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Video title opportunity missed: How to Anna-lyze a chess position

K-MAPS a bit easier to remember? King, Material, Activity, Pawns, Space

“if your heart is not working, you are going to run into a lot of health issues” is an understatement. 😂😂😂

1. King safety 2. Material 3. Piece activity 4. Pawn structure 5. Space advantage Got it thanks Anna!!

Please continue to deliver these fabulous educational videos! I love the trash talk blitz matches as well, but I’d love to see an equal number of these to pair them with :)

Thanks for the clear explanations, @AnnaCramling! A humble suggestion, if I may. "KMPPS" is not very easy to remember; it's particularly hard to remember which "P" comes first in the analysis. You might substitute the first "P" with an "A, for "Activity." This is a double-purpose move! "K-MAPS" is much easier to remember, and now we don’t have two "P"s to sort out. Just a thought. Thanks for all of your excellent chess content!

for math , I learned Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. I made up King Makes Poor Pawn Safe

Hi Anna, I'm not a big chess guy. I just watch your channel when I need a smile. Your amazing spirit and beaming smile lift my spirit every time. Thank you for your wonderful channel.

I’m 70 and about to play my first ever Classical Chess tournament; the BC Open Senior’s Chess Tournament…Pia will you be my ‘Second’! Thanks for the great advice Anna! You’re both my inspiration to enter!

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I like all types of Chess videos you do. Trash talk sidewalk chess, international tournaments, and instruction are all entertaining. Your happy attitude is a drawing card for whatever you are doing.

Hi Anna, I don’t know if anyone else told you in the comments but some would say your missing the third part of your presentation. You got the first two parts right: 1) Tell your audience what they are going to learn. 2) Teach them. But you need to finish it this way: 3) Tell them what you just taught them. Part 3 reinforces for your audience what you want them to know! Or, (Tell them what your going to tell them. Tell them. Tell them what you just told them!) 😀

I think it would be good, both for us and for you, to have you do a series of endgame tutorials and tactics videos.

Learned about pawn strucure and pawn islands, W lesson. 3 weeks into chess, 600 rn. Trying to climb as fast as possible!

KMAPS - King, Material, Activity, Pawns, Space

What?! The advice isn't knowing how to play the cow?? 😂

Good summary. But I would add a 6th element: the tempo, or who has the initiative. Mijail Tahl was asked about which was the single most important factor in chess and he said it had taken him a time to understand that tempo is the most valuable element. You can sacrifice material or accept weaknesess in your position to gain tempo and initiative.

You’re the best. I open good, middle game pretty good. Then blunder away 1/2 my end games. Getting back after a year off. Thank you.

19:52 It seems to me that your opponents best chance is to attack the knight defending the king (using the ws bishop). This necessitates a rook exchange as the opening move for him. Black king can still hurriedly retreat however after the exchange. But it is a bad position.

Great job Anna. These are extremely valuable. If you're ever in Beverly hills California, my wife and I will take you to dinner

I need more continuation! What if bishop to h3, now guarded by the queen, with the idea of displacing the great knight to open up the checkmate square on g7? Is the rook forced to exchange? Does that even things back up? My unrated sub-1000 brain can’t cope…

¡Thank you Anna!, this is very useful because sometimes we think we are lost, but this help us to analyze difficult positions.

"only chess advice you need...play monopoly!" solid advice!

This is such a good learning, please do many videos like this: a situation and a walk through of the strategic analysis and plans

Annnnnna do you make content with smaller creators ??

I would like to see more videos like this! Great tips Anna!

your expressions is distracting me why are you so beautiful

we love your instructional videos, make more please

This is the first time I've enjoyed watching a sponsor video. Must be the Cramling Effect 😂

Thank you Anna for this amazing video!! I love these videos that make me a better chess player. Please keep doing more of these and I would totally watch a video of you going through more of these positions and evaluating. And explaining more of how to implement this in my games to be a better chess player

