Use this opening to climb effortlessly 

Your vote means the world to me! chessable.typeform.com/to/iRbVMocL

He's back folks. I can finally stop bingeing the old Jobava speedrun

“Jerking off on g7” is something I’d never thought I’d hear, ESPECIALLY not from Alex 😂😂 I love it

Thank god you are back, your videos are the best chess content! I went from 512 to 1181 in under 2 months thanks to your great teachings.

Alex is the best chess youtuber by far, calm, funny and sophisticated

Drop the course!

Glad to see you back on RU-vid. Thanks Alex. I have both courses (Caro y London) but i need one for black vs 1.D4

“I like to call this pawn structure, the boa constrictor variation…I just came up with that name” 😭😂

You are doing a great job - we love you too Alex! I appreciate you for your format and calmness while teaching and also the cute little stories / analogies that bring things to life. Plus your enthusiasm! I think you're onto a winner

@AlexBanzea I just wanted to say thanks for the content. I've focussed on the Jobava London for a couple of months and your videos have really helped me progress. I like the "3 actual games" format with the sort of moves that you actually encounter in real games. Too many courses focus on typical GM moves but I don't get to play a lot of titled players at my level! Keep them coming...

Absolutely appreciate you taking the time to make the course as great as possible! Thank you

good to see a new VIdeo Alex! Love the content!

So happy to vote for you and thanks for sharing all your knowledge and good humour. Cheers from Sydney🎹

Thanks for the course update at the end of the video ❤ Skipped to view that of course.. Good luck coming months..

Love your videos Alex !

Welcome back, loving the content !

keep going with jobava brother, always refreshing my feed to look for your new videos

Very instructive video about Jobava london..Thanks for making it so easy to understand!

I like your attitude and energy. Stay up !

yay! been waiting for a new video!

I switched to the Jobava London recently, gonna start watch all your other rating climbs

Thank You for another excellent lesson!

This video solves a bunch of issues I’ve started seeing in my Jobava games. Looking forward to the course. Thanks

Brilliant commentary ... Thanks 🎉🎉🎉

i like how the explanation on how to win with an extra pawn. brilliant!

Loved this video (again). These where a few lines where I was struggling with so I will try them out right now. Ooh and also I can’t wait till you’re Jobava course is ready! But I gladly will :). Thnx for these great videos!!

Nice a new video, with new analogies and a great announcement. Take your time and take care of course!

We love your content , Alex Banzea ! Thank you for improving our chess skills 😊

thanks for the content, first vid in the morning for me

10:50 (ish) I just want to highlight something that is impressive. English is your second language So to hear you say and calculate math (yes even basic math) is still pretty cool and impressive. I know a little Mandarin and Spanish and if I did math out loud I’d auto default to my native language

Started playing chess last year and was stuck around 500 before discovering your jobava and caro kann videos and i just hit over 1200 for the first time the other day playing these openings almost exclusively. Cheers

You’re an absolute legend!!

Been watching your content for a while now, started chess about just under a year now and have hit 1400 rapid from your jobava london and caro kann videos, thank you ❤

i liked the king in the first game even though he had no moves for a while he was still completely safe and helping to add pressure to the position

Just voted for you! keep up the good work.

Got my votes! Thanks for the content Alex.

Your channel is a gem, both this and the CK course are helping me blunder way less (I'm a complete noob) + I get entertained. Cheers!

Yay!! Let's listen to some analogies.. the best parta of this videos 😂

Never stop with the Caro and Jobava vids Alex. Love your content dude !!

I’m going to buy your jobava course as soon as it drops

this jobava is the truth ..haven't perfected it yet but already seeing major results

Great game!

Thank you for these videos - you are my chess RU-vid favourite. Ahead of the rest by a country mile.

I've definitely learned so much from your vids alex. Def more than any other chess streamer. And you don't have to be loud in order to be funny like Levy. Keep up the good work alex

In the last game, near the end, with your queen attacked by his rook - but the rook was pinned by your rook, and he took your pawn with his queen, attacking your queen - wouldn’t you take his rook for check, he’d have to take back with his bishop, then you take his queen. That leaves him with just one rook and a bishop against your queen and two bishops and other rook - an easier ending with less chances for black. You got my votes (for different categories, not because I voted twice).

