There have been many comments about 6. Qxd5 in this line (as if somehow I have overlooked it). The move is covered extensively beginning at about the 8:45 mark of this video. Enjoy :)
Terrible is 8. Nxc7?, best is 8.f3 and black is done. You are right though, 3...Nc6 is terribad because counting on opponents to make bad moves is... bad.
You're such a genious! I think most people would probably not understand how valuable is your thinking process: You're sailing in the unseen, understanding what is probably not yet discovered and improoving humanity. Most people copy others to compete on who does same things the fastest and most accurate. If we had at least one billion like you, we could make a better world!
Yo I pulled off this queen sac today and was completely pumped about it and went to the database and youtube to see if anyone has done this or has a video on it. Turns out you spotted this more than a year ago! Great insight and breakdown on this, gained a new follower 🙏
Thank you for this! When my opponents play d4, I always play Nf6...hoping to get a chance to play a Budapest or Fajarowicz gambit. When they play the London or Jobava I always get bummed, this is a great tactical resource! 👊👊👊
BTw.......I was playing Jobava with a lot of success, gaining nearly 200 elo......but lately I cant win a game with it at all and I am sure it may be due to this video....glad I discovered it Thank you
I agree this opening is a cheat code to go above 1300 but it has his limits and i got a lot of boring and not at all exciting games when they dont fall in the traps and play correctly so I moved to e.4 to get more intersting game despite the fact its harder lol
A nice surprise. This is like a Fajarowicz Budapest and a Traxler combined. White's greedy material grabbing is punished by a swift attack and in this case it is white's kingside pieces that remain asleep. Keep up the good work.
I was excited about this trap (though I play the Jobova as white) until I this simple analysis with Stockfish: .d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3 .Bf4 Nc6 4.Nb5 e5 5.dxe5 Ne4 6.Qxd5 Bf57.Qxd8+Rxd8 8.f3. Of course, I knew about the Qx d5. I have won with it numerous times. But the critical move is 8. f3. That move creates luft for the king and snuffs out black's meta-trap. White ends up with a 2.5 advantage according to Stockfish. Of course, if white does not find f3, then is in a world of trouble. Graif points this out at around the 16:52 marker in the video, and acknowledges that black is at a serious disadvantage. He also points out (correctly) that in practical play, especially at club level, f3 is *hard* to find f3! Especially in blitz. So my only objection here is that this video claims to bust this trap. It does not. I do remain a fan of these Graif videos. They are really some of the best chess videos out there. Frankly, I think he should write a book on gambits. It would be both instructive and entertaining. I would *buy* that book. I even have a name to suggest for such a book: Adventures In Gambit Land.
Because i played a lot this opening all these trick seems so strong to me while they are so insidious ! Thanks for the ressources I'm sure to have exciting ways of playing against it what has been complicated to me
As a low rated jobs a London player I’m happy I found the knight f3 move myself. I faced this defense and it felt like the blacks positions is fucked so I should just focus on development and attacking with more pieces.
At 9:22 when you make that special bishop move to f5; f3 looks like a convincing win for white. Black goes Nc5 , White trades queens, king takes is followed by e4 attacking bishop which stops all counterplay. If rook takes queen, then knight can take c7 and after Kd7, e4 attacks bishop.
Hi William from France, thanks for the great content . My expérience as black is that people who play the Jobava know that when black plays 5…Ne4 they have a well known queen sack followed by a knight fork if black queen recapture. Your line is good but speculative i think. What do you think?
I'm from Montenegro, but I think this wonderful gambit should be called the "Serbian gambit" because the Serbs in both big wars just rushed forward without taking into account their victims... and they won both wars even though they lost 50% of the male population….
So my takeaway as a Jobava player: play Bxe5, go for the fork but just grab on d5 instead of grabbing the rook. Play c3 after Qa5+ (there seems to be nothing better for black here) and sac the knight AND remember an only move f3. Seems very intuitive and easy going afterwords. Have to admit though, you really do have some venemous suggestions against this. So wild how complicate it can get.
Thank you, thank you, and good analysis! And yes, I think you could go for dxe5 and Qxd5, but there's a lot of theory to know of course. Your other option is just not even going 4. Nb5 lol which is also valid :) I do think after 4... e5 5. dxe5 a6!? I already wouldn't want to be white, in my opinion.
wow interesting! well, a bit chaotic ahah i will use it in the game out of 200 when my opponents will play the Jobava (i faced a jobava litterally 5 days ago in a tournament)
No!!!! It is 6.Qxd5, after black takes our queen... Qxd5 we have 7. Nc7 + winning a pawn - and the queen back. That is how I play with white and it has the approval of AI stockfish
8:45 The move by black Ne4 also has another super nasty line if you wrongly play e6 as white: Bc5 threatening CM on f2 (most never see this though!). Nxc7 is played most of the time anyway....and you surprise them with Qxc7......they take you back with Bxc7 and then......Bxf2#. A mega fast CM BOOM
Hi William, you are a very talented player, and I hope you become a GM very soon because you have what it takes to become a GM, but as mentioned in the comments, in the videos you should also work more on serious lines which arise often in Grand Master play, I hate to say it,but with these fun and tricky lines,one can't go much far,I should admit that I admire your talent and the excitement of your lines, but also GM lines with longer time controls should be added to the mix, thanks and regards
I suppose white can avoid all those complications by playing 6. f3 at 1:55 before Qxd5.... Black could then push g5 but white will eventually end up with 2 extra pawns and a +1.3. Thoughts on that line?
