I am always so impressed at how he visualizes different lines and compares the advantages and disadvantages of the resulting positions almost instantly
How he almost immediately saw the problems with the bishop skewer of the king and queen was really impressive. I would have played that move immediately lol
Slowbrah is my new favourite series from Aman. Super chill, very informative and it's always funny to see the difference in time management between a GM and a noob.
I saw this line from Aman and I started playing 2... Bf5... but the engine says 2...c5 is the best move after e5, so I tend to alternate between the two now.. I have the same high win rate with both moves, so I guess the moral of the story is that e5 from white is just bad and only usually played by low Elo players. Would love to see Slowbrah play out the 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 main line, but Aman always plays 3... Qe5+ - at least when I've been watching. There has been one main line game I see in the database, so I'll be looking out for that video in future! An excellent series with great explanations and maximum respect given to the lower rated opponents which I personally find very refreshing.
at 13:37 isn't knight takes e5 check just a forced mate? Knight takes e5 pawn, pawn takes our knight, our queen checks on e4, king goes to d2 only move, queen to e3 checkmate Am I missing something? If he doesn't take our knight with the pawn and takes the other pawn with the king to evade the check, then we will just be winning a knight I guess which should also be winning
hi aman! thank you for the excellent video! i have a question: i feel intuitively like the scandinavian is in conflict with the general noob issue of "don't bring your queen out early" so i'm hella suspicious of it (rated 1000) my friend used to play it exclusively til we started playing a lot and he switched off cuz it feels like you end up with your queen just dancing a lot of the time
The problem is that beginners will play it and not know anything past move 2. They’ll play moves like checking the king early with the queen, which are bad. In the main line of the Scandinavian (when you play it correctly as black) the queen doesn’t actually get kicked around all that much. It’s still a subpar opening at super high levels, but there’s nothing wrong with playing it as a beginner, intermediate, or even advanced player below the highest levels.
1200 rated scandi player and usually my plan is the queen slides to a5 and chills there for awhile I play c3 to give the queen several escape squares then develop standardly and it's almost impossible for the opponent to attack my queen without wasting tempo. Move order can change slightly as you can delay c3 until something is about to attack the queen usually with an a-b pawn storm or a revealed attack on the queen with a bishop after the knight that aways chills on c3 moves. My win rate is actually higher with black than white Scandi is awesome if you can remember those bits this video covers the other line where they don't take.
The secret to not lose fast with scand is to play Qa5 or Qd8 after the Nc3. I never play this as black, but the one benefit you will get is that your opponent probably won't know any theory or opening trick since it's a bad opening that very few people play so it's statistically less likely your opponent will have some prep for it. It may also lead to a time advantage since you'll be more familiar with the opening than your opponent. But yeah, objectively it's bad and really tough for slower time controls after a certain ELO
@@eadwig7566 yea looking back I was high and I should've looked at a board for the coordinates. Queen slides right and pawn on c7 goes to c6. I love my scandi
@05:25 Would you ever consider pinning white's f3 pawn with your bishop? And then if he does not move the king, would you play Qe4 check? I don't know if it's any good, but it's the first thing I thought of when seeing the position.
that's "hope chess", you play a move that might be only helpful if your opponent blunders, cause i really see no other point to justify Bh5, and actually this case is worse since even if the opponent allows that Qe4 would not acomplish anything. Now C5, that he played, on the other hand will be good no matter what, it's a typical move against d4 e5 pawn chain, makes the white center fragile and it's also even better since the white king is exposed. C5 really should be first instinct of any good player on that position, is great for positional and tatical reasons, it's screaming to be played.
Ok jobava but what if opp plays 1. .. c5? Ok caro kann but what if opp plays 1. d4 ? go sicilian/king's indian, you're gonna love it!! The advantage of being sicilian player is, if you're e4 player as white, that while you learn to play sicilian as black, you also learn how to play against it as white!! win-win I don't believe in that bullshit some say, that sicilian is not for beginners. Play what you like. Sicilian is immediately asymetric, aggressive, double-edged, exciting! Everybody likes dynamic chess. I'm 1700ish btw
Up to 1400 I think the best advise is simply to stop hanging pieces. It's a boring advise and for that reason probably also why players in that range tend to ignore it and instead try to search up more sexy advise. But look at it this way. Why spend a lot of time researching how you can gain a small positional edge if you hang your knight a couple of moves later? Or why try to learn 2, 3 or 4 moves tactics if you're missing stuff on the board that is already visible? If you're missing visible stuff, there's no way you aren't missing a ton of stuff when you try to visualize moves in your head. EDIT: that said you can obviously do several things simultaneously, but the fastest way to climb from that rating is almost always to eliminate blunders by incorporating some discipline. Also try to apply that same discipline when solving puzzles. Puzzles are great, but they also have a tendency to reward reckless behavior. Because when something sort of works it almost always works. I can't count the number of times I've been up against someone who threw themselves recklessly into some tactics that obviously didn't work if they spent more than 10 seconds analyzing it. That same recklessness would be rewarded in a puzzle 90% of the time.
Chess is knowledge and skill. Learning openings = knowledge training. Learning endgames = knowledge training. How much time do you allot for skills training?
Bullshit. The only way you wouldn't recognise the first two or three moves in your games is you have only played a few games in which case your rating isn't real.
I hate how so many people don't take against the scandi in low elo, just take the pawn people! Queen moving early is unprincipled why do you care so much!
