How to be TRICKY and TRAPPY in the London Opening | 1-hour chess lesson ft. Andrea Botez

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In this video, I share some of my favorite London Opening traps, tactics, and bits of high-level opening preparation that I have been reluctant to reveal in the past. This video expands on the previous lesson I had with Andrea Botez. Watch the first one here: • The Hidden Tricks & Tr...
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Chapters
0:00 London puzzle warm-up
3:31 Magnus Carlsen's venomous early Ne5 line
17:08 Tricks & Traps in the lesser-known Bb5 line
21:43 Differences between Ne5 and Bb5 lines
23:04 Early Ne5 main line
30:32 How to deal with the annoying Ba6
33:57 Analyzing Andrea's game (early ...Qb6)
41:46 How Hikaru SMASHED a GM's London in 11 moves
49:50 INTERMISSION: Dealing with the ENGLUND GAMBIT
56:51 DESERT: Two rare and off-beat London lines
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@BotezLive 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Eric really enjoyed the lesson! :)

@EnricoDoritos 3 жыл бұрын

He did, he was smiling the whole time!

@thecoolring6431 3 жыл бұрын

Hii

@TheIdiothead 3 жыл бұрын

@@EnricoDoritos a very Eric Rosen esque joke

@chrisko-pelago8753 3 жыл бұрын

That Intro was really good XD

@matthias916 3 жыл бұрын

@@EnricoDoritos theres supposed to be a comma after "Eric"

@sallylauper8222 3 жыл бұрын

I play the London and this analysis is ver helpful. I think Andrea's questions are even more valuable than Eric's answers.

@TimJapan 3 жыл бұрын

Eric is just the gift that keeps giving. So generous with his work.

@emlameyer 3 жыл бұрын

the fact that Eric's mic is louder is surely justified haha

@eduardoayala3204 3 жыл бұрын

Andrea's audio is lowered, AND filtered (gate'd).

@davidstar2362 2 жыл бұрын

lol

@12jswilson 3 жыл бұрын

Did Andrea seriously say she was too quiet at the beginning of this video? That has never once been true

@greg6618 3 жыл бұрын

finally a video with her when by ears are not bleeding... nice

@Nuffsed81 2 жыл бұрын

Love her or hate her, she defo a character. Personally I like her, she is what young woman need. Attractive, not geeky etc, she can only bring more people to the game. I hope anyway! Dont want the ear ache to out people off, not everyone finds it entertaining like me....small brain easy to please.

@davidstar2362 2 жыл бұрын

@@Nuffsed81 I love the Botez Sisters .

@f.d.3289 2 ай бұрын

yeah, she's got a voice that really makes these videos tough for me to get through...i LOVE eric's contant but daaaamn ouch my goddamn ears!!!

@catcat4697 3 жыл бұрын

"And he said he was gonna just play all his theory, since there are no tournaments going on anyway" "So just take it while it's out there right?" "So i downloaded all of his games" *Removes sunglasses to reveal another pair of sunglasses*

@davidstar2362 2 жыл бұрын

lol

@Duckfest 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the upload. I actively examined the lines you discussed in your previous collab and I found it very interesting and helpful. You guys work well together, looking forward to diving into this video.

@felixmerz6229 3 жыл бұрын

Man, this is so cool. When I discovered your channel a couple of months ago I mainly just watched for the entertainment value and didn't relate to a lot of the chessiness itself. Then I started playing and started loving it. Now on this video, I know exactly what you're talking about, I've seen all these positions myself and I get so much value out of this. Amazing, thank you so much, Eric.

@ChristopherMikrowelle 3 жыл бұрын

Once you figure out how powerful the horsey is you can trick everyone.

@waccle8335 3 жыл бұрын

The horseys can *and will* bully the pointed hats and tower planes; and carnage will reek until our braincells our destroyed.

@narendrapanda1247 3 жыл бұрын

but first you gotta know as a famous person quoted how the horseys move

@Nuffsed81 2 жыл бұрын

The horse jumps???? Wtf since when?

@BabyHippoSwag 3 жыл бұрын

these london lessons are some of the best content on yt, you're awesome eric!

@Jack-in-the-country 3 жыл бұрын

You guys are amazing ❤️ awesome collaboration yet again. I learned a lot.

@alexairheart9051 3 жыл бұрын

Your london lessons with andrea are so helpful! Im actually at around her rating, its the next best thing to actually having a lesson!

@davidstar2362 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree. Thank you Eric.

