Ive been stuck on 1400 since 2-3 years bcos i haven't got time to store opening theories in my brain attic. So all i do is play hippo with different variations
The camera having a mind of its own and randomly trolling Agadmator in every video has joined "sorry about that" and "our good friend The Bishop" as great memes of the channel!
I recently returned to this channel after about 3 years since I got into chess again and I am very happy that the hoodie guy has still been doing well.
Hi. I'm an Englund Gambit player... and everything you mention makes complete sense. I've seen the bishop to f4 premove so many times , and when you capture your opponent resigns.
1:42 I just had the craziest idea of a new opening: the Scandinavian offense, accelerated bongcloud variation. D4 e5, xe5 Ke7 then king e6 and then Kxe5. Who says you can't recapture with the king.
Agad, I love all of your content but I’ve come to enjoy your online rapid games on lichess more than anything else. Would love, if your schedule permits, to see more of your playing. It’s informative and fun to watch.
Funny there’s a similar quote about Quantum Mechanics as about Chess in the video. “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.”
thanks for this lesson i had no idea this existed and I have been crushing people with it all morning i really hate playing against d4 and usually respond with Nf6 and d5, because i don't know what to do against d4 so this is fun for the memes. maybe some day ill figure out how to play against d4 properly
I love the view from the black piece's side. You should make a series called "best of the black pieces" or something showing great games from the black piece's point of view
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13:08 Bishop to f4 mistake so many times happened because of pre-moves that can be possible only in online chess. Players pushed d4 and expected automatic d5 response.
Please do some research on Manuel Aaron. He was the first International Master from India and played a pivotal role in bringing international chess to the country. Despite his significant contributions, many people, even within the chess community, are unaware of his legacy. It would be wonderful if you could explore his games and perhaps feature one on your channel. He truly deserves recognition. ❤️🎉
D4 after capture is also good if you don't blunder in first 10 moves. White pawn on e5 actually acts like a defense for black preventing many white night attacks. And once game is open in middle game its 51-49
Aman Hambleton has played the Englund gambit where he sacrifices his queen for two pieces with some success at least online. Over the board he hasn’t had as much success like with Zierk vs. Hambleton (2019).
Great video - I have lost to this gambit many times, and beaten it too, when black messes up. I have been using your year-old anti-London video for a long time with mixed results, so this looks like a fun addition to my repertoire. Big thanks - now to watch it a dozen more times to get it in my thick head.
I've played all the e4 lines against d4. I've recently ventured to the Butapest gambit and I'd say it's the most solid gambit style opening against the top level opponents
Fischer was once asked what he thought of the Budapest gambit for black. He said that although black can eventually regain the pawn, that it was "positionally unstable" for black...with white having a much easier game.
@vcliburn this can be said about all of the gambits for black, Daniel Naroditsky and other GMs have referred to this one as the most sound and least gimmicky, of course white is slightly better but you get good chances as black assuming white knows the theory.
@@gormiksoc So true! As you suggested, it always boils down to "knowing the theory". It's almost impossible...or extremely difficult...to try and navigate your way through these gambits "over-the-board".
An American chess master active in 30s and 40s named Fred Reinfeld wrote several novice level books that are full of thousands of examples like this. Excellent tactics studies for players of all levels though. These books have all been re-issued with conversion from English notation to algebraic notation.
I played like 10,000 times the Englund gambit with black, I also won against an 1750-rated player with the 2... f6 variation. But, there are many players know this and are very much prepared with the c3 and Qa4 setup, and its difficult to win with black. Nowadays everyone knows all the openings.
I'm an eternal E4 player and I almost pre move E4 by default and I have played many games where opponents played bf4 many times. Also, for a pawn sacrifice, we get a lot of development. Thanks for the video Antonio!
The second line which represent the title as well, now no one fall for it. Previously it used to work but maybe people now know it already. Eric rosen also made a video about it.
been playing this for 2 years and it's a blast. Gotham chess has a full video on the England Gambit. Sill learned a few things from this video as well.
