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► Chapters 00:00 Best Chess Opening Trap to Win in 6 Moves 00:24 Trap in the Tennison Gambit for White 01:18 More Powerful Tennison Gambit Traps 02:14 Trap-1: Tennison Gambit against the Caro-Kann Defense 04:49 Trap-2: Tennison Gambit against the French Defense 06:07 How to make the trap work if Black played e6? 07:02 Puzzle of the day 07:24 If Black does not play h6 09:39 If Black plays Nf6 11:43 Trap-3: Tennison Gambit against the Scandinavian Defense 13:22 Problem with playing 1.e4 (playing 1.Nf3 instead) 14:20 Trap in the Tennison Gambit for Black
Thanks Igor: especially for counting the “hit and miss” scenarios. Thats where I fail most of the time, not knowing the correct continuation if they don’t fall for it.
07:02 Puzzle of the day Nxf7, if Qxf7; then Bg6 pins black Queen. Qxg6 Qxg6+ ... White wins black's queen and f pawn for a kNight and lite-square bishop!
I think the answer to the puzzle is Nxf7. If queen captures the knight then Bg6 pins the queen to the king. If queen doesn't capture then you would win the rook
MISSED FORCED MATE ! Dear Igor (GM Smirnov), I loved your presentation of Tennison gambit, but, I think it missed a forced mate combination. While breaking down some of the variations with one of my friends, it was pointed out to me that Black's move 5. .... h6 in CARO (see time mark ~2:57) should not be dismissed lightly by White player as calling for a response similar to 5. .... Nf6. Yes, as you pointed out, it can lead to White winning Black queen, but... Please consider the following option: 5. ... h6 6. Nxf7, (if) Kxf7N ... the best sequence is not 7. Bg6+ . INSTEAD, consider... 7. Qh5 + (!), Kf6 8. Qg6+ Ke5 9. Bf4+ Kd4 [forced, since 9. .... KxB leads to 10. Qg3# ] 10. Be3+ Ke5 11. f4+ Kd5 ... and pawn mate by White on the next move. Thank you so much for your videos. Please keep them coming. You are better than StockFish ! P.S. I thoroughly enjoyed your videos demonstrating traps agains Bishop on g5(g6) pinning the Knight on f6 (f3) in Italian-like openings. Do you have any traps against players who tend to prophylactically play h6/h3 pawn moves EARLY -- i.e. on moves number 3, 4, or 5... -- in similar Italian theme openings? I mean you did mention an option FOR Black in "Top 4 chess opening mistakes after 1.e4" (against 6. h3) and one FOR White in "Winning plan in Italian game" (against 6. .... h6), but I think there have to be more. Are there? Are there any ways to punish h3/h6 played much earlier than move 6? Could you share them with us? Thank you in advance. // aa
Puzzle solution: Nxf7! If black plays Qxf7, it is met with Bg6, pinning the queen, and there is no other way to save the rook. As a bonus, if black leaves his king on d8, the rook is taken with a discovered check from the queen. The best option for black is actually to take the knight, and when hit with the pin, take the bishop. Black at least gets a pair of minor pieces for the queen, resulting in a 3 point material loss, and white no longer has the bishop pair. If he decides to give up the rook instead, he gets no compensation -- a full 5 point loss, and white keeps the bishop pair. Either way, black will also lose castling privileges, adding insult to injury.
You sacrifice the knight by capturing the f7 pawn, and while the black rook is threatened, black has to capture it with the queen. Bishop goes on g6 and the queen is pinned 😀😀😀😀😀
14:18 - what to play for white in this position? Next move is for black h6 and to take the black e4 is mistake and retreat with the kniht from g5 to h3 leads to Bc8xh3 with the double pawn on the "h" column, so I don´t know whether it is good position for the white. I would say no - the black will do in the future great castling O-O-O. Tennison gambit is a good idea only in the case when in this 14:18 black takes d3 by his pawn on the e4. When Kc3 black plays e6, or even better Kc6, that is any advantage for the white.
