"If you don't have a game plan for your middle game, feeling lost and not knowing what to do, that's fine. Make a non-blunder move, give the initiative back to your opponent and let him blunder." - ChessPage1
Better to have a bad plan than no plan, because you can't improve the nothingness of your thinking. Having a bad plan: you calculated you played with aim, even if bad you can learned from bad plans. If you don't know what to do: improve your position by piece activity or pawn structure, or you can think about what are the plans of your openents and make them fail or disrupt the openent pieces harmony, create weaknesses.
I’m not going to sit here and say you changed my chess career but since watching you I’ve gained 400 elo…….. sure I have studied theory more than for my finals but it’s these videos that really are the difference maker
Just started chess four weeks ago, and thanks to your page I didn't lose to a >= 750 elo player for the first time today, I swept through the intermediate bots with only three losses, and beat the "1500" "ranked" bots as well as Pablo and Grandpa Gambit on top of that. I'm a middle-aged guy with lifelong social anxiety; Chess is chipping away at it and jump-starting my competitive instinct for the first time in 45 years of life. Wish I could take personal lessons from you - you've been the biggest, most concise, funniest form of help of all the pages out there.
You're a great teacher. I had 0 interest in chess but your videos are so enjoyable to watch it's gotten me in to it. Not many teachers can give inspiration like that
honestly the best chess chess channel for learning and getting better just by watching some of your videos for like 5 minutes i went from 700 elo to 1000 in like a month and a half
The real problem is to know what's a blunder. Some are obvious, like leaving pieces en prise, but others not so much. Please help us spot not so obvious blunders. Great channel, I just recently found you. Brief and entertaining. Thank you much.
About the first seconds of the video, it's absolutely true. I've seen most folks who play against me have so many games under their belt for several years, but their rating barely improves (we're talking sub 1000 elos with like 1000-2000 games here). If you wanna improve at chess you can't just spam games and hope that you're gonna magically improve some day; you actually have to plan and put in the real work towards improvement
Spamming games is actually not a bad strategy for improvement at all, it's just that most people do it wrong. If they were playing lots of games at a longer time control, really putting thought into each move, and doing analysis of every game afterwards, they would most certainly get better. The problem is that some people just wanna play a hundred blitz games per day and hit the "new opponent" button instantly every time without caring, and that's no way to improve at chess.
I feel enlightened. I ve been playing chess for 2 years, got to 1900s by learning openings, middlegames and endgames, solving puzzles, memorizing concepts, etc. Now I realize all I have to do is making non-blunder moves :D, omg
Been watching you since the start of your channel love the content, you have inspired me to make my own channel now I have 170 subs and 150k views. Thank you!!!
I have followed your advice the past months and literally went from 1140 to 1440 rating points. Plus your videos are funny as hell! Keep going! I might even join your university 🎉
Best chess channel on RUclips, by far. I'm currently stuck at 2100 on Lichess and your channel makes me wanna play for pure fun instead of becoming a tryhard a-hole. Thank you ❤
Ok, THIS is content of value. Sure its important to teach the basics, the openings, middle and end games. But what is all of that without a true understanding of what you should or should not do... This is learning content, like any other on youtube, but still its different and unique so you wont find it anywhere else on youtube... very dedicated. Keep going Chesspage
I follow this strategy for 9 months without knowing and it is actually good because from 700 elo now I am 1500 more than double now that's a actual good chess video
These are the kind of games that really help. Looking at master studies and chess puzzles is fun, but realizing "no, you're really not that far off from higher ELO conceptually, you just need to blunder less instead of trying to learn advanced tactics" is very encouraging.
