SLOW DOWN I GUARANTEE MORE PEOPLE WOULD WATCH UNTIL THE END IF YOU WOULD JUST SLOW DOWN. WE ARE TRYING TO LISTEN AND LEARN. YOU KNOW IT SI YOU THINK ITS SIMPLE. MOVE HERE HERE HERE HERE. SO FAST WE CANT KEEP UP. EVEN IF YOU HAVE EXPLAINED THAT MOVE BEFORE WE JUST LEARNED IT. IT IS NOT RETAINED YET. Please I LOVE WATCHING BUT GET SI FRUSTRATED HAVING TO STOP THE VIDEO OVER AND OVER AND OVER TO REPLAY THOSE 6 MOVES YOU STATED IN 2 SECONDS. MOST OF US ARE TRYING TO ANNOTATE THOSE MOVES TO STUDY THEM SO WE CAN REMEMBER THEM LATER DURING PLAY.
At 12:00 1. Qe6+ Qe7 2. Bd7+ Kf8 (or Kd8) 3. Be3 or 1. Qe6+ Kf8 2. Bd7 fg 3. Rb7 Qf6 4. Qd5 w/ c4, c5, c6 coming while keeping the Black king on the back rank so the rooks can't connect to defend against the advancing P.
@Remote Chess Academy. Looking at time 7:36 in your video. After white Nc3, black does not trade. They play Nb4. This variation seems to throw off whites options for attack. And explanation on this variation seems very interesting.
At 12:00 I play Rfe1. Most of black move, I'll Rxe5+. I can't list all variations but I believe covered all situations. Tell me if black has a way to survive these. Let's see after Rfe1, if black: 1. fxg5 Rxe5+ Bxe5 Qxe5+ if black: 1.1 Qe7 Qxh8+ if black: 1.1.1 Qf8 Re1+ Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Bxe6+ game over by 1 bishop diff and still non stop checks. 1.1.2 Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Bxe6+ Qxe6 Qxa8 game over (black almost counter checkmate!) 1.2 Kf8 Qxh8 Ke7 Qg7+ Kd6 Rd1+ Ke6 Bxd7+ game over 1.3 Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Rxb7+ game over 2. Bxb5 Rxe5+ if black: 2.1 fxe5 Bxd8 game over 2.2 Kf7 Qe6+ Kf8 Bc1! Qa5 Rb3 game over 3. Qe7 Rxe5 Qxe5 Bxd7+ if black: 3.1 Kd8 Qxe5 game over 3.2 Kf7 Be6+ Qxe6 Rxb7+ mate in 2 4. Rg8 Rxe5+ Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Bxe6+ Ke8 Bc4+ fxe5 Bxd8 game over 5. Bf8 Rxe5+ fxe5 Qxe5+ Be7 Qxh8+ Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Qxh7+ Kf8 Bxe6 mate in 1 6. Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Qxe6+ Kf8 Qf7#
Great video! I'm now tempted to play 1.e4!. Eversince i watched your video regarding Italian versus Two Knights game there's not a single white player that moved the antidote 5 or 6.d4 so, until now i'm using that two nights addictively😊! Played maybe like a hundred times?
I started watching your videos about half a year ago and so far I'm up 300+ rating points, love your content man! Was also wondering if you could cover even more additional lines in the bishops opening / tennison gambit as well sometime in the future :).
in my experience the best response to whatever white plays in move 2 - Alapin or Nf3 is 2.g6 - the hyperaccelerated dragon - my absolute favorite opening
11:57 My first tought was Qe6. Black has 2 moves, cover the check with the Queen and after that Qxd7 black queen recaptures Qxd7 and after Bxd7 and Kxd7 White can play Rxb7 gainning the dark squared bishop. However after Qe6 black plays Ke8 neither Bxd7 or Qxd7 doesn't work as after xG5 material is equal,you can still play RxB7 if you played Bxd7 before and White is up a pawn and maybe still has a attack as the rook and queen are both in the 7th rank. Since after Qe6 Ke8 seems a good response and not that winning maybe rook on F to e1 (don't remember the notation for that) seems a good move bringing another piece to the attack and if black is greedy and takes the bishop Rxe5 seems mate in 2.After the move Re1 black doesn't seem to have good moves + you are threatening to take the e5 pawn anyways as the e6 pawn is pinned due to the Queen so Re1 is my final answer. Thank you for putting this type of questions in the video it's a very good tatical trainnig better than AI generated puzzels it's very interesting! Just cheked with the engine Re1 is a big blunder and makes position equal.Ops! Qe6 is the move for anyone wondering!
