3 Most COMMON Chess MISTAKES

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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov shares with you the top 3 most common chess mistakes that prevent players from performing consistently and climbing the rating ladder. Most chess players are stuck, do not make progress, and could not increase their ELO rating because of these 3 mistakes.

Having taught several students, GM Smirnov knows this common pattern among chess players. Being aware of these 3 common errors and not making them will help you progress in chess faster and smoother.

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00:00 Top-3 Most Common Chess Mistakes
00:33 Example-1: How/Why most players blunder?
01:30 Mistake-1: Selfish Thinking
03:05 Mistake-2: Not Activating King in the Endgame
04:24 Example-3: Rule of the square
05:38 Example-4
06:24 Mistake-3: To take is a mistake!
08:11 Tip: Anticipate stronger moves from your opponent
10:32 25 important chess concepts you should know!

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► Chapters

00:00 Top-3 Most Common Chess Mistakes
00:33 Example-1: How/Why most players blunder?
01:30 Mistake-1: Selfish Thinking
03:05 Mistake-2: Not Activating King in the Endgame
04:24 Example-3: Rule of the square
05:38 Example-4
06:24 Mistake-3: To take is a mistake!
08:11 Tip: Anticipate stronger moves from your opponent
10:32 25 important chess concepts you should know!

[sanatnazblock]

Can u do a opening video on the chiodini gambit

[beenakulorabeenakulora]

East or west Remote chess ♟️♟️ Academy is The best 👍👍

[deangordon]

Hi Igor - great videos - quick question: why would white win automatically if white queen takes rook at - can't black queen take queen? This got me confused when i saw this at 9:30 - 9:40 mark - thank you

[fahad]

Hi Igor, could we get a video on the best beginners openings for black? Loved your ponziani videos, it's brought me a lot of wins! Don't really have any openings/ defences in my arsenal for when I'm black though, so would be nice to learn some good strats from you 🙂

[josephsalmonte]

I missed that Queen check & Bishop capture so I clearly need this video lol. Thanks 👍

[RamKumar-gynb]

Outstanding video, thank you again. My suggestion which I have given earlier too: Try making more videos on most unusual but successful openings for white and Black. You made one and it was really good too. Please make more of those. Thank you.

[walterbrownstone]

While playing, I often say to myself "to take is a mistake". I think I got that from Igor.

[jherwinreyes]

Can you make a video on how to play the Sicilian defense

[BobChess]

Learn our mistakes and fix them. Thank you Chess academy. You make us better

[yamijones]

In that last bit where you say white can take the knight freely… did you not see that hangs the queen? That’s a winning position for black

[dog]

At 6 minutes in: which video showing traps in the two knights game are you referring to? Thanks.

[chessbulletschannel]

Very important for chess learning like this ❤

[Shaun_GTI]

Very instructive. I wish I could afford your courses😢

[ytmndman]

How is the black player in the third example 1900? Was it a bullet game or something?

[ncheckh]

The simple rule "To take is a mistake" that I learn from here really help my game a lot. At least I know when I should exchange pieces and when I shouldn't.

[brianmurphy]

9:34 white queen takes black knight, then black queen takes white queen, then white pawn takes black so basically white is up one piece, a black knight.... and that's an instant win for white ??? So early in the game? Being up one knight wins the game? Please explain.

[gabrielknight]

In fact, by definition an exchange must be initialised by each side at the same time and chess dont work like that.

[derektoyne]

Hello Igor I was wondering is it better to look at your attacking moves first or your opponents threats. In a recent game of mine my opponent had three threats on his next move, two checks and a threat to my Queen. So I castled and he attacked my Queen, anyway I managed to move my Queen and a mate three. After with the help of Fritz I discovered I should have checked as I had a mate in two.In many of my games I discover if I'd played a little more active, in other words looked at my attacking moves first I would have turned draws and even loses into wins. In this video you talk about selfish thoughts my problem is I am only considering my opponents threats and not looking at my possibilities. Any replies would be helpful.

[WHAT-gmxm]

I am stuck in 1300 elo how to increase points & how to think ahead moves