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There are variations most Caro-Kann players hate facing. This has to be one of them. I find it impossible to have any sort of edge or dynamic imbalance out of the opening, and white is always at least equal. Sanna Y. (1838) - Tomic S. (2041) Caro-Kann, Panov Barcelona Sants Open 2023 , Rd.7 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
How many times have you heard someone say "Checks first, then captures and forcing moves!" In theory that's easy to do, in practice, missing one key check is easy and canbe devastating, as was the case in this game. When attacking, precision when calculating is key, and looking for checks and captures is the easy way to ensure that you don't mess up like I have. I wanted to attack my opponent on two fronts by opening up the f file. I ended up miscalculating because one missed check and had to give up a pawn for absolutely nothing! Learn from my mistakes. 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
I faced a very aggressive player who'd decided to mate me whatever the cost, giving up pieces, and trying to get to my unsafe king on g8. I just kept taking everything and, despite having missed several key ideas, managed to find them eventually to stop the attack and have a decisive material advantage. Back to training! 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Checks, captures and forcing moves first. That's the basic rule of calculation every beginner learns when they start studying chess seriously. I didn't follow that rule this game and I took my position from completely winning, to equal, and finally to losing in a couple of moves. No excuses. Just bad chess. But that will change. Tomic S. (2041) - Barrachina L. (1841) London vs KID Barcelona Sants Open 2023 , Rd.6 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
I played GM David Alberto in round 1 of the Sants Open. He is probably the strongest player I've ever faced over the board. It was a Caro-Kann, and I was out of prep and in a bad position less than 10 moves in. But I kept on fighting. GM Alberto D. (2518) - Tomic S. (2041) Caro Kann, Two Knights Barcelona Sants Open 2023 , Rd.1 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Three options. Can you find the winning idea and calculate until the end? A game in which I was a pawn up and much better with an, according to the engine, easily convertable position. We reached a point at which I had three seemingly equally good winning ideas. I spent a lot of time trying to determine which was best. And misplayed the position. Pinyol i Llora J. (1862) - Tomic S. (2041) Semi-Slav, Qd3 Barcelona Sants Open 2023 , Rd.3 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Chess is hard. It requires nothing less but our complete and absolute attention and perfect focus. Otherwise, no amount of hard work will matter. Our psychological state is what determines quality of play. In this game, and in the following ones, my mind wasn't focuses. And the results reflect that. Excuse the poor play, the complaining, and the lack of videos these past weeks. It has all changed for the better since. Tomic S. (2041) - Olic D. (1542) London System, Symmetrical Split Open, Rd.1 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
I understood nothing this game. Nothing. Not a thing. This is probably the most useful training game I played in a long while. My evaluation was wrong, my plans were bad, my position was very close to, if not already losing, and I was sure it was superior! Chess is hard. I tried to play as setup I was unfamiliar with and the plans I came up with were extremely bad, giving my opponent more than a -2 advantage at several points. Back to learning the English! 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Bobby Fischer was an attacking genius and he used aggressive openings like the King's Indian to annihilate his opposition. The King's Indian Defense is a very dangerous opening in which a single mistake could mean a total colapse of your position regardless of which side you're playing. I faced a strong IM in the Semi-Averbakh System and got destroyed in 20 moves. Tomic S. (2041) - Olic D. (1542) London System, Symmetrical Split Open, Rd.1 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Calculation isn't only about being able to visualize a few moves ahead precisely. It's about knowing what to calculate and not missing resources for either side too. In this game I lost to a very simple oversight. I misjudged my opponent's attack and allowed him to crush me with a single, simple move, which I saw and thought was safe before I blundered. 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Some openings are so intimidating that playing them is like a battle roar, a fierce display of might meant to scare your opponent into submission as soon as the game begins. The Benko Gambit is one of them. Tomic S. (2041) - Podini F. (1852) Benko Gambit, Accepted Barcelona Sants Open 2023 , Rd.4 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
