TOP 8 BEST Chess Openings

ladies and gentlemen i'm sure that if you've played chess at any point you've sat there and went i wonder what the best opening is i mean what can i use with white and with black to win all of my games easily well you're not the only one to have those thoughts and the truth is there's no one best opening because if there was then everybody would play it and that would mean that probably nobody would play chess because it would be solved but at certain levels of the game certain things work better than others and in this video i'm showing you the openings that i think the eight best openings that i think you can use to win a lot of games we're gonna have four with white four with black and the reference that i use for this is the lead chess uh online database the average ratings of about 16 1800 at blitz rapid classical and so on so we have a massive sample size of games and the first one that we're jumping into is the vienna gambit now in particular uh e4 e5 with white and not knight f3 or knight or or knight f3 knight c3 or for example the scotch but the vienna straight away with the move knight c3 now black here has two options right black can just naturally develop like this and throughout this video i'm recommending things that are on the main line that are the most popular moves so the reason i like the vienna so much is because if for example black plays the move knight to f6 white can immediately play this move f4 we are delaying the development of the knight uh instead of going to f3 to either play a 4 right away or play it with a little bit of preparation now this position okay has been reached 520 000 times okay the best move for black has been played about 95 000 times so more often than not your opponents are either defending which is just bad all right this is just not a good line you can play knight f3 here and again to investigate any further into these things this video is just a starting point there's not a master class in the vienna but if you want to give any of these a shot you know where to go all right you know what to do you know what to look for you know where to go so a lot of people defend like this and a lot of people even take taking is already losing for black because you just play e5 the knight now has to go back here if the knight doesn't go back and they try to go like this you have queen e2 and then knight f3 cover the check that's the only thing you have to do so the reason why the vienna works so well is because it even if first of all the black shows up doesn't know what they're doing they're just getting immediately completely lost position if they do know what they're doing which is the move d5 well then if you're a little bit well prepared in one variation you're gonna be completely fine right so this is not a win quick video but this is a video that will get you an opening repertoire that will hopefully serve you well in the future personally i against d5 like to take they go here and then i like to play this queen f3 line okay and now you have to know a couple of different lines by black but the general idea here is that if this trade happens you play d4 you play bishop d3 knight e2 and you just get a very easy game you have a nice you know direct attack here on the king in the future and you get a very nice position so the vienna gambit even if the opponent knows what they're doing with the move d5 and move three which they don't often times they will get a terrible position sir have served me very very well uh in in a lot of my games i've beaten many grand masters with this now if they play knight c6 which is also a very popular move you can play here and prepare the move f4 but there's a very uh poisonous line here which is the copycat variation and in uh 290 thousand games this move has been played 88 000 times with a win rate of almost 70 percent so the copycat variations study that in the vienna it's extremely potent i love this variation queen g4 looking for queen g7 stuff uh it's won me a massive amount of games and the win rate here is ridiculous so the first one that i recommend against d45 is vienna either bishop c4 against knight c6 or vienna gambit against knight f6 now you have those two names now you know how to beat e4 e5 but going around all right you're gonna play e4 and you're gonna get a noob who plays the scandy all right the second recommendation is against the scandinavian a very popular opening it's very popular because a lot of people recommend it including me i actually don't dislike this opening at all for black but there's a very easy way for white to play where you get a really interesting position first of all you take okay black takes and now you play the move knight c3 that attacks the queen you need to know a couple of things here with white you need to know obviously the queen retreating to those two squares uh but queen a5 is the main line it's played more than anything else and the reason is the queen is very difficult to reach here like even if white can play the move b4 the queen will run back black will often time play c6 and escape back this way and in this position i recommend a move that out of two million games has been played only 69 000 times which is like i mean two percent i think i calculated two and a half three percent and that move is b4 all right this is called the lionheart gambit the point is that you just you're losing a pawn all right so queen takes before is just the loss of a pawn now you have two ideas here number one c7 is no longer protected number two the b file is open for the future and there is a line here which is so savage you