These rules are a good rule of thumb, however unlike the mathematics example, they aren't set in stone. King safety is a no brainer, most important thing, no questions asked. However the issues begin with number 2: material. As a rule of thumb this is absolutely true. However, there are many cases where a sacrifice move, as in getting into a material deficit, is actually the correct, and often times winning, move. Which brings us nicely to point 3, piece activity, which is the reason said sacrifice move was a good move in the first place. The thing with material is that it's only important under the assumption that all the pieces are relevant(or in other words active). You can be 1 or more pieces down(regardless of type btw, not just pawns) and still be ahead because your position made more of your opponent's pieces inactive despite still being on the board. It's an old concept called local advantage, a concept generals, from Hannibal to Napoleon, used to great effect. The chess AI Torch showcases this concept perfectly in the chess realm, and is the reason it's so far ahead of the other chess bots that adhere to the concept of material above all else(other than king safety of course) no matter what. Basically it doesn't matter how large your army is if you can only bring a fraction of it into battle. In chess terms it means you can be at a significant material disadvantage but if you're attacking from 1 of the flanks for example than any piece on the other flank are irrelevant unless you can somehow bring your king towards that other flank to reactivate all those pieces. Of course this an advanced concept so for the vast majority of players strictly focusing on material is still good enough, I'm just saying it's not absolutely true like in the mathematics example you brought up.

Great explanation, Anna! I've tried to grasp this sort of analysis before from books, but never really got it. I'm a lot closer to understanding now.

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Great energy here. Love the passion in the speech. The love for the game and wanting to help the viewers comes across in a positive way. 👍🏻

Please do the video where you demonstrate how pawn advantage = win. Thank you!

4:40 here is where she starts talking about the method

So if you've got a lot of PIECE ACTIVITY, like Anna mentions, could you be called a PEACE ACTIVIST? :)

Determinate.

Just gotta need a beauty watching the game while playing against your homie and your rating will improve automatically Yo also anna you should workout you look so thin

In chess, one should be totally Ruthless if you want to be the best. From Merriam Webster "Ruthless can be defined as "without ruth" or "having no ruth." So what, then, is ruth? The noun ruth, which is now considerably less common than ruthless, means "compassion for the misery of another," "sorrow for one's own faults," or "remorse." And, just as it is possible for one to be without ruth, it is also possible to be full of ruth. The antonym of ruthless is ruthful, meaning "full of ruth" or "tender." Ruthful can also mean "full of sorrow" or "causing sorrow." Ruth can be traced back to the Middle English noun ruthe, itself from ruen, meaning "to rue" or "to feel regret, remorse, or sorrow."

I've recently come back to chess after a 20 year hiatus and oh gods, I've forgotten all my opening theory. But, you know, positional chess has not changed. E.g. bishops and rooks that are trapped by their own pawns are useless and a central king in the endgame is better than one on the side of the board.

Knight to G7 "YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP!"

Great video. Thanks so much. Is it possible to upload your video to my chess channel with Arabic translation and explanation?

If your heart is not working, that's cuz you're dead.

I thought White was better. Both Kings kind of look unsafe, white has worse pawn structure and more space, and white looks like he has more of an attack after something like f6, Kh8, h5. Edit after watching video: I missed that Ne8 defense. Great move! Also I though it was white to move. Had it been white to move my guess might of been correct. I guess I should of known it was black to move because we were looking at the board through blacks perspective.

I would like more instructional videos! But I do love Mom evaluating you during your competition as well!

Thank You Anna for KMPPS . I have been trying to learn how to calculate better . . . . . . .

3:25 lining up to punch me in the mouth if I don’t jot down this advice 😂

At 17:50... Your questioning pause here, asking "What is white's best move?" , . .wouldn't the bishop coming down to H7 be more advantageous PRIOR to your pawn move?

I don't play much, but I'd definitely take some "advice" from her... 😀

In the first example. I think White stands better. But it is entirely down to the illusion of the attack which gives a false sense of safety and activity.

anna, anna, anna. this is great advice in general, but in this position i would defer toy your dad more than your mum. g6 is the key square, not g7, your opponent misplayed it incredibly. this is because the dark square weaknesses around your king are permanent. nothing you can do can protect g7 more than twice. f6 therefore is a blunder. h5, for anyone that plays the game regularly, is actually quite intuitive. i don't care what your coach says, the 5 things to consider are (in order), pawn structure, king safety, initiative, lines of communication, and only lastly material. the fact is here that black is only equal because in order for white to smash through the pawns around black's king requires tempi that black can counter threats with. the fact is that in practical play, white's ideas are easier to see, black's defences are not natural moves, so while it is equal according to a computer, we mere mortals have a more difficult time if h5 with the idea of hxg6 is played than if f6, which blocks off so many lines of communication, is played

(4:00) Well :D The utter most important thing - as you realize looking at this - is: Training! To make it your hobby! To have plenty of time and events to make yourself familiar with the goal at hand (in this case: evaluation of chess configurations). Even such simple things like math rules on operator precedence will put you down if you have no continued and thorough training in it, but will become drastically trivial if you have. The same with chess (even not as trivial as operator precedence rules).

