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Lovely video. My current main response to e5 on move 1 is the four knights, based on GM Gonzalez’s excellent Chessable repertoire. A lot of his ideas are similar here, but there are also more and slightly different approaches and explanations in your excellent analysis. Always a joy to watch you!
Very nice foundation to play the 4.N"s If I watched this before a tournament game. I could play it. It always seemed weird to me that basically all the classical openings continued being used from the 1940's onward but the 4n's kinda vanished 4...Nd4 5.0-0 c6 7.Bd3 looks interesting. When I played 4N"s i used 5.Bc4 but was never happy. 10:54 Bonus coverage of the Two Knights line 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Ne4Surprising to me Ivan Sokolov played4..Bc5 once} 5.Ne4 d5 6Bd3 ed 7.Be4 Bd6 . Last couple of weeks my chess time was filed trying to watch Olympiad, the previous video 5..c5 Cataline a variation as white never got what I thought I should out of it. So bad memories. 😢 Didn't notice the high class thumbnail.👍
In the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bc5 5.0-0 0-0 6.Nxe5 Nxe5 7.d4 Bd6 8.f4 Ng4 we have the move h3 which helps me a lot to give me a lot of short wins but your move is a very easy way to have a objective advantage. Thanks for the awesome video!!!
Congrats on your fast wins! :) Yes, I know about h3, Black has ...Bb4 and I've looked at these options, but the reason I avoided this line is because while "trappy" and can lead to fast wins, if Black is ready White really has nothing. So I preferred the other line, with more long-term prospects.
Thank you for your kind words. I've been thinking about this, but I realised it would be too time-consuming for me. But, I wouldn't mind it at all if a community member and/or subscriber takes it upon themselves to do this type of work and make the pgns available to the public via a lichess study. In this way it would be a joint effort, I would be recording these videos while you guys can help by producing the pgns!
As I replied in one of the comments above, that would take me too much time, but I wouldn't mind any of you guys starting a study on lichess which would contain the pgns of my videos.
