Here's the thing about the cow opening. You're forcing your opponent to actually play chess and not just memorized moves/positions. However, time will tell if this opening is not made obsolete as people start learning how to play against it. But for now it's a fun and cool opening.

@MIRAGEDEALER

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the person who won the game probably got out the ole computer to start analyzing it. The cow will live until it's time to go to the slaughter house.

@TKDWolf

Жыл бұрын

I played it today against someone who traded my G3 knight for their bishop before I could castle, and then the king side is pretty messed up, castling queenside is quite far away and whites pawn on G3 is very hard to defend, and if its captured by the black queen, it comes with check. Really hard to deal with the G3 knight being traded right away.

@ubute

Жыл бұрын

@@MIRAGEDEALER perhaps b4 then the cow will be knocked up by a beneficial friend and then we'll see Cow Mk: 2, 3. 4. If the suitor is of another species it may be a hybrid approach. 🙂

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

Chess might have requirements. And what died before? What is chess?

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

​@@MIRAGEDEALERcomputer love, green ize, her ize, her herizon..

The Cow speaks for itself…

@deevnn

Жыл бұрын

Quad...mooooooo

@jptambo

Жыл бұрын

W comment😂😂

@awekeningbro1207

Жыл бұрын

moooooooove

@teamhop

Жыл бұрын

Hey I’ve got some really great news to share with you, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on a cross and resurrected on the third day so you may all have eternal life. If you believe and repent of your sins and put your faith and trust in Him as you would a parachute jumping off a plane at 25000 feet up in the air, He will give you eternal life in heaven as a free gift and I promise you, He will change your life forever as He did mine. He is the ONLY way to heaven and He loves you all. Please think deeply about this with urgency because this is your eternal life and soul, you don’t know when you could die, meaning you could die at any moment, so please consider this with all your heart. If anyone tells you that Jesus isn’t the only way, they are lying to you and they don’t care about your future.

@ExecutionSommaire

Жыл бұрын

hahahaha

I no longer play for myself. I play for the honour and the glory of The Cow.

@jeanberecz4853

Жыл бұрын

I will spend a lot of time to study your cow!

@keithallpress9885

Жыл бұрын

You were on a cow roll.

@klaraschmidt9714

Жыл бұрын

This is the reason for I am so sad, that I have no good results. I would play this opening and am so unintelligent to do ist well. 😞

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

​row row row your boat.

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

​maybe i helped?

Anna @27:31 “what is the deal with people putting their knights at g4” *2 MILLISECONDS LATER* “Wait …. Is she going to checkmate me” Gotta say, the response time is quite impressive 😂

@veselindimov307

Жыл бұрын

And she then goes: "Nah, I don't believe it!". Proceeds to get checkmated!

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

G4 the bucket. One is p and three c. Cause she wont love me

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

Check mate, check point will she love my shadow.

@notme222

Жыл бұрын

If she could do 2 moves in a row she would have been fine. 🙃

@kostastournavitis7975

11 ай бұрын

I keep coming back to this position and i am always laughing when i see her reaction. It just makes my day haha

So far (game 2) the Cow relies on getting your opponent out of prep, so that they blunder and give up. I'm a bit worried for when people start figuring out the theory.

@dvaccaro96

Жыл бұрын

Spoken like the best player in the world

@taliesine.8343

Жыл бұрын

I mean, for the average player it's already hard enough to prep against all the normal openings. If their is an obscure opening that only a few people play here or there, it's often not really practical to study these.

@izaakguzman3966

Жыл бұрын

It would be a good half board set up tho

@izaakguzman3966

Жыл бұрын

Use one side cow and the other regular

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

Funny, why so serious?

That's actually crazy a 2000+ didn't immediately see that fork in game 1.

Anna is a huge reason chess is so fun for me. Her attitude is just the best.

The queen fork in game 1 was BRUTAL. Long live Cow.

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

You have two queens left. Then what of theft?

The “accelerated cow” is when you play one of the knights to c3, g3 before moving the other knight. If you have two knights on d2, e2, it is called “cow piano”

@LegitosaurusRex

8 ай бұрын

b3, g3?

@chrisdonnell7200

5 ай бұрын

​@@LegitosaurusRexb3 or g3, moving a knight twice before the other

It's kind of crazy just how effective this opening can be. It's not an unsound "meme" sort of opening like the bongcloud.

@HighlyCruciferous

Жыл бұрын

But it is. Very much so.

