Crush the Sicilian with 2.Nc3 | Games to Know by Heart - IM Eric Rosen

I want to first say that I'm really jealous of Jonathan France because he teaches the opening lectures another day of the week which I don't get to teach which I love kind of teaching openings and I have a lot of like cool tricks so I thought today I would show you a bunch of games in I'm a similar opening and then if you don't play the opening you can kind of use it as inspiration to maybe try something new but I think this is a common opening if you're an e4 player or if you're a Sicilian player so first I want to get a poll of how many four players are here are there in this room everyone well most people how many people don't play you for 10 less okay so two people oh okay maybe next week will call will cover the French and how to beat it quickly how many people play the Sicilian against efore sometimes no one else okay today we're going to look at what's known as the Grand Prix Sicilian or the closest queueing basically the position starting after E for C 593 and if the opening doesn't apply to you then hopefully you can at least take away some like cool attacking ideas from early on and this was an opening I kind of discovered around when I was 2000 and I studied a lot of it in chess base got a book on it began playing it like a lot online and basically from the time I was 2,000 until I was 20 200 I never liked slogan I never plateaued I think partly because of this opening I trapped a lot of people in and this opening there's so many traps which hopefully we'll see a good number of today so the first game or games I wanna start with happens after black plays g6 and I actually played a tournament at the club not too long ago it was the whatever Saturday night special I know if any of you played but it's like one big open tournament so in the first round the matchups are there's a pretty big rating disparity between the matchups first time I was playing someone maybe a lot of thousand points below me and we got to this position and in this position I like to play a move which maybe isn't the most common can west f4 is probably the most common move if you're a Grand Prix player if you like to play close Sicilian that would be g3 it was actually a third move here which I discovered like less than a year ago and I thought it was a highly venomous especially for players who might be expecting at for g3 it's just another alternative for whites probably one of the more aggressive alternatives which is d4 and what this does is trying question blacks set up as quickly as possible so what my opponent did at the Saturday night tournament is he played Bishop to g7 I should note that if black takes white can take and the main line usually goes something like Knight f6 Bishop b5 and black has to be very careful we might actually see a game in this later but for now we'll look at after d4 Bishop g7 here I take the pawn and black is temporarily sacrificing the pawn on c5 in hopes of winning it back and hear my opponent played a queen to c7 the other move is queen a5 and I'll have to explain that beam these moves can transpose into each other so first let me show you what I did after Queen c7 I played Knight to d5 my opponent took the pawn now I played a very sneaky move here and this move might be a little bit strange you can say first might not seem like it has a purpose but it's very very dangerous move as Bishop to b2 and the threat is a little bit hidden if if black isn't careful and what my opponent did probably a the losing move she played Knight to f6 might actually be losing for a few reasons but like to move in this position what would you guys do anyone yes sergeant this would be for very good and that's what I did and the problem for black is the queen is very limited on squares and follow-up question what happens after Queen c6 yes this should be five very good it might look tempting to take the pawn in seven but this should be five actually traps the Queen the Queen has nowhere to go White's pieces coordinate amazingly and the problem for black is that if the Queen takes the bishop or queenie sixers makes and seven possibilities and white light would just win a queen and i think there's been a few games that have ended here after Bishop e5 and black just gives up losing the Queen so but this was kind of a nice game to know if your opponent just unknowingly walks into this now let me show you another similar line that can happen a same position in this position black plays Queen to a5 and I should note that the players in this game I can't really pronounce because there's way too many consonants in a work and a row of this game but Michael against Rainier and a similar type game where light wings very quickly due to exploiting the black Queen so let's see if anyone can actually figure out the move here we didn't look at Queen a5 before but what would you guys play in this position and knowing what we just saw yeah this should be - and basically you just want to transpose after Queen takes e5 last move is Nike 595 looks a little bit weird but it's just the same position before with the same threat of Bishop b4 Queen c6 Bishop e5 and it's such an easy threat to miss so before we go any further I should point out the best move for black in this position is not very obvious the best move is Knight to a6 simply defending c7 but it's a little unusual to put the nylon e6 and if you wanted to continue here from White's I can just simply develop Knight f3 there's actually a cool idea here after black plays a 6 well I can play Bishop to c3 of an intermediate move and basically forcing the exchange of the bishops and after black is pretty much obliged to take an afternoon I take white hasn't won anything but the weaknesses in blacks position are pretty horrific it's usually a bad idea has played g6 and e6 too early and give away your dark for Bishop and White has ideas of e5 and 94 so does that make