Here's a quick summary: 1. Keep an eye out for weaknesses 2. Be patient; don't try to brute force it 3. Make threats, short or long term 4. Get familiar with specific openings by looking at top players or stockfish
@@TungstenWu Or even maybe more specifically the plans of the Exchange Variation, the Tal Variation, Bronstein variation etc. and slowly build out a video catalogue going over midgame plans for both sides for every opening variation.
I had an Expert-level chess teacher for three years when I was first learning the game, who was very helpful to me. I watch some smart-aleck NYC guy who is very entertaining and also gives good instruction. I watch a Russian GM whose name sounds like vodka who is also a very good teacher. You beat them all. Your free content is head and shoulders above theirs in terms of clear explanation and covering areas that people actually need; this video being a good example. I always knew there was something missing in my understanding, and your lessons are filling that void nicely. So much of successful chess is seeing the board well, and then asking yourself the right questions, beyond king safety and the checks/captures/attacks checklist.
Yea, I went against a guy yesterday. We were both 1100-1200 elo. He says all he watches is gothamchess. I told him Gotham is good for entertainment, but *chessvibes* is the man if you actually want to get better. He never heard of *chessvibes* channel though
I’d suggest Daniel Naroditsky as well. He improved my rating from triple digits to 1500 in a few months. Very digestible manner for newer, experienced, and advanced players. They’re a GM too so they see the game in a different light than the rest of us.
The middle-game is the most fascinating part of chess because it is a part when there are unique games. After I watch this video, my middle game will be more and more fascinating!
Absolutely! Please do make a series that analyses midgame ideas. I play the Queen's gambit a lot and typically just trade pieces after the opening because I don't have any midgame plans
@@davidjames149 Because he's straight to the point and very concise. Doesn't mean that I don't watch channels like Levy. I watch Levy for entertainment, and Nelson for learning.
I really need to focus on point 2. I often play aggressively once I’ve developed, completely forgetting to even consider playing patiently. I think subconsciously I’m worried I’m falling behind if I’m not moving forward. I’ve wrecked my own position this way so many times.
Being patient is one of the best tips I have heard in a long time. Once I started looking at the board and forgetting about time, I started playing better. Hence I line to play 30 minute rapids.
The main point to remember about chess is that it is perfectly organised at the start, and every move increases the 'entropy' (chaos) in the game. Managing the chaos so that it works to your advantage is what the game is actually about, keeping your opponent's position more chaotic than yours is the key.
Hey Nelson, I usually come to your videos for guides and tips. There are great takeaways from this video, but tip 1-2 seemed more geared towards beginners. If you’re facing 2000 rated players, they are not going to blunder a trapped bishop or get their queen pinned like that. Tip #2 of being patient can only work for so long. These 2 tips made it seem like you just expect us to wait for our opponent to blunder, which is not a good way of looking at it imo. Your last 2 tips were the best. I agree with the long-term threats since short-term threats don’t do much (A4 as suggested in the video can really hurt you down the line, so rushing to make a 2 move threat would be creating bad habits. I absolutely agree that pons are based on the openings, however. A suggestion I would’ve wanted you to talk about (highly recommended Daniel Naroditsky’s middlegame tips videos) is piece placement. The idea of where we should get our bishops, knights, rooks, queens, etc. Knights want outposts, bishops want open diagonals, rooks want open files. Naroditsky says that if you could pick up any piece of your choice and place it wherever you want on the board, where would you put it? That’s kind of the idea I wish you would’ve spoken about, because many people who follow these 4 tips you’ve given still have 0 clue where to move their pieces. They just know pawn breaks will open up their pieces (such as f4 recommend in the video). As always, I’ll forever be a supporter of your content. Please let me know what you think.
Nelson reminds me of my elementary school history teacher; he made things interesting using the rhythm of his voice and his hands, no rush, patience to weave a story or a particular idea. It's a gift.
This was great. There’s so much on openings but a middle game review is a rare gem. It’s the most complicated part of the game where it can fall apart.
You are my favorite chess youtuber, and I will tell you why. I'm sorry for being a bit harsh to some of the other guys, but you speak in a normal calm voice. No over excitement or 1930's radio-broadcaster voice that people for some reason think they have to use when speaking in a video. You also explain things very clearly. Good job. Thank you.
