DukeTedder You can also - if you get a bit better, watch Eric Rosen he is a really good London System player and always explains his plans and ideas in his streams
As a medium ranked player, I am so impressed by Hikaru as a teacher. Such patience and kindness by someone who could be studying disgusting engine lines instead.
@@broom_404 usually at the highest level they start evaluting every position recognizing patterns of positions that had already been solved by a bot. For example in many position there is a "best" Move found just by knowing what will happen after it in like 2-3 moves, even tho the move itself looks dumb
Man this is crazy. There used to be no one streaming chess now everyone seems to be doing it lol. Always thought the reason was no one would give anyone the time of day unless they were titled. Love it
yep. and i watched a video of a GM who streams chess videos too, but he was jealous and saying things about these streamers ,kind of understand him ,though.
@@arsonfly252most players at my level don't know anti-London openings, so it's easy to get in a London System position, that's what Hikaru has just shown us...
Johnny Cliche , yeah she didn’t quite get what he was saying. Hikaru was talking about the semi open file and she was talking about being taught to keep your rooks connected (battery, piggies on the 7th etc). I think the problem with some of these rules is not giving specific examples to when to break those rules bc there are many situations to go against the rule of thumb in chess.
She's a really good student. Not only a pretty good memory but also making a real effort to understand some of the reasons. Not surprised she performed so well in her first match. Awesome job
19:37 Great teaching moment by Hikaru! Recognizing that you "made a mistake" by trying to teach something to difficult and changing to a better line which suits the student more is excellent!
He's getting paid. Just cause it was free to you doesn't mean it's free. He wouldn't be doing it for free trust me lol dude isn't gonna sit hear all day out of the kindness of his heart. Not to mention how hard is it to turn on a camera and stream? You deserve shit loads of money or praise for that? Wow the bar is low
@@shroomsopenminds3623 and how hard is it to help people? So does it also not deserve a praise? The sentence "How hard is it to turn the camera on and start streaming" is such a boomer mindset. Grow up, this is 21st century, the world is advancing.
@@shroomsopenminds3623 being able to access something for free, and doing something for free, are two different things. Yes Hikaru is getting paid. But you're accessing this for free, yes? Meaning it's content offered for free. It's irrelevant the financial gain Hikaru gets from it. The point is that lessons from Grandmasters would typically be behind a paywall, or simply inaccessible. Hikaru offers this for free, instead of instituting a paywall.
Hikaru the fact that you took the time to make this patiently and for the education of the public just reinforces that you are a GM who truly cares for chess rather than the trappings of success like asking for large compensation before playing in the TATA January 2022 Tournament. Well done.
I’m guessing the 15th edition of How to Reassess Your Chess will feature The Hat, The Wooden Shield, The Fancy Horse Twizzle, The Spinning JPG, The GalacticTok, The Paul Charles Morphintime and The En PassanChop. :)
I've been playing London System for 3 YEARS but this is the first time I learned how to properly attack with this opening! You are such an amazing teacher Hikaru Sempai! unlike my coach in high school (-.-)
Have been playing London for the last one month... and concepts explained here are way better than a lot of chess channels!! Amazing... thanks GM Hikaru!!
It is so funny looking at this part 34:33 after Erob vs Fuslie match , when Hikaru taught her the exact way to checkmate the opponent and she executed that plan flawlessly :)
Thanks for this! I learned a lot from this free coaching! You're patience in teaching a novice player is very commendable. Please put out more videos like this, as well as a playlist for them. Please, please, please!!! Oh, and you rock!
This is the best content on youtube. period. one of the best chess players to ever live giving free lessons and making them available to all of us....incredible
33:56 -- And here is where it becomes clear why Hikaru laughed so hard when Fuslie won her first game in the tournament. (i.e. with the exact same checkmate, which her opponent never saw coming!)
Hikaru: discards early queenside against london Me: "let's play the London and see if I've improved" my opponent in the first game: "let's castle queenside"
Knight on B3: day112, ive completely aclimated to the other side of the board, the pawns have accepted me and no longer see me as hostile, I feel at home here.
