A rook in the corner isn't bad. According to Ben Feingold it's great because that way, when you resign, your rook is already set up for the next game :D

Yasser, one of the nicest guy we can find in the chess world.. Always like the way he teaches to the students with a great smile :)

the way he talks really kept my attention. Very mellow voice

Yasser is to chess as Bob Ross is to painting.

This guy makes me feel everything is all right.

Fantastic lecture. Yasser Seirawan knows how to entertain and teach at the same time. That's in my opinion the way to keep everybody's attention.

Thank you Chess Club and Scholastic center of Saint Louis for sharing such wisdom.

One of the best chess teachers I've ever come across.

This guy's enthusiasm is infectious. This is a teacher

As a fellow Seattle chess player I thank you for sharing with us your great insight and knowledge of chess

He is probably the best chess teacher today. Very instructive, useful video.

IT IS SOOOOOO HELPFUL! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS!

Yasser has that look some people have, where you don't think they could stop smiling if they wanted to. Seems like such a cheerful guy

Hi Yasser, you're not only GM but I believe great communicator. ( GC). Thx for these videos.

Great lecture! Never before have I seen the strategic principles of chess explained so well.

And I love how you brought combinations under three broad headings. Now we can now what to look out for when calculating. When the king is unsafe you should watch out for checkmating combinations for example. This will serve as a bright sign indicating what combination puzzle you are solving

Entertaining lecture. I like how in the end it's left to wonder.

This was great...Yasser is the man!

that's more than I could have asked for, my friend. Thanks for sharing that knowledge with me!

Excelente exposición muy didactica, valorando iniciativa y planes de ataque, gracias dé Cd Juárez Chihuahua México

Great lesson Mr.Yasser and thanks

Excellent class. Thank you.

Great video and I'm glad I watched it, but it's only tangentially about spotting combos.

great as usual ... thx STL

Good topic. Did Bob Ross help prepare you for this lecture. I felt like you might take away the pawn on d4 and replace it with a tree maybe with some snow covering it.

i still dont believe, this lecture was shared free, Thank you!

05:23 actually got me cracked. LEL!

Love yasser, good teacher

I've never wanted to study chess to the point where I'm familiar with various openings - an in insufferable flaw in my game I know, but I haven't had that much interest - but this is pretty groovy - he makes the various possibilities very logical to evaluate. I actually like looking at puzzle books.

If White replies with 3. d5 followed by 3. . . f5, is castling queenside (for Black) a good idea followed by a kingside pawn storm?

About the last question. Is it good to trade queens for who or with what purpose. Besides good or not, there're also alternatives.

Best advice I garnered from watching this- "Don't grab a pawn [when you are behind in development]".

He is so awesome !

These lectures are brilliant. Love this channel!

Hello Mr Yasser Seirawan.I really like your idea with f4, but what happens when black plays say Be6.Thats the most common move in the Mega database(only played 15 times tho).Would you continue with Nf3 then?Now what if Black answers Nd7.I don't really see how we achieve our idea.Do you? ;) In one of my otb games we reached a similar position but m opponent played Be6 before he played c6.So he attacked my c4 pawn and I continued with e4.Is it possible to play f4 instead?(whats the follow up)TYVM!

9:45 a simple analysis of opening strategies with pawns. Thoughtfully said.

how do i get in the class

In 22:16, why does white take the bishop instead of forking the king and rook? Sure the black rook is not yet playing and the bishop might be a more active target, but we are talking about taking a bishop against taking a pawn + rook, it's a substantial material difference

I think you could play after Be6, f4 anyway. And if he capture your c4 pawn, just play Nf3, and I think you have compensation. If he goes after f4, Nd7, I think Nf3 again should be OK. Another idea is simple b3 after Be6

"A rook that's sitting in the corner, completely unemployed, doing nothing." I'm exactly like that rook.

I like yasser seirawans teaching

Yasser is the best!

I'm confused about the title for this video. I don't understand how the skill in recognizing combos patterns is related to this dry berlin-like opening, but the main theme about comparing Berlin as the best defense against 1.e4 and this defense against 1.d4 is very interesting. In my club-level games though, white never plays 2.c4 in this position, it's 2.e4 or 2.Bg4 or 2.Bg5 so I have to switch into Pirc or something Indian-ish.

It's a fantastic strategy lecture, but I don't see at all how the title of the video is related to Yassers lecture. It seems to be about strategy and queenless middlegames where I Black lost the right to castle. The video should be called "(When) Should you trade Queens in the opening?"

The title of the lesson is recognising combos and it immediately goes off topic to talk about strategy?

I wonder if GM Seraiwan could present a game where Queens were traded and black did not lose the right to castle. It would go a long way in determining the answer to the question at the end of the lecture.