are going to catch people and win in the first 10 moves and if you don't catch them in the first 10 moves you're still gonna get a potentially completely winning position so knight b5 that attacks c7 a lot of people here will just go back to where they were and consider you an idiot because what did you didn't accomplish anything and now you now you have no pieces that can attack the queen in this position you play the move bishop c4 bishop c4 has a disgusting trap behind it okay the trap of the move bishop c4 is that if they attack your knight and try to get you to leave you win the game okay you win the game with the absolutely dynamite strike bishop takes f7 check coming out of nowhere off the top rope what here's the point king takes queen h5 check and now wherever this king moves aka to e6 or gets blocked like this you move the knight with check and you win the queen the queens are on the same straightaway on the fifth rank so this check and then you win the queen and hopefully you go on to win the game incredible right bishop c4 they attack your knight doesn't matter bishop takes f7 incredible idea right now uh can they move out of the way like this absolutely yeah but then you come back and then you come back and i mean you've won upon and they can't count they can't castle so bishop f7 is a monster idea and black cannot take because of queen h5 if black blocks like something like this then you just keep developing knight f3 castle quick development uh target c7 in the future it's a gambit but b4 will win you a lot of games a lot now there's of course other lines like knight a6 here for example what i like here is just developing with knight f3 and if the knight stays out on the c the a6 square you could just take it and now damage their pawn structure so knight a6 is another way to defend c7 but i really like knight c3 followed by b4 um go investigate this you're going to win a lot of games against the scandinavian of course people can go all the way back i mean if they go all the way back again chess is not you know it's not something i can solve for you fully develop your pieces you'll be you'll be fine right uh but queen a5 b4 is very very nice you're gonna get like a 70 75 win rate with it uh because black is just going to be scattered all over the place now this one is tough for me because let's say you play e4 and they play the karo khan all right what i recommend against the karo khan in my e4 course what i recommend to people all the time is to play the advanced variation okay and here the most popular move by far for black is the move bishop f5 because it's a very principled move you develop and you take the center now bishop f5 this position has been reached 2 million times white here playing h4 the tal variation is only 190 000 out of 2 million there's a lot of millions in there where h4 is not played and h4 scores like 7 to eight percentage points higher than any other line and you're about to see why the idea of h4 is very simple if they play e6 you trap the bishop with g4 so that's just the whole point these pawns go together all right and the bishop gets trapped you're gonna win games like this if you play the tile variation but if they play h6 you still play g4 and the whole point is you want to take as much space as possible on that side of the board you have to know your theory here but the whole idea is this pawn move e6 if the bishop gets off the diagonal so if the bishop goes back here you sack this pawn the point is that the light squares are now super weak and it's very difficult for black to get rid of these double pawns this movie six is just extremely important in a lot of these positions from here white wins about 70 of the time according to the leeches database you play bishop d3 and like i said if you want to investigate this further check out some other videos check out my course or someone else's course right i can't give you everything here every move but i'm telling you this line of the cairo with h4 is violent for black uh black's best line is h5 which prevents you to play g4 um here white can play the main line which is just trading and again trying to get this e pawn through or one of my favorite lines which is the move bishop g5 preventing e6 queen b6 and bishop d3 this this line i go in more detail in a video i made a long time ago uh as well as well as my e4 chorus and i mean the general thing here is again if they play this line to get your rook in the corner you have to move e6 and the lions here are crazy but white can get a totally winning position after sacrificing this rook by trapping the queen in the corner and the queen is just completely stuck so it's a it's a crazy line but if you learn it you are going to demolish people just completely demolish them h4 caro is potent it's juicy and i think my win rate with it is something like 65 and i'm talking against title players so if you're gonna play against the carl kahn play e5 and against bishop f5 play h4 all right i'm just telling you this line's going to win you a lot of games now of course there is also c5 you have to know something against c5 but you can take that's considered the best move and then you can defend your center or play a3 but i'm telling you if i have to tell you one thing h4 is like almost an auto win if you know what you're doing um but you might not know what you're doing and the last one that i have for you in the white section here is against the sicilian which is obviously the most common opening that's not e5 now the sicilian is very tough to crack all right like i'm gonna i'm not gonna lie to you if you're playing a very good