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I have decided to create an account here on YouTube mainly because I want to help people learn this ancient game. I have studied many things in my life but none as profound as chess (schach-mat), I've learned a lot about life through chess! I have no spectacular talent over-the-board. However, my understanding has good foundations and I am well versed in many aspects of the game. Many people are clouded by their own dogmatism and fail to see the art that binds all things to these sixty-four squares. These people are bound to see only the tedious and insignificant mechanical aspect of chess. I dare say that very few have been so entwined with the game that their psyche affect their game play... one needs not be a world champion to appreciate chess as a form of art, psychology and source of strength. I would therefore be so bold and state that I believe that chess history, chess culture, chess art and chess as a way of life is in the core of understanding the minute nuances of what we call "nature" - that can be detected and revealed through chess as a learning platform. Chess has proven to be a healing tool; it inspires the mind, strengthens the memory, cultivates imagination and helps symptoms such as Parkinson's disease. Chess is a natural antioxidant.
I dare you to Suspend-your-disbelief and try it for your self before you make your final judgment on the matter.


You can find a video here on YouTube by Josh Waitzkin, it is almost an hour long and worth every second! You can find it in my Video-log. in it Josh talks about "the art of learning", chess, martial arts and life. Everything that I have to say you'll find in this video.

This channel is probably not for people who just learned how the pieces move but rather to the novice player. The player who seek for opening repertoire that will get him out of the opening in good shape so he may have a sound platform to express his gained knowledge that he learned from middle-game and end-game books.

~ My plans for this account are:

My first goal is to create a solid repertoire for the novice player and hopefully to impart some wisdom in the process.
The openings I chose for this role are sound by nature. They're usually off-bit openings that stress the use of development, thematic ideas and good end-game.

My second goal is to cover chess history, meaning: players of the past, how modern theory came about, chess culture, classical chess, people and things that influenced chess and so on...

My third goal is to improve my English :-) so feel free to make corrections.

~ From the book "Blackburne's chess games"
Written by P. Anderson Graham

"In chess it is exactly the same as in literature -- talent is always more sure than genius. The most ordinary "wood-shifter" by long study and analysis, can acquire a steady defensive style of wood-shifting, and if patient and fairly intelligent can work up to a high standard of play. One of his sources of strength is that he depends entirely on that, as a Scot would say, "is putten in wi' a spune". Any man of sound, clear common sense could become a chess player of the first rank, provided always that the fire and shadow of passion and fancy did not interfere with steady, cold, calculation brain. But genius is something other, something beyond the first rank, and it is rare in chess as it is in letters. You could count on one hand all who deserve the name. I would go to the Café de la reyence for the first, for philidor is the leader of the moderns. Breslau will give us the next, in point of time at all events; but who shall decide whether Anderssen was greater or less than Paul Morphy? With these the subject of this memoir deserves a place. He, too, has something beyond a talent for the game -- he has genius. And I by no means say that this gift is always a blessing to its possessor. Talent is more under command, is more manageable, and while it is content to labour, genius has a haughty self-reliance that is not always justified. But just as one would never dream of admitting a man's name into the brief list of great writers simply on account of vast sale of books, so the genius of a chess player is demonstrated not by his victories but by the quality of his play. A modern match, indeed, is largely a trail of patience. Each competitor gets up an opening -- a safe and sound one like the Ruy Lopez or the Queen's Gambit -- and day after day toils at its variations. Genius will never shine at that task -- you might as well harness Pegasus to a broomstick."