Irina, the chess instruction you're giving is so clear, appropriate, and valuable. Thank you for making it available to everyone! Hopefully, more people will soon realize what a great resource your channel is.
@phoenixinthetrees14467 ай бұрын
As with all your videos, it's just a pleasure to hear an intelligent person speak...
@hata62907 ай бұрын
i am BEGGING you to expand more on these pawn ideas, its so enlightening especially the way you put it :D
@Badministrator7 ай бұрын
Thank you for your videos. I never get any better but your insights make me feel like I could even if only for a fleeting moment.
@dreamscapemaestro37327 ай бұрын
Irina, I think you explain ideas in a way that's easily understandable to a high % of players. That's not very common. Just because a player is good doesn't mean they're a good teacher. You remind me of Yassers teaching style, such as the thought process of choosing moves & not a bunch of variations. That's way more important.
@todesque6 ай бұрын
Underrated channel. Deserves way way waaaay more than 18 thousand subscribers.
@nigelsouthworth55777 ай бұрын
Thanks Irina, the lesson is really useful for me.
@iambarrykatz7 ай бұрын
As a 1500, I agree with you that players in my rating range do this all the time. The problem I have is that when they do this to me, I don't always know how to punish it.
@Sagerydian
7 ай бұрын
Moves like that punish themselves after a while, I think. Also: chess speaks for itself.
@MrSupernova111
6 ай бұрын
That's exactly how I used to feel when I use 1500 rated. Keep learning and you'll blow passed 1500 rating. Shankland's books are great if you're looking for new training material.
@innopva99737 ай бұрын
serious talk guys.... means I stop what Im doing and pay attention Irina. thanks for this!
@paule47 ай бұрын
One area I struggle with is when my opponent pushes a pawn (typically in the centre) creating tension with my pawn(s). I always struggle to work out whether I should a) capture b) ignore or c) push past. I appreciate it will depend on the exact position, but it would be really helpful to see some examples on this topic too. Thanks Irina!
@musicbydeandre5242
7 ай бұрын
Kassa Korley has a great video on pawn tension, you should check it out it would be nice to see a video from Irina
@jacobleedgaard59687 ай бұрын
As a 1500 player often struggling with the assessment of pawn moves this was super instructive. Thanks Irina!
@luckbeforeleap7 ай бұрын
Like this kind of instruction. Appropriate to the vast majority of players (i.e. those at or below 1500).
@debrascott87757 ай бұрын
Excellent lesson. Thank you
@icecoldporksoda34617 ай бұрын
Great video. As a 1500-1600 player I’m often at a loss with what to do with my pawns. I found this very helpful.
@elizabeth46895 ай бұрын
Super instructive, and I appreciate the short video format!
@danmanning20067 ай бұрын
These lessons are gold.
@debbiethompson-xm1qn3 ай бұрын
Awsome simplicity
@zencoding7 ай бұрын
Love your way of explaining ideas.❤
@briandwi25047 ай бұрын
Wonderful, helpful lessons. Fantastic teacher
@philudoh58597 ай бұрын
Thank you for this Irina! God bless you
@thechuckberryfan987 ай бұрын
I’m still learning, so the views of an expert are always of interest. What I know is I’d like to move pawns like I see other players do, but watching more games I notice inconsistency - a lot of each game is based on your opponent’s decisions. Thank you for this content 😊
@peace_in1move7 ай бұрын
!! Always get the notebook out for your vids. Pawn ,Knight symbiosis. A beautiful thing. Good chess seems to be all about relationships and maintaing harmony. A life lesson there..🤪 cheers 🎉
@helsinkistationchief7 ай бұрын
Great video Irina - thanks
@Noams_chess_school7 ай бұрын
Your Videos have help me alot! Thank u!
@ManishSingh-bq2un7 ай бұрын
Didn't notice it first but that's a nice christmas tree in the background, Irina 😊
@stevenseymour43727 ай бұрын
Thank you Irina and have a Merry Christmas
@arronfowler23387 ай бұрын
Another really helpful video. Thanks.
@mariogilligan8417 ай бұрын
Great video again. Playing pawns is basically not something I've been concerned about because they seem "worthless" compared to the Queen and others big guns. Once I have fixed my blunder problem and a few other stuff, this is something I will come back to :) . Thanks!