@HrRezpatex 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Already after 2 minutes i learned a valuable lesson in a situation i often is in. :) :) Botez also ask so many interesting question, but i am not so experienced, so i will have to watch this video 100 times to remember all of the answers.. And no no and no, you don`t have to do a anti London lesson.. ;)

@aesaphyr 3 жыл бұрын

I watched this live and rewatched it in VODs to refresh my memory - really solid lesson. Thank you so much for uploading to youtube.

@isaiahmonteleone 3 жыл бұрын

3 complex puzzles later: Andrea Rosen

@anthonynocito9447 3 жыл бұрын

Yes thank you! Ive been waiting for some interesting London ideas from you!

@matthias916 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who plays the london in 99% of my games as white this is really helpful, I've never seen such good explanations of why moves are good or bad, thanks for the content!

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@goodfractalspoker7179 Жыл бұрын

Ty for the video. This is the only opening I know so far and love the versatility 💪🏽

@stevenmeans4881 3 жыл бұрын

13:02 "Ehhh, i mean, it looks like it kinda works" Eric: " ... its completely crushing" 🤣

@AvengingSyndrome 3 жыл бұрын

That's some nicely designed merch. Picked up the gambit mug. Seems sweet.

@ricardoortiz7900 2 жыл бұрын

Truly appreciate your analysis/lessons.

@selitasinela7411 3 жыл бұрын

Do more videos of London opening traps and tricks please!!!

@mathedguy 11 ай бұрын

Thanks very much for sharing this wonderful lesson ! You guys are great !

@nohicaturchannel9027 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Eric, I am a beginner chess player from Indonesia, ever since I saw Erene Iskandar beat the Dewa kipas the liar, with this opening I was also very interested in exploring the opening of the London System. I thank you for sharing a lot of knowledge here.

@Joemamahahahaha821 3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure Eric appreciates such kind messages!

@Nuffsed81 2 жыл бұрын

Why is DEWA kipas a liar?

@LegendaryFartMaster 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Eric for this upload! Haven't watched it yet, but I get a feeling this will improve my chess! An hour long teaching session on a opening? Hell yeah!

@davidstar2362 2 жыл бұрын

it is great!!!..... as usual😁

@stefanschaller5992 8 ай бұрын

Your lesson is really good! And I understand your English because it's very clear. Thank you!

@diarya5573 3 жыл бұрын

Okay this is really cool to watch

@laith8758 3 жыл бұрын

This is pure gold for london players

@AgitpropPsyop 2 жыл бұрын

Now this is the content that I subbed for

@Just.Bleed1 3 жыл бұрын

Eric it would be great if you made a tutorial on how to prepare any opening to add to your repertoire, I think it would be really helpful!

@lupsik1 3 жыл бұрын

There are repertoire books for almost anything you'd like to play and they go deeper than you'd ever think about going, so if you dont want to wait for a video there's that.

@MrYounis26 3 жыл бұрын

@@lupsik1 link me some books pls.

@LaurieSuppleOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Let’s go my two favorites again

@ikechukwuoji1133 2 жыл бұрын

To be very honest, this lesson will be so much more VALUABLE if you've played the London enough times to understand the dynamics of each position and how the board changes. Internalizing this will be easier and really improve your play. Superb video from Rosen and Andreea here.

@fredflintstone7924 Жыл бұрын

just brilliant!

@clavandsouza5775 7 ай бұрын

8:03 Cheeky smile referencing the Botez Gambit

@hackwrld1895 3 жыл бұрын

Like ur stuff IM eric, keep up

@ilanaizelman3993 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!! Thank you!!

@DALLR96 2 жыл бұрын

Legendary stream & streamers

@african_parrot 2 жыл бұрын

wow that was a great webinar...please feature Adrea in more of your videos...she is really asking questions that every intermediate level chess player would like to know

@sayanmukherjee1956 3 жыл бұрын

I am a London player, I am at 800 though but I am getting so much help from you. Please keep making videos like this. Thank you Eric

@jidsaw4400 3 жыл бұрын

"Oh no, my ________________"

@hiyo2578 3 жыл бұрын

lol

@Seiyariu 3 жыл бұрын

ears

@ivocarapina358 3 жыл бұрын

Homework

@BlurSpin 3 жыл бұрын

magnus lesson with andrea = how do knights move?

