I Beat a Grandmaster with the WAGON GAMBIT! 

Stockfish: ez draw Jonathan: Shows a cool line 10 moves ahead that might be a winning endgame Stockfish: ez draw

can't wait to see the wagon get played in a GM vs GM game! Stafford has competition for most fun gambit

my browser tab just says "i beat a grandma"...

One second here, Jonathan Schrantz has gone from Saint Louis paid effort to enjoying his well thought out videos. I served 14 years 7 months in the Old jail in Hagerstown Maryland where the big dogs play. We were housed in North Dorm honor housing and had open cells. We would take two RISK boards and stick them end to end so you entered Alaska from the far end of the other board. Then we would have 8 or more inmates, all serving 20 years or more, fight for days to take over the worlds. Whose ever cell the boards were in had to slide around the boards to sleep. I also found that table top games were taken seriously. very seriously. When the prison held the Chess tournament each year the stakes were extremely high. I won the in 1988 but only that one year. I was serving 20 years for drugs. My adventures will shortly be told in a life story that I am writing as we wspeak. I am taking your time here to tell you that I believe this guy here who calls himself the Vampire Chicken seems to be a very good chap.

If you get the trap setup with white two moves from castling I think it's move 11. You can play bishop to b7. When you jump on the pawn with your knight white is almost obligated to take before castling and it allows for an altered endgame. You can still smash a3 with the rook and when White's queen moves backrank you can take with the dark square bishop. If they capture the bishop both sides keep their Rooks. If they take the rook you take back in the corner. After White's queen captures, with black's light square bishop on b7 you can swing the Queen over to g4 protecting g7 and posing a mating threat. After the f pawn moves you can snag the e pawn with check. This leaves you with two passers and White's kingside a bit jumbled and doubled flank pawns. Equal material but black's pawn structure objectively better. Just be sure to castle instead of trying to gobble the "unprotected" bishop. I'm curious what the computer evaluation of this position is. There are still some backrank tricks available and it shouldn't be too hard for black to control the queening square.

Hi. Your videos are so fresh and inspirational. Keep up the good work!

Very cool game. I liked the tactical idea your opponent had at 7:50

10:56 it's a wooden shield

loads of content ..thanks for all the hard work

Thank You Jonathan! Your analisis is amazing! It's becomes obvious, that there is no limits in chess!

Love it. I'm running into opponents that refuse to play Nxb5.

11:05 ah, a classic Wooden Shield, what a monster bishop

Very entertaining!😇

Nice win vs GM

Super fun!

I actually saw that g5 move and then subsequent f6+ but wasn't sure what's next, was a hunch since I thought it probably equalizes in some way

nice work

Thank you

13:48 after he went Bf5, you could have taken his pawn with a nice check

11:05 the wooden shield

Isn't our Johnathan similar to Soyjak on his thumbnails?)

I love your videos.

In that position you said white to play and save game if black instead of what you showed played Bxh5 and recaptures h3 with g pawn (should white make such move) black gains another passer, gets his bishop out of check danger, and should be fine, possibly winning.

6:06 What about Bxc3?

Nice game, but I can't really see the point in the wagon gambit if all it does is allow you to maybe equalize. Edit: after watching the original vid on the Wagon gambit (New Ultra-Aggressive Gambit vs 1d4), it's far deeper and more interesting than I thought. There are actually a lot more ways white can end up in a losing position than are shown here.

congrats on winning with wagon gambit! Are you yourself FM IM or what?

13:53 Could you not have forked the king and bishop with the rook?

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Hay mical, Vsauce here

I won again with the W!!!!! But now I have to drag myself to the psychiatric ward! 40 moves of chaos. Phew.

Please don't quit playing chess.

You're a grandmaster too, so no big deal.

Name of GM?

Day 37 of asking for a video on my funny English lines

White plays NF3 instead of NC3 to prepare BD2 vs BB4 and easily wins the game, another bad gambit busted.