0:00 Intro 0:41 1.Control Center 1:05 2.Fork Pieces 2:06 3.Get a Queen! 2:45 4.Shield your King. 4:10 5. Cramp opponent's position. 5:27 6. Waste opponent's time (gambits). 8:00 7. Dominate your opponent's kNights. 9:36 8. Block key files and diagonals (and ranks, impeding horizontal Rook and Queen movement). 11:35 9. Open lines to attack your opponent's King. 14:15 10. Pawn storm the King. 16:13 11. Take away key development squares from your opponent. 17:38 12. Save your own King by NOT taking your opponent's pawns. 20:02 13. Minority attack. 21:54 14. Not moving your pawns forward (square control matters). 25:36 15.Baffle your opponents (en passant and when it's appropriate).
I find most chess channels kind of useless because they always focus on a long sequence of moves that becomes increasingly unlikely with very move played. Nelson, on the other hand, breaks the game into simple principles that can be applied universally, instead of the pointless sequence memorisation of other channels. Nelson is the best.
This is a perfect example of a very practical chess lesson by Nelson. Unlike opening moves, for example, general concepts and ideas can be remembered and applied in our own games. Players may stumble upon ideas through experience (and sometimes strategy books), but Nelson make it fast and easy to improve with his "how to" videos. Thanks!
i agree on the whole, but in this one Nelson "made it easy for himself" a bit much. Instead of making up contrived examples spur of the moment during the video filming (as he does a number of times here) he should have spent some time selecting good examples to illustrate the point.
1. Control the centre. 2. Fork pieces. 3. Get a Queen! 4. Shield your King. 5. Cramp opponent's position. 6. Waste opponent's time (gambits). 7. Dominate your opponent's kNights. 8. Block key files and diagonals (and ranks, impeding horizontal Rook and Queen movement). 9. Open lines to attack your opponent's King. 10. Pawn storm the King. 11. Take away key development squares from your opponent. 12. Save your own King by NOT taking your opponent's pawns. 13. Minority attack. 14. Not moving your pawns forward (square control matters). 15. En passant (and when it's appropriate).
I’ve played a few games over the past couple days where my opponent didn’t move any pieces for the first like 10-12 moves, only pawns. Very annoying actually and effective against me at least.
You can get advantage against that easily by developing your pieces behind your pawns and then creating pawn breaks. If you castle on the kingside and move your F pawn, you will either create a strong file for the rook or create a strong 'thorn' pawn in the enemy camp.
While it may seem like pushing pawns early gains them time and advantage most of the time they are just creating permanent weaknesses that you can exploit later
I respect you so much. Even with that simple fork you told the viewer to find it. You’d make a great tutor. I can see why you’re making informational chess videos. Keep on teaching brother.
Another helpful video. I enjoy your videos because you’re never in a rush. You don’t over complicate moves by making a ton of tactical moves I struggle to keep up with. Keep it simple is still my rule of thumb in explaining anything. Thanks for your time and effort in teaching us newbies.🤟🏼
Nelson, I have been enjoying your channel for some time -- subscribed and make certain that I 'like' when I watch. Your videos are succinct, in digestible portions. One tactic that I try to use when the board presents it, but it runs a little counter to your item #15. This is best with the B or G pawns, going forward towards three pawns that are still on their original squares. The goal is to get your pawn on three squares forward of the 2nd or 7th rank. For example, white pawn on B5, black pawns on A7, B7, C7. In this setup the white B pawn restricts the black B pawn to only B6, and also allows for 'en passant' for either the black A and C pawns. This position allows for one pawn to restrict three. My 30 years in the USAF, we would call that a 'force multiplier.' Comment?