@jrs2392 3 жыл бұрын

1000 rating London player here, and this video helped a lot, I'm excited to learn some fun lines

@Owenroberts0 3 жыл бұрын

Was about to watch this to go to sleep, then I saw the collab. Guess I’m watching this tomorrow.

@uthikoloshe 2 жыл бұрын

42:22 some magic teleportation of pieces. I kept playing through the moves and wondering how my position didnt match.

@andromeda4995 3 жыл бұрын

7:34 I had the exact same position and went for the Greek gift thinking it's winning but forgot about Nf6

@ahote1028 3 жыл бұрын

part 2 woo!

@TheRysiu120 3 жыл бұрын

Eric, do such a video for Ponziani!

@80s-el9vc 10 ай бұрын

At the 35 minute mark in the video, if you already have your knight on c3 and the queen moves to b6, move your a2 pawn to a3, when the queen takes your b2 pawn, move your knight on c3 to a4 and trap the queen. It will take some more moves to capture the queen, once you do that , you will still be able to take the rook on a8 with your queen or knight depending on if your opponent takes your knight once it's on b6. and your queen will be sitting on a1 so it can take the rook if needed.

@AngryBird-hx5tz Жыл бұрын

Thanks sir

@queennine 2 жыл бұрын

10:30 is very similar to the Kamsky line except no Nd2, but you can pretty much get there with the series of forcing moves NxN BxN BxB QxB PxP QxP BxP+ and then decide if KxB with Ng5+ coming and does the King really want to venture out to g6?

@Omrray 3 жыл бұрын

I really need to see Eric laughing out loud his voice is so quiet 😂

@birendrakumarsingh2148 2 жыл бұрын

She is asking the right questions

@AthosRac 7 ай бұрын

11:09 black can avoid this simply using the other knight to take and them instead moving the pawn, move the knight to f6.

@didi437 3 жыл бұрын

Hey eric... could you please make a video on 1. B3... The nimzowitsch larsen... it seems very interesting

@joetucker971 3 жыл бұрын

Nooo this opening alone carried me to 1800+, don't reveal the secrets 😂

@TheChessGiant 3 жыл бұрын

Eric Rosen is a legend. Case closed.

@recklessroges 3 жыл бұрын

I rank Erik "Board arrows" Rosen above Erik "oh no my queen" meme Rosen. I enjoyed this video, even though I'll never be as strong as your "student" in this case.

@FraterL 3 жыл бұрын

Eric i love your lessons. You should make your own website and sell courses like mr Gotham.

@The3Dpwnage 3 жыл бұрын

Can you please do a lesson on how to play people who don’t play/know theory and respond with weird moves

@Blumble 3 жыл бұрын

Work on basics

@f.d.3289 2 ай бұрын

10:12 after 12.Nexf7+ Rxf7 it's even better to play 13.Bxd6, because if Black isn't careful and retakes 13...Qxd6?, 14.Nxf7+ wins the queen :) if they don't, it just transposes to the line shown, so just an additional little trap at no risk. to Stockfish it makes no difference -- this nicely illustrates that what's good for humans isn't necessarily good for Stockfish.

@joshmeyers1808 Жыл бұрын

At like 8:00 minutes they discuss how you can't do the Greek gift bc the knight can just go back but what if after the check with ng5 if you just take their knight with your other knight and move your queen if they take the knight back or take the rook if they try to kick the g5 knight and just move the g5 knight back to f3 meaning you'd be up a rook for a bishop if the attack fails or you'd be mating if they took d7 and you were able to get the queen over without interference

@joshmeyers1808 Жыл бұрын

Am I overlooking something?

@barretthnatt3882 3 жыл бұрын

Please do the addition of the reverse London for black

@drpepper732 3 жыл бұрын

Good video

@jacobwalsh7087 3 жыл бұрын

The two cutest chess streamers

@Pravinoz 3 жыл бұрын

the last time stamp, lol Dessert? NO, DESERT

@irjake 3 жыл бұрын

Why don't the 1200s I play on bullet fall for the Englund Trap that Eric says GMs fall for?

@dago6410 3 жыл бұрын

If i could get a lesson from any chess player in the world, Eric owuld be nr1. He is just the most wholesome person in chess world (ok maybe nr 2 cause Yasser is Yasser, hard to evaluate ;D)

@kalin83 3 жыл бұрын

if a Pin and fork = a Pork shouldnt a Discovered fork = a Dork?

@dafenz5902 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Absolutely... Now what about a discovered pin fork? Fdork? D'fork?