You forgot to mention the move 7.c3 instead of Nxa8. You can't go just playing moves for White that fall into Black's traps. But thanks for coming up with this line, I am now prepared against 5...Ne4.
I always play 5.Bxe5, but does 12.Bc7 basically refute the attack on the c file? It is one move sooner than your analysis by letting The Fish dig deeper, or do you have a few more tricks up your sleeve?
These are interesting lines! 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bf4 Nc6!? 4. Nb5 e5 5. Bxe5!? Ne4! 6. Nxc7+ Kd7 7. Nxa8 Bb4+ 8. c3 Nxc3 9. Qb3! Ne4+ 10. Kd1 Nxf2+ 11. Kc1 Qa5!? 12. Bc7!? I think here black simply needs to play b6, after which Bb7 (with Rxa8 and Rc8) and Nxh1 are threatened and white is not having a good time trying to save all their pieces and their king! Instead, I guess I would suggest Stockfish's inhuman recommendation of 7. c3! instead of Nxa8 7... Nxe5 8. Nxa8 Nc6 I guess white can just relatively safely develop and castle here (Nf3 e3 etc), and still has sufficient material if they lose that a8 knight for nothing (a rook and two pawns for a bishop and a knight). Stockfish even enjoys strikes like Qb3, although I think that could be risky from a practical point of view -- would need to analyze more. I think you are correct in playing Bxe5 instead of dxe5 to be honest (even if I am not sure Stockfish agrees). In addition to 5... Ne4, the 5... a6 line is objectively quite dangerous for white. Let me know what you think! :) -William
Interesting. Seems like after Rxa6, White is saving their rook and the bishop so simply still up the exchange. But, both white's rooks will be stuck for several more moves. White would need a computer to have a chance against what you are recommending, as black would know what the ideas are.
@@speedplayz1517 Agreed! For example, apparently white is losing after the below variation (15. Bg3 was a mistake, and they should've known to go Bf4 instead -- I don't know how any human could have realized that and chosen Bf4 over Bg3 haha): 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bf4 Nc6 4. Nb5 e5 5. Bxe5 Ne4 6. Nxc7+ Kd7 7. Nxa8 Bb4+ 8. c3 Nxc3 9. Qb3 Ne4+ 10. Kd1 Nxf2+ 11. Kc1 Qa5 12. Bc7 b6 13. Nf3 Bb7 14. Rg1 Rxa8 15. Bg3 Rc8 16. Kb1 Nxd4 17. Nxd4 Ne4 lichess.org/editor/r7/pbBk1ppp/1pn5/q2p4/1b1P4/1Q3N2/PP2PnPP/R1K2BR1_w_-_-_0_15?color=white
@@jonjones820 Yep, Banzea's line ends up winning three pawns, has destroyed black's center, black can't castle, and the queens are gone. It is an easy win for white.
I am using Alex's Jobava learning but recently can't win with it at all due to videos like this....another thing Alex doesnt do is Bg3 after Qf6 (after taking that rook)....instead he suggests e3. It still seems like it loses to the Bb4+ - c3 - Bxc3 - bxc3 - Qxc3+ - Qd2 - Qxd2#. Nolt only that I have run into some of these traps...black just completely destroying me as if every move I made is forced
1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bf4 Nc6 4.Nb5 e5 5.dxe5 Ne4 6.e6 Bxe6 7.Nxc7+ Kd7 8.Nxa8 Qf6 9.Be3 Bb4+, if 10.Bd2 Black has Qxf2#. I don't know how you missed that. Wite must play 10.c3 or he's busted
I do not play 5. e6. I play 5. Qxd5 which just about forces 5... Qxd5, but then 6. Nxc7+ K moves 7. Nxd5 and I'm up by three pawns, your center is destroyed, and you can't castle.
I have an anti-Jobava London that definitely incorporates this idea, if that counts lol :) I'll try tho ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-56SwUHxGGmE.html
after Ne4 here's Qxd5.... this is lost lmao and fatter Qf6 f3 white is def not lost... I dont see the point of showing people this if you ignore white getting a +4 advantage
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bf4 Nc6 4.Nb5 e5 5.dxe5 Ne4 6.Qxd5 Bf5 7.Qxd8+ Rxd8 8.f3! not taking the extra pawn and your busted this vid does not refute the Jobava and I am happy when my opponent plays like this.
Qxd5 is covered in the video (8:50). Still, I agree with you, this line is horrible for black and the fact that he's trying to justify this line is just... Savage, to say the least.
One should mention tricky and somewhat doubtful Tal's sacrifices,which was good enough for him to even become a World Champion,but I also guess the times have changed
yep play a "gambit" that relies on white playing 1 of 2 playable winning moves, proceeding to miss Qxd5, and then after all that black could get a slightly better position. No way you thought this was content-worthy
The fork at 9:06 is a REAL "Royal Fork" (forking Rook, Queen and King)...way to many misunderstand what a royal fork is in comments of videos ....had to say it
Excellent video. I myself figured out after some other video that for short time controls it's better just to take on e5 with the bishop first because otherwise there's a huge counterattack and it's actually really hard to defend the a5-e1 diagonal. At 25:11 how about Qc5 which will eventually leave white up an exchange?
