Chess openings - Najdorf Sicilian Defence See more on sicilian defence at chessopenings.c... Get more info about major chess openings at chessopenings.com
@LightPackerz: Thank you!! I appreciate the suggestion. There is no specific formula for reaching 2200 (except that you must consistently beat players who are not yet 2200, however that is achieved) evidenced by the fact that each master (and grandmaster) is unique and possesses a wholly different style. I also am not sure that I'd say I improve efficiently ;) Those people who are improving efficiently seem to do so by working tenaciously at openings/tactics and getting plenty of experience against higher-rated opponents. I still find studying openings to be a great way to improve my results. Hope this helps!
At first I thought these videos were a bit too simplistic for a 1600 player, but actually they reinforce ideas that sometimes we take for granted when hammering out opening moves. A healthy refresher for even stronger players.
I think your videos are pure gold! Openings for me has always been a big issue. I can't memorize moves. I much rather understand the reasoning of it. Thanks so much for these.
@Dereque- Fantastic job on these videos. I have watched a lot of opening videos and your videos are by far the most clear in explaining the openings and the strategies behind them, from both sides perspective. You are providing an invaluable service to the chess community. Keep up the good work.
When handling the Black pieces, you generally need to be patient in forming attacks - especially against 1.d4. The King's Indian is a general go-to option for players who love to attack, but there are no openings which will help you to get there too terribly quickly or which do not contain options for the opponent where you must be willing to build a position quietly for a while.You will get plenty of opportunities to attack if you remain patient. So play what interests you!
Here are some suggestions: If you have already managed to bring your game to a level that it was not in the past, consider what you did to raise it to its current level. Trust yourself and have fun, mainly you will need to absorb a ton of patterns in a way that has meaning to you. Repetition seems useful for anything you'd like to help yourself retain better too as it is common to make the same mistakes over and over again without it. These are some ideas, I hope this helps!
This guy's videos are way better than Jrobi and Kevin from the chess website. Great, thorough, articulate explanations. I've looked at other Sicilian defense vids and I now understand it better because of this one. Thanks, Dereque!
I really enjoy your videos, you are a natural for teaching and I hope you keep on doing them. I would also love for you to do some more in depth ones eventually about middle games in popular openings such as the sicilian, king's indian and queen's gambit to explain plans and strategies. Another thing I am curious about is what kind of training it takes to become master and how you spend your time and energy to improve efficiently.
The Najdorf is just so nerve-wracking to play that I usually avoid by playing 3. Bb5+ opting for the Moscow. Plus, even at my level (1500 rating) people are booked to the teeth on Najdorf theory so I'd rather play a game from positional principles than memorization. Excellent articulation and very good introduction to this opening sir!
I appreciate the suggestion! Good luck in your games, the Sicilian can be really hairy without some knowledge, but it's inexhaustibility also makes it's very fun to study and learn new things (to me).
This move has always been a little less popular than 6...e6 or 6...e5 but is still quite fine. After 7.Bg5 Black has to have an idea in mind since otherwise the knight will just be kicked with f2-f3 or h2-h3 with tempo and benefit to White. So he continues 7..h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Bg3 Bg7 - Black is choosing an entirely different plan than the usual in the Najdorf. White sitll has good chances for the advantage thanks to Black's advanced kingside pawns. It's a different game entirely -Dereque
Much depends on your skill level and natural appetites! Are you talking about playing the Black side against the queens pawn opening or suggestion that you want to play both 1.e4 and 1.d4 as White? What are you -favorite- aspects of gambit play (sacrificing a pawn early on? attacking the king? surprise factor?) -Dereque
Though I miss the name KebuChess, your videos are fantastic and I'm glad you are starting to rack up some views. You are one of the biggest reasons for my improvement to make my local chess team after just starting chess last February
Thank you!!!! These Sicilian videos (Dragon, Najdorf, and the Open Sicilian) are so helpful. Now i have a greater understanding of how the Sicilian opening works.