@PepJuice6 ай бұрын
Merci Irina!
@kingberzerk7 ай бұрын
Super cool, well done!
@TheMoonIsTheEnemy7 ай бұрын
Hi, these videos are great! Please keep up this strategy mistakes series.
@torsteinnordstrand1705 ай бұрын
Super helpful, thank you!
@courageousknight7 ай бұрын
Thank you GM Krush!
@johanswart55627 ай бұрын
Thanks, very informative!
@gchomuk7 ай бұрын
Only recently found your channel, but loved it immediately.
@kirkmason70797 ай бұрын
Good lesson. Once you move a pawn there is no turning back. I’m watching Champion Chess Tour for pawn movements with the greats. After your lesson it give me a better understanding of what to look for while playing.
@philmageo7 ай бұрын
Than you very much for your precious advices
@lonelysonofgod977 ай бұрын
I am really thankful for your videos ❤. I have been long in chess world on the horizon, so I know how to appreciate you.
@CarloCretaro7 ай бұрын
Excellent instruction.
@nea_226 ай бұрын
This was enlightening, I'll try yo implement this in my games
@user-nc9ho7pg6p7 ай бұрын
Love your videos!
@MrChausner7 ай бұрын
Very nice and clear lesson - Michigan
@COMB0RICO4 ай бұрын
This was the lesson that I've been struggling with since I learned chess.
@ebuford7 ай бұрын
I love the way you instruct - it is very clear and helpful! So helpful in fact I whent to your website to see what you might be offering in the way of courses, and my browser wouldn't let me in because the SSL certificate on your site is a self-signed cert. If your browser will let you in, you'll notice it says not secure in the address bar. Tell your web host, you need a vaild cert on your site and they should be able to take care of this for you. Also if you have a place where I can look at any offerings you currently have, please let me know. Lastly, Thanks again for the content here, it is very instructive!
@MozartMartins7 ай бұрын
It is a great masterclass.
@anthonylesar73374 ай бұрын
When one starts watching chess content on KZread you first watch all those crappy 'win in 8 moves' and '500,000 people fell for this trap' videos. Eventually you find serious intelligent content like this and Hanging Pawns openings videos. I have benefitted more from these 2 channels than any other.
@riccardozanoni25317 ай бұрын
I didn't even know my favorite chess player had a youtube channel, i'm so stoked! Found it by pure luck after that wired video with Levy. Can't wait to catch up with the older videos!
@theowalcott1027 ай бұрын
Let's have a serious talk guys...about pawn moves! Hahaha you just made my day Irina!
@tenorhighc17 ай бұрын
really good! I've done these mistakes, and sometimes I do the opposite and do not move a pawn that I SHOULD push. Can you maybe do a video on when you should push pawns?
@BenBeckers6 ай бұрын
"One move attack", great name!
@RicardGomes767 ай бұрын
TY GM 👍
@christopher_rrocha7 ай бұрын
I'm Brazilian but I would love to have an opportunity to learn with you. You explain very well! I think you're the beast chess teacher on KZread lol
@prakashr237 ай бұрын
Often people do mistakes in equal positions, some unwanted pawn moves... nice explanation mam... got things... opened another view in chess... never know this previously... thank you 😊
@ircjesselee6 ай бұрын
Your hair is legendary 😊
@ConsumerkingUk7 ай бұрын
Irina Krush spot on with opening comments...
@salmarwow7 ай бұрын
Very clear and nice instructions. On the other hand, I was a bit surprised to see that your low rated students tend to play closed positions so much. Closed ones are very much about strategy than tactics, and it's rather obvious that strategy is not their strong suite yet.
@Pacodelahoya17 ай бұрын
So pretty!🎉
@MrSupernova1116 ай бұрын
Pretty cool! As an expert level player I sometimes find myself confused about which pawns to move in not so clear positions. I think pawn play is highly neglected at lower levels and is probably one of the main reasons players get stuck in certain ratings. I would argue even at the expert level there are lots of players who don't fully understand proper pawn structure and dynamic pawn play.
@TheFutureIsThePast777 ай бұрын
Pawnaliciousness!!!