Game 2 is crucial. Everyone and their mom plays e6 and pins the c3 knight around 1000-1200 elo. All the cool looking games where you chase opponent's g4 bishop never actually happen, because white's light square bishop always winds up blocked in by pawn chain. And if by some miracle it's not blocked in, they often just put it on d7 or e6 lol

Yes, you are back!😂 I'm happy to see higher rated games.

Alex for the WIN! And another Win! and Another Win! Alex has become the Meryl Streep of Chessable. Though I haven't started his actual courses I've bought, I've listened to hours of his youtube videos. The best "take away" thus far has been his advice to "cool it" after securing an advantage. I'll leave the "dating scenario" similes to him but after finding an advantage, often I's get too aggressive and blunder it away. Now, if I remember, I sit back, trade when appropriate, and let the advantage ... what phrase did one chess player said, "...speak for itself."

Appreciate your hard work. Take care of yourself first and foremost. Look forward to the new Jobava course. And looking forward to some kid videos. Thanks Alex.

thank you alex :)

Love you Alex ❤

I'd been put off the Jobava as it looks a little loose for me, but I'm now going to watch all your videos and jump in online at the same time. Looking forward to the course having done your excellent London course.

thank you alex for the update on your new course! love your content! could you please add the model games in the carokann course as you did in the london system course? or at least a link to the games! at the end of the variations you add the description of the model game but some i can't seem to find and they would be really helpful! thanks!

The metaphors just get better and better

Good to hear that the Jobava course will be more focused. I definitely felt overwhelmed with all the variations in your London course. While I do appreciate how indepth it is, it makes it harder for me to train and remember the key lines. I think having the pgn available for indepth study on the side is a great compromise. Basically train and learn the key lines and have a reference on the side when oddball lines pop up and we want to see what you recommend against them.

Where was you!? I checked every day man. Thanks for the new video!

please make a series on endgames, the way you flawlessly murder opponents in endgames in intermediate level is just blissful to watch i am great at openings, decent in midgames but always lose a winning position going into endgame

Alex, when I was a young kid (72 years ago) and my bother and sister were getting into mischief, I remember the phrase, “ut-oh, here comes mommy with the wooden spoon.” So when I saw you mention the wooden spoon on one of your videos, I got a big smile on my face - knowing the specter of the “wooden spoon” crossed generations and cultures.

Oooh a pool player reference. I love it!

Great explanation of a very strong opening. *_Can I please ask what is your best intermediate (1400-1800) recommendation against d4 as black?_* Back to the jobava, I love it! Its not as easy to play as the london for an intermediate player like me because it is not a system and you have to react more accurately to your opponents moves, but you do an excellent job of breaking down the lines and making them logical so I can work it out for myself instead of having to memorise many moves and I am starting to see good results, especially in rapid 15|10 where I have more time to think. So we have the caro kaan against e4 as black but I would love to see your in depth analysis of your best recommended response to d4 (unless I am dumb and you have already done this). I find the Kings Indian very complex to play after the first 10-15 moves so I have been trying the dutch because many d4 players dont know the lines well but I don't see many GMs playing it so probably it's not very strong even if it brings some easy wins! Do you think the polish (b5) has good potential as black because again it might not be the strongest opening but many d4 players have no idea how to play against it? Thanks a lot Alex for your great channel. I always leave a like 😁👍

Banzeeeeeeus🎉

your finally back ❤

thanks for all your videos. I voted for you in 3 questions coz you deserve support. Thanks again.

I enjoy your quirky patter - you have a wicked sense of humour. I have had the pleasure of working with many absolutely superb Romanian geoscience folks over the years several while I was on contract in Albania many years ago. I am a 69 year old wood pusher who still struggles to get into the 2000s - I keep remaining blind to so many dumb blunders when in winning positions. I try the puzzles on Lichess and generally get to a round 2200 before falling back again from silly mistakes. But in rapid games I struggle to get much above 1600 - I just think too slow - or too fast... I have enjoyed your Jobava London material - and I have quite a lot of fun (and wins) with what I have learned - I still struggle a bit to find the best responses when someone with black does something funny - I just have to get better at understanding that my moves really do depend on just what my opponent does - and moves have to make sense in every new combination. (I get there after embarrassing myself enough times!) I have a good mining friend ten years my senior and we have fun laying aided by some fine scotches. (I do not think that improves our games - but it is fun nonetheless!) Keep up the good work and keep that sunny attitude too.

