The Colle System: A Fun, Easy Chess Opening with a ready-made strategy 

The good thing about chess is that no matter your rating, we all suck! It's a maddeningly difficult game at times! Glad to hear you're having success in the Colle when it goes to plan. It's a nice solid one so when your opponent throws out random moves, I'd say just make sure your pieces are defended and make slow improving moves (like centralising Rooks, limiting your opponent's piece mobility with pawns etc) and gradually expand your control of the centre. There are definitely more detailed colle videos online but the best way to learn is to stick with it and then analyse games with an engine to see what to do against the random stuff which is likely sub optimal

Aw amazing, glad you enjoyed it. Love throwing in a colle system every now and then as a break from my addiction to 1.e4

Big Al spittin facts. As the kids say "don't fukertort with the Zukertort or else you'll get suckertorted"

Such a lovely comment, thanks so much Thomas, glad you enjoyed it!

Hi Michael, thanks for the lovely comment and really glad you enjoyed the video! Hope you can get some fun positions with it!

Well, Black has to take the e4 pawn: what else would you do? If you don't take, White will push up to e5 as in the match in the video.

Sí, es un crack, este tipo!

I have a crumb more colle stuff here, but yes, I want to come back to it and do more: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fq37cjkUqQU.html

That's exactly how I feel!

Hey Gregory, thanks for the q! So I've looked into this and the early Bf5 by black is actually known as the Anti-Colle! It's not a total disaster to still go Bd3 and offer a trade but what the computer and database like more in that position is c4 which looks quite good, like a queen's gambit without the gambit. From there Nc3, other knight to H4 to harass the early bishop and your bishop to Be2 are all decent homes for your pieces and a very playable, solid position. Not quite colle-town but a good flexible adjustment. I think this would also be the play if black castles long, but depending on how quickly they develop, you may still have time to prep the standard e4 pawn break before they castle.

@@ChessPlease Thank you, I will try those ideas and let you know how it goes!

Maybe, but more people know the London well.

A close cousin for sure!

@@ChessPlease The Colle is the elder brother

Yeah but Colle system has great Greek gift ideas, something he didn't explain nearly enough. He really showed black playing optimally. If f3 knight wasn't pinned by the bishop for example, there would be loads of kingside attacking ideas. Also, an advantage of playing Colle over the London is that you can use the e4 plans just like in the london, but being up a tempo. You focus much less on controlling e5 or opening up kingside rook, and much more on creating a grand prix like attack. An advantage of the Colle system is that people see the London all the time. And playing e4 in the london, is not a popular move at lower levels, so an unfamiliar idea to most people. You have the surprise factor in playing very passively, but really it's just a wolf in sheep's clothing once you blow up the center.

Dang! Thank you for the feedback - slowly but surely im trying to get a little better each time. I'll try and talk in all caps next time.

@@ChessPlease I will stand by. Lol

It's more like call or kahl then coal

@@dudemanaric depends on the speaker's accent but agree

Actually no, asking French speakers, not like "call" , it's "col" or "coal"