This might be your best video yet! You are so criminally under-subscribed, it's ridiculous. I feel like my mind is totally opened to a whole new level of chess (I just have to get studying)! Absolutely the best chess content on UA-cam! Keep up the good work!
I have the Checkmate Patterns Manual on chessable, and one of the things i love about it is that for each exercise they also show the game that the exercise came from. So you can see all the moves that led up to the mating pattern. In other words you learn a mating pattern (i.e. Anastasia's mate) and you essentially have a small game collection where that mate occurred and you can see a bunch of examples of how a good player foresaw the conditions for that mating pattern and then set up the mate.
The two best chess videos on UA-cam are 1. this video 2. your recent video on calculation and proving yourself wrong rather than right. I have felt my play getting better because of both!
great lesson thanks. I find learning about mating patterns super interesting. Some people only do puzzles or forget to see how to transpose the position into potential mating patterns. Damiano is one of my favorite. Also won with the Legals mate a few times online. I got a crazy mate with one rook and two knights after blundering my queen to a lower rated player in chess 960. I think its good to learn the names and history of mating patterns because since trying to learn these a few times recently I've been able to sacrifice like its child's play. But its not easy getting these positions against strong players. I've been on the receiving end falling for the same tricks tactics and traps many times. Late middle game can be very difficult phase, easy to drop the ball against stronger opponents, even with a better position. The nitty gritty zone or late middle game.
Best chess lecture I've ever seen in years. I think this is what has kept me away from improving. I can't thank you enough for making this video. It opened my third chess eye.
Yeah he has a way to explain things in ways that help you easily understand . The only problem i have is he sometimes speaks too fast. I think when is explaining the key point he should slow down and even repeat it again using different words or analogies etc to reenforce the conceconcept or idea being explained. This dude should have ten times the subs and views too because not only is he a great seasoned coach but his funny and has a good energy - charisma about him.
18:14 -- "Play for a cheap trick that is likely not going to work out." Been there, done that! You deserve a much larger subscriber base. Your content is consistently engaging, clear, and mature. In a sea of "chessertainment" and drama, you are refreshingly focused and illuminating. Keep going. They will come.
This is such an excellent video. It's such a good point that recognising how close you are to a pattern that you recognise is the way to score really decisive victories seemingly out of nowhere.
That just blew my mind. I now recognise how much work I need to do on mating patterns alone, before I can get close to this level of thinking. Thank you!
I have seen lots of chess videos but this video is completely transcendental !! This guy truly loves chess and the passion to share it with others. Kudos master!
Dude I literally started applying this technique in the middle of a game and I must say that it is incredibly amazing.I thank you so much for this incredible video on encouraging one to see the mate and play towards it. I must say that my playing has instantaneously immproved with significance. What I find most interesting about such a beautiful strategy is that once a checkmate is defended, it encourages the attacker to pursue another. Thus, no mate, no victory.
I have that sort of internalized pattern recognition when it comes to the Greek Gift but with other mates I feel like I often stumble into them more than I create them fully consciously. Totally agree with the message, another great video! Thank you :)
Extraordinary video with a very clear explanation. I hope it helps me in the near future to quickly identify not just the pattern but also how to reach it from a few moves before, like in the examples. Thank you!
Came across this when a GM recommended it. Kudos to the Coach for pointing out why some players plateau over a period of time. Include me in your fanbase
Great stuff as usual. I find getting to specific mating patterns to be more conscious when I know the opening relatively well and know what I am striving to achieve. It’s a good start to know the general ideas of an opening but seeing games played until mate from that opening gives you a concrete goal (and even if you fail to get that particular mate you’re still able to see the imbalances and forcing lines to get a decisive advantage).
Amazing content. I have done this before but I never truly internalized it. This is great for players trying to be more aware of this stuff. Thank you Andras.
Adras...this is excellent. I've been attempting to do this in my games but I have a problem. I only seem to think about Greek gift sacrifice so I consistently attempt to make it appear on the board. I definitely need to learn more. It's one of those when all you have is a hammer everything is a nail situation.
