The most impressive part about all Alex's videos is how he's just casually talking to the camera when he has 6 seconds left and his opponent still has 3 minutes
Thank you so much for your Jobava London content I’ve literally gained 300 elo in the past month.. and as other viewers have mentioned it’s actually very helpful when you crack jokes like “raining pawns on the bishop that forgot his umbrella” kind of stuff. Your caro kann stuff was also extremely helpful I cant thank you enough
Alex is the best at getting down to 10 seconds while talking and still win! so suspenseful, it's like a Mission Impossible movie. what's next....he is going to win hanging on to the side of a flying airplane?!
Your chess videos are the best. I’ve learned so much from your videos because of your funny and friendly yet educational teaching. Thank you so much for releasing high quality content longer than 10 minutes completely for free💚
I've played this pawn storm for years. I always thought it was unsound! Nice to see I am not all crazy. Another great video!! I continue to learn from you.
Not only are your videos extremely helpful but you are hilarious! The comments about the roulette spin for Englund players and the 5 guys with baseball bats had me cracking up 😂. Keep up the great stuff man!
Wow. This has got to be the 5th video I’ve watched you play this opening. And FINALLY, I’m beginning to actually understand it. Thank you for spending so much time teaching this opening.
1.c3 is my best scoring opening move and I try to play it as reversed caro or slav/London depending on the response. It's VERY simple and VERY strong and reduces the opening prep massively. You can pre- move D4 against anything or play 2.a3 as a waiting move that improves the slav/caro. It crushes. No one playing black is ready for the reversed caro up a tempo. Play this Alex.
Excellent counter to the Englund, thank you for breaking that down. This is actually one of the more useful videos I have seen and I watch most of the streamers. I am not a d4 player but was looking for one d4 line to mix in from time to time. So glad I picked this video. Feel like I found a gold mine in this one.
It's really ridiculous how your jokes like "we PP on the PP" and such helps me memorize the ideas of openings and positions. Really big shoutout for that! Your timer is giving me anxiety though xD Love your content man, your Caro course on chessable is superb and worth every cent
This channel is my favorite by far for studying opening concepts. Been playing chess for 2.5 months and just crossed 1100. I give the credit to your channel! Not to mention your humor is top notch and is better for my memory. Oh, and pro tips like pieces moving backwards…..clutch.
The best player to learn theory from! Looks like you're making great progress and having found Banzea this early in your chess journey is gonna help you tremendously :)
There was a nice move as well for the knight with the englund gambit as white 25:47. Which prepared to open the white bishop file on e2. Putting pressure on black’s knight forcing him to pull back. Then push c3 knight to b5 prepared to sac the knight on an upcoming check. Forcing queen to be taken.
Thanks to you I've started only playing the Jobava and have been loving it. I also appreciate how the quality of your videos keep improving, so keep up the good work!
I like the Caro-Kann. I played it before and studied it in the past. Have some good literature on it. I recently picked it up again after I found the simplified videos, and I'm having pretty good success again. I don't know about the Jobava yet, although I do find the London video's instructive. Most of the recommendations offered here are lines avaliable in book study. He's giving you well known theory for free. Thanks
48:28 maybe you’ve been enjoying it? Srry bro I could not stop laughing at this point 🤣🤣🤣🤣. On a serious note though, thank you again for this video. It helps my Jobava so much!! Also I kinda forgot my lines against the englund gambit so this video really helped my chess improve again. So I’m really really thankful!!
Hey Alex! I have purchased both your London and CK courses on Chessable. I just hit 1000 rating! I've been only studying your London course so far and I feel very confident as White. Interesting to see your Jobava variations on YT and while I'm tempted to try them out, I'm going to keep studying hard with the standard London for now. Cheers!
I must say this is one of the more instructive Jobava videos by far! I often get that ideal dream set up and castled queenside as recommended, but then I sometimes lack a concrete plan afterward. Do I attack the kingside with those pawns? What if black plays well and goes all out on the queenside?
Can someone explain the checkmate threat for white demonstrated at 3:30? there are several ways to defend as black, so much so that I put the board into chessbase and had stockfish double check and it's such a non-threat that the top engine move i can see is Bb4 just toally ignoring the king side of white.