"don't blunder" advice can really get you to new heights. I've seen people use this strategy to the point where they won't trade pieces and are just waiting for my blunder :')
Great content. Seriously. And I think it's the first time where I like a video with automated narration. The combination of the text and the voice works super well with the general deadpan atmosphere of the videos . 😆👍
nice finally some hard truth, once i stopped blundering and started playing 15|10 instead of 5|5, i climbed from 800 to 1600 in 3 months. Just play rapid, focus, and youre fine honestly. At this point i still have very little opening theory (like honestly i know one or two random lines in random gambits) and what he says is true. 80% of games (at my elo) end because someone blunders. Yes, me too haha
I really like the Humor of this Channel, makes leaning Chess much for fun. Ein hoch auf auf den trockenden deutschen Humor, wer hätte gedacht, dass der sich mal bei einem Schachkanal auszählt^^
We need new puzzle types. Here are some ideas! 1)Don’t blunder. Give a setup of every single position every player ever blundered from to everyone and as long as the computer doesn’t rank you as losing 2 points, you “win” the puzzle. Figure out the highest percentage of people that blunder on these and figure out a way to disproportionally give people these puzzles to train with. 1b)don’t blunder in 2,3,4,etc. rather than taking every blunder you take every time two moves before a blunder, 3,etc… and you play 2,3 moves trying to not repeat the mistake. 1c) extended don’t blunder mode. Some players may eventually blunder if given additional moves beyond one, so if someone blundered in 1, can they make two, three, four normal moves in these situations without blundering? A “blunder in 2” puzzle the real life game someone blundered in two moves. But extended mode asks you to make 4 moves or something without blundering in a position someone blundered in 1 move 2)Avoid checkmate. Create puzzles where checkmate occurred in games but was avoidable. Give people “avoid checkmate in 1” puzzles and 2,3,4,5,etc. same idea as above for figuring out the best puzzles to train people on. 3)avoid mistakes, misses and inaccuracies. Same idea as above. 4)”find a series of random normal moves”. Make 2,3,4 etc moves without a blunder puzzle and you win. You could again figure out complex positions with pins and stuff where people are most likely to not find the normal move. 5)blunder streak mode! Any above puzzles or even from the opening where you play chess or a puzzle and as soon as you blunder the game ends. 6)First to blunder loses. This one is doable in unranked game. Play a game against players much weaker than you by using a burner account or unranked game set for biggest skill difference. Play until one of you blunders then leave the game and try again. 7)Combination mode. This is where it is best… combine seeing the pattern with avoiding the blunder without knowing what game mode you are in. It’s too natural when playing puzzles to just go for an unusual move or aggressive move and it would be too natural in the above game moves to always just move a pawn or basic piece. Combining some puzzles even on easy mode with the common traps and such would train you for real chess.
I usually hate channels with a robot voice, but you sir, along with the editing, make this work beautifully. My favourite chess channel by far. Please keep it going. You are gonna be big. Can you please do a vid on hippo, orangutang, and birds openings please?
sometimes just not making a blunder is not enough, sometimes you doing nothing helps the opponent do something they want. tell yourself what your opponent wants to do and neutralize if neccessary
i’m 1500 rapid. it’s literally just not making garbage moves. don’t make moves that don’t improve your position, or threats that can be addressed in one move. all you gotta do is find good positional squares and make sure you’re tactically sharp and you’re pretty much guaranteed to improve
One thing pal, making a move that's not a blunder is how chess is supposed to be played most of the times, it draws among higher rated players. But once, some 400 elo did this just moving his knights back and forth and random moves and i couldn't open up the center, yeah I won but after so much time and effort
I am 1100 elo player and I always play 30-60 minutes to have time to analyse position. And I love to argue my opinion by one quote I forgot the author of: if you want to last in a couple of minutes, you can have sex, but do not play chess
It's a great video, but can you post the episode 2 in this week pls, I'm going to have a chess competition on Sunday and I want to have a first medal of my life, thanks
Not gonna lie, nobody explains chess as funny as you!
*cough* levy *cough*
@@SeigeAnimates Literally what I was gonna say
Ben s chess
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Protec! 😂😂
"If you don't have a game plan for your middle game, feeling lost and not knowing what to do, that's fine. Make a non-blunder move, give the initiative back to your opponent and let him blunder."
- ChessPage1
best advice ever
Better to have a bad plan than no plan, because you can't improve the nothingness of your thinking. Having a bad plan: you calculated you played with aim, even if bad you can learned from bad plans.