That's amazing, I really feel like I understand the attacking ideas behind the London system so clearly and I love how he shows all the different nuances with different move orders from black. I'd love to see similar videos with all the main openings.
Hiraku!!! You're starting to grow on me dude. This is the kind of video I've been searching for.. Also you have great patience you're a natural teacher. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge this helps grow the game and mine. Bravo 👏! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Quite generally, getting a knight to the e5 square offers nice active play. If they want to eliminate it, you will recapture with a pawn on e5. This is a great clue that you can attack the h7 pawn with bishop and queen, as the e5 pawn prevents a knight on f6 defending the king. This is sort of known as the Pilsburry attack. Hikaru is just offering a Masterclass here
I dont watch twitch so I didn't know who fusile is but she is a gem in this video. Her mind works fast. And she is a doer. When she starts the first few moves after the first learning sequence, she responds with "yes I can" and such stuff. Like resilient thinking instead of defeatist mode. Quite refreshing and it shows a maturity and responsibility. Amazing video!
Very well explained! Thank so much Hikaru! Have struggled with London opening when opponent goes off the beaten track. This video teaches you the principles and modifications needed (for beginners) to continue to develop and adapt to the variations thrown at you by the opponent in the London opening. It is really remarkable the amount of time that a super GM takes to teach not just one person but a whole community. International chess needs you, I will be rooting for you at the candidates 22 tournament Hiraku. All the best!!
Ah yes the fuslie's hat opening. What a great opening for white, but will black respond with the fuslie upside down defence. Been a great game so far, white is trying to trick black with the fuslie gambit, but black has declined in the remarkable offensive defence the throbbing moist play. Don't mind me, I'm just really board.
There is a forced mate at 53:31: Bh7+ Kh8, Bg6+ Kg8, Rh8+ Kh8, Qh5+ Kg8, Qh7#. This is a common mating pattern to look out for when the rook has the h file, especially when White doesn't castle short and the bishops get traded on g3.
I love learning from these, I have no idea how to play chess properly and still find these so fun to watch. Thanks for the awesome content and staying active in the community :)
Hikaru has so much patience. How he doesn’t smile waiting for the penny to drop is beyond me. I’m watching screaming ‘PAWN TAKES KNIGHT CLEARING THE A FILE!!!!’
Honestly, I'm a Hikaru fan, but he isn't that great at explaining ideas in an accessible way. Most of the time, he either says something too complicated or confusing for the learner or just states rules as facts without explanation. He also oftentimes fails to use opportunities to explain important ideas which would really help his students - I think that's because he is struggling to recognise his students' strengths and weaknesses. To give you an example, when Fuslie was tasked with checkmating the opponent, both of the times she managed to get into the right position, but she couldn't finish it off because she attacked with her bishop instead of the queen. A better teacher would have realised that her thought process regarding checkmate prospects was slightly off and pointed out that, if you want to checkmate your opponent, you almost always want to attack with your most powerful piece(s), usually using the weaker pieces to support them. Another example would be when Fuslie asked whether doubled pawns were bad after taking on g3: a better teacher would have recognised that the intuition behind the question was right and tried to bolster this intuition. For example, they would explain that, indeed, doubled pawns are disadvantageous but that, in that particular situation, the advantage of having an open file for the rook was greater than the disadvantage posed by doubling the pawns, and perhaps further that, since a rook is worth 5 and a pawn is worth 1, positional advantages for rooks are usually more important than those for pawns. Instead, Hikaru completely destroyed the intuition, and now Fuslie will think that doubled pawns are fine. I could go on with these examples, like when Fuslie tried to defend her bishop (which is in general an excellent defensive) idea instead of going for checkmate or when Hikaru told her to always capture with the e-pawn but didn't explain that this was to create a future open file for her rook on the kingside, from where it would have more opportunities to attack the king. But I think you already get the point. I really like him as a steamer and a chess player, but as a teacher his ability isn't particularly impressive, imo.
I started playing the london some days ago and I learned a lot from this video, they complement each other perfectly for a didactic presentation of the subject including mnemonic clues not to be underestimated.
