Chess Tips: Creating Counterplay | Beginner & Intermediate Strategy

In Chess Tips, I break down chess concepts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level players. This is a great series for how to get better at chess. Some lessons have more chess tactics and others have more positional and strategic concepts. Leave a comment below! :)

0:00 Intro & 2 Activating Pieces Examples
6:02 1 KEY Pawn Break
8:12 ATTACKING THE ENEMY KING
11:20 Activating Pieces... Again

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[jetseschoffelmeer]

A chess tips video about when to activate the king (and when it's (not) safe to do so) would be awesome

[AG-iynd]

great vid, the chess tips series is one of your most helpful ones

[xistnc]

I have watched your every single video(except 4 player chess) lamao. your opening videos for black (king's indian) and london system for white and their rating climbs have made my life easy.
That helped me reaching 1200.
Expecting more content 🖤🖤

[ben]

You are easily the best chess teacher on YouTube. it’s impossible not to get excited about chess when hearing you talk about it

[davidkong]

Can you teach how to create opportunities out of a seeming neutral or locked up position.

[Andy-gtbq]

I would love to see a video on how to learn theory, build a solid repertoire, etc.(Unless this has already been explained and I'm really dumb)

[francisjtuk]

I think I am now in a position to award you the very prestigious "Best thing since sliced bread award". Well done - you earned it !!

[natesmock]

levy you have no idea how great these area, you're the when I see these I get so excited!

[dkpandey]

Suggestion: Please make a chess tips video on prophylactic thinking and how to anticipate opponent's moves. Thanks in advance. 😊

[fuzionhyper]

I’ve known how to play the basics of chess for a while now but ever since I’ve really tried getting into it I’ve been stuck anywhere between 700-1000 but I can tell I’m not keeping up with a lot of my opponents. I’m not huge into chess but I watch videos here and there for tips and tricks but I can never seem to set up anything because I don’t know how to see their defensive moves from 2-3 moves ahead even. Hope to get better through practice and such but if anyone has tips on how to know when they’re defending or when I should give up the setup, etc that would be amazing. And even a book on this type of matter would help a ton cause I’d like to think that I pick up chess easily and I understand why certain moves are made but sometimes it looks like they’re doing absolutely nothing to defend and then two moves later I’m the one that’s trapped.

[cgy]

A video on sacrificing pieces would be nice :)

[tsukima]

Hey levy could you make a vid about attacking when same side castling.

[jinKsss]

Great content bro! Would love to see a chess tips video on the importance of castling, how castling vs non-castling chess can be disadvantageous, and how does one play out of non-castling chess?

[bonir]

Yes, thank you. One concept per video. I like your prompt "Pause the video and play"

[pratikpawar]

Very instructive, one of the best chess channels across youtube.

[scruffysean]

At "only" 75K views, this video is probably one of your most underrated. Lots of great ideas here.

[student]

everytime i see the pic of levy in the thumbnail he stares deeper into my soul each time and i feel like he knows about evey blunder i make

[maxwelljann]

I like when you show a position and then discuss why the obvious moves are flawed and then show the best one

[Asura-pwvo]

Levy, can you make a video on how to convert losing games into a draw? I honestly would prefer draw than losing. And also how to draw a game whenever you feel like you might lose ?

[brandonwhite]

Levy you are quickly becoming the best chess instruction on youtube. I hope you read this. There are several meme-like phrases that all chess masters seem to use that mean absolutely nothing to beginners. "Activating your pieces" is one of them. I know you are trying to explain it, but it would be much much more helpful if you could break that phrase down into 5 to however many other smaller things that fall into that category. How does a beginner tell the difference between "activation" and "over-aggression"? There needs to be some smaller objective measures you can explain that feed into this reasoning that pieces need to be activated. Thanks for your time.