Most people makes chess way more complex than it needs to be. Today I'm going to show you all the core fundamental things that you need to get better at chess. Nothing that you need to memorize, just pure understanding. And these are not the other stuff that you already tried and it's not working.
Most of these stuff you've never seen before. So if you watch the full video and apply what I teach, you will get better. So our opponent is in the 500 level. Usually at this level you need to focus on two things. Let's just play e5 here first to start.
We're going to be developing our pieces normally and we're going to be following the opening principles. We're not going to be trying to attack too quickly. He develops his knight to attack my pawn. I'll develop my knight just to guard it and then he's playing the two knights game. So it looks like he understands that development is important.
At the 500, 600, 400 level focus on hanging pieces and counting and then you'll get to a thousand. very very easily but let me just continue with my development we're playing the four knights game here and let's see how well he knows how to develop his pieces so he develops his bishop to c4 a lot of players make this mistake it's actually a blunder because it allows knight takes e4 which equalize the game and because i'm black black should not be equal here but he allows it with knight takes e4 and it doesn't mean i'm winning by the way which is why i say it's equal once he takes I hit him with this fork and then he has to either give me his bishop or give me his knight but the reason why I managed to equalize the game is because I'm gonna be the only one with a pawn in the center of the board. He pulls the bishop back let's just take and then once his bishop takes we're just gonna develop like everything is normal. He has two pieces developed, I have two pieces developed.
His king is castled and I'm just gonna develop my bishop to g4. because what I'm doing now is I'm pinning his knight to his queen like if you're able to pin someone's knight to their queen it's usually very very dangerous because once you start applying pressure to that pin knight then it gets super annoying for example let's see my opponent just played the move pawn to d3 very interesting move I'm now just going to castle my king now all my pieces are developed and my king is castled he plays h3 which is chasing away my bishop so let's just move let's just pull back the bishop maintaining the pin on the knight usually when you're pinning a knight or you're putting pressure on a knight and someone chases it away you don't have to take the knight maintain the pressure keep the tension or let them over exert their position like this and now we pull back because you should not be pushing pawns on the side that your king is on in chess so because he's pushing pawns on the side that his king is on he's gonna get mated pretty soon or he's gonna have so much issues defending his king. So he took with the bishop and the principled thing to do here is to take towards the center of the board but because my opponent has been breaking principles exposing his king like this, I'm also going to be breaking some principles so I'm going to be taking away from the center of the board. What this does though, it opens up the file for my rook and then he plays d4 which is a complete mistake because He thinks he has enough defenders on d4.
I have two attackers. He has two defenders. But my queen is actually a hidden defender. So here's how I'm going to punish this move. First, I'm just going to take the pawn like everything is normal because it allows my bishop to point towards his king.
But now once he takes with the knight, and these are the types of mistakes that 500 rated players see, so don't bully him. Now I'm actually going to take with my knight because he thinks it's just a trade and his queen is going to take. but then his queen becomes an unprotected piece and whenever there's unprotected piece in a position that's when tactics comes in a position so let's just take the knight on d4 again now his queen is actually not able to take he's probably going to do it because he's 500 but once he takes we're going to hit him with what is called a discovered attack a discovered attack is when your piece x-rays the opponent's piece seeing through your piece but you need to move your piece out of the way so that way you can take his peace so he now has to react to my bishop move and then i'll grab the queen just like that i'm winning the game and he resigned what have we learned do not push pawns on the side that your king is on we're going to be doing the same thing but with someone at the 600 level stick around now we're playing someone at the 600 level we're going to be doing the same idea moving the pawn in the center of the board and then he plays e5 so let's simply develop our knight apply some pressure to the pawn He develops his knight to defend it and we're going to be playing the Italian game.
So he's playing the two knights defense and anything below a thousand, I usually recommend that you try out the fried liver attack. But I want you to keep in mind that the fried liver attack is not a principled opening. Why?
Because we're moving the same pieces more than once in the opening stage of the game. Now my opponent here, he's going for the Traxler counter attack, which is a nice way. to prevent the fried liver attack so i'm gonna check to see if my opponent knows what he's doing now he's only 600 so we're not sure but i want to show you guys the concept so let's flip the board now in this position fried liver players becomes greedy and they think they're winning material once they fork on f7 you know because that's the whole point but i want you to notice how i'm just already moving the knight so many times Now this bishop sacrifice is a very very nice idea but I want you guys to keep in mind if you're going to be playing the Traxla counter-attack you need to be prepared if they play king to f1 and if they do play king to f1 then you need to move your queen to e7 and then play e5 but for the video I'm going to take on f2 just to see if my opponent knows what he's doing. So he decided to take with the knight, pretty playable move, and my king is now in check.
So keep in mind, I'm still farking his queen and his rook, but my king is in check. So I have to move my king out of check. Now in these types of positions, the normal move that you'll see is just the opponent pulling back their king, thinking, okay, I'm still farking the queen and the rook. So let me just move the king out of the way.
So that way he still gets farked. But that's where queen to h4 check comes in. because he's getting the queen out with tempo and I want you to keep in mind that if I move my king to f1 queen to f2 is a checkmate if I move the pawn to g3 blocking the check there's actually knight takes g3 because if the rook takes queen takes rook and black is going to win the queen now if the king moves to e2 in this position that will also lead to a forced checkmate so basically once it gets to this position black is completely winning Now let me just show you guys what happens if king e2. If king e2, queen f2 check, king has to go to d3, then knight b4 check, king has to take on e4, then queen f4 is a checkmate. With that being said, let's play the more aggressive pawn to g3 and see if the opponent knows what they're doing.
So he sacrificed his knight and in this position, again, if I just take the rook, he's going to take my rook with check, I'm going to lose the game. So usually in this position white players they take back on g3 but this is just losing at this point because for one so he takes the rook checking my king and this is where i'm just going to lose my queen because if i move the king to f2 the queen takes my queen and i'm losing but if i move the king to e2 there's a very nice removing the guard tactic where he plays knight to d4 check first then after i move my king then he takes the queen and that's a free queen and then black just wins the game but will he find it? let's see let's play king to e2. knight to d4 he knows what he's doing he checks my king the king now has to move and then he'll take the queen and now black is winning the game. now i resigned what have we learned?
the frie liver attack is a premature attack the traxler counter attack is one way to defeat the frie liver attack we're going to be playing some good chess now against someone at the 700 level so stick around for this peace. our opponent is now 700 You know the drill? Let's see what he's coming with.
Ricardo is from Portugal and he started with knight f3. It is a development move. Unorthodox but he's developing.
Let's just play d5 here. Let's assume that we don't know what opening he's playing. When you're faced with someone who is playing an opening that you're not sure what's happening, just develop the pieces.
Don't try to remember what your prep was. Just develop the pieces. On to d5.
