I'm noticing that more and more, London players are playing 2.Nf3 prior to playing 3.Bf4. It seems that move order makes this gambit a bit harder to implement, depending on how white handles it.
What really blows my mind is that this channel only has 1,54K subscribers. But hey; for 1540 people, it's also good, cause then we can use our beloved gambits not risking that our opponents know anything about any of these lines. Just look how hard it is to get any advantage in the Stafford Gambit these days, all due to Eric Rosen making it known to 600K subscribers.
@@GambitMan Hey william! Love your channel. I am crushing with this line. Feels so good. Thanks for the knowledge. There is this guy at the club that always plays the London. He is about 1600/1700 strength. I have notice a lot of other variations that work also.
@@trillnye7570 awesome!! :) send your games / discuss in our discord (link in description). And for any london players, I also do give my recommendation for white towards the end of this video haha
You never disappointed with your analysis. My repertoire now basically consists of the Bushgauss, Budapest with f6, and now this. I was always saddened by the London. I’ve actually been playing around with versions of the Englund gambit. Do you primarily play the van popiel? Mind sharing the line you play KID Pirc set ups?
That's awesome!! So glad you're enjoying the content :) I work really hard on it so it means a lot. Yes, will publish a video soon of what I do versus KID/Pirc :)
Bro i found you tryna find von popiel theory and now almost my whole repertoire is from you lol. Only thing different is i like the grunfeld vs d4 or sum like nahkmanson or haxo playin e4
@@GambitMan i won my first official uscf rated game against a 1200 with this. I played this vs him online before that but he didnt play good moves so i think he studied the draw line. Little did he know. Good shit my guy, preciate it
Looks like in your "best line for White" that Black can still refute it at 26:27, Instead of Bb4, Black should be able to play Nd4 with the crushing threat Nxc2. Rc1 is just losing and if White attempts Bd3 to develop and defend, Black has the pawn advance e4. It's hard to list all the possible lines concretely, but it seems to me that all the other ideas including Black playing Bb4 and the Q capturing on a2 are a lot more powerful and White doesn't have any repetition resource.
Yeah but a lot of London players want to avoid those tricky lines and play Kf3 before developing the bishop, trying to hide the fact, that they are sneaky london players. Are there any nice traplines against more solid london setups?
How about the "London Rook Sac Line", which is what it is. It's a great discovery that, In almost every case, taking on a8 is bad! However, there is a line that W can play that's even stronger than the best line FM Graif has found: 5. ...cd4 6. ed4 e5!? 7. Bd2! Nc6 (his recommendation) 8. Nf3 e4 9.Bc4! ef3 10 Rb1! (even stronger than 10. 0-0, according to Stockfish 14)...fg2 11 Rg1 and the Queen is trapped. Btw, it takes me quite a few hours to view each of your posts, and this may be why this channel has amazingly few followers. There's twenty times the content. Graif is too modest to call it "Graif's Rook Sac. Line", but it may be fair for others to dub it thus.
Interesting stuff I must say 🙂 I know it's not a gambit, but against the London I usually go Nf6, c6, Qb6 and d6 - then when White plays Nf3 blocking the queen, or Qc1 to guard b2 I trap the bishop with Nh5. Would you recommend your London Crusher in a classical game or just in faster time control?.
Big audio desync shortly after the video starts, I'd suggest reuploading if you don't mind sacrificing the 50-ish accumulated views so far. Even with the desync this is fantastic though!
Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention! I actually just now read a troubleshooting article about adjusting my Google Chrome settings before re-uploading out of curiosity, and it still had the very minor desync. The level of desync varies throughout the video (and I think depending on the device and wifi that it is watched on?), but is never more than a fraction of a second and is often not even perceptible (as I myself had not even fully realized it). So I don't think the desync affects the quality/purpose of the video much (and would prefer not to get in the habit of deleting/re-uploading anyway). But I really appreciate you letting me know, and I'll look into my Streamlabs and my Chrome settings more to mitigate this in the future. And @irjake is totally right lol ... guess I'll just have to make less fire gambits in the future then! :)
However, just wanted to let you know that as a chess loving community we absolutely love the content that you put up here. A lot of these lines are very little known to most, and this helps significantly in tournaments.
After Qxe5+ qe2, I think black can just swap queens on e2 and play moves like nc6 o-o d5 and pretty comfortably enjoy their two-pawn advantage :) And thanks so much! I work really hard on the content, so I really appreciate that :)
If Stockfish says it's +2.5 for white after 5...cxd4, then it's just a matter of time before this innovation (gambit!) becomes analyzed and the crusher is crushed. For now, its strength is its novelty. The London cult will eventually find the moves that justify Stockfish's evaluation. In the future, you can bet that there's going to be a frequency of Nge2. Nonetheless, I like it!
At 30:30 you gloss over that your queen is trapped! After ...exf3 white isn't going to castle, they'll play Rb1 and you lose your queen and remain down in material. That refutes the whole gambit.
Yeah it looks like black gets a rook and a knight for the queen but a nice position for white. Playable though and not many people will play into that line the first time they see it.
Stockfish shows how to win in the main line with 5. ... Nd5: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hytzTjib5oY.html I still like 5. ... cxd4!? though :D
