How to Play Chess

Transcript Hey, my name is Michael Propper, and I’m a co-director and principal of ChessNYC. As a child I didn’t get an opportunity to play chess, and it was a very uninteresting game for me. In the 70s mostly you may or may not know Bobby Fischer, the only World Champion ever in the history …

Transcript Hi, this is Coach Jeremy, I’m here to talk about chess etiquette. Now, there’s different kind of chess environments, I guess you could say, if you’re playing for money in the park, maybe that’s a little different than being in a scholastic chess tournament. If you’re playing online, maybe that’s also a little bit …

Transcript Hello this is David Sullivan from Chess NYC again, today I’d like to talk to you about blitz chess and use of a chess clock. Most serious chess games are timed, and actually that’s a really good thing. I think a lot of people are under the impression that chess is a really slow …

Transcript In chess in the beginning of the game, we want to bring out our army and get it ready to fight, and we also want to make sure that our king is safe. A lot of teachers use, what is called the ten golden moves, or sometimes it’s also know as the bull’s head, …

Transcript Okay guys, I am going to show you some quick variations out of the Italian game also known as the Juego Piano, it’s actually not an opening that’s preferred by grand masters because considered somewhat and the ideas are not as deep as what you would in for example the Queen’s gambit or the …

Transcript Hi, my name is Rebecca Texman. I am on Chess I am gonna talk to you today about the Ruy Lopez. The Ruy Lopez is one of the oldest and most important openings in chess. First of all, this opening is not only just played by beginners this is also played by the top …

Transcript Hi. My name is Rebecca Taxman and I am with Chess NYC. Today, I am going to show you the basics of the Sicilian defense. Now, when people think of the Sicilian, they’re like woo! It’s a huge opening. This is one of the strongest defenses for black. There are probably about over ten …

Transcript Hi this is Coach Jeremy, I’m going to show you Blackburn’s Mating Maneuver as demonstrated by fellow English master H. E. Byrd using his namesake opening Byrd’s Opening. He starts with the F4 pawn. Sort of a suspicious pawn to move, but you can do it if you have the proper follow up moves. …

Transcript Hi. Coach Russ here with Chess NYC and, today, I’m going to talk to you about the ladder mate. The ladder mate can be executed by any pieces that are able to control the ranks or the files and most popular will be two rooks, a rook and a queen, or even two queens. …

Transcript Hi, this is coach again. I am gonna show you a quick game on miniature as we call it, illustrating this smothered mate which is important mate that you are familiar with. If I go d4 in this particular game black goes knight f6 we go c4 and now black uses a game that …

Transcript Hi this is Coach Jeremy again, I’m going to show you Legal’s pseudo-sacrifice which is quite cute if you haven’t seen it before. E4, e5, knight to f3, now the whole point of this is to show what happens, when black fails to develop, and how severe that can be early in the game. …

Transcript Hi. Coach Russ, here, with Chess NYC and we’re going to look at the king and rook checkmate. When looking at this position, it is actually impossible to create a position where the king and the rook checkmate the king in the center of the board. So, that leaves us with four options. In …

Transcript Hi. My name is Rebecca Taxman with Chess NYC and I’m going to show you, today, how to checkmate with the king and queen. First, the king; now sometimes, people are at the end of the game and they’re, like uhh, I’m stuck. How do I checkmate with the king and queen. So, this …

Transcript Hi, coach Russ here with ChessNYC, and today I’m going to be talking to you about the four move checkmate, also known as the scholar’s mate. So the scholar’s mate is a opening, also known as a form of checkmate that is going to focus on your attack on black’s weak F7 square. So …

Transcript Hi this is David Sullivan, for Chess NYC. Some people think chess games are long, slow and boring but they can actually be very quick. Here is an example of a three move game of chess. White starts by moving the center pawn in front of his king, he does that to free, more …

Transcript Hi, Coach Russ here with Chess NYC. A very common question that we receive as chess coaches is what is the quickest way to win a game of chess? Now, everybody’s idea of the game of chess, that’s it’s a very long, strategic, thought out game, but surprisingly enough there is a way to …

Transcript Hi. Coach Russ here with Chess NYC. Today, we’re going to look at a very popular and common question; I’m stuck and what do I do? So after the normal developing moves in the game of chess where we control the center, we develop our pieces, and we castle our king, we get to …

Transcript Hi my name is Rebecca Taxmen and I’m with Chess NYC. I’m going to talk to you today about the three principles to opening strategy. So when we get to the game we’re always like, ‘Uh, what do I do? There’s so many pieces. I don’t know how to start.” Well I’m going to …

Transcript Okay, guys. We’re going to talk about attack and defense, but in the most rudimentary way possible because this is really what chess is all about. Volumes have been written about attack and defense. But, we’re going to deal with this in the most straight forward way. Let’s say white does E4, maybe the …