@Drawtine7 ай бұрын
Love you channel, thank you for these free lessons! Just a note: "fianchetto" is read "fianKetto", is Italian
@StephenSinclair-d6n7 ай бұрын
Tip....keep the pawns in front of the castled king in situ. The three pawns in front the king. You know that thing.😂....the pawn moved one forward on each flank? To make an escape hole?......massive mistake. Lose,of tempo. Most of us are not grandmaster level. The old advice is the best.😊
@joshuamphande22724 ай бұрын
Awesome lesson coach 🤝 Could you please do a lesson on how to use an engine? I have Arena but it's so confusing, I can never really understand what's going on
@lilhaxxor7 ай бұрын
Pawns are the soul of chess. Every strategic position is based on pawn structure. The simplest way to win a game is to promote a pawn. Etc, etc.
@RashidulIslam-uc9or7 ай бұрын
Instructive for middle game.
@ircjesselee6 ай бұрын
9:06 'Cause Breaking up is Hard to do
@ElAsh-pc7fr7 ай бұрын
👍👊
@brucehighcock45686 ай бұрын
Impetuous: done quickly without care
@rhysgriffiths96757 ай бұрын
One of the mistakes I made often earlier in my chess development was the need to ALWAYS respond to pawn tension. I felt like if two pawns were attacking each other, I had to either trade, or move my piece. Only much later did I realise that sometimes the best way to respond was... to do nothing :)
@rhysgriffiths9675
7 ай бұрын
And the key understanding that propelled me from 1800 to 2100 on lichess rather quickly was understanding pawn breaks. Before that I was always just attacking with my minor pieces. Usually now if I play the right pawn breaks and put my pieces on good squares, some tactics will magically appear that allow me to win the game.
@liontx7 ай бұрын
She Krushed it.
@Murat8073 ай бұрын
❤
@carlosbautista80457 ай бұрын
ohhh a redhead 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘😘
@Arkady_Chernobrovkin7 ай бұрын
Christmas mood 🎄
@siddharthb26337 ай бұрын
''impetuous''. Today I learnt that along with some pawn move stuff.
@CapAnson123457 ай бұрын
Christmas Krush!
@Botoxcorvette7 ай бұрын
Pawns go brrrr
@lucassantana69937 ай бұрын
please make a video about how to play equal positions, especially in the endgame
@lucassantana6993
7 ай бұрын
or if you have a slight edge
@TheSimple1z6 ай бұрын
🙏🙌😛🎶🎵🎶
@yugiohfanatic19645 ай бұрын
we dont make mistakes, we are StockFish.
@abanoubmg36986 ай бұрын
we can protect it by long castling i think, as black's king side is in shambles.
@Phurngirathaana7 ай бұрын
Zurich 1953 please!
@brianrountree44997 ай бұрын
Gosh, other factors aside, pawn-structures are where GMs really out-rank the vast majority of amateur chess players, on the strategic level, like this video shows! Under 1500, she's so generous. lol. I'd say, under 2000, this is a problem.
@abanoubmg36986 ай бұрын
make some videos for 2000+ please
@chadmacgargle53117 ай бұрын
I love Pawns
@valentinleguizamon99577 ай бұрын
was it kd3 at the end? or am i wrong? thank you teacher!! imma get out of those 1400 😪
@elijahsimon69924 ай бұрын
I want to protect the b2 pawn with Na4 to defend and attack the Black Queen, but I don't know if I would've played that in the game.
@rv7067 ай бұрын
FIANCHETTO is an Italian word, not a Spanish word. The "CH" pronounced like a K sound. (Sorry, I have to write this in every chess channel cause apparently there are seasoned internationally renowned professional chess players that don't know how to pronounce that word...)
@executivelifehacks67477 ай бұрын
On the last example I am initially thinking long castle, to both protect the pawn and place the rook on the open file. The queen takes f2 though. And it is probably wrong because the attack is coming on queenside, and the c pawn is forward. Qe2 or Qc2 gets bullied by the knight. Undeveloping the foremost knight could protect. I think I might do that, it's probably wrong. I don't want to defend on the other side with a grim, hanging knight. I don't see opportunity for a counterattack yet and the rooks aren't connected.
