The GingerGM channel, dedicated to chess videos of all kinds. Here you will mainly find games played by me, Grandmaster Simon Williams aka 'The GingerGM'.
The videos will help you improve your chess, and give you an insight into how a chess Grandmaster plays (be careful not to stray too far into my mind!).
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Cornering the bishop and then just leaving it to rot is my favourite lesson here. Also looking for a better move at the end for mate. Love watching all your videos. Thanks mate.
Really glad to see these slower speed run games appearing regularly. And having played Bird's, From's Gambit is one where memory is critical as it is very trappy, but White should come out ahead. As I recall if White accepts both pawns the key moves after that are Nf3, d4, and Qd3, but White needs to know the line quite precisely for quite some time after that still. And in any case, transposing to King's Gambit is much more fun and in this case resulted in a very nice game. Keep 'em coming.
Horrible chess encounter ?...Playing Feliks Kwiatkowski. He just sits there sneering and making faces at every move his opponent makes. The man's a barrister !!! Cheers Simon.
Just once I'd love to see Simon accept the From's gambit. It produces some of the most interesting (and sharp) games, especially the Lasker variation with black's g-pawn push.
I think his h6 move was intending to block Ng5. Since your pawn on f4 is already covering g5, his queen isn't actually defending g5. So if he allowed you to play Ng5 and then you got your bishop on c4, f7 would be pretty vulnerable in a fried liver type way. I'm not saying it was sound, I'm just relating how us non-GMs think.
Magnus played Black Lion at the olympiad. It would be cool if you could asses the variation he played. There was also some high level black lion played at womens games. You have really managed to win some followers in the chess world.
These videos really can improve your play drastically if you can understand the depth of his level. It’s giving me true understanding on coaching, multiple very high level ideas in this video, you can only grasp it if you’re at least intermediate level
If you undrerstand the deph of his level im impressedbecause he is a gm and its not easy for anybody lower than an IM to understand the deph of thinking above 2400 ! im an 1800 player i might get a grasp of 2100 maybe on a good day ! 2200 plus, no chance !
@@mcpartridgeboyI genuinely understand the depth of his level but it doesn’t mean I can play it any where close to him! He had multiple really really high level ideas and bc he explained them I really understood. We’re talking way higher level than just 3-4 moves/tactics. He had multiple ideas in that where he baited play as well as showed crazy patience when a lot of options were available.
Nice explanatory video. Identifying the opponent's mistakes and probing the resulting weaknesses. We can all gain from lessons like this. Especially useful that the longer time limit gives you the opportunity to explore many aspects of the position, not just the most critical.
Hi Simon. Really appreciate the return of that speed run on a regular basis. Thanks a lot. I just got your book "The killer Dutch" I love it already so thanks for that too. Hope you're doing great. Cheers mate
19:34 Afraid of the Bxf7 Ng5 idea perhaps? But that tactic wasn't available at that time. I've played the KG a lot and had that tactic work maybe 3 times. Also from my experience the engine probably screamed for you to play Kh1 and possibly e5. The KG is pretty wild in that the engine will occasionally recommend caveman moves like Kh1 but sometimes double peace sacrifices for checkmate. The line with 3. Bc4 is playable according to the engine but I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft pole. Analyzing it is really interesting though.
The KG bishops gambit variation is honestly probably the best variation. Bobby fischer favored that one. I've had tons of success with it. Honestly it's more sound imo after playing both styles. But I like daring black to play Qh4+, simply Kf1 and gain tons of tempo on the queen for free development. It looks super scary, but it's harmless. But the h6 was a waste. There was no threat of Bxf7 at that moment. Had there been a bishop on c4 already.. then it might've been warranted. The f7 square is the key square in the KG in almost every variation. The sacrifice works quite often at club level.
You make chess look quite simple going through your thought process...great game, great video! Glad to see so many videos coming, maybe give the blindfolded idea a go?! Haha cheers from Brazil Simon!
Most horrible encounter was meeting a girl, going back to her parents and her brother was staying there on house arrest with a tag waiting for trial and he was about 6'7 very tall and very paranoid, he asked to come in her room while I was there with her to check her wardrobe to make sure no one was hiding in there.. then he started questioning me and honestly he seemed paranoid enough to have done anything.
haven’t watched a GGM vid in ages but came back in the hopes of hearing a little “put that in your pipe and smoke it son”… and he delivered on the first game. glorious
