Amateur Openings & Gambits | Play Like a Pro - IM Eric Rosen

this lecture is play like a pro and today I'm not going to necessarily show games of pro players but I'm going to show opening z' and why they're not common at the professional level and also show like a lot of amateur openings which are either refuted or close to refuted a lot of gambits that you guys might enjoy playing and so basically what a professional would do against them okay so hopefully that sounds fun if you guys have like any openings you want to focus on any like really annoying gamuts that you face I know you mentioned Kings gambit which maybe at some point I can give recommendation for a black anything else come to mind elephant gambit let me ask you guys so what do you guys play against me for it's just French right French French d5 okay that's actually good because I have a few different French lines and I have a few different 45 lines know what the max thing okay fair enough let's I'm gonna go in order here and for this lecture like the openings I go over their openings that you could potentially play if you know your opponent plays a specific opening if you know your opponent plays like the Danish gamut or The Goring gamut then listen closely because that's what I'm gonna cover it first now the Danish gambit it's very popular opening among lower level players it's maybe even like the first opening that many players learn where it's essentially the idea is to give away not just one pawn but two pawns together position like this with very much accelerated development and two bishops open position and this this can be something that black will struggle against it like the lower levels so I would like to show my recommendation like if I were to play a tournament tomorrow and I play e4 e5 is black I'll show what I would do again going back here to to the position after c3 I do not accept the gambit I play a line which prioritizes development and peace activity and I can highly recommend playing this move on d5 what this does is it pretty much forces like to take and then we take with Queen even though the Queen's coming out early white doesn't have Knight c3 immediately and there's many ways for black to maintain the Queen in the center while bringing in other pieces with initiative so usually usually white will take on d4 and we can play knight c6 attacking the pawn white will usually defend with Knight f3 and we can continue developing with attack Bishop g4 now already this looks nice for black now I will say a lot of players who play like the Danish gambit will be happy going into this line because there's a pretty famous trap from this position where White has a very sneaky move Bishop e2 and the point of this move is that it looks like black can win a pawn but if black tries to win the pawn will be severely punished so let's imagine Bishop take f3 Bishop take F to be Queen take T for why is this terrible for black yeah yes yeah this should take c6 removal of the garden this comes with check and black is is losing the Queen next move so if you go into this line as black don't take on f3 and then take on d4 that's that's one way to lose really quickly so instead black can just continue developing and play this move Bishop b4 nice move forcing white to block White will usually play Knight c3 now black still has to be accurate here cuz white does inherently have more space with the D pawn and White's ready to castle and then after castling the pin will be no longer existing and then the Queen will be attacked so there's a very specific way that if you play this line you should know up and up until this point and also know a few moves further down the line best move for black in this position may look counterintuitive especially with what we just saw but that's move is a bishop take out three and after a bishop take f3 again we can't take on d4 because if bishop takes you six but we have a very powerful square for the Queen so black to move here where should the Queen go yes Queen c4 this is very nice opening preparation and after Queen c4 we're not winning the pawn but we're applying a lot of pressure we're also preventing light from castling so this King is stuck in the center we have threats of both Bishop takes c3 and also Knight take d4 and if white doesn't play precisely here then white can get at worst position very easily now the most precise way for a white to play is to first capture on c6 remove the night let me ask you guys would you take with the pawn or with the Queen take with pawn what do you guys think Chris first impression queen so two votes for applauding one vote for Queen the best move is actually to take with a pawn even though this is allowing double pawns we want the Queen to be on c4 to prevent white from casting and we'll see you later on in the game the these double pawns aren't that weak because White's won't have too many ways to attack them and they're very easily defended and White's still under pressure here because Queen on c4 is very annoying the threat is still Pitts Bishop take d3 or Bishop takes c3 and if I move like Bishop d2 is played that would lose d4 so White's best option usually is to play Queen e2 so just an issue at the Queen trade and then blacks should be happy taking on you too and then queenside castling now this might not seem like the most exciting line because a lot of pieces got traded very early on