If you had a Patreon for higher rated game content I’d be in bro. Helpful for me at 1800 kind of level already but jheez do this against tougher opponents for content and I’m in heaven!
Amazing video. I always hated playing against the Englund Gambit and lost so many games against it so i can not express how thankful i am for this refutation!
After watching 10 of your videos and winning plenty of games, jumping up 150 ELO in a few days, just because you explain it all so well, I decided to buy your London and Caro-Kann courses. Please keep up your amazing work. My goal is 1500 :) Maybe I can get there in a matter of 1-2 years :) Greetings from Germany
Another video from Alex, thank You! BTW, I would really love if You would make some videos about a beginner friendly variant of the sicilian defense, like Kan or Taimanov. Have a great day, Alex!
Thank you so much, I love this opening for white. Now I completed my repertoire with the French and Kings Indian as well. The reason I don’t play the caro kann is because I struggle against the advance variation but maybe I will go back to it after I improve my play against the advance variation
the individual item is known as scissors, and its made of two scissor blades. The metaphorical use is scissor ie "we will scissor the front lines." Typically its better to just use the word Cut or slice.
I really appreciate your excellent instruction regarding the Jobava London and I also like your sense of humor. In this video, it was helpful to understand White's response to the Englund Gambit. I would appreciate it if you could feature a Charlick Gambit response. I am seeing that fairly often these days. Thank You!
THANKING YOU AGAIN ALEX, SO WELL PRESENTED & LOVE YOUR HUMOR. MY PLEASURE TO HAVE SHARED THIS FINE WORK. AS ALWAYS FRIEND WISHING BLESSINGS YOUR WAY FROM OREGON. .... MIKE.
I am really enjoying your Videos It's such a great Skill to explain what you are doing, why you are doing it, while playing and winning a Game and additionally have a really nice commentary with random metaphors. Your Videos got me into the London System and the caro-kann Defense. I feel really confident in using Them now after I returned to chess and managed to get a Solid 100 elo Up😁 Funny Thing, today i Ran First time in to the englund Gambit and didnt know how to respond, Not Sure If taking the e5 pawn is really good or Not, i Took it and got into a comfortable Position taking a safe W 😊
The Englund Gambit game gave me literal nightmares and flashbacks lol... I have had the exact same situation happen countless times, and finally knowing how to counter it is a blessing. Thanks again for this amazing content!
Englund is the ultimate trick opening - cause if white knows what to do, black is just down a pawn (or more) for nothing. At least in other gambits you get equal position.
You obviously don't know about the medusa gambit. It sucks so much that you can't even find a guide on UA-cam. The only benefit of knowing it is that you won't resign when you mouse slip and blunder a pawn while giving your opponent free tempo.
Scissors: yeah, in English (crazy language) you can only have a pair of scissors. You can't have a single scissor. Stupid way to construct a language, but there you have it. You can't put two scissors together to make a pair of scissors, since there is no such thing as a scissor. Same with pants. You can only have a pair of pants, never a single pant. Love your videos, the entire concept of finding openings good for schlubs like me who don't want to memorize a zillion variants ... brilliant! And,as a bonus, hilarious!
I've just played my first everJLgames! With 89% accuracy! Usually I play Busch-Gass whether white or black. I can win in 17 moves and stockfish will tell me that I made 9 mistakes and 8 blunders! The pawn storm works great, especially in my second-last game where I had rook and queen behind the pawns.
Bruz I know the exact feeling, I'm in Australia and where I play Chess in peacefulness out the back of mine I often get mosquitoes come and get me at the worst times.
I struggle to do well with the jobava when they keep the Bishop inside the pawn chain. The games seem to become very random. Outside the chain the pawn push makes the games more consistent and easier
Did you know in Thailand they give their working elephants deliberate smack habits so that they are more motivated to work. Imagine being in that coffee shop and an elephant hanging out in withdrawals comes barging through. Scary!!!
