Also the fact knights can jump over pieces actually the only piece that can is another reason to get knights out first you don’t have to push pawns like you do with the Bishops
also beginners could blunder because if you took you bishop away first the g or b pawns will be free and if the opponent take it with a bishop you lose youre rook too
Also the bishops control many squares from their starting point once the e and d pawns move. Knights control almost no squares from their starting point but far more from where they are developed to
Not only that, but as someone who hasn't played chess in like 50 years (except a game with aficionados in a Food Court a few years ago), 20:27 left me with a certain inexplicable exhilaration of victory. I'm basking in a such a glow of success, I don't even have room for pity for White, my poor victim who is no doubt complaining to all and sundry that he was tricked...
I have watched approximately 7,463,229 videos that covered these brief mantras like "knights before bishops" but NOT ONE of them explained the reasoning behind it. Which makes it super easy to remember and deploy in games. Same for the other advice. This is peak RUclips video content 👌
it depends, sometimes you can get pawn ahead or advantage on other side on chess board. if you then parry the first attack you probably win. opponent offers a common early pawn gambit, sometimes you win by accepting in unconventional way if he slips up trying to equalize using development advantage
You know I followed several other chess channels before I found your page. They were all awesome and helpful. But something about your delivery, and how you really break it down to easiest understanding possible. Anyways, since I’ve found your channel I’ve only watched your videos since. Great job man and I appreciate the content. 🤙🏻
"Without seemingly to do anything wrong his opponents would drift into a lost position." This was a reference for those who played against Capablanca, and lost.
GM Igor has been my go-to for crystal clear, practical guidelines over the years of me playing chess casually. Found this channel recently and I absolutely love it! Do you have a book of your own? This content is gold!
I just want to say thank you so much for the free ebook, it really helps and it is free and you are always here to explain everything in it. I wish you would make more books for us to study as it would be great but overall AWESOME Chess as always and thank you so much for putting in the time !
I am very new to understanding chess and thankfully found you. I appreciate your explanations and I have down loaded your free; thank you very much, 10 Middlegame moves and cant wait to start learning. You are awesome!
To reach the opposing side, knights require 3 moves, bishops 2. Since you want all your pieces to arrive at the opposing side at the same time to capture the king, knights need to be moved first.
It's also because it's easy to know where to put the knights. We know they aren't going to the side of the chess board. They also aren't going to block the bishops.
I've watched a million chess channels over the past five years. It wasn't until I ran across yours a few weeks ago that I feel like I'm really learning something about chess on youtube. Very insightful. You are the best chess channels by far!
I got the "The 10 Middlegame Move". It is really helpful! Thank you for putting it together and giving it to us for free! 🙂 And thank you for this series. I'm enjoying it!
Love these videos! I couldn’t find a lot of the moves, but hopefully some day I’ll train myself to see these tactics because once you showed the move, it’s obvious why it was the best move. In chess there are just so many possibilities to think about, for me it’s hard to make threats and not blunder something else!
My 1300 elo self: did not see any of the moves on the pawn tension. I calculated if I took with the right pawn they would just take back and nothing would happen I never thought of taking of both pawns.
I was thinking the same thing.... Don't move more than 2 pawns in the early stages, By move 8 there are 4 black pawns moved forward. And knights before bishops, move 8 the two bishops are out and one of the knights has not yet moved!
@@konroh2 to be honest i did lose some games but because of his tips it helped me improve plus i watched some chess tricks and also i was playing chess for about 12 hours (Edit: I forgot to mention but it can also be day 2 since i took a rest because it was nighttime but ye)
I'm sure a sentence might summarise 30 years of learning but not contextually hit all the ingredients, but thanks for the insights they guide us all fantastically
You are the best chess commentator, teacher, personality, on RUclips. I call it RUclips University 🧐😊. But your videos are unique in that you are so good. So informative and instructive but day and enjoyable to follow. You have an easy going energy and enthusiasm without any arrogance or attitude. Also no annoying music or Like and Subscribe hawking, because of which I Like and Subscribe. I have not purchased anything yet because you provide so much for free but I know that your lessons would be well worth the price. Right now please let me just keep watching and learning and playing by your strategies and let me say thank you for your great work. 😊
I will sure try to implement something of these principles in my games, feels way better to apply Universal rules while playing instead of learning openings and strictly following the predestined moves, which makes the game dry and kind of just boring. Thanks for the thorough explanations, very enjoyable and well structured video.