and it just seems kind of like a balanced position but this is actually a very nice position for black and there's a lot of potential to outplay whites in this sort of queenless middle game where essentially black has a very clear target that isolated pawn in d4 and black has a way to attack the pawn with all the the different pieces and just to illustrate this out up here that black would like to go for usually the knight should go to f5 ve7 the bishop can drop back to b6 and the rooks can quite often double up on the D file and then there would be what there would be already four attackers if black achieves that Sun up and also if there's any potential pin along the D file which could happen quite often then c5 could be a resource as well additionally these pawns on and actually all of the Queen side pawns are very easily defended not only with this rook d6 move but also with King b7 so if you get to this position and just remember where your pieces should go I think Black has very good chance in style play White's I played this line once before in a tournament game many years ago was back in high school and I played it against a player who had like a very aggressive style like he likes to to have attacking positions with Queens on the board and this is usually the style of most Danish gambit players where they they want to be attacking early on so if you can find some opening preparation like this which neutralizes the position and kind of goes against their style and can be very powerful so hopefully that makes sense to everyone if anyone wants to look into this further you can find games in chess base we just click search here in the database there's been over 200 games played from this position and and black has a pretty good score what's that also Lee chest yeah yes I'm using chest base for this lecture if we were on me chest we could just go into the Masters database or they'll be chess database but one thing that actually like kind of sticks out in this position and maybe you can see the rating differential like black and I've sorted by black rating but we can see like the black the top black players are usually playing much lower in and white players so yeah I wanted to to make one more point here that if we go back to the starts we saw the Danish gambit with d4 immediately The Goring gambit is when white plays Knight f3 first and then plays d4 and then after you take T for white can play c3 and this is the start of the Goren gambit and again I mean you could accept the gambit but I would recommend playing d5 here and this should lead to just a direct transposition if if white takes we take pawn takes Bishop g4 it's the same position we had before so it makes sense do you find this useful of being only e5 player here so you could run into this okay yeah if you always take then this is uh this is a nice way to mix things up so let's move on I'll try and get some variety given that I have a few more e4 e5 lines but will will try and be fair and balanced and we'll we'll take a look at a French gambit yeah if you're a French player you should at least know what the Miller berry is and you should know some extent to how of how to to deal with it it can be a very very dangerous opening if you're not prepared yeah it's a type of opening like if you're not prepared you can run into trouble like very early but if you're well prepared you should get a better position from the opening so French defense will see one of the most common variations at least to start with advance variation pawn e5 and of course idea of the French is to try and break down White's White's pawn Center well I played c3 Knight c6 this is all very standard white will usually play Knight f3 one quick test for you guys Bishop e5 is a move that will be played by a lot of amateurs because it looks like a pin and I guess sometimes people like pins in this case it's not such a great move because black has a simple response Bishop d7 and then after Knight f3 black is actually winning a pawn it was very well-known tactic here yeah both of you what is it yeah Knight taking five just a classic French tactic given that this bishops undefended if white takes back on e5 we take on b5 and if Bishop takes you seven we take back with the Knights it's free play so that's useful to know light will usually find out of three Queen b6 main line and now the start of the Milner berry of the start of the Milner berry is when white plays Bishop to d3 and this is this is a sneaky move because it looks like whites leaving the plum defendant undefended right away on d4 of course black can't take this pawn even though there's what three attackers and there's two defenders if black takes takes takes take sticks if you say takes takes take sticks too many times in a row it sounds like steak steak steak and then I got hungry but anyway um after Queen take tea for white to move yeah there should be five simple tactics so the pawn is defended by tactics essentially however when white plays Bishop d3 usually the intention will be to sacrifice a pawn and the best move for a black here is to take first and then play Bishop d7 and now what we're doing we're blocking the the future Bishop b5 check and now we are threatening to take the pawn on d4 so the the Milner berry is when white castles I will say that a lot of players will kind of walk into this position unknowingly as whites and just like so