Normal openings : The Italian, the London, the English... Suspicious openings : the walrus, the hippo, the orang utan... CHAD openings : the *JEROME* , the *FRED*
The year is 20XX. Everyone plays the 'Fred' and the 'Jerome' at AlphaZero levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on who gets white. The Rock Paper Scissors metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches. Humanity has reached its pinnacle. The 'Queen's Gambit' and 'Ruy Lopez' peasants are living in poverty. It seems nothing can stop the great leader of 20XX, Aman Hambleton, and his army, the ChessBrah monks who live in great monasteries where they levitate while sacking pieces with one hand, and winning tournaments with the other. The tournament metagame has gotten to this point where everything is played out to theoretical perfection, so tournament goers play Rock Paper Scissors to see who gets white, and that’s the game.
You know what's crazier? 2600 GM losing to a 100 rated player on chess.com (if hes 100 on chess.com, then by FIDE elo he should be around -100 to +50 at best). That GM's name was Eric Hansen
@@lucasmatsuoca well according to Fred theory, if zero mistakes are played on both sides, the Fred will always win unless countered by a Jerome, which is always a draw. I predict in the future AI will be physically unable to play against it self, because it will predict Fred vs Jerome every game which is a draw, therefore it will offer a draw before move 1.
Not obscure and not that bad, but nobody knows the Alekhine lol. People rush at you because they think you are trolling or that you are worse, and then you blast their center off the board.
@@Life-Sky I'll check it out! These types of "bad" openings are actually quite easy to learn and help low ELO players (I'd say 500-1000) win a little more against players that study the more common openings. I actually think this is a viable strategy 🤣
@@Life-Sky the alekhine is actually a good opening,and may see future play as the more famous openings get more studied. It can get really sharp,and can go either way. black needs to find the perfect time to strike at the center,and white needs not to overextend
I think this really shows that a lot of high rated players just memorize moves rather than actually figuring out the best moves for themselves. Aman was clearly the better player as he figured the best moves out on his own with a totally random opening. Props to Aman
Interestingly, Capablanca never memorized book openings, and he refuted the Marshal attack on the board when it took Marshal eight years to prepare it as a surprise for Capablanca
That is correct. That actually separates Magnus and Hikaru and probably a select few from the rest of the GMs. not only they know 99& of theory but they have that intuitive mind to be creative.
There's also the attitude factor: Aman is doing it for the memes, so there is no fear on his side. The opponent is just saying "what is this garbage" after every move and probably not taking it seriously.
Yeah indeed this is that way. Recently played against some FM who destroyed me on white side of Modern Benoni in blitz playing best engine variation with perfect move order up to move around 25 even though i haven't played mainline. I thought "jeez that's a strong FM" so spect him next 2 games... In those 2 he missed 7 or 8 tactics with 3-4 free pieces... Memorization factor is HUGE.
@@DonFreeq Man this shit is fucking laughable. Are you just lying to yourself or what?.... He will only be playing the perfect engine variation if the moves you played are reasonable (enough for him to have analyzed them with the engine or whatever, i.e. they are not more than inaccuracies, and if you are playing actual blunders in the opening anyways, that is not a good sign lol). Therefore, you can't be entering the middlegame with a completely losing position, only a somewhat worse one, so, he must have outplayed you significantly in the middle game too, how is that possible if he is dropping 4 tactics and 2 pieces a game? Why don't you challenge him to a few chess960 games and see how it goes?
@@Life-Sky no one is 100% sure about who was play Short, Short said that he was playing Fischer because he usually could win and draw against other elite players who were playing serious openings, but the mysterious person was playing very weird and bad moves for the 5-6 first moves and only after that he/she started to develop the pieces, I myself like to think that it was either someone like Fischer or Kasparov trolling Short or someone who is very talented at chess and could play it at world class level but never had an opportunity to play at "official" tournaments
@@Life-Sky As I remember Nigel Short asked the person about a Mexican chess player and got immediately a date from Fischer. This was the date he played against the Mexican. + The engines back than weren't as good / fast as nowadays and it wouldn't be possible to use an engine with the pase they were playing. If you analyse their games with a engine you would see, that Fischer didn't always played the best moves.
This Fred opening works. I actually had very good results with this in offline tournaments and that "Frustration factor" Aman talks about I believe really exists. Most of my opponents started laughing/smiling after my f5 move but after like 7~8 moves they started to spend more time and there was no longer any signs of happiness in their face. As a results I was able to gain about 50 points for my FIDE Blitz rating. It seems to be extremely rare for players with the white pieces to maintain a big advantage unless the game ends quickly. And surprisingly the frustration factor seemed to work even better against lower rated players so everyone should seriously think about studying this opening. But idk about the jerome; I lost 200 online rating points with that :(
Wow! He tried to trick you with a novelty on move 2 but it turnout his 2.Nf3 novelty was a huge blunder.... throwing way most of his advantage, from over +4.50 to way below +3.50
Great video, I have recently done a speedrun to 2500 with the Fred Defense on my Twitch channel, plenty of fun and unexplored chess theory. Great content boys, keep up the grind
lol there's actually an ECO for the Fred. Actually everything under B00 look like chad openings. I personally like the "Neo-Mongoloid defense". There's weeks worth of content there !
BTW guys don't think you can start trolling 2400+ with The FRED at 1 0 after watching this video. I made that mistake and ended up dead in 10 moves. My score vs unregs at 3 0 is actually pretty good using it though. Some of my opponents get a decent opening but end up blundering a minor piece or allowing me to equalize and play "normal" chess.
