Granted, there are some lines where accurate play is critical. But except in cases like those, "perfect memorization" isn't required any more than in side lines, is it?

+Fruity McGee One of the best, if not thee best, chess channel.

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Me noo

Me too

It makes you daring enough to sac the pawns

Your name LOL

very true. the more scotch you drink, the more better you get. this is science

😢😢 just forget everything

Dr Drunkenstein agrees

This is why I don't use the scotch opening yes you're going for diagonal lines to try to get to the king in the corner but it leaves you critically open like moistcritkal shows us.

The Throbbing Scotch variation

@@spanishfly7709 not really, moistcritical won because his opponent sucked, and no it doesnt leave you open, gms play it all the time

​​@@wooshifgay462scotch is refuted by gm moist cr1tikal sorry

​@@classifier_6611The throbbing gambit

+Fabian Day I mean er... late Christmas present.

Merry (belated) Christmas to you!

I came here because as black, I keep getting rekt online by this opening.

I like how he said that the Knight was harrassing pieces. Its my new thing to say. LOL

It is so hard for me to defend against the scotch when I play as black

@Harper Jos Grifith 🤣

False I like it . Lose a queen early and win the game with en extra pawn

That is a master-level tactic not an opening

@@Protostar9 oh i see

probably because king to f7 and than rook to E8 pinning the queen to the king

after exf6, king moves to f7, threatening to recapture the pawn. if you take the knight with cxd5, black plays Re8, pinning the queen to the king. white has no way to defend the pawn from being recaptured so at best it's a pawn trade, and the rook is still threatening to pin the queen.

Yeah, it’s a very tricky line. I don’t know why Schrantz completely dismissed it, pretty poor teaching there.

Wow glad to see I'm not the only one in 2020 watching this. Got to search this up when I got crushed by it haha

Sorry if I'm ignorant and just say stupid things but I do not understand that

The reason people shouldn't think like a computer is because computers base decisions on pure calculation, many many times more than that of the most astute grandmaster. Resulting in at times seemingly unplayable positions with linear possibilities already known by a computer but perplexing to a human observer. As A human doesn't possess the ability to calculate like this, a more philsophical and broad approach is reccommended.

Qqarsenalfanrichi okey thank you.

exf6 then you lose queen

+Ernest Hemingway There is no direct refutation but letting White have a centralised Queen that can't be chased away out of the opening is usually not a great idea. In fact this variation scores 70% for White according to the Chess 365 database....

Ferran Casarramona *Ruy Lopez

Don't play the Ruy Lopez unless you're over 2000. It's a super theoretical, positional opening. If you're over 2000, well, I figure you can work the Ruy out on your own. Lots of GMs play it; watch their games.

I Asked me the same question. I think that sooner or later there will be Re8

Chris Chrysafis you just leave the centre to blacks and that check is easy to defend

Paraguay 😁

Drago Yordanov Interesting. Never would have thought Schrantz is from Paraguay.

I asked the same thing just now and decided to look for answers. Not sure why no one replied you good question

Stefanos Van Dijk I think black can answer with Re6 blocking the check. Then for white to get his rook back he has to give up his bishop with Bxe6 when black takes the white bishop with his king. So in the end white only gets 2 pawns for his bishop as well as trading a pair of rooks. I would guess that is probably not enough though on the bright side white does now have 2 passed pawns.:)

@PP thank you

Probably because black will play Kf7 with the immediate threat of Re8, winning the queen. So white doesn't have time to take the knight with cxd5. Anyway black could take back on f6 with his knight and the king seems safe on f7. Also black can get the e file later for the rook, so en passant seems very good but I am not so sure I like it right here.

a simple rule of thumb is that if you have a dodgy king, don't open up the centre if you can avoid it. In this case both have dodgy kings but white is worse of due to the queen being a on the same file (blacks queen penetrating the position and the black black-square bishop has some easy access via b4 and c5). It looks to become a possible mating attack if you hit ep in that situation.

EXPO ...Nxf5, attacks queen and get to safety, so what’s the point of the attack then?

This is an interesting point, I put the position at 41:49 into scid vs pc, and while stockfish 9 (the default engine) gives it a score of +1.7, if you tell it to finish the game it shuffles pieces apparently randomly making no progress so you might assume it is a draw. But interestingly if you use SF12 or Lc0, they give it a better score and make progress by loading up on a6 and then playing b5 while the a6 pawn is pinned to a rook on a7 this forces a trade on a5 (n... cxa5, n+1. bxa5) followed by c6 by black, white then manouvers a rook onto b6 at which point the dual weaknesses on a6 and c6 are too large to defend. I found it quite an instructive endgame, looking for the best square for a piece, b6 for the rook, and finding a tactical approach to achieving it, b5. Fen for position at 41:49: r6r/1bp2k2/p1p3p1/R1PpPpRp/1P1K1P1P/8/P3B1P1/8 w - - 4 3 Fen for position where a5 is prepared: r7/rbp2k2/p1p3p1/R1PpPp1p/1P3P1P/R1K5/P3B1P1/8 w - - 10 6

They did a great one on how to play against the Kings Indian defense

Thank you for watching! As of now, we do not have personnel who can take the time and effort to translate the lectures.

Se llama Jonathan Schrants, es un analista del canal. Pero asta ahorita no an sacado ningún video en español. Lo que puedes intentar seria prenderle los subtítulos al video(son generados por youtube asi que tal ves no sean muy buenos) y traducirlos en una pagina. No seria lo optimo pero te podría dar un mejor entendimiento del video. Suerte.

@@A51838 I am/was at the time. I don't study often and didn't really get that it was a joke, I thought you were serious. Thanks for the reply four years later haha.

There are a few good ones around that will give you an idea on how to play Traxler countergambit.

I think they already did Benoni.

Balint Gyapjas yeah but he asked it about two years ago

Yes I'm 1100 and for someone not-that-brilliant in chess it just makes sense, but after seeing just how much of a pain the Queen goes through (and the better alternatives to Nd4), I'm considering changing my style

@@LvngBrd Haha, thanks for bringing me back to this comment a year later. In that time, I've discovered there's a multitude of positions you can bring your queen if it gets attacked on d4, and simply qd1 is always fine. But, oftentimes dropping the queen back to d3 can be a good idea as long as you don't block the development of your light squared bishop (hopefully you've played bc4 or something similar). This queen on the 3rd rank has the mobility to be used to target black's king (a trick like qg3 and bh6 can be kept in your back pocket), or alternatively target black's queenside weaknesses. I really appreciate that queen on d4 now :)

2.f4 is mediocre