2 Simple Rules To Reach 2000 ELO Rating In Chess

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

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[@ChristianSoschner]

This „rules of thinking“ videos are pure gold. After watching the last video, I noted the rules down. Followed it in the next matched and ended up with 70 Elo more. What a difference …

[@proscon4766]

I was also finding it a bit hard to beat 650 elo players but after I watched one of his "rules of thinking videos" I actually gained like 120 elo and reached 770! These are really usefull

[@NavalSharma-r9z]

"Giri would happily capture it and would have one more example to his book my 60 memorable draws" wow!

[@salmarwow]

Funny that he mentioned Giri. Giri usually makes draws with super GMs. Common GMs (i.e., anyone below 2700, such as the author of this video) he eats for breakfast.

[@youssefabouzeid4722]

1. How to move your pieces forward and make a threat 2. Make an actcual threat

[@maximepoca9396]

Puzzle : Nd5 Threatening Nc7# And the queen is attacked, If Qxd1 Rxd1 with still the same threat mate / fork threat If king makes breathing room to avoid mate, Nc7 is still a fork winning the rook No other way ro defend c7 without losing the queen Problem with Nb5 first is Qb6 holding on everything

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

Thanks! I knew nb5 wouldn’t work but couldn’t see the idea for black to hold it together. Ne5 is a nasty idea. Chess is awesome

[@pnsdkrpndja12177]

1 more addition, If Nd5 Qxd1 Rxd1 Kd8 or Kd7 to prevent Nc7 there is Nb6+ winning the rook.

[@MCE5507]

Thanks!

[@PBodytko]

Love it. This is terrific!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters 00:00 2 key ideas to improve in chess faster 00:15 Example-1 (Firouzja vs Giri) 01:23 Rule-1 04:18 Example-2 (Spassky vs Petrosian) 05:10 What is actually a THREAT? 07:58 Rule-2 12:05 Puzzle of the Day

[@ianallen738]

Sticky this one.

[@hakaishin101]

Am on a tilt, went from 2100 to 1800. Thinking it's the depression.

[@NcD1o8]

Imo, you should take a break from chess and try to treat whatever is causing the problem.

[@hakaishin101]

@@NcD1o8 Thanks mahn. I Think thats best.

[@NcD1o8]

@@hakaishin101 You got this! Good luck friend! :)

[@nishantsaini579]

Take care bro

[@hakaishin101]

@@nishantsaini579 Thanks bro.

[@mandarjoshiarch]

Your videos are good, lot to learn from them. Thanks, keep up the good work.

[@JoObaN]

10:28 i thought of queen to a6. If king takes then rook a8 is mate. If pawn takes then Knight c6 is fork.

[@stevemotocrayz2892]

Very good & informative... Thanks, Igor 👍.!!

[@zen23ish]

Thank you my chess tutor :)

[@sunilchristian3430]

Thank you!

[@markbeveridge925]

Nb5 threating a fork and attacking Queen, one of best moves for black is Qd7 or Qd8 moving Queen to protect the square so the knight is a real threat

[@BobChess]

Puzzle solution is Nd5, threatening Nc7# and stopping Qb6. If black plays Qxd1 you just capture a queen back with a rook and you will win a rook or even checkmate! And if Qe4+ you can just block with your bishop to at least give a square for your king. There might be idea of e5, Bb4 in later.

[@SteffenRoller]

Igor, always very educational and funny.

[@bhanukatikam2310]

Thank you you can teach us very well 😊

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

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[@db1855xlr]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad it was helpful!

[@omass468]

Man ever since I started watching your videos it rekindled my interest in learning chess Normally you would expect the usual I was x and erupted to x but that's not all 3 months ago I couldn't bring myself to play sometimes but now Im enjoying it very much I have gotten a little bit stonger and find tactics easier with the "always look for attacking moves" concept

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thank you for watching!

[@AndyDavisTechnicalDiving]

I do okay with aggressive attacking, but calculation accuracy can always be improved. As an intermediate player, my weaker area is defence when counterplay isn't an option. I've blundered moves when under pressure from strong multi-piece attacks and let pawns swarm down to queen too easily. Would be great to have some tips and rules for those scenarios. Master level games don't really get into those types of scenarios.... few pertinent examples.