@kalin83 3 жыл бұрын

@@dafenz5902 sure why not but both pork and dork are english words

@jordanbreitkopf7366 3 жыл бұрын

eric rosen living his best life

@prasadpappu23 3 жыл бұрын

Andrea's voice is soo soothing... My ears endup bleeding!

@lokopaloko6957 3 жыл бұрын

As a London player, I found this video extremely useful :) just a quick question though regarding the first "puzzle warm-up" position. It seems like a position you wouldn't normally get to, as playing 8.Bg3 expecting for black to _maybe_ play 8. Nh5 doesn't seem like a realistic option. I was wondering if there is a more realistic sequence of moves to get to a similar position where you allow the knight to capture the bishop on g3 so you can play Bxh7+ ?

@stormvandenberg7745 2 жыл бұрын

It does occur sometimes, depending on your rating. The main point of studying lines like these however, is to recognize the patterns when they do occur, even when the position isn't 100% the same. When you recognize the pattern just remember this line and calculate if it still works.

@Reikakure 3 жыл бұрын

dzieki dziala

@compressedzipfolder7089 3 жыл бұрын

The description/chapter says "desert" but I have a feeling you mean "dessert" :)

@FrancisGrant1 3 жыл бұрын

My favourite moment was 24:08 👍🏻

@YamaZombies 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Eric at about 41 minutes in you said this was a discovered fork, but - and correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that is technically called a dork.

@leonardnghifikwa5734 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Eric, What software are you guys using, you guys mentioned the chess board is synced.

@Noprilehm 3 жыл бұрын

Cool trap.

@dr.mikeybee 3 жыл бұрын

If you take the d knight, doesn't the Greek gift work?

@fayiz_Fz 3 жыл бұрын

Tell me something what if the opponent never castles against london ?🤔

@lenguyenuchung2676 3 жыл бұрын

Open the center with e4 is usually a good idea

@NatalieDemary 3 жыл бұрын

8:00 why can’t white just play NxNd7 removing the potential defender, then go for the Greek gift idea?

@jgturner6 3 жыл бұрын

I wondered the same thing. I had to check with an engine, but I should have calculated it out. I just don´t have much experience with the greek gift, so sometimes forget to check defensive resources. But from memory, the point is that in this position, the black king comes to g6 (after Ng5+). And if then Qg4 for example, black has f5, hitting the queen and also giving the king the f7 square to escape to. :) Ben Finegold has a decent lecture on the greek gift, where I think he said that if the black king comes to g6, there´s usually a 50/50 chance that black gets mated or escapes and is a piece up. But obviously one should calculate super well, especially in slow chess. In blitz I guess, when the king come to g6, it´s usually difficult to defend. :)

@thedeadlyginger3880 3 жыл бұрын

30:27 Eric has nothing but time.

@dago6410 3 жыл бұрын

is a discovered fork/ discovered 'pork' a 'dork'????

@ilanaizelman3993 3 жыл бұрын

Can you please send me the Kamsky's games you've downloaded?

@steinaringvaldsen5286 3 жыл бұрын

24:28 what if he plays cxd4 instead of f5?

@mickeyboy90 3 жыл бұрын

A discovered fork is a dork.

@red-hairedshanks8369 3 жыл бұрын

I was struggling raising the volume and lowering it whenever she starts and stops talking

@Void-Knull 3 жыл бұрын

At least she's not yelling like she normally does lol

@Swerik 3 жыл бұрын

How to pronounce "Zwischenzug" like a german made easy: Both Zs are not like the Z in squeeze They are like ts in cats, rats or chats The W is not like in world or the french word for yes ("Oui") The W is like an English V (as in very or just V) The rest is correct for most people "tsvischentsug" but for those who don't know: the U is like oo in cool the sch is like sh rest is same as English "tsvishentsoog"

@odyfrank563 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@itanmayi 3 жыл бұрын

Yes?

@sollertia_ 3 жыл бұрын

Is it desert or dessert?

@arya6085 3 жыл бұрын

In the position at 10:47 can you play Nxd7 and then Greek gift?

@DavidfromMichigan 2 жыл бұрын

The would take with the bishop, connecting the rooks. Then after white moves Qh5, black moves Re8, allowing an escape for black.

@arya6085 2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidfromMichigan thankyou. I'm actually quite proud I found a beginner idea over a year ago when I was pretty much a novice. Anyway I'm still shit at chess and would still 100% go for that attack (if I saw it).