Bro I came to the comments just to see if I was missing something lmao glad theres no secret rules I don’t know about that would have saved the king. XD
Here is kinda the outlook for future videos. I've got about 12 more openings that I want to cover. I've also got about 4 or 5 traps and 10 or so middle game strategies. After those are complete (I would assume in a few months) then I'm going to go back, and one by one make 3-5 videos on each opening I've covered going more in depth on each of the lines. With that said, I will be sure to put the Greco and other variations at the top of that list.
So, now my standard repertoire: Danish gambit, Smith Morra gambit, Latvian gambit, Blackmar Diemar gambit, Fried liver attack, Fegatello attack, evans gambit, albin counter gambit, king's gambit, falkbeer gambit, etc. As gambiteers, we never play silently! One must have a wild gambit line against everything your opponent throws at you! Oh, btw... I'm planning to use the Latvian if 1. e4 in an two hour official tournament game today! :P
I just realised that I'm very aggresive player and gambits are easy to understand for me. In this video I nearly always see the next move before you tell it :D I'm gonna watch all your videos about aggressive openings!
@ledgeleaper thanks! the winners are in the comments section of the math video. My headsets went out on me when i was picking winners and the video had no sound so i took it down and just made a post.
5:13 what if you brought your queen back to h5 putting the king in check forcing him to block with kh4 and then you take with your queen putting him in check again and then he has to move again because you’re guarded by your knight on f6 and you can now take his queen Edit: nvm he can also block with his pawn
I've seen a good amount of top players using a gambit similar to the Latvian to combat the Ruy Lopez ( 1. e4 e5 2. nf3 nc6 3. bb5 f5 ) specifically at the 5th Kings Tournament in Bazna 2011 (i believe Karjakin and Radjabov employed this, among others). Do you know is this is still called the Latvian or does it go by another name?
who gives a s**t .... 4:49 is checkmate and the author is saying take the knight.. that's Dumb...... but my comment is hard to understand if you have your brain in your ass .
Chhabilata Mohapatra he has a lot of great videos. Kevin's style isn't pinpoint accuracy; he plays hot and dirty chess. If you can forgive the occasional blunder he has great tactics that can confound confound your opponent.
U could move ur queen to check the king and take the knight still and then eventually try and get the white bishop out July moving the pawn and then u have an attack on his rook that they might miss being to focused on the queen
Hi Kevin, thanks for the video, I have played the Latvian and I would agree the key is playing aggressively. I normally play the Kings Gambit and the same philosophy applies. Also agree the element of surprise is key and it is not the strongest open.
Then you play kf6 and if the white attacks the pawn on e4 you support it by playing the pd7 to d5 and by that move you're also attacking the pawn on f5 with your bishop on c8
Dubravko Misic just a lil thing i want to tell u The Knight is N not K the reason for this is because this can be confused with the King which is K so just for further explanation u might to refer knight has N and king as K
6:40 Can't the light-squared bishop take the pawn? Then it can eye down the d7 rook. Then the white queen will have a chance to develop for a potential quick checkmate. And yes.... I am here 10 years later....
The thing is sometimes you have to improvise you can't just expect your opponent to play every move in this video but remember the Latvian gambit is a good opening
lahirund white is still way ahead even after the knight take & pawn take. This move potentially blows up the gambit with the right bishop move & getting the rook to the middle of the board. 👍
04:45 - I've played that position several times. Every time white only plays RG2 to G3. It's the most logical move and you don't even address it. Does it get white out of trouble or not?
I've had the same problem. Once they do that white actually has nice position because black has exposed their king bad and has opened up major white pieces.
@drpepper2raw at 4:36 we could come to d4 and take the knight. at 8:19 the only move he has is f3 to stop it, we can capture with our pawn and it's check, then we can get our knight involved if we want. White runs out of options.
