I used to be able to speed read, I can tell you practice makes you a speed reader and technique. Unfortunately it didn't directly help to improve my chess 😂😂
I've been using chess to increase my game sense and decision making and positioning all while on the heat of the moment to make sound decisions. In rocket league
Easy reference: 1 0:00 Don't give up file control, allow your opponent to trade into you 2 0:55 Double your rooks on open files when you can 3 1:50 Get your knights to outposts! 4 3:20 Don't let your opponent's "bad bishops" become good ones 5 5:11 Be careful moving pawns on the kingside 6 6:41 Be careful giving up control of central squares 7 7:37 Develop and consolidate before launching an attack 8 8:18 Take advantage of your opponent's weak diagonals 9 10:58 Be careful castling in front of a pawn storm 10 11:23 Get your knights to outposts! 11 13:08 Knights on the rim are dim 12 14:00 When far ahead, trade pieces to simplify 13 14:37 Think about Qb3 14 15:30 Beware of allowing connected passed pawns 15 17:05 Don't allow your king to be stuck far away from your pawns 16 18:23 Use weaknesses that you see as clues to find more advanced tactics 17 20:04 Be careful putting your pieces into pins 18 21:18 Be careful pushing pawns in front of your castled king 19 22:04 When defending a piece, try to accomplish more than one thing at a time 20 24:34 Think about castling BOTH directions 21 25:24 Watch out for your rooks lined up with your queen/king 22 26:31 Get a good tactics book (links below) 23 29:31 Be careful taking free pawns 24 31:16 Doubled center pawns can help you! 25 32:41 When way ahead, identify how you could possibly lose and defend against that
Thank you, Nelson, for making chess accessible. I haven't played in years, mostly because I never knew any strategy to it. It's cool to be able to learn things and get professional advice in such simple and understandable terms, even if I might not sit down at a chess board for the rest of the year. Your videos are as entertaining as they are educational, and you've managed to turn me from someone who barely plays into a regular viewer.
Fantastic video. As one other person said, the tip text was on screen so briefly, three times I had to hit the 10 sec rewind button to catch it again. Suggestion: shrink the game area just a bit so you have a margin at the bottom so that you can place the tip text in it for the duration of the segment. Or make use of the space where the players names, time remaining, and captured pieces are to put the text of the tip there.
Added bonus...when discussing Stockfish advantage, is there a way to show it onscreen? I felt like I was missing something, and it took me a bit to realize it wasn't being shown.
Thanks for the insight and thought process. Much appreciated. You have a knack for teaching. Also appreciate how you educate without belittling people.
I like how you are providing guidelines on how one should go about determining whether or not to follow a rule of thumb, instead of limiting the player's thought process with absolute statments.
0:16 When both the mutual attackers are defended, I, too, like to let my opponent start the exchange. Not only, as you say, because my piece then owns the line, but also because starting the exchange costs a tempo which I might use more usefully elsewhere. But I find that Stockfish sometimes says that I should have taken first.
20:04 Be careful putting your pieces into pins The e7 bishop also covers the knight on c5, so if you move your b4 castle to b5, then let them capture first, you could come out on top.
He's not going to capture until he has enough attackers. Remember, his knight is pinned, so he's going to have a hard time dealing with pieces piling up on his pinned piece.
After Rb5, a7 and black is completely paralysed. The Queen has to stay on the diagonal to defend the knight, and the knight can't move without losing the queen. White can play Ra2 and Rab2 after which the black Knight falls.
To elaborate on tip 16. You won't always find tactics by looking at weaknesses, because there may simply not be any. But usually, weaknesses last for at least several moves and at most throughout the entire game. And in if you keep these weaknesses in mind, you may be able to form a tactic in one of those moves. There has been a few occasions in my rapid games where I saw something that was almost a tactic, and wasn't, but it later really became a tactic because of that same idea I saw that my opponent didn't see.
The poison pawn nearly got me very recently in a game. The post game analysis showed the mistake to be something else, but I think I really set myself up to be in an awkward position. I was so under developed it was a very tough game with terrible accuracy.
