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How to play chess properly, a guide for beginners. This guide is designed to teach you chess basics, chess openings, endgames, tactics, and strategy.
0:00 INTRO
1:01 CHESS BOARD
2:22 HOW THE PIECES MOVE
7:25 ATTACK, DEFEND, VISION
10:40 CHECK & CHECKMATE
13:51 OPENINGS
21:47 TACTICS BASICS
24:27 ENDGAMES
28:25 STUDY PLAN
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welcome to the world of chess my name is levi
rosman i'm an international master from new york city hence the name gotham and in this video
i want to give you all the tools you'll need to learn chess and navigate it as a beginner i'm
covering five major concepts that i've picked out they're right here we'll talk about the board
and the setup and obviously all of the pieces how they move and how many points they're worth
then we'll talk about their interactions that means what pieces have wh
at vision attacking
capturing creating threats and defending them that will flow into number three which is checks
and checkmate that's talking specifically about the king because checkmate is the goal of the game
in the fourth category i will show you some basic opening ideas how to start a game with white and
with black certain traps to avoid falling into the middle game will be tactics and strategy
the two major branches and talk a little bit about end games as well what are the most
im
portant end games for beginners to know and last but not least we'll just talk a
little bit about a study plan all right sounds good let's go first things first a
chessboard is an 8x8 square which has files which are the a file the b file the c file and so
on and ranks the first rank the second rank etc boards with coordinates as you see here have a1
b1 and so on white starts on one and two and if you don't have those coordinates the bottom
right hand corner should be a light square okay ea
ch side has eight pawns they go on
the second and seventh rank respectively then the back rank of pieces you can put the
rooks or the castle-like structures in the corners followed by the knights or the horses however you
want to call them the bishops go next the ones with the pointed hats and in the middle you've got
the royalty the king and the queen the easiest way to remember how to put the king in the queen is
that the white queen likes to uh have a white dress with white shoes she lik
es to stand on the
same color square the black queen likes a black dress with black shoes so the black queen will
stand under the dark square and the light screen a light queen white queen will stand on a light
square the kings will obviously stand adjacent now kings you can also remember are on the e file and
the queens are on the d file that's one more way to remember it now this is a lot of pieces so
what i'm gonna do when i'm teaching you about peace movements is i'm gonna cut back a lo
t
now hopefully all of the games that you play look like this well you will be playing with the
white pieces hopefully in this position you're up 35 points of material let's start with the pawns
pawns are worth one point they only move forward they do not move backwards on their first move
pawns can go up two in one go like this however after that they can only move forward one
square if a pawn makes it all the way to the end of the board you can promote it to a queen a
rook a bishop or a
knight even if you already have the two you know the two knights for example
that you start with you can have a third one one thing about pawns the way they capture is not
forward it's diagonally one square so for example in this position the white pawn would oh sorry
wrong arrow the white pawn would capture the black pawn like this that would be the capture of
a pawn okay um now there's one other bonus rule of pawns that i'll include here just for the sake
of including it it will confuse y
ou and you might be tempted to leave this video but that rule is
called on passant there is this special rule i did not invent it so please don't hate me which looks
something like a software glitch and it goes like this if an enemy pawn moves two squares okay two
squares and stands side by side with your pawn you can take that pawn via something called on
poissant in passing only on this move if you wait one turn you can't do it and it looks like
this you say levy i'm only like five minute
s into this video you're already confusing me i don't
feel safe i listen it's just my rule it's just my job to report the rules okay that's the only
special rule about pawns okay all good terrific now let's move to knights and bishops together
because those are called the minor pieces and they're worth three points okay bishops are
very simple they can go forward and backward diagonally on their own color so a
light squared bishop that's how it moves a dark square bishop in this case would
go all
the way down here if it could but it can go to any of these squares you can go one square three
squares whatever nice knights are the most unique they move in little l's so that would mean up two
over one okay or up one over two so what does that look like well that looks like this one two turn
or one two turn or one two turn or one two turn knights can also go backwards and the cool thing
about knights is they can jump over other pieces so this knight doesn't have to ask permission
it can just directly move to this square with no issues now of course you can't take your
own pieces so don't try to do that but it could go two and one now obviously knights are a little bit
slower right it would take a very different amount of time for these two pieces to get to the other
side of the board uh they're each worth three rooks and queens are actually quite simple no more