Instead of Bf4, I've found Qd5 to be a good solid way of saving the pawn and defending in the Englund. Forces your opponent to play at least to more moves to attack the pawn again, and you can set up more defenses
I think I've never lost a game with white against that Qb4+ variation somewhere around 6:00. With Nc3 block7ng the check and Rb1 after Qxb2 you are way ahead in development.
Have fooled so many in 4-5 moves with the Englund gambit. It's no good for ELO ratings where a pawn down is a likely loss, but in faster time controls or anyone below 1700, it's a great surprise.
I am rapid format enjoyer and those tricks are very cheap for 10-15 mins. I myself usually play d4 and queen's gambit with white. When I am black, I always go for Austrian gambit with second move pawn to c5. I always get crazy attacking games with it.
Very interesting and also quite enjoyable content on how to improve our chess game. Looking forward watching more videos like this on how to play and understand various positions and the ideas in it. And of course, always an excitement to see the Hoodie Guy in attendance. Regards! :)
I knew about the Englund and also another trick (I'll try to find my notes and write it down here), but they usually know about it, they do Nf6 instead of Bf6. after they do Nf6, I usually do Bg5, then they usually do Rg8, and you move Qh6, then they either move Bf8 (Qh4), or Ne5 in which case Qh4 is a must to avoid the fork. there's just a lot of flexibility with it even if they don't know, and you develop and can easily take a piece or the pawn in the center, etc but the first two tricks are absolutely beautiful and I'm betting most don't know those I hate d4. I hate it more than those grandmas that walk slow in front of you in the escalator
Antonio I have been following your channel for quite some time by different accounts one thing i have noticed is that you say all the time I am not fully versed in the opening but someone by looking at the videos you yourself cover can learn a lot of stuff for example you wanna learn sicilian check fabi vs magnus match 2018 you wanna learn kings indian check out bobby fischer saga you wanna learn catalan check out dubovs games you wanna learn berlin defense check some alphazero games although I love your channel but I dont understand this and I remember few years ago watching your videos you always mentioned STUDY THE ENDGAME so this is my #suggestion study some basic king and pawn endgame which you excel
I encounter this often in blitz and bullet were my opponent used Englund Gambit. I have secrete tactic against this one. Most of it won by time since it is blitz and bullet. This cheeky opponents of mine are often frustrated playing Englund Gambit.
Hello agad, #suggestion : check out the Rousseau Gambit (Italian Game) super poisonous and something similar played by Pragg against Vidit in candidates! (but in ruy Lopez)
Bg4!! What an excellent move threatening checkmate and the Queen as well going on to winning a Bishop before the king hunt Great moves Chess is Great like that thing is Spotting the moves
I gotta say at this point agad is just trolling us with the zoom camera. Always zooming at the right time. I kind of missed it when he was on vacation, glad it’s back
Hi, can u make another video just for charlick hartlaub Gambit or just reference some other guides on it on the next video. Since that seems to me like a better continuation for d6
It is fun, but there is a very simple defense. When black brings out the Queen, white brings out it's Queen as well. Bf4 is not the only way to defend the pawn. Qd5 works.
I would play 2.e4 as white and turn it into a Centre Game/Danish Gambit. Any comments? If as black you don't usually reply 1 . . .e5 to 1e4 you'll get hammered after 1d4 e5 2e4 exd4 3.c3 etc, particularly after 3. . .dxc3 4.Bc4.
I have now tried this about 50 times. Zero opponents fell for either trap. Z-E-R-O. I am not a high level player and no one came close to falling for this. Easily defended and I was just a piece down immediately.
