Why the Alapin Gambit is UNDECLINABLE | Crush the French Defense
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
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5:00 If They Accept the Gambit: Mating Attack!
9:00 If They Decline the Gambit: Crush Them!
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18:20 Final Thoughts on this Line
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Great video. Enjoy watching all of your gambit videos and using them in my games. Here is an interesting line in the Alapin if your opponent plays f5 that can lead to a queen trap, though Stockfish still evaluates the position as equal. 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Be3 dxe4 4. f3 f5 5. fxe4 Qh4+ 6. g3 Qxe4 7. Qd2 Qxh1 8. Bg2 Qxh2 9. Bc6+ Nxc6 10. Qxh2
Very very good tutorial!!
Excellent explanation and analysis! Impressive!
Very nice! Also, I was following along on the lichess db. the position after 12 Nb5 was in there but came from a Caro-kan
Very nice work William. Really like your attacking style of play.
I would like to see your ideas for the Von Hennig declined. I also picked that up on this channel,
There are a couple of declined lines with they decline our pawn and play Bf4. There is also a line were they play b5 and then Bf4.
Hi William, thanks for this video! Your discussion of what 3.Be3 actually threatens improved my understanding of French structures in general. I've been playing around with your Blackmar-Diemer like gambits in blitz and really enjoying them (and maybe getting better at attacking). Looking forward to playing this one more. When playing around with Stockfish, I noticed black often has a simple plan in the accepted version of going ...Nc6 and ...Nb4 to trade off the bishop on d3 that tends to be an integral part of the thematic mating attack. How would you recommend dealing with this plan? I see on openingtree that at least in the specific line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Be3 de 4.f3 ef 5.Nxf3 Nc6 you still play 6.Bd3 rather than prepare it with 6.c3 or switch to a different setup.
Ive successfully incorporated a bunch of your openings into my repertoire; Leela, Ven Hennig, Langheld gambits. But for some reason I cannot for the life of me get the Alapin to work, opponent always seems to get their pieces out in time, such as with a c5 break
at 6:39 black wins with 13... Nxe5 14. dxe5 Qd4+ 15: Kh1 Qg4 16. Rg1 Qh5
Not clickbait, the Alapin is ACTUALLY undeclinable ! GG
Your videos have inspired me to not study all these boring classical positions, and go with these lines that throw people off. Hey what do you think of the blackmar-diemer/Ryder-gambit?
Take a look at his videos on the Von Popiel. It's an improved (IMO) version of the Ryder.
Man been absolutely loving the Alapin. Thanks so much for digging into declined variations.
I absolutely love your work. You're by far my favourite chess content provider.. When I watch your Busch Gass stuff I feel like you're Christopher Columbus, busy discovering a whole new world of chess theory, and I'm a deck hand along for the ride. I never like your videos though because I'm a chess player and a strategic thinker and I don't want anyone else to see them! This night explain why you only have 4.6k subscribers. I sent you £5 on paypal out of guilt! Carry on with the great work and even if you never get rich challenging Levy as a content provider I'm sure you will end up with gambits named after you, which is kind of better!
Have you looked at the nimzowich gambit i have had lots of success with it and get favorable positions
This actually looks like a sound variation. No need for warning you're probably going to lose!
Yea I was looking at gambits in lichess database against French with e4 and d4 and I saw this had a pretty good win rate and looked pretty solid
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Elephant 🐘 Gambit???...
Any gambits against the corny Scandinavian?
Von Popiel!
you can play the von popiel against the scandi. 1. e4 d5 2. d4 dxe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. f3
@@Ned478 This is how I discovered this channel. I watched a compilation of Von Popiel gambits then the introductory video. I'm an awful chess player and have no memory but I went on lichess and played 2 games as white. I played d4 and got a d5 and a nf6. I won both games in under 25 moves and one of them was 250 rating points higher than me. I've been a "gambitman" fan ever since!
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Did you use the wrong word? I think the word is irrefutable, not undeclinable. Undeclinable is something that cannot be refused or rejected, and the Alapin gambit can be simply refused by not playing the French as black!
No. You can only decline a gambit once it has been played.
Undeclinable is correct... IF it means not accepting it will give you an inferior or lost position.
@@shanelawson5072 maybe William could give a strict definition of the word "undeclinable", or provide a few examples of declinable and undeclinable gambits, or both, so that we know what he means and we don't have to guess. Judging from how he has capitalized the world in the title, my guess is that he has no clear understanding of the word. If life has taught me anything, is that people who shout words more loudly, are the least capable to define them.
@@JohnSmithEx I know what he means by undeclinable... It's common in chess.
Declined doesn't mean not allowing Alapin by avoiding French as you suggested.
Declined in this instance means playing ...Nf6 instead of taking 'free' gambit pawn with ...exd4.
Undeclinable means a Gambit is offered, & to not accept it will be more dangerous or worse for you than actually accepting it....
He aimed to show that declining gives Black a very bad game, hence the Gambit is 'undeclinable'...
@@shanelawson5072 OK, I appreciate that you came up with A definition of "undeclinable". But it's not THE definition, because I could come up with a different definition, and claim that my definition is better than yours. For example: undeclinable is a gambit that leads to such an interesting position if you accept it, and such a lifeless position if you decline it, that everybody feels morally compelled to accept it. I am sure that other people can come up with different definitions, that are equally viable with yours and mine.
Do you think that it was a good style from William to invent this new word, and use his neologism throughout the video, and capitalize it dreadfully in the title, without bothering to define what his neologism means? The least he should do is to provide a short definition. Even better if he could provide some examples, showing that his neologism has differentiating value. Is the Alapin the only undeclinable gambit? If not what other gambits exist that are undeclinable? What about the Evans gambit, or the Blackmar-Diemer gambit (1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.f3) or the From's gambit (1.f4 e5)? Is any of these gambits undeclinable too, and why?