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Igor you are a gift to the new generation of chess players. This content is so valuable and for you to pump out amazing videos for free is so honorable. Thank you sir .

Insightful! Ironically just yesterday I was really getting an understanding behind the fianchettoed bishop, how lethal it is and you displayed that well with this classical e4 opening.

i tried this on Lichess. 95% of the people do not follow the black moves AT ALL. and things turn very messy quickly!

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Merry Christmas, Igor. Thanks for your dedication to chess and helping us getting better ❤️

Thanks for this, and all the amazing lessons in 2022!! They have made such a difference in my game ...and maybe they will be able to help me beat my son in a game someday!!! Keeping you and your loved ones in our thoughts!!

I've only just started to play chess regularly and learn the game properly and the rabbit hole I'm now in is fantastic! Thank you for these videos and merry christmas (or other celebrated holiday!)

Love it as usual! Can you please make a vid showing steps of refuting pelidor defense agaist bishop's openning? Thanks.

Good video, thanks. Merry Christmas Igor 👍

Pretty freakinggood channel man ! You explain very well ! Thank you!

Thank you GM Smirnov, was looking for an Opening against 1.e4 that i can feel comfortable with and also that i could understand the positions reached, The Sicilians I've tried out they don't work for me neither 1.e4 e5...i never really liked those positions that those openings produced...so down the line i went and neither the Caro Kann nor the Center Counter seems right but this opening you showed us is just great, i can grasp what I'm suppose to do and what to play for, you are a born chess teacher and very underrated in my opinion!, thank you again Merry Christmas and a happy new year even though Christmas has come and gone already, God Bless!👍

► Chapters 00:00 Best Chess Opening for White, Win More Games in 2024 00:27 Drawback of the Danish Gambit 01:34 Scotch Game: Goring Gambit, Double Pawn Sacrifice 02:58 Surprising move discomforts Black's position 04:30 Brilliant combination wins the game for White 05:07 If Black plays Nxd5 instead of Nxe4 07:13 If Black avoids cxb2 09:03 Achieve your chess goals in 2023

Thank you, your videos are truly amazing, i am going on a tournament today and i plan on using this opening.

Merry Christmas my friend and thank you for all the wonderful lessons I'm definitely going to buy some of your courses this year

Amazing thank you!

I'm a 1550 at 14, trying to branch out my openings. Watched a few videos of yours, and dang. I'm definitely subscribing man! I'm competing for a leadership position in my school chess team, and you're helping!! Appreciate this content

Happy Christmas & Happy New Year Igor

wonderful instruction!

Thanks for your excellent videos this year, I really enjoy your channel.

❤ thank you for giving us nice tactics and tips God bless you!

Thank u for knowledge...gud tutorial

Hey man only started playing chess again recently, thanks for the videos mate appreciate it. We’ll spoken well explained 👍

Merry Christmas Igor!!!

merry christmas igor! best gift we could get is one of these free elo openings

Merry Christmas Igor! Thanks for alk the lessons have a Happy New Year!

I think someone tried this position against me. I think so because their position in game looked very similar to this. At first I thought they were aiming for some weird scholar's mate trick. I declined the gambit and played in such a way where I used my knights to prevent their bishop from going to certain squares. And they ended up with such a messy opening. I could be wrong, but the position in this video just looks very similar to something i've experienced before in a game..

