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A lot of people used this on me when I first started it out and it drove me bonkers, even when I started to recognize the pattern and saw it coming. These vids helped me to deal with it. Now when people try these wayward queen attacks on me (which doesn’t happen as much as you increase in rating), I pretty much relish it.
I just use Lichess's analysis board (and stockfish) to assess this counterattack, and unfortunately, it turns out to be unsound. If white plays smart (refuse to take the pawn bait), white could actually win back a rook and a couple of pawns as a bonus. Blocking with the knight is still preferable.
Thank you, Igor. I’m just a beginner (470) and I find that, in about 1 in 3 games, somebody tries out this nonsense, when I want to learn by playing a real game of chess. I was finding it really frustrating to lose so quickly and not know what to do. Well, the last few times have been different. I chased their queen all over the board, like you suggested, forking their bishop and queen and putting them in check. They usually quit as abrupty as they attacked. Ha!!! Very satisfying. Much obliged for your excellent advice. 😊
i play at around 700/800 right now and I still see it a lot... it's good to learn how to counter it and keep your cool even if you are very close to getting mated with that flying queen
This is not nonsense. Checkmating is the entire idea of a chess game. Positional chess only goes so far until a king is in serious danger to getting checkmated. If the opponent starts with moves where this situations happens as soon as move 4 you gotta defend against it. Other chess variants were it's much easier to checkmate makes this so much clearer. It doesn't matter if you are up 10 pieces if you are getting checkmated.
My first game back on to bullet after watching this was incredible. I had black and they tried scholars mate. I followed your line and I got a free Queen, rook, and a knight. He resigned like 8 moves in🙏😂
► Chapters 00:00 Brutally PUNISH Scholar's Mate Trick & Early Queen Attacks 01:09 Black's aggressive counter-attack 4...f5 02:43 1) If White plays Qd5 after Nd4 04:02 Black is completely dominating 04:48 2) If White plays Qd3 after Nd4 06:00 Brutally attacking White (queen trap)
@@ChaosLord5129 Y know high rated players do this too, dont ya? And they keep doing the same thing on rematches, dont ya? And some of em quit after they fail or blunder, don't ya? Or, they only know this, and don't improve in chess. They're really good players?
THANK YOU. I played chess during my childhood with my grandfather and just started getting back into it online. I was around a mid 400 level and I kept facing these attacks either from black or white. They have been the only opponent openings that really threw off my game. Just watched your videos and had THREE opponents try the same openings in a row and now I am plus 500 😊
I'm totally with you. I always see it coming. Sometimes beat their ass for trying. But sometimes I chase the queen wrong and make a mistake 6 turns later. Things fall apart. I don't mind losing a game. It happens. But losing to someone that even tried that shit. Even though the actual mate failed. I hate that. When ever someone tries that. I always want to take all their pieces and promote 4 queens before check mating them
Дякую Ігор! Very useful video, I usually dealt with it with a knight and never found a way to punish that early queen attack, I will this way next time!
Thank you every time I watch one of your videos I absolutely dominate the next 3 games I play after that I usually devolve into my normal mediocre game . But for a minute or 2 I feel like grand master.
5:35 What if queen e3 If bishop takes your pawn you can just take the middle pawn king and horse fork if they take with the horse then you just take back and he takes back wiht bishop then you can take the pawn get check and some master probably could figure out something
Interesting variation. Here is my favourite way how to deal with the scholar's mate if White triples down on his attempt: 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 Nf6 5.Qb3 Nd4! 6.Qc3 d5! 7.exd5 Nxd5 8.Bxd5 Bf5 9.d3 Bb4! 10.Qxb4 Nxc2+ 11.Kd2 Nxb4 Cannot guarantee 100% success, but this variation is a nice retribution for the scholar's mate attempt.
