I really like this gambit, but what should I play against another types of sicilian?

You may have a point, but is there an evidence basis to this? Several youtubers have gotten to 2000 in a year or two. The main commonalities seem to be system openings. E.g. Kamryn, Tyler1, JackSark... there are others, names I forget

Good books come out of the pants of good coaches?

There's nothing wrong with the London. Only Parisian Anglophobes hate it.

16:39 "scary" is not an evaluation. you said once

My connection with chess got weak some 2 years ago, and very glad to see in the mean time our lovely channel has grown to 35k.

you the man

Brilliant explanation, Andras. Thanks!

Why not take e5 with the horsie?

Take Care Andras!

Both games you present us are just amazing. I must say that the guilty in me, would had take back the Queen on b3 with my Knight too fast. Chess is like music ... too much for a single life. So many good books for not enough hours in a day. Merci.

I love Tiviakov. We can see that he have studied Karpov's game a lot. And that Caro-Kann game with these attackable e6 and f7 pawns ... yummy!!! Take care of your health and see ya soon. Merci beaucoup.

I really appreciated your examples with Karpov - Gligoric and Short - Kasparov games. I'm working with this book presently. 1st i study the examples and then i go to the exercices on the same topic. An habit i have since almost a year now is that whenever in a book an example is start from a diagram position, i put the position on the chessboard engine and let my CB17 do the research in the megadatabase, this way i can play the entire game (i love to know where the position came from, it's important for me.) As you said, some examples requires good amount of time. Again today on 1 example i did not take enough time to analyse the way i should eliminated an enemy piece. A really good book.

Take good care; we'll be here whenever you upload something. I work through about a book a year; I've the Hellsten books (opening + middle game) lined up now; this might be next. Just out of curiousity; are you thinking of playing again? Would be fun, no?

Great video! I find defense more difficult because I feel I need to find all the threats; as attacker I only need one way to blow my opponent out. Fabi-Nepo from the candidates comes to mind; by now way a perfect defense; but if it's good enough against Fabi I take it.

Thanks coach, perfect as always!

The book is really very good. One caveat: no opening index and most of the games come from a King pawn opening.

Absolutely crazy

So much advice on this channel seems to be, "don't be lazy". Kinda already knew that one

It took me a while to see this, but you may be the best chess teacher (for intermediate players - I'm 20xx) on youtube. Thank you for this content!

Nice!! I'm working presently (slow work in progress ... 40% done) with the book Mastering Chess strategy from the same author and i love it and now you convinced me that i need another Hellsten book ... Merci beaucoup. Superbe vidéo.

Great content ... I think it could be nice to create ramdom endgame tournaments with unclear equal positions. Because as you said when we start playing we almost all feared studying endgames. The way you teach it is great. Merci beaucoup.

helloooooo coach !

I was there thinking Bf8 was a good move 😂

Yeah 2000+ FIDE feels reasonable. This example was really highlighting the exception rather than the rule when it comes to IQP structures. Super clean demonstration of OCBs being vicious in the middle game!

I like Andras videos in general, but this is outstanding even compared to his other videos. I would say it is a “must see” and there should be a chessable course done with this quality of insights and focused exclusively on how to generate play (in case this already exists, please share the link)

32:50 Are you still planning to do the book recommendations for players on master level? Great video btw!

ChessCoach Andras, would the queen's gambit declined be a good choice for black? My current repertoire is 1.e4 with white, e5 vs e4, queen's gambit declined vs most setups, 1.c5 vs 1.f4, and 1.e6 vs 1.c4. I used to play king's indian instead of qgd but I definitely find the KID easier to play in general. I definitely struggle against 1.d4/non-e4 setups the most. The dutch and KID have felt like the best tools vs d4/other setups. I have been studying the qgd but I wanted your opinion on it. I want to be a better chess player but I definitely win more easily with the KID. At this point I have studied the qgd more than the KID but still find the KID easier. Some openings just click for me.(same thing with the caro kann. I studied the caro a bunch but I do way better with the sicilian and 1e5)

What a game ! Love the enthusiasm.

Wow I recently watched the other book review rock solid Chess.

Great game! Take care of yourself (and the family).

Tiviakov is great. He and Short were my heroes in the white side of the Spanish. For the algorithm.

The 1st volume is very good. I am reading it and already bought the 2nd.

ChessCoach Andras, Subscribed because your videos always make me smile!

In school we've heard of Austro-Hungarian, but this is even better: Australian-Hungarian! I love it! Go Andras!

NICE, i had been waiting for volume 2 review

I never calculate more than 2 or 3 moves, I use pattern recognition. Maybe I should make the effort to calculate more moves.

It's like you look deep into my soul and point out my flaws,lol. I am not sure I have done enough practice to get to that level yet though.

Some amazing insight here. Love the passion.

Terrific book, i need to buy it

That middlegame book is like 300 400 bucks

Thanks!!!!! Nice example!!!!!

Are there books that focus on defensive puzzles? When I search chess defense I mostly find opening books.

amazing stuff as always from the coach! Yes, i agree defense is very under represented, but there are courses on it - maybe coach Andras will make another chess principles reloaded? What I'm talking about is this little known chessmood site/platform (mostly for u2000 lvl players), but they have 2 good courses on defense principles: spartan shield (2 hours for lower rated) and defend with honor (nearly 10 hours presented by GM Johan Hellsten). The later is truly amazing with well chosen examples and concepts. I dare you to check it out!

Dear Andras, thanks for sharing this great video. I am 36y old, played some chess online the last 2 years and i have just joined a club and am hovering around 1450 range. I have this all the time in my head, especially when i am tired or under pressure by an attacking player or strong opponent. Hopefully this will help. I am going to try this out in my real games. However i have two questions. Why start with Rxe1? In a game i would also want to calculate 1. Nxf4 and all the possible captures/sidelines after that. That means way more work and a lot of more time to spend. How did you decide to only calculate Rxe1? Nxf4 looks tempting to me at first sight. My rook on e6 will be attacked two times but is also covered by the Knight on f4. If he takes with Rxf4 i simply take back with Nxf4 and am a piece up. 2. Nxf4 is stronger for him, then i will trade rooks with 2. Rxe1. 3. Rxe1. Resulting in an open file for white and after trading queens he still has the open file and my rook is passive. My evaluation would be that 1. Nxf4 leads to a slightly better position for white. Therefor i still would have calculated Rxe1 and found it is better, but it would cost me a lot of time. My second question is what to do when you are lost during a calculation? I find myself going over the same lines multiple times in a row to come to a conclusion. I think its just poor visualization and calculation skills but maybe there is something wrong that i do not see :)

Whites pawn on g6 would kind of serve as an umbrella?

Great video Andras, instructive as always! Given the incredibly complex nature of chess, humans inevitably use heuristics and psychology in order to attack, plan, and defend. Given that checkmates occur overwhelmingly from attacks, we fear attacks more. If the opponent plays an excellent defensive move, the attacker does not automatically lose, they can still keep attacking... but if an attacker plays an excellent attacking move, this often correlates to "game over". I know this is obvious and I think we will never escape our human limitations, but an important aspect of improving is to be aware and push against them. Again, great video and idea!

I can definitely still improve my defensive skills, but I don't easily give up. I don't believe in the "never resign" mantra, but I do believe most chess players resign too easily. I improve my defensive skills a lot by playing on in bad positions and every now and then I'll get counterplay and save the game to a draw, or occasionally even a win!

I really like this concept of underrated skills and talking about how we can improve as defenders and as overall players since defense isn't engrained in many of our minds

hello coach andras which books would you recommend for improving defence?