Since I started watching Banzea I've reached 1000 ELO, got a promotion and a raise in my career job and the girl of my dreams is begging me to take her in. This guy changed my life.

THANK YOU so much for playing so much Karo !!!!!!

"The bishop went back to his family after hunting for food.. Feeding the kids!" 🤣🤣

I’m learning a lot from your presentations, thank you! Really enjoying the humor too.

I love that you're so instructive with the Caro-Kahn. It's really improved my play with tactics - I'm currently sitting at 1058 ELO and the openings I typically play are the Caro, KID, and Vienna. I've watched your Jobava London videos, so I'm working on adding that to my repertoire as well!

Thank u so very much Alex....you are my Caro kann super man....man u are it for me.....please keep on with caro!!!!

I just want to show my gratitude for your videos. You inspired me to study the Caro-Kann and after spending hours watching your videos I just tried it with amazing success against a much better player than I who I’ve been playing with for many years. Thank you Mr. Banzea!

Your videos have a very approachable style with subtle humor that doesn't detract from the useful lesson being presented. Thank you for the excellent content!

Great fun step-by-step, I truly appreciate practical instruction mixed with good humor!

Amazing video! I really appreciate the minimal amount of digression toward discussing every possible variations out there. That could be great for advanced players, but easily overwhelm beginners like me.

One thing I noticed about the Caro-Kann is that even my otb games against the 1700-1900 range seem somewhat effortless. It’s crazy but just make sensible moves and wait for them to f**k up really works! edit: I should clarify that this didn’t happen until I started following Alex’s advice

Alex I love these caro vids. Thank you so much. It's helping me understand the game a lot better

thank you alex for your caro kann video, my chess skill is improved a lot, i played caro kann with 93% accuracy 😁

Thank you. I improved my Karo Cann after your advice in the past. And now in game 2 i learnt a lot about the situations that gave me hard time.

Very instructive, learning along. Ty Alex.

Since watching your videos, i started to play the Caro. I went from 1120 to 1450 in blitz, win rate with black from 49% to 58%!! Its insane how powerful the opening is at this level. I enjoy watching the videos, thank you.

Day 1 watching Caro Kann simplified series. Started my first black opening with Caro. Since im not really familiar with the moves and purpose,i hope i will improve my opening along with this playlist.

As usual very instructive and fun to watch! Thank you! 🤣👍

Alex, thank you for the deep explanations on all the videos. I appreciate them.

I just discovered your channel! So I immediately subscribed of course! Thank you for your content, which is ( so far that I know) amazing! Big Up!

Love your humor! It is like going to a stand-up comedy and end up learning to play chess the right way.

Your commentary is hilarious! Love the cockiness and I am a new subscriber. Hope your channel blows up with success.

Just watching these videos shows the power of setup and strong technical setups then attack. Sometimes it feels like the opponent must be cheating. But obvs they arent, they just followed the clues left from others success. Great videos. The most instructive of all teaching videos ive watched on youttube to date. Drilling skills over and over. This is how anyone becomes successful in every facet of life and chess or poker or any gamble of skill

haha I really like how this guy is actual a good teacher, but he tries really hard to keep himself humble with those opponent rookie's mistakes😅😅

The Michael Jordan of the Karo kan Chessable & KZfaq GOAT! Hoping for more Vienna soon, thinking I should switch to London tho. Thanks for these vids Alex!!

The humor is only slightly behind the chess content as far as the enjoyment I get from your channel. Cheers!

"Now Qxg7 this is absolute madness, this is BRBRBRBRRBRBBRBRBRBR what is this"🤣🤣🤣

Was an awesome video.

Love your videos man🔥🔥

Thx, Alex!

I purchased your Caro-Kann course the other day after rejoining Chessable. Interesting ideas I can integrate into my current repertoire for variety. Thank you for your time creating this course.

I can't get enough of watching caro and London videos, so much knowledge. Great video

I would listen to this and the Jobava pawn push video between my games today. I just jumped 120 elo

“You don’t want to fuck around on f2 for too long” pure gold found nowhere else.

I love Alex Banzea. I happened to giggle when he said "I guess it's just the power of the Caro Kann" while playing a 600-ish opponent. Yeah, it MUST be the Caro, sure ! :)

always good

Your videos are always so much fun

ever since i started watching alex i went from 622 elo to 901 in 2 days

"pp on the pp" is such a catch phrase i'm laughing everytime

i see all the chess youtuber and you are the best

Can you do a video focusing on transpositions with Caro Kann? Sometimes Caro transposes into French defense, sometimes London or semi slav transposes into Caro Kann, sometimes opponent’s English opening can be converted to panov

Game 2. Taking in d4 with the knight is not such a bad move, because if Be3, black has intermidiate move Kxf3 with check

That monster bishop just took the queen and rook and mated the king is absolutely unreal

31:13 - 31:35 lmfao Clown Fiesta! 🎉

3:47 incredible moment

Alex, what is your favorite brand of V-Neck T-Shirts?

