The Chess Elements Explained by GM Yasser Seirawan 

More Please, Yasser is like the bob Ross of chess

not enough of Yasser. Going to need at least 46 more hour long episodes. Thanks.

Yasser is the Richard Feynman of Chess. Listening to him everything in Chess suddenly makes sense and just seems almost obvious.. but it takes someone truly gifted to make it this clear.

Seeing Yasser streaming in the dark, neon lit, chessbrah room, is something I never knew I needed

I love this so much. I would pay money to get more chess, and life, lessons from Yasser.

Yasser needs to do sleep meditation narrations, his voice is perfect for it.

Can someone ask Yasser if he could adopt me ?

You are so kind and gentle teaching this most magnificent game, you are like a four star general talking to children in a language they can understand. I was born in the Soviet Union and I learned the basics of chess early. Now, at the age of 46 I am returning to this game and you, Mr. Seirawan, are a magnificent teacher. God bless you for doing such wonderful job and being such a decent and patient human being.

I bet you folks were unaware that Benicio Del Toro knew so much about chess.

I want Yasser to read me a book before I go to sleep at night.

Yasser is a true chess legend 🙂👍🏻💖

Thank you Yasser and chessbrahs.

The clearest chess lesson I may have ever heard/saw

One of the best lecturers I have seen in my 49 years

yasser is legend

Yasser: "Hello Everyone!" Me: Agadmator is that you?

Jesus Christ!! That was excellent!!! Totally changed how I see the game. I’m only 1500, but this immediately helped. Keep the series coming!!!!

According to "Play Winning Chess" the value of King is infinite because its loss means the loss of the game... I did hear that 4 is Kings "fighting value' though.

Excellent explanation on the philosophy of chess. I learned so much. Keep the lessons coming. Thanks!

Five elements 1. Pawn structure 2. Space 3. MATERIAL OR FORCE 4. TIME (no. Of moves/ tempos) 5. KING POSITION

Im still not believing that Yasser is a true person. There is no way a human being is that pure of heart.

Please more lessons from Yasser. He explains it so calm and understandable I enjoyed it really.

"I hope you enjoyed this lecture and I've got many more to come." Time to hit that notification bell.

Thank you sir. I learned today both English and chess lessons. From Algeria

Yasser lesson,... I cannot imagine a better video

Thanks Mr. Seirawan for the lecture and to chessbrah for having him on, keep 'em coming!

I am not good at many things, but as it happens counting is one of these things I can do particularly well. So naturally Yasser's idea of 'counting' space by simply count what amount of my opponents squares are attacked by my pieces really appealed to me. However as I tried as exercise to do this count in various different positions and this raised some interesting questions that I wish to share --> Should every square be counted as '1'? --> What about batteries? Imagine an empty board except for a white bishop on g2 and a queen on h1. Does white control 12 or 8 enemy squares in the space count? --> Does every piece excert the same amount of 'control'? Situation 1: black pawn on f6, black Knight of f7. White Queen on d4. Situation 2: black pawn on f6, black knight of f7. White pawn on d4. In the first scenario black can play Ne5 without losing material, in the latter the second player can't without sacrificing the knight for a mere pawn. --> I now simply count a square twice if it is attack twice. This seems fair to me because I do excert more control, but what if a square was attacked 5 times? That would in many situation be overkill except if my opponent had the square also covered many times. which brings me to my last question. --> In your lecture you used the words 'attacked' and 'controlled' interchangably. Is that fair, or does control require you have more/lower ranked pieces on a square compared to your opponent. In other words. Isn't control relational and attack absolute? Of course all of these questions are highly theoretical and perhaps not worth considering during a game, but they are fun and interesting nevertheless. @Yasser: Thank you so much for your interesting lectures I really get a lot of joy from watching them.

More episodes of Yasser please! I could listen to him all day.

Would love to see more. Thanks, Yasser and chessbrahs!

This is so relaxing and entertaining at the same time, great content!

yasser is amazing, his lectures are so insightful and rich. wonderful that he's always been so involved with giving back to the chess community.

This was excellent! Fascinating stuff. More Yasser lectures please!

Loving this serie already. Great work Yasser! ♡

Thank you for posting. I hope all of these make it to RU-vid

Thank you for posting this. Please do more. Thank you.

This is one of the finest video you have made, Yasser! More please! Something i would love to be learning more about are «tempo/tempi» in the middlegame. I understand the concept until castling and easy pawn-ending there the pawn are queening first, and the easy concept with scandiavaen i can, but im struggling with the tempo/tempi in the middlegame after the we have castled and how to calculate before end-game who are tempo/tempi up to win the game.

This was so great!! Can't wait for more

Absolutely fantastic!! Well done Yasser! We look forward to your upcoming videos!

Yes! Please more of this!

Best video chessbrah has put out since Robin Van Kampen frequented the channel.

The 'ad' makes it look like Yasser plays in a pro-PUBG team, the notion of which has me giggling.

I can't think of anyone who truly loves the game of chess nearly as much as Yasser Seirawan does. By far my favorite GM

Brilliant teacher! Well said!!