fancy l's rooks go up down left right and they're worth five points in any direction that they want
so li
ke this like this like this sorry not in any direction that they want i should say however
much distance that they want to cover queens are like a rook and a bishop combined queens are
worth nine points and they can go all the way here here here here here all the way this way and this
way whatever one of those squares that that queen chooses to go to it can go to it is super powered
you want to keep the queen it's your most powerful attacking piece but it shouldn't do damage early
you will
be fighting against the fully loaded position last but not least we have the kings
kings are like queens except they're kind of not at all uh they can go in any direction that
they want but only one square so queen can go as much as it wants a king can only move one one more
bonus rule for you which is castling okay i said i might confuse you a little bit uh castling
is a is a move in chess is when you move two pieces at the same time it's your king and your
rook okay and what that looks li
ke is let's say in this kind of a position so it's white's move
the king will go two and the rook will hop right over next to the king you can obviously only do
that when the king and rook can see each other and one more thing about that you can only play
the move castles as long as you haven't moved the king or the rook that you're trying to use for
castling you'll learn later in the opening section why castling is important it's an important move
because it gets the king out of the middle
hiding it in a little vacation home on the side for now
don't be confused if you're confused it's okay all things will be explained later let's
talk a little bit about how the pieces interact on the chessboard the way i want you
to think about this okay is vision of a piece what does that mean well let's start with the
queen this queen sees all the way down here but it's all empty squares the board is split into
emptiness empty squares and physical pieces a piece that is there that is that
we can see it
okay so first things first the queen sees the pawn who else is the pawn for black not for white but
for black you look around the rook sees the pawn so taking this pawn would be a terrible move
because the rook would respond with a capture that's a capture of a pawn that's what that's
called taking upon capturing a pawn the rook would take back we lose nine points in that trade
that's how i want you to think about it we get one one for nine is not a good trade what else can
we see our bishop can see this night who else this bishop sees this knight the bishops don't
see each other because the knight is in the way so if white in this position play the move
bishop takes knight and bishop takes bishop that's a fair trade that's three
for three that's not a bad deal okay that's how i want you to think about it when
you're first starting out three for three that's fine that's more than okay now what does this
bishop see bonus question uh-oh uh oh losing five would n
ot be good unless we got more than that in
return or close like four four points now our rook here defends that that's what that's called
that's called defense same way that rook is protecting that pawn or defending that pawn
we're defending but that's not a fair trade so in this position let's move this rook here
for example on this square look who we see oh and the queen cannot come down and
take us that's a very important thing because the rook is protecting the rook
right now here how
about this what if let's say black plays a move queen f6 the queen
sees the knight is it attacking the knight no it's not because we're protecting it that would
not be a good decision for black to take and one more thing let's say in this position black plays
this move can we capture that bishop that bishop is trying to win our queen and many beginners
go oh god oh oh god oh my queen's in danger but hold on a second can't we just take is that
protected by anything no that's how i want you t
o start thinking about the game as you play it
is anything protecting that am i attacking it the point value system okay because this queen is
not attacking this pawn because it's protected but if no one was protecting that pawn then it would
be hopefully that kind of begins to cultivate the thought process of how pieces interact in a chess
game one thing hidden in all this is the fact that white can play a move queen c4 and that hits the
king that's called a check this next part will cover
just checks and checkmate so we'll move
ahead to this position here it's white to move white has a million ways to attack this
king a check is an attack on the king it threatens to capture the king and chess there
is no capturing of the king the king has to escape danger so for example let's say the white queen
goes here check well the king would slide out of danger otherwise we would take the king and so on
but what if we put the queen here that's a check the king anywhere it moves remain
s in check which
means that we have put the enemy king in a check that is unavoidable nothing that black
can do that is check mate and we would win the game checkmate happens at the beginning
of the game sometimes sometimes all the way at the end okay sometimes in the middle but
checkmate will ultimately decide the game one little more i've got to include a little bonus
here this position is a little bit different let's say it's black's move here black's move not
white's move it's white's
move we give a check but if it's black's move can black move legally no
because black cannot put the king in danger that's not allowed you can't give up your your king but
is black in check is the queen threatening the king right now to take it no because the queen
