1. Watch out for stalemate 2. Activate your King 3. Centralize your king 4. Passed pawns should be pushed 5. Try to create passed pawns 6. Passed pawns should be supported 7. King and Queen checkmate idea 8. King and Rook checkmate idea 9. Two bishops checkmate idea 10. Knight and Bishop checkmate idea 11. Two Knights checkmate idea 12. Flank pawns are hard to stop 13. 2 connected pawns on 6th rank beat Rook 14. Advanced pawns are more valuable 15. Opposition is more important in King and Pawn endings 16. Rooks go behind passed Pawns 17. Connected passed Pawns are best 18. Opposite colored Bishop endings are drawish 19. Bishop is better than Knight with Pawns on both sides 20. Watch for perpetual check in Queen endings 21. Cut off opponents King in Rook endings 22. Put Rooks far away from other pieces 23. Wrong Bishop and flank Pawn is a draw 24. Zugzwang! 25. Knights can’t lose tempo
He's a really good teacher. To cement the concept, don't just remember the principles. Look at the positions he has given and play them out. Both as black and white. The more time you spend in the position the more personal it becomes. Not only will you remember the principles, you will have the technique to finish from the positions and you will know what positions to aim for as part of endgame planning. So not only are the principles given important, the positions that are shown have to be remembered too. If you can't reach that position you can't apply the principle. Cheers and share the video. I've shared to countless friends they love these vids.
At the 16:15 point of the video Nelson said: "there's something about the way that knights move ..." That "something" is that knights always move to an opposite color square. If their king is constantly moving between the same two squares, they return to the same square every even number of moves. So, If you are only moving your knight, on every even number of moves the knight will return to the same color square.
Sorry if this is too pedantic or detailed, but strictly speaking, it's *not* about the color of the square. The real issue is that knights cannot attack the same square they have been attacking once they move. That's because of the shape of a knight move. It must move two squares in one direction and one to a side; and when you do that, you are no longer attacking the same square. As an illustration regarding why this is not strictly a question of square color, consider a queen. Suppose it is on e4 right next to a pawn, attacking it. The queen can move to e5 and continue to attack the pawn, even though the e5 square is of a different color.
@@qqw743 your description explains why you can't be attacking the same square one turn later with a knight. Ross' proof explains why this is true for any possible path - why you must always make an even number of moves with a knight to attack the same square. And note that 1 is an odd number, so the way I see it your explanation proves a strict subset of the cases Ross' does, and so it is less useful and less general.
"Creating Opposition" with a king and pawn against one's opponent's king is a revelation for me! It will serve me to no end after always falling into draws in those scenarios. Thanks.
Have been learning through all your videos ever since I was a beginner with an ELO rating of 800 but 1 year ago now am an an expert (2050) because of the videos Your videos are really helpful more especially for beginners and advanced players I would like to thank you once again for your effort that has helped me become almost a chess master
so many GMs and super GMs lost to Carlsen though they had a textbook draw against him because he just pushed them to make the draw on the board and they blundered as though they forget the mentioned principles. great compilation always most useful to refresh your endgame principles whatever level you might be on
just want to add my voice to all the people saying your teaching style is so good. You have such a clear understanding of the concepts, and you don't mince words. you tell us what we need to know to get better, and you show us what we need to do. you make the concepts into something more cohesive and big-picture than just 'here's what moves you make.'
For me you have the best chess tutorials on YT. Your sound and video is good quality. your voice is plezant and your content is very to the point. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing.
15:50 an easy way to look at that might be to remember that knights always change their square colour when they move. Therefore the king in that example can hop between black and white squares and know that the knight is stuck doing the same thing wherever he goes. Maybe that makes the concept easier to grasp?
Thank you, this has been really helpful. I would just add to tip 15, there are two types of opposition. Tip 15 covers direct opposition well, when the kings are close, but you may also need to understand distant opposition for situations when the kings are not close.
Just to refresh, you have the opposition when you place your king on the same file/rank as the enemy king and the number of squares between both kings is uneven right?
