I love this. Im only a begginer but you have a great talent of explaining the " why ". Please make more

@robertakerman3570

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, but in the beginning I had a few "what about this, that & other." T'was fun though.

@eddarby469

Жыл бұрын

@@robertakerman3570 yes, if you open d4, you have to have an understanding of a handful of responses. She discusses the QGA some and then illustrates the QGD. But you have to know the KID, and the Benoni, among others. Now, playing 1)e4 requires you to learn a handful of defenses too, so queen pawn - king pawn is about the same. Generally, with 1)e4 you will learn the Closed and Open Spanish, the Sicilian and the Caro Kann, the French and the Modern. And the Sicilian requires some knowledge of 3 or 4 variations.

@Kinobambino

11 ай бұрын

She's so good at teaching

Yes, finally someone that explains the why's without going 5 moves ahead with extremely advanced tactical reasons, and tangents about games in the early 1900s etc.....giving me a headache, and forcing me to close the window and go lie down, lol. Just straight simple teaching. Thanks Anna

@Thomaat116

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha made me lol

@dmaster20ify

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thomaat116 I must say she did a good job explaining her opening..

@Thomaat116

2 жыл бұрын

Haha i agree 100%, just the description of how others explain chess made me lol xd

@Kinobambino

11 ай бұрын

"Because this move as we all know refers to the ancient scrolls of himshilicahn, so you play that defense to open up this and from there it's OBVIOUS what you have to do, thankyou for watching."

Love this as a D4 player

This actually refueled my interest to play the Queens Gambit. Thank you

YAAASSSSS. Love the instructional content. Hope you make more videos on openings. I promise I'll watch every one of them😃.

Anna is a great instructor. She reviewed and reinforced motifs I had forgotten.

I really like your enthusiasm when you explain, I’ve learned so much thank you 👌

I need to learn more openings and the way you explained this have given the enthusiasm to learn. Thank you!

We need more videos like this!! Your explanations are great! ❤

Nice teaching Anna! I really love that your youtube videos stand on their own and that you don't just use youtube to advertise your twitch.

Hands down the first video to help me understand the queens gambit more! Thank youuuu

The person who disliked is obviously an E4 player

@athelstanrex

3 жыл бұрын

it was me.

@krish3101

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Modiagent

2 жыл бұрын

Hey guys I use cheat engine with smartphone fist 5 move engine then random move try to exchange major pieces bring opponent to endgame and try to help with engine opponent become mad. I never get caught I have lots of id . I use smartphone for cheating . This is so much fun hahahahaha

@yosefcohen483

2 жыл бұрын

How was he allowed in!? GUARDS!

@mtimes02

2 жыл бұрын

@@Modiagent cringe

Anna almost sold me on switching to the Queen's Gambit

Please do more opening theory videos. You explain it at the level I need. I knew some of that but also learned new stuff. I'm rated 1400.

@sakshamsinha2694

9 ай бұрын

What's your rating now??

Can you make a tutorial on the Botez Gambit

This video helped a ton because I'm learning the English, which often transposes into The Queen's Gambit or Queen's Gambit Declined, and I really had no idea how to play those lines of it until now

Very helpful, excited to try this!

I'm learning d4 just for Eric Rocen and Anna Cramling

@zacharysherry2910

Жыл бұрын

😂

Thank you so much! I've recently taken up chess again as my daughter (11 yo) started playing this spring, told me after a couple of weeks and I realised she couldn't be beaten offhand. I'll keep an eye on your channel and send her a link as well. I'll test how it is to not to play e4 as the first move for a while. Allt gott och stort tack!

This is a Great Video, Anna! I've watched it several times.... Just to get the basic starting moves down for fun games with friends. The explanations plus the several Q&A stops are really helpful !! Good job!

And ‘now comes the fun part’! Anna has so much fun, it’s infectious.

Thank you for the video, you are so positive and your instruction is so clear and helpful. I'm very new at chess, do you have a playlist or older videos about guides for low-rating players?

D4 for life too. One observation: the diagonal trick you showed in the beginning doesn't win the rook but a minor piece.