13:13 you show the "zoom In" gesture with your thumb and index finger to the camera and it does its job... Be mindful of it next time.. Thank me in the next video please....❤❤ Love from Pakistan❤
The 2...d6 Englund- it's technically called the Hartlaub-Charlick- is a pretty tricky opening for White to handle. If they fully accept it, you'll usually end up winning White's queen out of the opening or having a really strong kingside attack going into the middlegame. I will point out that, in the event of 3.Nf3, less accurate but more practical is ...Bg4!? to take the sting out of White's incoming Bg5 idea where ...Nd7/...Nc6 would block the bishop in for a while. For a hilariously-dubious idea in the 2...d6 Englund, after 3.exd6 you can play the Calypso Gambit with 3...Nc6?! After 4.dxc7 Qxc7, the most common moves usually lead to a position where White needs to sac their queen in order to maintain the advantage or get checkmated out of the opening. For example: 1.d4 e5?! 2.dxe5 d6 3. exd6 Nc6?! 4.dxc7 Qxc7 5.Nf3 Bf5 6.Nc3 Rd8 7.Bd2 Nb4 8.e4 Bxe4 9.Nxe4 Nxc2+ 10.Ke2?? Qc4# 10.Qxc2 is the only other legal move, sacrificing the queen but helping White maintain their +1.6 advantage. The engines hate anything Englund or Englund-adjacent, but it's a terribly-potent weapon in practical play- especially if we're talking about sub-titled players or speed chess.
#suggestion show the game brilliant attacking game by vishy Anand against Wesley so in Levitov chess 2023 ,the original vedio is on chessbase India channel
"Too lazy to study opening theory" - spoken like a true man of the people.
I wanted to comment on that comment he made. If Agadamator is too lazy. Where does a fish like me rank? LOL...
Ive been stuck on 1400 since 2-3 years bcos i haven't got time to store opening theories in my brain attic. So all i do is play hippo with different variations
“Too lazy to study opening theory“ - The Hoodie Guy
Then lose many rapid games, mark my words
definitely makes chess more exciting.
The camera having a mind of its own and randomly trolling Agadmator in every video has joined "sorry about that" and "our good friend The Bishop" as great memes of the channel!
I have not seen the pizza guy for some time...
"Knights r tricky bastards
It's not random trolling though. Antonio accidentally makes the pinch gesture, which the camera interprets as the zoom in command.
don't forget the mailman and your uncle!
@@curiouscat9 It's called a joke dude.
The faith Agadmator has that my opponent's single move deviation from those lines won't leave me completely lost restores my faith in humanity
I recently returned to this channel after about 3 years since I got into chess again and I am very happy that the hoodie guy has still been doing well.
Hi. I'm an Englund Gambit player... and everything you mention makes complete sense. I've seen the bishop to f4 premove so many times , and when you capture your opponent resigns.
1:42 I just had the craziest idea of a new opening: the Scandinavian offense, accelerated bongcloud variation. D4 e5, xe5 Ke7 then king e6 and then Kxe5. Who says you can't recapture with the king.
Someone call Hikaru, this is just crazy enough to beat a 2600
Lol
Hoodie guy over 9000?!
Tenison Gambite Legal mate trickery for kids
goku?
IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!
@@SeanLiu4 What, 9000? There's no way that can be right.
The disrespect of beating his own nephews at chess and making a whole public UA-cam tutorial on how to do it.😂😂
Camera gambit 13:09
Agad, I love all of your content but I’ve come to enjoy your online rapid games on lichess more than anything else. Would love, if your schedule permits, to see more of your playing. It’s informative and fun to watch.
Funny there’s a similar quote about Quantum Mechanics as about Chess in the video. “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.”
thanks for this lesson
i had no idea this existed and I have been crushing people with it all morning
i really hate playing against d4 and usually respond with Nf6 and d5, because i don't know what to do against d4
so this is fun for the memes. maybe some day ill figure out how to play against d4 properly
I love the view from the black piece's side. You should make a series called "best of the black pieces" or something showing great games from the black piece's point of view
13:08 Bishop to f4 mistake so many times happened because of pre-moves that can be possible only in online chess. Players pushed d4 and expected automatic d5 response.
Please do some research on Manuel Aaron. He was the first International Master from India and played a pivotal role in bringing international chess to the country. Despite his significant contributions, many people, even within the chess community, are unaware of his legacy. It would be wonderful if you could explore his games and perhaps feature one on your channel. He truly deserves recognition. ❤️🎉
D4 after capture is also good if you don't blunder in first 10 moves. White pawn on e5 actually acts like a defense for black preventing many white night attacks. And once game is open in middle game its 51-49
Aman Hambleton has played the Englund gambit where he sacrifices his queen for two pieces with some success at least online. Over the board he hasn’t had as much success like with Zierk vs. Hambleton (2019).
