mato jelic does not need us to show us his face to teach something no ego like these guys who feel showing their face gives us something it does not.we only need to see the board
I never knew it was a well known gambit, kept running into it a lot of times during my blitz games and i just slowly learned how to defend against it with the help of engine analysis at the end of my games.
I am a beginner and want to learn the Englund Gambit The Jackpot (1:36) : If he premoves : 0:57 If he takes : 1:15 If something goes wrong : If the knight takes : 3:05 Knight c3 : 3:44 Rook to b1 : 4:35 Knight to d5 : 6:03
The problem with Levy having 1.8M subscribers now is that these "rarely played" openings are now played by 1.8M people. And this goes for the Vienna, the Vienna Gambit, etc, etc. You can actually tell that you are playing a Levi's subscriber when they use these not-rare-anymore weapons :) I mean, this is a great tribute to the amazing influence that Levi has, but it has its downsides :)
Loved the short rant about teaching to garden, then not owning the responsibility of your own outcome. I love chess as well as gardening. Thanks for constant inspiration!
Hey levy, just wanted to let you know that you content is really appreciated and im waiting impatiently for every video you make. You inspired me to make compliment to people and remember them they’re amazing. I hope everything is good in you life right now, Thanks you for your dedication toward your community, your an absolutely amazing person!
I enjoy Levy's ability to talk to us while playing, like he can split his brain and still win games while instantly analyzing on the fly and explaining moves to us. When I play, I can't even answer a text or I'm thrown off my game.
I would like to personally thank all Englund players, never stop playing the Englund gambit. As a d4 player, nothing is more reassuring than my opponent playing 1.. e5, losing the game in one move. It's like a gift of free rating points every single time. Kudos to you guys
@@deutscheblitzkrieg Makes sense. I mean all I did was look at the engine responses to the englund lines, and my opponents usually don't know the lines after the first few moves, so I almost always come out of the opening winning
@@wicked5999 Yes, the gambit isn't that hard to refute. Under 1000 elo it has maybe about 10% conversion rate and above it, maybe 5%. But it is still playable. I have over 50% win rate with it, so it is an ok opening, especially in faster time formats. I've also caught a lot of London system premovers by surprise with it.
Pro tip for anyone wanting an easy refutation against the englund: -get to the position shown at 8:32 but instead of playing e4, you first play f4 and only then e4. -You have two pawns in the center and a developed knight. -develop your bishops with tempo on their queen. It is not winning by any means, but I (a 1700) have won 22/22 of my games from that position. Its just that easy to play.
@@Ebin-ix2jg In chess we have rating system called ELO. My ELO rating is 1700. On chess sites your rating is used to pair you up agianst opponents of similar playing strength. If you win, your elo goes up by a few points, and your opponents elo drops a few points amd the reverse if you lose. Complete beginners are usualy between 0-1000 elo and the top players of the world have a rating between 2500-3000. People have different elo ratings for the different time controls, and over the board vs online.
Yes Levy, more videos like this please, very instructional. Remember, just talking out your thought process while playing games is immensely helpful. Who doesn't want a little peak at the mind of a master? I'd love to see more rating climbs/speedruns where you just talk through your process.
Gotham: THIS GAMBIT IS ZO DANGEROUS Also Gotham: 13:41: white is definitely a bit better 14:50: white definitely is better 23:07: we are definitely not suffering too much 23:04: we are still doing 'oke' That coming from an IM the gambit doesn't sound so dangerous.
This line is straight up powerful. Unlike other gambit trap lines like for example the Intercontinential Ballisctic Misslie Gambit, it isn't easy for the opponent to deal with, and a lot more of your opponents will play the moves you want. I've played the Englund Gambit many times, and a large majority of my opponents accept the gambit and fall for this trap.
That beginning move is fantastic!! Just learning how to play and my wife and I are back and forth with thr wins. This move will help me out big time. First ill try it on my 7 year old and get some practice in...lol
Of 1M subscribers there are probably 500 who are thinking of this gambit. Another 500 are thinking of Vienna gambit. If Levy chose to discuss the Vienna, then I’m sure one of those guys would post “hey this is amazing... I was just thinking of this gambit!!” 😂😂😂
I love when I watch one of your videos, get the hang of it, practice a bit, and then I get the "wrong" opening 86 times in a row lol. For literally 3 days I've only seen e4 and c4 hahaha
Dude I'm fucking murdering people with this Gambit. Every game they either drop their bishop immediately, or the entire king side is emptied out and the king gets checked mercilessly until they blunder something.
I love when players play this. More often than not at the 900-1000 level, when I don't immediately fall for the gambit they're not prepared well enough for the alternative play, and they're forced to play down a piece with their queen over extended and it often results in me just wiping them out.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Levy's consistency? He uploads 1-2 videos practically every day, each time being extremely entertaining and educational. Whenever I'm in a bad mood, these videos always cheer me up. Thank you, Levy. YOU are more important than a queen.