Because this is not a Trapp.. .it's so easy to understand mann.. is someone is fool?? A beginner will also not beat your 4 bcuz they know there is already 3 if we ignore bishop
With the "French Defense" 3rd option... Knight to sacrifice in H-7 as Black takes it with rook to H-7. White Rook to H-6 as black can take with pawn to H-6 or Rook to H-6, then white Queen to H-6 with no other threat as it makes it way to an eventual Checkmate!
I always play black to let my bf have a winning advantage.. and our games are often cut short because of those exact moves you showed as black 😂 I find myself learning very little from every chess video online. Maybe soon I’ll tread lightly into tournaments. Although I do love your videos! This was a good one. 🎉
The winning move after Qf6 is Nxf7. The rook is under attack and cannot flee to h7 because of the bishop on d3. The only way to save the rook is to play Qxf7, but then Bg6 wins the queen.
Alles gut zu wissen, aber meine Gegner reagieren fast immer anders. Nach e4 kommt sehr oft c5 und wenn ich mit Sf3 starte, kommt meist Sf6 als Antwort. Gibt es dafür auch Fallen?
Interesting, but firstly if white does go 3.d3 in the French, few players will take the pawn, since they will assume its a Kings Indian Attack and go ...c5 or something like that. And secondly if black does accept the gambit, then if black takes both pawns, after 4.Ng5 exd3 5.Bxd3 black can play 5...Be7 instead of 5...h6, embarassing white's knight. Then black emerges with an extra pawn and a good position.
I just had a game go the 5...Be7 way. I played 6.Qh5 Nf6 7.Qxf7+ Kd7 8.Qxe6 Ke8 9. Qf7+ Kd7 (black resigned). My thought was to push 10. Bf5+ (Kc6) followed by 11.Qc4+. It gets a little tough after 11...Bc5, but after 12.Nc3 white is just going to push the black King back toward the d and e files and mop up pieces along the way. By move 23, according to my moves with black's best possible moves, white is ahead a Rook and two Pawns with a king castled to safety.
Man, that puzzle i couldnt see until i opened hte board in Lichess to look at and then once i saw it it was so obvious i didnt see how i missed it! Beautiful tactic.
Puzzle at 7. Knight takes f7 taking a pawn and threat to capture rook. Black queen cant take because bishop g6 can skewer the queen. Knight f7 wins a pawn and a rook for free! Plus if you move knight from f7 you gain a tempo by checking the king on e8. I dont see other moves better so f7 knight.
This system also exists in the Alapin Sicilian. KaspaChess has a video on it. There is also an ICBM trap in the Levenfish variation of the Sicilian, but it works more similarly to the trap from the Englund Gambit where the bishop takes the f pawn directly. In all of these this openings, black should push d4 and enjoy the space advantage. This forces white to figure out how to play a King’s Indian Attack. White’s position is not quite as bad as in the Hector Gambit or Scorpion-Horus Gambit, but I still abandoned this system because black can play d4.
You make it sound so easy for white to win in that black is a queen down for two minor white pieces. But it is very difficult for white to win even if you're a grandmaster!
I play Chess Titans Level 4, playing as white against the computer. With the 35 basic principles, I can win 99 percent of the time. However, when I use your tactics; I lose 100 percent of the time. I end up playing hope chess where I hope it will make those mistakes & allow me to win. Upload a video of you playing Chess Titans Level 4 as white & lets see you make those tactics work. In particular your tactic against the french defense which Chess Titans Level 4 uses.
Is it more than memorizing tactics? Is it not a way of thinking that comes from a lot of losing games, and trying to figure out why that keeps happening?
That's how tactics happen in any game. You keep losing and you figure out why you're losing and what you could do to stop losing, eventually you notice patterns and start to categorize and name them, because games are no longer just chaotic mess.
Sigh. There's a rather obvious refutation of the Tennison vs. the Scandinavian. Black simply doesn't take on d3 and plays h6 instead, i.e. 1. e4 d5 2. Nf3 dxe4 3. Ng5 Nf6 4. d3 h6 and now what? White has nothing better than Nxe4 after which black can force the queens off with Nxe4. This is silly - white isn't playing a gambit to reach this position. In fact black has even better alternatives than taking the queens off. Most Scandinavian players know about 4....h6 so don't buy into this nonsense. The root of the problem is 4. d3. The better alternatives Nc3 or Bc4 are however relatively toothless and do not yield any advantage.