I love your videos man, thumbs up - You go for a maximized board, while still retaining a decent size personal place. Thats great. You are also clear and easy to understand (a relief compared to other big youtubers) - My only advice is that I miss a bit more infographics now and then - especially when you mention openings or mention special names/titles. Putting in an easy to read info text/sign right after you say them, would really do magic, especially for all us non-native english speaking people. Thank you for giving out your knowledge, and thank you for making my regular opponent really frustrated in our last game - he sensed something had changed, and complained about it - but he had it coming, as he was quite arrogant the last months, because he had the edge...that's not the case now, after I have seen some of your videos haha. ;-) Best regards Keld
Thanks a lot for the suggestion, Keld! I will see about trying to add more infographics going forward! Haha, I'm glad you're able to use the info against your regular opponent. Best of luck in future games!
Nelson your videos are awesome. I’ve been playing casually for many years, My online rating is around 1700 but I didn’t know a good % of your tips or principles. Thank you
I learn so much by watching your videos. They're great. You break things down so when you tells us what to do, you explain why. So many of the UA-camrs are really great chess players but terrible teachers. I tried them all and settled here. Chess Vibes has improved my skill more than hours and hours of other youtube teachers. Thanks, keep doing what you do. Don't get me wrong, I learn from a of them, but the highest rated are rarely thebest teachers.
What I like about this vid - and basically all of Chess Vibes vids - is you learn something right out of the gate, but it is also worthwhile coming back and reviewing as you improve; as you get slightly better you can a) review the advice, and b) see how the advice applies in a slightly more complex way.
Its the first video I saw here I subbed, its a great chanel, keep on doing it, I learned a lot, I like how you talk and teach, sending you energy to keep it going, greetings from Hungary:)
I know this is an old video, but just want to say thanks for all the free advice you have given me. At my level ( 1250 to 1350) i have found your videos the most helpful.
Little addition to the last principle: Knights only attack 1 colour and can't move while attacking the same squares. If the Knight is on a light square and wants to be on a dark in the same situation, the opponent draws if his manoeuvres are an even number
A quick proof of why Principle 25 is true: Whenever a knight makes a move, it lands on a square of the opposite color of the square it started from. That means a knight will always only be attacking squares opposite the color the knight is standing on. If the knight is currently attacking a specific square, and then the knight moves, it will now occupy a square the same color as the target square - meaning it is no longer attacking the target square. In the given example, the knight is hoping to block the king from moving onto the target light square. However, the knight's moves are perfectly synchronized with the king's moves; both are alternating between a light square and a dark square, the knight because it's forced to and the king because that's the best strategy. They are both on dark squares at the moment. The knight is already attacking the target square. It will only be able to attack that square after making some even number of moves. But after the knight has made any number of moves, the king has made that many moves minus one - since the knight goes first. Whenever the knight is attacking that square, it has made an even number of moves and the king has made an odd number of moves. Therefore, any time it is possible for the knight to attack the light square, the king is already standing on it. That is why the knight can never prevent the king from moving to that square in this position; it can only put him in check (unless the king's move pattern changes).
15:50 The Knight not being able to remove the king from there is very easy to demonstrate. A knight can only attack and move to squares of the opposite color to where he is at. So if its your time to move and your knight is in the same color as the enemy king, you can never attack a square that is adjacent to the king with your next move.
@@paulsubzak start with a simpler video like something about easy openings you could use. Pick an opening for white and black and study them and practice them until you get them down and then try something else
The amount of choke I did during endgame really made me go back to learning this basic principles. The pressure when I'm up a piece during endgame somehow made me more nervous.
i used to play chess when as a kid, without even knowing their names i memorized the rules. now at 18 its been a month i continued and i'm getting good at this real fast. your videos help alot
"Zugzwang" is actually a german word and pronounced very differently. The Z is usually pronounced like the "ts" in "cats". Zug is basically a "move" in chess. So you make a "Zug"(move) in german. Zwang means "Force". Like to force someone or something. It is pronounced like "swung", but with the Z instead of an s. Of course again pronounced like the "ts" in "Cats."
In this position at 2:23 its actually better if black captures the pawn as you are still a pawn up and now that the rooks are out of the equation (The king cant take as the pawns guarded by whites rook) and after trading White has a winning position.
