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► Chapters 00:00 Mengarini Gambit Against the Sicilian Defense Chess Opening 00:21 Even Magnus Carlsen won with this opening! 01:41 White's idea behind this opening gambit 03:03 Stats: More than 70% win rate for White 04:25 1) If Black plays 8...e5 06:38 Checkmating the Black king in the middle 07:41 If Black plays Bd6 to prevent Nc7+ 09:17 Attacking the opponent's king 10:08 2) If Black plays 8...Nf6 (forcing win for White) 13:46 3) If Black plays 8...e6 (subtle trick to remember) 16:09 4) If Black plays 8...a6
"Looks like you are violating the rules of classical chess" and "it's hard to believe this move is kinda wrong" should be mottos of any study on the sicilian
This is another line that ends in an en passant followed by a casual Nf3#: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Nxe4 5. Bxf7+ Ke7 6. d4 exd4 7. Bd5 Nc5 8. Qe2+ Kd6 9. Bf4+ Kxd5 10. c4+ dxc3 11. Nxc3+ Kd4 12. Nf3# It comes out of the Fried Liver, Dark Knight Gambit; I studied all of this quite deeply when I was learning the Fried Liver
Hi Igor! Love this video. I just played this from white and got a win while sacking my rook and hanging my bishop and knight simultaneously, crazy. I couldn’t get my knight to c7 no matter how I tried, hope you enjoy this game as much as I did. 1. e4 c5 2. a3 Nc6 3. b4 cxb4 4. axb4 Nxb4 5. c3 Nc6 6. d4 d5 7. exd5 Qxd5 8. Na3 e5 9. Nb5 Bd6 10. Bc4 Qe4+ 11. Ne2 Bb8 12. f3 Qh4+ 13. Ng3 Nge7 14. O-O O-O 15. Ne4 exd4 16. Bg5 Qxh2+ 17. Kf2 Ng6 18. Rh1 Qe5 19. cxd4 Qf5 20. Bd3 Qd7 21. Bf6 a6 22. Rxh7 Kxh7 23. Qh1+ Kg8 24. Ng5 Qxd4+ 25. Nxd4 1-0
this is the only thing I play against e4-c5 in casual games, people panic, they fully short circuit, they are unprepared for this shit below like 2200. I am 1600 but have had great success against 1900-2000s even.
Yet another brilliant tutorial from GM Igor Smirnov....thanks so much for this entertaining and insightful adventure in the Mengarini gambit ! I look forward to trying it out!
It's kind of funny how when I was beginning learning this game I thought the best way to do so would be to memorize a different number of openings to have multiple strategies, but I always looked for this content and never found it very helpful. Now that I've found the Remote Chess Academy videos I'm starting to understand for the first time why that is. I feel like GM Smirnov is so good at demonstrating why memorization is not the key but instead focusing on comprehension of the pieces' layout on the board and what moves can be opened up by making another move. It can be really tough to see all the variations of how setups can play out but all of these RCA videos do a really good job of helping me understand not just what the strategies are but why they work and what can disrupt them. It's all so informative and after so long of not making any progress I feel the game finally starting to make some more sense.
Not only do I love and recommend these ideas but what makes it so great is: Black plays the scillian so often the you should have multiple ideas. Even though i play Najdorf poison pawn tal move order, lowenthal, klashnikov, maraczy bind and the English attack you can still play those if you want but you can drop this gambit too
Could you please also do the ‘mirror’ of this opening the Dutch Defense: Korchnoi Attack, Janzen-Korchnoi Gambit? This opening has exact the same moves but mirrored to the king side. Of course it’s different with regards to risks for the King. But I am curious what you think of it vs the Mengarini.
You missed one point Sir, @8.07 when bishop attacks the queen. The queen can take the g2 pawn which an result in white giving up their rook. What is the solution to that please
Try to analyse Nxd6+, black king go e7 to attack knight and defend f7 (to prevent double attack, and black has also rook stuck in h8 like white in h1) so you can play Nxc8+ and when rook takes you defend rook with Qf3, attacking also f7 with queen and bishop, result? You exchange queens and you has +2 material.. try to analyse other lines, but this is the most common.
