By far the most informative, well explained and strategically played game you have had thus far. Well done and thank you for your continued great work and efforts.
Very instructive game. I'm very gratified that I basically felt like I understood the whole opening even without you explaining the Dutch themes and what all the important plans were. All your moves felt very natural to me, and I wasn't confused at any point. This is a real confidence booster for me as I've been learning the Dutch, which I've been very pleased with so far and want to make my main answer to d4. The rest of the video was great as well. Thanks for uploading.
great video again. I can never play a game of chess again without calling a wing pawn " harry ". it's kinda not fair you can figure out your opponents moves before they play them. it is just a pleasure to watch. temptation is growing to buy one of your " da vee dees ". thanks for your hard work.
Your content is getting better by the video Simon, and I have become a fan. My advice (butchering a Neil Gaiman quote) is, if someone tells you your content is bad, they are allways right. If they tell how to make content better, they are allways wrong. Advice with a small grain of sslt. Trust you editorial instincts, and keep promoting the beautiful game of chess!
First time I'm watching his videos, and, this is extremely interesting content. I just started discovering the Dutch and GingerGM is making it accessible and learnful! Thank you!
@GingerGM, love your videos mate. Would love to see you do a "rating climb" for the Dutch and the Jobava. Alex Banzea did a beautiful repertoire of these types and it's so nice to watch the experts apply the Chessable course material to actual games. I hope you seriously consider this. I just don't think there's enough Dutch material out there.
Absolutely love the watching the games as I am almost explicitly a dutch player as black and a birds opening player as white, both openings lending themselves to complimentary ideas for the other. And you're the only guy I know as excited to play the Dutch as I am 😆 thanks for doing what you do. Im your new biggest fan
Simon! Hello, i played with a grandmaster last evening, he is hungarian, and he is part of your gb chess sqwad. Love your vids. Also beat anthony bolchover, a battersea chess club player, what beat you somehow when you played 30 battersea players at once. I am an amateur haha! Did a crucial sacrifice opening up his kingside. ( won when i was a rook down) Your vids have helped me alot!
Oh my God. This was intense. The way you saw your opponent's plans was simply great. This is something I don't do much. I just look some few obvious plans of my opponent and then you know simply go for mine. That's what I am still 1800. Now I will definitely try it. This is probably the best of your long game series sir.
brilliant game, very instructive, and great explanation. Especially interesting from minute 20 onwards (the problematic knight on d2). Great work! Thanks!
At your finest sir! I have your Killer Dutch electronic version and can recommend to everyone. Better still, buy the hard copy as one day it will be compared to Rembrandt for sheer genius. Great to see Charlie at the end. Keep up the good work and thank you so much.
Hi Simon. That was some fine positional wizardry done around that knight! At 17:36, you considered Nb4 or Bc8 if white exchanges cxd and goes Rc1. Aren't you losing c5 after all the variations or is that some pawn sacrifice? I mean, white is 2000+, I'm sure he didn't miss that, but instead avoided that line for some reason...
Thanks so much Simon. I love you playing this type of game far better then the blitz or bullet time controls. Really gives far more incite on what the ideas are, and how to formulate a winning position.
very entertaining and insightful. really enjoy these vids as I climb my own (if only to 1500) mountain.... :/ ) killer Dutch will be the next DVD i go for (after ive finished with the Killer french)
At that critical moment around 27:00, you had a few interesting ideas. What about just playing a5 as a solidifying/waiting move? Is it just too slow? Either way, great commentary... it's fun to watch you play fast but these slower games are more insightful.
Hi. Which dutch variation would you recommend? You seem to mostly play classical dutch, is there any reason for this? I tried looking into the leningrad dutch today, i initially found it the most interesting. After watching the hanging pawns video on it, i'm worried maybe it's just too theoretical and i should go with a safer option.
Thank you so much for the wonderful explanations! This is really helping me improve. One thing I'm wondering, though, why do you call all your opponents "he?"
Rachel Zimet Interesting point. I'm sure it has something to do with the high ratio of Male players who play. It's more of a statistical probability that it's a guy, I suppose.
I'm sure there are many more male players, but I'd still be somewhat uncomfortable being referred to constantly as male (as a man might be uncomfortable constantly being referred to as female). Maybe a solution would be to use the singular they?
Rachel Zimet I understand, but I'm sure it is a Reflex after the many years of referring to his Male opponents as "he". I've definitely heard him use "they" also, but that can be slightly clunkier to use in informal dialogue such as this commentary. I certainly wouldn't worry too much about it, there isn't any malice there.
I know there isn't any malice :) and I understand habits can be hard to break! It's just something to think about, in general, also, not just in chess :)
Rachel Zimet Rachel Zimet I agree, there is an underrepresentation of Women in Chess and this is a minor consequence of it. It is an interesting question as to why, where it be lack of encouragement, Stigma attached or something to do with the almost visceral nature of the game at times.
16:30 I don't see how you keep that pawn after cxd, exd, Rc1. The pawn is attacked 3 times against 2 defenders. The c8 square is unavailable to your rook. Bc8 achieves nothing - he can simply go Be2 and c8 is now blocked by your own bishop, while his bishop now threatens to remove a defender in the knight on a6. And Nb4 allows Qxc5 with an exchange of queens. So Nb4, Qxc5, Qxc5, Rxc5, Nd3, Rc7 and the bishop on b7 is both attacked and bound to the protection of d5. That looks horrible. Am I missing something? Btw, I would really appreciate some additional tutelage on this particular white setup. The DVD covers the e3 variation, but much less indepth than the main line fianchetto. This game shows exactly the kinds of problems I'm facing against this setup. I can never safely get the rook lift in. My knight on b8 doesn't know where to go to. And when I play d6, in order to give the knight a square on d7, that seems to create other problems: If my other knight is still on f6, white can attack the weak e6 pawn with Ng5. And if I go for an early Ne4 to cover the g5 square before I play d6, the knight gets exchanged off and white gets a lot of play against my undeveloped queenside. There must be a reason why the fianchetto is supposed to be the better setup for white, but so far I have no idea why. I feel much more comfortable against the main line, because I know what to do. Against e3 my pieces are just stumbling over their own feet.
Simon, I was wondering after Bg4, you were considering Qf6 but you dismissed this possibility because of f4. but then exf3 Rxf3 Bxe3 isn't winning a pawn? If Rxe3 Qf2+ and if Kh1 Qh6 ?
i went to purchase your course but something disturbed me. The dvd is cheaper than the download. why is this the case since the dvd costs you more money to send vs a download?
I know -this is not a thread. You can ignore it. But i will remind you in every comment I'll write: Please do a video about chessboxing! I love your videos anyway, so it's not too serious...