Excellent video! Thanks for making it. Is the reason the knight cannot loose a tempo in your example is because both the king and the knight have a two move cadence? Meaning knights are going from black to white and back again. The king just happens to be making the same number of moves, from the checking square to the black square and then back again.
Principle 25 holds because of the way knights move. Knights always change the colour of the square they are on, whereas bishops always stay on the same colour. As a sidenote, principle 24 is really important to consider. I failed to convert a winning endgame against a strong player OTB partly because I didn't consider the possibility of zugzwang. Funnily enough, that endgame also included principle 5 (creating passed pawns), and many others.
9:54 black has to be careful in how they play to make sure they get the draw, White can push their left side pawns and black has to play the right moves to stop it.
16:15 actually in this specific example knight cant gain tempo, and its not "something about how the knight moves" its because black has to keep alterating between a black and white squares with his king, at the same time the knight is only able to move from a black square to a white square and vice versa, this means that now matter how many times you repeat moves your knight will always be pointing at the white square when his king is standing on it. however if the black king was ina different position where he needs to keep alternating between two squares of the same color, here the knight can waste a move to attack the black king and prevent it from alternating between the two squares
Another thing about passed pawns. if you have a pawn majority even by 1, and you can not promote your passed pawn, push it anyway. Force the enemy King to capture it, thus moving away from their own pawns, so your King can pick those up. This only works if you have more than one pawn.
Love your videos! While explaining principle 21 you say the king and the pawn on the C file can advance if they're free from being harassed by blacks king, but for the life of me I cant see how they could advance with the black rook just continuously putting the white king in check. Can anyone explain this?
It's a really good question and I really wasn't quite accurate with what I said. By constantly giving checks black could prevent you like you mentioned, so you'd have to get a bit creative to make it work from white's side. Basically the first step would be to bring your rook all the way back to e1 so its' far away from black's king. Then to win you would move your king to b4, black would go Rb8+, you'd go Ka5, black would go back c file with Rc8, you'd go Kb5, black would check with Rb8+, you'd go Ka6 and then black would go back to Rc8. At this point you've maneuvered your king up the board nicely, and now you can play Rc1 to go behind the pawn and then follow up with Kb7 to attack the rook and then after Rc5, Kb6 to chase it away once more and then start pushing the pawn. Hope that made sense and very good question!
The position at 10:04 with opposite color bishops... looks winning for white... like Ba3... and then b4 to make a passed pawn... I think I could win that... if en passant then the move c4 becomes a passed pawn as well.
Black bishop can move to d7 and cover the diagonal, sacrificing itself for the pawn if it tries to move there. The white king would have to move to capture the bishop, giving the black king time to smite the other pawns.
@@oenrn I am pretty sure white can win that position. It is a little over the horizon, but if you try it with a computer like Ba3 and whatnot… it is winning for white…
I played out the position where you used to the rook to cut off the king, then theoretically march the king and pawn up forcing a sacrifice. But couldn’t black just endlessly check the king anytime it comes up alongside the pawn to support its advance? I got stuck just going around the pawn…but I also don’t think it be 3-fold rep…am I missing something here?
I had the king and rook endgame vs the Michaelangelo bot in the chess app. That game I learnt about stalemate draw from not winning in a certain amount of turns. I was so upset but I finally beat him the day after :)
1. Watch out for stalemate
2. Activate your King
3. Centralize your king
4. Passed pawns should be pushed
5. Try to create passed pawns
6. Passed pawns should be supported
7. King and Queen checkmate idea
8. King and Rook checkmate idea
9. Two bishops checkmate idea
10. Knight and Bishop checkmate idea
11. Two Knights checkmate idea
12. Flank pawns are hard to stop
13. 2 connected pawns on 6th rank beat Rook
14. Advanced pawns are more valuable
15. Opposition is more important in King and Pawn endings
16. Rooks go behind passed Pawns
17. Connected passed Pawns are best
18. Opposite colored Bishop endings are drawish
19. Bishop is better than Knight with Pawns on both sides
20. Watch for perpetual check in Queen endings
21. Cut off opponents King in Rook endings
22. Put Rooks far away from other pieces
23. Wrong Bishop and flank Pawn is a draw
24. Zugzwang!
25. Knights can’t lose tempo
Okay, I don't think I'm gonna play chess again until I have seen all your videos and memorized them. You do really well explaining these concepts.
