After this episode, it has become very clear that you guys need a ‘for the memes’ tier. Not openings you should play, but the lols are definitely there.
The Hippo is named the Hippo because you don't have a single piece on the 4th rank, so its like a Hippo laying in the water and chilling. BUT BE CAREFUL. If a Hippo goes wild, it can kill you instantly. The same can happen to an opponent who don't know how to face the Hippo.
I love how the thumbnail for Jerome has Aman on it. He deserves the credit! Never thought it would be this deadly. Im gonna start Jeroming from this day forth. It is all what Jerome ever wanted.
I play the Jerome and it's VERY hard to find the best move after Qh5+. Ke6 is the best move for black and VERY HARD to find!! This is BY FAR the most common line played.... 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Bxf7+ Kxf7 5. Nxe5+ Nxe5 6. Qh5+ Ng6 7. Qd5+ Ke8 8. Qxc5 d6 9. Qe3 Nf6 10. O-O White then pushes f4 and keeps constant pressure on the king side
@Realistikal I play it in 2+1 and I can honestly tell you that 90% of the time Ng6 is BY FAR the most played response to Qh5+, if it were a classical game or even a blitz game maybe black would find better moves but players up to 1900 VERY rarely play Ke6. In fact I just checked lichess database and Ng3 is the #1 reply all the way up to 2000 players.
I tried the Evan's Gambit for the first time because of the video today. And all I can say is HOLY SHIT. Dude got blown off the board, I never got such dominating center before. First gambit I ever tried. Definitely deserves it's spot on this list.
as a 1800-2000 range player I would say that giving up the b4 pawn equalises the position and snatches off the slight white advantage according the engine of like +0.4 but yeah black has to play really best moves in order to maintain that equality otherwise white would hop in the position
Here's the actual Giuoco Piano : 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 Pianissimo 4. d3 They were looking at Greco Gambit in the previous two videos. This is a specific line in the Pianissimo
The problem is that they ranked the Italian as if 4.c3 makes it the Italian although it's already the Italian before that and Evan's Gambit is part of the Italian.
The GM that got beated in the Jerome also was Lefonged by Aman before and the video it's on UA-cam under the name "Checkmating a Grandmaster in 12 moves"
The Hippo: It's funny to rewatch this after watching Hikaru's Botez Gambit speedrun, in which he used the Hippo to destroy 2000+ players after sacrificing his queen.
As an intermediate player who has been testing out the Dutch Defence for the last dozen online games, I have yet to encounter a single Staunton Gambit. And I have yet to get a bad position after playing f5, e6, Nf6, Be7, O-O on autopilot (followed by b6 and Bb7 unless White fianchettoes on the opposite side first). Great attacking chances
I just wondering why there is not Italian or Open Game or even few solid openings more... and we've got some stupid stuff that nobody will play successfull. Can u tell me? I don't understand if it's that bad or it's some transposition wich gave us the same play... Tell me.
Lmao he’s scared to give his opinion and turn out to be wrong, there is no shame in having less knowledge than one of the best chess players in history
I tried playing the Grunfeld when I was low tier intermediate, and I gave up on it pretty quick. Just kept getting terrible positions with no clue what to do.
I play a lot of the kings Indian and the pirc. They are the same opening yes. But they are used depending on how white opens. If white starts with e4, then black starts with d6 or the pirc so white e4 pawn can't push the knight on f6. If white starts with d4. There is no pawn push on your f6 knight, so you can start off with that. You're more or less picking and choosing when to break for the center, So to say one is worse or better than the other is mute in point. And are both very equal.
23:58 i play the french a lot and it's almost an automatic win for me if they play e5 because the next 4 or so moves for black are always c5, Nf3, Qb6, and then either Nh6 or Bd7 and white wastes a lot of time thinking about the right response
As an intermediate player I was learning the Berlin to prepare for an e4 player who plays Ruy. He played the Scotch gambit like Hikaru showed at 23:30 only pushed 5.e5 instead and when Levy said this is terrifying for a player I couldn't help but audibly say "No Shit!" I spent easily 20m on the move and ultimately later got into time trouble because I was nowhere near prepared for 4.Bc4 and 5.e5 Needless to say I had an extremely difficult game after that which I ultimately lost. Big sads but much learning.