I've been playing the Goring Gambit regularly for 50 years. It is my favorite opening as white. The position you show at 7:45 happens at least as often as them taking the second gambit pawn, ,if you consider their last move e6 as being equivalent to h6. I treat them interchangeably, for two reasons. First, the line I respond to it with, O-O, almost always causes them to do the other move, transposing and making it not matter which move order they choose. O-O and Qb3 are extremely similar in strength in the "grandmaster or engine" sense, but Qb3 alerts the opponent to danger more quickly. If in the position you show, my O-O provokes h6, and in fact for most other responses, I play Re1, to delay Qb3 one more move. It leads to many fewer lines I need to know, and that 3-move combo is as strong as anything coming out of lines from playing Qb3 immediately. Different opponents may grab the second pawn at any point along the way, and when they don't, you at some point need to take it. While there are specific cases where taking it with the queen is good, playing my move order (O-O Re1 Qb3) happens to prevent me from taking it with the queen in situations where it should be taken with the knight. The older I get, the fewer tricky things I have to remember, the better. It is rare to find someone who plays very precisely against the Goring Gambit, and I actually enjoy it when they do. More commonly, they fall into traps in predictable ways. In just my last 6 online games as white, I've had mates on move 10 and move 7 using the Goring against opponents my strength (1300s). That's unusually fast. One had fallen into a terrible trap, found the key move to escape it, then blundered by not making the followup move that was the only reason to have made the key move. He missed seeing that it was mate in one, versus escaping the trap down a little material but setting a trap I've fallen into myself one time, never again. It's a fun, beautiful opening. If you play it often, you'll find recurring themes in your games, showing you what the possible "great moves" and "brilliant moves" in similar but different situations tend to look like. Since watching your video on the Rousseau Gambit as black, that has become my most commonly played opening as black after white plays e4. I'm surprised at how many people play the Italian as white, and how many are taken by surprise with the Rousseau. Now if I can just stop opponents from playing d4, I'll be happy, though I do well against it.

Merry Christmas, Igor!

Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 GM-Smirnov

Merry christmas sir

Thankk you Igor :)

Messed up a bit in the order but fell back on my feet ^^ I've tried it on a couple games and it's definitely a fun opening, thank you for your content! [Termination "senzaaa a gagné par abandon"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. c3 dxc3 6. O-O Bc5 7. Nxc3 O-O 8. Nd5 a6 9. b3 Nxe4 10. Bb2 b5 11. Bd3 Ng5 12. Nf6+ gxf6 13. Nxg5 fxg5 14. Bxh7+ Kxh7 15. Qh5+ 1-0

Let me 100% real, there is no one (on youtube at least) who explains chess openings and tactics in such details and in a very sweet sweet voice.

That's so good information sir

Usually they don't take the pawn on move 3, but that made me study the scotch which isnt too bad. Had great success with this if they do take though! So much fun playing this variation

Спасибо Игорь!

Hello, everyone! I wanna share with you one interesting fact! I d been playing chess for a year, but I really played it: I analysed every single game, watched a lot of streams, chess youtubers. My rating was about 800. Recently I've started playing there (cause before I had a kind of fear of loosing), but surprisingly I reached 1600 easily. It happened 3 weeks ago. I had been sitting there before I lost the access to my account. After I made new one, and I had to go through some kind of calibration. VERY surprisingly It went okay. Firstly, it was hard, because the rating was about 1600. But I won. After, a very strange thing happened. At 1800 my opponents started to miss mate in 1! As the calibration gives you a lot of points, I went through 1800 with only 2 games. After that, there were normal games, one was very hard (I lost, I ran out of time), but others I won by their silly mistakes. Now I am 1971. Guys and Igor (if he reads it), I don't think that this is my rating, but at the same time it seems very fairly, cause I didn't cheat (of course). I don't know what to think. I won against the opponent with rating 2047. I saw it only in KZfaq videos. How do you think, am I so smart or it's just luck? Also, I want to thank Igor for his videos. I won 1 game using his trap (I mean that the opponent didn't notice it and couldn't handle after). That's all. Thanks all. I am gonna keep you in touch in next Igor's videos (lol)

Thanks for the video! Any suggestions if they take your knight on C3 in the opening sequence? Then you loose the advantage of being able to move to D5.

I’m curious, what would you do if black plays Qf6 after blocking black with Nc3? Great video! Cheers, all. Forgive my amateur question.

This is the one of best opening for white in Chess. I win in the first match by opening this trick. Thanks a lot...

Igor, thank you for the video.”I find it helpful. Quick question, what would you do if, at the beginning, black moves his Queen to f6?

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Excellent. ....

genius, thanks

Merry Christmas

I've been using this to great success. People just don't seem to know this line. They don't like taking all three pawns usually, but it doesn't matter all that much, because I get developed so much faster than them anyway. This is pure gold at my level of chess (don't ask I'm not gonna tell my rating).

thanks for a great video!