If you don't know what to do: improve your position by piece activity or pawn structure, or you can think about what are the plans of your openents and make them fail or disrupt the openent pieces harmony, create weaknesses.
kinda true though just by not blundering u can probably reach 2000 elo
I’m not going to sit here and say you changed my chess career but since watching you I’ve gained 400 elo…….. sure I have studied theory more than for my finals but it’s these videos that really are the difference maker
Likewise, I went from 425 to now nearly 800.
Same here, after watching here videos I gained 300 elo
A relaxing video to watch after a 2 hour chess session in which I gained a total of 3 elo
Bro he explains better than everyone 👍👍 I am gonna leave just Goutam
At least better than -3 elo
@@Sezof10atleast better than 2 days -10 elo
Just started chess four weeks ago, and thanks to your page I didn't lose to a >= 750 elo player for the first time today, I swept through the intermediate bots with only three losses, and beat the "1500" "ranked" bots as well as Pablo and Grandpa Gambit on top of that. I'm a middle-aged guy with lifelong social anxiety; Chess is chipping away at it and jump-starting my competitive instinct for the first time in 45 years of life. Wish I could take personal lessons from you - you've been the biggest, most concise, funniest form of help of all the pages out there.
You're a great teacher. I had 0 interest in chess but your videos are so enjoyable to watch it's gotten me in to it. Not many teachers can give inspiration like that
honestly the best chess chess channel for learning and getting better just by watching some of your videos for like 5 minutes i went from 700 elo to 1000 in like a month and a half
The best chess teaching channel ever brother. Hats off. Started to gain rating after watching your videos. :D
Love your vids, you helped me to stop losing on time, due to looking for a tactic that doesn't exist. I'd love to see a vid on time management
The real problem is to know what's a blunder. Some are obvious, like leaving pieces en prise, but others not so much. Please help us spot not so obvious blunders. Great channel, I just recently found you. Brief and entertaining. Thank you much.
You have to think about why your opponent is moving a piece, and check for pins, checks, or discovered attacks.
About the first seconds of the video, it's absolutely true. I've seen most folks who play against me have so many games under their belt for several years, but their rating barely improves (we're talking sub 1000 elos with like 1000-2000 games here). If you wanna improve at chess you can't just spam games and hope that you're gonna magically improve some day; you actually have to plan and put in the real work towards improvement
Spamming games is actually not a bad strategy for improvement at all, it's just that most people do it wrong. If they were playing lots of games at a longer time control, really putting thought into each move, and doing analysis of every game afterwards, they would most certainly get better. The problem is that some people just wanna play a hundred blitz games per day and hit the "new opponent" button instantly every time without caring, and that's no way to improve at chess.
The video was super cool and helpful, but just know that now I am waiting for episode 2 as well 😀
You are funny af😂 people might not take your advices seriously because of your humor, but these things actually worked for me. Thank you ❤
Love your work
Moral of the video :- don't blunder 💀
Just follow the line
this is literally the best chess channel ever
Gothamchess: "That title is copyright"
Chesspage1: "No"
I feel enlightened. I ve been playing chess for 2 years, got to 1900s by learning openings, middlegames and endgames, solving puzzles, memorizing concepts, etc. Now I realize all I have to do is making non-blunder moves :D, omg
That first game was Crazy. That Opening was something.
Been watching you since the start of your channel love the content, you have inspired me to make my own channel now I have 170 subs and 150k views. Thank you!!!
I have followed your advice the past months and literally went from 1140 to 1440 rating points. Plus your videos are funny as hell! Keep going! I might even join your university 🎉
Best chess channel on RUclips, by far. I'm currently stuck at 2100 on Lichess and your channel makes me wanna play for pure fun instead of becoming a tryhard a-hole. Thank you ❤
Again i am asking for french defence video. Also i like your content keep up the good work
The best explanations anyone can get on RUclips. Don't know how you do it! Great job
Ok, THIS is content of value. Sure its important to teach the basics, the openings, middle and end games. But what is all of that without a true understanding of what you should or should not do... This is learning content, like any other on youtube, but still its different and unique so you wont find it anywhere else on youtube... very dedicated. Keep going Chesspage
Thanks! I just played 2 Rapids won both of them, one giving me my first brilliant! Love your vids keep it up so my elo can keep up too
no chess advise has ever worked on any of my games but your advise "just don't blunder" did help
Just wow.. keep this serious going on. We all wanted a serious just like this on RUclips. Thank you
Got an exam coming up but chess video it is.
