Missing some serious mainstream openings seen a fair bit at the very highest level (and various other levels). The Grünfeld Defence, the Catalan Opening, the Marshall Attack, and the Bongcloud, to name three. Ok, three and _a half_
recently maybe, but the Grünfeld wasn't even a thing until the 1920s and didn't start to get analyzed deeply until the 50's. The Sicilian has been around for a loooooong long time. idk if you can really declare any one opening to be "the most exhaustively studied" but the Sicilian would certainly be a candidate.
That is not the modern, that just transposes to the pirc. An actual modern defense generally follows the tiger’s modern which is g6 bg7 d6 *a6* preparing b5 nd7 bb7 c5
This was a cool video, but I’m not sure how to feel on it, on one hand, it’s amazing you managed to sum up most chess openings so quickly, but on the other hand, you decided to cover variations, like in the Sicillian, you mentioned the Sicillian, then you mentioned the smith-morra, then you mentioned the dragon and the najdorf, a similar thing happened with the queens gambit, you mentioned it, then went over the Slav and QGD independently, and if you had done that for all openings and all variations, we would’ve been here until the heat death of the universe, and that’s just the Sicillian variations, great video overall though
The Smith-Morra variation of Sicilian but not the Alapin variation? Additionally, what about the Alapin's opening? There is only so much that can be crammed into a video.
Your video helps many. Clearly people here know bunch different openings but still this video is supplementing to thousands. Please make more content similar to this.
I absolutely love the Blackburn Schilling. At three digit elo, even when white plays the best move (going for the knight trade according to Stockfish) the position is basically equal because no one at that level knows how to exploit the central space advantage.
I encountered a very rare opening for white years ago from a practice game against stockfish and I lost as black. It's 1. Nf3 d5 2. b4. I researched about it then found that it's name was Santasier's folly. Correct me if my spelling is wrong. It was accidentally moved by the player named Santasier, his intention is to move a pawn to c4 instead of b4. But,I think his overall skills can contend against Frank Marshall if he has pursued more in his chess career.
9:47 Worth mentioning that, if black goes e5 and white goes g4. Qh4 is checkmate, and this is known for being the fastest way a checkmate can happen. It also can happen with 1. f4 e5 2. g4 Qh4#, 1. g4 e5 2. f3 Qh4# or 1. g4 e5 2.f4 Qh4#.
A minor nitpick: the move sequence shown for Benko Gambit was actually a separate opening, the Blumenfeld (Counter-)gambit. The most common Benko setup involves ...d6 and ...g6+Bg7 instead of early e6. Also, the Evans Gambit is named after William Evans, so there is no apostrophe in the name.
I love and I mean LOVE the london system, it’s just a quick develop and it even develops pawns and gives you good control over centers and defense I also call it a pyramid opening since the pawns shape as a pyramid
@LivingHuman_Nathaniel I'll use the French sometimes. Queens Indian the other way. Most people I play against like king pawn openings, so like Morphey's, or my absolute favorite, the Evan's gambit.
