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@calihd595

6 ай бұрын

Qxf8 King has to take else kd7 qxd8 looks like a easy win. So qxf8 kxf8 Rf8+ kf7 Txd8 forcing a Checkmate i think.😅

@l.h.308

6 ай бұрын

And the extremely weak knight - in a corner, controlling only two squares.

Igor, I never comment on KZread videos but I have to say, you have the most complete and Authentic chess channel

For the puzzle, Qxf8+. If Kd7 then Rh7+ Nf7, Rxf7+ Qe7, Rxe7#. If Kxf8 the Rh8+. Kf7 forced move, then Rxd8 with a huge winning material advantage. Edit: Another variation to Kd7 is Rh7+, Kc8 Qxd8+, Kxd8 Forced. Rh8+, Kd7 Forced. R1h7+, Nf7 Forced. Rxf7#. Another variation and probably my favorite is Kd7, Rh7+, Kc8 Rxc7+, Kxc7 Forced. Rh7+, Nd7. Qxd6+, Kc8 Forced. Ne7+, Qxe7 Forced. Rxe7, Black can move anywhere here but the mate is coming maybe he makes it easy with Kd8 I don't know but Qxd7#. Obviously not the Best way to win but I had fun finding these variations

@tonyks4777

6 ай бұрын

Whi not, white-Rh8, black has no option but to take Rh8, then White Rh8 taking black rook.. check mate

@tonyks4777

6 ай бұрын

I don't see the need to involve knight

@tonyks4777

6 ай бұрын

My bad.. haha.. i ignored opponents queen..

@jacknigh3176

6 ай бұрын

@@tonyks4777 it's all good,that happens more often than you think. 💪🤙

Every video of yours I view teaches me a small but significant concept which helps a lot overall. I have a checklist of your advice and when I do mess up I see where I didn't apply your 'rules' in the analysis afterwards and learn from it. I now try discipline myself to do the check list before and after every move and it helps so much. Especially anti blunder checks. Thanks. I'll soon be 1400+

@GMIgorSmirnov

6 ай бұрын

Great! Good luck.

Every Time I watch your video, like the trap, try to play, forget the lines and get brutally crushed by opponents😂

@michaelemerson1949

6 ай бұрын

Same.

@ingogoldbeck2886

6 ай бұрын

i love these motivational videos, then i play, meanwhile i can remember the lines but then i am too focused on them and get crushed, too.

@Brlitzkreig

6 ай бұрын

Do a longer game and have the video open with you while you play

@michaelmassaro4375

6 ай бұрын

He makes everything look easy he does have exceptional knowledge of Chess it’s hard to remember lines in general Chess puzzles are a good rehearsal for certain situational moves you might come across in a game

@josephsalmonte4995

6 ай бұрын

​@@Brlitzkreigcheating git lol

The game really showed this simple concept perfectly. Its crazy to me though that black as a strong player never even tried to become active himself with smth like Rb8 and b5 or Qa5 and just calmly let white group up all his pieces on the kingside followed by selfmating himself.

Great video. As a visual learner this really hit home.

Igor Smirnov you are better at explaining ❤ you are making us understand chess in details

@michaelmassaro4375

6 ай бұрын

IGor is Great Teacher for sure

@GMIgorSmirnov

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Please do analysis of your games and upload videos on it. It really helps. Your videos are too valuable. Thanks for providing valuable knowledge to the users for free❤😊.

@GMIgorSmirnov

6 ай бұрын

❤

Your advice on improving chess is great. I'm improving my thoughts based on your advice and it's really improved my chess. I'll have to keep revisiting these videos so I don't regress and hopefully get even better.

Good video! I already knew controlling more squares is better, but I never thought about it like this. Another one in my arsenal!

@ivailopavlovski5894

5 ай бұрын

What's your rating?

@CristanMeijer

4 ай бұрын

Around 700

Only Coach on internet that gives core knowldge and not rote learning or cramming.

Great video smirnov

Yesterday in my game against a stronger opponent (+160) I used your strategies of „to take is a mistake“ and „maximum activity“, through wich I get some extra tempi and in the end so much pressure that he made a fatal move and resigned 3 moves later. Thanks Igor, my chess became stronger and stronger very much through your videos!