player it's very tough to crack but a3 sicilian which is also part of my e4 course is a very interesting opening so obviously the idea of a3 is to play b4 and oftentimes gambit the pawn like if black plays e6 defending b4 or knight c6 defending b4 you're gonna play b4 if they don't if they play like the dragon personally i just like to play like this all right it kind of resembles a vienna it's not but this is the way i kind of like to play this and then knight f3 or even f4 knight f3 and so on but the a3 sicilian has been played only 250 000 times you say that's a lot of games out of 47 million 47 million games have reached this position only 250k have gone here that's crazy now the most common move in the sicilian is knight c6 and against this we are going to play our gambit so it's very likely this position happens from the opening black just takes your pawn what you're going to do here is attack the knight the knight is going to go back to where it came from and you're going to go here so far pretty natural stuff this position has been reached 33 000 times right according to that database now here the move that gets played about 51 of the time is black not trying to let you go d5 and playing d5 themselves and if you learn captures and captures and knight to a3 trying to go knight b5 knight c7 this is one of the most like easily winnable positions for white uh black can already get a totally losing position here by playing something like e5 knight b5 and uh i mean actually the best line in my opinion is like this because you can just play d5 and they cannot take since you would sacrifice your queen which is really savage and then play knight c7 and win back the queen this knight a3 line and just in general this entire line of the b4 sicilian is so much fun because it throws sicilian players so far off their game personally i like to play b4 when there's a pawn up for grabs so something like this as well and here i can play c3 d4 i can take this gigantic center and then i can just build behind my pawns you know i can play bishop d3 f4 and uh black struggles here because black just doesn't have any space and natural development and if black tries to break out all of a sudden here comes queen h5 and now black is lost so the a3 sicilian i find just simply super fun i mean you don't have to add this you can add some of the other lines of this video to your repertoire but i love the a3 sicilian if i have to recommend one fun line to beat the sicilian defense it will be the eighth reason i would just be day three sicilian so those are my recommendations against some of black's major openings when you play e4 now let's we also have to play black and half the games we play right so for the rest of this video we are going to be playing against other people now i've given you two recommendations against e4 the first one uh in this video is going to be the karo khan because the karo khan to me is the best opening against e4 especially at at all sorts of levels uh and in particular intermediate level now the most common response against the cairo is the advanced caro obviously if you want to learn the exchange carro fantasy carrot the other caros check out a carol course maybe like from yours truly but the most common line is this all right and if you want to just study the camera for free you should not play bishop f5 play the move c5 the c5 advanced carl khan is four times less popular than the bishop f5 carl con and it is so easy to get a good position here with black so easy watch most common move here for white reinforcing the center okay we are going to play knight c6 black will play knight f3 we can make this trade we can also you can also make that trade straight away if you want the second that we see this knight we are going to pin it okay then we are going to play the move e6 to not block in our bishop keep that in mind this is much worse because your bishop never gets out okay so you play bishop g4 you play e6 then you are going to move this knight to the f5 square knight e7 knight f5 and you are putting pressure on that pawn because the bishop is is gonna get this knight right so bishop e3 this position has been reached a lot this is like one of the main just main lines for white and already after about ten moves each uh black is better black is better because structurally it's really difficult for white to defend this pawn and if white plays a move like h3 for example you can take the knight and immediately go to trade the bishop you can get this position where black is just significantly better and wins about 75 percent of the time white just struggles here to guard the center and if white plays moves like 92 being super passive we can already immediately begin attacks on the king so the advance carol with c5 just gets you such easy to play positions you just have to learn dc5 here knight c6 and e6 are both moves e6 is one of the lines yes blocking in the bishop but the bishop will get out a little bit later personally i really like knight c6 developing this bishop and then playing e6 black uh has a positive win rate after c5 uh which is extremely rare in chess openings like for black to have a positive win rate just from normal stuff i love c5 i played in blitz all the time i played it in classical i played bishop five in glasgow played the carol con my whole life basically so try this you're going to destroy people uh but i have to give you something else against e4 as well right sorry i'm just losing it so what i have for you here is if you are going to be an e4 e5 player with black okay i have two recommendations for you in e4 e5 obviously you would