Dear Sir When White moves the knight to the side, Black just .moves the side pawn one notch. The knight is stopped instantly. Just simple. John Thuy, Melbourne Australia.
I watched this video and then went to a chess event that night. This is a five minute game with me as white. I remember it because it was just like one that you have here. This was against an expert! I swear it's true! 99.1 accuracy: 1. e4 c5 2. a3 Nc6 3. b4 cxb4 4. axb4 Nxb4 5. c3 Nc6 6. d4 d5 7. exd5 Qxd5 8. Na3 e5 9. Nb5 Qd8 10. d5 Nb8 11. d6 Na6 12. Rxa6 bxa6 13. Nc7+ Kd7 14. Qa4+ Kxd6 15. Ne8+ Ke6 16. Bc4+ Kf5 17. Qc2+ e4 18. g4+ Ke5 19. f4+ exf3 20. Nxf3# 1-0 Thanks, Igor!
So.. do you prefer lose castling and a queen at the same time? Position is lost.. g6 is forced bcause attack queen and don't over-expose the king, not forced literally but yes, d7 is brutally losing
Apologies, but I am confused, at 13:25 isn’t dxe6 a checkmate? The king is in check and there is nowhere to go for him to go that does not put him in check. Is there a move I’m not seeing there?
There is an error in the video at 7:06…..you move white pawn from f2 to f4 putting the king in check….but then show black pawn on e4 move to f3 but there is nothing there to capture …
It’s called en passant. It’s a special type of move in chess, where if your opponent pawns moved 2 squares from their starting square, and your pawn is side by side with that pawn, then u can move the pawn diagonally and capture it
Hi igor, I just tried out the Mengarini variation for the first time and I won! I never knew what to do against Sicilian, so this video was great. Very informative channel!
Im amazed that in 100% of the cases where I try to use your tactics the plan never ever ever works. In fact all of them are so predicated on the opponent having a weak understanding of development that mostly they are just fun fantasy videos to watch.
Great video Igor. But, what if the opponent plays Nf6 when you develop Na3? That's a logical development move without any serious plan so to say. But, it can cause problems. How to handle this?
5:12 I'd bishop takes d6. Trade queens then king to d7. It's not perfect but it trades off the queens and stops the white queen from being a threat later in the video.
this actually works i started researching after crushed on 1430 like a baby.Sicilian is my main opening:i play accelerated ,Najdorf,steinitz.So i’m pretty experienced in that and one move snd i’m done
On its surface, this video appears quite compelling, but of course, there is a reason that a3 is not played more commonly than it is. According to Lichess, it was played so infrequently among 2000+ players that it rounds off to 0%. The answer to this question is at move 8, Igor casually dismisses black's Qa5 as a "ridiculous move" and doesn't discuss that line any further. It is the response that Stockfish recommends. Stockfish rates the position after Qa5 at +0.2. By comparison, e5 evaluates as +1.5, Nf6 evaluates as +1.6, and e6 evaluates as +1.7. Igor is correct that these are the most commonly played moves by black and that Qa5 is far less common, but if you scan down in Lichess to Qa5, you will see that black has won more often (51%) than white (44%). While it is definitely good to know how to win against the most common moves, against a player who knows Qa5, this appears to be a losing proposition. After spending a good deal of time with this position on Lichess with the help of Stockfish, I don't see that there is a clear winning path for white after 8... Qa5.
If you can get a position that's not highly difficult to play, I'd say the gambit is worth having as a surprise weapon. +0.2 is objectively ok, and the line I see the engine providing in the video seems comfortable enough for white even if it doesn't give an objective advantage. If you want to have an edge despite highly precise play from black, you don't play a3 on move 2.
The only problem is what to do against : 1. e4 c5 2.a3!? g6! ... to go back into a grand prix attack with Bc4 (to try to use the a2 hole ... ?) Something else ?