This was really good video. This is how I play my bullet games when I am at my best but making these patterns reality is lot of work in rapid format because opponent play really well and unpredictable. Will try to implement tho.
excellent coach... pattern recognition and one step further to positional advantage, such as the double bishops. open file rook, etc.... micro to macro thinking.... thanks again!!
More videos like this please! I have gone through books such as 'How To Beat Your Dad at Chess' I put the book down as I kept asking the question "well this mate is great but how do I get there?" This video expands on the ideas of how to spot the pattern of mates within a practical game. Please more videos like this they are helpful.
Another great video, Coach Andras. I am all too familiar with this "gap" in vision you describe. Seeing the board as it COULD BE in a few moves seems so valuable!
Wow you've really opened my eyes to advanced new ideas not just some basic basic things I already know other chess coaches are putting out there😏 Mehhhnn I've gotta recommend you to my friends You're amazing!
Wow... You blew my mind... I think this video could be the germ for a future, and potentially very successful, Chessable course. I hope it actually does become a fully developed Chessable Course.
I agree with most of what was said here, I think Dan Heisman in his "Everyone's second Chess book" talks about the different levels of board vision, this touches on what's being said here as well. I'd say really good Pattern Recognition is needed, a deep understanding of the pattern is needed and just generally being cognizant of these things during the game. "How to beat your Dad in Chess" by Murray Chandler also touches on some of what's being said here as well.
I recommend to anyone wanting to get better in just one view purchase any chessables course that IM Toth produced, By far to me the best chess coach I have learned from in the past 50 years. His courses on chessables are mind blowing on how much you don't know or understand about chess. Now I play chess completely different all I can say is I cant get enough of this guy.
I first realized this idea of creating a mate pattern in the future from James McConnell vs. Paul Morphy in the King's Gambit. Morphy set's up a smothered mate even though he has to clear a knight from the path of the queen. Paul Morphy vs. Schrufer is probably a crazier example where he set's up an even more complex smothered mate ahead of time. He sac's the exchange I believe then trades his knight off to clear way for a bishop check that allows Morphy to play around 5 knight checks to final deliever mate.
What is the best way to learn these patterns? It seems to me doing tactical puzzles, perhaps dozens per day is more important than playing games if you want to develop pattern recognition. "How to Beat Your Dad at Chess" seems like a good book for this. Anything else?
After that bookk, which is indeed the starting point, you are onto puzzle books and stuff like Hellsten's opening book, that teaches you how to get to positions like the discussed ones.
@@ChessCoachAndras Mastering Opening Strategy? How do you feel about the Lichess puzzle system? Is it too unfocused to help improvement over the long term?
Good books on mate patterns (with some theory) - 1. A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns - Vladimir Barsky 2. 1000 Checkmate Combinations - Victor Henkin (alternate to book 1) 3. Mastering checkmates - Neil Mcdonald Book 1 is based on book 2 (covers same mates), but with modern examples. They have good exercises, but don't expect Andras-level intuition with just that 😉
Upon further reflection since my last comment, what I have taken away was that it is simply not sufficient to be able to recognize the basic one move mate procedures that are commonly known such as smothered mate etc. However, it is perhaps far more important to recognize other positions which a forced sequence of moves are possible which inevitably result in the basic one move checkmate puzzle with which we are well acquainted with. So my next question is: Would Coach be willing to make a video with the above said positions?
Awesome video. I think I'm along way off from developing the mental library of potential mates, but this video reminded me of something you said a while ago about solving puzzles/looking for tactics; at any given point you should take stock of your resources. If you do that and spot the two bishop diagonals, then it's a case of understanding deeply why bishop diagonals are important - the referenced mating patterns. I think building up this skill might be a case of knowledge of games/mates for various themes and creating scenario's where they're successful.
Loved it. I'd wager there's a hot-selling book entitled "Bridging the Gap to Chess Patterns" ready for you to write. Giving the patterns, flags to the patterns potentially present in games, many exercises from present to future chess, etc.
Wow just wow, this video here has been more instructive than some paid content. All I can say is thanks, give my like and consider any paid content of yours.
Do it. Go and grab his chess principles stuff on Chessable. Even *if* it's not worth it (it is worth it), you keep Andras and his family fed, and make it possible for more vids like this.
