If you'd like to watch the full-length version of these videos, head over to th-cam.com/users/chessbrahEXTRA to find the playlist. Thanks for watching!
Aman... I CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH for this series. This is by FAR the best chess video series on the internet. OMG I'm shocked. These are the fundamentals that i was missing. I went up almost 100 points in the last week since i started doing this. I literally love you. You're the best teacher I've seen so far. OMG.. 💜💜💜
9 months from this series. Im a 850~(started at 700, this is day two of using this habits) player, after putting all of this in practice im increasing nearly a 100 points per day in blitz. And just like that I was able to beat twice in a row the 1.6k bot with no helps. Mr. Hambelton, sincerely thank you for helping us improving in chess.
what I'm really impressed about with this series is the amount of time and care taken over the TH-cam edits. Other videos posted from Twitch content can be really frustrating with all the constant notification interruptions and constant engagement with dumb comments in chat, but these videos really strike the right balance, and I also love that the opponents' thinking time is often shortened. All in all, much more enjoyable to watch... THANKYOU 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Aman I just wanted to say thankyou for this series. I am 52 and have been playing for 5 years without ever really improving after year 1. I have watched much chess instruction on YT but your thought processes and teaching style really stand out. You have exceptional talent being a GM but able to communicate brilliantly to much lesser beings, you do this with understated gentleness and humility which none of your peers can match. Also great warmth, humour and personality.. Extremely engaging. Thanks again.
Really appreciate these Building Habits sessions, Aman. This is easily the best resource on TH-cam for developing as a player. Other Tubers just play but you actually went through the effort of creating rules and sticking by them. Thank you
I have a feeling that following the rules of a sub 1000 rated player, together with not doing anything stupid, becomes much easier when you're already a higher rated player, let alone a grandmaster. Especially the part about not doing anything stupid... or setting up the back rank mate down a queen in the last game. I'm really looking forward to when this series reaches my rating level.
@Max Payne He is teaching habits that are progressively getting more and more complicated and nuanced. I think he knows that taking a pawn is good, however focusing on development and simple tactics is more important.
@Max Payne The point is that the habits he's teaching are in general good, especially at this level. Taking free pawns won't be winning games if you lose to easy tactics anyway.
@Max Payne At 900-1200 the level is still so low that even 2-3 pawns advantage (or even a piece advantage) wont decide the game, because people still mess up tactics, hang their pieces, or blunder checkmate. The most deciding factors at that level is to 1) not hang pieces, 2) protect bank rank and 3) develop the pieces to good and safe squares. These arent the habits of a “700 rated” player, these are the core ideas for players of all levels. It’s just that as you get better you learn when to break the rules for better play
I’ve found all your videos to hold nuggets of wisdom for a post-beginner like me. I’m above 1000 and even the 400 elo videos have something for me. I feel like you are filling the gaps in my chess education with these videos. Thanks Aman. I love the chessbrahs keep up the good work!
This is the best chess tutorial for beginners, I just reached the four digits for the first time and these videos are a big reason why! So much better than other channels!
Thank you again Aman, this series has helped me improve my game by giving me the basics, which I was missing. Now every game I can hear your sing song voice reminding me what to do next. You are a great teacher. I've spent a year watching chess vids from the likes of John Bartholomew etc and while they help too, I give you the full credit for my sudden improvement. It's like a light bulb just went off in my head!!
Love that you don’t focus on winning but on making the right decisions/habits at one’s current knowledge. The more right decisions that are made, the more improvement made. Every other “climbing the ladder” series seems like it’s just showing off their ability to find “simple” complex tactics against low rated players. Hence why so many people comment something along the lines of “it’s like the opponents give you their pieces.” Winning will come with the right moves and habits. The right moves won’t just come from winning matches from getting lucky. Cheers brah!
dude ive watched a lot of chess stuff on youtube and barely got any better. I watched one video of yours and won 10 games in a row lol! Your content is WAAAYYYY better for beginners and the funny part is I viewed your stuff last so all the other channels had a first shot at improving my game and couldnt. Chessbrah ftw!