@cleverman4 It is descriptive notation--K is King, Kt is Knight, and the squares are numbered from the view of Black or White, so K1 is the square the White king starts on (on White's turn) and KB3 is the square two away where the King's Bishop starts on, and where the knight can move on the first turn, etc. Ha ha, right now I'm typing this from an empty office at a University in Belgium where I'm visiting. Anyways, though, if you want more information just send me a message.
Wow i like this gambit i can't wait to use this fighting style. Mato Jellic and you Kevin is the best chess teacher in RUclips. How about you play together and post here in RUclips. It would be exiting game for sure.
nice video Kevin, good to see another chess website vid. keep em coming. seems like a bit of a risky gambit though tbh, hinges on quite a lot of hopeful play. i'm sure i'll give it a shot at some point though.
Besides, after the combination on 7:54 in this video (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Bc4 fxe4 4.Nxe5 Nf6 5.Nf7 Qe7 6.Nxh8 d5) white bishop can just take black attacking pawn on d5, and then, after it's recaptured by the black knight Nxd5, then black can get a check Qh5, and then after black king moves, or a move like g6, then black knight is simply taken by white Qxd5. so black in fact loses his kingside rook.
Hi Kevin, thank you for your really excellent videos. I did a study of ten gambits and the Latvian was among the ones that didn't do so well. The result is consistent with your observation that its value lies in the opponent's ignorance of the lines. Here is the link to my gambit report. Hope to get some comments. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2598867
another great vid, thnkx m8! - could u make more vids defending against a white pawn to d4 move? i see this move far more than i see e4 (when playing black)
7:34 in this position, I would just move my pawn to d5, attacking the bishop. Once the bishop moves out the way, like to b3 for example, then I could bring my queen g5. Notice that the knight can't move to g4 after that because of my light square bishop.
Is 3. d3 as good as it is in the King's Gambit? I've found it difficult to create any sort of attack after that move as it opens up the black squared bishop. I tend to play 3. ... a6 to prevent my Knight from being pinned later on but then white is up in development. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Because for me it really has been the bust to the latvian gambit.
I played that as white after getting the Latvian gambit. It took me two minutes in a 10min game to recover from the surprise and find this, and apparently it's very good. I didn't win the game for a blunder far into the middle game, but until that I was winning with +3 according to Stockfish. If you plan to play that as black, only 8% of 2000 rated players on Lichess did use that variant (called Mason countergambit), so it's risky, but not a big threat. (I know your comment was 10 years old, but who knows who will read it!)
Just Curious, what would be blacks tactics or move if the white pawn on e4 took the black pawn on f5? Because if your playing and your opponent makes that move then this opening is blown.?
cptsopiens notice how it's called the Latvian "gambit"... That's kind of the point of a gambit.. if it worked perfectly every time it everyone would use it every game. That's what you do in a gambit. You hope a player plays a certain way or a certain move. It's just like a trap. Players makes mistakes. I don't know about you, but I don't play people like magus Carlson very often. Players make mistakes
+Ergo tuve if you look at the board at 4:50 on the video, the black queen is on d4 that's check mate.The king can't go anywhere, and there's no pieces that can block the queen's attack.
@tubetentort Once black takes pawn on f3, it's a discovered check and white must move his king to either f1 or f2. f2 is better because when black takes pawn on g2, white moves his queen to safety. Then black can bring his queen down and chase the king until he gets mated, but white didn't lose the queen :)
‘A lot of the times white does an epic fail and just gets destroyed by black’. I’ve played a lot of this game and it’s pretty consistent but awesome to learn some new stuff
@tufosanta That move is one that many think is best, but in the end it just provides Black with a bit of a target for his bishop after ...Bb6 (and ...Qe7 is possible as well!) for instance: 3. Nxe5 Bc5 4. d4 Bb6 5. exf5 Nf6 6. Bg5 Nc6! etc. ... but nowadays I usually play something else on my third move anyways--the 'Nakamura' variation (after Clyde Nakamura) is a good surprise weapon, though!
