Yes, it's referred to as Castle-Kingside or Castle-Queenside (Kingside being on the right side of the King, Queenside being on the left of the King). There can be no pieces in between the Rook and the King.
@miewolfram Actually, he was showing you what WOULD have happened if black chose to defend the pawn on f7 with the queen. That would, of course, be a fatal mistake, so they just played out that option and reset the board to explore better options.
Na5 is definitely a popular/strong response. The response in this video is less passive, and as seen in the video it can lead to a strong counterattack. Very sharp game.
1:57 but what if the king move to e6 to add another defender on the knight in d5? notice that if u took the knight with the bishop then the queen will retake and if u decided to trade off queens then it'll end up to a piece and spacial advantage over black. what now?
Just wondering, what color did you win both of your friends, because even though they think white is ina a "compromising or losing" position, I think this opening has a lot to offer in favor of white... I studied and is just amazing how much white can do to keep the attack at float. Anyways, hope you can answer my question, and if not, well GOOD LUCK! in all aspects in life.
1. knight sacrifice is good cause if the king goes to e6 nc3 and its dangerous to have ur king that far into the center. black can try to defend but its gonna take a lot of maneuvering. 2. if c3 then b5 and it is still a good game
VERY nice opening. But....the ONLY problem is that after white threatens the black king's leading pawn..black can counter that by pushing the queen pawn for defense. Any suggestions on a follow up for that?
Ok, I can hardly understand why you can't learn some proper english phrases before you post a video but such santences you say really makes a smile and maybe help to memorize something ;)
by the way, as i say i agree with the castle idea by acdcnum1fan94, it indeed prevents the mate or at least the loosing of the white rook on h1, but, besides of giving time to black to move his rook, also is not a very good castle because is in the direction of the attacking pieces of black. So with that in mind, i think is better for white pawn d2 to d3, preventing the check by white on e4 and protecting the white bishop on c4.
That's the usual continuation however white will pile up on pinned knight with other knight plus king is closer to center. I would not want to play black in that position.
The Knight's tour puzzle is available for the ipad in the itunes app store. Try to visit each square just once,it's harder than you think. Solution provided.
Please don't be offended if I say AIX is not a version of Linux. The reason I asked in my post (1 hr. ago)is that is my question should be: Did the programmer employ "grid" compute? If so, I will study how to use C in this environment. Of course Fenghsiung Hsu must be a PhD holder or at least a candidate. Thank you again vagabondontheroad. I will check the IBM research wedsite.
I;d like to add that its not a totally lost game for black after Ke6. However the resutls have been heavily in favour of white because of the exposed king.
@midgety1 Well, actually Na5 is the mainline. It is a perfectly fine move. It's just for the video here they wanted to steer the game towards the quick finish they had already planned. A knight can be "dim" on the rim, but there's plenty of exceptions.
Also, this is not the scholar's mate. Scholar's mate is when white plays pawn to e4, then bishop to center and then queen to edge of board and then captures the king's bishop's pawn.
it seems to me black is screwed if white (at the 1:38 mark) takes the pawn with his bishop instead of pawn. Why trade with pawns here when the bishop could get in there safely???
hacksign, you mean: Nxf7 Ke7 Nxd8 resign ? its an interesting line but rather simplistic because of the 5 minute time frame i guess.. for one the knight move to the corner they say is "bad" is probably a better move than the knight to the center they do here, i just think white needs to press c3 making the black knight leave the center before proceeding. also in the knight sack line black has to take the knight, but you move your king forward to defend your knight, not back to loose it.
it wouldn't be good to waste it there, cause now your knight will be on the edge' which means it can move half the spaces it could before, plus he could push pawns on it and then you would eventually get your knight in an awkward position, but you should stop it by maybe pushing a pawn to stop it.
@midgety1 its not as good a move bcuz then the bishop can check the king... it can be defended with the black bishop, or by pushing the pawn... pushing the pawn would be trouble, bcuz black can lose his rook in 3 moves... the move for white theyre are showin is just a much stronger move. da relic
By the way, you can employ the very same flashy motif as shown in this video in a much more straightforward fashion, by playing a line in the Giuoco Piano, namely: e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nd4?! Nxe5 Qg5 Nxf7? Qxg2 and so on like in the video: Rf1 Qxe4+ Be2 Nf3 mate.
