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Looks tricky for sure, but I don't play the Traxler. The BGG Traxler line is a whole different beast with the e pawn gone. Even so though - I also don't play the fried liver, instead of Ng5 I'd play d5 Max Lange attack. Super deadly, tutorial on my channel called "there are more than 20 traps in this opening" :)

Yes, Nc6, Nxf7, Bxf2!

FM William Graif has a strong gambit you can play against the Ruy Lopez - but personally, since I play the Busch Gass Gambit, I completely avoid all Spanish openings, and either get my gambit or an Italian game, which is easier to handle :) I recommend at least trying the BGG if you like gambits for black. Tutorial linked at the end of this vid

Much appreciated!

Same, people should just learn real openings. And if you want to spice it up, it's not like there aren't real gambits that don't lose on move 2

​@@sam2725Finally someone who shares the same opinion. At the 2000+ level these garbage tricks don't work anynore and you just end up losing

​@@fili24tell FM William Graif that, he plays this stuff at 2400+. Whiny cunts you guys are

@@chrislevy42069 hehe, you think he got the fm title playing this stuff? 😂

@@sam2725 of course not, I'm not telling people to play this in OTB tournaments against GMs. I'm talking to the 98% of chess players under 2200 get outta here with your elitist narcissism.

Same here! Hoping to improve on his theory

Haha much appreciated!

Even so, Bg5 is the most common move in this gambit. He's just the first one I got with it, I'm sure there will be more.

Who cares?

@@chrislevy42069 But even after Bg5 black is completely lost, just grab the knight after e4? And even when white blunders with dxe, white can just respond Kh1 to Bxf2 and still white is better? White can literally walk into your 10 move deep trap, and he is still better 😂

BGG isn't really too common, they can accept the gambit on move 2, 3, and now even move 4, 5, and 6. But much appreciated! Check out the video linked at the end if you haven't seen the opening before

@@chrislevy42069 Ahh, I see, I see. I was seeing it more so from the white side, their focus being pawn to e4, clear out knight, bishop, then castle, and by then the black pawn trap was set. Will have a look at the video ya linked, thank ya sir!

btw, isn't the stats better if we avoid casling?

AYYY! Glad to see you checkin out the channel!

I got yelled at by someone else for that 😖🤣

I honestly recommend standard king's Indian defense, more useful in the long run... Other than that, you just play c5 2nd move anyway, which you have to study on your own

Oh and btw, please play 2...d5 against 2.Nc3... that shit has different traps (check wgraif video on Jobava London)

I have looked and looked, and unfortunately there is no way to consistently gambit against that position. You can try c5 like Xyrexia recommended, but there's lots of ways white can play even from there and it's generally not that tricky. That is why I will be showing another option against d4 soon... Keep an eye out

Fair

Much appreciated, glad to help!

Haha, much appreciated! Found this one all on my own :)

Thanks! Glad people like the humor hahaha

I believe I play that with white, I have come to know it as the Max Lange, in particular I like to play the Nakhmanson gambit. I made a video on it called "There are more than 20 traps in this opening..." Hope that answers your question haha

That would be sick, would we post links, or PGNs? Would it be better for me to just set up a discord?

Go ahead ​@@chrislevy42069

I have had much better success against the Sicilian since I started playing this :) hope it helps, and if not there's still no problem at all playing a pure Morra

Working on putting one together

lol had a commenter say it was hard to remember all the lines, just trying to make everything memorable

Honnestly, that's very usefull to me ! Thank you so much ! I'll come back to the longer video when I will have played that for a bit !

Absolutely right!

@@chrislevy42069 Scandinavian players start to cry.

Hey I know you! hahaha

@@chrislevy42069 hey Chris. I am a subscriber on your channel. I saw this video and made me crack up

Yup thats what I showed in the video haha. I wanted to put that, the Envy Gambit, and the declined lines in one video together.

@@chrislevy42069 Nice! I find videos from a student's perspective very fun. I'm trying out the London crusher 9000 from Graif! I'll definitely be interested in that video.

So what I'll do for you is make a 2 minute Smith Morra Beginners breakdown, I think that will be next video on the channel. I think if you can remember everything in that 2 minutes your Morra's will be 10x stronger than if you didn't!

@@chrislevy42069 Very good idea ! Could be longer than 2 minutes, I can remember some openings but Idk why I struggle with these lines lol. I just reached 2000 and I can remember most lines from William Graiff openings for exemple, but still I'm sure it will help a lot of people, and maybe myself as well. I've switched to playing d4 (Von Popiel gambit) to avoid sicilians, but I still transpose to Morra gambits against Benoni 😂

@@maximepoca9396 oh, no way. You're even better than me lol I'm 1800 hahaha. there really is only a couple of setups to remember against the Morra - e6 d6, e6 a6, Bb4, dragon, professionals, Siberian, and Bg4. Shouldn't take too long to just show the different setups to remember, maybe 3 minutes haha. But - I do completely understand how hard it is to learn an opening, though it's a lot harder to learn when you are having to look through 15 different people's videos to learn the lines - at least you have only this one video to learn :) that's why I make these, so that 90% of what you will see against the Morra is in one video. I swear though, it feels amazing now playing against the Sicilian knowing all of this. When you hit a line you don't know yet just check the timestamps after the match 😊

@@chrislevy42069 Not that much better, 2000 rapid is my peak, and trying to get there in blitz. Yep I know I need to come back to this video sometimes and I will! Still maybe a beginner video on this might be interesting for some people ! I know it always feels amazing to hit a crazy line that you know !!

