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  • how did I end up here...

  • are you sure about these umpanings?

  • The London system is a good opening to start off with. It atleast teaches you how to develop your pieces properly.

  • i don't like to castle too early, you can lose an early tempo and you also tell your opponent where you king is going to be so he knows where to attack.

  • I think i should try this, i have been trying to beat my brother for years and i can never manage

  • "It's always better to have reasons for making your moves." I agree!

  • Cool... I'll be sure to use these strategies to help in winning games

  • u couldnt make it more exciting for us

  • @Bballguy1121 If you think Monopoly is a game that takes more intellect than chess, that speaks plenty about your intellect, and not in a good way. Rolling two dice to see how smart you are.

  • @06pag You may think you are smart, but your social skills are well below par. It was an obvious joke, you socially retarded person you. I pity you

  • @Bballguy1121 No, it wasn't an obvious joke. If you read it without knowing anything about the person who wrote it, it sounds stupid and serious.

  • @Bballguy1121 monoply is all about luck and decide if you should invest your money into squares that people might land on and its ALL about luck because there is no such thing as a back up plan if no one happens to land on your property. Chess is about defense and offense and strategy. I dont see any strategy in rolling dices.

  • I definately disagree with Bb4, for reasons that should be obvious, as one should rarely trade a Bishop for a Knight while unprovoked, and the move allows White to develop the Queenside while you just run away with the Bishop. My choice, Bc5. It not only attacks the center, but it stops the pawns from advancing on both the b and d files.

  • @DazoraSubarashii Look ahead for more chess videos on YouTube or play chess against computer on a low-level. After some parties you'll see where do you make mistakes mostly and you will improve your strategy game-by-game.

  • Very well made. An excellent guide for all of us who just started discovering chess.

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  • Thee opening principles:

    1) Control center.

    2) Develop army.

    3) Protect king.

  • thx

    

  • this is very nice but at 3:30 if i were playing white I would be focusing on taking the pawn at e5 which is currently unprotected. I would then move my horse to f3 and directly be attacking it as well as threatening any other development. Also if black takes the horse at c3 with its bishop then white could just take the bishop with the pawn at b2. That said, for beginners its a great video, keep it up.

  • Very nice video thankyou

    

  • I have a friend that kicks my ass every game, and I want to get good enough to beat him, so this video is very helpful...Thanks.

  • Nice guide, but uhh... there are easy ways to own the situation... but for a newb who just starts thats, thats just ownage... ill be like 1st time huh? well nice I wanna play u some time

  • how do you summon the chaos dragon to scurge your opponents pieces in hellfire?

  • @treefrog2108

    press down+A+B

  • @somethingonmyhip thank you,let the scurging begin!!!!

  • good video :)

  • Put yourself in the opponent's shoes...

    Learn the most most common ways sharp players open the first 10 moves...

    Fisher (ignore his sad personality turn) spent 90% of his last ? years vs computer chess. Do so.

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  • Is he saying, "umpening?"

  • Which software have you been using to record this video?! I mean, which chess game?! :)

  • After 1.f4 e5 black has an interesting game doesn't he ;)

  • 1. Develop your pieces.

    2. Control the center.

    3. King Safety.

    Thanks for the video!

  • Please stop saying "you know" so much. If I knew, I wouldn't be watching your video.

  • Lol this guy sounds like Charlie Sheen....Winning

  • This Video doesnt teach you anything if you arent playing with a real player.You dont know if the opponent will move the moves you took.I am a Chess Player who got 2 points in a Tournament and made it to the finals trust me you have to calculate your moves and the opponenents move and confirm your move is the right move either to attack or defend.Very soon I will post chess videos of my own and I wll explain everything to you.

  • @faser1999 Excuse me sir, where is the video that u promise?.. talk less do more. or type less upload more..

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  • Great video

    I'm Japanese and few people play chess.So it is a good video for me.

  • Great video

  • thank you.

  • @Briankozmo just also wanted to say that this is the best video I've seen on opening principles.

  • very helpful

  • Type PRIZE before youtube and hit enter

  • Thank you for these very helpful tips.

  • lol english opening

  • So the king will start in a different place depending on wether you are white or black???

  • That is SO helpful, thanks for taking the time to make this video.

  • Good video!

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  • @looking243 awesome caracters xD

  • what does develop pieces mean?

