I like Igor's presentation style. He is articulate and soft-spoken, ideal for teaching. I can sense he is a good sport, loves chess, and not a braggart.
The 6th trap at 12:10, in a Ruy Lopez, has the name "The Noah's Ark Trap," where the white bishop gets smothered by the advancing pawns. This has happened to me in countless games against players who do not fully understand how to play the Ruy Lopez. I think many of these other traps also have names. It would have been nice to give those names to give them some character. The opening at 5:48 has the name the "Schilling-Kostic Gambit." After white captures the hanging e-pawn with 4.Nxe4 you say "This practically loses on the spot" after 4...Qg5. But, one possibility you do not address is if white responds by playing 5.Bxf2+, forcing the black king to move: 5.Bxf2+ Kd8, 6.O-O Qxe5, winning the knight. Sure, white has an advantage but there is not much more white can do from this position. White has certainly not fallen into any trap where he gets checkmated. The computer line indicates that black has about a -0.6 advantage at this point but white's king is safely castled whereas black's king is going to be stuck in the middle of the board. White has given up a knight for two pawns and has a degree of compensation. It's not great for white, but he still has a perfectly playable game. He survives "falling" into the trap. Play might continue: 7.c3 Ne6, 8.d3 g3, 9.Re1 d6, 10.d4 Qf6, 11.BxN(e6) Qxe6, 12.d5 (all computer moves) and the position is very close to being equal. Neither side is particularly well developed as white has made many pawn moves whereas black has made multiple queen moves. I'm not sure I wouldn't mind playing the white side of this.
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@13:25 white doesn't have to escape, but instead play Bxf7+, then black responds with Kxf7, followed by Qd5+ then after the King moves white just captures the Rook. OR if black decides not to capture the Bishop and maybe play Ke7 then white can still play Qd5 saving the Queen and double-attacking the Rook and Knight.
14:14 After blacks bishop takes the c4 pawn, if black takes the bishop and the queen recaptures, because of the captured d5 pawn white is not losing on material, but on position instead. To all of those who asked that question!
Absolutely brilliant.. since traps never work on good players it's best to play a trap which doesn't harms your position so this video is really fantastic n well thought.. Very well done.. keep uploading
A few more of the top of my head : Legal's Mate, the stem game of which ran 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 d6 3 Bc4 Bg4?! 4 Nc3 g6? 5 Nxe5 Bxd1?? 6 Bxf7+ Ke7 7 Nd5# and the theme of which can be reproduced in several slightly different contexts with both colors Queen's Gambit Accepted 1 d4 d5 2 c4 dc 3 e3 b5?! 4 a4 c6? 5 ab cb?? 6 Qf3 and other variations on the same theme In the Morra Gambit, lots of early traps with White but also a couple with Black 1 e4 c5 2 d4 cd 3 Nf3 e5?! 4 Nxe5?? Qa5+ Siberian Trap 1 e4 c5 2 d4 cd 3 c3 dc 4 Nxc3 Nc6 5 Nf3 e6 6 Bc4 Qc7 7 0-0 Nf6 8 Qe2 Ng4 9 h3?? Nd4, a theme that can also occur in mainline Open Sicilians Deferred From Gambit 1f4 d6 2 Nf3 e5 3 fe g5 4 ed g4 5 dc Qxc7 6 Nd4 Bd6 7 Nb5?? Bg3+
Legal's mate is not among the best one because it's like the first trap every player learn. So pretty much never work. And if black plays Bg4 they always put up Be7 or Nf6 afterwards which prevent the mate.