I’d like to see more discussion on how the sac of the rook unfolds as a benefit to Black because that is a trap that would be very easy to draw White into and would be appealing to me to play. As white I frequently utilize that sort of flank attack against black and I have little doubt my opponents will fall into that line without thought
I play the Latvian at every opportunity and thought I'd shed light on the main line. After 4. ...d6 5. nc4 exd4 6. nc3, play 6...qf7 instead of the common qg6. Stockfish 5 prefers this move at high depth. I don't think the move has been analyzed at all, but after many, many games, I agree that it's the strongest move and highly recommend it. It's sharp, but if you play the Latvian you already know what you're getting into. Tl;dr play 6...qf7 instead of 6...qg6
@Nik Veresch Yes you could, but since whites kings side is already weak and he can no longer castle, he can simply put his g pawn to g4, to block it, and you can't take because of the knight on e5
I have a real problem with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Ne5: Bc5. (I think this can only be tried the other way round after 3.ef5: Lc5.) The normal reaction to a Bishop move like that with no pawn on e5 would be simply 4.d4 and White has a wonderful position.
Also, i Have a question what moves will be the best after variation on minute 4:33 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nxe5 Bc5 4.exf5 Bxf2+ 5.Kxf2 Qh4+) when white plays g3 at this position. I have seen g3 very often and then I simply give another check by Qd4+ and then taking knight on e5. After that move white often tries to exchange queens by Qe1 or Qe2. what moves do you recommend actually after g3 ?
Another variation could be Stafford gambit, and when the queen is on h4 and the king moves to F3, you can move queen to h5 and it pins the king to queen, if king moves you get whites queen, and pretty much win the game.
@thegambitking I suppose it's the accepted notation in Latvia or Europe, but in international competitions and events, the proper way to signify a Knight move is "N."
@Thymonico "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." (Bruce Lee) Just replace kick with opening. Instead of trying to learn all openings you should spend more time learning one well, with all it's variations, and then you'll be really good. Gambits are strong, but generally if they are declined, you lose position.
@armangokalp I think the game finishes with draw...The kinght moves g4 for attacking the queen...The queen turns back to h5...The game is draw by making triple same move...
Why is the best response to Qh4 going to be Kf3 instead of g3? The pawn on g3 would threaten with exh4. That sounds more reasonable to me than Kf3, but is there some reason that this move is not preferred? 4:59
I can't believe nobody is mentioning 3. d3. This is a passive move, but a solid one for white. If 3...fxe4 then 4. dxe4 followed by 5. Ng5, and black has to tie down his queen defending f7 so he won't lose castling rights (although he may be able to eventually drive off the knight). That gives white time to play dxe4 followed by f3, repairing his pawn structure. But if 3...f4 then 4. Nxe5 Qf6 5. d4, and now black is playing defense while white has a big space advantage.
Saw this video on another channel, not sure which is the original so I am gunna say this on both :p you're a great teacher and all of you're videos are very informative. You should think about actual chess tutoring. I would pay money to have you as a teacher. :)
@derek lam: if White plays f3, and Black pawn takes and check the King, and after Kf2, Black can take the g2 pawn, attacking the White Queen at the same time attacking the White Rook, threatening to promote into a Queen. That is why. Hope this Answer helps! =D
4:48 This opening is so aggressive that when you try to take your opponent's knight, you kill their king accidentally.
That's amazing! :D
Haha
I saw too
White got check mated
Bro I came to the comments just to see if I was missing something lmao glad theres no secret rules I don’t know about that would have saved the king. XD
Ye I was like is this guy not gonna talk about it ?
@@Sannandreo most player don't play that.so it's useless
He does not take the knight after check... That check happens to be check mate...
Everyone makes mistakes.
true
Thats why i am so confused
Thanks fir commenting
Exactly thought the same lul
YoXeV omegalul
4:48 is a mate..
Matthew Uxellodunon Scrolled to the comments just to see if I was crazy when I saw the same thing.
+Joel Evans so true haha
+Matthew Uxellodunon if you watch it on computer it says that its mate
Did the same as Joel Evans:)
Yes you are correct
The coolest thing about this is that I'm native Latvian. I didn't even know we have our own gambit! :O
Ew
Minute 5:15 check on h5 and takes hes queen why not??