You're insane bro. Thanks for all the content you post.

Thanks coach!

This is easily the best lecture about piece activity i've ever witnessed and it hugely improves my understanding of the term and it's relationship with piece placement on the board , THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

@GMIgorSmirnov

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks Igor

Excellent very very helpful

Great video! I have been playing Moore Passive, Chess for the last six months and you’ve brought my aggression back with a vengeance. I can now attack, but not over, extend and be happy with the advantages that I get. Loving your courses and working through them as well. I played my friend Three games yesterday and chess over the board and got some beautiful mates. It felt great versus the slow grind end games I was playing.

It's rare that I learn new chess principles that I haven't seen before. I'm a pretty good intuitive player, but I think having a more technical understanding of board control is going to change the way I play. Many thanks.

You really change my mind and my life ❤❤❤🎉

Nice tip...Ty.

this is an amaizing video!!!

Excelent Igor, i had an “intuitive” way of activating the pieces, but your explanation makes it very clear! Thanks for great content!

@GMIgorSmirnov

6 ай бұрын

Yes, lot of chess player do this intuitively as well.

❤ thank you

Hey Igor thanks for putting this up. I don't have the solution for the puzzle, I got distracted by a fun line that would follow Qg6+, walking Black's King out then Rh7+. It might not lead to a clean mate right away, but it's definitely annoying for Black. After making a good move, my students aged 6-11 would say "Emotional Damage!!" They seemed to find this mandatory to say if they took their opponent's Queen. Later I found out that the other 2 senior coaches had some work (before I was there) getting them not to cry when they lost, so maybe they were not as tough as they wanted to be. Good times.

For the puzzle, I believe the move should be Qxf8+, after king takes, Rh8+ will win black's queen and white is up a rook

@user-ej7sr3ow8b

6 ай бұрын

@@Pseudify Black can play Rxg7

When I discovered him I thought it was just another clickbait chess video like there are thousands(feels like it at least) out there. But very quickly after I used what he said I defeated my best friend, who I was never before able to defeat and then the same day in the chess club, I defeated a player from the first team(the strongest team is team 1). Thanks GM Igor, keep it up...

Sir you are my chass teacher ❤..i follow all your videos

@GMIgorSmirnov

6 ай бұрын

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Igor is the best!

Puzzle 1.Qxf8 Kxf8 2.Rh8+ Kf7 3.Rxd8

► Chapters 00:00 Win At Chess Easily, Important Strategy 00:09 Example-1: Benko vs Najdorf 00:51 THE SECRET FORMULA TO WIN 02:07 Relative value of chess pieces 02:51 Activity of your chess pieces 05:01 Finding the best moves easily 08:16 Quiz: Puzzle of the day

Brilliant. Rough value is squares controlled.

Good comparison actually the space occupancy comparison.

1. Qxf8+ Kd7 2. Qxd8+ Kxd8 3. Rh8+ Kd7 4. R1h7+ Nf7 5. Rxf7# Or 1. Qxf8+ Kxf8 2. Rh8+ Kf7* 3. Rxd8 and you’re up a rook threatening to skewer the other *Edit: e7 is covered by the knight

@raymondix

6 ай бұрын

Ke7 is ispossible, this square is covered by the knihgt.

@paytonkruse9745

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, must have meant Kf7

Qg6, check the king, then next move white rook to h7 however if opponent moved the rook before the white rook landed on h7, h8 instead of h7, then black king move out of the way, and queen is captured by a white rook on next turn winning material

@heatherenidwalker3145

6 ай бұрын

If Qg6, won't she be captured by the N from e5?

@michaelmassaro4375

6 ай бұрын

@@heatherenidwalker3145the knight of course will be a threat but I agree with his statement Whites two Rooks should be able to cause problems for the Black king on the 8th rank mostly I can see a Rook trade but that second Rook should be a threat with the help of the Queen to possibly get Blacks Queen off the Board

@andrewandsueniemeyer6958

6 ай бұрын

I would take your queen with the black knight. It also defends h8, which prevents a rh8 move with rook exchange and eventual rxd8 after check The problem is getting the time to make rh8 without losing material

4:10 but Fischer's Rule says: EXCHANGE!!!