I don't know if you are more beautiful inside or outside... that is very rare for me to see!

need work on the video edits as alot of stuters etc xxx

Yes, I enjoy your teaching videos. I hadn't played in forty years, then the algorithm stared serving up your videos. I just watched "One." A week later I had an online chess account, and was up at night watching your videos about pawn structure etc. You are a good teacher. As a beginner, choosing one voice to listen to as a teacher helps. Trying to learn anything on RU-vid can be like trying to drink from a fire hose. I like that you talk about the fundamentals. Not just 'if x, then y' but how and why. A couple of things I'd like to understand better: 1. When and why to sacrifice, trade, or defend a piece. As a beginner, I want to protect and defend ALL of my pieces. Every taken piece feels like a failure. However, when I watch better players they will seemingly happily trade, or sacrifice even the Queen, if it's the 'right' thing to do. How do you know when, and why to defend or not? 2. When is it time to be done 'Opening' and developing, and start to attack? How do I know when I've moved from opening to the mid-game? Should I think about them differently? And then, when do I start to think about endgames? How do I control those changes in the game? Can or should I force those moments on my opponent at times of my choosing or advantage? Or, is this something that just happens organically as the game proceeds, and I need to identify it and adapt as I go ? 3. The initiative. Related to #2 and controlling the flow of the game, how and when to take initiative and press; so that I don't spend the rest of the game on defense and running for my King's life. Even more importantly, how do I take it back when I am on defense? How do I create the space, or steal a tempo to begin a counterattack before it's too late? 4. Traps. How to set, bait, and spring them? Conversely, and more importantly how to detect and avoid falling in to them? My biggest blunders seem to happen when I think I'm being clever, and setting a trap; and then I get crushed from someplace I never saw it coming. That, "Oh man, how did I fall for that?" feeling is the worst! This lesson was a good one. I actually did write it down in my notebook. Lots to think about in what you laid out here. Thanks Anna.

So, we are talking about a king in his castle, that is materialistic and active with his pawns to ensure that they move with structure. He likes to watch his kingdom that has alot of space and flowers 🌹

If your opponent would have moved his bishop to H3, would you have taken with your rook? He still has your king pinned fairly well, it would have been fun to see you end it. If I was white, I'd also have considered moving my black bishop to B2. White is in a tough position, it cannot lose both rooks. It needs to use the pawn on F6 well too.

Take away from this video @Anna's math is a bit sus

Great video. Many of us need this kind of teaching videos, and yours was very clear and useful. More like this, please.

Please more of these..I don't have a coach so these kind of contents help me a lot..thank you so much..

Don’t start playing? 😃

Hi Anna. Your channel brings a lot of light-hearted fun to the game, and so is always a joy to watch. But it's also nice here to see you delving into a bit more traditional theory, because that showcases your more serious side, and a sound theoretical grasp of core principles. I've been trying to get back up to speed with chess after not playing for many years, and for me this was a great little refresher on stuff that I already knew but just needed to blow the dust off. Job done. Many thanks for all of your efforts!

Thanks a lot Anna! I love videos like this. I hope you make more of them :)

“If your heart is not working you’re having health issues”

Great video Anna, thank you!! More please!! ❤

Anna, can you next talk about opening strategies? I've heard you mention opening, midgame, and endgame. I'd like to know how to set yourself up for success in the opening.

What you tried to explain with the capital letters is called an evaluation function, AI defines evaluation functions and iterate for each move the evaluation of the functions to be able to decide the best move. At least that's how AI worked 40 years ago (when i was student) for the chess game.

I've determinated that this lady is amazing 😂😊

My advice is to emphasize development. Getting pieces into action as soon as possible. There are the ten golden moves.

Wow! Very useful for a beginner like me. Thanks a lot.

Thorough analysis with many useful practical tips. Anna, you have a knack at explaining in a relevant and concise way.