@GigsVT
7 ай бұрын
I see some tactical possibilities just taking the knight. but it gets wild and messy real quick if they don't recapture. I think just putting the rook under the pawn is the safest
@synaestheziac7 ай бұрын
Quick question: in the first example, do we not need to worry about the fact that the move a4 leaves the pawn on b4 undefended? Or are we planning to move it to b5?
@faresar
6 ай бұрын
b4 is under no threat. Any threat to it can be mitigated easily without losing advantage. Black cant play a5 due to b6 weakness. And at any point later Na6 does not make sense for black
@dudebroguymate6 ай бұрын
I'm rated around 2000 and I still struggle with pawns in certain positions. That being said, I would never play dxc6 in the first position. It doesn't seem beneficial to me. It just looks like I'm improving the opponent's dead bishop. d5 doesn't seem like an outpost at all because it's going to be really difficult to trade both his knights and his bishop. e4 is now weaker, plus his backwards pawn on d6 is not going to be easy to attack despite the semi-open file because my light squared bishop is probably going to be in the way for the rest of the game to defend e4 & c4. Also, if I ever wanted to play f4, I would need to tie a piece or two down to defend e4 alongside the bishop, otherwise his bishop, which used to be a useless piece before dxc6, would look straight at that pawn and then at my king. All this makes my attack very clunky and almost impossible. All of this to say, the move dxc6 doesn't suit my style at all. Maybe that's why I'm not a grandmaster.
@mikhaeldito7 ай бұрын
How do we get to be your student?
@valentijnvanderhorst34447 ай бұрын
Hey, don't mean to be a dick, but thought maybe you'd appreciate someone saying this: nobody leaves this much space above their heads in a shot. It feels kind of off. Anyway, great content. Really valuable insights. I only say it as constructive criticism. Hope I didn't offend. Thanks!
@jimmysavage2586 ай бұрын
How can i become one of your students
@leredrasscul7 ай бұрын
I have a Krush on you
@martinpereiravilla6527 ай бұрын
The Christmas tree is very beautiful but Irina is even prettier
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Irina, the chess instruction you're giving is so clear, appropriate, and valuable. Thank you for making it available to everyone! Hopefully, more people will soon realize what a great resource your channel is.
As with all your videos, it's just a pleasure to hear an intelligent person speak...
i am BEGGING you to expand more on these pawn ideas, its so enlightening especially the way you put it :D
Thank you for your videos. I never get any better but your insights make me feel like I could even if only for a fleeting moment.
Irina, I think you explain ideas in a way that's easily understandable to a high % of players. That's not very common. Just because a player is good doesn't mean they're a good teacher. You remind me of Yassers teaching style, such as the thought process of choosing moves & not a bunch of variations. That's way more important.
Underrated channel. Deserves way way waaaay more than 18 thousand subscribers.
Thanks Irina, the lesson is really useful for me.
As a 1500, I agree with you that players in my rating range do this all the time. The problem I have is that when they do this to me, I don't always know how to punish it.
@Sagerydian
7 ай бұрын
Moves like that punish themselves after a while, I think. Also: chess speaks for itself.
@MrSupernova111
6 ай бұрын
That's exactly how I used to feel when I use 1500 rated. Keep learning and you'll blow passed 1500 rating. Shankland's books are great if you're looking for new training material.
serious talk guys.... means I stop what Im doing and pay attention Irina. thanks for this!
One area I struggle with is when my opponent pushes a pawn (typically in the centre) creating tension with my pawn(s). I always struggle to work out whether I should a) capture b) ignore or c) push past. I appreciate it will depend on the exact position, but it would be really helpful to see some examples on this topic too. Thanks Irina!
@musicbydeandre5242
7 ай бұрын
Kassa Korley has a great video on pawn tension, you should check it out it would be nice to see a video from Irina
As a 1500 player often struggling with the assessment of pawn moves this was super instructive. Thanks Irina!
Like this kind of instruction. Appropriate to the vast majority of players (i.e. those at or below 1500).
Excellent lesson. Thank you
Great video. As a 1500-1600 player I’m often at a loss with what to do with my pawns. I found this very helpful.
Super instructive, and I appreciate the short video format!
These lessons are gold.
