I friggin love this guy. I admit that I learned how pieces move as a kid and didn't pursue chess like one should. I admit that only after my son came home one day and asked if I knew how to play, and if I ever heard of Gotham chess, I picked up the game after 2 decades. What this guy teaches for absolutely free is so far above and beyond the other sites that I literally check daily for his next upload. I was actually worried that he met his demise due to all the wars and rumors of wars. This guy is absolutely dynamite at chess and we are all lucky to know his content.

I love the pirc defence/kings indian. That combo is so similar, but offers you an answer to almost every first move the opponent can make. Really solid for a beginner

Incredible opening. I play this all the time in bullet and ultrabullet so that I can play positions quickly, accurately and comfortably.

Back for watching again - this is pure gold! ❤

This is great. Its really helpful to hear you talk through all the ifs and buts and possibilities. 'Assess the threat and deal with it': my new chess mantra!

This was great. I'll spend some time studying all these variations. Thank you for explaining!

I went from 1300 to 1000 playing this..

Excellent and clear explanation of the theory - thank you!

That really helped me. I have been playing for over a year with no progress. Mostly because its hard to remember all the variables your opponent can play. With your opening you have so many options that it seems winning at every move no matter what the opponent plays. Thank you so much. I finally have an opening I can understand and can build off of.

I think you gave a great breakdown of one of my favorite openings, but I was sad to see you didn't cover the most critical lines starting with 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. f4.. Would love to see another video covering these more difficult variations

I actually play this, I'm not perfect by any stretch of the means but I like this opening for black. I play this a lot and appreciate the lesson, thank you.

Nice. I tried the Caro Khan and the Acc. Dr. Sicc but this is so much easier to learn. And from there I can train the middle game. Thx.

What’s funny is if you play the Czech Pirc defense against the London system, you almost always end up winning a bishop by move eight or nine, because you push your central pawns to threaten a fork and a lot of times they’ll move their bishop to f5 to avoid it, then you push your pawn to attack the knight anyways and discover the attack on the hanging bishop. In a bullet or blitz game, they will forget that your queen is there and you win.

Very nice lesson and I got good results with good players. Thanks and regards.

Thanks, bro, I've been struggling to defend against this consistently and now I feel like I understand it much better

After watching this video my perspective on where to look before move a piece, changed drastically. I still can't remember all the positions to counter each move, but this opening can lead to great sacrifices on blitz games. And the principles here can be aplied to whites as well.

A really instructive lesson 😎 I'll play this opening for my next few games

Very clear video. Thanks 🙂

I have been working hard and studying openings trying to get to 900, when I survive the openings I can do very well. I watched your video and won 2 games against chess AI set to 900. Thank you for showing me this great opening. I am on the move up again.

I want to thank you for your great effort. I seem to be in a slump, trying new things and it is crushing my elo. I guess it is part of it. But I am going to study your channel. May Jesus bless all that you do Amen

A very enjoyable introduction to this opening. I've been playing the King's Indian... but this gives me some great ideas to move forward with!

I love this video I refer to it often thank you

Thank you Ryad Sir for incredible chess Opening for black which helps me a lot in game I play and this helps to increase my rating.

Wow this opening is so 😮 flexible easy to understand

Hi there among all the people on line I try to learn from you are by day the best I have seen thank you so much you make it easier to understand and follow have you dome one one the lii ok London jobava I would like to learn

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a very good explanation!

Thank you so much u for this video thank you so much!!!!

this dude earned a sub

Heyyyy i played this for months as main but now i main caro and this against anything other than e4 good opening and stable

this video is pure gold

Great content man🫂

Never knew about this one! Incredible opening! And the video went over all the little details of this opening. This is what Chessscape is all about! Great video! One question: What about white trying to threaten a scholar's mate after playing d6? The best response is to wait until we can punish it with g6? Or should we immediately deny scholar's?

Can't believe the chess bot in chesskid play this opening

Can you please make a tutorial on the Lion defense (d6, Nf6, c6, Nbd7, e5)? I love your videos

i love how ur voice sounds❤ anyways good video i usually use alkelhines opening and it usually works! meanwhile this opening just works all the time.

Thank you very much Chesscape.

You explain very good. Is easy to remember when you explain. Keep doing that.

Nice opening , thank you

Well done

Great video. Can you do a KID vs Bayonet attack?

That's a Great Defense. Can you do a course about the Queen's Indian Defense like you did with Caro-Kann Defense?

Caro-kann left the game

Interesting and thank you. I try to improve my very modest game by playing against AI at levels above my skill. I am consistently trapped and am playing defense after a very few moves; very frustrating not to see the knight and bishop traps. Should I play at my level to gain experience? Much lower frustration.

Nice counter!