Let's just develop the night that's what one out of four pieces developed and then he plays g3 now what he's playing is this is probably the king's indian attack the reyte probably even the english but again let's just keep developing now i'll play knight c6 now we have two out of four pieces developed okay if yan kato is bishop let's keep going now i'm going to play bishop to g4 now we have three out of four pieces developed that's all we're doing develop the pieces castle the king then we start the attack so he castle let's play queen to d7 here it's a nice move i could have also moved this pawn in order to develop my bishop but i don't want him to play h3 so i'm actually guarding the h3 square twice so that's nice and then i can also decide to just castle on the queen side and just march up my pawn why did he still play h3 you see you have to look on the opponent's move man ricardo cardo man well that's just a free I'm attacking the square twice and he's only guarding the square ones this is called a batcher by the way maybe he missed that the queen was behind the bishop you shouldn't be missing batchers at almost 800 ricardo come on bro and then he took this is bad by the way this is back like now my queen is able to come in i'm ahead by a pawn by the way so even if i don't get to checkmate him i'm ahead by a pawn so he plays knight to g5 he's chasing out my queen that's the normal thing to do let's just go back but it doesn't change the fact that I'm ahead by a pawn. Then he plays e4. So he's trying to open the center a bit.
But look at what's happening now. I'm attacking e4 how many times? Twice. He's guarding e4 how many times?
Twice. So what are we going to do? We're going to remove one of the main defenders of e4.
This is called removing the guard. Very nice tactic. And once his knight moves, I have two options.
Take, and then I'm just ahead by what? Two pawns. Trade the queens off the board. and for the persons out there who don't want to trade even if you're ahead by a pawn or two pawns like why don't you want to trade queens i heard persons saying they don't want to trade their queens off the board well he took on d5 this is interesting what ricardo is seeing is he takes my knight i take his knight okay let's keep playing But when I take his knight, it opens up this file pointing towards his king.
So Ricardo doesn't know that he's about to get mated. Once there's a rook pointing towards a king like that, it's over. It's GG's. So if he tries to take my knight, he's in trouble.
So I'm just ahead by a piece. Okay, he plays queen to f3. You see, he finally sees what's happening.
But it's too late, bro. You're still going to get mated. Because what I'm going to do here is, remember guys, to find the best moves in chess, look for moves on the opponent's half of the board i'm gonna play the move knight to d4 hits the queen certain c2 to win a rook and i'm trying to get my queen to h3 multi-purpose moves and for the three persons in the comment who is going to say you're breaking principles why are you moving the knight more than once your king is not even castling he did it first so he basically permits me to do it that gave me a pawn on h3 so he pulls his queen back to g2 because he doesn't want my Queen to get here.
But I already warned you he suffocates his own king into a semi-smothered checkmate. His king is not able to move here so we hit him with knight to e2. We're going to be doing the same thing though.
Again someone at the 800 level. You know let's let's keep going let's keep going. Now our opponent is 800. Let's just play e4 here.
He plays e5, develops the knight, hit the pawn. He guards it with the knight and now we're playing the Italian gate. Let's see what we're going to be facing here.
Okay I think we played enough fried liver attack for you guys. Just get the idea that the fried liver attack is not a principled line. So we're just going to be playing d3 for this one and this is the correct way to play. If you're below a thousand the fried liver attack is fine but it's not a principled way to play. So bishop c5 here we're just going to cast the king and we're just going to be continue with their development.
So Ponto D6 was played. This is very theoretical how black is playing. The high level way to play this is we usually play c3 followed by d4.
But because we're still at the 800 level, let's not, you know, do too much. So I'm going to play h3 here, especially since he plays d6. This is how I'd recommend my lower level students to do it. Just develop the bishop and pin the knight.
So if you're playing with white, just play h3 and prevent the pin right here. Queen to e7. It's a queen move.
I can't necessarily attack the queen right now. Again c3 followed by d4 is good but it weakens the e4 pawn so you have to really know how to protect the e4 pawn if you want to play it like this. So I'm going to just develop normally. I'm just going to develop my knight here.
We're just following it the normal developed principally. Bishop to e6 okay he's developing. He's not castling so early so that's interesting.
Now usually it's not advised to take the bishop you You want to remember that. to take is a mistake and you only want to trade when it improves your position so i'm going to pull the bishop back here and then if the bishop takes it helps my rook to get the open file so i'd prefer that true and then he plays a5 which is also a very nice idea like if you're playing with the black pieces this is a good way to play it except you can also play h6 and then castle your king on the king side like just picture this with the black position that's a very nice way to play but let me just continue with my development let's see if he really knows what he's doing or he's just bluffing like i'm just developing my pieces as well this is fine and then he took and then i'm gonna take i actually covered a line like this in this series that you're watching so usually if they castle on the king side there's a very nice plan that i use where i say you go queen e1 queen g3 and attack the king with knight h4 knight f5 that's a very very nice idea so like maybe just click that little part of the video and just use it Whenever you get a double pawn in the center, remember the rook gets the foul, the queen maneuver to g3, the knight goes to h4 and f5. Nice little plan. And then long term, we still want to play moves like d4.
Okay, he plays knight b4. The guy's not trying to get castled. Because he's not yet castled, we're not really sure where we're going to be attacking him. So let's just aim towards the center of the board.
So another important thing that we want to keep in mind is how important pawn breaks are, you know? So for example, we're going to play the move pawn. to d4 here because it helps us to open lines for our pieces but the queen e1 queen g3 idea nice so if takes takes we have two verse from pawns in the center the rook gets the file and then he plays pawn to c5 okay well first of all i could push away the bishop but then that would block out my bishop and that would make me have a bad bishop i could just take stakes okay this c5 move was decent okay so because the knight is in our half of the board Let's just get the knight out of over half of the board first. Let's just deal with that first because it's annoying. Now, if the knight goes back here, pawn to d5 would just be a nice fork and we're winning.
If it goes back to the edge of the board, that's actually a bit better. He could try to take on b3 as an in-between move. Let's see. Ah, Dante, man. Dante, bro.
He was doing so well. I mean, he wasn't castling his king and this knight b4 move was questionable. So, okay, let's play on the game first.
Let's play d5. That's just a fart. Dante just blundered a fart after doing so well.
Now, Dante is someone who, he plays the opening well. or he's just not losing out of the opening but right as soon as he hits the middle game he just blunders and that's what we've been dealing with like so much that's what we're trying to prevent just not blundering all the students who joins the academy we're just trying to help them to not blunder dante bro what dante so you're telling me you just got fart i'm hitting the knight and the bishop this knight on f6 has nothing to do with what's happening here so he decided to give me another piece like look at this i'm not doing anything like the guy just gave me a knight and he still fart so what is he gonna do here now i'm gonna be ahead by two piece what did i do nothing just develop and don't blunder while doing it ah see now he wants to to attack my bishop when he sees that he's losing his so obviously we're not gonna be taking the bishop or the knight here because he's gonna take our bishop and we're not trying to trade because Peace. fart so let's pull our bishop back to a2 he's still fart if he moves the bishop you grab the knight if he moves the knight we grab the bishop now he's trying you know he's really trying he counter attacks my knight and he's like if you take my bishop i'm taking your knight you take my knight i'm taking your knight okay so what if i go here just attack the bishop he moves the bishop we grab the knight go here maybe he attacks my knight but then i just grab the bishop so let's Just go here. He still fart. We're not in any rush.