Nelson gives the Best advice Very Legit everything he points out are helpful hints take time and think when you are deciding on your moves have a good reason for the move and try to picture the follow up what will happen what you want to happen and is it a good move or is there a problem with it
I absolutely love these videos. One gentle reminder, though. Please make sure to always give the notation of your moves. For example, while you seem to do it a lot, which is awesome, sometimes you'll forget and just say, "we move the rook over", or "we attack the queen", or "pawn takes", stuff like that. As someone who is totally blind, since I can't see your video, I use my own board to follow the moves. I need to know the exact move or capture so I can make the right move on the board, though. In this video, for example, you say "queen to A4", but then, you just say "we attack the queen." Doesn't tell me what piece, what the move was, anything that allows me to continue to follow on my board here at home. Another example would be when you were discussing pawn tension. Where there are so many captures possible, just saying "pawn takes" isn't helpful for someone who's blind trying to follow your video on their own board. Other than that gentle reminder, I absolutely love this content. You would be an awesome instructor. I was so disappointed when I found your chess site, only to find out your course was closed. Keep up the great work, and if you ever decide to start teaching again, I'd love to work with you. I'm looking for a good teacher so I can improve.
"Logical chess move by move hopefully you've been following the series with us if not that's okay this is a stand alone episode you are gonna learn a ton let's go ahead and jump right in' That is a long name for a book
The download is actually really nice. I heard FREE PDF and thought 'short, bad graphics, kid gloves explanations, etc.' Not at all... It looks like a legit textbook with thirty something pages... Idk what the Breaking 1500 course costs but watch the video for it and you'll be impressed and if you're anything like me (regularly getting beat on my own board by my nephew) the cost might be worth the bragging rights and time spent actually paying attention to family through the game. If I'm lucky, I might even be able to teach him a thing or two and start getting beat again; That would be worth it's weight in gold. Anyway, check em' both out. Why not? You made it this far...
I finally catched up with the series. It's really great! A question from me: at 28:20 why not queen to H3? Also, when you answer the first question at the end of the video, I feel there is a nice follow up with the queen to A4 after the black bishop captures the attacking white knight.
My one-sentence-long advice on how to win is, Don't make mistakes. 3:22 Nelson forgot b2/b7/g2/g7 (finachettoing). 7:31 OTOH, if White could play c5, ... d5 would in fact block the bishop. 10:15 One of the general ideas behind "logical chess" is that you should be able to explain why you made each move. 13:28 The pawn on a7 is "tactically defended." 27:48 A pinned piece can contribute to a checkmate, but it does nothing otherwise. 29:18 Where (when) and WHY.
Yeah whomever Blunders most likely will lose but even so if both players are playing a good game it takes that little extra to get an edge tactics or whomever has the best attack
For last week, 31:21, would Harry the h pawn be a good idea ? The threat would be 1. Bd3h7ch, KxB 2. Nf3g5ch,BxN 3.Qd1h5ch, Kh7g1 4. h4xB, ... with the threat of g6, and if ..., f7xg6 then Nxg6.
Thanks for the excellent series. Please mention the game so I can study it on my kindle, without having to scroll for a game with the same first opening moves.
16:26 Instead of Qb1 is it better to play Qd1 and solve all the problems by defending knight on f3. Even though they can create queen rook battery on d file we can counter attack queen with our bishop Bc4 and I think white can get a draw even down a pawn
Thank you for this video and for the whole series. I tried to analyze this game with Stockfish, and I noticed that this opening variation bear the names of 20th century GMs, namely Yusupov and Spassky. I don't think that this fact adds much to the analysis of the game itself. However, I guess that it may be retroactively seen as another hint that the players had to be extremely precise, and the situation was likely to arise in which just a small inaccuracy may be enough to bring the player down. I mean, modern chess is highly theoretical, and an advantage of 0.5 in the evaluation is considered almost definitive at the highest level. So when I see a relatively 'contemporary' opening, I expect it to provide an advantage which would be relatively small for amateur chess players, - while what may seem just a slightly sub-optimal move may later turn out to be a grave mistake. Maybe I oversimplify, but it seems that the less contemporary openings are just not that unforgiving.