far whites just played natural moves and then they'll realize here that their pawn is in danger and then they'll start trying to defend the pawn but it turns out white has no great way to hold on to the pawn I get Bishop e3 then b2 hangs right and if if Bishop c2 there is uh there's a nice move for black in this position anyone yeah night before very strong essentially not really focusing on the pot any more but focusing on this Bishop and if black can take the bishop and get rook c8 there's some nice initiative also combine that with Bishop e5 and this LightSquared Bishop for black and very quickly come to life so castling is the best attempt for white to to get compensation for the pun and you're a French player and you take my pond yeah okay so taking the pond is the best approach but you have to know what to do after white takes back and then light will play Knight to c3 this is a very key moment because whites actually giving you another pawn to capture on e5 question is do you capture it or do you do something else so you know you know this do you know this oh so your younger brother knows it and you don't well okay so I want to hear from you first you take the pawn what do you do what do you do you don't play the French what would you do would you take the pawn or do something else uh-huh yeah so taking the pawn I mean it looks great I mean you've just won both of white Center pawns and you're keeping your own Center Khan's but you're severely behind in development and the problem is its line as white gets very quick initiative Ricci one let's say let's say your queen goes back you say you blunder with Queen Oh Queen c7 yeah there's a knight 85 right and that would be tragic it's probably going to be tragic anywhere your Queen moves because if Queen d6 a very strong move for a White Knight d5 and you're just getting hit from multiple directions if you play Queen c6 here just trying to save yourself then there's Bishop at four and like White has brought in like the rest of his pieces while making threats and your whole King sides undeveloped and now there's threats of Knight c7 there's also ideas of rook c1 I don't think black is going to be surviving for too long so I guess the lesson here is you want to be greedy but not too greedy like you take the first fun don't take the second pun and you're exactly right if you've seen this before then this is very important to remember a six is a very strong move for black it looks like a waste of time I mean it seems like blacks should focus on kingside development but this is a very strong prophylactic move in these situations if you can just slow down or in this case prevent White's source of counterplay then white will actually be the one struggling to find compensation for the pun and because now there's no no more ideas of 95 it's actually hard for a white to find a great way to to proceed in the position I'll show you some some preparation here and I think well they'll end up doing with this lecture I'll I'll put everything on leech s so if you want to access all of the files and analysis all include everything you know a public study that you guys can can access and we'll leave a link in the video description Bishop one Bishop III so yeah Bishop III the the big difference here is after black takes e5 white just doesn't have much counter play yeah like I mean you would like to target the queen but black is going to develop in just a couple more moves and black will actually be the one developing with tempo right so the best approach for white is to hold on to the pawn play and move like Queen e2 and if you're if you're a very serious French player I recommend learning the disposition deeper and kind of knowing the the subtle you know this so what you play here 97 very good this is the best way to develop ah okay you might even know more than me here King each one is a main line that I have and this is a main idea for a white is to play f4 now I don't know I have a different idea now you suggest in knight c6 this is interesting I'll include this as a variation because you it's very possible you you're better prepared than me because I'm not a French player you said f4 and Knight d4 I'll have to look into that that looks nice and aggressive especially if you can get rid of the bishop or if the bishop moves back to be one oh so you know this even deeper queen C for her maybe you should be teaching the classic toughness do you know a deeper from here Queen C for it's probably the last move of your ear crap and then he was just rolling all over the bishops e6 coming interesting I will see anything immediately wrong with this if I were to like prepare this seriously I would check it with an engine just to make sure it sounds but I like that idea maybe I should play ah but a three runs into Queen Tiki five nice initiative I was going to show my line looks completely inferior to that I was going to show Queen b6 it looks slow but the idea is to play d4 and Bishop c6 activate the bishop and the line I had prepared was d4 and then Knight f5 and then it's a nice kind of positional setup for for black holding on to the d4 pawn very clear squares for both the bishops I guess there's one thing to realize here that if white ever goes for g4 Black's happy to play 93 and then the bishop coming to c6 will be very powerful even if black wins right even if black loses a this pawn on e3 black