If you are asking me if it's a "good" defense, then I do not know! It depends on how you are defining "good". You may ultimately find you wish to try something new if this defense no longer seems adequate to you or for any other reason (or non-reason) later. But until then...? You're playing it!
can you please do a video about the next variation in the najdorf : 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 * 6. Be2 e6 7. g4! it looks really fun for the white side to play and black should be extreamly careful, the most tiny mistake can lead to a disaster. I saw this line in many high-rated games and I will like to study it. I want to know how to attack by white and how to defend by black, thanx!
Hi Dereque, Thank you for your videos , it's a pleasure to listen and learn from you . You explain it clear and with sense .Great job . Regards from Poland : )
Great video love this variation. two thoughts: one, black can fianchetto his dark squared bishop to help shore-up his kingside defenses in preparation for white's pawn storm. it can also support or even replace e7-e5, as the bishop pierces through the center and can even support black's queenside attacks. Two, when you think about it, the sicilian is a hypermodern-style opening, restraining and containing the center from afar :)
Thanks! Please do more on Najdorf since as you yourself admitted, you just scratched the surface! and I am sure the next is going to be the dragon variation. again, your transitions with a welcoming smile. keep it up! Murli
Great vids Master Dereque... But I strongly believe you should explore some other areas too... e.g, 1. General Opening principles... 2. How to Improve (y)our chess... 3. It would be a dream come true if you walk us through a game played by two masters and explain the idea behind the master's moves...more importantly second and third best options...and most importantly at the critical moments of the game you should ask viewers to guess the correct move... Thanks
I'm glad you are enjoying the videos. Of course - and more than a little chance! Why not? You could learn a new language, expand your knowledge of any field, gain new professional skills and knowledge: so what is forbidding about knowing more chess today than you knew yesterday?
dereque you the best! I think there is a niche on youtube for taking this videos even a step further, and go into a specific attacking line. Your videos are the best on youtube though, everyone elses are too long and don't go into the "why" enough.
LOL that's kinda funny because I've JUST seen a game of a similar variation between Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short!! :) thanks for explaining that out!
the bishop use to represent war elephants that charged through men on the battlefield trampeling them. the rooks can be a chariots or a siege towers. The queen can be a minister or general if you don't want her to be a queen.
I love how this very viable opening defense for black disregards many tenets of chess opening theory, in that many pawn moves are made, and very little piece development is accomplished until later. There at the end of the video, only one piece of black's was off the back rank, a knight. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it isn't solid, for it certainly is. It's just complicated.
Your are the best !! Thanks very much and could you please subject any famous games involving the opening related to the opening that you are showing . just to give us a practical reference to all your followers ! Thanks and do not stop your opening teaching Technics !!!
I sometimes play on ICC because that is the first place I found many years ago and I took a liking to it :-) Still, I consider all of them to be excellent choices
Thanks once more, for both your excellent videos and your willingness to answer follow-up questions. Taking advantage of the latter: At 3:08, you explain that, while White might like to avoid 5. Nc3, 5. f3 leaves him with some problems, since it weakens his Kingside and doesn't contribute to development. However, you don't cover any other potential options for defending the e4 pawn. How about 5. Bb5+ (to get the Bishop out) followed by Qd3, or even perhaps Qe2 or Qf3? Thanks again!
attacking the king is something i enjoy greatly, id like to be better prepared to play as black against the queens pawn opening. my skill level is pretty hard to pin down, i play most of my games at the minute online at red hot pawn, and my rating is a lowly 1020 odd but this is mainly because i search out people to play who i know are better than me to help myself improve, and so i lose a fair bit, i also play the same person alot were on about 90 games played at the moment.
Hey Dereque. I posted a question on here some months ago. If you had time to answer that would be greatly appreciated! Here it is again incase you missed it. When black plays Nf6 attacking the central pawn (move 4), what if white plays Nd2 to defend the pawn with the idea of playing c4, b3 and Bb2? Thanks again for the videos! They have taught me allot.
