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0:00Welcome to the new series, 25 tips
0:02beginner to advanced, where in today's
0:03video we're going over 25 tips for the
0:05opening, and in the next videos, we'll
0:07go over 25 tips for the middle games and
0:10end games. So, if that sounds like
0:11something you are interested in, make
0:12sure you subscribe for those future
0:14videos. And we're going to have it laid
0:15out to where the first 10 tips are for
0:17beginners, the next 10 tips are for
0:19intermediate players, and the final five
0:21are for the advanced players. Okay,
0:23starting out the beginner section with
0:24tip number one, we are going over where
0:26all of your pieces want to be in the
0:28opening. So, we're going to go over the
0:31dream situation, the dream opening
0:33scenario where you have two pawns in the
0:36center. That's really where you would
0:37want your pawns to be. You want your
0:39knights in the middle or towards the
0:41middle of the board guarding the center
0:44squares. You would love for your bishop
0:47to be on any of these three squares.
0:50Here is if it's nicely pinning uh a
0:53knight that jumps out. Here is just
0:56always a great square, a very active
0:58attacking square. And here is a great
1:01defensive square for your center. So
1:03ideally, you want them right here. Your
1:05bishop right here. And this is kind of
1:07the dream scenario of where your all
1:09your pieces will want to be. Your queen
1:11will just walk up any of these squares.
1:13Doesn't really matter. And then you'll
1:14castle. And this is where all of your
1:17pieces want to be for tip one. Tip
1:19number two is a nice guideline where
1:20your rooks should see each other by move
1:2310, which means that all of the pieces
1:25in between them need to be moving
1:27somewhere. And so we'll get our pawn out
1:30first, you know, opening up our pieces.
1:33And here we I mean, we can push our pawn
1:35up, but it's not so simple. So we are
1:38not going to get that dream scenario
1:40that we talked about in tip one very
1:41often. We're just going to get our
1:43knights out. We're putting all of our
1:44pieces kind of where they want to be
1:47that we talked about in tip one.
1:48[snorts] Um, we're getting our pawn up
1:51to open up the development for the
1:52bishop. We are and notice how we are
1:55moving each piece like a separate piece
1:59every move so that we can make sure that
2:01we get all of the pieces out by move 10.
2:04This is kind of a fast process and uh it
2:07might be a little bit boring, but I
2:10think for your development as a beginner
2:12player, the opening phase of the game
2:15should be a little boring. Okay. All
2:18right. And and even like if they attack
2:21you. So here, let's say they're
2:22attacking our bishop. We can move a
2:25piece more than once if we need to. Like
2:28if we need to recapture something or if
2:30they attack you to run away, that sort
2:32of thing. Uh, but I don't want you to be
2:34like jumping in pieces if you don't have
2:37to. I don't want you to move a piece
2:39more than once in the opening. If you
2:41don't have to. Uh, okay. So, here
2:43instead, I want you to castle. I want
2:46you to move your queen up. And we've
2:47done it by move nine. Our rooks see each
2:50other. And that is a successful opening
2:52guideline for you. Tip number three is
2:54that you need to stop doing these early
2:56queen attacks. So, bringing your queen
2:59out very, very aggressively early on.
