Turning balanced positions into free wins | Caro-Kann Defense 

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Alex’s true skill is having both sides of a conversation 😂 love it!

Just when i start struggling in converting caro games after opening moves you came with this video. You have been my favourite chess youtuber recently. You are good with those light humours examples.

I LOVE THESE TYPES OF VIDEOS YOU PUT OUT! IT HELPS ME SO MUCH IN MY LONDONA AND CARO GAMES BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY COMMON MISTAKES. KEEP THESE VIDEOS COMING!

14:02 i love the mental pictures you paint. lol. "falls from the chair, mom starts calling..." i just imagine a total mental breakdown... hilarious, dry humor. f***ing love it

Hey Alex. Your videos have been way more instructive for me compared to other chess teachers or streamers. Your humor is hilarious to. Don't stop teaching and making videos. There's people in the world that appreciate you like myself. You showed me how to be an advanced thinker and raise my elo and I will never forget you.💯

I will neither confirm nor deny the penis lengthening effect of playing the Caro-Kann, but my elo has certainly “hardened” and improved thanks to Mr. Banzea

21:51 I think it's worth mentioning, in some positions like this the pawn on d4 is not really hanging, because white has Bxe8, removing the guard of g7. In this case Bxe8 doesn't work because white Queen can be chased away from the g file and white will end up losing a bishop on h6.

3:16 "Pretty much the same as when you enter a new grocery store. First things first - find the alcohol section" had me dead 💀💀

Please make more vids about the London and Caro!

I love Alex's teaching style and his analogies - The one about having to go to school but having sandwiches from home still makes us laugh :)

I have been learning from your Caro-Kann master class. I am 3 hours in and it is wonderful content. I know what I am doing this weekend! Thank you for the videos Alex, great job!

Said this earlier but I came across your channel roughly a week or two ago! Since then I’ve been hooked. I love your videos and they’re super informative / entertaining . Keep them coming Alex 🙏🏼🙏🏼

LOVE this Caro-Kann series! Thank you

Apart from the absolutely massive knowledge bombs I'm getting from Alex's videos, my second favourite thing is the multitude of parables he throws out! This video had at least alcohol spot in a supermarket, petting a dog, robbing a shop and many others! Love it love it!

great to see your videos and your personality out more. youre a great teacher!

Looking forward to the caro course Alex! Cheers m8

Alex, you have the best commentary on RU-vid. I find myself laughing out loud watching your videos. Which is great, because it distracts me from how bad I am at chess 😅

You only missed the free pawn once, if you had moved your c6 knight the LS bishop was x-raying the knight on e8 defending checkmate. He could have snapped it off then won until he moved his DS bishop away next turn

i love your stories Alex, hilarious and very helpful

Thank you for these very instructive and funny videos!!

6:14 SENT ME 😂😂😂

Great material Alex

beautiful vid alex

I love the grocery shop analogy. It's like this guy knows me already. ... more seriously this is awesome ...whole series on the Caro which is definitely my favourite opening as black.

These Bb5+ happen soooo often. It's bad if you know how to counter it so your video is great for this :)

Alex my friend I wish you weren't so hard on yourself, thank you for all the lessons you've shared!

Bishop H3. "They fall off their chair. Have a heart attack. Their mum starts calling. They have to leave the room..." 😂😂😂😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣

These random surprise analogies crack me up it's usually when I'm reminded to like the video. How u say them all the time but I never see them coming 😂😂😂

lol. Fun and funny channel. You gave me a few laughs. Thanks for the tips. Great Job!

"take all his stuff, his wife included" had me rollin on the floor.

It’s such a flex. how he casually lets his clock run down and then just gets mate in like 5 seconds.

Instructive and funny! Open columns = alcohol area :) Thank you for all your videos, learning a lot from them!

I was struggling to find a top quality caro Kann teacher who also has a great sense of humility until I found you. Sende of humour is also spot on

Why is this guy so funny? The humor makes sense to me as he explains. 😅

Love your videos and super excited for your course! Would it be possible to do a few videos where all of the matches are based off of the same variation of the Caro? Like one video with just just games of the advanced, one video with just games of the exchange, etc? Thanks for the lessons!

love your videos....i still suck at chess but your dry humour keeps me coming back

Hilarious and thank you🙌🏽

I only remember the comparisons to real live but they help a lot :D

Thank you Alex! I have surpassed 1200 elo blockade thanks to you.

Since I do not study chess openings and I am afraid of all the aggressive gambits people usually play, I have been playing this Caro for years now and I am happy that I applied your strategy even before watching your videos. The minority attack in these structures really gives black a very comfortable game and I have won so many games playing like this. And more important you skip a lot of theory you don't really need at this level.

