A chess opening or simply an opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory; the other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many opening sequences have standard names such as the "Sicilian Defense". The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants, and there are many others with varying degrees of common usage. Opening moves that are considered standard are referred to as "book moves", or simply "book". When a game begins to deviate from known opening theory, the players are said to be "out of book". In some openings, "book" lines have been worked out for over 30 moves, as in the classical King's Indian Defense and in the Najdorf variation of the Sicilian Defense. Professional chess players spend years studying openings, and continue doing so throughout their careers, as opening theory continues to evolve. Players at the club level also study openings but the importance of the opening phase is smaller there since games are rarely decided in the opening. The study of openings can become unbalanced if it is to the exclusion of tactical training and middlegame and endgame strategy. A new sequence of moves in the opening is referred to as a theoretical novelty. When kept secret until used in a competitive game, it is often known as a prepared variation, a powerful weapon in top-class competition. (Wikipedia).
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3 | 2 Blitz Chess (1500 rating)
In this stream, I am playing 3 | 2 Blitz Chess, hoping to climb my blitz rating higher. I am excited to talk about opening theory, tactics and endgame ideas. I am not a pro, I am simply having fun tracking my journey to a higher rating. Feel free to comment in the chat to critique my tacti
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Great Chess Opening for a Beginner!
Thanks to all of you who support me on Patreon. You da real mvps! $1 per month helps!! :) https://www.patreon.com/patrickjmt !! This video discusses some of the opening moves of the Colle - Koltanowski variation along with a complete game with some analysis.
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Rapid Chess - 1500 rating - 4 matches
Match 1: 0:00 Match 2: 17:33 Match 3: 35:45 Match 4: 50:55 In this video, I narrate my thoughts through 4 matches, covering my tactics against various openings/defenses. Some of the openings explored in this video are the Englund Gambit, French Defense, Van't Kruijs opening. I am making t
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How to Play Chess | Must-Know Tactical Patterns in Chess | The Great Courses
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Blitz Chess - Climbing through the 1400s - 3 Matches (3 Wins - 0 Losses)
In this video, I narrate my thought through 3 blitz style chess matches. I am an intermediate/advanced player so these videos are not meant to be educational. I am merely tracking my fun journey to a higher rating in chess, and putting out these videos for entertainment. Match 1 - 0:00 -
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Trivia Questions (General Knowledge) No. 3
Are you a chess grandmaster? A whiz at Norse mythology? If so, you're on your way to acing this general knowledge quiz. Answers included.
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Karjakin vs Anand , St Louis Blitz 2018
A blitz game between Karjakin and Anand at the St. Louis blitz event, 2018
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As a math professor, I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to learn math effectively. Recently I've been picking up the game of Chess, and those effective study habits from math are also great for learning chess, and vice versa. In this video I walk through and compare my study tips
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Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess (Paper Explained)
#ai #chess #alphazero Chess is a very old game and both its rules and theory have evolved over thousands of years in the collective effort of millions of humans. Therefore, it is almost impossible to predict the effect of even minor changes to the game rules, because this collective proce
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This video explains AlphaZero! AlphaZero makes slight modifications to AlphaGo Zero and generalizes the game from Go to Chess and Shogi as well. AlphaZero outplays Chess algorithms that uses a more exhaustive Alpha-Beta search engine compared to MCTS and uses handcrafted features from expe
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5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel: The Terminator Gambit
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Checkmate: How Computer Chess Changed The World
Not long ago, the idea of a computer beating a human at chess was the stuff of science fiction. But some of the most creative programmers of the 1980s and 90s were determined to make it a reality. And they did. In two matches that riveted the world, Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer, took o
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Learn Chess with Me Livestream
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Chess Livestream : Challenge Me Live
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Deepmind AlphaZero - Mastering Games Without Human Knowledge
2017 NIPS Keynote by DeepMind's David Silver. Dr. David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and is lead researcher on AlphaGo. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1997 with the Addison-Wesley award. Recorded: December 6th, 2017
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Chess Livestream : Challenge Me Live
I'm on Twitch now every Tuesday at Noon Starting November 30th at Noon EST. You can follow me here for free https://www.twitch.tv/derekbanas I started at 400 ELO a month ago and I'm learning more each week. I'll accept any challenge playing Blitz Chess. My name on CHESS.COM is ImBananas
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breaking into the 1500s blitz chess
0:00-4:55 - Match 1 - King's Gambit 4:55-7:06 - Match 2 - Nimzo-Indian Defense 7:06-13:07 - Match 3 - Four Knights Game (Noa Gambit) In this video, I narrate my thoughts through 3 blitz chess games as I break into the 1500s. I am having fun tracking my journey to a higher rating. If you
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Go to Zero - DeepMind: The Podcast (S1, Ep2)
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