3 Things to Consider If You Get Stuck | Chess Video Lecture | Learn to Play Chess: From a Novice to a Fierce Competitor - Hobbies

hi coach Ross here with chess NYC today
we're going to look at a very 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 a position in
the game of chess where many people ask
the question what do I do I'm stuck I
like to teach that when you're stuck and
you're looking for an idea or a next
move in a game of chess you should look
at the three forceful moves the most
forceful moving the game of chess is
always a check so as you continue the
game of chess and you're getting out of
the opening the first move that we want
to consider are checks how many
different checks or how many ways can we
check our opponents king in this
position let's consider those so in this
position there's a actually one possible
check Bishop can take pawn checking the
king but as you can see in this position
if Bishop takes pawn checking the King
the bishop will simply be captured by
our opponents rook or King so giving
away a bishop for a pawn in most
situations is not a good trade then we
can look at our second type of move
which is captures well in this position
we have several different captures on
the board the knight can capture our
opponent's pawn once again Bishop can
capture opponents pawn it which is a
check which we are looked at and
considered and the third thing is bishop
can take our opponents knight
so we're in a position and we don't know
what to do we can't consider captures
and in this position the only capture
that would make logical sense would be
Bishop takes Knight the third type of
forceful move in a game of chess is a
threat so we looked at first of all
we've looked for checks are there any
checks in this position and are they
plausible or
appropriate good checks second thing we
look for was captures are there any
captures of this position that are
plausible and that makes sense and after
we looked at both those options the
third option we're looking for are there
any possible threats now a threat can be
you're threatening an unprotected piece
you're threatening a piece of higher
value you are threatening to incorporate
a tactical element such as a pin fork a
skewer or an x-ray in this position we
can simply look at night goes to d5 the
threat in this position is night
threatens the knight on f6 and this
knight on epic is pinned by the bishop
so that move is actually going to force
black to come up with additional good
moves and this gives us an idea how to
make our moves in chess so once again
we're stuck and we're in the middle game
we've already controlled the center
we've developed our pieces we've casted
our King what do we do next and I
encourage you guys to look for three
forceful moves first of all look for
checks second look for captures and the
third look for threats once you've
exhausted all of these three options you
should be able to find a good next move
in the game of chess