A complex sacrifice and an 8-move sequence you had to calculate correctly in order to gain a winning advantage. Everything was ready. The pieces were perfectly placed. The sacrifice had to be played at that exact moment. But. There were different options. each featured subtle nuances and pros and cons. I chose the wrong one, and I chose to play it a move to late. Can you calculate better than me? Camboran A. (1850) - Tomic S. (2041) Nimzo-Larsen, Classical Barcelona Sants Open 2023 , Rd.5 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
The Old Indian Defense in detail - learn the plans, ideas, pawn breaks, attacking patterns, main issues, transpositions and theory. 00:00 Part 1: Introduction and pawn structure 12:28 Part 2: Difference between OID and KID bishops 16:44 Part 3: The main line with e4 for white 23:54 Part 4: White plays the Sämisch setup 34:45 Part 5: White plays the fianchetto setup 39:38 Part 6: White plays Bg5, e3 47:01 Part 7: The Ukrainian Variation 52:00 Part 8: The Czech Variation 55:48 Part 9: Janowski Variation 59:40 Part 10: If white doesn't play c4 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
The Torre Attack is an easy to play attacking system for white. It's easy to learn and understand, and learning it will add to your attaching opening repertoire without too much effort. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 00:00 Part 1: Introduction 04:21 Part 2: When the Torre isn't possible 08:18 Part 3: Structure and plans without d5 for black 14:46 Part 4: Structure and plans with d5 for black 17:53 Part 5: Main line 25:21 Part 6: The Poisoned Pawn Variation 36:56 Part 7: The main line with d5 43:04 Part 8: Torre vs King's Indian 49:17 Part 9: Torre vs Gruenfeld 51:35 Part 10: Torre vs 1...d5 or 2...d5 (Gossip Variation) 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Time is a factor in classical chess, and managing it is a struggle for many players. I myself often waste time in positions which can be assessed quickly and sometimes that costs me thinking time in critical ones. That's what my opponent kept doing in this game. He used his time freely and ended up playing on increment in the end. That did not end well. 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 #chess
Introduction to the English Opening that covers the basic strategic ideas, all variations both sides could choose from, plans, ideas, and the main advantages of playing 1.c4 for white. The English Opening is the third most popular option for white on move 1. It's very flexible and it avoids a lot of theory without being even slightly unsound. It allows white to play for an advantage regardless of what type of defensive system black chooses. In this introductory video I have covered the basics of all variations black could play against the English. Each of them will be covered in detail in a separate video. 00:00 Part 1: Introduction 12:21 Part 2: The Symmetrical English 15:51 Part 3: The Reversed Sicilian 21:00 Part 4: Nimzo-English 23:59 Part 5: Mikenas Attack 26:18 Part 6: Anti Queen's Gambit 28:39 Part 7: Anti Slav 30:25 Part 8: Anti-Gruenfeld 32:00 Part 9: Anti King's Indian (Botvinnik System) 33:50 Part 10: Anglo Dutch 36:30 Part 11: Anglo Scandinavian 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
The Nimzo Indian is a very sharp opening in which black tries to get quick kingside development and an early attack, even at the cost of giving up the bishop pair. So far I've been playing an attacking line to counter it, and I tried it this game too. It was a wild game in which my opponent played with over 90% accuracy and crushed me. I made two very serious mistakes. That was enough to lose. 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
The Caro-Kann is my favorite defense against e4, and I keep thinking that I know most of the early traps and blunders white could play. Well, again, I have been proven wrong. My opponent gave up a pawn for no reason very early in the opening and I didn't think it was a good idea to grab it so I spent almost no time actually calculating the capture. Needless to say it led to a great position for black. What happened next should be forgotten quickly. 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
The Fantasy is a variation most Caro-Kann players hate seeing. I've always struggled against it and never had good results. Until I learned this variation. The Fantasy is a sharp opening with which white aims to get a sharp, complicated position with better development and early attacking chances. In this game I chose the Qb6 line against it and it worked like a charm. My opponent made a very bad mistake early on and gave up a pawn for no compensation at all which meant that all I had to do was reduce material and convert. 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 #chess