Awsome simplicity
Love your way of explaining ideas.❤
Wonderful, helpful lessons. Fantastic teacher
Thank you for this Irina! God bless you
I’m still learning, so the views of an expert are always of interest. What I know is I’d like to move pawns like I see other players do, but watching more games I notice inconsistency - a lot of each game is based on your opponent’s decisions. Thank you for this content 😊
!! Always get the notebook out for your vids. Pawn ,Knight symbiosis. A beautiful thing. Good chess seems to be all about relationships and maintaing harmony. A life lesson there..🤪 cheers 🎉
Great video Irina - thanks
Your Videos have help me alot! Thank u!
Didn't notice it first but that's a nice christmas tree in the background, Irina 😊
Thank you Irina and have a Merry Christmas
Another really helpful video. Thanks.
Great video again. Playing pawns is basically not something I've been concerned about because they seem "worthless" compared to the Queen and others big guns. Once I have fixed my blunder problem and a few other stuff, this is something I will come back to :) . Thanks!
Merci Irina!
Super cool, well done!
Hi, these videos are great! Please keep up this strategy mistakes series.
Super helpful, thank you!
Thank you GM Krush!
Thanks, very informative!
Only recently found your channel, but loved it immediately.
Good lesson. Once you move a pawn there is no turning back. I’m watching Champion Chess Tour for pawn movements with the greats. After your lesson it give me a better understanding of what to look for while playing.
Than you very much for your precious advices
I am really thankful for your videos ❤. I have been long in chess world on the horizon, so I know how to appreciate you.
Excellent instruction.
This was enlightening, I'll try yo implement this in my games
Love your videos!
Very nice and clear lesson - Michigan
This was the lesson that I've been struggling with since I learned chess.
I love the way you instruct - it is very clear and helpful! So helpful in fact I whent to your website to see what you might be offering in the way of courses, and my browser wouldn't let me in because the SSL certificate on your site is a self-signed cert. If your browser will let you in, you'll notice it says not secure in the address bar. Tell your web host, you need a vaild cert on your site and they should be able to take care of this for you. Also if you have a place where I can look at any offerings you currently have, please let me know. Lastly, Thanks again for the content here, it is very instructive!
It is a great masterclass.
When one starts watching chess content on KZread you first watch all those crappy 'win in 8 moves' and '500,000 people fell for this trap' videos. Eventually you find serious intelligent content like this and Hanging Pawns openings videos. I have benefitted more from these 2 channels than any other.
I didn't even know my favorite chess player had a youtube channel, i'm so stoked! Found it by pure luck after that wired video with Levy. Can't wait to catch up with the older videos!
Let's have a serious talk guys...about pawn moves! Hahaha you just made my day Irina!
really good! I've done these mistakes, and sometimes I do the opposite and do not move a pawn that I SHOULD push. Can you maybe do a video on when you should push pawns?
"One move attack", great name!
TY GM 👍
I'm Brazilian but I would love to have an opportunity to learn with you. You explain very well! I think you're the beast chess teacher on KZread lol
Often people do mistakes in equal positions, some unwanted pawn moves... nice explanation mam... got things... opened another view in chess... never know this previously... thank you 😊
Your hair is legendary 😊
Irina Krush spot on with opening comments...
Very clear and nice instructions. On the other hand, I was a bit surprised to see that your low rated students tend to play closed positions so much. Closed ones are very much about strategy than tactics, and it's rather obvious that strategy is not their strong suite yet.
So pretty!🎉
Pretty cool! As an expert level player I sometimes find myself confused about which pawns to move in not so clear positions. I think pawn play is highly neglected at lower levels and is probably one of the main reasons players get stuck in certain ratings. I would argue even at the expert level there are lots of players who don't fully understand proper pawn structure and dynamic pawn play.
Pawnaliciousness!!!
Love you channel, thank you for these free lessons! Just a note: "fianchetto" is read "fianKetto", is Italian
Tip....keep the pawns in front of the castled king in situ. The three pawns in front the king. You know that thing.😂....the pawn moved one forward on each flank? To make an escape hole?......massive mistake. Lose,of tempo. Most of us are not grandmaster level. The old advice is the best.😊
Awesome lesson coach 🤝 Could you please do a lesson on how to use an engine? I have Arena but it's so confusing, I can never really understand what's going on
Pawns are the soul of chess. Every strategic position is based on pawn structure. The simplest way to win a game is to promote a pawn. Etc, etc.