I just love 1:07:00, where she's just missing that she's able to take with the pawn. It's one of the main struggles I had while getting better: to be to focused on the immediate relevant or strong pieces instead of just making room or preparing stuff
It's actually genius to find an opening for beginners where the ideas remains the same in most of the opponents moves. I'm going to recommend this opening, even this video, for a friend who wants to start learning an opening.
As a London player, I find that the most frustrating response to d4 is e5. The Englund makes it really complicated to get what you want as a London player. I’ve screwed up so many times.
I'm by no means expert but, casteling so early with london opening have cost me dearly on quite many occasions. I prefer to delay it to see what my opponent is planning. If they challenge my dark square bishop from the get go i prefer to back it up and open the rook file. To me it seems most flexible. Then again, i'm playing scrubs mostly as im one of them.
This is very helpful for a 1000 -1200 player learning the London. Just the repetition and understanding the basic strategy is very helpful. Fundamentals are always good to go back to. Thank you.
incredible video. first video that really helped to understand what the purpose of an opening really was. im probably at about the same skill level as fuslie was in the video, and this helped tremendously.
Man these Videos are Super Valueable man, its step by step and lettin u think on ur own a little. Its a literal lesson for all of us, such good material to actually learn from. I just absorb sooo much from every Video i watch. Thanks Hikaru! And to me his way of Teaching just clicks for me very well, he breaks down chess in a way that you can take and apply it to your own game pretty effectively, so i thank you for that with these videos man.
looking a little harder at this i do have a problem. Im a 700 player & every person i play against try's mate in 4 moves which is a royal pain always having to defend.
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Alternate title: Hikaru teaches the London to 450K people
Wish he had more. By far the best chess content on youtube.
518k now
Your forgetting all of the people who r watching it live too on top of the RUclips views
and now the 400 elo are as strong as 800
@@jameslutian1977 hanging pawns are excelent for teorical study
as a beginner who plays london this is like free coaching
DukeTedder You can also - if you get a bit better, watch Eric Rosen he is a really good London System player and always explains his plans and ideas in his streams
London System boring trash
It is free coaching! Not only free but great fun too.
Imagine if you had a real opening
Actually you don't even have to be a beginner to learn stuff from this. Especially, if you have not been studying openings, but just played chess.
Hikaru's patience on letting his student think for themselves gets my respect
Hikaru teaching her the London before she knows what a checkmate is.
I know, right? I feel like the London system is a bit advanced when she's worried about checkmate in 4.
As a medium ranked player, I am so impressed by Hikaru as a teacher. Such patience and kindness by someone who could be studying disgusting engine lines instead.
What's disgusting engine lines means? Does that mean playing against bot and studying it?
@@broom_404 usually at the highest level they start evaluting every position recognizing patterns of positions that had already been solved by a bot. For example in many position there is a "best" Move found just by knowing what will happen after it in like 2-3 moves, even tho the move itself looks dumb
Man this is crazy. There used to be no one streaming chess now everyone seems to be doing it lol. Always thought the reason was no one would give anyone the time of day unless they were titled. Love it
*doing
You have dong on your mind which means you're gay from now on. Live with that.
@ensayofr coz it's how they make a living
@ and they make money by making views...
Look at it this way: Chess is fun!
yep. and i watched a video of a GM who streams chess videos too, but he was jealous and saying things about these streamers ,kind of understand him ,though.
Her: "I beat Hikaru!!"
Him: "Not quite..."
*Resets board*
@@kieran1990able I'm not sure if he didn't just mock her back
The pride of GMs
u forgot time stamp
@@Belnick6666 34:28
Hikaru: That is what you want to do!
Fuslie: Challenge accepted!
"NOOOO YOU CAN'T PLAY A SYSTEM THAT WORKS EVERYTIME"
"Hahaha pawn hat goes brrrrrrrrr"
Except it doesn't work every time lol
RowRowFightThePowaa I would love to see an old Benoni defense in the tournament against a London System player.
