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In the final example you didn't cover what happens when white just takes pawn d6xc7 & now you can't queen side castle or stop the pawn. If you move your rook the castle is done. If you castle the rook is gone & you have to take the queen with your king. It's absolutely devastating.
This opening is terribe you are already losing after your already losing after your fifrst move without any reasonable practicalchances. You are playing for cheap tricks that are easier to defend the scholars mate xD
Dear Igor Smirnov , I've just heard you mention that your site was hacked a few days ago. That must have been a pretty awful experience. I'm glad it was all sorted out happily and your channel is up and running again. Thank you so much for another brilliant video. Out of all the chess teachers in the whole world, none have helped me as much as you. Best wishes and thank you so much. Philip Rosch 👏
I fully agree with your modest comment. GM Igor proved not only the best video lessons teacher but uses his psychologist expertise to make sure his lessons are best for all to understand n improve on. Cheers, all the best nmost blessed future n success to your great site n lessons.🌠🌠👍😃❤️
Hi Igor. I just found this video and today, for the first time, I had the chance to try it out. Well, my opponent resigned with only 18 seconds gone on my clock! (He castled and I revealed an attack on the queen with a check, as you showed). Amazing :) I've been playing for about 6 months now. Currently rated at just over 1300 and your videos are BY FAR the best I have found. You're a great teacher. Thanks a million and keep up the great work
@md.shahiduttarif2831 progress slowed way down. I'm nearly 1600 rapid now..but after the first year it got harder to improve (especially as I haven't studied many openings)
Gm Igor, so sorry to hear about the recent hardship, so glad you're handling it so well. You really are the best help and teacher I think for someone straddling the beginner/intermediate hurdle such as myself and who can't currently afford classes or personal instruction. THANK YOU
Thank you again for a great video today; I did notice the absence of your channel a few days ago and I am really happy to see you back here! this is my go to channel for chess.
At 4:15 a rook aligned with the queen (esp if covered by knight or bishop) is just begging for a discovered check with no hope of saving the queen. And that is the case here too with bishop H2+
Igor, thank you very much for all of your videos! They are exceptionally thorough and you explain things in a very down-to-earth manner. I have been enjoying these quite a bit! I especially enjoyed the response to d4, because I've always struggled finding a way to put myself in a solid position to attack as black. I hope you will keep up the great work!
It seems to me that the move for black after the premature castle is for the black square bishop to take the h2 pawn checking the king. white, while picking up a bishop and rook loses his queen plus he is left with poor king protection.
Your lessons are great! I never really delved deeply into chess strategies and was always frustrated by my blunder-filled play. Your lessons have helped greatly, I even caught someone with the trap you outlined in another video when they tried the fried liver attack. Checkmated in 10 moves, it was beautiful. Keep them coming!
Sorry to hear about the hack, glad everything is looking up. Recently got into chess about 2 months ago an have made it to 700. Long road ahead but your videos are great! No fluff, all gas no brakes. Appreciate the analysis!
Best and simple defense i saw on youtube... This lessons is just short and crisp and prevent from unknown opening in queens pawn opening and provide comforts in play and also this opening is such a opening is a response to all that d4 players who try to beat me everytime and i cant do anything since 4 years and plans a solution despite trying all variations in QBD. Thanks Igor for providing such a great and high quality content for free.. salute to you and love from India... Hope i will beat many players with this opening ❤️❤️❤️❤️
► Chapters 00:00 Aggressive Chess Opening for Black Against 1.d4 00:21 Englund Gambit 1.d4 e5: Why? 01:49 2...d6 - Blackburne-Hartlaub Gambit 03:46 White loses their Queen: Can you find it? 04:34 Black's Winning Attack on Kingside 07:06 Line-2: If White plays 6.Bg5 09:05 Tip: How to find Attacking Moves 09:50 Line-3: If White plays 3.Nf3, not 3.exd6 11:55 Thank you for your support!
Hello there! I looked in the comment section to see if this comment was already written, but it doesn't seems like it. So, at 6:43, you are saying it is impossible to stop black attack, but i have to say you are wrong, because after white plays Bg2, if pawns capture then pawn f3 threatning the queen. Whatever blacks play from now on, it winning for white! Appart from that, i really appreciate de whay you talk and everything you have to show, it can really be effective against small ranked people.