Love the low-key gear change when Nb8 appeared out of nowhere. The mindset shifted from "let's play the most reasonable move" to "let's play easily justifiable good moves quickly and see what happens". I'm on the other end of this a lot, get up a load of material, get into time trouble when my opponent moves quickly and I'm trying to figure out strong moves in the position, blunder mate in 2.
Aman, as a 28 year old 1000 rated player, this couldn't be more helpful!! The amount of games I lose because of silly mistakes or because I don't pay enough attention at what's going on is just ridiculous, hopefully with your tips I'll be able to rank up a bit more :D (Also i get terrible anxiety whenever I play chess, my heart beat goes crazy high so I try not to play it too often, unfortunately)
This is so much more helpful than memorizing some complicated opening lines and playing for tricks. That is what the gm’s are “teaching” the streamers for Pogchamps and that is why they are playing at such a poor level consistently. As a beginner you really don’t need to learn openings... What Aman is doing here makes a lot of sense.
Great series Aman! Must be torture for you to pass up on some of those juicy #'s! and also really cool that you teach a strong foundation with simple easy to follow rules and still pull off a win most of the time!
The point is that if you follow the rules, you should rarely have an undefended piece (pawns yes, pieces no). Just look at these games. How many times are his pieces undeveloped?
I greatly appreciate the elo series. I feel though I'm learning slowly that I am generally learning to play more accurately and with confidence. Love the content!
These techniques work, even for eejits like me. I've just reached 1000 in blitz and I'm over 1000 in bullet thanks to the techniques in these videos. Thanks Chessbrah!
What an awesome series! I picked up chess earlier this year and this is what has been missing from my play so far - principled chess! Looked for answers in openings to no luck, so after this I have a lot to learn and practice! Thank you guys so much, Chessbrahs! One question though: What would you suggest to be the most principled response to the Ruy Lopez as Black (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5)? I haven't seen any of your opponents playing this against you, so I wondered. Thanks again!
During the Vienna teaching at 23:20 , how is the chess analysis on the right moving so fast? I have a pretty suped up PC and it takes like 10-30 seconds to show "best move" and such whenever I take over the moves in game review. Any thoughts?
If you'd like to watch the full-length version of these videos, head over to th-cam.com/users/chessbrahEXTRA to find the playlist. Thanks for watching!
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Man, this guy is improving quickly. Went from 400 and now he's already over 1000. Good job!
He has potential. He should get an official FIDE rating. Maybe he'll reach Grandmaster level. Who knows.
@@AngeloGene maybe one day if he keeps up this hard work! I think he might need to grow out a beard until he does as extra incentive.
@@ericlefort I agree. xD
Oh you guys are soooo stupid. It is GM Aman Hambleton duh.
lol
Thank you, Aman!! I was a steady 2000 blitz on Lichess, but with dedication and your videos, I managed to get to that coveted 900!
I dont lul often but you did it
@aniruddha mukherjee it’s a joke you donkey
@@benconlon875 focken donut*
Oh sorry, it's not Gordon Ramsay's channel
Damn 900 factorial, that insane. Props to you man 👍
The "Ok we're gonna take the free piece" after the knight took his queen killed me
He's jokes lol
Kinda feel like "don't miss back rank mates" should be a habit.
The escape square for the king covers this
@@stevenng3097 I think he means dont miss back rank mates that we can do
@@sujals7108 ohh i see
I think back rank counts as a tactic, or at least it’s a puzzle category on chess.com
Pretty sure taking the interposed queen would have passed the take free piece habit.
Last game is the classic 900 lmao. Blunder queen, still win somehow. Love it
Never resign brahs
Yeah one of my first games on chess dot com was like that. Lost my Queen in the opening. They blundered it back in the endgame and I converted.
Since I reached 1000 rating today, I can now laugh at how bad 900s are. I can only blunder rooks and still win.
@@elijahbuscho7715 What do you mean? 1000 is a 900 on a bad day
@@Alkuf100 that's the joke :)
And set up pieces for the next game while the current game isnt over yet.
Aman... I CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH for this series. This is by FAR the best chess video series on the internet. OMG I'm shocked. These are the fundamentals that i was missing. I went up almost 100 points in the last week since i started doing this. I literally love you. You're the best teacher I've seen so far. OMG.. 💜💜💜
pretty sums
9 months from this series.