Okay so he plays e4 attacking my knight but I'll just take his bishop. No that's bad. Yes I'll take the bishop because if he takes my knight I'll take his knight and I'll still be ahead by two pieces because my bishop on a2 protects my knight on e6.
He took my knight let's take his knight. Now his king is not able to get castled like Dante did everything well except the main thing. which is get the king to safety okay so he moves the queen what was it doing preventing this fart protecting this pawn don't be like dante from the united kingdom he plays the opening decent though but looks like he just hands someone the mouse because i could take this pawn i could fork him i could take this pawn and threaten a checkmate all right let's take this pawn we're going it's always best to go for me let's take the pawn queen d7 is gonna be a mate i don't know why he puts his queen here though but let's see so he pulls back the queen to h6 didn't try to prevent the fork didn't try to defend the pawn didn't try to defend the mate and that's a checkmate what have we learned don't be like dante ensure that you castle your king after your development but let's do the same thing against someone at the 900 level and let's see what we'll find now our opponent is 900 i want to show you you guys how to beat players at 900 and the mistakes that they make let's just play e4 here to start and then he plays e5 i'll develop my knight to attack his pawn he plays knight c6 to guard it and we're going to be playing the italian game this is how i recommend that it's played below anything below 1500 i know he's playing the two knights defense now my take on playing the two knights defense below a thousand is if you know how to defeat the fried liver attack then play the two knights defense if not then do not play the two knights defense. but I recommend that you play the two knights defense which means all you need to do is just watch one of my videos of me defeating the fried liver attack but this is the fried liver attack that I'm playing and if someone does not know how to play against this line then they will be in trouble now I want to let you guys know that the fried liver attack is not a principled opening because as you can see I just moved my knight to f3 and then I move the same piece to g5 which is moving the same piece more than once in the opening stage of the game so you could say I'm going for a premature attack but if you're below a thousand knock yourself out so he plays d5 this is the correct response to this move let's just take on d5 that's how it's done and the incorrect move would be to play knight takes d5 the correct move would be to play knight d4 and I'm happy that he's playing knight d4 here so maybe I could just give you guys a quick lesson on how to defeat the friday lover attack what do you say So let me give you guys a lesson on how to defeat a Friday River attack. Because it looks like he knows what he's doing.
So as black, let me flip it. So as black, you should play knight to d4. And the correct move as white in this position.
is actually pawn c3 just chasing away the knight but a lot of greedy players with the white pieces they usually play a move like pawn to d6 in this position and what it does it opens the attack pointing towards your f sub pawn but as you can see this guy he knows what he's doing it looks like he's he has learned some stuff from me because what persons usually do when they see this is they're like okay that's a fork and you should actually allow them to go for this fork because once they play the move. Knight takes f7, forking the queen and the rook. Now you hit them with queen c6.
This guy knows exactly what's coming and it's going to be a beautiful smothered mate. Now look at this. The queen is attacking the unprotected pawn on c4 but it's also attacking the unprotected pawn on g2 and this is why I say the fried liver attack is not a principled line because white is moving the same piece so many times. One knight move, two knight move, three knight move, four knight moves and then black is using the time to develop these pieces.
So being the greedy player who I am I'm gonna grab the rook on h8 thinking that oh I'm ahead by a rook the fried liver attack worked and I'm gonna win the game but no if you notice my opponent he didn't even take the bishop on c4 he decided to take the pawn on g2 and this is where white players usually see that they're losing because there's actually nothing that white could do to save the rook here like if he leaves the rook there then black is going to just take the rook the only safe score for the rook is f1. But once the rook goes to f1, then there's a beautiful smothered mate that's going to be coming up here yes he played the move queen to e4 it checks my king but let's say i block with the queen then the knight is just going to take the queen and then black is just going to win the game i'm going to lose 16 rating points for this but after the bishop blocks there's a beautiful smothered mate and my opponent will find it let's see and that's a checkmate and i lost 16 points Now I'm going to show you guys how to do stuff like these but at the 1000 level so stick around and I'll see you in that one. Okay our opponent is 1099 we're going to be doing the same treatment he started off as d4 I'm sure a lot of you guys have issues playing against d4 so I'm just going to play d5 and it's still going to be regular simple chess he's playing a queen's gambit and I'm actually going to play the queen's gambit declined so that way you see chess the simple approach nothing too fancy i want you to also keep in mind that i am blocking in my light squared bishop you have to have certain level of understanding in order to like blocking one of your bishops but it is there and the plan is to activate the bishop on another time i'm just going to play knight to f6 here we're going with the same game plan we're going to be developing four or four pieces we're going to be getting our king castle and that's where we're going to be starting our attack he plays knight to c3 i'm now going to hit him with bishop e7 now we have two pieces developed and I'm about to castle my king. He also developed his bishop. I'll simply castle my king.
It's nothing fancy happening right here. We're both just trying to get out of the opening as quickly as possible and notice how he got his bishop out before he plays e3 so that way he does not have a bad piece but now I'm going to play c6. This is a very famous pawn triangle as you may see.
I'm just trying to really consolidate in the center of the board especially because I'm playing with the black pieces. When you're playing with the black pieces, First, you need to ensure that you draw the game and then after you draw the game, you go for a win. So I'm basically playing to equalize first. Now, he developed his bishop to d3 and I want to show you guys a very nice idea on how to deal with these types of bad bishops. Now, here's how it works.
Because he developed his bishop to d3, I'm actually going to take on c4. And why I'm going to take on c4 is because I'm forcing his bishop to move more than once in the opening stage of the game. So you could say I'm gaining tempo because you don't want to be moving the same pieces more than once in the opening. So now once he takes with the bishop, I'm going to play the move b5. I'm still forcing him to move the same pieces more than once, but I'm actually just trying to get my bishop active.
So if you notice, he pulls his bishop back and all I'm going to do here is play the move bishop to b7 and I develop my bishop. But you're probably saying that doesn't mean the bishop is active. It is blocked behind the pawn and you are correct.
The bishop is not activated if it is behind the pawn. So my plan in the future is to play c5 and activate this bishop. For now, let me just develop my knight. And the other thing is, if I play c5, I'm going to lose my b pawn. There's two ways to deal with this.
One, you could play a6, then play c5 and you're fine. Or you could actually play b4, chase away the knight. So that way your b5 pawn is no longer hanging.
Then play c5 and you're doing fine. Let's see what he does. So he plays the move queen to d3. He's developing, he's connecting his rooks and everything and I'm actually going to play the a6 approach in this position because if b4 the knight could go here and it gets tricky. Now my next move is to play pawn to c5 and then every single minor piece is going to be doing something.
