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This is my thought to the puzzle: 1. Q*a7 if 1. ... R*a7??, 2. R*c8+ Qd8 3. R*d8+ K*d8 4. N*f7+ Ke8 5. N*h8 (white knight is not trapped and can get back to g6, so white wins a bishop and two pawns) else if 1. ... Rb8, 2. Q*b8+ N*b8 3. R*c8+ Kd7 4. R*h8 h*g5 (this line white loses a queen and a knight, wins two rooks, a biship and a pawn. Not sure if there're better way to do it) else 1. ... Nb6 I'm thinking 2. Q*b6 Q*g5 3. Qa7 R*a7 4. R*c8+ Kd7 5. R*h8 but I don't see the win. if 2. Q*a8 N*a8 3. R*c8+ Kd7 4. R*h8 h*g5 and it's similar to line 2. So I'm not sure how white can win if black respond Rb8 or Nb6
Oh I found the move. In line 2 we play Bb5 on move 2 and black collapse since the knight which defends the rook is being traded. In line 3, we play 2. Q*b6 h*g5 (I assume it's very bad if Q*g5) 3.Bb5+ Kf8 4. Qa7 and it transpose to similar situation as line 1. So white is winning in all the cases
If black responds with Rb8, white pins the knight with Bb5. If black plays Nb6, white plays Q*a8 anyway and takes the rook. Because white has a rook on c1, they can win back more than enough material after they lose their queen.
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Thank you so much for posting this video about the Grand Prix attack, A few days later I versed somebody using the Sicilian defense and won in a similar way shown in the video! Looking forward to more chess content!
The knight & bishop attack shown at 17:03 in this video is interesting, but it can be easily thwarted by Black moving his bishop back to F8. In fact, it is predicated on Black first having moved that bishop to an usual position, which allows White's bishop can take temporary control of that diaganol. Still, it's good to know if you ever allow yourself to be confronted with such an attack you need to stop it immediately.
Bishop b2 would annihilate blacks position if they did that. they have too many holes on the black squares and literally only one piece developed. Even trading the bishops on f8 removes castling rights and lets the knight come in to d6 and get out posted with the e pawn. Black cant lose the black bishop with all his pawns on white squares and nothing developed. Itd be interesting to see the stockfish eval
No opening is perfect, but still, it has more downsides then upsides, Downsides: 1.Bxf8 removes your castling option. 2.Undevelops your only piece that was developed. 3.Takes more moves to castle. 4.Keeps the diaganal open. Upsides: 1.Stops Nd6+. 4-1 pretty bad. I would play Ne7, Nd6+ just Kf8 and white's rook is hanging, otherwise you just castle.
@@rabipelais and therefore foiled from the remaining moves @toma-iu9zj suggested - though i doubt black would take Qxb6 while already planing to sacrifice the queen to get the rook moved out of it's defending position
I have been looking at this variation since this posted a couple of months ago, and it can be a very playable game with mostly the most popular moves for black being played. Black's solution to the Grand Prix Attack: First of all, black's most popular moves work for the first few moves: 1.e4 c5, 2.Nc3 Nc6, 3.f4 g6, 4.Nf3 Bg7, 5.Bb5 Nd4. The next move for black is the 2nd most popular. Black follows 6.O-O with a6. White no longer has the option to exchange his bishop for the knight. What are his options? If white tries to get rid of the knight with 7.Nxd4, that is a blunder, because black responds with Bxd4+. After white responds to the check, white grabs the bishop.So that is a complete non-starter. White will need to retreat his bishop, but where? Ba4 and Bc4 both run into b5. The better of the two is 7.Bc4 b5, 8.Bd5 Rb8, and on the next move, black will play e6, so white had better prepare with a3, giving a square for the bishop, but it is not a good position for white. So if not a4 or c4, then where? d3 blocks the pawn, which in turn blocks the dark-square bishop, so the best option for white is to retreat to e2, and now black can play d6. Black's position is fairly good at this point. He controls more space, he has a well-placed knight in the middle of the board, white's light-square bishop has retreated to a fairly inactive position, black has a potential pawn storm on the queen's side, ... The main thing is that black should avoid castling O-O. He can leave his king in the center castle O-O-O, either of which denies white the strategy he is looking for. In the Lichess database, games that have followed this path through 7.Be2 d6 have been won by black 54% of the time, compared with only 40% for white. As such, I don't think that Bb5 is a wise move if black has not played d6 or d5. Stockfish recommends d3, which restricts white's light-square to e2 without having to get chased off of b5 first. a4 is also suggested, which doesn't commit white to Be2. The Bb5 option is still available should black push his d pawn. My feeling right now is to go with that approach, but I'm still working on it.
The Grand Prix attack against the Sicilian which you enlightened us about is simply awesome! It made me feel so confident in the maximum level! Thank you so very much Sir GM Igor! 🤗💯!!
Igor your videos are far and away the best I've discovered on RU-vid. Can you please give me something to shut down the Philidor? As passive as it is I struggle against it
I used the GPA from 1000-1300 rapid, but recently switched to the Smith-Morra. The gambit has a higher success rate for me thus far; especially in faster time controls.
But a faster time control does not improve your chess, glad you are having good results, but Classical, will help your chess, find an opening that is good in Classical, then Blitz and Bullet will be no problem. Smith-Morra is good though, it's ^ to you if you want your rating to go ^ though.
