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14:00 Instinct was to play Bh1, but it immediately falls flat to Bf1. Then the parachute is Qf3 Qh6 Qxf6 Kxh1 Qf3+ forcing a draw. Instead of Bh1, Leela tells to sacrifice the bishop in a beneficial way with Qf3!! Qh6 Qxf6 Kxg2 Qxd4 Rd2 Qg4+ Kh1 Rc8 Bc1 (only move) now Qf3+ Qxa3 gets into '4 pawns vs bishop' endgame. Thanks for the game! My resolution should be intuition over instinct it seems :)

16:30 In the Double Fianchetto the critical line imo is 6.Nc3 (iso 6.O-O) Bg7 7.d5. What would you suggest?

That’s an instructive example. It was the other way around for me: I was guided by a concrete plan and the difficult part was to justify my plan with intuition (sort of some sanity check). From the very beginning, I noticed that the bishop was a good defending piece. Without it, I thought my second knight would breathe better, my kingside would be more stable, and the queen side pawns would feel less targeted. So I started thinking of ways to exchange the bishop and pile up pressure on the weaknesses. That’s how I instantly came up with the plan of playing Na4, Nc5, Nxe6, Rc3. I didn’t feel intuitive attraction to these moves, maybe only to the idea to exchange the bishop. The challenge was to prove that my initial plan was sound from the very start, which I’m still not sure about by the way. Maybe it’s one of those coincidences where bad reasoning leads to a correct conclusion. Anyway, thanks for the video. Cheers!

Isn't the benoni defence refuted by engines?

Thanks for the great Petrov overview 💚

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for making the content! 👏

In the Torre, maybe it behooves Black to be prepared for a way I recalled Yusupov playing (I see it was against Shirov) -- Bd3 and 0-0. meeting ...e5 with e4.

16:45 is this a winning combination instead a4... Nxg2 Kxg2 Rg5+ wins back the knight on f3 and white's king is exposed to a deadly attack.

Cau you please make a video about the Greece gift !!?

Happy new year!

Hi Colovic. Thnks for the video. Could you to create a Simplified Nimzoindian course for Chessable please. Greetings!

19:15 - London System

Thank you alex for these videos. As a ruy lopezplayer since the 70ties I now wonna change my system from the archangelsk to the cordell ! Why? The plans are clear, grischuk, nakamura, pragg, koneru, etc play the system with success and now i understand some fine differences in the positions because of your very good explains. Thanks to you alex, paul!

Any club player who should focus on "plans-based" openings should absolutely smash the subscribe button !! Thanks a bunch Alex! Insanely good learning material as always!!

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Very smooth game indeed! Those kind of wins feel great

Sorry Mr Colovic. My comment was intended for another video unrelated to your channel. I made a mistake. Your video is very interesting : thank you for sharing your game !

An "ancient" game which stuck in my memory (in a partial way) is Furman-Panno, which was awarded the brilliancy prize at Madrid 1973. In that case White was able to put the bishop on e3. Annotations from back then (by Julio Kaplan) indicated that as better than putting it on b2, where it would be "neutralized" by ...Bf6. It was also claimed that White was clearly better out of the opening due to the three minors per side instead of two as in the Semi-Tarrasch.

Dear grandmaster! A happy new year to you! I play chess since 55 years and was very surprised to see a totally new System against caro kann . I analyzed it also with the engines and must say, its a good new system. I propose the name: "caro kann , closed, colovic system"! Its in some variations sligthly better than the system with 3. Sf3! Gratulation to you, i test it of course, as a lot of your systems proposed in this channel. Thank you! All the best, your Dr. Paul Meyer, Austrian CM

Thank you Alex! Great simple explanations, along with comparisons (which not many instructors do), about the ideas and plans, the whys and why nots. Wish you the best year 2025 can bring.

Hi. I actually bought recently your KID simplified course (after atually poking at the free short and sweet). Would it be possible to include these variations on the complete chessable course? I understand it might not be possible, but considering the London is so popular, a couple variations to counter it would probably be interesting to both existing and new users. Thank you!

3:30 i would play with white e4

Hi and thanks for the video! Nowadays, all players play Bf6 after h6 followed by e4, will you cover this one, pls?

I purchased GM Alex Colovic’s chewable course for the KID, best decision ever to counter the 1.d4, now that I found out he has this video just to counter the London. My New Year is completed! THANK YOU GM COLOVIC

the way you explain it is a Pure Art truly

Hi, are these lines part of existing Chessable courses, upcoming courses or just TH-cam only material?

The problem that you make a draw with the petrof if white want

Thank you very much! I love your videos!

Karpov, the boa constrictor of chess.

Thanks a lot for this system, as a Sicilian player feel much more home in these structures than regular closed london structures. Anyone with experience in hedgehog or even scheveningen would feel at home. Flexibility of playing both in centre as well as minority attack on queenside is refreshing to say the least.

thank you!!

Can you please give an explanation as to why d5 is played when white plays d4 and c4, presumably to stop white playing d5. Be nice to have a fuller explanation though, especially comparing it to the e6 with d6 lines.

Inspiring story and God-level save. Merry Christmas 🎉

Loved your channel and explanation style. a great honor if you go through my content and support my recorded chess training sessions with my students. ❤🎉

Stories like this or hearing about Schlechter's short life make me so glad I am terrible at chess!

From which course is this?

A game that stuck in my memory (maybe I first saw it cited in the ancient green ECO) is Sangla-Karpov, a win against the Torre in 11 moves. But that was with putting the queen rather than the pawn on b6.

Has Colovic made anything against 1.Nf3/1.c4 with a Nf6 + c5 approach? It would go well with this and give me a full repertoire meeting 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 with 1…c5 as I have his Scheveningen Chessable course

I found out about this line many years ago, when I saw the broadcast of the ICC finals in 2016 by GM Hansen. Andreikin played this idea of 5.Bb4+ a couple of times against Grischuk and Hansen said it was the 'Lobron variation' (which I have never seen nor read in any other source). Anyway, as a caro player I liked the idea and I have had tremendous results with it even against CMs and FMs in classical games. Your analysis was perfect :)

@7:38 I could only find Shirazi vs Karpov with these moves . Shirazi, Kamran (2455) Karpov, Anatoly (2715) Event: Wch-blitz Site: Saint John Round: 1 Date: ??/??/1988 ECO: D03 Score: 0-1

No one opening is annoying. Only players are.

Love this series! Happy New Year 🥳🎉

is this the hedgehog ?

Nice repertoire! How to react if White doesn’t play Nc3 immediately but rather goes for Bd3 and c4 setup (in the Nxe5 line)? Then our position seems passive, doesn’t it?

nice maestro

Thank you very much! All the best in the new year!

16:45 I wondered about Nxg2, Rg5, etc. Now this channel gives yet another complete 1.d4 repertoire for Black. Kind of incredible. 👍👍

Thanks for these great simplified series; finishing them with Karpov was great too, my favourite player ever.

Very nice video. I played like this numerous times and I always thought it was Peter Leko style. Now i know better :) Cheers Siddhartha