8 Chess Tips For Intermediate Players (Ep. 6 - Logical Chess Move by Move)

The way I like to think about principles is "follow the principles unless you can explain why you don't"

At 19:00, Qe6 still allows Qh3 next move. That was, in fact, my choice. Let him think I am defending the bishop; that might give me another move to attack his king.

Took me years to realize that Ruy Lopez wasn’t actually called the Royal Opus

The author made an interesting point as well when white plays 10.Bb3 saying that the defensive move 10.Be2, placing the bishop where he overlooks two diagonals, is preferable. It’s not something I used to consider a lot and would usually retreat my bishops to the edges of the board to stay on the long diagonals. And I’d do that without really considering/realising the central retreat as an option. And in this case white would’ve had more support on the kingside’s weak light squares.

This is an amazing lesson. Thanks for posting it.

Love it. Had the book sitting gathering dust for years. Nice to work along side you with this. Great stuff. Need more of these in the future.

Great series, thank you!!

Hi Nelson, I have two ideas for videos that would be helpful for myself (1950) & hopefully many others: 1) How to flag well. The idea being avoid simplifications which help your opponent process faster & move quicker, instead looking for active moves which further complicate the position, even if they’re not the best moves. 2) When to play g5 in the Italian as black. I feel there’s little instructional middle game content for black in the Italian, so this could even be a series of plans black can go for depending on the specific setup white goes for in the quiet Italian positions. Thanks for the awesome instructional content & congrats on reaching 2300!

Thank you for this series, Nelson!

Thank you NM Nelson!

Thank you. Always

Awesome!

Nelson is my favorite chess player and coach of all time

Thanks for the great videos Nelson, I always thought your explanations are the clearest on chess youtube. 2 questions: 16:00 I and probably other lower players would be tempted to play Bh3 for the tempo on the rook. I guess it's bad because it doesn't lock the f pawn in place? 19:00 Doesn't Qe6 creates the same checkmate threat Qf5?

so here is my question: isnt it better at 14:32 to first move the bishop on d6 before developping the knight, and than go on. because, if we play Knight f6 first he has time for g3 bishop f4 no?

Good series. Thank you

My problem (in that sac the bishop for mate threat) is that there’s often 1 move I’m missing that saves the position for my opponent. Or at least that’s in my head, so I play it safe and protect the bishop. I think maybe I should start flipping the board and start playing those positions as my opponent.

I got the book some time ago but maybe I wasn’t ready for it. However, Nelson’s videos are perfect now, great series!

Great explanations, very clear. Also helps when you keep the title of the video simple, normally this helps to get more views!

at 14:10 would it not be better to play bishop to d6 creating an immediate checkmate threat and the only way black can defend is to move the pawns in front of the king?