Akobian's lectures are the most interesting and may seem "simple" only because he explains it so well. His style is really solid and elegant

fantastic video's mr Akobian. I like your patience and clear-no-nonsense style of explaining.

GM Akobian is my favorite online chess instructor.

Akobian is great at what he does, great explanations, he plays 1.d4 which is good and he is both humorous and instructive at the same time! His videos are some of the best online lessons I've ever found, thanks STLChessClub I'm glad to be subscribing and checking the catalogue of videos!

Great lecture! When the ideas of each move are explained, the moves seem a lot easier to figure out.

Very nice way to teach chess - ideas and develop players . Really nice chess teacher .

My chess has improved leaps and bounds since I started watching these lectures. For me it’s all about the middle game. Tension, outposts, crucial exchanges, black or white squares, files, ranks, attacks, defence, sacrifices, castling, artificial castling, leaving ones king in the centre, Kings in the endgames, weak pawns, pins, creating weaknesses in the enemy king position etc etc. I’ve stopped studying 20 move deep opening paths and just think middle game right from the off.

Wonderful!🙏🏻 Thank you so much!

Hi, no problem at all. Thank you very much for putting up this content anyway, Iam learning a lot from these videos. The lectures are very instructive and good to follow. GM Akobian does a very good job as a teacher as well in my opinion. Also think that he's a nice person, Much success with your preparation!

My favorite chess instructor VAR!! Raised me 250 rating points with private sessions!!

You are absolutely correct! My apologies ...We're planning and prepping for the 2013 US Championships here and it's been crazy. I should have listened a little more closely. Tried to edit the title but it wouldn't allow me for some reason. Might re-upload if I can't edit title. Thanks for watching, and please help spread the word!

Thanks for sharing the video's GM Akobian. You are a great teacher! Can you please guide me how to differentiate between a weakness and a strength? Or, any book covering it?

I like these little stories he draws in the intro

Best coach ever! thank you!

great and simply idea .....

damn why didnt you show the entire video? it was getting really interesting. Yes its a well knows position but i have forgotten about it.. can you upload the rest somewere please????

Hi, I think the game GM Akobian shows isn't the Nimzo Indian defence as stated in the title, but actually the Queens Indian Petrosian System... Nimzo Indian would be 3. Nc3 Bb4 pinning the knight. He also said this at the beginning...

by the way, how do you gain opposition in the last example if black kings moves to the c file and you dont have any more squares to the right?? Yes i learned it already but i have forgotten about it.

Where was this tournament exactly? I'm Italian :) and i would like to know where can i find chess tournaments

Wow that's some high level chess.

I was wondering at minute 34:32 what happens if black plays pawn E5 attacking the white knight, then knight is forced to move, but pawn on C6 is now hanging, so black rook can take it. How to workaround that?

I enjoyed this lecture series and will try to watch more. Do you have a ball park estimate of the rating of the crowd? Wondering becasue I was able to pick up on most of the 'guess the move' scenarios.

"Is there an easier class?" Lol nice

What software do they use to demonstrate this stuff?

What was the problem with Qa4 (08:40)?

At least Tiviakov was gracious enough to include this one in his Chessbase video, where he advocates the QID for Black. They played four times against each other, 2 Nimzo's, 2 QID. Akobian's record is 1 win, 3 draws. Don't think this "busts" the QID. But certainly proves GM Akobian is a very savvy player.

25:49, only move, rook A8?, what abt pawn H6, creating luft for the King?

Just leaving that in the description should suffice fine. Also, openings transpose all the time, so it's not that deceptive! You should have no problem editing the title, by the way if you give it another try.

maybe Nc6 followed by Na7 to win pawn on b5.. coz Nc6 bxc6 is met with b5

nice

in what language is peshka a pawn? in russian?

Akobian can really play. He beat Kasparov in 2002. . . .(In 25 moves!)

Maybe Nbd7, followed by c6?

Om Swastiastu, Rahajeng semeng i,m use my balinese greeting for you GM Akobian thanks for you video D4 chess opening Verry enjoy and wonderful experience to study ok from Bali 🙏🙏 I,m study your lesson i love to be your studen (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤😃🙏

Where is August now? What is he doing? :)

nice game ... gg

Did he say 2800 Fide rating? We get to watch him for free...

ok now i saw it forget what i wrote

At 37:45 I would instantky play Kf1, basically same idea as Abobians, but after 1.Kf1, Kd2 2.Kf2 Kd3! white loses the opposition,and black wins

knight c4

This man is unfair. For the very last puzzle he analyzed every variation except for King h3 and h2. I really wanted him to give his expert analysis for those variations because I did an intense analysis and did not see a win for black him white played 1. Kh3/ 1. Kh2/ 1. Kh1. But he clearly stated the ONLY way for white to draw was 1. Kh1. I am not seeing it.

Like his accent xD -sh move(-sh) piece(-sh)

Akobian's lectures are the most interesting and may seem "simple" only because he explains them so well. His style is really solid and elegant