if you're looking for openings advice you've come to the right place
throughout the course of this video we're going to cover basic intermediate and advanced opening
concepts and so whatever your current rating level is you're going to get something out of it
let's just jump right in at the very beginning of the game it's considered good
to put one pawn or two in the center followed by the movement of your knights
and bishops and getting your king to safety so in a perfect world that looks something like this
both knights come out important to move the bishop to the center of the board
before moving this pawn to get this bishop out because if you do that you block in your bishop
the bishop in the center let's say i don't i'll play something a little bit more passive
now you can castle your king or do this it's not uh it's not extremely important just yet
say black castles now d3 and the bishop comes out in the future you can then make a quick queen move
and connect your rooks and what that will look like is something like this let's get the bishop
out here and now the rooks are connected and come to the center of the board that's a very
very quick onboarding process one more thing i should say about this position is that you don't
necessarily have to castle the king the short way you can castle queen side you can castle long also
we started with a king's pawn but if you want to play a queen's pawn opening that's completely fine
and then play knight bishop and the same stuff two pawns in the center if possible but if not
then okay you'll just have to go one square when we flip the board as well we can look at this
from black's perspective and let's say you have the black pieces you do the very very same thing
the only difference when you play black whether they play king's pawn queen spawn is that
you are reacting to their moves and there are little tricks with some venom in them when you
play the black pieces for example the scholars mate the four move checkmate the weak square near
your king has to be guarded and so when they play night out attacking your pawn and you go like this
there's this move and so it's sometimes actually better to bring the bishop
out before the night because there's something called the fried liver attack which i'm not
gonna study too deeply in this uh video but if you're a beginning player you should definitely
go explore what the fried liver attack is that's when white plays this very aggressive move and
just tries to destroy your setup very early so when you play black there's a little bit
more venom i mean there's even stuff you know ridiculous stuff like queen h5 where they try to
attack you and also try to set up before move mate but if you get all the responses down you're gonna
be just fine developing in the center both knights the bishop castle the second bishop and so on
that's just a very very quick run through with the white and the black side in a couple of minutes
of how you should be playing the first five ten moves of the game okay let's start adding another
layer to this let's flip the board back to the white side and now this is probably going to
be more more useful for the people that are going into the intermediate phase of chess understanding
not just the beginners chess has two types of openings setup based openings and theory-based
openings a setup-based opening is an opening that you can basically play the same way all the time
an example is the queen's pawn london opening and regardless of how black plays you go like this
you play knight f3 bishop f4 on your next move then you play e3 then you put this knight here
so for example knight d2 then the bishop here and then you complete this little pawn pyramid
and then you castle it's called a setup based opening because you set it up every single game
now this is one way another opening with the white pieces that's setup based uh there's a lot
of queen spawn ones that are set up based like the kali for example another one is the english which
is when you play c4 and then on your next move you play g3 and bishop g2 so something like this
and you fight for the center in the following way with this knight and then this knight likes to
come here you play e3 knight e2 and castle and again you can play the setup against basically
anything um those are good openings for folks that don't want to learn a whole lot of theory
theory based openings for example e4 is a theory based opening what is that a theory based opening
is when you need to know specific responses that are called that are considered the best against
what your opponent is playing when you play the king's pawn you need to know how to deal with
the king's pawn response the sicilian the karo khan the french and there's many many others those
are the four main ones but against the king's pawn black can play a whole variety of things
and so those you might need a book you might need an openings course which i do have an opening
course but there's many many out there there's things on chessable chess.com youtube videos books
all over the place but that's for folks that are transitioning from intermediate to advanced chess
they want to learn things let's look for the black pieces what setup openings are available to us
with black it's a little harder because obviously white can play anything he can play
uh you know literally anything so the most flexible setup based opening is called the king's
indian setup and it goes like this d6 knight f6 g6 to put the bishop here
and then castles then you develop the queen side bishop and the queen side knight and you
try to put a pawn in the center of the board in the future the interesting thing about the
kings indian is you can play it against literally anything it does not matter how they start if they
start with the queen's pawn it's the same exact thing knight f6 g6 bishop g7 and castles this
might be useful for some beginners in the chat as well uh in the chat it's like i'm live streaming
so this setup is just very easy to play it's a it's a kind of a one-size-fits-all solution
it doesn't matter they can play a setup based you know thing too the london g6 bishop g7 and
castles i get a lot of questions from viewers like should i study different things against all of the
different openings if you're strong enough to do so and you've got the memory capacity and
the time and the experience yes but this will simplify your opening study quite significantly
with black the theory based approach is you learn something against d4 maybe you learn
the karl khan or the sicilian but then when d4 comes around now you need an opening here as well
um another way to play is the e6b6 setup i recently made an uh an opening study on this
but the king's indian setup is perfectly good against just about anything that white can do
for the more advanced players that are watching if you've made it this far or you jumped ahead in
the video openings are a really really good tool to start implementing into your game at around 14
1500 that is when you are going to find the most success with your openings the way you have to
think about openings again let's flip back to the white pieces let's say you play e4 right
about 80 percent of your games are going to be sicilian or kings pawn with e5
and now you've got to start strategizing in in an interesting way
when you go up against opponents that play the sicilian for example maybe they have like a
chessable course on this right they probably spend hours and hours looking through the opening theory
but then you don't enter the main lines main lines meaning what's considered
the most popular at the grand master level maybe instead of playing the open sicilian
you play the rossolimo sicilian or you play the closed sicilian grand prix attack or g3 bishop g2
there's all sorts of different ideas out there for the more advanced players
so how about we do this for the more advanced players and anybody intermediate or beginner let
me know your openings questions in the comments below i'm gonna try to answer as many viewer
questions as possible in this video um hopefully it was helpful with whatever rating level that you
are you can share this video uh to your friends who are also trying to potentially learn chess
this in my opinion uh is the best way to approach the opening phase of the game whether you're 600
800 1 twelve hundred or even a two thousand rated player all right thanks so much for watching
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