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For the puzzle, Qxf8+. If Kd7 then Rh7+ Nf7, Rxf7+ Qe7, Rxe7#. If Kxf8 the Rh8+. Kf7 forced move, then Rxd8 with a huge winning material advantage. Edit: Another variation to Kd7 is Rh7+, Kc8 Qxd8+, Kxd8 Forced. Rh8+, Kd7 Forced. R1h7+, Nf7 Forced. Rxf7#. Another variation and probably my favorite is Kd7, Rh7+, Kc8 Rxc7+, Kxc7 Forced. Rh7+, Nd7. Qxd6+, Kc8 Forced. Ne7+, Qxe7 Forced. Rxe7, Black can move anywhere here but the mate is coming maybe he makes it easy with Kd8 I don't know but Qxd7#. Obviously not the Best way to win but I had fun finding these variations
Every video of yours I view teaches me a small but significant concept which helps a lot overall. I have a checklist of your advice and when I do mess up I see where I didn't apply your 'rules' in the analysis afterwards and learn from it. I now try discipline myself to do the check list before and after every move and it helps so much. Especially anti blunder checks. Thanks. I'll soon be 1400+
► Chapters 00:00 Win At Chess Easily, Important Strategy 00:09 Example-1: Benko vs Najdorf 00:51 THE SECRET FORMULA TO WIN 02:07 Relative value of chess pieces 02:51 Activity of your chess pieces 05:01 Finding the best moves easily 08:16 Quiz: Puzzle of the day
The game really showed this simple concept perfectly. Its crazy to me though that black as a strong player never even tried to become active himself with smth like Rb8 and b5 or Qa5 and just calmly let white group up all his pieces on the kingside followed by selfmating himself.
Please do analysis of your games and upload videos on it. It really helps. Your videos are too valuable. Thanks for providing valuable knowledge to the users for free❤😊.
Your advice on improving chess is great. I'm improving my thoughts based on your advice and it's really improved my chess. I'll have to keep revisiting these videos so I don't regress and hopefully get even better.
Great video! I have been playing Moore Passive, Chess for the last six months and you’ve brought my aggression back with a vengeance. I can now attack, but not over, extend and be happy with the advantages that I get. Loving your courses and working through them as well. I played my friend Three games yesterday and chess over the board and got some beautiful mates. It felt great versus the slow grind end games I was playing.
He makes everything look easy he does have exceptional knowledge of Chess it’s hard to remember lines in general Chess puzzles are a good rehearsal for certain situational moves you might come across in a game
Yesterday in my game against a stronger opponent (+160) I used your strategies of „to take is a mistake“ and „maximum activity“, through wich I get some extra tempi and in the end so much pressure that he made a fatal move and resigned 3 moves later. Thanks Igor, my chess became stronger and stronger very much through your videos!
This is easily the best lecture about piece activity i've ever witnessed and it hugely improves my understanding of the term and it's relationship with piece placement on the board , THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
It's rare that I learn new chess principles that I haven't seen before. I'm a pretty good intuitive player, but I think having a more technical understanding of board control is going to change the way I play. Many thanks.
Hey Igor thanks for putting this up. I don't have the solution for the puzzle, I got distracted by a fun line that would follow Qg6+, walking Black's King out then Rh7+. It might not lead to a clean mate right away, but it's definitely annoying for Black. After making a good move, my students aged 6-11 would say "Emotional Damage!!" They seemed to find this mandatory to say if they took their opponent's Queen. Later I found out that the other 2 senior coaches had some work (before I was there) getting them not to cry when they lost, so maybe they were not as tough as they wanted to be. Good times.
When I discovered him I thought it was just another clickbait chess video like there are thousands(feels like it at least) out there. But very quickly after I used what he said I defeated my best friend, who I was never before able to defeat and then the same day in the chess club, I defeated a player from the first team(the strongest team is team 1). Thanks GM Igor, keep it up...