24:33 "Black will never be able to control d5" ... unless he captures something on c6 or e6. Two tips here were: Don't capture your opponent's pawns, and don't move your own. 8-)
I really did learn something. Under topic 14, when that pawn structure occurs, the square in the middle cant be defended by a pawn for the rest of the game. It has to be defended by pieces. Thanks for pointing that out
If we want eye candy while learning chess, we know where to go. If we want clickbait goggle face while learning chess, we know where to go. If we want techno blaring while learning chess, we know where to go. If we actually want to learn chess, we come here. Thanks, Nelson, for all you do. You're the BEST!
@@sanamite I like hp especially his quest to reach GM. But he doesn't break the game down like Nelson. 12 ways to use every piece, pawn play, tactics, openings, endgame strategy. You name it. HP basically just breaks down each game he plays. Plus he's unreasonably hard on himself. Btw Naroditsky is my 2nd favorite after vibes. And I could do without clickbait goggle face.
When I castle, I always like to put the middle of the three pawns forward one square, because I absolutely HATE getting checkmated by a lone Rook, while my king is stuck behind pawns. And it still protects you pretty well. All you have to watch out for is like a Bishop-supported Queen attack, or the Bishop blocking that escape square while they trap you with a Rook or a Queen on your back line.
Playing a beginner in a school match,I castled,he called his teacher saying ,he moved 2 pieces,over and over. My teacher came over,what happened? I just leaned back smiled and whispered I castled. Fortunately no e. P.
Great video man! 👌🏾 you're very skilled. I appreciate you and your videos so much. I hope you get what you're looking for in chess. 👍🏾 Thank you so much.
This video misses the most important reason for understanding pawns, the why pawn play can be and often is so important. Ironically, the importance of pawn play derives from its lack of individual lack of importance. As the cheapest and weakest piece on the board because of its lack of mobility, ordinarily no piece should be exchanged for the lowly pawn. And if every piece avoids being exchanged straight up for a pawn, then pawns gains a kind of strength to do things with impunity. BTW - You missed an important critical aspect of pawns. Pawns will generally provide a framework that can then be "decorated" with the placement of pieces. In other words, pawns aren't mostly used actively as described in the described "15 points" but to provide support for pieces that otherwise could be taken.
Bro just say thanks, he's teaching smaller players, maybe you're higher on elo and good for you but he's doing really great for many of us. Just be grateful ✌🏼
It's funny that you showed this specific line at 16:20 because if you just play Nc3, allowing the bishop to pin your knight, and then play h3, it would actually be a blunder by black to slide the bishop back to h4. Then you can just say "oh no my queen", play Nxe5 and if they take your queen, it's mate in 2. And if your opponent spots this, you're winning a pawn at the very least, but stockfish 14 on my browser evaluates that position as +2.5.
I love the fact that it's called "en passant" outside of France and that you say it with an English accent, I mean it sounds weird to a French guy like me and that's kind of funny haha
Minor critique, since you're showing the pawn fork...perhaps, for the beginners you should follow through with the queening of the pawn on the next example, just so they know how to do it. Either way it's good. Thanks for the video, very helpful!
Could you please make a more comprehensive strategy with pawns? A lot of time I have some advantage and I have exchanged just about all the pieces; but then I am clueless as to how do I use or defend my pawns? Or how should I king walk? Many a times the enemy rook infiltrates and just take away my pawns losing my advantage.
Damn #14 hit me hard, give and take pawns moving. And I hate when people trade their bishop for my knight. I am guilty of A3 H3 like a lot lol. There's an awkward but strong king side early push starting off the game. One of the keys is Rook to B1. You end up maneuvering the knight depending on whether your pushing ab or bc pawns. It's time consuming but if you can get to the 6th rank with a pawn it's good? I don't know, is there anytime you might try and flip control of the middle for a minority push early game?