I actually like it when someone tries scholar's mate. It usually means that I am going to win the game rather quickly. Most of the time I just move the queen up and protect the pawn once they moved the bishop out. Recently, I have used the trick above to punish a couple of players that tried scholar's mate. One just outright resigned after I captured his queen because he didn't notice the knight could take the queen.
thanks for this trick...i get those every once in a while 1200 opponents who try this trick on me. I know how to stop the attack...but this is a good way to defend...thank you very much
4:12 from here it's an avalanche coming that the white king needs to handle with bishop h6, knight e4 and queen g5 to attack the d2 square (black's moves)
Thanks man It's why I hate early queen attacks. It really upsets me how many beginners play that and even though I currently as of now have 370 something rating,I find it annoying how people think doing this is cool. This might help me with destroying those players career.
I would keep in mind that players who play Scholar's Mate know enough about Chess to skill-check beginners. With that said, the most realistic response to 4) ...f5 is 5) Ne2. You focused a lot on the lines where White has given up tempo, but what about the lines that are still dangerous to Black?
I once played a game where my opponent tried to harass me with their queen for the first 10 moves they did, I was fully developed and they had only moved the queen and the kings pawn. The resignation came quickly when they blundered their queen a few moves later
I feel like your videos must be helping because I guessed some of the moves before you announced them. I've never had to defend against this but this is good to know.
I'm watching because more than 6 people used it on me yesterday out of 10 games I played I was like really, I know how to defend but idk how to counter thanks to this video now i do haha
@@GMIgorSmirnov heh I've performed the Scholar's Mate on people so that also helped knowing the oppositions tactics. Makes me never want to try it again hahahaha Ive done it with black and white pieces. In person and online. I'm a casual player who plays other casual people.
I hit like and subscribe when I was a young lad my Russian uncle taught me about scholars mate and he use this on me but then he used exactly your strategy and taught me how to use my night to capture that pawn and checkmate the king and take the rook it’s a brilliant strategy
If you play king side knight instead of pawn and attack the queen with your other knight on the next move, the queen is likely to move to the leftmost square, after which you can threaten the bishop by pushing a pawn meanwhile creating a discovered attack on the queen. Very nice move to win material early on
thank you very much for this video! I've got one question, after pushing the pawn to f5, what do we do if they don't take back? do we just ignore the white pawn on e4 and jump to d4 with our knight?
After the queen blocks discovered check by moving to e3 and white castles on next move after black takes e3, then you can move queen to e4 to allow forced checkmate
6:00 can't you play Bb4 in that position? attacking the queen and pinning it to the king. if white plays Qxb4 (i don't see anything else) you have Nc2+ forking king and queen.
Thank you for also informing people who uses scholar/shepherd mate. We will find a solution to your advises I always use them. But I don't obviously show it. I disguise my moves with non relevant ones but in the end my mate is based on this
I’m not quite sure what the point is with the first rook strike forward. What prevents you from just moving the knight into the attacking position a move earlier?
@2:47, can you explain the variation of QE4 instead of QD5... My last few games, the opponent went to QE4 instead. I would like your take on that variation.
Maybe you'll be able to help me then. I commented this on the video but I'm way too curious to wait for a potential reply from the creator lol. My question is, why recapture the pawn on g6 at 3:04 as black? Why not just launch the fork with the knight in their camp first and deal with the pawn later? Wins more material right? I'm 100% missing something and I'd love to know what
@@casperinus That was a great question. So if you're playing Nxc2, then they will probably play Kd1 (attacks the Knight) Nxa1 (you win the Rook), bxa7 Qxa7 (because Rxa7 would fall victim to Qxb8 winning your other knight), Qxe5+... White can win your Knight on a1 eventually it's not going anywhere. 2 pawns and a knight for a rook isn't winning material (2(pawns)+3(knight) = 5points; rook =5points). White has some little problems (uncastled King, for one) but a draw is most likely outcome I believe. Instead of all that, capturing the pawn back first just avoids white getting any action and white stays on the backfoot trying to cover every threat you throw out.
GM Alex Yermolinsky recommended this line when GM Hikaru Nakamura played it vs GM Krishnan Sasikiran in round 7 of Sigeman & Co Tournament 2005. A classical tournament even!
At 6:06, is bishop to b4 a good move? From what i can tell it traps the queen forcing white to take and then there is a fork of king and queen with knight c2
That was what I was thinking too. A would have gone for Bishop B4 to get the queen. I was actually thinking bishop B4 before Knight to G3, cus either way even if the Queen runs you can fork Rook and King with the knight on D4.