Nice video! Can you make a video about how to play against players, who tend to trade everything on first given opportunity? To play against these types of players is very annoying and it would be helpful to see solutions how to deal with these "trader" players

@michaelmassaro4375

6 ай бұрын

There are ways to avoid trades the first truth is you don’t have to take which of course is a mistake also though if a knight or Bishop is in a position to be traded off Move it so it makes the trade not possible trading pieces leads to a boring stifling end game like you say lack of weapons but remember even pawns are valuable in the endgame

@neilroques2442

6 ай бұрын

I definitely don't have Igor's insight, however if you observe his rule "to take is a mistake", and you know your opponent is always going to make this mistake, then develop your pieces so that you recapture gaining tempo i.e. the move to take back is a developing move you wanted to make anyway. After a few trades your opponent will have given up all their active pieces to let you get active pieces, then you go for an attack (mate, forks, just more pieces attacking a position than they can arrange defenders for) that they can't trade their way out of. I've fallen into the reverse mistake - after too long playing 'always trade off opponents' I found I was getting into positions that were hazardous if my opponent didn't immeadiately capture!

@mrcutlet

6 ай бұрын

@@neilroques2442 I know this rule but the problem is that they take so much that nothing is left to play with.

Take the rook with the queen. Should be a mate in a couple of more moves.

well from there you sac the queen by taking the rouke then finish it of with the rouke on h8

8:21 Qxf8 Kxf8 Rh8+ Kf7 Rxd8.

How to know pawn capture or push or ignore (pawn tension)

Hm, that changes my thoughts about chess. Completely. I am not sure, if i should go this way. Maybe i'd have rather learned that 20 years ago. But it sounds interesting.

Sac the queen for a rook then skewer and take the queen back and being a rook up

1. Qxf8+ Kxf8 2. Rh8+ Kd7 3. R1h7+ Kc8 4. Kx6+ Kb8 5. Rxd5+ Rc8 6. Rxc8#

@outposter7281

6 ай бұрын

How does your K jump from f8 to d7?

@hrpalik

6 ай бұрын

2. looks weird. The king can't jump from f8 to d7. Rather to e7 if I see that correctly

@outposter7281

6 ай бұрын

@@hrpalike7 is controlled by the N!

@EmmanuilMushynsky

6 ай бұрын

@@hrpalik yeah, I kinda missed that

@clanbuster831

6 ай бұрын

​@@hrpaliknot even e7 knight covers that square

Hi Igor. H3 rook to h8 .Next move chq mate!

@DiscoGoat1

6 ай бұрын

And Rxg7. Bye bye queen

Puzzle: Queen sacrifice, take the ROOK! On F8, King takes queen, move white rook H3 to H8 (check), king moves to F7, then white rook from H1 to H7, checkmate! Correct me if I'm wrong though!

@jacknigh3176

6 ай бұрын

King has an escape square on g6

@hiphopesq

6 ай бұрын

Kg6

Answer to the puzzle: Qxf8+ Kxf8 Rh8+ Kf7 Rxd8 Alternative 1: Black can't take the bishop because after Rhh8 (even Rhh7+ is winning) there's no way to stop mate after Rdf8+ Alternative 2: Black can't play Kf6 because after Rg8+ Kf7 Rg7+ Kf8 or Ke8 its mate in the next move Alternative 3: If black plays Rd7, Rh7+ is just winning a rook

Hi Igor, you are doing a good job in traps and trickly lines. Please start a new "live play series" with simultaneously playing and explaining with your personal repertoire. So we can also build solid chess along with the insights from how a GM's brain 🧠 work in real games.

@GMIgorSmirnov

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. This is quite interesting.

@vivekdahiya9297

6 ай бұрын

@@GMIgorSmirnov please make this series, we will learn a lot from it. Really looking forward to it. And thanks for replying and considering.

Igor .. what are your thoughts on the latest openings by Magnus Carlson where he plays .. . P to H4?