[@develop3628]

Puzzle : Nd5 It is actually a TRAP for black to take bishop on b2. If black fall to this trap then it is checkmate in ONE: Nc7#

[@GregTurismo]

Oh nice! I saw that first move and response, but didn't notice it was checkmate. I thought it was just a fork.

[@ConradAdamsMrJUMBO]

Nice! I was initially thinking Nb5 but then we actually needed our knight to block black’s queen from going back to d8 to defend the fork mate…

[@liamoconnor7423]

And if there's a queen trade, you take with the rook and the threat stays open... No matter what they do, even if you don't win you're up enough material to keep a comfortable position

[@DavidKempe-s9u]

That was one of the first moves I considered, too, but I don't see the follow-up if Black doesn't take, and instead plays Qd7 or Qd8. You can trade queens, and then play Rd1, but Black can block with Bd7 and the King on d8 protects c7. Maybe I'm missing something.

[@develop3628]

@@liamoconnor7423 If Queen trade occurs, you win rook in two ways: -If black king moves to d8, you win rook with discovered check Nb6+ - Any other move, you fork the king with Nc7+ since black cannot defend c7

[@FarzanaNaeem-cu9zs]

Nb5: attacking queen Exchange queens Nc7 fork

[@Nova04550]

I think it would help if you made it more clear when it's time to pause the video and decide a move, like with an animation or something.

[@hinoob12321]

I watched your complete masterclass video. It's amazing Thank you so much for providing free content

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad you loved it! Thanks for watching!

[@NavalSharma-r9z]

Thank you sir 🙏

[@MrTC707]

First Nb5.....if the queen takes the free bishop then Nc7 is mate..... If queen captures the queen then rook takes queen....and Nc7 is a mate threat.... If Black makes a breathing space move for the king then Nc7 is a fork for rook and king..... Hoping i got the right answer 🤞 ( Btw I reached 1560 rapid within 6 months after starting chess for the first time.....your lessons helped me a lot.... Thank you sir😊)

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

Knight is written “N”, “K” means King Nb5 is my first thought but i need to calculate if black has any resources

[@MrTC707]

@@MyBiPolarBearMax thanks for correcting me..... And your skills will be polished with time👍

[@Sewwy-ou7qe]

It is Nd5 disallowing Qb6, that Nb5 allows.

[@MrTC707]

​​@@Sewwy-ou7qe then queen takes queen , rook d1 and there are no mate threats....bcoz knight blocks the rook and king can simply move to d8.....it allows a discover check but black won't lose any significant material

[@Alexderschwitze]

Igor Smirnov could u please make a video against the slav opening? i really struggle to play against it and i didnt find any video of you doing it

[@brunosanguigni6478]

60 memorable draw loooooool

[@brunosanguigni6478]

4:25 I remember this postion from one of your previous videos,All chess strategies something video; Spassky was white.

[@KizunaZelcrist]

I would like to thank you for what you have done to me,I have improved so muchh I got from 500 elo from 1100 elo🙏

[@Emmanuel-ti6ym]

Awesome video! Now I must go and watch the full game Spassky vs Petrosian. I'm not sure how many times they have played each other.

[@vasilicavieru3807]

On the second illustration qa6 check and after rook a8 mate.

[@shoumyajitroy5102]

Hello Igor, it seems in the second example, that b5 is clearly winning for white as b6 mate is threatened... after Re2+ Nd2!!, white has Qd4 + b6 mate threatened which can't be avoided... also after axb5, then improving the knight after Nd4 is a lot more lethal as it threatens Nxb5 which could lead to material loss or mate for black...please check the variation

[@freakinmad]

Nd2?? Rxd2+ and forking the Queen. After king moves, axb5 and preventing Qd4+ because of the rook

[@shoumyajitroy5102]

After Rxd2, Qxd2 wins a free exchange as Bxd2 is not possible due to b6#

[@averagelizard2489]

Indeed that is the best move according to stockfish

[@BO55N355]

I found the brilliancy. I'm basically Firouzja now

[@averagelizard2489]

My 1000 elo ahh is proud that I found it in 1mkn

[@FrankBeerbaum]

The solution of the puzzle is Nd5, which threatens Nc7#, but it's not forced: Qe4 is an option. Okay, White wins the exchange temporarily, but with correct play Black is better or at least okay.

