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► Chapters 00:00 Best Chess Opening for White, Win More Games in 2024 00:27 Drawback of the Danish Gambit 01:34 Scotch Game: Goring Gambit, Double Pawn Sacrifice 02:58 Surprising move discomforts Black's position 04:30 Brilliant combination wins the game for White 05:07 If Black plays Nxd5 instead of Nxe4 07:13 If Black avoids cxb2 09:03 Achieve your chess goals in 2023
Messed up a bit in the order but fell back on my feet ^^ I've tried it on a couple games and it's definitely a fun opening, thank you for your content! [Termination "senzaaa a gagné par abandon"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. c3 dxc3 6. O-O Bc5 7. Nxc3 O-O 8. Nd5 a6 9. b3 Nxe4 10. Bb2 b5 11. Bd3 Ng5 12. Nf6+ gxf6 13. Nxg5 fxg5 14. Bxh7+ Kxh7 15. Qh5+ 1-0
Insightful! Ironically just yesterday I was really getting an understanding behind the fianchettoed bishop, how lethal it is and you displayed that well with this classical e4 opening.
I'm a 1550 at 14, trying to branch out my openings. Watched a few videos of yours, and dang. I'm definitely subscribing man! I'm competing for a leadership position in my school chess team, and you're helping!! Appreciate this content
Thank you GM Smirnov, was looking for an Opening against 1.e4 that i can feel comfortable with and also that i could understand the positions reached, The Sicilians I've tried out they don't work for me neither 1.e4 e5...i never really liked those positions that those openings produced...so down the line i went and neither the Caro Kann nor the Center Counter seems right but this opening you showed us is just great, i can grasp what I'm suppose to do and what to play for, you are a born chess teacher and very underrated in my opinion!, thank you again Merry Christmas and a happy new year even though Christmas has come and gone already, God Bless!👍
I've been playing the Goring Gambit regularly for 50 years. It is my favorite opening as white. The position you show at 7:45 happens at least as often as them taking the second gambit pawn, ,if you consider their last move e6 as being equivalent to h6. I treat them interchangeably, for two reasons. First, the line I respond to it with, O-O, almost always causes them to do the other move, transposing and making it not matter which move order they choose. O-O and Qb3 are extremely similar in strength in the "grandmaster or engine" sense, but Qb3 alerts the opponent to danger more quickly. If in the position you show, my O-O provokes h6, and in fact for most other responses, I play Re1, to delay Qb3 one more move. It leads to many fewer lines I need to know, and that 3-move combo is as strong as anything coming out of lines from playing Qb3 immediately. Different opponents may grab the second pawn at any point along the way, and when they don't, you at some point need to take it. While there are specific cases where taking it with the queen is good, playing my move order (O-O Re1 Qb3) happens to prevent me from taking it with the queen in situations where it should be taken with the knight. The older I get, the fewer tricky things I have to remember, the better. It is rare to find someone who plays very precisely against the Goring Gambit, and I actually enjoy it when they do. More commonly, they fall into traps in predictable ways. In just my last 6 online games as white, I've had mates on move 10 and move 7 using the Goring against opponents my strength (1300s). That's unusually fast. One had fallen into a terrible trap, found the key move to escape it, then blundered by not making the followup move that was the only reason to have made the key move. He missed seeing that it was mate in one, versus escaping the trap down a little material but setting a trap I've fallen into myself one time, never again. It's a fun, beautiful opening. If you play it often, you'll find recurring themes in your games, showing you what the possible "great moves" and "brilliant moves" in similar but different situations tend to look like. Since watching your video on the Rousseau Gambit as black, that has become my most commonly played opening as black after white plays e4. I'm surprised at how many people play the Italian as white, and how many are taken by surprise with the Rousseau. Now if I can just stop opponents from playing d4, I'll be happy, though I do well against it.
I've only just started to play chess regularly and learn the game properly and the rabbit hole I'm now in is fantastic! Thank you for these videos and merry christmas (or other celebrated holiday!)
I think someone tried this position against me. I think so because their position in game looked very similar to this. At first I thought they were aiming for some weird scholar's mate trick. I declined the gambit and played in such a way where I used my knights to prevent their bishop from going to certain squares. And they ended up with such a messy opening. I could be wrong, but the position in this video just looks very similar to something i've experienced before in a game..
Thanks for this, and all the amazing lessons in 2022!! They have made such a difference in my game ...and maybe they will be able to help me beat my son in a game someday!!! Keeping you and your loved ones in our thoughts!!