I think that Nd4 is better than Na5 because it gives a more agressive position for black than Na5 allowing it the fantastic combination that we watch here but I am thinking after Nd4 instead d6 the move c3 to get rid the knight first.
good tutorial. i understand that a knight on the side is not a good position. but if black Na5 and attacks the bishop even white moves pb3 black can sacrifice the knight to stop whites attack. if white moves Bb5 pc6, or if white moves Bd3 then black takes pawn NxD5
theres a flaw in your line if the knight takes the pawn to ruin the kings castle. after king takes the knight, and queen check, king to e6 ruins the whole thing, and now white is down a piece
Very nice instruction, thank you. Some English expressions I think would help you guys - 1."threaten" (not "make dangerous") eg "White wants to threaten Black's pawn"; "Black's pawn [will be/is now/was] threatened by Black's knight". 2 "fork" eg "White has Black in a fork", "White's Queen has forked (is threatening both) Black's knight and its King." 3. Finally "pawn" rhymes with "or", not "yawn". Actually the pronunciation of "porn" is exactly the same as "pawn"! Strange I know.
ive won so many games off of the knight sacrifice. most players resign after they see the fork on the knight. this really is a great opening for beginners.
at 2:00 instead of moving the king back couldn't he have sacrificed his knight had the white queen take the black knight and have the black pawn take the white queen?
they show the possible moves, then go back to another set of moves that can happen, so they set up different secenarios for us to see what ca happen with the obvious moves
This might not seem like a terribly good pile of moves but I personally think it is useful for 5 minute games it really keeps them thinking and has no obvious exposure from white.
...Nd4 is a known cheap trap. instead, ...Na5, Bb5+ is standard theory. (Don't worry about that big graphic saying moving N to side of board is bad. One must play the actual position, not just go by principles like an unthinking machine.)
black cobra, they showed every move. She went from d8, her original (dark) square, to d6(dark), when she took the pawn. The knight then attacked and forked her and the rook. She moved to c6 (white), knight took rook, queen took g2(white). White moved rook, Queen to e4 (white), white moves bishop, knight mates. PAY ATTENTION.
The knight on the side of the board is how I usually play this opening, you lose a pawn but you get to steal the initiative right away. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d4 5. exd4 Na5! 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6
I's a nice variation, but i don't see why the knight at the side of the bord would be a bad move. They don't explain why and it seems to me it's an interesting option since you're attaking the bishop and breaking the attack.
well, it´s true, white can castle, but miss the oportunity of taking the rook, wich is the main idea of th fork, that´s why white move knight to g5..., so, the move of the black queen to c6, creates a tempo for black and prevents the loosing of the black rook on h8. (you see what happen if white take the rook)
MetaMorphy is right. Knight is weak on the side of the board, but Na5 is the best response, because it removes the white bishop from the dangerous diagonal.
@jonoderidder seeing as they're pronouncing pawn 'POWn', and you say it doesn't rhyme with yawn, I'm assuming you pronounce yawn as 'YOWn'. Now that I've never heard! Also, as someone else said, pawn and porn aren't homophones for most english speakers as most (America, western England, Scotland, Ireland) pronounce the R in porn.
Then you just take the bishop with the knight. If he takes the knight, take the pawn which has taken the knight. You got to attack to the knight too. BTW. It is pawn, not pound.
Wait, so who does the 2 knight opening? o.o who should use this tutorial, black or white? Is the white doing 2 knight and the black countering it or is the counter wich the black is doing the 2 knight? o.o
this is AWESOME! This was one of the problems I ALWAYS ran into when i played with black... i figured i should just move h6 to prevent the knight from threatening my pawn, but this opens a new world up to me :)))
its a nice trap and i had a few wins with it, but to make this clear in this position 5.Na5 is better move for black. Because not allways is a Knight at the side of the board a bad move. It keep him out of trouble. 6.Bb5+c6 7.d5xc6 8.b7xc6 is the mainline.
