Good information but more importantly, good talking tempo. I appreciate how you get to the point and there's no or very little fluff, and definitely no "um....uh...." that turns a 15-minute video into 45 minutes of torture that usually ends after the first 2 minutes. (Yes, I'm thinking of specific GMs from other chess channels.)
yeah I agree 😂 they definitely need to take some speech classes. I love agadmator's videos but man listening to "but uhhh......." for 10-15 seconds at a time 4x per minute.. makes u wanna bang your head
Scotch ❤ i dont drink a lot though. I drink pure shots so getting a responsible dosage is easy, I don't even have to think about it. I used to drink too much beer all the time, super unhealthy
This variation is strong, but it is nowhere near as strong as the “throbbing scotch” variation. Not even strong players such as xQc have a chance against it
At 4:30, Qh5+ before capturing the bishop is a little more accurate IMO. If the king moves to f8 then you are capturing with check, which allows you to capture the c3 pawn. If he plays g6, he has just weakened his kingside that much more, and will have to play Nf6, which is a pin that can be played against.
Good video.. it’s the third time I’ve watched it.. it’s the best way to get to grips with an opening… play it over for a few months, then watch the video again.. you’ll understand it more, then play again, then watch again.. and repeat 👍👍
This is a fantastic chess lesson!! Thank you so much for not only showing a brilliant opening but for covering all the different lines that players can take, not just the ones that seem obvious to good players. I suck at chess but really want to improve so it can be hard to understand "standard" openings. So thanks so much for covering all of the lines that black could make in response, even the seemingly obvious ones where black get put in check mate in like 3 moves lol. I really appreciate it!
Excellent video. I play the Scotch Gambit. It is an aggressive opening and the video helped my understanding of key ideas as well as essential positions to examine.
I found your voice quite understandable, as English is not my mother language I can't follow some commentators, but cassually your voice was easy for me to understand.
Theoretically every gambit is lost. Black can destroy the Scotch gambit by defending his central pawn with another flank pawn by delaying Nc6 and pushing with c5 instead, thus defending his central pawn and placing it in front of the knight. Then Black will never take on c3 and frustrate the hell out of you. from there it's all down the hill for White. If White tries to blast the center with e5, Black has a very strong response with d5!
Cliché opening, gambit easy to remind, lot's of easy patterns of variations. Study this for a couple of days and it's printed in your brain. Perfect! Thanks KeviN!
i saw this video 10 years ago and funny enough its my favorite opening to play with white. For whatever reason, I remembered this opening and all of its variations for 10 years even after taking year long hiatuses. This opening is very good in blitz and typically will cause black to eat away at their time due to the many threats and sharp lines that come from this. Even if black plays 100% accurate, white will still have a well developed game and can still win. Definitely a good opening from 500-2000 elo
1E4 e5 2Nf3 Nc6 3d4 exd4 4Bc4 Cf6 5o-o Nxe4 6Re1 d5 7Bxd5 Qxd5 8Nc3 Qd8 9Rxe4+ Andersen attack is one of the most exciting variation ever. Trying it is adopting it
6:47 this varition transportation Italian game reversed after black take pawn white take pawn Qf6 white take bishop ( white tempo sacrfice rook to attack this varition called blackburne varition)
Nice. Houdini suggested after Qf6, then pawn c3, then if queen g6, then castle. Then if qg6xe4, then bxf7. From there it is either a queen loss or mate. So it would be very bad for queen to take pawn at e4. I think I would defend this way because it is such a great trap. Houdini just taught me a new trap. Yay.
I was white and had a Bishop on F7, Knight on G5, and his King went E7. So out of check, and no place for me to bring any more pieces without being blocked or losing a piece. I guess the garden spot would be white Knight on E5, then tons of room to bring the house up the right side wherever the king tries to go..