Great video - I have lost to this gambit many times, and beaten it too, when black messes up. I have been using your year-old anti-London video for a long time with mixed results, so this looks like a fun addition to my repertoire. Big thanks - now to watch it a dozen more times to get it in my thick head.
My first attempt, I checkmated the opponent on move 6! The exact move order that you showed first. Thank you Agad, once again.
"Avoiding the London on move 2"
That's right, your opponent can't play the London if they don't have a dark squared bishop.
I've played all the e4 lines against d4. I've recently ventured to the Butapest gambit and I'd say it's the most solid gambit style opening against the top level opponents
Fischer was once asked what he thought of the Budapest gambit for black. He said that although black can eventually regain the pawn, that it was "positionally unstable" for black...with white having a much easier game.
@vcliburn this can be said about all of the gambits for black, Daniel Naroditsky and other GMs have referred to this one as the most sound and least gimmicky, of course white is slightly better but you get good chances as black assuming white knows the theory.
@@gormiksoc So true! As you suggested, it always boils down to "knowing the theory". It's almost impossible...or extremely difficult...to try and navigate your way through these gambits "over-the-board".
Aaand it is in this video when we discover that Agadmator is even someone's uncle
No way you just spoiled my bullet preparation!! 😭
An American chess master active in 30s and 40s named Fred Reinfeld wrote several novice level books that are full of thousands of examples like this. Excellent tactics studies for players of all levels though. These books have all been re-issued with conversion from English notation to algebraic notation.
I played like 10,000 times the Englund gambit with black, I also won against an 1750-rated player with the 2... f6 variation. But, there are many players know this and are very much prepared with the c3 and Qa4 setup, and its difficult to win with black. Nowadays everyone knows all the openings.
really love these guides. just the other week i was thinking that i would really like to see some opening guides from you!
”… bishop to whatever .”-- this is perfect !
I'm an eternal E4 player and I almost pre move E4 by default and I have played many games where opponents played bf4 many times. Also, for a pawn sacrifice, we get a lot of development. Thanks for the video Antonio!
The second line which represent the title as well, now no one fall for it. Previously it used to work but maybe people now know it already. Eric rosen also made a video about it.
Nope, people play it even if white played Nc3 so the knight defends the queen. Never understimate premove zombies.
I am a d4 player and after dxe i just give back the pawn while developing like
3.Nf3 Qe7
4.Nc3 Nxe5
5. Nxe5 Qxe5
6. f4
and try to castle queenside
This is a very practical guide and shows how tricky chess is.
5:08 you can also play Bg5 which after Qb4+ Nc3 Qxb2 Bd2 leads to the same position
Agadmator saga, really looking forward for more !
been playing this for 2 years and it's a blast. Gotham chess has a full video on the England Gambit. Sill learned a few things from this video as well.
one hour before the video went online I wrote in the UA-cam search bar "how to answer to D4". I still can't believe Antonio replied directly to me!
It's a horrible way to answer D4.
The best way is d5
Instead of Bf4, I've found Qd5 to be a good solid way of saving the pawn and defending in the Englund. Forces your opponent to play at least to more moves to attack the pawn again, and you can set up more defenses
Hi, could we get what you are spelling on bottom right. The ads make it difficult to easily open the videos.
I think I've never lost a game with white against that Qb4+ variation somewhere around 6:00. With Nc3 block7ng the check and Rb1 after Qxb2 you are way ahead in development.
Have fooled so many in 4-5 moves with the Englund gambit. It's no good for ELO ratings where a pawn down is a likely loss, but in faster time controls or anyone below 1700, it's a great surprise.
Loved your work in Young Frankenstein
I am rapid format enjoyer and those tricks are very cheap for 10-15 mins. I myself usually play d4 and queen's gambit with white. When I am black, I always go for Austrian gambit with second move pawn to c5. I always get crazy attacking games with it.