Once again, another great video! You are a great coach/teacher! You explain everything so well and it's easy to understand! I saw someone comment that it may be easier for you to make a poll and see what openings we play most often. Then you can base your content off that. Thank you!!!
11:00: this is the problem I face ; I am so convinced of my plan that I forget that the opponent has already set all the pieces to give a quick checkmate
4:58 not sure if you were hinting at this when you said "It looks like the bishop is trapped" but in case you weren't, black can get out of it with b5, danger levels. (e5 doesn't work because then dxe5 and both of blacks bishops are hanging.)
Fantastic video! I’ve known these concepts for a while but have failed to follow through on them more times than I care to admit. Seeing real examples with various solid or sub-par moves from a hypothetical opponent is invaluable.
Hey Nelson!! I am not sure if many people notice it, but the thumbnails which you are making recently, are really appealing!! Love how you use a different character or something, to even change some of the older ones Appreciate that!
I really love the way you get to the main ideas and concepts in chess. Sometimes I am too detailed and miss the main ideas. I would love to grasp the main ideas behind the Catalan and the Kings Indian Defense to a broader understanding. I have been working on these during the pandemic and have great success with them, but I am still learning.
If you do start the series, please make an analysys on the London opening midgame plans! I usually get a pretty decent position from the opening, but don't really know how to convert the advantage in a clever way
A series on the openings and the ideas would be amazing! Your channel got me into chess since you are able to present information very well and are clearly very knowledgeable.
Very helpful and clear video I hope you will do more videos on openings and the plans/patterns applicable to them, I'm a big fan of your channel thank you
It's a very good point about the opening matching the middlegame plans. So many players simply learn opening moves by rote and don't understand why the moves are played. It's more important to understand the 'why' than the 'what', when thinking of what move to play in the opening.
15:40 yes, we would love the idea of this becoming a series of videos. This video was really helpful, because midgame is a tough part of the game, and you explained neatly the tactics. Personally, I'd love queen's gambit to be explained next, if we agree on keeping this up. :)
Definitely an opening series! When watching top games, sometimes they drop how opening ____ is aggressive or opening ____ is passive, etc. would love to fully understand why
4:23 move pawn to d4, and after a pawn exchange bishop jas to flee and maybe you can fork the knight and the bishop with an unblocked queen as a backup or pin the c6 knight to the rook
Awesome video! Opening middlegame ideas would surely be great, most opening videos are just discussing lines and very rarely they throw a few middlegame ideas out in the air but it's like, they spend 20 minutes in the opening and the last 2 minutes before the video ends on a few ideas.
Thank you Nelson, believe it or not, I have decent opening plays and counters and a really good/decent end game but I am always stuck trying to figure what move will benefit me the most in the middle-game
𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎: You play martin but you have to go in piece value order when playing each move. Pawn > Knight > Bishop > Rook > Queen > King If you have none of that piece you skip it. If you are in check you can move any piece.
Great teaching and I think that you mentioned before, look for overworked defenders. Occasionally a queen or rook will be defending several other pieces. Plans to make said queen move via trades may lead to adventure, fun, disaster or incremental advantage.
The reason that plans are specific to certain openings usually comes down to one characteristic. Pawn structure. That's a huge consideration when forming a middle game strategy.
I would love if you could make that series analyzing openings. If its possible using your idea: You can analyze how you should play certain openings by showing the plans of the same GM playing the same opening multiple times or even different GMs playing it and seeing what their plans would've been. Thank you so much and it would be so helpful if you can do that.
That's interesting. On that last point, though, an earlier question (I don't know if you covered that) is how to pick openings (I saw a video of yours on how to study them), and things like how many openings do you need and things like that. :P
Wow this is the most helpful chess video on the platform. Your tips are always easy to follow and makes a player simply better. Thank you for making all this content free.
I am busy climbing the ranks atm. Just done clearing 1700. Now it is starting to get though. People usually dont make obvious blunders anymore. You have to study the position to spot them.
