Power of Rook Pawns in the Middlegame

[@tenderloins_]

Nobody else on youtube talks about concepts such as this. You've made playing the middlegame for me so much easier with this playlist. You deserve alot more views. Keep up the excellent work!

[@kablooie-vv5hf]

I love these middle game videos...I've watched all of them and my rating went from 1250 to over 1700 in just a few months

[@6five]

kablooie 1999 lichess or chess.com?

[@kablooie-vv5hf]

Chess.com

[@raunaksemwal9211]

What's you elo now ?

[@pranavkondapalli9306]

same gone from 900 to 1530 in a couple of months as well thanks to stjephan :)

[@davidwhitecross1021]

Omg thank you so much for this video i always do this but dont know how to finish attacks. Your a legend Stjepan.

[@pococzytasztennickczytajko238]

I'd like to add that pushing h pawn is often a good defensive maneuver, preventing g4 is closed sicilian, or in Caro-Kan, and also saving f5 square for a knight.

[@KeepChessSimple]

What books do you get these concepts from?

[@michaelmolenaar1460]

Hey Stjepan, your chess videos are my favourite content on KZbin. Thanks so much for your contributions to the chess community. Keep up the amazing work!

[@viswanathd2099]

Simply awesome. Keep the good work going.

[@Mananj_Gcc]

Thank you very much for your middle game videos. Really instructive, fun to watch and learn.

[@loopular1]

When in doubt push 'Andy' the A pawn or 'Harry' the H pawn!!

[@philleszczynski1166]

13:45 If black wants to win back the pawn after Qxh4 he can play Nxd5, which in my opinion is stronger than Rh8 but I haven't checked with an engine or anything.

[@dhruvsrikanth460]

Keep up the great content!!

[@Tompsf1]

Very valuable content!

[@amir_learner]

I am very grateful to KZbin algorithm that led me to this channel :-)

[@jeffgreen3376]

I don't often play a4 or h4 (or a5 or h5 as black), but sometimes my opponent's do, so this video is useful for me to learn how to defend against those moves. Thanks, Stjepan.

[@jadalsayegh672]

What is the best response by white to a5 here according to the engine ? Is it caslting also ?

[@patelsunny4620]

This is really a great video.

[@ELOFIDE-sb3qk]

It was a really helpful video Thanks

[@heman3021]

If you write “h or a” together like this “hora” then it becomes “hoe” i Swedish and I think it’s also clock or time in Spanish

[@joaolucasbraga4642]

Yeah it means hour in portuguese. I guess in spanish as well.

[@yarielrobles9003]

Can confirm: it means hour in Spanish

[@jeffgreen3376]

Hora means "hour" in Spanish. You were close.

[@heman3021]

One time I saw my friend training for a Spanish test and one of the words was “hora”. And because “hora” means hoe in Swedish I asked him what it meant but that happens about a year year ago so it was hard to remember the exact words translation of the word.

[@muddledlion9593]

ADVANCING HORA PAWNS

[@ELOFIDE-sb3qk]

I think you should start uploading some of your twitch streams to KZbin

[@diosn6909]

Great video! I think a good idea is to provide links to the games you are reffering to.

[@hunterwashere6242]

hey thats my shirt

[@Spectatorica]

:) :) :)

[@abhinavjain2985]

Didn't like this video as much, but fine. Great job, the other videos were awesome until now

[@osm9431]

Good yaAr i am lern

[@addfistyt6563]

♥️

[@dhruvsrikanth460]

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