GM Igor I have noticed your English is getting more fluent and natural ! Congrats on that too ofcourse everyone compliments your chess skills but I think this is a great noticeable improvement too, it's so pleasant to hear you always either way! It's just even smoother now :)
► Chapters 00:00 1.b3 Chess Opening, Nimzo-Larsen Attack 00:48 Targeting the e5-pawn and the diagonal 01:36 1) If Black plays 3...Bc5 (Modern Variation) 02:41 2) If Black plays 1...d5 (Classical Variation) 03:12 3) If Black plays 3...Nf6 04:32 Important Positional Idea (dark-square weakness) 06:51 4) If Black plays 3...d5 09:11 4.2) If Black plays 5...Qe7 11:28 Puzzle of the day 11:47 4.3) If Black plays 5...f6 (Mainline)
One of my favourite openings as it is rare and gets opponents out of their comfort zones quite often and also has many traps and ways to attack black !
Puzzle is Nxd5 threatening to fork on f7 and the g7 which trap the rook at the same time. If queen takes queen you take back and still threaten both rook. By the way, I always feel like any Nimzo Larsen videos that doesn’t prepare something against LC0 gambit is kind of incomplete so maybe you should make videos on that too.
Regarding the problem position in the video after Black played 1 … Qe7 2.Nxd5 looks solid for white. If 2 … Qxe5 3.Bxe5 cd 4.Bxg7 and if 2 … cd 3.Qxg7 wins the Rook and leads to a winning endgame for white.
@@kelvinmuuller516 hi Kelvin, just do a UA-cam search for understanding algebraic chess notation bro. I’m pretty sure there will be some great videos on it!
For the puzzle: Ne2 and Queen is protected by Bishop plus treating pawn on g7 and you then win the rook, because Nf4 is comming if there's a queen trade and rook will also be controling the f file by moving it to f1
for the puzzle I think the solution is knight to d5 if queen takes we take the queen with the bishop then we got 2 threats one is forking the rook and the king with the knight and the other is taking the g7 pawn with the bishop therefore attaking the rook
I like larsen, but only use it combined with Reti... 1. Nf3 and 2. b3... its called Reti larsen attack and it feels overall better. Because you usually get d5 as response or c5 and against those systems it works more stable than against e4, at least in my games.
@GMigorSmirnov how come you changed your approach to the bug center of D5 E5 with playing pawn F4 instead of knight F3 in previous videos? This is what im playing for a few years now and leads to mostly quick wins
I too used to play the nimzo in blitz, but then figured out that a variation of Van't kruijs destroys it every time, so now I'm probably the 3% this can't beat...
Take pawn with horse, queen is defended, if they take knight you can take g pawn and rook, if they take queen you recapture and still threaten to take pawn and win rook, if they block or whatever you have fork winning other rook
This opening for White is rather advantageous for Black because it´s passive and very predictable. Black gets time to build up a very fine pawnchain based central position nullifying any threats even before the development of any of Black´s knights in moves 4 to 7. By move 9 (if not before) white will has lost all initial advantage.
I’m thinking it doesn’t fail, but you don’t get the aggressive attack because your opponent is playing conservatively. There’s nothing super dangerous in here that you’d just lose.
Igor i am a 1400 elo chess player could you please make a video to improve properly cuz i have watched all of your videos and reached 1400 elo but now cant get past it
That's complete crap, Larsen's is a solid opening but its an opening for a person that has a certain playstyle, but if you plop it into an engine it's actually erases whites initial advantage
Actually in some lines you can witch to the hippo, or semi hippo if your opponent reacts differently than mentioned in this video. I think this comes together well with some hippo knowledge.
please don't humiliate yourself pulling the type of face you pulled in the thumbnail. It cheapens the whole thing and makes the video seem like it's gonna be low-quality algorithm fodder.
I have my favorite gambit against this, please play this so I can beat you all quickly 😇 (dont worry it's rare, you will mainly face what is shown in the video!)
Perhaps I could shake your hand, congratulate you, and retire before we play, saving me the humiliating loss. That sounds like the best strategy. Haha!
Dude, I really like your channel but not gonna put up with that thumbnail so my policy is to unsub. when peeps have some idiotic mouth wise open with eyeballs glaring thumbnail. Anyways I play too much chess and certainly don’t need to be watching chess vids so much, so thanks. See ya
I like your content, but is there really need for these braindead clickbait titles? Yeah, sure, you've won '97%' of blitz games... You're just cheapening your channel and reputation.