@@cameronsheard3164 are you BEGINNERS??? You DON'T take any queen, just loosea piece... after bishop b4, the queen JUST TAKES IT. And there is NO FORK on c2, because the b3 bishop defends it (DOOOH!!!!).
5:55 After white played pawn D3 then Bishop B4 could be the best move pinning queen and if queen takes bishop, then. Knight C2 will be the brutal check and fork.
Igor, that is the Rousseau Gambit. A gambit that is put down by the better chess players, but a very good gambit for the average casual chess player to use, and the O'Sullivan Gambit too.
What if on 2 minutes 40 second position white play bishop to f7 with check and idea to make double check with pawn on second move, there is any checkmate treats or black can protect it all?
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Jerome's Gambit please...
This is some bad tactic you're teaching here.. that pawn to f5 is very bad.. lost many games bcoz of that..
@@dranilbabuswarna it works for me 99% of the time but I'm not playing high elo. We are beginners and they go for the pawn and I always get the fork.
That link looks kinda sketchy to be honest, has it worked for others?
A lot of people used this on me when I first started it out and it drove me bonkers, even when I started to recognize the pattern and saw it coming. These vids helped me to deal with it. Now when people try these wayward queen attacks on me (which doesn’t happen as much as you increase in rating), I pretty much relish it.
Have you like, tried to hit them with staggering attack chessboard to the side of their head? I guarantee you they will never try this move again
@@Spacey_key This worked so well that they never tried any other move again and let their clock run out. Thanks!
@@Spacey_key ah yes, the infamous wayward board attack. Almost always wins the game on clock from move 1
Someone played queen wayward against me in 1500
@@kikuari WHAT?!? Wow. That’s almost insulting.
My friend made me quitting chess with this opening ,so it is my time to make him quitting their life.
Bro got Ak under the board 💀
I just use Lichess's analysis board (and stockfish) to assess this counterattack, and unfortunately, it turns out to be unsound. If white plays smart (refuse to take the pawn bait), white could actually win back a rook and a couple of pawns as a bonus. Blocking with the knight is still preferable.
@@khai96x That's a point of Gambits bro.
@@BobChess If this gambit fails, it means that you would have a king-rook fork to worry about (white queen takes center pawn).
@@BobChess The point of gambits is to give away pawns to accelerate development, not lose your more of your army.
Thank you, Igor. I’m just a beginner (470) and I find that, in about 1 in 3 games, somebody tries out this nonsense, when I want to learn by playing a real game of chess. I was finding it really frustrating to lose so quickly and not know what to do. Well, the last few times have been different. I chased their queen all over the board, like you suggested, forking their bishop and queen and putting them in check. They usually quit as abrupty as they attacked. Ha!!! Very satisfying. Much obliged for your excellent advice. 😊
There is actually a lot to learn by understanding how to combat scholar's mate. Learning to not get mated by such an obvious move is like lesson #1.
Well done! 👍
Good job soldier. Now make sure nobody else tries that shi ever again :salute:
i play at around 700/800 right now and I still see it a lot... it's good to learn how to counter it and keep your cool even if you are very close to getting mated with that flying queen
This is not nonsense. Checkmating is the entire idea of a chess game.
Positional chess only goes so far until a king is in serious danger to getting checkmated. If the opponent starts with moves where this situations happens as soon as move 4 you gotta defend against it.
Other chess variants were it's much easier to checkmate makes this so much clearer.
It doesn't matter if you are up 10 pieces if you are getting checkmated.
Boutta make a bunch of little kids cry with this.
My first game back on to bullet after watching this was incredible. I had black and they tried scholars mate. I followed your line and I got a free Queen, rook, and a knight. He resigned like 8 moves in🙏😂
► Chapters
00:00 Brutally PUNISH Scholar's Mate Trick & Early Queen Attacks
01:09 Black's aggressive counter-attack 4...f5
02:43 1) If White plays Qd5 after Nd4
04:02 Black is completely dominating
04:48 2) If White plays Qd3 after Nd4
06:00 Brutally attacking White (queen trap)
You should pin this so this doesn’t get lost in the flood of other comments
How do you play Qe4 instead Qd5 or Qd3 tho?