Instructive for middle game.
9:06 'Cause Breaking up is Hard to do
👍👊
Impetuous: done quickly without care
One of the mistakes I made often earlier in my chess development was the need to ALWAYS respond to pawn tension. I felt like if two pawns were attacking each other, I had to either trade, or move my piece. Only much later did I realise that sometimes the best way to respond was... to do nothing :)
@rhysgriffiths9675
7 ай бұрын
And the key understanding that propelled me from 1800 to 2100 on lichess rather quickly was understanding pawn breaks. Before that I was always just attacking with my minor pieces. Usually now if I play the right pawn breaks and put my pieces on good squares, some tactics will magically appear that allow me to win the game.
She Krushed it.
❤
ohhh a redhead 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘😘
Christmas mood 🎄
''impetuous''. Today I learnt that along with some pawn move stuff.
Christmas Krush!
Pawns go brrrr
please make a video about how to play equal positions, especially in the endgame
@lucassantana6993
7 ай бұрын
or if you have a slight edge
🙏🙌😛🎶🎵🎶
we dont make mistakes, we are StockFish.
we can protect it by long castling i think, as black's king side is in shambles.
Zurich 1953 please!
Gosh, other factors aside, pawn-structures are where GMs really out-rank the vast majority of amateur chess players, on the strategic level, like this video shows! Under 1500, she's so generous. lol. I'd say, under 2000, this is a problem.
make some videos for 2000+ please
I love Pawns
was it kd3 at the end? or am i wrong? thank you teacher!! imma get out of those 1400 😪
I want to protect the b2 pawn with Na4 to defend and attack the Black Queen, but I don't know if I would've played that in the game.
FIANCHETTO is an Italian word, not a Spanish word. The "CH" pronounced like a K sound. (Sorry, I have to write this in every chess channel cause apparently there are seasoned internationally renowned professional chess players that don't know how to pronounce that word...)
On the last example I am initially thinking long castle, to both protect the pawn and place the rook on the open file. The queen takes f2 though. And it is probably wrong because the attack is coming on queenside, and the c pawn is forward. Qe2 or Qc2 gets bullied by the knight. Undeveloping the foremost knight could protect. I think I might do that, it's probably wrong. I don't want to defend on the other side with a grim, hanging knight. I don't see opportunity for a counterattack yet and the rooks aren't connected.
@GigsVT
7 ай бұрын
I see some tactical possibilities just taking the knight. but it gets wild and messy real quick if they don't recapture. I think just putting the rook under the pawn is the safest
Quick question: in the first example, do we not need to worry about the fact that the move a4 leaves the pawn on b4 undefended? Or are we planning to move it to b5?
@faresar
6 ай бұрын
b4 is under no threat. Any threat to it can be mitigated easily without losing advantage. Black cant play a5 due to b6 weakness. And at any point later Na6 does not make sense for black
I'm rated around 2000 and I still struggle with pawns in certain positions. That being said, I would never play dxc6 in the first position. It doesn't seem beneficial to me. It just looks like I'm improving the opponent's dead bishop. d5 doesn't seem like an outpost at all because it's going to be really difficult to trade both his knights and his bishop. e4 is now weaker, plus his backwards pawn on d6 is not going to be easy to attack despite the semi-open file because my light squared bishop is probably going to be in the way for the rest of the game to defend e4 & c4. Also, if I ever wanted to play f4, I would need to tie a piece or two down to defend e4 alongside the bishop, otherwise his bishop, which used to be a useless piece before dxc6, would look straight at that pawn and then at my king. All this makes my attack very clunky and almost impossible. All of this to say, the move dxc6 doesn't suit my style at all. Maybe that's why I'm not a grandmaster.
How do we get to be your student?
Hey, don't mean to be a dick, but thought maybe you'd appreciate someone saying this: nobody leaves this much space above their heads in a shot. It feels kind of off. Anyway, great content. Really valuable insights. I only say it as constructive criticism. Hope I didn't offend. Thanks!
How can i become one of your students
I have a Krush on you
The Christmas tree is very beautiful but Irina is even prettier
Excellent instruction.