But remember it doesn't necessarily mean you've accomplished everything when all your minor pieces are in the game. You also need to get your major pieces in the game. Now he plays bishop to c2 This is called a battery, by the way, because the bishop and the queen is lining up on the same diagonal pointing towards h7.
I'm not in any real danger as yet, but I'm sure one of his plans is how can I remove this knight. But I don't care about that just now, so I'm going to play the move pawn to c5, finally activating my last piece. And then black is just doing fine here. Okay, so he decided to move his queen back to e2. and He just didn't want me to take his knight on f3.
I want you guys to also notice how my bishop, all of a sudden, it's like one of my best pieces. So here I'm thinking of, do I just take this pawn? Seeing that if his knight takes pawn e5, he's just winning a piece. You have to be tactical and sharp. Or if he takes with the pawn, he has an isolated pawn, which is also a strategic weakness.
So let's just take on d4 here. Now, if he takes with the knight, pawn to e5 is just going to be a fork, and then I'm just going to win the game. And if he takes with his pawn, then...
d4 is isolated and then the whole idea is to attack the weak d4 pawn so now his pawn on d4 is isolated when you're playing against an isolated pawn there's a few things that you want to do you want to exchange the minor pieces so that way there's no complications on the board so it's easier for you to get to the isolated pawn and ideally you want to get into an end game where it is a queen and a rook versus a queen and a rook like that would be the best but we're not going to be rushing anything we already created the weakness let's just bring more pieces in the you rooks needs open file once you develop your minor pieces you need to get your major pieces in the game now he puts his bishop on d3 which was not a blunder but it did not really do much i'm sure a lot of persons are usual in some chess situations where their position is not losing or winning but they just genuinely don't know what to do and they're in the middle game and i'm about to help you guys on that whenever you're in these types of situation you just want to ask yourself what piece do I have that is not doing anything and how can I give it some work to. For example, his bishop was already chilling, you know, like he needs to get his rook in the game and that's, he's not doing that. Now, I know that my f-rook is not in the game and I need to get my f-rook in the game, but a move like rook to e8 doesn't really change much.
So, I need to move other pieces in order to get this rook in the game. So, for example, one thing I may do is move my queen to b6 so that way my rook goes to d8. Another thing I'm thinking of is moving my knight to b6 so that way I could centralize my knight. Because in chess, it's better talk always focus on the pieces that you have not yet moved.
I'm going to move my queen seeing that I haven't moved my queen and it also helps my rooks to be connected. If you want to know if you had a successful opening this is what your background should look like. Only two rooks and a king nothing else and the good thing is I'm also attacking his isolated pawn so I'm thinking of moves like removing the guard he takes grab the isolated pawn and I'm already ahead by a pawn.
So he plays bishop to e5 spotting that idea now what he is doing he's giving me the option of getting the bishop here at what cost though if i grab the bishop his pawn takes and his pawn is no longer isolated there's also another saying in chess to take is a mistake and you should under trade when it improves the activity of your pieces so let's not take just yet and let's use the time to just bring the final piece in the game now if you look on my position every single piece has a job You have to remember that you're the general of your army and you need to ensure that all your pieces is doing something. What he needs to focus on is rooks. The rooks aren't doing anything.
Okay, he just wanted to give up the bishop for the knight. Like guys, come on man. I'm not saying bishops are just dead better than knights but Maurice Ashley calls it the grandmaster trade. It basically means whenever you see someone give up their bishop for a knight, they have a very nice reason why they think. the knight is superior or they're giving up the bishop so all i'm gonna do now is just take the bishop and now he's in trouble again because i'm still threatening to just get rid of the knight and win the free pawn and i also have the bishop here which is an advantage all my pieces are active rooks are on open file and he just doesn't care about his rook this is not a good general and then he plays d5 yeah he knew the pawn was just gonna die So he just moved it forward because I was about to do the grandmaster trick.
I was about to give up my bishop for a knight. But this does not really help him a lot though because there's a lot that I could do. How do I take this pawn?
I'm just going to take it with the knight obviously because if I take with the pawn, that's an isolated pawn. If I take with the bishop, I'm giving up my bishop. So let's just grab the free pawn. We're already ahead by a pawn and you could say I'm winning the game.
he sacrificed his bishop guys this is crazy this does not work by the way but i mean he's trying like i'm not sure why he sacrificed his bishop though like what did he see that's just a free bishop like if the center is this open and you can't easily see yourself putting more pieces on the opponent's half of the board after the sacrifice then it's very likely the sacrifice doesn't work i'm just going to take that bishop that's a free bishop oh he's trying the great gift sacrifice where he sat the bishop but then and then he checks with the knight and then after the king move the queen comes in but this is not a great gift this is just a gift because that's just a free knight that's crazy i want you guys to notice something these guys are not extremely weak i mean he's a thousand but if you could just develop your pieces put your pieces on good squares just wait you know they will play moves like this it's like charity business now he's attacking my bishop and my king at the same time but this is an easy solve i'm just going to block with the bishop and i'm doing fine yes he could take a free pawn but i just want two pieces without even trying to attack him okay so he plays knight to e4 he's trying to bring some pieces in the attack and just by the look of this he wants to check here and then my bishop would be able to take and then if i pull my king back then his queen comes in with check So I need to apply some level of prophylaxis here. And prophylaxis basically means seeing the opponent's threats and just trying to prevent them before it happens. So knowing that he wants to play the move knight to g5, I'm just going to move my king back to g8. So that way, if he still plays knight to g5, my bishop is not pinned and I can always just get rid of the knight.
Because I'm ahead in my t-roll. If you're ahead in my t-roll, then trade pieces off the board. Maybe he doesn't know that he could actually use his rooks.
Like. when you play chess you can actually use all your pieces and you should use all your pieces and if you're playing chess and you're only attacking with some of your pieces it's called a premature attack he is now using his rook that's nice but it's too late now he got his rook in the game now i'm gonna start my attack now i'm gonna play the move knight to f4 my knight is attacking his queen so he has to move the queen my bishop is also applying some pressure to his knight his back rank is weak what my opponent just did is called a premature attack and i want to leave you guys with something By the way, there's a book called The Art of War by Sun Tzu. It has nothing to do with chess.
But there's a quote in the book that says, the general who is unable to control his impatience will launch his men into battle like swarming ants. This will result in the town not taken and one third of his men slain. He's basically saying, if you don't know what to do, that's not the time to make like a big decision and said, oh, let's attack.
and by the way my opponent also moved the queen away and blunder a fork because now i'm going to play the move pawn to f5 hitting the queen hitting the knight and now it's just ggs okay so he checks with the knight that was a bit creative it doesn't work though because all i need to do is move my king i mean i'm not able to take due to the pin but once i move my king he's still in the same i'm attacking his knight and i'm attacking his queen he will lose material he moves the queen but he only has like 0.2 seconds on the clock so let's just take on f2 and he ran out of time now i'm going to be showing you guys just how to apply these same principles but when you're playing against someone at 1100 stick around our opponent is now 1100 same treatment let's just play pawn e5 you guys have seen this so many times so you should at least get used to what's happening here develop the knight guard the pawn but this person is actually playing the roy lopez or the spanish game the main theoretical move here is to play a6 because the grandmasters know that bishops are better than knights i like to play bishop to c5 here or any move that just develops the pieces to be honest for example i'm just going to play knight to f6 castle my king what is this guy doing why did he play knight takes e5 in this position. This is either a trap or I'm going crazy. Let's see what's happening.