It has a name, Pirc defense

Thanks a lot! I just subbed. I am wondering what to do if I am White and Black plays pirc/kings indian against me! Could you (or did you, already) make a video from the White side? Thanks!

i started to use caro kan as black opening 3 months ago, and my ELO dropped from 1200 to 870 till now.

After opening with d6-Nf6, what determines whether your next step is King's Indian or c6-Qa5? Is it simply, anything other than white e4-d4, then do the KI first, however, if white opens with e4-d4-Nc3, then black d6-Nf6-c6-Qa5?

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The other move is pawn e6, I won literally 30 games in a row went up from silver 36 to silver 6.

This move is like a Pirc defense Czech variation.

What if he puts his other knight in between the pin that you have created by ping the knight to the queen or he can just put his bishop in between Please correct me if I am wrong

Dear Sir...very instructive...pls need ideas on semi-abervakh & makagonov variation of king's indian...thank u

merci beaucoup ! : )

Very good video

Ryad Sir can you please put a video on Kings Indian Opening with all variations and counter opening for it with all variations because my opponents are using this (Kings Indian Opening) against me and also I want to learn it. Thank you Ryad Sir for including 1 variations of Kings Indian Opening.

With 1.d4 d6 2. c4 you can go into the English Rat by playing e5! That might appear crazy, but look at the win percentage of the resulting lines in Lichess.

I downloaded an AI chess game and he foils every move every time. The AI doesn’t even do any move you predict by white. It seriously does something completely different and trumps any move you offer in this video.

I believe this opening is a variation of the Old Indian Defense?

I always play this opening with minor changes the line I like is named black lion

Wow

Yeah, that works great ... if your opponent plays the wrong moves. There are a lot of ways for white to lose this opening, but just playing the most popular moves will get white through it just fine, even with an advantage. Taking the second most popular moves at key points will work even better for white. For example, after 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 Qa5 5.Bd2 Qc7, white's most common move is Bd3, not Bc4, but Bc4 works just fine. After 6.Bc4 B5, white should retreat to Bd3, not Bb3. But OK, Bb3 is the more common move, so let's continue with 7.Bb3 b5 8.Na4 Nxe4 9.Bxb4, then what? 9...e4? is a mistake, because after 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.Bxf8, and now black won't be able to castle. 9...Ba6 might look good, but white just plays 10.Ba3. It is not the most active square for the bishop, but it is attacking near the center, and it also keeps black from advancing the queen's side knight. The two sides are even on material, white has all his minor pieces developed (while both black bishops are still on their starting squares, and the dark-square bishop isn't even able to move yet), and white has the only pawn in the center. His position is much more open. He will probably castle (on either side) in the next couple of moves, then bring his rooks to the center, and things look good for white. Stockfish rates the game as +0.4, and it seems to me that is a conservative estimate. There aren't many games in Lichess database with this position (662 with all options on) after 9.Bxb4, but those that exist are won by white 55% of the time, compared to just 41% for black. I haven't looked through the 1.d4 and other opening moves, so I will not comment on how well it works for those, but I would not use it for king's pawn openings.

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Amazing videos as always, thank you Chessscape!

i don't know. queen to A5 feels weak, most of the time i've tried i just have to move it back and i lose tempo. i need to test it in blitz or 3 minute bullet games

I have tourney on 30th, Time to destroy them with this 🔥

D8-D5 = B2-B4 is the most common move against the Queen.

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What they play queen e2 after pushing the d and e pawns

Merci, monsieur. Est-ce que vous avez un canal Francais aussi? Sinon, pourquoi pas? :)

thank you for showing scenarios where white dont castle. I am a 300 in blitz and ppl rarely castle 😂

Every time i play this defense and once i move my queen to A5. They almost always move the bishop to d4 making me move it back. Or they jump the center before i get my queen moved. Either way I still like it, but it doesn't work for me as much as I would like.

This was a very good lesson. I will need to watch it more than once. Liked and subscribed. 👍

What is this opening called or would you like to name it?

When you push pawnb4 attacking the knight, after they move the knight and you capture pawn on e4 with your knight, why can't they just take back a pawn on b4 with their bishop on e2?

all beautiful when i play it i end up with double pawns all the time

Archer wants his money back.

i won sleeping magnus by using reti opening(develop knight first)

What if they play queen e2?

I went from 1600 yo 1300 by playing this opening.

Online chess is insane. I need at least 100.000 games more to bother about any of it.

Czech Pirc ?

The Perk defence? very suspicious

This opening is like black saying it's gonna be at least a draw

What’s the name of this opening?

What if I have to go first ?

Best opening for black,I win matches more than 10 all I win

why i m watching it too

tricky

What about "The Cow"?

All of this is pointless is your opponent goes f3 instead of Nf3.

Agadmator

If white plays offensive with f4 it seems complicated.

I don’t agree this opening will win against “anything.”

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Hi

notre maître est francophone, est-ce qu'il y a un canal d'échec en français?

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