Here's a great tool for learning openings: chessbook.com/hanging-pawns Chessbook allows you to import and practice your repertoire. It focuses on moves people actually play as well as your mistakes. Connect it to your lichess or chess com accounts to correct the biggest gaps in your repertoire!
This video is great. I started playing chess recently and naturally over about 500 games I've leaned towards playing the modern defense, but never really understanding it completely. This helped highlight some of the responses white has that I've blundered before. Amazing work!
Another shout out for many extremely well done tutorials. I love the structure of your lessons and the way you present the different lines. Very nicely done!
Man I took a huge break from playing chess. I get notifications of videos and just came to say that your thumbnails are neat 👌🏿. A subscriber from Africa.
Hi Stepan, I love your channel. I really enjoyed the series about chess improvement. I'm asking if you can make a video teaching how to analyse a game when it is finished, I really need to improve also in this part of the game . Keep up the good work !!! !!!
at 10:30 I would recommend playing 4.e5, which is recommended for example by Tiger Hillarp Persson and Cyrus Lakdawala in their books. The endgame is very interesting and if you study it might offer excellent winning changes. Good games to study are for example Alexander Morozevich playing with black against Agrest and Bareev in 2004 and 2005. Against Agrest Moro won easily as Agrest simply did not seem to understand the endgame nowhere nearly as well as Moro.
Second! 😉 Looks like another great series on an opening. Going to set up a board to play along. Also review to make notes, then follow by reading the section in FCO. Thank you for your excellent instruction Stjepan. Highly motivational.
Thank you for the continual support, for watching and for being involved in the videos:) I will do my best to make the series as "followable" as possible. Hope you get a new weapon against e4 in the end!
« So black is giving up the center to white, to disrupt the enemy camp later » since the center in chess like the shogi’s bishop’s head it’s like playing ranging rook. I like that, even though I am a static rook player, I still appreciate the fact that there are some ways to use your shogi knowledge into chess. Nice!
I play nf6 as soon as they play bc4, especially if they have the knight on f3 already. You are then threatening nxe4 and the centre fork trick. It's not crushing for black or anything but it shows why the bishop isn't best placed on c4. Even though it looks aggressive.
Hey, sorry if this has been asked, but is there a Two Knights Variation video somewhere that didnt get added or is that included in a video and I missed it? or are we just skipping, thats cool too. Thanks for the hard work!
im glad I stumbled onto your channel. Youre teaching style (the way you explain and remove the pieces to focus on the pawn structures) is exactly what I needed. I usually forget how to play an opening shortly after watching a video on it, but I am retaining your lessons with ease. I look forward to devouring your content. Do you also stream live content? If so, where do you stream?
Excellent idea to showcase some possible pawn structures on a board with minimal pieces! This visual hue, having the board with only the most important information (the actual pawns), makes it is easier to stick to memory cognitively speaking. I will forever remember the possible 3 patterns of pawn structures in the modern.. Even better I think a good idea whould be to do it for every introductory video to each opening under consideration. Say take 3-4 popular lines and see whether the are patterns that arise from the formation of the pawns. Great, great video this one!
But really thanks for your work on 1e4 series for both white and black. It helped a lot for me and now very good in knowing the theories and ideas for black peices. My favorite opening was scillian defence classical variation. I still use it in classical time format which gave me a lot of wins with black but I was struggling with blitz . But I really good with your favourite opening that's of course Caro kann which I am using in blitz and getting good wins with it when opponent plays 1 e4 . Thank you very much and hope you make more videos and hope your channel grow very well in future.
You have the best chess tutorials through your video I personally learn a lot I think your are best coach of those players who became national champion under-7,9,11,13,15 if you guide those players become world champion you have potential to create world champion because of your teaching method
I would like to play pawn to a3 for black when the white bishop moves to f5. This prevents the knight from coming in. Good video! It helped me with my favourite opening.
I have been following you since you started doing openings.I like it you have shifted to middle game principles. Which app you using to brand you videos ?