0:45 just want to point out that your logic is wrong there. Magnus is the king of crazy chess, and routinely plays weak openings. magnus plays it, therefore it's good, does not apply in the openings. i'm not saying that 2 a3 is weak, merely that you haven't proved that it's strong ... yet It seems to me that, at 3:45, the only move black should consider is 8 ... e6 Even more, at 2:00, black should recognize the deadly danger and take immediate defensive measures such as ... d6 or ... e6
Hi, I found your video. It is really interesting attack. But if black played 8. ... Bd7 9. Nb5 Rc8 then the white's attack is covered better than in your variants, isn't it ?
An interesting idea after black plays a6 to kick your knight. Follow your plan, but move e3-d4. The idea being to push your queen to e2 threatening a smother mate. These are rare, but fun
I feel Smirnov gambit is much better as you can use the power of deception to win. It may not follow the 5 principles in chess but it does folloe Sun Tzu's quote, "all warfare is based on deception". And even if they dont take, ez material win.
Yes this is awesome Igor, however I disagree that the opponents will play D5. A much more logical move would be E6 to stop you from playing D5 and E6 is a move lots of Sicilian players normally play.
Hi yes I was thinking that too. If the opponent plays E6, does the gambit fall down? Because now the bishop diagonal is open and white can't play Na3. Is there another tricky move? thanks. Love your videos by the way. Miss the cat though. :)
I find that these videos help in giving me a basic idea of strategy and lead me to my own conclusions. Of course, these are predicated scenarios, but they aren't supposed to be repeated exactly. If they were, that would be a fallacy in itself, I like looking at these as ideas or concept games, not definitive things
Holy shot this is brutal😮💨, i just played a 94% accuracy game (about 30moves) and my opponent didn’t even play none of the moves you showed us but he took the gambit and got completely destroyed i was so excited to try this😭😭
Yes, indeed this trocky opening is legit. Just defeated 2045 rated oponnent in 19 moves. The difference was that he brought up dark sq bishop instead of the knight early on. This was all but my momentum
In Magnus's game, did his opponent play [4. ... Nxb4]? This entire position is built on the Knight taking the free pawn and then booting it back for a good center. But I know in my low elo, my opponent actually just won't see the free pawn. While I can obviously imagine white just pushes the pawn to b5, what did Magnus's opponent do?
11.Nxd6+ and Black is losing: 11. ... Ke7 12.Nxc8+ Rxc8 13.Qf3 wins a piece for White. 11. ... Kd8 12.Nxf7+ any 13.Qf3 and White wins. 11. ... Kf8 12.Qf3 wins a piece for White. So, Kd7 must be played. Now, White is completely unconcerned about his rook and plays 12.dxe5 and if 12. ... Qxh1 then 13.Qg4+ Kc7 14.Nb5+ Kd8 15.Qxg7 and Black must give up the house to stop mate. 10. ... Qxg2 might be better in the sense that White has more chances to go wrong, but Black is still lost.
🎵 In first grance, I thought I can beat this easily, but after analysis I am just dumb silly! I am getting eaten by this deadly gambit and when I realized, I get checkmated! 🎵
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Can you please do a video on the elephant gambit? It would be much appreciated.
I always love a good Kniight F3 checkmate,... lol
► Chapters
00:00 Mengarini Gambit Against the Sicilian Defense Chess Opening
00:21 Even Magnus Carlsen won with this opening!
