Brutally PUNISH the Sicilian Defense (Carlsen Used This Tricky Gambit Opening)
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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov shares with you an aggressive chess opening gambit for White against the Sicilian Defense. It is called the Mengarini Variation which happens after the following moves: 1.e4 c5 2.a3.
The gambit occurs when White sacrifices their pawn after 2...Nc6 3.b4 cxb4 4.axb4 Nxb4. This tricky gambit will confuse a lot of your opponents and it gives a great attacking initiative for White.
Even the world champion Magnus Carlsen has played this opening in the World Blitz Chess Championship and won that game. Most importantly, the most played moves of Black gives White a winning advantage; yes, White has more than 70% win rates in all those variations!
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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
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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
"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
Ive played probably 50 games just waiting for someone to play the Sicilian and I can’t believe how brutally this worked 😂😂😂
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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
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
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
That is a VERY COOL opening! Thanks yet again for another great lesson!!
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
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 ?
Thanks again for this video. I really need this. You're my favorite Chess teacher!! Keep it up.
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!
Super fun. Love your sense of humor!
Thanks GM Igor
Very instructive
Really brutal , love this
Thank you sir .
It would be nice to analyze 8... Qa5 since it's the top engine move. Or the best course of action for Black anyway.
Thank you Igor for a great video - very inspiring!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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.
Your videos are amazing!
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.
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
You are teaching perfectly :-) Happy new year!
Happy new year!
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
Very helpful
Hello, Igor! Here is a game where I tried the Mengarini Gambit myself in an over the board tournament.
I played the white side and my attempt at this gambit went bust and I got checkmated in 22 moves.
After looking at the game below, can you make a future video if possible on what happens if black tries to get around that with a plan to fianchetto the dark square bishop? That’s what happened and I was stumped on what to do at the time of the game.
Here’s the PGN:
[Event "2023 San Antonio Chess Club Championship"]
[Site "Complete Chess"]
[Date "2023.05.11"]
[Round "2"]
[White "David Pacheco III"]
[Black "Jesse James Lozano"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1513"]
[BlackElo "2220"]
[ECO "B20"]
1. e4 c5 2. a3 g6 3. c3 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 Bg7 7. Nc3 Nxc3 8. bxc3
O-O 9. Bd3 d6 10. f4 Nc6 11. Nf3 Bg4 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 dxe5 14. fxe5 Bxe5 15.
Be3 Bg7 16. O-O Rc8 17. Rad1 Qa5 18. Be4 Qxc3 19. Rd3 Qa5 20. Rc1 Nxd4 21. Rxd4
Rxc1+ 22. Kf2 Qe1#
0-1
By the way, my opponent was a National Master (NM - USCF Title) in my area.
This... this is beautiful. I love this. Very original!
Glad you like it!
My favourite video so far!
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
You are the best teacher ever!!
Wonderful
What happens if black plays Ng8 at 10:03, stopping the chackmate ?
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
I have used the Mengarini many times and it works very well. It is also very easy to remember the moves
What is recommanded to play, if black does as 2nd move b7 - b6?
After white plays Na3, what’s stopping black from playing a6? I wonder why that variation wasn’t covered. 2:49
How does pawn f4 check mate and the black recaptures with the pawn ...1st game
One of the best teachers
excellent strategy
This is amazing
your laugh at 7:19 literally made my day
Uživam ob tvojih nasmehih ob forsiranih potezah!
thanks for making me question the openings that I play
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!
12:57 pawn to G6 is not forced..he can go out with king on D7
What do you do if, after you play a3, your opponent plays g6 and fianchettoes with a bishop pointing directly at your queenside rook?
I will try it now
What about black pawn to a6 to stop kB5?
What do you do when E4,C5 A3, D5? seems you loose tempo and nothing to do afterwards.
Would be good to see analysis of 8..Qe4+
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
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.
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.
Super attack
5:06 Black bishop takes white pawn on D6.
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
Yes
Black can push the pawn a7 to a6 and easily stop the advancement of Na3 to Nb5.
Wow!
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.
7:17 that's the winning laugh I want to do
0:42 Doesn't surprise me. Magnus Carlsen could play the Grob or the Bongcloud and still recover, outplay his opponent and win.
Great and too funny!
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.
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?
I can picture Magnus getting drunk and playing this. The chess equivalent of Drunken Monkey kung fu.
8:08
Can't black just for qxg7 and then eventually win the rook?
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 one is going into my pyle, my Gomer Pyle of "Surprise, surprise, surprise."
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 ?
When White plays a3, how about Qa5? This could stop b4, right?
Nice trick and very funny.
Игорь привет!мы любим ваши уроки в Лондоне,мой сын смотрит Вас на английском.уроки даёте?
Привет из Англии
What if black’s 2nd move is pawn c4?
It was amazing and I tried but couldn't cope up and lost. Hope next time I will do better.
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.
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 ?
if 2. ..... e6, would you still play 3. b4?
This position plays itself, I would say.
What if black plays Bd6, blocking the bishop at 16:00 ?
Well, there you are: Gone is the rule: Develop the pieces, castle, and connect the rooks.
You dont mention 2. - d5 the principal continuation
What if in move 2 black plays a5?
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 if my opponent is playing the French Sicilian is this still viable?
I watch your videos everyday
I've played this every single sicilian i come across and not one single person played these variations. back to the smith morra i guess
Pawn to a6 problem solve to avoid the jump of knight
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.
night, bishop... try to play from black side as well...
What if I play e5 instead of Nc6?!
Wow
Thanks for this video ❣️ It actually worked against my opponent in 1600 rating 🤩
Great 👍
SO KF3 Was the best move in chess all along
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
What was that on 7:07 min?
What about black plays pawn a6
Tukmol, it was already used by Bobby (the world's greatest chess player ever) before.
For your info and educ..