Thank you so much! You have been a great help to me! ...These traps both work and are not that hard to learn. Just try it out, I'm sure you'll be able to catch a few pawns with these. Only the opening traps in this video is that they can only work in blitz games because in slower time controls, opponents may notice these traps and try to avoid them.
excellent ...made me want to try again...its been years since ive played online; it was intimidating to me..i stayed @ 800 to 1000 rating... ive never played on time clock, dont really understand concept..thou i play fairly fast...endgame sux!!! i have done the study online where you finish a certain position etc. 100's of times. i'm definitely not a natural but very much enjoy.. do you or anybody have suggestions for a good online site to play people? im 60 yr old..dam..and not looking to become a master..lol.. but would like to think a 1500 or better rating is obtainable in time... sorry so long, but this really got me going again...you are 1st teacher that made sense at my level...thanks
Well Lynn .... I used to be pretty good too but since its been a couple years since I have played anyone online or A.I. on my computer, I am extremely rusty in my chess thinking ....But DON'T despair as you CAN improve ! .... I bought 3 books from Amazon a couple years ago I thought would help me understand chess better than I used to called "Logical chess" ..."Move by move, every move explained" written by Irving Chernev .... (2) ... "Train Your Chess Pattern Recongnition, more key moves and motifs" AND "Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition, key moves and motifs " written by Arthur Van De Oudeweetering .... One more great chess book which begins as if a person knows nothing about Chess and teaches EVERYTHING from Openings, middle games in helping you set up your end game ALL the way up to Grand Master is written by Fred Reinfeld called "The Complete Chess Player" .... I can remember playing chess in college decades ago where we invented a 4-player chess board by adding half a regular board to each side .... it was fantastic .... but back to where I left off about the book "The Complete Chess Player" ... I was playing chess and I wasn't doing all that well, so when I went home for two weeks during Christmas vacation I started reading it without a chess set to practice on and learned things like "forks", "pins" etc. that I really didn't know about before .... When I returned to college, I lost 4 games in a row and I couldn't figure it out .... Then out of nowhere, everything I had been reading in the book became crystal clear for me on the chess board and I won the next 19 games in a row against people who were beating me all the time before .... So, NOW its time to take my game a step further by reading the books I just wrote down here for you .... good luck my friend because Knowledge is what wins games ....!!!!
At about 3:57 when he starts that trap, I had no clue it would be so useful in a situation. Especially because I love the knight and it’s only a six move mate!
I'm starting to study chess, and I have some trouble sometimes understanding a few things, one of them being right on the beginning of the video, at 3:20, when he says "and you won the game". I've seen other videos using the same expression, even tho they are in the very beginning of the game, they only captured 1 or 2 pieces, and they don't have a particularly amazing position on the board. Why do they say "won the game"?
Usually this is due to the analyst seeing the next move as being a forced move and a forced line of moves to follow leading to checkmate. Or a loss of pieces leading to an obvious overwhelming winning position. This is probably more likely to happen since it is early in the game.
I would play in 9:46 Bishop to d2 King moves and I play Bishop to d4 attacking the Queen. Queen takes the Bishop then I push a pawn to c6. If the queen eats it it will be exchange of queen's. If Knight takes you can still save your game if you play smart.......
At 6:50, why does white "have" to play Be2 to block off the black queen from white king? Why can't white instead play Qe2? That no longer allows a smothered mate when black plays Nf3, since white king can move to Kd1, and it further pins black queen against its king. The only way out of this for black is to exchange queens, following which white knight will take black rook at h8. An alternative response for black when white plays Qe2 can be Nxc2, forking black king and rook on a1. But that will at best put black a pawn up after the exchange of queens, and capture of rooks at a1 and h8 respectively. Am I reading the scenarios correctly?
Varun Ramanujam because if you block with the queen black will just capture the queen with his knight dude... and you will most likely lose the game trading queen for knight
I am new at chess so excuse me if I am wrong. But doesn't the whole trap fall apart if white pawn captures black pawn "en passant" at 5:48? (At least I believe that is how "en passant" works)
I had this today at 06:48 in your video, and followed the guidance, it has taken a LONG time for me to be in this position, but never the less. My opponent moved the queen down and sacrificed it, rather than the bishop. Which still left me in a good position - but I could not smother. I took the sacrifice, and then played the knight around. I ended up taking a few more pieces and disrupted the game enough for him to resign, bu you say in the video the opponent has to move the bishop. They dont - they can offer the Queen which is a nice get out.
