Yasser's lectures are always such a treat :D *edit:* It's heartwarming when a super-GM still remembers the 1700-rated player who showed him some basic concepts early on... the power of teaching :') Also, I think some of these positions were also the material of (much) earlier lectures. Yasser seems really proud of that endgame - and rightly so. It requires deep, concrete calculation and looks like balancing on a razor's edge the whole time. Absolutely beautiful!
Jason Doe Uerdue can you help me out? How at 35:04 1 pawn g5 2 pawn captures g5 3 pawn f4 recaptures g5 4 pawn h5 goes to h6 5 pawn g7 captures h6 6 pawn g5 recaptures How does this not win? Is the king fast enough somehow?
Finding a Yasser video in your feed is like waking up to find your wife cooking your favorite meal. It's little stuff like this that makes life kinda good.
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I really like his way of commenting games/positions. Calm, funny and insightful. Very grateful that such a world class player "sacks" his time to teach noobs like me some lessons.
I can’t believe Yasser didn’t know how to Queen! When I was in Seattle I already knew - from reading the continuation from the Yugoslav GM, Svetozar Gligorić.
I remember my high school teammates showing me the initial puzzle as a sort of rite of passage. The kings were on a3/a1, so it was more obvious I needed to move the pawns and not the kings. But I remember eventually brute forcing the solution and feeling proud of it and passing it on a few years later. It can be frustrating to remember, but there are only so many moves and combinations possible. In the meantime, I played a few games where I and my opponents both missed that sort of breakthrough (a computer showed me years later.) So I really like this example on top of the puzzle. I saw the 4-on-4 study years later in Kmoch's Pawn Power in Chess. It was worth looking through but would've been even better as a video--like this.
Andrew Schultz Uerdue can you help me out? How at 35:04 1 pawn g5 2 pawn captures g5 3 pawn f4 recaptures g5 4 pawn h5 goes to h6 5 pawn g7 captures h6 6 pawn g5 recaptures How does this not win? Is the king fast enough somehow?
34:30 to truly show understanding you should instead promote to a knight or bishop to further disrespect them and still achieve checkmate since there king is completely cut off and is forced to push their pawn
This position remembering me to a book, which has started me to play chess ! It was "Kurt Richter - Der Weg zum Matt", printed in the 40's as a "Sonderdruck für das Oberkommando der deutschen Wehrmacht". This is not a joke ! This was my first chess-book ! 1996 ! Life is a joke sometimes.
The film i just saw was called "The secret life of dogs" about what dogs do when they are left at home for hours, they bark, howl, detroy shoes and furniture. So now i wonder what my pawns do when i go to work - but i guess thats not Yassers topic!
I'd like to see Mr. Seirawan and Mr. Kummer in one lesson together :D My idea started as a joke but the more i think about it, ... it would be great. Wihout a doubt, Mr. Kummer can learn something, but it would be great to see how they both talk about some games or positions. btw.: More Yasser :)
Daniel Șuteu Uerdue can you help me out? How at 35:04 1 pawn g5 2 pawn captures g5 3 pawn f4 recaptures g5 4 pawn h5 goes to h6 5 pawn g7 captures h6 6 pawn g5 recaptures How does this not win? Is the king fast enough somehow?
Yaz , help .. if I play white , after castling , the black bishop arracks my h6 square to open the g file for his queen , how to deal with this ...... thanks ,,btw--u r the best
To show understanding, you promote to a rook? lol I've never heard that before, but ok. Is that so you can brag that you only promoted to a rook and still won? lol