  • @scout6686 it means having a peice like a knight rook or bishop out in the middle of the board. that way they are more mobile and can move rather then being stuck behind your own peices.

  • @CowboyFanDerek19

    ah ic thx

  • Very good video! Really it covers almost anything a beginner should know about the game's openings and how to play before real contacts with the foe start.

  • keep the good work!!! please, its very kind and important to chess popularity to have person like you who help beginners with FREE GOOD material!!

  • Remember that controlling the center doesn't always means that you have your pieces in the center(although a big part). For example Rook to e8 after you castle, you can just eye down the entire e file and control the e file center.

  • this was good. Usually when people try to make broad statements about opening principles they say things that are simply not true...But this video did a good job of saying just enough to be correct and not throw down 'rules of thumb' that should be broken like half the time.

  • If you like chess, go ahead and try japanese chess, shogi. IT IS ISANELY HARD TO PLAY and i believe it requires more skill than both enligsh and chinese chess. Spread the word of SHOGI!

  • ok so my question is if your trying to follow those three principles but are better at defending than attacking, is there a way to work that to your advantage or would you just need to get better at attacking?

  • @MyWarriorInHiding well, if you are always defending, basically you are waiting for the other player to make a bad move, but if they play correctly, you will almost always lose...I'd say you would definately want to work on your attack...if you defend, there are only a certain amount of pieces that can get to the defense, and they can see that much easier than you having many attacking possibilities, and they will dictate your moves and force you into losing situations eventually

  • e5 against the bird is the from gambit i think?its probably playable.

  • @lazimofo90 Yes it is and it is a killer line if you are prepared to the King's Gambit.

  • There is a new Chess site coming out GambitKing you can reserve your username now its pretty cool. Check it out!

  • very coherant and very solid advice. for a beginner this is gold.

  • in what condition would the king be able to do the castling.im not quite sure of the castling rules

  • @hitmankiddo castling can be performed when the spaces between the king and rook are empty and the king and the rook you wish to castle with have not moved. Obviously you can't castle into check but also you can't castle out of it. castling consists of the king moving 2 squares towards the selected rook and the rook moving to the other side of the king.

    Hope that helps, i put it all cos i wasn't sure what you were unsure of.

  • At last, something that actually helps me!! Thanks!!

  • yeah... im a noob chess player and that video helped me to defeat other noob chess players ;)

  • @cisco760ca Is there really a fight going on in the comment section for a chess video? Dear lord, we are an odd species.

  • Hello... Yes, I am looking for quick tips on winning chess. I have watched about 2 hours of videos and I still lose at chess with my friend that doesn't know much about chess either. I learned to start out as you say... Start with middle pauns, get your knights and bishops out, castle the king. That I have been doing well. But in the middle and end game I am just lost with no principles or main idea to follow... in which I find myself making mistakes and getting killed and eventually losing.

  • thanks alot m8

    summer vacation, wanna learn something new

    Might as well be chess and this definitely helped alot

  • Control the centre; Develop ur pieces; Protect the King

  • thnx

  • YESYESYES This is what i was looking for!! I've played chess when I was young (10-13 years) and no one, even my trainer didn't told me about center square and its importance.

  • dude your cool i just started playing with my friends at school alnd like we play like just for fun but still i kind like wanted to learn like real opening strategies for the games and that info was nice thanx man

  • lol kids game to me

  • @cisco760ca fuck u

  • this guy sounds like colin hanks

  • I'm trying to memorize all the possible 1223 opening games down to the 8th move.

    But you have a voice similar to John Cusack's.

  • @schizophrantic Theres over 1300 sorry =P

  • what are the 3 principles?

  • thts good info mate

  • @mickypure

    What u have to do is first clear the bishop and the knight(and queen if u want to castle queenside) from between the rook and king. The u move the king over 2 spaces towards the rook and move the rook on the other side of the king.( the king always moves 2 spaces) U cannot castle out of check, into check, or through check. U also ccannot castle if u hav move the king and u cant castle with a rook u have already moved. Hope this helps! :3

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  • Thanks, that's a great lesson. Usually I'm faced with something that's too easy or far too complicated but this is exactly what I was looking for, I'll be sure to check more of your videos.

  • @mystikfire333

    to put it simple: exactly what I thought, great vid, thanks very much

  • thank you very much for this tutorial!!

    it really help me a lot!!

  • out of every game, video, and tutorial i have read, no one has explained it quite like this. i thank you, i have been winning many games since. these three strategies work like crazy.