I’ve always been able to avoid it but I’ve also always wanted to punish them for being disrespectful, this video has really helped, thanks!
Now they'll have to pay the price ☠
Very disrespectful. They think everyone else is a patzer and will fall for it.
@@ChaosLord5129 Y know high rated players do this too, dont ya? And they keep doing the same thing on rematches, dont ya? And some of em quit after they fail or blunder, don't ya? Or, they only know this, and don't improve in chess. They're really good players?
@@ChaosLord5129 I didn't understand your argument, so I'm gonna pretend this have something related to your last quote OwO")
THANK YOU. I played chess during my childhood with my grandfather and just started getting back into it online. I was around a mid 400 level and I kept facing these attacks either from black or white. They have been the only opponent openings that really threw off my game. Just watched your videos and had THREE opponents try the same openings in a row and now I am plus 500 😊
I usually punished my opponent by throwing the chess board at him/her its called the Board opening
Lol
I personally gain a lot of logical moves with bishop with the bishop opening videos. And this scholar mate really gonna save me some games.
I really love your videos because they are so instructive. I am going to buy one of your courses soon.
I'm happy to help!
I'm totally with you. I always see it coming. Sometimes beat their ass for trying. But sometimes I chase the queen wrong and make a mistake 6 turns later. Things fall apart. I don't mind losing a game. It happens. But losing to someone that even tried that shit. Even though the actual mate failed. I hate that. When ever someone tries that. I always want to take all their pieces and promote 4 queens before check mating them
Wow, these lines are so good. Thanks for making this video. Always attack aggressively with Freddy the f pawn when given the chance 😅
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this video not only gave me a solution to a regular problem, but also made me realize about some strong tactics that i could use in another ocassion!
Дякую Ігор! Very useful video, I usually dealt with it with a knight and never found a way to punish that early queen attack, I will this way next time!
Thank you every time I watch one of your videos I absolutely dominate the next 3 games I play after that I usually devolve into my normal mediocre game . But for a minute or 2 I feel like grand master.
6:21 dark square bishop to b4 is most deadliest move in that position 👹👹
Finally, this video is perfect for me. I'm really low rated which is filled with scholar mate players and you taught how to fight back in a simple way
5:35
What if queen e3
If bishop takes your pawn you can just take the middle pawn king and horse fork if they take with the horse then you just take back and he takes back wiht bishop then you can take the pawn get check and some master probably could figure out something
Brilliant explanation. Subscribed!
Your videos got me through the lower elo levels in such a fun way! Brutal counters for the win, thank you Igor 😁
This is excellent. Went exactly to plan. I felt I had total control of the game rather than being on the back foot from the beginning
Amazing explanations and strategies : ) Thanks
As a bishop, I can confirm that i hate the Scholar's mate.
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THANKS
Love it! Perfect explanation 👌
Interesting variation. Here is my favourite way how to deal with the scholar's mate if White triples down on his attempt: 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 Nf6 5.Qb3
Nd4! 6.Qc3 d5! 7.exd5 Nxd5 8.Bxd5 Bf5 9.d3 Bb4! 10.Qxb4 Nxc2+ 11.Kd2 Nxb4
Cannot guarantee 100% success, but this variation is a nice retribution for the scholar's mate attempt.
Exactly what I did a few games ago. I really hate it when players force you to go to uninteresting places and make you say obvious things
I actually like it when someone tries scholar's mate. It usually means that I am going to win the game rather quickly. Most of the time I just move the queen up and protect the pawn once they moved the bishop out. Recently, I have used the trick above to punish a couple of players that tried scholar's mate. One just outright resigned after I captured his queen because he didn't notice the knight could take the queen.
Holy sh*t this is great. Usually I just play solid moves and their attack quietly fizzles out, but this really fights back. Great video!
6:01 Bb4, QxB, Nxc2 monster fork
Thank you for teaching me how to counter my opening, I can now adapt to counter my counter
Thank you, always enjoy your quick lessons. Excellent teaching.
