Normal openings : The Italian, the London, the English... Suspicious openings : the walrus, the hippo, the orang utan... CHAD openings : the *JEROME* , the *FRED*
You know what's crazier? 2600 GM losing to a 100 rated player on chess.com (if hes 100 on chess.com, then by FIDE elo he should be around -100 to +50 at best). That GM's name was Eric Hansen
The year is 20XX. Everyone plays the 'Fred' and the 'Jerome' at AlphaZero levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on who gets white. The Rock Paper Scissors metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches. Humanity has reached its pinnacle. The 'Queen's Gambit' and 'Ruy Lopez' peasants are living in poverty. It seems nothing can stop the great leader of 20XX, Aman Hambleton, and his army, the ChessBrah monks who live in great monasteries where they levitate while sacking pieces with one hand, and winning tournaments with the other. The tournament metagame has gotten to this point where everything is played out to theoretical perfection, so tournament goers play Rock Paper Scissors to see who gets white, and that’s the game.
@@MatsMatsuo well according to Fred theory, if zero mistakes are played on both sides, the Fred will always win unless countered by a Jerome, which is always a draw. I predict in the future AI will be physically unable to play against it self, because it will predict Fred vs Jerome every game which is a draw, therefore it will offer a draw before move 1.
Not obscure and not that bad, but nobody knows the Alekhine lol. People rush at you because they think you are trolling or that you are worse, and then you blast their center off the board.
@@Life-Sky I'll check it out! These types of "bad" openings are actually quite easy to learn and help low ELO players (I'd say 500-1000) win a little more against players that study the more common openings. I actually think this is a viable strategy 🤣
@@Life-Sky the alekhine is actually a good opening,and may see future play as the more famous openings get more studied. It can get really sharp,and can go either way. black needs to find the perfect time to strike at the center,and white needs not to overextend
@@Life-Sky no one is 100% sure about who was play Short, Short said that he was playing Fischer because he usually could win and draw against other elite players who were playing serious openings, but the mysterious person was playing very weird and bad moves for the 5-6 first moves and only after that he/she started to develop the pieces, I myself like to think that it was either someone like Fischer or Kasparov trolling Short or someone who is very talented at chess and could play it at world class level but never had an opportunity to play at "official" tournaments
@@Life-Sky As I remember Nigel Short asked the person about a Mexican chess player and got immediately a date from Fischer. This was the date he played against the Mexican. + The engines back than weren't as good / fast as nowadays and it wouldn't be possible to use an engine with the pase they were playing. If you analyse their games with a engine you would see, that Fischer didn't always played the best moves.
I think this really shows that a lot of high rated players just memorize moves rather than actually figuring out the best moves for themselves. Aman was clearly the better player as he figured the best moves out on his own with a totally random opening. Props to Aman
Interestingly, Capablanca never memorized book openings, and he refuted the Marshal attack on the board when it took Marshal eight years to prepare it as a surprise for Capablanca
That is correct. That actually separates Magnus and Hikaru and probably a select few from the rest of the GMs. not only they know 99& of theory but they have that intuitive mind to be creative.
There's also the attitude factor: Aman is doing it for the memes, so there is no fear on his side. The opponent is just saying "what is this garbage" after every move and probably not taking it seriously.
Yeah indeed this is that way. Recently played against some FM who destroyed me on white side of Modern Benoni in blitz playing best engine variation with perfect move order up to move around 25 even though i haven't played mainline. I thought "jeez that's a strong FM" so spect him next 2 games... In those 2 he missed 7 or 8 tactics with 3-4 free pieces... Memorization factor is HUGE.
@@DonFreeq Man this shit is fucking laughable. Are you just lying to yourself or what?.... He will only be playing the perfect engine variation if the moves you played are reasonable (enough for him to have analyzed them with the engine or whatever, i.e. they are not more than inaccuracies, and if you are playing actual blunders in the opening anyways, that is not a good sign lol). Therefore, you can't be entering the middlegame with a completely losing position, only a somewhat worse one, so, he must have outplayed you significantly in the middle game too, how is that possible if he is dropping 4 tactics and 2 pieces a game? Why don't you challenge him to a few chess960 games and see how it goes?
This Fred opening works. I actually had very good results with this in offline tournaments and that "Frustration factor" Aman talks about I believe really exists. Most of my opponents started laughing/smiling after my f5 move but after like 7~8 moves they started to spend more time and there was no longer any signs of happiness in their face. As a results I was able to gain about 50 points for my FIDE Blitz rating. It seems to be extremely rare for players with the white pieces to maintain a big advantage unless the game ends quickly. And surprisingly the frustration factor seemed to work even better against lower rated players so everyone should seriously think about studying this opening. But idk about the jerome; I lost 200 online rating points with that :(
Wow! He tried to trick you with a novelty on move 2 but it turnout his 2.Nf3 novelty was a huge blunder.... throwing way most of his advantage, from over +4.50 to way below +3.50
lol there's actually an ECO for the Fred. Actually everything under B00 look like chad openings. I personally like the "Neo-Mongoloid defense". There's weeks worth of content there !