Just voted for the winner, AB! So happy to see you back, now I can start winning again. Waiting impatiently for your Jojoba course which will be the winning coursr for 2024. Just make sure not 2025, HA!

London jaba caro :) all what we like to see :) (besides u!) . Thanks for the content. Owning all courses. Just little bit pity that its not coming out on chessable. All my courses are there :(. Can you already hint the plattform where its coming out ?Keep it up.

Best chess instructor in the world! His intellectual boxing skills are unsurpassed. He knows what every Russian school girl knows, those Romanian guys are smooth operators- lol.

My mentor has posted finally

Wow, great video. Game #2 was especially useful to me because it’s similar to most of my otb Jobava games. Thanks Alex!

Id vote for you, i tried actually. Dont have chessable account. But you have been the best chess coach ive had and raised my rating from 700 to 1200 in a month. I could have kept grinding but chess is a little too repeatative for me as a game of skill. A video on Fischer random would be awesome. Its a more tactics driven and less memorization from what ive heard.

Thank you so much Alex ❤ i play since 6 months now, and thanks to your Caro Kann, King's Indian and mainly cause of your amazing JOBAVA LONDON ❤ i am at 1700-1800 rated already. Looking forward to your jls course!!! Btw. i've a Jobava London Game on my Channel and i would love to hear what you think about it. Much love and honestly thank you for your effort!!! (Membership incoming 😊)

Waiting for your Jobava course on Chessable

28:07 very graphic and clear!!

If youve pushed your knight to b5 early, and their bishop is on d6, my engine prywfers you take vishop with knight eather than leave the teo bishops facing eachother. I know that wasnt an option here because of c6.

Alex, there are some sick lines in Canty's Jobava course. Would love to see what you "makes the cut" in your course.

Thanks omu', bravo pentru tot ceea ce faci! Pe mine m'a ajutat si pe fiu'miu de sase ani ;)

The Queen sac that he spoke about doesn't work if black captures with the other rook, rather than the King.

These are great, would you do a mix of white and black openings in one video?

I missed you jobava king

Best Jobava video yet!! I always lose with the double f pawn!

You should make a video on how to counter the "alien gambit"

Whoop whoop we've missed you Alex ❤, hope you're doing well!!

Where have you been, missed all the content

Badrack Jobama

I've never gone back to normal London anymore. Just can't.

Simplify is best ❤️ in chess !!

nice video

I've played the Stonewall for a long time, so this first game is pretty familiar territory. What are your thoughts on the Stonewall?

Hey Alex, i am Back to Support you! My grandpa Just passed and away after a Lot of problems in the Family our Family of my father's Side abandoned us completely. Seeing you at least makes me Smile! Thank you for beeing as a wonderful human beeing as you are! ❤

Banzea at 12:40..... also Banzea 16:43 --> coming from a 2600 :D I think 22:06 is the reason why a 1000 - 1200 player kinda feels like being plus 1 isn't winning for sure ;P jokes aside, great vid! Thank you very much.

Alex, work on course as much time as it takes, we need exactly the same quality with what you do your courses, not the number of endless Analyses that some authors stamped. We all appreciate what you do for all chess fans around the world, you are our best chess teacher and coach, thank you!)

Can we get a queens gambit and/or Catalan vid??

you need to upload a lot more man

Can we have a catalan speedrun PLEASE

Hi Alex. I loved this and all of your Jobava courses on RU-vid. You are an excellent teacher with a great sense of humor! I really want to dive deeper with Jobava and looked into purchasing your Chessable course...but it looks like it's more about the traditional London system and not the Jobava. Am I wrong? Do you have suggestions? Thanks so much and keep producing content!!

Would you consider "Modal games" chapter in Jobava course?

100 point increase so far with this opening.

Jobava speed run at blitz 3min would be amazing and new content

If IM Alex will transfer to NZ he will play Board 1 for sure 😊

Early a6 for black seems to really shut this down at higher levels no?