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This one has helped me so much! Thanks!
Another very great video lesson💪👏
Nice tutorial Igor!
I only knew how to counter the first part, so I still ended up getting checkmated, but thanks to this video, now I know how it goes
Thank you very much for this video! I thought it could be useless for me, but it wasn't!
Omg your play style is AMAZING ! 🤩🤩
2:00 what if queen e4
thanks for this trick...i get those every once in a while 1200 opponents who try this trick on me. I know how to stop the attack...but this is a good way to defend...thank you very much
4:12 from here it's an avalanche coming that the white king needs to handle with bishop h6, knight e4 and queen g5 to attack the d2 square (black's moves)
taking "Disrespect" on whole new level. love it
Thank you for this video.
Thank you 🙏 fore your videos
Really helpful
Thanks man
It's why I hate early queen attacks. It really upsets me how many beginners play that and even though I currently as of now have 370 something rating,I find it annoying how people think doing this is cool. This might help me with destroying those players career.
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thx!!! going to test it asap
Will you do a video about the latvian gambit?
I would keep in mind that players who play Scholar's Mate know enough about Chess to skill-check beginners. With that said, the most realistic response to 4) ...f5 is 5) Ne2. You focused a lot on the lines where White has given up tempo, but what about the lines that are still dangerous to Black?
I once played a game where my opponent tried to harass me with their queen for the first 10 moves they did, I was fully developed and they had only moved the queen and the kings pawn. The resignation came quickly when they blundered their queen a few moves later
Can you make one of these videos but for the Sicilian defence?
Very nice.
I feel like your videos must be helping because I guessed some of the moves before you announced them. I've never had to defend against this but this is good to know.
I'm watching because more than 6 people used it on me yesterday out of 10 games I played I was like really, I know how to defend but idk how to counter thanks to this video now i do haha
Good job. You are on the right track.
@@GMIgorSmirnov thanks for the vid 😄 🤣
@@GMIgorSmirnov heh I've performed the Scholar's Mate on people so that also helped knowing the oppositions tactics. Makes me never want to try it again hahahaha Ive done it with black and white pieces. In person and online. I'm a casual player who plays other casual people.
I hit like and subscribe when I was a young lad my Russian uncle taught me about scholars mate and he use this on me but then he used exactly your strategy and taught me how to use my night to capture that pawn and checkmate the king and take the rook it’s a brilliant strategy
Destroying people who try scholar's mate on you. One of the joys of online chess.
Savage. I plan to use this next time!
If you play king side knight instead of pawn and attack the queen with your other knight on the next move, the queen is likely to move to the leftmost square, after which you can threaten the bishop by pushing a pawn meanwhile creating a discovered attack on the queen. Very nice move to win material early on
thanks coach
thank you very much for this video! I've got one question, after pushing the pawn to f5, what do we do if they don't take back? do we just ignore the white pawn on e4 and jump to d4 with our knight?
Seen it last time randomly came back and there’s an updated version lol.
Igor, what do you recommend if they only move their initial pawn one square? It always defends against your knight!
That was AMAZING!!
This absurd pawn f5 move is my favorite way to play!! I'm a gambit player after ,all haha
Thank you for this! Would you consider doing a Lichess study for these variations?
Worked like a charm
After the queen blocks discovered check by moving to e3 and white castles on next move after black takes e3, then you can move queen to e4 to allow forced checkmate
6:00 can't you play Bb4 in that position? attacking the queen and pinning it to the king. if white plays Qxb4 (i don't see anything else) you have Nc2+ forking king and queen.
Nc2??? Bishop takes knight...
@@ScorpionKing1980 ah. there is the reason for my single digit elo 🙂 ty
Thank you for also informing people who uses scholar/shepherd mate. We will find a solution to your advises I always use them. But I don't obviously show it. I disguise my moves with non relevant ones but in the end my mate is based on this
Thank you!
Do you have a video on best defense againsr Scotch Opening?
Yes, here it is
ua-cam.com/video/W_Jytlily8M/v-deo.html
If you back up to 3:07 then what's stopping White Queen taking Knight on G8 & then moving onto capturing Black's Rook?