3:01And of course, if they like if your
3:04opponent makes a mistake and maybe
3:05you've won a bunch of games this way,
3:07that is, you know, you got lucky. But if
3:10your opponent knows what to do, like if
3:12they just guard that pawn and slowly
3:15start kicking out all of your pieces and
3:17you can't checkmate them in four moves,
3:19then it's just a bunch of wasted time
3:21with your queen and you are just worse
3:23out of the opening if you don't win in
3:25four moves. That's not how you should be
3:27playing. You should be working on
3:28getting your rooks to see each other
3:30like we saw in tip two. Okay, tip number
3:31four is that it's time to teach you how
3:34to defend against those early queen
3:36attacks because as I said in the last
3:38tip, they're not good, but they can be a
3:40little bit scary if you don't know how
3:42to do it. So, when their queen comes out
3:44early, uh it's very important to know
3:46that they are attacking your f7 pawn,
3:49which is only guarded by the king, and
3:52your e pawn if they if they bring their
3:54if you push your e pawn out early and it
3:56looks like this, which very commonly it
3:57does. So, uh, a lot of the times
4:01beginners will want to attack that queen
4:03with their G pawn like we saw in the
4:05last tip. Uh, but this is exactly what
4:08your opponent wants you to do because
4:10then they can take your undefended
4:12center pawn, attacking your king and
4:16attacking your rook in the corner. So,
4:19already on move four, you're already
4:21lost. And this is just a a horrible way
4:23to go out. So, first before we attack
4:26the queen to kick it out because we
4:28don't want to live forever with this
4:29queen just hanging out in our position,
4:31we want to defend the center pawn. And
4:34you can do that with knight c6. This is
4:36the best way to do it. Uh,
4:38alternatively, you can do it with pawn
4:40d6. That's perfectly fine too. Um, but
4:44let's go pawn uh knight c6. Now, very
4:47commonly, your opponent will bring out
4:49their bishop. And if you've seen this
4:51before, you know that they are planning
4:53some devastating four move checkmate
4:56scholars mate on you. Uh and their whole
4:58idea is that if you haven't seen this
5:00before, let's say we do something, you
5:02know, something not helpful for our
5:03position. And they take this pawn with
5:06their queen guarded by the bishop. Wow.
5:09Guarded by the bishop. They're attacking
5:11our king. And this is checkmate on move
5:14four. This would be a very sad way to go
5:15out. So when they bring their bishop out
5:19now we can attack the queen and we're
5:21only attacking the queen because our
5:23center pawn is guarded. Let's say they
5:26bring it back. They are really insisting
5:28on checkmating you and for you know at
5:30the very start of the game they hate
5:32playing end games in chess. So they want
5:33to checkmate you as soon as possible.
5:35You can just bring your knight out
5:37getting in the way of that. And uh a lot
5:40of the times if they are really
5:42insisting if they are really insisting
5:44on checkmating you fast, their idea
5:46here, let's just play another random
5:47move. Their idea here is to kick out
5:50your knight uh out of the way so that
5:52they can checkmate you again. Uh the
5:55important move to move to remember here
5:57is this knight d4. So um this is just to
6:01punish the early queen moves coming out
6:04while we are developing. Now we are
6:06showing them, we are teaching them a
6:08lesson like hey buddy your queen should
6:10not be out here. Uh we are threatening
6:13the queen. We are threatening this fork.
6:15Uh we are just giving them a ton of
6:17problems and we are already winning in
6:19this position. So um and I actually want
6:22to give you one more suggestion. So if
6:24you don't want to remember kind of like
6:26all of the different ways like okay I I
6:28want to protect the pawn. I can't do
6:30this right away. The easiest way if you
6:33just want one easy way to stop all of
6:36these queen attacks is to bring your
6:38queen out to either E7
6:42guarding both of the pawns that they're
6:46attacking uh or in right in front of
6:48your F pawn. This will also guard both
6:50of the pawns that their queen is
6:52attacking. This is not the best way to
6:54defend. Uh the best way being, you know,
6:57developing a piece and guarding it. Uh,
6:59but this this early queen move is just
7:01the easiest to remember because it
7:02always works. Okay, nice. Tip number
7:05five is that you should not be pushing
7:07these three pawns in front of your king
7:10up the board because these three pawns
7:12are very important to keep your king
7:14safe. Now, the only one that's allowed
7:16to move is the H pawn. And the reason
7:19this is is because if we move our F
7:21pawn, for example, like let's pretend
7:23our F pawn wasn't there because we push
7:24it up the board, then there would be a
7:27very easy attacking lane to the king
7:29without this F pawn here. But if we push
7:32our H pawn, [snorts] it's not like the,
7:35you know, a piece can be off the board
7:37like over here diagonally attacking the
7:41king. Uh so the H pawn is actually uh
7:44one of the only pawns that you can move
7:46in front of the king for completeness.
