Great stream Simon, despite your mate interrupting every 2 seconds

@charlesmoore5954

4 жыл бұрын

amen

@boubacarniang3428

2 жыл бұрын

he talk to much

Great content! I've heard the mantra "every pawn move creates a weakness, but now I'm inspired to slow down from bullet and blitz to play some slower games and relish the position.

Great video! Regarding Carlsen's dutch, his former chess teacher, Simen Agdestein, used to play dutch in his days. However, Agdestein's idea was to bring out the bad white bishop to a6 or b7, so Carlsen must have gotten the inspiration elsewhere.

His mates accent is so strong!! Lol. I am Canadian and can barely understand poor Blair!! :-) lol great free content, Simon! Thank you

Well I know you done a lot of work on the classical and did a double tuition on the lenegrad, nice to see a stone wall. Keep it up. Also maybe be do some stuff on other classical lines line in your first book like the alechine Dutch or classical lines with bb4.

Great content as usual, Simon. How can we contact you to feature you in our next music video?

Fantastic Simon! You incorporated such a fantastic strategy and now years later, though you may not receive the commendation, you were no doubt instrumental in helping to bring such a beautiful concept to light, inspiring many further renditions and improvements to the limitless potential in the constantly broadening world of chess. That deserves a drink, and so we shall drink til our hearts content. Yea verily and furthermore I now retire to rest my brain for the moment. Alas Into the abyss of the mind we traverse unending paths and tournaments, unto an untold future expanding the horizon beyond all recognition. The gainsayers are confounded; tis truth and shan't be denied. "Forward to victory", a shout of triumph by the king atop the summit while the trumpets ring throughout the valley. The king of Gingers has conquered and is the grandmaster of all Gingers. "Long live the Ginger_GM", cries Charlie, the king's right hand man. "For he shall teach us this wizardry of chess and tactical warfare". And having said thus, I digress; for we shall attack at dawn. Cheers mate. Take an even strain, look well to your going, and have peaceful dreams of crushing all your opponents sir. -Jocephas

Nice video, Simon. I didn't know that Magnus also played the Dutch Stonewall. I've recently added the Dutch to my repertoire to play against 1. c4, in order to prevent the Maroczy Bind, but I haven't gotten to try it out yet. I plan to play the Dutch Stonewall in some variations (like 1. c4 f5 2. d4) and the Anglo-Dutch with 4. b6, 5. Bb7 and 6. Be7 against the English Opening. Does that sound like a good system for me (a 1900 player) to use against 1800-2200 players?

@jeffgreen3376

2 жыл бұрын

@@tiagomoraes1510 Well, it is important to make good opening moves. He just happens to know every opening, so he can play them all well.

@jeffgreen3376

2 жыл бұрын

@@tiagomoraes1510 Yes, I agree. I hate endgames though.

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20:10 'perhaps you found other pleasures in life other than playing fantastic chess'...lol he's so rude. He's quite fun though, i generally appreciated his contribution. QxN what a kapow move... I have to admit I didn't spot it, would have played the lame Qh4, really an inspirational move.

So when r u gonna do the shaight gambit?

Mister GingerGM I would like to ask you how black should play in dutch stonewall with the london system 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.Bf4 Nf6. White's plan Rg1, h3 and g4 seems dangerous. Very thankful.

Simon, will you be doing a dee vee dee on the Dutch Stonewall?

nice vid. gonna try it, as I play dutch all the time (DutchDisaster is my chess.com id) not that im any good.

11:45 why not a4 now that black knight is on d7 and can't jump to the b4 square anymore?

@sodas660

3 жыл бұрын

It can in 3 moves

Nice going boss

what about taking knight with bishop instead of pushing a5? the idea is after pawn takes e5, Ng4 chasing the pawn. If f4 there is always a fork on Ne3

@j0hncap0ne

4 жыл бұрын

oh but he has Ba3 then

@Hematom87

4 жыл бұрын

@@j0hncap0ne he has and also it looks risky to open the long diagonal on your own king, even if you take a pawn...

Excellent. But maybe you should have introduced Blair Connell a bit better.

40000!

QC7 and E3 in those move orders are inaccurate.

That guy was WAY too chatty. It was as if Simon was his guest! Yikes~

@jeffsteury4645

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, but Simon is a class act, and rather than berate an associate, put up with it. Great chess coaching, Simon, and again, a real class act! Something very much lacking when in comes to the leadership of my country, and obviously, no need to specify at this point.

@joshualee6559

4 жыл бұрын

They are obviously friends, and friends like each others company. so chill.

@artistryartistry7239

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshualee6559 Not the point whether they're friends or not, Simon is still trying to conduct a lesson, and it's no less intrusive that it's a friend constantly interrupting him mid-sentence and throwing off his flow. Interjections are ok here and there, but the guy was constantly butting in. It was annoying.

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Why shouldn't white take the a4 pawn? Obviously you shouldnt because Anand didn't but what is the theory behind it? Is the sacrifice simply to weaken white's position if they do accept?

@ElCayambe1973

3 жыл бұрын

I have the same question. Can’t figure out why white doesn’t just take on a4

@CirAMB

Жыл бұрын

If you open the a file for black the rook comes to life and a2 reminds as a weakness in white´s position. Its a basic positional idea. Also,according to computers, the rook pawn is the less valuable of all because it controls just one square in the chessboard.

Instead of a5, why not BxN PxB Ng4...

@johnvuillemot4805

3 жыл бұрын

f4?

video couldve been 10 minutes

That patzer is kinda annoying sorry

@ym276

4 жыл бұрын

Don't know what your rating is, but calling a 2238 fide a patzer is a bit hyperbolic

My poor ears

First glitch at 40 seconds - a new record!

try to focus....

Learned absolutely nothing

Making my own opening and yes it's awful. Call it the "ButterFace" defense. This is the sort of opening that may seem to be an attractive choice at least at first. But inevitably you regret it by the time that the middle game begins.

Brexit party? Maybe if it's a wake.

I enjoyed the game demos. Thanks. But you turned a 15 min vid into 30 mins with all the meaningless commentary. It became hard to follow the thread.

I enjoy your videos, and have so for a long time. You're a great player and chess persona is a large reason I have watched for so long. I have to say I am very disappointed in the mocking you, and especially your guest, have directed at the Brexit event. Shame on both of you for being such fools.

@simplehealthyliving4681

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Even though I'm not British.

Obnoxious

This two-man format is extremely annoying. It disrupts the listener thought process and very very unnecessary.

Good games. Too much talking. More chess less bla, bla, bla

Painful to watch

Can you do a video on how to crush the stonewall as black