Thanks for the question! If White plays an early 4.Nd2 my suspicion is that 4...Nc6 would be a strong reply as this threatens ...Nxd4 and forces White to react in a way which will not be completely in harmony with your suggested plan. If White plays 5.Bb5 in response then 5...Bd7 6.Bxc6 bxc6! looks comfortable for Black
Hi Dereque, I love your work. About 2:55 you said that 2... d6 is important to stop 5. e5. But in other variations 5. e5 is still incorect, e.g. 2... Nf6 (...) 5. e5 Nxe5; 2... e6 (...) 5. e5 Qa5+ 6. Nc3 Qxe5+. Is there any better reason for 2... d6 in Sicilian? Best regards
It's because of c4 (the Maroczy bind), as Dereque explained it. Black needs Nf6 (a developing move) without worrying about e5, so as to induce Nc3 and then go into whatever line he wants (classical, Dragon, Scheveningen, Najdorf). That's kinda the evolution of the opening if you look at it historically.
What keeps white from checking the king with his Bishop after black pawn takes pawn and before taking with the knight? I'm new at this and trying to figure out how to respond without messing up my ability to develop well after defending.
Although this analysis was very in-depth, it barely managed to cover the Sicilian Najdorf Variation. However, you are in no way the one to be blamed as the Sicilian Najdorf is just to versatile to be covered so shortly. Thank you for at the least going over the variation you did go over very thoroughly. :)
Thanks Dereque! I recently started playing more seriously and your videos have really helped me. You are a really good teacher. Maybe you can do a longer video on the Najdorf and explore other variations? I would watch that :) cheers for now
I currently play Sicilian and I would really like to see a video about Scheveningen Variation which is Black playing 5)...e6. However, I think it doesn’t matter too much because black nearly always plays the useful a6 move later in the game. BUT I need some answers about Open Sicilian. In ANY stage of the game if White tries to challange Black’s b7-b5 advance by playing a2-a4, what should I do? I know that we need to keep b5 square under control to keep the White pieces away from there so we cannot just wait and capture back with our a6 pawn on b5. Do we push our pawn to challenge the c3 knight, or capture b5-a4 right away? I don’t like giving White an open a-file after they capture with their rook. And sometimes they push b2-b4 and then a2-a4. I really need some advice about this. AND when I play Sicilian some people play the very, very different move 2)Bf4. If that’s a wrong move by White, please tell me the way to punish it. People often play 2)Bf4 against me and I want to know how to play along this move. Thanks so much.
Great Video! It would be very helpful if you could make another video explaining what to do if black does move knight to g4. I have been facing this move a lot and I am not sure exactly how to respond.
great videos master D...i love to play sicilian defence as black; however, I'm having trouble with players opted to play Rossolimo and Moscow variation. I'm hoping you can make an in depth videos on both...much appreciated.
hands down best teacher on the Web.
:) the other teachers are great too in my opinion, but I sure do appreciate the kind words and I'm glad you're finding the videos so helpful!! :)
I'm beginning to really like these videos. You are the first Master to explain "Why" a move is made, in detail. Thank you.
I like the way you explain the rationale behind every move and the consequences of playing alternatives.
Thank you!
I agree with you! It's one of the most audacious openings out there and yet one of the best! -Dereque
Great video and explanation. Appreciate your efforts.
Thank you! :o
I'm glad you find the videos informative! :-) Thank you for your encouraging remarks
You are doing a fantastic job with these videos, clear, precise, and very enjoyable! Happy Christmas and Cheers from Finland!
Happy Christmas and thank you!