Hi, where is the exchange french ? There's the advanced french here, and in the tier list for beginners there are both, but here it seems to be missing!
I play the dutch but in a way GM Simon williams recomended it which is d4 e6 and if e4 then just go into a french defense, if Nf3 of c4 then just continue normally, so you don’t have to deal with any of those dangerous gambits. So I think it is solid.
In my opinion i believe that English and Dutch deserve to be legit as it is fav of club players and beginners and intermiediate and more NM,GM,IM etc. the Dutch and english are kind of in the same in the way that you try to take advantage at the start to develop faster,attack faster and try to coordinate pieces into the attack to make a devestating blow to your opponent and overall you try to take advantage out of the position. Overall really basic openings which show how to play the position and try to remaneuver and seek advantage which is why lots of agressive attackers love dutch while positional players love the english and overall both are a fan favorites and deserve to be ranked together (i am also rated 1127 uscf and play both and win lots of games and really enjoy playing learning and studying the concept and theory behind both)
i feel like it's weird to put the english lower than the bird's opening. So much pressure can be applied to white's King early on as a result of the bird and they're both just trying to throw people off their game by doing something other than e4 or d4.
@Steve Brown the dutch is like the most impractical opening one could imagine. Black needs to be ready for setups with early h4-h5, the Staunton Gambit, 2.g4, 2.h3, and 2.Bg5. If they learn the deep theory required to survive with black against all these sound gambits, they still get a bad position out of the opening if their opponent plays the typical g3 setup.
@Steve Brown all of the sidelines I mentioned either lead to dynamic equality or a white advantage with perfect play from black. Compare the score of a mainline Dutch to a poison pawn winawer (a mainline french). In the Dutch, black is close to losing. In the poison pawn, black has a couple ways of equalizing.
As a Dutch player, I actually really like to play against the Staunton Gambit. I read a book on it recently and know exactly how to play against it and am probably more familiair with the theory of those lines than the Staunton Gambit player.
Hikaru on the French Defense - "The Surrender Surrender Defence" I don't know if this was intentional or not but here in the U.K we love to, as it were, 'take the piss' (mock) out of the French for surrendering😂
I played the French Defense until recently, but I switched to the Open Games, even if there is much more theory to learn than in the French. Because White has such an easy time playing against the French, and especially the Exchange French can be very dull and boring to play, with low winning chances for black unless you are much stronger than your opponent.
All openings that require the giving up of a central pawn for time (gambits) are essentially flawed, with the exception of the Queen's gambit which really isn't a gambit if you think about it. (Peter Svidler) I have never really understood these words from Svidler... any takers?
Most of the time at the GM level, either the initiative isn't worth as much as the pawn so you get a worse position, or your opponent knows that accepting the gambit benefits you so they don't take the pawn and you don't get to play the gambit There are exceptions but not many
That makes a lot of sense as when you give up the central pawns, not only is your control of the centre worse but also endgames will be bad for you. That's why at a conceptual level, you should try and trade the flank pawns for the central pawns or b-pawns for flank pawns like in the queen's and king's gambits as well as the wing gambits against the Sicilian and French. Gambits like the Smith Morra and Blackmar-diemer gambit however don't follow this basic principle of pawn strength therefore are fundamentally flawed like Svidler said. Though this may be a simplistic analysis as in reality, the king's gambit is definitely worse than the Blackmar-diemer and war worse than the Morra gambits due to king safety issues and weakening of the a7-g1 diagonal so there are exceptions.
@@Marco..1 You can actually hold onto the pawn in the queen's gambit accepted but you have to sacrifice an exchange to do so. It's objectively bad but interesting in blitz. Hikaru played it against Woltajeck in the world blitz championship a few years ago. The game is on UA-cam if you want to check it out
Don't know if it's a "dragdorf" but I do play a lot of sicilians as an intermediate that have a6 and g6. Usually because I see a lot of Bowdler attack and weird queen moves, so I'll usually end up pushing e6 then attacking on the queen side and will fianchetto to pressure their center if they delay castling because they're running their queen/bishop all over the board.
