Hans Niemann does it right!

The essentials of chess strategy: piece trades

[@sanekabc]

Great content. I hesitate to leave a comment or give it a thumbs up because I don't want other players to find your channel. Only exclusive knowledge is power. :)

[@thecasualcitizen492]

True however, THUMBS UP!

[@nigelsouthworth5577]

Thumbs up and shared :)@@thecasualcitizen492

[@ConsumerkingUk]

I felt the same about Gotham Chess a few years back...and now look. Without wishing to be unduly analytical, the thing Krush and Rozman have in common is they are crystal clear - probably a Brooklyn thing; as it's so densely populated, you have to be clear to get your point across (according to certain linguistics). The problem most chess content creators have is they are inarticulate.

[@AlexBanzea]

Not only the cool hair, but Irina is also very good at explaining!

[@ruthxk7844]

You dared to say what I was thinking!!

[@johnproton259]

Admit it, you have a Krush on her.

[@rogueethan6476]

Bruh😂

[@Daniel-G-P]

Amazing hair, amazing brain, amazing Irina. ❤

[@arronfowler2338]

Irina has the coolest hair in chess.

[@mcronrn]

Right?? 😊👏

[@tenorhighc1]

Good lesson! I’ve allowed a trade without thinking deeper about the position

[@CMWJ]

I really appreciate your videos, especially as a noob chess player. Thank you for taking the time to release clear and concise instruction

[@Steveross2851]

This is quite an excellent presentation. But the way Hans Niemann avoided a knight trade and then outmaneuvered his Grandmaster opponent in game fragment number 2 was well above the pay grade of most 2000 - 2199 players such as Irina Krush's student game fragment 1. Most 1799 - rated players tend to trade too much. But players in the 2000 - 2199 range often retreat too much to avoid exchanges, sometimes to their detriment. While I can't disagree with anything said here I think the main reason Hans Niemann won was his outstanding strategic creativity and tactical skill. Niemann made his win against Ivanchuk look much easier than it really was. My main takeaway here is that while most of us will never approach the skill level of Hans Niemann or Irina Krush we can still improve our chess significantly by looking a lot harder for alternatives to routine looking piece trades.

[@davedjl3387]

This made me feel absolutely stupid. Thank you very much, more please.

[@steve5nash]

Still remember Irina giggling in the background while Hans was getting body scanned at Saint Louis Chess Club.

[@mr.finkle4677]

You are my favorite chess channel lately. So smart

[@ruthxk7844]

I love your videos!! So instructive.

[@GeometricStalemate]

Extremely insightful. The way you teach is unparalleled, and one can see lots of thought is invested in the selection of every single concept.

[@_DD2024]

I absolutely love the no hello or hi start and no goodbye or farewell endings to Irina’s videos. Straight to the piont. Lets learn about chess. ♟️ forget the hoopla and buffering. Stern and Stoic . Stay true, stay hard ✊🏼

[@markrussellfilaroski5035]

Great job with this video. Very helpful!

[@gossedejong9248]

crystal clear explanations, thank you!

[@2Oldcoots]

Ms. Krush: I really appreciate your conceptually and factually based advice!!

[@avizmaldesigns3142]

Title correction: "The GOAT does it right!"

[@AlSuChess]

Very helpful video! Thank you for sharing!

[@apt87]

Good to have you back Irina, keep posting!

[@yeti2352]

Super helpful. Thank you.

[@boomshanker61]

Thank you. Very well explained, as usual

[@davidheath5429]

Another very useful and interesting video - thank you!

[@briandwi2504]

Fantastic content. Absolute goldmine of a channel.

[@isaacn4487]

great lesson as always

[@AutisticTK]

This was really well explained, thanks!

[@Ligatmarping]

Nice! you are so clear.

[@turdeaugottago114]

huge hans fan ever since the big magnus snivel

[@chadmacgargle5311]

You look at such interesting games Irina great example! ❤️ Hope to see you play soon

[@steelsteez6118]

Wow, such effortless explanation. I really like how you explain things so clearly. I also like the questions you pose (that you know we likely have) during the lesson and explain those as well. Subbed!

[@jamestgr9090]

Very nice again, congrats. A related to the piece trade topic, and also very interesting and useful might be the transition to the endgame

[@gutter339]

I'm really enjoying your channel Irina. You're a really good teacher and I always learn something from your lessons

[@KingElrosTarMinyatur]

You make things so easy to understand.

[@mariogilligan841]

One again a very instructive video that covers a lot of principles. This will make me go a little step farther in my gaming (I hope 🙂). Always a pleasure to see you explaining things; you look quite brilliant! 😯

[@karamelizesogan]

These videos are eye opening, I really appreciate your teaching and explaining style. Also, you are stunningly beautiful! Lots of love

[@jackwilliams7193]

adventurous hairstyle and another great video!

[@Nemtomi]

Such great technique by Hans.

