The fun thing is that once you do en passant against a friend, and they were unaware that that was a legal move in chess, and they don't believe you, you can show them from legitimate sources that it's a bona fide move. Then later you can actually make something up off the top of your head, and when they are surprised, confused, and start questioning you, you can just say "Remember 'en passant?' It's kind of like that, but different." Lololol, see what kind of zany stuff you can make up, give it a name, and get away with! hahaha Here's an idea: Say you get boh your bishops to the eighth rank, and for whatever on-the-board reasons, you'd much prefer them to be on their original squares of c1 and f1 or c8 and f8. So on your turn, you just pick up both bishops, place them on their original squares, like it's normal as the sun rising. And be prepared with the Italian word or the French word or the Latin or Russian word for "cathedral", saying that it is named that because it is like the two bishops returning to a cathedral. Bet you can pull that one off, lololol.

Thank you! I guess they are, and so far we've been getting pretty interesting games so they are playing decent as you pointed out!

It's always easy to question your choice after the game :P How about you would have won?

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It's doable if you have some time on the clock. I'm very rusty on it, and it's really not something you should bother about learning because it's super rare. (Most Gm's never got it in a game, myself included).

It doesn’t take away anything from it either. Try suggesting what educational content he should say instead

It's not like every word he's saying has to be a golden nugget :D

I always say wether I am winning/losing, better/worse and usually explaining why. Evaluating the position accurately is one of the most important skills in chess. If you watch more you will understand that it's not about winning/losing and it's about helping other people imrpove their thinking process. I bet most of the viewers have trouble understanding what is going on the board and pointing out stuff like ''opponents king is very weak so we are complitely crushing'' really helps. The alternative would be ''opponents king is weak and we have decent chances to convert'' would really deterioriate the information and even make some people watching care less about king's safety.

I prefer it since it helps confirm and emphasize good positions. Sometimes it’s obvious to me, but not always.

Having it expressed whether the position is winning or not is very hlepful. That's essentially the algorithm that the chess engines use anyway, constantly looking at positions and evaluating them as "good" or "bad", though getting more nuanced to differentiate between "so good I'd eat a refrigerator" and "so good I just kicked myself in the face".

He is showing us he's a good instructor. He does sometimes show unnecessarily fancy lines besides the ones he plays, sometimes during the game an d sometimes in the post-game analysis.