wow, it looks so simple and I never tried this kind of traps. Really stunning and thanks for sharing this with us. Keep up your great work and vids. Cheers :)
You can find the text transcript of this video and download the PGN of all these traps (also Trap-4 is analyzed in greater details) here - goo.gl/dZdBJ6
At 6:30 how is the most natural move to take that pawn when you know you can just jump to G4 and block the queen from getting the pawn and have your own white queen defending the knight? Doesnt that just shot the whole thing down
I have a question, where you put white in check with the knight he can take your knight with the queen and block your next check in the corner with his bishop.. What would you recommend doing if that happens? I would most likely take your knight with my queen instead of moving my King, please feel free to tell me if there is something I have overlooked..
ALWAYS analyze it yourself with stockfish. Because for example in 3rd trap opponent may take pawn with bishop, check. What you gonna do? Look at lines when opponent plays best moves, not only suggested by whoever.
Nobodeh DontNeedToKnow Bxf7 is the second most obvious move in that position. Black will get the piece at the cost of two pawns and losing castling. That is a bad trap.
Oh you mean cheat and use a f*cking engine to do your thinking for you? Computers have ruined Chess and taken the mystique out of the game. It just goes to show that humans are Cheaters and Liars before anything else. Sorry just the harsh truth. All the top players go racing off to their little engines to find the best move in any variation, then remember the line. They ALL cheat, every last one of them.
At 7:48 you said the King has to move to F1 to escape check, but technically the white could capture the Knight on C2 (forcing black to recapture with his queen) and then white could bring knight to C3, opening the rook to defend the bishop and the bishop guards the pawns and the pawns guard the knight
The idea of this is that white sees that the obvious Qxc2 doesn't work (Of course) so he tries Kf1. It's not a matter of which line is "less lost" than the other line, is a matter of avoiding falling from this altogether
Well, after Kd8. White can't protect Knight and g2 pawn. So white has to give up his knight to be in the game. There is no risk for you as black in that position.
17:32 instead of capturing f7 pawn immediately, white can play Qa5+ and if black plays Qc7, white can now capture f7 pawn with check. black is forced to play Kd7 then white takes Q on c7 with check and black retakes with king. then white can take rook on h8. basically the same thing but ends up with black having his white square bishop still undeveloped.
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You are making me feel like an idiot chess player because I haven't considered your traps. They are so stealthy and execution seems simple and non-threatening!!
Thanks for this great video. I am learning to play, and today will be watching the tournament going on in St Louis. These openings can help a very new beginner to see the bigger picture.
Ng4 will be answered with h5 and you are worse if not losing. Bxf7 Kd8 you lose a piece (if you play Bxg8 Qxg2 Rf1 Qxe4+ Qe2 Qxe2#) so you most likely have to give up a knight with short castling
@@smith00793 It's not about chances of check mate. If black loses the queen without any compensation, white has an easy game (even though it may take more moves) and it's only a matter of time and if you don't know about that, you are probably below 800 rated and can trust the commentator of the video and me on this one
At 6:22 (4th opening) white could just play Ng4 and save both knight and pawn. Or, even worse for black, Bf7. I think this should be a trap for black actually
Wrong. Queen still takes the pawn if knight to g4. Then the rook is still in danger, and when he moves the queen can simply take the knight and be up a minor piece. Any way you play it you’re down material
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Wrong. Knight takes queen, then bishop has to recapture to prevent check, thus leaving the white knight undefended. Then the white king simply takes knight.
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Timestamps
0:30 Sicilian Defense (Black)
1:50 Sicilian Najdorf (White)
3:56 Caro Kann (White)
5:40 Loch Ness (Black)
8:20 Bido-Down Defense Move (Black)
11:40 Ruy Lopez (Black)
14:20 Sicilian Defense Sveshnikov Variation
Hope that helps.
thanks
Ty
I like Igor's presentation style. He is articulate and soft-spoken, ideal for teaching. I can sense he is a good sport, loves chess, and not a braggart.