@@charlesl6845 yo idk if you'll see this but after Bg2, pawm tales and f3 or f4, You just play Qf5 threatening ...Rxh3, and if Bxh3, Qxh3 to Qh2#. And if Qe2, Rh8 in a better position for black
@@josefinasalgadop3659 sorry. What does white play after black Qf5? It seems like it is white to play after black Qf5. So whats the next move for white and black after black Qf5?
@@josefinasalgadop3659 i think you forgot pawn on h4, so if you capture a pawn on the h file with rook, then it's h4... not h3, and so bishop cannot capture.
I really like this idea. I usually find the Englund gambit easy to play against because everybody goes for the same one trick. Starting Englund but then going for something different would be much harder to play against!
Good chess lesson for novice players like myself . I have played a lot of chess but never really improved . The reason was that I had no strategic planning . It was always just tactics . Not any more . Thankyou Igor
I really like this one, it works for me and my opponents (elo 1270 now), and the thing is exactly like you say here, it doesn't matter if they don't do the moves in the same order as in the video, I still have the same plan, and I don't have to try to remember difficult things.
Great to see you back, Igor. I felt quite bereft when the channel briefly disappeared so really happy you've managed to resolve things and hopefully at no more cost than some unnecessary stress.
I used this defense against a friend who always opens 1d4. He didn't know what he was doing, he just wanted to annoy me, because I hate 1d4. I followed your instructions and managed to check-mate him in less than 20 moves. After I played e5, he thought that the free pawn was a dirty trick and played d5 instead of taking the pawn, only to make things worse for white.
I'm so sorry that you were hacked one year ago! You are the best teacher I have ever experienced. I am over 70 YO and would love to join your chess classes, but will have to be content with watching (repeatedly) your superb videos. Thanks Igor!!!
With the position at 4:16 if I was in a game I'd be tempted to do this. 1. N f6₁ But knowing that this is more of a puzzle, it's clear there is a more aggressive option available. After thinking for a few minutes I saw this. 1. Bxf3₂ 2. Bxf3₃, Q h4₄ 3. h3, B h2 +₅ 4. Kxh2₆, R x d1₇ 5. R x d1₈, Q x f2. That's as far as I got. I can't predict White's next move or see a way for Black to continue attacking after that so assuming White doesn't threaten the Queen I'd go back to the idea of N f6 I mentioned at the start of this comment. I assume there is some tactical nuance that I'm completely failing to see Footnotes (Thank you Unicode, it neatened up my comment a lot) ₁ Solid developing move, getting the Kingside Knight into the game and connecting the Rooks, completing the main opening goals. ₂ Getting rid of the White Knight and leaving the h2 square a bit vulnerable. ₃ White wouldn't want to lose their Knight for nothing and thus would want to recapture. ₄ Threatening Qxh2# on the next move. (It's rare that I spot checkmating threats - I tend to overlook them and get surprised if they're pointed out to me later - so I'm happy I managed to see this one - The complex position in the ru-vid.comLEMz6BXhG80 video still annoys me a month after I came across it as I analysed all 7 checks I could see and none of those were checkmate.) ₅ Checking the King and opening up a discovered attack on the Queen. ₆ K h1 is also possible but seems worse intuitively. (Note, I've never gone this deep into footnotes in a RU-vid comment before) ₇ Winning the Queen! ₈ White salvages the situation by capturing the Rook and putting his own in a position to dominate the d-file.
Thanks this helped me see the tactic. If you do Q to H4 then the attack on Pawn H2 threatens checkmate. So White will have to take the dark square bishop with the queen and sacrifice the queen. Not bad, but not checkmate.
Interesting but I doubt this gambit is sound, after d4, e5, dxe5 d6, Nf3 Nc6 white can play Bg5 and I don't see any compensation for black for the missing pawn. instead of 3. Nc6 black might consider Bg4 so after Bg5 a reasonable move is Qd7 but I still doubt black has enough for the pawn, white could consider playing g3 and bg2 later and his king looks safe.
It's true that this gambit is not completely sound and will probably not work against an expert-level opponent. However, in blitz games, gambits are often effective.
Sorry to hear about your Tube channel been hacked. Igor you are a wonderful Professional, thrilled to watch your videos with tactical moves. Stay safe, Thank you.
Much respect and thanks for the best chess lessons you share. Perfect for adult beginners like myself. Your videos allow me to win games without remembering opening names.
I've played through it a few times and the gambit to trap the queen may still be possible, depending on how scared your opponent is of Qe6, which is not much because if Qxd6, Qxd6. It becomes more likely that the knights ping-pong your queen around and it ends in a queen trade. Pretty much everything on the board is set to nuke everything else at the drop of a hat lol.
