Homework position: h3 is a wasted move, as ...Bg4 is not scary at all. In fact, white welcomes this move, as it offers the opportunity to harass black's bishop with tempo-gaining moves.
Dr. Can. Thanks. Your channel is the most instructive chess channel on RU-vid. As for the homework-No!!! Way too passive, serves no purpose. Almost anything else is better. I think Nf3 is the most principled. I like Bd2 . It starts the game of "Kick the Queen."
A dream video 👏💯 in all my studies and books , never came across information like this, there's a tendency to make these moves when you are out of the opening and running out of ideas,or just phantom fears😮 thinking you are restricting the opponent, when in fact you waste a tempo,with these new information i wish i was younger to go out there like hulk and smash🎉
Could you make a video on spotting the right moment to take advantage of your positional advantage? Sometimes if you follow the principles and get a winning position out of the opening you may let the advantage slip away. The opponent may just do nothing and wait and eventually it goes back to an equal position. Or maybe you make a move that seems perfectly natural yet it throws away your advantage for seemingly no reason at all.
That you don't have more than 8K subscribers is a great chess crime! For intermediate players, this channel is without doubt one of the best on YT. Judging from your courses on Chessable, I could really imagine you publishing a great chess book if you had the time. But perhaps the medium of books is outdated (not for me). I will definitely recommend your channel to everyone in my local chess club (Borås).
Super motivating to hear your comment, thanks for sharing the channel with your chess club friends! 🙏 I am considering writing a book actually :) I am a book nerd myself. What topic do you think I should write about? ☺️
@@Dr.CansClinic I think the general theme of chess improvement for intermediate players where you can certainly reuse some of the material from your chessable courses. Given your academic background, you could give the book a unique quality compared to other chess improvement books using cognitive science (how are brains work, can we train our mind to more easily find the best move etc.)
You put out some great videos. Not only that, you do great videos on topics that I have never seen addressed before - like this one, and one I saw the other day about when to exchange the fianchettoed Bishop. And there was one about when to sacrifice a pawn for activity (that's my goal in chess - to one day sac a pawn for activity and after the game find that my sac was correct). Maybe do one about when to fianchetto? I only discovered your videos because I clicked on one thinking you were Andras Toth. A lucky blunder!
Thanks Can, I agree with the idea that h3 serves no purpose. In the opening, I want to develop my pieces as fast as I can. It seems that a lot of these early pawn moves are just reactions to phantom fears. They ignore the long-term agenda. The moves should feed the overall plan or at least try to.
Hi Dr. Can, sorry for the late response, I've been traveling and just now catching up on your videos. I'll be replying to the newer ones soon. Thank you! Re Homework: While it does blunt Bg4 or Ng4, I think it's too early and slow to push h3 - a time cost in development - so I'd be inclined to develop Nf3 as there doesn't seem to be an immediate threat to white's position. I did also briefly toy with an alternative idea of f3 but that seems to open the king up a bit too much in the center and again a cost in development time.
Thank you so much, waiting for your comments! :) Nf3 is indeed correct, for the reasons you have mentioned. f3 feels like a big mistake too, so it is good you have avoided it! :)
Dr. Can - We should play NF3, because after BishopG4, you can set up something very similar to the Legals trap. I experienced this in my games against the Scandinavian.
Homework: Nf3 definitely. If Bg4, we have h3 Bxf3!? Qxf3 with simple development and we're hitting b7. If Bg4 h3 Bh5!? g4! Bg6 Ne5 and we're going after that bishop. Ideas like h4-h5 are coming and white has the initiative. So h3 first is completely unnecessary and just encourages black to play Bf5, a very solid move.
Thank you for this video. I have learned to play Nf3 in the homework position, if Bg4 comes we can play Be2 and then play h3 with tempo. Playing h3 now is a waste of time as black can develop the bishop to f5 anyway.
awesome video, it is also dedicated to ppl in my elo range "1200_1400" as we have no clue how to deal with Bg4 and Bb4, thats why we prefer to shut it down and deal with other problems, also got hard time evaluating the worth of that pin, sometimes I pull it over other opponents, and double the f pawns, and still get myself in a bad position for I am looking for a tactic that does not exist, thinking I have the advantage while the position is still equal homework: I saw this line in the scandinavian, when there is Qh5, followed by Bg4, making the h3 move irrelevant, thus a wasted tempo, so Kc3 is the better choice (I believe)
Great video again. For the homework assignment, no h3. If we can simply develop and encourage a trade of their light bishop for our knight, we are going to have more fun in a position without a locked center where our own light square bishop may thrive and cook spicy tacos.