doesn't actually see the king it just doesn't there the queen does not see the king this is
called stalemate stalemate is when one side has no legal moves but is not in check the king is not
in danger that is a draw not a win for
one side but a draw a tie you say levy that's stupid what
if i'm up 37 000 points of material i accidentally stalemate tough luck it's a draw we're working
on it it's december 1st 2 2020. if the rules change in the future i'll make an update
video but as far as it goes this is still it i'm very sorry now as i said checkmate
can happen at the beginning of the game right so the fastest checkmate known to
well chess is called the two move checkmate and essentially it's it's it's this i mean i
'm
just going to show it to you so you know it but on the second move black can play
queen here if white starts out with pawn to f3 and pawn to g4 and now you're in
check and check is unavoidable you don't always have to move your king when you are in check okay
you can also block the check if it's possible you can also capture whatever is attacking
your king but in this particular case you can't now i promised you that we would look at openings
and we're going to do that now how do you st
art the game of chess here you are you're sitting
there you studied this video all right levy let's do something let's go in the beginning of
the game you want to take control of the center of the board this area for advanced
beginners maybe a little rectangle best way to do that is to put pawns in the
center so that might mean something like e4 or d4 both are okay all right now just for
instructive purposes i'm going to do nothing with black i'm going to move the knight back and
forth to
give us the most perfect setup possible if you can put a second pawn in the center you
should do that without it getting captured if you can do it make sure you can do it okay i'm
gonna continue to do these things over here next come the knights again to the center of the
board better because from there they control more squares knights on the side they don't really
do that okay no i'm still doing my thing over here two nights that's usually the best way
to go if you can the bishops will go
next all right and one thing that you have to remember
bishop can go to c4 or to d3 or even to e2 as long as you're getting out the bishop you want
to give everybody a turn in the opening before you start repeating moves you don't want to move the
same piece four or five times that's not how chess works you don't need to reinvent the wheel at
the beginning of a chess game because we already kind of know how to do that i'm these are the
secrets so again black is just doing goofy stuff and i
'll show you obviously a legitimate game
after this now i'll put the second bishop just don't want the bishop to feel left
out remember that castling rule get the king out of the center of
the board two squares with the king and the rook will jump right over and be adjacent
okay i want you to remember to do this if you try to do it at home on a computer you can just
kind of drag this over here and it will happen or on a tablet or a mobile phone but uh over
the board you have to know how to
do this then you can bring the queen up and connect the rooks
that's kind of called the golden moves of chess now here's the problem uh if you have a strong
opponent and they just do the same thing which is probably what will happen you can't quite just go
put two pawns in the center because they will take oops and it's not a good idea to bring your queen
out very early because the queen can be attacked right black just has way too much going on both
sides have too many pieces to bring in
your most powerful piece your most powerful piece will get
taken everything in the position is protected very well so if they play e5 you can delay this move
for now you don't have to always go two squares you can still get the night out attacking this
pawn let's say they go knight c6 this is very classical they defend now bishop to c4 or
the second night the second night bishop to c4 would be another way castling night out on
out and so on the difficult thing about openings is that when yo
u're first learning you're very
tentative you're thinking about your own moves all right i got to get all these pieces to their
right squares i better not lose any of the pieces and also beginners do all sorts of wild stuff in
the opening they don't always follow the rules you know uh i will teach you the four move
checkmate momentarily but beginners do crazy things in the opening so if your opponent is out
here doing things like bringing the queen out you're like wait can't i just take tha
t yes
of course you can a free queen is very good even if it's not free queen is good take a
queen if you can in the beginning of the game be vigilant you're already in battle it's not just
about positioning in the beginning of the game your pieces are coming out and they're fighting
for squares as much as they are also targeting the opponent's pieces so as soon as move one already
be vigilant what can you capture what's a fair trade what's a free piece what's hanging material
and so on th
ere's certain openings that you can look up the biggest difference between openings
in chess are openings that are called theoretical and openings that are called setups setup openings
for example like the london system with the white pieces you play d4 i don't know why this is here
you play d4 and then you play the bishop out and you kind of play the same way every time d4 and
bishop f4 the london system is something that you can do the same every game basically every game
unless black lik
e does something totally crazy uh and loses a bunch of pieces early on with
with the king's pawn you can't really because when you play the king's pawn here there is