7:48The middle pawn can get pushed off
7:50pushed up if you are putting a bishop
7:52here. So if you have a bishop being keto
7:54then you can put your middle pawn up. Uh
7:56but generally your H pawn should be the
7:59only one that moves up. And especially
8:02you know you were learning about these
8:03pins this bishop pin to your queen. So
8:06you go and attack the bishop. And if
8:08they're really insistive
8:10on keeping that pin, then I see a lot of
8:13the times players pushing their G pawn
8:16up, getting very desperate to kind of
8:19get rid of this pin. And [snorts] that
8:22is actually very very dangerous. That is
8:25very dangerous. Um because even though
8:28you get rid of the pin now your king is
8:31weakened a ton without the like security
8:34guard pawns in front of them. So a lot
8:37of the times like let's say even the
8:38next move they push this pawn so that G4
8:42traps the bishop and actually wins a
8:44piece. Even this even this where you are
8:48up material from pushing the pawn in
8:49front of your king. Uh even this is just
8:52too dangerous for me to want. It's too
8:55dangerous. You know, you're pushing
8:56pawns in front of your king. Um, you
8:59need to be solving these annoying pins
9:01different ways, and we'll see that in
9:03future tips. Tip number six is that you
9:05should not be locking your bishops
9:07inside of pawn chains. And what I mean
9:10by this is because we had talked about
9:13the best place for bishops to be is out
9:15here where there are actively fighting
9:18in the position. So, if you hadn't
9:21getting gotten one of your bishops out
9:23and you had played a pawn move, now this
9:26bishop cannot get outside to its
9:28favorite squares and now it's kind of uh
9:31stuck behind the pawns like staring at
9:34the back of pieces. And this is really
9:36unfortunate for for bishops to be
9:39staring at the back of pieces like this.
9:41Uh so, first you would want to get your
9:43bishop out and then you can close the
9:46pawn chain behind it. And this way it's
9:48the best of both worlds where you know
9:51your pawns are here open. You know you
9:53you push this pawn to open up the other
9:55bishop. Um you know now both bishops are
9:59happy. None of the bishops are closed
10:02in. So that is a great tip. Do not close
10:05your bishops inside of pawn chains. Tip
10:07number seven is that I want you to avoid
10:09unnecessary flank pawn pushes. And what
10:12I mean by this is a lot of the times I
10:15will see beginners push their outside
10:18pawns because okay, we're taking space,
10:20you know, we're we're advancing down the
10:23board and we're attacking other things,
10:25but and they will do it on both sides of
10:27the board, but this is wasting a lot of
10:30time in the opening. [clears throat] And
10:32this position is actually from one of my
10:35speedrun game videos, and I will add it
10:37to like I will attach it to the video.
10:40There might be like a little a little
10:42card popping up. So, this was from one
10:44of my speedrun games where the the
10:47opponent wasted so much time with these
10:49flank pawn pushes that their king was
10:52not able to castle fast enough. And it's
10:56very important. You know, the the make
10:58your rook see each other by move 10.
11:00It's very important. The speed at which
11:02you castle in chess is very important.
11:05And so when you spend all this time
11:07fighting on the sides of the board is
11:09when you can actually start breaking
11:11open and fighting in the center. And
11:13this is exactly what I did in my
11:14speedrun video. So, you know, go ahead
11:17watch that video if you would like to
11:18see how I actually won this game very
11:20instructively. Tip number eight is that
11:22when you have one of your knights
11:24pinned, you should be very careful uh or
11:27watch out for pawns that can come and
11:29attack the knight. And if you've lost a
11:31game like this, you know that is a
11:33horrible way to lose a knight. Uh, but I
11:36have one little trick that you can try
11:38if you have this happen to you. So,
11:40let's say they push in the center. We
11:42take, and now you're really worried
11:44about like them pushing this pawn
11:46because their queen's behind it, your
11:48king. And so, you you know, you develop
11:50your bishop. You want to castle. And
11:52then you're like, "Oh crap. Oh no, they
11:56could they just pushed my pawn attacking
11:58the knight. And now the knight can't
11:59move because it's pinned to the king.
