Chess Strategy- Open vs Closed Games

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This is a remake of an older video that had poor sound quality. We take a look at one of the most important concepts in chess: open and closed games. We see how to tell which game which and how our minor pieces are affected by the type of game.

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Chess Software used in the video can be found at http://www.chesscentral.com and http://www.chessok.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• chess
• strategy
• tactics
• learn
• open and close games.

[Kold2market]

You got these 2 examples from: Chessmaster 10th Edition - Josh Waitzkin....

[thechesswebsite]

@Kold2market hopefully you get that I'm just trying to teach chess. If I go over a famous game or look at a specific position that you may have seen somewhere, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to teach chess. I've actually seen this position posted in other places and to be honest the 2nd position is different than CM 10th edition. Some positions in chess I think can never be covered too much. Hopefully you still learned something.

[GPNick]

i have a question and im a fish when it comes to chess. at 5:00 the move is bishop to b5 since knights are better.

but can you win it from there or soon after with that set up save it turning into an open game and you having no bishops??

[thechesswebsite]

@GPNick yeah if you have no bishops and it's an open game you are hopeless but if you had the choice you'd def want to have them.

[crackerjack113]

great video!

so does this mean that a player with a bishop pair should try to open things up and a player who traded off his bishops should keep things closed?

[thechesswebsite]

@crackerjack113 that's exactly correct

[thechesswebsite]

not my intent I assure you. For different examples in chess I try to find great examples that display what I'm trying to go over. I'm sorry if you have already seen the example. I'm really just trying to teach people chess, nothing more.

[solitary200]

0:35 to skip to the start of the video.

[SirWreckNTexan]

I've always wondered why the white light squared bishop has been more "important" of the two, is it because the black king resides on the light squares, even after he castles? That seems the most logical.

[clayj17]

white could have moved ba3 to get some good from the bishop trade in first example

[Busterbeam]

the older video had worse sound quality than this? you need to sort your mic out! thanks for the videos though. learning a lot.

[NationalMan]

what's the difference between an open game and a closed game?

[drugraham]

i often look for vids for chess strategies to try out on people who i know i can beat lol but if they are worthy i go all napoleon bonaparte strategy on them and whop them lol i love chess

[SkyFortStudios]

I fucking love chess.

[timmeh231]

Your videos are so awesome!

[sentinel12456]

in the second example, when the bishop moved to b5, cant the rook pin the bishop to the rook by moving to b8?