Chess tactics for beginners: decoy

Chess tactics for beginners: decoy .
"The decoy exercises for this video were taken from a book I recommend for players rated U1400 USCF - 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too

[@5piral0ut]

What a fabulous little video. I’m stuck at 1600, rarely blunder but miss the big opportunities - this has really helped open my eyes.

[@lukastux3024]

you are 1600 but rarely blunder? 😅

[@5piral0ut]

@@lukastux3024 yup, 1 every 3 or 4 games, but I nearly always get misses…

[@charlesbland1073]

Great video!!

[@smb161]

1600 and barely blunder…that’s more of 1800 plus. Probably a cheater lol

[@5piral0ut]

@@smb161 I think you’ll find it is very dependant on the time control. I only play daily games.

[@qdlaty23]

Hi Irina, I discovered your channel only recently but loving your videos. Great educational value, you explain aspects of the game many online chess creators skip. Keep up the amazing work!

[@hasb826]

Most (male) streamers usually miss the beauty/artistic aspect of chess which is made evident in your videos. They make it look like two robots fighting. Thank you for restoring the balance by doing chess the justice it needs and deserves. 🙏💐💖

[@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd]

You are great realy😂

[@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd]

Or they make all fast everybody exept Agadmator new chess school 😂

[@LittleChessMates]

She is great. She gave me so many ideas in chess. Her chess hockey card was an outstanding idea and how I discovered this chess Gem of a instructor.

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

What's hockey card? (sounds a bit kinky how she would be playing with a hockey 😜)

[@CarloCretaro]

What is the chess hockey card idea?

[@debajyotisg]

I have been binge-watching your videos. They are super informative, delivered superbly, and actually useful!

[@joker0206]

There’s always been an aspect to chess I’ve loved since a child but I’ve never been able to find the words to explain it simply. Speed and beauty. Hit the nail on the head. I always put it as something like there’s positions you find your self in, and you can find a series of moves where the opponent couldn’t help but do as you wanted them to, and they just have to walk right into your trap and there’s nothing they can do to stop it, even if they see it. It’s just bam bam bam, mate. Speed and beauty is a more elegant and succinct way to put it 😂

[@justsomeboyprobablydressed9579]

Great advice for solving tactics, and a great definition of what tactics are.

[@abolfazlabazari7319]

that was a great video, it would be great if you make another for other tactics as well

[@kirkmason7079]

Tactic 4 you said “these are your active pieces.” You made it sound so simple. It may surprised you how cleared it made visualization for me. Another good informative stream. Merry Christmas Irina.

[@GeometricStalemate]

Cool tactics! Decoys are always pretty.

[@ircjesselee]

Belated happy birthday 😊 You're only 4 years ahead of my 40th. Here's to aging so gracefully 🎉

[@thechessforum]

Very well explained!

[@arronfowler2338]

So grateful for the frequent uploads.

[@giovannivannicelli]

Happy to have found the first tactic in a few seconds! What a beautiful move.

[@Dadaadad268]

Love this. Thank you Irina!

[@kennycampbell24]

You make my favorite instructional chess videos - these are so helpful! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge 🚀

[@chessisbest]

I love you stuff ty!

[@xred54]

Another great video. Thank you Irina!

[@pardieupopper339]

Practical, instructive examples. Many thanks.

[@attilahalmai4590]

Very enjoyable and instructional video with clear, nice commentary, thank You!

[@Thogstacker]

Great video. Thrilled I figured out all but one.

[@TheBackyardProfessor]

Really enjoyed this video!

[@Nemtomi]

Great inspiration!

[@slylataupe4272]

Great stuff. Thx

[@daemonicflame]

Thanks very much. This is super useful and REALLY well explained.

[@TheSimple1z]

Awesome lesson and those concepts of speed and beauty!! I love the open-minded nness to initiate those creative combos...💜

[@afrankiuk78]

Thank you for using plain language to explain these concepts. Much appreciated 👏

[@courageousknight]

Thank you GM Krush!

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

I just started playing OTB, and figured out I just fail to figure out the next two to three moves which I used to on mobile...😢

[@azul4em]

very well explained, I also liked the examples

[@koenigsgambiter]

Very good and inspiring video

[@azhar8803]

Very nice way of teaching

[@darylallen2485]

Keep them coming.

[@chessdude67]

I’ve been subscribed to your channel only for a short time, but your videos are excellent and very helpful. I enjoy seeing you and Levy together… Sorry, I’m drawing a blank on the name of that, I think was wired, but it was fun watching you give him a lesson, lol! I met you once when I was playing chess in tournaments and that was probably 20 years ago. I think it was in Philadelphia and I’m drawing a blank on the name of the tournament but it was held there every year and probably still is. I’m just getting back into Chess so, it’s been a long time. Thank you again for these wonderful lessons I look forward to more. Sorry about this mess. I am dictating it after. Just getting off work at 1 AM. take care.👍🏼👍🏼

[@srxanmlikzad5825]

Hello Irina would you consider making a video about how us amateur players can analyse our games in the most beneficial way?