a lot of different ways that black can play i mean i know it doesn't seem like it if you're just
starting out but black can play the french defense black can play king spawn black and played
the sicilian defense shout out to beth harmon kara khan defense so you have to know what to
do a little bit about everyone and you add you
r knowledge incrementally but one thing i'll flip
this to black is uh this the early queen attacks and in particular something called the scholars
mate if you're not careful with the black pieces you will immediately misunderstand what this
move is all about white wants to play bishop c4 and checkmate you that would look something like
this the ship c4 queen h5 why does this work this is the only square near the king which is
only protected by the king yes only protected by the king which m
eans if white is able to land
the queen on f7 or f2 if you're playing with black and the queen is protected by the bishop it's
mate you lose four moves done game is over so how do you avoid this happening every beginner has
fallen for this at some point something on f7 okay how do you avoid this happening well let's say
you play you know play e4 e5 and they play queen h5 first things first this is not an attack here
it is an attack on this pawn though so don't go g6 because they will take t
hey will take and that
will be a double attack of your king and your rook very common trap what i recommend if you play pawn
e5 is to always develop your queen's knight next whatever white plays unless of course white offers
you a pawn capture in the center of the board that's why you put the pawn there is to capture so
bring out the queen's knight that defends the pawn and if they go to mate you make sure they can't
take this defend it with the queen for example with the queen for example
now you can block
because your knight protects your central pawn okay there's a lot of ways to not fall into
this so fast uh at the same time if they you know bring out their bishop on the second
move uh then you can also play knight f6 now the queen cannot go here because your
knight covers that little tricks to avoid losing very quickly otherwise the standard
game of chess might look something like this this is what a lot of beginner games look like
and this will flow into something call
ed the middle game which is the ocean in which chess
players try to swim but it's not so simple to do the middle game is split into
two things strategic play and tactical play beginners games are decided
95 of the time with tactics i will give you a very simple example of what a tactic is a
tactic is a forcing move or sequence of them that guarantees gain of material so look at
the position that you have in front of you how do we get this knight with the king that
would be a three-step pro
cess one two three that's a bit more strategic in nature in positions
with many more pieces on the board strategic plans take two or three moves often times it means
re-rounding a piece to the other side of the board to make it more active gaining very
good control of a square tactics are immediate they are the most forcing moves in the game they
make they make your opponent react so for example here there's something called a double attack
or a fork the queen can go here attacking the king
and the knight that will guarantee that
you win the night guaranteed because the king has to move and then we would take the
knight there's one other way to do this and that would be here because that's all
the same that's how powerful the queen is another kind of pin sorry another kind of tactic
i should say is a pin and a pin means a diagonal or a vertical or horizontal attack on a piece that
can't move it just can't move this knight cannot move because we would win the king and we canno
t
capture a king look it literally won't let me move this is a pin on the knight to the king this can
also happen in reverse there is some debate as the skewer x-ray pin but the concept is all the
same and by the way if it was black's move in this position black can fork or double attack the queen
and the king themselves tactics are so important you should do as many of them as possible there
are workbooks my favorite one is 1001 chess exercises for beginners they did not sponsor
this vide
o i just recommended that book that book goes chapter by chapter every single
kind of tactic deflection pin you know discovered attack there's a lot of different tactics a
lot of different ways to solve these tactics um that's what you should do chess is so much
about pattern recognition and puzzle solving because you don't need to reinvent the wheel when
you play the game of chess uh for end games you know i i as we move to end games end games are uh
a series of positions toward the end ob
viously of chess games which you should know how to win so
for example king and one pawn versus king endgames that's something that without any knowledge you
would not be able to figure out yourself that's something that you can pick up and learn there's a
book a hundred end games you must know for example it's a great book um but more importantly for
beginners is how to checkmate for example with a queen and a king versus king like that is
something you should be able to do like that or a
ladder checkmate a ladder checkmate is even
easier so when you have a queen and another queen or a queen and a rook for example or two rooks
and that's useful for positions like this like let's say you get a position like this in a game
with queen and pawn you go wait remember that rule i can go make a second queen it's much easier to
win with two queens versus a king and a latter checkmate uh would uh would look for example like
like this let's say uh we promote a second queen just you kno
w you do a drill on ladder