The voice and accent of Teddy KGB played by John Malkovich in Rounders is famously suspect as having no basis in reality. However yours is spot on for Teddy. Where are you from? It's like a Russian-Australian hybrid.
Wow, this is a fantastic class! I feel I have gained 300 points just watching it :-) Do you have books or apps in mind to train on these pattern recognitions beyond tactics training?
I think the capacity to learn this stuff is innate. I recently discovered that I am autistic. It explains so much about me, why as a small child when I found he rules of draughts in an encyclopaedia, I insisted on plying by all of them including the unpopular (in our household) huffing rule. Autistics often like rules. It explains my lack of social schools, my preference for reading a good book over socialising. Think "Doc Martin." Temple Grandin talks about thinking in pictures, in words, in patterns. She's autistic, as a child probably a "slow learner." A lot more difficult for herself and her parents than I ever was. I have her book, "The Autistic Brain." I recommend you buy a copy and read it, if not for yourself then for your students. Autism isn't the only neurodiversity that affects chess. Temple thinks in Pictures, she designs machinery and tests it in her head, I have pictures, but I'm better with patterns. I played a smothered mate once. My opponent was worried about the fork on c7, didn't see the mate. I don't remember the details now, but I remember my first rook sacrifice. It won.
What do you think of drilling a course like the Checkmate Patterns Manual on chessable. It's my current improvement project at the moment. I'm trying to build a solid foundation in my game by engraining fundamental patterns, an approach Dan Heisman has recommended many times.
I used to play non stop for like a little over a year, my tactics puzzle rating was really high but I haven't played due to University work and stuff and I just randomly wanted to try to do some old puzzles and it's like I can remember a postion but my calculation and visualzation is gone, does that come back?
How /where do I learn more classic attacking patterns? I have used “wishful thinking” to plan and execute attacks in games… for patterns I know. For example Greek Gift, Arabian, Anastasia, and more. The Art of Checkmate was a good book. But I’d never seen the double bishop sacrifice before Know Thy Classics and this video. I can’t recognize a pattern I’ve never seen or been taught before. What’s your recommendation?
This might be your best video yet! You are so criminally under-subscribed, it's ridiculous. I feel like my mind is totally opened to a whole new level of chess (I just have to get studying)! Absolutely the best chess content on UA-cam! Keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot Noah, enjoy the channel!
I have the Checkmate Patterns Manual on chessable, and one of the things i love about it is that for each exercise they also show the game that the exercise came from. So you can see all the moves that led up to the mating pattern. In other words you learn a mating pattern (i.e. Anastasia's mate) and you essentially have a small game collection where that mate occurred and you can see a bunch of examples of how a good player foresaw the conditions for that mating pattern and then set up the mate.
The two best chess videos on UA-cam are 1. this video 2. your recent video on calculation and proving yourself wrong rather than right. I have felt my play getting better because of both!
Def expanding my mind. Amazing mate patterns. Imo one of the best lessons on UA-cam. 🥇
great lesson thanks. I find learning about mating patterns super interesting. Some people only do puzzles or forget to see how to transpose the position into potential mating patterns. Damiano is one of my favorite. Also won with the Legals mate a few times online. I got a crazy mate with one rook and two knights after blundering my queen to a lower rated player in chess 960. I think its good to learn the names and history of mating patterns because since trying to learn these a few times recently I've been able to sacrifice like its child's play. But its not easy getting these positions against strong players. I've been on the receiving end falling for the same tricks tactics and traps many times. Late middle game can be very difficult phase, easy to drop the ball against stronger opponents, even with a better position. The nitty gritty zone or late middle game.
Best chess lecture I've ever seen in years. I think this is what has kept me away from improving. I can't thank you enough for making this video. It opened my third chess eye.
Glad you liked it !
Yeah he has a way to explain things in ways that help you easily understand . The only problem i have is he sometimes speaks too fast. I think when is explaining the key point he should slow down and even repeat it again using different words or analogies etc to reenforce the conceconcept or idea being explained. This dude should have ten times the subs and views too because not only is he a great seasoned coach but his funny and has a good energy - charisma about him.
18:14 -- "Play for a cheap trick that is likely not going to work out." Been there, done that!
