8:32 "There's no way you're going to get that king out of the corner." But why not? We need you to finish the lesson and demonstrate it so beginners understand. You can say it, but I don't understand why that king can't be moved. If you'd taken ten seconds and shown what happens it would make sense.
Because the black king will keep shuffling between a8 and b8 and you cannot get it out of the corner because the position will eventually lead to the pawn behind the black king in the corner and the white king will be either on a6 or b6 and moving away from the pawn results in a draw as well
@@macmillerppp he's in a position to get the most out of this growth in chess popularity. None of it is nuts. It is cool, though, couldn't happen to a more sound fella.
@@imperialrecker7111 you basically just master end game and just trade up all your pieces. You bring better players to your battlefield which is your home. You know your terrain better.
Man i was shocked. I asked to make a chess endgame tips video today when he asked what to do.Thanks for making this video.pls make more endgame videos like 2 bishop endgame, bishop, knight endgame etc....😀
An understandably difficult urge to fight. Here's the thing that I have to remind myself much more often in games - checking in itself is actually worthless a lot of the time since the king can just move out of the way.
@@wildgurgs3614 I disagree, forks, discovered attacks, forcing moves, making the king stop guarding a piece, stalling, spike checks, game conversion, counter attacks, these all start from checks (edit: I don’t mean every fork comes from a check, or that every counterattack starts with one, I’m just giving examples)
@@MA-er3yw Fair point. What I meant to say is that it's often tempting, especially for novices, to deliver a check without planning out a line of moves, leading to the checked opponent simply moving their king out of the way with no real consequence.
I always found it easier to draw a diagonal line from the pawn towards my opponent King, until it reaches the 8th or 1st rank, then use it as the diagonal of the square. It doesn't involve actual counting and it is faster to visualize specially during blitz or bullet matches. Thank you for the video, Levy
SO thats why I always lose end games! I feel like I can play my best chess for the entire game, but as soon as it becomes just king and pawns, the opposition must think I just switched with a chimp
I want to see Levy’s Dominican Republic series, where he sits in an Hawaiian shirt at a plastic table under an umbrella like “Newman” in Jurassic Park.
please just one vids a day, levy. Once a day is enough. we, subsribers, are love you and all your vids, levy. quality over quantity is better. I know your mind wants to work more but your mental health is important too levy...a good rest like 6-8 hours of sleep is a mandatory for fully functional and optimal body performance overall, cleaning the house, a lil' walking around town, a lil' work out (jogging in d'morning, etc), experiment on making a good food while watching cooking tutorial, reading a good novel or even make time to pray give thanks for all the things you've got, etc, etc...
I read about GothamChess on Wikipedia and we both learned chess at the same time (age of 6). But I kinda just played “for fun”, whereas he read books, practiced, and got really freakin’ good! He put up really salient advice at the end there: “Chess is hard. You’ve gotta do the work”. I hear you, boss. Maybe it’s not too late for me to cross 2000+ consistently edit (8 months later): now at 2150, still learning 🙏🏽
@@godspeed5428 so having the opposition comes from being one square away from the enemy king, directly across from your king, at the end of your turn, meaning you move, and now there is one square between your king and the opponents, but its now his turn and can only move back or to the side. Distant opposition is the concept, where one is an odd number of squares, so is 3, 5 and 7, and knowing this, you have the same result if both kings were to start moving towards one another. Its opposition at a distance.
Triangulation is another important concept to try and gain opposition if you don't have it. Look up a video on Triangulation in chess as well. Very helpful
@@codygarrett866 i think i get it.. So basically the minimum no. of squares between two kings can be 1 which is odd no.(which is common sense), so odd no. Away is distant opposition.. Simple concept.. I feel stupid now that i understand it.. Thankyou..
important parts of 2 bishops endgames are 1) centralizing all pieces, 2) slowly narrowing the amount of space king can move (but im pretty bad at chess so even then its sitll hard for me to convert as well)
You are an excellent teacher. I have been playing AT chess for 67 years. Some great games, mostly terrible endings. Since I found you I have been devouring your wisdom and have raised my Rapid Chess Score from 650 to 1250-1300. Obviously I have much to learn still. Please keep adding content and I also enjoy your many other chess offerings.
@@fawzanulhaque483They did only say playing AT chess, not playing it. Maybe there was supposed to be a difference like they planned on learning it or maybe it was a type idk.
i think one of the reasons for king moves being counterintuitive comes from diagonal movement. a king on a1 needs the same amount of moves to get to a8 then he needs to get to h8, even though the latter is much further away. so a king moves sort of faster when he goes diagonal.
This is a phenomenal video lesson. I was literally just teaching my brother this yesterday. I have friends and family learning chess-Best believe I will be recommending this to others to be sure. Excellent recap Levy. Keep it coming!
Thanks Gotham, I got king and pawn endgame in a game I played immediately after watching this video, and was able to win it. I really appreciate your work and hope you will come up with more such intersting videos😀
12:34 actually you can play king c6, cause if king c8 you just push b6, and if king b8 you push b7, since you're not behind the pawn the black king can go to a7 and you play king c7, now the black king can't go to b8 so you just push and promote.
Levy, how much for a one-on-one game with analysis? Love your content bro, bought one of your opening courses to help support you. Now let me support you with mo money for you to kick my ass and teach me how you did it!
Thank you, Levy! I found myself in a King + Pawns endgame just a day after watching this video, and thanks to your video (and some practice with the drills) I pulled out a win without external help.
When is a Queen stronger than two rooks? It seems clear on most situations with otherwise equal material that the two rooks will prevail, how far ahead on pawns/what positions etc. can the Queen at least draw if not better? Is one pawn enough in most cases? Anyway, your lesson with NL brought me here, love the content already.
One of the best endgame videos I have ever watched. Thank you so much again. you are an absolutely superb teacher because your delivery has such passion that it makes it easier for the listener to remember the important things.
So levy I've been playing chess and currently 1700/1800 in blitz and 1600 in rapid . So mostly my tournament will focus with online and there will be an online as the pandemic goes on on the 26th December. I would like to see rook vs rook endgame which most likely I would face upon and only have won like a probability of maybe 35%. So also bishop vs knights endgame would also help in a semi-open positions too! Also great job levy I've been following for 3 months at RU-vid know
Ok Levi. I'm 1900s in blitz and 2000s in rapids exactly like u before u read thet book u recommended and I am a lazy person! like i have talent in chess but i never study it. I always play using my mind and the things i know (by playing thousands of games with my brother since i was a kid) it works sometimes, but it never works out against ppl who studied chess cuz I either get tricked in the openings or tricked in an end game and if i think for every move my opponent do I simply lose in time. So! I decided I will challenge myself and actually take chess seriously and study the book u recommended (and others... and obviously watch your videos cuz they are hella entertaining and useful) I promise you from now on until 1 year or even less, I will be like you (a bit bold but honest words) and maybe i will have the privilege to play against you and who knows I might even win. I know i wrote a paragraph but I'm really exciting to start this journey thanks to you! keep inspiring people cuz i know there is players like me and others who are new to the game and want to learn. see you in 1 year hopefully 💜
I just played in a tournament, and after a long and back and forth middle game, I entered the final stage having a 6-5 pawn majority. I proceeded to make the most minor inaccuracies, and lost the game by one square. That's chess for you.