01:41 White's idea behind this opening gambit
03:03 Stats: More than 70% win rate for White
04:25 1) If Black plays 8...e5
06:38 Checkmating the Black king in the middle
07:41 If Black plays Bd6 to prevent Nc7+
09:17 Attacking the opponent's king
10:08 2) If Black plays 8...Nf6 (forcing win for White)
13:46 3) If Black plays 8...e6 (subtle trick to remember)
16:09 4) If Black plays 8...a6
"Looks like you are violating the rules of classical chess" and "it's hard to believe this move is kinda wrong" should be mottos of any study on the sicilian
against idiots..índ beginners
@@tiborarvai5052 and u
This is another line that ends in an en passant followed by a casual Nf3#:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Nxe4 5. Bxf7+ Ke7 6. d4 exd4 7. Bd5 Nc5 8. Qe2+ Kd6 9. Bf4+ Kxd5 10. c4+ dxc3 11. Nxc3+ Kd4 12. Nf3#
It comes out of the Fried Liver, Dark Knight Gambit; I studied all of this quite deeply when I was learning the Fried Liver
Hi Igor! Love this video. I just played this from white and got a win while sacking my rook and hanging my bishop and knight simultaneously, crazy. I couldn’t get my knight to c7 no matter how I tried, hope you enjoy this game as much as I did.
1. e4 c5 2. a3 Nc6 3. b4 cxb4 4. axb4 Nxb4 5. c3 Nc6 6. d4 d5 7. exd5 Qxd5 8.
Na3 e5 9. Nb5 Bd6 10. Bc4 Qe4+ 11. Ne2 Bb8 12. f3 Qh4+ 13. Ng3 Nge7 14. O-O O-O
15. Ne4 exd4 16. Bg5 Qxh2+ 17. Kf2 Ng6 18. Rh1 Qe5 19. cxd4 Qf5 20. Bd3 Qd7 21.
Bf6 a6 22. Rxh7 Kxh7 23. Qh1+ Kg8 24. Ng5 Qxd4+ 25. Nxd4 1-0
Ive played probably 50 games just waiting for someone to play the Sicilian and I can’t believe how brutally this worked 😂😂😂
😂😂
this is the only thing I play against e4-c5 in casual games, people panic, they fully short circuit, they are unprepared for this shit below like 2200. I am 1600 but have had great success against 1900-2000s even.
@@MorlockTrxshwhats the plan if they go d6 rather than knight c6? I just had a pretty solid game against that.
You are quickly becoming my favorite chess coach!! This was an excellent lesson and most entertaining video!! Keep up your superior work!!😇
Awesome! Thank you!
@@GMIgorSmirnov Igor Smirnov
Yet another brilliant tutorial from GM Igor Smirnov....thanks so much for this entertaining and insightful adventure in the Mengarini gambit ! I look forward to trying it out!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I tried it today and won my first Mengarini gambit! Thanks for sharing this exciting opening!
What happens if the Black Queen plays a5 next at 2:46 ?
It's kind of funny how when I was beginning learning this game I thought the best way to do so would be to memorize a different number of openings to have multiple strategies, but I always looked for this content and never found it very helpful. Now that I've found the Remote Chess Academy videos I'm starting to understand for the first time why that is. I feel like GM Smirnov is so good at demonstrating why memorization is not the key but instead focusing on comprehension of the pieces' layout on the board and what moves can be opened up by making another move. It can be really tough to see all the variations of how setups can play out but all of these RCA videos do a really good job of helping me understand not just what the strategies are but why they work and what can disrupt them. It's all so informative and after so long of not making any progress I feel the game finally starting to make some more sense.
Not only do I love and recommend these ideas but what makes it so great is: Black plays the scillian so often the you should have multiple ideas. Even though i play Najdorf poison pawn tal move order, lowenthal, klashnikov, maraczy bind and the English attack you can still play those if you want but you can drop this gambit too
Much better than Gotham!!! Congrats
Could you please also do the ‘mirror’ of this opening the Dutch Defense: Korchnoi Attack, Janzen-Korchnoi Gambit? This opening has exact the same moves but mirrored to the king side. Of course it’s different with regards to risks for the King. But I am curious what you think of it vs the Mengarini.
That is a VERY COOL opening! Thanks yet again for another great lesson!!