having two bishops is a very nice edge to have in this position so I guess there's more room for analysis but to dig deeper after after this but hopefully for okay for you and any of the the French players watching if you haven't seen this h6 move before it's um it's kind of a do-or-die moment like if we if we just look up the stats here in the database Asics most popular move scores very well for black like white scores forty percent out of over seventeen hundred games Queen techie five has been played but white scores better here I mean it's still a fight and like the line I showed before is probably inaccurate for blacks somehow and there's probably ways for black to survive but it's not a risk that you would want to take so I think well we'll move on and continue looking at some some different openings okay I want to show an opening for the white side how many of you play e4 beautiful okay all you four players let's flip the board I want to show a lion that if you're an e4 player you've probably encountered at some point so let's ask a follow-up question how many of you have encountered Scandinavian where you take the pawn and they play Knight f6 all of you had this position before you haven't had this before this is um okay this is slightly less common than Queen take d5 which is probably most common thanks to John Bartholomew but 90 f6 is also quite playable I think Magnus Carlsen played this in the protesting had like a beautiful woman's black but it's it's a risky lion to play as black if white is well prepared so let me ask you another question how many of you have played against us have actually studied this line you studied this what do you play against it oh you play d4 and you you would probably transpose into some more main line oh the wing gab or the this before move but you can only play that against Queen Queen and take D 5 and then Queen a5 so that this is a bit different if you play T 4 here this is probably the most common move as far as I understand black is is getting a fine position after Bishop g4 I would recommend a more challenging variation to tonight at 6 and I'll admit that I I don't have like every line prepared but I have kind of a good start of what the recommendation should be for whites I'll actually keep this on training mode for now but the move I recommend here is Bishop b5 I think this is a the best move to fight for an advantage what we're actually trying to do is is holding on to the the d5 pawn we're forcing black to block and d7 let's say Bishop d7 and then we play Bishop c4 so we obstruct the Queen from attacking the pawn and we're trying to hold on so pot now there's a few different lines for black here I think the two main moves are either Bishop to g4 or b5 I want to start with b5 because this is uh this is an exciting variation to show and what I'm gonna show you is somewhat of a secret novelty like I I don't think I've shared this with too many other players I may have played a game on stream in this line like once but I've never had this in like a tournament game so this is slightly secret preparation okay Bishop b3 logical move let's say black plays a fine white can play a 4 here preventing black from playing a form and we're approaching the the key moment have you seen this before or no okay so this is a key moment where the next move that light plays is actually the least common move according to the that database it's not quite a novelty but it's incredibly strong move and it's a move that the that the computer recommends and the Commuter actually loves this move it was very surprising those yes bishop a to know bishop take a fork bishop a to am bishop take a four I think have been played more times than than the best move in this position you said Bishop c4 know what else can like consider a part for moving the bishop you said Queenie - you said rook take a four yeah rook take a four is a move just to show the database like the stats are interesting here because White has played yeah White has played all the bishop moves more times and rook take a four rook take a four has only been played three times but it's a top computer move in that there's some very like deep preparation resulting from this exchange sacrifice and this is something like if you know this line you could very easily get against like a strong player like a strong master could stumble into this and if you're prepared further you could get a very nice advantage from early on so usually black will be inclined to take and trying weather in the storm you take back and let's say Knight be d7 and you have to be accurate here with with how you kind of maximize your your temporary advantage because you're more developed or your I should say your your quicker to Castle than black and you have to play accurately to prevent black from castling so the move to start with here is to play Knight map 3 what we want to do is play 95 and start targeting this 997 which is pinned if black tries to take on d5 I doubt this is at all good I mean for starters there's Bishop c6 like could even also consider Knight e5 and white should be happy to go into this usually black will play g6 actually I shouldn't say usually black will play because there's been so few games in this but I think the most human move is to play g6 going for a Bishop g7 and castling and this is where White has a nice continuation to just not allow back to to complete