I would like but at 69 likes
@@legoman2m98 nice
@@arsonfly252most players at my level don't know anti-London openings, so it's easy to get in a London System position, that's what Hikaru has just shown us...
it makes me smile that he immediately starts calling it "the hat" so good at relating to his student. awesome
Nobody:
Fuslie: "Rook bros"
Hikaru: "I'm sorry what?"
For sure she heard that on agadmators Channel. Bros for life
Bangbros 😂
Was she trying to refer to keeping the opposing rooks on the same rank, or her own rooks on the same file?...
Johnny Cliche , yeah she didn’t quite get what he was saying. Hikaru was talking about the semi open file and she was talking about being taught to keep your rooks connected (battery, piggies on the 7th etc). I think the problem with some of these rules is not giving specific examples to when to break those rules bc there are many situations to go against the rule of thumb in chess.
She's a really good student. Not only a pretty good memory but also making a real effort to understand some of the reasons. Not surprised she performed so well in her first match. Awesome job
can you please give me the link to her match?
@@GEM4stasame
Link to the match please
@@heroricspiritfreinen38 Can't get the link but if you go to the official Chess channel on twitch you can watch the VOD of Pogchamps day 1
@@mouadhaloui8114 ruclips.net/video/yQncdC3C7uE/видео.html
THE AMOUNT OF PATIENCE THIS MAN HAS IS BEYOND MY CAPABILITY
I move to make Hikaru a saint because he has that much patience!
It’s all fake for views.
19:37 Great teaching moment by Hikaru! Recognizing that you "made a mistake" by trying to teach something to difficult and changing to a better line which suits the student more is excellent!
This video is a free lesson on London Opening
Emphasis on the word “free”
Thanks Hikaru
He's getting paid. Just cause it was free to you doesn't mean it's free. He wouldn't be doing it for free trust me lol dude isn't gonna sit hear all day out of the kindness of his heart. Not to mention how hard is it to turn on a camera and stream? You deserve shit loads of money or praise for that? Wow the bar is low
@@shroomsopenminds3623 and how hard is it to help people? So does it also not deserve a praise? The sentence "How hard is it to turn the camera on and start streaming" is such a boomer mindset. Grow up, this is 21st century, the world is advancing.
@@ambotsakandingnganaaybangs8836 you call screwing a sex robot with VR goggles on "advancing" I call it a digital hell hole.
@@shroomsopenminds3623 being able to access something for free, and doing something for free, are two different things.
Yes Hikaru is getting paid. But you're accessing this for free, yes? Meaning it's content offered for free. It's irrelevant the financial gain Hikaru gets from it.
The point is that lessons from Grandmasters would typically be behind a paywall, or simply inaccessible. Hikaru offers this for free, instead of instituting a paywall.
I love how Hikaru is trying not to laugh at some moves and the "checkmates" such a great guy
Better coach her on the jerome gambit
FOR JEROME!
Jerome is the answer
That's what Jerome would of wanted
Jerome Gambit is the best!
In Jerome we trust
Hikaru the fact that you took the time to make this patiently and for the education of the public just reinforces that you are a GM who truly cares for chess rather than the trappings of success like asking for large compensation before playing in the TATA January 2022 Tournament. Well done.
This is actually very good. I've always wanted to learn the London, and imagine how much Hikaru would charge for a private session:)
not for newbs like you
I’m guessing the 15th edition of How to Reassess Your Chess will feature The Hat, The Wooden Shield, The Fancy Horse Twizzle, The Spinning JPG, The GalacticTok, The Paul Charles Morphintime and The En PassanChop. :)
dont forget the ice skater back rank and fettuccine bishop
and the fossil
And the rooks bros
Or the Jerome Gambit
Bong cloud...
33:23 What's funny is that she actually pulls this mate setup on erobb in the tournament the next day.
Uhhhhhh😵😵😵😵Why did you spoil it!!????????? Why????????? Why!??😫😫😫😫
Cole Abrahams 😔
Oh neat now I want to watch that after finishing this vid
1:06:30 Hikaru's face when she said "Oh my God I'm playing the wrong color" lmaoo
I've been playing London System for 3 YEARS but this is the first time I learned how to properly attack with this opening! You are such an amazing teacher Hikaru Sempai! unlike my coach in high school (-.-)
Magnus Carlsen Jr. Come on Magnus, you have to know this
33:28 hahahaha the way he took back that move says it all 😂😂
The mic to picture delay was so weird to look experience
these newbie chess lesson is good for me too to learn new openings
Omg Hikaru you are such a great teacher. You have so much patience. Loved how you give her the chance to work her moves and think it through
Have been playing London for the last one month... and concepts explained here are way better than a lot of chess channels!! Amazing... thanks GM Hikaru!!