My favourite thing about being an English opening player is the unfamiliarity. I waver from 1400 to 1500 constantly. from 1500 up people know kinda how to b=play it but litterally anything unnder is an almost free game
@@ChampionJan from what i remember not very often at all, usually people tend to immediately try and castle queen side as they are afraid of my aggressive pawn
Not to be rude but you are quite low rated to be playing the English as the slow, positional games won't help you improve with tactical ideas and attacking etc. Under 2000, you should play the main lines with d4 and e4. Though if you are adamant on playing 1.c4 I suggest you play the Botvinik system like Simon Williams plays with c4, Nc3, e4,g3, Bg2 and going for a quick attack with f4, Be3,Qd2 etc. You'll improve much quicker if you play more aggressive openings in my opinion.
@@ym276 No offence taken, but its funny you recommend the botvinik Since thats actually my main line xD. However I will try and incorporate f4 into my play for sure. Instead of f4 I tend to play N.e2 linking knights
@@ThePsyyyyyduck Well, obviously you play Ne2 first - I didn't list out the entire line. It's your choice but that's not really a good opening for you rating but maybe you're underrated
31:18 if I were offered a seat in business class in an airplane you could bet I'd keep myself in economic class. But I had my first tournament win as White with the Evans Gambit. So I kind of would prefer it to the main line Giuoco Piano But I wouldn't discard playing 4 c3 if I could catch my opponents off-guard.
lichess database between 1600 and 2200 gives 47/48 for favoring black in the grunfeld, maybe you as 2 very good good players don't understand what the intermediate players are like nowadays, if black is playing grunfeld at this level, its not by accident and probably has studied and is his main setup into d4c4
With the phrasing they are using about the Evans gambit, I'm honestly confused about whether it's actually good, or if calling it legendary is just an inside joke/meme and it's actually terrible.
Disagree with English being bad for intermediates, I was a 1. d4 player but I hated the Grunfeld so switched to 1. c4. So I either get 1. d4 positions which I like, or I get English positions for which you don't need to know a lot of theory. It can be great for the intermediate level imho, but I'm not a good player so what do I know
The basic opening ideas of the grunfeld are fairly easy to learn and unless someone knows theory you usually just end up in a better position. Sad they put it so low.
Ha ha I still play with a computer with pegs saitek mephisto advanced travel computer about 2000 elo beat it once with the colle zukertorte . Just a thought but would your choice of openings change depending on the time control ? I like the English in correspondence but struggle in ten minute with it that could be parameter you could throw in. Could I make a request for the colle zukertorte 😊
So the fried liver is mediocre even at the intermediate level. That explains why I never go past 1200 hahahaha. Literally the only opening I (more or less) know how to play with white
I kept getting stomped with the fried liver opening like daily. I played the Traxler and handily destroyed my opponent and have never played the opening since. It almost seems like the chess world if following all the trends on twitch at this point. I’m trying to figure out what to play right now and have dropped from mid 800s to mid 700s.
Traxler against 800s sounds illegally good. I'm not scared of it personally though. I play Bxf7 Kf8 Bb3 and I avoid most of the normal tricks, up a pawn, and my opponent can't castle. I'm way more scared of the mainline tbh
Hikaru beating a GM with the Jerome is legendary
you got pinned
Here are the time stamps...
0:05 Catalan
2:42 Chigorin Defense
4:05 closed Sicilian
7:10 Crab
8:15 Danish Gambit
10:24 Dragdorf
10:40 Dutch Defense
14:07 Elephant Gambit
16:00 English
17:40 Englund Gambit
19:32 Evans Gambit
24:06 French Defense
26:37 Fried Liver
29:50 Giuoco Piano
32:16 Grand Prix
37:02 Grob
37:58 Gruenfield
40:35 Hillbilly Attack
48:05 Hippo
51:29 Jerome
ah yes, the English gambit
@ Sune fixed the mistake
Wow, this is impressive, thank you
Crab
Genius 😊🤗
“When I was barely a GM”
Yeah like when he’s 9yrs old. No big deal
awww
After this episode, it has become very clear that you guys need a ‘for the memes’ tier. Not openings you should play, but the lols are definitely there.
