THIS VIDEO SAVED MY LIFE. too bad the creator died horribly and tragigly and badly when he was caught casting an illegal spell in the 1300s and was promptly feasted by the local gnome police security community. my condolences to his family! soooooooooooooooo sad!
This is my favorite opening. Bought a chess book when I started learning. Opened it up and randomly saw the Larsens 1.B3 opening and having been playing it ever since. I have played over 80 games with it. But, I haven’t ever really found a video that explains a lot about it or the other variations. This video is a life saver. I will be referring back to this video a LOT as I continue to work on my beloved baby orangutan opening 🦧 Thank you so much !
This is 'the best' chess channel I've ever come across... very clear explanation, every move covered...I've seen a lot of channels but this one's a gem 💎
the best explanation in the entire history of chess i have seen till now, i started playing this opening and i have came across many opening videos for this and kings indan this channel is literally the best one. (please do kings Indian -pirc defense) (with its all variations like this video)
Very clear video, the pace of the explanation is just great: we can pause and replay over the board - so many tutorials engage in lengthy side comments with a sleepy voice. Great. Keep going.
Here’s the thing though. I’ve played this opening a ton in blitz and rapid games over the years. The one thing this video fails to address, which I run into about every other game, is people just push their E pawn so you have a hard time developing your pieces.
Depending on when he plays e4 it is either c4 preventing d5 or d3 challenging the overextended e pawn. That's just at a cursory glance though, the Lichess database is fantastic and you can find all sorts of lines and variations there.
I been off chess for many years (10+). There is an upcoming (2 weeks) strong blitz and rapid event that I want to play (it will have GM, IM, FMs). I'm just 1800, so to cover my lack of opening preparation, I'll choose this opening to focus my training on tactics. I'll update here after the tournament to let you know if it worked for me. By the way, is there a video for 1...b6?
Every time I analyze a video like this and try my best to have a clean game and get practice with it my opponent ends up playing something like f1 or h2 I swear 😭
Bro literally every time i play it my opponent plays the modern variation, i encountered the classical few times and the dutch variation is surprisingly so strong against this opening😭
At 12:39 you're suggesting black play Rb8 but that's not even in the top 3 best moves black has in that position. Black can trade Nxd4 Qxd4 and then follow it up with b5. That doesn't look like a fun position to play for white. The Dutch variation also underestimates black's kingside attack. This video is fine but I hate when the openings are presented as flawless and awesome in all variations. This opening is not flawless and not always awesome. It's disingenuous to present it like that.
And the last variation. The entire point of that is black can force white to play Bc1 with advancing the pawn to a3 (not capturing) after Nc3. Why did you dismiss that? Black is BETTER there after Nc3. 1. b3 a5 2. Bb2 a4 3. Nc3 a3 4. Bc1 Come on.
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