OppS I was a bit casual and didn't see the threat to my queen. So it's queen takes rook on f8 Igor .king takes queen on f8 .Rook to h8 chq followed by king tog7. Rook on h1 to h7 chq .king tog6 followed by rook on h7 to g7 chqmate

@SudhirKishor6603

6 ай бұрын

Kg7 isn't possible as Nf5 controls the g7 square

Solution of the puzzle is Q×R... Checkmate is unavoidable.

Thanks for the video Igor, but, yet again, you have raised a concept that I have no understanding of, and that is, what do you mean when you say that a piece CONTROLS a square, rank or file? You mentioned that white rook on h1 and said that it 'controls' the h-file. But, when I look at it, I see that the rook CANNOT go to h3, h4, h5, h6, h7 or h8, without being captured, because blacks knight 'controls' h3 and h5, his pawn 'controls' h4, his bishop 'controls' h5 and h8 and his king 'controls' h6 and h8! So the rook's 'activity' is limited to just 2 squares, h1 and h2. So how can you say that the rook 'controls' the h-file?

Solution to the Puzzle. Queen takes on F8, King takes, rook h3 to h8 check, only square for the king is F7, and lastly rook h7 mate, 2nd Solution if the King does not take the Queen after she takes the Rook on F8, Queen takes Queen, King takes and the same thing with the rooks.

@user-or1bn7bj7j

6 ай бұрын

after Rh7 it's not mate. Kg6... it is winning but it is not mate

@yazui.i.9368

6 ай бұрын

@@user-or1bn7bj7jYep you are right, i missed that 😅. Regardless after Kg6 Rook h7 to h6 king moves to F7 only square and you grab the Queen

Huh…nice shift of perspective

Qxf8+ Kxf8 Rh8+ Kf7 Rh7+ Kg6 Rh6+ Kf7 Rxd8 with Rh7+ coming to take the other Rook

Q x F8 could be the answer

Best way to white to win I would think to start bringing the two rooks down the first rook will be a trade but that second rook should be able to cause threats and damage

@forthemworthy

6 ай бұрын

your queen is under attack so they would take it and it is not defended so it is not even a desperado

Rh8

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@GMIgorSmirnov

3 ай бұрын

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I say rook to h8, after rook takes the white rook takes and checkmate, but if the rook doesn’t take then the rook on h8 will take that rook to checkmate.

@mikemahalo8290

6 ай бұрын

surely white rook h8 sacrifices the white queen...

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RH8

in soviet union, squares control you.

Learn chess in 21 days. After these two moves you will beat anyone. Enlarge your king.

@neilroques2442

6 ай бұрын

😄

Sac Queen

Forget everything GMs are not humans

Rh8...

Missing link found 😂❤

queen takes rook on f8

Puzzle response: Queen takes rook. When the king recaptures, Rh8 winning back the Queen

@usibistro

6 ай бұрын

Is that considered as a win though?

@belue2429

6 ай бұрын

Keep calculating!

@belue2429

6 ай бұрын

Why stop short of mate?

@belue2429

6 ай бұрын

1Rh7 - Rg7 is mate is it not? You just can’t quit a move or two from mate

@clanbuster831

6 ай бұрын

​@@belue2429no its not mate because of Black's rook on c7

Qf8/Kf8 Rh8, Kf7, last rook h7 for checkmate.

Guys this is my first comment..❤️

@ayushyadav4400

6 ай бұрын

Also pls make it your last one 💖

@calihd595

6 ай бұрын

Welcome on the Channel. 🎉😊

To cut a long story short, there is no simple winning formula in chess. GM Smirnov knows this very well, but lately he succumbs to content of "formulas" and tricks that will make everyone Grand Master level. For me he is getting to a "clickbait" type of content, I'm just dissappointed.

@user-or1bn7bj7j

6 ай бұрын

I agree the titles are clickbait but that doesn't diminish the quality of the lessons

@dimitrisd.9173

6 ай бұрын

@@user-or1bn7bj7j yes it does dominish it a lot, because chess training needs a structured and solid approach, promising miracles, does not help at all. But it is is also a matter of taste, for those who like this kind of content, go ahead!

Qxf8+ Kxf8 Rh8+ Kf7 Rh7#