@Masalmeh321

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, Bb7 Qxb7 Nd7 Qxb5 wins a piece plus wins the pawn back.

@namenotavailable9989

3 жыл бұрын

How?

@sterlingdriggs8806

3 жыл бұрын

@@namenotavailable9989 The bishop or knight blocks the attack, the queen takes the blocking piece, then the other minor piece moves out of the way so the queen protects the rook.

@namenotavailable9989

3 жыл бұрын

@@sterlingdriggs8806 if you block with bishop or night you just lose that as well. No pieces will be protecting it.

@sterlingdriggs8806

3 жыл бұрын

@@namenotavailable9989 You lose the minor piece which blocks, but then when you move the second minor piece it's a discovered defence. The queen now would guard the rook.

Sweet video Anna. I'm going to look into D4 openings since I traditionally play E4 (very poorly)

I have to give you a thumbs up for this one. I've really tried reading books about Chess, but man they're hard work. But you managed to explain this is a manner that even a complete rookie like me could understand. One thing I will say, you might be able to beat me senseless at Chess, but if we ever meet across the Snakes & Ladders table, or even face other at Tic Tac Toe, and it's you who'll be in trouble!! 🤣

Thanks Anna! Very helpful

Thank you for a nice refreshing view of queens gambit!!!

Thank you so much for making this video

Great video, Anna .... I learned a lot! 😀

That was very well explained, thank you!

This is amazing. you are great at explaining why of the moves. i am a beginner ( 800s) and trying to improve my game. please make more such videos explaining the logic of moves.

Ok. I'm now addicted. Please keep videos coming 😊

I love how happy she is… watching her makes me happier.

Anna thanks your explanations are so good for a beginner your a really good teracher

Thanks for this video, Anna -- I'm a d4 player too generally, as white, if only to stop black from playing the Sicilian, which terrifies me. But I appreciate you're going over the Queen's Gambit because I don't want to get into a pattern where I'm always playing the London. I hope you can do more videos on Openings, because you explain the rationale behind the moves very well without getting too esoteric.

Thank you for sharing

Thanks for the instructive vid

Thumbnails do be getting better and better each day 🙌

Before I got into chess I was a long time melee fan, so many smash bros players starting to play chess now, made me want to play more too!

@apoptosisduellinks109

2 жыл бұрын

Why chess and not 'Go'?

I love the QG because of the bishop and Queen attack angles.

Perfect lesson, thanks

Thanks for teaching me the queens gambit, I guess. Your teachings were clear and efficient to me. These revelations about the queensgambit and its implications are huge. Its a shocking technique in itself, and it also changes the way I see the game itself. You might be a good teacher. (I've only watched until 7:46.)

Great job, fun stuff!

great tips!

Thanks so much anna!

Awesome video, learned alot! More vids like this please

Thanks this was so helpful

Watched because I started playing Blitz (1032 thank lower ELOs being good in tournaments) and I’m seeing Queen’s Gambit a lot more often than in Rapid (pretty much never at 1377). As Black, my pieces get stuck from development all the time and it’s annoying! (I normally go for C4/C5 type openings)

Great video!!

Gracias Anna , estoy viendo el video un poco tarde 😁😁 lo dijistes hace mucho tiempo , pero me parece muy interesante la forma de jugar que recomiendas

Thanks for this, Anna. I have been playing E4 my entire life. I think I will start giving D4 a whirl!

Going e3 if they accept the gambit is decent but in my opinion e4 is better because you’re taking the full center also once they played h6 a better move for a 1200 would be h4 defending with the pawn and if they take it’s soon going to be mate

Best QG lesson!! Anna is FUN too!! 😀👏👏👏💪🏼😓

i like to take on c4 after the bishop moves to d3, since that means white loses a tempo cuz it has to take back on c4, but rather wants to go back immediately to d3. and that way the long white diagonal also stays open for blacks white-squared bishop

A great introduction to opening with d4 as white, thank you!

very good tutorial. I'm gonna give this a try :D

Anna is the best ! Watch all her stuff

It is always fells nice when a gm recommends the only opening u know😅

Love your energy😎

3:50 its not a free rook, its a free knight. Knight is defense the rook, queen take knight and check the king and then bishop defense king and the queen cant take the rook elsewhere she gonna be taking by the black queen. But everything else is good. Good job anna love your videos.