sense to people if we go back that's really the best case scenario for black this is 96 move in the game black played very greedy this should take b2 just going for material and as we'll see this gets punished pretty severely white played rook to d1 Bishop retreats Knight f3 I think from this point until the end of the game every move is a threat from lights and boxes has a very juicy fish have been clean very easy to exploit in the center of the board so Bishop c7 was played now the problem with Bishop e7 is it's a kind of long-term target and the Queen is tied down to defend the bishop and all white needs to do is try and just remove the Queen from divine vision so very nice move rook to b5 Queen c6 like just keeps attacking clean 94 Queen b6 anyone want to find the final move for white bishop sorry bishop before is yeah probably winning a white played Bishop f4 in both moves there's probably several winning moves here but I thought this was a really funny position my white just has so many pieces developed and the only pieces developed for black are are the ones which are the targets so I will say that it's very easy to kind of stumble into this this black kind of just played natural moves and white light was prepared with kind of some venomous counterplay so any questions about this so I would keep in mind and actually have a recommendation that okay this was a different move order but if you know your opponent plays g6 against close Sicilian and you want to surprise them then you might want to consider playing v4 try and catch them off guard and I will say if I know my opponent plays this line is black I will usually go for d4 so let's switch gears let's look at a maybe a different black response against 93 I want to show you probably the most common a common way that black will lose in the Grand Prix and the game I'm about to show you I basically play the same game at least four or five times and online blitz and maybe once or twice in tournaments and it's a very nice illustration of how lack just plays natural moves and then just gets overwhelmed with with attack and will see more of a kind of classic example of Grand Prix so E for c5 Knight c3 black plays d6 most players will play d6 here because most players either play neither for Dragon pretty common now before we go any further I should note that like the most common piece placement for white in Grand Prix is pawn on f4 92 f3 Bishop c4 d3 and castle and we'll see why play is basically all these moves consecutively so F 4 X 3 which is e4 Castle d3 and we get to this position and here there's some kind of interesting idea which if you play this opening you kind of have to know that after 97 Black has a threat in the position so what does black wanted to do after the night g7 yeah Arjun but I wants to play d5 very good so then the next question is how does like stop it you know I'll play f5 f5 is very thematic for this position but isn't played so soon I think I'll show you guys because the move to stop d5 is not that obvious that's kind of a tricky and it's also a multi-purpose move move is queenie one it's simply taking advantage of the x-ray vision where if black does play d5 the e-file opens and the night is 10 and white we just went up on so not only does queenie one like temporarily stopped d5 but it also plans to maneuver the Queen to the king side and this is an incredibly common idea in the Grand Prix where when you're a spawn is moved so early you want to maneuver your queen usually from e1 to h4 g3 basic Oh black castles and in this position very key move from Lex and when I first learned this move I was very skeptical of it because it looks like maybe a little over-aggressive bit too risky and then the more I looked into it the more I realized that this is actually a very dangerous move for black to do it and the move as he said earlier is SS pawn sacrifice and usually my style is more like conservative I don't like sacrificing material if I don't have to usually I'm the one who likes grab material and then hold on and actually the first time I was exposed to this f5 idea it was on the black side I lost a very quick game as black and after that I actually started playing this openings like so here black can take the pawn on mainly two different ways but I can take with a pawn G pawn or black and go for d5 so I want you guys to imagine that you're in this situation is black and you can choose between these three moves you can take G take f5 you take f5 or d5 I'm curious what you guys would play so I'll give you maybe a minute to think and then we'll take a poll now I'll tell you what's good and what's bad all right um didn't give you guys too much time but might have to go with your intuition so how many people would take played you take out five anyone no okay who would play you take out five be some number of people about half of you uh who would play d5 one to two people anyone would do something else only gave you three options so hopefully not these are the three most common moves I will say the worst move is you take out five it's probably the most played move it looks like the most natural you kind of take a towards your keen side so you trying to spend more but we'll see that why this is bad the best moves are either d5 or GTA v gta5 is very brave I will say I think there was a game not too long ago that Leslie so played as black in this in the same position and he played you take i-5 and I believe it was protesting and I believe it was a draw but white had good amount of initiative the whole game probably the move I would prefer d5 where you're aiming to do and this applies to kind of the principle that we discussed in the other lecture where if your opponent is playing on a flank or on the side it's usually best responded Center in this case kind of no difference you gain temple on the bishop and the main line here would be white usually plays Bishop to b3 and then black has an