1. Knights before bishops. 2. You should try to defend and develop at the same time. 3. The principles are guidelines, but there are exceptions. 4. The best attacking piece is the king's bishop. 5. Place each piece on the best possible square as quickly as possible. 6. Don't move your pieces more than one time in the opening. 7. Castle early (better on king's side). 8. Two pieces are worth more than a rook and a pawn. 9. Develop all pieces before attacking. 10. Deal with threats first before continuing development. 11. Each pawn you move in front of your castled king weakens your position. Try to keep all 3 as long as possible. 12. Developing a piece that ALSO attacks is a good move. 13. Open lines are to the advantage of the player with more development. 14. The best defender of white's king side is the knight on f3. 15. Whoever controls the center has better chances of attacking.

That principle with the three pawns and the f3 knight, and how moving them gives chances to the opponent, that was new and very valuable information to me. Thank you Nelson!

Nelson, you are the best chess channel and ACTUALLY teach very efficiently, rather than make a big show. Bravo!

I've gone from 900 to 650

That last part there really shows that the best defense is a good offense, a.k.a. counterattacking.

One thing that you didn't mentioned about weakening the king side through moving pawns forward is that it can potentially for lower elo players be a weakness to keep the 3 pawns unmoved. I haven't been back-rank checkmated myself much, but I've done it multiple times in the elo range of 1300 - 1900. People in this elo tend to forget the crucial danger of getting checkmated on the back row so they continue what they do, thinking they have an advantage but suddenly they get checkmated or forced to sacrifice pieces to avoid the back-rank mate. It's probably obvious to higher elo players how to avoid the back-rank checkmate, even if you didn't move a pawn, but to lower players they are either unaware of the danger or forget it. I'm not particulary good at seeing these kind of lines where you abuse the weakness, so it often prevents me from doing stuff like sacrificing bishop to create attack. And it rarely happens to me as well when I weaken the king pawns. It is great advice, though just to keep in mind the potential of back-rank mate that people like me and lower elo players tend to ignore.

This is going to be a great series for the channel. Every two weeks to start is probably fine but I will definitely be looking forward to the next one. Great job!

Nelson is a natural-born teacher. Many thanks for clear, concise, easy-to-follow lesson. I'm never overwhelmed with too much, too fast information as with many other KZfaq presenters.

What a fabulous idea for a series. I have just blown the dust of the book, which I have in the old descriptive notation. Your video lessons will compliment the ideas of the book and bring it more up to date. Great work Nelson, very much looking forward to game 2 - thanks

Love the new series Nelson! You present the chapter in a really instructive way.

This is a really nice distillation of chess wisdom, thank you! I've played many games where I'm on the receiving end of these attacks and I didn't really know what I'd done wrong. This is a very helpful collection of simple ideas.

Thank you!!! Great of you to go over this book

You did a good job on this video, Nelson. Logical Chess-Move by Move by Irving Chernev was the very first chess book I bought, way back in the early 70's, I still have it, and enjoy going through the moves, one at a time. My other favorite chess book is entitled: "Chess World Championship 1972 Fischer vs Spassky by Larry Evans and Ken Smith. The unique thing about this book, is that it takes you through the '72 World Championship, one game at a time, with a diagram for every move, and an explanation for each move. I feel these types of chess books are really valuable for the average chess player, and answer many of our questions on why certain moves were played. Keep up the good work. Ray

This is so cool. Years ago when I got back into chess and needed to learn better this was one of the books I picked up at my local bookstore. I really like the idea of telling the "why" behind the moves. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

You got me 😍 ❤❤ Channel is becoming better day be day🎉

Great first video in this series! Really enjoyed reading the first game and then watching your analysis of it. Thanks for the great insights as always. I feel every week might be a bit better since each game isn't too long to study, but will be watching regardless!

I’m really looking forward to next lesson. Love this content, thank you Nelson!

Thanks Nelson, this series is a great idea! So I had read the 1st game in the book, and as I did I thought that black's attack, although very strong, was a bit premature because black's king was still in the center.. I had an eye for moves like Bxf7+ or Qa4+! Even without seeing the perpetual in full, I would not have resigned with white after Bxf2.. nothing to lose at going for a few checks to see where they lead to 🙂

You have so many creative ideas for this challenge, keep up the outstanding work!

Thanks, great idea and book selection. Subscribed and notifications on! 🙏

Great timing! I was given this book for Christmas and hadn't got around to reading it yet!

This is very informative video, looking forward into this series!

Chess Vibes, always love your videos, always look forward to them mate.

Love the idea to cover books, Nelsi. Keep it up! Learning a lot through this.

Nelson - that was so clear and easy to follow. Thanks. Looking forward to the next one.

thank you Nelson, this certainly has added value, good job👍!

Thank you for the lesson :) enjoyed it!

Finally got over my anxiety to play real games after doing 2k puzzles, from review it seems the middle game is my weak point, when there's a lot of options to choose from. Thanks for all of your videos you explain things very well

looking forward for the rest of the series 👍🏻

Amazing video. Super important points and clean delivery. I love it

Awesome idea, Nelson! I actually had the book, and have yet to crack the spine, so really psyched to read it with your commentary!!

Thank you Nelson for such a helpful lesson. I'm reading the book and found your explaination informative. Hope to see more videos in this serie.