Nice collection, but the main idea behind the Réti (and not Retí) opening is 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4, if dxc4, then 3. e4 takes the center and good luck trying to defend the c4 pawn
I have invented an opening for White that bears no resemblance to any of these openings. Traditional openings are designed to gain a strategic advantage. My “no knights” opening has one and only one purpose: to force the tradeoff of Black’s knights within 10-12 moves. I resolved upon this purpose because Lichess level 5 was consistently demolishing me with the superb quality of its knights’ play. Sooner or later a Black knight always either infiltrated my back ranks and combined with another piece to checkmate me, or a Black knight forked my queen and my king forcing me to resign. I found that getting both Black knights off the board quickly vastly increased my chances of not losing. However, trading off my bishops for Black’s knights was killing me in the end game. So I evolved by experiment an opening that forces Black to consent to trading off its knights for White’s knight or, at worst, to accomplish this by giving up only one of White’s bishops. If a bishop must be traded for a knight, it is crucial to immediately prioritize trading a knight for a Black bishop in order to equalize the end-game. (It is damned hard to win the end-game if your opponent has a bishop pair and you don't.) This opening does not provide any strategic advantage, and it is not possible to assault Black’s king directly at any point. However, it seems to lead frequently to weakened Black pawns that are obvious targets. If one can take one or two of those weakened pawns, then just trade down everything as quickly as possible to go into the end-game. Then queen a pawn or two. I would say that I win about a third of my games using this opening and it is invariably accomplished by queening a pawn. The first three White moves are P-d4, N-f3, P-e3. If Black P-d5 and N-f6, then immediate White N-E5 preparing to take the other Black knight the instant it makes its first move. Often Black responds with P-c5 to remove the protection for the advanced White knight, but one responds by taking the c5 pawn and next P-f4 to protect the White knight until it is traded off. If Black’s white-square bishop attempts to molest the Queen, then trade the bishops off. If not, B-d3 followed immediately by N-d2. You then try to make e4 safe for the remaining White knight, at which point you trade off the second set of knights. This may also be prepared by P-h3, leaving the Black knight no square to escape to, thereby forcing it to accept the trade. It is often very worthwhile to intersperse among these moves P-b3, B-b2 and R-B1. This helps set up the occupation of e4 by a White knight or bishop. Omitting R-B1 preserves the option to castle queenside, as Lichess often responds to my “no knights” opening by sending its G and H pawns far forward. I recommend holding off on R-B1 until it’s clear that Black isn’t going to send its G and H points far forward. Prior to evolving this opening I was losing at least 90% of my games on Lichess level 5. After I evolved and perfected this opening percentage of wins tripled and my percentage of losses dropped by a third. This opening does not lead to many draws, unless you make a conscious effort to lock the position by continuous trench-lines of pawns. As I said, you win not by assaulting the Black king’s fortress but by eating an underprotected pawn or two and advancing it to queen. (BTW, the Lichess engine has a slight tendency to push too hard in drawn positions, especially against entrenched pawn-chains, and sometimes throws away a guaranteed draw by attacking a defensive position recklessly.) I would be very interested to hear anyone's thoughts. It may well be that there is some flaw that would enable this opening to defeated consistently by a grandmaster rated higher than Lichess level 5.
My favourite opening (as white): I move my E pawn two spaces forward, then my opponent makes a turn, then i grab my horse and place it at the pawn's previous place. I call it ,,The horse rampage'' and with that opening it is sure to make your opponent mad!
But at least all your pieces are going to gloriously parade around that part of the board while all the pawns have to be taken off the board after three turns due to starvation...
I just played an Alekhine defense and it went surprisingly well. I ended up with a b4 early check to start chipping away at his pawns with that pinned pawn. I did have to sack my rook but it was m1 if i didn't. He ended up blocking his own queen in allowing me to run the 4th rank and force a back rank knight queen mate after his knight danced with my king abit. It really does allow your opponent to push early but if you're being careful with what you sacrifice, it's actually amazing. I was very surprised as I don't think I've had a better midgame before. I usually use one of the Sicilian variations but wanted to try something new. The biggest problem I see with it is if they develop their white bishop and queen early. Not like a scholars mate, but after they get control of the center, if they start pinning your pieces early I think it'll get too tight and harder to play, but I have a sample size of 1 so I can't say if it's great or not. I'm about 75% w/r using the Sicilian so I'll probably keep with that, I've been studying variations for almost a year now so I've gotten okay with it, but the Alekhine was quite fun.
I can't be the only one who saw the thumbnail and came to learn about the gun opening. I don't know shit about chess but already know that's the opening for true warriors.
Not me cramming these Chess openings because somehow I managed to have the ego to sign up for Chess intrams and try outs even though I only know how the pieces move and how to lie to my opponents
The Queen's Gambit is the top notch opening for beginner's as White? I have never came across anyone so far playing this gambit. People just play the 10 Golden Moves, the London System, or rarely the Vienna Game.