Great video, I have recently done a speedrun to 2500 with the Fred Defense on my Twitch channel, plenty of fun and unexplored chess theory. Great content boys, keep up the grind
Wow, that was impressive. Don't know if I'd have the balls to use it though cause my brain goes blank even on gambits I've studied and leaves me in the lurch...damn brain!
Normal openings : The Italian, the London, the English...
Suspicious openings : the walrus, the hippo, the orang utan...
CHAD openings : the *JEROME* , the *FRED*
And the Bongcloud should go under “Suspicious openings”
The grob
And the crap opening
Sodium attack
@@mossy8419 Ammonia Opening
GM lost to Fred Defence. Now I've seen everything there to see in chess.
it gets crazier
I seen a GM lose to a 1200 in bullet a few years ago I wish I would've saved the game xD also Eric Rosen got mated by a 900 or something lol
Not Fred Defence, it's just THE FRED
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 Even our own Eric Hansen blundered mate in 1 against a 100 xD Shit happens
You know what's crazier? 2600 GM losing to a 100 rated player on chess.com (if hes 100 on chess.com, then by FIDE elo he should be around -100 to +50 at best). That GM's name was Eric Hansen
The year is 20XX. Everyone plays the 'Fred' and the 'Jerome' at AlphaZero levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on who gets white. The Rock Paper Scissors metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches. Humanity has reached its pinnacle. The 'Queen's Gambit' and 'Ruy Lopez' peasants are living in poverty. It seems nothing can stop the great leader of 20XX, Aman Hambleton, and his army, the ChessBrah monks who live in great monasteries where they levitate while sacking pieces with one hand, and winning tournaments with the other. The tournament metagame has gotten to this point where everything is played out to theoretical perfection, so tournament goers play Rock Paper Scissors to see who gets white, and that’s the game.
lmao beautiful
nice melee copypasta
actually the theory for if both play perfectly is that it will be a draw every game; preserving white's early game advantage requires a struggle
how is this not getting tens and thousands of likes? This is the future
Thumbs up because it made me happy to read about the suffering of the Ruy Lopez and queen's gambit peasants
Fred defense: Hypermodern school of the bongcloud opening
Freds determined defensive positioning vs Jeromes deadly aggressive attack, I can't see the winner.
the peak of efficiency, probably a draw by force
Game of the Century, Jerome v Fred
The unstoppable force vs the immovable object LMAO
lmao
@@MatsMatsuo well according to Fred theory, if zero mistakes are played on both sides, the Fred will always win unless countered by a Jerome, which is always a draw. I predict in the future AI will be physically unable to play against it self, because it will predict Fred vs Jerome every game which is a draw, therefore it will offer a draw before move 1.
Jerome vs Fred... the legendary battle
The frustration factor +1 lmaoooo
Gotta consider everything
No joke I'm pretty sure it's at least +1 lmao
Someone needs to start a blog for the Fred Gambit like the Jerome Gambit blog
blogs in 2020
I will look into this
Why do people waste time with openings? I just move random pieces and hope for the best
You're supposed to don't not never do that
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 is that a triple negative?
@ So If - with - is making +,2 negative makes a yes and another negative makes a yes and a no. Uffff
@ A triple negative, we have a triple negative bois, means that we shall never don´t not something like that
If u are a good player that knows the tricks it´s okay, but if u are a 900~1000 that´s not something that is recommended.
Poor GM, didnt study the Fred theory.
This has nothing on the Jerome.
New plan: play openings that are so obscure and bad that no one has counter play for them ACTUAL 900IQ
Not obscure and not that bad, but nobody knows the Alekhine lol. People rush at you because they think you are trolling or that you are worse, and then you blast their center off the board.
@@Life-Sky I'll check it out! These types of "bad" openings are actually quite easy to learn and help low ELO players (I'd say 500-1000) win a little more against players that study the more common openings. I actually think this is a viable strategy 🤣
@@Life-Sky the alekhine is actually a good opening,and may see future play as the more famous openings get more studied. It can get really sharp,and can go either way. black needs to find the perfect time to strike at the center,and white needs not to overextend
@@neinty-neinmonika2861 It's a perfect opening for me as a player around 1100 ELO not many players at this level can get through sharp games
When Aman's parents found out they were having a son they came up with a name so nobody would confuse him for a woman
Fun fact:
Robert Fischer played a variation of the Fred opening with white against the GM Nigel Short and won.