It's fascinating how many people will say things like your mid game plan depends on the opening. And I'm sure there are deep theory books that explain these plans, but oftentimes the lessons that are easy to find do not actually talk about the evolution of the mid game from the opening other than just a brief mention of this concept
Good stuff Nelson. Been playing chess after watching your speedrun series and have already absorbed a few of these concepts by osmosis. Now I feel like it's more my fault for losing a game for not seeing something and not what my opponent does.
i nodded happily throughout, but what i was really thinking the whole time was: "man, i'll bet some smart but inexperienced junior player is going to go beserk at just how helpful these kinds of chess insights actually are. it's like, them taking one step forward toward being part of this worldwide community of interest.
I think a major part of any middle game is realizing your opponent made a mistake and then punishing that mistake they have made. If you never punish mistakes then your will never win a game. That is one of the things I love about chess
What is the cool tool you are using for drawing the arrows, highlighting the squares etc.? Another great video, Thank you for the lots of useful information, concepts!!
Bro Can you make a video of different types of openings, It will be very helpful and also beneficial for your channel because no one ever posted that content
When it comes to openings, what's your view of having a preferred opening you play as white and a different one as black (since black often gets to choose the defence).
Hey Nelson, positions like 2:50 wheels the king is open in one file I struggle with can you explain how to open up the game more or how to even take advantage of that because they just move their king to the corner and they're safe most of the game I find
I find myself trying to attack the g7 square and pressuring the h-pawn while avoiding trades, mostly by closing centre with the f-pawn if possible and bringing pieces behind my pawn storm, it is true that the rook coming to the g-file can be problematic though, but you might be able to rooklift and pressure the h-pawn which is incredibly hard to defend playing black, or Kh1 is also often a move in those positions and doing all if the above afterwards (hope this helped at least a little bit)
Weaknesses don't actually force you to win something. Generally they give you a positional advantage by limiting the possible moves your opponent can play. In this case, the opponent has to make sure their king is safe, but you don't have to worry about it as much. That gives you a slight advantage, but you cannot just focus on that one weakness, because unless it's a _serious_ weakness, the opponent should be able to defend pretty well.
I like it but one thing about that weakness if black moves the queen is if black ends up moving the queen back to defend it’s not really a problem. You don’t have to take the knight right away. So h3 is still a move preventing the knight from going anywhere and then you can think about tucking the knight to h2, pushing the pawn to g4 or g3 then f4 and at any time if black starts creating threat of counter attack you can still take the knight and if black wants to move his queen back so that it’s pinned now you threaten to push your pawns and reinforce them so you set up sort of an ability to push your pawn to kick away the knight and then maybe a if protected by a pawn or if you swing the other knight over on the king side, a discovered attack on the queen, your pawn advance gets the rooks involved and you can attack both the center and kingside and get your queen involved immediately after the bishop finally takes the knight This is the idea of “maintaining tension” when you have a fork or a threat rather than take it right away look for otherways to build other pressures and threats. Of course taking the knight is still an option but as a rule… when you find a good move look for a better one.
im totally using this for my coaching sessions, thanks so much Nelson you are the best on youtube at breaking things down to beginner level in concrete things, As a coach, I can't just tell people the same thing every week, even though they still blunder their pieces every week :P
please do a video series where you analyze each opening with potential continuations that can be seen as positional weaknesses and show how to capitalize upon them. Thank you for your videos
Challenge: (Adapted) Play against Martin, but after every game, one type of chess piece is completely removed from your side. If you promote a pawn and checkmate with it, all of your pawns are completely wiped. Keep going and try to plan out your path to success. Good Luck Nelson!
Here's a quick summary:
1. Keep an eye out for weaknesses
2. Be patient; don't try to brute force it
3. Make threats, short or long term
4. Get familiar with specific openings by looking at top players or stockfish
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nobody asked for it
@@abelmundakakulath9555 i did ..with my mind
@@abelmundakakulath9555 yeah, but it's an easy copy and paste summary for people who want it :)
@@PickleInfusedWithGreenCrystal yw
I would love lectures on midgame plans in particular openings, you could maybe even insert a GM game where certain plans get highlighted
I second this!
+1 this
absolutely, I would love to see one about the caro kann
@@TungstenWu Or even maybe more specifically the plans of the Exchange Variation, the Tal Variation, Bronstein variation etc. and slowly build out a video catalogue going over midgame plans for both sides for every opening variation.