Love it! Suggested a similar idea to Eric when he was playing blitz a few days ago. Chess Brahs just earned a twitch subscription from me. I reckon they'll smash it with this format.

Oh yeah, I could listen to this all night, in fact I’m going to. Great content, Soothing tones!

Awesome stuff! Thanks

Will watch as soon as time allows!!

one of the best lessons ive seen !!

This is suuuuuuperrrrr! Wonderful Thaaaaank you!

That was so instructive !

Very cool, looking forward to the rest of the series.

Looking forward to all of them!

I concur with many of the other comments, please make more of these.

These slower paced videos are amazing, please give us more!

Thankyou for the lesson.

go yasser !

Thanks Yasser and Chessbrah.

Started of really basic and I almost skipped. Glad I sticked through it! The last minutes were a revelation to me. Simple but thought provoking.

simply great . thanku

Holy cow!!! This was AWESOME!!!!

Yasser is my new grandpa ive decided. He is the uncle Iroh of chess. I cant explain how much I like his soul

great stuff for a beginner like me, thanks Yasser!

such clear explanations...Never understood why pieces were given their assigned point values, and thinking of chess as a game of space makes so much sense. Thank you for the amazing, free content :D

Thank you, Yasser!

my best chess lecture I heard, thanks

Very excited for this series More please

such a clean lesson by yasser

Great first lesson. Thanks!

Nice!!! Thanks Master Seirawan!!!

The chess instructor with the smoothest voice

I’ve been studying AlphaZero and LeelaZero games in recent month. Both love to push A and H pawns. When Yasser implies not all pawns are created equal, this is a prime example. These AI based programs are always ready to push those pawns on the side of the board because they are really good as battering rams to disrupt the opponents king safety, but aside from that, their value is quite limited.

This was great!

Great stuff, chessbrah. Keep it up. 👊

Very nice Vid. When i first explored this channel i always thought who is this Yasser guy Eric is talking about. Then i saw him first time and now i cannot get enough. Nice and slow voice and nearly always smiling. Keep up the good work guys!

I'm 1600 and I think for players my level and below the minor pieces go up in value as most games are won or lost based on minor piece play. I'd be tempted to say that rook and bishop are almost equal and knights slightly less. The rook is only worth 5 if you get to a lot of endgames (like GM's do) which will increase the average value of the rook in your overall games but for players like me I really believe its closer to 4.

I like this. I'd like to see more of such lessons.

That was an awesome video. I logged in especially so as to leave this comment after watching on Xbox. Hope to see more like this in the future.

Ty yasser big time u the man

I love it! It reminds me of playing at wire works coffee house. But the king isn't worth 4 just like the queen being worth more because of the perpetual the king is worth less because of the check, so 3 maybe... And it is all still relative to the position a pawn that is queening next move is obviously more valuable but it's worthless of your getting mated as soon as it dose. One of the things I like to do is think of the number of spaces I control and how guarded vs threatened each minor piece is on either side as well as what spaces they would like to ocupy, then look at tempo, and when I say that I put green and red counts next to each square red threatened by opponent, green guarded by me and vice versa, and do this for two or three possible or likely moves for each piece, this will allow you to see where weaknesses can form or breakthroughs can happen in 3 moves I can threaten c4 4 times but they can only defend 3 times. The real problem with trying to numerically define a position is that every move in chess dose something, but it also stops doing what it was doing as well. Ultimately; to progress is to create weaknesses, to push is to over extend, and your worst nightmare is a pawn with delusions of grandeur that may just come true.

more please. Yasser you are a real G. very much appreciated move to Alberta!!! lol

Well, that was a nice surprise, thank you Yasser for your great insight; it was really fun and insightful. Go chessbrahs.

Go Yasser! Keep up the great work.

Loved the lesson:-)

Such a Good Video. Still watch it from time to time. Very interesting ideas, Yasser is just such a good teacher! Greeting from Germany

Thanks a lot

Bravo! 👑

As a teacher I can vouch that Yasser is a great teacher. An inspiration for me. Looking forward to part 2. Is there a schedule when these will be uploaded or should we remain patient? Have a nice day!

What a sweet man who has the knowledge and the force of education of a lion!! There are lovely people in our world Yasser is one of them!

I seem to remember some different elements mentioned by Aron Nimzowitsch in his book “Mein System” (My System). Hold on, let me find the book... Yes, here they are: 1.The Centre 2.The Open Rook Files 3.The Play on The Seventh and Eighth Rank 4.The Passed Pawn 5.The Pinning 6.The Discovered Check 7.The Trading of Pieces 8.The Pawn Chain

Yasser is the Mr.Rogers of the Chess world!

Very interesting video!

this was awesome

I love your voice and your teaching

most instructional lesson i have had, very gg

Nice lecture,keep going

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And I thought I knew piece values xD . Thanks Yasser, for showing the spacial approach towards the piece values

Haha! I`m at the breakfast table and was supposed to do the other stuff but I got stuck with this. Thanks for the great lesson!

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