10:42 As it rightly should, b4 should be the first move white is analyzing
2:42 the black king is checkmated by bishop on d8? Just kidding. Great findings! Thank You!
Very interesting and also quite enjoyable content on how to improve our chess game. Looking forward watching more videos like this on how to play and understand various positions and the ideas in it. And of course, always an excitement to see the Hoodie Guy in attendance. Regards! :)
I knew about the Englund and also another trick (I'll try to find my notes and write it down here), but they usually know about it, they do Nf6 instead of Bf6.
after they do Nf6, I usually do Bg5, then they usually do Rg8, and you move Qh6, then they either move Bf8 (Qh4), or Ne5 in which case Qh4 is a must to avoid the fork. there's just a lot of flexibility with it even if they don't know, and you develop and can easily take a piece or the pawn in the center, etc
but the first two tricks are absolutely beautiful and I'm betting most don't know those
I hate d4. I hate it more than those grandmas that walk slow in front of you in the escalator
I love this vid and agadmator over 9000!
Antonio, is your camera haunted or something?!😂
I got an involuntary and unpleasant encounter with your well fed blackheads Antonio… Hope it won’t happen again 😅
Antonio I have been following your channel for quite some time by different accounts
one thing i have noticed is that you say all the time I am not fully versed in the opening
but someone by looking at the videos you yourself cover can learn a lot of stuff
for example
you wanna learn sicilian check fabi vs magnus match 2018
you wanna learn kings indian check out bobby fischer saga
you wanna learn catalan check out dubovs games
you wanna learn berlin defense check some alphazero games
although I love your channel but I dont understand this
and I remember few years ago watching your videos you always mentioned STUDY THE ENDGAME
so this is my #suggestion
study some basic king and pawn endgame which you excel
Oh my gosh! I definitely cannot wait to try this out!
I am playing Euglund and when it works it is very nice, but at rapid around 1500 online it is not common to work so nicely. Still love the opening.
I encounter this often in blitz and bullet were my opponent used Englund Gambit. I have secrete tactic against this one. Most of it won by time since it is blitz and bullet. This cheeky opponents of mine are often frustrated playing Englund Gambit.
2:05
morphy: " !!! "
For the 3rd trick, if WHite plays Bishop d2 followed by Knight c3 then no damage done. Rook gets protected by the queen
Knowledge is Power. Sharing is Caring. Thank you @Antonio for sharing your knowledge 🐦
Incredible number of winning variations
I play this all the time as black but never knew the “original Englund gambit” continuation, thank you for sharing!!
Hello agad, #suggestion : check out the Rousseau Gambit (Italian Game) super poisonous and something similar played by Pragg against Vidit in candidates! (but in ruy Lopez)
Sorry about that.
Great!
Thanks for sharing.
Bg4!! What an excellent move threatening checkmate and the Queen as well going on to winning a Bishop before the king hunt Great moves Chess is Great like that thing is Spotting the moves
13:09 Dramatic Zoom lol
nice informative video.
Thanks.
Nice Antonio, going to try it out and let you know
Plz make such videos on tricks and traps once in a week and also an instructive endgames.. It will add variety..
Love this format
that is hilarious, I never considered someone would premove their 2nd move right into the pawn capture.
Im a d4 player. Fell for all of it. Nice video
Antonio hitting us with the legendary intercontinental ballistic missile opening
Eventually some tricks for d4! I'm fed up losing after d5 or e6, I'll try the Englund
I gotta say at this point agad is just trolling us with the zoom camera. Always zooming at the right time. I kind of missed it when he was on vacation, glad it’s back
Within a minute of this video upload there were 47 views and 4 comments 😀. Wow!
In unshocking news, Antonio shows a line where B4 is the only way to survive.
D4 I am going for KID recently. 70% win rate so far.
Qgd didnt give me much sucess
“Mr Hoodie Guy 9000”. Sounds like the final boss on a fighting game on NES from 1989 or something 😀
"The best move in the position is b4 but good luck finding that." After so many year so watching Agadmator, it's the first move I go for!