12:01I'm about to lose my knight." First of
12:03all, always be careful of these sort of
12:04things. But second of all, if you get in
12:07this situation, you can actually
12:09importantly counterattack that bishop
12:12sometimes, most of the time. Um, now if
12:15this bishop was back here already, then,
12:18you know, we we can't really
12:19counterattack it so so well. But, uh, a
12:23lot of the times you can counterattack
12:25that bishop, and if they run away, you
12:27can keep pushing. And I know you're
12:29thinking like, I thought you didn't want
12:31us to push these flank pawns in the in
12:33the opening. But here is a dire
12:35situation where you kind of need to do
12:37that. Uh or else you're just going to
12:38lose one of your knights. Uh and the
12:40point of this is that you know if they
12:42run their bishop away now you can like
12:44now you can save your knight or if they
12:47take your knight now you can take their
12:49bishop. So it's just an equal trade. Um
12:52so keep an eye out on that. You know,
12:53the best thing is not to let this
12:55happen, but if it does, keep an eye out
12:58for this counterattack on their bishop.
13:00Tip number nine is that you always need
13:02to monitor your opponent's like queen
13:05side of the board checks on your king
13:08because it's very very tricky. And I see
13:11beginners lose to this sort of thing all
13:13the time where they see, oh, I don't
13:15know. Ooh. Oh, there's a free pawn in
13:17the middle of the board, but you
13:19actually cannot take it here because of
13:22this queen side check, forking the king,
13:25forking the knight, uh, losing the
13:28knight right away. And, um, if anyone
13:30says this exact position happened in one
13:32of my games about a month ago, uh, I
13:35would ask for proof. It happened to me.
13:37It hap it still happens to all of us.
13:39So, keep an eye out for the opponent's
13:42queen flank checks on your king. Tip
13:44number 10, the last beginner tip is a
13:47very important one. I am going to teach
13:49you [clears throat] how to defend
13:51against the fried liver attack and this
13:54is like a beginner's worst nightmare to
13:57happen to them and it happens all the
13:59time. Uh, beginners love doing this. So
14:02when the knight is jumping in, and I
14:04guess if you haven't seen it before, the
14:05whole idea is that with their bishop
14:07protecting, they want the knight to jump
14:09in, fork the the queen and the rook to
14:12win some material. So when you see the
14:14knight jumping in going for this f7
14:17fork, [snorts] the move you have to
14:19remember is you need to remember to push
14:22your d5 pawn up or your d pawn up to d5
14:25to attack the bishop. So that I mean you
14:28know this this piece is not protected
14:31anymore if they do it anyways. Um and a
14:33lot of the times they will take you
14:35right they they they will take you. Uh
14:37importantly if they take with the bishop
14:39then you're just going to take the
14:40bishop and win the knight next turn. So
14:43they will take you with the pawn to try
14:45and hold on to this sort of thing. And
14:47the important move to remember now is
14:50knight out to the edge of the board.
14:52There are some other moves that are
14:54quite tricky and I want to make openings
14:56for, but the most the easiest one to to
15:00remember is your knight out to the edge
15:02of the board attacking the bishop again.
15:05And so they won't have time to like push
15:07this pawn opening up again because, you
15:09know, you're attacking their bishop. So
15:11here, if [snorts] they just, you know,
15:13move their bishop back to a protected
15:15square, we're just going to take, they
15:17recapture and kick this knight out. And
15:19you can even I mean the best move here
15:21is actually taking more space if you if
15:24you so want that information. Uh but
15:27even if they don't go back and let you
15:29capture a lot of the times they will you
15:31know give this check but you can block
15:34with the pawn takes takes importantly
15:37that this pawn is defended by your
15:39knight. And so after they run away, now
15:43you can kick their knight again and uh
15:46push this pawn again uh and deal with
15:48all of these fried liver attacks here.