Agreed
I had an Expert-level chess teacher for three years when I was first learning the game, who was very helpful to me. I watch some smart-aleck NYC guy who is very entertaining and also gives good instruction. I watch a Russian GM whose name sounds like vodka who is also a very good teacher. You beat them all. Your free content is head and shoulders above theirs in terms of clear explanation and covering areas that people actually need; this video being a good example. I always knew there was something missing in my understanding, and your lessons are filling that void nicely. So much of successful chess is seeing the board well, and then asking yourself the right questions, beyond king safety and the checks/captures/attacks checklist.
Yea, I went against a guy yesterday. We were both 1100-1200 elo. He says all he watches is gothamchess. I told him Gotham is good for entertainment, but *chessvibes* is the man if you actually want to get better. He never heard of *chessvibes* channel though
I’d suggest Daniel Naroditsky as well. He improved my rating from triple digits to 1500 in a few months. Very digestible manner for newer, experienced, and advanced players. They’re a GM too so they see the game in a different light than the rest of us.
The middle-game is the most fascinating part of chess because it is a part when there are unique games. After I watch this video, my middle game will be more and more fascinating!
Imagine the middle game when you start with openings like the King's Gambit or the Advanced French
Everybody gangsta until englund gambait middle game is to be played
@Ben Prescott i play kings gambit 90% of the time and i love the middle games i get
@Ben Prescott i play kings gambit 90% of the time and i love the middle games i get
@@omnigodguy i playe king's gambit too but I like end games more I'm able to calculate very good at end
I love that you pause to let the viewer try and spot the moves themselves - I found that really fun and helpful!
Absolutely! Please do make a series that analyses midgame ideas. I play the Queen's gambit a lot and typically just trade pieces after the opening because I don't have any midgame plans
That’s a huge problem I have too
Yes
I do whatever I want cause im a dumbass and i dont study shit
I hate pets
Players like you lol
Literally my problem
You are by far my favourite Chess channel on the platform, thank you so much for making such helpful and fun content
Glad you enjoy it!
@@ChessVibesOfficial :D
But we should wonder what their honest opinion on GothamChess is lol
Ditto. Nels can relate.
@@davidjames149 Because he's straight to the point and very concise. Doesn't mean that I don't watch channels like Levy. I watch Levy for entertainment, and Nelson for learning.
I really need to focus on point 2. I often play aggressively once I’ve developed, completely forgetting to even consider playing patiently. I think subconsciously I’m worried I’m falling behind if I’m not moving forward. I’ve wrecked my own position this way so many times.
That is my major issue aswell
Being patient is one of the best tips I have heard in a long time. Once I started looking at the board and forgetting about time, I started playing better. Hence I line to play 30 minute rapids.
The main point to remember about chess is that it is perfectly organised at the start, and every move increases the 'entropy' (chaos) in the game. Managing the chaos so that it works to your advantage is what the game is actually about, keeping your opponent's position more chaotic than yours is the key.
science student?
I like this entropy model
Wow thanks for the insights
You must fun to talk to ❤
chaos is the ladduh
Hey Nelson, I usually come to your videos for guides and tips. There are great takeaways from this video, but tip 1-2 seemed more geared towards beginners. If you’re facing 2000 rated players, they are not going to blunder a trapped bishop or get their queen pinned like that. Tip #2 of being patient can only work for so long. These 2 tips made it seem like you just expect us to wait for our opponent to blunder, which is not a good way of looking at it imo.
Your last 2 tips were the best. I agree with the long-term threats since short-term threats don’t do much (A4 as suggested in the video can really hurt you down the line, so rushing to make a 2 move threat would be creating bad habits. I absolutely agree that pons are based on the openings, however.
A suggestion I would’ve wanted you to talk about (highly recommended Daniel Naroditsky’s middlegame tips videos) is piece placement. The idea of where we should get our bishops, knights, rooks, queens, etc. Knights want outposts, bishops want open diagonals, rooks want open files.
Naroditsky says that if you could pick up any piece of your choice and place it wherever you want on the board, where would you put it? That’s kind of the idea I wish you would’ve spoken about, because many people who follow these 4 tips you’ve given still have 0 clue where to move their pieces. They just know pawn breaks will open up their pieces (such as f4 recommend in the video).
As always, I’ll forever be a supporter of your content. Please let me know what you think.
