Every Chess Opening Explained in 12 Minutes 

damn i was waiting for the intercontinental ballistic missile

Hmm, I do wonder who that silhouette is for the Stafford gambit...

Missing some serious mainstream openings seen a fair bit at the very highest level (and various other levels). The Grünfeld Defence, the Catalan Opening, the Marshall Attack, and the Bongcloud, to name three. Ok, three and _a half_

Why is the Nimzo-Indian’s picture a minecraft pig 😂

Didnt even mention tennisson gambit: ICBM variation, fell of fr

The dedication you have is incredible. Great vid as always

That is not the modern, that just transposes to the pirc. An actual modern defense generally follows the tiger’s modern which is g6 bg7 d6 *a6* preparing b5 nd7 bb7 c5

He forgot the North Korea gambit, the gambit where you can only use half of the chessboard and can’t cross the border😂

WHERE IS BONGCLOUD!?!?!?

As a beginner, I can say that this video opened my horizon of possibilities to keep in mind, excellent content, part 2 please !

Bro did the pirc dirty smh i love that defense

The picture for the grob 💀💀💀

This is no where near every chess opening there are 1,327

I absolutely love the Blackburn Schilling. At three digit elo, even when white plays the best move (going for the knight trade according to Stockfish) the position is basically equal because no one at that level knows how to exploit the central space advantage.

10:12 as someone who has won almost 80% of his matches in Pirc defence I’m offended 😂😭

I appreciate ur hardwork...keep making videos...

Nice speedrun idea is to play every opening to explain each idea behind it

love the 4 seasons background music

No Bongcloud Attack? The strongest opening in the world.

I love and I mean LOVE the london system, it’s just a quick develop and it even develops pawns and gives you good control over centers and defense I also call it a pyramid opening since the pawns shape as a pyramid

I just played an Alekhine defense and it went surprisingly well. I ended up with a b4 early check to start chipping away at his pawns with that pinned pawn. I did have to sack my rook but it was m1 if i didn't. He ended up blocking his own queen in allowing me to run the 4th rank and force a back rank knight queen mate after his knight danced with my king abit. It really does allow your opponent to push early but if you're being careful with what you sacrifice, it's actually amazing. I was very surprised as I don't think I've had a better midgame before. I usually use one of the Sicilian variations but wanted to try something new. The biggest problem I see with it is if they develop their white bishop and queen early. Not like a scholars mate, but after they get control of the center, if they start pinning your pieces early I think it'll get too tight and harder to play, but I have a sample size of 1 so I can't say if it's great or not. I'm about 75% w/r using the Sicilian so I'll probably keep with that, I've been studying variations for almost a year now so I've gotten okay with it, but the Alekhine was quite fun.

My favorites are catalan and italian on white and caro kann and slav on black.

This was a cool video, but I’m not sure how to feel on it, on one hand, it’s amazing you managed to sum up most chess openings so quickly, but on the other hand, you decided to cover variations, like in the Sicillian, you mentioned the Sicillian, then you mentioned the smith-morra, then you mentioned the dragon and the najdorf, a similar thing happened with the queens gambit, you mentioned it, then went over the Slav and QGD independently, and if you had done that for all openings and all variations, we would’ve been here until the heat death of the universe, and that’s just the Sicillian variations, great video overall though

Nice collection, but the main idea behind the Réti (and not Retí) opening is 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4, if dxc4, then 3. e4 takes the center and good luck trying to defend the c4 pawn

didn't go over the bong cloud, or the cow

My two favorite ways to play against the Sicilian are the Alapin, and the Kopec System.

I use the englud gambit a lot, d4? Take e5, either i take their queen, checkmate them with that trap, or maintain a better position and win.

It was interesting to watch.😇 It's exactly what I needed.👌🏻

I encountered a very rare opening for white years ago from a practice game against stockfish and I lost as black. It's 1. Nf3 d5 2. b4. I researched about it then found that it's name was Santasier's folly. Correct me if my spelling is wrong. It was accidentally moved by the player named Santasier, his intention is to move a pawn to c4 instead of b4. But,I think his overall skills can contend against Frank Marshall if he has pursued more in his chess career.

Great video

A minor nitpick: the move sequence shown for Benko Gambit was actually a separate opening, the Blumenfeld (Counter-)gambit. The most common Benko setup involves ...d6 and ...g6+Bg7 instead of early e6. Also, the Evans Gambit is named after William Evans, so there is no apostrophe in the name.

4:43 that knight on b8 is trippin balls thinking it can fly across the board like that

Thanks for the video. On my way to comment on the Candidates Tournanament tomorrow!

I love how you applied this format for chess 😂

ICBM gambit laughing in the corner:

how did you forget the king fianchetto, it was the like the only opening I played for like my first 50 games.

bro missed king fianchetto

Is that Eric Rosen's silhouette for the Stafford Gambit icon? xD

"The sicilian is the most exhaustively studied opening" The Grünfeld defense: 😬😬😬

Where is intercontational ballistic missile gambit

Vivaldi's four seasons in backround >>>

4:04 lmao. Bro Straight up said the Grob is garbage. Respect

my favourite opening is the reti opening, whenever i play white, i ALWAYS use the reti opening because knights are my favourite piece in chess

where is my homy the baltic defense

I love reti opening

this is not every opening

Wheres the instant table flip opening

@volclus Could you make a "Not Petrof but Petrash" video when you guide white through the petroff defence? ❤♟It would be perfect!

Bought several books about chess openings did not maanaged to process them

I know a trap in the Blackmar-Diemer but play the London

All I play are the cow hippo and crab :(

As a big fan of the Blackburne-Klooster gambit, i am saddened

So what about the wayward queen opening? I'm 300 and everyone seems to be playing it

Holy shit I finally found the alekhines defense after a while

mentioned king's indian attack as white version of king's indian defense, should mention that the opposite version of Grob is Borg 😁

Sargossa opening is missing

No four knights or Halloween gambit

Very well explained!

