoy the light hearted way you explain things. it feels like you're happy speaking about this, which makes viewers happy to watch.
It's always cool to hear her say the word "chess". Great video!
Great concept in this video! Hopefully you do something similar in the future, too.
One question: how about Na5 around 14:20 to force the queen to go back?
Just because a piece moves backward doesn't mean it is moving to a worse square. The queen is currently in a mediocre square. So after Na5, black can go Qc2, and your plan has ended without an improvement of the position.
@@danielyuan9862 Couldn't you then go Nc4 and fork knight and rook? If opponent exchanges knights, the pawn a2 would be hanging.
This is good. Thanks. The choice of positions is good, the level is right, the explanations are helpful. Your videos are improving.
THIS, the middle game is where I’m clueless as a beginner and just move pieces lamely and aimlessly. This is much needed help, but it seems more and more that chess is not really a game anymore just whoever’s memorized more games and situations wins.
Great video. Thank you 😊
Anna you are a gem. You enthusiasm is infectious. Your Mom is so cute. You are kind, appreciative, and fun. The world needs more people like you and your Ma.
I love this video! I'd love to get more videos on forming a plan.
You had a very constructive mindset whilst recording this video. Something or someone was inspiring you to patiently explain these things carefully, with detail and examples. I wouldn't mind seeing more of this from you. And now that I've watched the whole video, I can see where we think similarly, but also where I fall short on completing a plan to dismantle. The game is complicated, it has responses, and it is lose track of an aim or to take lightly an opponent's response - at my level. I can see that you have more consciousness or ideas of what your opponent is or might be planning. Thanks again for this content - I must be getting better if I'm thinking better 😊
Love your energy❤
General principle, control the centre and if the position is closed attack the side of the board where your most advanced pawn is, because you are aiming at the pawn on front of the most advanced square to create a break in the chain and get behind the lines.
In an open game attack the side where most of your pieces are. If you start with an open game then you are already deciding where the pieces are going as you develop so should be forming the plan.
The other person will be developing with either the oposite plan or to counter your plan.
you'r brilliant Anna , your advice are very helpful and practical, please summarize at the end . thanks
Loved this information.! I was able to follow you and I'm not even rated anything yet. I would love to hear more examples like this for an even lower rated person such as myself. Thank you so much!
Love your videos. Lots of fun!
4:55 "Our good pieces are gonna go over to their bad pieces, which means their bad pieces are gonna to come over here."
Super duper duper instructive!! Love these videos Anna! 👌🏻
This is a great video! More content on the middle game would be great. 😄 Thanks Anna!
Wow, the perfect lesson for me! I usually find my opponent and I know to develop but after that…?I often feel stuck. Here are 3 tips exactly on point! The pawn structure stuff is particularly interesting as I had heard about it but never understood! THANK YOU!
Anna, for an absolute beginner, what should i focus on first? I know the rules, but i don't know any general strategies or anything. I just know I want to "activate" my pieces as soon as I can. What should I do, learn openings?
i shall give tips for you
learn your opening but i recommend you use london system as white and kings indian as black cuz its easy to learn and try to learn the ideas of the openings your using and most importantly learn tactics
Lots of great lessons here. Thanks for demystifying a very foggy topic with wit and candor!!
I learned a lot with this video! Thanks!! :)
I just had to watch this video as Anna has the plan, but on a serious note Anna I love your energy from all of the twitch streams.
Your videos are really educational. Thanks Anna!
Tusen takk!! Du er utrolig flink til å forklare på en enkel og logisk måte. Short in English: Tnx 😀
Thanks! Yes keep up with the lessons. I want to play chess but i just don't know how to think in the game! The hardest part is trying to explain how to think in chess. I have bought tons of books but they did no good!
After 29 minutes I realized there was a chess board to the right. I had all the moves in my head just like Mägnus. Great video btw!
woow! it's soo cool.. i'm bad at visualization. i've been playing chess for 7 years
Just what the doctor ordered Anna. I can't begin to tell you how valuable this is at any level. Well done my friend.
If you're ever in Beverly hills, California I owe you a lunch.
I'm a 1600 player (have been for some time) and have struggled to identify "plans" when they're not obvious. Knowing I have foundational gaps, this video was AWESOME!!!
This has got to be the most impactful chess video I've watched. Thank you Anna.
I found this video very helpful. Your explanations are clear. Thanks, and keep those videos coming, please!
thanks for your great tips, this video helped me a lot. can we have more these types of videos?
This would make an excellent series! Kind of like Gotham's Guess the ELO.
i love this.. usually at complicated positions, i do not know what to do...but this is gold!!!
Very helpful and well thought through. Great job 👏
Ive never been rated but ive been playing since i was 13 im 40 now ive lost soooo many times i cant even count😂 youve improved my way of revisiting old manuevers re adjusting my view of advancing even when things fail still having the abilty to re create a plan🙏♥️thankyou so much your a legend