At 11:15 position what happens if white pushes the pawn from d6 to d7? Gonna have to do some maneuvering but won’t be able to castle? Move the king in front of the pawn and bring bishop to d6 to cut off the queens line then capture and manually castle maybe?
thank you so much for your very knowledgeable videos. i have very rarely had white take my pawn, they instead keep pushing their pawn to d5. what would you recommend then?
Hi Igor, its an interesting variation. since the Englund gambit is rare I imagine lower rated players will not know how to punish it, and black will get an active game with d4 players on the backfoot. However, more advanced players will still come out of the opening with an advantage and if they maintain it they'll be better in the endgame. After black's light square bishop goes to g4, its best for white to play h3. But even if white follows your moves they still are better, until they castle kingside. That's a mistake since they castle directly into black's attack. Its better to keep the king in the center and play h3 instead. If black exchanges the bishop, then white can play Qe2 preparing to castle queenside, thus avoiding black's kingside attack. p.s. very glad you got your channel back. You're a very clear teacher where i always get some new ideas and encouragement. I subscribed.
Nice, I'm starting to like the gambit style of playing. Forces your opponent to make decisions right out of the gate and tends to disrupt whatever opening they might have planned. Just played this against a 1500s level player and beat them in 14 moves.👍
Love ur instructive videos Igor .. By the way, how do we play against Bg5 recommended by engine for white instead of Bf4 (after d4, e5, de5, d6,nf3,nc6, Bg5)..
And what is the plan for Nc3 Bg4 Nb5? The treat is queen exchange and/or gaining the bishop pair with an extra pawn, and you don't have a strong attack without the queens on board.
I just challeneged an opponent and he played the Nf3 line and I was not expecting that LOL! This is still an amazing tactical gambit that works on advancing positioning versus quick wins. I also just recently started playing Caro Kann and it is sucha slow opening but so damn good if you know what you're doing!
I'm sorry to hear that you were hacked! Thank you so much for this video. I've been playing the mainline Englund gambit because at my level (around 1200) 1d4 usually means a boring London game, but even at that level almost everyone knew how to avoid the basic trap in the gambit so I was losing a lot. I've now had 7 games in this new line after watching this video and have won 6 of them! They've also been very fun games, so thank you so much for showing me such a fun and effective opening!
@@GMIgorSmirnov Thanks! By the way, do you have any plans to do a video on the Jaenisch Gambit/Schliemann Defense? It's basically the same as the Rousseau Gambit but against the Spanish not the Italian. I've been working on it for a while and I'm starting to get better playing it, but it's still nowhere near as effective as the Rousseau for me (because I've watched your video on the Rousseau about a 1000 times!)
I've found that opponents usually don't take on d6, I guess because it feels like a gambit trap like the Scotch gambit dynamic where white lets a couple of pawns taken for quick development.
Hey Igor, great video and excellent job explaining the lines. Just one very early counter that I figured.. After 1. d4 e4 2. dxe4 d6 3. exd6 bxd6 ... What if white plays 4. Nc3 .. as after this if black continues ..Nc6, white has this annoying refutation 5. Nb5! It will either force exchanging the strong dark squared bishop and a weak isolated pawn on d6 .. completely refuting plans of castling queen side and attacking whites king side. Cheers, AJ
First of all, every gambit has its "weaknesses!" otherwise we would all just play without :-) And now let me advise you the following: if White plays Nc3 "early" then our goal should be to achieve a "move changeover"! Look again at the position after White castled ( 4:10 ) and now you just pick a move other than Nc6 in response to Nc3! I suggest Qe7, which is also possible in "our" castling position! If Nb5 comes after all, then you have a few options, e.g. Bc5 or Be5, just "analyze"! Or just take other ways to play, the important thing is that we want to try to achieve the train changeover! :-) Maybe there are other possibilities, that's exactly what's so great about chess!
@@sirwilfried perhaps instead of Qe7, wait till the bishop is attacked, and move it to b7. The big mistake I made was to trade my b of his knight, leaving the lonely pawn in the d file. I´d like to see more about this line Nc3. Maybe the long castling is not convenient any more. Thank you. And thanks to Igor for these great videos on openings. I myself am trying to stay above 1500, which is starting to look feasible with the use of these videos. Falkbeer for king´s gambit, the most common mistake with e4 (I guess it could be called knight´s gambit), and these about d4)
I think your lessons are the best because you explain very clearly and direkt and without extra words or bla bla bla as many others...I love your method and very precious as well..thanks and I wait the next video lesson 😊
I wish you do more openings with C4/D4 with black and white tricks,cause a lots of players play this against me and i am more and E4 player.Thank you if you can do this!Your videos are very well done,very good!