All crabs in the seven seas would like to know your location (and yeah I agree)
The Hippo is named the Hippo because you don't have a single piece on the 4th rank, so its like a Hippo laying in the water and chilling. BUT BE CAREFUL. If a Hippo goes wild, it can kill you instantly. The same can happen to an opponent who don't know how to face the Hippo.
I'll play it in 1 minute bullet occasionally and people flag trying to.figure out a plan
@@EzekielDBarrett ye hippo is meant for bullet
Maybe you can do a tier list with all the sicilian variations
Great idea 😃
Hahhaha
Arent all the sicilian variations already in these tier lists?
@@likenot3073 Not really, there are a lot of variations like over 20
Awesome idea!
"stop tryna be edgy just put a pawn in the centre" lol
52:36 Jerome gambit legendary confirmed
It's what Jerome would have wanted
@@Fujibayashi50 FOR JEROME!
James Knapp this is about PRIVILEGE!
*_= OPENING TIMESTAMPS FOR 1200s-1800s (PART 2) =_*
*+ Legendary Openings +*
- (White, d4) Queen's Gambit
19:32 - (White, Giuco Piano Game) Evan's Gambit
- (Black, against e4) Caro-Kann Defence
32:16 - (White, against the Sicilian) Grand Prix Attack
4:05 - (White) Closed Sicilian
- (Black, against e4) King's Indian Defence [KID]
- (White) Ruy López [Spanish Game/Opening]
- (Black, against e4) Sicilian Defense
- (White, e4, e5, Nc3, Nf6) Vienna Gambit
- (White) Alapin Sicillian
*+ Solid Openings +*
- (White, e4) The Scotch Game
- (White, d4 & Bf4) London System
- (Black, against d4) Nimzo-Indian Defense
- (White, against the Sicilian) Smith-Morra Gambit
- (White) Nimzo-Larsen Attack
- (White, e4, e5) Ponziani Opening
- (Black, against e4) Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon
2:42 - (Black against the Queen's Gambit) Chigorin Defense
- (White, Nf3) Reti Opening
- (White, e4) Petrov's Defense
- (White, against the Sicilian) Rossolimo
- (White, d4, Bg6) Trompowsky Attack
*+ Legit Openings +*
8:15 - (White, e4, e5) Danish Gambit
0:05 - (White, d4) Catalan Game
- (Black, against d4) Two Knights Tango
- (White, against the Sicillian) Marshall Attack
- (Black, against the Queen's Gambit) Albin-Counter Gambit
- (White) Advanced French
- (Black, against e4) Pirc Defense
- (Black, against e4/maybe anything) The Black Lion "Setup"
- (Black, against the Queen's Gambit) Slav Defense
24:06 - (Black, against e4) French Defense
11:37 - (Black, against d4) Dutch Defense
- (White) Stonewall
40:35 - (White, against the Caro-Kann) Hillbilly Attack
- (Black, against e4) Sicllian Defense: Nadjorf
👑
Levy being amazed of Hikaru beating the GM with the Jerome is hilarious
Because it is amazing? Black sacrifices two pieces. Usually that means that Black can defend and then win long term.
The content like this are massively helpful to the casual and beginner chess player like me...I'm forever grateful for this. Thanks Hikaru 🔥
Is there ever a time Hikaru doesn't " kinda agree" ?????
He always kinda agree, but at the same time he completely disagree
3:51 Hikaru totally agrees!! 👏
Forrest Man the very first video consists of hikaru always disagreeing with levy lol
Dutch?
