Want To Reach 2000 ELO? You Must Know These 10 Tactical Patterns!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

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[@farouqbaiti4315]

Can you tell us how to counter those Chess Tactics?😅

[@RynnielsAcappella]

Can you tell us how to prepare for a chess tournament?

[@joeroberts6362]

please please please make this a series!! This is so helpful

[@rickstermandude]

For me, it’s difficult to understand the controversy over flagging. If you choose to play with short time-controls, it seems obvious that time is going to be a major factor, and, if you play slower than your opponent, you’re likely to lose. I lose most of my games when I play blitz, often because I’m slow. I figure the onus is on me to play faster.

[@salmacis2761]

The solution is to stop play blitz and play actual chess

[@MartinZanichelli]

Blitz is just for fun or to test openings. The real chess is classical on the board. Not less than 90 minutes per match.

[@elasmojones]

ain't nobody got time for that

[@ryanhass8716]

To the two commenters mentioning real chess, this makes it sound like classical is the only legitimate way to play. I'm not trying to stir the pot or anything, just wondering why that is or if I'm not understanding.

[@salmacis2761]

@@ryanhass8716 because chess is a game of deep meditation and calculation, it's been played for century or even millennia without even a time limit. Playing only blitz make it a dopamine kick not so different from all source of entertaining you consume everyday, also if you play only blitz there's no way you actually develop an actual understanding of game dynamics and position, you are just memorizing patterns through trial and error like a monkey would

[@JackMeyer09]

You've been there for me on my good days and bad ones. Thanks so much for your content, and for being awesome.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters 00:00 Recognizing chess tactical patterns easily in your games 00:25 Top 10 chess tactical patterns you must know to reach 2000 ELO 00:49 Pattern-1 (Example-1) 01:11 Pattern-1 (Example-2) 02:15 Pattern-2 (Example-1) 02:35 Pattern-2 (Example-2) 04:21 Pattern-3 (Example-1) 04:48 Pattern-3 (Example-2) 05:26 Pattern-4 (Example-1) 06:02 Pattern-4 (Example-2) 06:21 Pattern-5 (Example-1) 06:43 Pattern-5 (Example-2) 07:28 Pattern-6 (Example-1) 08:17 Pattern-6 (Example-2) 08:59 Pattern-7 (Example-1) 09:59 Pattern-7 (Example-2) 10:47 Puzzle of the day 11:10 Pattern-8 (Example-1) 11:43 Pattern-8 (Example-2) 12:02 Pattern-9 (Example-1) 13:03 Pattern-9 (Example-2) 13:43 Pattern-10 (I'm ashamed of this)

[@farouqbaiti4315]

The Puzzle of the day.🧩☀️ 1. ... d5 2. cxd5 Qc1 3. (Rxc1 Rxc1+ 4. Rd1 Rxd1#) Rd1 Qxa3.

[@alien3200]

You're the best teacher 😤

[@alien3200]

Can you make a video on most important checkmate patterns?

[@allthingsequal347]

Can you make how to beat Catalan

[@ItsRedLoaf]

Bro is making everyone a chess player of 2000elo

[@madsasz]

not really

[@makvick2842]

I know right😂

[@DAstrA84]

I was 1100, now I am 900

[@carlihrjlkjh9011]

@@DAstrA84 lol

[@inkscaper_za]

And I'm just tryna get to 1000😭

[@cuber16119]

11:07 The alternative is Qc1

[@gerrycraft1963]

but there is Nc4

[@jeremypalma892]

I think then you can sac the rook Rxc4, white Qxc4, black Qxd2

[@lilacwine7998]

Isnt there like Qb4 too? I dont see how this is better to Qa5 right away

[@erenjaegerbomb8653]

​@@lilacwine7998 do you mean Qb6? Only black can't go Qb4. Qb6 doesn't achieve anything though

[@jstb6102]

Your videos are a gold mine. Why don't you make a video, or even a mini-series, about 'priyomes' (приём)? It is true that they are mainly typical patterns and/or maneuvers, like the sacrifice of Gioacchino Greco in this video, but a well-wrapped explanation of, say, 100 priyomes would make your channel viral among chess players, I think. Thank you for your excellent work.