[@pot_kivach160]

1:46 difference between strong players and the rest.

[@Surge_Playzz24]

Keep on making these vids Good boy

[@sheabutter114]

genuine question! at 11:46, did you have to sacrifice the queen in order to checkmate the black king? Couldn’t you have captured the black bishop with the pawn and even if the rook didn’t move over to capture/be captured, you would still be able to move the pawn on b5 up to b6 and checkmate?? Was capturing with the queen just a way to make sure we would get to capture the rook in the end as well?? Like bait? Just curious as to the “why” since I’m still a newbie!

[@justforfun7192]

well ur question was totally valid though i think why capturing with a queen is best? cause u can forced mate the opponent and as u said if u capture it with the pawn then there's a move rook to e6 or queen to e6 which complicates things ofc after that u will eventually win if u play properly but u can't checkmate him hope that helps

[@Kratos19086]

Because if you take with the queen it's a check and black is forced to take he doesn't have time for any counter attack. You have to play forcing moves if possible.

[@DeeCruz-ee3gh]

The move is Nb5.

[@MM-tt3np]

Nd5

[@tabas9948]

Nd5 Qd1 Rd1 Nf6 Nc7 check mate

[@rotimiolowolayemo4971]

Hey Igor how can I access you so we can talk. I would love to hire you as a personal trainer

[@UniasRa]

I just opened this up. It's paused at 1:26. First, I would sacrifice my rook with an f7 move, then, if he eats my rook, I'd fork the king and his rook with Ne5. After that I'd try to race for the queen. Again, i just paused it to type this but I'm fixing to see how it plays out.

[@yardzreynado299]

when i started watching ur vids my elo went from 1100 to 1500 in a few months

[@KwaynzuKun4610]

Soooo if i am thinking about where to threat the opponent even though i am losing is a good thing?

[@EMAS0909]

In example 1 when the rook goes to d7, would knight takes on e5 not accomplish the same outcome?

[@NalanArumugam-eh6op]

Puzzle:1. Nd5!

[@coostardhivya7769]

On 10.57 you can play re8 and fork if he takes

[@AlijikiBinda]

To :GM Igor Smirnov= your videos likes this really helped me so much..... I started a chess account 2day with a rating of 1600..i only lost 1 game but unfortunately after that I have not lost a single game now my rating is above as I dreamed of, am about to reach 2000 ELO rating🥳🥳😭.. Iam from South Africa iam 15 years old 🙏🙏

[@pot_kivach160]

9:18 Petrosian made a blunder by moving Be3?? Instead he should've captured Rg5 (white pawn was free to take!).

[@nikbelikov]

The problem comes when I look at a move, like a rook sacrifice-I don’t see how it helps. I notice the attacking move, as you always say, but I immediately dismiss it because I view it as a losing mistake due to the loss of the rook. So, I don’t consider it. My question is: how can I see moves that seem like losing ones as actually winning moves? That’s the big challenge I’m facing right now.

[@Priyanshu-f3h]

Think (calculate) 2-3 moves ahead.

[@theleshan]

Calculate the move before dismissing it.

[@EvangelineNgombo]

Hey igor. This is @stroryguyshorts The same guy who told you about a national tournament on your last video Day 1 out of 2 is over (of the tournament) And I have 3 out of 3 points🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to your videos!!! Going to dominate day 2❤

[@e.e.-tv1683]

I maybe wrong. For the puzzle at the end of the video is the move bishop to b5?

[@MysterEarl]

I think Nb5 is better but Nd5 may be the best move. It attacks the Queen while threatening fork. If black moves the queen away from the d-file, Nc7#. If black trades off the queens, the mate threat is renewed. Black can move a pawn but it's still a fork against the rook with no compensation. Qb4+ can be met with Bc3.