If only a weak a3 move were a good bluff as in poker. homework spoiler - no engine Early in the opening, in this position, an h3 move may concede more control of the center to the opponent. In this case, Nf3 prevents e5. Nf3 e5 Nxf5 threatening Bc4 ... Bxf7+ Nf3 e5 dxe5 Ne4 Qd5 Qxd5 Nxd5 threatening Nxc7+ White can develop normally even if the knight on F3 is pinned. Nf3 Bg4 h3 Bxf3 Qxf3 c6 (protecting the b7 pawn and the a8 rook) Allowing the pin works because of the weakness on b7 and the fact that black is very underdeveloped with little center control. Whereas h3 allows a crucial tempo for black. h3 e5 dxe5 Ne4 Bd2 Nxd2 Qxd2 Be6 and black has solid development. h3 Bf5 Nf3 e6 Bd2 Nbd7 Bc4 Bb4 0-0 0-0 and white has no clear advantage. Also, he Nc6 Nf3 e5 d5 Nb4 Bc4 e4 and white has to fend off threats and play very precisely. edit for typo
@@Dr.CansClinic Following Bh5, g4 Bg6 Nf5 and white is well ahead, no counter-attack available for black. White will be so far ahead, in most lines Bg2.... 0-0 will be proper.
Hi again! I have written before, giving feedback on you and your content. That I appreciate it. Can also relate to the work you put into it. Can so understand that you want the channel to grow. And maybe are a bit confused why it doesn’t. I don’t either. But I can tell why I don’t come back on a regular basis. I follow chess channels to explore the thinking process, to grow so. The drawback with your channel is that commercials are tuned on. So distracting in my thought process. In just this video there where multiple ones. This do not happen in all the other chess channels I follow. I would consider to turn off your commercials, instead focus on growth. Sure that exposure will create benefits in your other platforms. Just my thoughts. Hope it was okay to write here, could not find an email address in your presentation.
Hey! Thank you so much for your kind feedback. Really appreciate it. Can you please give some examples of other chess channels that do not monetize their videos? I thought that was a default for the vast majority. I will consider your idea, and may even ask my subscribers on YT what they think about it. I have YT Premium for several years, so I cannot really judge how annoying is to watch my videos with ads. I thought the quality would compensate for that annoyance, but apparently you disagree :) Thanks again and looking forward to hearing from you!
Normally if the game starts 1e4 e5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 Bg4 4. exd5 Black is playing the Albin-Blackburne gambit and plays 4...Nd7. Of course, playing 3 h3 in order to avoid this gambit in bonkers.
Indeed, to get an advantage White should accept the gambit. But like most gambits, you need to know what you're doing. E.g. after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Bg4 4. dxe5 Nd7 5. exd6 Bxd6 6. Be2 Ngf6 7. Nc3 Qe7 white can play 8 Nd4! because 8...Nxe4? runs into 9. Nxe4 Qxe4 10. f3, winning back the piece and White has a happy position. GM Avetik Grigoryan said he was playing 8.Nd2 in the above line, and lost twice in this line to a sub 2000 player. Then he found the 8 Nd4 move the next day, which refutes this gambit. This was part of one of the ChessMood courses.
@@Dr.CansClinic Coach,the botvinnik english set up...Yes or no? Control the centre and attack the flanks in most cases...Out of the english set ups,this one clicks with me.
@@Dr.CansClinic I'm happy to say that in the 13 games I've had, I've never played 5.h3, and I've played 5.Nf3 10 times. Sadly, I have only won 4 of those 10. Black usually preserves the pin (never captures on f3.), and I am more fearful of playing 7.g4 than any h3 move. :-)
