im impressed by the very end, when he is comparing the Sicilian with the dutch. few people could identify a contradiction in their own speech while teaching and still have the guts to expose it immediately, explaining the contradiction and honestly stopping to think about the answer this guy, most of all, is a very gifted teacher!!!! *subscribed*
Thanks, Miguel, for taking the time to say that. Nowadays I'm doing my teaching through chessdojo on twitch, youtube, and our own site. Hope you can find me there :)
Fundamentally, I consider myself a 1.d4 player and I'm most comfortable with those type of openings. However, if I am playing somebody much lower rated than myself, I tend to prefer 1.e4 because I think the resulting openings tend to be sharper with more opportunities to make mistakes. The vast majority of opening traps exist in the 1.e4 family of openings.
A year ago I felt this was philosophical gobbledygook. Now that I have become stronger I see how important this subject is. It makes your fight for the central squares so much more comprehensive. Only 14k1 views is a shame. It seems that if people are not spoonfed opening moves, they are not satisfied. But then again, when people are trained to think that first the knights have to move out, then the bishops and "control" the central squares, they are taught to think like robots. Rarely do I encounter a proper follow up provided by masters: the big "secret" is that the fight for the central squares continues when the direct and indirect obvious moves are up, with a concept called "struggle". Once you realize this, suddenly the lights go on and the board is illuminated a little bit better.
Hi! I hope next year's comment won't start "A year ago I felt this wasn't gobbledygook..." Anyway, 14k is great :) To answer your question: the white pawn on e4 prevents black from playing e5-e4 to displace the Nf3.
@@chesscomdpruess When it comes to "gobbledygook", learning chess sure is a journey isn't it? If I would have written a year ago that this video was full of it, I would have apologized now haha! I realized the answer to my query has been given already in the video, so I deleted my comment almost immediately! Yet you managed to read it nevertheless.
Actually, in the Italian, there IS a lot of pressure on e5, not in the sense that the pawn there is "pressured", but in the sense that once that pawn is cleared out of the way with d4 exd4, the e5 push for white becomes a potent threat against the f6 knight.
This is the kind of analysis I make in my head when I play first moves in chess960 aka Fischer Random. What square is secure and what is not? PS. It's cool how you talk about "Jobava" (London) as a serious opening in 2016. I came to know the opening in 2018-2019 from Simon Williams.
Right on! I love chess960 largely because I enjoy doing this kind of thinking, and in "old" chess, at a master level, it's all "figured out" already, so there is no longer much room for that thinking.
interesting, last year i picked up playing chess again after a 15yr break between the age of 18-33.. That 1st season i did really bad with black, and well decent with white.. at that time i never looked into the opening theory.. So in November i decided to get atleast some opening knowledge and other chess strategies, and since then my results has improved massivly.. Just the only issue i got now is, that i do alot better with black instead of white.. im doing better with responding to whites moves, then deciding on which opening to go with as white... Last season i played usually the italian.. This season i made 2 huge mistakes, 1 by trying a kings gambit, before i looked through all the possibilities and my opponent decided to play (without having any opening knowledge himself) a falkland counter gambit. And that was the only variation i didnt look into before trying 2. f4 ... But you do learn the most from such huge mistakes. I looked it up that evening after the match and i wont ever forget about this varation anymore.. Other mistake was after playing 1. e4 e5 2. Kf3 Kc6 3. d4 ... scotch (without knowing what scotch was.. the move 3. d4 just looked appealing) and eventhou according to the theory i played every move correct, so did my opponent and according to the opening theory, you should get the advantage as black in the scotch.. So instead of trying out something that i have no knowledge about, i decided to stick this whole season to 1. d4 .. it seems a safer option (atleast for me) then going with 1. e4 ...
I do not think that black gets the davantage in the scotch. Maybe equality, but that is true for the most openings. 1.d4 may be safer at first but there is much theory too. You can play the Colle or London Systems but they are a little bit dull and boring if you play them as main weapon. 1.c4 is also worth a try.