I play the london and got mated so quickly by that englund gambit today... Glad to learn about the counter in this video. I love your videos but i find the audio levels are sometimes a bit inconsistent, i would love them even more if the audio was a bit more balanced! I hope you dont take offense, the content is amazing, just gets a bit loud sometimes
I purchased your london system course on chessable and am loving it. It has helped my win rate a ton vs the dutch, the benoni, and some annoying lines in the Englund gambit. In your course, you had mentioned you played ten games against Stockfish in the queen sacrifice line of the Englund. I have lost to some strong players in that line and it's always annoying. Is there any way you could send me the PGNs for those games or post them on UA-cam? I'm sure we would all love to see them :)
Hey quick question after my opponent played Bf5 and I played f3 he played h5 stopping my kingside storm… what now :) I felt my plans were castrated and didn’t know where to go… I won because at my super high rating we blunder masterfully and my opponent moved his queen to an empty square protected by a pawn couple of moves after his h5 excellent move 😂
I think that’s better objectively, but I find it harder to play for beginners. What I love about f3 is that it pretty much works well always vs bf5 lines in any form.
I have Simon Williams Jobava London course. Anything different on yours? What is your recommendation for a response to the Caro Kann classical opening when white goes f4 rather than taking the black f6 knight with the e4 knight?
I found out that playing h4 before g4 often wins the bishop on f5. After playing f3 and g4, it is 100 % sure that black will move the bishop because the threat is so obvious. However by playing h4 first there is no immediate threat and black might just play Bd6 and when you then play g4, it is too late to save the light squared bishop. In about 20 % of my games in this line, I win the bishop, because my opponent didnt see that his bishop was getting trapped. What do you think about that?
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The most impressive part about all Alex's videos is how he's just casually talking to the camera when he has 6 seconds left and his opponent still has 3 minutes
Thank you so much for your Jobava London content I’ve literally gained 300 elo in the past month.. and as other viewers have mentioned it’s actually very helpful when you crack jokes like “raining pawns on the bishop that forgot his umbrella” kind of stuff. Your caro kann stuff was also extremely helpful I cant thank you enough
You need to watch his Caro content. I just hit 1350 blitz
Indeed. He's really underrated
the editing to see (on the top right hand corner) the potential moves is a great addition to this channel
Fighting a giant fly as the clock runs down. Nicely done Alex!
Alex is the best at getting down to 10 seconds while talking and still win! so suspenseful, it's like a Mission Impossible movie. what's next....he is going to win hanging on to the side of a flying airplane?!
Your chess videos are the best. I’ve learned so much from your videos because of your funny and friendly yet educational teaching. Thank you so much for releasing high quality content longer than 10 minutes completely for free💚
SPOT ON COMMENT!
The worst move to make is telling your wife to "calm down"😂
I've played this pawn storm for years. I always thought it was unsound! Nice to see I am not all crazy. Another great video!! I continue to learn from you.
I mean were you losing a lot deploying this pawn storm?
Not only are your videos extremely helpful but you are hilarious! The comments about the roulette spin for Englund players and the 5 guys with baseball bats had me cracking up 😂. Keep up the great stuff man!
Wow. This has got to be the 5th video I’ve watched you play this opening. And FINALLY, I’m beginning to actually understand it. Thank you for spending so much time teaching this opening.
Alex, I just played a Reversed Caro-Kann game (I opened 1. c3) - and won with 97% accuracy - applied the concepts from your videos but up a tempo!
Thats funny, i might make a video with that idea lol
1.c3 is my best scoring opening move and I try to play it as reversed caro or slav/London depending on the response. It's VERY simple and VERY strong and reduces the opening prep massively. You can pre- move D4 against anything or play 2.a3 as a waiting move that improves the slav/caro. It crushes. No one playing black is ready for the reversed caro up a tempo. Play this Alex.
@@someguyontheinternet7628 It can also transpose into Ponziani which is also very tricky to play against
"You know it's bad, but it still gets you" my man basically summed up my entire chess experience 😂😂
Man basically summed up my dating life!