Thank you very much for this new lesson!! I would like to see a lesson against these variants of the London System. 1d4 d5 2.Bf4 or 1d4 d5 2 Kf3 ...3 Bf4. Thanks in advance
one question. does “Indian” mean something in particular, e.g. fianchetto and pawn (..e5 in King’s Indian) in front of it? or is it random and just means it’s an opening first seen in India or played by a Indian GM? it feels like “Indian” always related to some kind of (K side?) fianchetto position…?
in Anglo-Indian same for black (in the English) but pawn on ..c5 possible, so no own pawn blocking own B in this. However it’s already a “anglo-Indian” without the fianchetto (after ..Nf6) so it’s random? however there the plan seems also to be a K side fianchetto for black. always thought of some similarity or system…?
thank you for your simple illustration. After 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.f4 is it good for Black to play 4....a6 continuing Tiger's main Queen side attack? choose another variation?
Great !!! Love the series . Would love a series on kings indian defence and maybe a series on 1: Kf3 whites opening since i cant find much . Thanks for all the videos keep it up!!
Is this opening good??? I bought tigers book and Ive been reading it and llaying lots of training games and taking notes and im struggling to say the least. Should I just learn the sicilian or skmething?
The Sicilian is filled with too much to learn. If you want something to use against e4, I recommend the Caro kann. I used it as a beginner, and I'm here because I want to learn other things.
interesting insights, comparison of Pirc and Modern (..Nf6) I lack much theory. played maybe most games of all players at lichess (faeb187, over 42k games) but just freestyling ^^ never above 2058 and up/down like a rollercoaster
Nice to have someone explain whats happening at a normal pace unlike gotham who talks at double speed and literally shows sequences of moves 4 or 5 deep in under a second
Dear Stephan, I can play only Austrian Attack against Pirc and I don't play f4 against modern. What if black plays modern and then, after my Nc3, transposes to Pirc?
Can you also cover Owen's defence , and also how to punish it. it's because in my academy in blitz all are going for it . I don't know how to proceed correctly. I am a queens's pawn opening player but since my opponent plays after I play 2 e4 ,and replies with 2... B6 I am only following opening principles. So can you cover the Owen's defence?
And if I go for 2 c4 it actually transposes to QId Which I know how to play very good, I had good wins in the QID with white pieces in classical time control. But really mess up in blitz with white pieces and that's the reason why I Play 2 e4 for white.
if only all chess youtubers were this good at explaining. i feel like they could be but they are stingy and don't want to reveal prep so they don't go into nearly as much detail
With black I only play the Pirc defense. Googling its difference to the Modern defense brought me here. It is called the Modern defense but almost no one from the top chess players (with the exception of Magnus Carlsen) plays it. I don't get this, how it is called modern and almost no one playing it?
i remember hikaru playing it repeatedly during a streamed chess session i dont know if hes just doing an early fianchetto of different opening but the analysis board says its the modern defense
I don't understand why ...Nf6 in the "Standard Line" is bad for black, but it's normal development in the "Three Pawn Attack". I mean, in both cases white has the e5-move. So what's the subtle difference that white's e4-e5 is bad (for black) in one case, and acceptable in the other? I think this is of huge importance in understanding the fundamentals in the earliest phase.
In the Pirc, when white plays e5 it hits the f6 Knight, which means black has to move it (or take the pawn). In the modern, with the knight on g8, e5 doesn't hit a knight, so black can choose to ignore it. Big benefit.
No Monkey's Bum? Not even the Deferred var.? Heresy! Sir you don't seem to understand the power of the monkey - what's more powerful, a dragon, or a monkey's ass? Simple: Dragons aren't real, therefore - monkey's ass wins, let alone if it's deferred. Good day Sir. I know you'll do the right thing. I bet you didn't cover the Thunderbunny and Toilet Variations either. You have an entire life ahead of you to make repentance.
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Here's a great tool for learning openings: chessbook.com/hanging-pawns
Chessbook allows you to import and practice your repertoire. It focuses on moves people actually play as well as your mistakes. Connect it to your lichess or chess com accounts to correct the biggest gaps in your repertoire!
You have the best chess tutorials on youtube. Thank you so much for this! Way underrated.
This video is great. I started playing chess recently and naturally over about 500 games I've leaned towards playing the modern defense, but never really understanding it completely. This helped highlight some of the responses white has that I've blundered before. Amazing work!