Indian openings are defined by d4 Nf6 c4, the kings indian is d4 Nf6 c4 g6... Bg7. In the modern white plays e4 g6 d4 and grabs the center instantly as this is not possible from d4 Nf6. The key difference is the placement of the queen's knight. in the modern, white plays Nc3 without pushing the c-pawn, however in the KID white plays Nc3 AFTER playing c4
Ive played the Scandinavian more than 60 times and i know hoe to respond to Nc3 just do Qa5 this puts pressure on the knight the moment you bring out your bishop attacking the knight and if they dont know what to do and a random move just take the knight with your bishop if they take with the pawn you take with the queen forking the king and the rook (yes i knoe they can just play Bd2 blocking the check and defending the rook and attacking the queen but in the position ur almost inevitably winning
Treatment of Grob is too short and unfair. At the club level, it can have some surprising bite if W is more familiar with the opening. I like how you divide the openings into quality at club and professional levels. The Grob is fine at the club level as long as you know it extremely well. Should you be playing it at the club level? If your goal is improvement with a sound foundation, no. If you simply want to win with a surprise weapon or just dgaf, sure.
And also it's just more interesting! Sure if you play it a lot you can remember some themes in it that your opponent mightn't have bothered to look at, but the exact way in which the opponent deviates from Stockfish's perfect thinking (which would slowly crush your Grob) will tend to differ wildly in each game. So you quickly get into very diverse positions, whereas with some other openings it can sometimes feel like playing the exact same game over and over again. If that variety is fun to you, then it's a selling point for the Grob.
damn i was waiting for the intercontinental ballistic missile
Yeah same… sad
click-bait 🤨
Same or at least the tennision gambit
Where is the Fianchetto
Nor the bong cloud
Missing some serious mainstream openings seen a fair bit at the very highest level (and various other levels). The Grünfeld Defence, the Catalan Opening, the Marshall Attack, and the Bongcloud, to name three.
Ok, three and _a half_
at first i thought bongcloud oh the opening magnus and hikaru both played and then realised oh
Also he missed wind gambit
I love the Catalan opening tbh
Yeah missing the Catalan and the Grünfeld is inexcusable given how relevant they are in modern chess
@@Parthian6The funny part is that both of those are my favorite openings.
Hmm, I do wonder who that silhouette is for the Stafford gambit...
Whats the joke
@@ZDTF i think its eric rosen, who likes to play stafford a LOT, and i mean a lot
Oh no my silhouette!
@@pMeune 😮
Karl Stafford?
"The sicilian is the most exhaustively studied opening"
The Grünfeld defense: 😬😬😬
recently maybe, but the Grünfeld wasn't even a thing until the 1920s and didn't start to get analyzed deeply until the 50's.
The Sicilian has been around for a loooooong long time. idk if you can really declare any one opening to be "the most exhaustively studied" but the Sicilian would certainly be a candidate.
@@Red_Belly very true lol fun monks were dropping the Sicilian hundreds of years ago
Why is the Nimzo-Indian’s picture a minecraft pig 😂
I find it hilarious how the silhouette for the Queen's Gambit Declined is literally just the word "no" in all lowercase, lmao
That is not the modern, that just transposes to the pirc. An actual modern defense generally follows the tiger’s modern which is g6 bg7 d6 *a6* preparing b5 nd7 bb7 c5
The dedication you have is incredible. Great vid as always
As a beginner, I can say that this video opened my horizon of possibilities to keep in mind, excellent content, part 2 please !
Didnt even mention tennisson gambit: ICBM variation, fell of fr
WHERE IS BONGCLOUD!?!?!?
WHERE IS BOMBOCLATT
Where is Fred?
@@НикитаСанников-з1ф Where's Waldo?
Hows waldo @@Justforvisit
Why is Waldo?