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5:44 "If your heart is not working then you are running into a lot of health issues" Anna Cramling Oh thank goodness! And here I thought if my heart wasn't working I'm dead! Whew. :D

The three best pieces of chess advice I have learned are all from Anna Cramling. The first is not to move a piece to a square where it is undefended or cannot be defended easily. The second is CCA, which has unlocked so many positions for me. The third is to get all my pieces working. Now I have another tool!

Los hispanos hablantes deseamos profundamente que tb hagas directos en español. Un saludo, Ana desde Sevilla.

What about time management? 🐢

Very good, thank you. I am curioous as to your thoughts about revealing your thinking to future opponents.

Very well done video and an extremely important topic in helping people to improve their chess strength. You gave a lot of precise information and putting it into perpesttive.Thanks for putting this together.

Equal? No, black has some quick fixes and more obvious moves

Jump to 3:50 to avoid the waffles.

The Bodmas rule follows the order of the BODMAS acronym ie B - Brackets, O - Order of powers or roots, D - Division, M - Multiplication A - Addition, and S - Subtraction or its called BIDMAS

Hi- good walk through, thanks. Yes, an end game with how to win with a pawn advantage would be great. And I think your mum wants you to do one on rook end games. One thing I need help with (very low level player) is how not to let my A pawn be a target on Queen side castling. It always leads to a weakness for me. I don't want to tie up a knight all the time. .

Fantastic explanation thanks Anna

Good advice. Didn't know about Happy pawns. Gotta make your pieces happy. Love it.

Great tips Anna, much appreciated! However, after 1. Qg5-h6 Rd3xc3: instead of 2. h4-h5, how about if white moves Rf1-f3? This threatens the black rook at c3, but more importantly it safeguards the white bishop on g3, allowing it to attack Black's defending knight. For example (from scratch): 1. Qg5-h6 Rd3xc3 2. Rc3xf3 Bg3xf3 3. [any move] Bf3-g4 which gets rid of the knight on e6, after which there is no defence against Qh6-g7 mate. Or: 1. Qg5-h6 Rd3xc3 2. [any move] Bg3-h3 with the same result.

Currently bouncing between 200/500 points. I want to become a Super Grandmaster 😳🤣🤣..It'd be awesome just getting to 1000 points. Can you recommend some plays/strategies/defences that will help nudge me up to 1000 points please? 🙏👍❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

6:01 actually if your heart is not working, all your problems are basically over. If your brain stops functioning, at least you can play to lose and be bad at that, even😅😂😂❤

Wow! This is top notch. Thanks. I learned some really important things. Please make more analysis videos.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📚 *Introduction to Chess Position Evaluation* - Importance of learning to evaluate chess positions. - Transition from a beginner to an expert through effective position analysis. 03:07 🕵️ *KMPPS Method Introduction* - Introduction of the KMPPS method for analyzing chess positions. - Explanation of KMPPS: King safety, Material, Piece activity, Pawn structure, Space Advantage. - Importance of evaluating positions in a specific order. 09:21 🤔 *Applying KMPPS Method to a Chess Position* - Practical application of the KMPPS method to analyze a specific chess position. - Demonstration of evaluating King safety, Material, Piece activity, Pawn structure, and Space Advantage. - Emphasis on critical factors influencing the overall position assessment. 19:06 🧐 *Knight Maneuver for Better Piece Activity* - Tactical move demonstration (Knight to d8) to enhance piece activity in a challenging position. - Utilizing the knight to create a strong route and improve overall piece activity. - Strategic advantage gained by redirecting the knight. 19:47 🏰 *Establishing a Rock-Solid Position* - Description of achieving a solid position after countering opponent's potential attack. - Significance of being two pawns up, better pawn structure, and overall superiority. - Addressing opponent's limited options and ease of handling potential threats. 20:27 🛠️ *Encouragement for Personal Improvement* - Encouragement to apply the KMPPS method to analyze personal chess positions. - Suggestion to practice the evaluation method on personal games for self-improvement. - Reinforcement of the idea that adopting this thinking approach enhances chess skills. 19:06 🏰 *Establishing a Rock-Solid Position* - Demonstrating a tactical move (Knight to d8) to improve piece activity. - Creating a strong route for the knight enhances overall piece activity. - Achieving a rock-solid position, making opponent's future attacks challenging. 19:47 📊 *Evaluating the Improved Position* - Describing the solid position achieved after countering the opponent's potential attack. - Emphasizing the significant advantages: being two pawns up, better pawn structure, and overall superiority. - Addressing opponent's limited options and the ease of handling potential threats. 20:27 🛠️ *Encouragement for Personal Improvement* - Encouraging viewers to apply the discussed method to analyze their own chess positions. - Suggesting self-improvement by practicing the evaluation method on personal games. - Reinforcing the idea that adopting this thinking approach will contribute to chess skill enhancement. Made with HARPA AI

