NEW SERIES: Chess Steps!

ladies and gentlemen it's my pleasure to welcome you to episode 1 of a brand new series here on the Gotham Jazz YouTube channel known as the steps of Chess or chess steps or steps to getting better keyword steps and in this series I'm taking you through the entirety of the rating ladder against my very own

subscribers playing them in five minute and five second bonus games although 10 and 15 minutes is absolutely okay for practice it would just make for an extremely long video uh and in this episode we're going from ratings 200 to 800 so we're going to play seven games uh and we are going to just see the

kinds of mistakes that folks are making uh mating no pun intended making up the rating ladder uh timestamps are on the video player and if you have any feedback do let me know them in the comments below first opponent is Yoga dad who I suppose is a dad who does yoga which is a shocking thing now in every

one of these games we're going to be focusing on certain Concepts and the very first one that I would like to focus on is the very beginning of the game now you should be putting pawns into the center of the board if you have the opportunity early on to play two pawns into the center without having one

of them get captured uh that is what you should be going for if one of them can get captured or is attacked in some way that is going to be an exception and we now have two Pawns in the center now my opponent actually happens to be playing an opening known as the Karo Khan

defense you don't have to know that if you're a 200 but now we have a situation where one of our pawns is actually being targeted now uh as long as you're following basic opening philosophy uh you can continue with development of your Knights before your Bishops that's a general good rule of thumb Bishops