I love that the Stafford Gambit picture was a silhouette of Eric Rosen. Very subtle
This was a cool video, but I’m not sure how to feel on it, on one hand, it’s amazing you managed to sum up most chess openings so quickly, but on the other hand, you decided to cover variations, like in the Sicillian, you mentioned the Sicillian, then you mentioned the smith-morra, then you mentioned the dragon and the najdorf, a similar thing happened with the queens gambit, you mentioned it, then went over the Slav and QGD independently, and if you had done that for all openings and all variations, we would’ve been here until the heat death of the universe, and that’s just the Sicillian variations, great video overall though
The Smith-Morra variation of Sicilian but not the Alapin variation? Additionally, what about the Alapin's opening? There is only so much that can be crammed into a video.
Nice speedrun idea is to play every opening to explain each idea behind it
Check out the top theory speedrun by Daniel Naroditsky. He focuses on openings in that speedrun to the top
Your video helps many. Clearly people here know bunch different openings but still this video is supplementing to thousands.
Please make more content similar to this.
Bro did the pirc dirty smh i love that defense
Ah a fellow man of culture
On God
Modern game, Indian game, and Pirc defense are like the three spiderman openings, barely any difference even at intermediary level.
I absolutely love the Blackburn Schilling. At three digit elo, even when white plays the best move (going for the knight trade according to Stockfish) the position is basically equal because no one at that level knows how to exploit the central space advantage.
I encountered a very rare opening for white years ago from a practice game against stockfish and I lost as black. It's 1. Nf3 d5 2. b4. I researched about it then found that it's name was Santasier's folly. Correct me if my spelling is wrong. It was accidentally moved by the player named Santasier, his intention is to move a pawn to c4 instead of b4. But,I think his overall skills can contend against Frank Marshall if he has pursued more in his chess career.
didn't go over the bong cloud, or the cow
9:47 Worth mentioning that, if black goes e5 and white goes g4. Qh4 is checkmate, and this is known for being the fastest way a checkmate can happen. It also can happen with 1. f4 e5 2. g4 Qh4#, 1. g4 e5 2. f3 Qh4# or 1. g4 e5 2.f4 Qh4#.
10:12 as someone who has won almost 80% of his matches in Pirc defence I’m offended 😂😭
What is the best opening for me? How to decide?
Had good results with Pirc at the lower newbie level
A minor nitpick: the move sequence shown for Benko Gambit was actually a separate opening, the Blumenfeld (Counter-)gambit.
The most common Benko setup involves ...d6 and ...g6+Bg7 instead of early e6.
Also, the Evans Gambit is named after William Evans, so there is no apostrophe in the name.
THANK YOU, i noticed it and was gonna point it out(i spent wayyyy too much time studying the benoni and benoni gambit positions)
Grunfeld, Accelerated Dragon, Hyper-accelerated Dragon, Catalan....?
*AND BONGCLOUD???*
05:33 2.g4 is an amazing move for White, absolutely no drawbacks whatsoever!
All beginners should play this move!
Dont care, we london, dont care, we london
Englund gambit players:
No Bongcloud Attack? The strongest opening in the world.
I love and I mean LOVE the london system, it’s just a quick develop and it even develops pawns and gives you good control over centers and defense I also call it a pyramid opening since the pawns shape as a pyramid
I really enjoy it, too.
...so what do you play as black?
@LivingHuman_Nathaniel I'll use the French sometimes. Queens Indian the other way. Most people I play against like king pawn openings, so like Morphey's, or my absolute favorite, the Evan's gambit.