I don’t know how do I thank you but your videos in this channel boosted my rating to 2000+ in just a few years👏😁🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏At 8:43 you mentioned that Black was threatening to play Nb4 to trade off White’s powerful bishop as well as attacking the d4 pawn indirectly. And a3 is a bad move as it wastes time and the rest of the game White had no time to bring defense to the attack and lost quickly. Why was Ba3 not played as it would deal with the threat Nb4 as after the trade the d pawn is solidly defended and if cxd4 then White would trade on e7 and recapture the d4 pawn and at least White followed the principle of developing and defending right? Also, how much Black gets the advantage if he is able to trade the d3 bishop for a knight? Thank you very much again🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hi Nelson. Thanks for this series. I am learning so much from you and the book. I have a question, and maybe I am just not seeing something, but, what happens if white doesn’t take the queen with the pawn, and instead plays: eNF3 black plays NxF3 NxF3 black plays BxF3 And now white takes the queen with gxH4. Doesn’t that leave white in a pretty good position? They have the queen bishop battery pointing at H7, and the black squared bishop pointing at G7. I’m sure I’m being daft, but I can’t see why it doesn’t work.
Okay you've one hundred percent got me convinced never to move the pawns in front of the king and to leave the knight on f3/f6. But there are lots of openings that involve a king side fianchetto. How do those openings (king's indian for example) avoid the dangers of weakening the squares around the king?
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Wow this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone explain simply why knights before bishops is a thing. Thank you
Also the fact knights can jump over pieces actually the only piece that can is another reason to get knights out first you don’t have to push pawns like you do with the Bishops
also beginners could blunder
because if you took you bishop away first the g or b pawns will be free and if the opponent take it with a bishop you lose youre rook too
Also the bishops control many squares from their starting point once the e and d pawns move.
Knights control almost no squares from their starting point but far more from where they are developed to
Same!
Not only that, but as someone who hasn't played chess in like 50 years (except a game with aficionados in a Food Court a few years ago), 20:27 left me with a certain inexplicable exhilaration of victory. I'm basking in a such a glow of success, I don't even have room for pity for White, my poor victim who is no doubt complaining to all and sundry that he was tricked...
I have watched approximately 7,463,229 videos that covered these brief mantras like "knights before bishops" but NOT ONE of them explained the reasoning behind it. Which makes it super easy to remember and deploy in games. Same for the other advice. This is peak RUclips video content 👌
Yep, Nelson is able to explain things in such a way that makes sense and I can't wait to hear what he has to say next.
Life Lesson 9: Don’t chase after pawns at the expense of development.
lol so true
Complete the development and the pawns will be yours
I need my dopamine hit.
it depends, sometimes you can get pawn ahead or advantage on other side on chess board. if you then parry the first attack you probably win. opponent offers a common early pawn gambit, sometimes you win by accepting in unconventional way if he slips up trying to equalize using development advantage
Don't go chasing waterpawns... Listen to the bishops & the knights that your used to
Chess advice in one sentence
The sentence: 35 minutes long
My thoughts exactly when I saw the thumbnail
You know I followed several other chess channels before I found your page. They were all awesome and helpful. But something about your delivery, and how you really break it down to easiest understanding possible. Anyways, since I’ve found your channel I’ve only watched your videos since. Great job man and I appreciate the content. 🤙🏻
I agree completely! Nelson is the best teacher IMHO.
Thanks again, for making me a better player, and therefore a better man! I'm looking forward to 10 Middlegame Moves.
Glad to help! Thank you!
0:03 >>>>1 sentence
lmao
"Without seemingly to do anything wrong his opponents would drift into a lost position." This was a reference for those who played against Capablanca, and lost.
This is one of the most instructive chess videos I've ever seen. Not just the game, but your explanation. Thanks Nelson!
GM Igor has been my go-to for crystal clear, practical guidelines over the years of me playing chess casually.
Found this channel recently and I absolutely love it! Do you have a book of your own? This content is gold!
I love you Nelson Lopez !!! Great teaching and including question for us to practice and correct issue 🙏
I just want to say thank you so much for the free ebook, it really helps and it is free and you are always here to explain everything in it. I wish you would make more books for us to study as it would be great but overall AWESOME Chess as always and thank you so much for putting in the time !
I am very new to understanding chess and thankfully found you. I appreciate your explanations and I have down loaded your free; thank you very much, 10 Middlegame moves and cant wait to start learning. You are awesome!
