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No one expects it. I mean, it's a free knight!!! And the best part about it is something he said, it's not a trap. It's not the ICBM opening, it's not fool's mate, Jerome's gambit, or whatever other one trick pony opening. It's just strong opening principals that put you in a solid position and push the opponent's pieces into being useless. You can actually play this against anyone. Obviously, Hickie and Maggie will put you in your place, but they'll do that regardless of what opening you play. At least this one is a sound and theoretically correct way to go. 😂
► Chapters 00:00 Halloween Gambit: Aggressive Chess Opening 01:02 Highest win rate for White 01:29 Main idea of the Halloween Gambit 02:39 1) If Black plays 5...Nc6 04:36 1.2) If Black plays 6...Ne5 07:26 If Black doesn't play the Four Knights Game 08:42 2) If Black plays 5...Ng6 10:59 If Black develops their bishop
This is my version of Halloween counter gambit After pawn to d5 move knight back to e5. Now if they push pawn up to f4. You counter gambit by going bishop to b4 pinning the knight. After pawn takes knight. Take their pawn on e4 with knight. You are just in a better position. If pawn to a3 trying to kick your bishop away. Take knight on c3 with knight hitting queen. If pawn takes then check with bishop and you win a rook on the exchange. If they move bishop to f4 instead of pawn. Still follow through with the moves and their queen side would be disrupted and you'll be in a better position. (You'll just have to play chess after that) If they don't take the gambit and moves pawn to e3 to kick bishop. Take knight on c3 putting them in check. After they take on c3 take pawn on e4. (Still gambit away the knight on e5) After pawn takes knight, queen to h4 check. Now white is in a whole lot of trouble. If pawn to g3 blocking the check simply take the pawn with knight hitting bishop and the rook. If pawn takes knight on g3 then you take the rook. Again your position now is really good while whites king is in the open. If king to e2 then knight to c3 forking the queen. After king takes knight back. Check with queen on d4 forking the rook. Black is simply just winning at this point. If whites doesn't take knight on c3 with pawn and moves queen to g4 attacking your bishop and pawn on g7. Simply move your bishop to a5. If they push pawn up to b4 to kick away the bishop. Move bishop to b6. If whites queen takes pawn on g7. Then bring queen out and check on h4. Only move for white is d2. Check with queen on d4. After bishop blocks knight to e4 (check). Their bishop is pin and cannot take the knight. Check with queen on f2 and after king to d1. Checkmate with knight on c3. If white doesn't take on g7 first and moves bishop to b2 or d2 to kick away the knight. Take pawn on d5. White would be tempted to take on g7 with queen. If they take follow through with queen to h4 (check). If king to c1 then queen to e1 is checkmate. If king to d2 or e2. It's still checkmate after queen to f2 and then checkmate on c2. This counter gambit opens a lot of pressure onto whites position. There's many more to explain depending on position but it'll be better to make a video instead. Hopefully @GMIgorSmirnov can do one to show you guys. 😅
You can play this from the black side too, it's particularly effective against the Glek system (1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. g3.) I've even played the snappily named "doubly reversed halloween gambit in the reversed Glek system of the Gunsberg four knights game" :)
@7:01 the best move for black is Qxb5, then Bxb5 axb5, Qe2 to hit the pawn. The game is dead even material and position wise after that. Most players won't find that move in the heat of battle though so well worth playing the gambit. @9:00 where black makes the best move of Ng6 and the other knight is forced back, after Bc4 is played, black could play d5 to open up the light-square bishop going to e6 square on the next move or playing c6. Again, most lower elo players won't see that move so the gambit is still worth playing for fun. And no, taking back en-passant won't be good for white as the dark-square bishop takes the pawn back and black can develop their pieces normally with a +2 point advantage. That's how to counter it as black though, in case you were wondering. It's definitely not fun playing black if you don't have a clue so by all means have fun with it. Any time you take material early instead of developing pieces, you run the risk of falling way behind in development. That's exactly what white wants in this gambit. As black you have to figure a way to keep 1 or 2 points and get your development going as soon as possible. A great explanation and example game where black crushes white is shown here: www.chessable.com/blog/halloween-gambit/
When I haven't eaten or slept, my rating usually goes down by about 100 points because I keep getting angry. Then I eat and sleep and wake up refreshed and climb my way back up. Then later on, I usually start the process all over again. 😂 But yeah, this guy is probably the most helpful of all the chess people on RUclips. Significantly better than Gotham Chess who is the one everyone seems to claim is so good. But Levy doesn't do nearly as good a job at teaching the ideas behind moves as this man does. Levy is more of an entertainment channel, not really so good for advanced chess learning.