BRO same
Casa Chrome123 there is the knight on E5 that would take the queen if the queen played g4+
@@ceoraddieapid4272 the fuck?
The queen move at 4:50 is checkmate sir.
He is a low rated teacher.
MrBradymoss yeah, I was like, what am I missing here :)
MrBradymoss you can take the knight after the mate, can't you ?
yes, you kan take the knight and put it into the box, as you clean the table after the game
Martin Grønsdal Lmao gG OMFG LOL HAHAHA
🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
1:26 Knight takes pawn (Queen's variation)
3:42 Knight takes pawn (bishop variation)
4:22 Both pawns taken
7:30 Opp. Bishop threatens knight
8:26 Opp. Knight backup
9:13 Pawn takes pawn
thx a lot
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At 4:50 u erroneously mention taking the knight "after" checking King on 1st rank. Actually you delivered mate and didn't know it!
On chess board he could have continued the game without claiming victory.
Hi everyone this is kevin from...
Check the comments to make sure everyone else saw the accidental checkmate
The first 15 seconds of the video was what happen when you premove Queen's Gambit thinking you were white.
Here is kinda the outlook for future videos. I've got about 12 more openings that I want to cover. I've also got about 4 or 5 traps and 10 or so middle game strategies. After those are complete (I would assume in a few months) then I'm going to go back, and one by one make 3-5 videos on each opening I've covered going more in depth on each of the lines. With that said, I will be sure to put the Greco and other variations at the top of that list.
Go to 1:00 to hear a snake
Patrick A I’m laughing 😂
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I read this while 1:00 was playing
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I just watched this, played a game....forgot everything!
Haha that's chess for you
So, now my standard repertoire:
Danish gambit, Smith Morra gambit, Latvian gambit, Blackmar Diemar gambit, Fried liver attack, Fegatello attack, evans gambit, albin counter gambit, king's gambit, falkbeer gambit, etc.
As gambiteers, we never play silently!
One must have a wild gambit line against everything your opponent throws at you!
Oh, btw... I'm planning to use the Latvian if 1. e4 in an two hour official tournament game today! :P
This is one of the best chess channels I've seen in a while. Clear explanations and little vocal stumbling.
I just realised that I'm very aggresive player and gambits are easy to understand for me. In this video I nearly always see the next move before you tell it :D I'm gonna watch all your videos about aggressive openings!
@ledgeleaper thanks! the winners are in the comments section of the math video. My headsets went out on me when i was picking winners and the video had no sound so i took it down and just made a post.
5:13 what if you brought your queen back to h5 putting the king in check forcing him to block with kh4 and then you take with your queen putting him in check again and then he has to move again because you’re guarded by your knight on f6 and you can now take his queen
Edit: nvm he can also block with his pawn
best move, saw it too.
Well how is it happening?? Let's say
1...,Qh5+
2.g4, and then it's just not working cuz' knight on e5 is actually guarding the pawn.
@@rikidas5705 look at my edit
I've seen a good amount of top players using a gambit similar to the Latvian to combat the Ruy Lopez ( 1. e4 e5 2. nf3 nc6 3. bb5 f5 ) specifically at the 5th Kings Tournament in Bazna 2011 (i believe Karjakin and Radjabov employed this, among others). Do you know is this is still called the Latvian or does it go by another name?
Thats the Rousseau gambit
I think that is known as the Schliemann or Jaenisch gambit.
Its similar to the vienna if white takes f4 e4 is deadly with the engin reccomending qe2
@@jasperhalsey8574 Rousseau gambit is 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 f5
Jänisch gambit 100%
I felt very free to give up material to the point I only had the king left, now what?
Feel free to give it up as well
It’s rare to see him miss so many things. Guess it’s a testament to how few study this gambit.
I got checkmated in 6 moves against this...