15:51So and you are actually much much better
15:53in this situation. So this is a this is
15:56the little short crash course on how to
15:58deal with the fried liver. Important
16:00move to remember D4
16:03after they take. Important move to
16:05remember. Knight out to the edge of the
16:07board. Okay, nice job. Tip number 11. We
16:09are in the intermediate tips now. And
16:11the first thing you need to know is that
16:13when you are starting to study for
16:16openings, you know, as an intermediate
16:17player, you need to be studying or know
16:21three openings. You need to know one
16:23opening for the white pieces. Let's say
16:25you know the Queen's Gambit. You've
16:27studied that one. And you need to know
16:28two openings mainly for the black
16:31pieces. When you start out studying
16:33openings as an intermediate player, you
16:35need to know uh an opening against
16:37white's d4 move. So let's say you play
16:40the Queen's Gambit declined and then you
16:42need to know also a move against E4, the
16:45two most common openings. So let's say
16:47you study the Carl Khan. This these are
16:50your three openings that you need and um
16:54that is just a great way to start your
16:56opening study. Tip number 12 is you
16:58should understand the good bishop versus
17:00the bad bishop discussion. Okay. So, how
17:03to understand it is that if a lot of
17:06your pawns are on one color, so a lot of
17:09the pawns in this position are on the
17:12dark squares, that makes your dark
17:14squared bishop less valuable because you
17:17already have a bunch of things that are
17:19fighting on the dark squares and so you
17:22don't need your dark squared fighter as
17:24much. Whereas with all the pawns on dark
17:27squares, your light squared bishop
17:30becomes much more valuable because if
17:33you give it up now, you don't have a
17:35piece besides the queen that can
17:37reliably fight on the light squares. So
17:40if your opponent makes a move like this,
17:42for example, little quiz time and my
17:44favorite example of this, uh you can
17:46either take this these bishops are
17:49staring at each other. Uh, but we
17:52definitely don't want to take this
17:53because it's our good bishop. [snorts]
17:56But do we want to trade off our bad
17:59bishop for their dark squared bishop?
18:01Well, let's take a look at what their
18:02good and bad bishop are with all of
18:05their pawns or a lot of their pawns on
18:07light squares. That makes their dark
18:10squared bishop more valuable. And so
18:13this trade, giving up our bad bishop for
18:16their good bishop is an excellent,
18:18excellent move. Okay, nice job. Tip
18:20number 13 is just for you to be aware of
18:22like a small little opening tactic that
18:25starts to happen to intermediate players
18:27and I just don't want you to like be
18:29surprised by it. So, uh some
18:32intermediate tactic where they can
18:34sacrifice the knight for the pawn in the
18:36middle and when you recapture with the
18:39knight that you were guarding that pawn
18:40with then they can push in the center
18:42and fork your two pieces. if you put now
18:46important to note this is only possible
18:48if you know a knight has to take that
18:50pawn and there's a bishop here you know
18:52to fork after this but just know that if
18:56this happens to you don't get too scared
18:59most of the time you can just bring your
19:01bishop back you do have to give up most
19:04of the time one of those pieces and then
19:06you can capture back and you have
19:08captured the pawn back the materials all
19:10equal the the position is equal you're
19:12not losing uh but Just something to be
19:14aware of to calculate around. Okay,
19:17nice. Tip number 14 is that at this
19:20intermediate level, you should be more
19:22responsible or adaptive with where you
19:24are castling your king. So, what I mean
19:27by that is let's say your opponent plays
19:29F5 and in this opening you always castle
19:32to the king side. But here, this is
19:34absolutely not where you want to be
19:36castling because it is absolutely not
19:40safe for your king to be on that side of
19:42the board. And we know it's not safe for
19:44your king to be on on that side of the
19:46board because all of their pawns are
19:48pushing down towards this side of the
19:50board and all of their pieces
19:53or all of their pieces will start to be
19:56pointing down at this side of the board.
19:59So if you you know if you castle this
20:02way then it is very easy for them to
20:04start breaking apart apart the pawns
20:06that are in front of your king supposed
20:08to be guarding it. So instead of queen
20:11king side castling here, you absolutely
20:13want to be castling queen side away from
20:16all of the chaos that's coming down on
20:18the king side. So just some things to
20:21think about being adaptive with which
20:23side you're castling your king. Tip
20:24number 15 is another one of when your
20:27knight is pinned to your queen, you need
20:30to be extra extra careful of all of the
20:33ways that they can put pressure on your
20:34knight. Not even like in the beginner
20:37tips when we were talking about a pawn
20:38attacking that knight, but all of the
20:41ways they can put pressure on it. Even a
20:43simple move like queen f3 here uh might
20:47have slipped you up. You might have been
20:49expecting this uh but even a move like
20:51queen f3 to put more pressure on this
20:54knight is a bit dangerous. Now it might
20:56not win the piece like sometimes the
20:59pawn pushing forward attacking your
21:01knight would, but they are threatening
21:02to damage your kingside pawn structure.