@slideman1249

Жыл бұрын

@@HighlyCruciferous its not lol because bongcloud is a very bad position the cow opening is equal

@HighlyCruciferous

Жыл бұрын

@@slideman1249 It's very far from equal. Not that that should be a deterant in and of itself, it's just better to be aware of these things

@slideman1249

Жыл бұрын

@@HighlyCruciferous your higher rated in your dreams ur trash bud

@jonnes__4657

Жыл бұрын

Maybe even with the handicap of the COW, Anna can win... 😜 .

I think the cow takes all inexperienced opponents out of their preparation. “You know what they say about the bishop pair...”😂

@trangium

Жыл бұрын

I think it also takes experienced players out of their preparation...

@BruceHoult

Жыл бұрын

@@trangium Chess is a draw until someone makes a blunder. There are no winning moves or winning openings, only losing ones. The whole point of gambits and other unusual openings -- indeed ALL chess "prep" -- is to get the opponent out of their "book", to somewhere they don't know what they're doing but you know what you're doing.

@halalola432

Жыл бұрын

@@BruceHoult It doesnt have to be a blunder, they could play a good move but the other person made a brilliant

@tobyonatabe2601

Жыл бұрын

@@BruceHoultmake enough mistakes and they’ll add up to be a blunder. I’ve had loads of games like that.

@otto2603

Жыл бұрын

​@@BruceHoult What's your rating?

We already were fans of horses and used a similar opening style but now ... we have taken your cow opener to the board and so far it is making for fun and fancy competition. Thank you Ana, you are a wonderful instructor. ❤

You found the line and still went for it, so I don't think we can blame the opening.

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

Door portal window, ring of fire like we don't know

I freaking love "The Cow" I'm a brand new player, who just got started a few weeks ago, and "The Cow" has freaking changed my life. I had gotten to the awkward stage in my game where openings suddenly had become dangerously important. Normally I like nice solid developmental opening, where I can stage my pieces analyze my opponent and choose my strategy. But now I've gotten to the stage where one out of three players, I play against is trying to run silley gimmick opening or another, forcing me to spend the first half of the game chasing their Queen around my front lines like a 1950's cartoon house wife chasing after a mouse. I had resigned myself to the fate of having to learn and master the counters to dozens gimmick openings, just so I could work on the rest of my game. Then 'The Cow" moo'd its way into my life. "The Cow", runs easily from both White or Black. "The Cow" preserves its defense while developing its pieces quickly. "The Cow" can't be rushed, and runs at my pace. "The Cow", doesn't care about gimmicks, and leaves gimmick players poking it with a stick before being batted away and run over. I freaking love "The Cow", thanks Anna.

@williamnolan5650

Жыл бұрын

lol so funny kinda sounds like that hyped-up ShamWow late night infomercial..."You'll be saying cow every time you use this towel!" 😂

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's what I thought about London system - truth be told it did me more harm than good and I only really started improving once I stopped playing that shit.

@GameMastersWorkshop

Жыл бұрын

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 Thanks Mariusz, I appreciate the heads up. I dont plan on getting dependent on The Cow, but truth be told I have fundemental parts of my game I want to focus on right now, and being able to work on those rather then having to get stuck having to learn a bunch of counters is a relief. Right now the cow is training wheels, which I know will have to eventually come off, but theyre training wheels Im gratefull for while Ineed them.

@zoa666

Жыл бұрын

I decided to finally try the cow opening in a 3 minute blitz game and my opponent hung their queen. 😂 Moooo.

That was entertaining. Most fun I've had in chess in ages. I laughed, I cried, I was moo-ved. Thanks for the video

My first time playing the cow opening and I guess it scared my opponent into resigning.

been trying to cow opening and it led to pretty eventful games so i actually really like it!!

I just tried this opening as a complete beginner, as in I know how the pieces move and that's it. And I dominated the whole game. The cow is clearly superior to all openings.

I looked over several of your videos over your Cow and won my first game using it while playing black just now. Makes them play chess not just memorize. Thank you!

Anna is all in on this cow opening. Holy... cow.

@miguelangeluscangacastillo6811

Жыл бұрын

holy cow XD

@jackchueh1231

Жыл бұрын

Milking the opening for sure

I used the cow opening in two games Saturday and won both. Great way to make some openings with out moving to many pons.

I’ve been using The Cow almost exclusively lately, and it’s done me solid!

Been using the cow a bunch this week, loving the dynamics of it!