If I take on e5, he plays d4 and this seems like something. Okay, he may be on to something. If I take his knight, he's going to play d4 and fort my back.
But I'm just going to play queen to g5 here. It hits the unprotected knight and it also attacks his pawn on g2. So it's not like I'm losing a pawn or something. I'm getting back my pawn plus I'm forcing him to be moving the same pieces more than once. He's thinking.
He doesn't know what hit him. What? He plays queen g4? Well maybe he thinks I'm gonna take his queen and then his knight is gonna take my queen but dude just straight up hung a knight. Let's just take the knight.
That's crazy. Just like that we're ahead by a knight and we're winning the game. so now he took my knight well maybe he thinks he's gonna win my bishop or something because all of these are bad moves he blundered a knight now he's giving up his bishop for a knight i'm actually going to take with the d pawn so that way once i take i'm automatically attacking his queen and then he moves his queen out the way so not only am i ahead by a piece i'm also ahead in development i'm just going to develop my knight applying some pressure to this pawn and then he plays pawn to d3 which is defending the pawn but now i'm able to develop my bishop and attack his queen at the same time so i'm ahead by a piece and i'm just going to trade the pieces off the board and just win a comfortable game okay so he plays queen to f4 i mean i want to trade so let's just take the queen and once his bishop takes i'll simply castle my king b now this will go into the end game but i just really hope that you guys know what my strategy will be from here.
I'm gonna be... attacking the pawns and I'm going to be trying to trade off as much pieces as I possibly can. So because all my pieces are already doing something, I'm going to play the move pawn to h5 here.
It starts some attack on his king. The end game is not somewhere where you try to attack someone's king, but because I have a lot of minor pieces on the board, I'm just going to be pushing my h pawn off the board because this helps with forcing the opponent to push pawns on the side that they're kings are so now that he plays h3 I'm just going to pull back my bishop. My rook is not the worst place piece here. Oh so he's attacking my bishop but I intend to trade pieces off the board so not sure what he's doing but I don't want him to take my bishop though and I'd prefer to trade the bishop so I'm going to pull my bishop back to e7.
Pulling the bishop back to b6 would have also been fine but I'm planning on playing g5 just to attack his bishop, soon my rook on the open file, put it on the same line as his king and just keep attacking the pawns. I want you guys to keep in mind it's usually best to attack the pawns around the opponent's king. That's where your attack is going to come from.
So he plays b3 and I'm going to play pawn to g5 here. This is a pawn sacrifice which I'm not advising him to take so he didn't take it but my whole idea is to open the g5 for my rook so that's what I'm doing. If he had captured with his bishop I just attacked the bishop but he didn't capture with the bishop so I'm going to G for it. Pawn brick.
This is called a pawn brick. If you want to open lines for your major pieces or even your minor pieces, think about pawn trades. If you're in the middle game and you're not sure what the plan is, think about pawn breaks, trading the pawns in the center of the board.
It will open lines for your pieces. So he finally decided to take. Now I have two options. Do I push h3 so that way I really open up stuff or do I just take first?
Let's just take, hitting the bishop. And I can always play h3 after. and then he took on a7 but this is a mistake because now he's going to be down by a piece this is actually a well-known trap whenever a bishop takes on a7 like this always think about playing a move like b6 because now his bishop is just trapped and i'm just going to attack the bishop with my king and then just take the bishop so i'm assuming he's going to try to sacrifice one of his pieces and that's just going to be more pieces for me so he sacrificed the knight let's just take Not in my head.
He took a pawn And I'm just going to move my rook over on this open file on the same line as his king. And I'm ahead by two pieces. So there's a checkmate coming up soon or a resignation.
But let's see what's happening. He plays a4. He's pushing his passed pawns, which means I have one, two, three, four moves to cook something.
I'm going to play h3 here. Again, it's another pawn break. The purpose of h3 is to open the h file for my h rook.
My g rook has a file. I need my h rook on a file. okay so he took with the pawn ah that's bad though how do i mate this guy do i have a discovered attack seeing that my rook is on the same line as this king for example knight e3 check and well that at least wins a rook oh it's mate what am i doing knight e3 check the king has to go to h2 or h1 and then my rook is going to take on h3 and that's going to be a checkmate so let's go knight e3 check this is what happens when you understand how to use your pawns pawn Break pawns are the soul of the game understand the pawns because that's just a checkmate now we're going to be doing the same thing against someone at the 1200 level stick around peace our opponent is now 1200 same with the black pieces and we're just going to play e5 here just the normal stuff he attacks my pawn we develop we guard it he's playing the italian game and i'm going to be playing the two knights defense i do recommend the two knights defense but you must know how to beat the friday attack. knight c3 is the mistake that i've been seeing so much today but he played pawn to d3 which is the correct move so i'll just continue with my development now i have three pieces developed all i need to do is castle my king develop my bishop and my development will be complete my opponent castled their king i'm gonna play d6 here it allows me to develop my bishop to g4 and pin their knight to their queen and just be annoying and cause chaos okay now he plays bishop to g5 It's funny though because bishop to g5 is not as threatening if my king is not yet castled. I can actually get away with just playing pawn to h6 forcing his bishop to move away and obviously if he gives up his bishop for a knight I'll be so happy with that.
why is everyone give stop giving up your bishop for a knight who's this guy corner is from greece don't be like corner is from greece let's just take like it shouldn't be this easy giving black an advantage bishops are better than knights guys come on so he played knight to d2 now he's playing defensive now i'll just develop my bishop which immediately pins his knight to his queen and then i'm just going to castle my king and start an attack on him so here he plays pawn to c3 Not too bad. I want to start an attack on his king. So I'm gonna be castling on the queen side, which is slightly risky because he's able to start a pawn storm on my king, but there's no attack there.
He moves his queen to a4. It doesn't attack anything right now. And he's moving his queen away from his king side.
So I'm not bothered by that. So I'm going to start my attack on him. I'm going move my knight to e7 and this is called a maneuver where we're trying to maneuver our pieces to the opponent's side of the board. If you want to learn more about chess, read the book The Art of War by Sun Tzu. It's not a chess book, but it will help your chess.
Now he plays bishop back to e3. What is this guy doing? It's actually crazy. If you could just get to move 15 or 20 without blundering, you'll be surprised how persons just throw pieces at you, like gifting you pieces. Because what he did, He just blocked out his queen from ever going back.
Can't I just play bishop back to d7 here? Oh, I can't because if I play bishop back to d7 his queen goes to c4. That's the only score for the queen though and then if I play b5 he plays queen takes f7 and his queen is not trapped.