interesting idea I can play c4 here I'm really taking over the initiative force white to take and then black can play d4 and I will say that this is a very complex position and we could spend our to talking about it it's important if you play this as White's you should know that the main idea here which is f6 and this might be a little beyond my understanding too but as far as I know after Bishop they got six like completely five very very complex Knight Bishop are hanging but the idea is that if the bishop moves or if pawn is captured on e5 then I can move to e4 and that white still goes for for some attack on the King side so it's important if you play an opening you want to be prepared for like all responses that your opponent could do but okay let's go back let's see why II take f5 is so bad honestly it doesn't look too bad at first and White's next move maybe doesn't look that impressive Queen h4 the problem that arises for black in this position is what to do next and it's not that obvious how black should continue there's no obvious targets that can attack and I will say that most people play Knight d4 or nike5 these are the two most common moves I should note that if Bishop e6 this loses tactically to take taken Knight g5 too many Forks and checkmate expects so let's look at move I have 95 white to move how do you continue your attack very nice move here for whites yeah this should be five actually surprisingly simple too but the idea is you just want to overwhelm this 97 the problem for black f6 is not possible not legal and white will inevitably continue with 95 so the the game I have prepare there's actually two games which ended in the same technique and as well so it's rook e8 and I take e5 first just kind of simplifying and then 95 and it's very annoying for black to defend 97 as we can see if black plays and move like Bishop f8 it's just made into Knight f6 and techniques what happened in both of these games after King f8 only other way to defend the Knights then Queen pig h7 and blacks position just falls apart really quickly and notice like all of blacks pieces are just I'm terrible squares Queen b6 night 87 or take e7 now Bishop h6 what idea that after they should take aged six there are D queen h8 names so interestingly enough both games that reach this position had Queen f6 played now White's a move made in one yeah Queen h8 me it's kind of a nice name and the games were Kirsch stern 2004 and heading house mangle 1995 I will say that there's a lot of other games which ended in a similar manner and if we actually go back and see this position after rook e8 there's been 27 games in the database likes won every single every single one so usually if there's so many games played and white wins every single one it's an opening to at least take a look at odds are more people will might walk into the same thing just make sure if you reach this position that you win is white that'd be embarrassing to be the only player who ever loses so any questions about this line there were some kind of opening nuances but if you remember this f5 sacrifice at least in this position then White's play flows very nicely okay we'll move on I didn't want to like just include all my games in this database but this is the only game I included for me since I played this opening many times and this was probably one of my best wins with uh playing this opening and the doc story is a little bit interesting I don't know if any of you have played US Open before no it rotates cities every year nothing it's been in st. Louis recently that's right and then I got moved to like Florida or something yeah anyway I played US Open a few years ago in Phoenix and it was one of my worst tournaments ever like I was struggling to beat like players five six hundred points below me and I was going to withdraw before the last round but I didn't withdraw because at US Open and also some other tournaments they have what's called mixed doubles anyone know about this mixed doubles where a a guy and a girl can team up and compete for kind of a team prize and I had a mixed doubles partner who was doing really really well and I actually got the partner by just like asking random girls before the tournament started if they wanted to be my partner I was lucky enough to pick one who ended up doing well and we were in contention for mixed doubles price and going for last round if I won my game there would be a good chance that we would each get some money for the price so I was basically in a must-win situation going into this game despite the fact that I was having a pretty poor tournament individually and last round I was playing Vanessa West which is actually a really good pairing because she also was competing for mixels prize and she's pretty well-known person I think she works for us chefs does a lot of good writing but this game I managed to get the better of her and as we'll see it was again Knight c3 Sicilian now she played a another very common move here in Knight to c6 and I will say that I could if I wanted to go for the Grand Prix and play at four and aim for kind of a similar setup as what we saw before where if g6 9 f3 this should g7 it would be very similar to the previous example but usually when people play 96 I like to play well lesser common move and you'll notice a lot this a lot especially with my opening choices I usually go for lesser common lines which the opponent might not be so familiar with I like surprise weapons so in this case I played the ship to d5 you play this kind left ok it's a fun line sure so most people as black like they know nice d4 is a main move but they don't know too much beyond that and that's very dangerous if you're playing this is black you should know 94 and you should know at least some ideas after that the point of this should be 5 white just simply wants to take on c6 double the black pawns and then go for the kind of same grand-prix set up so I will say