How to Play in the Middlegame - Best Plans, Chess Strategies, Midgame Tips, Moves & Ideas to Win

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8 Best Chess Plans for the Middlegame - Most beginners & intermediate players prepare openings & play it well, but in the middle game, they struggle to find the best moves. In this video, you will learn some important plans, strategies, ideas & concepts to find good moves in the early middlegame. So, if you're ever stuck or can't figure out what to do in the middlegame, you can use these practical plans & strategies to come up with your next few moves. Basically, you will learn how to play in the middlegame & how to develop a plan or strategy in order to master the middlegame. These tactics & ideas will take you to the next level & help you win more games. There's also an interesting chess puzzle at the end of this video, let's see if you can solve that.
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Middlegame Plans:
0:00 Middlegame Planning - Introduction
0:30 Plan #1 - Pawn Storm
1:03 Plan #2 - Positional Sacrifices
1:34 Plan #3 - Create a Battery
2:17 Plan #4 - Rook Lift
2:51 Plan #5 - Smart Exchanges
4:52 Plan #6 - Apply Pressure on your opponent's pieces
5:40 Plan #7 - Reposition your Knights
6:41 Plan #8 - Activate your Bishops
7:29 Chess Puzzle
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Puzzle solution:: bishop e5.. black will try to save the knight on h4..he will place it at f3 or e2 which are passive..then bishop g7...black will move the rook then bishop h8 and Queen g7....a beautiful checkmate...is it the correct move?

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Solution to the puzzle: 1. Bxe6+ if Nxe6 then Qg7 mate If 1... Qxe6 then 2. Rxd4 If 1... Kh8 then 2.hxg7+ Kxg7 3. Be5+

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The solution to the puzzle: First, Rook takes knight on D4. If the Black Queen takes White's rook on H1, then White's king moves to A2, then after Black's move, eg . Black rook takes rook on D4, Queen takes D4 .Else White's rook on D4 takes Black's Rook on D8. Black now can't take White's rook because of the threat of Qxg7#, And white ends up with a clear advantage. Summary : Rxd4. Qxh1+ Ka2. Rxd4 Qxd4. (Threatening Qxg7#)

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Amazing video Sir !! Solution to the puzzle: 1. Rxd4 (our queen and pawn are staring at the g7 square, but so far the knight on d4 has been blocking the attack. Hence, we can sacrifice a rook to eliminate the knight. 1... Qxh1+ (Black's queen can freely take the rook on h1 with check) 2. Ka2 (Running away to safety) 2... Qxh3 (Black can continue taking free material - in this case the white bishop) 3. Rxd8 (White can capture this rook for free as 3... Rxd8 would result in Qxg7# - exploiting the g7 weakness as explained earlier) Black would be forced to defend the g7 square with 3... Nf5 as all other moves would result in a forced checkmate. Even after 3...Nf5, white has a commanding position and moves like 4. Rd7, 4. Qe5 or even trading the rooks with 4. Rxf8+ would all eventually go on to win the game.

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bishop e5 would be a good move and make the plan of putting pressure on opponent knight and g7 pawn

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2:14 strong move is Black pawn e4

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Rook attacks knight on d4 Black rook takes,queen recaptures... then queen attacks pawn on g7.checkmate

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R×d4,R8×d4,Q×d4 then queen has attaching the g7pawn after exchange we can put a lot of pressure on g file or king side

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i have seen your video of London game. and by watching this video i become great in chess. but after some time, i was losing matches just of mine bad middlegame plans. so please give me some better

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Gor the puzzle i think the best moves are pxg7 king has to capture or free rook if he attacks on the pawn us by the rook we defend with the bishop and we have a totally winning position

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We have to move Rook f4 then rook takes then queen takes ultimately creating pressure on g7 pawn.

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Middlegame is something that you can't learn and only get better in it in the process of playing games. Thanks for this wonderful video ♥️

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nope... it can be learned... There are a lot of tactics books that lets you practice these middlegame plans. You can learn this by repetition...

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I dont understand why does he almost always put white on the winning side.

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In both the early and end game there are less possible moves compared to the many lines of a mid game. Just because it is difficult does not mean you cannot learn it. Plans and tactics your best aids. Exploiting weakness and shoring up your own. Probably helps to understand the type of game, or identify key characteristics of it. Is it a mating game, or a slow game, unique position, pawn weaknesses, passed pawn, potential pins, exposed king. Maybe you are up on tempo for a plan or maybe the checkmate is too weak and you need to stop the attack.

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@abhi dude did you get answer for puzzle? I got bishop takes e3 as only move because it collapses black's position and without any good move white would win in 10 moves minimum. If you got some other solution, please explain me dude.

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for the puzzle, my move is take the e3 pawn with queen and preparing to moving the rook hg1 or hf1. if bishop take e3, black Nef5 bishop take d4, knight take d4 and rook he1. if black take d4 with the rook, white can take the knight f5 and prepare to move rook hg1.

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