Excellent conversion into a winning endgame from a worse position in another English game which ended up transposing to a main line opening. This is how a stronger players beats a weaker one regardless of the position. They play quicly and precisely, exploiting weaknesses and time-wasting moves, showing great technique and quickly turning tables around. 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Beating the Caro-Kann isn't easy, even for an International Master. This is my round 3 game from the Croatian league in which I faced Im Vujaković, a very experienced player with strong strategic skills and amazing technique. I entered a worse endgame which was tough to defend because I had less activity and less space, but I managed to hold my ground. 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 #chess
♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 Pawns are the soul of chess, and understanding how to play in certain pawn structures is crucial to understanding the middlegame. If you can imagine a position without the pieces on, just the pawns, then the situation and the plans you will have to look for will become much clearer. That is what I would like to emphasize with this video. Know the battlefield you are fighting on! The pawns make up the battlefield, and their constellation will determine whether it will be an all out onslaught or a maneuvering game of minds in which tricks, bluffs and mind games will be employed instead of open warfare. I have gone through the most common pawn structures in chess, and I have attempted to briefly explain the main features of each. What you have to do is find out what types of pawn structures most commonly occur in your own games. Are they open or closed? What are the pawn breaks you usually play? Once you are able to answer there, and more questions concerning pawn structure, your strength will increase ten-fold, and your understanding of the position will amplify greatly! 1) Open Center Positions – these pawn structures are characterized by open e and d files. They often involve piece trades early on and revolve around taking up the open files with your rooks. 2) Closed Center Positions (Advance Caro-Kann) – positions with blocked pawn formations require pawn breaks. Look for a pawn break at the tip of your pawn chain in order to gain activity and increase the scope of your pieces. 3) The Open e-file 4) French Defense Structure 5) Ruy Lopez Structure 6) Sicilian Najdorf Structure 7) Maroczy Bind Structure 8) Caro-Kann Structure 9) King's Indian Structure 10) Benoni Structure 11) Karlsbad Structure #chess
♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 Strategy means long-term planning and thinking of ways to change the position in your favor, and creating plans is what differentiates the good players from the weak ones. Middlegame plans can rarely revolve around tactics. Most often, they include strategical or positional thinking and coming up with ways to improve which are 5 or 10 moves deep. Beginners tend to make a common mistake of playing aimlessly and simply moving their pieces around without considering the key aspects of a position or planning in advance. Good players, on the other hand, spend most of their time coming up with plans and not thinking or calculating one single variation or move. I’m not saying that you should come up with a plan and stick to it blindly, not caring about the dynamics of a position (a topic for a whole other video), but that having a plan in mind will greatly decrease the chances of careless, aimless play, blundering or spending large amounts of time meditating over a single move. There are two types of plans – positive and negative ones. The positive plans include any ideas which might improve your position or any single aspect of it, and negative plans are the same, only applied to what your opponent might want to do to improve his position, and you trying to prevent that. Very often during a game, if you can’t think of a good plan, you can look for a negative strategical plan. Think of what the person on the other side of the board wants to do. Surely you can find something that worries you. Once you do, create a strategical plan to prevent that. Using positive and negative plans will leave you less prone to being startled by a move your opponent makes, because you will know what’s coming. It will also improve your middlegame play significantly. Having plans and maneuvering your pieces accordingly simplifies the thinking process significantly. The easiest way to improve at creating strategical plans is to analyze! Look at random games. Put them on move 20 and find plans. Once you’re done with your own ideas, look at what the players did. Think of what their plan was while making that move. Trust me, most often, every single move a grandmaster makes was part of a plan! Reconstructing what they were thinking will make you stronger and faster. And remember, a bad plan is better than no plan at all! #chess #chessstrategy