kind of need to learn something against the vienna my recommendation would be if you want to learn the vienna just learn right from what i showed you earlier in example number one but the most common thing by far is to get knight f3 knight c6 on the board okay now white has to play one of the bishop moves or the scotch the only reason i'm not recommending e4 as this number one recommendation is because learning all the theory here is really hard actually like i'm gonna give you some really interesting weapons with black but if they play something else like they just play the four knights you gotta know that you know you gotta learn the ponziani you gotta learn that but against the two most popular moves which are italian and spanish against the spanish you probably already know this but i recommend the schliemann or the yanish gambit this is in my black gambit's repertoire i think this gambit is incredible and if you notice it's a vienna gambit in reverse if they take on f5 you play e4 so it kind of it kind of resembles the vienna gamut in reverse i love the schliemann i think you can get some really really nice and simple to play positions with it like this castle open f-file and you can just smash people who try to play the rue lopez against you with the move f5 however the italian is a little bit more potent and i think knight f6 is a very good move again white can be boring and not play the fried liver invitation so white can just play normal and well unfortunately folks you just kind of have to play chess right i'm trying to give you the best options the best openings right if your opponents play knight g5 trying to go for the knight attack the fried liver the most you know most popular move in this position almost 2 million games i have a video on the traxler counter attack but that's not my recommendation right now my recommendation for you in this position is to play the move d5 which is considered the best move but after pawn takes d5 i don't want you playing knight a5 and i don't want you playing knight takes d5 here i wholeheartedly endorse and recommend the move b5 this is an amazing move b5 counter attacks the bishop if they take our knight we take the bishop very simple right then we're going to get very quick development and castle the move b5 uh will oftentimes get taken then you play queen d5 and attack this and this so naturally many people here will take and probably castle now black gets laser beam bishops here black can play bishop d6 bishop b7 and just absolutely slaughter white on these diagonals so for example h6 knight f3 and this cannot be taken because of this whoopsies so let's say white plays rookie one trying to get this bishop d6 alright let's say white plays d3 or d4 it doesn't make a difference you can always push but you can also castle long this is the incredible thing about this white is going to have a nightmare dealing with all this going on over here white's already lost for example de5 there's bishop e5 and the queen is hit mate is going to be threatened quite soon so this line with b5 is awesome i love the move b5 the best move here for white is to go all the way back to f1 no one's going to know that come on maybe if they watch this video they're going to not put them in no what what is what nobody's going to play that all right like and if they do well then there's knight takes d5 all right if they do then there's knight takes d5 and if you let's say you give b5 a shot right and everybody knows would move bishop f1 for some reason all right well then you play the main line this is a good this is the whole point of today's video if something in this video doesn't work for you it's not like i've landed you in a lost position all right just change one move all right no b5 play the move knight d4 first all right trying to play a b5 well here you have to know c3 for example but knight takes d5 and then queen g5 stuff like it's uh oh no sorry sorry sorry i think c3 c3 you must play b5 bishop f1 and then uh and then knight takes d5 but in general the fried liver is something that you're gonna face a lot and it's good to have a good weapon against it i really like this b5 but you don't have to listen to me but you're 20 minutes into my video so i guess you like listening to me now the video would not be complete unless i gave you options against d4 so the first option that i give you can be played against the knight f3 move one c4 move one as well i'm recommending the dutch defense the dutch defense can be played against any of white's d4 c4 and knight f3 setups you can choose the leningrad dutch the stonewall dutch the classical dodge the dutch excuse me is great but personally the dutch that i think is easiest to play is the one where you put the bishop on b4 and fianchetto this bishop on b7 let me show you what i mean c4 knight f6 knight c3 e6 knight f3 bishop b4 this setup for black is so great the point is you get rid of the bishop for the knight you fianchetto the bishop on b7 and then you castle this is something like how it should look if white ever plays a3 you take the knight otherwise you don't worry about it and you get something like this from the opening your game plan now is extremely simple with black you will put this knight on e4 you will put this knight on d7 and behind the knight so something like that's not what's gonna happen something like this and from here you will launch an attack on white you will play queen f6 g5 g4 rook f6 rook h6 something along these lines and these positions flow so naturally rook f6 behind the queen and this bishop laser beaming g2 as well personally i think that this setup is