My husband teaching me to play chess , today is the first lesson :) I believe in myself LOL . Thank you for the video.
You are going to suck
Complete your sentence!!! Suck what Lol
That's so sweet I hope you get good
@@dolonjame2980 why tho what if her husband is hikaru or Magnus😂
One thing is for sure... Chess will make your bonding much more stronger ❤️❤️... Good luck 👍
The 6th trap at 12:10, in a Ruy Lopez, has the name "The Noah's Ark Trap," where the white bishop gets smothered by the advancing pawns. This has happened to me in countless games against players who do not fully understand how to play the Ruy Lopez.
I think many of these other traps also have names. It would have been nice to give those names to give them some character.
The opening at 5:48 has the name the "Schilling-Kostic Gambit." After white captures the hanging e-pawn with 4.Nxe4 you say "This practically loses on the spot" after 4...Qg5. But, one possibility you do not address is if white responds by playing 5.Bxf2+, forcing the black king to move: 5.Bxf2+ Kd8, 6.O-O Qxe5, winning the knight. Sure, white has an advantage but there is not much more white can do from this position. White has certainly not fallen into any trap where he gets checkmated. The computer line indicates that black has about a -0.6 advantage at this point but white's king is safely castled whereas black's king is going to be stuck in the middle of the board. White has given up a knight for two pawns and has a degree of compensation. It's not great for white, but he still has a perfectly playable game. He survives "falling" into the trap. Play might continue: 7.c3 Ne6, 8.d3 g3, 9.Re1 d6, 10.d4 Qf6, 11.BxN(e6) Qxe6, 12.d5 (all computer moves) and the position is very close to being equal. Neither side is particularly well developed as white has made many pawn moves whereas black has made multiple queen moves. I'm not sure I wouldn't mind playing the white side of this.
The trap 1:50 is named the bobby bojangles trap. Fight me to prove it wrong.
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I see chess videos but I can’t even remember any of the traps or strategy 😂
Same here mate. I get so excited after a video then my mind goes blank in game 😢
My dude try to be a trap setter and end up did a lot of blunder
Same😂
@@josephsalmonte4995 watch this vid every day then will go in
Ya , I watch this then it doesn't work in the game . I'm a retard
You sound like u just stole the moon
Lmfaooo
Gru is playing chess now?
Wew, corny buddy
Umm r u mean -_-
He stole the moon, then sat on the toilet.
@13:25 white doesn't have to escape, but instead play Bxf7+, then black responds with Kxf7, followed by Qd5+ then after the King moves white just captures the Rook. OR if black decides not to capture the Bishop and maybe play Ke7 then white can still play Qd5 saving the Queen and double-attacking the Rook and Knight.
idiot: if white plays bxf7+ followed by Qd5+ (after Kxe7) the king doesn't move. Black interposes the bishop with Be6 you knucklehead
14:14 After blacks bishop takes the c4 pawn, if black takes the bishop and the queen recaptures, because of the captured d5 pawn white is not losing on material, but on position instead. To all of those who asked that question!
Absolutely brilliant.. since traps never work on good players it's best to play a trap which doesn't harms your position so this video is really fantastic n well thought..
Very well done.. keep uploading
Shivendra kumar
Yes very important not to compromise your opening just for the trap
@@jojoperikala5792 yeah ?
@@Skyscraper21 how did he win at 3:24
@@Skyscraper21 mm
In minut 15:07 isn’t black to move with pawn to a6? And what to do next if his does that? Thanks a lot for your reply.