Haha appreciate that!
@@ChessVibesOfficial true that
Ik this is a joke but it's better to apply it in puzzles, adding more and more at a time until you learn the amount you want to
He's a really good teacher. To cement the concept, don't just remember the principles. Look at the positions he has given and play them out. Both as black and white. The more time you spend in the position the more personal it becomes. Not only will you remember the principles, you will have the technique to finish from the positions and you will know what positions to aim for as part of endgame planning.
So not only are the principles given important, the positions that are shown have to be remembered too. If you can't reach that position you can't apply the principle. Cheers and share the video. I've shared to countless friends they love these vids.
@@ChessVibesOfficial thank you Nelson you are my the best one explaining chess
At the 16:15 point of the video Nelson said: "there's something about the way that knights move ..."
That "something" is that knights always move to an opposite color square.
If their king is constantly moving between the same two squares, they return to the same square every even number of moves. So, If you are only moving your knight, on every even number of moves the knight will return to the same color square.
Yeah I cringe when I re-watch that part of the video lol
Lol dude it's alright,
Sorry if this is too pedantic or detailed, but strictly speaking, it's *not* about the color of the square.
The real issue is that knights cannot attack the same square they have been attacking once they move. That's because of the shape of a knight move. It must move two squares in one direction and one to a side; and when you do that, you are no longer attacking the same square.
As an illustration regarding why this is not strictly a question of square color, consider a queen. Suppose it is on e4 right next to a pawn, attacking it. The queen can move to e5 and continue to attack the pawn, even though the e5 square is of a different color.
@@qqw743 your description explains why you can't be attacking the same square one turn later with a knight. Ross' proof explains why this is true for any possible path - why you must always make an even number of moves with a knight to attack the same square. And note that 1 is an odd number, so the way I see it your explanation proves a strict subset of the cases Ross' does, and so it is less useful and less general.
@@qqw743 Yea I think they meant how a knight can't "loop around" and control a different square
"Creating Opposition" with a king and pawn against one's opponent's king is a revelation for me! It will serve me to no end after always falling into draws in those scenarios. Thanks.
Me too
Have been learning through all your videos ever since I was a beginner with an ELO rating of 800 but 1 year ago now am an an expert (2050) because of the videos
Your videos are really helpful more especially for beginners and advanced players
I would like to thank you once again for your effort that has helped me become almost a chess master
so many GMs and super GMs lost to Carlsen though they had a textbook draw against him because he just pushed them to make the draw on the board and they blundered as though they forget the mentioned principles. great compilation always most useful to refresh your endgame principles whatever level you might be on
Only because you know, doenst mean you know to execute it or more diffcult in the heat of action.
@@majormononoke8958 exactly what I implied but that's for explaining
just want to add my voice to all the people saying your teaching style is so good. You have such a clear understanding of the concepts, and you don't mince words. you tell us what we need to know to get better, and you show us what we need to do. you make the concepts into something more cohesive and big-picture than just 'here's what moves you make.'
For me you have the best chess tutorials on YT. Your sound and video is good quality. your voice is plezant and your content is very to the point. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing.
Hi I just want to say that your videos are really informative and high quality! You are really helping me grow as a chess player 💜
Glad to hear it! Thanks for the comment!
13:30 you can actually push the pawn to h7:
If black king moves away, you promote
If black king blocks the pawn, you checkmate with bishop
Yeah, cause he changed the color of the bishop to show you that.... it was literally the point of that section.
15:50 an easy way to look at that might be to remember that knights always change their square colour when they move. Therefore the king in that example can hop between black and white squares and know that the knight is stuck doing the same thing wherever he goes. Maybe that makes the concept easier to grasp?
Thanks!
No problem, Randall!
Thank you, this has been really helpful. I would just add to tip 15, there are two types of opposition. Tip 15 covers direct opposition well, when the kings are close, but you may also need to understand distant opposition for situations when the kings are not close.