Transcript Hi, This is coach I am gonna show you a combination that actually may be arguably the greatest player of all time, certainly one of the greatest, who is used. This game although its not an outstanding game, I am sure he is a pawn and it is quite fearful at the fact that …

Transcript Hi, my name is Rebecca Taxman. I’m with Chess NYC, and I’m going to talk to you today about pawn structures. While there are multiple pawn structures that are very important to know, there are five basics that are “need-to-know”. So, let’s start off with the pawn chain. To begin, we have what’s called …

Transcript In chess a combination is a first sequence of moves that begins with a sacrifice. Here is a position for the game played by two students of mine in a class I did last Thursday and it was black’s turn to move. Black has a queen, a rook and a bishop. White has two …

Transcript Hi, my name’s Rebecca Taxman[SP] with Chess NYC. Today I’m gonna talk to you about Zugzwang. Zugzwang is actually a German word, but to boil it down, what is Zugzwang? Zugzwang is when you have to make a move and that move sucks. So, let’s look at this basic end game position. It is …

Transcript Hi, this is David Sullivan for Chess NYC and I’d like to talk about the center and gambits. In chess, we generally try to bring our two pawns to the center of the board to free our pieces and also, if black pieces come out, we can use that center to move forward and …

Transcript Okay, hi, I’m David Sullivan from Chess NYC. Today, I wanna talk about pawns and pawn promotion. At the beginning of a game of chess, we have to bring out our pawns in order to free our pieces, but at the end of the game, we want to promote our pawns so that we …

Transcript Hello, this is David Sullivan for Chess NYC. I wanna talk about handicapping in chess. I teach chess to young people and they often wanna play with their parents or if a parent wants to teach chess to a child they might think that, “Oh, I’m so much better than my kid, how can …

Transcript Hi, this is David Sullivan for Chess NYC. I want to talk about legal and illegal moves. Here we have a very basic position, mating position, each side has a king, 3 pawns, and a rook, and it’s white’s turn to move. White can bring the rook all the way down to the C8 …

Transcript Hi, Coach Tal here with Chess NYC and today I’m gonna talk to you about tempo. Tempo in chess is the measure of time. A tempo move is a move which gains time. Another word for a tempo move is a forcing move or a move that limits your opponents options. Tempo in chess …

Transcript Hi, Coach Tal here with Chess NYC and today, I’m gonna be talking to you about space. Space is basically the amount of squares you have available to your pieces. Take, for example, this typical opening position. If we look here, white has more squares for his pieces and therefore more space. He has …

Transcript Hi. Coach Tal here with Chess NYC. Today I’m going to be talking to you about the center. The center is these four squares on a chessboard, and they are the most important squares on the chessboard. The squares surrounding the center we refer to as the extended center. These are also very important …

Transcript Hi, coach Tall here with NYC and today I am gonna talk to you about calculation. Calculation in chess is the process of I go here and he goes there that we all do in our heads. When calculating one should always consider the most forcing options first this way you can save time …

Transcript Hi, My name is Rebecca Texman with chess and I am gonna show you how quickly use and write down chess notation. So to start we have our white side and our black side. It is important that as a chess player you could, you write down both moves, both white and black. If …

Transcript Hi, my names Rebecca Taxman with Chess NYC, and I’m gonna talk to you about the symbols used in chess during chess notation. It is extremely imperative that we understand chess notation in order to record games. If we hadn’t learned chess notation, we would not be able to look at games such as …

Transcript This is David from Chess NYC, here is the king. The King is a very simple but important piece. He moves 1 square in any direction, however, the king, because he’s the most important piece, always has to stay safe. So let’s say black has a rook here, on H4, the king cannot move …

Transcript This is David Sullivan for Chess NYC with the queen. The queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but she’s not the most important. The queen combines the powers, of the rook and the bishop. A queen can move up, down and sideways just like a rook, but she can also move along …

Transcript Hello this is David Sullivan for Chess NYC. Today we’re gonna talk about the rook. This is a rook. Each, each side in a game of chess begins with rooks in the corners. If you look at a, picture of an old castle in Europe, you’ll see on their corner they have rooks and …

Transcript Hi this is David Sullivan, today we’re going to learn how to use the bishop. Each side begins with two bishops in a game of chess. They stand on either side of the king and queen who are in the middle. You can remember that by thinking that the bishops married the king and …

Transcript This is David Sullivan with the knight and how to use it. This is a white knight. You begin the game with two white knights. A knight moves in an L-shape like from here D4 goes one, two and then one. Notice the letter L, but this L can be backwards, one,two one in …

Transcript Hi, this is David Sullivan for Chess NYC, here are pawns and how to use them. In a game of chess, we begin with each side having a row of 8 pawns. The big pieces start behind the pawns. The pawn are actually one of the hardest pieces to teach, especially for little kids …

Transcript Hi. My name is Rebecca Taxman and I’m with Chess NYC and I’m going to tell you, today, how to set up the chess board and understand the chess board. So to start, there’s a couple things we need to know. First of all, there is 64 squares on a chess board. This might …