It's very nice Hikaru is teaching her an opening he would play himself in tournaments as well!
Lmao
kinda silly to start with openings imo
GEM4sta you’re killing the joke
Nischay but if you do, do the London system
Nischay it’s a decent idea to give new players 3-4 openings and to force them to stick to them, just so they can focus on the rest of the game
Eric Rosen approves.
@sperare D'ah!
@Stavros Michalovits Eric is a great teacher. In my opinion he is much better than Hikaru in that regard.
@@maxkho00 Agree, Eric Rosen and/or Simon Williams are better Teachers. No hate Hikaru!
Gata Kamsky approves
Oh no my queen!
That didn't feel like an hour and a half. Damn time does fly when your having fun.
It is so funny looking at this part 34:33 after Erob vs Fuslie match , when Hikaru taught her the exact way to checkmate the opponent and she executed that plan flawlessly :)
For the average chess guy these are just so useful to hear a GM giving his rationale for the various moves. Bravo to the Hikmonster !
22:35 Respect to Hikaru that he stays so calm at this moment.
Thanks for this! I learned a lot from this free coaching! You're patience in teaching a novice player is very commendable. Please put out more videos like this, as well as a playlist for them. Please, please, please!!! Oh, and you rock!
“Yeah thanks for the game, that was fun, you lost” xD
This is the best content on youtube. period. one of the best chess players to ever live giving free lessons and making them available to all of us....incredible
Hikaru's patience is godlike.
because he literally doesn’t care
The one thing every coach wants to here: I’m going to practice this a lot haha
33:56 -- And here is where it becomes clear why Hikaru laughed so hard when Fuslie won her first game in the tournament. (i.e. with the exact same checkmate, which her opponent never saw coming!)
13:49 Hikaru must assert that he is INDEED a hip Twitch emoticoner
"I heard you said it would be a clown fiesta"
Hikaru: *Deflection intensifies*
This was so wholesome and educational, cant believe i actually watched finished the entire thing
Hikaru: discards early queenside against london
Me: "let's play the London and see if I've improved"
my opponent in the first game: "let's castle queenside"
He castled in London queenside as black? Well, I never play London as white, but I'd definitely play it if black castle queenside :)
@@salmarwow same
59:26 Hikaru's patience is insane 💀
Just finished this. I'm gonna go outside right now asking random people for a high-stakes chess match.
90 minute college lecture: Ewww
90 minute chess lecture: yesss
Knight on B3: day112, ive completely aclimated to the other side of the board, the pawns have accepted me and no longer see me as hostile, I feel at home here.
That's amazing, I really feel like I understand the attacking ideas behind the London system so clearly and I love how he shows all the different nuances with different move orders from black. I'd love to see similar videos with all the main openings.
1:01:29 - Best moment of the entire video. "Checkmate!" "No."
I remember playing for the first time and thinking this should win. :-D
Hiraku!!! You're starting to grow on me dude. This is the kind of video I've been searching for..
Also you have great patience you're a natural teacher. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge this helps grow the game and mine. Bravo 👏! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Quite generally, getting a knight to the e5 square offers nice active play. If they want to eliminate it, you will recapture with a pawn on e5. This is a great clue that you can attack the h7 pawn with bishop and queen, as the e5 pawn prevents a knight on f6 defending the king. This is sort of known as the Pilsburry attack. Hikaru is just offering a Masterclass here
Thank you, I didn't know it had a name, now I can study it, is this position common after non-London System openings?
Thank you.
I dont watch twitch so I didn't know who fusile is but she is a gem in this video. Her mind works fast. And she is a doer. When she starts the first few moves after the first learning sequence, she responds with "yes I can" and such stuff. Like resilient thinking instead of defeatist mode. Quite refreshing and it shows a maturity and responsibility. Amazing video!
