The Greatest Scotch Gambit Player

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The Scotch Gambit is a great opening for beginners and experts alike. It offers White a rich variety of strategic and aggressive opportunities. Gawain Jones, one of England's strongest grandmasters, is a strong proponent of the Scotch gambit. In this video, we'll take a look at three of his best games in the opening.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Game 1
06:06 Game 2
09:57 Game 3
Game 1: Gawain Jones vs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, World Blitz 2015
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. e5 d5 6. Bb5 Ne4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8. Bxc6 bxc6 9. O-O Bc5 10. f3 Ng5 11. Be3 Ne6 12. f4 Qb8 13. f5 Nxd4 14. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 15. Qxd4 Qb6 16. c3 Qxd4+ 17. cxd4 Rb8 18. Nd2 Rxb2 19. Nb3 Ke7 20. g4 Rb8 21. Rf2 Rxf2 22. Kxf2 g6 23. f6+ Ke8 24. Kf3 Rb4 25. Rd1 Rc4 26. Rd2 Rc3+ 27. Kf4 h6 28. h4 g5+ 29. hxg5 hxg5+ 30. Kxg5 Rg3 31. Nc5 Rxg4+ 32. Kh5 Bc8 33. Rb2 Rxd4 34. Rb8 Kd8 35. e6 fxe6 36. Nxe6+ 1-0
Game 2: Gawain Jones vs Christian Pedersen, 54th TCh-DEN Ex 2015-16
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. e5 d5 6. Bb5 Ne4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8. Bxc6 bxc6 9. O-O Bc5 10. f3 Ng5 11. Be3 O-O 12. f4 Ne4 13. Nd2 Nxd2 14. Qxd2 Qe7 15. Rae1 Bb6 16. f5 Qxe5 17. Nxc6 Qd6 18. Bxb6 Qxc6 19. Ba5 Rfe8 20. Rd1 Re5 21. f6 Rae8 22. Bc3 Rh5 23. fxg7 Qb6+ 24. Qf2 Qxf2+ 25. Rxf2 c5 26. Bf6 Bg4 27. Rdf1 Re6 28. b4 cxb4 29. Bb2 Re7 30. Rf4 Bc8 31. Rxb4 Re2 32. Rb8 Rxc2 33. Rc1 1-0
Game 3: Gawain Jones vs Arkadij Naiditsch, 42nd Olympiad 2016
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. e5 d5 6. Bb5 Ne4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8. Bxc6 bxc6 9. O-O Be7 10. f3 Nc5 11. f4 Ne4 12. f5 c5 13. Ne2 Bb5 14. a4 Ba6 15. Nbc3 Nxc3 16. bxc3 Qd7 17. Rf2 O-O-O 18. Nf4 g5 19. Nh5 Rhg8 20. Qg4 Kb8 21. Bd2 Ka8 22. Re1 Bc4 23. a5 Rb8 24. h3 h6 25. Qf3 Qc8 26. Ng3 Re8 27. Qh5 f6 28. Qxh6 Rh8 29. Qg7 Qd8 30. Qf7 fxe5 31. f6 Bd6 32. Bxg5 Qg8 33. Qxg8 Rbxg8 34. h4 e4 35. Nf5 Be5 36. g4 Bxc3 37. Re3 Be5 38. Ne7 Rb8 39. Ng6 d4 40. Nxe5 dxe3 41. Bxe3 Rxh4 42. Nxc4 Rb1+ 43. Kg2 Rxg4+ 44. Kh3 Rg8 45. Kh2 Kb7 46. f7 Rf8 47. Bxc5 Rh8+ 48. Kg2 Rbh1 49. f8=Q 1-0
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[@OmarPreto]

Great job, as usual. Thank you, Sammy. Scotch Gambit is one of my favourites

[@richlight]

Me after a bottle of Johnny walker. . .

[@jacobleedgaard5968]

Super commentary to go along with the moves. Thanks Sammy!

[@tonysu8860]

Nice little collection of games. Players who are thinking of playing the Scotch Gambit should know that this one line is only a tiny bit of what one has to know but is probably the most recent topical line played by leading players recently. I run into this line playing white rarely online or OTB at the club level (around 1800 and lower).

[@tobiass3540]

Small mistake here. In that line with Qxb2-fxe6-Bxe6-Kh1-Qxa1-Nxe6-Bxe3-Nxc7+- After Ke7 it would be a blunder to take the rook. The right continuation for white would be Nxd5-cxd5-Qxd5

[@youngd5510]

These videos are so good seriously they inspired me to learn the Kings Gambit. Please do more, like on Hikaru's Kings Indian Defense that would be a great vid.

[@jmp7696]

Very useful and interesting video. Showing multiple games help to memorize the schemes of the opening.
Keep on !

[@ahmadkoopal3120]

The games are both entertaining and instructive. Thank you.

[@i.g.l.z.9215]

Very interesting and a good intro to Scotch gambit which I've been exploring for a while, thank you!

[@Galaxyngc7331]

Best chess channel on UA-cam! I love his annotations.

[@prakasavigraha6104]

Definitely entertaining and instructive. Gracias Sammy.

[@edwinsuarez4949]

Yay!!! Was looking for this thanks man

[@michaelkrailo5725]

I know little about this opening, but I did have a lot of success with the regular Scotch game as a lower rated player. This was very well explained and I might have to look into it deeper. Thanks for the analysis. There is a lot to learn from well annotated games like this.

[@jakeallstar1]

Great video

[@jluke6861]

Great Video.

[@1975taopaypay]

Waiting patiently for a Carokan defense video😅❤

[@mhoadievdelapaz3703]

I also have a lot of success with Scotch Potter Variation with White.

[@mj-pk4xk]

Thanks for the analysis very good explanation keep going

[@kevinwellwrought2024]

Sammy our great Iranian chess maestro!

[@catflop]

Please make a video on the best Caro Kann Player

[@imjustherewastaken]

Gothamchess

[@catflop]

@@SammyChess1 bro thank you so much !

[@TheGamingG810]

The Greatest Scotch Gambit Player is xqc, he got checkmated by moist critical

[@harshpal4472]

Rashid

[@guitaristdotcom]

Well-explained. Subbed.