97% win rate is CRAZY clickbait, erases integrity for views, quite the gambit. Larsen's is my most common opening, as much as it sucks when your opening gets so much publicity it is nice to know someone as high rated as GM Igor uses the same reasoning and understanding of your opening.
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97% is crazy lil bud
GM Igor I have noticed your English is getting more fluent and natural ! Congrats on that too ofcourse everyone compliments your chess skills but I think this is a great noticeable improvement too, it's so pleasant to hear you always either way! It's just even smoother now :)
► Chapters
00:00 1.b3 Chess Opening, Nimzo-Larsen Attack
00:48 Targeting the e5-pawn and the diagonal
01:36 1) If Black plays 3...Bc5 (Modern Variation)
02:41 2) If Black plays 1...d5 (Classical Variation)
03:12 3) If Black plays 3...Nf6
04:32 Important Positional Idea (dark-square weakness)
06:51 4) If Black plays 3...d5
09:11 4.2) If Black plays 5...Qe7
11:28 Puzzle of the day
11:47 4.3) If Black plays 5...f6 (Mainline)
One of my favourite openings as it is rare and gets opponents out of their comfort zones quite often and also has many traps and ways to attack black !
Puzzle is Nxd5 threatening to fork on f7 and the g7 which trap the rook at the same time. If queen takes queen you take back and still threaten both rook. By the way, I always feel like any Nimzo Larsen videos that doesn’t prepare something against LC0 gambit is kind of incomplete so maybe you should make videos on that too.
I was searching for new opening for white because my scotch opening does the work anymore.Perfect timing!
That's exactly my case 🤣
Regarding the problem position in the video after Black played 1 … Qe7 2.Nxd5 looks solid for white. If 2 … Qxe5 3.Bxe5 cd 4.Bxg7 and if 2 … cd 3.Qxg7 wins the Rook and leads to a winning endgame for white.
Well done
How do you actually get fluent in this language?😂
How do you actually get fluent in this language?😂
@@kelvinmuuller516 hi Kelvin, just do a UA-cam search for understanding algebraic chess notation bro. I’m pretty sure there will be some great videos on it!
@@kelvinmuuller516 By daily practicing the phonemes will help
For the puzzle: Ne2 and Queen is protected by Bishop plus treating pawn on g7 and you then win the rook, because Nf4 is comming if there's a queen trade and rook will also be controling the f file by moving it to f1
12:28 it would be king side castle not queen side...
I watched the full video❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for this
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Could be.
Real ass quote
quote's 6 feet under deep
True
for the puzzle I think the solution is knight to d5 if queen takes we take the queen with the bishop then we got 2 threats one is forking the rook and the king with the knight and the other is taking the g7 pawn with the bishop therefore attaking the rook
what if the pawn captures Nd5 first. seems lackluster
after pawn takes queen takes on g7 and after queen trade u win a rook@@thomas11eleventm
@@iron2322 there is a pawn on g7, so no rook
Nd5 pawn takes on d5, queen takes on g7 after queen trade then there you have your free rook
@@thomas11eleventm the rook is trapped after capturing the pawn on g7...
I like larsen, but only use it combined with Reti... 1. Nf3 and 2. b3... its called Reti larsen attack and it feels overall better. Because you usually get d5 as response or c5 and against those systems it works more stable than against e4, at least in my games.
Amazing video... you are great sir 🎉🎉🎉
1:36 in my games black plays 3.a6 to stop Bb5. Looks like a popular move to concider.
That is why you should play ...c5 and learn to play b3 Sicilian, thank you very much.
is a queen trade the right move? followed by horse check and bishop attacking the rook?
Day 1 of asking gm smirnov to make a video on how to counter all variations of the goring gambiit
13:05 "theoretically they can hold on with Be6": wrong because of the immediate Qf6(!!) with a double attack!
Kd7
How about Kd7?
im not gonna lie the face on the thumbnail made me chuckle a bit 😭😭
@GMigorSmirnov how come you changed your approach to the bug center of D5 E5 with playing pawn F4 instead of knight F3 in previous videos? This is what im playing for a few years now and leads to mostly quick wins
in blitz I like to play the benko as black vs d4 ,c4 and I like to play a benko setup as white as it allows a nice game
11:41 does Nxd5 work here?
If pawn takes we have either Qxe8 or Qxg8
If Qxe5 we have Bxe5 right?
Qxg8 so that black can't develop and cannot help its rook from being trapped by your Queen or bishop..
Qxe8 only helps black develop his knight..
@@Black-Jf thanks
@@manaschaturvedi-su8cc ok..
@@manaschaturvedi-su8cc ok..
I too used to play the nimzo in blitz, but then figured out that a variation of Van't kruijs destroys it every time, so now I'm probably the 3% this can't beat...
