Chess Tips: How To Make a Plan

The Chess Tips video series is designed to show you examples of chess concepts in a brief video format. Check out my openings courses below :)

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[aleksnguyen]

I love how most of the examples always end with

‘i did not win this game but thats not the point’

[gauravbhagat]

This guy teaches his heart out to us so we can understand chess better, , Thank you!!!

[kyotairu]

heres a plan:
-try to scholar mate
-if they notice it, resign

[luciano]

Not all heroes are GM's.
Levy is dropping knowledge furiously.

[benextinction__]

This is exactly what I need, thank you Levy! My biggest problem is that once I'm in the middlegame, I sort of wait around and end up falling behind as my opponent improves their own position. I am now going to be a man with a plan!

[achuthanb]

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[adriananthonydeguia]

ey just want to say that i got +300 in rating this past month, still a bit short from 1k but yah. am progressing. thanks for the content mate.

[jmzgms]

gotham is the reason. i became the best chess player in our school

[jackjackjackncoke]

Good stuff. Personally, I would love to see longer-form videos where you implement these ideas you're presenting in a live game and talk through your decision making process. John Bartholomew does this with his 'Chess Fundamentals' and 'Climbing the Rating Ladder' series (and maybe some others I'm not aware of). Seeing someone talk through their decision making process, while also critiquing lower level players and pointing out their mistakes, has been really invaluable as a beginner. It seems like playing lower ranked players really helps solidify the 'lesson' of the video, as they're more prone to make mistakes. Honestly, even if there's not some central point of theme to the video, that format for teaching is really golden, imo.

[Zephirum]

Missed flagging, the most important tactic in chess

[Max-bmor]

0:45 "bring the queen B4 I move the

[kuo-kun]

The only problem is when I play I forget everything I learned or planned lol

[omarsayed]

i used to watch movies while eating now i just watch his amazing chess tutorial i dont know how but i am enjoying it

[amikhshibu]

You're the only person on YouTube whose tutorials on chess are understandable to beginners and amateurs. Thank you so much for these. Much love 😍

[davidlaffarguebasejump]

I’ve been playing randomly on an app for two years without learning any technique and I stagnate to beginner level.

Today is the first time I go on YouTube thinking “let’s see if you can improve a little”.

All this goes too fast for me, I’m overwhelmed and feel so stupid looking at the comments of everyone finding it clear and obvious!

I’m gonna try to learn the basics and come back when I’ll be equipped to understand!

[xucxichuc]

you are the best chess teacher I've ever had in my life!

[andyszavos]

My friend. You are just brilliant. That's it. And I'm sure about that.

[adamwu]

Nice summary and very informative!. It's not mentioned explicitly, but demonstrated implicitly, but one of the common mistakes players make when they first learn to make plans is being too ambitious with their plans, as in thinking that a plan has to be this grand overarching thing that unfolds over the duration of the whole game. Your plans can be smaller than that and you can have more than one in a game. Like your first plan could be to take control of a particular square as an outpost and secure a piece on it. Then, after accomplishing that, you can make a new plan based on using that well placed piece to support an attack on the king or to pressure another area of the board. Or if your opponent thwarts your first plan by covering the square you targeted with a pawn, you can re-evaluate and formulate a new plan to target the weaknesses created by that pawn move. And if the opponent counters that by forcing a trade of the weak pawn, you can then proceed with a third plan to infiltrate on the open file the pawn trade created. And so forth.

Another thing to remember is that plans must be specific. "I will move my pieces to the K-side to checkmate the K" is not a plan. You want to have specific squares where you want to put your pieces, or specific files or diagonals you want to open and control, or specific weaknesses you want to attack or put pressure on, in mind.

[neonlight]

Really needed some of these classic attacking plans. Sometimes I had no plan and started maneuvering pieces thinking it would make them more useful but the enemy just makes brlliants threats with no escape. Thanks a lot!

[fraktalsounds]

Really enjoy your content! You’re clear, concise, and straight to the point. Excellent teaching! Could you make another 10mn video on the English opening? It’s my personal favorite :)