Two years too late, but git gud, skrub
@FURY nothing personal, kid
Pathetic
You must be a total rubbish player...❗
@Gwyn Chapdelaine 2 weeks after your comment. ..I am commenting here with no necessity to comment, but I've done it anyway..😂don't be nervous man 😱👍
4:49 is checkmate
Gowli Plays that's where I closed the video and had no doubt of this useless commentary
yup... also noticed....
Chhabilata Mohapatra yeah I hate it when the line ends in checkmate mistakenly... lmao take the stick out of your ass
who gives a s**t .... 4:49 is checkmate and the author is saying take the knight.. that's Dumb...... but my comment is hard to understand if you have your brain in your ass .
Chhabilata Mohapatra he has a lot of great videos. Kevin's style isn't pinpoint accuracy; he plays hot and dirty chess. If you can forgive the occasional blunder he has great tactics that can confound confound your opponent.
4:43 why does the pawn not come forward pushing the queen? When king is on check?
I believe If the pawn does come forward you just move your queen to d4 for check again and then take knight
Even then, you check the king and he loses the Knight here.
U could move ur queen to check the king and take the knight still and then eventually try and get the white bishop out July moving the pawn and then u have an attack on his rook that they might miss being to focused on the queen
Hi Kevin, thanks for the video, I have played the Latvian and I would agree the key is playing aggressively. I normally play the Kings Gambit and the same philosophy applies. Also agree the element of surprise is key and it is not the strongest open.
at 4:49 isn t that check mate ?
That is the same thing I saw. I dont see any way that white can block the check eat the queen or move away.
It is.
alexandru manea yes
Yessir
@thechessgeek ur exactly right, thanks for the observation. I have made a note in the video.
9:20 what if he plays queen e2
Then you basically lost lol. JK, get creative ;)
Then you play kf6 and if the white attacks the pawn on e4 you support it by playing the pd7 to d5 and by that move you're also attacking the pawn on f5 with your bishop on c8
Dubravko Misic just a lil thing i want to tell u The Knight is N not K the reason for this is because this can be confused with the King which is K so just for further explanation u might to refer knight has N and king as K
@@randrebwar5939 most time is kh
Wait what if the pawn just takes instead of knight?
But i see instead of pawn to b5 i think its better pawn to b6 so that the white bishop has a dual option of a6 & b7. What do you think?
6:40 Can't the light-squared bishop take the pawn? Then it can eye down the d7 rook. Then the white queen will have a chance to develop for a potential quick checkmate.
And yes.... I am here 10 years later....
Me too lol
If the king moves back to g1 in the second line, we are not taking the knight... It's a mate actually
I was about to comment the same thing lol.
Thank god, I'm not crazy. I thought I was missing a piece to block or something.
Same here
The thing is sometimes you have to improvise you can't just expect your opponent to play every move in this video but remember the Latvian gambit is a good opening
knights back ear looks like a horn... they arent knights theyre unicorns... try to unsee that
Domenick Palmieri wtf cant unsee :(
Why...
Domenick Palmieri fuck u
Why wtf
Decade old video and still great content. I love this game
If at 504 the king doesnt move to f3 and the pawn moves to g3 then what do you do with the queen?
The Queen can go to D4 and check the king and attack the knight
lahirund white is still way ahead even after the knight take & pawn take. This move potentially blows up the gambit with the right bishop move & getting the rook to the middle of the board. 👍
Variation 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nxe5 Bc5 4.exf5 Bxf2+ 5.Kxf2 Qh4+ 6.Kg1 Qd4# is not check but checkmate.
04:45 - I've played that position several times. Every time white only plays RG2 to G3. It's the most logical move and you don't even address it. Does it get white out of trouble or not?
I've had the same problem. Once they do that white actually has nice position because black has exposed their king bad and has opened up major white pieces.
Sean Metzger After g3 Qd4+ wins the knight
4.49: it’s checkmate (not getting the knight back). Great video. Thanks!
