Wow two videos a day for the second day in a row👏👏. Keep up the good work I really enjoy your videos they are instructive and I learn a lot from them.

The player-opening theme, Svidler and his Grünfeld came to my mind immediately.

I would like to see you cover Fischer and Kasparov's Kings Indian Defense.

Im so happy that youll be covering Nimzo-Larsen! I've been playing it since 800 and it's serving me well

I am ready for the Reti...especially the double fianchetto variations - Thanks!

Thanks for more videos and lessons.

What a treat! Happy to see you post videos more regularly again.

Hi Stjepan, I'm very happy that you will continue your series on the openings, and that you will fill in the gaps (closed Sicilian and Open Spanish)! I have the following suggestions: Four Knights Game (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6) Although it's not so common at high levels, it's very common online. The continuation 4. d4 trasposes to the 5. Nc3 Schmid Variation of the Scotch Game and you covered it. But the tricky “Spanish Four Knights” (4. Bb5) is very peculiar and black responses lead to different games (4...Bb4 and 4...Nd4). Even the Glek System (4. g3, suggested by another user), 4.a3, 4. Be2 and the Italian Four Knights (4. Bc4 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Bd3) are sometimes played in tournaments. Two Knight Italian Defense with 4.Ng5 - Steinitz Variation. I would like to watch something about the knight retreat to h3. You covered only 9. Ng3 (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6 9. Nh3). Korchnoi/Tartakower variation of the Caro Kann Would you like to add the pawn thrust to h5? (1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Qc2 Re8+ 9. Ne2 h5) When you made the video this variation didn't exist but now it is by far the leading one and it has a lot of strategic implications. Lijep pozdrav iz Trsta!

Nepo and his petroff defence

For certain players playing certain openings what about when top players play unsound gambits or lines that top players dont usually play Like kasparovs evans gambit games Spassky in the kings gambit Fischer and tal playing the benoni I think how a gm chooses a “pet” line can reveal a lot about what their chess values

Can you do a video on the Botvinnik Carls Defense in the caro-kann?

BRILLIANT

About the player-openings topic: Your videos on Karpov, Alireza, Botvinnik, Gukesh playing the Caro-Kann highlighted how different players interpret the same opening. A similar series on a rich opening like the Catalan (Dubov has some very creative games) or the English (Ding has some stunning games!) would be great to see.

Yay! Nimzo Larsen

As someone who is very particular about their coffee, I found the most amazing gadget for travel, and that's Picopresso. You can make extremely delicious espresso coffee with it, just need espresso coffee and boiling water. In France, I had a similar experience to you. I think "french" coffee is usually some filter style coffee, which I didn't like at all while I was there.

Beautiful tactic by your opponent with knight takes g2

I'd love to see some more of Simon Williams's Dutch!

Karlsen sveshnikov games or maxim vachier lagrave najdorf

Regarding lunch hours in France it is true in small cities/towns (more likely due to a lack of staff than siesta as it is uncommon) but untrue in large ones including Paris

Nice More content

If you're taking requests, I would like to see you feature Paul Keres playing either side of a Symmetrical English. For example, a game he played against Vasya Pirc.

Hi. I just wanted to ask you if you ever thought about making videos on big tournamens. I thought that it would help you out in your game, and diversify the content since it seems very trendy rn. Ps: love the channel, go you king

if your revisting 1. e4 openings I would consider adding the Glek system (e4 e5 nf3 nc6 nc3 nc6 g3) and I can help you by providing some theory. (Ignore this comment if its already covered and I missed it)

Hello, greetings from india. I would like to suggest Kasparov in the kings Indian defence. I have studied few of them myself and they can be instructive as well as can make for good content

I would have tried to make counterplay on the queenside by sacking the dark squared bishop on c5 and use the central passed pawns So more like 16. g3 and then trying that bishop sack maneuvering and the reasoning behind this is that that bishop isn’t doing anything useful. Interesting to hear your thoughts

Is the Be3 Averbakh better than Bg5 Averbach? And how did you counter Nh5 ideas in the normal Averbakh?

I've been to popular, expensive coffee bars where the espresso was undrinkable. People have extremely divergent taste. What the French think is good might not work for you. I hope I'm wrong, though. I can't imagine going for a month without good coffee. There's a subreddit dedicated to espresso. Maybe you can find useful advice there.

If you see this, could you maybe cover Spassky's Samisch King's Indian, no particular games; you're free to choose!

Would be nice if you cover modern players playing the caro kan, for example firouzja

Ding's Catalan

Coffe in France is undrinkable :)

Hello dear GM, I'm starting to learn chess I am a beginner so pls give me advice and something to learn it and become GM like you sir. Pls 🙏🙏🙏

France without question has the worst coffee in Europe. I lived there briefly and found a small number of decent places, but all of the 3rd wave variety. Germany, Spain, Italy, and even (or especially London) are better. Just a cultural blind spot in a country that likes to stick to tradition. So if it’s bad now, it’ll probably be bad for a while to come.

Hey Stjepan, if you only wanna play stronger opponents you can adjust the rating range at new game use 15+10 and go for search. It will use the same pool. Also if your looking to improve your calculating skills, i can highly recomment andras toths youtube channel. Because the concepts of calculating,evaluating positions and correct analysis are very complicated there is bound to be something new you can learn from his videos. Have a good day :)

What is your main repertoire these days,english for white,Slav against d4? a sicilian against e4? Watched your channels for years....Good luck with your chess and thank you.

You lose Bc you didn't drink a good coffee

You are far away to make an opening video about anything because you are terrible at chess when you become a master which I think you never will be you can make video about opening or any chess lessons

I’m waiting for the reti 🫡🙏