that is factly g6 I would take take f4 and then basically go for a similar attack what we saw before with Queen e1 Queen h4 so let's focus on 94 94 looks good improve the Knights and attack the bishop I play back it looks like white loses a tempo moving the Bishop to b5 and then back to C for one of the points is that because of island e4 because the light is committed there because the knight is committed to d4 like to kind of take advantage of this later on in the game time and we'll see that so e 6 was played 92 now I already have ideas and maybe trading off blacks only developes and essentially I want a castle as quickly as possible and then open up the center so she plays - tricks I castle I should note all of this is opening preparation so far all of this I'd seen before and she kind of walked right into my opening preparation she played a move here or after she played it I was uh my eyes kind of lit up because I knew that she was about to fall into a very nice trap and move she played looks very natural at first 55 aiming to be very aggressive in the center it makes a lot of sense the problem with this move is that there's a kind of hidden tactic and this was actually I think based on computer preparation where a flight isn't familiar with it it's very very hard to find kind of by yourself but find you'd kind of the computer recommendation here so I take take I'll give you guys a shot to try and find the move here for whites pretty surprising move and after I played this move she spent at least like 15-20 minutes so like to move so yeah you kind of want to look for sacrifices here that's some one of them the main theme is that because the Black team is in the center you can afford to sacrifice okay I think I'll go ahead and show it because it's really not easy to come up with and even if I show you next few moves it's still hard to understand still takes like deeper level of understanding so the first movement might take d5 sacrificing a night I take t5 I take on d4 so this was pretty forced now I'm down a full piece for fun but what happens next is somewhat surprising I have this move Queen h5 and the problem arises for black that there's targets which are actually somewhat difficult to defend and yes white sacrifice but white is pretty much guaranteed to win back the piece and then get a better position I think the best black in you here is get some worse endgame down upon so the amazing thing about this is in this position looks like black and play Bishop e6 just defend everything look safe but now very simple move rook e1 and there's just too much pressure there's too many pins the bishop is pinned and upon his Kings meaning both the bishop and the knight are hanging so if we go back this position not too many other options black can play I think one option is to play 97 which you didn't play and then like it's enough compensation I think the other option here is to play g5 block the Queen from attacking life I'm pretty sure it's just again too much conversation probably a move like d3 or rook e1 or combination those should should be enough to give white some advantage so I should note that after I played Queen H I've I had not lost any time on my clock because I had seen this position before I expect actually saw this position for the first time about three to four years before I played this game and this was actually my first time getting this position in game and she used probably about 45 minutes to an hour after she played Bishop e6 and the issue after review on its when you're black you're searching for resources which just aren't there so she tried this moved here Knight to f4 which I had actually never seen before so this was my first time I had to kind of sit down think and figure out what to do I knew the computer evaluation I knew I was at least a little bit better but the question is what you do as white your gala piece or Queens attacked what's the best move kind left clean be 527 and I take you six Oh so rook take you six night take you six and this should take oh wait waiver look take you six take take that's possible I don't know about this lady Queenie seven there are some issues with back rank mates I'm sure I considered that during the game there's actually a more forcing approach here for what there should be five fragrance black has no other way to really get out of check other than Keeney seven now the move back wants to play seven and here it's kind of just simple fork when the knight f6 take and it was nice to get just yeah aha yeah I'm sure I considered Queen C 5 yeah the Queen b6 yeah I was nice to get like such a good position from opening with very little efforts you want allies 25 or okay so here one my piece back up up on the game isn't over though and one thing I will say it's actually still one of my biggest weaknesses is the ability to convert winning positions I don't know if anyone else struggles with this too sometimes it's more psychological sometimes when you get in a winning position you get more relaxed you maybe get lazier and that's very dangerous and here maybe there's more pressure on me I don't know but I force myself to really stay involved with the game and really figure out the best sequence of play after this point and after king f7 I kind of hunkered down I thought for maybe ten minutes and then probably found the most decisive way to finish things off here so anyone have any kind of guesses of what white smooth white White's next move would be Arden the Henry's are stretched yeah I heard something someone said something so rookie six it's one of these like in two of them moves you can like quickly in the Blitz game long game I calculated like pretty far and I will say when I played rook taking six I didn't see a force swing if I saw a lot of kind of factors in the position said that there would be more than that compensation and the fact that really giving black no choice black ops to take and the