lmao same 😭
Here is my like and comment as a support for your god-like videos
I follow this strategy for 9 months without knowing and it is actually good because from 700 elo now I am 1500 more than double now that's a actual good chess video
You deserve a million subs....Honestly you're the only one who has taught me something about chess...Love from India💝
looking forward to episode 2!
chesspage you are the one who helped me to come from 600 to 1000❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤post videos fast 👃
These are the kind of games that really help. Looking at master studies and chess puzzles is fun, but realizing "no, you're really not that far off from higher ELO conceptually, you just need to blunder less instead of trying to learn advanced tactics" is very encouraging.
"don't blunder" advice can really get you to new heights. I've seen people use this strategy to the point where they won't trade pieces and are just waiting for my blunder :')
Bro is helping for free!!! Spending days, spending money starting a coorparation and telling us for free. This is the Peak of humblenes
Great content. Seriously. And I think it's the first time where I like a video with automated narration. The combination of the text and the voice works super well with the general deadpan atmosphere of the videos . 😆👍
Best vid in a while. From 1250 to 1450 from following the dont blunder advice demonstrated here.
good and solid as always. keep up the good work, i dont think i would be this good at chess without you
“How to win at chess” this is Levy’s pet project page im convinced.
nice finally some hard truth, once i stopped blundering and started playing 15|10 instead of 5|5, i climbed from 800 to 1600 in 3 months. Just play rapid, focus, and youre fine honestly. At this point i still have very little opening theory (like honestly i know one or two random lines in random gambits) and what he says is true. 80% of games (at my elo) end because someone blunders. Yes, me too haha
Legendary chess channel
Bruh never stop making this kind of videos ❣️
Finally the main series begin. But rumors had it chesspage1 never pin comments.
Not gonna lie I went from 800 to 1100 just from watching your videos man thanks
This is gonna be my second favourite series on the internet..first is ofcourse GTE
Great to see this channel 💗 been here since 5k subs
Haloween gambit!
as a 1550 elo i see this as a absolute win
2:52 The pawn is defended by the queen
Make more videos i love your videos
4:09 "all because of one single stupid move"
That's Story of my life
Ong you have the best chess content. Went from 200 to 800 using Kings Indian/Pirc thank you sir/madam
200k subs, Congratulations!
ooga booga i see a pawn so must take it had me rolling on thr floor😂
"ooga boga take pawn" lol unfortunately relatable 😆
I really like the Humor of this Channel, makes leaning Chess much for fun. Ein hoch auf auf den trockenden deutschen Humor, wer hätte gedacht, dass der sich mal bei einem Schachkanal auszählt^^
This is a brilliant video, I'm definitely signing up 🤝🏾 thanks for sharing all this knowledge
The annotations got me 🤣 coyg
Love yours videos. Thank you and greetings from Brazil
Please stop calling the 1300 elo player noob, you are hurting my confidence😭
I really enjoy watching your videos. Keep it up!
To not blunder,you should choose an opening where there are so many plans.
We need new puzzle types. Here are some ideas!
1)Don’t blunder. Give a setup of every single position every player ever blundered from to everyone and as long as the computer doesn’t rank you as losing 2 points, you “win” the puzzle. Figure out the highest percentage of people that blunder on these and figure out a way to disproportionally give people these puzzles to train with.
1b)don’t blunder in 2,3,4,etc. rather than taking every blunder you take every time two moves before a blunder, 3,etc… and you play 2,3 moves trying to not repeat the mistake.