This is my favorite bad gambit. I play it all the time, it does really well among my fellow low-rated players lol. I almost always continue with the Soller defense, which sacs yet ANOTHER pawn and leaves the rook with a half open file after castling
I just got the d4 course, and now you put out not one, but two videos on how to crush the openings mentioned in it. So I guess here’s a reminder to make a “how to crush the trompowsky” video before you forget.
Yeah if his d4 course was complete he would tell you how to refute the englund since it's rly ez. I learned it in like an hour and a half of self study which is probably like a 20 minute video max
@@PaulPari yeah I thought of that but maybe he turned off his phone after he deleted the message and after refreshing the page whenever he would use it again, he would see the reply and learn to be more polite, genius. I meant this for them, not for you so please mind your own business and don't be a bitch
I kind of intuitively played this gambit against my opponent and destroyed them. I saw in the engine that I had played the Englund gambit. You of course did a video on it. It's great, but I'm so glad you did the counter play here so I don't get smacked back if they play that line.
I am a beginner and want to learn the Englund Gambit The Jackpot (1:36) : If he premoves : 0:57 If he takes : 1:15 If something goes wrong : If the knight takes : 3:05 Knight c3 : 3:44 Rook to b1 : 4:35 Knight to d5 : 6:03 posting just for me
The Englund is awful, since the refutation is pretty obvious. Unlike some gambits, you don't have to play anything too unusual to beat it - normal, logical moves defeat it. It's a one-trick pony that fails pretty often.
I'm reminded of something Tim McGrew once said of some other unsound but tricky gambits: you can defeat it with normal, logical moves, but they need to be the "right" normal, logical moves. Most combinations of normal, logical moves will result in just a small advantage for White, and it's probably due to that and the traps that result in the Englund scoring quite well for Black. That said, after playing this line regularly from 2004-2009, finding out about the strength of that 8.Nd5 line that forces ...Kd8 did put me off playing it somewhat, as it doesn't feel good hoping that my opponents don't know and won't stumble into the line that gives White a clear advantage.
Thanks for popularizing this, I'm encountering this a lot as white recently. After 1... e5 I usually offer them the chance to take the move back. They always decline, and then proceed to lose in about 15 moves on average :)
The problem with levy nowadays is that when he does these videos is that he's so popular that he ruins all of the openings for us because everyone watches him and now and learns how to beat our favourite traps.
1:35 Interestingly, Bf4 isn't even a bad move, apparently. It's the top Stockfish 15 NNUE move at depth 30, +1.92. The other almost-as-good ideas: - Nc3 +1.86, the "whatever, just take my pawn" line Levi mentions at 1:28. They will do so with Nxe5, but then you get to go back to a normal London and play your Bf4 (or e4 is apparently ok too). And that Bf4 means that Black needs to trade off its activated Knight, which it can try to delay with d6 but that just lets white take the middle with Qd4, and either way White will soon Long-Castle. - Bg5 +1.82, which is really cool as it hits the Queen and is protected by the Knight, prevents the check-fork, and the f6 "Levi told to kick out overly-aggressive bishops with pawns" response isn't actually the best move for black! It's +1.91, but Qe6 and Qc5 are +1.71. If they try f6, as white you just take with your pawn (exf6), and they need to take back with their Knight. Taking back with the pawn instead is .65 worse for them, and trying Qb4+ to get back to the gambit is a whole 2.55 worse -- apparently if they try that check it's +4.54 for white! The other nice thing about Bg5 is that if they try the Qb4+ so your Bishop just isn't attacking anything, apparently your best move is the "I wanted to do that anyway" Nc3, though bringing the bishop back to block (Bd2) is also still a winning position (only about ½ a pawn worse). Black still gets its pawn back with Qxb2, though, and white still needs to play Bd2 immediately to guard the Knight (and against Bd4), which is still Black's best move even after you defend against it. But as white you haven't lost your Rook, so get to play Rb1, attacking the Queen (since your rook is protected by your Queen) and claiming the b file. Hmm, Bg5 is apparently also the correct response if they offer to trade pawns with d6 (which the engine claims is a better choice than the Queen move). But g5 is better for Black than d6, especially against humans who like to show off En Passant, because Bf4 (any maybe Nc3 too) is a better response than exd6.
The challenge with this rating system in my rapid/blitz games, given my rating, is the opponents aren't skilled enough to fall for it... that's a precise series of moves.
I know these titles get more views, but do plan to change them in the future, so that they appear when someone searches for the particular topic? (I mean, someone looking for the Englund Gambit may not find this video because of the title)
Those games perfectly represent the problems of memorising some tricky line or how to counter said line because as soon as you run out of moves you still are a beginner and lose any advantage you gained, particularly when you play against a player 1000+ points stronger than you.
I means if you are playing against a player 1000+ elo higher than you, you are going to lose either way lmao you have way less than 1% chance of winning in the first place.