“What now?” I always find my self asking this question after the opening 😩
Same 🗿
Can we play a game ?
Bring your pieces to squares they do better.
Nelson reminds me of my elementary school history teacher; he made things interesting using the rhythm of his voice and his hands, no rush, patience to weave a story or a particular idea. It's a gift.
This was great. There’s so much on openings but a middle game review is a rare gem. It’s the most complicated part of the game where it can fall apart.
A good rule of thumb for noticing weaknesses it to re-analyze the board after a pawn moves 👍
You are my favorite chess youtuber, and I will tell you why. I'm sorry for being a bit harsh to some of the other guys, but you speak in a normal calm voice. No over excitement or 1930's radio-broadcaster voice that people for some reason think they have to use when speaking in a video. You also explain things very clearly. Good job. Thank you.
Once again, another great video! You are a great coach/teacher! You explain everything so well and it's easy to understand! I saw someone comment that it may be easier for you to make a poll and see what openings we play most often. Then you can base your content off that. Thank you!!!
11:00: this is the problem I face ; I am so convinced of my plan that I forget that the opponent has already set all the pieces to give a quick checkmate
4:58 not sure if you were hinting at this when you said "It looks like the bishop is trapped" but in case you weren't, black can get out of it with b5, danger levels. (e5 doesn't work because then dxe5 and both of blacks bishops are hanging.)
Bishop takes and white is just up a pawn still a great position imo ( i havent calculated just glance so i might be wrong).
Fantastic video! I’ve known these concepts for a while but have failed to follow through on them more times than I care to admit. Seeing real examples with various solid or sub-par moves from a hypothetical opponent is invaluable.
Hey Nelson!! I am not sure if many people notice it, but the thumbnails which you are making recently, are really appealing!! Love how you use a different character or something, to even change some of the older ones
Appreciate that!
Glad you like them!
At 6:18, instead of h3, why not Bxe5, fxe5, Qb3 forking the pawns, Qc8 (only move to defend both), then Bxf6 damaging kingside structure?
Wow my instinct was screaming Qb3 and it turned out to be a mistake
I really love the way you get to the main ideas and concepts in chess. Sometimes I am too detailed and miss the main ideas. I would love to grasp the main ideas behind the Catalan and the Kings Indian Defense to a broader understanding. I have been working on these during the pandemic and have great success with them, but I am still learning.
If you do start the series, please make an analysys on the London opening midgame plans! I usually get a pretty decent position from the opening, but don't really know how to convert the advantage in a clever way
A series on the openings and the ideas would be amazing! Your channel got me into chess since you are able to present information very well and are clearly very knowledgeable.
Very helpful and clear video I hope you will do more videos on openings and the plans/patterns applicable to them, I'm a big fan of your channel thank you
Brilliant! Thank you for your patient unfolding of the middle game plan and the wonderful suggestions for improvements.
It's a very good point about the opening matching the middlegame plans. So many players simply learn opening moves by rote and don't understand why the moves are played. It's more important to understand the 'why' than the 'what', when thinking of what move to play in the opening.
You can extend the fourth plan and try to cover middle game plans for some other popular openings as well. Great video like always!
15:40 yes, we would love the idea of this becoming a series of videos. This video was really helpful, because midgame is a tough part of the game, and you explained neatly the tactics. Personally, I'd love queen's gambit to be explained next, if we agree on keeping this up. :)
Definitely an opening series! When watching top games, sometimes they drop how opening ____ is aggressive or opening ____ is passive, etc. would love to fully understand why
Thanks!
Thanks, William!
4:23 move pawn to d4, and after a pawn exchange bishop jas to flee and maybe you can fork the knight and the bishop with an unblocked queen as a backup or pin the c6 knight to the rook
Awesome video! Opening middlegame ideas would surely be great, most opening videos are just discussing lines and very rarely they throw a few middlegame ideas out in the air but it's like, they spend 20 minutes in the opening and the last 2 minutes before the video ends on a few ideas.
Very keen on videos that explore different openings in detail!
Thank you Nelson, believe it or not, I have decent opening plays and counters and a really good/decent end game but I am always stuck trying to figure what move will benefit me the most in the middle-game
𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎:
You play martin but you have to go in piece value order when playing each move.
Pawn > Knight > Bishop > Rook > Queen > King
If you have none of that piece you skip it. If you are in check you can move any piece.