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

Engines

[@hackerofhearts30]

She is good teacher. 👍

[@mmathems395]

Dear Irina, you are doing what a good coach would do. This is some good stuff to factor in. Thank you for this content 😊

[@peristiloperis7789]

Irina, I love your channel!

[@2Oldcoots]

So Engaging! Thank you Ms. Krush!

[@Siacourage]

Fun fact: Irina Krush is the only American female Grandmaster. She's the Queen Bee of American Chess.

[@359nova]

Than you Irina.

[@joeb4142]

Irina that’s a heck of a thumbnail! 👍🏻 Thanks so much for your interesting takes in this video and happy holidays to you and yours. ✨🥂💝

[@Steve_K2]

"Now this one is pretty hard." That's nice, after I failed the three previous easy ones.

[@JustinB_Oz]

Yes that's a really good book you got the puzzles from. Good video thanks.

[@andreapartemio]

Very interesting

[@wlodaa7817]

Irina, privet, great video!

[@lourensnvanderheijden8853]

You show the beauty of chess, thanks Irina👌😎

[@exelmans8855]

Good stuff.

[@peace_in1move]

Love the poetry of beautiful chess. Thanks for the leg up. I think 'ghosting' has merit to enter the chess lexicon as strategy 🤩

[@germanoscheller5095]

Cant believe this is free

[@charlesj5523]

I like the idea - Open mind❤

[@CCStardust]

Thank you

[@davidwindmiller3494]

It was great meeting you at nationals! My daughter will be extra excited to watch this video. ❤

[@R.Akerman-oz1tf]

Greetings, 1st time watching. Very kind of You to share Your experience. "sequence" above All.

[@debebewerku2085]

Wow u are fabulous thank u miss for those beutifull videos and explanation keep it up❤ subscribed

[@TheFutureIsThePast77]

Teach Me Beautiful Chess. Krushing It Irina! Happy Holidays

[@BixenteFabregas]

First example might be also solved by reversing the move order, an important tool when calculating combinations.

[@TheMaestromMephisto]

Kobe Bryant used the same tactic of reverse order in basketball

[@cissmjg]

"Loose pieces drop off" 🙂 .... excellent video!

[@peenoos]

Got a krush on these tactics got dayum

[@weswestbrook7902]

Chess is art. Tricky Irina. 👍

[@ganeshpillai7545]

Amazing tactics . I love these kind of tactics n shock my opponents with their wide mouth open.

[@VernAfterReading]

My main tactical issue is working off a memory of a bad first analysis. Like at 9:00, I thought the whole position was a back rank but the issue was the knight could block it on f8 (as if K was on g8). So I go through moves, see Rc3, but I got stuck being so sure I needed to deflect or capture the knight first. When you then showed it, I was like "but the knight! ... can't block?" I don't know if there's tips for like questioning your first bad take or something. Anyway thanks!!

[@eschiedler]

My favorite checkmate tactic is finishing the checkmate with castling!

[@jaybingham3711]

10:29 Advanced h (or a) pawns like this are called fawn pawns. Also, thorn pawn. 11:05 King has to be fully entombed by his pieces for it to be smothered mate. Instead, that is its close cousin: suffocation mate.

[@456death654]

I just imagine you farting into a wine glass giving it a huge wiff while writing this out

[@jaybingham3711]

​@@456death654I just imagine everyone who knows you can't get over how much of an odd duck you are.

[@Carrinthe]

Great video as always, your videos are rapidly becoming my favorite chess content on youtube. I was thinking at 9:53 maybe Rd8+ Qe8 Rxe8+ Rxe8 Qxf6 followed by mate is even a little more forcing than Qxc6? Edit: Why do i take the Q with Rxe8 😅, I can immediately play Qxf6+ with mate on g7.

[@srikrishnan1708]

Rd8+ they can play Nf8 right? Rxf8+ Rxf8 Qxc6 black has got 2 rooks for a Queen. But for Nf8 you can play Rxc8. If they take your rook it's mate on f6 g7, if they take your queen it's mate on f8. So it works I guess.

[@Carrinthe]

@@srikrishnan1708 Looks like it still works agreed. But the fact I didn't even consider Nf8 is a worrying flaw in my calculation skills.

[@srikrishnan1708]

@@Carrinthe Hehe happens to me too. Brain fades. I literally missed a mate in 3 yesterday when I was attacking with 3 pieces after sacking 3 pawns. Even worse, it was a pattern that I had seen so many times in puzzles.

