Want To Reach 2000 ELO? You Must Know These 10 Tactical Patterns!

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Garry Kasparov famously said, “Strong chess players realize patterns and can immediately see opportunities... At the end of the day it’s about the number of positions – or you may say number of patterns – he or she can recognize.”

If you are familiar with a chess tactical pattern, such as the Greek Gift Sacrifice, it becomes very easy and natural for you to consider the move Bxh7+ in that position.

On the other hand, if you've never seen that tactical pattern before, then even recognizing the idea of sacrificing your bishop on h7 is difficult, let alone calculating all the possible variations.

The problem is, in chess, there are so many tactical patterns. Trying to learn, memorize, and apply all of them in your games can be overwhelming.

Good news! Most of these patterns are either very rare or so advanced that you might never encounter them unless you're a top-level GM.

In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov will teach you the top 10 most common chess tactical patterns that you must know to reach a 2000 ELO rating and above.

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► Chapters

00:00 Recognizing chess tactical patterns easily in your games
00:25 Top 10 chess tactical patterns you must know to reach 2000 ELO
00:49 Pattern-1 (Example-1)
01:11 Pattern-1 (Example-2)
02:15 Pattern-2 (Example-1)
02:35 Pattern-2 (Example-2)
04:21 Pattern-3 (Example-1)
04:48 Pattern-3 (Example-2)
05:26 Pattern-4 (Example-1)
06:02 Pattern-4 (Example-2)
06:21 Pattern-5 (Example-1)
06:43 Pattern-5 (Example-2)
07:28 Pattern-6 (Example-1)
08:17 Pattern-6 (Example-2)
08:59 Pattern-7 (Example-1)
09:59 Pattern-7 (Example-2)
10:47 Puzzle of the day
11:10 Pattern-8 (Example-1)
11:43 Pattern-8 (Example-2)
12:02 Pattern-9 (Example-1)
13:03 Pattern-9 (Example-2)
13:43 Pattern-10 (I'm ashamed of this)

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[TheSwagDawg]

You've been there for me on my good days and bad ones.
Thanks so much for your content, and for being awesome.

[rickstermandude]

For me, it’s difficult to understand the controversy over flagging. If you choose to play with short time-controls, it seems obvious that time is going to be a major factor, and, if you play slower than your opponent, you’re likely to lose. I lose most of my games when I play blitz, often because I’m slow. I figure the onus is on me to play faster.

[joeroberts]

please please please make this a series!! This is so helpful

[GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters

00:00 Recognizing chess tactical patterns easily in your games
00:25 Top 10 chess tactical patterns you must know to reach 2000 ELO
00:49 Pattern-1 (Example-1)
01:11 Pattern-1 (Example-2)
02:15 Pattern-2 (Example-1)
02:35 Pattern-2 (Example-2)
04:21 Pattern-3 (Example-1)
04:48 Pattern-3 (Example-2)
05:26 Pattern-4 (Example-1)
06:02 Pattern-4 (Example-2)
06:21 Pattern-5 (Example-1)
06:43 Pattern-5 (Example-2)
07:28 Pattern-6 (Example-1)
08:17 Pattern-6 (Example-2)
08:59 Pattern-7 (Example-1)
09:59 Pattern-7 (Example-2)
10:47 Puzzle of the day
11:10 Pattern-8 (Example-1)
11:43 Pattern-8 (Example-2)
12:02 Pattern-9 (Example-1)
13:03 Pattern-9 (Example-2)
13:43 Pattern-10 (I'm ashamed of this)

[ItsRedLoaf]

Bro is making everyone a chess player of 2000elo

[Robin-Dabank]

11:01 the move is Qc1 im pretty sure: Qc1, Rxc1, Rxc1+, Rd1, Rxd1#

[jstb]

Your videos are a gold mine. Why don't you make a video, or even a mini-series, about 'priyomes' (приём)?

It is true that they are mainly typical patterns and/or maneuvers, like the sacrifice of Gioacchino Greco in this video, but a well-wrapped explanation of, say, 100 priyomes would make your channel viral among chess players, I think.

Thank you for your excellent work.

[marshmallow___bars___]

Good day coach! Can you do a Rook vs Queen endgame? It's really a challenging endgame. What should we do to win easily? Thank you

[viktor]

14:50 if there is inkrement, flagging is ok, because both sides can make mini moves until they have some more seconds to plan a good move.

[alfrefogra]

I love you so much Igor...I've improved fast due to your videos... thank you sir💕

[shaihanghani]

Mr Igor, can you provide us with some materials (video lessons/full courses) for young kids who are just outright beginners (aging from 5 to 7 years) to learn chess and chess tactics in a fun way?

Well, it's hard to teach chess to young and beginners' learners as they may easily lose interest if something doesn't seem interesting enough.

[pauls]

I like to see patterns I recognize how to go forward, since once a condition exists, you know you have the way to get in, pry open, etc and you don't have to exactly calculate. This saves a lot of time in blitz.

[gloworms]

I’m sure ill never forget any of these

[kalelpi]

In regards to flagging: my view is you have two parameters to win. Mate your opponent or beat them in the amount of time you are permitted. Both are success paths. So if your opponent doesn’t finish the job and you stall a little, all is fair in love and war.

[eclecticexplorer]

I seem to be a bit off my game today, as I didn't find the solution to the problem without resorting to the engine. I was looking at Bb8, creating a battery against h2, which is currently protected by the queen. I thought of sacrificing the knight with Ng5, adding pressure to h2, and if Qxg5, then Qh2#. The only problem was that white doesn't have to take the knight. He has two turns to come up with something to block the threat, and g3 is all it takes, so that tactic doesn't work.

As for flagging, well, there are rules, and whatever time constraint is agreed upon becomes part of the rules. If we are to consider flagging to be unethical, then we are essentially saying that we don't think that rule should apply in all situations. I have never done this in a game myself or had it happen to me. (I did run out of time once, but only because there was a distraction that took me away from the board for too long.) I wouldn't think ill of my opponent for using all the rules at his disposal to avoid a loss.

Since the subject of pre-moves came up, there is one other tactic that might be mentioned. If you know your opponent is going to pre-move a specific move in a given position, you might opt for an unexpected move that takes advantage of the anticipated pre-move. You might see, for example, that your opponent is going to develop a piece to a certain square that is currently undefended. Perhaps, playing as black, you are expecting white to make the move Qa4. You can give him time to make the pre-move, then play b5, which might otherwise be a horrible move in the position, but with the queen coming to a4, it results in white blundering his queen through the pre-move. I saw one of the YouTubers (I think it might have been Gotham) fall to such a tactic. Lesson: be careful about pre-moves when they are not necessary!

[playandteach]

Hi. I play with one main friend. We both don't like remembering openings. Is it common for casual players to start from a set up several moves in? Possibly from famous games. Is there an easily available place to find collections of 'starting positions '

[tomasz]

Chess used to be the slow, metodical contemplation between two gentlemen. Now we have rapid, blitz, bullet, where time is the 17th piece. And in chess you win by mastering all the pieces. Therefore flagging might be ethically ambiguous, but is just part of the game by now. If you want to avoid flagging play slow chess. And if somebody tries to flag you in a 90 minute game, kick them in the balls.

[ytmndman]

May I suggest a video on how to get out of positions where you have much less space and your pieces are being squeezed to death by your opponent?

[anujpj]

I would just like to take out time to thank you IGOR for your amazing efforts you put into making such interesting and informative videos constantly over so many years. You have been my fav teacher over so many years, and i love your shorts for some cool tactics.

[matthewmurphy]

Can you do a video on mate patters to look for?