I love the KZread algorithms. This is the 3rd video of yours that I've now watched tonight. I downloaded a chess game for my computer to give it a try. I have no idea how to play chess, I think I know the way each piece is allowed to move. @15:30 when was the last time you saw something like this... I honestly have no idea what I'm even looking at but your enthusiasm and love for chess is extremely clear. Subbed

Anna, I remembered where I'd seen the Cow Opening before. A guy called Pafu invented it in 2002 and called it the D-System or Defense Game. He wrote a free pdf book which is easy to find on Google and kind of crazy! :)

@Iruinyourkdr

Жыл бұрын

This has gotta be demoralizing

@nchess1044

Жыл бұрын

yeah and then he realized it doesn't work. He wasn't a 20 yo hot chick with youtube monetization and millions of brain dead followers to buy his pdf and buy his bs so he just gave up.

@theztav

Жыл бұрын

Aw, this sucks. She was so happy.

@andrewbloom7694

Жыл бұрын

@Iruinyourkdr why? Every opening has been played/discovered before by now. I guarantee some kid in like the 1700s played this, just because there are only so many opening moves you can make. So long as she didn't know it existed its fine. And the only way I even found that pdf was to google "defense game 2002 pdf chess", so it seems unlikely she'd have just stumbled across it 😆

@RikMaxSpeed

Жыл бұрын

Maybe there’s a copyright risk here for Anna. That said, this D-System simply hasn’t been played at all and isn’t in chess databases.

When I learned playing chess in high school, our elder brothers from higher grades were just playing as the Brasilian girl. Opening motives (patterns), that finishing on the corner.. Every single move took me back to 25 years ago.. I still play in this style. I live in Turkey and I am still surprised how that play felt so much familiar. Ofcourse I am nothing close to competitve playing 😂

I love soft spoken sarcastic Anna😂😂Didn't even know she had that mode!

The phrase “the Cow is fast” will get me through my day.

And speaking of inspiration… I haven’t played chess in the past 40 years, LOL, but this cow opening is definitely what I needed to jump back in!! 😊

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

Lefts lift oh what a gift.

I'm thinking, when you put the bishops on d2 and e2 and you have this full cow's head going, it would be the 'Cabeza De Vaca' variation. It's also a funny Mexican last name.

The Cow is an excellent opening for chess players who ruminate! 😂

Well done Anna, Ive been playing this for a week and its very strong. You can tell most people at the beginning look confused. Its like they are thinking 1.) this guys doesn’t know what he is doing, or 2.) what is this guy up to??? LOL. This is so fun to play. Thank you.

Just won 2 more games with the Cow against players rated above me. This really works!

The last one was an attack like Tal's with these signature knights. I think a subtle move like h3 would solve everything. But there's probably a better center setup against these knights. Next time end with a win - the last scoop out of the jar is often more important than the first one to leave an impression.

@ariadnepyanfar1048

11 ай бұрын

One of Anna’s personality and chess tournament strengths is that she’s better than a lot of people at taking a loss. She bounces back fast, even after disappointing herself hard.

Anna: "I don't believe it!" (Her opponent's check mate idea in the final game.) That was Cypher's last words in The Matrix, before he got roasted by Tank. 😂

this should be an official opening in the database😅

@twitter.comelomhycy

Жыл бұрын

Yes

LOL Anna, you saw it coming but still played the moves 😂

The Cow is the new bongcloud

@zy_in_internet

Жыл бұрын

It's bongcow

Holy cow, that last player was good. It looks like they blundered, but it was all part of the plan. I would've feel for that too tbh

Hey Anna. This is the first I've seen your videos, and I'm beyond impressed! I've watched several of your vids today. I love your parents! What a great opportunity to learn chess right! I'm an "old school" player. I used to play all the time in the 70s and 80s. I won so much that after while no one would play me. I haven't played now for years. So, the first of your vids I saw today was the "cow" introduction (birthday present). I used that exact opening for most of the chess I played. I just called it "street chess". I played and won against a few chess club members and I wasn't too impressed. It's GREAT to see you do what you do and with your parents!

It's decent, I'm nowhere close to 2100 and I'm not beating everybody with it but have been using the cow as an experiment and i think the number one thing I'm finding is that i win by time out; the cow just confuses them from the start.

OK I have been playing the Cow ALOT tonight with black and white pieces. Anna you are brilliant. This opening is amazing. It is so fun to play. The lines are sensational. The horses are deadly and the bishops...well damn. All the pieces are well utilized. Excellent offense and defense options. And so easy to play. The fact that it can be played both black and white is uniquely brilliant. This opening is fricken awesome. I am 42 and have been playing since 5 and I feel like this opening has brought a new excitement to my playing that I haven't experienced since starting online digital chess. And Anna that displeased look on the thumbnail of the cow refuted video is like, the most adorable thing I have ever seen. You are cooler than school homegirl and completely brilliant. Thank you for bringing new life into this old man's game.