checkmate it's when you use both of your pieces to cut the enemy king laterally and walk it
to the other side of the board so for example that might look something like this
queen b5 cuts the king laterally and now your your queens alternate
which row they're going to control or rank right there you go that's something that
you just pick up as a beginner you go practice some ladder checkmates you go practice
how to checkmate with king and queen i will give you ki
nd of the the two minute
rundown i don't know if it will be useful for you on please disappear thank you the easiest
way to checkmate with just the queen is to put the queen in what's called knight
opposition what does that mean that means if this piece was a knight it would be attacking
the king now you copy everything black does if black moves one square to the left you move
one square to the left if black moves one square diagonally backwards you go the same way and
you get this king to
one of the final rows if the king gets locked on one of those
final rows you make sure the king cannot escape so like i said one square this
way one square this way this way this way this way this way oh the king's on the
back row now it's time to bring our king so for example here here here here here here the
king will prevent the enemy king from escaping the king cannot put itself in danger obviously
with our king there because we would capture it so for example now we deliver either thi
s
checkmate or the checkmate i like to call in your face this is a check and the king is
protecting the queen otherwise if our king was back here the king can just take the
king can capture things for free of course but in this case the king would be defending the
queen so that's the use of end games as a beginner you learn how to checkmate for example with just
a queen you learn how to checkmate with just the rook there's all sorts of resources on the
internet for things like that but the
point of this video is to point you in the right direction
you need to learn basic checkmates and ultimately just how to win a position where you have
like a huge lead okay hugely in in material trade the pieces down get it to an end game get a
ladder checkmate checkmate somebody with a queen i told you that at the end of all this i would
recommend what i think uh is the best and kind of most reliable study plan i get asked this question
all the time especially now with so many more chess
fans around the world because of the queen's
gambit it was december 1st like i said 2020 so whenever you're watching in the future if you've
made it this far in the video you want to know how do you get better at chess there's a ton of
books there's a ton of resources a few days after recording this i will have a beginner's course
it will be linked in the comments um you want to learn a few openings with white and with black
you want to be confident in how you start the game personally i do
n't recommend playing computers
or bots i recommend going to play people online or how you know over the board i recommend
longer games 10 minute games 15 minute games i recommend playing just a few games a day
and then analyzing and when you analyze with a computer it won't always be so easy to understand
and frankly there's no clear advice i can give on how to understand certain engine recommendations
the because it doesn't speak to you frankly when you look at a game with an engine you
need to look for your one move mistakes you need to like oh i blundered that piece that's
what i did i just literally left the piece hanging okay how did my opening go did i fall for a trap
try not to fall for the same mistake two times have your end games down and start slowly
adding a little bit of information to your end games learn how to checkmate with a rook
okay learn a king and pawn end game for example keep adding information there and for the puzzle
solving quality over quantity d
o 10 puzzles in one day spend as much time on them as you need
get them all correct when you solve puzzles you should look to solve them with
the process of checks captures attacks those are the most forcing moves in
chess moves that they have to respond to i have videos on puzzle solving so if you ever
want to watch videos on puzzle solving and how to improve at that that there's content out out there
for you as well but that's how you get better so you want to do 10 puzzles get 10 correct
don't do
30 puzzles and only get 10 correct go for 100 that way you understand the pattern kind of immerse
yourself in it and that's how you would improve many people who start the game as adults gain
hundreds of rating points on chess.com or wherever they play just playing like that i don't really
have much else to add i think i've given you just about enough we're 30 minutes into this video
this is already a lot of information to intake if any of you have questions start conversations
i
n the comments i'm sure people would be more than happy to jump in and answer about books
training regimens and so on and so forth that's basically it welcome once again to
chess and if there's any other content that you'd like to see on my channel besides
the playlist that i have on these subjects let me know like i said in the comments
below enjoy welcome to the 64 squares
Comments
Thank you sensei, but I will not give up from beating the AI I will save humanity
en passant was described to me as such: the pawn in it's first move is a superhero, and it's got a cape. when it leaps forward its cape waves behind it. your pawn jumps on the cape, choking out the pawn, and capturing it. if you wait a turn, the cape falls to the ground, and can no longer be stepped on for this move. I was in 4th grade when i was taught this and the concept never seemed odd with that description.