complete castling starting with 95 Bishop g7 and now knight c6 very nice outpost and then after Queen to c8 c4 and black is just stuck here like black can't Castle now Queen C it was only moved for black and now if black castles there's this fork 97 I mean while this this structure for white is just so difficult for black to deal with you play a six yeahi six I mean it's an attempt to try and get rid of the d5 fun in there's Queen e2 and now the pawns pinned and attacked twice and like the knight can't really move away because the bishop is always eyeing via x-ray vision if the knight moves away they're benign a7 so it feels like looks long yeah and the computer will give like plus 1/2 plus 1.5 around this position which is a huge advantage given that white is is down the exchange for a pawn the black is just stuck I think the top move is something like King f8 and then I can just castle and black is still stuck like this rook can't really enter the game on h8 or eight for that matter an e7 is a constant problem for black like white is ready to play moves like rook e1 and Queenie to also complete development like why it has so many natural ways to improve and black will just be stuck so I first saw this several years ago my friend actually shared it with me and it was a friend's secret but now the secret is being revealed so I've realized sometimes it's more fun to share opening preparation because if I can't get it myself in a game at least maybe I can show it to other people who will get it in the game what about John Baum well John yeah John usually takes on d5 and then goes back to d8 so sometimes yeah maybe maybe I'll trick him like once I actually trapped John on one of his streams with it with this different trap I can show that real quick it wasn't okay it wasn't gonna be part of this lecture but I'll just show how I I trapped him in the scandi cuz he usually takes with Queen and then plays Queen a5 and this is where I play a somewhat dubious gambit I play d4 which is actually a very effective let's opening because black is under immediate pressure and after Queen take d4 Knight d5 hitting the c7 pawn I've trapped a good handful of players over the years now after Bishop c4 this is where black has to be very very careful and realized White's threat the first question is what is White's threat and most often black will miss the threat and play and move like c6 and then white tuna yeah queen h5 i think is playable but there's a stronger execution when h5 could run into king d aids so yeah yeah bishop they got seven is more forcing as a beautiful combination given that the queens and a line on the v rank FG six there's 96 now he didn't walk into this exact position because he realized that after a bishop to get seven something is up and he saw the tactic with queen h5 coming so he played king d8 here but then white is is having a nice advantage and guy played forget if I played Knight e4 Knight c3 if I move the knight back and that black is uh is not happy to have the King in the center for a long time so it's a useful drop to know is white and if you're playing black in a position like this you should notify 906 and that's the one thing like about being perhaps a more like professional tournament player is you have to be aware of the potential gambit lines and just kind of know what to do against these or have something in your back pocket because you don't want to be in a situation over the board where you're completely like shell-shocked and then have to start coming up with stuff while your time is ticking so especially with openings it's good to be as prepared as you can beforehand I want to go back and show just one more variation which maybe isn't as beautiful as this rook take a four line but it still still has some nice venom to it and it's essentially what to do after a Bishop to g4 in this position white can play f3 the main move is Bishop to f5 now if I'm not mistaken there is actually a game playing at US Championships in this position within the last like two or three years it wasn't the past u.s. championship it was a game between Fabiano and the Cobian do you know maybe you saw this game I think Fabiano we can find this game real quick I think he played Knight c3 database might be broken but maybe I can search yeah he played Knight c3 and then he it led to a somewhat complex position but I think he was in control most of the game I was doing some brief research and I was finding that g4 I think is is even more venomous than Knight c3 not holding back and just going straight away for the attack on the bishop and the idea is that after a bishop g6 and Bishop d6 is a move we want to provoke then white plays Knight c3 now in the Cobian game Fabiana played just to demonstrate Fabiano played Knight c3 first and after 97 g4 Cobian played Knight b6 which is a nice in-between move the difference between these lines is that after g4 Bishop g6 Knight c3 there's no like immediate in-between move for black and Knight bt7 is actually a blunder here because it allows a very strong response from white f4 and this is ok this is somewhat of computer preparation but computer will give like plus 0.8 for whites because the threat of f5 is so strong whites also up a pawn here - and I think a move like Knight b6 is just simply met with Bishop b3 and black has no time to take on d5 because that 5 is happening and a pawn can be reinforced