I love this video - thank you. I always play e4 planning to play the bishop's opening but then I don't know what to do against the Sicilian. This has given me some ideas.
@12:00 white can play Bxf6 taking a pawn and attacking the queen, so black plays Bxf6 taking white bishop. But now, Bxd7+ Qxd7 Qxf6 gets the bishop back and attacks the rook on h8. So Rf8 but now we get another pawn with Qxe5+. Now if Qe7, then we play Qxe7 Kxe7 Rxb7+ winning a third pawn with a check. Or if Kf7, then Rfd1 is pretty strong!
I always play e6 rather than d6 when playing the Sicilian and so do most of my opponents. Do you have any videos on how to respond to e6? Usually I'll play Smith-Morra against the Sicilian, but I'm starting to consider g4 as an alternative response to the Sicilian.
I think if anybody wants to play any offline tournament and they play e4 first thing they should learn is how to counter the sicilian defense. This video sorts the purpose perfectly. Great video quite helpful
12:04 the best move is qe6 if qe7 blocking the check then we can take the bishop with our bishop. So eventually winning a piece will be tesulting in a winning game
Ok. I got Qe6+. The bishop is pinned. So if...Qe6 Then Bxd7+ wins the bishop with tempo. +-. So instead Black's King must move to ...Kf8 and then we win the Bishop. Bxd7. ...fxg4 and Rxb7 and its looking bad for black. Their pawn is super weak on e5. We have a rook on the 7th and blacks rooks are stuck or undeveloped at the moment.
What is funny is when ( like little me ) one plays the ponziani. Same ideas, same traps ... almost. To me it makes sense to play both ( and I like it very much ).
These are all great counters, mostly against Black's pawns. What if after White plays Nf3, Black plays Nf6 (Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein Variation)? How would you counter that?
at 9:10 Black’s Queen can grab the d5 pawn and if Rb1 he can also grab the a2 pawn, which not only leaves him 3 pawns up, but prevents Qa5+. How don’t know how we can say that’s almost winning. Especially against strong opponents.
What does that accomplish?, Qe6 Kf8 then Bxd7, if instead of Kf8 Qd7 trying to block you can take bischop with bischop , he can't take back with king or queen, in all lines you're just up a bischop with soon or late a rook on 7th rank with Rxb7
how i should play as black, Nf6. Don't even have to think about it. .... I got crushed a week ago in a club level match with the moves 2.a3 and 3. b4 ... never saw that gambit before. I realised too late i should have played g6 as my 2nd move
So Black plays 4. Be2 g6! to get his King away from all the action! If 5. 00 then Bg7 6. Bb5+ Nc6 [rather than swapping off his useful bishop with Bd7!]; and probably white tries 7.d4?! How should play continue, I wonder for White?!
► Chapters 00:00 Crush the Sicilian Defense as White 00:38 3.c3 Delayed Alapin Variation 04:04 Why delayed Alapin Variation? 06:05 Deadly traps and tricks 09:15 Key move you should remember 11:47 Can you find the best continuation? 12:05 Final variation
11:57 Bishop takes! can't recap with a Queen coz his light square bishop hangs nor can he recap with his dark square Bishop because of in between move Bishop x Bishop then his dark square bishop hangs
11:56 I couldn't find any crushing idea. Bxf6 Bxf6 bishop takes bishop check queen takes then white Queen takes on f6...Rf8 forced then take on e5 check then I am stuck. I can't see the mate. And a question here, what if I go d5 after C3...you played delayed alapin so I thought Playing delayed d5??
If you go 3...d5 with black, you have wasted a tempo. White hasn't because in most regular Open Alapin lines they play Nf3 soon anyway. Black would be playing the Alapin basically a full tempo down.
Delayed Alapin has much more theory than standard Alapin, due to the different replies black can play in move second move.. There are 2...d6 (Modern) 2...Nc6 (Old) 2...e6 (French) 2...g6 (Hyper accelerated dragon) 2...h6 (Bucker) 2...Nf6 (Nimzowitsch) 2...b6 (Katalimov) 2...a6 (O'Kelly). But if you check with database, the most common replies by black in move 2 are; d6 modern , Nc6 Old, and e6 French. The rest are very rare, only played 1-4% of all games. That means focus should be on the three most common replies. For example, if black plays 2..e6 it can continue as 3.c3 d5 4.exd5 exd5 5.d4 Nc6 6.Bb5 Nf6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Bg5 0-0 and White is totally fine.