So he got away there. He got away there. So let's continue with our attack. Let's play knight to g6.
I'm just bringing as much pieces as possible as close as possible to his king side to start my attack. He doesn't know what he's doing. So now he plays d4. Interesting move. He has one, two, three attackers.
I have one, two, three defenders, which means I'm not going to be winning any material. So let's just pull back the bishop. No need to take this pawn as yet.
If he takes, then I take and my rook gets the open file. Why? Because to take is a mistake and we only trade if it improves our position, not the opponent. Knight to c4 was a mistake. That was a mistake.
This is called the drawback principle. by the way. So he moves the knight to c4 to attack my bishop but he didn't ask himself what is my knight doing on d2. The knight was guarding his knight.
Now I have two pieces attacking his knight. He only has one piece guarding him which means once I grab this knight not only am I gonna win a pawn but this guy is gonna be getting checkmated. So he took my bishop with check and if I take with the pond. and this queen check and i go here he checks again that's too much drama so let's just take with the c pawn but then if i take with the c pawn he checks here king has to move and then in some universe he takes here not afraid of that though let's just take the knight oh he checks my king okay okay let's just move the king out the way the thing is if he takes this pawn i'm just gonna be ahead by a piece so is he trying to just play down by a piece here okay he decided that he wants to play down a piece he doesn't want to expose his king but i'm going all in on this attack like he thinks i'm going to be pulling back my bishop but no we're going to be now using a tactic called attraction how does it work i'm going to be sacrificing my bishop to open his king knowing that his king is not able to take my bishop because if he tries to take his king i lower his king on the g2 square and then i hit well he did take the bishop so knight to f4 checks the king and hits the queen at the same time and that's just me winning a queen tactics he moves his queen out of the way let's just grab the queen and this should just be checkmate in a few moves or he's going to resign he took with the pawn and here's how he's going to get checkmated i'm not going to just take back the pawn we're going for the king so i'm going to check on f3 king has to move to g1 and then knight to f4 and there's literally nothing you could do to prevent queen to g2 like i could literally just pre-move something like this but just to show you guys he moves the king knight to f4 there's nothing he could do to prevent queen to g2 and my opponent resides now i want to show you guys how to do the same thing at the 1300 level stick around our opponent is 1300 so he plays d4 and i'm just going to keep it simple let's just play d5 here develop our pieces normally and punish him for his mistakes in the middle game If you play C6 and we're going to be playing the Queen's Gambit, Decline.
Usually nothing fancy happens in the opening. He develops his knight. I'm also going to be developing my knight. Just development move here. And then he develops his bishop.
Now I'm going to play the move bishop to e7 just unpinning my knight preparing to castle the king. He plays e3. Okay, let's castle the king. He's developing his pieces normally. This is some good chess here guys.
And then he develops his bishop to d3. Now I'm going to play the move c6 here. And the regular persons may be saying why am I blocking in my bishop? This is a bad bishop.
and you are correct but i have a cool little idea to help this c8 bishop and i'm going to show you guys how so he develops his knight all his minor pieces are developed that's good so let me get all my minor pieces out and now i just need to solve the issue of this bad c8 bishop so he castles his king and here's what i'm going to do the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to take on c4 so take is a mistake right but the reason why i'm doing this is i'm forcing his bishop to move again and I'm gaining tempo on his bishop. Watch this. Once his bishop takes, I play the move b5, forcing his bishop to move again.
Then once he moves the bishop, I play the move bishop to b7. And you may be saying that doesn't help the bishop. It's still not doing anything. But all I need to do is move this pawn out the way and just like that, my bishop is going to be a good bishop on this diagonal.
Knight e5. He's moving the knight here, which means if I take and the pawn antiques. He's trying to trade the queens off the board. The thing is though, I don't have to react to this immediately.
So I'm going to continue with my plan. But if I play c5, I'm going to lose my pawn on b5. So I have to play a prophylactic a6. Then I'm going to play c5. Then he pulls his knight back to e2.
I'm not 100% sure what this does. So let's continue with our plan. Pawn to c5. Do I have any bad pieces?
all my pieces are on good scores so step one is out the way all pieces are developed king is castle what's step two get major pieces in the game how do we get our major pieces in the game pawn breaks like this one so he took on d7 how do we recapture with the queen or with the knight let's just take with the knight eliminate this bishop it's the only piece on our half of the board so once we get rid of that piece on our half of the board like this then black has already equalized and I have no issues whatsoever. He took on c5. Okay, now I just need to take back and I'm fine.
But do I get anything from this? Thirten the mate. If he plays knight to f4, then I take. Okay, let's start by playing queen to g5. It thirten's a checkmate on g2.
So he has to react to that, which is why he's not able to take my knight. This is called danger levels. So he puts his knight here to guard the mate.
Let's just take back our pawn, attacking the bishop. And then look at this. My plan from here is to get my rooks in the game. that the file is open. the c file is open so that's where i'm going to be putting my rook he pulls his bishop back to c2 rooks needs files so let me play rook to d8 putting my rook on this open file and i'm gaining a tempo on his queen queen to h5 so basically he's trying to go into an end game because he thinks he has more chance to draw in the end game i used to think like this when i'm playing against strong persons as well but that's a losing strategy I'm gonna go into the end game with him for one and I want to teach you guys how to play the end game as well.
So now that we're in the end game everything changes. What you want to be doing is attacking weak pawns, pushing your past pawns and activating your king. Another very important factor that you need to know about the end game is rooks belong on the seventh. I call this the seventh, it's the second, this is where the seven is.
But when I was younger my coach used to say rooks on the seven is in heaven. So remember that and put your rooks on the seven. His knight is on the edge of the board not doing anything. His bishop is unprotected and I'm attacking it. If he moves the bishop I'm already ahead by a pawn.
So how does he solve this? Okay so he decided to defend the bishop and that's not a bad move because it comes with a threat. If I'm not careful he's gonna take on h7 and capture my unprotected knight. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna play the move bishop to e4 getting rid of the bishops off the board but after the sure it happens his b pawn is going to be under attack and remember what we said about the end game you must attack pawns he took on e4 let's just take back now he has to defend his b2 pawn and just for a tip guys like if you have to play passive defensive moves then it's usually best to lose a pawn in the end game f3 is a nice idea he wants to play rook to f2 but i'm just going gonna pull my knight back to f6 i'm allowing him to double up my pawns because i want to quickly solve any background issues that i may have so let's just take the night and then once he plays rook to f2 i'll play rook to d8 so if he takes my rook i'm just going to take and he will lose a pawn and i'm threatening to take his rook then get my rook to d2 and i'll win a pawn this guy's played well though but let's see how well he'll play ah he played king to f1 that was his first mistake the better move in this position would have been to play rook to f1 but now that he plays king to f1 all i need to do is take the rook force the king on the f2 square then Thank you, Tim. with rook to d2 check he has to move his king i'll grab the b2 pawn and i'll be attacking his a2 pawn just like that we're winning the game he moves his king let's grab the pawn it's not finished as yet though he played a passive move like rook to a1 again do not play these types of passive moves it's best to lose a pawn than put your rook in jail now it's just game over how i'm going to win this game is i'm going to advance my pawn majority i have two pawns the opponent only has one but remember that thing we spoke about activating the king we must activate our king so let me start by playing king to f8 just getting my king in the game then he plays f4 i think he's trying to get his king in the game as well but let's keep going king to his side we must get the king in the game and then he's playing some weird looking pawn moves now i don't know what he's trying to do i'm gonna hit him with f5 f5 prevents e4 and it prevents g4 and then we're going to be continuing okay so he puts his king here The thing is with the end game is you have to be very patient.