@LightPackerz: Thank you!! I appreciate the suggestion. There is no specific formula for reaching 2200 (except that you must consistently beat players who are not yet 2200, however that is achieved) evidenced by the fact that each master (and grandmaster) is unique and possesses a wholly different style. I also am not sure that I'd say I improve efficiently ;) Those people who are improving efficiently seem to do so by working tenaciously at openings/tactics and getting plenty of experience against higher-rated opponents. I still find studying openings to be a great way to improve my results. Hope this helps!
I am 1200 points away to play on that level
At first I thought these videos were a bit too simplistic for a 1600 player, but actually they reinforce ideas that sometimes we take for granted when hammering out opening moves. A healthy refresher for even stronger players.
I love the way you present these video's, everything is so clear. Great job :)
Thank you for all the feedback! I like your suggestion. Hopefully there is enough balance for both colors.
:-) Glad to hear you're finding the videos useful!
Great stuff!! I can't believe you had all these videos 9 years ago already!!
Incredible video and incredibly instructive!! Thank you!!
Am an occasional player and I really appreciate these videos. The clarity, insight, and intellectual generosity are awesome.
+embe1 Wonderful remarks, thank you for writing! Glad to hear you're enjoying the videos :)
I think your videos are pure gold!
Openings for me has always been a big issue.
I can't memorize moves.
I much rather understand the reasoning of it.
Thanks so much for these.
I'm not a very good chess player, but I love watching the videos explaining the theory behind these openings. Keep up the great work!
@Dereque- Fantastic job on these videos. I have watched a lot of opening videos and your videos are by far the most clear in explaining the openings and the strategies behind them, from both sides perspective. You are providing an invaluable service to the chess community. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Lee!
:-)
Glad you are finding the videos helpful :-) Thank you!
When handling the Black pieces, you generally need to be patient in forming attacks - especially against 1.d4. The King's Indian is a general go-to option for players who love to attack, but there are no openings which will help you to get there too terribly quickly or which do not contain options for the opponent where you must be willing to build a position quietly for a while.You will get plenty of opportunities to attack if you remain patient. So play what interests you!
Here are some suggestions: If you have already managed to bring your game to a level that it was not in the past, consider what you did to raise it to its current level. Trust yourself and have fun, mainly you will need to absorb a ton of patterns in a way that has meaning to you. Repetition seems useful for anything you'd like to help yourself retain better too as it is common to make the same mistakes over and over again without it. These are some ideas, I hope this helps!
This was a very clear, instructive overview of the key ideas in the Najdorf. Thank you.
You have an amazingly clear voice and explanation style.You are on par with my favorite online teacher,Daniel Rensch,from chess.com.Thanks
This guy's videos are way better than Jrobi and Kevin from the chess website. Great, thorough, articulate explanations. I've looked at other Sicilian defense vids and I now understand it better because of this one. Thanks, Dereque!
I have recently got back into chess and have found these films very informative and useful. Thank you very much!
Welcome! :)
I really enjoy your videos, you are a natural for teaching and I hope you keep on doing them. I would also love for you to do some more in depth ones eventually about middle games in popular openings such as the sicilian, king's indian and queen's gambit to explain plans and strategies. Another thing I am curious about is what kind of training it takes to become master and how you spend your time and energy to improve efficiently.
The Najdorf is just so nerve-wracking to play that I usually avoid by playing 3. Bb5+ opting for the Moscow. Plus, even at my level (1500 rating) people are booked to the teeth on Najdorf theory so I'd rather play a game from positional principles than memorization.
Excellent articulation and very good introduction to this opening sir!
I appreciate the suggestion! Good luck in your games, the Sicilian can be really hairy without some knowledge, but it's inexhaustibility also makes it's very fun to study and learn new things (to me).
You're welcome and thank you!
My go to place to get ‘the big picture view’ of a chess opening. Thank you!