08:30 that was the advice that won her the game haha
Pretty sure all of his advice won her the game.
Actually is in the 33:00
Very well explained! Thank so much Hikaru! Have struggled with London opening when opponent goes off the beaten track. This video teaches you the principles and modifications needed (for beginners) to continue to develop and adapt to the variations thrown at you by the opponent in the London opening.
It is really remarkable the amount of time that a super GM takes to teach not just one person but a whole community.
International chess needs you, I will be rooting for you at the candidates 22 tournament Hiraku. All the best!!
Fuslie is a wholesome person. I hope that she continues improving and advances to the next stage 🤗🤗🤗
New opening aquired:
London System
Meanwhile in my game...
_New achievement unlocked:_
_London Bridge is down!_
13:43 Hikaru learning something new everyday :D
I think he referenced the wooden shield
This is one of the most wholesome and cool initiatives ever :)
Chess historian 100 years from now: "And from that moment on, this opening was known as 'Fuslie's Hat.'"
Ah yes the fuslie's hat opening. What a great opening for white, but will black respond with the fuslie upside down defence. Been a great game so far, white is trying to trick black with the fuslie gambit, but black has declined in the remarkable offensive defence the throbbing moist play.
Don't mind me, I'm just really board.
I cant think of anything where the best players in the world are as reachable as they are in chess its a remarkable game with the best community
@1:13:57 wonder what his chat said that he's reacting to.
We need to know 🦄 check the streams on Twitch
33:29 Idk if it's gonna make sense, but Hikaru undoing that move without saying anything stole my heart. 😅
34:35 he goes full sweaty mode and puts her in her place at the of chess
There is a forced mate at 53:31: Bh7+ Kh8, Bg6+ Kg8, Rh8+ Kh8, Qh5+ Kg8, Qh7#. This is a common mating pattern to look out for when the rook has the h file, especially when White doesn't castle short and the bishops get traded on g3.
This is the first time I learned anything about chess from Hikaru's channel haha. Never seen anything that went into detail like this before.
I love how she said really and she talking to one of the best chess players
I love learning from these, I have no idea how to play chess properly and still find these so fun to watch. Thanks for the awesome content and staying active in the community :)
The beginners language is hilarious. "i would eat him" or "i will kill him", "making the hat" & the rook bros She's correct. 😅
pulled off a checkmate with this lesson, actually impressive
This was great. I think I just learned the London. Thanks, Hikaru. And congratulations on your big win against erobb, Fuslie!
A lesson for beginners but I learned London system as an intermediate. Thanks.
Thx for telling me the name.
same
Hikaru has so much patience. How he doesn’t smile waiting for the penny to drop is beyond me. I’m watching screaming ‘PAWN TAKES KNIGHT CLEARING THE A FILE!!!!’
1:01:30 had be dying of laughter😂😂 the face Hikaru would make and how she said “checkmate” with such confidence 😭 great video tho I learned A LOT
"Build the hat" -- I really like this analogy... lol
Wow, I'm not a Hikaru's fan, but I'm really impressed by his pedagogical capacity. I understand now why his online importance is gowing up so fast.
Peda- what?
It's a word dude. Or are you just woosh-fishing?