[@mariuszr6873]

Nb5

[@richardneat.thenomadicchef7951]

Is it Nb5. Qxd1. Rxd1. Anything by Black, Nc7

[@skop3609]

Nb5 right? it forks the queen and a king rook fork, and black can’t easily defend from it

[@AlexiaFleming-j2s]

Qxd4 Nxd4 Nd5 rook must move to b8 because of fork to the king and rook or king to d8 but then you can not castle then bxd4

[@CrisFerrerYT]

at 12:05.. nice sugestion but I think it is a little passive and would give the black the time to defend. What about white Knight d5 instead? The only chance for black is to change queens and that will give a good position to whites bringing rook to the D file. I'd say knight d5...QxQ .. Rook x Q.. Kd8 - knight b6+ taking the rook on a8. black King can try to get that knight on a8 but then white can develop bishop to b5 to take the knight on c6 so they can bring their rook to d8. I don't know if this idea is right for GM Igor, I'm just a musician who loves chess. Any better idea cont.. that can help? thanks

[@shrirangbondale2263]

i saw the position and remembered this is from magnus vs firouza game.... am i on the path to improve my chess?

[@KHORYONGCHENGMoe]

Is it the move Nb5?

[@gamerharsh648]

It's not nb5, it's Nd5. Both the moves are almost the same, but the problem is, after nb5, black can play Qb6 and defend the checkmate. But Qb6 fails to Nd5 because d5 is now guarded by the knight. Hope it helped... Good luck on your journey

[@abiramik3655]

it's Nb5

[@peterrenkel6498]

I like your videos. In fact, they are the best. However, I couldn't find any of the best moves you suggested even with your lecture. It goes like this, "With all this in mind, do you see the best move?" "No, I don't." "Here it is." "Why didn't I see it?" And then comes always the same thing, "You should practice. Solve lots of puzzles." It's always like that, and you can't go around it. Even with the best coach :( Will we have a lesson on: "How to find the best aggressive move?" OR "How to develop a lazy piece most aggressively? Also, when you cover aggressive interesting openings, I don't see the catches - the only way is to memorize them all.

[@wolfgangwiesinger9502]

Without a solid endgame it is hard to cross 2000, no shortcuts imo

[@Rememberingera2067]

I want it please

[@MuhammadAbubakarSiddique-o3d]

I thought the first move knight to e7 ....!!

[@timm439]

Why wouldn’t Rxg4 instead of moving the bishop in the second game?

[@ems3832]

Black probably didn't like the look of b5 for white then, with the b6 mate threat, but also if axb5 then Nxb5+ activates that knight with looming threats. Black was looking to chop off the knight rather than wins the g4 pawn, I'm thinking.

[@timm439]

@@ems3832very helpful, thanks!

[@cirkmannzirkel8229]

just went from 1250 to 1100, this video will definitely help me reach 2000!

[@EvangelineNgombo]

Wrong fanbase

[@incognito253]

Nd5 ends this game

[@tangpuzzy]

I thought you said 2000 inchess lol

[@checkmateKings]

Let's go

[@AdOr-do9mz]

After this a made draw with 2000elo bot

[@Rememberingera2067]

Sir can I get the super pack for free

[@raphaelmendel7002]

It seems Nd5 is a winning move. If black plays Qe4, then Be2. Black can then stop the mating threat of Nc7 with Bd7. White then wins the rook with Nc7+, then Kd8, then NXR. Black may later capture the knight at A8 and is 2 pawns ahead, so material may end up even (unless I am missing further moves in white's combination), but white's position is better and should be winning.

[@ThomasNogaro]

...nb5, qb2; ...c7#.

[@سیناجعفری-ظ3غ]

Nb5 wins for white

[@Ali-hh9oi]

Qb6

[@thomas11eleventm]

It starts with Nd5 not Nb5

[@ems3832]

Close. Nd5 is the move, actually.

[@DAVID_YT12357]

First

[@santamonicashark]

waste of 13 minutes

[@sudhaDevi-z2t7v]

I find 1st one Puzzle and my rating is 1750 in lichess id is vyom217

[@handsome_man69]

Handsome man

[@MedinaMaxim]

Thank you!

[@baran-e9j]

Nb5

[@bullmarket_hungary]

Nd5

[@wisdom7564]

First

[@nirmalagirish6821]

Nd5