Your sarcastic humour making you stand out of chess channels, I legit laughed at some of your jokes. Subscribed! :D
Excellent counter to the Englund, thank you for breaking that down. This is actually one of the more useful videos I have seen and I watch most of the streamers. I am not a d4 player but was looking for one d4 line to mix in from time to time. So glad I picked this video. Feel like I found a gold mine in this one.
Great to see the jovaba again...and this editing is just gorgeous...thank you Alex!!
It's really ridiculous how your jokes like "we PP on the PP" and such helps me memorize the ideas of openings and positions. Really big shoutout for that! Your timer is giving me anxiety though xD Love your content man, your Caro course on chessable is superb and worth every cent
48:00 Missed mate in 1 with Rh5
The fly was the best part xD btw, thank you so much! love your videos!
Can't wait to play with so much confidence like you do...I'm determined to improve to that
This channel is my favorite by far for studying opening concepts. Been playing chess for 2.5 months and just crossed 1100. I give the credit to your channel! Not to mention your humor is top notch and is better for my memory. Oh, and pro tips like pieces moving backwards…..clutch.
The best player to learn theory from! Looks like you're making great progress and having found Banzea this early in your chess journey is gonna help you tremendously :)
I love your Jobava London and Caro-Kann videos!
Keep this content coming!! And the caro kann! Fav chess UA-camr
I think the huge fly made you miss mate in 1 at 47:59??
Yes!
There was a nice move as well for the knight with the englund gambit as white 25:47.
Which prepared to open the white bishop file on e2. Putting pressure on black’s knight forcing him to pull back. Then push c3 knight to b5 prepared to sac the knight on an upcoming check.
Forcing queen to be taken.
Thanks to you I've started only playing the Jobava and have been loving it. I also appreciate how the quality of your videos keep improving, so keep up the good work!
I like the Caro-Kann. I played it before and studied it in the past. Have some good literature on it. I recently picked it up again after I found the simplified videos, and I'm having pretty good success again. I don't know about the Jobava yet, although I do find the London video's instructive. Most of the recommendations offered here are lines avaliable in book study. He's giving you well known theory for free. Thanks
48:28 maybe you’ve been enjoying it? Srry bro I could not stop laughing at this point 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
On a serious note though, thank you again for this video. It helps my Jobava so much!! Also I kinda forgot my lines against the englund gambit so this video really helped my chess improve again. So I’m really really thankful!!
I love your new style man, keep up the good work
Hey Alex! I have purchased both your London and CK courses on Chessable. I just hit 1000 rating! I've been only studying your London course so far and I feel very confident as White. Interesting to see your Jobava variations on YT and while I'm tempted to try them out, I'm going to keep studying hard with the standard London for now. Cheers!
That Englund Opening is nasty. Great counters Alex!
Hilarious with the flies 😅 love to see you have a weakness too 😉😘 keep up the excellent content Alex 👏
Love ur comments and analogy's! Thank you for your time!
Nice video from one of my favorite chess UA-camrs!
I must say this is one of the more instructive Jobava videos by far! I often get that ideal dream set up and castled queenside as recommended, but then I sometimes lack a concrete plan afterward. Do I attack the kingside with those pawns? What if black plays well and goes all out on the queenside?
😂😂😂
Thanks again Alex! Have a great weekend!
"These guys just put their life savings on a roulette spin". You just described my 600 elo game perfectly :)
Can someone explain the checkmate threat for white demonstrated at 3:30? there are several ways to defend as black, so much so that I put the board into chessbase and had stockfish double check and it's such a non-threat that the top engine move i can see is Bb4 just toally ignoring the king side of white.
It's not threatening mate immediately, but I promise after you push g4-g5 this is gonna be very difficult for Black
@AlexBanzea Yup! I should have waited to ask but you demonstrated later in the vid to dislodge the knight. Thanks for replying!
That giant insect attacking you is exactly like one of your metaphors 🤣
first time i’ve seen a chess youtuber get attacked during a tutorial video, hope you’ve recovered well alex
48:00 had mate in 1 Rh5
Lol I just came on to say this too.
I blame the fly.
If you had a Patreon for higher rated game content I’d be in bro. Helpful for me at 1800 kind of level already but jheez do this against tougher opponents for content and I’m in heaven!