Hey wheres french defence boudler variation

Where is wind gambit?

My favourite opening (as white): I move my E pawn two spaces forward, then my opponent makes a turn, then i grab my horse and place it at the pawn's previous place. I call it ,,The horse rampage'' and with that opening it is sure to make your opponent mad!

Wheres the icbm? And also the Bong cloud lol

Where is Van't Kruijs Opening? My favorite...

why no Rat's attack or Vienna Defense ?

Bro forgot the intercontinental ballistic missile gambit

You can recognize it by the Polish trees

Ive played the Scandinavian more than 60 times and i know hoe to respond to Nc3 just do Qa5 this puts pressure on the knight the moment you bring out your bishop attacking the knight and if they dont know what to do and a random move just take the knight with your bishop if they take with the pawn you take with the queen forking the king and the rook (yes i knoe they can just play Bd2 blocking the check and defending the rook and attacking the queen but in the position ur almost inevitably winning

Didn’t mention Albion counter gambit…

What is the difference between the Modern and King's Indian? Is it just move order? They look exactly the same to me.

Is Stafford a picture of Eric Rosen?

Where is the cow opening?

You forgot The Fred Defense. 😁

No Ruy Lopez? I remember Chessmaster 3000 doing that _all the time._

I see Rosen as the silhouette for the Stafford, I click the video. I'm a simple man.

Queens gambit is the best

you forgot bongcloud opening😂

i know its crazy but if you ever feel stuck with black play the elephant for like 10games it will be very fun

I can't be the only one who saw the thumbnail and came to learn about the gun opening. I don't know shit about chess but already know that's the opening for true warriors.

Incredibly wondering that among chess champions only Alekhine has own debute name

i was waiting for the trampoviski opening, another way to call this opening for brazilians is the brasilian opening 😅

THE BOTEZ GAMBIT!!

Wait, what? Is c3 Nf3 or Be2 even a move in the Caro? The e4 pawn is free and Nf3 even lose a tempo to dxe4?

You missed the cow and hippo :)

I have invented an opening for White that bears no resemblance to any of these openings. Traditional openings are designed to gain a strategic advantage. My “no knights” opening has one and only one purpose: to force the tradeoff of Black’s knights within 10-12 moves. I resolved upon this purpose because Lichess level 5 was consistently demolishing me with the superb quality of its knights’ play. Sooner or later a Black knight always either infiltrated my back ranks and combined with another piece to checkmate me, or a Black knight forked my queen and my king forcing me to resign. I found that getting both Black knights off the board quickly vastly increased my chances of not losing. However, trading off my bishops for Black’s knights was killing me in the end game. So I evolved by experiment an opening that forces Black to consent to trading off its knights for White’s knight or, at worst, to accomplish this by giving up only one of White’s bishops. If a bishop must be traded for a knight, it is crucial to immediately prioritize trading a knight for a Black bishop in order to equalize the end-game. (It is damned hard to win the end-game if your opponent has a bishop pair and you don't.) This opening does not provide any strategic advantage, and it is not possible to assault Black’s king directly at any point. However, it seems to lead frequently to weakened Black pawns that are obvious targets. If one can take one or two of those weakened pawns, then just trade down everything as quickly as possible to go into the end-game. Then queen a pawn or two. I would say that I win about a third of my games using this opening and it is invariably accomplished by queening a pawn. The first three White moves are P-d4, N-f3, P-e3. If Black P-d5 and N-f6, then immediate White N-E5 preparing to take the other Black knight the instant it makes its first move. Often Black responds with P-c5 to remove the protection for the advanced White knight, but one responds by taking the c5 pawn and next P-f4 to protect the White knight until it is traded off. If Black’s white-square bishop attempts to molest the Queen, then trade the bishops off. If not, B-d3 followed immediately by N-d2. You then try to make e4 safe for the remaining White knight, at which point you trade off the second set of knights. This may also be prepared by P-h3, leaving the Black knight no square to escape to, thereby forcing it to accept the trade. It is often very worthwhile to intersperse among these moves P-b3, B-b2 and R-B1. This helps set up the occupation of e4 by a White knight or bishop. Omitting R-B1 preserves the option to castle queenside, as Lichess often responds to my “no knights” opening by sending its G and H pawns far forward. I recommend holding off on R-B1 until it’s clear that Black isn’t going to send its G and H points far forward. Prior to evolving this opening I was losing at least 90% of my games on Lichess level 5. After I evolved and perfected this opening percentage of wins tripled and my percentage of losses dropped by a third. This opening does not lead to many draws, unless you make a conscious effort to lock the position by continuous trench-lines of pawns. As I said, you win not by assaulting the Black king’s fortress but by eating an underprotected pawn or two and advancing it to queen. (BTW, the Lichess engine has a slight tendency to push too hard in drawn positions, especially against entrenched pawn-chains, and sometimes throws away a guaranteed draw by attacking a defensive position recklessly.) I would be very interested to hear anyone's thoughts. It may well be that there is some flaw that would enable this opening to defeated consistently by a grandmaster rated higher than Lichess level 5.

Owen's defense is missing.

why no van geet opening?😢

where's halloween gambited

Where is Roy Lopez?

I thought the pyramid was an opening

Where's bongcloud?

Ty

where is bongclound... ?

Where’s the creepy crawly

BRO YOU FORGOT THE FOUR KNIGHTS GAME

Is this the same guy from thechesswebsite?

No Budapest??

Hippo Gambit is best

wheres the van geet opening.

1:54 Isn't a6 the Najdorf? One of the most confrontational and theoretical variations of the Sicilian?

Center game?