How To Play Chess: The Ultimate Beginner Guide

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How to play chess properly, a guide for beginners. This guide is designed to teach you chess basics, chess openings, endgames, tactics, and strategy.

0:00 INTRO
1:01 CHESS BOARD
2:22 HOW THE PIECES MOVE
7:25 ATTACK, DEFEND, VISION
10:40 CHECK & CHECKMATE
13:51 OPENINGS
21:47 TACTICS BASICS
24:27 ENDGAMES
28:25 STUDY PLAN

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    Me and my friend played a chess game today. No experience, hadn’t even watched a video yet. We called the queen a king, the king a priests, the bishop an egg head, the rooks towers, and then knights were horsies. 💀

    You are explaining the move of the knight like you are talking to idiots. The knight does not move in an L shape. Please delete this video before someone sees you being wrong. The knight moves one square horizontal or vertical and one square diagonal I no the same general direction. A knight does not cover three squares in a move, it covers 2 squares. Yes, the end result is identical, but you should teach the principle moves 100% absolutely correctly, if you wish to place yourself in the roll of a teacher. Please never teach anything knowingly incorrectly. Shame on you.

    The fact I got a chess ad when I clicked this💀

    Geez, why didn't I do this sooner😂 I tried to learn on a phone game, thinking I was playing the phone, and it set me up with a person. Who bludgeoned me then made fun of me🙄 I was planning on making mistakes then learning from them, not just getting beat up…

    Can anyone please explain me how is this 19:41 a checkmate? Even if the queens protected by the bishop, why can't the king just kill the queen and it will be check again. Please tell me if I'm missing out on something. (sorry I'm dumb)

    I used to be good enough at chess but I rusted to the point where I cannot realize any blunders and just give up from pressure of thinking that I will blunder most moves without knowing. This does help me give more of an understanding than I knew as a kid (the time when I was okay to sort of good at the game).

    I GOTTA BE HIGH TO GET THIS THEN IT BLOWS MY HIGH AND I HAVE A HEADACHE.. IM GONE FIGURE THIS OUT DAMMIT!

    I saw the scholarmate part and went to scholarmate someone and got scholarmated.

    POV: You are here because, everybody in school starts playing chess and you want to learn how to play chess, so you can play with them

    i am 585 elo, after i finished this video i played a game of chess and checkmated my opponent, winning my first game throughout a 20 loss streak. This video helped incredibly

    i LOVE the way he explained every basic that you needed to play chess

    For the people who are confused about en passant. I read somewhere that the rules originally did not allowed for pawns to move 2 squares on their first move. The ability for them to do that was given to speed up a bit the game. However it caused an issue when a pawn could "dodge" the attack by moving 2 squares and would skip the attack of the other pawn. So the en passant rule was made to make things more fair

    The A file, B file, C file, and last but not least, the Pedophil-

    Great instructions however, way to many commercials had to leave

    Hey my man great video…. you're Albanian ain't ya?

    First video I ever watched from Gotham and it brings so much nostalgia

    I knew how to move chess pieces for years, but all I need to know were the tactics and strategies and you taught that too well! I won my matches for 12 times in a row Thank you!

    I don’t like this video, it’s wayyyyyyyyyyyy too fast to quickly, I’m still trying to set up the board 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    I start with E4 and D4 so that the pieces that go sideways can get out possibly put the kind in check

    Can pawns take bishops ive been seing people say they cant

    Your videos have always given me the inspiration to be better at chess. Even if i keep losing haha.

    You said momentarily when you meant to say presently (which means soon). Great video! Thank you.

    “Hence the name Gotham” is where I click to another guide

    I am so confused, i quite Chess 🙂

    I'm watching this video to learn how to teach my girlfriend who's never played a lick of chess in her life, I'm a big Gothamchess fan so it's dual purpose a great video to watch and a way to learn what I should say to have her understand best

    After winning 12 in a row I lost one and watching this video 🙂

    this was really easy to understand, i came into it thinking itd be impossible to wrap my head around but surprisingly i understood it easily! you’re quite a good teacher, earned a sub from me

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