I friggin love this guy. I admit that I learned how pieces move as a kid and didn't pursue chess like one should. I admit that only after my son came home one day and asked if I knew how to play, and if I ever heard of Gotham chess, I picked up the game after 2 decades. What this guy teaches for absolutely free is so far above and beyond the other sites that I literally check daily for his next upload. I was actually worried that he met his demise due to all the wars and rumors of wars. This guy is absolutely dynamite at chess and we are all lucky to know his content.

I love the pirc defence/kings indian. That combo is so similar, but offers you an answer to almost every first move the opponent can make. Really solid for a beginner

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

yes you get the same kind of setups

@R.Akerman-oz1tf

2 ай бұрын

@@chessscapeWell spoken.

@robertedson2374

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure this is the Czech Pirc!!

Incredible opening. I play this all the time in bullet and ultrabullet so that I can play positions quickly, accurately and comfortably.

@DrRajibShahriar

2 ай бұрын

Play on 10 min mode IT WORKS!!

Back for watching again - this is pure gold! ❤

This was great. I'll spend some time studying all these variations. Thank you for explaining!

This is great. Its really helpful to hear you talk through all the ifs and buts and possibilities. 'Assess the threat and deal with it': my new chess mantra!

Excellent and clear explanation of the theory - thank you!

Very nice lesson and I got good results with good players. Thanks and regards.

I think you gave a great breakdown of one of my favorite openings, but I was sad to see you didn't cover the most critical lines starting with 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. f4.. Would love to see another video covering these more difficult variations

@mariorossi7225

14 күн бұрын

No need for video about 4.f4 This move totally kill the black set-up 🙂

That really helped me. I have been playing for over a year with no progress. Mostly because its hard to remember all the variables your opponent can play. With your opening you have so many options that it seems winning at every move no matter what the opponent plays. Thank you so much. I finally have an opening I can understand and can build off of.

@TomBradshaw-ot9zb

2 ай бұрын

do you know where this happens?

@Fyer

2 ай бұрын

Where? No. @@TomBradshaw-ot9zb

I actually play this, I'm not perfect by any stretch of the means but I like this opening for black. I play this a lot and appreciate the lesson, thank you.

Nice. I tried the Caro Khan and the Acc. Dr. Sicc but this is so much easier to learn. And from there I can train the middle game. Thx.

@user-gr5tx6rd4h

27 күн бұрын

Caro Kann, not Kahn

@jacovanburen4908

27 күн бұрын

@@user-gr5tx6rd4h Thx for the correction.

A really instructive lesson 😎 I'll play this opening for my next few games

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

let me know how it goes 😉 if you have questions, send me a dm on IG

@ItzSwxzy

2 ай бұрын

@@chessscapedoes this only work for black?

@user-dj2eh5wr9n

2 ай бұрын

@@ItzSwxzy obviously, if you watch the beginning of this vid he shows you "almost every move white can make " because every other opening is too passive

@Diamond-vy1lx

29 күн бұрын

​@ItzSwxzy you can do the pirc setup as white too, I like the lines that close the center and end up in an attack on the king side by first pushing the f pawn after the initial setup

I went from 1300 to 1000 playing this..

@galanda17

2 ай бұрын

😂😂

@Marcelopalaciosdexile

Ай бұрын

it is pp of shhh?

@MichaelChambers-sb9gd

24 күн бұрын

Idk what u did then lol

@Scotty__

18 күн бұрын

You may have been focused on what he’s telling you in the video!! Versus reading the board at the moment of your games

@jedrekpobocki7534

12 күн бұрын

No. People just liked the comment​@@Marcelopalaciosdexile

I want to thank you for your great effort. I seem to be in a slump, trying new things and it is crushing my elo. I guess it is part of it. But I am going to study your channel. May Jesus bless all that you do Amen

@chessscape

11 күн бұрын

You can do it!

Very clear video. Thanks 🙂

After watching this video my perspective on where to look before move a piece, changed drastically. I still can't remember all the positions to counter each move, but this opening can lead to great sacrifices on blitz games. And the principles here can be aplied to whites as well.

I love this video I refer to it often thank you

Thanks, bro, I've been struggling to defend against this consistently and now I feel like I understand it much better

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

No problem!

Hi there among all the people on line I try to learn from you are by day the best I have seen thank you so much you make it easier to understand and follow have you dome one one the lii ok London jobava I would like to learn

Wow this opening is so 😮 flexible easy to understand

a very good explanation!

I have been working hard and studying openings trying to get to 900, when I survive the openings I can do very well. I watched your video and won 2 games against chess AI set to 900. Thank you for showing me this great opening. I am on the move up again.

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

Good luck!

Thank you Ryad Sir for incredible chess Opening for black which helps me a lot in game I play and this helps to increase my rating.

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

my pleasure! happy you like it 😍

@Aavani.A.S

4 ай бұрын

Ryad?

Thank you so much u for this video thank you so much!!!!

@davidshepherd846

2 ай бұрын

Please recommend the best opening for white

this dude earned a sub

Never knew about this one! Incredible opening! And the video went over all the little details of this opening. This is what Chessscape is all about! Great video! One question: What about white trying to threaten a scholar's mate after playing d6? The best response is to wait until we can punish it with g6? Or should we immediately deny scholar's?