also at Queen f3 yeah yeah so h6 I assume maybe start with f5 force Bishop h7 them take Queen f3 and it's just complete domination for whites so so yeah this g4 move is tricky because black can't really get away with playing that be d7 immediately so I had some preparation here c6 white can still play f4 and black can't immediately take on d5 with upon because there's Bishop to b5 check and a5 is coming in whites winning apiece so this f4 idea like you might have to like if you're studying this is why than you want to use this in your repertoire you might have to review this several times so it sticks but if you remember it can be very powerful Blackwell is best off trying b5 Bishop b3 b4 and then white can play f5 and from what I found this is one of the best lines from both sides where white is coming out in a very nice situation and the computer recommends something funny here not to take the bishop right away but just to take the pawn on c6 if black takes we just leave the bishop trapped on g6 and white can just keep improving Queen f3 rook c8 92 and then eventually okay whenever black plays h6 right maybe even a six and we can take the bishop and white just has such a good position from here and this is more high-level stuff where like if you're if you're a 1200 player you probably don't want to memorize all of this but like at a professional level level if I if I'm playing a high level tournament and I know my opponent goes into this line with Knight f6 I will be preparing these lines the night before the game if I have time to prepare and at the high levels you're usually able to at least predict what your opponent might play because most players will have games and like database to to search from and kind of filter through what openings might be expected so any questions so far about anything we have some time left we have one new person emerging okay so I have a few other things to show and these are all kind of like tidbits of preparation so maybe I can just go through some some quick ones let's go back to an e4 e5 opening have you heard of the Belgrade gambit okay so the Belgrade that's another one of these openings is common among high level players but it's a great an effective opening especially for in terms of like surprise value at lower levels and I've recently started playing it online and I've had some nice success with it and it starts from the four nights where if light wants to play the Belgrade he can play D for four nights scotch but then instead of taking on d4 white complained Knight d5 and this is the start of the Belgrade and just to show like one line how dangerous this could be a fact goes wrong I'll just show a part of a game that I played the other day or my opponent took on d5 played 97 I took on d4 already like much better for white just great Center like one back white didn't even gown it upon material is equal when my opponent played c6 which is terrible move in this position and then like to move at d6 attacking the knight and whenever or wherever the knight moves as there's Queeny for Czech and black has to block with something on e7 and white just wins apiece I can actually go ahead and show the whole game because it was three more moves after my opponent went back to you seven with the night I didn't take it immediately so when there's a pin to piece you don't always have to you like take it like this there's not always a rush I played Bishop c4 did you see this game I put this on my YouTube channel and then in this position my opponent played like one of the worst possible moves a five is pretty bad he played that move which is essentially leading to force mates what he should have done is play and move like Queen a5 just give his King some breathing room but he played b6 preventing himself from playing Queen a5 then after Knight g5 is just forced meets because there's no way to defend f7 so just a funny game goes to show that okay with the Belgrade it's possible to win quite quickly but switching sites let's say you're playing black and you take on d4 and they play Knight d5 this is not a position where you want to like start thinking this is a position that you probably want to have studied before that at least have some some game plan what to do now out of curiosity before I show you guys like the best approach let me get some first impressions like what would you guys play in this position you take the Knights would you take the pawn and do something else yeah Bishop c5 playable any other suggestions okay let me show the the best continuation for black the best move here is very unusual it violates a couple opening principles but it's incredibly strong move the more you look at it you said and I take you for and i takee for probably Queenie - and that could be risky I actually don't know that like the main lines but I know and I take you for it's not the main moon night before is actually the strongest move you move away from the center you move the same piece twice but if this is a counter-attack you're just attacking the knight on d5 and it this leads to tactics because in many cases the fact that you're attacking c2 is quite valuable like for example if a knight take f6 Queen take f6 like can't win back the pawn if Knight takes e4 black to move just Queen take d4 and then there's this fork and black is winning even more material so White's actually in pretty good shape here to