For the puzzle: Nxd5, Qxe5, bxe5
This seems like a great system. You should do a chessable on it.
I was wondering what if black plays an early a6?
Then you don’t play Bb5 or if you did already, probably take the N if e5 is some pawn you’re threatening.
what to do against early f6? Is there still a way to gain an advantage?
Igor please make video against reti opening
Levy ah thumbnail lol
12:17 after f6 can we not play fe5 fe5 Be5 Be5 Qh5+ and Qxe5 winning a pawn and position?
Take pawn with horse, queen is defended, if they take knight you can take g pawn and rook, if they take queen you recapture and still threaten to take pawn and win rook, if they block or whatever you have fork winning other rook
This opening for White is rather advantageous for Black because it´s passive and very predictable. Black gets time to build up a very fine pawnchain based central position nullifying any threats even before the development of any of Black´s knights in moves 4 to 7. By move 9 (if not before) white will has lost all initial advantage.
This is such a solid opening at blitz my opponents just blunder so easily
im not having much fun, opponents not helping.
Well we'll play Bb5 after this move opponent plays b6 then what we will do
Played this opening for 1500+ games but it failes to Black's version of London system when they go d5 and then Bf5
I’m thinking it doesn’t fail, but you don’t get the aggressive attack because your opponent is playing conservatively. There’s nothing super dangerous in here that you’d just lose.
Igor i am a 1400 elo chess player could you please make a video to improve properly cuz i have watched all of your videos and reached 1400 elo but now cant get past it
Relfsson gambit pls
You won 97% of your blitz games with 1. b3 (??). Against people of your level? That's crazy 🤣
He was probably playing against novices.
That's complete crap, Larsen's is a solid opening but its an opening for a person that has a certain playstyle, but if you plop it into an engine it's actually erases whites initial advantage
@@napoleonbonaparte7692 😀🙂
1. b3 sees plenty of GM level play, the theory behind it is sound
The average opponent rating here would be relevant
getting this a lot in the last days, they don't seem to be able to make it work.
Evil tongues might say you won 97% games because youre gm and not because of the opening..
During a Blitz game and many players not prepared for it.
What if he or she play pawn to a6 which prevents us to pin theire night in the openings
Then where is the bishop should be placed
I always liked it but i've never quite been able to get a hang of it
Maybe next video you can saw your games to us in this line
Nxd5"?
Then I will remember to trade that bishop
the first several moves are the hippo
Actually in some lines you can witch to the hippo, or semi hippo if your opponent reacts differently than mentioned in this video. I think this comes together well with some hippo knowledge.
Danke :-)
I like my cheese drippy bro.
So it’s similar to Fianchetto opening
This works much better with 1 b4.
17k views / 700 likes
the dude puts effort to make a good content
at least click on like
please don't humiliate yourself pulling the type of face you pulled in the thumbnail. It cheapens the whole thing and makes the video seem like it's gonna be low-quality algorithm fodder.
Disagree. Energy and enthusiasm is good
@@tim9497 It's a natural sign of weakness. It's a soy face.
All very hypermodern. You let the opponent take the center, knowing that if they take too much, they will lose it. Black cannot have both d5 and e5.
My 1500 opponents dont play any of the lines most of the times -_-
Please spare us from thumbnail face 😭
Better than gambits
I have my favorite gambit against this, please play this so I can beat you all quickly 😇
(dont worry it's rare, you will mainly face what is shown in the video!)
Under 1 hour gang
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Under half an hour gang
Perhaps I could shake your hand, congratulate you, and retire before we play, saving me the humiliating loss. That sounds like the best strategy. Haha!
Glad this was helpful for you!
Fianchetto Noob Opening.
What a click bait 😂😂😂
Cry
Don't like the clickbait thumbnail
first to view first to comment
Dude, I really like your channel but not gonna put up with that thumbnail so my policy is to unsub. when peeps have some idiotic mouth wise open with eyeballs glaring thumbnail. Anyways I play too much chess and certainly don’t need to be watching chess vids so much, so thanks. See ya
I like your content, but is there really need for these braindead clickbait titles? Yeah, sure, you've won '97%' of blitz games... You're just cheapening your channel and reputation.
Fake no 97 winrate
He used many opens buddy
26 th view pin please
First
I just abort the game if someone plays this against me 😂
lame
97% win rate is CRAZY clickbait, erases integrity for views, quite the gambit.
Larsen's is my most common opening, as much as it sucks when your opening gets so much publicity it is nice to know someone as high rated as GM Igor uses the same reasoning and understanding of your opening.