4:04 lmao. Bro Straight up said the Grob is garbage. Respect
No, that's not straight up.
all the openings are:
queens gambit
kings gambit
italian game
caro-kann defense
ruy lópez opening (also known as spanish)
sicilian defense
london system
queens pawn opening: blackmar gambit
danish gambit
scandinavian defense
modern defense with 1.d4
sicilian defense: smith morra gambit
benoni defense: modern variation
grob opening
english opening
benko gambit
giuoco piano game: evans gambit
dutch defense
bird's opening
englund gambit
french defense
kings pawn opening: kings knight, elephant gambit
kings indian defense
ponziani opening
alekhine's defense
kings pawn opening: latvian gambit
philidor defense
scotch game
queens gambit declined
nimzo-indian defense
polish opening
vienna game
petrov's defense: classical, stafford gambit
sicilian defense: open, dragon variation
barnes opening
pirc defense
nimzowitsch-larsen attack
indian game
petrov's defense
slav defense
réti opening
sicilian defense: open, najdorf variation
indian game: blackburne shilling gambit
All these people out here forgetting about the cow opening...
ICBM gambit laughing in the corner:
My two favorite ways to play against the Sicilian are the Alapin, and the Kopec System.
ERM I THINK YOU FORGOT THE SICILIAN DEFENSE : OPEN, FIACHETTO , HYPERACCELERATED DRAGON , PTERODACTYL VARAITION🤓
Nice collection, but the main idea behind the Réti (and not Retí) opening is 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4, if dxc4, then 3. e4 takes the center and good luck trying to defend the c4 pawn
I have invented an opening for White that bears no resemblance to any of these openings. Traditional openings are designed to gain a strategic advantage. My “no knights” opening has one and only one purpose: to force the tradeoff of Black’s knights within 10-12 moves. I resolved upon this purpose because Lichess level 5 was consistently demolishing me with the superb quality of its knights’ play. Sooner or later a Black knight always either infiltrated my back ranks and combined with another piece to checkmate me, or a Black knight forked my queen and my king forcing me to resign. I found that getting both Black knights off the board quickly vastly increased my chances of not losing. However, trading off my bishops for Black’s knights was killing me in the end game. So I evolved by experiment an opening that forces Black to consent to trading off its knights for White’s knight or, at worst, to accomplish this by giving up only one of White’s bishops. If a bishop must be traded for a knight, it is crucial to immediately prioritize trading a knight for a Black bishop in order to equalize the end-game. (It is damned hard to win the end-game if your opponent has a bishop pair and you don't.)
This opening does not provide any strategic advantage, and it is not possible to assault Black’s king directly at any point. However, it seems to lead frequently to weakened Black pawns that are obvious targets. If one can take one or two of those weakened pawns, then just trade down everything as quickly as possible to go into the end-game. Then queen a pawn or two. I would say that I win about a third of my games using this opening and it is invariably accomplished by queening a pawn.
The first three White moves are P-d4, N-f3, P-e3. If Black P-d5 and N-f6, then immediate White N-E5 preparing to take the other Black knight the instant it makes its first move. Often Black responds with P-c5 to remove the protection for the advanced White knight, but one responds by taking the c5 pawn and next P-f4 to protect the White knight until it is traded off. If Black’s white-square bishop attempts to molest the Queen, then trade the bishops off. If not, B-d3 followed immediately by N-d2. You then try to make e4 safe for the remaining White knight, at which point you trade off the second set of knights. This may also be prepared by P-h3, leaving the Black knight no square to escape to, thereby forcing it to accept the trade.
It is often very worthwhile to intersperse among these moves P-b3, B-b2 and R-B1. This helps set up the occupation of e4 by a White knight or bishop. Omitting R-B1 preserves the option to castle queenside, as Lichess often responds to my “no knights” opening by sending its G and H pawns far forward. I recommend holding off on R-B1 until it’s clear that Black isn’t going to send its G and H points far forward.
Prior to evolving this opening I was losing at least 90% of my games on Lichess level 5. After I evolved and perfected this opening percentage of wins tripled and my percentage of losses dropped by a third. This opening does not lead to many draws, unless you make a conscious effort to lock the position by continuous trench-lines of pawns. As I said, you win not by assaulting the Black king’s fortress but by eating an underprotected pawn or two and advancing it to queen. (BTW, the Lichess engine has a slight tendency to push too hard in drawn positions, especially against entrenched pawn-chains, and sometimes throws away a guaranteed draw by attacking a defensive position recklessly.)