A few more of the top of my head :
Legal's Mate, the stem game of which ran
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 d6 3 Bc4 Bg4?! 4 Nc3 g6? 5 Nxe5 Bxd1?? 6 Bxf7+ Ke7 7 Nd5#
and the theme of which can be reproduced in several slightly different contexts with both colors
Queen's Gambit Accepted
1 d4 d5 2 c4 dc 3 e3 b5?! 4 a4 c6? 5 ab cb?? 6 Qf3 and other variations on the same theme
In the Morra Gambit, lots of early traps with White but also a couple with Black
1 e4 c5 2 d4 cd 3 Nf3 e5?! 4 Nxe5?? Qa5+
Siberian Trap 1 e4 c5 2 d4 cd 3 c3 dc 4 Nxc3 Nc6 5 Nf3 e6 6 Bc4 Qc7 7 0-0 Nf6 8 Qe2 Ng4 9 h3?? Nd4, a theme that can also occur in mainline Open Sicilians
Deferred From Gambit
1f4 d6 2 Nf3 e5 3 fe g5 4 ed g4 5 dc Qxc7 6 Nd4 Bd6 7 Nb5?? Bg3+
My favorite mate: le mat de Legal :)
Legal's mate is not among the best one because it's like the first trap every player learn. So pretty much never work. And if black plays Bg4 they always put up Be7 or Nf6 afterwards which prevent the mate.
All the previous are Legal!
I’m good a playing chess but not the stuff u wrote, what’s is X used for? Why is there ?! And ?? And +
X means "take". ??? is a bad move !! is a good move (or maybe the best move). + is "your king is on check/attacked". ++ is checkmate.
Thank you so much! You have been a great help to me!
...These traps both work and are not that hard to learn. Just try it out, I'm sure you'll be able to catch a few pawns with these. Only the opening traps in this video is that they can only work in blitz games because in slower time controls, opponents may notice these traps and try to avoid them.
excellent ...made me want to try again...its been years since ive played online; it was intimidating to me..i stayed @ 800 to 1000 rating... ive never played on time clock, dont really understand concept..thou i play fairly fast...endgame sux!!! i have done the study online where you finish a certain position etc. 100's of times. i'm definitely not a natural but very much enjoy.. do you or anybody have suggestions for a good online site to play people? im 60 yr old..dam..and not looking to become a master..lol.. but would like to think a 1500 or better rating is obtainable in time... sorry so long, but this really got me going again...you are 1st teacher that made sense at my level...thanks
Lichess
Well Lynn .... I used to be pretty good too but since its been a couple years since I have played anyone online or A.I. on my computer, I am extremely rusty in my chess thinking ....But DON'T despair as you CAN improve ! .... I bought 3 books from Amazon a couple years ago I thought would help me understand chess better than I used to called "Logical chess" ..."Move by move, every move explained" written by Irving Chernev .... (2) ... "Train Your Chess Pattern Recongnition, more key moves and motifs" AND "Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition, key moves and motifs " written by Arthur Van De Oudeweetering .... One more great chess book which begins as if a person knows nothing about Chess and teaches EVERYTHING from Openings, middle games in helping you set up your end game ALL the way up to Grand Master is written by Fred Reinfeld called "The Complete Chess Player" .... I can remember playing chess in college decades ago where we invented a 4-player chess board by adding half a regular board to each side .... it was fantastic .... but back to where I left off about the book "The Complete Chess Player" ... I was playing chess and I wasn't doing all that well, so when I went home for two weeks during Christmas vacation I started reading it without a chess set to practice on and learned things like "forks", "pins" etc. that I really didn't know about before .... When I returned to college, I lost 4 games in a row and I couldn't figure it out .... Then out of nowhere, everything I had been reading in the book became crystal clear for me on the chess board and I won the next 19 games in a row against people who were beating me all the time before .... So, NOW its time to take my game a step further by reading the books I just wrote down here for you .... good luck my friend because Knowledge is what wins games ....!!!!
awesome thanks for sharing!
7:48 why can't the queen eat the knight? the better move would be knight F3
Cause the black queen is protecting it and if you do night f3 than it blocks your queen from checkmating
sir in your video on time 12:45 that trap is a mess. white will win easily. you should think about it.
if white plays queen on F3 insted of D4 then there is a chance for white to win easily
I feel like putting "2 MILLION VIEWS" in the thumbnail is having the opposite intended effect that what was originally intended
At about 3:57 when he starts that trap, I had no clue it would be so useful in a situation. Especially because I love the knight and it’s only a six move mate!