Pawns are very important for end games, where 2 of them block off the king from attacking each of them, ensuring that the king has to move a LOT just to get to them, and once they reach the other side, you get a free queen, and seeing its the end game the opponent either has to sacrifice their own pieces or if not, have a very sticky situation, if the queen survives, well now it is way easier to get other pawns in, they are also important to move or at least pay attention to because you can easily end up with some situations where pieces can freely strike the pawns unharmed because they move the bishop, queen, ect, they are also important to protect your own pieces, dont believe me? look at what happens when you move your bishop and a queen or bishop hits the g2 pawn and you cant do anything about it, rip rook
I treat my pawns like trash when I need them I love them ❤ but I tend to cast some aside not caring about them anymore when I think they are of no use to me. That's why I'm here. I know they can be a stronger tool for my game. Thanks for posting this!!
"It's not always the right decision to take en passant just because you can do it doesn't mean should " This quote trigger 90% of the beginner players Edit:Btw the quote is at 26:09
Oh my, I'm so guilty of #11! Any tips to know when is good to prevent that bishop and when is good to be ignoring the diagonal and moving minor pieces of my own? What's a best way to evaluate it? Are there "best practices"? Cuz I was running into that EXACT problem haha😅
1:02 most players dont even care about putting their bishops in those squares lol and the knights can easily move forward without any trouble regardless of those pawns being there usually bishops go straight into attacking and pinning the opposition knights
It depends on your playstyle, I guess. But even if you don't _usually_ place your bishops and knights in those squares, it's usually a good thing to have that option to go to those squares, especially the center squares.
0:00 Intro
0:41 1.Control Center
1:05 2.Fork Pieces
2:06 3.Get a Queen!
2:45 4.Shield your King.
4:10 5. Cramp opponent's position.
5:27 6. Waste opponent's time (gambits).
8:00 7. Dominate your opponent's kNights.
9:36 8. Block key files and diagonals (and ranks, impeding horizontal Rook and Queen movement).
11:35 9. Open lines to attack your opponent's King.
14:15 10. Pawn storm the King.
16:13 11. Take away key development squares from your opponent.
17:38 12. Save your own King by NOT taking your opponent's pawns.
20:02 13. Minority attack.
21:54 14. Not moving your pawns forward (square control matters).
25:36 15.Baffle your opponents (en passant and when it's appropriate).
I always recommend your channel to anyone asking how to improve in chess. Well done. Love this channel.
I'm still gettinf better, and his videos have lead to some nice games by learning the patterns.
Nelson explains things very well
I find most chess channels kind of useless because they always focus on a long sequence of moves that becomes increasingly unlikely with very move played. Nelson, on the other hand, breaks the game into simple principles that can be applied universally, instead of the pointless sequence memorisation of other channels. Nelson is the best.
This is a perfect example of a very practical chess lesson by Nelson. Unlike opening moves, for example, general concepts and ideas can be remembered and applied in our own games. Players may stumble upon ideas through experience (and sometimes strategy books), but Nelson make it fast and easy to improve with his "how to" videos. Thanks!
i agree on the whole, but in this one Nelson "made it easy for himself" a bit much. Instead of making up contrived examples spur of the moment during the video filming (as he does a number of times here) he should have spent some time selecting good examples to illustrate the point.
1. Control the centre.
2. Fork pieces.
3. Get a Queen!
4. Shield your King.
5. Cramp opponent's position.
6. Waste opponent's time (gambits).
7. Dominate your opponent's kNights.
8. Block key files and diagonals (and ranks, impeding horizontal Rook and Queen movement).
9. Open lines to attack your opponent's King.
10. Pawn storm the King.
11. Take away key development squares from your opponent.
12. Save your own King by NOT taking your opponent's pawns.
13. Minority attack.
14. Not moving your pawns forward (square control matters).
15. En passant (and when it's appropriate).
Thou shall bow down to person who wasted their time for us
15: EN CROISSANT
En passant no matter what
Your chess tutorials are so on point. Just can't stress how helpful they are. Thanks!!!
I’ve played a few games over the past couple days where my opponent didn’t move any pieces for the first like 10-12 moves, only pawns. Very annoying actually and effective against me at least.
You can get advantage against that easily by developing your pieces behind your pawns and then creating pawn breaks.