Im a 850~(started at 700, this is day two of using this habits) player, after putting all of this in practice im increasing nearly a 100 points per day in blitz.
And just like that I was able to beat twice in a row the 1.6k bot with no helps.
Mr. Hambelton, sincerely thank you for helping us improving in chess.
One of my favorite rules is "Don't be taken by bishops coming from out of nowhere".
i feel you, maybe a bit too much
Truer words have never been spoken by any catholic child
I'm a 2250ish player, but I still enjoy both the entertaining and educational content you put out, especially this series. Keep it up!!
what I'm really impressed about with this series is the amount of time and care taken over the TH-cam edits. Other videos posted from Twitch content can be really frustrating with all the constant notification interruptions and constant engagement with dumb comments in chat, but these videos really strike the right balance, and I also love that the opponents' thinking time is often shortened. All in all, much more enjoyable to watch... THANKYOU 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Aman I just wanted to say thankyou for this series. I am 52 and have been playing for 5 years without ever really improving after year 1. I have watched much chess instruction on YT but your thought processes and teaching style really stand out. You have exceptional talent being a GM but able to communicate brilliantly to much lesser beings, you do this with understated gentleness and humility which none of your peers can match. Also great warmth, humour and personality.. Extremely engaging. Thanks again.
that last game was legendary
That Vienna checkmate pattern is so good!
that last game was peak "THIS IS WHY YOU NEVER RESIGN" omg
This Aman guy is pretty good! If he keeps improvong like that he might become a FM some day!
“Oh I’m a FIDE Master, yeah the Fédération International des Échecs.” That guy’s never getting laid
Wow this @maxwell guy is good at copying a comment !!
"This is a cultured move" Something rarely if never said about my play.
Really appreciate these Building Habits sessions, Aman. This is easily the best resource on TH-cam for developing as a player. Other Tubers just play but you actually went through the effort of creating rules and sticking by them. Thank you
I have a feeling that following the rules of a sub 1000 rated player, together with not doing anything stupid, becomes much easier when you're already a higher rated player, let alone a grandmaster. Especially the part about not doing anything stupid... or setting up the back rank mate down a queen in the last game. I'm really looking forward to when this series reaches my rating level.
Best series on youtube!
omg the next one is so good (1100-1300) please include all the analysis! saw it in twitch and was blown away
I LOVE THIS SERIES. Wish it was Daily!!
twitch.tv/chessbrah
Saw the notification an hour before my shift and requested the day off. Haven’t heard back. Wish me luck boys.
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I like how he doesn't deliberately win all the games, and sticks to the principles hes saying
Same!!! I love also how he doesn't care too much about time management, which I guess relates pretty well with a player of that rating!!
@Max Payne He is teaching habits that are progressively getting more and more complicated and nuanced. I think he knows that taking a pawn is good, however focusing on development and simple tactics is more important.
@Max Payne The point is that the habits he's teaching are in general good, especially at this level. Taking free pawns won't be winning games if you lose to easy tactics anyway.
@Max Payne At 900-1200 the level is still so low that even 2-3 pawns advantage (or even a piece advantage) wont decide the game, because people still mess up tactics, hang their pieces, or blunder checkmate.
The most deciding factors at that level is to 1) not hang pieces, 2) protect bank rank and 3) develop the pieces to good and safe squares.
These arent the habits of a “700 rated” player, these are the core ideas for players of all levels. It’s just that as you get better you learn when to break the rules for better play
I’ve found all your videos to hold nuggets of wisdom for a post-beginner like me. I’m above 1000 and even the 400 elo videos have something for me. I feel like you are filling the gaps in my chess education with these videos. Thanks Aman. I love the chessbrahs keep up the good work!
This is the best chess tutorial for beginners, I just reached the four digits for the first time and these videos are a big reason why! So much better than other channels!
This is by far the best chess series on TH-cam. I send all of my friends to the series when they are getting into chess and want to improve
Need full version please, 5 games is too little. Thanks for the great video!