You deserve a much larger subscriber base. Your content is consistently engaging, clear, and mature. In a sea of "chessertainment" and drama, you are refreshingly focused and illuminating. Keep going. They will come.
The greatest chess coach on the planet does it again
As a 2100 looking to be 2200, your channel is a god send. Many chess players like myself have some skill, but are missing some building blocks.
The art of checkmate by Renaud and Kahn is a old book that covers the mates and present full games showing players aiming for them.
I have returned to this video after some time, and it was well worth the time! I hope it gets the attention it deserves.
Cheers mate, you are an absolute trooper.
This is such an excellent video.
It's such a good point that recognising how close you are to a pattern that you recognise is the way to score really decisive victories seemingly out of nowhere.
That just blew my mind. I now recognise how much work I need to do on mating patterns alone, before I can get close to this level of thinking. Thank you!
I have seen lots of chess videos but this video is completely transcendental !! This guy truly loves chess and the passion to share it with others. Kudos master!
Dude I literally started applying this technique in the middle of a game and I must say that it is incredibly amazing.I thank you so much for this incredible video on encouraging one to see the mate and play towards it. I must say that my playing has instantaneously immproved with significance. What I find most interesting about such a beautiful strategy is that once a checkmate is defended, it encourages the attacker to pursue another. Thus, no mate, no victory.
Just outstanding. It's like a chapter out of "The Art of Attack in Chess". A classic.
I think you're right about this being the key to playing good chess, but it'll be a long and difficult road...but nothing worthwhile is ever easy.
I have that sort of internalized pattern recognition when it comes to the Greek Gift but with other mates I feel like I often stumble into them more than I create them fully consciously. Totally agree with the message, another great video! Thank you :)
Extraordinary video with a very clear explanation. I hope it helps me in the near future to quickly identify not just the pattern but also how to reach it from a few moves before, like in the examples. Thank you!
thanks for all Mr.Andras..
Thanks for the video Andras !
Let's go !
Pimy
Came across this when a GM recommended it. Kudos to the Coach for pointing out why some players plateau over a period of time. Include me in your fanbase
Great stuff as usual. I find getting to specific mating patterns to be more conscious when I know the opening relatively well and know what I am striving to achieve. It’s a good start to know the general ideas of an opening but seeing games played until mate from that opening gives you a concrete goal (and even if you fail to get that particular mate you’re still able to see the imbalances and forcing lines to get a decisive advantage).
Amazing content. I have done this before but I never truly internalized it. This is great for players trying to be more aware of this stuff. Thank you Andras.
One of your best videos. Opens up a lot to consider and look at. Can imagine a CPR course in the future around this very topic 🤔
I can get behind this.
Adras...this is excellent. I've been attempting to do this in my games but I have a problem. I only seem to think about Greek gift sacrifice so I consistently attempt to make it appear on the board. I definitely need to learn more. It's one of those when all you have is a hammer everything is a nail situation.
Thanks a lot, Andras. After squandering yet another sizable lead, I really needing something inspiring like this.
I am one of those "plateau" players you mentioned. This gives me something to build on. Thanks!
This was really good video. This is how I play my bullet games when I am at my best but making these patterns reality is lot of work in rapid format because opponent play really well and unpredictable. Will try to implement tho.
This is a great concept. I think about this same concept in life. We plateau because we only see what's in front of us.
excellent coach... pattern recognition and one step further to positional advantage, such as the double bishops. open file rook, etc.... micro to macro thinking.... thanks again!!
More videos like this please! I have gone through books such as 'How To Beat Your Dad at Chess' I put the book down as I kept asking the question "well this mate is great but how do I get there?" This video expands on the ideas of how to spot the pattern of mates within a practical game. Please more videos like this they are helpful.
what a beautiful explanation this is the way to understand true pattern recognition
Amateur was spelled incorrectly in the title :)
great video by the way
Excellent, concise lesson. As an amateur player with a provisional USCF rating, I appreciate this great content!
Great video, thanks IM Andras!
Another great video, Coach Andras. I am all too familiar with this "gap" in vision you describe. Seeing the board as it COULD BE in a few moves seems so valuable!
Really insightful. Thanks mate
Just starting to watch your videos and it's amazing! Great content! Also love the hitting on the keyboard, it's pure passion for chess!