You missed one point Sir, @8.07 when bishop attacks the queen. The queen can take the g2 pawn which an result in white giving up their rook. What is the solution to that please
Try to analyse Nxd6+, black king go e7 to attack knight and defend f7 (to prevent double attack, and black has also rook stuck in h8 like white in h1) so you can play Nxc8+ and when rook takes you defend rook with Qf3, attacking also f7 with queen and bishop, result? You exchange queens and you has +2 material.. try to analyse other lines, but this is the most common.
It would be nice to analyze 8... Qa5 since it's the top engine move. Or the best course of action for Black anyway.
What happens if black plays Ng8 at 10:03, stopping the chackmate ?
8:08
Can't black just for qxg7 and then eventually win the rook?
After white plays Na3, what’s stopping black from playing a6? I wonder why that variation wasn’t covered. 2:49
Dear Sir
When White moves the knight to the side, Black just .moves the side pawn one notch. The knight is stopped instantly. Just simple. John Thuy, Melbourne Australia.
At 9:01 couldn’t the Queen go to g2? Attacking the castle?
Knight to g3 protects the rook and whites position is still winning
0:42 Doesn't surprise me. Magnus Carlsen could play the Grob or the Bongcloud and still recover, outplay his opponent and win.
What is recommanded to play, if black does as 2nd move b7 - b6?
How does pawn f4 check mate and the black recaptures with the pawn ...1st game
Super fun. Love your sense of humor!
What do you do when E4,C5 A3, D5? seems you loose tempo and nothing to do afterwards.
I watched this video and then went to a chess event that night. This is a five minute game with me as white. I remember it because it was just like one that you have here. This was against an expert! I swear it's true! 99.1 accuracy:
1. e4 c5 2. a3 Nc6 3. b4 cxb4 4. axb4 Nxb4 5. c3 Nc6 6. d4 d5 7. exd5 Qxd5 8.
Na3 e5 9. Nb5 Qd8 10. d5 Nb8 11. d6 Na6 12. Rxa6 bxa6 13. Nc7+ Kd7 14. Qa4+ Kxd6
15. Ne8+ Ke6 16. Bc4+ Kf5 17. Qc2+ e4 18. g4+ Ke5 19. f4+ exf3 20. Nxf3# 1-0 Thanks, Igor!
12:57 pawn to G6 is not forced..he can go out with king on D7
So.. do you prefer lose castling and a queen at the same time? Position is lost.. g6 is forced bcause attack queen and don't over-expose the king, not forced literally but yes, d7 is brutally losing
Apologies, but I am confused, at 13:25 isn’t dxe6 a checkmate? The king is in check and there is nowhere to go for him to go that does not put him in check. Is there a move I’m not seeing there?
King isn't in check.
What do you do if, after you play a3, your opponent plays g6 and fianchettoes with a bishop pointing directly at your queenside rook?
There is an error in the video at 7:06…..you move white pawn from f2 to f4 putting the king in check….but then show black pawn on e4 move to f3 but there is nothing there to capture …
same thoughts xD
It’s called en passant. It’s a special type of move in chess, where if your opponent pawns moved 2 squares from their starting square, and your pawn is side by side with that pawn, then u can move the pawn diagonally and capture it
Hi igor, I just tried out the Mengarini variation for the first time and I won! I never knew what to do against Sicilian, so this video was great. Very informative channel!
Nice work!
Thanks GM Igor
Im amazed that in 100% of the cases where I try to use your tactics the plan never ever ever works. In fact all of them are so predicated on the opponent having a weak understanding of development that mostly they are just fun fantasy videos to watch.
I think it’s just you. I beat my dad easily with “punish early queen attacks” (my dad is 1800)
Translation... my dad let me win
@@shawnwimberly9294 nah. I have played hundreds of games with my dad and won like a handful of them
@@DecimusCaesar 1800 is Beasty
@@shawnwimberly9294 kinda is but my coach is a gm so there is a hell of a difference when playing them
What was that on 7:07 min?
Great video Igor. But, what if the opponent plays Nf6 when you develop Na3? That's a logical development move without any serious plan so to say. But, it can cause problems. How to handle this?