Thank you very much, this is fantastic to hear! -
This move has always been a little less popular than 6...e6 or 6...e5 but is still quite fine. After 7.Bg5 Black has to have an idea in mind since otherwise the knight will just be kicked with f2-f3 or h2-h3 with tempo and benefit to White. So he continues 7..h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Bg3 Bg7 - Black is choosing an entirely different plan than the usual in the Najdorf. White sitll has good chances for the advantage thanks to Black's advanced kingside pawns. It's a different game entirely -Dereque
crystal clear; perfect combination of concepts and detail
Thanks so much!! Really glad you like it!
this video just helped me win a game with 92.4% accuracy! loved it!
Great video Mr. Smileyface! :-)
Thank you :)
Dereque Kelley why not 6 Bd3 or Nd2
White can play c4 later on
Dereque Kelley Hi great video 😀; please tell me what should White play if in move 6 instead of e5 Black plays b5 . Thank you very much !
@@omarvillafranco9061 play bd8
Dragon is on the list! Thank you for the encouraging remarks! -Dereque
Much depends on your skill level and natural appetites! Are you talking about playing the Black side against the queens pawn opening or suggestion that you want to play both 1.e4 and 1.d4 as White? What are you -favorite- aspects of gambit play (sacrificing a pawn early on? attacking the king? surprise factor?) -Dereque
@D Thomas: Thank you!! It is a custom-made software specifically for these videos.
Though I miss the name KebuChess, your videos are fantastic and I'm glad you are starting to rack up some views. You are one of the biggest reasons for my improvement to make my local chess team after just starting chess last February
Thank you for the suggestion!
Thank you!!!! These Sicilian videos (Dragon, Najdorf, and the Open Sicilian) are so helpful. Now i have a greater understanding of how the Sicilian opening works.
Very good, and thank you so much!! :)
I would imagine that a2-a4 makes it difficult to later 0-0-0 which is quite important. Thank you for the suggestion, I've noted it!
Thank you! I appreciate it
Great videos! Very clear and educational. I like your approach. Many thanks from Russia!
+Nikolai Fomin Greetings! Thank you! :)
If you are asking me if it's a "good" defense, then I do not know! It depends on how you are defining "good". You may ultimately find you wish to try something new if this defense no longer seems adequate to you or for any other reason (or non-reason) later. But until then...? You're playing it!
I agree, even finding a few areas to explore thoroughly was a real struggle! But that is why we love our royal game... :-) -Dereque
can you please do a video about the next variation in the najdorf :
1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6
* 6. Be2 e6
7. g4!
it looks really fun for the white side to play and black should be extreamly careful, the most tiny mistake can lead to a disaster.
I saw this line in many high-rated games and I will like to study it.
I want to know how to attack by white and how to defend by black,
thanx!
Hi Dereque,
Thank you for your videos , it's a pleasure to listen and learn from you . You explain it clear and with sense .Great job . Regards from Poland : )
Andrew Serdeczny :) Thank you Andrew from USA! :)
Thanks Dereque I feel that I am almost ready to play the sicilian now.
Thanks again, Dereque. Your videos are very helpful to understand openings.
Great video love this variation. two thoughts: one, black can fianchetto his dark squared bishop to help shore-up his kingside defenses in preparation for white's pawn storm. it can also support or even replace e7-e5, as the bishop pierces through the center and can even support black's queenside attacks. Two, when you think about it, the sicilian is a hypermodern-style opening, restraining and containing the center from afar :)
Great instructional video. You are very articulate and knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing.
@Celestino Torres: You bet!
Why not 6.Bd3 or 6.Nd2 then ...........he can play c4 later on
Then the queen will be blocked and the knight in the center will be gonna defendless.
Thanks! Please do more on Najdorf since as you yourself admitted, you just scratched the surface! and I am sure the next is going to be the dragon variation. again, your transitions with a welcoming smile. keep it up! Murli
I don't mind you asking at all. I don't have a trainer or mentor. I have had some sessions in the past with a few people though!
Great vids Master Dereque...
But I strongly believe you should explore some other areas too...
e.g, 1. General Opening principles...