Welcome on board Nick, enjoy the channel!
Wow you've really opened my eyes to advanced new ideas not just some basic basic things I already know other chess coaches are putting out there😏
Mehhhnn I've gotta recommend you to my friends
You're amazing!
Excellent video and concept. Thank you very much. I agree with the others that you deserve far more subscribers.
Maybe your not yet a GM, but you are definitely a better teacher than most GMs!
Absolutely incredible video
Much needed lesson.
Thanks so much, coach! Love this video so much!❤👍
what a great teacher !
Your content is just awesome, for sure you will hit 100k soon
Does not look that sadly, But thanks for the kind words!
Very instructive video.thanks.
Pretty good stuff! Shared and recommended. Keep up the good work and the numbers will eventually match your high standard.
Thanks, Senor! Glad you liked it!
A video everyone should watch and appreciate!
Andras
U make it sound simple but sometimes its even difficult to recognise it inspite of immense calculation
Great video, thanks!
Wow... You blew my mind... I think this video could be the germ for a future, and potentially very successful, Chessable course. I hope it actually does become a fully developed Chessable Course.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! I'm definitely going to go into every game from now on with this information foremost in mind.
I echo Noah: fabulous videos, and a recent discovery for me.
I agree with most of what was said here, I think Dan Heisman in his "Everyone's second Chess book" talks about the different levels of board vision, this touches on what's being said here as well. I'd say really good Pattern Recognition is needed, a deep understanding of the pattern is needed and just generally being cognizant of these things during the game. "How to beat your Dad in Chess" by Murray Chandler also touches on some of what's being said here as well.
Another very good video ! Thk Coach !!
I recommend to anyone wanting to get better in just one view purchase any chessables course that IM Toth produced, By far to me the best chess coach I have learned from in the past 50 years. His courses on chessables are mind blowing on how much you don't know or understand about chess. Now I play chess completely different all I can say is I cant get enough of this guy.
Thanks a lot Paul, very kind!
Andras thank you so much for this great presentation. Thanks to you I love chess even more. Keep it up!
Best 👌 chess channel on youtube
Thank you for your insight, knowledge and teaching us. Never imagined this concept.
I first realized this idea of creating a mate pattern in the future from James McConnell vs. Paul Morphy in the King's Gambit. Morphy set's up a smothered mate even though he has to clear a knight from the path of the queen. Paul Morphy vs. Schrufer is probably a crazier example where he set's up an even more complex smothered mate ahead of time. He sac's the exchange I believe then trades his knight off to clear way for a bishop check that allows Morphy to play around 5 knight checks to final deliever mate.
Nice video...have to work on it!!
What is the best way to learn these patterns? It seems to me doing tactical puzzles, perhaps dozens per day is more important than playing games if you want to develop pattern recognition.
"How to Beat Your Dad at Chess" seems like a good book for this. Anything else?
Also interested
After that bookk, which is indeed the starting point, you are onto puzzle books and stuff like Hellsten's opening book, that teaches you how to get to positions like the discussed ones.
@@ChessCoachAndras Mastering Opening Strategy? How do you feel about the Lichess puzzle system? Is it too unfocused to help improvement over the long term?
Good books on mate patterns (with some theory) -
1. A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns - Vladimir Barsky
2. 1000 Checkmate Combinations - Victor Henkin (alternate to book 1)
3. Mastering checkmates - Neil Mcdonald
Book 1 is based on book 2 (covers same mates), but with modern examples. They have good exercises, but don't expect Andras-level intuition with just that 😉
Great video , thanks got alot from it
That's super cool. Now, how I get there?
Upon further reflection since my last comment, what I have taken away was that it is simply not sufficient to be able to recognize the basic one move mate procedures that are commonly known such as smothered mate etc.
However, it is perhaps far more important to recognize other positions which a forced sequence of moves are possible which inevitably result in the basic one move checkmate puzzle with which we are well acquainted with.
So my next question is: Would Coach be willing to make a video with the above said positions?
Thank you
19:26 This guy is very concentrated on this move
I liked the video, but feel that I as well as others need a few more examples 2nd video please!
