I Showed the Cow Opening to My Grandmaster Parents... 

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This is how every dad should be 😂

El padre español 😅😅

He will play any crazy opening under the sun! He is spanish Tal after all :)

You have to be creative and open minded like Anna's dad to be able to create a new chess opening.

Being a descendant of spanish people, I can tell the look of concern on an elder family member. That was one if I've ever seen one. LOL.

Actually it is GM Bellon. GM Crammling is Anna'a Mother. Anna normally uses her mother's last name

@@sgeskinner GM Bellon Lopez?

@@alinevennemann1904 Correct. Look up Spanish naming conventions for complete explanation of his full name

Mr Bellón; Ms. Cramling🤣🤣

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HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

An opening in chess is only brought about by the response of the other persons moves. Starting off with white and doing those moves just for the sake of moving into that position makes no sense. First white makes a move then Black and so on, each moving in turn to the response of the last move. Improvements are found over time to the persons last move and so on. What is considered the opening in chess? The opening in chess refers to the first several moves of the game. "Book" chess openings refer to common sequences of moves that have been studied and are generally well-known by professionals. Many such lines are well documented in authoritative references like The encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO) and others You cannot just make up an opening just for the sake of it and call it what you like. It has to be played at top level chess in general and played for a reason, i.e a sequences of moves. The sequence of moves are played for a reason and again not just for the sake of it and calling it what you like. Hell if that were the case all of the people playing chess could make up a name and call it what they like.... It has to make sense.. I think my sweet you might have mad cows disease. RANT OVER.

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@patrickdoyle9369 Well yes and no. There are certain system openings e.g. The London System, which ‘makes sense’ against the vast majority of possible responses. It may not be optimal but it’s fine. I’m not saying that applies to this opening, but you made a sweeping statement.

I love that "Nonono, online you can play it, but not classical"

Yeah she's supposed to be thinking ahead... but I think we saw this before she did.

GM Pia is usually correct

I recently joined a chess club and am still amazed what GMs are capable off. The thing that stands out is to imagination of what an opening might turn into in the long run. Not the exact moves but the general layout of the position that might occur. It a long way up that hill for sure. And having so enthusiastic people like Anna helps a lot.

​@@MrDahunta in this particular case, you are wasting two moves jumping around with the knights and putting both your bishops in prison. GMs are awesome, but even the 7 year old me could see how this doesn't work (albeit after losing the 30th match with this).

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She's like "you will not ruin your rating just to appease your daughter!"

Bahaha the 2 comments on this is funny

She's like "don't bring shame upon this family"

... and then Juan quietly says he'll do it anyway. 😂

Umm sir do we leave it void

Actually cool chess oponents

Lol way to go lol

Did your opponent use the Bull defense?

Honestly, there’s value in playing an opening never before seen!

I am also 1500 and played it in 7 consequetive games. Won 6! I think people just get confused, because they've never seen it.

"Confuse the enemy" LMAO whatever works ig

I feel seen.

!sadge

I have the same birthday as your dad 😂! And I share it with my twin brother.

@@CharcoalVictor Did you know that if there are 23 people in a randomly chosen group, there is a better than even chance that two of them will have the same birthday. For more info google "the birthday paradox"

The difference is only they actually know about what it is 😅

Dad just dotes on his wee girl. So does Mammy, but she's not sentimental.

Oh, your Dad is amazing. So is your Mum, but your Dad promising to play it - ❤❤❤❤

It makes sense, a grand master going for a weird (i.e. "new" or "bad") move can really upset even the strongest players, especially if they know that said GM has "been looking into it", see Euwe vs Botwinnik 28 dec 1963 (blind), for instance. Yes, that one is on RU-vid, with that spelling of Botvinnik's name. (they played in German, comments in Dutch, illustrated in chess for the audience).

@@Official_Anna_Cramling. I don't know what that means!

​@@blindknitter It's a common scam from random accounts impersonating RU-vidrs. Don't worry about it

Same here I have not played in the last 30 years but Anna and he parents revived my interest. I dug out my chess books, started solving problems. A big thing for a 76 year old man. Thanks a lot.

Me as well, and I’m 62 ! Haven’t played since teens.

i saw wirtual play and wanted to play too. too bad i didn't do any studying i just play solo my rating is still stuck in the 100s haha i think i'm around 800ish.