If you castle on the kingside and move your F pawn, you will either create a strong file for the rook or create a strong 'thorn' pawn in the enemy camp.
Same here. They annoyed me the whole game and I ended up losing with my knight still on its original starting square
While it may seem like pushing pawns early gains them time and advantage most of the time they are just creating permanent weaknesses that you can exploit later
I have had trouble with it. Your position starts to feel cramped. I know the feeling. You got this
just en passant them lol
I respect you so much. Even with that simple fork you told the viewer to find it. You’d make a great tutor. I can see why you’re making informational chess videos. Keep on teaching brother.
Another helpful video. I enjoy your videos because you’re never in a rush. You don’t over complicate moves by making a ton of tactical moves I struggle to keep up with. Keep it simple is still my rule of thumb in explaining anything. Thanks for your time and effort in teaching us newbies.🤟🏼
Great concept, pawn play is definitely something us lower rated players struggle with. Sometimes seeing the right pawn break makes a huge difference
Valuable content. Highly appreciate 👌
Nelson, I have been enjoying your channel for some time -- subscribed and make certain that I 'like' when I watch. Your videos are succinct, in digestible portions. One tactic that I try to use when the board presents it, but it runs a little counter to your item #15.
This is best with the B or G pawns, going forward towards three pawns that are still on their original squares. The goal is to get your pawn on three squares forward of the 2nd or 7th rank. For example, white pawn on B5, black pawns on A7, B7, C7. In this setup the white B pawn restricts the black B pawn to only B6, and also allows for 'en passant' for either the black A and C pawns. This position allows for one pawn to restrict three. My 30 years in the USAF, we would call that a 'force multiplier.'
Comment?
I've reached a rating of 1100 and struggle with pawn moves so I really appreciate this video
A visual list as a recap of the 15 tips would’ve been nice. Amazing video!!! Thanks, you’re brilliant.
This is one of the most useful chess videos I've ever seen. Love it
1:52 black bishop to e7 protect knight take white pawn and white knight
24:33 "Black will never be able to control d5" ... unless he captures something on c6 or e6.
Two tips here were: Don't capture your opponent's pawns, and don't move your own. 8-)
Instructions unclear, I moved 2 pawns and got mated.
I really did learn something. Under topic 14, when that pawn structure occurs, the square in the middle cant be defended by a pawn for the rest of the game. It has to be defended by pieces. Thanks for pointing that out
Could you make a more detailed video on how to pawn storm the king side ?
Also how do we defend accurately against a pawn storm??
great tips. well articulated. I learn a lot on this site.
Nelson you're the man!! Tips 7 & 8 are game changers for me!
If we want eye candy while learning chess, we know where to go.
If we want clickbait goggle face while learning chess, we know where to go.
If we want techno blaring while learning chess, we know where to go.
If we actually want to learn chess, we come here.
Thanks, Nelson, for all you do. You're the BEST!
Thanks Arthur, appreciate the support as always!
I mean it's a nice channel to learn, but what about Hanging pawns? and other channels about chess?
@@sanamite I like hp especially his quest to reach GM. But he doesn't break the game down like Nelson. 12 ways to use every piece, pawn play, tactics, openings, endgame strategy. You name it. HP basically just breaks down each game he plays. Plus he's unreasonably hard on himself. Btw Naroditsky is my 2nd favorite after vibes. And I could do without clickbait goggle face.
When I castle, I always like to put the middle of the three pawns forward one square, because I absolutely HATE getting checkmated by a lone Rook, while my king is stuck behind pawns. And it still protects you pretty well. All you have to watch out for is like a Bishop-supported Queen attack, or the Bishop blocking that escape square while they trap you with a Rook or a Queen on your back line.
In the endgame, the King needs an escape bubble lol
In the endgame, the King needs an escape bubble lol
That pawn design in the thumbnail looks great. Can you tell me where it's from? ^^
As always, great stuff - thanks!!!
Watching this a 2nd time - one of my favourite videos - thank you 😊
Thanks you
Thx, Nelsi!