Learn the Botvinnik System! It's easy to learn and play, it gives white great positions with simple strategic plans, good attacking chances, more space and limited options for black. The Botvinnik System is an amazing weapon to add to your repertoire (as I discovered myself recently). It almost seems like a secret weapon you can play against any g6 setup players. Whenever they try a KID type of position, you're ready with easy plans and an attack that's hard to prevent. Watch the introduction to the English Opening first if you haven't yet 🤍 The PGN with all the Botvinnik System variations is available on 🤍 00:00 Part 1: Introduction to the Botvinnik System 10:08 Part 2: King's Indian position (black plays g6, d6, c5) 24:50 Part 3: Black plays g6, d6 e5 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 🎥 Twitch: 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 👕 Chess merch!: 🤍 The first example position is the game Boleslavsky vs Flohr, 1950, used as an example in Alexander Kotov's "Kako razmišlja velemajstor", Zagreb 1989 p. 25-29. I have used it as an example because I am trying to utilize Kotov's idea of "pure calculation" and, disciplined candidate move choosing, which he teaches through the book. Disclaimer: I believe such technique can never be perfectly applied, and that it is somewhat utopian. Why I still try to do it is because coming closer to that "perfection" makes you a better player. Calculation is one of the most important traits of a successful chess player. Most of the time, if you calculate deeper than your opponent, you will win! I have attempted to break down the process of calculating variations during a real chess game into 5 steps. Following them will not make you a grandmaster, but it will improve your calculation, your visualization, your ability to correctly choose candidate moves, and your speed. It will also make you less prone to making one-move blunders or missing a move which could have won the game. In chess, practice is everything, and training will make you stronger. It’s as simple as that. Nowhere is that as important as when it comes to bare calculation. Calculating every day will make you calculate better, same as making pancakes every day would make you great at making pancakes! Most lower-rated players have the same issue; they either waste time thinking about the position without doing any real calculation, or they calculate in a disorderly fashion, which ultimately leads to mistakes. Here is the process of choosing candidate moves, assessing the position and calculating it broken down into steps: 1. Choose candidate moves – look at checks, captures and forcing moves first. Always consider your own and your opponent’s weaknesses (watch this video on How to think in Chess for help: 🤍 2. Consider your clock time – how much time do you have to calculate? If it’s a critical position you may decide to take a long time because it’s a win or loss move. In any case, divide the time you plan to spend to each candidate move accordingly. This way you will restrain yourself from wasting too much time. 3. Divide the candidate moves into forcing and non-forcing moves – calculate the forcing moves first. They are easier to calculate because they don’t branch out as much! When you check, your opponent doesn’t have 20 options. 4. Calculate the first candidate – visualize the “variation tree”. Imagine the position, come to a conclusion and don’t look back! Do this for every candidate move and come to a conclusion – is the move good or bad? Once you have done so, reject the bad moves and proceed to step 5. 5. Final check and decision – briefly check all the candidate moves you calculated and came to a conclusion that they work. Choose one! This part is intuition. You may be wrong (and, trust me, you often will be), but wasting any more precious clock time won’t help one bit! #chess
Winning is in chess seems very easy sometimes. Some games seem simply effortless. As if no calculation or hard work was required to blow your opponent off the board. That is how this game felt. Slightly uncomfortable, hard to play and hard to find moves, seemigly losing, resignable, and, finally, mate on the board. 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 #chess
Navigating the King's Indian pawn structure is all about knowing the strategic plans and patterns. Even though both the KID and the Modern often result in wild tactical positions, it's the strategy connected to the fixed pawn structure that provides those opportunities. 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 #chess
Wondering how to beat the Petrov Defense? Here's a variation which could win you games in 20 moves. I've struggled against the Petrov every single game when I only played 1.e4. It was always boring and equal and I never got real winning chances out of the opening. When I first started studying this line it was an eye opener for me. Finally a weapon that's not easy to defend against! 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 #chess