@234i9

Ай бұрын

I cant see how this is possible when her two parents immediately saw it and went "nah this aint it lol". Also youre 42 calling yourself "this old man" speaks volumes.

@joshtheegotist

Ай бұрын

@@234i9 my dad died at 44, so 42 feels old to me asshole

There is a clear advantage when nobody has seen an opening before.

I won with a variation of the Cow Opening. I guess you could call it the Unicorn Variation. That's where I used the Cow on the king side. And regular opening on the queen side.

Also hey Anna, after what Mia said about the cow, challenge her to refute it against Danya or Hikaru playing the cow! ❤

Magnus might troll grandmasters with it.

This is amazing. I was strugling. With this open, in one day I went from 1150 to 1260. 85% winrate

I have to admit, I have been using the cow opening in blitz with great success. Much to my own surprise. It is quite effective but you do have to soak up quite a bit of pressure in the early stages of the game. But in blitz, it definitely takes the opponent by surprise and it creates a lot of joy for the bishop pair in the middle game. 👍

I’ve played the last 7 games with your cow opening. I won all. Looks like you’re on to something. Keep up the good work

@havezet69

Жыл бұрын

Up to now I have played 31 games with the Cow opening (5 min Blitz). I have lost 7 of which 3 are lost due to my own blunder (oops). The Cow opening is very effective!

@nicolasj6745

Жыл бұрын

​@@havezet69 Which Elo?

@DavidKnowles0

Жыл бұрын

@@havezet69 Same here, all the games I have lost with the cow opening is me blundering. The Cow opening is very good and easy to remember.

I have been using the cow opening, it's pretty crazy how effective it is.

@12jswilson

Жыл бұрын

Really? I've tried it a few times against lower rated opponents. I'm usually getting destroyed then my opponent hangs a queen and I end up winning

@hippiemuslim

Жыл бұрын

@@12jswilson some low rated players learn opening tricks and they never get to endgames where they start blundering pieces. The cow avoids early traps and gives you a bit of advantage against chess bullies.

After watching this video, one of my online opponents used this opening. I recognized it, took total control of the center of the board and destroyed them.

Anna: "But I have the Bishop pair...and you know what they say about the Bishop pair.... the say the Bishop pair is good" LOL 22:20

This is now my favorite opening. I’m not a great player but my rating is improving with this opening! Go Cow!!!!!!

Anna, don't give up on the cow! 4/5 ain't bad! And OMG, the speed at which you played the last 30 seconds of the 2nd to last game, my head was spinning. I am a complete chess noob, but still love watching your videos!

@eledgy

Жыл бұрын

Thos pons we’re gone in a flash

@thafreaknl

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Insane endgame skills. I'm jealous.

@jonnes__4657

Жыл бұрын

The rook destroyed the pawns with warp speed. 🥴 .

Used to play a lot. But not in awhile. The cow tho... it has inspired me to play again, more. Tx for your videos. Also inspiring, and fun.

Bovine Bliss! Anna you videos are so fun to watch, and I am learning so much from the way you voice your thoughts during games.

The Cow opening has broken chess!

She invented the 17 moves mate opening to counter the cow 😁

@Tiquono

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@MrMbrownjr

9 ай бұрын

Not really... if Anna would have moved to h3 instead of f3, that mate would not have happened and who knows how the rest of the game plays out

@juldeparis

9 ай бұрын

@@MrMbrownjr if my aunt had some, I would have called her uncle 😁 (french untranslatable common expression)

@MrMbrownjr

9 ай бұрын

@@juldeparis True 😁

Your opening is amazing! It can bring into the chess lots of colors! Thank you Anna!

Hilarious games! I got the best laugh I've had for a long time. Many thanks Anna!

Can’t wait for Hikaru to do a cow opening speedrun and reach 3000

@SchighSchagh

Жыл бұрын

Same. I want to see a Danya slow run as well though.

Have we seen a Cow vs Cow opening yet? Ground beef :)

I need more of this

It was that dark square situation near your king that finally killed you but dang game 6 was inspiring. Love that speed

I think after the initial setup, you finish with Ke2, for the bong-cowed variation.

ive gone from 450 to almost 550 with the cow

@ralphzoontjens

Жыл бұрын

Down a shot of milk with every win!

