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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov will share with you 2 most important chess principles you should know! These 2 principles (or techniques) will make it really easy and simple for you to find the best moves in any position.
In fact, top grandmasters, including the world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, play their games in this style in general. Following these 2 key & simple chess principles will give you a lot of victories and you can increase your rating points.
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► Chapters
00:00 Increase Your Chess Rating +100 ELO
00:26 How to find the best move in chess?
01:38 Principle-1: Flexibility
03:44 Principle-2: Avoid creating weakness
05:57 How most players make mistakes and lose
07:43 What is the right way to play?
11:41 To take is a mistake
12:58 New Course: Top 25 Middlegame Concepts
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[@efeudoro6173]

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[@Shortsoovin]

So now magnus can get to 2950?

[@Chris.M]

He is already using it subconsciously

[@cuberchez818]

golden comment

[@aoliya107]

easily

[@andrewptob]

🤫

[@michaelmcgee335]

@@Chris.M It is obviously a joke.

[@albertdeckel9429]

GM Smirnov As an intermediate player, while I learn from all your videos, I ESPECIALLY benefit from the ones (like today's) that teach general principles that can apply to multiple chess situations. Thank you for the lesson!! I'll start using the lesson today!

[@lucse3994]

Absolutely amazing video! So much value in such a short time!! Would love to also hear more about the middle game principles.

[@pikie1011]

This actually worked for me! I went from 800 to 900 on blitz within a few days of trying this out. I'm 1250 on rapid but I have been stuck for months at blitz because I have a hard time finding good moves quickly. The video does a better job of explaining obviously but in my own words I'd say it helps me identify good moves much faster and leaves me less exposed to threats that I didn't have time to evaluate.

[@marksolvent3259]

Blitz is so hard to improve. I was once 1250 rapid and still 500 blitz a year and a half ago. These blitz people are just stronger on average for some reason.

[@pikie1011]

@@marksolvent3259 Good to know it's not just me. I checked the rating distribution and it seems to confirm this. Hope the tips help anyway :) I'm still at 900 by the way but I'm enjoying games more now with less frustrating blunders.

[@deathknight8616]

I'm playing chess for 3 months, got 1700. So, as "experienced player" i would recommend you to stop playing blitz and go for tactics, endgames, opening and strategy. Blitz is useless, because it doesn't help you developing, only speed

[@HmasTeR43214551]

great content, as always. I can't wait for your next course!

[@robertgonsalves1966]

Very instructive. Looking forward for more. Thanks

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters 00:00 Increase Your Chess Rating +100 ELO 00:26 How to find the best move in chess? 01:38 Principle-1: Flexibility 03:44 Principle-2: Avoid creating weakness 05:57 How most players make mistakes and lose 07:43 What is the right way to play? 11:41 To take is a mistake 12:58 New Course: Top 25 Middlegame Concepts

[@lonewolf5238]

One of the best lessons I have ever seen, heard or read. Damn fine job. Thankyou!

[@GeorgiosMichalopoulos]

very helpful, general concept vids are super!

[@michaelmurray7472]

Love these types of videos on general principles

[@BrianBradbury]

This is definitely one of the best videos and definitely delivers as described. wow! Thank you thank you.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ellenrosenfeld2303]

This was excellent -- practical, useful, and really helpful!! I will try to use these techniques in a tournament tonight

[@rothira]

Well, how did it go?

[@ellenrosenfeld2303]

@@rothira Not great - I miscalculated an exchange. But better next time I hope! Thanks.

[@danpatterson6937]

Your instruction is excellent if a touch fast-paced. This is the best lesson I've seen and now for practice.

[@ravivarma239]

Very instructive and powerful. Thanks much👌👍🙏🏻

[@samuelmorton2324]

Wow this has helped a lot! Thank you.

[@Daniel-G-P]

Another brilliant video. Thank you.

[@Axiomatic75]

Great content as always Igor! Can you point me to any resources about teaching chess to kids? It's something I've been thinking about for a while, teaching chess to kids at a school.

[@acoustic4all116]

Good day Gm Igor???? Can you make this kind of videos please applying these two principles using different openings please…. Really appreciate this kind of video tutorials… we are learning the openings without us memorizing the sequence since lower rated players like us doesn’t care about openings though… what we need are videos like this applying some chess principles while learning the openings without memorizing moves

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thanks for the suggestion. We will make more videos like this.

[@nickyork8901]

interesting and useful, thanks!

[@staffanbergstrom2265]

Thanks!!

[@av9282]

Thank You 😊🍀

[@rajanarsimhamedi3313]

Thanks sir

[@D_M4N8]

1. Flexibility 2. Avoid creating weaknesses 3. Avoid risks

[@appakbeats5867]

Good lesson there. But now it raises another question: how do you know what is flexible and what is over extended ?

[@joeyblogsy]

It often depends on the balance of the position which the more complex the position is the more complex the eval becomes and more dependent on one’s knowledge and experience of positional concepts.

[@graccusbro2061]

great video mate

[@skylergrid4121]

Thank you so much for these free lessons...How could you share these gems for free. Hope your channel flourish even more.