Hikaru’s and Levy’s bromance is inspiring
I know right?? I love them together
It's so cute how Levy always makes these blunt comments and Hikaru blushes but completely cracks off :D
The only downside of the Evans Gambit is you can only initiate it once you’re in the Italian Guioco Piano or however it’s spelled
I love how the thumbnail for Jerome has Aman on it. He deserves the credit! Never thought it would be this deadly. Im gonna start Jeroming from this day forth. It is all what Jerome ever wanted.
1 e4 e6
2 d4 d5
Black resigns
Alternative title: "Levy talks about airlines for an hour"
I play the Jerome and it's VERY hard to find the best move after Qh5+. Ke6 is the best move for black and VERY HARD to find!! This is BY FAR the most common line played....
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Bxf7+ Kxf7
5. Nxe5+ Nxe5 6. Qh5+ Ng6 7. Qd5+ Ke8 8. Qxc5 d6
9. Qe3 Nf6 10. O-O
White then pushes f4 and keeps constant pressure on the king side
@Realistikal I play it in 2+1 and I can honestly tell you that 90% of the time Ng6 is BY FAR the most played response to Qh5+, if it were a classical game or even a blitz game maybe black would find better moves but players up to 1900 VERY rarely play Ke6. In fact I just checked lichess database and Ng3 is the #1 reply all the way up to 2000 players.
I tried the Evan's Gambit for the first time because of the video today. And all I can say is HOLY SHIT. Dude got blown off the board, I never got such dominating center before. First gambit I ever tried. Definitely deserves it's spot on this list.
as a 1800-2000 range player I would say that giving up the b4 pawn equalises the position and snatches off the slight white advantage according the engine of like +0.4 but yeah black has to play really best moves in order to maintain that equality otherwise white would hop in the position
Here's the actual Giuoco Piano :
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5
Pianissimo 4. d3
They were looking at Greco Gambit in the previous two videos. This is a specific line in the Pianissimo
love how Hikaru calls the giuoco piano the "gucci piano"
"I think if you have the option to play the Evan's and you play c3, you're a terrible person."
I agree, always play the Evan's gambit if you can.
The problem is that they ranked the Italian as if 4.c3 makes it the Italian although it's already the Italian before that and Evan's Gambit is part of the Italian.
The GM that got beated in the Jerome also was Lefonged by Aman before and the video it's on UA-cam under the name "Checkmating a Grandmaster in 12 moves"
Bro he got beated?
WDYM LEVY I PLAY THE DUTCH AND I NEVER LOST A GAME REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hikaru has won against a grandmaster with the bongcloud in an official tournament before, it's legendary XD
The Hippo: It's funny to rewatch this after watching Hikaru's Botez Gambit speedrun, in which he used the Hippo to destroy 2000+ players after sacrificing his queen.
Hippo's a solid opening, took me from 850-875.
You missed the no.1 rival of the Jerome, *The Fred*
As an intermediate player who has been testing out the Dutch Defence for the last dozen online games, I have yet to encounter a single Staunton Gambit. And I have yet to get a bad position after playing f5, e6, Nf6, Be7, O-O on autopilot (followed by b6 and Bb7 unless White fianchettoes on the opposite side first). Great attacking chances
It's so cute how Levy always makes these blunt comments and Hikaru blushes but completely cracks off :D
I just wondering why there is not Italian or Open Game or even few solid openings more... and we've got some stupid stuff that nobody will play successfull. Can u tell me? I don't understand if it's that bad or it's some transposition wich gave us the same play... Tell me.
Where is the legendary Pork Chop opening?
Rozman is waiting for hikaru's opinion so he can agree with it lol
Lmao he’s scared to give his opinion and turn out to be wrong, there is no shame in having less knowledge than one of the best chess players in history
@@xa-1274 true
I tried playing the Grunfeld when I was low tier intermediate, and I gave up on it pretty quick. Just kept getting terrible positions with no clue what to do.
"You trash talk me and hikaru gets ya" that quote is legendary.
Agadmator the type of guy to introduce himself to his wife's boyfriend
Hello everyone, what’s the idea here?
