How To Play Chess: The Ultimate Beginner Guide

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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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500 Comments

  1. Let me stop reading the comments and listen to my friend ❤😮😂😂😂

  2. my dad gifted me a expensive glass chess set for my birthday, my birthday was 5 months ago and my dad found the unused chess set and because i felt bad i need to learn how to play

  3. I'll come back here when I finish Queen's Gambit

    Assuming I get hooked

  4. I want to play chess so that’s how I want to watch this and also ill sub and like
    Np gothamchess

  5. There np problem bye I am gonna watch it sya

  6. Loved your video. I learnt chess from you -and thank you everyone time I win a game 🙂

  7. i've challenges a friend to a game of chess, now i'll have to make sure i win ^^

  8. thanks for sharing this …. Chess is maybe the greatest strategy game that Human Beings have ever invented. Always Interesting.

  9. ahh yes now i can beat the ai on my phone

  10. Code geass Fr got me watching chess vids

  11. Great video!! I enjoyed every minute of it!!!!

  12. Always good to get new people in to chess. Thanks again for the great video Gotham!

  13. I have seen sets with clear and green pieces as a variant; as you could expect, clear moves first.

  14. Can anyone suggest some best books & games app for learning chess? I would happy of your kind suggestions 😊😊

  15. I’ve started playing chess when I was seven but I haven’t played in a while. I also have this crush on a guy and I found out that he plays chess. This inspired me to learn a bit more so maybe one day we could play a game together 🙂

  16. He was like “right?! (You got this)” and I’m like hahah no

  17. "Levy, you're already confusing me. I don't feel safe." HAHAHA lol💀

  18. 13:14 i don't understand how this works, surely the pawn at h2 could move to h4 and take the queen?

  19. Started today and I'm hooked… I never thought I would fall in love with chess.. And man it is fascinating.

  20. Great stuff! I’ve been playing on a coaching app for a few weeks and this video helped add The next layer of understanding. There is so much info in here, but it down to something that I can understand. Thanks for the effort in putting this together!

  21. Think u for teaching us how to play yall game…Black man & check mate is coming soon my guy!!!!!!!!!!!! Trust that

  22. My dad taught me to play chess when I was a young boy 3rd/4th grade, after about the 4th time I beat him, and he didn't want to play anymore, same with playing pool.

  23. I've been watching your videos in an attempt to become a better player. My kids love chess (7 and 9), and I've been wanting to improve to teach them. How do you go about identifying what a person might be trying to accomplish mid to late game? Certain games I study it is very apparent to me and others it's not.

  24. Excellent beginners video. I learned something. I learned how damn stupid I am. Thank you. I do believe this was the first time have heard, "welcome to the 64 squares".

  25. Thank you so much for teaching me how to play chess Mr GothamChess.

  26. Started listening to tate, now I'm here

  27. I'm so determined to win this game at least once in my life

  28. As a person who's very casual – I feel like knights, vs other casuals, are almost as scary in the B and G areas as the center because they threaten bishops/rooks/pawns that aren't properly defended/covered. Does that evaporate once you've played with focus for more than a few games?

  29. Really learned a lot. You make it seem so easy. Thanks. Enjoyed the way you teach!

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