Love your videos. I appreciate you guys making the effort to do these videos in English for us!
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Keep em comin komrades
Yes, it's referred to as Castle-Kingside or Castle-Queenside (Kingside being on the right side of the King, Queenside being on the left of the King). There can be no pieces in between the Rook and the King.
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your enthusiasm as you move the piece is awesome
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@miewolfram Actually, he was showing you what WOULD have happened if black chose to defend the pawn on f7 with the queen. That would, of course, be a fatal mistake, so they just played out that option and reset the board to explore better options.
Is this opening has other names?
Played this lots of times.
Thanks for showing on the web what is going on in the heads of chess players!
Good video!
Na5 is definitely a popular/strong response. The response in this video is less passive, and as seen in the video it can lead to a strong counterattack.
Very sharp game.
Great video. I'm goin' to practice both side variations. Thanks for upload.
nice vid. played chess for over 4 years and i still learned something.
Guys thanks, I've just started playing chess and it's amazing. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Very good analysis of a very popular opening. Excellent video.
1:57 but what if the king move to e6 to add another defender on the knight in d5? notice that if u took the knight with the bishop then the queen will retake and if u decided to trade off queens then it'll end up to a piece and spacial advantage over black. what now?
Just wondering, what color did you win both of your friends, because even though they think white is ina a "compromising or losing" position, I think this opening has a lot to offer in favor of white... I studied and is just amazing how much white can do to keep the attack at float. Anyways, hope you can answer my question, and if not, well GOOD LUCK! in all aspects in life.
1. knight sacrifice is good cause if the king goes to e6 nc3 and its dangerous to have ur king that far into the center. black can try to defend but its gonna take a lot of maneuvering.
2. if c3 then b5 and it is still a good game
VERY nice opening. But....the ONLY problem is that after white threatens the black king's leading pawn..black can counter that by pushing the queen pawn for defense. Any suggestions on a follow up for that?
Ok, I can hardly understand why you can't learn some proper english phrases before you post a video but such santences you say really makes a smile and maybe help to memorize something ;)
by the way, as i say i agree with the castle idea by acdcnum1fan94, it indeed prevents the mate or at least the loosing of the white rook on h1, but, besides of giving time to black to move his rook, also is not a very good castle because is in the direction of the attacking pieces of black. So with that in mind, i think is better for white pawn d2 to d3, preventing the check by white on e4 and protecting the white bishop on c4.
@midgety1
because it limits the knights moves from 8 to 4...
@sg135 no it won't be a checkmate, because the qeen's square is empty now and the king can move to it, and the attack will gain nothing but failure.
That's the usual continuation however white will pile up on pinned knight with other knight plus king is closer to center. I would not want to play black in that position.
The Knight's tour puzzle is available for the ipad in the itunes app store. Try to visit each square just once,it's harder than you think. Solution provided.
that was a great tutorial, im just getting into chess and this sort of video is just what im looking for!
Black better know how to react to the white knight and bishop converging on the f7 square. Informative video!
Thank you very much, vagabondontheroad.
Please don't be offended if I say AIX is not a version of Linux. The reason I asked in my post (1 hr. ago)is that is my question should be: Did the programmer employ "grid" compute? If so, I will study how to use C in this environment. Of course Fenghsiung Hsu must be a PhD holder or at least a candidate.
Thank you again vagabondontheroad. I will check the IBM research wedsite.
I;d like to add that its not a totally lost game for black after Ke6. However the resutls have been heavily in favour of white because of the exposed king.
Isn't castleing to move the King 2 spaces? You can only do this once per game as I heard it.
@midgety1 Well, actually Na5 is the mainline. It is a perfectly fine move. It's just for the video here they wanted to steer the game towards the quick finish they had already planned.
A knight can be "dim" on the rim, but there's plenty of exceptions.
Also, this is not the scholar's mate. Scholar's mate is when white plays pawn to e4, then bishop to center and then queen to edge of board and then captures the king's bishop's pawn.
