11 Ways To Use Your Bishops Effectively

Practical tips and tricks on how you can use your bishops in chess.

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0:15 - Pinning pieces
8:07 - Fianchetto
10:14 - The bishop pair
11:44 - Using your bishops side by side
13:07 - Pairing with the Queen to create a battery
14:14 - Have your pawns on opposite colour of the bishop, especially if you have only one bishop left
15:52 - Bishops are best in open positions
17:05 - Dominating Knights in bishop-vs-knight endgames
18:01 - Creating discovered attacks
19:04 - Defend your bishop with a pawn
19:46 - Creating mating nets

[pauldavies]

All these lessons are really helpful, concisely and clearly explained. Thank you!

[cfgauss]

Everyone's favorite piece...and a whole video dedicated to it? Thank you, Nelson!

[spd-kvsd]

14:54 - similar positions often arise from the Bogo-Indian defense as well. In most lines the idea is exchanging the dark squared bishops and putting the pawns on d6 and e5 and always playing with the pawns on dark squares while the light are controlled by the bishop.

[GG-scpj]

Thank you so much for another great lesson! I'd like to ask if you could make a video on how to identify or sense a critical moment during the game that requires long lines calculation, usually puzzles put you in that situation but you know that is a decisive moment whereas I find it more difficult to understand when that moment is coming during a real game

[doobz]

one of the most educational channels, thanks my man Nelson

[darrylkassle]

Another great video. Nelson just goes from strength to strength. Well done again. You never fail to deliver good content. I can’t think of one video that was not helpful or not worth watching.
Also Nelson if you can is it possible to do something on square theory . I read somewhere that as players get to 1800 + they think more in terms of key squares rather than pieces / material. Would it be possible to explain this in your unique . I get confused for example when comments such as a certain square eg d5 is the key square in this position and the fight for x square is vital for an advantage. Can you explain this please. 🙏🏼 thanks

[kirillzakharov]

9:01 in this position, White can go Ng5, attacking Black's Bishop, and at the same time guarding h3, stopping them from getting anything with the battery. Anytime you want to do that maneuver, if there is a Knight that can attack your Bishop while at the same time guarding the infiltration square, you probably should play a pawn move to guard that, so they can't stop you.

[yyyyyk]

Excellent lesson. All of these tips and guidelines are super important and I haven't seen them all covered in a lesson like this. Thank you!

[richardlee-shanok]

These last few lessons have been great! Keep up the good work!

[mikekeenan]

An old chess book my dad had called "Chess for the Beginner" (I think it may have been written by Frank Marshall, actually) gave a bunch of pieces of opening advice, one of which was that you should "never" pin your opponent's king knight before they have castled, especially if you have already castled on the kingside. While "never" is too dogmatic (see for example the QGD Orthodox Defence variation in the video) it makes some sense. At least, if your opponent _has_ castled kingside and you haven't, pinning their king knight can be quite effective.

[joris]

I also value having the bishop pair complete. It's my favorite piece. I always like trading a knight for one of his bishops whenever the opportunity is slightly favorable for me.

[kats]

Wow! Thank you for teaching us so much about bishops (and everything else you do in your other videos!). You're a chess hero ^_^

[matthewjackman]

The way you lay these videos out is perfect! Concise and brings a lot of info to the table, thank you.

[leeroychess]

Good explanation, I only need you to put out a memorizing page just like you did at the end of 35 Chess Principles.

[timwoods]

Nelson, thank you for adding more tools or rather more weapons to my chess arsenal.

[SuperFerz]

6:32 Yes! I used this when I was a kid playing against other guys and it worked about two out of three times!

[zgwzfhf]

I have a book by Bobby Fischer and it rates bishops at 3.3 points, versus knights at 3.

[DinhHoangMinh-Scott]

Your lessons helps out beginner like me a ton

[orenissac]

Definitely the best chess chanel on utube.thank's