can't tell how important this was for me... T-T thanks a lot, levy.

I just did this and got a free rook. Nice

its funny that just after falling into this exact early queen attack (tho i won in the end), i see this

Now i can beat Nelson bot

I like that this is educational, not making fun of goofy players.

This is not just stopping the attack, this is how to punish early queen attack.

I lose material and games to this attack so much as a beginner trying to get my ELO up. This is genuinely so helpful.

Bro is out here teaching us scholars mate. Respect

He’s not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed.

I didn't realize it was a loop and I just kept watching ;-; Levi's pauses sometimes match the delay in the shorts replaying which makes it confusing lol

For the people that don't know, the queen attack is called Wayward queen (it's a book move).

"This QH5 thing" felt. I see that shit everyday at 500 rated

This guy is really chess smart. He should go professional

I’m so proud of myself because I recently played this opening and without knowing the sequence I did the best moves as black

I just sometimes play the moves which u consider as mistakes , just considering "the opponent might not know that this is a mistake"

Thank you so much! Alot people played this against me and I didn't know how to counter it, but now I do.

This opening variation is called King's Pawn Opening: Wayward Queen Variation

Levy not realizing he explained how to counter the nelson bot if your on black:

"C-C-C-Check in the middle, gotta block it, take the peace and profit💵" - Bobby Bojanglles

You figure it out when you lose pieces when this happens. Haha 😂

just played this and my opponent immediately resigned after i forked the king and rook HAHAHAHA

The great thing about playing against someone who plays the wayward queen attack is that they typically cannot play actual chess

I get to this position a lot myself. Being a lower rated player most like to bring the queen out early it’s a useful thing to know how to defend against

Even knowing this, my fingers move before my head does and I’ll still play g6 when I know I shouldn’t

Oh man. The joys of beginner chess flashbacks

Funny thing is I learnt this through trial and error. Safe to say I lost a lot of matches really quick in the process before I learnt my lesson

Now I know how all my opponents fend against this when I try to play this

Wayward queen attack is the hallmark of a flat track bully

that's the reason why i play the pirc defense with black i just develop normally with nothing to worry about

damn he just exposed my whole opening

Knight f6 is a great move I’ve found by attacking the pawn and the queen without putting your self in a lot of danger or none at all

One of my favorite things to do after the queen and bishop are in place for the scholars mate is to move knight to H6 and they usually dont notice because they get so excited that they can do the scholars to they move the queen to F7 and I take it

i used this but nelson somehow came back and won 😂

Bro literally just went through half of my games

I swear the engine says to play black queen to e7 after the white queen move?

My made is blind when he said fork he forgot the room it's fork too

I love these shorts that give such good information on why something is a good or bad move

I had several players try this on me. They always blundered their queen and gave up

Nelson's not ready for this

I have a guaranteed queen killer when they play that I always smile

The funny thing is that I just learned this from experience. I probably got hit with that attack 3 times before I learned.

Also Gotham: here's how you can destroy your friends with the wayward queen attack

Now I just gotta remember this!

Pov you fell for nelson's queen too many times

Stuck? That Queen is everything but stuck lol

Thanks for helping. I get spammed by early queen ALL THE TIME, this will work

Something even more crazy crazy is after ND4, if the enemy is smart, he goes QD1, then you push D5, the pawn on E4 takes, Just go BG4 attacking their Queen, Enemy will react with F3. Here we come up with a brilliancy by playing NE4. The enemy is forced to take the bishop, then we play QH4 checking his King and the only legal move for his King is KF1 and BOOM, we go checkmate with QF2#

The last fork is a triple, it’s forks queen, king and rook ;)

i just opened up chess the moment i saw this and guess what, opponent played the exact moves

I had a game exactly like that, and I didn't even need to learn past Nf3

I am very thankful as someone who is getting constantly flooded with this same attack pattern

This is the topic on which you made in a 10 min long video after watching which I joined the Gotham Community from last 2 years ❤️❤️.

People did this to me I thought it was a complete blunder lol

I have actually progressed into the knight to g4 without much theory, it's just the logical conclusion. And I rarely see that position play out well for white. It's almost as if not playing the queen to early is a standard strategy...