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Time stamp 57:24
Good analogy: the bishop pair is like two pairs of scissors, cutting the board in classic right triangles.
I think that most of us would like to see more videos like this one - thanks.
Great video, and the newer video format looks really good
Amazing video. I always hated playing against the Englund Gambit and lost so many games against it so i can not express how thankful i am for this refutation!
After watching 10 of your videos and winning plenty of games, jumping up 150 ELO in a few days, just because you explain it all so well, I decided to buy your London and Caro-Kann courses. Please keep up your amazing work. My goal is 1500 :) Maybe I can get there in a matter of 1-2 years :) Greetings from Germany
Another video from Alex, thank You! BTW, I would really love if You would make some videos about a beginner friendly variant of the sicilian defense, like Kan or Taimanov. Have a great day, Alex!
Thank you so much, I love this opening for white. Now I completed my repertoire with the French and Kings Indian as well. The reason I don’t play the caro kann is because I struggle against the advance variation but maybe I will go back to it after I improve my play against the advance variation
Best chess content
the individual item is known as scissors, and its made of two scissor blades. The metaphorical use is scissor ie "we will scissor the front lines." Typically its better to just use the word Cut or slice.
I really appreciate your excellent instruction regarding the Jobava London and I also like your sense of humor. In this video, it was helpful to understand White's response to the Englund Gambit. I would appreciate it if you could feature a Charlick Gambit response. I am seeing that fairly often these days. Thank You!
Somebody that is less worried of the Englund gambit than to a fly must be our hero!
My favorite opening London System
Casually destroying an opponent while being under siege from a a GIANT fly
THANKING YOU AGAIN ALEX, SO WELL PRESENTED & LOVE YOUR HUMOR. MY PLEASURE TO HAVE SHARED THIS FINE WORK. AS ALWAYS FRIEND WISHING BLESSINGS YOUR WAY FROM OREGON. .... MIKE.
33:36 doesn't nc7 force black to take with the queen and then fall into nc7 fork?
thank you for these very insructiionel videos. 😃
Thanks Alex, I''ve been periodically facing this gang with baseball bats. I'll try to remember all this :)
I really needed that englund lines
Hi Alex. Happy new year to you and thank you for your very instructive videos. I wander if you could instruct us on the Dutch Defense please?
Did you catch the fly?
Kudos for additional variants chessboard!
I am really enjoying your Videos
It's such a great Skill to explain what you are doing, why you are doing it, while playing and winning a Game and additionally have a really nice commentary with random metaphors.
Your Videos got me into the London System and the caro-kann Defense. I feel really confident in using Them now after I returned to chess and managed to get a Solid 100 elo Up😁
Funny Thing, today i Ran First time in to the englund Gambit and didnt know how to respond, Not Sure If taking the e5 pawn is really good or Not, i Took it and got into a comfortable Position taking a safe W 😊
I've always heard that Romanian flies are.vicious.
I was half-expecting Alex to hold up a slipper with a giant joke fly stuck on the bottom.
Thanks Alex!
The Englund Gambit game gave me literal nightmares and flashbacks lol... I have had the exact same situation happen countless times, and finally knowing how to counter it is a blessing. Thanks again for this amazing content!
Englund is the ultimate trick opening - cause if white knows what to do, black is just down a pawn (or more) for nothing. At least in other gambits you get equal position.
You obviously don't know about the medusa gambit. It sucks so much that you can't even find a guide on UA-cam. The only benefit of knowing it is that you won't resign when you mouse slip and blunder a pawn while giving your opponent free tempo.
@@ศกรโสมาภา I think ChessVibes included this in worst gambits list, only reason I know it exists
Ah hah. The old "elephant in the coffee shop" trick. Classic. 😂
The story with bee, was so funny😄 👌🏻
45:17 it´s really the highlight of this video😁😁
Scissors: yeah, in English (crazy language) you can only have a pair of scissors. You can't have a single scissor. Stupid way to construct a language, but there you have it. You can't put two scissors together to make a pair of scissors, since there is no such thing as a scissor. Same with pants. You can only have a pair of pants, never a single pant. Love your videos, the entire concept of finding openings good for schlubs like me who don't want to memorize a zillion variants ... brilliant! And,as a bonus, hilarious!
