Seirawan's are the best chess lectures I've found on KZread. Totally followable and friendly and thorough and engaging... all the time.

@scriptbrix

8 жыл бұрын

John Rain McManus I can agree with that. The only thing I don't like is that he constantly move over and points to the projection screen, which is only beneficial for his live audience since we can't really see it in the video. He points somewhere and say things like "if white had a pawn here I would have preferred white but with the pawn here, black is better" and we can't see where he's pointing. I would prefer that he would stay with the computer and use Houdini more and mark the squares and draw arrows, that way both his live audience as well as the many thousands that watch this online would benefit from his explanation.

@blairschirmerx1711

7 жыл бұрын

He's very good, but I've never heard an adult mispronounce simple words the way he does. "Set up" and "injuring" are very difficult for him. Maybe he needs to calm down.

@flamarjr2000

2 жыл бұрын

I agree 100% I’m very thankful for Seirawan’s lectures!

The peace and clarity that this man exudes is amazing. The world would be a better place if there were more people like him around.

@zenyatta5064

Жыл бұрын

happy to see someone feels the same

GM Yasser Seirawan is such a gentlemen!

26:20 "I think Qd2 everybody and his brother plays, right Ben [Finegold]?" "Yeah, but my brother's 2300..."

I just wanna hug him hes so dang nice

@jamesmacdougall2694

3 жыл бұрын

I am convinced that, pound for pound, Yasser is the greatest chess instructor of all time.

@AdamCHowell

2 жыл бұрын

Careful, That’s how he checkmates you.

I think the Maroczy is mostly analyzed on KZread from the black side because it poses such a dilemma with the space squeeze. In my experience this space advantage for white is great but converting it into a win isn’t a simple process and it would be good to just sit on the advantage but that option isn’t available forever. It would be great to see more videos on whites middlegame plans in the maroczy. Winning a won position can be tricky!

I thought Eric Rosen was relaxing to listen to. This is an amazing lecture, and perfect before bedtime. Very much appreciated

Amazing lectures... and free! Thank you so much.

Absolutely enjoy every one of his lectures. Hope to see one live one day!

He has a gift in explaining a complicated opening in a simple to follow way, at least the first 10 minutes. Maybe more people would like chess if they could find a teacher this good.

Good lecture by Seirawan - as always.

Thanks for the good and enjoyable lectures , learn a lot for sure.

It's been many years since I've watched lectures on this channel. Interested in the maroczy bind, I stumbled back on this video and launched it. 2mn in, oh god had I forgotten how pleasant Yasser is as a lecturer!

Just re-watched both of these dragon lectures, nice refresher! Love the way he explains chess. Very helpful!

@jamesadams2545

7 жыл бұрын

Ethan C where is the other dragon video?

@leventeadamszabo1914

6 жыл бұрын

james adams Just search for 'seirawan' 'accelerated dragon'. You will find it. ;)

I just love this guy.. so much knowledge and yet so humble. He once crusehed karpov when karpov a world champ. Has beaten many world champs

The Accelerated Dragon is one of my pet defense as black in some games here there is hours and hours of study. I am familiar with the Marocey Bind but the video helped me to understand it more in depth with the interesting move made by Ben Larsen. I am going to have to look into this with more study. When you went to the screen against the wall showing move orders to your pupils it did not show up on the screen we are looking at, maybe in future videos you can correct this minor detail.

What a great talk on the hyper accelerated dragon! Thank you so much for the video :)

@antonsebastian6484

8 жыл бұрын

+Ethan C Just the accelerated dragon, hyper accelerated dragon c4, g2 while as accelerated is c4, Nc3

very helpful that Yasser points out the differences in his evaluation given little differences in the position, like when white has pawns on c4 and d5 that's great for white whereas the same position with the d5 pawn on e4 is perfectly fine for either side, or the same c4 d5 position is fine for black with a knight instead of a bishop. very interesting

Seirawan makes the absolute best lectures in chess.

El cámara se ha quedado dormido, no sigue los movimientos del maestro en el tablero.... que mal.

Are you sure that Petrosian crushed Larsen? According to the database, it was Larsen who beat Petrosian in the Ng4 line: Piatigorsky Cup, July 27, 1966. According to the database, Petrosian only played black in this variation.

Well prepared lecture. Notice how he asks the audience to come up with a move after black's ...10 Bd7 (at the 12:56 marker). This is a well prepared question and shows why Seirawan is a good teacher. In my opinion Qd2 is the most obvious natural setup move but it looks like 11 Qd3 is common theory, and better.

