Fischer's Rule Will Prevent 50% of Your Chess Mistakes

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I’ve studied chess casually on and off for years, I’ve read beginner books, watched hundreds of videos and played thousands of games, and whenever people discuss how to analyze a position, I’ve NEVER heard anyone just simply say “notice the pieces on your half of the board and neutralize them”. I mean sure you notice where pieces are, but most of us low-intermediates when we see a position, we count material, count attackers and defenders of everything, look for checks, forks, skewers, look to pin something, etc. If none of this jumps out, it’s like ok what now? Increase piece activity? Pawn break?? This idea of neutralizing opponents pieces in your territory “should” be assumed, but it isn’t, so thanks for pointing it out. Failure to address this has caused me a lot of losses as I neglect the first piece into my territory and it snowballs into brutal tactics and mate threats.

If this prevents 50 percent of my mistakes, I'll just watch it 2 times 😎

I had to pause the video "A smart man knows how to get out of trouble, A wise man doesn't get in to trouble" Igor... YOU ARE THE BEST !!!

Solution to the puzzle: 1.Rxg7+ Kxg7 2.Ne6+ wins the queen with a fork 1.Rxg7+ Kh8 2.Rxh7+ Nxh7 3.Qxh7# 1.Rxg7+ Kh8 2.Rxh7+ Kg8 3.Qg6#

The rule is: 2:27 If opponents piece is in your half of the board, try to get it out of there. It can be done by trading pieces or pushing the opponents piece back into his half

This advice is pure gold. About the last puzzle, I would say Rxg7+ If king takes the rook, you fork with the Knight and take the black queen. If it doesn't take, he gets mated in a few moves. Crazy stuff.

i like how crystal clear your lessons are. A friend of mine, who is a much more capable player than me, recommended your lessons - and guess what, they seem to be equally valueable for many players of different levels. Please keep up that amazing work.

This is the kind of Grandmaster advice that most Grandmaster keep a secret. Thank you it makes analyzing high level games more understandable. I've always noticed that even the best chess players don't really calculate better until the end game when there are fewer pieces but they somehow manage to get the advantage early on in a game. This is one way how. Amazing. I'm my own games I've noticed that the piece in my territory while not a threat initially the opponent will sooner or later find a way to hang you with it. It's limited my chess rankings to a max of 1650 at my best because I never even thought of the idea of neutralizing a threat. I'm more of a bring down the hammer kind of a player. Problem of course if I don't handle that threat then the opponents hammer might be faster than mine.

This seems like such a simple concept that I've not seen presented in any of the other chess training/studying I've done so far. It's been really helpful, thanks!

What I love about Igor's excellent method of teaching is that he involves you and makes you pause and really think. Otherwise I've just found myself passively following along with many other teachers— and learning VERY little.

The problem is that long range pieces don’t need to be in your half of the board to be a threat. That’s what really catches many players.

Remember the corollary of this idea: dont trade off your active pieces! When you can, develop your pieces into the opponents territory as far as you safely can! (Igor did another video on this concept). Love the stuff, Igor, best Chess teacher on YT 👍

► Chapters 00:00 Chess rule to prevent blunders and improve your performance 00:09 Example-1 00:57 Example-2 01:42 Most common chess mistakes/blunders [Prevent them] 02:26 Bobby Fischer's Golden Chess Rule 03:26 Example-3: Donald Byrne vs Bobby Fischer 04:44 Example-4: Bobby Fischer vs Laszlo Barczay 07:39 Puzzle of the day

I love and admire the amount of effort you put into simplifying all your rules of engagement as much as I love your actual rules. 👍👌

One more very nice lesson, Igor! Thank you very much!

Puzzle solution: Rxg7+ If Kh8, then Rxh7+ leads to a checkmate after Nxh7 and Queen takes Knight If Kxg7, then Ne6+ forks the King and Queen

Hi Igor...love all your lessons and would be great to meet you one day. You are an absolute inspiration😊

I think the answer to the puzzle is 1.Rxg7+,Kxg7 2.Ne6+ and you grab the queen on the next move

Very instructive and easy to understand!-Thanks!