Dont listen to the idiots commenting here. Its a good video for beginners and everyone should appreciate the time that goes into these tutorials.
it seems to me black is screwed if white (at the 1:38 mark) takes the pawn with his bishop instead of pawn. Why trade with pawns here when the bishop could get in there safely???
@perhapsnow I agree. Na5 is a book move and played by top level players.
Who wrote the program of the Deep Blue? And what language did he use? He is a pretty strong player.
hacksign, you mean:
Nxf7 Ke7
Nxd8 resign ?
its an interesting line but rather simplistic because of the 5 minute time frame i guess.. for one the knight move to the corner they say is "bad" is probably a better move than the knight to the center they do here, i just think white needs to press c3 making the black knight leave the center before proceeding. also in the knight sack line black has to take the knight, but you move your king forward to defend your knight, not back to loose it.
so what happens if black doesnt move his knight in front of his queen -.- you move your knight right in front of queens path?
it wouldn't be good to waste it there, cause now your knight will be on the edge' which means it can move half the spaces it could before, plus he could push pawns on it and then you would eventually get your knight in an awkward position, but you should stop it by maybe pushing a pawn to stop it.
where are u guys? that looks like an awesome chess club.
after (Kxf7, QC6) I do not take root, I take the e5 pawn, I defend the bishop and attack the queen
@midgety1 its not as good a move bcuz then the bishop can check the king... it can be defended with the black bishop, or by pushing the pawn... pushing the pawn would be trouble, bcuz black can lose his rook in 3 moves... the move for white theyre are showin is just a much stronger move.
da relic
After the move at 1.09 black does another move at 1.15???
Sorry, what do Fritz & ChessBase Light DO exactly?
How are they used?
I don't know! What can black to do while make move?
I always wondered the best way to defend that. Cool!
I love these games by Igor and Gleb. You guys rock. Hope I can be as good as them one day. thanks Guys!:)
By the way, you can employ the very same flashy motif as shown in this video in a much more straightforward fashion, by playing a line in the Giuoco Piano, namely:
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nd4?! Nxe5 Qg5 Nxf7? Qxg2 and so on like in the video: Rf1 Qxe4+ Be2 Nf3 mate.
is there a part 2
@jonoderidder I loved the expression '!MAKE DANGEROUS!" rather than 'threaten'.
I think that Nd4 is better than Na5 because it gives a more agressive position for black than Na5 allowing it the fantastic combination that we watch here but I am thinking after Nd4 instead d6 the move c3 to get rid the knight first.
wut if @ 1:58 black instead moves king behind the black pawn near the middle?
To do a "castleing" move, you cannot move the Rook from its starting position. There also has to be no pieces in between the King and the Rook.
good tutorial. i understand that a knight on the side is not a good position. but if black Na5 and attacks the bishop even white moves pb3 black can sacrifice the knight to stop whites attack. if white moves Bb5 pc6, or if white moves Bd3 then black takes pawn NxD5
theres a flaw in your line if the knight takes the pawn to ruin the kings castle. after king takes the knight, and queen check, king to e6 ruins the whole thing, and now white is down a piece
Thanks for the video. I'll practice some of that.
But what if instead of sacrificing his pawn, white plays c3 first, to drive away the knight?!? Can someone please tell me what black should do then??
Very nice instruction, thank you. Some English expressions I think would help you guys - 1."threaten" (not "make dangerous") eg "White wants to threaten Black's pawn"; "Black's pawn [will be/is now/was] threatened by Black's knight". 2 "fork" eg "White has Black in a fork", "White's Queen has forked (is threatening both) Black's knight and its King." 3. Finally "pawn" rhymes with "or", not "yawn". Actually the pronunciation of "porn" is exactly the same as "pawn"! Strange I know.
ive won so many games off of the knight sacrifice.
most players resign after they see the fork on the knight. this really is a great opening for beginners.
I just love the way they explain everything :D
Good chess lecture! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this video, it helped me improve my chess.
at 2:00 instead of moving the king back couldn't he have sacrificed his knight had the white queen take the black knight and have the black pawn take the white queen?
wow i have a chess tournament tomorrow and this helped alot
How about PQB3 or C3 at move 5?