I like it but its way to hard to remember
@drpepper2raw at 4:36 we could come to d4 and take the knight. at 8:19 the only move he has is f3 to stop it, we can capture with our pawn and it's check, then we can get our knight involved if we want. White runs out of options.
but does it have potato?
That's what it was missing!!!
+jose salas what do you mean
The Card Wizard IT NEEDS POTATO
+jose salas what needs potatoe
The Card Wizard EVERYTHING NEEDS POTATO
@cleverman4 It is descriptive notation--K is King, Kt is Knight, and the squares are numbered from the view of Black or White, so K1 is the square the White king starts on (on White's turn) and KB3 is the square two away where the King's Bishop starts on, and where the knight can move on the first turn, etc. Ha ha, right now I'm typing this from an empty office at a University in Belgium where I'm visiting. Anyways, though, if you want more information just send me a message.
Wow i like this gambit i can't wait to use this fighting style. Mato Jellic and you Kevin is the best chess teacher in RUclips. How about you play together and post here in RUclips. It would be exiting game for sure.
I also follow Mato Jelic, he is great too.
nice video Kevin, good to see another chess website vid. keep em coming. seems like a bit of a risky gambit though tbh, hinges on quite a lot of hopeful play. i'm sure i'll give it a shot at some point though.
omg I`m latvian and I play chess so I can play this now YES I LIKE THIS
I am Latvian as well
now play like Tal - My Chess Hero! We need another Latvian World
Champion!
Sveiciens no Latvijas!
pureredwhiteblu sameee i love tal the pirate of latvia/the magician of the board!
Besides, after the combination on 7:54 in this video (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Bc4 fxe4 4.Nxe5 Nf6 5.Nf7 Qe7 6.Nxh8 d5) white bishop can just take black attacking pawn on d5, and then, after it's recaptured by the black knight Nxd5, then black can get a check Qh5, and then after black king moves, or a move like g6, then black knight is simply taken by white Qxd5.
so black in fact loses his kingside rook.
"White just has an epic fail."
If king to F6 why not queen to H4 so he moves and you get queen behind the pin?
"white has an epic fail" lmao nice great video, i would like to see a video on the Colle Opening
Love your videos,man. Thanks for taking the time.
Hi Kevin, thank you for your really excellent videos. I did a study of ten gambits and the Latvian was among the ones that didn't do so well. The result is consistent with your observation that its value lies in the opponent's ignorance of the lines. Here is the link to my gambit report. Hope to get some comments.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2598867
Jamal Munshi interesting report. thanks for sharing
Link is dead. :(
@@wiredog771
Yup. Someone took it and shot it in cold blood. =(
another great vid, thnkx m8!
- could u make more vids defending against a white pawn to d4 move? i see this move far more than i see e4 (when playing black)
5:01 why can't white just move the pawn down to g3?
then comes queen d4 and check again with he thread on the knight not a good move
@@vertillon8845 after you take the knight i go queen e2 and white has an advantage
7:34 in this position, I would just move my pawn to d5, attacking the bishop. Once the bishop moves out the way, like to b3 for example, then I could bring my queen g5. Notice that the knight can't move to g4 after that because of my light square bishop.
there is a damn checkmate in the video while not recognized @ 04:47 wtf
Tank8484 how do you not see the white Knight?
Tank8484 it is a checkmate
niyati rambhia its a checkmate dude.
niyati rambhia are you blind ???
What if white moves Queen's Pawn to D4?
Missed mate 4:48 big. Blunder
He would have played it to take the knight, different reasons but same move.
Is 3. d3 as good as it is in the King's Gambit? I've found it difficult to create any sort of attack after that move as it opens up the black squared bishop. I tend to play 3. ... a6 to prevent my Knight from being pinned later on but then white is up in development.
Any suggestions on how to proceed? Because for me it really has been the bust to the latvian gambit.
I played that as white after getting the Latvian gambit. It took me two minutes in a 10min game to recover from the surprise and find this, and apparently it's very good. I didn't win the game for a blunder far into the middle game, but until that I was winning with +3 according to Stockfish. If you plan to play that as black, only 8% of 2000 rated players on Lichess did use that variant (called Mason countergambit), so it's risky, but not a big threat. (I know your comment was 10 years old, but who knows who will read it!)
for the love of god normalize the volume of your videos.