2. How to Improve (y)our chess...
3. It would be a dream come true if you walk us through a game played by two masters and explain the idea behind the master's moves...more importantly second and third best options...and most importantly at the critical moments of the game you should ask viewers to guess the correct move...
Thanks
I'm glad you are enjoying the videos. Of course - and more than a little chance! Why not? You could learn a new language, expand your knowledge of any field, gain new professional skills and knowledge: so what is forbidding about knowing more chess today than you knew yesterday?
Thank you also for the kind words about the video!
Fun to hear! You're welcome! :-)
I really love how you always say in your videos: "Let's take a look." xD
I agree with you that it's not contained in the video, but how does that mean I overlooked it? :-) Maybe the Bg5 line could use an entire video!
dereque you the best! I think there is a niche on youtube for taking this videos even a step further, and go into a specific attacking line. Your videos are the best on youtube though, everyone elses are too long and don't go into the "why" enough.
Thank you for the kind words!
:-) Soon, I hope!
Hehe...thanks for the suggestions :)
Very very clearly explained. My compliments!
Thank you!!
I'm glad you're finding the vids useful! Best wishes
Thank you. As an occasional but poor player I appreciate the easy explanations you give. May there be many more lessons in your series. :-)
LOL that's kinda funny because I've JUST seen a game of a similar variation between Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short!! :) thanks for explaining that out!
Thank you for your suggestions.
You are an excellent teacher and I hope you will become a GM of all time!
Haha, thank you so much! I hope so too! Thanks again!! :)
Finally found it! A quick video that actually explains WHY each of the first 5 moves is played
:-)
the bishop use to represent war elephants that charged through men on the battlefield trampeling them. the rooks can be a chariots or a siege towers. The queen can be a minister or general if you don't want her to be a queen.
Thank you for sharing, and the compliment about the video
Glad you enjoyed the video, thank you!
I love how this very viable opening defense for black disregards many tenets of chess opening theory, in that many pawn moves are made, and very little piece development is accomplished until later. There at the end of the video, only one piece of black's was off the back rank, a knight. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it isn't solid, for it certainly is. It's just complicated.
God, I LOOOOOOOVE Najdorf Sicilian. It has few drawbacks when played correctly.
Your are the best !!
Thanks very much and could you please subject any famous games involving the opening related to the opening that you are showing . just to give us a practical reference to all your followers !
Thanks and do not stop your opening teaching Technics !!!
I sometimes play on ICC because that is the first place I found many years ago and I took a liking to it :-) Still, I consider all of them to be excellent choices
Thanks once more, for both your excellent videos and your willingness to answer follow-up questions. Taking advantage of the latter:
At 3:08, you explain that, while White might like to avoid 5. Nc3, 5. f3 leaves him with some problems, since it weakens his Kingside and doesn't contribute to development. However, you don't cover any other potential options for defending the e4 pawn. How about 5. Bb5+ (to get the Bishop out) followed by Qd3, or even perhaps Qe2 or Qf3?
Thanks again!
Glad you enjoyed the video. good luck with this conception!
Great to hear! Thank you!
attacking the king is something i enjoy greatly, id like to be better prepared to play as black against the queens pawn opening. my skill level is pretty hard to pin down, i play most of my games at the minute online at red hot pawn, and my rating is a lowly 1020 odd but this is mainly because i search out people to play who i know are better than me to help myself improve, and so i lose a fair bit, i also play the same person alot were on about 90 games played at the moment.
Hey Dereque. I posted a question on here some months ago. If you had time to answer that would be greatly appreciated! Here it is again incase you missed it. When black plays Nf6 attacking the central pawn (move 4), what if white plays Nd2 to defend the pawn with the idea of playing c4, b3 and Bb2? Thanks again for the videos! They have taught me allot.
