I only play the Jobava London vs Fianchetto openings, as White’s attack comes very quickly. Of all the Fianchetto set ups the normally solid super-solid c6 Grunfeld set up gives White the most latitude on pressing the attack. It was this that motivated me to learn the Jobava London as the c6 Grunfeld is IMHO very difficult to crack, which is why Kasparov often played it.
Thanks for another great video. Doubly helpful to me since I've actually been trying to play the Slav vs 1. d4 since I started trying to play Caro-Kann vs 1. e4 after watching your videos. Seems like the two defenses would be similar, but in actually it doesn't often work out the same in my limited experience.
After h5, you can play Bd3 since g4 isn't much of a threat to the f5 bishop anymore as it can retreat to h7. Afterwards, g4 is still a valuable move to try and open up the kingside, but you can take your time.
@@aravgawande3278 Usually, chessbase's opening explorer paired with Stockfish 17 or Komodo at a lower depth to get a balance of the best and most playable lines. You can use Lichess's opening explorer for a free alternative, it's not as good, but still works fine.
Thank you for watching! After 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bf4 e6 this enables Nb5 in the variation you discussed. Here I recommend 4.e3 instead of 4.Nb5 because there are a couple of annoying lines to deal with (all are showcased on my Jobava London video with 3.e6), however, 4.Nb5 is totally playable, and if your opponent responds with 4.Bd6, you can simply play 5.Nxd6 cxd6 and you're better thanks to having the bishop pair and your opponent having a ruined pawn structure. You can follow it up with 6.e3 and then develop normally. In this particular line I would stray away from going for agressive g4-g5 ideas, since you're already positionally better, it would be wise to just go with regular development and use your solid position to capitalize on your advantage.
So if we trade off the bishops I recapture with the pawn and then bring my kings knight out and plop it on e5? This you think would be better than moving the bishop back to g3 like in the standard London or taking his bishop with my knight and preserving the bishop pair while Dione his pawns?
Not quite, if after Nb5 you get Bd6, you play Nxd6 and ruin black's pawn structure. In that line, black is not able to capture your bishop since you've captured his bishop with your knight.
Again, my favorite reply is pawn a3 and dare them to take that poisoned pawn because the knight a4 resource traps the queen. It completely refutes the move and blacks queen has to whimper back
Thank you everybody for watching! I hope you all enjoyed.
Apologies for the skewed eval bar placement, that is fixed for the next video.
Good video. Thanks for posting!
I only play the Jobava London vs Fianchetto openings, as White’s attack comes very quickly. Of all the Fianchetto set ups the normally solid super-solid c6 Grunfeld set up gives White the most latitude on pressing the attack. It was this that motivated me to learn the Jobava London as the c6 Grunfeld is IMHO very difficult to crack, which is why Kasparov often played it.
this is some amazing content idk why it doesn't get as many views and likes as everything else
Thank you for the kind words! I'm happy you're enjoying the content, I'm not too worried about the views right now, they will come with time.
Thanks for another great video. Doubly helpful to me since I've actually been trying to play the Slav vs 1. d4 since I started trying to play Caro-Kann vs 1. e4 after watching your videos. Seems like the two defenses would be similar, but in actually it doesn't often work out the same in my limited experience.
You're very welcome! The Slav and Caro have very similar pawn structures, but vastly different plans. Happy I could help and thank you for watching!
I subscribed. Keep up the good work! 🖖Live Long & Prosper.😉
Thank you so much! I appreciate this a lot.
Thankyou because of your Bf5 video i was able to gain space advantage and win the game
Happy to hear that the video helped you out! Thank you for watching!
Good content..
Would be great to see Jobava vs King's Indian 😀
I have previously made a video covering the Jobava London against King's Indian/Bg7 setups. Check it out!
@@PassedPawns Right, thanks.
No worries, hope it helps.
I have question in Bf5 main line after pushing f3 what if the opponent plays h5 instead of e6 to prevent g4
After h5, you can play Bd3 since g4 isn't much of a threat to the f5 bishop anymore as it can retreat to h7. Afterwards, g4 is still a valuable move to try and open up the kingside, but you can take your time.
Thanks bro😊
I have a question where do you study chess openings?
I have a question where do you study chess openings?
@@aravgawande3278 Usually, chessbase's opening explorer paired with Stockfish 17 or Komodo at a lower depth to get a balance of the best and most playable lines.
You can use Lichess's opening explorer for a free alternative, it's not as good, but still works fine.
Great stuff! Question when the Jobava knight is on b5 and the Jobava bishop is on f4 hoe do you respond to Bd6 ?
Thank you for watching!
After 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bf4 e6 this enables Nb5 in the variation you discussed. Here I recommend 4.e3 instead of 4.Nb5 because there are a couple of annoying lines to deal with (all are showcased on my Jobava London video with 3.e6), however, 4.Nb5 is totally playable, and if your opponent responds with 4.Bd6, you can simply play 5.Nxd6 cxd6 and you're better thanks to having the bishop pair and your opponent having a ruined pawn structure. You can follow it up with 6.e3 and then develop normally. In this particular line I would stray away from going for agressive g4-g5 ideas, since you're already positionally better, it would be wise to just go with regular development and use your solid position to capitalize on your advantage.
So if we trade off the bishops I recapture with the pawn and then bring my kings knight out and plop it on e5? This you think would be better than moving the bishop back to g3 like in the standard London or taking his bishop with my knight and preserving the bishop pair while Dione his pawns?
Not quite, if after Nb5 you get Bd6, you play Nxd6 and ruin black's pawn structure. In that line, black is not able to capture your bishop since you've captured his bishop with your knight.
You can do nothing there and if the fool takes the pawn you trap the queen on b2 with knight a4
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Again, my favorite reply is pawn a3 and dare them to take that poisoned pawn because the knight a4 resource traps the queen. It completely refutes the move and blacks queen has to whimper back
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