Do We Really Need to Control the Center in Chess?

[@ace942]

Having control of the center is like having a lead in a sport. It might give you a head start but it is about how you finish at the end that matters most.

[@TheThinkersBible]

Quite insightful. Great idea to give up the center early then attack it later. Putting these ideas into winning sequences is the hard part 😅

[@greytoeimp]

that Yoda impression was deadly

[@geitekop507]

Nooooo, my sleep! Why are you doing this, Maurice?! :D

[@christofjork8446]

Same here. It‘s 02.15h at night here in Berlin, Germany. And I‘m to exited by a hundred year old chessgame. Have mercy Maurice, I have to go to work at 07.00h!!

[@bilbobaggins2401]

@@christofjork8446 Same here in Warsaw, 3 AM, but we are talkin' 'bout gangsta chess here.

[@anturanggatantra2137]

Dah, my sleep!

[@chessoptics]

Love the Aikido analogy with chess and energy you are my chess go-to instructor thank you fir your service Brother

[@greennin]

Maurice is my favorite character in the Chess Extended Universe

[@boliussa]

From 4:56 where he starts going through a game, you have to be a fairly highly rated chess player to follow his point here 'cos you need to be able to follow the moves of these grandmaster chess players. Up to the first 5min he was fairly straight forward!

[@mrmemer692]

Grand Master of spitting FACTS

[@finishocker]

@Maurice Ashley could you do a video going over the pirc? It's one of my favorites. But would like to see it from a different point of view.

[@adamhasson8927]

thank you very much, what are you talking about when you mentioned a word like akito or akitu or something??

[@CptJumper]

Aikido. It is a martial art which uses the opponents power against them. So in chess when your opp plays a move aikido chess asks "what are the drawbacks of making that move? What squares are left unguarded?"

[@adamhasson8927]

@@CptJumper thank you for the helpfull responce

[@franciscusrebro1416]

Awesome career and playing skills aside, GM Ashley is the greatest hype man for chess of all time

[@budgibson8045]

Hi there Grandmaster Maurice Ashley. Please don't argue with chess players who don't know the TRUTH 💯 about the center. Let them learn the Hard way 💯

[@mhiperboreo]

So , like Akido , the Hypermodernist chess players used to give the domain of the center, for later attack and destroy it!

[@bestlife9982]

GM Maurice is a great teacher!

[@andrew_owens7680]

I'm playing chess for about half a century and I'm sure I never saw this game. I'm finding that some variations of the Scandinavian evolve into Reti.

[@piloco4232]

Hahaha just found out abt u yesterday, ur amazing g

[@andrewstallard4127]

What a great video, subbed

[@Jaeno311]

The Yoda voice had me dead!!!

[@ethansiebel2689]

excellent video Maurice!

[@csspeedbump]

Amazing lecture! Love the way you do it

[@meditationstation3916]

Best chess commentator hands down!

[@ssekyewajulius5769]

as a person who has nver played chess but interested can i learn the game

[@jamesguimary1252]

Nice,,,explanation 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@casahilchoudhary]

Please make more

[@ravishingrookrude]

Gangsta Chess

[@realplusimaginary244]

Awesome 👏

[@mahmoudkchaou1799]

The coolest chess teacher

[@keepitsimple693]

Im just here for the subscription gif :D

[@KironKabir]

yes

[@khann2159]

I can't believe you are 55 years old dude

[@Mich2kDrums]

Pshhh I went like the first 12 years of my life without losing a game!

[@shantoreywilkins651]

🕵‍♀️🕵‍♂️🕵

[@rkd3654]

Treacherous

[@bzoned9808]

i think you should. studies has shown if the you lose your hair in the centre, your market value amongst girls falls....

[@noduh629]

Cringe

[@Surya1945Official]

Its not cringe his behaviour is like that he made good video telling informations