4:45 what if black moves the knight to B4 then A6? Guarding the c7 pawn cleverly? I face it a lot and is hard to break through. If there is an update video please elaborate on this. Thanks.
Thank you so much for sharing this video on the Halloween Gambit. I won all 6 of my games with this opening and I love it! Great job GM Igor and I am truly thankful to you for all your great videos!
I'm only rated around 850 but just used the Halloween Gambit and defeated a player ranked over 1200! Super excited about this. He played some moves that weren't covered in this video, but I was patient and thought about my moves very carefully. Totally crushed it! Thanks for your videos
Analyzed it with engine and this is what I got: ...dxe5, qxe5+ then it's either kd1 or kf1, sliding it away from check gives white at least +1 even when black is up a pawn
im a beginner and when i first started all i saw in rooks was to move forward. now i know a bit more of the game and i only see rooks moving sideways. so i always struggle to remember that by default they protect the pawns in front of them. when you said to push the h pawn all i was thinking was the knight takes it. then a bit later you show that the rook takes it back. always forget that.. :(
be carefull with queen e7 , first time when i played the haloween gambit it shocked me i didnt realy knew what to do but because im not realy that high elo (740) i did one mistake in the gambit early and it backfired horribly i got checkmated by the queen on e7 i hope i will improve in the future for now i will continue learning this gambit because it seems worth learning i just played that one bad ig
after p-d4, why cant black bring his black bishop to b4, then if d4xne5, black can move nxe4 and create a nasty pin, at least thats what my computer suggests
I use it and I prefer it over other high risk, high reward openings like the deutz gambit because it is easy to remember and really limits Black's options. Pretty much every move is forced
This was my first attempt at playing the gambit. 😂😂😂 I seriously have no fucking clue what the hell this man was thinking he was gonna do. He was even a decent rating of 1500 😂😂😂😂 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2 Nxe5 6. d4 Qf6+ 7. Ke1 Qh4+ 8. g3 Qg4 9. Be2 d6 10. Bxg4 1-0
I think he just brain farted and thought his queen could snag my e pawn but forgot my knight covered it. After making that one mistake, he just fell apart mentally and hung his queen. That's just a guess.
Second attempt. God this opening is dirty. I won in 30 seconds on a 10 minute game lol opponent was also about 1500 according to their chesscom rating And that disgusting pin at the last move was just so beautiful 😂 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Nxe5 Nxe5 5. d4 Nc4 6. Bxc4 Bb4 7. e5 Qe7 8. O-O Ng4 9. Qxg4 O-O 10. Nd5 Qe6 11. Nf6+ 1-0
The best is play d5 after Bc4, if white take with the bishop then c6 and Bb4, some technical difficulties may occur, but the gambit is dumb and of course absolutely winning for black. The main thing is to put the knight back to g8, if you do this, it's becoming easy to defend, though the black's king may not castle in some variants. White has strong pawn center, but a piece down
What an absolute jackass this gambit makes of the black side it's hilarious the powerful pawn surge up the centre controling the "mighty" night, great stuff I'm itching to try this tricksy little gambit❤😂😊👌👏👍
@@andersjonsson8403 At 9:03, he takes a break to explain "general ideas". He's doing the same thing than a magician, he's hijacking your attention at the critical moment where black can refute this opening with pawn to d5.
Should this gambit be renamed? I mean it´s tempting to call it the Helloween Gambit instead. But that probably isn´t politically correct. ;) Remote Chess Academy >>> May I ask you a question? I would like to hear your view on why we don´t see the Nesjmetdinov Gambit in the Siesta-variation of the Ruy Lopez played very much. It´s just that I wonder that all the theory I have about it probably wouldn´t have developed if it´s a completely trashy gambit. In that case for example the Englund Gambit wouldn´t have stood a chance.
His speech is faster and better now, his detours, however, are extreme. Efficiency is not an issue for him. For all viewers efficiency is essential but not for him, he expands where expansion is not needed. Your time is of zero concern to him here. Very good concept that could have made a great video. IF he had an editor go through and remove the verbiage this video would be good.
Everybody on RUclips need to make a 10 min video to add more ads (which means more revenue) . Video is free, i guess. At least he is not cringe material like gotham chess , i guess
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When I was a kid I was playing the Halloween gambit and crushing a lot of beginners like me. It was really fun.
