I'm watching chessbrah's building habits series and at this point he says knight c6 is not possible. Why not? It appears to be the best move.

Fair. I personally don't discount hanging pieces as not tactical. I follow the Tartakower maxim of "Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do."

As this position has two hanging black minor pieces and a wide open king in the centre while white has a rook hanging it is absolutely screaming for tactics.

At the <600 does the scaffolding method work any better than memorizing the first 8 moves of the Italian game? It would have solved at least one of Black's problems.

Is this a position from game from two <1000 players? If so, why would it be an example for a novice player? That would be like learning to drive by watching "America's Worst Driver" instead of getting actual lessons.

There are hundreds of games played every week at the titled/expert/ A class level that are principled and likely pretty easy to divine the thinking especially if a GM is explaining.

I don't know this series but personally I find a lot of content producers like Gotham are entertaining but are probably less useful for most players at any level.

Time might be better spent following Daniel King, Nigle Davies or Andrew Martin.

At the end of the day though, chess is just work.

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