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This is madness, and I love it. The only gambit I play is the Queen's gambit, but looks like I will soon be joining you!

Thank you for all the vital information you have been supplying for years. I have become addicted to your channel. I would like to comment on your amazing capacity to keep up with the chats while playing and recording. I feel that many times your interaction with some viewer is distracting you, affecting the quality of your play and therefore the quality of your videos. I am sure that your chatting partners would understand if you hold your answers and concentrate more during the few minutes of your game. From a dedicated Graif's fan from the Florentine mountains in Italy

At 28:24 or so can black try to plug the center by playing f5 to hold e4 ???

Graif Variation!! What a move!

Thanks!

360p highest available resolution? It's like being back in 2004

My new favorite chess channel. FM Graif and his gambit glasses make chess seem really fun to play.

You might get a kick out of playing that Tate line in the Alekhine. It's a sound line.

Babe wake up new non-repost graif video just dropped

I've never been this early. So excited to watch this!

In the second game I think, where you played a Bush Gas. They found all the right computer moves. Were they cheating? There are many cheats in online chess. I only play Bots now, because they play to their rating strength.

BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT!!!

@12:32 position Nd5 is the move if then Nf6 then Bg5 NxQ BxQ BxB Nc7 fork them and win on exchange because if they don't play that Knight move the queen has no where to go and they are totally not developed

I have been playing the Goring Gambit at every opportunity for over 50 years. I discovered it in Modern Chess Openings (MCO) 11, then bought the little pamphlet book by IM Levy. At age 67 now, I sometimes miss a winning move I had previously made, but I also now more fully understand many more of the traps, transpositions, and other subtleties. At my level (1300s) I'd say that declining the c3 pawn with d5, happens under 5% of the time. Declining the b2 pawn happens over 50% of the time, and generally leads to me winning. Most of my losses are when they take both pawns and play quite accurately after that, though inaccurate play which I crush, is also common. It is extremely interesting to use engines to evaluate positions in it. There are several where at depth 20 there is one answer, at depth 26 another answer, at depth 32 it changes again, and finally at depth 40 you see the real answer for engine vs engine play. Yet, I will often go with one of the non-best moves which appeared better at shallower depths, or almost equal strength when deeper, for any of several reasons. Getting into familiar lines which transpose favorably for me, if an opponent doesn't find a depth 32 or 40 optimal engine move. And often, simply playing a move which gives the fewest hints about what combination of 3 moves is coming at them, if playing the slightly best of them tips them off to what the main threat is going to be. Sometimes, you must directly assert your advantage to keep your advantage. But more often, you can play moves which simply delay revealing the plan, and give your opponent one or two more chances to make a bad move, when even perfect play by them would only hurt you by 0.06 pawns after more than a dozen more moves apiece. That disadvantage never happens, because neither my opponent nor I can play at engine strength for that long. So, knowing which alternate moves lull them into making OK-looking moves where they need to make precise moves, really helps. For instance, there are many positions where the plan is to castle, then play Re1 and Qb3. Playing Qb3 makes opponents think for 3x as long, and start understanding what you are doing. Re1 is almost equally strong, but lets them make a random move which you can punish with Qb3. Or even Bxf7 followed by Qe5+ to get the piece back. Playing Qb3 sooner prevents playing Qe5.

Glad you're back with another stream. at 1:03:40 rc8 wouldve been a nasty skewer. from them looking like losing a knight it was a quick turn around

I am trying to learn your opening, great job, thank you... May Jesus bless all that you do.

4:10 just noticed the instrumental had the "Princess Mononoke" melody from Ghibli . It was a good ghibli animated film dealing with themes like Man vs Nature

thanks for the great content. I have a bit of trouble in the lines where the opponent plays h6 before I can get my queen to h4. Should I take the knight on f6 or put the bishop somewhere?

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Damn, my interest of chess has waned but the Busch-Gass Gambit is reviving it. Great vid, subscribed!

As a bird player I approve this video. I checked out the engine lines for Nf3 after Qxc7 and they are absolutely wild. Instead of something like e3, Nf6 you play Nc3, Bg3+, hxg3 Qxg3 Ke2 Qf7+ Kd3! And the position is equal, absolutely hilarious. (Not knocking down on this video, but it’s not in every position where a side runs their king into the center in the middle game with an equal position.) also to make matters even better, the next move for black is Nc6 Nd2 b5!

The perfect game!

Not a mate

Gambit man (Mr. Graif) you are an amazingly creative attacking demon. Very impressive!

Qxd5 and the fork to win the queen back is just totally winning for white so its a bad gambit

Brilliant gambit: Combining the a6 wing gambit, with the modern e6 Benko. Can tell lots of effort went into making the gambit work. Bravo!

10:04 they can... it comes with check... Also u just seem to be guessing, not providing any deeper instances...

I could have sworn you did a reverse Smith morra gambit against the g3 english. Is that video around or am I hallucinating?

you are good at your work, thank you

I suggest "Graif" to be used thusly: "I Graifed him" or "He got Graifed". lol

Hey William, really love your videos and your gambit repertoire. Believe it or not, as a gambiteer myself I ended up coming up with your same idea of playing blackmar-diemer adjacent lines against all of Black's defences against 1.e4 that featured an early ...d5. You can even get a von-popiel against the Alekhine! 1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4!. Wish you the best

Brilliant stuff… gets to the heart of attacking & defending. Bravo.

Always da best!

My experience when playing the white side of a Scandanavian Defense is that, when I try to transpose it into a Blackmar-Deimer or the Sneider Attack, I usually face 2...c6 and now I'm on the white side of a Caro-Kann, which I hate. What do you think of this analysis: th-cam.com/video/aG3C3FBd1LA/w-d-xo.html

I find myself playing a “William Graif” opening repertoire lately 😁👍🏻

The owT Knights Defence?

18:06 You can here the police coming for that beating

maybe I should study the von popiel (though I crushed my last one as black) as I did TERRIBLE with 3.Nc3 main line and have stuck with 3.f3, the gedult BDG as it's "fried liver based" and more "my style". I do TERRIBLE with queen's knight 1st lines on either side of the board. ...except the smith morra

bold of you to state that we play humans online

Another awesome video... I still can't understand why you have under 6k subscribers. You are the shizznit!!

10:07 after Nd5 another good try for black is Ne8 😂 and after the most common moves Nxb4 Nxb4 Qd4 Nc2 is a fork (and there is no mate because the knight on e8 defends g7) 😂

actually there is ... 1e4c5, 2 d4 Mora Gambit ... d5!? reverse Albin counter Gambit or the scandinavian move order 1e4d5, 2d4 Blackmar Diemer gambit and here ... 2...c5 transposes to the same reverse Albin gambit against the queen gambit

Doesn't matter if you already uploaded it. You got all the fun lines. Sure you can get crushed sometimes but it's so much fun when you don't Good content deserves to be re uploaded.

Ah, so you accidentally uploaded an old video, lol

hey where do I get some glass like that

What to do if d3 and Be2 played by white after knight exchange.

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Sir may i ask you your recommendation which gambit should i study this one or your Budapest repertoire against d4? i’m bored from playing the slav and torn between these two awesome lines…

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Pretty amusing. Whoever deviates first ... wins on time! Sharp gambit players will always suspect another sharp gambit's player's novelty, so not enough time to check for all the tricks.