point is after Queenie for the Kings kind of awkwardly placed if the King moves back to f7 techniques in to clean d5 Bishop takes e4 so the king is forced to move to v6 it's it's usually pretty sad when you're only developed pieces your team and I made sure not to let the King go back I take on v7 just cut the King off and I'm not going to show you guys the full game because it actually went a bit longer but I will show you and so like the decisive moments Queen CAS attempting to trade Queens of course when your clones King is developed you don't want to trade me and I just move back king c5 woods played it's kind of a surprising move I kind of taken aback by this move because it's developing the King even further but it's kind of funny because like what else does black do here nothing else can really get out and I'm threatening to take on d4 and the queen is tied down to defending the rook so king c5 is really the only way to the handy for so add a bit more of a think here and then found move Bishop to d7 and what this does is sort of simplify so after Queen take I wind bat material the count I'm up to pawns still have an attack against the King and then wasn't long before light winds I wanted to play b4 but but maybe later yeah I just figured like wind material and then don't take any unnecessary risks I'm sure there's lots of ways to win with the King on c5 though so yeah we tied for like third place and I think one like conjured ax to each so nice way to finish off kind of a bad tournament and I would recommend like if you're ever having a bad tournament try not to withdraw I try and finish it off because if you have a bad tournament but you win the last round sometimes it's a bit more uplifting anyone heard of how you found hopefully everyone the highest rated female player in the world um she also played this opening which I didn't realize like other top players go for this line but um this was actually a blitz game and she beat Kremmling in a very nice trap where it's another example if black isn't careful in the opening or doesn't know the preparation well enough I can easily walk into something unknowingly so how you find is lights applying the same line again Nike for Bishop c4 and this time black does something like very intuitive the fact that the knight is I'm d4 might incline black to play g6 and Bishop g7 probably the most common approach for black here so that's what Kremmling does unite of three my personal preference is 92 and this line I don't think it makes a difference because white ends up taking on d4 which happens and this was actually a line I've studied in the past and I've had a few games in myself white actually has a surprising move here and it's not to move the knight I'll let you guys try and think think of a move which isn't a knight move just still kind of good yeah okay yeah clean up great very good Intermezzo developing the Queen making a threat then later light will choose where to place a knight so now black has to deal with the maid in one threat and what I found really interesting in this position is that black doesn't have too many options and actually the best move in this position is not really the most obvious move the best move is 96 and if you're playing against someone who doesn't know this line odds are they won't play Knight h6 the common or most common move I've ran into is e six which is actually a mistake and a six walks into kind of a very nice line which which will see the problem of e-cigs and this is kind of applies to any position as you want to identify what changes in a position after opponent makes a move so what squared is C six weekend I heard a few squares but the right square is d6 nothing controlling d6 and this allows light to play aggressively with the ninth the best move here 95 I will say that if if not h6 is played the best move would be knighted by e6 a will get punished as we'll see 95 now black has issues white is kind of seizing the initiative 96 to the threat I think the most common move here and most natural move which was played is d6 clustered this is the game yes and how you find like really well this game and she played a really nice move here which pretty sure is still opening preparation so I'll ask you guys how do you continue your initiative how do you continue generating threats Queen g3 is one move for sure to attack upon in b6 the other move of which how you found played I'm not sure if there's a huge difference but probably the move she played is slightly better it's clean a3 let's same idea going after d6 pawn and not the easiest pawn to defend the bishop is already kind of committed to g7 and if the this shift retreats to f8 then d4 is lost there is actually a line here where if black plays d5 going for the double attack White has an intermezzo they should be 5 so if we look at this position it's maybe not entirely clear with black it's supposed to do now kremling probably played the best move and the best move is really really awkward to play Keeney 7 it feels wrong to play this move but I mean other options aren't really good another move which black and try is Bishop to e5 I actually had one game a maybe a few online games actually in this position and I was fortunate enough to already have a computer opening preparation from the past and the computer recommendation here is really nice to see three trying to take on v4 after black takes white plays d4 and it's just overwhelming White's develops chasing away the bishop winning d6 pawn good position for white so so let's look at King seven and it still took work for how you found to win because black is defending the d6 pawn and it's uh it's not over white right away but the lasting problem for black is that the King never really got to safety and as you'll notice the King just stays in the center and eventually white is able to exploit it so c3 tick tick which is probably a beneficial trade for white to open the the D file