I know it's quite a common practice in the US to call the opponent for "they", but I never get used to regard an opponent as a multitude of players. Is it in order to avoid gender issues that this strange habit has formed? Or is it some kind of weird imitation of for example the Spanish, where we have las blancas y las negras, both of which work perfectly fine in that language but sound odd, to say the least, when applied as "they" to an Anglo-Saxon linguistic context.
This is not chess-specific. Society is moving to They in all contexts where the gender is not known or specific. In an internet world full of anonymity it makes sense.
@@leoblum0631 Actually, your example points out the necessity of a gender neutral possessive pronoun. How else would one reference the unknown person who left their umbrella? (See? -- that sounded perfectly fine!) Would you say, "someone has left his or her umbrella?" Now THAT'S clumsy! So I think the word "their" is perfectly suited for use in this new world of ours. Come to think of it,, the word "they" in reference to an unknown, but singular person also 'sounds right' to my native English speaking brain, as in "Where did that person go? THEY left their umbrella..." So I think the most awkward usage, and one that I personally stumble over, is the new fangled use of "they" as a replacement for the (singular) pronouns "he" or "she," when a single person being referenced is KNOWN, as in the example, "Did THEY bring you your drink yet?" which (still) sounds to me like the person asking that question is referencing any/all of a restaurant staff, instead of a single "wait-person" 😉
Who do you intend to fool with these cheap tricks? This may work below 1500, but then you will just have to face more subtle and correct repsonses. I do not consider this opening a big threat. P.s.: Seeing a GM talk about opponents overlooking such cheap tricks sounds wrong.
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SLOW DOWN I GUARANTEE MORE PEOPLE WOULD WATCH UNTIL THE END IF YOU WOULD JUST SLOW DOWN. WE ARE TRYING TO LISTEN AND LEARN. YOU KNOW IT SI YOU THINK ITS SIMPLE. MOVE HERE HERE HERE HERE. SO FAST WE CANT KEEP UP. EVEN IF YOU HAVE EXPLAINED THAT MOVE BEFORE WE JUST LEARNED IT. IT IS NOT RETAINED YET. Please I LOVE WATCHING BUT GET SI FRUSTRATED HAVING TO STOP THE VIDEO OVER AND OVER AND OVER TO REPLAY THOSE 6 MOVES YOU STATED IN 2 SECONDS. MOST OF US ARE TRYING TO ANNOTATE THOSE MOVES TO STUDY THEM SO WE CAN REMEMBER THEM LATER DURING PLAY.
At 12:00
1. Qe6+ Qe7
2. Bd7+ Kf8 (or Kd8)
3. Be3
or
1. Qe6+ Kf8
2. Bd7 fg
3. Rb7 Qf6
4. Qd5 w/ c4, c5, c6 coming while keeping the Black king on the back rank so the rooks can't connect to defend against the advancing P.
That final variation with the bishops and queen attacking the black king looks amazing!
@Remote Chess Academy. Looking at time 7:36 in your video. After white Nc3, black does not trade. They play Nb4.
This variation seems to throw off whites options for attack. And explanation on this variation seems very interesting.
At 12:00 I play Rfe1. Most of black move, I'll Rxe5+. I can't list all variations but I believe covered all situations. Tell me if black has a way to survive these. Let's see after Rfe1, if black:
1. fxg5 Rxe5+ Bxe5 Qxe5+ if black:
1.1 Qe7 Qxh8+ if black:
1.1.1 Qf8 Re1+ Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Bxe6+ game over by 1 bishop diff and still non stop checks.
1.1.2 Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Bxe6+ Qxe6 Qxa8 game over (black almost counter checkmate!)
