A rook in the corner isn't bad. According to Ben Feingold it's great because that way, when you resign, your rook is already set up for the next game :D
I actually started my journey into chess with his books. They are absolutely fantastic. Really transport his charisma as well as his deep understanding of the game.
And I love how you brought combinations under three broad headings. Now we can now what to look out for when calculating. When the king is unsafe you should watch out for checkmating combinations for example. This will serve as a bright sign indicating what combination puzzle you are solving
Good topic. Did Bob Ross help prepare you for this lecture. I felt like you might take away the pawn on d4 and replace it with a tree maybe with some snow covering it.
I've never wanted to study chess to the point where I'm familiar with various openings - an in insufferable flaw in my game I know, but I haven't had that much interest - but this is pretty groovy - he makes the various possibilities very logical to evaluate. I actually like looking at puzzle books.
In 22:16, why does white take the bishop instead of forking the king and rook? Sure the black rook is not yet playing and the bishop might be a more active target, but we are talking about taking a bishop against taking a pawn + rook, it's a substantial material difference
I wonder if GM Seraiwan could present a game where Queens were traded and black did not lose the right to castle. It would go a long way in determining the answer to the question at the end of the lecture.
It's a fantastic strategy lecture, but I don't see at all how the title of the video is related to Yassers lecture. It seems to be about strategy and queenless middlegames where I Black lost the right to castle. The video should be called "(When) Should you trade Queens in the opening?"
I'm confused about the title for this video. I don't understand how the skill in recognizing combos patterns is related to this dry berlin-like opening, but the main theme about comparing Berlin as the best defense against 1.e4 and this defense against 1.d4 is very interesting. In my club-level games though, white never plays 2.c4 in this position, it's 2.e4 or 2.Bg4 or 2.Bg5 so I have to switch into Pirc or something Indian-ish.
Квант-Сёрфинг the particular opening is simply an example. The position itself doesn't inherently involve strategic combinations unless you choose to play them, which can be done in almost any opening depending on the particular position. This particular position doesn't have to do with strategic combos on its own, however I could say that about absolutely any opening whatsoever. Your statement would technically be true about any opening whatsoever, but it's extremely disingenuous. The class isn't spotting strategic combos in the berlin defense; it is spotting strategic combos in general, and this just happens to be the example position he used to demonstrate said idea.
I think you could play after Be6, f4 anyway. And if he capture your c4 pawn, just play Nf3, and I think you have compensation. If he goes after f4, Nd7, I think Nf3 again should be OK. Another idea is simple b3 after Be6
When you're up material but without an attack, when your opponent is attacking, or when you have a spatial disadvantage. There are always exceptions based on the peculiarities of the position, but generally speaking, that is when I would suggest trading queens, as per the last question posed in the video.
Since a couple of months have passed without any answer to my question, I'll ask again: What happened around 24 minutes into the video when suddenly a completely different game is being analyzed?Great, fantastic lecture up until this point.
Hello Mr Yasser Seirawan.I really like your idea with f4, but what happens when black plays say Be6.Thats the most common move in the Mega database(only played 15 times tho).Would you continue with Nf3 then?Now what if Black answers Nd7.I don't really see how we achieve our idea.Do you? ;) In one of my otb games we reached a similar position but m opponent played Be6 before he played c6.So he attacked my c4 pawn and I continued with e4.Is it possible to play f4 instead?(whats the follow up)TYVM!
Great lecture as always from GM Seirawan but he should have someone running the computer for him so that he didn't have to bother with that kind of technical stuff. Question: what happened around 24 minutes into the video when suddenly a completely different game is being analyzed?
Yasser, I love the the video, thank you. I'm lost for words; during the build up of this video, you leave us with the question "When is it good to trade queens" Followed by your priceless smile... And I think to myself, "Pfff well that's what I was hoping you'd conclude, or give closure on." - I'm extremely ameture in chess, very new to playing with players on Websites etc, so there is heavy competition. I know my theory department lacks completely. Would it be so detrimental after the initial trading of pawns to just develop your bishop in front of the queen? (on the premise that you wanted to keep the queens and not trade, I don't know which IDEA is better, keeping or trading, and for whom it's better to keep or trade. I was hoping you'd get to that!!!) Sadly, the more I learn about chess.... The more I realise I don't know much. Great game, love it.
in openings usually who trades queens has an edge if kings arent castled. usually you wanna trade queens whenever your opponent has a strong attack or you are up material. there are exception of course but mainly it is like so. in the berlin endgame though black can equalize with careful play thanks to its development lead and the fact that it is difficult to be checkmated in the center without queens on. so it is somewhat compensated in doing so.
This was one of the first strategies I invented as a little kid when I was playing against my dad! Trading queens to deny black castle rights right off the bat!
When I play 1d4 after d6 I always play Bf4 but Yasser said there's only 3 moves and that move wasn't one of them so can someone explain why Bf4 doesn't work against e6?
Really nice guy indeed and therefore a good teacher for kids. I really would like to stay positive here, but i would like to encourage the sir to not come up with his own terms of "combinations", if he is not able to differ betwen terms like strat and tac. Also the amount of knowledge he is trying to transfer in a ~40min vod is just "too weak, too slow"
bisbar rafa thats not exactly queen's gambit, and the opening is still undecided, usually until black's next move, might it be 2...c5 or 2...Nf6 or 2...f5 (love me some leningrad dutch). But yeah, he was quoting Yasser when he tried to provoke the audience by throwing in a joke about nobody playing chess^^
@@Ancient_Road 1.d4 d6 2.Bf4 Nd7 - Stockfish evaluates as +0.6 at depth 24. 1.d4 d6 2.Bf4 Nd7 3.Nf3 e5 - Stockfish evaluates as +1 at depth 25. Since there is no material loss, that +0.6 and +1 can only come from better space or development. Maybe there is something to Nd7 e5 so deep that even stockfish can't see at depth 25. But for all intents and purposes to an average chess player - Bf4 seems fine to me still. There has to be a reason why Yasser completely dismissed any dark square bishop move. Wish he gave his reasons for it.
+Emil Savery When the knight in d6 it protects Pawn in c4 and attacks b7. it's hard to take pawn in c4 because it's protected by bishop and can be protected further by pawn in b2.
apparently there are alot of low rated players in the audience.the instructive thing is to point out whats wrong with d5? it is a complete waste of time
Should've stopped asking the class what they would do after 10 minutes. It's obvious they don't know much. I'm a freaking noob and I know at least a few of the answers, or play a few of the ways he asks. Either that, or they're cowards, too afraid to give a straight answer in fear of being wrong.
People, who are too nice, like Seirawan, always make me suspicious. What do they do with their anger/frustrations?? Aren`t this the guys, who eventually become serial killers?!
