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► Chapters 00:00 Italian Game Chess Opening Theory Updated?! 00:10 Game of the year: Daniil Dubov vs Sergey Karjakin 00:50 Shocking novelty, powerful idea! 02:43 Another 'out of the box' move! 03:30 Prophylactic move paralysis Black 04:32 Deadly attack against the Black king 05:59 Beautiful winning combination for the win 07:24 Similar windmill tactics (key pattern) 08:28 What you can learn from this opening 09:08 Black's counterattack (instead of Ne4) 11:36 White's winning (Stockfish says it's +3) 12:57 If Black plays proper moves
I don't think you can claim that the move 10...d3 is a mistake at 10:01 unless you give full analysis of the line after 11.Qe4 Nb4. The most critical line seems to be 12.0-0 Nc2 13.fxg7 Rg8 14.Bg5 Qd5 15.Qxh7 Kd7 16.Nbd2 Qf5 which seems to be approximately equal according to the best computer analysis that I can do. As long as black is aware of the move 11...Nb4 I don't think the other moves are that difficult to remember so I think 10...d3 is quite playable on a practical level.
Italian game, the opening engine can't comprehend. Alot of tactics (from Greco, Chigorin, etc), you can't rely on engine analysis for suggesting moves, they'll miss alot of best moves and completely wrong in their analysis bar.
At 15:43, what if BLK places c3, sacrificing the isolated pawn in a potential bishops of opposite color endgame, which will allow him to develop his N to ...c4 and then to ...d6, planning Kd7/QRe8/Kc8 and also at some point he will be able to attack the pawn on g7 with his N and R. Not a great position, but it looks drawable. But let's go back to an earlier position at 9:03 where Igor quickly dismissed the wisdom of BLK's N on e4 after WHT moved his B to d5. While that probably was not BLK's best option, still, why could BLK in this position not play ...Nxf2; Kxf2, d4xc3+; Kf1, c2; Qxc2, Nxb4; Qb3 and BLK will for now finish down a N for 2 pawns, but the position is dynamic and the WHT e4 pawn is a potential target and the WHT K has lost castling rights.
It’s not cause you just take with the black knight instead, take with bishop, check. If white castles bring knight to g4. Whites in troubles. Your queen gets involved, bishop gets in
Simply Bh4 maintains the tension and keeps the center closed for the time being so you can castle next move. Black is still extremely cramped and unable to develop. Playing exf6 like Coffeebot suggested is inaccurate because it only helps black develop and liquidate his cramped position.