1c) extended don’t blunder mode. Some players may eventually blunder if given additional moves beyond one, so if someone blundered in 1, can they make two, three, four normal moves in these situations without blundering? A “blunder in 2” puzzle the real life game someone blundered in two moves. But extended mode asks you to make 4 moves or something without blundering in a position someone blundered in 1 move
2)Avoid checkmate. Create puzzles where checkmate occurred in games but was avoidable. Give people “avoid checkmate in 1” puzzles and 2,3,4,5,etc. same idea as above for figuring out the best puzzles to train people on.
3)avoid mistakes, misses and inaccuracies. Same idea as above.
4)”find a series of random normal moves”. Make 2,3,4 etc moves without a blunder puzzle and you win. You could again figure out complex positions with pins and stuff where people are most likely to not find the normal move.
5)blunder streak mode! Any above puzzles or even from the opening where you play chess or a puzzle and as soon as you blunder the game ends.
6)First to blunder loses. This one is doable in unranked game. Play a game against players much weaker than you by using a burner account or unranked game set for biggest skill difference. Play until one of you blunders then leave the game and try again.
7)Combination mode. This is where it is best… combine seeing the pattern with avoiding the blunder without knowing what game mode you are in. It’s too natural when playing puzzles to just go for an unusual move or aggressive move and it would be too natural in the above game moves to always just move a pawn or basic piece. Combining some puzzles even on easy mode with the common traps and such would train you for real chess.
I love your videos. Keep them coming!
Wow, great video! I'm really looking forward to part two, since I blunder a lot in chess 😅
We’re making it out of the 700 elo with this one!!
You are truly the GOAT of all time!
Summary: Just dont fkin blunder P L E A S E
The "Noob" in the first game is already 1300 elo and likely a top 5 percentile player 💀
This is exactly what I been waiting for
caught the tyler1 callout at the beginning 😂
I usually hate channels with a robot voice, but you sir, along with the editing, make this work beautifully.
My favourite chess channel by far.
Please keep it going. You are gonna be big.
Can you please do a vid on hippo, orangutang, and birds openings please?
0:26 Bro is a menace
Hi, Love your teaching vids. I just subscribed. Thanks so much for all you do. Noob here, and really appreciate your hard work.
Study the 10 most common positions in the openings you play up to and after move 18.
Study them. Do it.
That’s the whole thing.
sometimes just not making a blunder is not enough, sometimes you doing nothing helps the opponent do something they want. tell yourself what your opponent wants to do and neutralize if neccessary
Congrats with 200k subscribers!
i’m 1500 rapid. it’s literally just not making garbage moves. don’t make moves that don’t improve your position, or threats that can be addressed in one move. all you gotta do is find good positional squares and make sure you’re tactically sharp and you’re pretty much guaranteed to improve
4:20 if he takes the rook with queen that's a checkmate 😂
Thanks for the video and i have a question, what is your ELO?
thank god you're alive
Sometimes I don’t understand why it’s a blunder. Like it’ll tell me to sacrifice my rook and I’ll see why with no explanation.
bro is teaching me stuff
One thing pal, making a move that's not a blunder is how chess is supposed to be played most of the times, it draws among higher rated players. But once, some 400 elo did this just moving his knights back and forth and random moves and i couldn't open up the center, yeah I won but after so much time and effort
Ngl, nobody can teach chess as funny as this guy
Congrats on 200k
I am 1100 elo player and I always play 30-60 minutes to have time to analyse position. And I love to argue my opinion by one quote I forgot the author of: if you want to last in a couple of minutes, you can have sex, but do not play chess
me when i blunder a pin on my queen:
For context i move the pinned piece
Mzfkr I was waiting the whole bloody video the trick announced in the teaser 😅
Now we all know that your rating is between 2000-2100
Also "ooga booga" part made me lol!
Best web series of all time
You do what no AI could do. Passing on the knowledge of chess
Need part 2 ASAP
i just bought the university! thany you for skyrocketing my elo
It's a great video, but can you post the episode 2 in this week pls, I'm going to have a chess competition on Sunday and I want to have a first medal of my life, thanks
This is actually so helpful
YES
I gained 1800 after this great job!