Do you have any opinion if E4 or D4 is better for chess education, for chess development as a player, for learning tactis. Cause i am a D4 Player and have to ask myself if my learning curve is worse, because i dont study the italien or the ryu lopez as deeply as an E4 Player would. At least i started to play E5 with black after playing the sicilian for a year. Its really hard to decide which openings are best for your evolvement as a chess player. My Set is D4 with White, Nimzo Indian Ragozin against D4 and Knight F3 and E5 / Sicilian against E4, but even between Sicilian and E4 i ask myself in which branch do i learn more as a chess student...can you help me please?
Question. Since the d-pawn on d4 is already defended does that mean that 1...d5 is less active of a reply to 1. d4 compared to 1...Nf6 and compared to answering 1. e4 with 1...e5?
I think main the reason that the dutch is not so popular is, that classic chess theory teaches you that it is not so good to move the f pawn so early because that weakens your kings position. And at lower levels the gambit variations can be dangerous for black and lead to early defeats. At higher levels the positional disadvantages of the dutch (bad bishop) count more. In the Sicilian you often get a good endgame if you survive the opening. This is not so much true for the dutch, which may lead you easily into a bad bishop ending.
Actually, in the Dutch, 2.e4 is great. It's not really a gambit because after 2...fxe4 3.Nc3, black can't hold onto the pawn because 3...d4 falls to 4.Qh5+, and after 3...Nf6, 4.Bg5 continues the pressure because 4...d5 again falls to the same queen check on h5 after 5.Bxf6 exf6 6.Qh5+. Now, the inability to play d5 shows after 4...Nc6 5.d5 striking at the knight.
Basics very well explained.
I wish I´d had a teacher like you 40 years ago.
im impressed by the very end, when he is comparing the Sicilian with the dutch. few people could identify a contradiction in their own speech while teaching and still have the guts to expose it immediately, explaining the contradiction and honestly stopping to think about the answer
this guy, most of all, is a very gifted teacher!!!! *subscribed*
Thanks, Miguel, for taking the time to say that. Nowadays I'm doing my teaching through chessdojo on twitch, youtube, and our own site. Hope you can find me there :)
I play the Sicilian and the Dutch 😊
Some of the things that you tell in this video, are things i've never heard and thought of before. I'd like to thank you for this share. It's gold.
Glad to hear it :)
Fundamentally, I consider myself a 1.d4 player and I'm most comfortable with those type of openings. However, if I am playing somebody much lower rated than myself, I tend to prefer 1.e4 because I think the resulting openings tend to be sharper with more opportunities to make mistakes. The vast majority of opening traps exist in the 1.e4 family of openings.
Love your explanation of move purpose. Very clear for a relative beginner!
good :-)
A year ago I felt this was philosophical gobbledygook. Now that I have become stronger I see how important this subject is. It makes your fight for the central squares so much more comprehensive. Only 14k1 views is a shame. It seems that if people are not spoonfed opening moves, they are not satisfied.
But then again, when people are trained to think that first the knights have to move out, then the bishops and "control" the central squares, they are taught to think like robots.
Rarely do I encounter a proper follow up provided by masters: the big "secret" is that the fight for the central squares continues when the direct and indirect obvious moves are up, with a concept called "struggle". Once you realize this, suddenly the lights go on and the board is illuminated a little bit better.
Hi! I hope next year's comment won't start "A year ago I felt this wasn't gobbledygook..." Anyway, 14k is great :) To answer your question: the white pawn on e4 prevents black from playing e5-e4 to displace the Nf3.
@@chesscomdpruess When it comes to "gobbledygook", learning chess sure is a journey isn't it? If I would have written a year ago that this video was full of it, I would have apologized now haha!
I realized the answer to my query has been given already in the video, so I deleted my comment almost immediately! Yet you managed to read it nevertheless.
This should be a required video for students studying chess openings! Three years late viewing it, but thanks a lot IM David!
You're welcome! Glad you gained something from it :)
@@chesscomdpruess woah, a reply from the man himself! Thank you so much!
I found this lesson very useful too! Thank you master. I'm watching all your videos :)
Actually, in the Italian, there IS a lot of pressure on e5, not in the sense that the pawn there is "pressured", but in the sense that once that pawn is cleared out of the way with d4 exd4, the e5 push for white becomes a potent threat against the f6 knight.
That was and incredibly useful lesson! Thank you very much for this.
Great! :) You are very welcome.
Thank you David, very instructive material that I will now translate to Dutch, for the kids at my chess club :)
Great!