Some say that it's a myth and nigel actually played against a dude with an engine.
@@Life-Sky no one is 100% sure about who was play Short, Short said that he was playing Fischer because he usually could win and draw against other elite players who were playing serious openings, but the mysterious person was playing very weird and bad moves for the 5-6 first moves and only after that he/she started to develop the pieces, I myself like to think that it was either someone like Fischer or Kasparov trolling Short or someone who is very talented at chess and could play it at world class level but never had an opportunity to play at "official" tournaments
@@Life-Sky wasnt that more of a Bongcloud than Fred though ?
@@Life-Sky As I remember Nigel Short asked the person about a Mexican chess player and got immediately a date from Fischer. This was the date he played against the Mexican.
+ The engines back than weren't as good / fast as nowadays and it wouldn't be possible to use an engine with the pase they were playing.
If you analyse their games with a engine you would see, that Fischer didn't always played the best moves.
that wasn't actually fischer. he literally said that it wasn't him
I think this really shows that a lot of high rated players just memorize moves rather than actually figuring out the best moves for themselves. Aman was clearly the better player as he figured the best moves out on his own with a totally random opening. Props to Aman
Interestingly, Capablanca never memorized book openings, and he refuted the Marshal attack on the board when it took Marshal eight years to prepare it as a surprise for Capablanca
That is correct. That actually separates Magnus and Hikaru and probably a select few from the rest of the GMs. not only they know 99& of theory but they have that intuitive mind to be creative.
There's also the attitude factor: Aman is doing it for the memes, so there is no fear on his side. The opponent is just saying "what is this garbage" after every move and probably not taking it seriously.
Yeah indeed this is that way. Recently played against some FM who destroyed me on white side of Modern Benoni in blitz playing best engine variation with perfect move order up to move around 25 even though i haven't played mainline.
I thought "jeez that's a strong FM" so spect him next 2 games... In those 2 he missed 7 or 8 tactics with 3-4 free pieces... Memorization factor is HUGE.
@@DonFreeq Man this shit is fucking laughable. Are you just lying to yourself or what?.... He will only be playing the perfect engine variation if the moves you played are reasonable (enough for him to have analyzed them with the engine or whatever, i.e. they are not more than inaccuracies, and if you are playing actual blunders in the opening anyways, that is not a good sign lol). Therefore, you can't be entering the middlegame with a completely losing position, only a somewhat worse one, so, he must have outplayed you significantly in the middle game too, how is that possible if he is dropping 4 tactics and 2 pieces a game? Why don't you challenge him to a few chess960 games and see how it goes?
This Fred opening works. I actually had very good results with this in offline tournaments and that "Frustration factor" Aman talks about I believe really exists. Most of my opponents started laughing/smiling after my f5 move but after like 7~8 moves they started to spend more time and there was no longer any signs of happiness in their face. As a results I was able to gain about 50 points for my FIDE Blitz rating. It seems to be extremely rare for players with the white pieces to maintain a big advantage unless the game ends quickly. And surprisingly the frustration factor seemed to work even better against lower rated players so everyone should seriously think about studying this opening. But idk about the jerome; I lost 200 online rating points with that :(
Drake k great, thanks for your testimony
Aman really makes this opening look like a natural solid opening xD
Wasn't sure what to expect, but actually laughed out loud when he moved his king up a rank on his second move. He still won, what a genius.
A great defense to pair with my Jerome, with the Jerome I was able to climb from 1600 to 1050 and with this defense I think I can push to 600.
In all of life, there is a rhythm
What is this joke and when did it start?
@@Plebasaurus5179 Its from a track which I sadly couldn't find on the internet.
Now this is the kind of opening I can get behind. I beat an FM otb in bullet with it 😅
Yeah right... bullet over the board? Common
@@jackismname I mean, if you want specifics, it was at an IHOP at about 10pm and the guy was old. So, ya, I had handicaps. But still, I'mma take it!
@@jackismname you can play 30 sec chess otb.
@@jackismname it's a real thing
@@ChessScholarOfficial Sorry then for being rude. With that being said I don't understand bullet chess otb, my mind just cannot comprehend...
Petition for another Jerome vid. :)
Jerome speedrun to 2000
there has been some drama with the jerome blog guy so prob never going to happen...
@@CelestialBlueSapphire what happened?
Limitless yeah what happened we need to know, what happened in the blog???
What happen?
Whoever suggested this opening is a bloody genius! ^^
"My name is Fred!" -the King on f7
We need more videos like this. This is absolutely legendary 😂
can't believe a GM would not know Fred Theory
Next up, the aggressive attacking version: Fred's liver
The Fred is literally Kings Gambit Tumbleweed variation but as black instead of white
lichess.org/study/ozc4TI0K
Last variation in this study
Lmao "frustration adds minus one to the evaluation". Ain't that the truth.