Just Curious, what would be blacks tactics or move if the white pawn on e4 took the black pawn on f5? Because if your playing and your opponent makes that move then this opening is blown.?
ispumpkinking as long as your opponent is a dip shit haha. I've had this work a few times. never against anyone good though.
Notice how many times he said "hope" people. this is called Hope Chess, unsound. There is a reason you have never seen this at top level play.
Yup everyone has to be so logical about stuff
Chuck Norris Yeah. If you play with a 'chance' style, if it gets exploited, then you're screwed.
cptsopiens notice how it's called the Latvian "gambit"... That's kind of the point of a gambit.. if it worked perfectly every time it everyone would use it every game. That's what you do in a gambit. You hope a player plays a certain way or a certain move. It's just like a trap. Players makes mistakes. I don't know about you, but I don't play people like magus Carlson very often. Players make mistakes
Definitely going to try and trick unsuspecting opponents by 'accidentally' touching my pawn...
at 4:59 if the queen moves to d4 he doesn't need to capture the knight, it's mate with the king on f1
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Can you explain?
+Ergo tuve if you look at the board at 4:50 on the video, the black queen is on d4 that's check mate.The king can't go anywhere, and there's no pieces that can block the queen's attack.
+Ergo tuve I made the mistake in my first statement, the king is on g1, not f1
+Stefan F. Ok, you are right, tks!
@tubetentort Once black takes pawn on f3, it's a discovered check and white must move his king to either f1 or f2. f2 is better because when black takes pawn on g2, white moves his queen to safety. Then black can bring his queen down and chase the king until he gets mated, but white didn't lose the queen :)
ok... but on 4:43, why cant white just block with the g pawn? am i missing something?
oh wait Qd4 forks sry i didnt see it
lightingwillstrike yea but i think it should have been shown too lol
Honestly every time I try to play this, my opponent takes the first pawn with his.
Try to analyze that position and think of best moves as black there
d6
‘A lot of the times white does an epic fail and just gets destroyed by black’. I’ve played a lot of this game and it’s pretty consistent but awesome to learn some new stuff
@cekinxxx no. the king's gambit is 1 e4 e5 2 f4... this is not popular because the black has 2 ... d5!
This seems like a really fun opening to play. I'm going to have to try it out sometime.
Thanks for the video.
Did it go well?
@tufosanta That move is one that many think is best, but in the end it just provides Black with a bit of a target for his bishop after ...Bb6 (and ...Qe7 is possible as well!) for instance:
3. Nxe5 Bc5 4. d4 Bb6 5. exf5 Nf6 6. Bg5 Nc6! etc. ... but nowadays I usually play something else on my third move anyways--the 'Nakamura' variation (after Clyde Nakamura) is a good surprise weapon, though!
What do you do if this happens: e4 e5 nf3 f5 nxe5 nc6 nxc6???
(dxc6 is winning for white.)
I’d like to see more discussion on how the sac of the rook unfolds as a benefit to Black because that is a trap that would be very easy to draw White into and would be appealing to me to play. As white I frequently utilize that sort of flank attack against black and I have little doubt my opponents will fall into that line without thought
8:06 how do he win the queen??
what do we do if the white bishop goes back to e2? we just gonna lose a complete rook no?
Kind of a reverse Kings Gambit if u think about it 🤔
I play the Latvian at every opportunity and thought I'd shed light on the main line. After 4. ...d6 5. nc4 exd4 6. nc3, play 6...qf7 instead of the common qg6. Stockfish 5 prefers this move at high depth. I don't think the move has been analyzed at all, but after many, many games, I agree that it's the strongest move and highly recommend it. It's sharp, but if you play the Latvian you already know what you're getting into.
Tl;dr play 6...qf7 instead of 6...qg6
Probably missing something, but isnt white checkmate in 4:50 ?