More opening lessons would be cool 😎!

Hi Anna, Love your videos. If you play the queens gambit and take the d5 pawn with the c4 pawn (assuming they decline the gambit), can they not just take with their queen? Or am I missing something?

Anna is the best!😊

Thank you for this....I'm pretty new to chess but feel like the old guy coming into it at 40. I had played before but not seriously. Anyway, thank you for your videos. They've really helped.

I really like the way she teaches

I think you made a separate video about how to play queen's gambit accepted , can't find it anymore on youtube.

Big thumbs up.❤

For not wanting to show the London, apart from the c pawn sac (the knight can still go to c3), the bishop on h4 (would probably go back to g3 if not on f4) and the lack of a knight on e5, you have managed to put all of white's pieces exactly like they would be in the London lol. And yes different ideas of course (although still everything set up for a massive attack on the king side).

That's awesome! I'm an e4 4 knights player but I'm inspired XD

Never used myself, but will now give it a go and let you know.

at 11:44 when black plays h6, what would be wrong with white playing h4, if black take the bishop and you take with the pawn, now you got a clear rook column, any thoughts is h4 good or bad

Excellent

I keep watching this video again and again. Trying to stumble through queens gambit. Winning more games with tighter time controls. Still stumbling through it. But it's starting to resemble more of what is going on in this video.

Love it.

fantastic

Anna, you are a good teacher.

Great pointers on strategy and objective. If one studies the game that much, does it not make chess more predictable and that great chess players are not "geniuses" (like many think) but the ones who've internalized or memorized the most important moves??

8:40 I don't understand Bishop to g5. It is only for changing with the knight and ruin the pawn defense for potential castling? but even this after knight d7 is not possible. because after bishop g5 comes pawn h6, bishop h4, pawn g5. Is it worth?

Anna, why not first Bf4 after d4 d5 to prevent e3 from getting the bishop out?

This was so much easier to understand than when Gotham chess explains his "beginners" videos

If qf3 comes for the rook which is obvious but u can save the rook by sacrificing the bishop to b7, which is the only way to save the rook !!!!i guess😊.....anyways good lesson anna....already subscribed!!!! Thanks

You can protect the rock kinda: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 b5 4. a4 c6 5. axb5 cxb5 6. Qf3 Bb7 7. fxb7 Kd7 and then black queen protects rock. But you had to sacrify a bishop

Learning queens gambit with queen 👑

at 6:51 - pawn to b5 is possible and a good move and you will regret to take that pawn with a knight!

at 3:50, couldn't black just block with the knight, white queen takes it with check, white blocks the check with the bishop and the rook is defended by the queen?

@sebastianabele5059

3 жыл бұрын

so basically Nc6, Qxc6+, Bd7

@HD-pe8lv

3 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianabele5059 Well again you get a knight for free

@sebastianabele5059

3 жыл бұрын

@@HD-pe8lv of course, but you don't lose your rook. You sacrifice you knight to save the rook.

This video improved my elo

after this video i started to play D4 thanks, and only play D4 :)

I really wish there was a way to prevent semi slav when starting with queens gambit

Anna's jacket is so cool

How do u go offence

This opening litarally took me from 800 to 1000. So easy to play at a beginner level

Now I don’t have to bully my e4 buddies. I can save some breath and send them your way

PLEASE SHOW ME HOW YOU WOULD DEFEND THE SEMI SLAV... PLEASE....

I always thought that after they accept the gambit u go e4? Idk abt e3

Qf3 is a free piece not a rook, black can sac a bishop or knight to save the rook.

I get a lot of games where they try to pin my c3 knight. Any tips?

I really like this idea of castling queenside with the g4 battering ram but am not a fan of the position of the Queen and Bishop in the battery and would prefer if they were swapped around....

anna you are a sweeet came from gothamchess, am pretty bad at chess thanks for the lesson

I haven't played in a long time. Hope you and your mom post tutorials

i play both e4 and d4