8:46 “most grandmasters actually prefer white in this position” with just a king on g1😆
seriously tho this channel is great
I mean, the king has a lot of space...
Thanks for your content. It’s helping me a lot
Where are the a through h demarcations?
@@alexderuijter3708 acres of it! very roomy.
This is an excellent mini tutorial. So much valuable information in a relatively short period and at zero cost. Thank you.
yeah i was wondering about this, thanks for explaining
No problem!
Valuable info in such a short period
Another shout out for many extremely well done tutorials. I love the structure of your lessons and the way you present the different lines. Very nicely done!
Man I took a huge break from playing chess. I get notifications of videos and just came to say that your thumbnails are neat 👌🏿.
A subscriber from Africa.
Thanks a lot, Micka! Very happy you like them
3:04 - 3. Nc3; Mainline - th-cam.com/video/2vJoqXVTXjM/w-d-xo.html
5:07 ...d6 4. Be3 a6; Tiger's Modern - th-cam.com/video/2vJoqXVTXjM/w-d-xo.html?t=559
9:23 - 3. f4; Three Pawns Attack - th-cam.com/video/l8kuosZc9Dk/w-d-xo.html
9:54 - 3. Bc4; Bishop Attack - th-cam.com/video/On_UP9d9mi8/w-d-xo.html
10:09 ...d6 4: Nf3 Nf6 -- transpose to Pirc th-cam.com/video/MURLEtPvCvY/w-d-xo.html
10:25 - 3. c4; Averbakh System - th-cam.com/video/f8BlE8L6_LE/w-d-xo.html
10:43 - 3. Nf3; Two Knights Variation - likely transposition to Classical Pirc - th-cam.com/video/woly7P6IS6c/w-d-xo.html
11:06 - Pawn structure and move order discussion
Thank you!
This sounds promising ! Thank you for your dedication, this is very helpful.
Thank you for the support, Rachel:)
This is why I subscribed to this channel great explanation.
This is the best one I can find, thanks for doing these
Hi Stepan, I love your channel. I really enjoyed the series about chess improvement. I'm asking if you can make a video teaching how to analyse a game when it is finished, I really need to improve also in this part of the game . Keep up the good work !!! !!!
Hmm. That is a very good idea! I think I might make it a meditations video! Thanks a lot mate:)
at 10:30 I would recommend playing 4.e5, which is recommended for example by Tiger Hillarp Persson and Cyrus Lakdawala in their books. The endgame is very interesting and if you study it might offer excellent winning changes. Good games to study are for example Alexander Morozevich playing with black against Agrest and Bareev in 2004 and 2005. Against Agrest Moro won easily as Agrest simply did not seem to understand the endgame nowhere nearly as well as Moro.
Very nice introductory video, loved the part with only white's king and black's common position on the board, explaining ideas of the opening
Thank you very much, Nate. I'm glad you liked the intro:)
Very informative and clear introduction, instantly subbed
Great video, your a natural teacher
Stephan , veri good video , modern defence perfect opening...
Second! 😉
Looks like another great series on an opening.
Going to set up a board to play along. Also review to make notes, then follow by reading the section in FCO.
Thank you for your excellent instruction Stjepan.
Highly motivational.
Thank you for the continual support, for watching and for being involved in the videos:) I will do my best to make the series as "followable" as possible. Hope you get a new weapon against e4 in the end!
@@HangingPawns
Actually, I'm a lot more worried about e4 in the beginning. What? Oh! Never mind. You are correct. 😉
« So black is giving up the center to white, to disrupt the enemy camp later » since the center in chess like the shogi’s bishop’s head it’s like playing ranging rook. I like that, even though I am a static rook player, I still appreciate the fact that there are some ways to use your shogi knowledge into chess. Nice!
I play nf6 as soon as they play bc4, especially if they have the knight on f3 already. You are then threatening nxe4 and the centre fork trick. It's not crushing for black or anything but it shows why the bishop isn't best placed on c4. Even though it looks aggressive.
I was hoping you made a video on this defense. Thank you!
Thank you. I'm using your videos to build my repertoire with understanding. Not just memorization of moves. Excellent videos.