X Æ A -12 *captures, captures*
Sanjay Kommu with check*
Agadmator’s the kind of guy who’d steal your girlfriend. He’s an absolute chad
Agadmator's wife's boyfriend about to become Agadmator's girlfriend
I play a lot of the kings Indian and the pirc. They are the same opening yes. But they are used depending on how white opens. If white starts with e4, then black starts with d6 or the pirc so white e4 pawn can't push the knight on f6. If white starts with d4. There is no pawn push on your f6 knight, so you can start off with that. You're more or less picking and choosing when to break for the center, So to say one is worse or better than the other is mute in point. And are both very equal.
23:58 i play the french a lot and it's almost an automatic win for me if they play e5 because the next 4 or so moves for black are always c5, Nf3, Qb6, and then either Nh6 or Bd7 and white wastes a lot of time thinking about the right response
As an intermediate player I was learning the Berlin to prepare for an e4 player who plays Ruy. He played the Scotch gambit like Hikaru showed at 23:30 only pushed 5.e5 instead and when Levy said this is terrifying for a player I couldn't help but audibly say "No Shit!" I spent easily 20m on the move and ultimately later got into time trouble because I was nowhere near prepared for 4.Bc4 and 5.e5 Needless to say I had an extremely difficult game after that which I ultimately lost. Big sads but much learning.
The Traxler is the straight-up O.G.
Hi, where is the exchange french ? There's the advanced french here, and in the tier list for beginners there are both, but here it seems to be missing!
I play the dutch but in a way GM Simon williams recomended it which is d4 e6 and if e4 then just go into a french defense, if Nf3 of c4 then just continue normally, so you don’t have to deal with any of those dangerous gambits. So I think it is solid.
Love the Aman Picture on the Jerome Gambit
In my opinion i believe that English and Dutch deserve to be legit as it is fav of club players and beginners and intermiediate and more NM,GM,IM etc. the Dutch and english are kind of in the same in the way that you try to take advantage at the start to develop faster,attack faster and try to coordinate pieces into the attack to make a devestating blow to your opponent and overall you try to take advantage out of the position. Overall really basic openings which show how to play the position and try to remaneuver and seek advantage which is why lots of agressive attackers love dutch while positional players love the english and overall both are a fan favorites and deserve to be ranked together (i am also rated 1127 uscf and play both and win lots of games and really enjoy playing learning and studying the concept and theory behind both)
Levy the type of guy to play Crab's gambit declined
Gosh, was waiting for the King’s gambit, and it didn’t fit in the video
:(
i feel like it's weird to put the english lower than the bird's opening. So much pressure can be applied to white's King early on as a result of the bird and they're both just trying to throw people off their game by doing something other than e4 or d4.
The Benko got robbed... demoted because, "you won't get it" but other worse openings are higher like Albin.
@Steve Brown yet they put the Albin in legit, above the Benko?? yes they did
@Steve Brown the dutch is like the most impractical opening one could imagine. Black needs to be ready for setups with early h4-h5, the Staunton Gambit, 2.g4, 2.h3, and 2.Bg5. If they learn the deep theory required to survive with black against all these sound gambits, they still get a bad position out of the opening if their opponent plays the typical g3 setup.
I play the king's Gambit so I have no trouble pushing my F pawn but the Dutch is suicide
@Steve Brown I would eat my nuts if by Leningrad you mean f5 g6 Bg7 Nf6
@Steve Brown all of the sidelines I mentioned either lead to dynamic equality or a white advantage with perfect play from black. Compare the score of a mainline Dutch to a poison pawn winawer (a mainline french). In the Dutch, black is close to losing. In the poison pawn, black has a couple ways of equalizing.
As a Dutch player, I actually really like to play against the Staunton Gambit. I read a book on it recently and know exactly how to play against it and am probably more familiair with the theory of those lines than the Staunton Gambit player.
0:29
oooooooof
Opening Tier series is the best!!!!