21:05And this can be very annoying to deal
21:06with. So keep in mind uh when you have
21:10your knight pinned to your queen or your
21:13king, just all of the ways that your
21:16opponents can build pressure. So with
21:18knights and queens most commonly that
21:20can ruin your pawn structure or they're
21:23just tactics out of nowhere that come
21:25with these sit sort of situations. Tip
21:27number 16 is a quicker one. Do not give
21:30up your fianettoed bishop. your vianetto
21:34bishop is very very valuable. Not only
21:38because oftent times it's your good
21:40bishop and we went over what that means.
21:42Uh because oftent times you know with
21:44the fian structure a lot of your pawns
21:47are on the opposite color that your
21:48bishop is. But also if this bishop
21:52disappears so let's say we capture the
21:54knight and you're thinking to yourself
21:56okay we get to win this pawn and we you
21:59know we give a check with it. It's still
22:01not good because that bishop was a was
22:05the only piece defending, you know, a
22:08lot of the one color squares by your
22:11king. So all of the pawns on dark
22:13squares, our dark squares are very
22:14strong. And we needed that bishop to
22:17guard all of the light squares. But
22:19without it, even for the price of a pawn
22:22and a check making their pieces less
22:26active, it is absolutely not worth it a
22:28lot of times to give up that fianto
22:30bishop. Tip number 17 is you need to be
22:33extra careful of Greek gift sacrifices.
22:36And I'm also going to teach you uh if
22:38you happen to stubble into a Greek gift
22:40sacrifice, how the best way to try and
22:42fight off the opponent will be. So Greek
22:45gift often times it will be when your
22:49knight is kicked away from your
22:50position. The knight that was guarding
22:53the important H7 square is kicked away
22:55and then they sacrifice their bishop
22:58starting the Greek gift sacrifice. you
23:00know when you take the the Greek gift
23:02sacrifice if you haven't seen it before
23:04is this knight will jump in defended by
23:07the bishop a lot of times so your queen
23:09can't take and if you you know run your
23:12king back then their queen comes into
23:14the edge of the board and this very
23:16dangerous checkmate happens a lot of the
23:18time so
23:21what happens is that when this knight
23:24check happens if you go back you will
23:27lose and so a lot of the times you will
23:30need to be brave and walk forward with
23:32your king.
23:34But this is very very scary after a
23:37common like queen move setting up a
23:40bunch of discovered checks on your king.
23:43So in a very important move you need to
23:45remember here a lot of the times will be
23:47pawn to f5
23:49attacking that queen so that there isn't
23:51any like discovered checks because you
23:54can just take the queen and if you if
23:56they takeant you can either capture you
23:59know with with a knight that's around
24:01attacking the queen again or you can
24:04take with a king starting to you know
24:06run away and save your king that way.
24:08Now here here if you're paying attention
24:10it doesn't work because this is a
24:12checkmate. Uh the the knight is guarded.
24:15The the queen is guarded by the knight.
24:17So it doesn't work here to take with the
24:18king. But a lot of a lot of the time it
24:21will work to take with your king and
24:22escape. So when you push f5 a lot of the
24:26times they will not take. They'll move
24:28their queen back setting up the
24:29discovered checks again. And now it gets
24:32very dangerous because it becomes much
24:34harder to stop these discovered checks.
