"giving up a bishop, without even requesting that White qualify the capture..." Yasser's speech is the reason I have kept listening to him since he unveiled Seirawan chess on youtube. He is a gem to the chess community
Great commentary Sierawan! One of your early videos helped me start chess as a beginner and have early tournament success. It helped me become more interested in chess and learn. Great videos and commentary!
Yasser Seirawan has to be one of the nicest guys in the chess community. His disposition is like that of listening to Bob Ross painting his masterpiece, only his canvas is the chessboard. Thank you for remaining a pleasant and awesome instructor sir.
I find all the sidelines and suggestions a bit mentally exhausting...which is actually a good thing. Yasser really has a way of making me think things through.
I have read Yaz books and viewed his chess dvd. These clips on your page help solidify some of what I was able to grasp from these items. Thanks for posting these up! Maybe I will be able to play well enough to resist my opponent eventually.
Please someone already tell GM Yasser how to point squares digitally, and to not show his back to the camera.. He is one of the best chess coaches giving lectures here, but has that minimal drawback for recorded explanations.
There are many reasons why I love Yasser.. But I just came up with another! - I'm a huge metal fan, and realised, if you slap some long hair on Yasser, he'd look ironically A LOT like Tom Araya!!
This master loves teaching chess. He is slow so his students will get the idea. Thanks for the master and for the uploader. For a Grand Master Chess is breakfast lunch and dinner. They spend many hours to become great. And you dont listen of bad behavior of their part. An example for all.
The duplicate subtitles are more distracting than helpful. That being said the lecture is still thumbs up worthy on the basis of content as opposed to presentation.
Yasser is great, the speech he did was great, but as usual all the stuff is way over my head. I can't remember/read out any of this. If I tried to put this into practice I'd just screw it up. Is there some kind of basic knowledge I'm unaware of? I don't know the openings, is that it?
These are intermediate courses for people who have nearly mastered all of the fundamentals and are now focusing on mastering strategic ideas and tactics. There are beginner courses up now taught by Kummer, I believe, that will get you closer to this point in your chess career. Hope that helps!
Study the middle game. My first book was exchanges in the middle game. That one book improved my chess greatly. Then pawn strucure etc etc. Chess is like learning to speak a language, the more work you put in the better you'll speak. Endings are of course important, especially rook endings as they arrive about 50% of the time should an ending occur, but 75% of games are decided in the middle game and if you get real good at it then any ending you arrive at should be easy to convert into a win. Openings? For me i learnt 200 Ruy lopez GAMES, rather than getting bogged down with reams of souless "variations".
+Hose Armando It only fights for d4 and f4 (1 sweet center and 2 total central squares). In contrast, a move like d4 occupies itself on d4 (a sweet center square) and fights for 3 total central squares (c5 and e5) therefore fighting for 2 sweet center squares, and 3 total central squares, plus maintaining space. In addition, e3 blocks the dark squared bishop's path in the future where it may have to go to d2 (passive) or b3 (slightly time wasting) Pawns are to faciliate piece development, defense, and breaks. Pieces are to WIN. :)
+Very_UnOriginal_Name "Pawns are to faciliate piece development, defense, and breaks..." True; but the above statement significantly leaves out that every pawn is also a potential queen. Just the *threat* of a pawn becoming a queen alone can many times have huge strategic and tactical implications in a game, with the balance of power often tipping in favor of the side with the passed pawn, and therefore being instrumental in winning the game. Moreover, pawns can be used to take part in, or give, checkmate.
Heat in the Heartland Thats true too. But... afterall, so many positions are possible in chess that anything is possible, almost. Of course its not possible to give checkmate with a K+B vs K game
When yasser moves the white queen up the h file away from attack he puts it inline of a deadly check fork from the bishop tutt tutt gm yasser tutt tutt
Kristin Olsen So the french defense is resigning after white's first move, or if you're playing white, then to resign before you make your first move? :P
Kristin Olsen You might want to read up about WW II a bit more. They really had no choice in the matter. Fighting back for no reason accomplishes nothing and just wastes more lives. The U.S. would have done the same. Luckily for them they have never had to face an enemy on their own soil.
Does anyone know where I can find the game between Fischer and the Mongolian Grandmaster? As far as I can tell, the USA didn't even play Mongolia in the 1966 Havana Olympiad :/
+What's Wrong With No chance it's Finegold. Finegold doesn't need private lessons and he would never play as the "Ben" in the chess game above played. That "Ben" is probably a C class player. Certainly no GM.
That's true.But in this case,I think it's a different Ben.Ben finegold is a GM and plays much better chess.I think it's ben simon.BTW What would finegold say to the move Qd6..Terrible..
I don't want to critisize because I really love most STLChessClub chess vidoes, but good lord - could he possibly talk any slower or feminate? Painful video to watch.
