How To Learn & Study Chess Openings
03.07.2023
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In this video, we talk about chess openings and how to study them. I discuss chess openings for beginners, theory – Sicilian, Caro Kann, Vienna, Kings Gambit, and London Opening vs Kings Indian. I show you openings databases and discuss various platforms and teach you to analyze games.
0:00 Introduction
0:35 WHAT ARE OPENINGS?
4:45 DATABASES
12:40 HOW TO ANALYZE GAMES
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yes, I am glad Gotham chess exists…I will never be a Grandmaster…however, my game has gotten a lot better…I am constantly making an 80% accuracy in my games. Today, I got a 92% accuracy.
i just realised something
in sun tzu's art of war [ what i heard from Battleship]
is basically about chess
you have to launch an attack in a square which the enemy king is not in and deliver a checkmate
Can someone sum up what levy just explained about studying opening. I think I didn't understand
How can you be able to see the arrows when calculating your enemy's movements.
I learned just three varitions of London after this video so far, but it already help me to win my friend today, who play better then me and are have more expierence!!!
If honesly, I didn't expect so good result!! So I will study this opening on a daily basis! every day one or two new variation and then repeat!
I feel very happy! because there are already results of my study and I just begin!
I choose my opening based on the pieces I use the most
me listening to this as a 200 elo player
thanks
so is the most ideal database for me considering im a 800 should i use chessbase
Chess is so cool that I'm gonna fart
What about the fact that it doesn’t matter what the computer says you are up if you don’t know the optimal line to actually capitalize?
i am lucky
My favorite opening is Ke8, taking their king and winning the game!
I need to know chess openings so good thing GothamChess made a video about chess openings because I ain’t very good at them.
https://youtu.be/6xSrzUdX-Iw
I pretty much gave a life lesson in my comments because like everything in life the more you do something and learn from mistakes the better you get.If someone puts on the skates and plays hockey every single day yeah they are likely going to be a lot better at hockey than a casual player and this goes for everything including non sports.Some things in life are a lot easier to learn and get much better at chess is not one of those things that is just easy to get a lot better without devoting a lot of your time to.Yeah someone some where is saying oh so and so became a GM in only 2 years well that is NOT and imo NEVERR will be a common trend.
In a way i am stating the obvious you simply need to understand people how they think the difference from CASUAL and pro like players in anything in life.The person has to have a mindset that allows them to have the potential to get to the next level AND want to spend the time to achieve it and TIME is imo the most important factor because most people have so much going on in their lives like 12 hours a day devoted to WORK then you come home shower eat take the kids to their activities and just maybe you have 30 minutes to an hour to play chess.
A player even likely the worst players in game will realize when they made a bad move they don't need a data base to tell them.Oh i just lost my Queen or my Rook gee i wonder if i made a bad move ..lol.Casual players can get a small bit better just through repetition but w/o studying loads of theory they are always going to be making bad moves and have no real structure to their game.
You can assume most all these players really want to get better but if they understand the real truth behind chess it is not like real sport you cannot simply take control from a bad situation and just win example an interception turned into a touchdown chess is a one by one move game you either know all the theory or you don't.The majority of casual players imo will never want to study and learn all that theory because imo that is for people who have no other life or MOST of their time is devoted to chess.
So yeah in essence i am repeating myself but i don't think instructional videos really understand their audience they talk like they have an audience that paid 1500 bucks a week for master class lessons these are most likely CASUAL players take data bases and theory right out of the equation put yourself in THEIR shoes and THEN you can understand how to give the viewers better information about theior game and their true potential which for most casual players will be very little potential.
This does nothing to teach a new player to get better.Players are not using data bases to make moves.Also this is telling people that they didn't make the very best move …lol well duh obviously any player nota a GM is going to MANY times a game not make the best move.Also we are looking atr where we went wrong but the problem not mentioned is that once a player makes a bad move their options are not good and can be put in check for example or might have been forked etc etc.
Chess is a memory game top GM make moves automatically they have all situations memorized and the average player is NOT going nor do they want to learn and memorize every single opening or every single bit of theory these are casual players.
There is one more factor and we see it talked about a lot and that is time.Well to the casual player chess is boring it is slow as well so VERY often a casual player does not want to take loads of time thinking or looking for the best move that is just fact.So then someone like Levy will say well then your never going to be good at chess so again ….well duh obviously.The MAJORITY of people playing chess i bet are just casual players and also imo they do not realize it is just a bunch of theory and memorization and don't realize what kind of study and automatic response moves it takes to be next level so they keep playing and trying blind to the whole theory of chess.So GM's or top level players NEED to understand what type of audience they are actually talking to casual players are not going to study data bases not going to understand theory etc etc.
So if you want to help casual low level players your best option would be to give them small help little things they can and use forever without over loading their brain with years of theory and millions of lines of data bases.
At 8:36 when he's talking about blundering during the scotch gambit. Why can't white just play Qe2?
If I lose my game tmr vs my friend in study hall u owe me 20$
aweosme
this is a very useful video! i always found using databases weird but this helped a lot.
This video was so understandable I had to play it thousand times
R U INDIAN
Came here looking for tips on openings, and now I'm drowning in information. started playing 2 months ago, the chess world is so new to me that I didn't know moves had cool af names and that my opponent is studying my every move, when I'm just vibing my way to a check somehow, and actually doing quite decent :') …but after this video I see why one should study to master it.
that was a nice percentage
Yo can anyone tell me about any free database
I got interested recently I play a normal mode and I wanna learn to play better
I just think and throw whatever bullsht gambit and opening i do, but won but sometimes loss.
Ahh yes. I personally prefer to use the ligma opening
w gg
im confused
I got caught up counting the seconds between each time you blinked
You’re very helpful but you go way too fast in your chess moves to follow
that database is a cheat ppl gonna use that while playing chess online
Levy Rizzman
12:24 interesting position , that as novices we are warned against multi pawn moves (just being devils advocote ) could explain the rartity of it
i like watching anna , seem to take less in though 🤔 but you , sir have a very aimiable style easy to listen too ,definetly not overbearing , and i can concentrate on your chess instruction 😅
The problem with opening is I learn them and then I play someone who doesn’t even know them. I feel like I’m learning them for no reason
You seem angry and exasperated with less developed players for not being able to know the implications of every possible move when they don't have access to the engine during their game. ??
Im just properly starting to learn chess and i didnt know the vienna was an opening i play that one quite regularly i then follow knight f3, pawn d4 then bishop etc
bro this is for BEGINNERS??!
I got an interesting question how did people study before databases and maybe you should make a video on studying the old school way
Very informative for noobs like me.
No help. Thanks for nothing.
The openings some of them is hard to memorize but it's worth it once you mastered it but not gonna lie I wanna teach my brother that kind of opening
wow so help ful
Im rated 200 and lose 100% of games. I wish I knew how that was possible, but I am absolutely terrible at the game.
whats the difference between knowing the moves by heart and just plain using the computer or cheating in any other way. you didn't think of it yourself. that's what I don't like about modern chess. way to many preparations. reminds me of when I was a kid and my grandfather beat me with scholar's mate.
My opponent r so noob like me that I do these openings and they do something whack n we both just blunder 20 times lol