[@gloworms]

I’m sure ill never forget any of these

[@Robin-Dabank696]

11:01 the move is Qc1 im pretty sure: Qc1, Rxc1, Rxc1+, Rd1, Rxd1#

[@LeandroPaulodaSilva-o4q]

what if white plays Qb4? defending the knight and the rook

[@gerrycraft1963]

also nc4

[@leandrokkj8326]

​​@@gerrycraft1963 Nc4 is wrong, black plays Rxc4

[@sourasishdutta4126]

How about he ignores it

[@alfrefogra9285]

I love you so much Igor...I've improved fast due to your videos... thank you sir💕

[@ytmndman]

May I suggest a video on how to get out of positions where you have much less space and your pieces are being squeezed to death by your opponent?

[@viktor4840]

14:50 if there is inkrement, flagging is ok, because both sides can make mini moves until they have some more seconds to plan a good move.

[@ChaminduMethmal-gw7ri]

Hi Igor, I'm a 2300 rated player on lichess.But I have stucked in that rating. I just don't know about what are the things other players(who are higher rated than me) know and I don't. Can you please make a video about it?

[@tomasz9429]

Chess used to be the slow, metodical contemplation between two gentlemen. Now we have rapid, blitz, bullet, where time is the 17th piece. And in chess you win by mastering all the pieces. Therefore flagging might be ethically ambiguous, but is just part of the game by now. If you want to avoid flagging play slow chess. And if somebody tries to flag you in a 90 minute game, kick them in the balls.

[@marshmallow___bars___7578]

Good day coach! Can you do a Rook vs Queen endgame? It's really a challenging endgame. What should we do to win easily? Thank you

[@kalelpi314]

In regards to flagging: my view is you have two parameters to win. Mate your opponent or beat them in the amount of time you are permitted. Both are success paths. So if your opponent doesn’t finish the job and you stall a little, all is fair in love and war.

[@Eirenarch]

Also there is nothing more satisfying than mating your opponent at the last moment when they are flagging you because you came up with a short sequence of checkmating moves

[@Yourmomshousemyrules]

​Checkmating someone when they have over a minute and you have under 5 seconds is indeed extremely satisfying!

[@playandteach]

Hi. I play with one main friend. We both don't like remembering openings. Is it common for casual players to start from a set up several moves in? Possibly from famous games. Is there an easily available place to find collections of 'starting positions '

[@Yourmomshousemyrules]

Look up the tournament they just did. Magnus and Hikaru participated. I think it was the Casablanca tournament. They started from previous world championship positions. They were given 3 options and they had to agree on a starting position.

[@pauls5745]

I like to see patterns I recognize how to go forward, since once a condition exists, you know you have the way to get in, pry open, etc and you don't have to exactly calculate. This saves a lot of time in blitz.

[@moniqueheubel8970]

I just love that laugh with the stalemate giving such levity to the stalemate!

[@gaminggurujitech7401]

Recently I completed 1000 elo❤🎉

[@clashwithsmoke8711]

Keep going mate 💪

[@gaminggurujitech7401]

@@clashwithsmoke8711 thanku mate❤

[@anujpj]

I would just like to take out time to thank you IGOR for your amazing efforts you put into making such interesting and informative videos constantly over so many years. You have been my fav teacher over so many years, and i love your shorts for some cool tactics.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

I appreciate that!

[@asansfakeaccound5466]

4:30 omg my favourite opening for black!!!

[@matthewmurphy7243]

Can you do a video on mate patters to look for?

[@the_easy_lp2075]

very helpful

[@shaihanghani2711]

Mr Igor, can you provide us with some materials (video lessons/full courses) for young kids who are just outright beginners (aging from 5 to 7 years) to learn chess and chess tactics in a fun way? Well, it's hard to teach chess to young and beginners' learners as they may easily lose interest if something doesn't seem interesting enough.

[@StigPrice]

11:03. Sac the rook take the pawn? Then sac the queen for the backrank checkmate?

