Principles of Attacking & Defending | Chess Video Lecture | Learn to Play Chess: From a Novice to a Fierce Competitor - Hobbies

okay guys we're gonna talk about
attacking defense but in the most
rudimentary way possible because this is
really what chess is all about volumes
have been written about attack and
defense but we're gonna deal with this
like I said in the most straightforward
way let's say white does efore maybe the
most common opening move in chess black
goes 'if I've now the most logical and
probably the most expected continuation
is Knight to f3 why because we need to
develop our pieces our bishops and our
Knights immediately so why not develop
the knight that attacks black central
pawn now this could be defended in a few
ways we could go for example Bishop d6
but that's not something that you're
likely to see a strong player do because
you're blocking your Queens pawn and
therefore your Queens Bishop and it's
just creating space problems for no
reason
you could go d6 although you're falling
behind in development there's plenty of
opening systems I'm sure where d6 is
acceptable but be careful not to fall
too far behind and development we could
go Queen to e7 but that's not really
logical because you're blocking your
King's Bishop which needs to be
developed so the most common way to
defend this ePHI pawn and not fall
behind and development would be Knight
to c6 keeping up with white and
development and simply defending your
epon now of course if white were to make
the absurd move of Knight takes pawn
black would go Knight takes Knight and
would be winning the game immediately
but White's not gonna make that terrible
mistake they'll probably develop the
Bishop to c4 for the Italian game or b5
for the Spanish game but maybe Knight to
c3 for the scotch game but that's an
example of how to defend a pawn and how
to use some basic principles in choosing
how to do so another quick example would
be if I start with E for and let's say
black goes d6 it should be the beginning
of the perk defense or perhaps any
number of other defenses
if I go Bishop b5 check a check I don't
personally recommend it could be blocked
in any number of ways we could block
with the Queen that would be a terrible
move losing the Queen for absolutely no
reason and subsequently losing the game
we can block with the bishop which is
pretty good because then if I go Bishop
takes Bishop on giving black the
opportunity to develop their knight or I
could just go c6 and deflect the bishop
which is now retreating and maybe is
gonna get hit again with b5 and will
have to retreat to b3 and so on but the
point is this initial check Bishop to b5
can be blocked in any number of ways it
can be block with the pawn the bishop
the queen which would be awful oh and
the knight which I didn't mention before
Knight to c6 Knight to d7 so there's any
number of ways to defend this position
and a big part of being a chess player
is deciding which is the best way to
defend so I would just recommend c6 make
white retreat as bishop those are the
most basic of the basics when it comes
to attacking and defending