[@srikrishnan1708]

Also, for Rxc8 black can play Kg8, we take on c6 and the game kind of goes on. Mate will come in a few moves. But Qxc6 first brings the whole house down. c8, a4 and f6 is under attack. If Qxc6 Kg8, then Qxf6 Rc7 Rd8 and mate on f8. If Qxc6 Rf8, then Rd8 still with a decoy with the mate on f6, if black hangs on with Kg8, then Qxf6 with g7 mate unstoppable. So Qxc6 essentially seems to be forced mate in all lines. Irina's way seems to be cleaner and forcing.

[@srikrishnan1708]

This is a nice calculation exercise, in finding forced mate in all lines, but in a game with less time if I saw Rd8 Nf8 Rxc8 and Rd8 Qe8 Qf6, I'll just go for it and won't bother with calculating Qxc6 at all. As Daniel Naroditsky says "Attacks need not always end in mate. If you're up 800 pieces, it's really difficult to lose the game. So usually picking up a bunch of material is the safest way to convert an attack if there's no forced mate that you see."

[@billmarshall8438]

I'm an idiot but I can understand enough of this to find it interesting.

[@RicardGomes76]

Irina +Jerry + Solomon = My Big 3

[@martinpereiravilla652]

Very instructional..by the way, when we're going to see a speedrun 10-15 mins games? 🤔

[@MrWaffler]

Never try ghosting a queen.

[@divyansh9880]

Happy birthday Irina 🎉

[@NefariousByte]

1st Rd8, Kd8, Bxf6, gxf6, Qxe4

[@utubesucks2003]

What is the name of the piece set you use in your videos please.

[@travelelsewhere9956]

"do a forcing move so they don't ghost you." ok got it! =D

[@nicbentulan]

Irina, if there were a 2024 women's classical WFRCC, would Alexandra Kosteniuk beat Wenjun and bella Khotenashvili?

[@mcronrn]

Wow, Nic, this is the shortest comment I’ve ever seen from you! Are u ok buddy? Happy that Alireza drew today? 🙏🙏

[@nicbentulan]

@@mcronrn Not sure how to feel about it. I support farming same as 'farmbitrage' but of course I'm glad Wesley will be in the candidates. Thanks for being such a fan. Merry Christmas happy new year and happy holidays!

[@dylanhafner7608]

Absolutely. Alexandra Kosteniuk is 100% the strongest women in chess in terms of chess knowledge. Will she win all the time? No. But I don’t think any woman on the planet has more theoretical chess knowledge than her.

[@nicbentulan]

@@dylanhafner7608 Good I hate. Wenjun and Bella. I'm glad Alexandra would beat. them EASILY. Like how Wesley So best talentless patzer and hypocrite cheater Magnus EASILY. God bless you. Merry Christmas happy new year and happy holidays!

[@luandersongomes8451]

Hi Irina. Do you have any courses on chessable? xoxo from brazil

[@ronreid1946]

❤

[@lucassantana6993]

i found the Rc3 move quite easily and failed to find the next one Bf7+ which is quite an obvious one damn

[@andrewgregger3081]

Chess mommy

[@tulionline1239]

in the first situation, doesnt rook e1 also win the queen for a rook?

[@chess-ft8fl]

feliz cumpleaños

[@Kamoaaa-nq4dr]

Your voice is comfortable only for this I watch you I don't know anything about chess and I don't care

[@fergferguson7370]

These aren’t beginner tactics….intermediate for sure..good stuff

[@AI_Stuffs]

Here's a quick look at some stats from GM Irina Krush's games - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHOsl2ajr7upbs0

[@baba10ye]

The name of the book please

[@thestargazer6335]

You're the most beautiful woman(I've ever seen), teaching the most beautiful game. Its just perfect!

[@Master-mark1]

She's gorgeous

[@ecrookie12]

It’s hard for beginners too play slow cause the time limit

[@Amarjeet1791]

You are so very beautiful Irina, and I must say you have amazing talking style, In addition to chess I use these video to capture your communication style

[@italo868]

I think You are ready for a chessable courses : Calculation and Tactics. I will be first buying yours courses, 😊

[@lgrace3874]

When I saw the thumbnail I thought this was from c. 1988-1992

[@D_M4N8]

Bruh... These tactics are not for beginners! VERY misleading title. I'm glad I clicked on it!

[@theguillaume73]

America chess queen 👸

[@yagamilight1231]

my crush :3

[@twinturbohenry]

Chess is definitely a beautiful game, but not as beautiful as Irina Krush!

[@KF1]

Have you ever had opponents report brain fog at the sight of your big, beautiful hair? Honest q, how many wins as a result?

[@farooqaries7144]

Krushing Irina

[@DavidPeriard]

How come I can find tactics on a screen and not OTB 🥲