Usually they don't take the pawn on move 3, but that made me study the scotch which isnt too bad. Had great success with this if they do take though! So much fun playing this variation
if they dont take the pawn on move 3 then youre probably gonna have a good time, push your pawn to d5 and kick their knight away, you have a strong centre their knight will probably not be in a great position
Hello, everyone! I wanna share with you one interesting fact! I d been playing chess for a year, but I really played it: I analysed every single game, watched a lot of streams, chess youtubers. My rating was about 800. Recently I've started playing there (cause before I had a kind of fear of loosing), but surprisingly I reached 1600 easily. It happened 3 weeks ago. I had been sitting there before I lost the access to my account. After I made new one, and I had to go through some kind of calibration. VERY surprisingly It went okay. Firstly, it was hard, because the rating was about 1600. But I won. After, a very strange thing happened. At 1800 my opponents started to miss mate in 1! As the calibration gives you a lot of points, I went through 1800 with only 2 games. After that, there were normal games, one was very hard (I lost, I ran out of time), but others I won by their silly mistakes. Now I am 1971. Guys and Igor (if he reads it), I don't think that this is my rating, but at the same time it seems very fairly, cause I didn't cheat (of course). I don't know what to think. I won against the opponent with rating 2047. I saw it only in TH-cam videos. How do you think, am I so smart or it's just luck? Also, I want to thank Igor for his videos. I won 1 game using his trap (I mean that the opponent didn't notice it and couldn't handle after). That's all. Thanks all. I am gonna keep you in touch in next Igor's videos (lol)
I've been using this to great success. People just don't seem to know this line. They don't like taking all three pawns usually, but it doesn't matter all that much, because I get developed so much faster than them anyway. This is pure gold at my level of chess (don't ask I'm not gonna tell my rating).
just started playing again after a 50 year gap and I'm finding your videos very inspiring and helpful thank you. However could someone please explain to me why black castles instead of taking the undefended free pawn ?
Thanks for the video! Any suggestions if they take your knight on C3 in the opening sequence? Then you loose the advantage of being able to move to D5.
Hi. I was wondering what the solution might be if the black knight goes 5A after white develops the two bishops and castling. This disrupts the whole strategy. Thank you.
This is all great, except that after I moved pawn to D4, they didn't capture it. They move their pawn to D6, opening up the diagonal for their bishop and can now pin my F3 knight on their next move, unless I go pawn to H3. That kind of changes things doesn't it?
What do I do next if Black's opening reply to my opening E4 is Knighg to f6? I had asked similar question in a previous video and somebody said "you must not have watched entire video" and they were right..but I don't think he shows what to do when opponent (black) doesn't start with their pawn to e5?
I'm loving your videos Igor thank you. Though when you suggest black knight takes e4 and a bad option. Surely that knight can be defended by the queen sliding over to e8 in the next move, meaning it can't then be taken? Is there are solution for that?
Everyone please go to 3:52 What do you do if after you move that white square bishop, your opponent moves his F pawn to the 5th rank, defending the knight. PLEASE AND THANK YOU
This is helpful, somewhat...., but at 1:26, after Nf6, white can play Bf7, followed by Qb3. Isn't this line more successful? I always play like this to whoever bites and take my d and c pawns. This is what I was looking for - /watch?v=Nd7ZiSvdwN8&t=1560s. This person covers everything. A bit of surprised that you were satisfied with just a line, but that's ok. Now I can study more what's left of it.
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Igor you are a gift to the new generation of chess players. This content is so valuable and for you to pump out amazing videos for free is so honorable. Thank you sir .
Agreed! For years I’ve not grown in my game. Always lost. Now I can try fun effective tactics and learn to attack and prevent them. Thank you !
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► Chapters
00:00 Best Chess Opening for White, Win More Games in 2024
00:27 Drawback of the Danish Gambit
01:34 Scotch Game: Goring Gambit, Double Pawn Sacrifice
02:58 Surprising move discomforts Black's position
04:30 Brilliant combination wins the game for White
05:07 If Black plays Nxd5 instead of Nxe4
07:13 If Black avoids cxb2
09:03 Achieve your chess goals in 2023
What's Christmas without Igor's great chess content 🤝🏿
Probably christmas🙃
Christmas is the day our savior was born
Merry Christmas, Igor. Thanks for your dedication to chess and helping us getting better ❤️
Happy holidays!
Messed up a bit in the order but fell back on my feet ^^
I've tried it on a couple games and it's definitely a fun opening, thank you for your content!
