Thanks boss great content! Rest in peace Yuri Averbakh. So much ideas and concepts and also mindset on studying, teacher of the year 2022 come on! Same here, I'm 1600 Lichess so most my games decided by surviving the opening with a playable middlegame and then middlegame plans and tactics. But will be working endgames one day hopefully!
Fabulous stuff. Your game recaps are entertaining and educational, but I find thematic videos like this even better. Your series in particular are one of the best and most unique things about this channel and I really hope we see them more often again. Be it Understand your Openings, Know Thy Classics, The Amateurs Mind or Inside my head. They all provide educational value that is unparalleled in the UA-cam chess world. I also love your fabulous opinion pieces like "Whats wrong with the London?" or "Why you should play the Sicilian?!" which offer great and profound insight into your thoughts as a chess coach and have really shaped me as a player. Together with your series, they make your channel the best chess channel on UA-cam. On that note. If I remember correctly, you mentioned a few videos ago that you'll be doing a video soon about why you hate 3 minute blitz. I hope that's still on the menu. Thanks for your work, keep it coming. Cheers
Hello Andras, I came across your channel recenctly, and I very much like your content and the way you are presenting this! This will be my number one chess channel from now on! The rook ending is very instructive.
Thank you for a very instructive video. It is beginning to occur to me that most endgame moves are illogical!? The counterintuitive move is nearly always the best. No club player (me!) would consider a4! which is a GM move.
I love endgames, I consider it one of my strengths ie, equalish endgames. At first glance I understood black's plan immediately even the h4 idea if g3 were played. Also I intuitively felt black position would be superior if a5 pawn were on a6. What I completely failed to spot is the drawing mechanism for white. a4! and it is a move on the flank where white is weaker. Slightly counterintuitive but Rook activity is most important.
That was awesome! So true that the engines see "drawing lines" that humans would have a hard time finding and if they don't then the game takes on new characters! I wouldn't have thought of playing h5 because at first sight it looked like it's making the pawn structure rigid but I didn't look and see that if white tries to blockade it then it gets even worse At 9:15 could the move have been c3 here? followed by Kc4
My guess is that they transpose to each other. The white rook is still defending the e pawn, and so they need to play Kf2 at some point before bringing the rook.
Could you make a video on the endgame rook vs three pawns? I had that endgame yesterday in our local club championship. I was the player with the rook and was able to sail to victory, but when I checked out tablebase afterwards, it turned out that I made two mistakes where my opponent could have entered a drawing line.
So glad to see new endgame content from you and Naroditsky. Now I just need to figure out how to get to an even endgame 😀
how even to get to an endgame!!! =)
More instructive videos like this, I think a lot of people enjoy your teaching style!
Incredible video! The A4 drawing idea is key
"Material matters far less than active pieces" such good endgame advice!
True in the opening and middle game too!!!!!
Sometimes passed pawns are better than a piece. 2 Connected passed pawns on the 6th rank beat a rook
Thanks boss great content! Rest in peace Yuri Averbakh. So much ideas and concepts and also mindset on studying, teacher of the year 2022 come on!
Same here, I'm 1600 Lichess so most my games decided by surviving the opening with a playable middlegame and then middlegame plans and tactics. But will be working endgames one day hopefully!
Fabulous stuff. Your game recaps are entertaining and educational, but I find thematic videos like this even better. Your series in particular are one of the best and most unique things about this channel and I really hope we see them more often again. Be it Understand your Openings, Know Thy Classics, The Amateurs Mind or Inside my head. They all provide educational value that is unparalleled in the UA-cam chess world. I also love your fabulous opinion pieces like "Whats wrong with the London?" or "Why you should play the Sicilian?!" which offer great and profound insight into your thoughts as a chess coach and have really shaped me as a player.
Together with your series, they make your channel the best chess channel on UA-cam.
On that note. If I remember correctly, you mentioned a few videos ago that you'll be doing a video soon about why you hate 3 minute blitz. I hope that's still on the menu.
Thanks for your work, keep it coming.
Cheers
RIP Yuri Averbakh, a great legend of Chess!
Liking before watching. Will watch when i get home tonight
Great video, coach
Endgame lesson from chesscoach Andras ,🤗🤗👏👏🥳🥳
Hello Andras, I came across your channel recenctly, and I very much like your content and the way you are presenting this! This will be my number one chess channel from now on! The rook ending is very instructive.
Thank you for a very instructive video. It is beginning to occur to me that most endgame moves are illogical!? The counterintuitive move is nearly always the best. No club player (me!) would consider a4! which is a GM move.
Excellent video thank you
Very informative video, thank you
Thanks Gary, glad you liked it!
I found this really helpful! Mind you as a 1700 player...everything seems helpful!!
great content!!!!!
Thanks Mustafa, appreciate it!
Thank you again for your chess inspiration :)
I love endgames, I consider it one of my strengths ie, equalish endgames. At first glance I understood black's plan immediately even the h4 idea if g3 were played. Also I intuitively felt black position would be superior if a5 pawn were on a6. What I completely failed to spot is the drawing mechanism for white. a4! and it is a move on the flank where white is weaker. Slightly counterintuitive but Rook activity is most important.
Why computer thinks taking the queen with the pawn is a structural advance when it creates an isolated pawn and 3 pawn islands ?
Great video! Masterclass coming soon? Would love an in depth ruy-Lopez or Queens gambit accepted with white!
If you view 0.3 evaluations as automatic draws, you should never play chess, as that is the evaluation before white's first move.
Gonna start watching now, have you considered premiering your youtube vids?
That was awesome! So true that the engines see "drawing lines" that humans would have a hard time finding and if they don't then the game takes on new characters!
I wouldn't have thought of playing h5 because at first sight it looked like it's making the pawn structure rigid but I didn't look and see that if white tries to blockade it then it gets even worse
At 9:15 could the move have been c3 here? followed by Kc4
Wait! After you played Ra8, why not then to b8 then b7 forcing a trade of rooks or white drops pawn on a7?
Could white play a4 right after Rxe4, without playing Kf2 first?
My guess is that they transpose to each other.
The white rook is still defending the e pawn, and so they need to play Kf2 at some point before bringing the rook.
The point of playing a4 first is so that black cannot prevent it by playing ... a4
What happend to your twitch channel, got banned ?
Yea, will get unbanned this weekend.
Could you make a video on the endgame rook vs three pawns? I had that endgame yesterday in our local club championship. I was the player with the rook and was able to sail to victory, but when I checked out tablebase afterwards, it turned out that I made two mistakes where my opponent could have entered a drawing line.
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next time i play someone, ill say its not that exciting to beat me, unless ur lieing to yourself.