[@kylezo]

Your hair is so cool and the tasteful backlighting is very effective

[@tlee7653]

Excellent

[@executivelifehacks6747]

The hair is indeed notably awesome, as others have said. wrt the Bc3 move, one of the few things it has going for it is that the black bishop is on white's half of the board. This was something Fischer would be concerned about, and one of the few methods of removing it. However, the only target it threatens is the rook on e1. You can move it forward to e3, but it's going to take some maneuvering to get the other rook connected again, e.g. on the open file, without being placed on e1. The black dark square bishop is also somewhat active, and it would take a lot of knight moves to kick it. That being said, whites bishops are both pointed in the vicinity of the king, so it's nice to retain them. That's the best I can come up with, and over 1000 points of elo separate us so what do I know.

[@aniruddhamersey4139]

Clicked because of Hans, stayed because the insight and quality was great and now im subscribed!

[@FredPlanatia]

same here, well, and because i expected something good from Irina Krush. Pleasantly surprised at her crystal clear and succinct teaching skill!

[@villegas9098]

Irina, you are an excellent chess teacher. And also a very good player. I enjoyed playing over a brilliant game you won against IM Julián Estrada Nieto.

[@kirkmason7079]

I studied the first position and decided move the rook to e3 or e5 was the best choice. But not because of why Bc3 was wrong. Your 3 point explanation on the position after the exchange made it easily understandable. I have to see the positions better. Good lesson. Look forward to the next one.

[@saudude2174]

In case you ever consider lowering the difficulty or the depth of your chess topics, please know that the internet is in dire thirst of chess videos that tackle more advanced concepts and help players around 2k elo improve. I don't know any other GMs who give such lessons for free on youtube. They all do lazy absolute beginner stuff and get popular because the majority of the internet chess community is at entry level. They don't care about players who are already passionate about the game. You do and I appreciate that greatly.

[@ivankosintsev1434]

Welcome to Odessa! It's boring without you.

[@CharlesWolfeSkate]

I really like the channel

[@Babba107]

❤❤❤❤nice good luck

[@patrickstammer3049]

Thx for your videos. I (2000 lichess level) had never a teacher but did teach kids... The first example it was clear to me, that a trade on c3 would be bad for white. I didn't think at all about the pieces that I would stay with, because of the space advantage, but that my black Bishop is much stronger because it is on a better square, on the best diagonal than the black that only stops me, temporairly, to putt a rook on e1... I did consider also rook e2, so the knight jump gets no tempo... Greetings from Normandy where your lessons are watched with pleasure

[@andreapartemio]

How do you reach 2000? I have big problema with 1100 😂😩

[@cftpafan]

@@andreapartemio Always think about why your opponent is making a move! At that level it's really just about eliminating blunders, so that way of thinking as well as doing a lot of tactics will get you pretty far.

[@andreapartemio]

@@cftpafan Ok thank you..i think i' m quite decent at tactics, i hit almost 2600 on chess problems, but in the game i blunder a lot lot lot 😆

[@TheFutureIsThePast77]

Nice Way The Explanations Krush The Competition.

[@TrueBlueAndrew]

Irina is such a great teacher.

Hi ! Thanks for you analysis. And you are in my 2020 novel, because I use Kasparov vs World in my fiction ,-)

[@mcronrn]

I forget about rook lifts 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kevinwellwrought2024]

Can you continue your chess calculation videos?

[@RicardGomes76]

Irina and Jerry from Chessnetwork are the besta!

[@lourensnvanderheijden8853]

Thanks for the great tip, next time the automatic is turn off🙏💪

[@snow-js4te]

Really nice shirt

[@mcronrn]

Irina and Hans? I’m here for it! (Ild be here anyway, but… 🤣👏)

[@ConsumerkingUk]

I am an intermediate player and trade WAY too often, chop, chop, chop, hope, hope. It's often anxiety, which causes the trades the opponent can't hurt me if they have fewer pieces. I've learned, slowly, this isn't chess.

[@paolocalogero6126]

Ciao, in your first example, how would white meet Knight G4? Maybe allowing trading the rook for r the night, so that the f files too would open?

[@onenewworldmonkey]

Been rooting for you after subscribing perhaps a year ago. Then you went radio silent for awhile. Then seemed a new dedication to the channel (as you mentioned earlier). Your views are up and down. I've really enjoyed it when your level of player analyses a popular game that just happened. Ben Finegold taught me that. I watch agadmator every day (sometimes twice) and like it but when a GM does it there is more to it. If Hikaru would chill I would probably like him more. I need the remote in my hand to keep pausing. BTW Finegold showed one of your games the other day. Actually a loss, lol, when you were in time trouble and missed a tactic. Anyhow, I wonder if mentioning Niemann in this video made viewer think you were going to analyze a popular game that just happened as I have selfishly hoped you would do? You are a great teacher so analyzing a recent good game would give you an opportunity to teach and you wouldn't need to think of a subject as you currently do. You would find a subject to point out in the analysis. Look how many views Gotham gets (after subtracting for click bait). One last thing. In this video the first game of your good student, there is a term in business called an "opportunity cost" which was what I want to call what happened to the bishop. I'm rooting for you.