Great content! Thank you, Nelson!

Great video... that was brimming with great conceptual stuff. I've had a bad habit of playing a3 prematurely to deter knight b4 stuff but it's gotten me in trouble, and now I understand why.

I had already read the chapter but this was a very valuable recap, thank you!

Thank you Nelson, we're moving up the ranking slowly, from beginner to (almost) advanced. I'm holding my own against 1000 ELO Bots. I find your videos most informative.

This series is great for me. I got the book as it was recommended to me but I never got round to going through it properly. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

As far as moving the frequency up to every week rather than every 2 weeks. At least at this point, short games that last only 4 or 5 pages, every week would probably work fine. If anybody needed more time , they could watch the corresponding video at their convenience.

Great lesson! Looking forward to the next one!!

Thanks very much! Ordered the book immediately and looking forward to the nest lesson

Love this Nelson! Thanks for all you do!

I've just recently started getting into Chess without knowing any principles and im glad to say some of these things I've figured out on my own. First chess lesson video ive watched and youve definitely helped alot. Much appreciated

Awesome video. Love translating a book into video format. Will stay tuned to this series.

Nelson the masterful explainer, strikes again! Outstanding stuff!

Great structural video. I really appreciate it!

Love this "book breakdown" of a chess classic. Looking forward to future episodes and other books being covered in the future.

hi Nelson, thanks for this awesome tutorial. I can't wait to put these principles into practice in my next match. I feel like a stronger player already.

So happy to see your channel approaching half a million subscribers. You’ve been my favourite since I found you, way back when you had a few thousand subs. I guess I need to thank the almighty algorithm for recommending your vids. Keep up the great work of explaining chess to us knuckleheads 😂

love this content/book club concept. Awesome idea for the channel.

Awesome lesson, Nelson! Keep up the great content.

Book ordered! This was an amazing lesson!

Great illustrative analysis. Thanks for this!

I don't have the book yet...but can't argue with any of these principles...and you presented them with great clarity...appreciate the unrushed step-by-step!

This is great, I've been working my way through this book for about a year now and it's very instructional. This is what I needed to push through and finish it.

Great lesson and beautifully paced. Thank you 👍

Great lesson Nelson! Thank you!👏

Thank you for your clear explanation, and time stamps, see you tomorrow for more

Thank you Nelson for this great video! Much of this is intuitive, but it's good to hear you describe it.

Awesome information!!! Thanks, Nelson!!!

Nelson, I’m so glad you’re doing this book! I have the original (1957) book in hardcover, that uses old notation (e.g. P-K4). I went through this book in the 1970s, and it had a HUGE impact on the quality of my game. I recently bought the newest edition with modern notation.

great summary and extra value with the perpetual in the end. I personally see the series going weekly, since reading through 1 game shouldn't take long :)

Grat content! You & naroditsky are the best

Great series, already looking forward to game 2

Outstanding instruction. The real deal.

Thank you for your informative videos Nelson, your calm and precise explanations have really helped me elevate my chess play You're a great teacher, and I really appreciate what you are doing Take care, and I wish you the best🙏

Great video, i love your content. Very instructive

Great vedio. I learnt a lot of key concept in kingside attack. Thanks

Principle number 14 is new to me. Thanks Nelsi

Great tips, thanks for sharing!

This is a very great video! Me and my friend struggle to play chess even in the opening due to our lack of knowledge In principles, so this definitely helps! Thanks, Nelson! :D

Thanks a bunch! At least half of these are new points for me.

What an instructive video, thank you so much

Start to a great series!

Great video series. I order my books from Amazon Canada, so perhaps you could add the link for the Canadian site. Thanks again and I look forward to this series. Your videos are always excellent. Your explanations are clear and lucid.

I definitely missed the perpetual counterattack when going through the book, I'm glad you pointed it out! Don't resign unless it's forced mate!

Loved it... so effective aand clear

Hi really like this idea of a series. Please proceed with that!

This was the book that moved me beyond a beginner, over 50 years ago.

Very valuable information. Thank you so much.

Very nice explanation dude. keep up the good work ❤

Thank you sir, excellent work

great analysis! very helpful

Very instructive. Thanks!

Perfect lesson. Thank you Nelson for making us better players

Actually an insanely helpful video thank you

Super stoked for this series

This was fun being able to study the book beforehand and see what I learned. First time doing a chess book and took alot of the intimidation away. Would be happy to see this move to once a week as the chapters are so short.

Good information. Sounds like a good book but I'm generally too busy to sit down and just read a book. Family like and such, so this "recap" is really useful and a good reminder of what most of us should already know.

Great effort. Education, entertainment and engagment 100%. Thanks

Awesome video, thank you.

Brother, this video is AMAZING!!!! These aren't just principles, they're practical heuristics that can really change your game really fast. I feel like masters of chess have a skillset that composes of hundreds of these principles/patterns. More of these videos, please!!

Effective fundamental principles to keep in mind... well explanation

Great video, thanks!

This is a really great video. Thanks

I ordered the book the same day your last video came out but shipping from the US to Europe takes time... No book yet, but looking forward to join the lessons.

Great video Ready for next chapter 😊

Great video❤. I would love every week .

Great video! Keep it up!

Love the series. Please do more rapid games where you explain your thoughts (watched the rating climb multiple times)

You are my motivation to continue playing chess💯