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well, how did it go? did you sleep well that night? How was your vacation? Where did you go? Were you able to sleep the next night too? Did you use a diffuser video or rewatch this one?

Are you back from vacation?

By the way, there is a common line in the scotch that even experts get tripped up on: 1 e4 e5 2 nf3 nc6 3 d4 xd4 4 bc4 nf6 5 e5 d5 6 bb5 ne4 7 nxd4 bd7 8 bxc6 xc6 9 0-0 bc4 10 f3 ng5 11 f4 ne4 12 be3 Everyone makes the mistake 12... 0-0, but this is actually a big mistake: 13 nd2 nxd2 14 qxd2 bb6 15 nb3 and you control the crucial c5 square (once you get your knight to c5, you are pushing for a win) Sorry for all this theory dumping, but memorizing this one line can help you beat even expert players! Happy scotch gambit-ing!

Wow that is a super cool and useful line!

nice!

Remote Chess Academy is an amazing channel!

agreed

If my following on patreon was bigger I would be able to work more on the channel. I would really like to be able to publish a new video twice each week.

Hope you like this one :)

Great idea! I’ll do that!

Thank you very much for the support!

Welcome to the Channel! I hope you will like it here! Thank you for the kind words :)

I’m working on the video on round 3 ATM

Thank you!

Thank you for the support!

I don’t play SCII no, so I don’t think I’d be able to make a video on it. Great callback though! That video is almost a decade old!

Thank you for noticing :)

If you are talking about the position at 22:00 then it is completely losing for black to capture the central pawn. First white recaptures with their own knight and when black recaptures with their last knight white plays Re1 to pin the knight. Black can protect with the bishop or with the d-pawn but it doesn’t matter as white will play pawn to f4 threatening to capture the knight. No matter what black does white will capture the knight on the next move and have a winning position. 6. 0-0, Nxe5 7. Nxe5, Nxe5 8. Re1, Bd6 (or just d6) and then 9. f4 wins

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@@ASMRChess they look really good too, I'll take a look into it. But I meant specifically just the board.

The better you understand the rook the easier they are to get rid of. The first thing you want to do is understand when you can trade rooks. Here are how strong the different pieces are: Pawn = 1 Knight = 3 Bishop = 3 Rook = 5 Queen = 9 That means you don’t want to trade your rooks for your opponents bishops or knights but if you can trade YOUR bishops and knights for THEIR rooks it is good for you. Second you want to understand how to make good use of your own rooks. Rooks are usually that last piece you develop since it is quite clumsy in the beginnign when there is many pieces in the way. Therefore you start by developing pawns in the center, getting the knights and bishops out and getting your king castles. Then you look for open “files” where the rooks can be placed to attack like a cannon far into the enemy ranks. Rooks are best when the can see and protect eachother. They are even better when they are on top of one another shooting down the board towards the opponent, so that the rook in front is always protected by the rook behind it (we call this a battery in chess). The last thing to understand about rooks is that they get better and better the fewer pieces there are on the board. Let’s say you are in an endgame and you have 3 pawns and a rook while your opponents have 3 pawns and a knight. Your rook is MUCH better than the knight because it can travel around the entire chessboard very quickly, while the knight is very slow. Now let’s give your opponent a bishop instead of a knight. Your rook is STILL much better! Yes the bishop is just as fast as the rook, but because of the way it moves it can only ever half of the chessboard (if it is on the light squares it can never go to any dark square) while the rook can visit every single square on the chessboard. Hope this helps!

@@ASMRChess thank you SO!! Helps greatly. Rock On!

Actually there is such a strategy. It is not a move-by-move strategy but rather a list of principles that if adhered to will grant you victory against non-competent players: 1: Control the center (e4, d4, e5, d5) 2: Develop all your pieces quickly (preferably in this order knights, bishops, queen and rooks) 3: Castle early 4: Keep all your pieces protected 5: Capture pieces (win material) when possible (use the basic tactics forks, pins and discoveries for this) 6: Trade down when ahead in material (unless doing so gives you some specific tactical problems) 7: When you then get to an endgame you will have more pieces on the board than your opponent and can therefore safely (although you must always look out for tactics) push your pawns to the back rank, promote them to queens and checkmate easily.

Thank you!

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I think it is quite amazing that you are still trying to watch the content even though you can stand the ASMR. Maybe some day I will create a non-ASMR channel :)

@@ASMRChess some of the videos are less ASMRy, those are much easier for me, maybe it depends on your mood. OFC you gotta do what works for you mate ;) i always play on pc and on the rare occasions i get to play OTB i feel lost, your videos help me get acclimated to the battle ground i guess. I for sure think there is room for another big chess commentary channel like Gotham or agad but with an actual board