I was watching this with my headphones in my living room and my whole family just heard me say, out loud, "ohhhh that's dirty."
Ty!! Helped me put together some tactics I learned into one kinda motion attacks!!!! You awsome !!! You rock n roll !!
I'm starting to study chess, and I have some trouble sometimes understanding a few things, one of them being right on the beginning of the video, at 3:20, when he says "and you won the game". I've seen other videos using the same expression, even tho they are in the very beginning of the game, they only captured 1 or 2 pieces, and they don't have a particularly amazing position on the board. Why do they say "won the game"?
Usually this is due to the analyst seeing the next move as being a forced move and a forced line of moves to follow leading to checkmate. Or a loss of pieces leading to an obvious overwhelming winning position. This is probably more likely to happen since it is early in the game.
Thanks, Emul!
If you are a knight down they have to make a mistake or blunder for you to catch up
At high level, losing a major piece (anything but a pawn) is a game lost (because a blunder big enough to lose this kind of piece won't happen).
Le Mérovigien - Check out Carlsen's game vs Jones in the ongoing Tata Steel tournament. ;)
Trap No. 4: What if the white Knight moves to g4 instead of f7 and blocks the black Queen on g5? - Minute 6:20
I would play in 9:46 Bishop to d2 King moves and I play Bishop to d4 attacking the Queen. Queen takes the Bishop then I push a pawn to c6. If the queen eats it it will be exchange of queen's. If Knight takes you can still save your game if you play smart.......
3:21 once you grab the knight, did you say then you won the game? Did you mean then you won the knight? I’m confused. Thanks.
At 6:50, why does white "have" to play Be2 to block off the black queen from white king? Why can't white instead play Qe2? That no longer allows a smothered mate when black plays Nf3, since white king can move to Kd1, and it further pins black queen against its king. The only way out of this for black is to exchange queens, following which white knight will take black rook at h8.
An alternative response for black when white plays Qe2 can be Nxc2, forking black king and rook on a1. But that will at best put black a pawn up after the exchange of queens, and capture of rooks at a1 and h8 respectively. Am I reading the scenarios correctly?
Varun Ramanujam because if you block with the queen black will just capture the queen with his knight dude... and you will most likely lose the game trading queen for knight
please correct me if im mistaken but at 7:46, can't white take the black knight on C2 with the queen? since white's bishop is blocking the queen.
I am new at chess so excuse me if I am wrong. But doesn't the whole trap fall apart if white pawn captures black pawn "en passant" at 5:48? (At least I believe that is how "en passant" works)
I had this today at 06:48 in your video, and followed the guidance, it has taken a LONG time for me to be in this position, but never the less. My opponent moved the queen down and sacrificed it, rather than the bishop. Which still left me in a good position - but I could not smother. I took the sacrifice, and then played the knight around. I ended up taking a few more pieces and disrupted the game enough for him to resign, bu you say in the video the opponent has to move the bishop. They dont - they can offer the Queen which is a nice get out.
Just realised - now I have said that, I could have taken the queen with my knight, fair play. Lesson learnt.
In minute 7:46 am I overlooking it or can Queen take black knght?
Your 3rd trap is so deadly. If you use it in real fight It's surely win
Timestamps please
@@kurt2971 4:00
At 7:12 is there a response if white captures with the bishop?
Then the trap continues but itd be weaker right? Considering the objective of moving the knight there is to take the rook
At 8:00 you can avoid a checkmate by taking the knight with queen followed by defending the king with bishop
Ya but you lose the queen which is basically a won game anyway
I went to school, challenged my classmate, obliterated him with the trap. Thanks
@Rahkz explain
@@pingu9738 white plays f3 black plays e5 white plays g4 black plays queen h4 check mate
@@pcstarter5378 also called fool's trap
Which trap did you use?
Which grade?