No one expects it. I mean, it's a free knight!!! And the best part about it is something he said, it's not a trap. It's not the ICBM opening, it's not fool's mate, Jerome's gambit, or whatever other one trick pony opening. It's just strong opening principals that put you in a solid position and push the opponent's pieces into being useless. You can actually play this against anyone. Obviously, Hickie and Maggie will put you in your place, but they'll do that regardless of what opening you play. At least this one is a sound and theoretically correct way to go. 😂
@@since1876what is stopping you from learning what hickymaggie learned?
@@jamfamily4287 I like turtles
@@since1876you playing the turtle north high gambit?
Yes it is guy have to give back a piece
► Chapters
00:00 Halloween Gambit: Aggressive Chess Opening
01:02 Highest win rate for White
01:29 Main idea of the Halloween Gambit
02:39 1) If Black plays 5...Nc6
04:36 1.2) If Black plays 6...Ne5
07:26 If Black doesn't play the Four Knights Game
08:42 2) If Black plays 5...Ng6
10:59 If Black develops their bishop
11:36 what if they don't trade off their black bishop on b4 and the knight on g6 captures the pushed pawn on h4?
The you quit and donate points to enemy👍☺️✌️🤔😔😔😔
and if Ng4 after pawn pushes?
This is my version of
Halloween counter gambit
After pawn to d5 move knight back to e5. Now if they push pawn up to f4. You counter gambit by going bishop to b4 pinning the knight. After pawn takes knight. Take their pawn on e4 with knight. You are just in a better position. If pawn to a3 trying to kick your bishop away. Take knight on c3 with knight hitting queen. If pawn takes then check with bishop and you win a rook on the exchange.
If they move bishop to f4 instead of pawn. Still follow through with the moves and their queen side would be disrupted and you'll be in a better position. (You'll just have to play chess after that)
If they don't take the gambit and moves pawn to e3 to kick bishop. Take knight on c3 putting them in check. After they take on c3 take pawn on e4. (Still gambit away the knight on e5)
After pawn takes knight, queen to h4 check. Now white is in a whole lot of trouble. If pawn to g3 blocking the check simply take the pawn with knight hitting bishop and the rook. If pawn takes knight on g3 then you take the rook. Again your position now is really good while whites king is in the open.
If king to e2 then knight to c3 forking the queen. After king takes knight back. Check with queen on d4 forking the rook. Black is simply just winning at this point.
If whites doesn't take knight on c3 with pawn and moves queen to g4 attacking your bishop and pawn on g7. Simply move your bishop to a5. If they push pawn up to b4 to kick away the bishop. Move bishop to b6.
If whites queen takes pawn on g7. Then bring queen out and check on h4. Only move for white is d2. Check with queen on d4. After bishop blocks knight to e4 (check). Their bishop is pin and cannot take the knight. Check with queen on f2 and after king to d1. Checkmate with knight on c3.
If white doesn't take on g7 first and moves bishop to b2 or d2 to kick away the knight. Take pawn on d5. White would be tempted to take on g7 with queen. If they take follow through with queen to h4 (check). If king to c1 then queen to e1 is checkmate. If king to d2 or e2. It's still checkmate after queen to f2 and then checkmate on c2.
This counter gambit opens a lot of pressure onto whites position. There's many more to explain depending on position but it'll be better to make a video instead. Hopefully @GMIgorSmirnov can do one to show you guys. 😅
12:00 Everyone rated 1000: "OOO!!! FREE ROOK!!!" 😂😂
more like 400
You can play this from the black side too, it's particularly effective against the Glek system (1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. g3.)
I've even played the snappily named "doubly reversed halloween gambit in the reversed Glek system of the Gunsberg four knights game" :)
The difference is that you get the knight back after like 4 moves
@7:01 the best move for black is Qxb5, then Bxb5 axb5, Qe2 to hit the pawn. The game is dead even material and position wise after that. Most players won't find that move in the heat of battle though so well worth playing the gambit.
@9:00 where black makes the best move of Ng6 and the other knight is forced back, after Bc4 is played, black could play d5 to open up the light-square bishop going to e6 square on the next move or playing c6. Again, most lower elo players won't see that move so the gambit is still worth playing for fun. And no, taking back en-passant won't be good for white as the dark-square bishop takes the pawn back and black can develop their pieces normally with a +2 point advantage. That's how to counter it as black though, in case you were wondering. It's definitely not fun playing black if you don't have a clue so by all means have fun with it. Any time you take material early instead of developing pieces, you run the risk of falling way behind in development. That's exactly what white wants in this gambit. As black you have to figure a way to keep 1 or 2 points and get your development going as soon as possible. A great explanation and example game where black crushes white is shown here: www.chessable.com/blog/halloween-gambit/
I love playing the Halloween gambit! I always enjoy watching new content on this opening. Thank you!