Hey, sorry if this has been asked, but is there a Two Knights Variation video somewhere that didnt get added or is that included in a video and I missed it? or are we just skipping, thats cool too. Thanks for the hard work!
im glad I stumbled onto your channel. Youre teaching style (the way you explain and remove the pieces to focus on the pawn structures) is exactly what I needed. I usually forget how to play an opening shortly after watching a video on it, but I am retaining your lessons with ease. I look forward to devouring your content. Do you also stream live content? If so, where do you stream?
Excellent idea to showcase some possible pawn structures on a board with minimal pieces! This visual hue, having the board with only the most important information (the actual pawns), makes it is easier to stick to memory cognitively speaking. I will forever remember the possible 3 patterns of pawn structures in the modern.. Even better I think a good idea whould be to do it for every introductory video to each opening under consideration. Say take 3-4 popular lines and see whether the are patterns that arise from the formation of the pawns.
Great, great video this one!
Thanks for the feedback:) Yeah, I will start implementing pawn structure ideas more often in the future
But really thanks for your work on 1e4 series for both white and black. It helped a lot for me and now very good in knowing the theories and ideas for black peices. My favorite opening was scillian defence classical variation. I still use it in classical time format which gave me a lot of wins with black but I was struggling with blitz . But I really good with your favourite opening that's of course Caro kann which I am using in blitz and getting good wins with it when opponent plays 1 e4 . Thank you very much and hope you make more videos and hope your channel grow very well in future.
Thank you Moses. And I have to say I'm very happy you chose the Caro-kann as your secondary opening!
You have the best chess tutorials through your video I personally learn a lot I think your are best coach of those players who became national champion under-7,9,11,13,15 if you guide those players become world champion you have potential to create world champion because of your teaching method
I really like the games that come out when I play the modern defense
Your video is both helpful and entertaining. You've earned a subscriber from me!
I would like to play pawn to a3 for black when the white bishop moves to f5. This prevents the knight from coming in. Good video! It helped me with my favourite opening.
I have been following you since you started doing openings.I like it you have shifted to middle game principles. Which app you using to brand you videos ?
Glad to hear you like the middlegame series. I'm not sure what you mean by app to brand videos. I don't use any.
thank you elon musk
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This is on my list of: modern defense videos I have to watch
8:10 - that's an opening idea I am able to understand :D
Thanks for the videos.
Very well explained, thanks so much I need that support.
Fantastic! Thank you :)
Glad you think so!
Thanks for sharing your great content which has really helped my game.
I'm sorry but the two knights variation is somewhere to be found?
Thank you very much for this new lesson!! I would like to see a lesson against these variants of the London System. 1d4 d5 2.Bf4 or 1d4 d5 2 Kf3 ...3 Bf4. Thanks in advance
It will be coming up in the d4 series. Still a few e4 openings to cover:)
good video, thanks.
Thank you for explaining in such detail and with such passion. Awesome channel 👏
! veri nice and interesting video
Well explained
thank you
My favourite opening
That was great! Thankyou!
Hi Stepan,
Can you also cover the owens defense?
one question. does “Indian” mean something in particular, e.g. fianchetto and pawn (..e5 in King’s Indian) in front of it? or is it random and just means it’s an opening first seen in India or played by a Indian GM? it feels like “Indian” always related to some kind of (K side?) fianchetto position…?
in Anglo-Indian same for black (in the English) but pawn on ..c5 possible, so no own pawn blocking own B in this. However it’s already a “anglo-Indian” without the fianchetto (after ..Nf6) so it’s random? however there the plan seems also to be a K side fianchetto for black. always thought of some similarity or system…?
thanks ;) I wanna try this defense
Hi Stephen, can i keep using modern defence if white do 1.b3 2.Bb2 ? If not, what should i transfer to?
thank you for your simple illustration.
After 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.f4 is it good for Black to play 4....a6 continuing Tiger's main Queen side attack? choose another variation?
Thanks!! 🙏🙏
Great !!! Love the series . Would love a series on kings indian defence and maybe a series on 1: Kf3 whites opening since i cant find much . Thanks for all the videos keep it up!!
Is this opening good??? I bought tigers book and Ive been reading it and llaying lots of training games and taking notes and im struggling to say the least. Should I just learn the sicilian or skmething?