Just to refresh, you have the opposition when you place your king on the same file/rank as the enemy king and the number of squares between both kings is uneven right?
I love your videos man, thumbs up - You go for a maximized board, while still retaining a decent size personal place. Thats great. You are also clear and easy to understand (a relief compared to other big youtubers) -
My only advice is that I miss a bit more infographics now and then - especially when you mention openings or mention special names/titles. Putting in an easy to read info text/sign right after you say them, would really do magic, especially for all us non-native english speaking people.
Thank you for giving out your knowledge, and thank you for making my regular opponent really frustrated in our last game - he sensed something had changed, and complained about it - but he had it coming, as he was quite arrogant the last months, because he had the edge...that's not the case now, after I have seen some of your videos haha. ;-)
Best regards
Keld
Thanks a lot for the suggestion, Keld! I will see about trying to add more infographics going forward! Haha, I'm glad you're able to use the info against your regular opponent. Best of luck in future games!
6:19, 11:07, 13:41, 14:48 These principles came out handy for me
Nelson your videos are awesome. I’ve been playing casually for many years, My online rating is around 1700 but I didn’t know a good % of your tips or principles. Thank you
Thanks, Sanjay! Glad they're helping 👍
I learn so much by watching your videos. They're great. You break things down so when you tells us what to do, you explain why. So many of the UA-camrs are really great chess players but terrible teachers. I tried them all and settled here. Chess Vibes has improved my skill more than hours and hours of other youtube teachers. Thanks, keep doing what you do. Don't get me wrong, I learn from a of them, but the highest rated are rarely thebest teachers.
Thanks, Andrew, means a lot 👍
I couldn't agree more.
What I like about this vid - and basically all of Chess Vibes vids - is you learn something right out of the gate, but it is also worthwhile coming back and reviewing as you improve; as you get slightly better you can a) review the advice, and b) see how the advice applies in a slightly more complex way.
Its the first video I saw here I subbed, its a great chanel, keep on doing it, I learned a lot, I like how you talk and teach, sending you energy to keep it going, greetings from Hungary:)
Much appreciated Nora! Thanks for the kind words!
Wow! I already knew all of these! I feel like a champ!
My end game is trash. If I can’t overwhelm in mid game I end up screwed
Same here it is crucial to keep playing different players and work out your endgame conundrums. These principles are great.
Endgames is really good to study
Learn endgame because simply put. If you play right in endgame you can have a 180 in you're chances of winning
Learned some much needed endgame technique. Thank you
The pacing of your videos is fantastic! I just discovered your channel and I'm really looking forward to watching more!
Thank you very much publisher. Another lesson in your series which find clear and friendly to the novice. Thank you.
Thanks for the video, very clear, it's introducing me to work on my endgames
Instructive video. Looking forward to going through your other content as well.
Thanks, Chris, appreciate that!
I know this is an old video, but just want to say thanks for all the free advice you have given me.
At my level ( 1250 to 1350) i have found your videos the most helpful.
Beautiful video. Thank you!
Let’s get Chess Vibes to 1000 subs. He deserves it. Great follow up vid btw.
Thanks, Reinaldo! So close!
we are almost there!
@@lucasoscar let’s get this man 1 more sub.
@@ChessVibesOfficial 1K subscribers! Congrats! :)
His channel grew so fast wow
Another great video, thanks mate 👍
No problem 👍
the best ever series about chess prinicples from different stages!!! respect!
The BEST teacher around! Said
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Little addition to the last principle: Knights only attack 1 colour and can't move while attacking the same squares. If the Knight is on a light square and wants to be on a dark in the same situation, the opponent draws if his manoeuvres are an even number
You're good at teaching. You explain showing what you mean, you're a natural at what you're doing!
Excellent presentation with just enough examples to get us thinking about it on a deeper level. Thank you!
Simply Brilliant! Amazing Content!
Excellent instruction !! Thank you !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Simple and straight to the point. I really liked it! It's easy to understand.
Very nice video. Great refresher. thank you.