Yes, but it doesn't work if you can't get them to take your pawn on D3 - and even my simple on-line chess program doesn't often do that, so I'm straight in trouble!
dam I play this against the caro and just had a situation earlier today where another opponent fell for the trap and I was thinking good thing this isn't a well known line so not many opponents are aware... and then Igor releases a vid about it lol 😂
Very naive approach, even on 1200-1400 range on lichess people are more likely to defend pawn with bishop to f5 rather than knight to f6, and it's all over.
All of this can be stopped with Queen to d5 attacking the Knight and when white goes d3 and black takes e4xd3 followed by whites move Bishop takes d3 black plays Queen a5 check still attacking the white knight . So now what? This opening sucks it doesn’t work.
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► Chapters
00:00 Best Chess Opening Trap to Win in 6 Moves
00:24 Trap in the Tennison Gambit for White
01:18 More Powerful Tennison Gambit Traps
02:14 Trap-1: Tennison Gambit against the Caro-Kann Defense
04:49 Trap-2: Tennison Gambit against the French Defense
06:07 How to make the trap work if Black played e6?
07:02 Puzzle of the day
07:24 If Black does not play h6
09:39 If Black plays Nf6
11:43 Trap-3: Tennison Gambit against the Scandinavian Defense
13:22 Problem with playing 1.e4 (playing 1.Nf3 instead)
14:20 Trap in the Tennison Gambit for Black
7:11 Nxf7, if Qxf7, Bg6 skewering blacks queen. and if they dont take, Nxh8+ wins the rook. Rh7 we take the rook with the bishop
Great solution 🙌🏽
Bg6 pins not skewer but yes its the answer
That was my idea also
Yup. Of course black could have just played Qe7 or Qd7 to avoid this
@@kylebecker9Eh, then Blk still loses a pawn and rook, w mate if blk Queen is forced off row 7
Thanks Igor: especially for counting the “hit and miss” scenarios. Thats where I fail most of the time, not knowing the correct continuation if they don’t fall for it.
07:02 Puzzle of the day
Nxf7, if Qxf7; then
Bg6 pins black Queen. Qxg6
Qxg6+ ...
White wins black's queen and f pawn for a kNight and lite-square bishop!
I think the answer to the puzzle is Nxf7. If queen captures the knight then Bg6 pins the queen to the king. If queen doesn't capture then you would win the rook
Maybe the best video from this channel. Hats off
Dude. You improved my game 10 fold!
Cool
I guess... i m the best
This video is helpful
Thank you, GM
MISSED FORCED MATE !
Dear Igor (GM Smirnov),
I loved your presentation of Tennison gambit, but, I think it missed a forced mate combination. While breaking down some of the variations with one of my friends, it was pointed out to me that Black's move 5. .... h6 in CARO (see time mark ~2:57) should not be dismissed lightly by White player as calling for a response similar to 5. .... Nf6. Yes, as you pointed out, it can lead to White winning Black queen, but...
Please consider the following option:
5. ... h6
6. Nxf7, (if) Kxf7N
... the best sequence is not 7. Bg6+ . INSTEAD, consider...
7. Qh5 + (!), Kf6
8. Qg6+ Ke5
9. Bf4+ Kd4 [forced,
since 9. .... KxB leads to
10. Qg3# ]
10. Be3+ Ke5
11. f4+ Kd5
... and pawn mate by White on the next move.
Thank you so much for your videos. Please keep them coming. You are better than StockFish !
P.S. I thoroughly enjoyed your videos demonstrating traps agains Bishop on g5(g6) pinning the Knight on f6 (f3) in Italian-like openings. Do you have any traps against players who tend to prophylactically play h6/h3 pawn moves EARLY -- i.e. on moves number 3, 4, or 5... -- in similar Italian theme openings? I mean you did mention an option FOR Black in "Top 4 chess opening mistakes after 1.e4" (against 6. h3) and one FOR White in "Winning plan in Italian game" (against 6. .... h6), but I think there have to be more. Are there? Are there any ways to punish h3/h6 played much earlier than move 6? Could you share them with us? Thank you in advance.