[@jaylenlenear3944]

hes not lying. ive reached like 1700-1800 with no particular strategy but to not blunder and playing simple (ig flexibile) openings.

[@matthews1402]

Great lesson and thanks

[@eeryglo]

This was really helpful, and very understanding of my initial mindset as an intermediate, thank you.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad it was helpful!

[@edwinpompert1227]

Good Teacher!!!

[@kelsherif55]

You're an excellent teacher .... Really wooooooooow

[@billpayne5149]

So if an opponent piece is on my side of the board do I push it back first before continuing my plan? Any advise plz thx

[@ramilparedes9930]

Very helpful

[@diamondbright45]

you are the best if not one of the best in the game of chess...belive me I will get the money to your hard earned chess tips and courses...the Smirnov way...I have learned a lot from you /thanks so much , great work in chess for history for the ages!!!you are one in a million Smirnov...cheers to you and for you I take my hat!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thanks for your kind words!, Luis.

[@Padraic54]

I've been listening to your advice for a long time. Your style of teaching basic positional play really resonates with me.

[@gregoriusmike]

Just watched the video and it makes total sense. Think it's already helping after a 5min game.

[@Cousinsjay]

Excellent great job

[@rajanarsimhamedi3313]

Love you sir❤

[@vasuimemyself]

Thanks for this video. My rating will reach 3100

[@ralphv130]

Best chess video i have ever seen!

[@rafuentesapologetics]

Thanks God bless

[@AmitDas-wp4vp]

Solving puzzles is the best thing to do get better at middlegame Or for that matter to get better at every phase

[@connectedsrcn9205]

02:36 After knight to F3 black doesn't gain an extra tempo, quite the opposite since after F3 white can attack the knight next move. Right ?

[@jagdishmkumar3835]

Thanks for your valuable lessons Sir, I am a big fan of you

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad to hear that

[@Thom176]

Good vid, very educational

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Great!

[@pinoes31416]

excuse me GM around 4:44 you said Bf4 was the only that was not defended. What about c4 pawn?

[@Evan-vh1xk]

Great work as always. Perfect amount of time bc I'm about to eat lunch and LEARN at the same time!

[@agenericboringhomosapien8108]

Same am having dinner seeing this XD

[@AmitDas-wp4vp]

I thought I was the only one doing that

[@thuantruong8556]

thế cờ hay tôi thấy nước đi khác 👍, cám ơn GM

[@The_Python_Turtle]

Great video but the C4 pawn is not defended as well as the bishop aren't defended

[@vincentjadraque830]

I was scrolling through comments wondering if anyone else had picked up on this too

[@queenu606]

Nice u made it before 9 hours and I searched it now I think its faith and ment to be for me

[@nurulabsar4454]

great teacher

[@joem1480]

do you have a discord? Also I just took your masterclass and have a game to send you

[@stunningstranger...1835]

Such a nice video....Also make video about how to play against English opening....

[@nivnavion]

e5 kings English variation and just play solidly, people who play the English tend to wait for their opponent to make a mistake.

[@GeoffPlitt]

Thanks to this method, I was able to beat Magnus Carlsen. Thank you Igor!

[@aleksk9643]

John Nunn introduced a principle in his book "Hanging pieces fall".

[@sumankhanal84]

watched this video 10 times, now i am +1000

[@pakchu2]

13:45 the knight maneuver from f3 to e6 seems to violate both of these principles, as most players wouldn't feel comfortable having an isolated pawn on e6, even though it may objectively be best. If you follow the principles, wouldn't you move it to e1, a more flexible square?

[@kawacakol]

That’s exactly what I thought as well, he was saying to not let your pieces get attacked, and then puts the knight in a position where it can be attacked immediately

[@davidmarts7489]

The best chanel on youtube

[@aaudain1]

Awesome ✋️ 👌 👏 👍

[@Longtack55]

That was so helpful. Look out all you 900s!

[@DanielL143]

I guess I can take on Carlson now - LOL ; thanks for the great video, these principles make sense.

[@antonioluizrebellodemendon4622]

Excelent

[@michaelshaune5719]

This advise absolutely works and is singularly the best chess advise on the opening that I've ever seen. I'm old now, I played in the 1992 U.S. Open. I won my low class, class C. I was a 'C' player then. I drew with an expert in round 1 and defeated half of the class A players I faced also the guy who won class B knowing nearly nothing about the opening but principles.

[@TheDendra7]

Cool starry bra. You are lost in under 10 moves ;)

[@quicksandd]

More! More!!! More!!!!

[@houseymousey8159]

Had black playes knight to g4 instead of f4 it had been perfectly fine

[@harshagotluru9400]

DEAR IGOR MAKE VIDEOS ON MOTIVATION AND SUCCESS IN LIFE.

[@zoltankenebisz6161]

White c4 pawn was never defended at the begining of the game , just saying... 🤔🧐Good vid by the way love yours content , I wish I could be as good as you are

[@DrugzMunny]

Does it involve thinking? Because, if so, I already do that. Wait, OMG, I don't!