@@chrislevy42069 that fact that so many high rated players watch your videos says something about these lines (I myself don't know what)

Hell yes!

Yeah very excited to see what he comes up with!

@@chrislevy42069 also im curious to know what are your other thoughts switching to c3 than d4 on move 2 other than adding more gambits on the repertoire as even with c3 nc6 d4 cxd4 nf3 they can still push d3 transposing to the push variation, esserman opts to play the bxd3 c4 setup which is covered also in the book, big fan man 💯💯💯

Will do thanks for the love!

Hope it was worth the wait!

@@chrislevy42069 definitely was

Yessir! I got the chessable course but honestly I find it kind of hard to navigate so imma buy his hard copy too

I'M BACK

Not sure since Bxf2 is a threat I would have to check with an engine 👍

If he accepts with the knight, just play c3 like normal, everyone goes back to c6, and then d4 transposes to the same line :)

Thanks! I am indeed in the discord server under the name Yahweh42069. I dont go on too often so just reply back here once you have sent something so I see it, I'd love to see what you got!

Of course, it is still a great gambit. Personally I think the Busch Gass Gambit is more versatile, and gives black much more control over the game. Check out that vid on my channel if you are interested :) either way gambit on!

Sound like my kind of guy! I love aggressive open chess, nothing bums me out more than a closed position haha. I will do everything in my power to open up the game and start attacking - glad you liked this video, intersting stats you got there. What's your rating might I ask? If you havent checked out my other vids as well, I think you may find them helpful against certain openings :) My caro vids are especially deadly.

@@chrislevy42069 I STARTED OUT 1840 after my provisional, CLIMBED to 1896 at one point and held in the 1800s about 85 games before getting dragged down to the 1600s clawing my way back to 1750s time and again only to get dragged back as low as 1500s sometimes even and don't trust that many of my opponents aren't cheating with ratings swings like that. I'm trying to claw back to 1700+ AGAIN today. I call tossing a bishop or a knight at 2 castle pawns etc. a "can opener attack". If you're REALLY like me, you've been there and done that. I played what I feel is my very best game a mieses against a high 1800 in which I *gag* repositioned a bishop before can opening and taking an EVENTUAL queen fork with the queen's knight black THOUGHT he would chase back taking an outpost on d6 and daring bishop to take that was SO vicious and positionally tight, I queen checked on his doorstep before taking and PROPERLY clearing out my opponents 2 bishops after CHOOSING queen takes black bishop so I can x ray his rook after he takes my retreated knight on the diagonal. closed games, namely slavwalling and scandinavian advance are why I quit playing a decade when my orange book didn't thing advance sicilian or closed french with the bishop released was "threatening enough" to warrant anything beyond a "develop your pieces and you'll be fine" had anyone taken my "I want to gambit my central pawn for initiative and open lines" begging seriously and told me about the hartlaub charlick (where albin doesn't have to be a mediocre mainline, but a fun sideline), I would be 1800+ by now for sure. even with players no longer falling for the Bxh2+ queen grab anymore, I still love room to swing my pieces with plenty of tactical potential like the classic QN+ run. I'm going to study bare bones theory for this just to get the essentials really memorized and do homework in analysis. trying to memorize an entire book with chess tempo's clunky spaced random book editor/trainer does more harm than good making me forever confused by move orders where systematic 1 line at a time until it's a reflex is what works best for me and mother eff that jumping to a position without the route I took to get to it for bearings crap too.

Absolutely love your enthusiasm! Really appreciate comments like this, you're awesome my guy! Gonna start uploading again regularly very shortly, just got a green screen :)

Well to be honest at first I was just trying to be different than other chess channels. I didnt really think I would ever get many views so I was just being myself, but as I see more comments like this and because I just got monetized, I will cut that stuff out of my future videos. Thanks for the feedback!

Much appreciated!

that should REALLY help you with the sidelines and understanding how other pirc players think and their plans. if you play the pirc though, I despise you

@@rare_grooves_shack_1983 Why do you despise me? In my opinion a good chess player should know how to play defense and how to destroy it too!

@@RafaelReis-cd5yu I am 98% POSITIONALLY inept and STILL can't figure pawns out. I attack out in the open. I can't crack positional. If gambiteers are YOUR natural enemy, go on and hate on me.

Glad to see you crushing! At least you know what to do against me now :)

Looks like this is a case of "dont hate the player, hate the game" hahaha!

Yes, I wanted to combine LC9000 in the same video as the envy gambit, and also show some other declined lines. Pretty sure I reference him a couple times in the video.