// aa
Puzzle solution: Nxf7! If black plays Qxf7, it is met with Bg6, pinning the queen, and there is no other way to save the rook. As a bonus, if black leaves his king on d8, the rook is taken with a discovered check from the queen. The best option for black is actually to take the knight, and when hit with the pin, take the bishop. Black at least gets a pair of minor pieces for the queen, resulting in a 3 point material loss, and white no longer has the bishop pair. If he decides to give up the rook instead, he gets no compensation -- a full 5 point loss, and white keeps the bishop pair. Either way, black will also lose castling privileges, adding insult to injury.
Nxf7 wins either the Queen (after Qxf7 Bg6 Qxg6 Qxg6 „best“ deal for black) or Rh7 (Bxh7). Even g6 does not work: Bxg6 and theads all around!
Great video as always....powerful 👌👌👏👏
Great lesson about Tennison Gambit. Thank you, Master!
The moves Nxf7 Qxf7 Bg6 wins the Queen for white.
Thanks for this great video 😊
You sacrifice the knight by capturing the f7 pawn, and while the black rook is threatened, black has to capture it with the queen. Bishop goes on g6 and the queen is pinned
😀😀😀😀😀
@@bholemohit452if g6 Bxg6 and the threat continues. ;-)
@@bholemohit452 isn’t black in trouble after bxg6?
I think Nh7 also has an interesting line
wtf?
How can a queen on d8 *ever capture a knight on f7?
And which variation demonstrates a pin?
@@Gus-r9j knight takes on F7, and Black Queen recaptures on F7 the white knight, then the light square bishop pins the queen to the king on G6.
Excellent video, as always Igor. However, you misspoke at 3:54 claiming checkmate. It actually is just sacrificing a knight for a rook.
Not checkmate at 8:47 either.
White is threatening checkmate in 4 if black doesn’t defend it I think
Glad I wasn't the only one confused by this
14:18 - what to play for white in this position? Next move is for black h6 and to take the black e4 is mistake and retreat with the kniht from g5 to h3 leads to Bc8xh3 with the double pawn on the "h" column, so I don´t know whether it is good position for the white. I would say no - the black will do in the future great castling O-O-O. Tennison gambit is a good idea only in the case when in this 14:18 black takes d3 by his pawn on the e4. When Kc3 black plays e6, or even better Kc6, that is any advantage for the white.
My only problem is that none of my opponents falls for these traps ... 😪
They are all my students 😉
Because this is not a Trapp.. .it's so easy to understand mann.. is someone is fool?? A beginner will also not beat your 4 bcuz they know there is already 3 if we ignore bishop
because it is not being accepted anyway
I've tried this a few times against players about 1500-1600 .. I would say that roughly 1 in 4 fall for it.
Not a single opponent has moved "as they should" really want to land this trap haha
This gambit is crazy! Just love it. From the initial position shown, wondering if anyone has a good response to Black's 5...Nc6?
But what if, in the Scandi line, black does not play 4..exd3 but instead plays 4..Bg4?
I really loved the humiliate your opponent part, if I'm ever playing this gambit I'm making sure to make use of it lol.
Thank you Igor, very usefull advice.
Well done analysis..thanx100 🌹
Super channel! Great ideas! Thanks
@7:17 puzzle. Nxf7
Nxf7 Qxf7, Bg6 white wins
Nxf7 pg6, Bxg6 white wins
With the "French Defense" 3rd option... Knight to sacrifice in H-7 as Black takes it with rook to H-7. White Rook to H-6 as black can take with pawn to H-6 or Rook to H-6, then white Queen to H-6 with no other threat as it makes it way to an eventual Checkmate!
Please make a video gambit for black and tips and tricks.
Going to add to my practice
What's happen if in tennison gambit black first get out of knight.
Get out the other knight c3 as well. Continue developing until you can exercise it when the e pawn is moved.
At 13:08, if there is a queen exchange, then black brings the Bishop back to G4, is the Knight on D8 trapped?