[Termination "senzaaa a gagné par abandon"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. c3 dxc3 6. O-O Bc5 7. Nxc3 O-O 8.
Nd5 a6 9. b3 Nxe4 10. Bb2 b5 11. Bd3 Ng5 12. Nf6+ gxf6 13. Nxg5 fxg5 14. Bxh7+
Kxh7 15. Qh5+ 1-0
Insightful! Ironically just yesterday I was really getting an understanding behind the fianchettoed bishop, how lethal it is and you displayed that well with this classical e4 opening.
I'm a 1550 at 14, trying to branch out my openings. Watched a few videos of yours, and dang. I'm definitely subscribing man! I'm competing for a leadership position in my school chess team, and you're helping!! Appreciate this content
Good luck man 👍
That’s low, but you are probably just a beginner! Goodluck!
@@lou7284he is litterally 14 bro
I’m curious, what would you do if black plays Qf6 after blocking black with Nc3? Great video! Cheers, all. Forgive my amateur question.
Thank you GM Smirnov, was looking for an Opening against 1.e4 that i can feel comfortable with and also that i could understand the positions reached, The Sicilians I've tried out they don't work for me neither 1.e4 e5...i never really liked those positions that those openings produced...so down the line i went and neither the Caro Kann nor the Center Counter seems right but this opening you showed us is just great, i can grasp what I'm suppose to do and what to play for, you are a born chess teacher and very underrated in my opinion!, thank you again Merry Christmas and a happy new year even though Christmas has come and gone already, God Bless!👍
I'm glad the video was insightful and thank you so much for your nice wishes!
i tried this on Lichess. 95% of the people do not follow the black moves AT ALL. and things turn very messy quickly!
True😂😂😂😂 u just hv to play you...!
I've been playing the Goring Gambit regularly for 50 years. It is my favorite opening as white. The position you show at 7:45 happens at least as often as them taking the second gambit pawn, ,if you consider their last move e6 as being equivalent to h6. I treat them interchangeably, for two reasons. First, the line I respond to it with, O-O, almost always causes them to do the other move, transposing and making it not matter which move order they choose. O-O and Qb3 are extremely similar in strength in the "grandmaster or engine" sense, but Qb3 alerts the opponent to danger more quickly. If in the position you show, my O-O provokes h6, and in fact for most other responses, I play Re1, to delay Qb3 one more move. It leads to many fewer lines I need to know, and that 3-move combo is as strong as anything coming out of lines from playing Qb3 immediately. Different opponents may grab the second pawn at any point along the way, and when they don't, you at some point need to take it. While there are specific cases where taking it with the queen is good, playing my move order (O-O Re1 Qb3) happens to prevent me from taking it with the queen in situations where it should be taken with the knight. The older I get, the fewer tricky things I have to remember, the better.
It is rare to find someone who plays very precisely against the Goring Gambit, and I actually enjoy it when they do. More commonly, they fall into traps in predictable ways. In just my last 6 online games as white, I've had mates on move 10 and move 7 using the Goring against opponents my strength (1300s). That's unusually fast. One had fallen into a terrible trap, found the key move to escape it, then blundered by not making the followup move that was the only reason to have made the key move. He missed seeing that it was mate in one, versus escaping the trap down a little material but setting a trap I've fallen into myself one time, never again.
It's a fun, beautiful opening. If you play it often, you'll find recurring themes in your games, showing you what the possible "great moves" and "brilliant moves" in similar but different situations tend to look like.
Since watching your video on the Rousseau Gambit as black, that has become my most commonly played opening as black after white plays e4. I'm surprised at how many people play the Italian as white, and how many are taken by surprise with the Rousseau. Now if I can just stop opponents from playing d4, I'll be happy, though I do well against it.
i totally agree w the last paragraph
Bro 💀
I've only just started to play chess regularly and learn the game properly and the rabbit hole I'm now in is fantastic! Thank you for these videos and merry christmas (or other celebrated holiday!)
Happy Holidays!
I think someone tried this position against me. I think so because their position in game looked very similar to this. At first I thought they were aiming for some weird scholar's mate trick. I declined the gambit and played in such a way where I used my knights to prevent their bishop from going to certain squares. And they ended up with such a messy opening. I could be wrong, but the position in this video just looks very similar to something i've experienced before in a game..
yes exactly. it is very easy to detect even if you do not know the opening
Hey man only started playing chess again recently, thanks for the videos mate appreciate it. We’ll spoken well explained 👍
I'm glad you liked it!