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A quick proof of why Principle 25 is true:
Whenever a knight makes a move, it lands on a square of the opposite color of the square it started from. That means a knight will always only be attacking squares opposite the color the knight is standing on. If the knight is currently attacking a specific square, and then the knight moves, it will now occupy a square the same color as the target square - meaning it is no longer attacking the target square.
In the given example, the knight is hoping to block the king from moving onto the target light square. However, the knight's moves are perfectly synchronized with the king's moves; both are alternating between a light square and a dark square, the knight because it's forced to and the king because that's the best strategy. They are both on dark squares at the moment. The knight is already attacking the target square. It will only be able to attack that square after making some even number of moves.
But after the knight has made any number of moves, the king has made that many moves minus one - since the knight goes first. Whenever the knight is attacking that square, it has made an even number of moves and the king has made an odd number of moves. Therefore, any time it is possible for the knight to attack the light square, the king is already standing on it. That is why the knight can never prevent the king from moving to that square in this position; it can only put him in check (unless the king's move pattern changes).
Very well said! Thanks for sharing that example!
15:50 The Knight not being able to remove the king from there is very easy to demonstrate. A knight can only attack and move to squares of the opposite color to where he is at. So if its your time to move and your knight is in the same color as the enemy king, you can never attack a square that is adjacent to the king with your next move.
I needed this!chess vibes coming in clutch
Lol you got it 👍
love your videos, I went from 1200 on lichess to 1500 in a month by watching your stuff
How do I get to 1200! Stuck at 500 lol!
@@paulsubzak start with a simpler video like something about easy openings you could use. Pick an opening for white and black and study them and practice them until you get them down and then try something else
The amount of choke I did during endgame really made me go back to learning this basic principles. The pressure when I'm up a piece during endgame somehow made me more nervous.
This is really brilliant content. I’m improving my game, plus my five year old also likes and understands it. Cheers mate.
great summary. i like how you focus on principles. You should do a video on " what questions should you ask yourself in general and in what order"
i used to play chess when as a kid, without even knowing their names i memorized the rules. now at 18 its been a month i continued and i'm getting good at this real fast. your videos help alot
Thanks for your lesson 🙏
Great channel for beginners
Great content thx you !
Shame u have only so many subscribers. You deserve a lot more Nelson
excellent series of vids
Amazing information! I can’t believe it’s free! Thank you! 🙏🏻❤️
i really appreciate your content. Trying to push past the 1700 mark. This helps a lot!
Great to hear! Good luck past 1700!
Ty this helped me gonna go through description videos for step by step too
"Zugzwang" is actually a german word and pronounced very differently.
The Z is usually pronounced like the "ts" in "cats". Zug is basically a "move" in chess. So you make a "Zug"(move) in german.
Zwang means "Force". Like to force someone or something. It is pronounced like "swung", but with the Z instead of an s. Of course again pronounced like the "ts" in "Cats."
@BIGFOOOOOT hey it was pronounced zuccswag!
Tsoog-tswung would be very close 😊
In this position at 2:23 its actually better if black captures the pawn as you are still a pawn up and now that the rooks are out of the equation (The king cant take as the pawns guarded by whites rook) and after trading White has a winning position.
These vids rock man. suuuper easy to follow and informative. thnx for what u do
End games are my favorite part!
Thanks! You create the best chess content on YT. Just won against a much higher rated player thanks also to this video. A bit of an eye-opener.
You earned a sub. This was so valuable. Thanks
That was very useful!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video! Thanks for making it. Is the reason the knight cannot loose a tempo in your example is because both the king and the knight have a two move cadence? Meaning knights are going from black to white and back again. The king just happens to be making the same number of moves, from the checking square to the black square and then back again.
Yeah, Paul, that's the idea. Because the knight has to keep switching colors, it can never lose a tempo like a bishop or rook could.
Your videos are excellent! Thanks so much!
Thanks alot wish your channel getting bigger
Thanks bud, appreciate that!
You are appreciated for your beautiful explanation!
Awesome video dude 👌
Thanks, appreciate it!
Thank you for making this video
Don't worry kid, your videos are the most helpful.🙏🏼💜
Great work man
really good video bro, thank You!