Your videos are great man. Helping me alot more
great vid..plus they are all for common openings so should have many opportunities to use..now only if i could remember them
wow, it looks so simple and I never tried this kind of traps. Really stunning and thanks for sharing this with us. Keep up your great work and vids. Cheers :)
This is a great volg ! Your explanations are delivered in a slow understandable manner. Thank you very much
Happy to hear that!
You can find the text transcript of this video and download the PGN of all these traps (also Trap-4 is analyzed in greater details) here - goo.gl/dZdBJ6
11:09 why does the Knight has to go back? Why not move Kh4? Later you could place Kf5 to check and take the queen.
Marvellous, thank you for this. :)
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At 6:30 how is the most natural move to take that pawn when you know you can just jump to G4 and block the queen from getting the pawn and have your own white queen defending the knight? Doesnt that just shot the whole thing down
Wow amazaing a lesson by Igor Smirnov 😎😎😎
seems to be the BEST opening selection I've seen & heard without a lot of EXTRANEOUS BLATHER!!!! I'll check your other vids when I practice these
I have a question, where you put white in check with the knight he can take your knight with the queen and block your next check in the corner with his bishop.. What would you recommend doing if that happens?
I would most likely take your knight with my queen instead of moving my King, please feel free to tell me if there is something I have overlooked..
Awesome video, thank you.
Glad you liked it!
ALWAYS analyze it yourself with stockfish. Because for example in 3rd trap opponent may take pawn with bishop, check. What you gonna do?
Look at lines when opponent plays best moves, not only suggested by whoever.
Nobodeh DontNeedToKnow every player can suddenly play best move.
Nobodeh DontNeedToKnow Bxf7 is the second most obvious move in that position. Black will get the piece at the cost of two pawns and losing castling. That is a bad trap.
1. Bxf7+ Ke7 and the attack continues. What exactly are you worried about?
Alpha Zero be like NOOO DONT USE STOOKFISH
Oh you mean cheat and use a f*cking engine to do your thinking for you? Computers have ruined Chess and taken the mystique out of the game. It just goes to show that humans are Cheaters and Liars before anything else. Sorry just the harsh truth. All the top players go racing off to their little engines to find the best move in any variation, then remember the line. They ALL cheat, every last one of them.
This is a great video! Will use these traps. Even inspired me to post some of my own chess games on my channel. Keep up the good work!
Nice chess videos!
At 7:48 you said the King has to move to F1 to escape check, but technically the white could capture the Knight on C2 (forcing black to recapture with his queen) and then white could bring knight to C3, opening the rook to defend the bishop and the bishop guards the pawns and the pawns guard the knight
But you are down a queen. And by the way the knight on h8 is trappef
Santiago Rodriguez I agree that it’s a losing position. But still better than a forced checkmate
It is a LOST position.
@@santiagorodriguez2940 STILL better than a check mate.
The idea of this is that white sees that the obvious Qxc2 doesn't work (Of course) so he tries Kf1. It's not a matter of which line is "less lost" than the other line, is a matter of avoiding falling from this altogether
@6:28. The trap does not work for me because white can go bishop f7 checking your king hence breaking the trap.
Well, after Kd8. White can't protect Knight and g2 pawn. So white has to give up his knight to be in the game. There is no risk for you as black in that position.
This is the best video ever seen, thanks a lot I can see myself as a winner before even I use it.
Thank you for this video 👌🏼
Thank you 👍👍
Thank you too
Good Job Man... Nice video.
4:49
I’m confused: why did pawn not kill knight during that time? Killing the knight with the pawn would kinda make sense
That would put him in check, the queen on e2 has it pinned
@@Zafe7 ohhhhh ok ✅
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17:32 instead of capturing f7 pawn immediately, white can play Qa5+ and if black plays Qc7, white can now capture f7 pawn with check. black is forced to play Kd7 then white takes Q on c7 with check and black retakes with king. then white can take rook on h8. basically the same thing but ends up with black having his white square bishop still undeveloped.
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You are making me feel like an idiot chess player because I haven't considered your traps. They are so stealthy and execution seems simple and non-threatening!!