This is a really great lesson.
just bought that book ... and got my other one 1000 best short chess games !! thanks for all your help and suggestions
Thanks to you, I'm from 800 to 1100 right now. I learned a lot and will continue to learn from your channel, I really appreciate it man.
Yes, Logical Chess series is back tonight!! Lets go!
You are possibly the best chess youtube teacher for beginners out there.
I absolutely love this channel - thanks for your fantastic delivery of concepts. :)
I am using the book and your videos to help teach my scholastic chess team! Thank you!!
this is the best actual explanation of chess concepts i've seen on youtube
Thanks again , very instructive ! A couple of " careless " moves can cause so much trouble !!
So much to think about and if you mess up once it’s like an avalanche of trying to fix your blunder. Such a punishing game.
I think the real reason we develop knights first is that they immediately control the center
To reach the opposing side, knights require 3 moves, bishops 2. Since you want all your pieces to arrive at the opposing side at the same time to capture the king, knights need to be moved first.
Also knights can jump over other pieces no need to move a pawn like with Bishops knight one jump and it’s out
It's also because it's easy to know where to put the knights. We know they aren't going to the side of the chess board. They also aren't going to block the bishops.
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Chess show that often isn't the case. Knight on the h file can be used to protect f7 or f2.
Best learning opportunity on YT! Thank you Nelson!
This is such a great concise video to start immediately improving your game. This got me excited about chess again! Thank you!
Nelson never fails to mention chess principles in his videos.
These types of spam comments have died bruh
Without principles, you have nothing.
@@freshtapcokeunless you are Mikhail Tal than tactics goes a long way
I've watched a million chess channels over the past five years. It wasn't until I ran across yours a few weeks ago that I feel like I'm really learning something about chess on youtube. Very insightful. You are the best chess channels by far!
Big shoutout to this great man nelson ❤
I'm really starting to dig your manner of explanation. Subscribed!
I got the "The 10 Middlegame Move". It is really helpful! Thank you for putting it together and giving it to us for free! 🙂 And thank you for this series. I'm enjoying it!
Thank you Nelson, I find your videos extremely informative, especially for helping me notice tactics in my games
30 years here as well, getting close to 2100. Nice video
Love these videos! I couldn’t find a lot of the moves, but hopefully some day I’ll train myself to see these tactics because once you showed the move, it’s obvious why it was the best move. In chess there are just so many possibilities to think about, for me it’s hard to make threats and not blunder something else!
My 1300 elo self: did not see any of the moves on the pawn tension. I calculated if I took with the right pawn they would just take back and nothing would happen I never thought of taking of both pawns.
2:23 "Move at most 2 pawns in the early stages"
4:28 Black has 3 out of first 4 moves moving different pawns
I was thinking the same thing.... Don't move more than 2 pawns in the early stages, By move 8 there are 4 black pawns moved forward. And knights before bishops, move 8 the two bishops are out and one of the knights has not yet moved!
@@ianraymond3292they are general principles doesn’t mean every chess game will be the same
Do as I say not as I do.
@@michaelmassaro4375 Then shouldn't he have used a example game where one side played the principles and won versus someone not using them and losing?
Maybe not bc then people mistake the principle for a rule and lose games @@KhorneBrzrkr
This is going in my favorites. Thank you, from a new Chess player!
Watching Nelson's videos got me to 500 elo to 800 elo in just 1 day. Nelson is the best coach you could ever ask for
That's not really possible unless you win 40 games in a row with no losses. No video helps you that much.
@@konroh2 to be honest i did lose some games but because of his tips it helped me improve plus i watched some chess tricks and also i was playing chess for about 12 hours (Edit: I forgot to mention but it can also be day 2 since i took a rest because it was nighttime but ye)
@@ShinyVest Cool, how's your elo now?
@@konroh2 900
its 900 cause im on a vacation
S tier chess content. Thank you for the lesson.
I'm sure a sentence might summarise 30 years of learning but not contextually hit all the ingredients, but thanks for the insights they guide us all fantastically
You are the best chess commentator, teacher, personality, on RUclips. I call it RUclips University 🧐😊. But your videos are unique in that you are so good. So informative and instructive but day and enjoyable to follow. You have an easy going energy and enthusiasm without any arrogance or attitude. Also no annoying music or Like and Subscribe hawking, because of which I Like and Subscribe. I have not purchased anything yet because you provide so much for free but I know that your lessons would be well worth the price. Right now please let me just keep watching and learning and playing by your strategies and let me say thank you for your great work. 😊
This video is great. Love it!