[@ThangPVan_]

the sacrifice named "Greek gift" is beautiful in terms of its name as well as its pattern

[@ThorstensComment]

Flagging is part of the game. If you spend more time to get a better position, you have to prove, that you can convert in the remaining time.

[@nikolasioakimidis3003]

Flagging is fine, you are rewarded for thinking and playing fast with "extra time"

[@wonderwind2716]

Qc1 Nc4 R*c4 followed by Q*d2. Anytime white takes queen, R*c1#

[@andrewdant2780]

After Qc1 Nc4 the knight defends d2, so after this line white would play N*d2 right? You need to play R*c4 Q*c4 first.

[@wonderwind2716]

@@andrewdant2780 That's exactly what I originally wrote. Because white have 2 captures (Q*c4 or b*c4), I omitted them.

[@lilacwine7998]

Just Qb5 tho. You defend everything

[@santiagoloccioni8685]

⁠​⁠@@lilacwine7998 If Qb5, black can take the pawn with Nd5, white must to sacrifice the rook and black is winning

[@santiagoloccioni8685]

(Qb4 sorry...😂)

[@eclecticexplorer7828]

I seem to be a bit off my game today, as I didn't find the solution to the problem without resorting to the engine. I was looking at Bb8, creating a battery against h2, which is currently protected by the queen. I thought of sacrificing the knight with Ng5, adding pressure to h2, and if Qxg5, then Qh2#. The only problem was that white doesn't have to take the knight. He has two turns to come up with something to block the threat, and g3 is all it takes, so that tactic doesn't work. As for flagging, well, there are rules, and whatever time constraint is agreed upon becomes part of the rules. If we are to consider flagging to be unethical, then we are essentially saying that we don't think that rule should apply in all situations. I have never done this in a game myself or had it happen to me. (I did run out of time once, but only because there was a distraction that took me away from the board for too long.) I wouldn't think ill of my opponent for using all the rules at his disposal to avoid a loss. Since the subject of pre-moves came up, there is one other tactic that might be mentioned. If you know your opponent is going to pre-move a specific move in a given position, you might opt for an unexpected move that takes advantage of the anticipated pre-move. You might see, for example, that your opponent is going to develop a piece to a certain square that is currently undefended. Perhaps, playing as black, you are expecting white to make the move Qa4. You can give him time to make the pre-move, then play b5, which might otherwise be a horrible move in the position, but with the queen coming to a4, it results in white blundering his queen through the pre-move. I saw one of the KZbinrs (I think it might have been Gotham) fall to such a tactic. Lesson: be careful about pre-moves when they are not necessary!

[@prawnydagrate]

7:22 - I once calculated a queen sacrifice followed by perpetual check just like this in a tournament game, but that was only one of the possible lines, and I lost that game

[@Kinoshnik-Bubu]

Люблю ваш контент, вы хороший учитель)👍

[@peterowojuyigbe8866]

Too smooth sheesh

[@張謙-n3l]

For the pin, an important thing to notice is that if the pinned piece of a relative pin can move to create a bigger threat, it can often turn into a discovered attack I don't understand the ethical debate about flagging. If you spent more time before, you deserve to face more harsh time pressure when trying to delivering the final blow

[@Robin-Dabank696]

Haven't reached the part of the video about flagging yet but I think it's perfectly fair, measuring the time spent on moving is part of the game and so is time pressure

[@EwaifeoluwaAdemuyiwa]

any advice on how to punish the wayward queen opening.

[@TheMelnTeam]

Getting flagged is a blunder same as hanging a piece. Both players know the rules going in. Time is a resource. Spending it on calculations to get a winning position is part of the game. So is losing via spending too much.

[@sourasishdutta4126]

I am a 550 rated player I sometimes play like 1100 or 1300 but can't make it fixed what should I do to hold onto that elo level ? Have you some advice sir ?

[@feniteencantatum1225]

16:11 what’s wrong w/ Qxd5+?