Thanks for this great video. I am learning to play, and today will be watching the tournament going on in St Louis. These openings can help a very new beginner to see the bigger picture.
Nicely presented!
In 6:20 what if Knight go to G4? That's the end? And what if Bxf7 ?
Albert Wijaya - my thought exactly
Albert Wijaya - perhaps after Ng4, white could respond with Nxc2, forking King and rook, then after Qxc2, black Qxg4. Material is at least equal
Ng4 will be answered with h5 and you are worse if not losing. Bxf7 Kd8 you lose a piece (if you play Bxg8 Qxg2 Rf1 Qxe4+ Qe2 Qxe2#) so you most likely have to give up a knight with short castling
Matti Kauppinen if h5 and the ne3 what next move? Sorry im beggining chess
mas Aip imoet I dunno what I was thinking saying h5 but d5 attacks your bishop and knight at the same time :)
h5 Ne3 is perfectly fine for white.
7:48 why the queen not capture the knight and then if black queen check white can just block with bishop???
It’s a free queen 👑
This was a great video!
Thank you for making it! ^~^
Nice tricks! Very helpful.
@15:15 "makin FOCK with ur knight" xD but srsly, really nice video its been pretty helpful in some games
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Thanks. Very helpful.
These were some amazing chess moves. Thanks man! Here's to winning many more games in a cool way!
Excellent explanation!
thanks very much. . very useful.. i do really love it. .
Thank you for your video
7:47 white queen can attack black knight to minimise chances of checkmate???
Knight is covered by the queen. If white takes on knight, black would take the queen and therefore be winning
@@lenoogle4894 not at all buddy
See after black knight taken by queen, then black queen takes white queen and after that checkmate chances get reduced
White bishop will defend king from both sides
@@smith00793 It's not about chances of check mate. If black loses the queen without any compensation, white has an easy game (even though it may take more moves) and it's only a matter of time and if you don't know about that, you are probably below 800 rated and can trust the commentator of the video and me on this one
@@lenoogle4894 Though I'm 799 rating...I thought the chances to remove checkmate no matter I've queen or not
At 06:48 you say 'white has to play bishop to E2'. But he could, and surely should and would, move his queen to E2 instead.
Still mate in one: Nf3.
At 6:22 (4th opening) white could just play Ng4 and save both knight and pawn. Or, even worse for black, Bf7. I think this should be a trap for black actually
Wrong. Queen still takes the pawn if knight to g4. Then the rook is still in danger, and when he moves the queen can simply take the knight and be up a minor piece. Any way you play it you’re down material
Pretty nifty tricks .... And, pretty well presented! .....Thanks a bunch!
Very helpful for beginners... Well done.
Thanks a lot sir for the awesome tricks .you are terrific. Love you lot
what do u mean by u are terrific ?!?
Bcoz of the tricks he told about in the video.
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Wow thanks for the nice tips for me to learn the bedt opening.
You are terrific thanks
1:12. What if they block with the queen?
Qxd4 and you are up a knight.
Brilliant, thanks.
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Thank you nice trap and tric
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17:07
Very very useful tricks.. thank you....
Good chess traps 👍
Very nice explanations!
Great lesson... Thanks!
This video is brilliant, thank you. I can’t wait to try them!! 👍
Great video Nice work
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good presentation !! that is a sneaky trap , thanks for the info, i'll check it out !! thanks mister !!
Very Nice, Thank You Very Much
At 6:50 you had your opponent having to play bishop to E-2. Couldn't he have played Q to E-2?
The knight will take the qween
I like the format of showing white side and black side comparative strategies
Best chess video ever made
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At 6:36 u mention white knight goes f7 , what if instead white castles ? All u take is knight
Juan Velez my question is why the hell wouldn’t bishop take f7? Isn’t that checkmate for white?...
In 6:53 white will bring queen and not the bishop , so there will be no mate.....only white will lose queen but black loses knight and rook
Wrong. Knight takes queen, then bishop has to recapture to prevent check, thus leaving the white knight undefended. Then the white king simply takes knight.