I don't want this series to end, because i don't want master aman to stop teaching me
Really looking forward to the next 2 elo brackets, keep up the good work Aman!
I loved that explanation of the rule for moving pieces to the center, that it's so we don't drop pieces on the side.
Big Hambo with some golden tips here
Thank you again Aman, this series has helped me improve my game by giving me the basics, which I was missing. Now every game I can hear your sing song voice reminding me what to do next. You are a great teacher. I've spent a year watching chess vids from the likes of John Bartholomew etc and while they help too, I give you the full credit for my sudden improvement. It's like a light bulb just went off in my head!!
These are so well produced. Criminally underrated series.
Love that you don’t focus on winning but on making the right decisions/habits at one’s current knowledge. The more right decisions that are made, the more improvement made. Every other “climbing the ladder” series seems like it’s just showing off their ability to find “simple” complex tactics against low rated players. Hence why so many people comment something along the lines of “it’s like the opponents give you their pieces.” Winning will come with the right moves and habits. The right moves won’t just come from winning matches from getting lucky. Cheers brah!
This is seriously an amazing series, very helpful for people still learning and quite entertaining. Keep it up!
This guy's hilarious. Never imagined I'd be binge watching chess vids, but these are great.
dude ive watched a lot of chess stuff on youtube and barely got any better. I watched one video of yours and won 10 games in a row lol! Your content is WAAAYYYY better for beginners and the funny part is I viewed your stuff last so all the other channels had a first shot at improving my game and couldnt. Chessbrah ftw!
This is the best teaching I have seen on TH-cam and I've been watching a lot lately, awesome man!
Love the low-key gear change when Nb8 appeared out of nowhere. The mindset shifted from "let's play the most reasonable move" to "let's play easily justifiable good moves quickly and see what happens".
I'm on the other end of this a lot, get up a load of material, get into time trouble when my opponent moves quickly and I'm trying to figure out strong moves in the position, blunder mate in 2.
I AM FINALLY LEARNING! TY SO MUCH! It’s so hard to follow all these other tutorials on TH-cam. You teach a list of rules to follow in a systemic way!
perfect aman! love this series
That laugh at 29:57 had me!! Lol
He knew exactly what was gonna happen.
"Random Check". Love this series Aman
My ELO has gone up since I started watching these. Started at 800-900 and above 1100 now. Super informative (and encouraging). Keep it up.
Love these vids, new to chess and your first building habits vid helped me climb from 340 to 550 in a week (obviously still bad, but much improved)
I'd have resigned at 26:26, but Aman taught me to fight like a brah! Cheers, I'll never resign ever again! This should be a ruleset for everyone
Since I learnt to never resign, I didn't lose many matches where I was completely hopeless ahahah
www.chess.com/live/game/10673914607
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I got the not resigning part. Now all I need is the "suddenly play with GM skills when I'm down material" part.
Very good série, I love the habits you gave and the way you explain your games is very sound. Keep on brah!
Aman, as a 28 year old 1000 rated player, this couldn't be more helpful!! The amount of games I lose because of silly mistakes or because I don't pay enough attention at what's going on is just ridiculous, hopefully with your tips I'll be able to rank up a bit more :D (Also i get terrible anxiety whenever I play chess, my heart beat goes crazy high so I try not to play it too often, unfortunately)
Same exact thing happens to me. It is fun though so I always go back to it
Thank you Aman, great job chessBrah You will always be my number one channel both on youtube and twitch
This series is a really good idea - I think the explicitly educational content was the only thing lacking in ChessBrah videos - keep it up :)
This is so much more helpful than memorizing some complicated opening lines and playing for tricks. That is what the gm’s are “teaching” the streamers for Pogchamps and that is why they are playing at such a poor level consistently. As a beginner you really don’t need to learn openings... What Aman is doing here makes a lot of sense.
Thank you Coach Aman I'm learning a lot getting better and better
This series just keeps getting better. I'm having so much fun! Thanks!!
I’m 1350ish on chess.com and these rules have started to boost my accuracy on average by 10 to 15 percent most every game! Thank you Aman!
I love this series!
