35 Vital Chess Principles | Opening, Middlegame, and Endgame Principles – Chess Strategy and Ideas
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Clear and easy to follow, WITH EXAMPLES – the top 35 chess principles that EVERY chess player needs to know. These chess principles cover the opening, middlegame and endgame. Chess opening principles are crucial to help you get off to a good start. Chess middlegame principles are vital throughout the game. Chess endgame principles are important to finish off the game properly. These chess principles will take your chess strategy to the next level. These chess concepts and ideas are crucial to how to improve at chess. One of the best ways to improve your chess strategy, is to learn these important chess principles. These chess strategies will help your chess rating grow very rapidly. These chess principles are beneficial to beginners, intermediate chess players and advanced chess players as well. There are some beginner chess principles, some intermediate chess principles, and some advanced chess principles.
Beginner here. Great vid. Thanks!
i think the last tip is not checkmate
black pawn can take your knight
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Thank you!!!! Exactly what I need as Iโm just getting into chess
Really greatest video ever for an emerging player๐
Why in rule #34 black pawn can't just beat white's knight eliminating check?
Thank you, that helped me improving my game instantly!
#35 is literally just "yeah but chess is whack sometimes"๐
This is what I neede! Thank you
Thankyou
Principle number 25 won my heart!!!!
Thank you.
I've been digging through plenty of chess videos. Their advice: memorize openings and these dozen specific moves are bad. This video however feels like not how pieces can move but how you should move them and use them.
Don't play hope game
Always look for a better move
What is this beautiful chessboard app called? Thanks!
Thanks for the tips, I can now crush my 8 year old son who has been talking smack for months.
Nicely done.
I love him! He is master and truly chess genius
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much
Lol hope chess.. love it I've been there
Bishop tip: when in the endgame, keep a king on an opposite colored square as the bishop, it is also wise to protect said king with a pawn.
For how long chess has been out and still hasn't been mastered yet
I have a chess rating of around 1200, and I have never won against an opponent with a higher chess rating than me, including bots. I don't know what's wrong.
My elaborate notes
General principles
Look for a better move when you see a good move
Know the right times when to ignore chess principles (so basically know why you use the principles)
Opening
Control the center
Go for kings safety
Develop pieces, first knight, then bisschop, queen not immediately because you may have to move your queen and you miss out on the chance to develop other pieces
Develop pieces on side you want to castle
When developing your pieces, donโt move already developed pieces if possible
after you have castled and you have developed your pieces โ connecting rooks is powerful
Middle Game
Put rooks on open files or half open files (half open file is file with one pawn)
knights have more options in the centre
Avoid double pawns (two pawns on the same file)
Avoid isolated pawns (if no pawn is next to his file)
Avoid backward pawns (pawns that have no protection from side pawns)
Donโt trade bishop for knight without good reason
Avoid moving pawns in front of castled king
Donโt open up the center if your king is still centered (because your king can get exposed)
2 minor pieces are better than rook and pawn
3 minor pieces are better than queen
Rook is strong on 7th rank
Double rook on open file is strong (e.g., can prevent opponent from placing rook on open file)
Bishops are better in an open game, knights are better in closed game (closed game can be one with pawns that block bishop lines)
Deal with a flank attack (from pawns) with a counter attack in the center
Capture towards the center if you have the option to capture a piece with two pawns
Attack the base pawn of a pawn chain (pawns that are protected by each other)
Trade pieces to open up a cramped position (when pieces are blockaded and can not move)
Opposite coloured bishops are dangerous in the middle game because you can not do anything with your bishops against his bishop. His bishop with his queen are particularly dangerous
Endgame
It is strong to protect passed pawn (= a pawn that could walk freely to 8th rank) with a backward rook
2 connected passed pawn (= two passed pawns next to each other on the same rank) always beat a rook and one pawn gets a queen
Knights are good to blockade passed pawns
Trade pieces when you are up in material but donโt trade pawns. E.g., if you are up 2 points in material with a rook against a knight, the rook becomes more valuable after you trade pieces because it can then capture pawns.
– The opposite of that is also true, try to trade pawns when youโre down material
In endgame, opposite coloured bishops (without queen in the game) can easily result in draw
0:47 "Control the center of the board." Fine, fine, fine. But what exactly — exactly — does "control" mean in this context?
Do I control a square if I simply occupy it?
Or is control a function of both current occupancy, and the number of pieces I have that could get to that square in a single move?
Or is it more complex: for example, is the person controlling the center the one we reckon would have the strongest position in terms of the number, type, and positions of the pieces left standing after some notional 3 or 4-move central "skirmish"?
Or what?
Think knight is better than knight.
The last, bonus principle is perhaps the most important – learning chess takes years. Don't rush, don't expect to beat stockfish after a week of learning castling.
Fact : these principles don't apply to highly professional chess players
Thanks!
Awesome man
It is commonly believed that a bishop is slightly stronger than a knight. I disagree. Well played knights are devastating both in attack and defense, in my experience.
After playing 255+ games I learned many of these principles by making so many mistakes.๐
What is principle #29, please?
Thank ypu ,,,you learnig me chess
This is a fantastic chess tips video! thank-you! ๐ซ 8 )
the opposite bishop principle was my favorite
A queen sacrifice to double the opponents pawns is effective 96.7% of the time.
Thank you so much
I think the most important principle is to not make a move just on principle without knowing what your opponent's intentions are. A principled move might look good, but it might play right into your opponent's plan.
Weirdly I knew all but 1 of these. Why am I still a 900!?
Great video that I enjoy coming back to every once in a while to just refresh myself. 10/10
Thanks. Learning!
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Great video legend, Iโm picking chess back up and this is a big help!
At hope chess black playing f6 is bad sinve white can play Qxe5 forking the king and rook
Thanks, this was nice and concise and helped reinforce some things I found from making progress lots of mistakes along the way
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Why take with the Rook? You can put the Rook on F1 which is the Best Move๐๐ป
๐ ๐ I started playing chess from a month and I tend to play hope chess lol, itโs time to improve then
Thank you for this valuable video
Excellent video, thank you