I think so as well.
At 7:00 wouldn't white's white square bishop just take the pawn on b5 and so pin the d7 pawn? Or would we have castled by that point?
@Nik Veresch Yes you could, but since whites kings side is already weak and he can no longer castle, he can simply put his g pawn to g4, to block it, and you can't take because of the knight on e5
I have a real problem with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Ne5: Bc5. (I think this can only be tried the other way round after 3.ef5: Lc5.) The normal reaction to a Bishop move like that with no pawn on e5 would be simply 4.d4 and White has a wonderful position.
Also, i Have a question what moves will be the best after variation on minute 4:33
(1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nxe5 Bc5 4.exf5 Bxf2+ 5.Kxf2 Qh4+) when white plays g3 at this position. I have seen g3 very often and then I simply give another check by Qd4+ and then taking knight on e5. After that move white often tries to exchange queens by Qe1 or Qe2. what moves do you recommend actually after g3 ?
Nice one,keep em coming dude.
What happens after 1.40 after d4? It´s a common move right? You don´t really explain the options after that
Mason countergambit. That's what I play as White to get an advantage with this gambit. But only 8% of players use it.
5:04 , why not Qh5 skewering to take the queen behind the king
Another variation could be Stafford gambit, and when the queen is on h4 and the king moves to F3, you can move queen to h5 and it pins the king to queen, if king moves you get whites queen, and pretty much win the game.
@thegambitking I suppose it's the accepted notation in Latvia or Europe, but in international competitions and events, the proper way to signify a Knight move is "N."
what if they decline it
@Thymonico "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." (Bruce Lee) Just replace kick with opening.
Instead of trying to learn all openings you should spend more time learning one well, with all it's variations, and then you'll be really good.
Gambits are strong, but generally if they are declined, you lose position.
what should I do if pawn E4 takes my pawn on F5
Qd4 is mate isn't it?? How come the question of capturing the knight arise?? Please explain.
8:42 It's the Mlotkowski variation.
ND2 in the Leonhardt variation refutes it totally.
+glaucous gull or the Leonard defense.
+Brannigan Donnybrook O'Ire pLEASE READ MY COMMENTS ON LATVIAN GAMBIT!
@Cubaoness I'm assuming you mean Nf6 (Kt-KB3) after Nxe5 (KtxP) ... and yeah that can be a good move... message me if you want to hear more about it!
@armangokalp I think the game finishes with draw...The kinght moves g4 for attacking the queen...The queen turns back to h5...The game is draw by making triple same move...
At 4:10 white usually plays d4 against me. Games get rough after this move. What would be the right course of action after d4 for black?
maybe try bishop to d6, offering trade or bishop to b4, checking the king
Why is the best response to Qh4 going to be Kf3 instead of g3? The pawn on g3 would threaten with exh4. That sounds more reasonable to me than Kf3, but is there some reason that this move is not preferred? 4:59
I can't believe nobody is mentioning 3. d3. This is a passive move, but a solid one for white. If 3...fxe4 then 4. dxe4 followed by 5. Ng5, and black has to tie down his queen defending f7 so he won't lose castling rights (although he may be able to eventually drive off the knight). That gives white time to play dxe4 followed by f3, repairing his pawn structure.
But if 3...f4 then 4. Nxe5 Qf6 5. d4, and now black is playing defense while white has a big space advantage.
Saw this video on another channel, not sure which is the original so I am gunna say this on both :p you're a great teacher and all of you're videos are very informative. You should think about actual chess tutoring. I would pay money to have you as a teacher. :)
@derek lam: if White plays f3, and Black pawn takes and check the King, and after Kf2, Black can take the g2 pawn, attacking the White Queen at the same time attacking the White Rook, threatening to promote into a Queen. That is why. Hope this Answer helps! =D
@Azkadaz Actually, Kt is acceptable for the Knight -- see eudesign . com / chessops / latv-03a . htm
The second move is 2. Kt-KB3.