Nxb7
Yeah I was wondering the same thing, that did not look like a good exchange.
Kxf7 ...Qxf7 Bg6, pinning the Queen to the Kind and winning it. And if the Queen doesn't take back, well free rook with Nxh8. Is that correct ?
QUITELY fine moves !!! Great... mentor guides sir... 💥✌️
ICBM inbound
I always play black to let my bf have a winning advantage.. and our games are often cut short because of those exact moves you showed as black 😂 I find myself learning very little from every chess video online. Maybe soon I’ll tread lightly into tournaments. Although I do love your videos! This was a good one. 🎉
The winning move after Qf6 is Nxf7. The rook is under attack and cannot flee to h7 because of the bishop on d3. The only way to save the rook is to play Qxf7, but then Bg6 wins the queen.
thank you. very good developments
Nice toturial thanks so much sir
Guys, ignore every offer for avoid trap.
what happens if when you play d3 black plays h6?
I like your accent, makes these videos enjoyable to listen to!
Alles gut zu wissen, aber meine Gegner reagieren fast immer anders. Nach e4 kommt sehr oft c5 und wenn ich mit Sf3 starte, kommt meist Sf6 als Antwort. Gibt es dafür auch Fallen?
Interesting, but firstly if white does go 3.d3 in the French, few players will take the pawn, since they will assume its a Kings Indian Attack and go ...c5 or something like that. And secondly if black does accept the gambit, then if black takes both pawns, after 4.Ng5 exd3 5.Bxd3 black can play 5...Be7 instead of 5...h6, embarassing white's knight. Then black emerges with an extra pawn and a good position.
I just had a game go the 5...Be7 way. I played 6.Qh5 Nf6 7.Qxf7+ Kd7 8.Qxe6 Ke8 9. Qf7+ Kd7 (black resigned). My thought was to push 10. Bf5+ (Kc6) followed by 11.Qc4+. It gets a little tough after 11...Bc5, but after 12.Nc3 white is just going to push the black King back toward the d and e files and mop up pieces along the way. By move 23, according to my moves with black's best possible moves, white is ahead a Rook and two Pawns with a king castled to safety.
@@tobiantormand4593 6.Qh5 g6! -/+ (as in scholar's mate).
Nice!
Ans.1.Nxf7. If 1...QxN, then 2.Bg6 and Black loses his Q as the Q is pinned.
Man, that puzzle i couldnt see until i opened hte board in Lichess to look at and then once i saw it it was so obvious i didnt see how i missed it!
Beautiful tactic.
Thanks
Glad I found your channel. I enjoy the video (you demonstrate various permutations and combinations). but the audio is somewhat garbled. Hard to hear.
Puzzle at 7. Knight takes f7 taking a pawn and threat to capture rook. Black queen cant take because bishop g6 can skewer the queen. Knight f7 wins a pawn and a rook for free! Plus if you move knight from f7 you gain a tempo by checking the king on e8. I dont see other moves better so f7 knight.
That's actually good.
This system also exists in the Alapin Sicilian. KaspaChess has a video on it. There is also an ICBM trap in the Levenfish variation of the Sicilian, but it works more similarly to the trap from the Englund Gambit where the bishop takes the f pawn directly.
In all of these this openings, black should push d4 and enjoy the space advantage. This forces white to figure out how to play a King’s Indian Attack. White’s position is not quite as bad as in the Hector Gambit or Scorpion-Horus Gambit, but I still abandoned this system because black can play d4.
Btw, tennison gambit is more likely if you move knight first, removing their king option, then baiting them with the free pawn
I used that in the Caro haha it was fun! It doesn't have a name in the Caro, maybe you could call it the Breyer?
Intercontinental Ballistic Mitsle gambit
Thank you
You make it sound so easy for white to win in that black is a queen down for two minor white pieces. But it is very difficult for white to win even if you're a grandmaster!
is the puzzle knight to h7? Thanks for your great videos!
It’s nxf7, Q x n, b-f6 pin
I’m having a shot of Smirnoff rather than shorts by Smirnov.