into D pawn sighs kind of an unusual position but there's a lot of nice traditional factors for whites mainly the d5 square very weak the fact that the knight can jump there very soon also the d6 pawn is a backwards pawn on the half-open file so Bishop e6 Queen b3 tacking b7 there's a d5 and this was actually very important for white to have keep control over d5 and after Bishop takes d5 not to take back with the pawn but to take back with the Queen in order for d5 to be a weak slur White has to keep a piece there not a pot if she were to take with pawn then it would be harder for light to break through I deal with taken with the Queen is eventually the Queen will move away and the knight will get to be five so clean T six again the rule is if your opponent's king is less safe don't take means no matter on the material situation so Queen d3h six very ugly moves to play I don't know I know there's anything better maybe Bishop g5 was annoying for black problem is now like it's uh even more time to carry through with idea night before Queenie 895 think black resigns blockers I'm here because there's nowhere good for the kingdom of what there's four possibilities if King f8 or key e6 there's Knights c7 f king g7 there's 96 if King d8 probably still 96 and the defining so I really like this game because it was really nice opening corporation but also a nice way of converting the position which was achieved from opening so any questions about this no hopefully you guys are inspired maybe to play this for life my first saw this game I was like really really confused and this was actually very recent at the pan-american championships the collegiate championships in December it was a final round and I was a top board or the top team match the Webster B team which is my high school was playing the UT Dallas team and it was for first place and on board for it was mine well voice for Webster against on hello I realist Lopez for you to Dallas and hoist one in 14 moves with black so we'll put the board and I didn't see the game I saw the result first and I just didn't understand how like white could lose in 14 moves the guy's a GM but we'll see so II 4g5 might see three now mine well likes to like almost always screen cathode his King side bishop so he plays g6 and Lopes actually played the line which I had recommended before with d4 and they went into kind of the line I talked briefly about pawn take before Queen take p4 906 I said earlier that black has to be careful in this line but apparently after seeing this game white also has to be careful really just especially at the higher levels you have to really know your opening preparation so this should be Phi was played the idea with Bishop e5 is that if knight c6 white just wants to take it and in the meantime white is preparing to play e5 so black can't really play slowly here black has to do something plays a6 probably the best move for black and here I actually didn't like the move that Lopez played I actually have preparation here and the move I have prepared to d5 which leads to a really complex position where sometimes the bishop gets changed for the Knights and there's some law in computer analysis but I think it's White's best try what Lopez played was Queen 1/4 which is also interesting keeping the pin on a file so the bishop can't be taken but mom well played a really resourceful move here and I really like the simple idea behind this move very simply b6 wants to develop the bishop with kind of multiple attacks and the bishop comes to b7 it will defend the rook attack the bishop and also tacky fourth law so very simple but kind of dangerous idea so why play d5 and Hoyos plays Bishop e7 anyway because the threats are stronger both attacking bishop and attacking g2 so question for you guys what move defends a bishop and defends the g2 pond yeah Bishop f1 learning from been Feingold always played Bishop F 1 this is f 1 is probably the best move here but it's sort of in all we move to play your bishop just developed to d5 and now basically have to set the board back to closer to the starting position but there wasn't really anything else white could do and from this point forward a black just played pretty natural moves and then white kind of self destructed so then I take sighs Bishop safety 5 Bishop e3 simple moves developed queenside castle not recommended this is kind of like walking into a volcano trying to find shelter bad things are going to happen b5 the problem is black is very well equipped to attack on the Kings side or on the queenside site because the bishops coming to g7 the bishop and night already has some scope on the Queen side Queens coming to a5 and the majority of whites pieces are undeveloped on the King side and most accurate move Bishop take a 2 sometimes it's bad to go pawn driving like this but in this case it's exploiting kind of the safety of the black king and the follow-up after b3 to simply Queen egg 5 and Mike's position is collapsing very quickly a 6 was played I don't know what this was maybe a desperate attempt to trend some Queen take f7 but black just took and light resigned here may be premature resignation but blacks up two pawns has a very very good attack black is ready just to play Bishop g7 rook c8 and there's no way like surviving this the computer says like minus 6 here in favor of black so somewhat inspirational to see a GM go down in 14 moves as light but that's why knowing you're opening preparation can be important any questions people end it there hope you guys can join us Thanks [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 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Channel: Saint Louis Chess Club

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Keywords: chess, chess openings, sicilian defense, sicilian defence, grand prix attack

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Length: 49min 12sec (2952 seconds)

Published: Tue May 30 2017