Thanks for the question! If White plays an early 4.Nd2 my suspicion is that 4...Nc6 would be a strong reply as this threatens ...Nxd4 and forces White to react in a way which will not be completely in harmony with your suggested plan. If White plays 5.Bb5 in response then 5...Bd7 6.Bxc6 bxc6! looks comfortable for Black
Yay! Perfect timing then :) -Dereque
Hi Dereque, I love your work.
About 2:55 you said that 2... d6 is important to stop 5. e5. But in other variations 5. e5 is still incorect, e.g. 2... Nf6 (...) 5. e5 Nxe5; 2... e6 (...) 5. e5 Qa5+ 6. Nc3 Qxe5+. Is there any better reason for 2... d6 in Sicilian?
Best regards
It's because of c4 (the Maroczy bind), as Dereque explained it. Black needs Nf6 (a developing move) without worrying about e5, so as to induce Nc3 and then go into whatever line he wants (classical, Dragon, Scheveningen, Najdorf). That's kinda the evolution of the opening if you look at it historically.
Also, it opens the c8 bishop :)
What keeps white from checking the king with his Bishop after black pawn takes pawn and before taking with the knight? I'm new at this and trying to figure out how to respond without messing up my ability to develop well after defending.
Although this analysis was very in-depth, it barely managed to cover the Sicilian Najdorf Variation. However, you are in no way the one to be blamed as the Sicilian Najdorf is just to versatile to be covered so shortly. Thank you for at the least going over the variation you did go over very thoroughly. :)
Thanks Dereque! I recently started playing more seriously and your videos have really helped me. You are a really good teacher. Maybe you can do a longer video on the Najdorf and explore other variations? I would watch that :) cheers for now
Aaron Vardi I appreciate the suggestion, glad you're finding the videos helpful :)
Subscribed! Thank you, your instructional videos are really helpful!
I currently play Sicilian and I would really like to see a video about Scheveningen Variation which is Black playing 5)...e6. However, I think it doesn’t matter too much because black nearly always plays the useful a6 move later in the game. BUT I need some answers about Open Sicilian. In ANY stage of the game if White tries to challange Black’s b7-b5 advance by playing a2-a4, what should I do? I know that we need to keep b5 square under control to keep the White pieces away from there so we cannot just wait and capture back with our a6 pawn on b5. Do we push our pawn to challenge the c3 knight, or capture b5-a4 right away? I don’t like giving White an open a-file after they capture with their rook. And sometimes they push b2-b4 and then a2-a4. I really need some advice about this. AND when I play Sicilian some people play the very, very different move 2)Bf4. If that’s a wrong move by White, please tell me the way to punish it. People often play 2)Bf4 against me and I want to know how to play along this move. Thanks so much.
Thank you! ...I've never heard of the Bowler attack?
Excellent video! Thank you.
+Afif Khaja Thank you!
Great Video! It would be very helpful if you could make another video explaining what to do if black does move knight to g4. I have been facing this move a lot and I am not sure exactly how to respond.
+Louie Lightning Productions Glad you like the video and thank you for the suggestion regarding ...Ng4!
Great lesson! Very clear and informative. Awesome graphics and layout as well. What software are you using for the board inlay please?
Great bro, your lesson is very useful in all time....... Sandeep from India.
l'm really glad to hear this! Thank you Sandeep...from the USA! :) -Dereque :)
great videos master D...i love to play sicilian defence as black; however, I'm having trouble with players opted to play Rossolimo and Moscow variation. I'm hoping you can make an in depth videos on both...much appreciated.
Thank you for the suggestions! Glad you are enjoying the videos :-)
These lessons are awesome...Thanks
Nice commentary -- I like the videography and board notation/markings; I think the audio has too much reverb though (esp. during VO).
I don't have any on hands :-\ Perhaps that would be a good project for the future -Dereque
I love these videos! thank you Dereque!
my dad likes your videos :).
I love your videos Dereque!
Thanks so much, I very much appreciate it! :)