I will sure try to implement something of these principles in my games, feels way better to apply Universal rules while playing instead of learning openings and strictly following the predestined moves, which makes the game dry and kind of just boring. Thanks for the thorough explanations, very enjoyable and well structured video.
Love these educational videos Nelson brilliant move !!
Apart from the Queen move before the bishop, black played flawlessly. If that’s how I always lose I’d be a very strong happy player indeed
Great video, thanks Nelson
thats.. a really long sentence..
Really enjoyable, thank you.
Nelson gives the Best advice Very Legit everything he points out are helpful hints take time and think when you are deciding on your moves have a good reason for the move and try to picture the follow up what will happen what you want to happen and is it a good move or is there a problem with it
You are very good chess teacher.
Hey Nelson, I hope you're health is doing well! Great vid as usual btw! 👌
Very instructive!❤
Я конечно чуть не умер пока все слушал, но это того стоило . Спасибо за связку - сработало как и у тебя
Thanks for pdf
An amazing explanation video, got much knowledge from this! Thanks :>
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Very good content!
I absolutely love these videos. One gentle reminder, though. Please make sure to always give the notation of your moves. For example, while you seem to do it a lot, which is awesome, sometimes you'll forget and just say, "we move the rook over", or "we attack the queen", or "pawn takes", stuff like that. As someone who is totally blind, since I can't see your video, I use my own board to follow the moves. I need to know the exact move or capture so I can make the right move on the board, though. In this video, for example, you say "queen to A4", but then, you just say "we attack the queen." Doesn't tell me what piece, what the move was, anything that allows me to continue to follow on my board here at home. Another example would be when you were discussing pawn tension. Where there are so many captures possible, just saying "pawn takes" isn't helpful for someone who's blind trying to follow your video on their own board.
Other than that gentle reminder, I absolutely love this content. You would be an awesome instructor. I was so disappointed when I found your chess site, only to find out your course was closed. Keep up the great work, and if you ever decide to start teaching again, I'd love to work with you. I'm looking for a good teacher so I can improve.
Super helpful video and a nice watch
Ok hands down THE best chess instruction for us neophytes. Thanks.
"Logical chess move by move hopefully you've been following the series with us if not that's okay this is a stand alone episode you are gonna learn a ton let's go ahead and jump right in'
That is a long name for a book
Amazing video. Thank you.
This episode is a thriller movie.
Great video! I need reminding of the principles often 😅
That was some beautiful checkmate in 15. Wouldn't call it easy though (850 elo here, so nothing to be surprised of)
Love the video thanks for the 10 middle game moves pdf its really well put together
The patience you have to teach while in the line of fire is admirable. I am sure you are an awesome father... God bless you and your family.
Best chess channel. I’ll say it as many times as I want.
Nelson. Keep making series based on common books. I dont see other channels doing that
really valuable !
Great Lesson!!!
I love your explanations, keep go pls.
Not gonna watch because I’m going to sleep but 1 sentence for 30+ minutes is crazy
I am a beginner and this video is super helpful
Chess vibes kinda reminds of blue clues the way he gives us time to find the answer then goes "yup that's it"
Nelsi I must protect a pawn 6:34
15 move checkmate is not human!!
30:29 Why not Bc4 or Qc4? The black Queen is so powerful develloped, that attacking (or even trading) improves white's position.
The download is actually really nice. I heard FREE PDF and thought 'short, bad graphics, kid gloves explanations, etc.' Not at all... It looks like a legit textbook with thirty something pages... Idk what the Breaking 1500 course costs but watch the video for it and you'll be impressed and if you're anything like me (regularly getting beat on my own board by my nephew) the cost might be worth the bragging rights and time spent actually paying attention to family through the game. If I'm lucky, I might even be able to teach him a thing or two and start getting beat again; That would be worth it's weight in gold. Anyway, check em' both out. Why not? You made it this far...
Thank you for the video.
Earned a fricken sub.
I finally catched up with the series. It's really great!
A question from me: at 28:20 why not queen to H3?