1. Qxf8+ Kd7 2. Qxd8+ Kxd8 3. Rh8+ Kd7 4. R1h7+ Nf7 5. Rxf7# Or 1. Qxf8+ Kxf8 2. Rh8+ Kf7* 3. Rxd8 and you’re up a rook threatening to skewer the other *Edit: e7 is covered by the knight
Nice video! Can you make a video about how to play against players, who tend to trade everything on first given opportunity? To play against these types of players is very annoying and it would be helpful to see solutions how to deal with these "trader" players
There are ways to avoid trades the first truth is you don’t have to take which of course is a mistake also though if a knight or Bishop is in a position to be traded off Move it so it makes the trade not possible trading pieces leads to a boring stifling end game like you say lack of weapons but remember even pawns are valuable in the endgame
I definitely don't have Igor's insight, however if you observe his rule "to take is a mistake", and you know your opponent is always going to make this mistake, then develop your pieces so that you recapture gaining tempo i.e. the move to take back is a developing move you wanted to make anyway. After a few trades your opponent will have given up all their active pieces to let you get active pieces, then you go for an attack (mate, forks, just more pieces attacking a position than they can arrange defenders for) that they can't trade their way out of. I've fallen into the reverse mistake - after too long playing 'always trade off opponents' I found I was getting into positions that were hazardous if my opponent didn't immeadiately capture!
Qg6, check the king, then next move white rook to h7 however if opponent moved the rook before the white rook landed on h7, h8 instead of h7, then black king move out of the way, and queen is captured by a white rook on next turn winning material
@@heatherenidwalker3145the knight of course will be a threat but I agree with his statement Whites two Rooks should be able to cause problems for the Black king on the 8th rank mostly I can see a Rook trade but that second Rook should be a threat with the help of the Queen to possibly get Blacks Queen off the Board
I would take your queen with the black knight. It also defends h8, which prevents a rh8 move with rook exchange and eventual rxd8 after check The problem is getting the time to make rh8 without losing material
Puzzle: Queen sacrifice, take the ROOK! On F8, King takes queen, move white rook H3 to H8 (check), king moves to F7, then white rook from H1 to H7, checkmate! Correct me if I'm wrong though!
Hm, that changes my thoughts about chess. Completely. I am not sure, if i should go this way. Maybe i'd have rather learned that 20 years ago. But it sounds interesting.
Answer to the puzzle: Qxf8+ Kxf8 Rh8+ Kf7 Rxd8 Alternative 1: Black can't take the bishop because after Rhh8 (even Rhh7+ is winning) there's no way to stop mate after Rdf8+ Alternative 2: Black can't play Kf6 because after Rg8+ Kf7 Rg7+ Kf8 or Ke8 its mate in the next move Alternative 3: If black plays Rd7, Rh7+ is just winning a rook
Hi Igor, you are doing a good job in traps and trickly lines. Please start a new "live play series" with simultaneously playing and explaining with your personal repertoire. So we can also build solid chess along with the insights from how a GM's brain 🧠 work in real games.
Thanks for the video Igor, but, yet again, you have raised a concept that I have no understanding of, and that is, what do you mean when you say that a piece CONTROLS a square, rank or file? You mentioned that white rook on h1 and said that it 'controls' the h-file. But, when I look at it, I see that the rook CANNOT go to h3, h4, h5, h6, h7 or h8, without being captured, because blacks knight 'controls' h3 and h5, his pawn 'controls' h4, his bishop 'controls' h5 and h8 and his king 'controls' h6 and h8! So the rook's 'activity' is limited to just 2 squares, h1 and h2. So how can you say that the rook 'controls' the h-file?
Solution to the Puzzle. Queen takes on F8, King takes, rook h3 to h8 check, only square for the king is F7, and lastly rook h7 mate, 2nd Solution if the King does not take the Queen after she takes the Rook on F8, Queen takes Queen, King takes and the same thing with the rooks.
OppS I was a bit casual and didn't see the threat to my queen. So it's queen takes rook on f8 Igor .king takes queen on f8 .Rook to h8 chq followed by king tog7. Rook on h1 to h7 chq .king tog6 followed by rook on h7 to g7 chqmate
I say rook to h8, after rook takes the white rook takes and checkmate, but if the rook doesn’t take then the rook on h8 will take that rook to checkmate.
Best way to white to win I would think to start bringing the two rooks down the first rook will be a trade but that second rook should be able to cause threats and damage
To cut a long story short, there is no simple winning formula in chess. GM Smirnov knows this very well, but lately he succumbs to content of "formulas" and tricks that will make everyone Grand Master level. For me he is getting to a "clickbait" type of content, I'm just dissappointed.
@@ItGirl-f2r yes it does dominish it a lot, because chess training needs a structured and solid approach, promising miracles, does not help at all. But it is is also a matter of taste, for those who like this kind of content, go ahead!