[@brasileirosim5961]

Thanks, great video! In the first game I thought that Re3 is not good as it runs into …Ng4. Is this a problem? I don’t know what I am missing here.

[@Greg-lg3cp]

Seems like you have a Krush on Hans

[@michaelwang1063]

My guess is that white wasn't sure where to put the rook and so just played a bit lazy. Reason 1. the bishop on b2 provides attacking chances. Reason 2. the bishop on b4 after the rook moves has almost nothing to target. Moving the rook would exploit black a lot in this way, which is why Rd1 and possibly Re3 are fine moves

[@glarris1]

Love everyone hyping Han’s these days. Dude is on a heater.

[@TheNaughtyKnights]

hahahaha 😂

[@jaybingham3711]

On the first game, I was hoping some comments would address the exceptional outpost black's dsB enjoys and ideas about how to go about playing around its control of e1. I presume the lifted R coordinating with the clear lines of the Bs ought to offer sufficient opportunities upon which e1 becomes irrelevant. That said, the explanation about why it was a bad trade makes total sense. 👍

[@GeometricStalemate]

You can always go for the long maneuver Rf1-c1-c2-e2 to avoid that bishop 🤪

[@sambarbasa1643]

Captain Katherine Janeway of Chess ♟️♟️♟️ nice hair.

[@Amarjeet1791]

chess aside you are so very beautiful and elegant, and the beautiful hair, love you and your talking and explaining style

[@newAntigon789]

at 4:10 Re3 what do you do after ...Ng4? The rook has to move again or what is the follow-up here? For me this is an obvious beginner question I would have liked seen refuted.

[@irina_krush]

Great question, forgot to address that. You definitely have to see ...Ng4 before you go Re3. But then just Re2 and you will play h3 to kick the knight back.

[@newAntigon789]

@@irina_krush Thanks! My train of thought would be to play Re2 then, so ...Ng4 does not come with tempo, which would give black time for a move like ...f5 (most probably not good here, but a pattern one should see before Re3).

[@christinemurray1444]

I bet he does 😜

[@C_HossamMohamed]

Irina ❤

[@TheSimple1z]

Since finding you a bit ago , a week, I go to your channel for your style.. Just wow! Your students are super fortunate!!🙌😛 As am I..🙏 Maybe a wrong platform but I'm gonna shoot anyway.. Autographed photos? I of course will pay all costs ahead of time..✔️ we have Eastside Oly Youth chessclub going and need for our wall...🥰 Thank you ahead of time.. So much.. an address and I'll send a self addressed stamped envelope...

[@jurejure9076]

Your hair is so cool and whacky @:-)

[@strongerthanlogic8710]

wow.. that bc3 is an automatic reply to non master player.

[@JellyMonster1]

In the first game, after Re3 why can't black play Ng4 to harass the rook that's just moved? I'm low rated (1250).

[@DrZygote214]

Hey Krush is there any way you can convince Dubov to come back and give us a recap of the WCC tiebreaks? I really liked his recap vids, watched all 14 of them, and was really looking forward to his take on it. I know it sucks that his man Nepo lost, but Dubov is a really strong GM and was really hoping to hear his analysis.

[@imeprezime1285]

Irina Crush ❤

[@spectralanalysis]

Not that relevant, but is it just me, or does Irina kind of look like Bobby Fischer

[@readmycomment101]

looks like everybody in the chess world is milking off from Hans Niemann, his name... ... jezz... just look at these video titles..

[@FredPlanatia]

forget the past and look at his games!

[@ReflectionOcean]

- Recognize the strategic importance of piece trades (0:11) - Consider all your options, like moving or trading, when under attack (1:02) - Avoid trading pieces when you have a space advantage (1:56) - Consider the potential of your opponent's bad pieces before trading (2:30) - Be aware of how your pawn structure can affect the strength of your remaining pieces post-trade (3:14) - Realize that avoiding a trade can preserve attacking potential (4:57) - Understand that not every trade is neutral - some benefit one side more (7:11) - Retreat and preserve a piece if it has more potential than the opponent's (8:42) - In endgames, evaluate the strength of remaining pieces including the king (10:48)

[@janjacdr1]

For someone dealing with cheating accusations lately, Hans is someone who is incredibly strong, yet plays the most humane moves you would imagine. I am 100% certain he NEVER cheated in OTB chess and I admire him not just for the chess he plays, but also the way he handled the whole situation. Mentality Monster, heading straight to the TOP!

[@kleefan8]

Great video, Irina! It's a difficult topic and one you don't hear about enough. And Hans plays such interesting chess!