I played against a player and I played the same line without watching this video. Sometimes it's nice to know that you can think like a chess engine

Keep the zombie Lizzy back

I just play knight H6 and watch the guys that try to scholar me lose a queen and resign.

bro ive been just bringing out my queen right away to negate all of the possible attacks i needed this

Nf6 on move two, gambiting the e5 pawn, is actually quite good for black.

another really good defence for this is to defend the king pawn with king side bishop pawn now the enmy will play bishop to c5 or c4 then go defend f7 or f2 square by placing knight h6 or h3 now if the enemy doesnt retreat the queen it will be trapped by bishop to g5 or b5

And then he sacrifices THE ROOOOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alternative title: how to punish the Wayward Queen

"They think you're DUMB!"

A couple hours after watching this I had this happen. I actually remembered all the moves and forked his king and queen. Got his queen. A few moves later I forked his rook and king and got his rook. He resigned. Thank you!

my opponent did this but the game ended when my opponent stalemated me

I'm gonna use this now.

I learned it hard way. I lost many games in the beginning but by experience I figured it out.

I didnt know i could make them fork a rook like that, thanks

I do that move to and my opponent just resign after I fork him

i found a line to kill the queen. it works every time they try this opening

The Wayward Queen attack, aka the attack of the 400s.

i remember being so frustraded by this when i started

This is definitely really helpful at low levels

Bro thinks he’s nelson 💀

And if the queen moves to d3 instead of e3 to defend the fork, the g4 pawn is free

I usually play queen e7 which stops the bishop thing as well. Will be playing the knight move from now on

I love opening with the king pawn, thank you so much for helping me understand more about it!

Dude i've been mate'd that way 5 time in 4 minute

As someone who keeps encountering those possibility I can assure this will work the moves he showed are very very common

Thank you Levy I've been drawing and losing to a lot of queen attackers

And then he sacrifices THE QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a better idea.Its like a queen trap. Where you move the the pawn in front of the queen 1 step.Then enemy mostly gets his white bishop out for checkmate and then you take your rook out then he moves a pawn to activate his black bishop and you remove your white bishop and trap the queen.

Bro it’s a triple fork you didn’t see the knight attacking rook

i learned this from elsewhere, still useful attack

Hurts me to see one of most most used moves be countered so aggressively

i really hate it when people do scholars mate, like they have no skill, but i have less than no skill when they do it

Now this helps me a lot, can’t count the amount of times I have struggled with this

Opponent: plays Ne2 or c3 Me: ....

Yeah, this strategy is very common. I use it often and it works pretty well. Of course if they threaten me with a knife fork, I typically just moved to guard the form position most people to still take up the fork and lose the knight

Thanks for that!!! LEVY LEVY LEVY!!!!Whoo!!!

At the last move the guy isn't dumb he won't play the Queen there he will put it so you can't fork the king and the rook

i feel like pawn to d6 is the bst move protecting the other pawn and opening the bishop to attack the queen

I usually attack the queen with the knight and gain tempo on her whilst developing. But that's probably a better strategy

bro i went through this like 50 times before i learned to not fall for this on my own i am learning just very slowly

I used to teach chess in this school most of the kids were beginners and we would always teach the defense to the 4 move mate really early ofc so one year this one kid on his own came up with this g4 after Nf6 move and I swear he won like every game 🤣🤣 no one and I mean no one in that class could find Nd4 and would get obliterated even kids much better than him he'd even play a modified version of this as black if at all possible he was just a great little attacker lol. Anyways his record was getting so ridiculously stacked we had to stop his fun by teaching an entire lesson on what to do after g4 and his win percentage immediately tanked but he was a GOD among mortals in that class for awhile 🤣🤣 good memories

First game I play after watching this and levy called every move they made. I got a free queen XD

After Qh5 a good move you can also play is G5

Thanks to Levy I’ve got the mental muscle memory to find what is the actual threat in these positions. I’m a King’s Indian player and I’ve snuffed out early attacks like this.

This short by itself throw me from 900 elo to 1400

people can't seem to compute the karo when this is their opening. it messes with them so much