Thesaurus abuser WeirdChamp
Honestly, I'm a Hikaru fan, but he isn't that great at explaining ideas in an accessible way. Most of the time, he either says something too complicated or confusing for the learner or just states rules as facts without explanation. He also oftentimes fails to use opportunities to explain important ideas which would really help his students - I think that's because he is struggling to recognise his students' strengths and weaknesses. To give you an example, when Fuslie was tasked with checkmating the opponent, both of the times she managed to get into the right position, but she couldn't finish it off because she attacked with her bishop instead of the queen. A better teacher would have realised that her thought process regarding checkmate prospects was slightly off and pointed out that, if you want to checkmate your opponent, you almost always want to attack with your most powerful piece(s), usually using the weaker pieces to support them. Another example would be when Fuslie asked whether doubled pawns were bad after taking on g3: a better teacher would have recognised that the intuition behind the question was right and tried to bolster this intuition. For example, they would explain that, indeed, doubled pawns are disadvantageous but that, in that particular situation, the advantage of having an open file for the rook was greater than the disadvantage posed by doubling the pawns, and perhaps further that, since a rook is worth 5 and a pawn is worth 1, positional advantages for rooks are usually more important than those for pawns. Instead, Hikaru completely destroyed the intuition, and now Fuslie will think that doubled pawns are fine. I could go on with these examples, like when Fuslie tried to defend her bishop (which is in general an excellent defensive) idea instead of going for checkmate or when Hikaru told her to always capture with the e-pawn but didn't explain that this was to create a future open file for her rook on the kingside, from where it would have more opportunities to attack the king. But I think you already get the point.
I really like him as a steamer and a chess player, but as a teacher his ability isn't particularly impressive, imo.
@@maxkho00 Yup, he steams everyday.
im still in awe how good this worked out for her...
I love it when she yells checkmate
I started playing the london some days ago and I learned a lot from this video, they complement each other perfectly for a didactic presentation of the subject including mnemonic clues not to be underestimated.
Fuslie is so positive and happy =D and Hikaru is pro teacher!
I just love 1:07:00, where she's just missing that she's able to take with the pawn. It's one of the main struggles I had while getting better: to be to focused on the immediate relevant or strong pieces instead of just making room or preparing stuff
Thank you Gm Hikaru just learned a new opening variations so grateful 🙏.
omg , the patience of this god truly is divine...
It‘s kinda disappointing that he didn‘t show xqc the london system, because his opening in the pogchamp match was way to dank.
he reaches out to xqc but for some reason xqc doesnt respond to him
It's actually genius to find an opening for beginners where the ideas remains the same in most of the opponents moves. I'm going to recommend this opening, even this video, for a friend who wants to start learning an opening.
Never knew Hikaru is such an amazing teacher. Putting up question every now and then and giving a simpiflied explanation of the motive of each move.
As a London player, I find that the most frustrating response to d4 is e5. The Englund makes it really complicated to get what you want as a London player. I’ve screwed up so many times.
I'm by no means expert but, casteling so early with london opening have cost me dearly on quite many occasions. I prefer to delay it to see what my opponent is planning. If they challenge my dark square bishop from the get go i prefer to back it up and open the rook file. To me it seems most flexible. Then again, i'm playing scrubs mostly as im one of them.
This is very helpful for a 1000 -1200 player learning the London. Just the repetition and understanding the basic strategy is very helpful. Fundamentals are always good to go back to. Thank you.
Funny that whenever he says "live chess" they think he's saying "lichess"
@@GEM4sta exactly
incredible video. first video that really helped to understand what the purpose of an opening really was. im probably at about the same skill level as fuslie was in the video, and this helped tremendously.
Pawn hat.
New 5head opening in chess.
I think this is the most important chess channel on the internet right now and GM Hikaru is the best teacher a beginner could ask for.
Her reactions when she makes the right move is so cute.
X: not a problem, Checkmate!
Hikaru: Are You Sure?
59:26 💀
Man these Videos are Super Valueable man, its step by step and lettin u think on ur own a little. Its a literal lesson for all of us, such good material to actually learn from. I just absorb sooo much from every Video i watch. Thanks Hikaru! And to me his way of Teaching just clicks for me very well, he breaks down chess in a way that you can take and apply it to your own game pretty effectively, so i thank you for that with these videos man.
Just look at his eyes when she said that ohhh wrong color🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah 😂😂😂😂😂1:06:30 for anyone who wants the timestamp
just started playing chess again after 15 years & this 2 year old video is HUGE help. thank you so much!!
looking a little harder at this i do have a problem. Im a 700 player & every person i play against try's mate in 4 moves which is a royal pain always having to defend.
i just watched this whole video, tried the strategy, opponent didn't castle, messed up the whole system, i got check mated.
59:30
fuslie celebrating checkmate
Actually blundering her queen
(Frolic music playing in the background)