@@takumi2023 It means you're naturally good at chess and got amazing intuition. Study one two openings and a few alternatives for your mid and end game and you'll get to 1000 easily or demote to 400. I got to 800 by only knowing the moves and catching a trick or two from here and there and now, I'm 1200, but that's many years later and been 1200 for a long time.

I can barely believe these are humans, seeing so much bad in the world and then seeing this family, it's like a different species made of love and joy.

@@calumjones very wholesome indeed. Returns your faith in humanity

My black King: I think I know why..

Pia is my hero 😂😂

Savage 😂

I just wish she's mic up her mom a bit better. For those of us whose hearing is sub par she is very difficult to hear because her voice is so gentle.

@@dondeb9191 turn up the volume cuh

Maybe there's something to doing what you want to do with your life, like chess, vs. doing what you don't want to do, "working for the man". As I am often, stressed out, and overly reactive.

@@michaelbauers8800 Working for who?

@@twitter.comelomhycyThe Man

So the doorstep is fine :D

@@Ttavoc that was so funny.

I'm kinda with Pia but like Juan's response. Don't play it in a tournament unless online play proves it's effectiveness. But thumbs up to try it out online. I've tried it out on computers and it does well until you get to the top engines. Stockfish rips it apart. But then again, Stockfish rips any opening apart. The Cow is definitely unconventional.

@@kenmccarty6229 I mean, Stockfish doesn't care about openings, it only cares about absolute positions. If you want to compete against Stockfish, you have to forget all you think you know about chess and play it completely differently.

Hahaha!

Whether he plays it or not, his opponents do have to consider the possibility now!

I'm not good at chess, though I've watched a fair amount. I imagine this would immediately make his opponent uncomfortable... which sounds like a good idea to me!

or just anything else you came up with and are proud of but your parents are reluctant about lol. or are Anna and I the only ones who put ourselves in that position :D

An opening in chess is only brought about by the response of the other persons moves. Starting off with white and doing those moves just for the sake of moving into that position makes no sense. First white makes a move then Black and so on, each moving in turn to the response of the last move. Improvements are found over time to the persons last move and so on. What is considered the opening in chess? The opening in chess refers to the first several moves of the game. "Book" chess openings refer to common sequences of moves that have been studied and are generally well-known by professionals. Many such lines are well documented in authoritative references like The encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO) and others You cannot just make up an opening just for the sake of it and call it what you like. It has to be played at top level chess in general and played for a reason, i.e a sequences of moves. The sequence of moves are played for a reason and again not just for the sake of it and calling it what you like. Hell if that were the case all of the people playing chess could make up a name and call it what they like.... It has to make sense.. I think my sweet you might have mad cows disease. RANT OVER.

And, since you've seen it played before I hope you had a very good defense for it. Or was your opponent playing black? Then of course you just have to attack it.

@@RingsLoreMaster just what the parents say

It was probably me !

And you concede, just for respect

@@soidnarg you punish

She's right though, this is not a bad opening. It just SEEMS bad.

Yes, he will play it against a very weak player so the opening won’t matter.

@@valeriekeefe8898 it’s horrible.

I played it in the afterschool chess club I run and corrupted a generation, because every kid who tried it won. What have you done, Anna? Irish chess will never recover (and there's not that many of is to start with!) And whatever nerd made the joke about 'It's my mooooove' - thanks, the kids loved that line. Help me.

@@ronbirnbaum1968 It's not remotely horrible, if it was the engine would have shown that. It looks far far worse than it plays. After you get your bishops out to further build defense it would be hard to break through.

Yes that would be realy interesting. And efter he perhaps win he can give Anna credit for it.

I keep laughing at your comment.

LOL

this comment is probably better than the opening

it hurt anna most when pia said “i wouldn’t even play this in a blitz game” 😂

The reason it hasn't been played is the moves aren't natural, but seeing the plan to rotate the knights, and develop the bishops in place, I really like it. But it's the opposite of intuitive and breaks many rules.

I get the feeling that she might feel that its mocking everthing she knows about chess. It sorta goes against every chess fiber in her. So I agree, it probably upset her at some level but as you say, she is the queen of congeniality so even when she is "negative" she is softspoken and hesitant. But who knows, she might think its just as funny as Anna does. Its the Internetz after all.

@@perkalov it is a wicked opening that breaks SO many principles. I kinda love it.