King's Gambit is great because it allows 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 Kh4 threatening black's queen. It's a great shock opening for those not expecting it.
This is the kind of analysis I make in my head when I play first moves in chess960 aka Fischer Random. What square is secure and what is not?
PS. It's cool how you talk about "Jobava" (London) as a serious opening in 2016. I came to know the opening in 2018-2019 from Simon Williams.
Right on! I love chess960 largely because I enjoy doing this kind of thinking, and in "old" chess, at a master level, it's all "figured out" already, so there is no longer much room for that thinking.
interesting, last year i picked up playing chess again after a 15yr break between the age of 18-33.. That 1st season i did really bad with black, and well decent with white.. at that time i never looked into the opening theory..
So in November i decided to get atleast some opening knowledge and other chess strategies, and since then my results has improved massivly..
Just the only issue i got now is, that i do alot better with black instead of white.. im doing better with responding to whites moves, then deciding on which opening to go with as white...
Last season i played usually the italian.. This season i made 2 huge mistakes, 1 by trying a kings gambit, before i looked through all the possibilities and my opponent decided to play (without having any opening knowledge himself) a falkland counter gambit. And that was the only variation i didnt look into before trying 2. f4 ... But you do learn the most from such huge mistakes. I looked it up that evening after the match and i wont ever forget about this varation anymore..
Other mistake was after playing 1. e4 e5 2. Kf3 Kc6 3. d4 ... scotch (without knowing what scotch was.. the move 3. d4 just looked appealing) and eventhou according to the theory i played every move correct, so did my opponent and according to the opening theory, you should get the advantage as black in the scotch..
So instead of trying out something that i have no knowledge about, i decided to stick this whole season to 1. d4 .. it seems a safer option (atleast for me) then going with 1. e4 ...
I do not think that black gets the davantage in the scotch. Maybe equality, but that is true for the most openings. 1.d4 may be safer at first but there is much theory too. You can play the Colle or London Systems but they are a little bit dull and boring if you play them as main weapon. 1.c4 is also worth a try.
Do you have any opinion if E4 or D4 is better for chess education, for chess development as a player, for learning tactis. Cause i am a D4 Player and have to ask myself if my learning curve is worse, because i dont study the italien or the ryu lopez as deeply as an E4 Player would. At least i started to play E5 with black after playing the sicilian for a year. Its really hard to decide which openings are best for your evolvement as a chess player. My Set is D4 with White, Nimzo Indian Ragozin against D4 and Knight F3 and E5 / Sicilian against E4, but even between Sicilian and E4 i ask myself in which branch do i learn more as a chess student...can you help me please?
Thank you David. Very instructive
glad to hear it; you are welcome :)
outstanding sir great contribution to channel awesomeness
in one day I saw 2 lectures they are very interesting
any vidoe on thought process of players like Carlsen Anand wiuld be special
Question. Since the d-pawn on d4 is already defended does that mean that 1...d5 is less active of a reply to 1. d4 compared to 1...Nf6 and compared to answering 1. e4 with 1...e5?
Thank you David!
I think main the reason that the dutch is not so popular is, that classic chess theory teaches you that it is not so good to move the f pawn so early because that weakens your kings position. And at lower levels the gambit variations can be dangerous for black and lead to early defeats. At higher levels the positional disadvantages of the dutch (bad bishop) count more. In the Sicilian you often get a good endgame if you survive the opening. This is not so much true for the dutch, which may lead you easily into a bad bishop ending.
Thank you so much sir. It was very useful for me.
Actually, in the Dutch, 2.e4 is great. It's not really a gambit because after 2...fxe4 3.Nc3, black can't hold onto the pawn because 3...d4 falls to 4.Qh5+, and after 3...Nf6, 4.Bg5 continues the pressure because 4...d5 again falls to the same queen check on h5 after 5.Bxf6 exf6 6.Qh5+. Now, the inability to play d5 shows after 4...Nc6 5.d5 striking at the knight.
London System? Forcing?
Good one.
Is the Adams Attack named after Michael Adams?
Oh, no it's after Weaver W. Adams, an American master known for the claim that 1.e4 is winning.
Awesome. Wonderful.
Super helpful. Yt algorithm help me out!
Gem found
thanks Dale :)
e4 is always better than d4,e4 is my favorite
insanely instructive