[@nishanthj4812]

Thanks a lot

[@ayushmaanpal4262]

Sir can you please make a video on Common positional ideas

[@Nihil_B]

Ty Igor

[@Truffle_Pup]

Flagging is a part of the modern game, like it or loath it, it is a skill in itself.

[@wblue74]

What is the point of resigning in blitz? Try to swindle, or win on time.

[@TarekYahia-v2j]

Thanks too much ❤

[@Acts2-38]

I first Saul at 11:03 that you could sacrifice the bishop and once The Rook takes the bishop the queen delivers check and forks the night and The Rook there by taking either piece for free I did not find the queen sacrifice leading to mate

[@ClydeCarsonpowermoves]

When the opponent flags you it's totally unethical but when you flag it's totally fine. SO TRUE 😭

[@KhorneBrzrkr]

@12:38 but if black DOES take with the queen they avoid the whole mating sequence.

[@youbli]

06:42 For a draw a position doesn't need to repeat three times. According to FIDE rules, a draw can be demanded after *two* repetitions.

[@Naskari_]

Doesn't that mean you have to repeat the position 2 times so it's total three times?

[@youbli]

@@Naskari_ You described it correctly. You need two repetitions, not three.

[@seamusomuineachain]

​@youbli You need two play two repetitions, then before you are about to play the third, you get the arbiter, show them the "third" repetition you are about to make, show them your scoresheet, and then claim a draw. If you physically play the third repetition, it's too late to claim a draw. However, the third repition must be playable in order to claim a draw.

[@youbli]

@@seamusomuineachain Simply take a look at the FIDE rules: "9.2 The game is drawn, upon a correct claim by a player having the move, when the same position for at least the third time (not necessarily by a repetition of moves):" *The* *third* *time*. That is, the second repetition. You don't need three repetitions for a draw.

[@seamusomuineachain]

@youbli yes the rules you copy pasted here confirm my point. It's not called a "two-fold" repetition. Once the repetition happens twice, you call the arbiter and show them *BEFORE* the position will repeat times. Have you ever claimed a draw by 3 fold repetition in a FIDE rated event?

[@kdivyansh300]

Literally someone did this exact thing to me yesterday 2:12 😭

[@McBumbleFlump]

queen c1, rook x queen, rook x rook check, rook b1, rook x rook CM

[@gregoryharris4838]

Thank you so much GM Smirnov ! I really enjoy your content ...I recommend you to my friends . I love your explanations - very clear - Ask your Cat if he's willing to put in an appearance !☕☕Gregory.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad you like them!

[@frankbeerbaum5593]

Qc1!! If Rxc1 Rxc1# in the next move after Rd1 Rxd1#, if Rdd1 Qxa3 and dxe6 is impossible because dxe6 Rxd1 Rxd1 Rc1+ and Black wins a Rook for 1 pawn. If Qc1!! Nc2 QxRd2

[@BacNguyen-cm2lp]

good

[@glev4187]

The hardest part of chess is seeing all of that for your opponent.

[@kdawghomie]

Should be titled "Want To Reach 1000 ELO?" Def nowhere near advanced enough for 2000.

[@BeamRider100]

11:09 sac Qc1

[@Wryyyyyyyyy21]

Yesterday, i flagged my opponent in drawish position, although i got material advantage but he has plbetyer position which is difficult for me to win. So i sacrificed the Rookkk and win on time

[@Crismsonleaf]

11:01

[@fahadlaskar2464]

How to play with high accuracy ?

[@muditsrivastava5381]

RD5

[@Lordridam14]

Can you make a guide to learn opening for 2200 plus players

[@adityakoul9214]

11:05 I think Qc1 is the winning idea

[@JkJaks]

yep u win a knight

[@Osiris261]

white Qb 4? think you are right but what happens after Qb4?

[@adityakoul9214]

@@Osiris261 after Qb4 we can attack it with the night then with the pawn to remove it from the defence

[@lezty]

a5 is winning a night anyway? So what's the point. you cant even understand why White didn't move the night when he was given the chance

[@lezty]

@@adityakoul9214 then you win a rook for a night instead of a free night..