@@valeriekeefe8898 Nahh, mate, its less shit the bongcloud but Its a meme opening. Objectively you are giving away the advantage of playing white and putting your self to -0.3, within 4 moves. You are not losing, but you have given away about half a pawn and the game havn't started yet. As Pia said, there is a reason to why no one invented this opening

Yes the opening is drawish, but that just means an engine can defend the position. The problem is that it poses zero problems to the opposing side. You're not going to have a pleasant game trying to play this as a human

@@12jswilson only if ur over 2300 💀 which ur not

@@masteroogway2853we are 💪🏻

She'll always be daddy's little girl, but mama's ready for her to grow up.

@@chitlitlah Is this comment a joke or something? I don't get it.

@@brycemedvin8765 It was a half joke based on the OP. Her father put it on the fridge and acted proud. Her mother was a little more blunt about thinking it wasn't all that good. It plays on the stereotype that fathers are overprotective of their daughters and find it hard to accept that they've grown up.

The Dad will loose a lot of his hairs, if he plays it in a tournament!

Today this opening was used in a classic tournament. And by a GM. And he won. I watched it live.

Her parents are a bit older then most. They are also chess players. Stable people with a lot of experience. Ideal to raise a child. I see a lot of happiness.

Between cows

"& today Magnus Carlsen played the Milky gambit declined, for the 1st time in Chess tournaments history ! Let's study that move for the next 8 hours"

Agree!!!

You suddenly care about chess that much

The dream, is it not?

I have no interest in being on my phone all day or sleeping on the couch out of boredom like my dad though. I love him but he has no hobbies and is not interested in finding any either... it worries me for his upcoming retirement. I'm basically the opposite and have too many hobbies...

My thoughts exactly!

She's great but I don't think she's like either of her parents in any way. She's all about having fun but her parents seem so studious.

Milk the cow is the euphemism for cow opening FTW :D

How does it leave space for the bishops aren't they trapped?

@@codeallnight56514 they are never trapped since the knights will always end up on b3 and g3

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Will be HER birthday present 😏

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Nearly spat out my drink on this one 😂

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Can you imagine if he won?

@@blindknitter +0.3 is not something he wouldn't be able to turn around as black :)

I really want to see that.

Just what I said in my comment. I wish Anna had gotten them to play there and then!

@@SilviuBurcea1 3 tenths of a pawn is nothing.

hahahahahaha...

especially for the enemy ))

@@TheLeopard2A6 no sir, the enemy does not get good mooooooooooooooves, the best they can hope for is good moves. Boring, been done and uncreative good moves. But no good mooooooooooooooves!

The hippopotamus can also be played with White. Chessbrah did a whole speedrun with it.

he's dad is so lovely right

It's biggest flaw though is its difficult to attack from because u surrender a lot of space in the middle

Its not the tempos, or I should say its not just the tempos lost. Its also the fact that the squars are objectivly worse and you lose control over two centre squares. It might work on lower level because we dont know how to take advantage of the weakness , but on higher lvl... Already at Annas streangth they are so skilled that they will have an advantage from it. You are 4 moves into the game an have -0.3 with nothing to show for it. You are objectivly just worse of. The only thing that you got going for you is that you have no obvious weaknesses. But that can be said about your oponent as well, who in fact has better pieces and control over the centre.

@@justincase1276 That is however true for a lot of "accepted" openings as well. Dutch Stonewall, Hedgehog etc. You will, possibly, be able to attack but in the middle game.

@@perkalov absolutely, there is a king and queen side pawn push feeing both bishops that helps. U then castle on the opposite side to that pawn advancement. Usually I castle king side and weaken the queen side as my main point of counter to the weaknesses the opening creates.

@@justincase1276 You made that account just in case your original one was banned? Anyway :p Im not saying that it loses by default. Im stating that its simply a bad opening. Just as Pia implies.... There is a reason to why it wasn't invented before. The only advantage I can see, from a low rated players perspective is that it is solid. You have few weaknesses that can be easily exploited. This is true for better openings, like Kings Indian Defence/Attack. Most low rated players dont like to play solid(read boring) chess, but thats an other issue. The Cow is a meme opening and Anna knows it, so should anyone else. Teaching or luring beginners to disregard basic opening theory isn't really helping them. No "hate" on Anna. I don't think she really wants newbies to use it, but a huge part of us watching is far from as strong as she is.

Huh?