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► Chapters 00:00 Grand Prix Attack Against the Sicilian Defense 00:44 GM Smirnov's Plan to Win 90% Games 01:08 Developing the f1-bishop first 01:57 Common opening error by Black 02:51 Middlegame plan for White 04:26 Eliminating Black's defenders 06:27 If Black does not play gxf5 08:33 Plan-B for White 10:02 If Black plays d4 11:06 Important move to fix Black's doubled pawns 12:42 For advanced level opponents 15:14 Secret idea behind playing a3 17:03 Sacrifice the ROOOOOK 17:47 Puzzle: When Carlsen had 2150 ELO
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1.Queen takes a7 , rook takes queen 2.Then rook takes c8 queen blocks and rook takes queen then king takes rook and knight takes f7 to win rook on h8 And white is piece up.😊
My absolute favourite answer to Sicilian when I was active in the 80's. Even though it was f4 immidiately after blacks c5. Have been crushing players far stronger than me with this one. It didn't really have a name when I learned it. The booklet was just named: "f4 against Sicilian" ! Not mentioning a name for it. We used to call the Qe1 move a magic move.
This is amazing! I'm a King's Gambit player who was playing the McDonnell variation against the Sicilian. This is FAR superior! It also maintains that similar pawn structure to eh KG. I've considered switching from KG to Vienna Gambit and this also is related.
I'm looking at f4 as the answer to the puzzle. If black captures the knight, white recaptures with the pawn, opening up the rook to f7. If black plays something like Rh5 in an attempt to get back the pawn while developing his rook, then g6 Nxe5 gxf7+ Nxf7 Bg6 wins. If instead black plays g6 first, the white responds with Rc2 Qxg5 Qxg5 Rxg5 Rxf7 Nxe5 Bb5+ Bd7 (Nd7, Bxd7 Bxd7, Rf8) Rf8+ wins material. If in that last variation, instead of Nxe5, black plays a6, preventing Bb5, I do not see the winning path.
I tried this against Fritz 6 online and NONE of these lines showed up. They are all seemingly random or just highly advanced even when I put it on beginner level. I never once got the first option and I played like 10 games. I don't see how you can expect to play a certain sequence of moves in advance and really win. I guess I just suck at chess. using any of your lines didn't work because I would get crazy lines with his queen coming out or whatever.
sure, but they wwill have to prepare for it and might not have the perfect defense in mind. plus even if he defends perfectly, the game just goes on. it is a fine opening which can surprise black
Cool opening, i will try to remember the moves. There was a couple of optional moves along the way that were not covered, where i would be in doubt what to do.
As Black, whenever I see my opponent open with a PE4 in the first few moves, a Kings Gambit variation, I immediately develop my Queen side pieces and castle Queen side. Then push pawns on white's King side to help attack. They do that to me whenever I play Kings Gambit. Why would anybody castle on the side that the opponent is preparing to attack?
the most common move for black under 1800 online after bishop b5 is queen b6 eyeing the horizontal black squares and b2 pawn.I have lost many times with that.
Actually the Reversed Grand Prix Attack 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 f5 or 2.g3 f5 pretty often is a favourable version exactly because the queen's knight is still at home. Make sure to play 2.Nc3 f5 3.d4 exd4 4.Qxd4 Nf6 though. Like a young GM Svidler did. You won't find this in theory books.
Try to play some best moves from the opponent's side as well. I'm 1600+ in rapid and most of the time, I face good/excellent moves. Maybe pick an opening and make a complete series on it's theory.
Qg5 is a blunder, then Ne8 and Black is slightly better. Also, blacks move before, fxe4 is a terrible blunder gives white an major advantage +7 and a winning position. Black could play c4 instead, and white would be slightly better, +0.9 according to engine.
Puzzle: "white to play and win" is usually a few moves and it's mate - I just don't see it. I see a trade of a queen and rook and probably knight too, for a queen, bishop, rook, but I don't see the mate.
Try this: Qxa7,Rxa7; Rxc8+,Qd8(forced); Rfc1, Q is now pinned and if Qxc8 then Rxc8,Ke2; Rxh8 [Q,R for P,B,Q,R] and if Q not take then Rxd8,Kxd8; Nxf7 forking K and R [Q,R for P,B,Q,R]
These videos are good but I would be nice if you added a PGN of the opening so we can put it into an engine or opening explorer to analyze at our own time.
Summary of the video: if black plays the opening badly, white will have an advantage. Let's take the last line as it is the most popular against the GPA. After 6. b4, the main moves for black are 6...b6 and 6...d6 but neither gets a mention despite black scoring wins after ...b6 in over half of the games in the database. There are similar points in all of the other variations, such as 5...a6 in the fast ...d5 line. Hardly anyone above a certain level is going to play this, and if they do they probably have something specific prepared. The main moves there by far are 5...Ne7 and 5...Nf6, both of which are regarded by theory as approximately equal. The GPA is a system I also regularly recommend to social and low club players in meeting the Sicilian but it is not the magic bullet to 90% wins as presented here.
The problem with chess is that- at least for me, people don’t make the moves that you want them to - in fact they quote often make moves that you don’t want them to , funny that
