1 KEY Chess Concept to Win More Games | Positional Chess Concept

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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov shares with you an important positional chess concept that will help you improve your chess skills and to win more games. It is a simple, yet key concept/idea that will take your game to the next level!

Many of the Remote Chess Academy (RCA) students said that this concept helped them overcome the problems they had for several years and improved their chess understanding drastically.

You will learn how to play when your opponent attacks you early in the opening, also known as premature attack. Instead of defending passively, you will learn to spot the weaknesses in your opponent's position, counterattack, and punish them.

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00:00 Important Chess Strategy to Win More Games
00:15 If opponent attacks early in the opening
01:22 Eg-1: How would you play in this position?
01:58 KEY idea to remember in such positions
04:32 Eg-2: Exploiting weak squares
07:24 Eg-3: Fascinating chess puzzle
07:52 Can you find the best move?

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[teodorboyanov]

Puzzle of the day:

1. Knight C4 is the winning move that crushes white completely.
2. If his queen takes yours, then rook A1 is simply a check mate..
3. If his knight takes your knight on c4 then once again Rook A1 wins the game on the spot..
4. I also believe that no matter what white does, after Knight to C4 .. it's just over.. He cannot stop what is about to come.

Simply beautiful :)

[bioshadown]

Nc4, White Queen take Black Queen and Rook A1 mate

[cwoodside]

GM Smirnov, you are such a bright light in the chess education realm!! I just recently learned the game (Thanks to Netflix's Queens Gambit, I now tend to obsess over chess and think of it often.) and am now reading multiple chess books, trying to learn new strategies and to further develop as a player. Your videos are helping me tie it all together! Thank you! God bless you!

[mindfulmagician]

Halfway through and I'm blown away by this idea. Something I never think about. I've also heard many times about "weak squares" due to the loss of a bishop, but this video actually showed how it gets exploited. Looking forward to trying to implement some of these ideas into my next games!

[mattlambert]

Nc4. If Qxc3, Ra1#. If Nxc4, Qa1#. If Kb1, Nxd2. If Na4, Qa1#. Anything else, Ra1#. I didn't think it was that complicated at all, but I've been grinding puzzles for a couple hours a day over the past 3 days.

[namedperson]

Knight C4 looks very deadly.
The goal being to control/block D2 and B2 while opening up the lane for the rook.
I think every counter is still mate in 2.

[npmerrill]

You are a great teacher. You make the game and learning about it understandable and fun. Thank you so much for all your hard work!

[tank]

GM Igor I honestly enjoy your videos, please keep up the awesome work and thank you for your efforts 💚

[Christiaan]

Thank you, Smirnov is very good in his teachings and insights of the game, everybody can learn a lot about chess from him!

[lukastux]

Please more of this! I love your middlegame content the most of all!

[emf]

Need more videos like this.... I'm just trying to learn and am struggling a bit with middle and end game concepts and general plans

[prateekbasera]

Puzzle answer
Nc4, and after that no matter what white plays, there is always a way to checkmate in one.

Edit:- Well I just found one more interesting thing, after Nc4 if black plays Na4 then don't get greedy and take with Rxa4 cus after that if White's queen takes our queen then there will be no checkmate.
So after Nc4 and Na4 play Qa1 and that's a checkmate

[Your_creative_plug]

This is nice, Thanks Igor, you're the best

[napoleon]

Nc4 is the move! If Q:c3 then Ra1#! If N:c4 then Ra1#

[jeradjones]

You are my chess Rabbi . I get the deadly poison pawn sacrifice going with bishop or knight just to expose The opponents king. It's material well spent likely to be taken in A lesser affective effort . Just reflecting on what I've seen You teach here on You Tube it clicked in my mind that exposing the king on that side by a sacrifice is an affective weapon and worth going down in material for if I'm careful Moreover the opponent is always at risk to it so long as they haven't castled and often fall asleep on it deep in middle game So I develop always accommodating that quick strike option forgoing when they castle I have to feel My opponent out by the moves they make To know what approach will do . You helped my offense alot Thanks Man

[Daniel-G-P]

Love this video. Very helpful. Thank you.

[lwandomasoka]

After I studied the course 'GM's Positional Understanding ', I was able to win the B-section of South African Chess Open 2022 all thanks to him 🔥

[petercohen]

Your lessons are fantastic! I love when a lesson centres around a single middle level idea, and not just beginner stuff everyone knows.

At first I thought the solution to the end position was N captures pawn, followed by a queen exchange, capturing a second pawn and then trading down the rooks. But then I saw the Anastasia's mate threat Nc4.

[jeradjones]

I had to look hard to realize that Knight to C4 counter attacking White's Queen is inescapable Check mate in 1 With The Rook coming down in the corner A1 . Because The C4 knight then has the only escape Route covered and Whatever whites Queen does doesn't matter .

[zondra.genevieve]

I keep falling in love with GMs on YouTube hahaha