[@AngelNearDestruction]

As an online 1950 and an irl 1700 4yrs ago when I played irl, I have to say that the analysis of the queenside knight in a queen gambit kings indian is actually.just false. It makes PERFECT sense for the knight to go to d2, and is arguably the better square between c3 and d2. The issue is timing. You don't play Nd2 on your third move, you either activate your bishop before playing Nd2 and route the queen to c2 or b3 later, or you play d5, smother the queenside, focus on your pawn structure, and play Nd2 to both defend the pawn and defend the f3 square for the other Knight. At that poi t, the bishop is but a fancy pawn, but a very important and more dangerous one at that. You can't move pawns onto your first rank to defend your knight which is defending the structure while simultaneously defending the structure on its own, but you can use bishops this way and when the pawns are exchanges or the F3 knight is exchanges, suddenly the bishop has turned from a glorified pawn to the second most powerful piece on the board. I almost exclusively play Queens Gambit and English games competitively and I use stockfish to analyze lines. My opening theory for these two specific openings are GM level, even though I am hesitant to suggest I'm even expert level in ANYTHING else. If you play the first 20 moves like stockfish a lot of moves that seem counter intuitive are actually insane, and when playing good openings like those two you can get away with playing some crazy moves if you know the theory. I'm not saying it isn't far more difficult to play this particular opening with the intent of Nd2, I'm just saying that it is strictly better in practice based on years of stockfish analysis and tons of devoted experience in that opening. But I digress, not everyone has 25 moves of prep for 2 specific openings, and if they did chess would be wildly different

[@TheDendra7]

If you were that good at engine openings, you'd be 2.2k+ online ;)

[@jasonwong5926]

Instead of taking Qxe4 even Qd3 is a huge advantage???

[@charbelhaddad5877]

Me rewatching it 2

[@odjidja-ofoe7880]

Me watching the Video twice: My rating: 📈📈

[@Lovuschka]

It really works! Magnus Carlsen watched this video 12 times yesterday and now broke the 4000 Elo barrier!

[@ceedeeFN88]

the cat in the background is a goat

[@sevoo1579]

nice

[@vicente3j]

I thought this video was about lifting your social credit score after looking at the thumbnail LOL

[@DamirUlovec]

I wish it can be so simple in chess! But it's not. Still, good ideas are always welcome. Thank you.

[@davidbatchelder85]

You are always concerned about the betterment of chess players. I love that about you. I want to teach chess and use your system. Please reach out to me. I live in Texas and I want to learn and also teach. May Jesus bless you in all that you do . Amen

[@brandondean2530]

This an excellent video. Recommend to all players who don’t know these methods. I really enjoyed it. This comes from a very strong expert 2000+ player. Thanks Igor Smirnov.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Much appreciated!

[@TheDendra7]

Who knew 2k+ was very strong expert...Maybe 2300-2400+...

[@knight3001]

​@@TheDendra7 Expert is a defined class of player that is distinct from master.

[@muskyoxes]

The only thing that will improve my rating is avoiding blunders. Anything else is rounding error.

[@abysswatcher4907]

Thanks, this boosted my rating from negative infinity to negative infinity.

[@ephy1973]

Can't a queen alone always eventually corner a queen thereby forcing the bishop to move and allowing the king to take it? That said pawn advancement or king and king as a team is inevitable. So it is a win.

[@scottshaffer5205]

Nice cat!

[@q2eqe2qeqeq25]

4:35 Not that accurate Gm Smirnov , how about the good looking fella on c4 , who has an eye on this guy ? (:

[@krishkarekar9375]

your cat is in every video

[@tmpqtyutmpqty4733]

So no one is going to mention the cat behind. Cool.

[@danielzaiser]

Hikaru should watch this video a couple of times to finally reach 4000 rating

[@rollyicecream3013]

Sir u r a Real Chess TEACHER. nothing more to say 👍🏽

[@deejy232]

Hello Argun

[@lukaleroux479]

Proving your point with Qxe5 while there is Nxe5 instead is weird. I like the principles you are talking about, not the illustration

[@sundarsingh6525]

Watch get 100+, Repeat, Beat Magnus.

[@Chessdummy]

GM Smirnov, let me know when you're ready for me to teach you! 😀

[@supersturdystudiosggp76]

Magnus Carlsen: THIS is what I need to achieve 2900 elo!

[@pebbertable]

+50 points in half an hour!!🙂

[@ezra7088]

Magnus should watch this to get to almost 3000 /s

[@walterbrownstone8017]

Igor I always watch your videos because you always show me some fun offbeat lines that can really mess up my opponents. But Crimea is part of Russia now and it always was and always will be.

[@z0uLess]

the sad moment when you realize that you have allready been doing this and that you are 800 elo

[@arsenasvarov1400]

didn't get the second strategy

[@kenmastersmaster]

Do you have a master class on how to play against 10 people blindfolded? Or do I need to buy a better brain?

[@ShiraoriAteU]

Got 95% acc game right after watching this vid, hehe