Just Nb5 and you're already winning. He covers this in the video
if 2. ..... e6, would you still play 3. b4?
What if black plays Bd6, blocking the bishop at 16:00 ?
What about black pawn to a6 to stop kB5?
You change plan 😂
5:12 I'd bishop takes d6. Trade queens then king to d7. It's not perfect but it trades off the queens and stops the white queen from being a threat later in the video.
What about if they play e6, either instead of d5 or at some other point?
Very nice gambit to crush but sir e4 c5 a3 now black can play a 5 then?
this actually works i started researching after crushed on 1430 like a baby.Sicilian is my main opening:i play accelerated ,Najdorf,steinitz.So i’m pretty experienced in that and one move snd i’m done
This... this is beautiful. I love this. Very original!
Glad you like it!
What is the name of this gambit?
Very instructive
your laugh at 7:19 literally made my day
On its surface, this video appears quite compelling, but of course, there is a reason that a3 is not played more commonly than it is. According to Lichess, it was played so infrequently among 2000+ players that it rounds off to 0%. The answer to this question is at move 8, Igor casually dismisses black's Qa5 as a "ridiculous move" and doesn't discuss that line any further. It is the response that Stockfish recommends. Stockfish rates the position after Qa5 at +0.2. By comparison, e5 evaluates as +1.5, Nf6 evaluates as +1.6, and e6 evaluates as +1.7. Igor is correct that these are the most commonly played moves by black and that Qa5 is far less common, but if you scan down in Lichess to Qa5, you will see that black has won more often (51%) than white (44%). While it is definitely good to know how to win against the most common moves, against a player who knows Qa5, this appears to be a losing proposition. After spending a good deal of time with this position on Lichess with the help of Stockfish, I don't see that there is a clear winning path for white after 8... Qa5.
If you can get a position that's not highly difficult to play, I'd say the gambit is worth having as a surprise weapon. +0.2 is objectively ok, and the line I see the engine providing in the video seems comfortable enough for white even if it doesn't give an objective advantage. If you want to have an edge despite highly precise play from black, you don't play a3 on move 2.
Hi if my opponent is playing the French Sicilian is this still viable?
When White plays a3, how about Qa5? This could stop b4, right?
Thanks again for this video. I really need this. You're my favorite Chess teacher!! Keep it up.
what about pawn to a6?
Yeah, an early a6 by black messes this up but he did say "MOST of the time black will take the pawn with the knight."
The only problem is what to do against : 1. e4 c5 2.a3!? g6! ... to go back into a grand prix attack with Bc4 (to try to use the a2 hole ... ?) Something else ?
I have used the Mengarini many times and it works very well. It is also very easy to remember the moves
You are teaching perfectly :-) Happy new year!
Happy new year!
8:33 Knight to D6 - fork queen and the king
Its a check btw
@@Aczave ah, true 🤦
One of the best teachers
Really brutal , love this
Thank you sir .
You are the best teacher ever!!
0:45
just want to point out that your logic is wrong there. Magnus is the king of crazy chess, and routinely plays weak openings.
magnus plays it, therefore it's good, does not apply in the openings.
i'm not saying that 2 a3 is weak, merely that you haven't proved that it's strong ... yet
It seems to me that, at 3:45, the only move black should consider is
8 ... e6
Even more, at 2:00, black should recognize the deadly danger and take immediate defensive measures such as ... d6 or ... e6
Hi, I found your video. It is really interesting attack. But if black played 8. ... Bd7 9. Nb5 Rc8 then the white's attack is covered better than in your variants, isn't it ?
7:17 that's the winning laugh I want to do
What if black’s 2nd move is pawn c4?
An interesting idea after black plays a6 to kick your knight. Follow your plan, but move e3-d4. The idea being to push your queen to e2 threatening a smother mate. These are rare, but fun
Your videos are amazing!
What if in move 2 black plays a5?
The very first time I tried this my opponent played the Nf6 line and resigned after I won his queen. These videos are fun against 1200 ELO opponents.