Nxf7, regardless of what they do, we win either the queen or the rook.
This gambit really work I played this more than 30 plus this types of games.
The extra trolling variation!
That’s why I always decline gambits. Too many possible shenanigans.
I play Chess Titans Level 4, playing as white against the computer. With the 35 basic principles, I can win 99 percent of the time. However, when I use your tactics; I lose 100 percent of the time. I end up playing hope chess where I hope it will make those mistakes & allow me to win. Upload a video of you playing Chess Titans Level 4 as white & lets see you make those tactics work. In particular your tactic against the french defense which Chess Titans Level 4 uses.
Pawn can take bishop, the king remains parked next to the queen.
Knight takes f7 if white takes with the queen then we win a queen if they don't then we capture the rook
thanks..
Is it more than memorizing tactics? Is it not a way of thinking that comes from a lot of losing games, and trying to figure out why that keeps happening?
That's how tactics happen in any game. You keep losing and you figure out why you're losing and what you could do to stop losing, eventually you notice patterns and start to categorize and name them, because games are no longer just chaotic mess.
Nxf7 if Q captures then falls from Bg6 pin
Your the man!
That last one was dirty ;)
What 💀
But what if opponent doesn't take the pawn at d3? Seems like the whole plan collapses?
Tennison is a killer!
I actually fell to the Tennison gambit. So I know it works. lol.
Tennison Gambit
Sigh. There's a rather obvious refutation of the Tennison vs. the Scandinavian. Black simply doesn't take on d3 and plays h6 instead, i.e. 1. e4 d5 2. Nf3 dxe4 3. Ng5 Nf6 4. d3 h6 and now what? White has nothing better than Nxe4 after which black can force the queens off with Nxe4. This is silly - white isn't playing a gambit to reach this position. In fact black has even better alternatives than taking the queens off. Most Scandinavian players know about 4....h6 so don't buy into this nonsense. The root of the problem is 4. d3. The better alternatives Nc3 or Bc4 are however relatively toothless and do not yield any advantage.
I used this today in a bullet game but I still blundered in the endgame (and lost the queen) and lost the game
Imagine ur opponent is also here😂
Dangerous attack
What if they open up with knights?
This is what happens.. we keep waiting for opponent to move the right...but they move something else
Thanks for showing us to know more about chess. You should Abit slow down the way you talking, like a school teacher. 😅. Make me rush, just my opinion
This isn’t a trap, its not even a checkmate
Yes, but it doesn't work if you can't get them to take your pawn on D3 - and even my simple on-line chess program doesn't often do that, so I'm straight in trouble!
dam I play this against the caro and just had a situation earlier today where another opponent fell for the trap and I was thinking good thing this isn't a well known line so not many opponents are aware... and then Igor releases a vid about it lol 😂
Every time i try i trap i end up trapping myself. And not only do i lose, i ridiculously lose. 😂😂😂
Are you a chess master or something I always wanted to be a grandmaster but never went to school or anything now I’m 39
I am one of those players who fell for it 😂
Thinks
Black side sicilion game 😢aginst white
I accidentely sacrificed my king
Bro 💀
What if black plays Qd5??
Shocking ...
Nxf7 because if Qxf7 then Bg6 pins the queen to the king
All these tactics are nice but in real game the opponent never does the counter moves that lead to the trap.
Depends on the trap and the strength of your opponent
When white moves bishop to g6 ..black king can easily capture the bishop ..white takes black queen ..but hows it checkmate then ..i dont get it
Black Night to C6 stops it completely
wheres the answer to the puzzle?
Very naive approach, even on 1200-1400 range on lichess people are more likely to defend pawn with bishop to f5 rather than knight to f6, and it's all over.
This gambit can be easily broken. If the black moved its queen to check the knight at the 6th step. Then, the whole strategy will be faile
All of this can be stopped with Queen to d5 attacking the Knight and when white goes d3 and black takes e4xd3 followed by whites move Bishop takes d3 black plays Queen a5 check still attacking the white knight . So now what? This opening sucks it doesn’t work.
Once it work
When you play: evil lauhter
Your opponent plays the wrong move
You😤😡