GM Akobian is the best! Clear explanations of positional concepts, and practical lines to play against some sharp openings.

Akobian is a brilliant teacher.

They forgot to write what game was being analyzed, so here it is : Akobian,Varuzhan (2556) - Foygel,Igor (2438) [E61] Minneapolis HB Global op Minneapolis (3), 19.05.2005 1.d2-d4 Ng8-f6 2.c2-c4 g7-g6 3.Nb1-c3 Bf8-g7 4.Ng1-f3 0-0 5.Bc1-g5 d7-d6 6.e2-e3 Nb8-d7 7.Bf1-e2 c7-c6 8.Qd1-c2 Qd8-c7 9.0-0 e7-e5 10.Rf1-d1 Rf8-e8 11.Ra1-c1 Nd7-f8 12.b2-b4 Bc8-f5 13.Qc2-b3 Nf6-e4 14.Nc3xe4 Bf5xe4 15.d4xe5 d6xe5 16.Nf3-d2 Be4-f5 17.c4-c5 Nf8-e6 18.Bg5-h4 g6-g5 19.Bh4-g3 Ne6-f4 20.Be2-f1 Bf5-e6 21.Qb3-c2 f7-f5 22.Nd2-c4 Nf4-d5 23.e3-e4 f5-f4 24.e4xd5 c6xd5 25.Nc4-d6 Re8-f8 26.Qc2-b3 f4xg3 27.h2xg3 Ra8-d8 28.Rc1-c2 Kg8-h8 29.Rc2-d2 Bg7-f6 30.Rd2xd5 b7-b6 31.Qb3-e3 Be6xd5 32.Rd1xd5 b6xc5 33.b4xc5 Qc7-g7 34.Bf1-d3 Bf6-e7 35.Nd6-f5 Qg7-f6 36.Nf5xe7 Qf6xe7 37.Rd5xe5 Qe7-f6 38.Bd3-e2 h7-h6 39.Re5-e6 Qf6-a1+ 40.Kg1-h2 Rf8-f6 41.c5-c6 1-0

Grandmaster class, never imagine I could have a plan like his.

I learnt a lot from your videos, I was and still an average player, but recently won against a player of 1700 ranking, which I couldn't even imagine a month ago, before making every move, i tried to remember every tricks you taught. Thank you so much.

i just love how he always says think about it, because he always knows in advance they will something wrong of the top of their head.

GM Akobian such a wonderful teacher, his explanations simple and lucid, those extra smart guys criticising here can go somewhere else, if they dont want to appreciate the efforts

Thank you for your great classes GM Akobian

AKobian.. always plays simple move not go to complicated.. logical move.. great teacher thank you! I have seen this video 3 times

I have to agree with many! Great teacher. I've watched a lot of other GM's teach and their not as detailed as him. He makes sure you see what he's talking about and understand why you made that move. The others assume you know already. Great Great teacher!

I've watched all of these but it's been about ten years lol. Time to remember what I forgot.

I would like to thank GM Akobian, because this line made me convincingly beat a 200 higher rated opponent very cleanly. Even better, it was a team championship, we were loosing 2-1 and I won on board 1! The ideas are very similar (althought, of course, the accuracy is much lower), as you can see: chessmicrobase.com/g/hpbzi7ze

Very nice. I love GM Akobian's videos. He's such a patient teacher.

these guy teatches chess ...unlike the other who just analise games or moves!

Amazing! superb teaching style, solid technique, brilliant game! :)

Great ideas! Nice lecture Mr. Akobian!

Akobian is the man!

thank you very much for sharing these videos, and thank you Mr Akobian you are a brilliant teacher, you are just amazing :)

His lectures are excellent! His enthusiasm for teaching shows. Great choice STL Chess Club.

Wonderful! 🙏🏻 Thank you so much!

This is instructional, thank you!

GM Akobian is very good!

Very instructive and full of strategic ideas. Thank you.

Thank you very much sir !!

this is wonderful thank you gm! 🎉🎉

Best teacher

Love these lessons. Thanks !!

By far, up to this video GM Akopian V. is the best at teaching chess.

Excellent !! Thank you very much

The best lector of the chess. 👍👍👍

great lessons please upload more

Best teacher..perfect explained

Thanks for the great video! :)

YES!! More Akobian please!

akobian is the best teacher ever

Amazingly explained

Very well explained for all levels. And, the game itself is very interesting. No doubt that when e3 is played by White instead of the usual e4, Black has to understan the consequences.and GM Akobian explains the ideas well.

Fantastic. Varuzhan is the best professor.

AMAZING COURSE

Great teacher and lesson. I am 1300 and I can sort of predict what move my opponent is going to make and play accordingly. Very interesting sistem!

I had the pleasure to play a very similar line (same opening) where I also exchanged my rook for the light square bishop and after that my opponent's position (defense) was falling apart :) It was very nice to see how a very smart GM just like GM Akobian plays it to perfection. :)

Sir you explain so well.. I am 31 years old, and I had somewhat lost interest in Chess. Recently I have started liking Chess again. Your explanations have been really helpful.

MLG great lecture!