Great series Aman! Must be torture for you to pass up on some of those juicy #'s! and also really cool that you teach a strong foundation with simple easy to follow rules and still pull off a win most of the time!
I have a rule suggestion. Making a random pawn move is fine, but better might be locating an undefended piece and defend it.
The point is that if you follow the rules, you should rarely have an undefended piece (pawns yes, pieces no). Just look at these games. How many times are his pieces undeveloped?
These are the best instructive chess videos I've seen. Excellent job and thank you.
This is a fantastic series. I've learned so much about basics that I was getting wrong. Thank you Aman, keep them coming please.
I greatly appreciate the elo series. I feel though I'm learning slowly that I am generally learning to play more accurately and with confidence. Love the content!
been waiting a while for this lets goooo
Love the building habits series! When are the rest coming?
im a 940 rapid and i swear i don’t get people that blunder like this all the time. Especially the first guy who just blunders his bishop and then rook
Amazing Series. Thankyou. There are some moves only you can see, but following good habit for a move is treasure.
lmao what a chill dude finally i can learn something
I particularly enjoyed your "not check" at the end, Rd1+. ;) Never give up! Never surrender!
love this series!
Love this series. Had the rules out on my last game and followed them. Easy money victory.
That last game was so savage.
Aman, thankyou, single handedly have taken me From 880 to 1200 in a month and a bit, thankyou so much dude!
Thank you GM Aman. I'm a new chess player and really enjoy your series! You are so chill!
awesome. video was awesome. definitely cleared some stuff up for me. thanks !
Great series! Would love to see a link to the full stream or a Chessbrah Extra video with all the games played
Absolutely love the series, recently started playing chess and this really helps, got from 600-800 today!
I got from 600-700 today after being stuck in the 600s for so long. It felt great.
Wheres yas at now? Im stuck 650
I want to see him use that "shout a bad move at your opponent" tactic OTB!
hey are your rules listed anywhere other than in the video? Great series by the way - loving it!
These techniques work, even for eejits like me. I've just reached 1000 in blitz and I'm over 1000 in bullet thanks to the techniques in these videos. Thanks Chessbrah!
I absolutely LOVE this series Aman has put together. So entertaining and so instructive. Well done Aman.:)
Love the series - thanks so much.
6:50 this was the rule i was following the first time i got my queen trapped playing into the traxler :^) good times
Whoaaa. I was stuck in 800's forever. I just used the simple rules mentioned by aman and with two games i have crossed 900. Waiting for the next video
Rapid or blitz
@@MrYounis26 rapid
@@jerryboby2684 same here, i am in the brink of reaching 900, but i have only played 200 games.
What an awesome series!
I picked up chess earlier this year and this is what has been missing from my play so far - principled chess! Looked for answers in openings to no luck, so after this I have a lot to learn and practice! Thank you guys so much, Chessbrahs!
One question though: What would you suggest to be the most principled response to the Ruy Lopez as Black (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5)? I haven't seen any of your opponents playing this against you, so I wondered. Thanks again!
Love the vibe, its so casual, gotham chess screams at you about how bad you are, you might be my second fav after eric rosen
This series has taken me from 450-907 since Christmas, thanks Aman
Bring this series back please...i learned so much from this! Love from Nepal!
Such an awesome video. Love this series soo much
I love you guys. Thanks for promoting the game of chess the right way. We all love the chessbrahs!
Thanks, really useful stuff :D
Keep it up, been loving this series so far
Love these building habits videos!! Thanks!!!!!!
Thank you. I love this series.
Love this series man!!
where did you cover the checkmate sequence that ended at 4:01
During the Vienna teaching at 23:20 , how is the chess analysis on the right moving so fast? I have a pretty suped up PC and it takes like 10-30 seconds to show "best move" and such whenever I take over the moves in game review. Any thoughts?
Thanks Aman for putting these on youtube. Like idea of the series!
Fantastic series. Please keep this going.
Great series, thank you for making it.
Thank you for another great lesson
Glad you liked it!
Thank you Aman, A great strategy to improve quickly without a load of theory.
Love you Aman! Thanks for the amazing video as always!
Been watching the VODs. Can't wait till we here on TH-cam get to see the PFT.