I would be very interested to hear anyone's thoughts. It may well be that there is some flaw that would enable this opening to defeated consistently by a grandmaster rated higher than Lichess level 5.
My favourite opening (as white):
I move my E pawn two spaces forward, then my opponent makes a turn, then i grab my horse and place it at the pawn's previous place. I call it ,,The horse rampage'' and with that opening it is sure to make your opponent mad!
He forgot the North Korea gambit, the gambit where you can only use half of the chessboard and can’t cross the border😂
But at least all your pieces are going to gloriously parade around that part of the board while all the pawns have to be taken off the board after three turns due to starvation...
Isn't the North Korea gambit d4 e5 if dxe5 then you nuke the board and win the game?
Very funny
This is no where near every chess opening there are 1,327
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Probably just theory or random openings that were just made up for no reason
I'm just surprised this video didn't have the Grünfeld, Trompowsky, and Catalan
@@jaxtonanderson2443"☝️🤓"-🤡
Queen's gambit is probably the only opening in chess where you more learn how not to play it (Queen's Gambit Declined) than learning how to use it fr
11:56 Patrick defense🗿
All I play are the cow hippo and crab :(
suprised at how objective this video was
Thanks for the video. On my way to comment on the Candidates Tournanament tomorrow!
4:43 that knight on b8 is trippin balls thinking it can fly across the board like that
I just played an Alekhine defense and it went surprisingly well. I ended up with a b4 early check to start chipping away at his pawns with that pinned pawn. I did have to sack my rook but it was m1 if i didn't. He ended up blocking his own queen in allowing me to run the 4th rank and force a back rank knight queen mate after his knight danced with my king abit. It really does allow your opponent to push early but if you're being careful with what you sacrifice, it's actually amazing. I was very surprised as I don't think I've had a better midgame before. I usually use one of the Sicilian variations but wanted to try something new. The biggest problem I see with it is if they develop their white bishop and queen early. Not like a scholars mate, but after they get control of the center, if they start pinning your pieces early I think it'll get too tight and harder to play, but I have a sample size of 1 so I can't say if it's great or not. I'm about 75% w/r using the Sicilian so I'll probably keep with that, I've been studying variations for almost a year now so I've gotten okay with it, but the Alekhine was quite fun.
where is my homy the baltic defense
My favorites are catalan and italian on white and caro kann and slav on black.
helps me a lot as a beginner
I always use the intercontinental ballistic missile gambit
my favourite opening is the reti opening, whenever i play white, i ALWAYS use the reti opening because knights are my favourite piece in chess
i used to play it alot, i mainly transposed into santasieres folly(the polish but u play Nf3 first)
used to play it and bring out both knights first, now just stick to e4
love the 4 seasons background music
I use the englud gambit a lot, d4? Take e5, either i take their queen, checkmate them with that trap, or maintain a better position and win.
Elo ceiling of 1000
bro missed king fianchetto
Vivaldi's four seasons in backround >>>
how did you forget the king fianchetto, it was the like the only opening I played for like my first 50 games.
I can't be the only one who saw the thumbnail and came to learn about the gun opening. I don't know shit about chess but already know that's the opening for true warriors.
Not me cramming these Chess openings because somehow I managed to have the ego to sign up for Chess intrams and try outs even though I only know how the pieces move and how to lie to my opponents
Where is intercontational ballistic missile gambit
I see Rosen as the silhouette for the Stafford, I click the video.
I'm a simple man.
The picture for the grob 💀💀💀
mentioned king's indian attack as white version of king's indian defense, should mention that the opposite version of Grob is Borg 😁
Where is the cow opening?