Your videos are the best chess videos!
very nice video. your examples are very easy to understand
Playing a beginner in a school match,I castled,he called his teacher saying ,he moved 2 pieces,over and over. My teacher came over,what happened? I just leaned back smiled and whispered I castled. Fortunately no e. P.
You're great Nelson. Keep it up.
This channel is growing soo fast! Last time I checked, it was 30k. Keep up the bangers!
Great video man! 👌🏾 you're very skilled. I appreciate you and your videos so much. I hope you get what you're looking for in chess. 👍🏾 Thank you so much.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
This video misses the most important reason for understanding pawns, the why pawn play can be and often is so important.
Ironically, the importance of pawn play derives from its lack of individual lack of importance. As the cheapest and weakest piece on the board because of its lack of mobility, ordinarily no piece should be exchanged for the lowly pawn. And if every piece avoids being exchanged straight up for a pawn, then pawns gains a kind of strength to do things with impunity.
BTW -
You missed an important critical aspect of pawns.
Pawns will generally provide a framework that can then be "decorated" with the placement of pieces.
In other words, pawns aren't mostly used actively as described in the described "15 points" but to provide support for pieces that otherwise could be taken.
Bro just say thanks, he's teaching smaller players, maybe you're higher on elo and good for you but he's doing really great for many of us.
Just be grateful ✌🏼
@@GuillaumeT96 love this bro. All that he said could not even be understood by lower rated players. Lol!
A great player once said, "pawns are the soul of chess".
Philidor! A fine endgame analyst and the first player to play a simultaneous blindfold game.
It's funny that you showed this specific line at 16:20 because if you just play Nc3, allowing the bishop to pin your knight, and then play h3, it would actually be a blunder by black to slide the bishop back to h4. Then you can just say "oh no my queen", play Nxe5 and if they take your queen, it's mate in 2. And if your opponent spots this, you're winning a pawn at the very least, but stockfish 14 on my browser evaluates that position as +2.5.
Ha! Rosen/Finegold reference!
Great video!
3:20 You should open a king by going 1 place with middle pawn..this way you can easily get mated bcus king has either one or none free space around
Nelson, can you make a video on blundering and any training tips to remedy?
Great pawn tips Nelson!!! Thanks
I re-watched this again. Number 14 is the best I reckon. Thank you Nelson.
You are an excellent teacher!
Attacking a currently pinned piece with a pawn can be a great way to not just do an even or close to even trade
First time being this early. Haven't watched this yet but I'm sure it's gonna be good. Keep up the good work man!
Thank you from Canada.
Thank You!
I would add: Paying attention to pawn structure is critical to developing a sound middle-game strategy.
Very helpful in a lot of my games
I recommend this channel to people learning how to play chess
Apart from square weaknesses created by moving pawns/ Pawns on their own can be targets -- discuss !
I love the fact that it's called "en passant" outside of France and that you say it with an English accent, I mean it sounds weird to a French guy like me and that's kind of funny haha
Awesome vid!!
you give me a very deep understanding of chess. because of your videos i went from 1000 elo to 1500
Brilliant strategy 👍🏼❤
Great video. Thanks.
Minor critique, since you're showing the pawn fork...perhaps, for the beginners you should follow through with the queening of the pawn on the next example, just so they know how to do it. Either way it's good. Thanks for the video, very helpful!
Could you please make a more comprehensive strategy with pawns?
A lot of time I have some advantage and I have exchanged just about all the pieces; but then I am clueless as to how do I use or defend my pawns? Or how should I king walk? Many a times the enemy rook infiltrates and just take away my pawns losing my advantage.
hey Nelson, hope you reach 100k subs!!! 🙌 keep up the great work! 💯
LOVE these videos definingly earned my subscribe
Welcome!
Another great video. I forget if you covered a pawn sacrifice -- another way to win with pawns.
Incorrect. En Passant is a forced move
Hi Nelson do you have a tutorial on the Budapest gambit?