The Sicilian is filled with too much to learn. If you want something to use against e4, I recommend the Caro kann. I used it as a beginner, and I'm here because I want to learn other things.
interesting insights, comparison of Pirc and Modern (..Nf6) I lack much theory. played maybe most games of all players at lichess (faeb187, over 42k games) but just freestyling ^^ never above 2058 and up/down like a rollercoaster
Can we please get a video on the closed Sicilian? Thank You.
Nice to have someone explain whats happening at a normal pace unlike gotham who talks at double speed and literally shows sequences of moves 4 or 5 deep in under a second
Dear Stephan,
I can play only Austrian Attack against Pirc and I don't play f4 against modern.
What if black plays modern and then, after my Nc3, transposes to Pirc?
Best video quality
Ty
Can you also cover Owen's defence , and also how to punish it. it's because in my academy in blitz all are going for it . I don't know how to proceed correctly. I am a queens's pawn opening player but since my opponent plays after I play 2 e4 ,and replies with 2... B6 I am only following opening principles. So can you cover the Owen's defence?
Yup. It will be covered:)
I've always been afraid of the early White e5 pawn push, which threatens my knight on f6 (King's Indian), and forces me to trade queens
You can also play the modern against d4
The 3 pawns attack seems right to me
Can you play the modern against d4 as well?
No_ Skill technically, yes. But white can transpose into a kings indian.
Will the Kings Indian be good against e4?
And if I go for 2 c4 it actually transposes to QId
Which I know how to play very good, I had good wins in the QID with white pieces in classical time control. But really mess up in blitz with white pieces and that's the reason why I
Play 2 e4 for white.
Hi Stephan. I love your channel . Can u make a video on opening d4 -d5 . I play d5 when im black .
Shivam shah try nimzowitch (d2-d4 Ng8-f6 2. c2-c4 e7-e6 3. Nb1-c3 Bf8-b4) , benonie (d2-d4 Ng8-f6 2. c2-c4 c7-c5 3. d4-d5 e7-e6) or rèti (Ng1-f3 d7-d5 2. c2-c4)
Make a video on queen gambits all variations
It will come up in the d4 series.
7:25 black to move. Mate in 7
most time i see the white play bf4 early, in move 4
Very good channel bro
Thank you Sarp!
if only all chess youtubers were this good at explaining. i feel like they could be but they are stingy and don't want to reveal prep so they don't go into nearly as much detail
I was using this defense thinking it was accelerated dragon Sicilian
Modern and Pirc both can transpose into kings Indian which is good hehe theory.
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Hi everyone, Stjepan here.
Nf6 is good
Modern defense is amazing for black. Especially for beginners cus people don't know how to handle black not competing for middle in the first 5 moves.
bet
With black I only play the Pirc defense. Googling its difference to the Modern defense brought me here. It is called the Modern defense but almost no one from the top chess players (with the exception of Magnus Carlsen) plays it. I don't get this, how it is called modern and almost no one playing it?
i remember hikaru playing it repeatedly during a streamed chess session
i dont know if hes just doing an early fianchetto of different opening but the analysis board says its the modern defense
I don't understand why ...Nf6 in the "Standard Line" is bad for black, but it's normal development in the "Three Pawn Attack". I mean, in both cases white has the e5-move. So what's the subtle difference that white's e4-e5 is bad (for black) in one case, and acceptable in the other? I think this is of huge importance in understanding the fundamentals in the earliest phase.
In the Pirc, when white plays e5 it hits the f6 Knight, which means black has to move it (or take the pawn). In the modern, with the knight on g8, e5 doesn't hit a knight, so black can choose to ignore it. Big benefit.
@@timwheeler8523 That wasn't my question.
Compare "Standard Line" with the "Three Pawn Attack".
The knight can go to d5 after the immediate e5 in the Three Pawns, since white doesn't have the knight on c3 yet
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When is the kings indian man
No Monkey's Bum? Not even the Deferred var.? Heresy! Sir you don't seem to understand the power of the monkey - what's more powerful, a dragon, or a monkey's ass? Simple: Dragons aren't real, therefore - monkey's ass wins, let alone if it's deferred. Good day Sir. I know you'll do the right thing. I bet you didn't cover the Thunderbunny and Toilet Variations either. You have an entire life ahead of you to make repentance.
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