I appreciate ur hardwork...keep making videos...
this is not every opening
I think the video is about popular chess openings
no ICBM gambit, no bongcloud, this is garbage tier video
no four knights game
Not even close to all
No shit
Bro forgot the intercontinental ballistic missile gambit
icbm is not a gambit and scandinavian literally isn't popular after move 1 lol
@@jackweslycamacho8982Is it gambit.
@@plyster555 no, it isn’t gambit.
The Queen's Gambit is the top notch opening for beginner's as White? I have never came across anyone so far playing this gambit. People just play the 10 Golden Moves, the London System, or rarely the Vienna Game.
I know a trap in the Blackmar-Diemer but play the London
What about coca-cola's gambit? Or the drake opening? Only true chess addicts knows about these openings.
You forgot the cow opening.
Evan's Gambit team
Is that Eric Rosen's silhouette for the Stafford Gambit icon? xD
As a big fan of the Blackburne-Klooster gambit, i am saddened
Scandinavian modern italian Benoni englund
Holy shit I finally found the alekhines defense after a while
No Ruy Lopez? I remember Chessmaster 3000 doing that _all the time._
That’s the also known as the Spanish 1:32
And the Stonewall is forgotten once again...
I love how you applied this format for chess 😂
The Borg Defense was left off 😢
Slav is just "ok"
i know its crazy but if you ever feel stuck with black play the elephant for like 10games it will be very fun
Bro is the actual chess master
No.
Wheres the instant table flip opening
Incredibly wondering that among chess champions only Alekhine has own debute name
You can recognize it by the Polish trees
Bought several books about chess openings did not maanaged to process them
i think you have to separate the openings to the defenses, in two videos
you forgot bongcloud opening😂
I don't see how the Modern is different to the King's Indian? Looks exactly the same to me?
Indian openings are defined by d4 Nf6 c4, the kings indian is d4 Nf6 c4 g6... Bg7. In the modern white plays e4 g6 d4 and grabs the center instantly as this is not possible from d4 Nf6. The key difference is the placement of the queen's knight. in the modern, white plays Nc3 without pushing the c-pawn, however in the KID white plays Nc3 AFTER playing c4
Thanks for a detailed answer! So… what’s the advantage/disadvantage of each setup compared to each other?
As an intercontinental ballistic missile gambit player, i take this as a loss.
My Fav opining is e4, e5, knight f3, knight c3
It was interesting to watch.😇
It's exactly what I needed.👌🏻
I love reti opening
You forgot The Fred Defense. 😁
Ive played the Scandinavian more than 60 times and i know hoe to respond to Nc3 just do Qa5 this puts pressure on the knight the moment you bring out your bishop attacking the knight and if they dont know what to do and a random move just take the knight with your bishop if they take with the pawn you take with the queen forking the king and the rook (yes i knoe they can just play Bd2 blocking the check and defending the rook and attacking the queen but in the position ur almost inevitably winning
Thank you
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Treatment of Grob is too short and unfair. At the club level, it can have some surprising bite if W is more familiar with the opening.
I like how you divide the openings into quality at club and professional levels. The Grob is fine at the club level as long as you know it extremely well.
Should you be playing it at the club level? If your goal is improvement with a sound foundation, no. If you simply want to win with a surprise weapon or just dgaf, sure.
And also it's just more interesting!
Sure if you play it a lot you can remember some themes in it that your opponent mightn't have bothered to look at, but the exact way in which the opponent deviates from Stockfish's perfect thinking (which would slowly crush your Grob) will tend to differ wildly in each game. So you quickly get into very diverse positions, whereas with some other openings it can sometimes feel like playing the exact same game over and over again.
If that variety is fun to you, then it's a selling point for the Grob.
No four knights or Halloween gambit
What is the difference between the Modern and King's Indian? Is it just move order? They look exactly the same to me.
Great video
white d4,e3,bishop d3 what that opening call
The spanish is now called ruy lopez lol
Because lopez was a spanish chess master