1.2 Kf8 Qxh8 Ke7 Qg7+ Kd6 Rd1+ Ke6 Bxd7+ game over
1.3 Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Rxb7+ game over
2. Bxb5 Rxe5+ if black:
2.1 fxe5 Bxd8 game over
2.2 Kf7 Qe6+ Kf8 Bc1! Qa5 Rb3 game over
3. Qe7 Rxe5 Qxe5 Bxd7+ if black:
3.1 Kd8 Qxe5 game over
3.2 Kf7 Be6+ Qxe6 Rxb7+ mate in 2
4. Rg8 Rxe5+ Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Bxe6+ Ke8 Bc4+ fxe5 Bxd8 game over
5. Bf8 Rxe5+ fxe5 Qxe5+ Be7 Qxh8+ Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Qxh7+ Kf8 Bxe6 mate in 1
6. Kf7 Bc4+ Be6 Qxe6+ Kf8 Qf7#
I got to 1768 from 1127 in 3 months just by watching and practicing regularly from your videos
Did you use engine to reach 1768 points?
@@rajkishoremahato5173 no but I practice with chess engines a lot
Is this a diss?
@@christobobbo5575 "to" "from".
1768 what? FIDE, lichess, USCF? It’s still a crazy progress. Congratulations!
Great video! I'm now tempted to play 1.e4!. Eversince i watched your video regarding Italian versus Two Knights game there's not a single white player that moved the antidote 5 or 6.d4 so, until now i'm using that two nights addictively😊! Played maybe like a hundred times?
Tnk u for all. 👍👍👍👍
I started watching your videos about half a year ago and so far I'm up 300+ rating points, love your content man! Was also wondering if you could cover even more additional lines in the bishops opening / tennison gambit as well sometime in the future :).
Thank you for this, Igor. I have been struggling with the Smith-Morra Gambit lately and wanted a new weapon. This is perfect.
in my experience the best response to whatever white plays in move 2 - Alapin or Nf3 is 2.g6 - the hyperaccelerated dragon - my absolute favorite opening
Against ...2 d6, there is also the very sharp Ginsberg Gambit : 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Bc4 Nxe4 6. Qh5 e6 7. Bb5+ Bd7 8. Nxe6
11:57 My first tought was Qe6. Black has 2 moves, cover the check with the Queen and after that Qxd7 black queen recaptures Qxd7 and after Bxd7 and Kxd7 White can play Rxb7 gainning the dark squared bishop. However after Qe6 black plays Ke8 neither Bxd7 or Qxd7 doesn't work as after xG5 material is equal,you can still play RxB7 if you played Bxd7 before and White is up a pawn and maybe still has a attack as the rook and queen are both in the 7th rank. Since after Qe6 Ke8 seems a good response and not that winning maybe rook on F to e1 (don't remember the notation for that) seems a good move bringing another piece to the attack and if black is greedy and takes the bishop Rxe5 seems mate in 2.After the move Re1 black doesn't seem to have good moves + you are threatening to take the e5 pawn anyways as the e6 pawn is pinned due to the Queen so Re1 is my final answer. Thank you for putting this type of questions in the video it's a very good tatical trainnig better than AI generated puzzels it's very interesting! Just cheked with the engine Re1 is a big blunder and makes position equal.Ops! Qe6 is the move for anyone wondering!
I love this video - thank you. I always play e4 planning to play the bishop's opening but then I don't know what to do against the Sicilian. This has given me some ideas.
Absolutely 👌
Thank you, GM Smirnoff! Interesting and challenging as always.
@12:00 white can play Bxf6 taking a pawn and attacking the queen, so black plays Bxf6 taking white bishop.
But now, Bxd7+ Qxd7 Qxf6 gets the bishop back and attacks the rook on h8. So Rf8 but now we get another pawn with Qxe5+.
Now if Qe7, then we play Qxe7 Kxe7 Rxb7+ winning a third pawn with a check. Or if Kf7, then Rfd1 is pretty strong!
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Your rating bro?😊
@@bggines_1260 1650 on Lichess. I play as a hobby.
Isnt Qe6+ better? After Kf8, you can take the bishop on d7 cuz the king moved away.
@@honeymaomao Qe6+ fxe6 Bxd8 Rxd8 and you lose a bishop after the queen exchange!
Very informative. Practise makes perfect
to implement that in my game now thank you so much my friend
Dear GM Smirnov..it will be much more useful if you can show the correct moves from black side also
I always play e6 rather than d6 when playing the Sicilian and so do most of my opponents. Do you have any videos on how to respond to e6? Usually I'll play Smith-Morra against the Sicilian, but I'm starting to consider g4 as an alternative response to the Sicilian.