Hi, can u make another video just for charlick hartlaub Gambit or just reference some other guides on it on the next video. Since that seems to me like a better continuation for d6
Agad, wagging the finger zooms in the camera ☝🏼 (13:08)
5:07 what you say is not true - just defend your pawn with Qd5 and enjoy a much better position
I love englund gambit. Have been playing it for years now and even 1900 rated blitz opponents fall into those basic traps time to time
It is fun, but there is a very simple defense. When black brings out the Queen, white brings out it's Queen as well. Bf4 is not the only way to defend the pawn. Qd5 works.
You must do more such informative videos sir
You know inflation is bad when, between the making of this video and writing the actual title, it's up 100%. 3:03
13:10 zoom in for stronger effect
As a d4 player I agree the Englund is the best defense. Please play it against me at any chance you get
The Zoom of Terror has returned
Nice one white has to consume lot of time to find the relatively better move ❤. Thanks.
And it was in this position, upon playing e5, that agadmator became your uncle, and there is nothing more to be done.
I would play 2.e4 as white and turn it into a Centre Game/Danish Gambit. Any comments? If as black you don't usually reply 1 . . .e5 to 1e4 you'll get hammered after 1d4 e5 2e4 exd4 3.c3 etc, particularly after 3. . .dxc3 4.Bc4.
I used to play this in tournaments when I was 10-11 years old and you'd be surprised by how many strong players would fall for it
I face those kind of openings as d4 player, fell for a trick once after that just giving up the pawn and not having any problems.😏
Happy to play anyone using the Englund gambit
OK, I'll play 2e4, what's your next move?
What if they bring the queen out instead of pawn e3 or knight f3. Looks kinda tricky.
Brilliant tricks 😀
I have now tried this about 50 times. Zero opponents fell for either trap. Z-E-R-O. I am not a high level player and no one came close to falling for this. Easily defended and I was just a piece down immediately.
13:13 you show the "zoom In" gesture with your thumb and index finger to the camera and it does its job... Be mindful of it next time..
Thank me in the next video please....❤❤ Love from Pakistan❤
The 2...d6 Englund- it's technically called the Hartlaub-Charlick- is a pretty tricky opening for White to handle. If they fully accept it, you'll usually end up winning White's queen out of the opening or having a really strong kingside attack going into the middlegame. I will point out that, in the event of 3.Nf3, less accurate but more practical is ...Bg4!? to take the sting out of White's incoming Bg5 idea where ...Nd7/...Nc6 would block the bishop in for a while.
For a hilariously-dubious idea in the 2...d6 Englund, after 3.exd6 you can play the Calypso Gambit with 3...Nc6?! After 4.dxc7 Qxc7, the most common moves usually lead to a position where White needs to sac their queen in order to maintain the advantage or get checkmated out of the opening. For example:
1.d4 e5?!
2.dxe5 d6
3. exd6 Nc6?!
4.dxc7 Qxc7
5.Nf3 Bf5
6.Nc3 Rd8
7.Bd2 Nb4
8.e4 Bxe4
9.Nxe4 Nxc2+
10.Ke2?? Qc4#
10.Qxc2 is the only other legal move, sacrificing the queen but helping White maintain their +1.6 advantage. The engines hate anything Englund or Englund-adjacent, but it's a terribly-potent weapon in practical play- especially if we're talking about sub-titled players or speed chess.
I have defeated the Englund many times in bullet games by playing Qd5.
#suggestion show the game brilliant attacking game by vishy Anand against Wesley so in Levitov chess 2023 ,the original vedio is on chessbase India channel
Any london player will know d4e5 starts because its already winning for white and its a lot more fun to learn winning lines than drawish lines
When I play against this, I always take the pawn then defend it with f4. Looks gross, but it works for me so far.
I mean if you want interesting and attacking game against d4 play dutch defese
I hope you will come to the Siem Reap Chess Club. Drinking smoking ang heckeling allowed. Have pool to cool of when loose. 😂