Pretty freakinggood channel man ! You explain very well ! Thank you!
Let me 100% real, there is no one (on youtube at least) who explains chess openings and tactics in such details and in a very sweet sweet voice.
Gotham chess?
Thanks for this, and all the amazing lessons in 2022!! They have made such a difference in my game ...and maybe they will be able to help me beat my son in a game someday!!!
Keeping you and your loved ones in our thoughts!!
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 GM-Smirnov
Usually they don't take the pawn on move 3, but that made me study the scotch which isnt too bad. Had great success with this if they do take though! So much fun playing this variation
if they dont take the pawn on move 3 then youre probably gonna have a good time, push your pawn to d5 and kick their knight away, you have a strong centre their knight will probably not be in a great position
Hello, everyone! I wanna share with you one interesting fact! I d been playing chess for a year, but I really played it: I analysed every single game, watched a lot of streams, chess youtubers. My rating was about 800. Recently I've started playing there (cause before I had a kind of fear of loosing), but surprisingly I reached 1600 easily. It happened 3 weeks ago. I had been sitting there before I lost the access to my account. After I made new one, and I had to go through some kind of calibration. VERY surprisingly It went okay. Firstly, it was hard, because the rating was about 1600. But I won. After, a very strange thing happened. At 1800 my opponents started to miss mate in 1! As the calibration gives you a lot of points, I went through 1800 with only 2 games. After that, there were normal games, one was very hard (I lost, I ran out of time), but others I won by their silly mistakes. Now I am 1971. Guys and Igor (if he reads it), I don't think that this is my rating, but at the same time it seems very fairly, cause I didn't cheat (of course). I don't know what to think. I won against the opponent with rating 2047. I saw it only in TH-cam videos. How do you think, am I so smart or it's just luck? Also, I want to thank Igor for his videos. I won 1 game using his trap (I mean that the opponent didn't notice it and couldn't handle after). That's all. Thanks all. I am gonna keep you in touch in next Igor's videos (lol)
Thanks for a soo nice Chessstory! Which You best of Luck! 😊👍👍♟
This sounds awesome, keep it up!
Merry Christmas my friend and thank you for all the wonderful lessons I'm definitely going to buy some of your courses this year
Merry Christmas!
Love it as usual! Can you please make a vid showing steps of refuting pelidor defense agaist bishop's openning? Thanks.
I've been using this to great success. People just don't seem to know this line. They don't like taking all three pawns usually, but it doesn't matter all that much, because I get developed so much faster than them anyway. This is pure gold at my level of chess (don't ask I'm not gonna tell my rating).
I played this today oh my god i checkmated him from all sides
Igor, thank you for the video.”I find it helpful. Quick question, what would you do if, at the beginning, black moves his Queen to f6?
This is the one of best opening for white in Chess.
I win in the first match by opening this trick.
Thanks a lot...
Thank you, your videos are truly amazing, i am going on a tournament today and i plan on using this opening.
Merry Christmas
Thanks just made a spectacular win using this strategy.
Igor is the best. He should have an own TV show!😊
Finally beat the 1200 Bot after tying for days. Thank you so much!
Congrats!
Thanks for your excellent videos this year, I really enjoy your channel.
Glad you like them!
Happy Christmas & Happy New Year Igor
Merry Christmas Igor! Thanks for alk the lessons have a Happy New Year!
Happy holidays!
merry christmas igor! best gift we could get is one of these free elo openings
what elo range should you play this? i'm1200 and cant seem to make it work
Merry Christmas, Igor!
Merry christmas sir
Merry Christmas 2022-2023
Your content is so spectacular Igor , you took me from 1400 to 1900 , thank you ❤
Amazing!
Amazing thank you!
Спасибо Игорь!
Good video, thanks. Merry Christmas Igor 👍
just started playing again after a 50 year gap and I'm finding your videos very inspiring and helpful thank you.
However could someone please explain to me why black castles instead of taking the undefended free pawn ?
❤ thank you for giving us nice tactics and tips God bless you!
Smart move.. make the other variation in another video for alg boost. Love the content bud
Merry Christmas Igor!!!
Thanks for the video! Any suggestions if they take your knight on C3 in the opening sequence? Then you loose the advantage of being able to move to D5.
Thank u for knowledge...gud tutorial
wonderful instruction!