I’m not quite sure what the point is with the first rook strike forward. What prevents you from just moving the knight into the attacking position a move earlier?
Whaat? Can't you just write the moves?
BRILLIANT BRILLIANT
@2:47, can you explain the variation of QE4 instead of QD5... My last few games, the opponent went to QE4 instead. I would like your take on that variation.
This aggressive counter attack is actually an opening I thought about when I was dozing off.
I genuinely did not know it was a real opening
Whats the best move if white pawn E4 doesn't take F5 black pawn? Would you still attack the queen with the knight?
Thank you for this!
do you have a line for black to play against 2.Qf3?
As a professional chess tutor, I find your videos incredibly educational, and arguably the best chess content on the entire platform.
Glad we can help you with your chess coaching!
Maybe you'll be able to help me then. I commented this on the video but I'm way too curious to wait for a potential reply from the creator lol. My question is, why recapture the pawn on g6 at 3:04 as black? Why not just launch the fork with the knight in their camp first and deal with the pawn later? Wins more material right? I'm 100% missing something and I'd love to know what
@@casperinus That was a great question. So if you're playing Nxc2, then they will probably play Kd1 (attacks the Knight) Nxa1 (you win the Rook), bxa7 Qxa7 (because Rxa7 would fall victim to Qxb8 winning your other knight), Qxe5+... White can win your Knight on a1 eventually it's not going anywhere. 2 pawns and a knight for a rook isn't winning material (2(pawns)+3(knight) = 5points; rook =5points). White has some little problems (uncastled King, for one) but a draw is most likely outcome I believe. Instead of all that, capturing the pawn back first just avoids white getting any action and white stays on the backfoot trying to cover every threat you throw out.
This is a really fun series of lines.
GM Alex Yermolinsky recommended this line when GM Hikaru Nakamura played it vs GM Krishnan Sasikiran in round 7 of Sigeman & Co Tournament 2005. A classical tournament even!
At 6:06, is bishop to b4 a good move?
From what i can tell it traps the queen forcing white to take and then there is a fork of king and queen with knight c2
That was what I was thinking too. A would have gone for Bishop B4 to get the queen. I was actually thinking bishop B4 before Knight to G3, cus either way even if the Queen runs you can fork Rook and King with the knight on D4.
@@cameronsheard3164 are you BEGINNERS??? You DON'T take any queen, just loosea piece... after bishop b4, the queen JUST TAKES IT. And there is NO FORK on c2, because the b3 bishop defends it (DOOOH!!!!).
6:00 and right here you trap the queen earlier if you do bishop to b4 as if they take, it's a royal fork!
Cant the bishop just take?
Are you a WEAK BEGINNER??? There is NO FORK, c2 is defended by the bishop.
@@ScorpionKing1980 tunnel vision to the max ☠
There's a lot to remember, but worth it!!!
5:55 After white played pawn D3 then Bishop B4 could be the best move pinning queen and if queen takes bishop, then. Knight C2 will be the brutal check and fork.
C2 is protected by bishop
and what about Qe4 to defend?
Almost got demonized there @2:15
Igor, that is the Rousseau Gambit. A gambit that is put down by the better chess players, but a very good gambit for the average casual chess player to use, and the O'Sullivan Gambit too.
I always fine with the nf6 line but i might try this
5:43 bishop b4 looks like a better alternative imo
i didnt watch the whole video
my friend doesn’t like how you say “agrassive”. I however appreciate this video, I learned something today, thank you🤙
well done
Sir i played the same moves til knight d4 until white played queen to d1 eventually losing the game. Please include that variation too.
At 5:50 instead of going knight to f6, could you do a bishop sacrifice with bishop to b4 and then if the white queen takes you would do knight to c2
So, after you loose the bishop, you want to loose the knight also??? C2 is DEFENDED by the bishop.
Very good
I always wondered about how to do after driving him back so thx
Nice
1:27
just listen to how he pronounces "position". Dude really knows what Ы letter is
how about pawn a3 after pawn a5?
What if on 2 minutes 40 second position white play bishop to f7 with check and idea to make double check with pawn on second move, there is any checkmate treats or black can protect it all?