24:38So you'll need to, you know, be extra
24:41careful of these discovered checks. This
24:43one wins your queen. You can try and
24:45move your queen away. Now there aren't
24:47any discovered checks that you're so
24:48afraid of. And with this knight here,
24:52it's very, very annoying because it is
24:54always guarding the retreating squares
24:56from your king. So you watch out for,
24:59you know, these discovered checks and
25:02after that start trying to find ways
25:05that you can uh break open the center or
25:07fight in the center. That will often
25:10times be the only way that you can fight
25:12back in these sort of situations. Tip
25:14number 18 is that often beginners and
25:16intermediate players are told that
25:19doubled pawns are bad. And they are. I
25:22mean, they're not ideal, but doubled
25:25pawns in the center of the board can
25:27actually be very, very useful. Uh, the
25:31reason this is is because, for example,
25:34this F pawn just got doubled. This F
25:36pawn disappeared and now I have two
25:38doubled E pawns. The first thing is that
25:40a lot of the time it will open up like a
25:43rook in this case, for example. And more
25:46importantly, with the doubled pawn in
25:48the center, it will help support center
25:51squares. It will help support center
25:54squares um to push the other pawn. And
25:59if you want to see how, because this was
26:01from another one of my speedrun games,
26:04if you want to see how I won that
26:06speedrun game, I will attach it once
26:08again in like a card that you can go and
26:10watch that game in. [snorts] But doubled
26:13pawns in the center are not so bad
26:15because they can help support squares in
26:17the center for your other pawns to push
26:19and they will open up files that can be
26:21useful. Tip number 19 is once again we
26:24are in the pinned knight to queen or
26:27king scenario. So of course you know or
26:31we had told from earlier tips you don't
26:33want to be pushing G4
26:36um because it it weakens your king a
26:38lot. So another option that you have to
26:41try and like unpin this situation first
26:45of all is defending the knight again
26:48with another knight or with the bishop
26:50if it's here so that your queen can
26:53finally be like released from this pin.
26:56Um because a lot of the a lot of the
26:58time the problem is that you can't run
27:00your queen away because then they'll
27:02take the knight dam damaging your
27:04kingside pawn structure. But let's say
27:06you don't have this knight. Let's say
27:08it's this knight is not here. Another
27:11very useful type of move if your queen
27:14can come up like walk up and defend the
27:18the knight at the same time. Get out of
27:20the pin and defend the knight. This is a
27:22very useful move. Keep an eye out for
27:25this queen lift getting out of the pin.
27:28Uh so then you know if they take you can
27:30recapture with the queen not damaging
27:32your kingside pawn structure. Tip number
27:3420 is that whatever opening you play,
27:37you should know where your minor pieces
27:40should belong in that opening. For
27:43example, here [clears throat] in the
27:45Carl Khan, I know that this the knight
27:47always comes to C6 if it can. The bishop
27:50will go out to G4, trade itself [snorts]
27:54for this knight whenever it can. Um, and
27:58then this minor piece, this knight jumps
28:01from E7 to F5.
28:04And then this this bishop will will go
28:07here or here, wherever it can. So you
28:10should know where your minor pieces
28:12belong in the opening you play. Tip 21.
28:15We are in the advanced section. And the
28:17first tip I have for you is to be very
28:20careful for bishop sacrifices near your
28:23king in the opening. I have two
28:26examples. The first criteria that you
28:28need to be very careful about this sort
28:30of thing for is when your opponent has
28:33an open F- file or their F pawn was
28:36traded away or if they can trade it away
28:39very easily because when they sacrifice
28:42for that F pawn and your king has to or
28:45your king captures and comes up to the F
28:47f7 square or the f2 square if they have
28:50an open file and their rook is on it
28:53after castling they will have a lot of
28:56discovered attacks on your king and a
28:59huge initiative on your king as well. So
29:02the first criteria
29:04is when your opponent doesn't have their
29:06f pawn and they have a rook behind it,
29:08always be careful of these, you know,
29:11discovered attacks. And the second
29:13common scenario for this bishop f7
29:15sacrifice to be possible is when you are
29:17pinning a knight to the queen and they
29:20sacrifice the bishop bringing the queen
29:23up.
29:23>> [snorts]
29:24>> If that knight that is being pinned can
29:27jump up here to the E5 square, capture a
29:31pawn and it's not guarded. If that E5
29:34pawn is unguarded, then after you save
29:37your king, they can use that knight to
29:41jump backwards capturing that bishop.
29:44Um, and with their queen there, now out
29:47of nowhere, you're like you're down a
29:49lot of material.