our sorry blacks in pretty good shape to hold on to the extra plug there's another line where if and I take d4 then then this is very playable because of neither d5 is attacks and if an I take before you're happy to take coming with in with a check so this is just kind of a simple thing like if you know night before you can probably figure things out from there of course if might be for bishop or Knight before they take before then simply Bishop take before and Bishop d2 Queen e7 I mean black is up a pawn in doing very well so let's move on to one more one more opening kind of like that it's just one of these lines you should kind of have in your back pocket so Vienna gambit this is close to the Kings gambit might be some cases where there's some transpositions it starts with Knight c3 the Vienna opening and then f4 now the you said Kasparov played this ah so not not recently because as far as couldn't play this in Fischer random but so last year okay yeah I think Nakamura also played this in the US Championship against honest Shaq I forget what happened exactly in that game anyway if you're playing black here the recommended move is to play d5 you don't accept the gambit but you challenge the center right away especially because white has moved at pawn you want to maybe open the center and weaken White's position white will usually capture on e5 no you don't want activation and then you can capture an e4 and the line I want to show the line I want to show here is what happens after white plays Queen a3 it's not the most popular move most popular is Knight f3 and leads to balance play for for both sides but Queen f3 is a bit more bit trickier to deal with because there's an immediate attack against tonight and it's not entirely clear how box should respond because it seems like if you take on c3 that's only helping white strength in the center and also you're trading off you're only developed piece so black to move in this position what are some other options what to play just to play that out like Queen h4 g3 Queen g4 and I take d5 freak on a five is actually very playable this is one of the best moves which looks weird to move your f pong with your King in the center but if pawn take f6 and I take it's actually a reasonable position for black and you'll Castle very early and you'll have ideas at Bishop g4 and you'll get some nice setup there's a different move that I think is even stronger queenie 795 ooh that's hanging and Queenie seven might be possible it could it could lead to trades though like if not taking for Queen take e5 it might be possible I'm going to show you just the recommendation though it's to play somewhat of a counter attacking move knight c6 this is a move that you like if you haven't seen this before it it's easy to overlook because the focus is on e4 but you're going for for counter claim there's actually a really nice idea here that if might take you for you don't take back immediately but you play Knight d4 you said 94 oh you said Knight d4 Knight d4 is even stronger because you attack the Queen and your knight will very soon be defended by your own queen if we imagine there's a few traps that like can fall into like if white plays Queen d3 trying to defend everything and then ends up taking on e4 there's Bishop f5 like blacks piece was just coming to life so quickly there's another trap let's say Queen c3 it's Queen c3 let's say you take and now let's say d3 okay you saw this coming but black to move in this position and win-win material yeah bishop before so it's quite easy for a white to just completely fall apart with this knife very actively placed in the center and of course after after Queen take before there's this fork on c2 so this is just another tidbit of preparation things could branch out and I I do have some some other lines that like we could investigate like Bishop b5 would be the main line here and this is where I would recommend taking on c3 and then actually going for a queen trade I'll just show like what I would prepare if I if I thought I might go into this in the tournament Queen h4 trade Queens allowing white to double these Queen side pawns but then black gets the bishop and the bishop can develop nicely to c5 if white plays d4 we're happy to trade Bishop a 6 and if d4 again we can play Bishop to e7 and usually when I'm preparing an opening at some point I'll stop the preparation and just have a position where I kind of know the longer term plans and I think this is a another difference between maybe lower level players and and higher level players is when when you end your preparation the higher level players will kind of have an idea what to do later and in this case it's it's useful to know like where where the pieces should go and what the ideas are for black so of course here we want to undermine White's nice looking center and if the position opens up then the the two bishops will be a very nice advantage I will also say this was supported with some computer preparation I think the computer says like minus 0.5 so it's actually favors black quite a bit for it being equal material so that takes us just about to the end there are a lot of openings I wanted to show but didn't get to so we might have to continue this next week but for now I think I'm gonna end it there so thanks for watching [Music]

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Published: Tue Oct 09 2018