Maybe if you are in check and you can’t block with the piece that you’re supposed to move, you lose the game.
Great teaching and I think that you mentioned before, look for overworked defenders. Occasionally a queen or rook will be defending several other pieces. Plans to make said queen move via trades may lead to adventure, fun, disaster or incremental advantage.
yes please. plans in certain openings would be interesting
The reason that plans are specific to certain openings usually comes down to one characteristic. Pawn structure. That's a huge consideration when forming a middle game strategy.
I would love to hear about some mid game concepts for the Vienna, been learning for past 2 weeks
I would love if you could make that series analyzing openings. If its possible using your idea: You can analyze how you should play certain openings by showing the plans of the same GM playing the same opening multiple times or even different GMs playing it and seeing what their plans would've been. Thank you so much and it would be so helpful if you can do that.
Chess, but every 10 moves, one of your pieces is downgraded randomly. Queen - Rook - Bishop - Knight - Pawn. Your king is obviously not involved.
Thanks very useful! Videos on opening ideas sound very interesting. 👍
im down to start that series of openings! What a great idea nelson
This truly is my favorite chess channel! Thank you so much!
at 3:28
i think we should play Bxe6 before Nh5
After fxe6, the king will have space to run away. I'm not a fan of trading here.
That's interesting. On that last point, though, an earlier question (I don't know if you covered that) is how to pick openings (I saw a video of yours on how to study them), and things like how many openings do you need and things like that. :P
Awesome video!!!! Thanks for the pauses to get us to look for stuff!!!
Wow this is the most helpful chess video on the platform. Your tips are always easy to follow and makes a player simply better. Thank you for making all this content free.
Glad it helped!
I saw both Bxf6 (followed by Nh4) and Na5.
9:20 This is one of the Noah's Ark Traps. [I recently watched the video "8 ways to trap pieces"]
7:06 fork the queen and the bishop with knight on a5
I would love a series discussing opening ideas!
The thing about letting your opponents make mistakes was a great help
Ooh that series on the plans within a specific opening would be great 👍🏻
you're awesome man
I'd also love it if you'd make an opening plan series. that would be so helpful
Great vid, love your work!🎉
Glad you enjoy it!
Much appreciated. And yes, opening specific strategies videos would be great.
Great video as always, after watching this I played 2 games with 0 inaccuracies, 0 blunders and 0 misses, and the middlegame was the deciding factor!
you sir is very helpful and this ideas are gold for us who cannot afford coaching
Beautiful lesson and demonstration.Thank you
I always get a good start but then always blunder at middlegames. This video really helps me out alot
I am busy climbing the ranks atm. Just done clearing 1700. Now it is starting to get though. People usually dont make obvious blunders anymore. You have to study the position to spot them.
I love this Nelson. Thanks for teaching these concepts
any new players looking for a fun line, instead of d3 at about 1:00 d4 is fun and tactical, basically giving up a pawn for a good attack
It's fascinating how many people will say things like your mid game plan depends on the opening. And I'm sure there are deep theory books that explain these plans, but oftentimes the lessons that are easy to find do not actually talk about the evolution of the mid game from the opening other than just a brief mention of this concept
Good stuff Nelson. Been playing chess after watching your speedrun series and have already absorbed a few of these concepts by osmosis. Now I feel like it's more my fault for losing a game for not seeing something and not what my opponent does.
i nodded happily throughout, but what i was really thinking the whole time was: "man, i'll bet some smart but inexperienced junior player is going to go beserk at just how helpful these kinds of chess insights actually are. it's like, them taking one step forward toward being part of this worldwide community of interest.
I think a major part of any middle game is realizing your opponent made a mistake and then punishing that mistake they have made. If you never punish mistakes then your will never win a game. That is one of the things I love about chess
Nice video. Thanks. Id love to see a video series about plans in different openings.
Big thanks for the recent sound volume calibration by the way 🎧👌🙏
Hey thanks for noticing that! $40 mic --> $250 mic
What is the cool tool you are using for
drawing the arrows, highlighting the squares etc.?
Another great video, Thank you for the lots of useful information, concepts!!
You are definitely have some great points here! Thank you for the awesome lecture!