For the last two months I have been watching your videos and my rating really improved.From 1200 to 1400.Thanks so much for your great videos ❤🙏
When I haven't eaten or slept, my rating usually goes down by about 100 points because I keep getting angry. Then I eat and sleep and wake up refreshed and climb my way back up. Then later on, I usually start the process all over again. 😂
But yeah, this guy is probably the most helpful of all the chess people on RUclips. Significantly better than Gotham Chess who is the one everyone seems to claim is so good. But Levy doesn't do nearly as good a job at teaching the ideas behind moves as this man does. Levy is more of an entertainment channel, not really so good for advanced chess learning.
@@since1876 correct!
ive been following your videos recently im new to chess but absoutely love it! your a good teacher easy to learn from and fun . thankyou
4:45 what if black moves the knight to B4 then A6? Guarding the c7 pawn cleverly? I face it a lot and is hard to break through. If there is an update video please elaborate on this. Thanks.
Please make a new version so I can humiliate my opponent more I really like it
This is very great Gambit. People are very uncomfortable when they're lack of spaces.
Yes that is why i love chessssssss
am not since just trade pawns or sac pawns
Thank you so much for sharing this video on the Halloween Gambit. I won all 6 of my games with this opening and I love it! Great job GM Igor and I am truly thankful to you for all your great videos!
That is awesome!
07:13 What if black moves b6?
Take it with bishop.
Finally I've wanting to learn more about Halloween gambit and your videos are much more easier to understand for me tnx
I'm only rated around 850 but just used the Halloween Gambit and defeated a player ranked over 1200! Super excited about this. He played some moves that weren't covered in this video, but I was patient and thought about my moves very carefully. Totally crushed it! Thanks for your videos
11:36 what if they don't trade off their black bishop on b4 and the knight on g6 captures the pushed pawn on h4?
Well, white will play the same, I cant see any difference!
Analyzed it with engine and this is what I got:
...dxe5, qxe5+
then it's either kd1 or kf1, sliding it away from check gives white at least +1 even when black is up a pawn
@@nikel- AH...okay thanks!
@@andersjonsson8403 Because the bishop covers checkmate. Therefore, knight for castle and a direct line to white back rank.
@@ItsYouAreNotYour ok but if my Tower take Your knight I am up a pice!?
im a beginner and when i first started all i saw in rooks was to move forward. now i know a bit more of the game and i only see rooks moving sideways. so i always struggle to remember that by default they protect the pawns in front of them. when you said to push the h pawn all i was thinking was the knight takes it. then a bit later you show that the rook takes it back. always forget that.. :(
Instructions unclear:
I have no idea what Marvin is doing
on 11:44 the black knight could go to e5 forking queen and bishop
OMG your videos are so awesome. Thank you so much I learn so much from you. You explain everything so well.
Thank you for your effort idol gm igor i started to play chess 4months ago 400 to 1200 in just 4months thankyou for your effort :)
Its aggression offsets the loss of two points, also White's bishops, the remaining knight and if necessary the queen can get into the game.
Omg! Absolutely love it!
Another amazing video by GM Smirnov
Glad you enjoyed it
Yes please improve new version of halloween gambit i really like it
Dear sir, can you please make a detailed video on Traxler counter attack
This Gambit works especially well in speed games under 5 minutes.
"Dangerous"
For white it has some of the same aggressive advantages of the Fried Liver attack.
Tried it today and won nicely. Black king went for a walk early
So what would be the right move for black after you sacrifice your knight on e5
11:44 the pawn is pinned
This is great gambit
be carefull with queen e7 , first time when i played the haloween gambit it shocked me i didnt realy knew what to do but because im not realy that high elo (740) i did one mistake in the gambit early and it backfired horribly i got checkmated by the queen on e7 i hope i will improve in the future for now i will continue learning this gambit because it seems worth learning i just played that one bad ig
after queen to a8 , what if black queen captures the pawn on c2?