  • how can i do the castling move? shall i put the geen near the rook or the rook will go near the king?

  • with space in between the rook and the king, all you do is move the king 2 spaces to the left and the rook 2 spaces to the right so they switch sides and are right next to each other

  • Nice video, but you essentially offer to trade a bishop for a knight? To me it seems bishops are better, earlier especially.

  • @dragon0085 If you plan to 'close' the center, having an extra knight is an advantage. Also note that the position of the pawns determine if a bishop is active (attacking whites pawns/pieces) or passive (just supporting your pawns). Trading your passive bishop for a knight is usually a good deal.

    That said, I too prefer to keep my two bishops because they are powerful in the endgame. But it's dangerous to let those preferences become your weakness, be prepared to trade when needed.

  • im new to chess. love it. got a sexy rustic board. only won a couple of games so far. gonna try this strategy later on c if i can win another.

  • i would have said the final move with the bishop was a litle weak because it locks the pawn in at d7, if the pawn is moved up white queen will check then take the bishop

  • if you can get your G8 horse to G4, and F8 bishop to C5, without a way of the king running away, you can checkmate.

  • you can so move your pawn up to e5 in response to the bird opening.

    That's the From gambit.

    Same with d5 in response to the english opening. Gambits are great ways to control the centre when playing inexperienced players.

  • I have been playing off and on for a while but not with a clear idea of good principals. This video was very good at explaining some good basics clearly and simply. Well done! Thank you.

  • well spoken, sir. You gave a good undertaking of the essentials of opening a chess game.

  • This was very clear, well presented, and I like the showing of just the board, that you didn't feel a need for the spotlight, showing yourself (although you may be quite handsome, and we may have missed out). Good work. I teach chess to elementary students (K-5), and I will look for other videos you've done.

  • what is castling ?? (i'm a complete chess noob)

  • when neither the king nor a rook have moved yet, and there are no other pieces between the, you can castle. To castle, move your king up to the rook, and then move the rook onto the other side of the king.

    This is a special move, since multiple pieces are moving irrationally (according to the rules of piece movement), but it is important to castle every time, as soon as you can, because it greatly increases your king's safety.

  • also it cant put either of the pieces any a position that they can be taken

  • Castling is a special move in chess.

    It consists of moving the king two squares towards a rook, then placing the rook on the other side of the king, adjacent to it. Castling is only allowed under these conditions:

    -The king and rook involved in castling may not have moved;

    -There may be no pieces between the king and the rook;

    -The king may not be in check

    -The king may not pass through or end up in check

    Also check out my (2) videos. However I will be uploading at least once a week. :-)

  • 4:30, incorrect. ... e5 is a legitimate move. It's called the From gambit.

  • tht's really clear, tyhanks man. 1. control the center 2. develop your pieces 3. protect your king. thanks (im not being sarcastic)

  • These are nice tips for starting out but you should eventually memorize opening moves in openings that you know so when you play with white, you know what to do

  • Very good video! I am a new chess player and I have learned a lot from this video

  • yes, like it, it's what I use but didn't know if anyone else did. I hate memorising things so much that I always look for some principal of action to get me equally into the battle. I'm happy to win or lose for there.,

  • yeah try to use the Scholars Mate on him and loss your queen.

  • thnx for the vid, upload more

  • thanks alot for these videos... from a chess noob

  • thank you for the reason now i have a goal in playing chess thanks.

  • yes, what to do in real life situations, apply basic principals and think.

  • birds opening takes a fairly high rated player to use effectively, it opens the way for 2-6 move checkmates too easily and thus warrents someone who really knows what they're doing to come out on top with it

  • tq very much for ur tips

  • Thanks mate. The books that I read are all well and good...but to hear and see someone describing moves is better.

    Thanks..from a chess noob.

  • Thanks Bro!

  • Lol . You cant play E5 against the Bird?? E5 is played alot .its called the From Gambit, and it gets blacks pieces out quicker and attacks the weak White F square

  • early bb4 loses to Nd5!!!

  • This is great. Thank you.

  • 4.31 : wrong! you CAN play e5, even though white can take it. it's a gambit, a very interesting pawn offer to get early attacking chances. But agreed, it's better for beginners to play normal developing moves before trying tricky opening ideas

  • thx a buuuuunch!!!