Damn #14 hit me hard, give and take pawns moving. And I hate when people trade their bishop for my knight. I am guilty of A3 H3 like a lot lol. There's an awkward but strong king side early push starting off the game. One of the keys is Rook to B1. You end up maneuvering the knight depending on whether your pushing ab or bc pawns. It's time consuming but if you can get to the 6th rank with a pawn it's good? I don't know, is there anytime you might try and flip control of the middle for a minority push early game?
Pawns are very important for end games, where 2 of them block off the king from attacking each of them, ensuring that the king has to move a LOT just to get to them, and once they reach the other side, you get a free queen, and seeing its the end game the opponent either has to sacrifice their own pieces or if not, have a very sticky situation, if the queen survives, well now it is way easier to get other pawns in, they are also important to move or at least pay attention to because you can easily end up with some situations where pieces can freely strike the pawns unharmed because they move the bishop, queen, ect, they are also important to protect your own pieces, dont believe me? look at what happens when you move your bishop and a queen or bishop hits the g2 pawn and you cant do anything about it, rip rook
Nelson is simply the best chess explainer out there. Thank you! And this is why he is liked: "Bye bye - he's gotta go! Love it! Thanks!
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Excellent, excellent stuff!
thank you!
great video Nelson 👍
I treat my pawns like trash when I need them I love them ❤ but I tend to cast some aside not caring about them anymore when I think they are of no use to me. That's why I'm here. I know they can be a stronger tool for my game. Thanks for posting this!!
This is so good, really excellent strategies for someone at my level
i appreciated the joke at the end cuz it caught me off guard
What joke? I just saw Nelson performing some weird kind of pawn voodoo magic, it was terrifying!
@@sgtnubbings6501 google en passant
Thanks!
You are making useful chess content , I hope you reach 100K sub , keep it up nelsi !!
Amazing video.
"It's not always the right decision to take en passant just because you can do it doesn't mean should "
This quote trigger 90% of the beginner players
Edit:Btw the quote is at 26:09
Oh my, I'm so guilty of #11! Any tips to know when is good to prevent that bishop and when is good to be ignoring the diagonal and moving minor pieces of my own? What's a best way to evaluate it? Are there "best practices"? Cuz I was running into that EXACT problem haha😅
26:10 LIES!!
You are a great chess teacher
A terrific video again.
Could you make a video about how to checkmate the opponents king when you only have pawns and your opponent has bishops and knights?
holy en passant is real. you can use up to 8 times if your opponent agrees to
Recognized those pawns from the thumbnail, I got that type of set at home!
This video is pawn-tastic!
Great video. Pawns are the soul of chess ♟️
Would be nice if you’d change the board colour from blue. I like watching you play before bed lol :) keep up the great content.
Love all your videos and this one is very very helpful! thank you for posting and sharing this!
Thats quite funny actually, I have a board bery similar to the one on the thumbnail, are these common ?
My games I always seem to get a good piece majority but lose lot of my pawns along the way.
Great video! On step 14 he could have en passant your piece.
Thanks mate, Ima use this online Lol, Am A Newbie so keep up and wish me luck cuz am practicing for my schools event
1:02 most players dont even care about putting their bishops in those squares lol
and the knights can easily move forward without any trouble regardless of those pawns being there
usually bishops go straight into attacking and pinning the opposition knights
It depends on your playstyle, I guess. But even if you don't _usually_ place your bishops and knights in those squares, it's usually a good thing to have that option to go to those squares, especially the center squares.
Number 12 was very useful for me never thought of that 🤔
Love the thumbnail 😊
yes
You seem to really like the danish gambit
Thank you for the video!! My main weakness is I've gotta get better at playing with my pawns.
excuse me, does the 15th rule is real?
That is no April fools joke. That rule is _absolutely_ real.
23:44 I've seen beginners do something like this.
Rule 1 of Low ELO Chess is that if you can take En Passante then you have to.