Hikaru on the French Defense - "The Surrender Surrender Defence"
I don't know if this was intentional or not but here in the U.K we love to, as it were, 'take the piss' (mock) out of the French for surrendering😂
I am 1800 and I created a new variation in Danish Gambit: e4 e5 d4 xd4 c3 xd3 Nxc3 Bb4 Qd4 and I have 71% WR with it
in TWO VIDEOS the Elephant Gambit came out and TWICE they forgot the pic was an album from the white stripes.
🐘 🐘 🐘
I played the French Defense until recently, but I switched to the Open Games, even if there is much more theory to learn than in the French. Because White has such an easy time playing against the French, and especially the Exchange French can be very dull and boring to play, with low winning chances for black unless you are much stronger than your opponent.
Hikaru flew first class to Africa to go on a safari and watch the hippos...tru story
All openings that require the giving up of a central pawn for time (gambits) are essentially flawed, with the exception of the Queen's gambit which really isn't a gambit if you think about it. (Peter Svidler)
I have never really understood these words from Svidler... any takers?
I always thought it meant that gambits require skill/background knowledge to compensate for the advantage that is being given to the opponent
Most of the time at the GM level, either the initiative isn't worth as much as the pawn so you get a worse position, or your opponent knows that accepting the gambit benefits you so they don't take the pawn and you don't get to play the gambit
There are exceptions but not many
That makes a lot of sense as when you give up the central pawns, not only is your control of the centre worse but also endgames will be bad for you. That's why at a conceptual level, you should try and trade the flank pawns for the central pawns or b-pawns for flank pawns like in the queen's and king's gambits as well as the wing gambits against the Sicilian and French. Gambits like the Smith Morra and Blackmar-diemer gambit however don't follow this basic principle of pawn strength therefore are fundamentally flawed like Svidler said. Though this may be a simplistic analysis as in reality, the king's gambit is definitely worse than the Blackmar-diemer and war worse than the Morra gambits due to king safety issues and weakening of the a7-g1 diagonal so there are exceptions.
You cant win a pawn in this opening with black. You can only win the pawn temporarily.
@@Marco..1 You can actually hold onto the pawn in the queen's gambit accepted but you have to sacrifice an exchange to do so. It's objectively bad but interesting in blitz. Hikaru played it against Woltajeck in the world blitz championship a few years ago. The game is on UA-cam if you want to check it out
Don't know if it's a "dragdorf" but I do play a lot of sicilians as an intermediate that have a6 and g6. Usually because I see a lot of Bowdler attack and weird queen moves, so I'll usually end up pushing e6 then attacking on the queen side and will fianchetto to pressure their center if they delay castling because they're running their queen/bishop all over the board.
Chat says"Next chess drama 'Hikaru says peter svidlers opening are garbage" XD beautiful.
What the hell is wrong with the list man, ive been waiting u to do the scotch over a month and its just keep getting delayed..
Dont play the chigorin. There is better garbege out there (1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 or c5). If white knows 3 or 4 lines he will always get a +1 position
Solid strategy making the title about the last few minutes of an hour long clip. Not even being sarcastic that shit works.
My favourite thing about being an English opening player is the unfamiliarity. I waver from 1400 to 1500 constantly. from 1500 up people know kinda how to b=play it but litterally anything unnder is an almost free game
Random question. How often do you face the English defense?
@@ChampionJan from what i remember not very often at all, usually people tend to immediately try and castle queen side as they are afraid of my aggressive pawn
Not to be rude but you are quite low rated to be playing the English as the slow, positional games won't help you improve with tactical ideas and attacking etc. Under 2000, you should play the main lines with d4 and e4. Though if you are adamant on playing 1.c4 I suggest you play the Botvinik system like Simon Williams plays with c4, Nc3, e4,g3, Bg2 and going for a quick attack with f4, Be3,Qd2 etc. You'll improve much quicker if you play more aggressive openings in my opinion.
@@ym276 No offence taken, but its funny you recommend the botvinik Since thats actually my main line xD. However I will try and incorporate f4 into my play for sure. Instead of f4 I tend to play N.e2 linking knights
@@ThePsyyyyyduck Well, obviously you play Ne2 first - I didn't list out the entire line. It's your choice but that's not really a good opening for you rating but maybe you're underrated
9:36 Hikaru teaching the coaches on what to teach
Breaks my heart to hear that Hikaru and Levi knows the peepeepoopoo gambit but not the White Stripes.
