Learning Chess Openings - Example: The Closed Ruy Lopez
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Learning Chess Openings - NM Dan Heisman discusses how to learn a chess opening, defines a tabiya (standard opening moves), and gives the Closed Ruy Lopez tabiya as a sample.
Check out my companion videos on finding/selecting an opening:
1) Learn Chess Openings • Learning Chess Opening... (this video)
2) Identifying Tabiyas • Chess Openings: Identi...
3) Using Databases/Engines to select openings • Chess Openings: Lookin...
4) Selecting an opening repertoire • Learn Chess: Selecting...
NM Dan Heisman has been a full-time chess instructor since 1996 and is the author of 13 chess books, the TV show "Q&A with Coach Heisman" on Chess.com and the radio show "Ask the Renaissance Man" on the Internet Chess Club. Radio personality Howard Stern was one of Dan's students. Dan tries to answer comments on TH-cam but for a quicker, more comprehensive answer (or questions about lessons), contact Dan via email, skype, or phone via Dan's website www.danheisman.com. His Chess Tip of the Day is @danheisman on Twitter, which won the award for "Best Twitter Feed" in 2021 from the Chess Journalists of America. #Chess #ImproveChess #ChessInstruction #ChessOpenings #LearnChessOpenings
![[[OFFICIAL MV]] เอิ้นขวัญให้อ้าย- อ๊ะอาย สกุณาพร | ค่ายเพลงเป็นหนึ่ง](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/83x6L3X3qh0/mqdefault.jpg)
Wow! Where have you been all my chess life? Very instructive and easy to understand. Thank you for covering this topic. Also thank you for using the closed Ruy Lopez example, and going over each of the moves explaining them as you go.
Hi! Thanks. I have been here - I have written 12 chess books, done 400 videos for the ICC, had a radio and TV show on ICC and chess.com and had the many time "Most Instructive Column" Novice Nook for Chess Cafe :)
@@danheismanchess Hi, Dan, are these TH-cam videos excerpts from your video series on ICC? I've got A-Z Essentials from ICC purchased (via iChess.net, I think).
@@TimothyHa Tim, sorry I did not see this until now. If you need me more quickly, you can email, phone, or skype thru my website www.danheisman.com. No, these are completely new videos. ICC owns the rights to the ~400 videos I did for them so even though some of the subject matters are similar, these new ones for TH-cam were done completely fresh in the past few days. My understanding is that only ICC can put the other 400 on TH-cam (or I would need their permission).
Dan, dabbled in chess over years and now my youngest has an interest, so I am motivated to finally “learn”. Discovered you today and two videos in I am very impressed. Visited your website...it speaks to tactical exercises and various practice...I know you offer lessons, but before that, do you offer just those exercises via the site, or does one have to purchase one of your books to access, which I am happy to do, but wondered if I was missing a practice link on your site? Thanks for the great info so far.
Sorry, I just saw your comment 2 years too late! Usually TH-cam shows me comments to which I have not replied, but maybe it got confused when someone else replied. Anyway, you don't need to take lessons to access anything on my website www.danheisman.com or my Chess Tip of the Day on Twitter twitter.com/danheisman. I do have an arrangement with Chess Cafe, who no longer allows free access to my Novice Nook columns, to only distribute them to my students but otherwise everything else I have done is either free, available in published book form, or my first 400 videos were all done thru the Internet Chess Club (the rest are here on TH-cam).
Great explanation....Dan is a gifted teacher.... and makes this opening very easy to understand. 😄
Thanks, much appreciated.
Very clear explanation, thank you Sir! Would be great if you did more of this, on other openings. There are tons of opening videos on youtube, but that's one of the best I've ever seen.
You are welcome. My channel has "playlists" and any time I deal with openings I put it on the playlist, so you can check my openings playlist for other videos (in fact, my latest video was on what to do in the opening if your opponent takes you out of your "book") :)
This is part of 4 videos that go together to help find/learn openings:
1) Learn Chess Openings th-cam.com/video/zBk3Kle2O9k/w-d-xo.html (this video)
2) Identifying Tabiyas th-cam.com/video/vH2e21Kw-KA/w-d-xo.html
3) Using Databases/Engines to select openings th-cam.com/video/pZHxxMobHxY/w-d-xo.html
4) Selecting an opening repertoire th-cam.com/video/pNpPYaLJLb8/w-d-xo.html
Just watched this video for the first time. You do an excellent job of explaining why each move is made. I think that knowing the "why" is a great aid to memorization. Looking forward to watching more. Thanks.