Bro Can you make a video of different types of openings, It will be very helpful and also beneficial for your channel because no one ever posted that content
Thanks, your thought process is interesting, and I'm sure if i incorporate some of hour ideas into my games, i won't do so poorly. lol.
When it comes to openings, what's your view of having a preferred opening you play as white and a different one as black (since black often gets to choose the defence).
Hey Nelson, positions like 2:50 wheels the king is open in one file I struggle with can you explain how to open up the game more or how to even take advantage of that because they just move their king to the corner and they're safe most of the game I find
I find myself trying to attack the g7 square and pressuring the h-pawn while avoiding trades, mostly by closing centre with the f-pawn if possible and bringing pieces behind my pawn storm, it is true that the rook coming to the g-file can be problematic though, but you might be able to rooklift and pressure the h-pawn which is incredibly hard to defend playing black, or Kh1 is also often a move in those positions and doing all if the above afterwards (hope this helped at least a little bit)
@@callmecarlul8904 thanks
Weaknesses don't actually force you to win something. Generally they give you a positional advantage by limiting the possible moves your opponent can play.
In this case, the opponent has to make sure their king is safe, but you don't have to worry about it as much. That gives you a slight advantage, but you cannot just focus on that one weakness, because unless it's a _serious_ weakness, the opponent should be able to defend pretty well.
@@danielyuan9862 that makes a lot of sense thanks
I like it but one thing about that weakness if black moves the queen is if black ends up moving the queen back to defend it’s not really a problem. You don’t have to take the knight right away. So h3 is still a move preventing the knight from going anywhere and then you can think about tucking the knight to h2, pushing the pawn to g4 or g3 then f4 and at any time if black starts creating threat of counter attack you can still take the knight and if black wants to move his queen back so that it’s pinned now you threaten to push your pawns and reinforce them so you set up sort of an ability to push your pawn to kick away the knight and then maybe a if protected by a pawn or if you swing the other knight over on the king side, a discovered attack on the queen, your pawn advance gets the rooks involved and you can attack both the center and kingside and get your queen involved immediately after the bishop finally takes the knight
This is the idea of “maintaining tension” when you have a fork or a threat rather than take it right away look for otherways to build other pressures and threats.
Of course taking the knight is still an option but as a rule… when you find a good move look for a better one.
2:21 answer: he lines up a battery with the bishop
im totally using this for my coaching sessions, thanks so much Nelson you are the best on youtube at breaking things down to beginner level in concrete things, As a coach, I can't just tell people the same thing every week, even though they still blunder their pieces every week :P
I appreciate that!
@@ChessVibesOfficial The appreciation is all mine, all I can do is tell all my students to follow you!
at 3:00 - why would the pawn have to take? why not move forward
thanks. This was one of my favorite videos yet
Please make the series!!!
What about bxe6, fxe6, Qb3 attacking the pawns at e6 & b7....?
I would absolutely love a series on plans by opening! For white: Italian game, Danish fancy. For black: caro kann!
please do a video series where you analyze each opening with potential continuations that can be seen as positional weaknesses and show how to capitalize upon them. Thank you for your videos
7:40 with your queen blocking your bishop escape, P5 will lose you your bishop.
Challenge: (Adapted)
Play against Martin, but after every game, one type of chess piece is completely removed from your side. If you promote a pawn and checkmate with it, all of your pawns are completely wiped. Keep going and try to plan out your path to success. Good Luck Nelson!
The strategy for the seventh game will be interesting.
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Thank you, very clear and precise logic. The different openings (bishop?) will be welcome :)
I really enjoy this guy’s videos - explains things clearly and to the point. Quality
In this position how about bxe6, fxe6, Qb3 attacking e6 & b7...?
Sir please make a full series on some or all the lines of top openings for both white and black..
We would be happy for those.............
PLEASE MAKE THAT SERIES I NEED THAT BADLY
Nice middle game overview. Thanks!
8:54 move the bishop to attack the knight and pin it to the rook
This is among my favorite types of videos. Thank you Nelson!
Great video. A very in depth video on the queens gambit would also be helpful
Always great content! Very informative with how you explain concepts
Bro, you're the man at making chess concepts accessible. Legendary
Also, that idea of plans for specific openings would be god tier. Easily the highest quality content to be made if you have the energy for making them