Someone may have caught this already, but in Tip #12, does white actually has a better move than queen trading? That is, what if white plays knight to e4. Black cannot capture the knight with his pawn, because white can simply slide his rook to d1, winning black's queen. As a result, black is forced to move his king, either to e5 (where white has a spring loaded trap waiting), or back to the seventh rank, where white can capture the h7 pawn while putting black in check, which creates more dangerous situations now that white's knight is in a more advanced position.
A few more: * Don't turn your bishops into tall pawns * When in doubt, develop your pieces to the most forward available square * Alternatively: improve your least active piece * To take is a mistake: only trade when there's a good reason to * The 4 non-diagonal squares right next to a knight are the safest from said knight * Pieces have to be on the same colored square in order to be forked by a knight
Thanks Nelson for posting this compilation, even it is for players under 1400, i find it really useful for me because some of those in this video idk, btw i’m a 1400s player, but i’m struggling to reach 1500 milestone
@@andrewj1754 These were just good fundamentals. Helpful for anyone I guess. I am around 1400 and I see many people doing these mistakes. I do these mistakes sometimes too so its always good to reinforce
15:24 in this position, Queen B3 actually seems to be the best move, because Bishop D2 blocks the defense of the Pawn on D4, which ties down the F3 Knight, whereas Queen B3, as you mentioned, has that strong counter attack.
Great video. I def learned a lot. Loved all the tips. Only thing were the titles of the tips went by to fast. I barely had time to read them and let the tip soak in before the lesson on it started. Otherwise awesome video and would love to see more tips. Thanks Nelson
One of your best videos.. like others have said .. the tip text is on too brief … could you hold it for about 2 secs longer .. your my favorite chess instructor.. Thanks Nelson
i really love chess. i dont know why, i just do, and no matter how frustrating i get after a tilt or a bad loss, i end up jumping back in the same day, but with new knowledge, im not that good. my rating is going between 300 - 500 maybe 600 for the past 2 weeks (how long ive been playing) but its always fascinating to me
27:30 Lichess has different puzzle categories. So different openings, end/middle game, mate in 2,3,4, 5+ or specific kinds of mate. Also forks, skewers, and pins as well.
Nelson, in light of m,any of your outstanding skills at instructional videos, this being just 1 of so many examples I find your reach with instructional surpasses many others. Add to that your Host demeanor and Chess Vibes is very hard to not be the most favored choice time and again. Just wanted to thank you as I'm not one to comment often however I do share your Ch. with many. Blessings your way from Oregon friend. ... Mike.
Thanks for analyzing my game on stream Nelson. That game was weird because stockfish said I had a lot of blunders and mistakes but couldn't figure out why. Thanks for giving me insight.
One of the most overlooked tactics is SACRIFICE. Hardly anybody thinks you're going to give up a rook or a queen, but if it leads to checkmate, it's worth it.
I put this on to get tips and I found myself in the middle of some game that this guy is playing and rambling on about. Probably some good insight to be had but damned if I know what it is.
I've come across many chess RU-vidrs, but you're the best among all of them. Your explanations are easy to understand and digest. Thank you for your great content.
Dude! I waited for a new upload, so maybe you will see this. When will you go on with your Quiz-Series? I totally love them, but the last one is like 4 months old. It would be great if you could revive this
On "20. Think about castling both sides", is there a rule of thumb about whether I should first castle and then throw the pawns, or in some cases throwing one or two pawns before castling to the queen side could make sense? Thanks!!
Polgars book is really good but a lot of it is very basic. I started with Winning Chess Tactics by Seriwan and from there moved to Tuning your Tactics Antenna by Neimman and Improving your Chess pattern Recognition by Oudeweetering. Also, Training with Moska, but that's a little more advanced.
From one that is under 1400, this video is very helpful, you can learn much more from it because all the positions are genuine and are likely to happen in a game. I respect the effort put into the other ones, but in my opinion, they seem more artificial.
Thanks for your great videos. However, your text prompts disappear way way too quickly. You might want to give them a few more seconds and maybe even have voice over them.
20:48, if Bishop captures knight, don't you have Be7 bishop captures the Bishop and ig he takes your Bishop with his queen, you get his queen for free?
@@isaack3645 You cannot move your queen, since he will get a free piece (he has two attackers and you have one defender) and you cannot move your knight since you lose your queen. The whole point of why the pin is bad is that you have now immobilized two of your pieces.