  • Exception to these principles: boungcloud attack. It may slowly develop pieces, it controls the center, but it does the exact opposite of keeping the king safe. Yet it is quite adept of an opening if played properly.

  • thanks. I'm a just starting to play chess and everyone I play is way better than me. Players who have been in jail and played chess all day, guys who were champs in high school, and a girl whose father was some chess champion in Dominic Republic. I'll take any advice. Can't wait for the day when I'll be able to beat them soundly. Thanks again for the advice.

  • 3:55-I don't think that's a bright move,white can move pawn A2 to A3...now according to your theory,the best move would be bishop B4 to C5,but again,white moves pawn B2 to B4,meaning you have to move the bishop in a stupid position,either blocking the pawn,defending or doing nothing,while the opponent gains two moves,placing his pawns forward,and doing some pressure on the right side

    That is,if you value your bishop more than his knight

    At least that's what I would do if I played white

  • if a3, black will not retreat but exchange on c3. True bishops are usually considered slightly better than knights, but it's balanced by the fact that you inflict doubled pawns on white.

  • I've been reading some chess books by famous champions. Tarrasch, Capablanca and Lasker all say that it is unwise for non-masters to disturb the pawn position in front of a castled king early in the game as it sets up a possible attack on the kingside. The squares in front of the pawns are now weakened. Also beginners tend to fear back rank mates by Rooks. Experts know how to prevent them while keeping the King safe.

  • Nice video. But wouldn't you want to get the King Side pawns up?? Because if you castle and the pawns are still there, it is much easier for your opponent to lure your rook out, then use their rook/queen to checkmate. Believe me, I've seen it, I've done it.

  • I agree with you. The king can't escape from check cuz pawns are blocking it.

  • great!!so helpfull

  • Very kind of you. Thank you for posting these videos to help us patzers.

  • Thanks alot! A very nice video for an amateur like me. :)

  • This is cool. I've just started playing chess, and I'm looking for ways to better understand the game.

  • Thanks for sharing...I beat the computer in level ONE. God knows how long it'll take for a stupid amateur like me to master it. But appreciate your tips. Cheers

  • try playing against a computer

  • if the bishop goes to B4 then it can be attcked by A3 and if the bishop goes to the centre, C5 then white attcks again with B4 then the bishop has been driven from the centre though.

  • Good, but you missed a few concepts. Like, try to give your opponent doubled pawns(usually with bishop/knight exchanges). Or, wait to castle and be ready to castle on whichever side necessary.

  • but if u took the knight then he would have a very strong pawn centre

  • No he wouldn't.

  • whats this program and is it downloadable???

  • Fritz 5.32

    freechess.50webs(dotcom)/fritz­.html

  • thank you.

  • i installed vista to my computer and i got this chess game

    every time i play...i lose.O_o

  • Loser!!! lol jk i suck to, ima newbie, im alright, but id get rape by these guys, for example... wats the 3 principals...

  • Control the Centre; Develop pieces; Protect the King~

  • haha me too

  • 2nd move, black to play..pn d7-d5...if take...pawn e7-e5...if en passant, bishop takes...nice wide opening for the queens pawn opening variation...but youll need to sharpen your corners with the rooks pawns one out to defend the development...-2 pawns is worth that much extra position...try it out

  • a3 BxN is good for black coz as u said white loses a move plus its an exchange of black's weaker bishop and white's stronger knight

  • He said you could play Bb4. No, he will drop a bishop after a3, b4, and c5. And taking the Knight will give your opponent too much pressure toward d4.

  • why not A3 BxC3

    white wastes a movement of a pawn and black takes a developed knight. Sure theory says bishops are worth more than knights, but this is acceptable play.

  • so?

  • We'll maybe you're only the pro, not all are not yet very good at chess, dickhead

  • I think he uses chessbase light. :)

  • What program are u using to make these videos, i mean the onboard chessboad u can use to make strategies

  • Looks like good old Fritz4

  • What program are u using to make these videos, i mean the onboard chessboad u can use to make strategies

  • Now, I can play Chess-Boxing!!!

  • thanks

  • And then a3 chases the bishop all over the place...

  • thanks alot, i just play chess a little for fun so dont really think about the theory behind movesm this was very helpful

  • A great video. Thanks for sharing and please keep more coming.

  • thank you for this informative video

  • Many players try openings not knowing the theory behind them. If you are one of these people listen to this guy.

  • Good video and it always helps to think in ideas and principles rather than just step-by-step moving.