Studying endgames is boring and you are fun so endgame videos from you are always a must watch for me.

You are easily my favourite chessable author. I love your chess principles reloaded courses. I hope you make an endgame course in the chess principles reloaded series. Congratulations on reaching 20k subscribers!

@ChessCoachAndras

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot William, appreciate it ! The endgame section is quite loaded on chessable but I am open to any ideas!

This is such phenomenal endgame advice about how to make a small plan based on "where could I make a passed pawn. What's stopping me? Can I remove what's stopping me? Do they have a legit defence?" If you look at this position and hope to jump from the position to the winning moves without that conversation with yourself, it's basically like trying to read a sentence in a foreign language without learning the words first. I guess it's not the same when there are concrete tactical considerations in an endgame, but without an obvious tactic, you've got to go from "how could I conceivably win" to "right, how do I make that happen?" And "what can they do about it?"

@ChessCoachAndras

3 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it !

This is basically Silman’s idea of Target Consciousness applied specifically to the endgame. If the opponents king is a target, the win condition is checkmate and if it’s a weak pawn, the win condition is promotion. There’s a big chapter on it in HTRYC if anyone is looking for exercises and more instruction with this method of thinking

I dont say this lightly whatsoever and im very very picky on content. You have the best value as far as improvement for chess than any other channel. Every video i learn something. Its absolutely insane. Thanks very much.

Coach Andras - I have noticed on youtube that once channels cross 20k subs they really take off. It looks like your channel is following the same pattern. You'll be at 100k subs in less than a year. Thank you for everything you do!

@ChessCoachAndras

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. Sadly I would be ready to offer you a very handsome bet that I wont reach 100K in year....:(

@AlexAlekhine_

Жыл бұрын

@@ChessCoachAndras Reach for the stars if you miss you will land on the clouds. I think 60 000 is a very realistic figure, 100 000 if algorithm starts to like you.

some simple and clean words of advise, that was exactly what I needed, thanks Andras 😁

Very Good lesson. Thanks for sharing

Thanks Coach. These videos from Daniel's lessons are always right up my alley.

Thank you for the video. Always good.

Awesome video as always! Thank you, Andras!

This is great content. If I'd have seen this last week I would've turned one of my OTB draws into a win.

Very interesting! Haven't seen this articulated like that in any books.

@ChessCoachAndras

Жыл бұрын

Thanks sir, appreciate your compliment!

Awesome video! Thanks a ton !!

Great stuff and beautiful delivery.

@ChessCoachAndras

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Manish, glad you liked it!~

Amazing 🤩 thing learn from you ...

I kid you not this might be the most helpful video I’ve ever seen on forming a plan in the endgame. I tried this when analysing three of my past games and in all three I was able to come up with a plan that the engine does not totally hate(how often does that happen!) . Id love it if you could make another video on this topic with some more examples !

Formulating a clear win condition and then working out a plan to achieve it is how people move from being decent players to being good players in basically any competitive game I've ever played, from Magic: the Gathering to well, chess. it's especially useful in the games without perfect information and/or random factors. Having a clear goal in mind helps you to stop making moves on autopilot since what would otherwise be a good move may be straight up losing move in the endgame depending on the win condition that's left for you in the situation, and the ways opponent may try to stop it.

Glad i was able to identify the right win condition in the demo position! I'd say properly evaluating said condition will allow you to determine the efficacy of other long-term plans too - for instance in that position if you realize that two bishops vs rook cannot overwhelm and take the b-pawn, but bishop and rook vs rook can (with the other bishop running interference/making another threat), then you can clearly decide that you want to keep the rooks on the board, not trade them off

Glad I was able to find the winning plan here. I saw I had a potential outside passer and that's all I wanted to focus on. Of course this was after my initial lower elo feeling of oh let's just trade rooks and go from there.

Win condition is a very popular term used in video games

How can I say thanks when the word itself does little justice to how much u have helped me . U r easily the best thing on KZread for me . When I take a long break from chess and want to restart u r the first channel i reach out to just like now . U make me feel chess is honey instead while playing it hurts my head after a point calculating

What a great concept to help anchor and clarify thinking during analysis. I'll be using it from now on. I expect it to be in common use in the not-too-distant future. Kudos!

You look better and younger with a hat- cap . I am alluding to the thumb nail

Great lesson, would like to see a GM take over the white side and counter that plan) "Find a weakness and target it like no tomorrow!"

6:37 either that, or, once we've exhausted the minor and major piece shuffling, we haphazardly thrust a pawn forward :D

Liked and downloaded! Say the refuting unsound gambits Playlist is looking a lil stale, howabout refuting the Charlick Hartlaub?

So in the endgame, "win condition" is usually "I promote (first)"?

@zwebzz9685

Жыл бұрын

The two main winning plans are push your passed pawns and attack enemy weak pawns. Most other plans are usually inferior to these 2.

@ChessCoachAndras

Жыл бұрын

@@zwebzz9685 Well said!

@bluefin.64

Жыл бұрын

First won't be good enough in some scenarios, most often when the opponent promotes with check, and some endgames don't have pawns. Pawn promotion is the main theme of endgames, but the example shows that Andras's win condition concept is about position specifics. In this case it was getting White's b pawn out of the way.

Now that you've spelled it out, this concept seems super obvious. I'm sure that, intuitively, I've applied it in some of my endgames already, but now it's definitely going to be something I'll be thinking about in every game that I play! Thanks for this great video!

Very nice concept in my opinion. The "win con." is indeed not that known or used in chess, however, it is the key part of most video games. I used to play League of Legends for years and playing for the "win condition" is one of the most basic strategic ideas there. And it is really a flashlight in the darkness. I think in chess most players actually forget about the fact that plans must be based on something. You can't just create a plan without recognizing the win con. Cool video! :)

Good, good, just focus on endgame. Knight, bishop, pawn, queen and rook endgames.

Surprisingly, I do better in the endgame than the middlegame. Don't know why

You could write an entire book of exercises titled "Find The Win Condition" that is example after example of this lesson. Name your price and I'll buy it.

@godfreyofbouillon966

Жыл бұрын

In a broader sense most of the chess puzzles are this. You are required to find a move that would severely harm your opponent if not straight up checkmate them and give you a win down the line assuming you won't terribly blunder it.

briliant content. constructively i'd suggest to change your greetings to something gender neutral. once you go big you'll be eaten for this "chicos and chicas" thing.

Sorry, but you are not the first to mention the "Win Condition".