Wow! Ben is also a classic player! Never knew that he met Petrosian much less played him.

Is there a lecture of how black should play in the line where white retreats Nc2 after Bg7 in the Maroczy? Since black cannot trade N:d4 in that line I find it quite inconvenient for black because we are lacking space and have all the pieces on the board which makes them cramped

Isn't qa5 possible going after the e4 pawn because the pin on the knight 3:45

at 25:52 after b4 black can play Qb6 =+ because now after c5 Qxb4 Bxf8 Nxf1 if Bh6? white as Qd4+ the point of moving to b6 provoking c5 clearing d4 for the check.

Where can I find the full lecture?

Seirawan is amazing!

What about continuation?

Thanks

at 26:00, how does Bg4 look to you?

double that - this guy is one of a kind :) why not play f4 at minute 26...instead of Bd3?

TERIMA KASIH

I won a game last night otb thanks to knight to g4. Thanks yasser

At 20:02 you cant take back with the rook the pawn on a2 is hanging .

*Spicy*

finegold at 9:00?

@pierreeuhx

5 жыл бұрын

Shumeng Wang yes i didnt even notice!

@elherre965

5 жыл бұрын

Raawr the answer is fries.

@-_Nuke_-

5 жыл бұрын

when the teacher becomes the student :P

@daattavyaaggarwal7768

5 жыл бұрын

Very suspicious

@tommydashed4205

5 жыл бұрын

@@santiagomorales9129 Two Cs instead and you have it correct.

Make sure to leave a like! These videos are amazing and should have alot closer like to view ratio.

Too shortened in editing. Where is the rest?

Is it just me or 7... Ng4 transposes into some sort of a Leningrad Dutch?

Can someone explain why white can't just take with the queen at 23:55?

@ferguson1376

4 жыл бұрын

White queen takes knight, black queen takes queen, white pawn takes queen, black king takes bishop. The material is equal, but this is undesirable for white because of his slightly inferior position (with double pawns), and playing as white you usually want to come out with a slight edge, rather than equal or slightly worse.

I haven’t heard a friendlier voice since Mr. Rogers

Hey, not sure if it's my monitor or not but the video keeps getting blurry and it's really hard to watch, this is the second video where I noticed it

yasser smokes so much weed. Ive watched most of his videos. This is the one I can tell he burns trees like a wildland firefighter

@gianpalacio5635

6 жыл бұрын

Cameron 1234 wtf? No he does not cant a man just fucking be mature and happy ?

What's wrong with e5 at 13:00?

@kevingu6267

8 жыл бұрын

+Du du e5 is an awful move- it limits the range of your bishop on g7, creates the backwards pawn on d6 and weakens the d5 square (the knight could use this an outpost)

@Dudu-ud9jb

8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin Gu true, don't know what I was thinking about.

👍

4:38 "yes it's true its a lament, you can't have everything in life." Yasser's high af in this one, I was laughing my ass off half of the lecture because or the other time he was like "but relaaaaax it's all good..." lololol

it is very depreciative for the course that the video cam forget to follow the GM seirawan when he goes to the screen board to explain so much interesting points of his thinking mind in strategy and tactics actions. Please do it that better.

love his lectures but he limits his impact by not using the computer to highlight moves. The KZread viewer misses a lot of his lecture.

Too many variations are on the board we can't see. Other than that very good.

Good for falling asleep

Too often in chess videos it is hard to tell the difference the letters b, c, d, e when spoken. They should use military radio code by calling them bravo, charlie, delta, echo.

@hplovecraftmacncheese

5 жыл бұрын

time to upgrade your audio

It's tragic that GM Seirawan does not indicate his move suggestions on the computer screen, preferring to show them by hand unlike most other lecturers I've enjoyed watching on this channel.. The lack of activity on the board ruined this for me.

14:28

Born teacher??}. No doubt ;-)

What I dont like is that eventhough he has the computer board, he keeps using the projector one, and I cant follow shit. Hope someone brings it to his attention!

22:45 Nxg2 a its a better version of the same idea

@ferguson1376

4 жыл бұрын

then they take your rook buddy

D

It 's pronounced ''ma'rochi'' like in the word ''ch''air.

@leventeadamszabo1914

7 жыл бұрын

Athenian888 As a Hungarian I must tell you are wrong. If you imagine it written with 'tz' you're closer to the truth.

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