My friend unironically calls it the ballistic missile Halloween gambit💀
I might try this
after p-d4, why cant black bring his black bishop to b4, then if d4xne5, black can move nxe4 and create a nasty pin, at least thats what my computer suggests
Try this with stockfish ... Kicked in the back in no time
I use it and I prefer it over other high risk, high reward openings like the deutz gambit because it is easy to remember and really limits Black's options. Pretty much every move is forced
Ha ha, unbelievable!! I need to practice this. Thanks
This was my first attempt at playing the gambit. 😂😂😂 I seriously have no fucking clue what the hell this man was thinking he was gonna do. He was even a decent rating of 1500 😂😂😂😂
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2 Nxe5 6. d4 Qf6+ 7. Ke1 Qh4+
8. g3 Qg4 9. Be2 d6 10. Bxg4 1-0
I think he just brain farted and thought his queen could snag my e pawn but forgot my knight covered it. After making that one mistake, he just fell apart mentally and hung his queen. That's just a guess.
Second attempt. God this opening is dirty. I won in 30 seconds on a 10 minute game lol opponent was also about 1500 according to their chesscom rating
And that disgusting pin at the last move was just so beautiful 😂
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Nxe5 Nxe5 5. d4 Nc4 6. Bxc4 Bb4 7. e5 Qe7 8.
O-O Ng4 9. Qxg4 O-O 10. Nd5 Qe6 11. Nf6+ 1-0
halloween gambit, bruh variation
@@turbineengineer I said ATTEMPT
Can you run this from black too?
NO WHY WOULD YOU EXPOSE THE BEST AND MOST EVIL OPENING TO THE PUBLIC
So what's the defense for black?
Is it to just avoid opening four knights?
The best is play d5 after Bc4, if white take with the bishop then c6 and Bb4, some technical difficulties may occur, but the gambit is dumb and of course absolutely winning for black. The main thing is to put the knight back to g8, if you do this, it's becoming easy to defend, though the black's king may not castle in some variants. White has strong pawn center, but a piece down
If queen move to B4 and check and horse is gine
What an absolute jackass this gambit makes of the black side it's hilarious the powerful pawn surge up the centre controling the "mighty" night, great stuff I'm itching to try this tricksy little gambit❤😂😊👌👏👍
Thanked
What if they move the d7 pawn to d6 tho
Do you think this gambit is even more demoralising than stafford gambit?
Sicilian Defense destroys the gambit.
Yeah but it is played after E4 and E5 so you can’t play the Sicilian
It should be called the Christopher Reeve gambit because of it's paralyzing effect.
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What a beautiful game we have here eh guys
This is quite a fun gambit, indeed, specially on low ELO, but it becomes useless if black knows how to play properly like a Grand Master.
Ok, Please show me? 😊♟
@@andersjonsson8403 After taking: d4-Ng6 e5-Ng8 Bc4-d5 Bd5-c6 Bb3-Be6.
@@andersjonsson8403 At 9:03, he takes a break to explain "general ideas". He's doing the same thing than a magician, he's hijacking your attention at the critical moment where black can refute this opening with pawn to d5.
I'm having problem playing as white. It seems everything I do gets counter by black.
Wat if oppenet plays knight e5
N b4?????
Should this gambit be renamed? I mean it´s tempting to call it the Helloween Gambit instead. But that probably isn´t politically correct. ;)
Remote Chess Academy >>> May I ask you a question? I would like to hear your view on why we don´t see the Nesjmetdinov Gambit in the Siesta-variation of the Ruy Lopez played very much. It´s just that I wonder that all the theory I have about it probably wouldn´t have developed if it´s a completely trashy gambit. In that case for example the Englund Gambit wouldn´t have stood a chance.
Thank you for this beautiful gambit!! My elo quickly increased from 1450 to 1200 ;)))
Black has so many good movies that would take this gambit a part. Sorry not a good gambit
Ok! Please show me? 😊♟
This is too complex. There's too many loopholes that can happen that can cost you the game. I recommend not playing this if you are rated 1000+.
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His speech is faster and better now, his detours, however, are extreme. Efficiency is not an issue for him.
For all viewers efficiency is essential but not for him, he expands where expansion is not needed. Your time is of zero concern to him here.
Very good concept that could have made a great video. IF he had an editor go through and remove the verbiage this video would be good.
I found it concise, informative and to the point. Haterz gonna hate I guess.
Goldfish attention span moment
Are you drunk
Everybody on RUclips need to make a 10 min video to add more ads (which means more revenue) . Video is free, i guess. At least he is not cringe material like gotham chess , i guess
Wow! What a nice Halloween Gambit! Thanks a lot Igor! 😊👍♟