That frustration factor is the most real s*** ever
i'm going to start playing this exclusively
Petition to change the name of the opening from Fred Defence to CHAD Defense
The best kid at my chess camp used to play this all the time and repeatedly crushed all of us
Is this why I kept getting this opening on Lichess lmao
I like how the best and the worst opening both move the King on the 2nd move, worst = Fred
best = Bongcloud
I love this series. More obscure openings please.
"Well, I wasn't really planning on a GM being my first game of the Fred. Oh well, watch me mop the floor with this noob."
That GM just got wiped from front to back with THE FRED...monkaS!!!
How did that guy become a GM not knowing at least 10 stem games of this legit opening?
Jerome vs Fred... Unstoppable force vs Immovable wall
Aman is the human impersonification of the term CHAD
Honestly shows how important it is to get some players out of book
The end is nigh, the ChessBrahs have already found and released two of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
The Fred seems like a gambit of the Bongcloud
frustration factor over -2 lol ....very true
Jerome & Fred, the two smartest men in the entire world.
"I'm out of book" lol
What the flying fuck. He just beat a GM with that... Mad props to Aman
frustration factor is real
The fred is brutal.
110% winning positions without any defense.
This was inspired by the games between B. Rubble vs F. Flintstone
Wow! He tried to trick you with a novelty on move 2 but it turnout his 2.Nf3 novelty was a huge blunder.... throwing way most of his advantage, from over +4.50 to way below +3.50
brother of jerome?
LMAO Erik's I agree at 7:03 so deadpan
This is what fred would have wanted
Starbucks frappé attack: f4 Kf2 Kg3
This is what Fred would of wanted 😂 u gotta play Eric with the Fred vs Jerome openings, u will get a million veiws
what about the tumbleweed. thats a good one
Tbh, the Fred is okay if instead of Kf7, you immediately play Nf6 and then, d5 and hope to pick up the f5 pawn with your bishop, developing it.
2:32 am i not just chilling hard
Easy clap with the Fred
Although I aaam upset that he covered the time with the stupid chat
I thought the worst opening was 1.f3 2.g4, the Stormy Daniels ("mate me please, NOW!")
Frustration factor is not given by Stockfish🤣
Will you be publishing a repertoire book?
Proof that opening theory is absolutely WORTHLESS and a waste to everyone's time
Great video... but observed our Fred Defense guy was able to make engine moves with great accuracy.
New google deepmindzeroalphabeta engine formula now includes frustation factor after they saw this analysis
I guess you could say....
they were afred of him.
Im out.
That’s not Fred, that’s the bongcloud opening
lol there's actually an ECO for the Fred. Actually everything under B00 look like chad openings. I personally like the "Neo-Mongoloid defense". There's weeks worth of content there !
THERE IS A MONGOLOID DEFENSE?? I NEED TO TRY IT
I didn't know that my repertoire had a name
This is what Fred would have wanted
I really wonder how the jerome gambit would do against a fred defense! :D
the frustation factor = -10 evaluation point
Great video, I have recently done a speedrun to 2500 with the Fred Defense on my Twitch channel, plenty of fun and unexplored chess theory. Great content boys, keep up the grind
Next after Jerome and Fred should be Modern Defense Fianchetto Gambit
Boys, the edits have been excellent lately. Keep up the good work.
And I can’t even beat 100’s using theory and preparation 🤣
The Fred is still not in the database! BLASPHEMY
The "sweat it out" remix is sick, does anyone have the link to it?
If you are sweating and sick, you have Covid-19, just sayin'...
Whites 2nd overall move, and first with his knight, being a blunder is one of the funniest things I've heard in chess lol
We had a dude named Fred in our neighborhood we use to kick his ass everyday
causing grandmasters to quit chess lol
What is the difference to the bong cloud opening?
I dare you to try and win with the wayward queen opening
cruisin' at high altitude :DD
Hansen in the background: I agree
the fred defense is alright but everyone knows jerome wouldnt lose to it
Who would want to be named after this opening
I love The Fred I play it always against computer bots.
Some code geass kind of move with the king
Yes Aman, we give you the permission to call yourself a handsome person.
3:12 he said it
Chad Fred>virgin bongcloud
This opening is undefeated, prove me wrong
What do I do if they use the bishop to c4 instead of queen?
real question is : does fred wouldve wanted this?
Play the Fred opening with the Jerome’s variation
It's a bongcloud gambit variation
the disrespect...
This is the bongcloud on weed
Wow, that was impressive. Don't know if I'd have the balls to use it though cause my brain goes blank even on gambits I've studied and leaves me in the lurch...damn brain!