11:42 hikaru is a dutch hater i love his face expression
so awesome chat spams pogo whenever hikaru mentions anything about his life
What about the center game accepted/declined opening
honestly its funny seeing people get confused about what the white stripes album cover is lol
Levy the type of guy to offer a trade of pawns
I had someone who memorized all lines of the traxler on my team. Very funny guy.
Gruenfeld comes from Ernst Franz Grünfeld not from peter svidler?
31:18 if I were offered a seat in business class in an airplane you could bet I'd keep myself in economic class. But I had my first tournament win as White with the Evans Gambit. So I kind of would prefer it to the main line Giuoco Piano
But I wouldn't discard playing 4 c3 if I could catch my opponents off-guard.
I guess I have to learn the Evan's gambit now?
Lmaooo "stop being edgy with the English" - me as a 1500 trying to play it everyday
lichess database between 1600 and 2200 gives 47/48 for favoring black in the grunfeld, maybe you as 2 very good good players don't understand what the intermediate players are like nowadays, if black is playing grunfeld at this level, its not by accident and probably has studied and is his main setup into d4c4
but there is no german GM with over 2700 right now? How did he then play against one?
Why is it called the hillbilly attack.. do hillbillies attack?! - L. Rozman
With the phrasing they are using about the Evans gambit, I'm honestly confused about whether it's actually good, or if calling it legendary is just an inside joke/meme and it's actually terrible.
so they give shit marks to the giuoco piano because evans was possible instead, but they give good marks to the jerome why?
Disagree with English being bad for intermediates, I was a 1. d4 player but I hated the Grunfeld so switched to 1. c4. So I either get 1. d4 positions which I like, or I get English positions for which you don't need to know a lot of theory. It can be great for the intermediate level imho, but I'm not a good player so what do I know
Hikaru please rank the Borg Defense
31:13 Someone never sat next to their crush on a plane
"I think 14...Ke4 was winning"
What a wild thing to say
I legit thought this was Hans in the thumbnail. LOLOL
Evans Gambit?? Legendary???
*_Angry Italian-Koltanowsky Gambit noises_*
Where's part 3?
what about the italian
The basic opening ideas of the grunfeld are fairly easy to learn and unless someone knows theory you usually just end up in a better position. Sad they put it so low.
They better start putting some respect on the Hippo.
Ha ha I still play with a computer with pegs saitek mephisto advanced travel computer about 2000 elo beat it once with the colle zukertorte . Just a thought but would your choice of openings change depending on the time control ? I like the English in correspondence but struggle in ten minute with it that could be parameter you could throw in. Could I make a request for the colle zukertorte 😊
Don't play the Chigorin. Unless you are playing me :p
I'm watching the dutch defense and all i can think of is "really bro?"
The dude made one real blunder and that was it (kg8, guess he missed e6)
Where’s part 3? I’m sweating on it?
Stephen Burgess its out
The Delinquent God Thanks dude I’m on it. 👍
So the fried liver is mediocre even at the intermediate level. That explains why I never go past 1200 hahahaha. Literally the only opening I (more or less) know how to play with white
I kept getting stomped with the fried liver opening like daily. I played the Traxler and handily destroyed my opponent and have never played the opening since. It almost seems like the chess world if following all the trends on twitch at this point. I’m trying to figure out what to play right now and have dropped from mid 800s to mid 700s.
Traxler against 800s sounds illegally good. I'm not scared of it personally though. I play Bxf7 Kf8 Bb3 and I avoid most of the normal tricks, up a pawn, and my opponent can't castle. I'm way more scared of the mainline tbh
Khal Draco it was really fun. I let him have the rook and it was mate in 3. I just haven’t been able to play that line since.
The English is my favorite opening :) (I'm 1460 rapid)
Are they memeing about the Evans
6:42 levy lol