Learn how to avoid the Grünfeld Defense and enter Anti-Grünfeld systems which are going to force black outside of their comfort zone and give white an edge in almost all variations. Watch the introduction to the English Opening first if you haven't yet 🤍 The PGN with all the Anti-Grünfeld variations is available on 🤍 00:00 Part 1: Introduction and transpositions 10:37 Part 2: Adorjan Defense 17:19 Part 3: Anti-Grünfeld with 4.g3 40:57 Part 4: Anti-Grünfeld with 4.Nf3 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Recognizing your opponent's resources is one of my favorite books, and it's full of positions just like the two mistakes I made in this game. One of them could have given my opponent a winning position, and the other one would have saved him from a certain loss. These types of mistakes, when you fail to see a possibility for your opponent either come from poor calculation, as was the case in the first example in this game, or from lacking positional understanding, as was the case in the second one. The key thing is to be aware and look for your opponent's possible resources before you move. And spending time on that is never time wasted. 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 #chess
Deadly and brutally efficient chess traps in the English Opening for both white and black. Learning these could win you quick games, as well as prevent you from losing in a few moves! Traps for white: 00:00 1. The Poisoned Prophylaxis (Three Knights) 05:27 2. The Mikenas Trap 07:10 3. The Mikenas Poisoned Pawn 10:45 4. The Gruenfeld Diagonal trap 12:50 5. The Scandinavian Knight 13:26 6. The Four Knights Trap 15:25 7. The Four Knights Fork 17:13 8. The Hedgehog Trap Traps for Black: 19:36 9. The Queen's Indian Queen Trap 21:03 10. The Symmetrical Trap 23:30 11. The Diagonal Trap (Symmetrical) 24:52 12. The Three Knights Trap #chess
The Caro-Kann played by Alireza Firouzja, currently world's best Caro-Kann player. If you wanna learn an opening, you should study games by top players that play it regularly. When it comes to the Caro-Kann, Alireza Firouzja is definitely the player whose games you have to know by heart. Not only is Firouzja the best Caro-Kann player in the world, he is also close to being the best chess player in the world. His recent rise is extraordinary, and such a player playing your favorite opening is thrilling. 0:00 Intro 01:41 Sergey Karjakin - Alireza Firouzja, FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup (2020) 12:22 Aryan Tari - Alireza Firouzja, Norway Chess (2020) 19:45 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Alireza Firouzja, Tata Steel Masters (2021) 26:42 Markus Ragger - Alireza Firouzja, European Team Championship (2021) 35:22 Viktor Erdos - Alireza Firouzja, European Team Championship (2021) 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 🎥 Twitch: 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 👕 Chess merch!: 🤍 Caro-Kann is a great weapon to add to your repertoire against 1. e4. There are numerous ways to fight white’s opening advantage and to get a lot of attacking chances. The starting move of the opening is 1…c6, in response to e4. With this move black is preparing to challenge the center by pushing d5 (instead of challenging it directly as he does in the symmetrical e4 e5 openings or in the Sicilian Defense). The Caro Kann is a very flexible opening choice and it branches out into several key variations. Each will be briefly mentioned in this video, with the basic move order, ideas and plans for both sides. A separate video will be made for each individual variation where I will go into much more depth theoretically, as well as provide practical advice on move order and traps to set or to avoid. The opening was named after Horatio Caro and Marcus Kann, two chess masters from the 19th century, who’d analyzed the main line up to move 17 and established it as a solid opening for black (which was hard to do considering the classical school of chess which frowned upon “modern openings” which don’t challenge the center immediately). The theory of the Caro-Kann evolved a lot since then, and several key variations emerged. It’s now considered to be one of the most solid ways for black to fight against the king pawn opening. The common variations are: Main line: 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 The Karpov variation: 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 The Korchnoi and the Bronstein-Larsen variations: 1.e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6 exf6 (Korchnoi) 5…gxf6 (Bronstein-Larsen) The Advance variation: 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 The Exchange variation: 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. cxd5 (most commonly leading to the Panov-Botvinnik attack) …cxd5 4. c4 The Fantasy (Tartakower variation): 1.e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. f3 The Two Knights variation: 1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 The Gurgenidze variation: 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 g6 Players whose Caro-Kann Defense games you should study: Anatoly Karpov, David Navara, Alexey Dreev, Tigran Petrosian