so easy to play with black and i think you were going to crush people um white should delay the move knight c3 white should not allow you to pin them on the b4 square that's actually what white is supposed to do white is supposed to uh in this position play like knight f3 and you can still play bishop b4 and then b6 bishop b7 um and you can play this setup against anything like for example c4 f5 knight c3 knight f6 you know knight f3 e6 g3 bc you see it looks very similar castles bishop before it's a very similar setup it just okay they haven't played evil you could play it against the english all right you can play this setup against the reddy if you want you can play knight f3 f5 and then if white tries to play like you know just the straight up plays the ready obviously in this case you have a little bit of a difficulty there's no knight but as long as there's a knight there you move the bishop out to b4 and you get rid of it i love this setup this setup to me supernatural super simple straightforward game plan and makes white's life very difficult because white is just trying to move out a bunch of pieces and develop and you're immediately going for a big attack so add this to your repertoire and this chapter this whole section would not be complete unless i gave you a weapon against the london and today's weapon might surprise you in this video i tried to give you examples that i don't really have a lot of on youtube i've never recommended this and personally against the london system i want you to try knight c6 now knight in front of cpawn is not good unless you're backed with my video and stockfish your game plan is going to be f6 and e5 we are going for a direct central assault on the london white has two ways of playing against this c4 at some moment and playing knight f3 to prevent the move e5 what this will look like is for example and by the way this move order works against knight f3 as well so knight f3 you can play knight c6 of course here you might need to know queen's gambit but uh you can add some some stuff to your repertoire or you can play this move order only against bishop f4 and against the other stuff maybe uh you can play like bishop g4 for example instead of knight c6 but you're about to see what i mean bishop f4 knight c6 f6 you're going for e5 so white's gonna be like oh whoa they're going for e5 let me play knight f3 now you pin you pin the knight to the bishop to the queen now you're ready to go e5 again white will block you're gonna play bishop takes knight and then you're gonna play e5 takes takes bishop will get out of the way knight f6 look at this position does anybody really have any complaints about this position really any let's say white castles now you attack the bishop this check is nothing you can always block the bishop goes here bishop d6 right if there's a trade you can castle long and just start a monstrous attack black is already better from this position the biggest trap i love here is if white tries to play uh c4 there is this this and you just shove this pawn into their position defended by that knight and black is already doing extremely well so this the game plan is honestly quite simple you just play knight c6 f6 bishop g4 and push for e5 uh put and if white tries to play c4 which is a common idea white has to play it at the right moment or else white is in very bad shape uh if your queen ever makes it out here and gets attacked you can pin the knight to the king and now the knight cannot take the queen so position for black plays itself very quick development on white so slightly bad pawn structure and a little bit weak near the king but knight c6 f6 idea the combination of the two versus the london are shockingly resilient like i was looking to try to refute this it's not possible and again knight f3 maybe not f6 maybe bishop g4 right away all right now f6 boom you're back in your wheelhouse all right you can always take and play e5 look at this position i mean can somebody really complain about this like this is amazing you have two center pawns supported by knights long castle bishop b4 you're gonna people gonna hate you they're gonna hate you and there's a bonus feature to this setup you can always play g5 if you really want this is for the very brave warriors to play like this all right you can just march all your pawns forward london players are gonna hate you oh my goodness they're gonna hate your guts for playing like this this is not what they're supposed to get when they play the london so knight c6 f6 combo if the opponent plays knight f3 can always play bishop g4 followed by knight c6 and then you know slowly so this is not even a london this is like a kali more than anything else but this move order is mildly annoying you might need to learn in a you know an additional kind of thing here or you can play the chigorin defense so this setup is the chigorin defense named after mikhail chigorin but in general against the london knight c6 f6 e5 is very interesting that's my eight suggestions i think these suggestions will serve you very well thanks for watching for 27 minutes uh and if you hate one of my suggestions throw it in the garbage but use some of the others i'm telling you statistics back up what i'm trying to show you here today i think these openings are very common you're going to get them in your games and you're going to be able to play some of these recommendations and get very good positions enjoy i'll see you in the next video get out of here

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Length: 28min 12sec (1692 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 14 2022