And the variation where you discuss black playing Ne4 in response to the pawn push e5, if white responds with Bd5, then black has the move Nxf2+! Kxf2 dxc3+ Ke1 cxb2 followed by black playing something like Qe7...here white doesnt have the capture on c3 with tempo choice! Again a razor sharp play ensues...:)
Kevin @thechesswebsite YOUR BACK! WEVE MISSED YOU! PLEASE KEEP GOING. Great video ma man. Its great to have you back. Please more opening videos in depth!
I won a game just after watching this video. Yesterday I watched halloween gambit that also helped me a lot. I am an amateur and that helps me in playing.. I think my personality is now playing gambits.
Love all of your videos! Been playing this lately and often times, on black’s fifth move they go NE4. Would love to see a little bit of discussion on that…
I play the scotch gambit more than any opening I use. After bishop c4 my opponent plays pawn h6 more than any other move. A lot more, maybe 80 percent. Yet that was not covered?
At about 6:50, instead of recapturing on c3 with the b pawn, I think White also does well simply to castle, and give up a second pawn for quick development. If black then captures again on b2, White takes back with the bishop, and has a great bishop pair aiming at the Black king.
Yep, this one's going in the arsenal. Jrobichess and yours are THE best chess-related channels on RU-vid. Each of your videos come with a small epiphany and I've been playing for, a while, ha. Hopefully you can release some transposition related studies at some point because you have a really unique/natural grasp on the game.
Hey @thechesswebsite in the first variation you discussed,instead of white playing Qh5, it can play N takes on f7, and after Nx white can lay Bxf7 Kxf7 then Qh5+ snaring the c5 bishop! after that white wil have a nice time doing a O-O,white ends up with a great position...
of course it would be a highly double edged game but nevertheless, black would be expected to play very precisely in the variation that follows, if he wants to keep the extra pawn!
what about 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 f3? And you say in 2:45 that c3 does many things, i played it twice, and both my opponents play d3. and you say that castling is something you don't like it because it is not very aggressive, but that is the only variation that got me the most success...
At 10:40, it is very tempting to try to save the dark square bishop. But the issue (not mentioned in the video), is that any attempt at doing that runs into cxb2. Black is going to queen and take a rook in the process
I play with Qh5 sometimes, but a few moves later. instead of Qh5 on 2 minutes 16, you can also just take the pawn on f7 with the knight right? cause after ...Nxf7, Bxf7-Kxf7 you can also fork the bishop and the king with Qh5+.
To help remember all this I just think if black moves his bishop at all, then you play pawn c3, then remember the bishop momentary sacrifice, the bishop forking the two knights on e5, and if he plays the queen to e7 or knight c6 to just castle.
Yeah. Great channel, BTW. You go over 4 variations that black might make,Bishop to c5, Bb4, Kf6, etc. What if he put Queen to F6 instead of the knight? What would be the best line for that?
when the white bishop ends up between the two knights on c6 and e4, i presume black will move the e4 knight so would the bishop take the c6 knight? what would be thenext move at that particular position for white
OMG! I play this all the time, i never knew it was called "scotch gambit". most, if not always i win with it but i mostly hope for a transposing to "lolli attack" which is, in my opinion, just amasing. :P
at 4:30, after white has played QxC5, if play continued 8. ... cxb2 9. Bxb2 Qe7 10. Qh5+ g6, would you say that black's positional advantage is still enough to compensate for his lack of pawns on the queen side?
In the variation where white takes the bishop on e7 with the pawn, can't black just take the pawn with the queen? That puts white in check and will force white to move the king, preventing him from castling later on. Bishop to e3 loses the bishop when the pawn captures it, and if white blocks with the queen on e2, then black trades queens forcing the white king to move so he can't castle. Look at about 13 minutes in. Can someone address this? Thanks.
You missed a very possible move. Immediately white plays Bc4 black can very well respond with h7h6. That blocks the knights advance outpost move and a very interesting defensive twist.
At 6:04, if black captures c3 with the pawn, capturing it back can be a problem as the knight on e4 would capture the pawn on f2 hawking down the queen and the rook, most probably taking down rook in the process ...