I commented elsewhere but I won with the Cow opening last night (well, 1:30am this morning) even after blundering my queen. It helped that my opponent was semi-clueless also. I made a lot of mistakes and could have lost my queen much earlier. I had tunnel vision and went for something. My opponent completely over extended and I was able to start destroying him from the back. I'm starting to see a few common attacks against it.

492 videos, 492 likes. I became addicted to this narative style. And the Cow opening is the only one with I can prevail.

Love this opening!

@pieceofgate7008

Жыл бұрын

Only? Theres more than one board or piece. Chess died checkers at least.

I love the cow opening. I'm on a 70% win ratio streak. Thanks Anna!

@user-wb4sl8ny8v

Жыл бұрын

My rating has increased by 80 points today. Glory to the holy cow!!!

"the cow is not scared of baseball sticks."

The middle game you got during the first game reminded me of a Caro-Kann Advanced Variation middle game.

Wow, cool opening😊

Feel like my game is improving with the Cow. TY...just beat a 1350 Bot with this Opening.👍🤩🤩🤩🤩

You are absolutely amazing, Anna! The cow will forever change classical chess for the better.

Hi Anna, my first tries were not this successful, because I played very defensive, as the nature of this opening looked like. But when I played more aggressive / offensive, I beat some players at about 1650 level in Blitz. I think the strategy is to wait for opponents making mistakes and then simply collecting free pawns and even knights. In one case I got two passed pawns this way.

This sequence of Moves for white and black was 1st published by Pafu in The Defense Game 2002, pdf Page 13 of 214

Anna always hitting us with her big vocabulary, followed by "I think that's a word" 😂

8:56 the Hippo vs the Cow 😂

At 5:09 in the video you talk of sometimes pushing the h-pawn, and I modestly propose you refer to that as the Mad Cow variation!

Was watching your live today and it was so fun and the energy was great! And I agree with you, pineapple on pizza is amazing!

8:56, after this 'moo' 😆

The psychology of ownership of your own game! Class... Real competitive emotions... The highs and lows... Very impressive and inspirational!

I have been playing the Cow opening since your introduction video, interestingly one opponent recognised it!!

the cow opening make sense just put ur knight on g3 b3 to protect ur central pawns and help to to central breaks and bishops will come out its pretty reasonable to play

@AnnaCramling , The Chess Giant posted a vid today, using the Hippo against your Cow. I would love to see you develop a variation to make it work better in the scenario that he presents.

I've been using the Cow recently Since I'm low ELO it's proven particularly effective against gimmick openings 😂 but also it leads to very interesting games where you get to push whichever pieces you want basically

@DavidKnowles0

Жыл бұрын

An everything is defended,

Just played it for the first time (against the computer set at 1800 so I could see the eval) it was 0.05 on the eval after the opening. It wasn't a "pure" cow though cause it pinned my d7 knight with a bishop so I had to move a bishop and castle first.

I'm a beginer and played only a few cow games. But rly like to go for it for black when ppl some weird openings that Im unaware about. So the cow makes them play actual chess, nlt just memorized lines

"thank you for the game, thank you for the queen that was awesome"😂😂

3:39 "If I don't know why I can't then I will do it." Anna Cramling

I'm just a beginner but I've adopted the Cow Opening EVERY TIME! Thanks Anna!

Its official Anna has officialy broke chess. Just jumped online for couple quick games, and it was pure mayhem. Everyone from the players to the bots are flailing around wildly at "The Cow". Three games, 2 players and one bot, every single game devolved into total chaos. Everyone of them I played threw completely random crap at the cow. Contests devolved into melees, and melees into an outright brawls. Even bot went nuts and tried to play the stampede... the #$%@ stampede! It was chaotc, it was brutal, and it was beautiful. Thanks Anna

It's known as small centre opening with e3 and d3 that transcend into a variation of Van't Kruijs opening not a new opening just a variation of Van't Kruijs. White ends up slightly worst if black development is solid.

This is great. I won 5 in a row almost reaching 400 (newbie here) with my calf: d3, e3, Kd2, Ke2, h3, a1. Calling it the calf because I misunderstood your cow from your dad's birthday video and this opening has ears but no horns :)

My native language is spanish and when i saw the name of the brazilian girl i read " tocinato " and sounds like she makes your cow tocino ( bacon ) or a fusion between tocino + asesinato

Never quit. Make them work for it.

I look forward to seeing further development of The Cow.

I hope there is an ever growing cult of cow opening players now

"Thank you for the queen, that was awesome". That was funny to me.