Really love this guy

rlly needed this cuz of school activities we have chess tournament and many people uses kings indian and mostly strong opponents i lost on the fifth round but still got 5th place but there is still next matches so i needed this tnx so much

Great teacher ! The problem of smyslov for higher levels is that black would switch to benoni and won't play ...e5 but rather ...na6 and ...c5 and white is not ideally prepared for this set-up

Thank you sir your teaching very very nice

Quite helpful🌸

38..g6 was apparently a blunder, black can put up more resistance with Rd2; anyways that position was definetly winning even the echange down, it's amazing how the gm evaluated the position, that lsb was valuable.

Beautiful game

What about the systems with ...c5 by black? That's what most repertoire books suggest against the Smyslov.

White's move 38 is also incorrectly transcribed. In the talk Varuzhan says he played 38. Bc2, but both Chess Base and Chess Tempo give 38. Be2. Agreed that Varuzhan is a terrific teacher.

Best chess lectures.

He should put a DVD out called the Petrosian variation versus the KID.

Nice video! What chess software are you using?

You are the best man

Nice to see very good game. I am interested about their second game. Where Can I find it?

WE WANT AKOBIAN BACK

strongest move ist just Re8+ because its a mate in 15, nice to have this stockfish matefinder, even on superslow hardware ;)

Akobian is best teacher

Isn't the problem with playing Nf3 instead of e4 in the opening that black can immediately play d5? These are cool lines but black can avoid them

I cannot tell how many games I won with this system against kings Indian defense , great and flexible.

Just a 1400 player here but I noticed something interesting. At 23:00 bxd5 is possible but qxd5+ and there's a chance to save the rook at c2. At 23:27 after kh8 the same move is not possible anymore so bxd5 is winning if you don't stack the rooks. I imagine that this was analyzed during the actual game but got lost in the lesson. So he says he could have already taken on d5 before stacking the rooks but that's not accurate. Just my 2c ... for what it's worth.

Bravo !

What about checkmate in 4? exchange rooks at e file, take with queen, check - pushes king to G7 - queen check E7 - King to G8 - checkmate queen H7 ? Even though Queen E4 is strongest

This guy is a baller.

Great lesson but there is a big detail... if black captures on d4 and the pawn on d6 stays all the system changes and the ideas explained here will not work... it would be good if he mentioned that...

Akobian is the best teacher

What about after white castle black chase white bishop by h6?

What's the opening called again?

What if after Bg5, h6 coming right after the fifth move?

is there a way to do this with the e4 white opening??? because I'm not a d4 player

Akobian should have mention a5 in the Bayonet Attack. It's been used by Ilya Smirin with great success.

I enjoyed a crushing win with White by playing this system after watching the vid! Thanks all.

WONDERFUL EXPLANATION THANKFUL TO YOU... PLEASE MAKE END GAME MASTER 🌍🌎🌏🌼🌼🌼🌼

If Black plays h6 on move 5 followed by Bh4,g5; Bg3, Nh5 and NxB, isn't Black better ??

What do you mean? Loek van Wely said bayonet attack breaks King's Indian

very good game

At 26:01 - 5 white pawns vs 4 black pawns = who ever has the most pawns at the end stage wins 95% of the time. Let’s bet!!

Akobian can u play as King's Indian Defense?

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on Bc2 he can play Rd2 perhaps

This is great, but I can never get to the ideal position because nearly every single game I play against the King's Indian involves either 5...h6, 5...d5 (followed by 6. BxN BxB 7. cxd c6 8. dxc Nxd6---and white is a little behind), or the very popular 6...Bb4 with the intention of trading the bishop for the f3 knight and getting the queen out early. I hate the KI so much that I'm thinking of switching to 1.e4 or something other than d4/c4.

Best

35:50 how to checkmate if Rf7? even thought with the next check but the king still can hide behind the rook in 2 steps

akobian is the gambit

31:36 Is there not a tatical idea for black? RxD3??

You are very welcome!

Good game

After Bc2 Td2 is another deflection threatening f2.

What if after bg5, they play h6 immediately?

What is the formal name of this KID counter?

What happens if after white plays e3, black responds with c5? Hasn't black then forced open the defense to his fianchetto'd bishop?

GOOD GAME

12:05 That's the difference

A little annoying that the audience just blurts out moves without thinking. Great game and lecture though Akobian is awesome.

I'd love to see this guy get together with Jackie Peters and Cyrus Lackdawala and put together a book of impressive ( and as yet unpublished games from New England and California over the last fifty years.). Jackie beat me 111 straight in New England and 2 here in La La land I'd love to be involved as I've been an editor, but I've never written anything original except poetry Jackie put two of my games in his column in the 80's or 90's= One quick loss to a friend (Valdes Saulespurens and one positional win when I thought I couldn't play because I'd had no sleep the night before.(I'd lost to Charles Van Buskirk in a excellent position by hallucinating and getting confused with positions in games from the past in the evening round the day before MY ADHD coming to the fore.

31:35 Qf7 it was better in fact the game is equalized probably 1...Qf7 2RxR BxR 3Qxe5+ Bf6 4Qe4 Qe8 5Qf3 Ba1 6c6.. (the best for white)

Why is Smyslov better than Averbakh to conquer KID?

i think it's Fritz or Rybka or Houdini