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Honestly your channel has been amazing at expanding my opening repertoire. I’ve had such a narrow opening repertoire for a while and its been my Achilles heel but I find myself knowing what to do and which concepts to apply in many different positions far more often after watching your vids. Your videos are one of a kind insightful and have a great mix of general principles as well as in depth traps/theory, well done my friend 👏
► Chapters 00:00 Chess Opening Against 1.d4, Queen's Gambit Accepted 00:37 Why Queen's Gambit Accepted is Powerful 01:51 1) If White plays 3.Nc3 03:12 Do NOT make this opening mistake! 05:27 2) If White plays 3.e4 06:39 If White doesn't play Nxb5 07:41 If White plays dxe5 09:00 Black's different ideas/plans 10:15 3) If White plays 3.e3 11:13 4) If White plays 3.Nf3 (PROs play this move)
For blitz I use a slightly tricky move order in the e3 variation as White. 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. Bxc4 exd4 5. Nf3 where if black gets greedy and tries to play 5...dxe3 the position is completely winning for white after 6. Bxf7+. Obviously if they resist the temptation (and indeed most people do resist it according to the lichess database) the position is fine, but it's a trap for people to be aware of.
Omg. This is What i have been looking for. What begginers are looking for. Thank you. I appreciate that you took your time to make this. Keep up the good work
Thanks for the video Igor, been playing chess for 4 weeks now and i have gone from 100 elo to 608 so far, suddenly i have been coming across alot of d4 and Queens Gambits and i have not been having much joy aha, this vid and the Queens gambit declined has allowed me to plug those holes in my game. Great vid luv your work your one of my faves, next to Gotham and a couple others. Fan from Manchester Uk!
Reminds me of the recommendation Graham Burgess has against the Queens Gambit. He mentions the QGA is a way to transpose to the Slav while avoiding some opening nuances
It's problematic that most games go like this: 1.d4 d5 2. C4 dxc4 3. E4 e5 4. Nf3 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Bxd2+ 7. Nxd2 and so on and white is fine while either queens on the board or in queenless endings.
@@sashaveygman2572 Makes sence. But white is at least getting better play in 5. Bxc4 6. 0-0 Be6 7. Bxe6 fxe6 8. Qb3 which attacks the weak e6 pawn and b7.
@@giorgiopugilista6311You are right, Nc3 seems to be almost forced. It's just difficult sometimes to type these RU-vid comments since you have to see positions all the way in your head.
Hey Igor, great content. I played at a local tournament recently and this worked for me very well. I managed to win against a 1780 elo rated player with this line and had a pretty solid game against another 1800+ player.
How should we proceed against: 1.d4-d5 - 2.c4-dxc4 - 3.e4-e5 - 4.Nf3 ... __?__. This is missing from your video. I love your instruction and selection of variations. Is it better to proceed with 4...Nf6 or 4...Bb4+? I am assuming 4...Nf6 - 5.Bxc4-Bb4+ - 6.Bd2-Bxd2+ - 7.Nbxd2-exd4 ---- or do you prefer a different approach? ... Also, do you have a deeper course available on the QGA? I'd like to study your approach to the mainline.
2 yers ago Kasparov resigned with black after 7 moves against Mamedyarov who used e3. It's worth checking this game on internet because black played natural moves and falled into a trap anyway
Today my opponent played queen's opening and I became shocked because I didn't know what to do against queen's opening. Because my many games usually start with king's opening. I was happy to watch the vedio which is amazing. Thank you keep going so.❤
I am a 1460 rated player sir I need an opening from black side to beat rated players from the rating range 1300 - 1400 Please suggest me some lines so that I can improve myself I am losing only to these rating range players
Against the wayward, just play Nf6. If they follow it up with Bc4, trying to scholar's mate you on f7, you can now play g6 as your pawn on e4 is defended. If they move the queen to f3, you can just play Nc6. If you want more detail, GothamChess has a good video on it as well.
AHAH Nf3, there a Pro, and your in trouble! i know the feeling, the feeling of crap!!!! this guy can play chess f**k!!!!!!!!!! Now its serious, i just resort to going out swinging if i can aha
Igor love you bro, love your channel and videos and love Argun your cat but still miss seeing him behind you in your pleasant surroundings - don't like this sterile boring "office look" ☺Don't you feel better sitting in your pleasant surroundings man?