For example, I'm also going to play h5 just so that he's not able to play g4. Now once he plays g3, now I'm going to start pushing my pawn majority. Let's start by playing b4.
And the reason why I'm pushing the b pawn before the a pawn is because I'm pushing what is called a candidate pawn. Moving the pawn without a counterpart. Okay, so he plays e4 here. If he takes, I take.
and that's something if i take that's a very active king but i think i'm forced to take or i could push if i push and he takes then i take and i'm ahead by another pawn and that's a very strong pawn but if i push and he takes and i takes and okay that doesn't work let's just take so he took with the king let's just play a5 advancing our pawn majority this is a very passive rook now he plays f5 this doesn't seem to do much i don't necessarily need to react to it so I'm just going to continue to push my pawn majority. Once you have more pawns than the opponent on one side, it's usually advised to advance them up the board. Easy way to create a pass pawn. He took my pawn.
Let's just take back. Everything is fine here. We're going to be winning with this pawn majority.
Okay, now he's pulling back his king. And I need to teach you guys about another thing in the endgame, which is called the principle of two weaknesses. The fact that his rook is tied down to his pawn, and I have this pawn majority. that's one weakness that he has.
Now that he's running over there, I'm not going to try to run over here. I'm going to run over here to apply pressure to these pawns. And I could possibly win the game with these pawns. So now he plays king here, attacking my pawn, but it's guarded. So let's play here, attacking the g3 pawn.
Then he plays a3. That's very interesting because if I push, he attacks my pawn. But I think there's something that he missed because I'm able to actually push and then he got he's playing too passive i thought he would have attacked here he's playing a bit too passive because this pawn is very easy to win and i'm not gonna allow him to win this pawn so i'm gonna put my rook right here it has two threats i could go here and pick up this pawn but i'm actually protecting this pawn first so let's give a check here just to ensure that he's not able to take this pawn and then we're gonna continue with our idea now that he puts his king here i should be able to check his king has to move and then grab this spot obviously he's not why did he trade okay this is just winning once i take i'll promote and i'll win the game and my opponent resides now i'm going to show you guys how to do the same thing but at the 400 level stick around our opponent is 1400 we're going to be doing the same thing principal chess tactical chess he start off by playing d4 and i'm going to be playing knight to f6 here i mean we're 1400 we should already understand some ideas he plays c4 and i'm going to try the king's indian defense let's see how well he knows his stuff He plays knight to c3. Okay, this is all theory. I'm going to go bishop to g7.
It's another way of developing my pieces, but I'm still developing my pieces. So that's what's important. He developed his knight and now I'm going to castle my king.
So I managed to develop two of my minor pieces, castle my king. Now all I need to do is get these other two minor pieces in the game and then I'll be fine. So he develops his bishop. I'm going to play the move d6 here and what it does, it saves a square.
for my knight and it also allows my bishop to get developed but then he plays h3 which means he's preventing my bishop from going to the g4 square now if you're not very tactical and willing to put some work in your openings then i don't recommend playing the king's indian because it is a lot of work and it's very tactical plus you have to go against a lot of principles for example developing the bishop to a square like f5 here isn't really good because it's very easy to get chase down so I'm just going to use the time to play knight to d7. You may say I'm blocking out my bishop, which I am blocking out my bishop. But eventually, my bishop will join the game. For example, I'm going to play the move pawn to b6 here. And now I'm going to fianchetto my light squared bishop as well.
He developed his bishop. I'll fianchetto my light squared bishop. And then now all my minor pieces are developed.
But that's not where chess ends. And you should not be watching this video looking confused and everything. If you are confused, it goes to show that you're relying too much on your memory and not your understanding. Once you understand that you need to develop the pieces, it doesn't really matter where you put them. So he plays d5 and it looks like he's trying to get some space for his pieces.
I mean, the guy's 1400. I'm going to play h6. I'm not expecting him to give up his bishop for a knight at 1400. But let's see what he does because persons have been playing a lot of word moves. He pulls back the bishop. Very good.
Now remember what I said, after you develop your minor pieces, you need to develop your major pieces. Your major pieces will join the game with the use of what is called a pawn break. Pawn break is where you use your pawn to attack the opponent's pawn.
For example, if he takes my pawn and I take back, it opens up the file for the rook. If he does nothing, I take his pawn and it will open the e-file for the rook. So he plays e4 to support his pawn.
That's a decent move. let's just take here with the whole idea of i need to put my rook on an open file he took with the pawn that's a decent move now i'm going to simply play the move rook to e8 putting my rook on the open file now i have two pieces attacking his pawn and he only has one piece defending it so he has to be a bit careful here so he did add another defender to the pawn and what i'm trying to do here is just to keep targeting this e4 pawn Now hopefully you guys noticed that my knight is pinned so I can't just go ahead and take. So I'm going to play the move pawn to g5 here which is forcing his bishop away. Now I have two attackers but he also has two defenders. So I'm going to hit him with the move knight to c5.
Now I have one, two, three attackers on his e4 pawn. He only has two defenders on his e4 pawn. So he has to find a good defensive move here.
See what he plays. Ooh, bishop to b5. That's interesting. He did not try to defend the pawn.
But he counterattacks my rook. Is there tactics? Can I get tactics here? If I take his pawn and he takes my rook.
I have nothing. Was that a good move? Or maybe I just need to play rook to e7. I mean he's in the same issue.
He still needs to guard his pawn. He decided to castle on the queen side. Which is weird because that's just a free pawn. He could have used his knight to guard it. So I have one, two, three attackers.
He has one, two defenders. let's just grab the pawn nowhere ahead by a pawn so he got his rook to attack my knight but i'm just going to be exposing his king like i can always take his bishop because bishops are better than knights but i'm actually going to take his knight because if i take his knight he has to take with the pawn and the pawns around this king is going to be separated and i'm also going to be able to win this pawn on d5 so taking his knight was actually removing the guard tactic as well because now I have two attackers. on his d5 pawn and he only has his rook. So he decided to take with the pawn and I'm now thinking do I just take the pawn right now or do I trade the rooks then take the pawn.
Okay so the pawn is free let's just trade the rooks off the board first and then once he takes back now I'll take the pawn on d5. I'm already ahead by two pawns and I have two pieces attacking his pawn on c3 and he only has one so he has to be careful there as well. Oh shoot! I blunder! Didn't I just blunder?