Igor is a Goat🙌🙌
im new to using chess openings so I'm a bit curious on what would i do if they decided to long castle
Great stuff! I would love to know how to proceed if the opponent captures my knight at 6:56! 😊
Hi. I was wondering what the solution might be if the black knight goes 5A after white develops the two bishops and castling. This disrupts the whole strategy. Thank you.
@ 8:50 N-D5 attacking the queen, cant Black Q just take the pawn at E4 pinning your Bishop to your queen? What dont i see>
i wish you would put recommended chess ratings on your videos. I am only 1200 but no one falls for this in blitz
This is all great, except that after I moved pawn to D4, they didn't capture it. They move their pawn to D6, opening up the diagonal for their bishop and can now pin my F3 knight on their next move, unless I go pawn to H3. That kind of changes things doesn't it?
What happens if they move pawn to c6 at the beginning of the game instead of the knight?? How do you move forward?
What do I do next if Black's opening reply to my opening E4 is Knighg to f6? I had asked similar question in a previous video and somebody said "you must not have watched entire video" and they were right..but I don't think he shows what to do when opponent (black) doesn't start with their pawn to e5?
Hi Igor, can you play an iteration where black knight instead of moving back moves to A5 and puts pressure on the bishop?
Same question!
any sols. same here@@pleunvandergrinten9367
Merry Christmas! What gift Jesus was! Thanks for the content, God bless!
This is actually working.....👍
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What do you recommend after Nd5, black goes Be7?
Theres a couple holes where this plan falls through like if they take your knight with bishop but what a cool new strategy
That's so good information sir
I'm loving your videos Igor thank you. Though when you suggest black knight takes e4 and a bad option. Surely that knight can be defended by the queen sliding over to e8 in the next move, meaning it can't then be taken? Is there are solution for that?
nxnd4 instd of taking e4, what if N moves to a5......... ????
What happens when you try to play this but black opens c5 instead ? next step to playing this ? or what other strategy?
Thankk you Igor :)
Coach can you please analyse also the game of maoi lu.. there's a lot gambit that she use..
"put a grimace of horror on your opponents face" 😂 wonderful channel you have. Thank you!
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genius, thanks
What do you do if the black knight (E4) goes to (C5) threatening the white bishop?
What timestamp?
What do I do if black plays Qf6 after you block block with Nc3?
Timestamp?
@@TheRomanianWolf 2:44 after they play Bb4
@@jamieyau6092 Rc1... and after you castle, his queen will be opened to a discovery attack.
What is the name of this opening?
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤ to all!
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Merry Christmas..Praise be to God..
thanks for a great video!
I'm happy to know you enjoyed it!
What if the enemy plays after checking with bishop and me defending with knight, queen f6 and not the knight f6
This is super DANGEROUS!
Mikhail Tal would love this
Hello igor nice vid but for me it isn't working they always play bishop to e7
What happens if they take the knight on c3 with the bishop
@ 5:35 what if the knight goes side ways to A5 and chases off your white bishop?
So my problem is people in my elo just don't take the d4 pawn and compeletly ignore it
What do you recommend against the Petroff (incl, Stafford gambit, or do you refer 3 d4 etc
This video answers it: th-cam.com/video/QSYhFCtGHpE/w-d-xo.html
Excellent. ....
What should we do if he used his first knight and catch our pown at center
Everyone please go to 3:52
What do you do if after you move that white square bishop, your opponent moves his F pawn to the 5th rank, defending the knight.
PLEASE AND THANK YOU
I had someone instead of taking the far left pawn defend it with their black bishop so that they could take the pawn and do a reveal check
Can you only do this if your opponent responds with e5? What if they do another opening?
What’s the name of this opening in this video?
Great 👍👍👍👍
What is the name of this gambit??
What's this opening called?
This is helpful, somewhat...., but at 1:26, after Nf6, white can play Bf7, followed by Qb3. Isn't this line more successful? I always play like this to whoever bites and take my d and c pawns.
This is what I was looking for - /watch?v=Nd7ZiSvdwN8&t=1560s. This person covers everything. A bit of surprised that you were satisfied with just a line, but that's ok. Now I can study more what's left of it.
4:45 QE8
05:28
What if black's knight attacks the white bishop on a5?
It can’t, the bishop is in E5
Just started chess today, only opening I know is queens gambit (not even sure if im doijg it right)
This is kind of hope chess as black can ignore the pressure on the knight and play pawn h5.
What happens if knigtht doesnr go back and attacks white bishop
after bishop c4 - black could play ka5 - this would threaten the white bishop and stunt white's attack