Also, when you answer the first question at the end of the video, I feel there is a nice follow up with the queen to A4 after the black bishop captures the attacking white knight.
Thanks!
No problem! Thank you!
30 years of advice in one sentence
30 minute video
He says the sentence in the first 5 secs
My one-sentence-long advice on how to win is, Don't make mistakes.
3:22 Nelson forgot b2/b7/g2/g7 (finachettoing).
7:31 OTOH, if White could play c5, ... d5 would in fact block the bishop.
10:15 One of the general ideas behind "logical chess" is that you should be able to explain why you made each move.
13:28 The pawn on a7 is "tactically defended."
27:48 A pinned piece can contribute to a checkmate, but it does nothing otherwise.
29:18 Where (when) and WHY.
Yeah whomever Blunders most likely will lose but even so if both players are playing a good game it takes that little extra to get an edge tactics or whomever has the best attack
For last week, 31:21, would Harry the h pawn be a good idea ? The threat would be 1. Bd3h7ch, KxB 2. Nf3g5ch,BxN 3.Qd1h5ch, Kh7g1 4. h4xB, ... with the threat of g6, and if ..., f7xg6 then Nxg6.
You PDF looks great!
Thanks for the excellent series. Please mention the game so I can study it on my kindle, without having to scroll for a game with the same first opening moves.
Halfway through the video and I already feel smarter
16:26 Instead of Qb1 is it better to play Qd1 and solve all the problems by defending knight on f3. Even though they can create queen rook battery on d file we can counter attack queen with our bishop Bc4 and I think white can get a draw even down a pawn
Thanks.
Great video awesome book thank you Nelson so much
When you get your chips would be a good time to hand out a rule page or Important tournament notes
Thank you for this video and for the whole series.
I tried to analyze this game with Stockfish, and I noticed that this opening variation bear the names of 20th century GMs, namely Yusupov and Spassky.
I don't think that this fact adds much to the analysis of the game itself. However, I guess that it may be retroactively seen as another hint that the players had to be extremely precise, and the situation was likely to arise in which just a small inaccuracy may be enough to bring the player down.
I mean, modern chess is highly theoretical, and an advantage of 0.5 in the evaluation is considered almost definitive at the highest level. So when I see a relatively 'contemporary' opening, I expect it to provide an advantage which would be relatively small for amateur chess players, - while what may seem just a slightly sub-optimal move may later turn out to be a grave mistake. Maybe I oversimplify, but it seems that the less contemporary openings are just not that unforgiving.
How can I catch a livestream? Are they streamed on Twitch? RUclips?
I don’t know how do I thank you but your videos in this channel boosted my rating to 2000+ in just a few years👏😁🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏At 8:43 you mentioned that Black was threatening to play Nb4 to trade off White’s powerful bishop as well as attacking the d4 pawn indirectly. And a3 is a bad move as it wastes time and the rest of the game White had no time to bring defense to the attack and lost quickly. Why was Ba3 not played as it would deal with the threat Nb4 as after the trade the d pawn is solidly defended and if cxd4 then White would trade on e7 and recapture the d4 pawn and at least White followed the principle of developing and defending right? Also, how much Black gets the advantage if he is able to trade the d3 bishop for a knight? Thank you very much
again🙏🙏🙏🙏
@16:05 White Queen has to move. Wouldn't moving it to D1 have been better? Wouldn't it be able to protect nearly all the pieces if put there?
White fumbeled at the biggining they should've castled queen side because of sniper on b7.
Hi Nelson. Thanks for this series. I am learning so much from you and the book.
I have a question, and maybe I am just not seeing something, but, what happens if white doesn’t take the queen with the pawn, and instead plays:
eNF3 black plays NxF3
NxF3 black plays BxF3
And now white takes the queen with gxH4.
Doesn’t that leave white in a pretty good position? They have the queen bishop battery pointing at H7, and the black squared bishop pointing at G7.
I’m sure I’m being daft, but I can’t see why it doesn’t work.
Okay you've one hundred percent got me convinced never to move the pawns in front of the king and to leave the knight on f3/f6. But there are lots of openings that involve a king side fianchetto. How do those openings (king's indian for example) avoid the dangers of weakening the squares around the king?
The fianchetto bishop there (g2 etc) is helping very well defensively, so it is not easy to attack the king.
This episode was especially instructive and helpful. Thanks