When I play 1d4 after d6 I always play Bf4 but Yasser said there's only 3 moves and that move wasn't one of them so can someone explain why Bf4 doesn't work against e6?

Oh Yasser, We never knew ye!

Great lecture as always from GM Seirawan but he should have someone running the computer for him so that he didn't have to bother with that kind of technical stuff. Question: what happened around 24 minutes into the video when suddenly a completely different game is being analyzed?

"Open files are magnets for Rooks"

So when is it good to trade queens then?

is this guy played by jeff goldblum?

Yaseer is N'Golo Kante of Chess :)

Yasser, I love the the video, thank you. I'm lost for words; during the build up of this video, you leave us with the question "When is it good to trade queens" Followed by your priceless smile... And I think to myself, "Pfff well that's what I was hoping you'd conclude, or give closure on." - I'm extremely ameture in chess, very new to playing with players on Websites etc, so there is heavy competition. I know my theory department lacks completely. Would it be so detrimental after the initial trading of pawns to just develop your bishop in front of the queen? (on the premise that you wanted to keep the queens and not trade, I don't know which IDEA is better, keeping or trading, and for whom it's better to keep or trade. I was hoping you'd get to that!!!) Sadly, the more I learn about chess.... The more I realise I don't know much. Great game, love it.

How did this guy get so happy?

Love this Rat defense ❤

Hilarious. "...since none of you play chess..."-3 times in 12 minutes. Smiling all the way.

@1:30 Is it really a 2nd type of combination or is it a "little checkmate?" After all, winning material has the goal of checkmating.

Since a couple of months have passed without any answer to my question, I'll ask again: What happened around 24 minutes into the video when suddenly a completely different game is being analyzed?Great, fantastic lecture up until this point.

When you're up material but without an attack, when your opponent is attacking, or when you have a spatial disadvantage. There are always exceptions based on the peculiarities of the position, but generally speaking, that is when I would suggest trading queens, as per the last question posed in the video.

Did anybody know, what this Yasser want to tell?

great video great guy

I’m an amateur rated 760 rapid chess. 700 in blitz. I play D4 with white and it’s nice to know now that C4 is possible move 2. Thanks Yasser

i love all the slc content on yt but you guys gotta chill on the ads, its every 3 mins or so -.-

6:40 Bishop f4 London System

Why not 2.Bf4 as a 4th option?

A42 English Rat !? What a name for an Opening!

Am 1800 in just 4 months cos of u yasser

PUNISH BLACK FOR HIS SINSSSSSSSSS!!

26:10 LMFAO

Visit Chessbrah in youtube. he is still active!

Tip: yasser speaks at normal speed if you select 1.25x ;)

This was one of the first strategies I invented as a little kid when I was playing against my dad! Trading queens to deny black castle rights right off the bat!

This audience had the average USCF of 900.

Jerry Sienfeld's long lost cousin teaching chess.

isn't it massivly cut?

what if white plays knight b5 in 32:00, how can black defends d6?

combo breaker

Love this guy. With that being said, put the video to 1.25x speed for your own sanity lmao

Really nice guy indeed and therefore a good teacher for kids. I really would like to stay positive here, but i would like to encourage the sir to not come up with his own terms of "combinations", if he is not able to differ betwen terms like strat and tac. Also the amount of knowledge he is trying to transfer in a ~40min vod is just "too weak, too slow"

But after queen takes queen, black can no longer castle.

The class should be participating...if I were in that class I'd be throwing out all kinds of ideas...all kiiiiinds.

this guy reminds me of john ritter so bad

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂chess class

You sprang forth from your daddy's loins with a title then?

1.e3,e5 2.d4,d6 2.dxe5,dxe5 3.Sf3!,Dxd1 4.Kxd1,

Does anyone here play chess? Lmao 5:30

I think someone farted at around 17:20....

K

This guy can put me asleep right after a great night's sleep. Damn it.

hahahhahahahhaah.. anybody really play chess there?? nt even one guy plays c4 after d4..

The Joker of chess

apparently there are alot of low rated players in the audience.the instructive thing is to point out whats wrong with d5? it is a complete waste of time

The intro is way too long for me :(

He really needs to calm down!

Should've stopped asking the class what they would do after 10 minutes. It's obvious they don't know much. I'm a freaking noob and I know at least a few of the answers, or play a few of the ways he asks. Either that, or they're cowards, too afraid to give a straight answer in fear of being wrong.

he talks too slow for me :/

What kind of bozo suggested d5

He is fake laughing See the first 5min He laughs then he stops

People, who are too nice, like Seirawan, always make me suspicious. What do they do with their anger/frustrations?? Aren`t this the guys, who eventually become serial killers?!