Wait! Why didn't he play a rook to e8? This is called the drawback principle guys.
Look I should have took with the pawn but taking with the knight left the e8 square unprotected so he could have played rook to e8 check. Now it doesn't mean that I'd lose the game because I would lose my queen and I'm already ahead by two points so I'd still be ahead by a point but he just completely missed it which is crazy. Now I'm just gonna put my knight back on f6 and just cover the e8 square and now I'm just ahead by two clean pawns.
So he puts his queen on e2 and it looks like he's trying to attack along this file now the only issue that i have is i need to get my rook in the game so i'm gonna find a very creative way to get my rook in the game i'm gonna start by playing knight to e4 here though because it attacks his bishop i don't want him to be attacking along this file and it comes with some knight c3 ideas so he moves his queen to c2 he has two attackers on my knight i only have one defender so i need to be careful but i'm gonna play the move, pawn to a6. So if he tries to take my knight twice, his bishop is going to be left hanging. So I'll be fine.
And now he pulls his bishop back to a4. And I'm about to play a very interesting move. Pawn to b5. He's covering the b5 square two times. So why am I playing b5?
The idea is to open lines for my pieces. Well, he didn't take the free pawn. He pulls his bishop back.
But I still want to open some lines for my rook. So I'm going to take on c4 in this position. Still attacking his bishop. which means he's still not able to take my knight.
So he took with the queen, which is interesting because now he still has two pieces on my knight and he's attacking f7. But I'm just going to play pawn to d5 here. I guard my knight.
Offense is the best defense. I attack his queen. He has to move his queen out of the way.
So black is doing fine. So he moves his queen to b4. And I like the idea of bishop to c3.
That would be a nice fork. But then his queen takes my bishop. and then I take his rook and then his knight takes and that does not seem too beneficial for me.
So what I'm going to do instead is first move my bishop out the way with the same idea of playing bishop to c3 and I also want to get my rook on the b file. Now he decides to play knight to d4. That's a defense. That's a defense but for one I'm ahead in material.
Two this is not a good bishop because my pawn is on a light square. So I'm going to play the move queen to f6. It immediately attack his knight and the queen guards the bishop it also comes with ideas of playing queen to b2 which could lead to some serious checkmating threats let's see what he does okay now he plays pawn to f3 but this is just someone who is asking to lose i guess he just gave up this is called a drawback remember the same way how i just blundered this is how most of my students blunder this is how most people who join our academy comes in and this is all we fix where they move a piece but it leaves something else unprotected.
So what is my knight doing? Nothing important. Let's just take the free bishop. This is just completely winning.
And his knight is still under attack. Okay, now he plays rook to e7. I'm not able to take the rook because the queen guards it. But as I say, he's just playing bad moves all of a sudden.
I have two pieces attacking his knight. He only has one piece guarding it. So now I'm just going to take on d4. And now I'm just completely winning. So he took my queen.
Let's just take back. and once you're ahead by this amount of material you're gonna win the game the goal is to start trading we know the drill he took with his rook now i'm just gonna move my bishop out of the way seeing that he's attacking it and my next move is to finally get this rook in the game maybe put it on this open file or this open file well my opponent resides now i'm gonna be showing you the same thing but at a 1500 level stick around now we're gonna be doing the same thing against someone at the 1500 level Let's start by playing e4 and then he's playing the Scandinavian defense. Here we usually just take with the whole idea of pulling out his queen but he plays the move knight to f6 so that way he's able to capture with the knight so that's not a bad way to play.
Now whenever people develop like this I like to play bishop to b5 check because it's actually a very tricky line and if they don't know what they're doing I could just be playing with an extra pawn. So he blocks with the pawn but now i'm gonna take he's gonna take back I'm going to be down on time, but I'm going to be ahead in material. Why do I say that? From a time perspective, he's going to be able to develop his bishop easily.
Now I have to move my bishop more than once. So you could say he has the slightest lead in development, but I have an extra pawn, which means if I'm able to develop my pieces easily and he doesn't do anything, I'm just going to be better. Now he plays e5, putting his pawn in the center of the board.
From here I'll just play knight to f3 developing my knight applying some pressure to that weak unprotected pawn but then he plays bishop to g4 which clearly shows that he does not know what he's doing or maybe he's just playing a little bit too much. Maybe he's not tactically aware. There's a tactic here.
Pause the video. Try to find it. But what I'm going to do here, I'm going to play the move.
Bishop takes F7. I'm already ahead by a pawn and I'm about to win another pawn. The whole idea is once I take on F7, if he decides to take with his king, I'm going to hit him with knight takes E5, checking the king and hitting the bishop, which means I regain my piece plus two extra pawns. So now I'm just going to be playing with...
three extra pawns coming out of the opening he moves his queen let's just take back our piece knowing my head by three pawns and when you're ahead in material it means you need to start trading pieces off the board so i'm going to go for every trade i get so he took on g4 i'm not just going to take with the queen i'm also threatening checkmate he saw it though so he checked hmm this is now tricky so i could block the check with my queen trade the queens off the board and I'm winning but there's something else that I could do. Seems counterintuitive but I'm actually going to move my king to d1 because I'm still threatening a checkmate on c4 which well it's not a checkmate he's able to block with his queen but my whole idea doing this was to move my rook to d1 gaining some tempo on his queen and then now once he puts his queen on f6 I'm trying to to make queen to c4 work but he's just gonna block with his queen but then he puts his queen on f6 blundering on is this guy really 1500 that's just a knight bro that's crazy is he 1500 he is 1500 that's crazy okay so he plays h6 here and we're ahead by two pieces now i definitely want to just trade the pieces off the board so i'm going to play the move queen to e6 check just forcing the queens off the board he has to take my queen or move his king Either way we trade the Queens. and we're winning so let's just take now he protects his pawn i'm severely behind in development but i have six points that he does not have so let's just get our pieces out i'll develop my knight develop my bishop get my other rook in the game and then we're just gonna win he develops his bishop and he is also attacking my pawn but what i'm going to do here is i'm going to play the move knight to e4 which protects my pawn and counter attack his bishop he pulls his bishop back now i'm able to play the move pawn to d3 because i want to ensure that i get my bishop out get my rook out that's the only way you'll be able to see that i'm actually ahead in material he moves his king to h7 here and the natural move for me in this position is to play bishop to e3 and just start trading pieces off the board so let's go for that let's go bishop e3 trade off the bishops get my rook in the game and just win so he's trying not to trade at least we could say he understands something about chess the only piece that is not doing anything is now my rook and the e file is the only file for my rook so i'm going to move my king to d2 so that way i'm able to get my rook in the game and now all my pieces will be doing something he plays rook to d1 which is bad by the way because he's basically offering the trade while he's down in my t-route so let's just take the rook and once he takes back with his rook now i have two pieces attacking this pawn. So we're just going to continue trading.
Let's take the free pawn and my opponent resides. There you have it. What have we learned?
You have to be tactically sharp when you reach a certain level.