29:51So, uh, as a review, it's common to, uh,
29:55sacrifice the bishop when your bishop is
29:58pinning the knight to their queen, and
30:00the knight can jump to the center E5
30:03square, unguarded E5 square or pawn to
30:07jump backwards and and capture that
30:08bishop and win some material. Tip 22 is
30:11that whichever opening you play, let's
30:14say E4, E5, you need to be aware of all
30:17of the gambits or traps that may be
30:21hidden in your opening. For example,
30:23here the Petrov's defense, you should
30:25know what to do. I mean, they're
30:27gambiting this pawn. Can you take it?
30:29Can you not take it? You should be
30:30aware. Let's say they go knight C6. You
30:34go, you play the Italian opening. You
30:37should be aware of the Blackburn
30:41shilling gambit for example in this
30:42opening uh gambiting this pawn. Can you
30:45take it? Do I have to do I have to take
30:47their knight? And an easy way to find
30:49traps or gambits against your opening is
30:51just looking up, you know, traps against
30:54the Italian game or something like that.
30:56So, um you just need to be aware of all
30:58of their tricks that they have on you.
31:00Tip 23 is to be careful of overextending
31:03your pawns in the opening because they
31:06can be difficult to hold onto. For
31:08example, against the Aliens defense or
31:11the Alakans defense, it is a thing to
31:15just allow your knight to get kicked
31:16around because you are kind of inviting
31:20all of the pawns to come forward towards
31:23you. And the argument for the Alakines
31:25or the Alakans defense player is that
31:28these pawns that you're pushing up will
31:31actually be difficult to hold on to. And
31:33they're arguing that these pawns are
31:35overextended. So, uh, just be careful of
31:38overextending your pawns or pushing them
31:40too far because it may seem like you're
31:43gaining a bunch of space, and you are,
31:45uh, but it can be hard to hold on to
31:47that space. Tip 24. In those openings
31:51where you trade queens very very early
31:53on, the most dangerous things in these
31:56openings are going to be like knights
31:59jumping in with forks threatened on you.
32:02And this will be especially dangerous
32:05for the side that had to move their king
32:09to capture, like to recapture the queen.
32:11This will be especially dangerous for
32:13you. So beware of knights jumping
32:16forward. You should be aware of bishops
32:18coming out here. And this position, by
32:20the way, was also from one of the
32:22speedrun games. So once again, I will
32:24add a reference to that game if you're
32:27interested in seeing like specifically
32:29how I defended this situation with the
32:31white pieces and ended up winning too.
32:34But just a little bit a little bit more,
32:36they are trying to trade off. And a lot
32:38of the times, bonus tip, in these end
32:40games with the queens off the board,
32:42many times you will need to walk your
32:44king up or like forward to guard that
32:48forking pawn. You don't need to be
32:49scared. You can be brave with your king
32:51and then return the favor of your own
32:54attacks on their king. Okay, tip 25. And
32:56the most important advanced tip to climb
33:01is that you should know the middle game
33:04plans of every opening that you want to
33:06play. You [snorts] don't need to just
33:08know where the minor pieces go. So here
33:12with the Carl Khan example again, um you
33:14don't need to only know where the minor
33:17pieces go, but you need to know the
33:18middle game plans. So in the Carl Khan,
33:22for example,
33:24the middle game entire middle game
33:26revolves around trying to make this D4
33:29pawn as weak as you can. And to do that,
33:32the reason you bring out your bishop to
33:35capture this knight is because this
33:37knight is defender of D is a defender of
33:39D4. And so we remove one of the defender
33:42to weaken it. The reason we bring our
33:45knight like we had seen in the in the
33:47earlier tip here to F5 is to put
33:51pressure on D4 because that's our big
33:53middle game plan. We are developing and
33:57commonly our queen will come to B6 to
34:00put pressure on this weak D4 pawn. And
34:03notice how we are not taking that bishop
34:06because it would be like removing one of
34:08our attackers on D4. So just whatever
34:10opening you play, be aware of the middle
34:13game plans that come along with your
34:15opening. That is probably the biggest
34:17tip I have for advanced players to keep
34:20on climbing. [music] And that wraps up
34:21all 25 tips, beginner to advanced for
34:24openings. So, if you would like to see
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