I'm not which I like more, the chess advice or the anecdotes!

Great lines off and on the board! haha. My Romanian anecdotes have improved just as much as my chess.

The knight: "am I a joke to you?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I can confirm huge growth since subbing. Will probably buy the caro course and ditch the scandi.

Best teacher out there

Tour vids the best

On the move 13 of the Game 2 I was confused about taking the pawn right away, because afterwards there's Bishop takes Ne8 threatening mate / losing rook. But then there's classy 14...Nf5 both defending g7 from mate, winning a tempo on g3 queen and attacking the bishop on h7, wow

I like the sudden change in face expression at 5:41

Great instructive games! We know you also mean to say post-game analysis ;)

I like his confidence on his jokes and im all for it 😂😂

How he bought alcohol first in ur groceries. loved it!!!

Was 600elo when i started watching you now im 1000+ tyy keep it up

Hi Alex, love your teaching style. When is your Caro-Kann course coming out on chessable?

Love the grocery store metaphor 😂

🔥🔥🔥 let’s gooo

Please make video on Queen's Gambit

25:28 Remove the guard, fork. To avoid this I have to think, 'Where is my king going to be when I castle? Oh; on an open diagonal. Should I allow the check? NO.'

Road to 50k I see!

Cant wait for the caro course! Do you have a waiting list, or mail list to get notified about the release?

Lexy: releases another take wat yu can videos Me: makes insta clocking noises

Love this series, great video

Great video. Can you tell tentatively when is the chessable course coming?

15:07 i think that here black has Bh4 basically winning bishop by force. I can’t say how many times I’ve managed to do it in my games. This is really invisible move for lower rated players :)

"it's like moving away from your parents before you're 30. You don't have to do it but you can.". Crack me up! ❗❗

The double pawn, very vulnerable, pretty much like an upside down turtle 😅

what a god

hahaha locate the booze first anhaha a real Romanian hahahah I love your stories they make my day

I love how you just have a wooden spoon on standby in that last game 😂

Can you do a series like this with the French?? With the other variations and not just the fort Knox?

I tend to struggle in the caro when White castles long out of the exchange variation. I know its not considered objectively winning for white, but I haven't quite figured out how to stop it consistently, nonetheless.

In levys caro course he teaches me that in the exchange you want to trade your light squared bishop for whites light squared bishop so you shouldnt take the knight on f3. Is levy wrong or are both options playable?

At 59:23 was premoving the queens to mate like that totally safe? It seems like if white could have positioned his king on c1 at the right point he could have gotten a stalemate. In this particular example, the dark square bishop and queen protecting the light diagonal keeps the king out, which I'm sure you noticed, but I doubt all of your viewers are aware of subtleties like that! When premoving ladder mates I prefer to do it with a rook and queen instead to avoid this risk.

tare de tot faza d p final meci 3 pfffffffffff

Does anyone else await with trepidation the moment where Alex inevitably says: "following game." 🙂

I've always wondered some times you put A1 rook on b file and sometime son C file. Does it matter much. what makes you decide which is better?

That bishop is like an annoying mosquito LOL

wowowowoowow

36:12 That bishop sac on.h6, I bet you don't take it. You are interested in the queen side pawns.

Chess master, dating and life skills coach, and comedian 😂

Hipped when I saw it’s 1 hour video 🎉

taking a pawn there in a 2nd game would be a mistake. Then bishop takes knight and then mating game from the white

After alcohol them you look for food...😅😅 that's my guy!

Can you make a video about Dutch defense

Please start on the scandinavian defense also peeps catching up on the caro kann now

At 14:24 what do you think about moving knight to h6 instead of backward?

14:33 KNIGHT E8‼️😂

Ahh the alcohol area

I have to admit I'm here for the dry humour :)

@Alex At 14:45, what are your thoughts about Kh5 instead of Ke8?

Hello alex when will the caro kann course be out ?

When does the chessable course drop.

In the second game, was it also reason able to play nh5 to attack the queen and stop mate?

Do u take students? I wrote u on lichess 😄 when the caro course will be out?

29:57 Smother mate.

Can you show us how to deal with c4 ?

15:20 for some reason people just forget the bishop is pinned and you can take it me: im people...

question, but if you took the pawn wiht the knight, couldn't the opponent take your knight on e8 with his bishop, and putting you in a pretty dire situation as you have to move pawn on g7 at that point?

What black opening would you suggest for black against 1d4? (I have been liking the chameleon slav) (i need something to finish my repertoire of london + caro + ____?)

the analogisch are epic. 😂