This one is going into my pyle, my Gomer Pyle of "Surprise, surprise, surprise."
Here all lines shown start at move 8... would love to see more of possible lines of earlier moves because it never comes to these positions for me.
doesnt bishop f5 and then long castle just solve this problem for black?
Would be good to see analysis of 8..Qe4+
I feel Smirnov gambit is much better as you can use the power of deception to win. It may not follow the 5 principles in chess but it does folloe Sun Tzu's quote, "all warfare is based on deception". And even if they dont take, ez material win.
is there a way to stop this gambit?
Yes this is awesome Igor, however I disagree that the opponents will play D5. A much more logical move would be E6 to stop you from playing D5 and E6 is a move lots of Sicilian players normally play.
Hi yes I was thinking that too. If the opponent plays E6, does the gambit fall down? Because now the bishop diagonal is open and white can't play Na3. Is there another tricky move? thanks. Love your videos by the way. Miss the cat though. :)
I find that these videos help in giving me a basic idea of strategy and lead me to my own conclusions. Of course, these are predicated scenarios, but they aren't supposed to be repeated exactly. If they were, that would be a fallacy in itself, I like looking at these as ideas or concept games, not definitive things
Игорь привет!мы любим ваши уроки в Лондоне,мой сын смотрит Вас на английском.уроки даёте?
Привет из Англии
My favourite video so far!
Uživam ob tvojih nasmehih ob forsiranih potezah!
8:35 knight can take that bishop too, and do fork again?
King is on check
Very helpful
You dont mention 2. - d5 the principal continuation
Holy shot this is brutal😮💨, i just played a 94% accuracy game (about 30moves) and my opponent didn’t even play none of the moves you showed us but he took the gambit and got completely destroyed i was so excited to try this😭😭
What if black plays pe5 rather than pd5?
Black can push the pawn a7 to a6 and easily stop the advancement of Na3 to Nb5.
What if I play e5 instead of Nc6?!
thanks for making me question the openings that I play
no lichess database ?
I can picture Magnus getting drunk and playing this. The chess equivalent of Drunken Monkey kung fu.
Yes, indeed this trocky opening is legit. Just defeated 2045 rated oponnent in 19 moves. The difference was that he brought up dark sq bishop instead of the knight early on. This was all but my momentum
What about black plays pawn a6
great defense but what happened if black plays kings d8 not queen d8
In Magnus's game, did his opponent play [4. ... Nxb4]? This entire position is built on the Knight taking the free pawn and then booting it back for a good center. But I know in my low elo, my opponent actually just won't see the free pawn. While I can obviously imagine white just pushes the pawn to b5, what did Magnus's opponent do?
8:33 queen takes g2 better move
11.Nxd6+ and Black is losing: 11. ... Ke7 12.Nxc8+ Rxc8 13.Qf3 wins a piece for White. 11. ... Kd8 12.Nxf7+ any 13.Qf3 and White wins. 11. ... Kf8 12.Qf3 wins a piece for White. So, Kd7 must be played. Now, White is completely unconcerned about his rook and plays 12.dxe5 and if 12. ... Qxh1 then 13.Qg4+ Kc7 14.Nb5+ Kd8 15.Qxg7 and Black must give up the house to stop mate. 10. ... Qxg2 might be better in the sense that White has more chances to go wrong, but Black is still lost.
Thanks for this video ❣️ It actually worked against my opponent in 1600 rating 🤩
Great 👍
🎵 In first grance, I thought I can beat this easily, but after analysis I am just dumb silly! I am getting eaten by this deadly gambit and when I realized, I get checkmated! 🎵
excellent strategy
13:27 im new to chess how is this not a checkmate
Black has legal moves remaining because the Bishop on c8 can sacrifice itself to save the king (Bishop captures pawn on e6)
I found my opponent responding with g3 and fienchettoing the bishop in respose to a3, to be very difficult to deal with.
What if queen takes g pawn at 8:30
Bishop d5