Hi, I'm William, and I love chess! I strive to make educational and entertaining content, especially about opening theory and playing exciting and aggressive chess. Always improving :)
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1. f4 really isn’t that bad, if you know how to deal with these kinds of traps. An argument could be made for it actually being better if you know a lot of theory, rather than just playing some d4/e4 opening because everybody says it’s ”the best”.
Lol dominating a blitz arena with gambits. It's kinda funny that people are going in with classical theory that would work fine in a tournament. And then their opponent plays a Gambit and they don't know what to do.
I saw an Alapin on the board, I thought : "wow ! Alapin, hey ?" Then it went off track prrrrreeeetty quick. Yan yan gambit, you say ? By the way, 98% accuracy is pure madness.
Played this gambit and lost, but it was my own fault. white defended with Qd2 and I did not *remember* Graif's recommendations. Grif's sound recommendation was (I found out later) to play ..Bb4 (which I did) but then double the pawns after Nc3 (which I didn't). Sigh. Following good advice requires study and memory. While I see Graif's 2nd Budapest Gambit as being good to play, I clearly need to study this video *more*.
Hey William! I was wondering if you have seen a gambit line in the philidor that basically looks like the goring gambit - lichess calls it the birds gambit? birds eye gambit? I've seen like 2 videos on youtube covering it but as the goring gambit master I figured I'd ask your thoughts on it. :)
I’m still slowly getting better and doing really well at slow games but I’m relatively trash at anything faster than rapid 10 min. Any advice on getting faster Gambit Man sir?
Force yourselves to play some puzzle rush, and blitz / bullet. Try maybe some no increment as well. You will blunder a lot, but so will your opponents, and that's how we learn. Do not make this your priority, maybe dont analyse as much, these rating are not as important. It's just good training sometimes to be faster, better at board visualisation, better at spotting tactics quickly, better at converting winning positions, better at making practical decision (how and when to simplify etc) better at time scrambles etc. At the end it will probably help you in slower chess as well, at least a little. Good luck trying speedchess !!!
I was excited about this trap (though I play the Jobova as white) until I this simple analysis with Stockfish: .d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3 .Bf4 Nc6 4.Nb5 e5 5.dxe5 Ne4 6.Qxd5 Bf57.Qxd8+Rxd8 8.f3. Of course, I knew about the Qx d5. I have won with it numerous times. But the critical move is 8. f3. That move creates luft for the king and snuffs out black's meta-trap. White ends up with a 2.5 advantage according to Stockfish. Of course, if white does not find f3, then is in a world of trouble. Graif points this out at around the 16:52 marker in the video, and acknowledges that black is at a serious disadvantage. He also points out (correctly) that in practical play, especially at club level, f3 is *hard* to find f3! Especially in blitz. So my only objection here is that this video claims to bust this trap. It does not. I do remain a fan of these Graif videos. They are really some of the best chess videos out there. Frankly, I think he should write a book on gambits. It would be both instructive and entertaining. I would *buy* that book. I even have a name to suggest for such a book: Adventures In Gambit Land.
I crushed everyone who accept the busch gass gambit.. Then a 2000 rated player come. He did not accept my busch gass and i lost 5 matches simultaneously.. Plzz show some decline line.. I don't know how to send you the games. My lichess id TheWinnnner and the player who beat me his id Shubham270 Need your help. Interested in taking coaching from you
Well, I finally got to play this gambit. White declined the gambit and black got a playable game - a game I went on to win. But I missed a better move early on. [Event "Casual rapid game"] [Opening "Benko Gambit: Zaitsev Variation, Nescafe Frappe Attack"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 a6 3. Nc3 c5 4. d5 b5 5. cxb5 axb5 6. e4 b4 7. Nb5 { A57 Benko Gambit: Zaitsev Variation, Nescafe Frappe Attack } d6 8. Bf4 Nbd7?! { (-0.53 → 0.04) Inaccuracy. g5 was best. } Yeah, I considered ..g5 during the game, but I thought it was too risky. I was both wrong and failing to play a Benoni in the spirit it demands: play dynamically or die. Of course, this is a Benko Gambit decline, but it *felt* like a Benoni position to me.
As Graif clearly states, move order matters here a *lot*. But it is interesting how, if accepted, the gambit gets you a relatively favorable position for black in the the Benko Gambit: Zaitsev Variation. It is refreshing how deep his analysis goes. Certainly, once I have spent more time on this video, I intend to give this gambit a test drive on Lichess; however, at the end of the video Graif diligently reports the bad news: white can decline the gambit with a well-timed a3. While the ensuing position is playable for black, I think white's position is far easier to play over the board. So I don't think this is a "crush" at all.