I've just played my first everJLgames! With 89% accuracy! Usually I play Busch-Gass whether white or black. I can win in 17 moves and stockfish will tell me that I made 9 mistakes and 8 blunders! The pawn storm works great, especially in my second-last game where I had rook and queen behind the pawns.
Bruz I know the exact feeling, I'm in Australia and where I play Chess in peacefulness out the back of mine I often get mosquitoes come and get me at the worst times.
I struggle to do well with the jobava when they keep the Bishop inside the pawn chain. The games seem to become very random. Outside the chain the pawn push makes the games more consistent and easier
2nd game really instructional for my beginner level
Did you know in Thailand they give their working elephants deliberate smack habits so that they are more motivated to work. Imagine being in that coffee shop and an elephant hanging out in withdrawals comes barging through. Scary!!!
What's a "smack habit"?
(non native English speaker here)
I play the london and got mated so quickly by that englund gambit today... Glad to learn about the counter in this video.
I love your videos but i find the audio levels are sometimes a bit inconsistent, i would love them even more if the audio was a bit more balanced! I hope you dont take offense, the content is amazing, just gets a bit loud sometimes
40:50 lmaooo
man you're the best ❤
thank you Alex, hope you did not have to many nightmares about that fly :)
I played English opening and London but the Joe Bava London is deadly af. I dominate every game
I purchased your london system course on chessable and am loving it. It has helped my win rate a ton vs the dutch, the benoni, and some annoying lines in the Englund gambit.
In your course, you had mentioned you played ten games against Stockfish in the queen sacrifice line of the Englund. I have lost to some strong players in that line and it's always annoying. Is there any way you could send me the PGNs for those games or post them on UA-cam? I'm sure we would all love to see them :)
Its really works when my opponent uses englund shocks his queen like you walking in the streets and see guys bringing baseball bat.😂😂
Finally more with Jobava!! I waited too long This time 😂
Liking even before i saw the video because i know i will learn a lot from it
Alex how about if black moves h5 instead of e6 on the 5th move?
Thanks to your videos I got to 1550 blitz! But it gets trickier from there. Do you have any more advanced caro/london lines/ideas you can show?
46:00 jobava London fly's attack variation 😂😂
Hey quick question after my opponent played Bf5 and I played f3 he played h5 stopping my kingside storm… what now :) I felt my plans were castrated and didn’t know where to go… I won because at my super high rating we blunder masterfully and my opponent moved his queen to an empty square protected by a pawn couple of moves after his h5 excellent move 😂
Alex! I love your content! Thank you for all your... following games! I repeatedly lose to opponents playing d4. Can you make a video on it?
What do you think about Naroditsky’s approach to the early
Bishop f5? Not doing the f3 but still going for g4 without trapping the knight?
I think that’s better objectively, but I find it harder to play for beginners. What I love about f3 is that it pretty much works well always vs bf5 lines in any form.
At 29:15 e4 is just evil since Nf5 seems to be mate in 1.
Gotta watch out for them goofy Englund lads
I have Simon Williams Jobava London course. Anything different on yours? What is your recommendation for a response to the Caro Kann classical opening when white goes f4 rather than taking the black f6 knight with the e4 knight?
13:23 Re6? sac? king is forced to take then Re1 Kd6 Qe7
could you show how to play London against a Kings Indian Defence and French Defence
THE FLY LMAO
I found out that playing h4 before g4 often wins the bishop on f5. After playing f3 and g4, it is 100 % sure that black will move the bishop because the threat is so obvious. However by playing h4 first there is no immediate threat and black might just play Bd6 and when you then play g4, it is too late to save the light squared bishop. In about 20 % of my games in this line, I win the bishop, because my opponent didnt see that his bishop was getting trapped. What do you think about that?
It’s bad because he can answer h4 with h5 and there is no more g4
@@AlexBanzea That's a fair point.
Jobava london's bortnyk more Sharpe
Amazing content
I fear the elephant in the coffee shop