My elo was 1600, after following your videos and learning i got to 1000 🙂👍
Thanks sir for all your videos
I think if anybody wants to play any offline tournament and they play e4 first thing they should learn is how to counter the sicilian defense. This video sorts the purpose perfectly. Great video quite helpful
12:04 the best move is qe6 if qe7 blocking the check then we can take the bishop with our bishop. So eventually winning a piece will be tesulting in a winning game
I started watching your videos last year, my rating was 500, now a year later, I'm at an 850 and climbing
Ok. I got Qe6+. The bishop is pinned. So if...Qe6 Then Bxd7+ wins the bishop with tempo. +-. So instead Black's King must move to ...Kf8 and then we win the Bishop. Bxd7. ...fxg4 and Rxb7 and its looking bad for black. Their pawn is super weak on e5. We have a rook on the 7th and blacks rooks are stuck or undeveloped at the moment.
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Very helpful
I normally play ponziani so this should be easy to remember, cuz similar traps
Bxf6, followed by Bxf6, followed by Bxd7, Qxd7 and then Qxf6, winning a pawn.
Very solid and instructive
This opening is already what I play against 2. d6 in the Sicilian, so it was great to learn a few extra traps and attacking ideas!
I played delayed Alapin and won a game in a tournament against a FIDE rated player. Really wonderful. Thank you Igor
Re1, Qe6 12:01
Great video! excellent.
1. Qe6+ Kf8 2. Bxd7 Qe7 3. Rxb7 fxg5 4. Qb3
Excellent🥰🥰🥰
Qe6+ Qe7(Block); Bd7+ Kd8 or Kf8; Ideas; Rxb7, Rook to D1
What is funny is when ( like little me ) one plays the ponziani. Same ideas, same traps ... almost. To me it makes sense to play both ( and I like it very much ).
These are all great counters, mostly against Black's pawns. What if after White plays Nf3, Black plays Nf6 (Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein Variation)? How would you counter that?
Just e5 kick the Knight and you are already better.
Such a venomous opening. I'll try it out.
Hey igor can u do a lesson about the rosslimo attack and the grand pix againat sicilian
noticed a way to play Bc4 instead of Be2 1) e4 c5 2) Nf3 d6 3) c3 Nf6 4) Bc4 Nxe4 5) Qa4ch Bd7 6) Bxf7ch KxB 7) QxN
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Bxf6!
What happens in the third move black plays e4
10 :51 exchange or kill the king
Does anyone have any aggressive recommendations if black plays 2. e6?
12:00 Qe6+
Qe6+
The answer is Qe6 if black plays Qe7 then bishop x bishop.
at 9:10 Black’s Queen can grab the d5 pawn and if Rb1 he can also grab the a2 pawn, which not only leaves him 3 pawns up, but prevents Qa5+. How don’t know how we can say that’s almost winning. Especially against strong opponents.
D5 is protected by the white queen?
If you take any of these pawns you lose also d5 is defended by the queen
what is this chess software??
12:02 is the variation Bxd7 ? trade off the pieces and ending up with a Rook on the 2nd rank ?
What does that accomplish?, Qe6 Kf8 then Bxd7, if instead of Kf8 Qd7 trying to block you can take bischop with bischop , he can't take back with king or queen, in all lines you're just up a bischop with soon or late a rook on 7th rank with Rxb7
Qe6+ puzzle at 12:00 is my answer..
Once he done on the video c3 I knowed the opening it is called ponziani
Or pawnziani
Ponziani is slightly is different u play c3 as well but different setup
how i should play as black, Nf6. Don't even have to think about it. .... I got crushed a week ago in a club level match with the moves 2.a3 and 3. b4 ... never saw that gambit before. I realised too late i should have played g6 as my 2nd move
So Black plays 4. Be2 g6! to get his King away from all the action! If 5. 00 then Bg7 6. Bb5+ Nc6 [rather than swapping off his useful bishop with Bd7!]; and probably white tries 7.d4?! How should play continue, I wonder for White?!
► Chapters
00:00 Crush the Sicilian Defense as White
00:38 3.c3 Delayed Alapin Variation
04:04 Why delayed Alapin Variation?
06:05 Deadly traps and tricks
09:15 Key move you should remember
11:47 Can you find the best continuation?
12:05 Final variation
nice
Delayed Alapin, looks like a strange Ponziani..:) no?