Thank you for explaining Zugzwang. I saw Eric Rosen's class on end games, and he said the term many times, but never defined it.
You can just look that up, you know.
Principle 25 holds because of the way knights move. Knights always change the colour of the square they are on, whereas bishops always stay on the same colour.
As a sidenote, principle 24 is really important to consider. I failed to convert a winning endgame against a strong player OTB partly because I didn't consider the possibility of zugzwang. Funnily enough, that endgame also included principle 5 (creating passed pawns), and many others.
my favorite chess videos on the internet.
Thanks a lot, Adam!
9:54 black has to be careful in how they play to make sure they get the draw, White can push their left side pawns and black has to play the right moves to stop it.
Great overview of endgame principles 🥰
This is the Best chess channel ever
16:15 actually in this specific example knight cant gain tempo, and its not "something about how the knight moves"
its because black has to keep alterating between a black and white squares with his king,
at the same time the knight is only able to move from a black square to a white square and vice versa, this means that now matter how many times you repeat moves your knight will always be pointing at the white square when his king is standing on it.
however if the black king was ina different position where he needs to keep alternating between two squares of the same color, here the knight can waste a move to attack the black king and prevent it from alternating between the two squares
At 5:30, what if knight goes to f4, d5, then c7, forcing a check and then captures the queen?
Kc6 instead of promoting prevents Nd5.
Your. explaination . more . useful .for. bignars.tq
Another thing about passed pawns. if you have a pawn majority even by 1, and you can not promote your passed pawn, push it anyway. Force the enemy King to capture it, thus moving away from their own pawns, so your King can pick those up. This only works if you have more than one pawn.
Wow my best teacher ever learn something new even sometimes felt this is common sense why i didn't think about it 😅
Great video Nelson !
Thanks buddy!
You've grown on me. Subscribed.
Great video!
Very informative and lots of learning .. thanks 🙏
Great video
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Good video, I knew most of these sadly but I play a good endgame for my level anyway so it doesnt matter much, yet.
Love your videos! While explaining principle 21 you say the king and the pawn on the C file can advance if they're free from being harassed by blacks king, but for the life of me I cant see how they could advance with the black rook just continuously putting the white king in check. Can anyone explain this?
It's a really good question and I really wasn't quite accurate with what I said. By constantly giving checks black could prevent you like you mentioned, so you'd have to get a bit creative to make it work from white's side. Basically the first step would be to bring your rook all the way back to e1 so its' far away from black's king. Then to win you would move your king to b4, black would go Rb8+, you'd go Ka5, black would go back c file with Rc8, you'd go Kb5, black would check with Rb8+, you'd go Ka6 and then black would go back to Rc8. At this point you've maneuvered your king up the board nicely, and now you can play Rc1 to go behind the pawn and then follow up with Kb7 to attack the rook and then after Rc5, Kb6 to chase it away once more and then start pushing the pawn. Hope that made sense and very good question!
Very nicely reported sir . Thank you
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Very useful. Thank you
The position at 10:04 with opposite color bishops... looks winning for white... like Ba3... and then b4 to make a passed pawn... I think I could win that... if en passant then the move c4 becomes a passed pawn as well.
Black bishop can move to d7 and cover the diagonal, sacrificing itself for the pawn if it tries to move there. The white king would have to move to capture the bishop, giving the black king time to smite the other pawns.
@@oenrn I am pretty sure white can win that position. It is a little over the horizon, but if you try it with a computer like Ba3 and whatnot… it is winning for white…
@@christophersnell Thats a ties position with all the right moves
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I played out the position where you used to the rook to cut off the king, then theoretically march the king and pawn up forcing a sacrifice. But couldn’t black just endlessly check the king anytime it comes up alongside the pawn to support its advance? I got stuck just going around the pawn…but I also don’t think it be 3-fold rep…am I missing something here?
Ngl, you probably are. I know that endgame is particularly complicated.
A freaking chess cheat sheet? New player here, your content is above and beyond.
I had the king and rook endgame vs the Michaelangelo bot in the chess app. That game I learnt about stalemate draw from not winning in a certain amount of turns. I was so upset but I finally beat him the day after :)
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