The way I see e6 after Bg4 is "Closing the door behind the Bishop."

Humble request Make in depth video on usage of engine 1)What is meaning of depth and its use(maximum and minimum level)? 2)what is analyse by time(in second)? 3)what is NNUE? 4)what is threads/cores and hash in chessis engine app? Please please consider my request, I want that information.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Game 1 a bug happened when Qxg7, the bishop moved backwards

Hey I enjoy your content not only the caro Kahn opening cause that's what I always play but u r a funny guy.. But what is your take on caro Kahn against queen opening d4? Can u play the caro Kahn and have success against d4? Your rival Gotham chess doesn't seem to think so...

@10:43 if bishop e3, can't I just play Nxf3+, Qxf3 and then move my queen?

Against the London is it on the chessable Caro kann course ?

Back at it again, love your content✌️ Wat r the odds that Gothamchess watches this and adjusts his courses accordingly 😂🤷

10:15 take with knight, if be3, Kxbf3+, then move the queen

Hi Alex, just out of curiosity what is the name of the White setup with b3 Bb2 Nc3 c4 d4 e3 Nf3?

Bro can u make a Dutch defense video

people freaking love the hillbilly attack in this rating range for some reason

genius

Just an observation, I know it is a fast game. In the first gameI you had a mate in 2 after move 19. Not being judgemental, as I stated before it is just an observation.

The key is to not make any bad moves while waiting for the opponent to blunder. When you're playing somebody hundreds of points in strength below you even bad moves often work. That's not good for your improvement. This doesn't apply to Alex but it's pretty accurate for me.

So i basically got called a moron and bozo in this video :)

Dat video name change though.

You are lowkey a handsome DOOD

Crushing 600's has nothing to do with the opening. They blunder - that's all that counts.

Alex! As a IM playing against weak players, you should maintain respect despite their bad play or wrong choices, and not make fun of them. Of course they make mistakes to which you know how to react perfectly. Remember: this is about teaching chess, not a funny demonstration of weaknesses. Take your time to show us why the game of your opponents is bad. That makes very much sence. 😀

Hello Alex, please consider making your own chess board with pieces to sell. I'll buy it instantly

Autopilot is my biggest problem.

Wish my opponents played that badly.😏

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I only see provisional players trying to play bishop f4 or bishop c4 asap when they’re white. So when I get them on lichess I’ll I try to play my first move right away d5 or e5 . E5 if d4 d5 if e4 and they’ll 9/10 times hang their bishop on my pawn. They’re just so excited to play a system they saw on levy’s channel and they’ll blitz out that bishop Automatically without a second though.

pee pee on the pee pee. my YT journey is complete

10:44 it's not a mistake because you have Nxf3+

Next videos destroying 800 and 900

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I don't know where these opponents are. I'm 750 and if I play under 80% accuracy I lose. Full games 45+ moves.

Yeah, this didn't work for me. I spent the whole game thinking "backwards, backwards, backwards," but I still played the same terrible moves. 😂

I think that's why I have more wins with black 🤔

Buddy why did u leave the last speedrun so fast. Such Lower rated games are not that instructive

ok making fun out lower rated players is not cool, but besides that great video, thanks!

Putz.

why do people try to promote caro like it's the secret to success. It doesn't matter what you play. Probably any decent player could get to 1700 with 1.f6 against everything. I think caro is OK but botvinnik is bad because dxc5 and Bf5 you're getting hit with h4, g4 and Nc3 which is not pleasant.

The last opponent was a "she" not "he" lol

I like ur face

Since watching these videos, I’ve accepted a harem of women to be my wives, my dad was cured of cancer and has gotten younger, my dog has come back to life and not only feed himself but he now makes food for me and I’ve discovered how to time travel. Also, my chess rating has gone up.

Well unfortunately I am an 800 rated player lol

Oops! Sorry, What I stated early is wrong, forget my coment, I apologize.

I’m a Bozo.

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You're playing 800 rated players no wonder they blunder, nothing to do with Caro lol

Your videos are very educational but what a shame you have to go with those bad sexist "jokes". Without them your vids would be so much better

Thanks Alex, good stuff again 🥊✌🏽♟️

Watching your videos for a long time im 1200+ now these videos dont even help anymore need to see tactical play against higher elos to get better pls do high elo thank you🫶