Kasparov defeats the English Attack in 26 moves 

maybe naro but Jerry is one of the best

@@bluecocacoladanya great but also ver fast paced. I like how jerry gives us time to think and absorb positions

Agreed to a large degree

He is good but i think we love his calming voice while taking us trough the game

Thank you for the compliment.

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Hi Jerry and Everyone, its me :)

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Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Since Kasparov pawns were much more advanced.

"I like how you use different moves that do not work but you show them anyway" but this is what chess is about, what works and what doesn't and when and why

I took a look at this. f4 runs into the tactical shot Nxe4!!, a move that I saw relatively quickly but I think Jerry should have covered. This counterattacks the White queen and there's no good solution to prevent the loss of material or a massive attack or even checkmate. After f4 Nxe4!!... a. fxe5 is obviously taboo. Queen falls with check. b. Nxe4 runs into Bxd4, and the queen cannot take the bishop because of Qxc2+ Ka1 Bxe4 (the bishop in the corner takes), and there is no way to defend both a mate threat with Qa4 and the threat to take the rook on h1, winning an exchange. c. If the queen moves away instead, for example Qe3, the cleanest human variation is Nxc3+ (notice this opens up the door for the bishop in the corner to win the exchange) Qxc3 Qxc3 bxc3 Bxd4 cxd4 Bxh1, where the diagonal sniper on a8 picks off the rook. But considered better than the Nxc3+ line in the computer's eyes is the mind-boggling Nd3!!, which is utterly wild and I would need a lot more time to wrap my head around. d. Almost any other move allows the bishop to save itself and take a knight for free with Bxd4, or play Nxc3+, where the indirect pin on the b-file previously mentioned by Jerry comes into play. For example, after Qd1 Nxc3+, White has to give up the queen, because if bxc3 instead, it's a Mate in 4 for Black kicking off with Nd3+. EDIT: The reason why I think Jerry didn't cover this move is because he has shown disdain in the past over the beginner-level thinking of just pushing pawns forward shortsightedly just to make a one-move attack on a minor piece. But in this case I think the f4 move should have been covered. It's extremely important to cover the f4 move because if Black had instead replied with Bxd4, Black throws away all of their winning advantage and now White's attack gets a lot stronger.

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Doing good thanks. Nope, I haven’t competed OTB for about 12 years now.

@@ChessNetwork Damn. Do you think you could perform decent if played a game now?

It is a key concept for white in several variations of the French defense that I used to bring an extra piece over to the kingside. Still it was not generally deployed by players.

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You certainly can. But that would be a different opening/game. Why not play 1... c6 or 1... e5? This is the opening Kasparov wanted to play.

​​@@bcfblackt's called Schevening systhem. After the dutch sea-spa in which Euwe played it against Maroczy in 1923. Kasparov perfected it and helped him a lot in his career. The ECO is B80 -89.

The English Attack (not English opening, which is 1.c4) is a line in several Sicilians, such as Najdorf, Scheveningen, Kan etc and is characterised by white playing f3 and Be3 intending to attack blacks king with a pawn storm starting with g4. It is called the English Attack as … wait for it … it was played by Brits such as Short, Nunn etc late last century.

He's won hundreds of games on the black side of Sicilian against stronger players than Adams.

@@davidshosho1173 Yes, but berndmayer's point is that Kasparov defeats his opponents, because he is Kasparov; he does NOT refute the English Attack against the Najdorf variation. Kasparov has probably used the English Attack himself, assuming any opponent would be foolhardy enough to play the Sicilian Najdorf against the greatest-ever specialist in that defence.

I do not know how you arrived at the conclusion that "defeating the English Attack" somehow implies he refuted the opening. No, of course he both played it and beat it many, many times in his career, and the English Attack remains a challenging test of the Najdorf in 2023, that much is not in dispute.