[@carlihrjlkjh9011]

I miss your cat! Is (s)he OK? It was like your mascot, making your videos seem more warm & homey. What's its name, again? Great video, as always!

[@carlihrjlkjh9011]

Igor old me a long time ago: "His name is Argun. P.S. If he's not present in some videos, it means he's playing in a tournament." 🤣😂🤣😂

[@davidbatchelder85]

flagging is part of the game, so it is a tool that should be used

[@brunosanguigni6478]

can you play some games live?It will be fun! Some years ago you played a very short match on anonymous lichess in the video "5 lessons I learned in 25 years of chess" or some similar title. Gg

[@farouqbaiti4315]

The 10 Chess Tactics are the most common/important ever.😎

[@stephenrandoll9461]

On pins, doesn't Ba3 win?

[@alien3200]

12:47 why didn't the king go to g6

[@Anime_great496]

QC1

[@TheHomelander2099]

my fav tactic is flagging lol

[@exodiah9672]

If I win by time when on losing position, it doesn't feel like a win to me

[@tacostuki]

Imagine if everyone watched these videos and tried to counter and use the same strategies against each other

[@samster9370]

how is 2:12 stalemate?

[@tureperman4319]

White controls the hole g file and the bishup controlls h3. Blacks king cant move and his pawns are going up ward

[@gameingprostudio3784]

🎉🎉🎉🎉tnx🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@davidbatchelder85]

Back rank mate, Qc1 Rxc1 Rxc1#

[@leonponce8437]

Flagging is part of the agreed-upon rules.

[@badnamebro]

@GMIgorSmirnov. Hey example 3 the fork was a puzzle from a recent video anti-london. I win now I want more video like this and less trash openings like the rus-gambit not going to try and spell it or play it ever again too many lines for 1600 lichess rapid. Lichess for free chess

[@TheLazyAnimator943]

11:08 Qc1 because Rxc1 results in Rxc1#

[@realsamuel2377]

rd1 block the queen, so you win the knight on a3

[@schutte-r8r]

If you take every trade based on overbought and oversold alone, you're gonna blow up your account in no time.

[@kingndahura]

Queen to c1

[@swarajgamer877]

My rating in rapid 2393

[@snipingduck7655]

Bro teached me how to get back to 600 elo

[@mitaganguli3686]

Shut up noob😂

[@magicalmanya1963]

qc1

[@focusmode6378]

i ithink its queen c1

[@lukasvandewiel860]

I dislike these fast games where flagging becomes relevant, particularly these 1 minute bullet games are useless. 10 minutes each is a bare minimum for me. Otherwise chess changes from a game of strategy into a game of dexterity. You get pieces flying everywhere, places half off their squares, arms waving about racing for the clock, and complete pandemonium. But even in a slow game, the end can become a race, if time is not managed properly.

[@Yamuna-b9c]

Did he say 3200 players for the first one 😅

[@BobB-zy6vi]

300 positions/ games

[@EmmaTheHurdler]

Rey enigma

[@ThomasNogaro]

qc8 forks rn; if ...rc8? rc8#. if ...rd8? qa6.

[@kayasper6081]

In chess there exist only three flavours: To win To loose To draw There are no emotional based judgements here, just follow the rules.

[@abj136]

As a 2000 player, I knew these.

[@talesofthespiritwarriorand1106]

That danya hikaru game was a draw because of timeout vs insufficient material

[@thebig12conference73]

Recently I crossed 1500 I have a problem with this. This is promoting memorized chess, which is a problem. You see people making rapid quick movements it is easy to spot.

[@davidhead7725]

Flagging on purpose shows poor sportsmanship. Winning is nice but with honor. Take pleasure in the game even if you loose shake hands laugh and go.

[@jigsawharlequin862]

Do you feel the same way about forcing draws?

[@KipIngram]

I think flagging is underhanded and crumby. Devoid of honor. That won't matter to most people these days, though; the last few decades or so it seems like honor has mostly vanished from the world and all that matters to people is winning. But I think flagging would be a poor way to behave. After all, it's only a game. Are you really going to feel good about it, knowing the other guy outplayed you?