Coach can you please analyse also the game of maoi lu.. there's a lot gambit that she use..

Igor is a Goat🙌🙌

What do you recommend after Nd5, black goes Be7?

Smart move.. make the other variation in another video for alg boost. Love the content bud

Igor is the best. He should have an own TV show!😊

WOW! nice!

Thanks just made a spectacular win using this strategy.

Merry Christmas 2022-2023

Finally beat the 1200 Bot after tying for days. Thank you so much!

im new to using chess openings so I'm a bit curious on what would i do if they decided to long castle

"put a grimace of horror on your opponents face" 😂 wonderful channel you have. Thank you!

This is super DANGEROUS! Mikhail Tal would love this

Hi. I was wondering what the solution might be if the black knight goes 5A after white develops the two bishops and castling. This disrupts the whole strategy. Thank you.

Nice

after knight does bad move of knight e4 and then we do bishop d3, what do I do if he goes knight c5?

what elo range should you play this? i'm1200 and cant seem to make it work

Merry Christmas! What gift Jesus was! Thanks for the content, God bless!

Great stuff! I would love to know how to proceed if the opponent captures my knight at 6:56! 😊

Theres a couple holes where this plan falls through like if they take your knight with bishop but what a cool new strategy

Your content is so spectacular Igor , you took me from 1400 to 1900 , thank you ❤

This is actually working.....👍

What if the enemy plays after checking with bishop and me defending with knight, queen f6 and not the knight f6

Fantastic…

05:28 What if black's knight attacks the white bishop on a5?

What do you recommend against the Petroff (incl, Stafford gambit, or do you refer 3 d4 etc

What happens when you try to play this but black opens c5 instead ? next step to playing this ? or what other strategy?

At 6:57,what if black goes Re3 checks the king and white loses the queen?

What do you do if black plays d5 attacking the pawn 1:46

just started playing again after a 50 year gap and I'm finding your videos very inspiring and helpful thank you. However could someone please explain to me why black castles instead of taking the undefended free pawn ?

What happens if they move pawn to c6 at the beginning of the game instead of the knight?? How do you move forward?

What happens if they take the knight on c3 with the bishop

Can you only do this if your opponent responds with e5? What if they do another opening?

7:05 What if he defends with pawn to F6 after queen moves to C3?

Merry Christmas..Praise be to God..

What do I do next if Black's opening reply to my opening E4 is Knighg to f6? I had asked similar question in a previous video and somebody said "you must not have watched entire video" and they were right..but I don't think he shows what to do when opponent (black) doesn't start with their pawn to e5?

I played this today oh my god i checkmated him from all sides

@ 8:50 N-D5 attacking the queen, cant Black Q just take the pawn at E4 pinning your Bishop to your queen? What dont i see>

I'm loving your videos Igor thank you. Though when you suggest black knight takes e4 and a bad option. Surely that knight can be defended by the queen sliding over to e8 in the next move, meaning it can't then be taken? Is there are solution for that?

What to do if black just moves there pawn to c2?

This is all great, except that after I moved pawn to D4, they didn't capture it. They move their pawn to D6, opening up the diagonal for their bishop and can now pin my F3 knight on their next move, unless I go pawn to H3. That kind of changes things doesn't it?

Wow 😮

What happens if knigtht doesnr go back and attacks white bishop

@ 5:35 what if the knight goes side ways to A5 and chases off your white bishop?

black can just go knight f6 in the beginning. What should i do in that case?

what to do if they go nc5 instead of ng5

What’s the name of this opening in this video?

5:35 what if black goes knight a5 threatening to take the bishop?

I had someone instead of taking the far left pawn defend it with their black bishop so that they could take the pawn and do a reveal check

This even works when instead of playing Kf6, your opponent plays his queen out!

What should we do if he used his first knight and catch our pown at center

What if the went to queen f6 on the second move

Hi Igor, can you play an iteration where black knight instead of moving back moves to A5 and puts pressure on the bishop?