I have played chess casually for years but never developed any sort of strategy, I also never went looking until now haha. I thought this video was extremely informative and was exactly what I was looking for. It was just complex and challenging enough where I had to actually pay attention, but not too complex that I felt overwhelmed. Obviously I am still a beginner, but at least now I can hold my own and not look like a total fool haha. Thank you very much for the video!
For the people who are confused about en passant. I read somewhere that the rules originally did not allowed for pawns to move 2 squares on their first move. The ability for them to do that was given to speed up a bit the game. However it caused an issue when a pawn could "dodge" the attack by moving 2 squares and would skip the attack of the other pawn. So the en passant rule was made to make things more fair
Thanks Gotham, I first watched this video sometime in March of 2021 as a 800 rated player, it’s been almost 2 years, I’m now 1900 blitz and just got third place at a inter-school tournament.
My adhd brain loves chess. I fell in love the second I was taught. It’s not chance, luck or pure randomness. It’s strategic and purposeful. I struggle with anticipating moves and knowing what they can do because I just started learning but blocking the opponent is so fun for me. Your video is great and you’re awesome at explaining things!
I have been a beginner for 30 yrs. I am professional beginner. Beginner Master. Expert in finding win for my opponent
I'm playing chess these days with my nephews and I enjoy it, thanks for your video, it helped me.
I’m so glad you added a Spanish dub for this. I don’t speak Spanish, but I find it so much easier to internalize chess concepts when they’re explained to me in a sultry Latino voice ❤
I could listen to you teach all day. Thanks for the info! I recently got back into playing chess and needed a refresher. Much appreciated for the info 🙌🏾
the issue, I'm having is that the complexity makes me feel incompetent, I know its a lot of strategy, learning, and planning, but it is VERY overwhelming to beginners
En passant Stalemate 11:46 Fastest checkmate 13:01 Traps to not fall for 19:05 Attack 2 pieces at the same time 22:48
Me who has played chess for a long time: Yeah I'll learn how the pieces move again
Nice tutorial. I’m teaching my SO how to play. She plays other strategy games, so I thought this would give her a start. I’m a nominal player for over 40 years so I’m still learning new stuff all the time. I was in chess club in my teens so I’d like to revisit it now I’m retired. Thank you for this video!
I've been playing chess since I was a kid, going to lessons, some tournaments etc. Then I quit for about 10-15 years. Then COVID and Queen's Gambit came out and I got back into it. After having played a match here and there, and not really getting anywhere, I started following your video's & strategies and really "learning" to think in chess. I just got to 1004 rating in 10 minute games!! Up from around 580. Insane, I'm so happy! Thank you so much!
i LOVE the way he explained every basic that you needed to play chess
Thanks to you I actually played my first chess game at the age of 23 !! I always felt inadequate when someone tried to teach me How to play but I wouldn't get the hang of it.. thank you sirrr🥰
I just got my very first chess board tonight, although I’ve been playing for a couple years now, it felt great to revisit the basics of chess. Thank you❤
There definitely was an explosion in chess players during quarantine because of the queens gambit
I played Chess for 5 years and I can’t believe I’m still a beginner. I’ve learned a lot of helpful things. This Tutorial has changed my tactics! Thank you so much.