Hey, Dan. Don't suppose you have a video that further discusses why white shouldn't play h3 to drive off a pin on the N? You mention it around 18:40 mark in this video.
pin me? (your message)
Hi, great videos! I'm watching all of them and I subscribed to your channel. Thanks for the content. Small comment: tabiya, afaik, is Arabic, it means "normal manner".
Thanks. I was told it was Italian for "Table setter" but since I don't know Italian or Arabic, it could be both :)
Tabia /طبيعة/ is arabic word. But it means nature . Normal manners is tarbiya /تربية/. Thanks Dan Heisman.
Sometimes it is hard to have a friend to practice some openings main moves , so What I used is Lichess , I use the interactive feature on Lichess , so I can practice lines in the opening that I learning , thanks Dan for your instractive videos. Italo adult chess improver.
There are various software that are designed to do this. One I have is Chess Opening Wizard (formerly Bookup). There is also a free program called something like Chess Position Trainer. Maybe LiChess uses something like the latter?!
Thanks I've never heard the word 'tabiya' I learn something every day with chess :)
I think I first heard "tabiya" about 20-25 years ago. It was said to be Italian for "table-setter" but I don't know Italian. It makes sense though because these standard moves "set the table" for the remainder of the game.
Hi Dan this is an excellent video. It was the first time that I understand some of the ruy lopez. Especial about the protection of the e4. I played my whole life chess but with great pauses. Now after 20 years without playing chess I joined a local chess club and I made big mistakes. I am looking only for my moves, I set some of my army en prise, I am playing impulsive. I am playing too fast and without a plan. I will watch all the videos from you. Thank you very much for this series.
Thanks. It's usually more important to make sure your moves are safe than it is trying to win material/checkmate your opponent (just because there are so many opportunities to play badly as opposed to punishing your opponent for playing badly). A dash of good strategy ("Use all your pieces all the time", "try to have some control over the center", "Castle early and often"...) is also helpful. Taking your time each game so that you use almost all your time (as if you are taking an essay test) is important. See my video "Slowing Down" :)
The way you explained the opening ideas is great!!. Could you please suggest a book which explains general ideas for major openings.
There are a couple of tabiya series books that do this, including New In Chess' series Chess Opening Essentials and John Watson's series Mastering the Chess Openings. If you want a book on each opening, Everyman Chess has a "Starting Out" series for most major openings. If you just want general opening principles, you can pick them up from reading lots of game books or even a book like GM Secrets: Openings by Soltis.
Where can we obtain a 'list' of tabiyas? Do we have to buy a special book for that?
I got them from the top of the page from MCO (I started with MCO-10). But now there are at least 3 series of books. I have some of two of them: New in Chess has their Chess Openings Essentials series and IM John Watson has his Mastering the Chess Openings series. I put this answer out today also on my Twitter "Chess Tip of the Day" @danheisman :)
tabia is Arabic: طبيعة ṭabīʕa, "essence"
I think part of why beginners like me think it's important to know openings is more psychological than anything else. If we assume that our opponents know the first few moves of an opening and we don't, then we'll feel as though were in bad shape even if we aren't.
It is certainly important to "know" openings but hopeless to try to memorize, say, an entire opening book. The opening is important because it is the only phase of the game you are guaranteed to experience each time you play! And a bad opening can not only lose the game immediately but, even if you don't lose right away, can set you up for an arduous task the remainder of the game. As GM Soltis wrote, it's mainly important to know the tabiyas (main lines) of the opening you play, plus any traps to avoid. Neither extreme (memorizing entire books vs knowing absolutely no lines) is very practical nor optimum.
I used to feel the same way, then I realized that even if I knew the best say 10 moves out of the opening, I still would be at a near complete loss for what to do *afterwards*. Imagine playing from a tabiya position, does it feel any different? Its still just you and your thought process against the world, you're not granted any extra information on playing good chess from knowing the opening. That's how I see it at least, as a low rated player myself.