I think that after: 1. d4 2. e5 3. dxe5 4. d6 5. nf3 6. nc6 7. bg5 I don't think there's any way for black to end up with compensation or a lead in development. Best options I can see are either qd7 which blocks in your bishop and loses a tempo, or be7 - which after exchanges you're just down a pawn with a worse position. I'd love to hear a way to refute 7. bg5 though! I like the idea of this opening. Thanks for the video!
Yes I agree,it just refutes it totally, black has no compensation for the pawn whatsoever,that's pretty much a forced line to, also Ne4 instead of e3, either gets rid of blacks BSB or exchanges Queens and advantage to white.
1 issue but love the content. @11:20 you move the Queen to F6. If white pushes the pawn to D7 checking the King, you lose your Queen by force (Ke7 or Kd8, Bg5 (pinning the queen), Qg5, Hg5). Mess up your pawn structure prior w/ (Bd6, Bd6, Pawn takes or Queen trade). Keep up the good work - TY
One question, if 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 and now 4.Nc3 to attack the bishop with Nb5 or Ne4 , that plan is over , and then what do we play ? Whites with 4.Nc3 no problems, thanks for your videos.
Actually the Englund mainline starting with 2... Nc6 and 3...Qe7 leads to a pawn capture on b2 and after some moves Black has a solid position, where both sides can manouvre. The traps that White can fall for are just occasional and nothing that Black has to rely on. It's just great if they work.
Im pleased to see the englund since i play that. Issue is i either manage to do the bf2+ queen trick and win (by not hanging my queen to discovered check immediately) or most likely loose with pawn promotions late.
What do you do if white declines taking the opening pawn on E5 and plays E4 instead to solidify his position? Had such a situation and was a bit lost thereafter.
This is my question, too. I can see how a lot of players will accept the two beginning pawn gambits, but if you play against Stockfish, this opening leaves you at a disadvantage, in my opinion.
The problem with this is if white takes the bishop with the knight, it reveals an attack on your other bishop. If you then take the queen, he can take the second bishop with check (Bxg4+), take your rook aswell and you're actually down material. If you first play Bxf3 and he takes back.. then you can do the reveal attack on the queen and it works out better.
Igor, you are a genius. I have been stuck around 890-900 for a long time. Like a really long time. With this and your other videos, I have leaped to 942 pretty quickly and believe that I can get to my goal of 1000 in the future. Thank you so much!
This opening is amazing, had so much success and caught some very strong players off guard. My only question is: What do we do if white instead of developing the Bishop on e2 to break the Pin goes to b5 pinning our Knight on c6 to the King threatening to capture our Knight and double our pawns on c7 and c6. I had a game where after castle queenside my opponent took the Knight on c6 and doubled my pawns, leaving my King exposed on the B file. If that happens is it possible to still somehow castle queenside or should we castle king side instead?
6:50 White could move Qe2, so that if black moves hxg3 then white can take back with fxg3 and black taking Qxg3 is met with Qg2 interposing.Although Rxh3 instead of Qxg3 probably wins by force
1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 d6 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.Bg5 Qd7 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.exd6 Bxd6 7.Nb5! You can also play Nb5 and attack the bishop on d6 early on. This effectively refutes all the ticks of the black in this gambit line.
Thank you Some weeks ago i had a tournament and i had to see your video literally 1h before, and my first opponent did d4, but I beat him quickly with this opening
What are your thoughts of playing e5 against D4, Old Benoni Defense. You haven't done a video on that...I don't think. It's my favorite gamibit against D4.
Hey Igor i was crushed when i saw you go off youtube last week. I thought you bailed out! Sorry to hear you were hacked. So glad u are back, love your videos!!!
thanks a lot for this video. But what if white doesn't accept the gambit and doesn't take the poin on d6 and play Kf3 for example its very diificult to have a good game.
After I moved bishop to g4, white (one of the more advanced Stockfish Fairy programs) moved knight to b5 attacking my dark square bishop, and I did not know how rot deal with it. White then proceeded to launch a vicious attack which unfortunately led to my demise.
1. D4, e5 2. Dxe5, D6 3. Nf3, Nc6 4. Bg5!... Bg5 seems to shut down any hopes of black counter attacking. Can you offer any comment on this, GM Smirnov?
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