Bxf6
11:57 Bishop takes! can't recap with a Queen coz his light square bishop hangs nor can he recap with his dark square Bishop because of in between move Bishop x Bishop then his dark square bishop hangs
I enjoyed your video. my name is Sean. want to play sometime on lichess? What's your name there?
11:56 I couldn't find any crushing idea. Bxf6 Bxf6 bishop takes bishop check queen takes then white Queen takes on f6...Rf8 forced then take on e5 check then I am stuck. I can't see the mate.
And a question here, what if I go d5 after C3...you played delayed alapin so I thought Playing delayed d5??
If you go 3...d5 with black, you have wasted a tempo. White hasn't because in most regular Open Alapin lines they play Nf3 soon anyway. Black would be playing the Alapin basically a full tempo down.
as black at 9:37 in the video, would it be a mistake to take the pawn on A2 with the queen?
yes, big mistake.. 1. ... Qxa2 2. Bb5+ Kd8 3. Be3 Qa5 4. c4
Qe6 check
It's Bxd7+!
14:30 Bc6 check! lol ouch :(
Rd1
Is this is ponziani opening!
Is that cat alive? He is always there.
Igor, I hope that ginger cat is aliveeeee, I've never seen it moving...?!
Rf-d1
not really.. 1. Rfd1 Bxb5 2. Qe6+ Qe7 3. Qxe7+ Kxe7 4. Rxb5 b6 5. Be3 Rhd8
qe6+
There are so many openings that can transpose into a "sicilian", though.
Feed two birds with one scone
Of course none of these lines work against 2...e6, after which you get fairly standard Alapin variations.
Delayed Alapin has much more theory than standard Alapin, due to the different replies black can play in move second move.. There are 2...d6 (Modern) 2...Nc6 (Old) 2...e6 (French) 2...g6 (Hyper accelerated dragon) 2...h6 (Bucker) 2...Nf6 (Nimzowitsch) 2...b6 (Katalimov) 2...a6 (O'Kelly). But if you check with database, the most common replies by black in move 2 are; d6 modern , Nc6 Old, and e6 French. The rest are very rare, only played 1-4% of all games. That means focus should be on the three most common replies. For example, if black plays 2..e6 it can continue as 3.c3 d5 4.exd5 exd5 5.d4 Nc6 6.Bb5 Nf6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Bg5 0-0 and White is totally fine.
Beshop take besop
Really like your videos, great job (and hope you make a killing out of them $$$)
Oh bro, I have always been playing this opening against black and now they are gonna know what to respond frick sake :(
SLOW DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your video is from White's perspective.
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I know it's quite a common practice in the US to call the opponent for "they", but I never get used to regard an opponent as a multitude of players. Is it in order to avoid gender issues that this strange habit has formed? Or is it some kind of weird imitation of for example the Spanish, where we have las blancas y las negras, both of which work perfectly fine in that language but sound odd, to say the least, when applied as "they" to an Anglo-Saxon linguistic context.
This is not chess-specific. Society is moving to They in all contexts where the gender is not known or specific. In an internet world full of anonymity it makes sense.
@@abj136 Not to me, and particularly not as far as chess is concerned.
It's basic english grammar. "They" is a pronoun used to refer to multiple people or to a single person of unspecified gender.
@@trustdnb I know: "Someone has forgotten their umbrella", etc. Don't like it. Clumsy.
@@leoblum0631 Actually, your example points out the necessity of a gender neutral possessive pronoun. How else would one reference the unknown person who left their umbrella? (See? -- that sounded perfectly fine!) Would you say, "someone has left his or her umbrella?" Now THAT'S clumsy! So I think the word "their" is perfectly suited for use in this new world of ours. Come to think of it,, the word "they" in reference to an unknown, but singular person also 'sounds right' to my native English speaking brain, as in "Where did that person go? THEY left their umbrella..." So I think the most awkward usage, and one that I personally stumble over, is the new fangled use of "they" as a replacement for the (singular) pronouns "he" or "she," when a single person being referenced is KNOWN, as in the example, "Did THEY bring you your drink yet?" which (still) sounds to me like the person asking that question is referencing any/all of a restaurant staff, instead of a single "wait-person" 😉
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Who do you intend to fool with these cheap tricks? This may work below 1500, but then you will just have to face more subtle and correct repsonses. I do not consider this opening a big threat. P.s.: Seeing a GM talk about opponents overlooking such cheap tricks sounds wrong.
Qe6+