Creating middlegame plans can be hard. One easy method is to define the weaknesses in your opponent's position (or your own, if a plan is to be defensive) and create a plan revolving around them. That is what brought me a winning advantage in this game. My opponent created a long-term weakness, I created a plan, targeted it, and he made a mistake trying to defend it. 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 #chess
Chess endgames are all about schematic thinking and creating long-term plans. To do that, you need to be aware of all the weaknesses in the position, possible targets and lines of attack, as well as which pieces should be traded off for the biggest possible edge. This endgame was a pretty clean example of identifying and targeting key weaknesses and slowly building your advantage until the opponent's position is no longer playable and something falls. 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 #chess
👕 Chess merch!: 🤍 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 The Italian Game (often referred to as the Giuoco Piano) is one of the oldest, most popular, most useful and most heavily analyzed openings in all of chess. In this introductory video, I will try and go through all the main variations which could branch out of the opening, as well as explain the key ideas for both sides – the weak squares, attacking plans and strategical ideas. The Italian branches out into two main openings – the Giuoco Piano and the Two Knights Defense (3...Bc5 or 3...Nf6). They are completely different and lead to different middlegame positions. The Bc5 line often results in more solid, positional games (thus the name “Giuoco Piano”, the italian phrase meaning “a slow game). The main line, with white continuing with 4.c3, is one of the most complicated and fun variations to play for white against the king’s pawn. It involves strategical thinking, tactical prowess and positional mastery all in one, and playing it will definitely sharpen your chess senses. The Nf6 line, on the other hand, leads to some of the most notorious openings in chess, such as the infamous Fried Liver Attack or the Traxler. The main lines, however, albeit not as sharp as the aforementioned variations, still lead to much more exciting games than the ones that evolve out of the Giuoco Piano. All in all, the Italian is one of the most popular chess openings for a very good reason. In the following videos in the series I am going to go through each separate variation in depth, covering all the key lines for each. The series is going to be 8 videos long and it will include the following variations: 1. Giuoco Pianissimo 2. Giuoco Piano 3. Two Knights Defense – Knight Attack 4. Two Knights Defense – Modern Bishop Opening 5. Fried Liver Attack 6. Evans Gambit 7. Deutz Gambit 8. Hungarian Defense #chess #italiangame #giuocopiano
Learn how to be better against the Anglo Scandinavian whatever black does! The Anglo-Scandinavian, when black responds to 1.c4 with 1...d5, is black's worst option against the English Opening. Watch the introduction to the English Opening first if you haven't yet 🤍 The PGN with all the Anglo-Scandinavian variations is available on 🤍 00:00 Part 1: Introduction 03:33 Part 2: Main Line 21:57 Part 3: Black gives the pawn up with 2...c6 26:31 Part 4: Schulz Gambit 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
A full English Opening repertoire against 1...c6, a move that Slav and Caro-Kann players play to enter their favorite opening. The Caro-Kann Defensive System will be answered with Anti-Slav and Anti-Caro-Kann systems for white, and I'm going to teach you how to steer away from what black would like to play. Watch the introduction to the English Opening first if you haven't yet 🤍 The PGN with all the 1.c4 c6 variations is available on 🤍 00:00 Part 1: Introduction 11:02 Part 2: g3 Systems 34:20 Part 3: e3 Systems 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
Learn why the Dutch doesn't work well against the English Opening. The Anglo Dutch, where white doesn't play d4, deprives black of all the usual Dutch madness they would love to enter. Watch the introduction to the English Opening first if you haven't yet 🤍 The PGN with all the Anglo-Dutch variations is available on 🤍 00:00 Part 1: Stonewall and Classical Dutch setups 19:00 Part 2: Leningrad setup 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
My favorite way of dealing with d4 openings is to aim for a Slav type of position or a London System in reverse, which is achieved by developing the bishop outside the pawn chain before playing e6. This has been my reliable defensive weapon for years, and I always get positions which are relatively easy to play and which I understand well. That's why I ended this game with a lot of time on the clock, which is neeeeever the case when I play training games:D 😎 Become a Patron (extra daily content): 🤍 👕 New chess merch!: 🤍 More Merch on weird stuff like pillows: 🤍 ♘ Follow me on lichess (write, ask, challenge): 🤍 💲 Support the channel: 🤍 #chess
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