Another great video! Enjoying your channel!
Awesome video. I think I'm along way off from developing the mental library of potential mates, but this video reminded me of something you said a while ago about solving puzzles/looking for tactics; at any given point you should take stock of your resources. If you do that and spot the two bishop diagonals, then it's a case of understanding deeply why bishop diagonals are important - the referenced mating patterns. I think building up this skill might be a case of knowledge of games/mates for various themes and creating scenario's where they're successful.
Loved it. I'd wager there's a hot-selling book entitled "Bridging the Gap to Chess Patterns" ready for you to write. Giving the patterns, flags to the patterns potentially present in games, many exercises from present to future chess, etc.
AS Always thanks for the great content.
Too Bad i cant attend your group lessons due to different time zones !
Wow just wow, this video here has been more instructive than some paid content. All I can say is thanks, give my like and consider any paid content of yours.
Do it. Go and grab his chess principles stuff on Chessable. Even *if* it's not worth it (it is worth it), you keep Andras and his family fed, and make it possible for more vids like this.
Amazing content
Amazing video!!
Thanks, glad you liked it.
The voice and accent of Teddy KGB played by John Malkovich in Rounders is famously suspect as having no basis in reality. However yours is spot on for Teddy. Where are you from? It's like a Russian-Australian hybrid.
This is incredible! Do you have any other places to find these more complex mating patterns outside the obvious ones that get mentioned constantly?
Any book on puzzles for mate in 2 or 3 will do
The best 👌🏽🙏
great!
You are awesome 🎉
Another great video
Great stuff! 💪💪
PERFECT.
Andras, from what book can we lern those patterns ?
I’m all for it.
How do I start training?
Booomski baby … hard case … how can I forget that
Wow, this is a fantastic class! I feel I have gained 300 points just watching it :-) Do you have books or apps in mind to train on these pattern recognitions beyond tactics training?
Yusupov's Boost your chess series is very good!
Thanks
Excellent content. Requesting more tactical patter recognition video in future!
Thanks so much, apologies for not noticing this sooner!
Sounds awesome - would you recommend practicing "mate in 7" sort of puzzles for this?
where do we learn the patterns from?
I think the capacity to learn this stuff is innate. I recently discovered that I am autistic. It explains so much about me, why as a small child when I found he rules of draughts in an encyclopaedia, I insisted on plying by all of them including the unpopular (in our household) huffing rule. Autistics often like rules. It explains my lack of social schools, my preference for reading a good book over socialising.
Think "Doc Martin."
Temple Grandin talks about thinking in pictures, in words, in patterns. She's autistic, as a child probably a "slow learner." A lot more difficult for herself and her parents than I ever was. I have her book, "The Autistic Brain." I recommend you buy a copy and read it, if not for yourself then for your students. Autism isn't the only neurodiversity that affects chess. Temple thinks in Pictures, she designs machinery and tests it in her head, I have pictures, but I'm better with patterns.
I played a smothered mate once. My opponent was worried about the fork on c7, didn't see the mate.
I don't remember the details now, but I remember my first rook sacrifice. It won.
What do you think of drilling a course like the Checkmate Patterns Manual on chessable. It's my current improvement project at the moment. I'm trying to build a solid foundation in my game by engraining fundamental patterns, an approach Dan Heisman has recommended many times.
A great place to start
Check Larry Christiansen attacks videos, loads of great content.
I used to play non stop for like a little over a year, my tactics puzzle rating was really high but I haven't played due to University work and stuff and I just randomly wanted to try to do some old puzzles and it's like I can remember a postion but my calculation and visualzation is gone, does that come back?
Only with time and practice.:(
You’re the absolute BEST!!!
#LosAngeles
Thanks mate!
How /where do I learn more classic attacking patterns?
I have used “wishful thinking” to plan and execute attacks in games… for patterns I know. For example Greek Gift, Arabian, Anastasia, and more. The Art of Checkmate was a good book. But I’d never seen the double bishop sacrifice before Know Thy Classics and this video.
I can’t recognize a pattern I’ve never seen or been taught before.
What’s your recommendation?
Wouldnt Ne6 xe6 Qg7# be faster in the second example or am i missing something?
Amatuer?