Also why is night move at 2:14 not good? im a noob so i dont know
The important thing here is knowing to castle then only black's kingside pawns will be weaker in formation but the queen will be saved.
they show the possible moves, then go back to another set of moves that can happen, so they set up different secenarios for us to see what ca happen with the obvious moves
This might not seem like a terribly good pile of moves but I personally think it is useful for 5 minute games it really keeps them thinking and has no obvious exposure from white.
...Nd4 is a known cheap trap.
instead, ...Na5, Bb5+ is standard theory. (Don't worry about that big graphic saying moving N to side of board is bad. One must play the actual position, not just go by principles like an unthinking machine.)
black cobra, they showed every move. She went from d8, her original (dark) square, to d6(dark), when she took the pawn. The knight then attacked and forked her and the rook. She moved to c6 (white), knight took rook, queen took g2(white). White moved rook, Queen to e4 (white), white moves bishop, knight mates. PAY ATTENTION.
The knight on the side of the board is how I usually play this opening, you lose a pawn but you get to steal the initiative right away.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d4 5. exd4 Na5!
6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6
is here any way to beat someone who starts with their bishops?
thanks for the tips, ill try this.
I's a nice variation, but i don't see why the knight at the side of the bord would be a bad move. They don't explain why and it seems to me it's an interesting option since you're attaking the bishop and breaking the attack.
what game are you looking at?
@Gr3enArrow4 Take it easy on them. Everything is dubbed in Russia. They are not permitted to hear any language other than Russian.
Thanks for the guide, really great stuff.
this was infact a very good tutorial!
loved it boys, keep it up!
and if it's near a corner, to 3 or even 2.
Slavic english is the best kind of english! Seriously! The smothered mate is nice too.
You guys are amazing thinkers. I wanna try this out, get a lot better and chess =)
What is a poun?
well, it´s true, white can castle, but miss the oportunity of taking the rook, wich is the main idea of th fork, that´s why white move knight to g5..., so, the move of the black queen to c6, creates a tempo for black and prevents the loosing of the black rook on h8. (you see what happen if white take the rook)
thats if you take the k5 with the pawn, they didnt show if taken with white bishop.
MetaMorphy is right. Knight is weak on the side of the board, but Na5 is the best response, because it removes the white bishop from the dangerous diagonal.
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@jonoderidder seeing as they're pronouncing pawn 'POWn', and you say it doesn't rhyme with yawn, I'm assuming you pronounce yawn as 'YOWn'. Now that I've never heard! Also, as someone else said, pawn and porn aren't homophones for most english speakers as most (America, western England, Scotland, Ireland) pronounce the R in porn.
Then you just take the bishop with the knight. If he takes the knight, take the pawn which has taken the knight. You got to attack to the knight too.
BTW. It is pawn, not pound.
what does open opening mean pls can enyone tell me :)
Wait, so who does the 2 knight opening? o.o who should use this tutorial, black or white? Is the white doing 2 knight and the black countering it or is the counter wich the black is doing the 2 knight? o.o
If 9. Rg1, black responds with 9. ... Qxg1 since it's unprotected.
Great videos guys!
This is called the spanish opening. MatoJelic has a lot of game analysis videos starting with this opening.
theres one problem. if white decides to take the pawn with its bishop instead of horse. then what?
i think that after xd5 the correct move for black is b5
how about Be7 instead of Nf6?
this is AWESOME! This was one of the problems I ALWAYS ran into when i played with black... i figured i should just move h6 to prevent the knight from threatening my pawn, but this opens a new world up to me :)))
its a nice trap and i had a few wins with it, but to make this clear in this position
5.Na5 is better move for black. Because not allways is a Knight at the side of the board a bad move. It keep him out of trouble.
6.Bb5+c6 7.d5xc6 8.b7xc6 is the mainline.
Very nice video - ty for posting.
@solidsnake4214 At one time are you talking about, I must have missed it.
I understood everything what was going on, smart play!