It seems to start starts ~4,15 KMPPS; King safety, Material, Piece activity, Pawn structure, Space advantage. But if you ruminate on those 5, won't U lose too much time off the clock? How do your 5 things compare with exercising the mind to see moves ahead (if I do this, what will he do?, then how do I follow up, etc.)

I never realized just how beautiful chess can be. I didn't hear much that she said, just staring at the screen for 21:26 with mouth agape.... Perhaps half the battle in chess is having the ability to totally distract the opponent's line of thought. Unfortunately, I don't have that advantage. That's why I'm here. I did learn a lot from this video. Thank you! Live Long & Prosper.

In the beginning, you said that Black's King was safe, then you said that it wasn't. (I like the idea of Pawns guarding the King; they can only go forward. I question keeping Bishops, Rooks, or Knights as King protection, because they are much better at attacking.) I am learning from you, which is why I subscribed and always press thumbs up. Keep up the good work. Your shared knowledge makes playing chess more fun because knowledge is power, and power wins in chess, right?

I'm a math teacher, and I'm here to tell you that PEMDAS is not accurate. That's why you see all those meme math questions with headlines like "95% will answer wrong" because PEMDAS fails here. A more accurate rule (I made up the letters myself so don't google for it): PeIO,MnDLR,AnS Paranthesis equivalents - evaluated inner first, then outer. So besides () paranthesis there are other symbols doing the same thing such as roots, exponents, integrals and fractions. You start with evaluating the innermost paranthesis equivalent, then work your way out. Multiplication and Division - evaluated left to right. Multiplication and division are evaluated at the same time, but evaluation from left to right side. This is the most tricky part of any "95% will answer wrong" question. It is also BAD PRACTICE to write any expression in a way where you need the "left to right" rule - parenthesis are free, use them! Addition and subtraction. These are also evaluated at the same time. "left to right" rule is not needed as the order of operations should not matter here, as long as you follow the other rules of PeIO,MnDLR,AnS

IMHO King safety outweighs all the other things together - the other things don't really matter if you are going to be constantly under attack (assuming the attacks can be maintained of course) and then check mated - so, in my view, white is better here and should win. It doesn't matter what the engine says. The knight doesn't necessarily stop anything, you can just attack it - e.g. Bf3? The whole point is white can keep attacking and black will have to defend and, if white plays the right moves, black will lose the other advantages. All of this of course is predicated on what white plays but, as that applies equally to black, white should win. I might not have won with white here myself but I am only 1800 but put it this way, if 2 GMs were playing this position, white would win. Having said this, I really like the concept itself, but I use a different one - CCTV, no, not close circuit TV, but Checks (against them and against me - I guess that is king saftey and THEIR king's safety!), Captures, Threats (king safety), Vision (i.e. total vision of the board - this really helps as we often focus on isolated little battles and pawn structures and stuff and forget that bishop hiding on a1 which then takes our Queen!). Yeah, we've all done it. I also always flip the board as well to see the position from the opponent's perspective. CCTV Flip? IMHO, this is a better way of approaching evaluation because, after all, the aim of the game is to checkmate the other player, not just defend your king but why not use both?

At last! A video on how to evaluate a position. I've been needing and wanting that. Now I need a video on each letter explaining in detail how to evaluate those individual bits. Still, thank you very much.

I’m 70 and about to playing my first ever Classical Chess tournament in the BC Open Seniors Chess Tournament…Pia will you be my ‘Second’! Thanks for the great advice Anna! You’re both my inspiration to enter!

Great video. Thanks. @19:56 How will you stop the dark square bishop from attacking your knight on h3?

Hi Anna, I use these rules for every of my moves, so I always ask myself, what does my next move for the King Safety, the Material and so on, it helps a lot. But sorry for my poor English, what do you mean with "Peace Activity" and "Porn Structure"? 😂😂😂 All the Best from Hannes, Germany