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

you ll play Nf6 as a 2nd move so he cant play the scholar because the knight controls h5

@kamilman0

4 ай бұрын

I have an update,@@chessscape: played a 15/10 against white as follows [WhiteElo "929"] (opponent) [BlackElo "832"] (me) 1. e4 d6 2. Qf3 Nf6 3. Bc4 c6 4. Qb3 e6 5. f3 d5 6. exd5 cxd5 7. Bb5+ Nc6 8. Qa4 Bd7 9. Bxc6 Bxc6 10. Qd4 Qa5 11. Ne2 Bc5 12. Qf4 O-O 13. h4 Nh5 14. Qg4 g6 15. Nf4 f5 16. Qg5 Be3 17. g3 Rae8 18. c3 Bxf4 19. gxf4 e5 20. b4 exf4+ 21. Kf1 Qb5+ 22. Kg2 Re2+ 23. Kh3 Qd3 24. Rf1 Qc4 25. Ba3 Ng3 26. Rg1 Rf2 27. b5 Qe2 28. Rxg3 Rh2# {0-1} That was the game. I panicked a bit at the start because of the queen on f3 and the bishop on c4 but managed to lock not only his queen-side pieces with the pin with my queen on a5, which proved to be crucial as I not only prevented his dark-squared bishop from EVER leaving its starting square (it did move near the end of the game but only to a3 (which was blocked by a pawn on b4, making the bishop useless anyway) but also preventing a king-side castle with the bishop on c5 (which was supposed to kick the white queen in the first place. I was amazed at how insanely powerful the Pirc Defense you have showed us in the video was. And if you want to use this game in a future video, maybe as a showcase of this method in a follow-up, go right ahead. And thanks once again for showing this one!

Heyyyy i played this for months as main but now i main caro and this against anything other than e4 good opening and stable

A very enjoyable introduction to this opening. I've been playing the King's Indian... but this gives me some great ideas to move forward with!

i love how ur voice sounds❤ anyways good video i usually use alkelhines opening and it usually works! meanwhile this opening just works all the time.

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

Thanks 😅

Can you please make a tutorial on the Lion defense (d6, Nf6, c6, Nbd7, e5)? I love your videos

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

i ll look into it thx

merci beaucoup ! : )

Great content man🫂

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

thank you 😍

Great video. Can you do a KID vs Bayonet attack?

That's a Great Defense. Can you do a course about the Queen's Indian Defense like you did with Caro-Kann Defense?

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

sure

You explain very good. Is easy to remember when you explain. Keep doing that.

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

Thanks, will do!

this video is pure gold

Thank you very much Chesscape.

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

You are welcome!

Interesting and thank you. I try to improve my very modest game by playing against AI at levels above my skill. I am consistently trapped and am playing defense after a very few moves; very frustrating not to see the knight and bishop traps. Should I play at my level to gain experience? Much lower frustration.

Well done

What’s funny is if you play the Czech Pirc defense against the London system, you almost always end up winning a bishop by move eight or nine, because you push your central pawns to threaten a fork and a lot of times they’ll move their bishop to f5 to avoid it, then you push your pawn to attack the knight anyways and discover the attack on the hanging bishop. In a bullet or blitz game, they will forget that your queen is there and you win.

“Devlop”💀

Nice opening , thank you

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

No problem 👍

After opening with d6-Nf6, what determines whether your next step is King's Indian or c6-Qa5? Is it simply, anything other than white e4-d4, then do the KI first, however, if white opens with e4-d4-Nc3, then black d6-Nf6-c6-Qa5?

Thanks a lot! I just subbed. I am wondering what to do if I am White and Black plays pirc/kings indian against me! Could you (or did you, already) make a video from the White side? Thanks!

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

i will think about it

What if he puts his other knight in between the pin that you have created by ping the knight to the queen or he can just put his bishop in between Please correct me if I am wrong

Caro-kann left the game

It has a name, Pirc defense

Dear Sir...very instructive...pls need ideas on semi-abervakh & makagonov variation of king's indian...thank u

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

Ok sure

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

in the 2nd part of this video i cover the kings indian as well. you stopped watching too early 😅

i started to use caro kan as black opening 3 months ago, and my ELO dropped from 1200 to 870 till now.

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

try to find the weakenesses in your game. its rarely due to the opening

Ryad Sir can you please put a video on Kings Indian Opening with all variations and counter opening for it with all variations because my opponents are using this (Kings Indian Opening) against me and also I want to learn it. Thank you Ryad Sir for including 1 variations of Kings Indian Opening.

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

the 2nd part of this video has the kings indian already ! ;)

@s.p.tharunram3606

4 ай бұрын

Ok Sir.

@s.p.tharunram3606

4 ай бұрын

Later, Sir please opening which destroys kings indian openning.

Nice counter!

Hahah ….look my game brother 🔥

With 1.d4 d6 2. c4 you can go into the English Rat by playing e5! That might appear crazy, but look at the win percentage of the resulting lines in Lichess.

i don't know. queen to A5 feels weak, most of the time i've tried i just have to move it back and i lose tempo. i need to test it in blitz or 3 minute bullet games

Amazing videos as always, thank you Chessscape!

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

This move is like a Pirc defense Czech variation.

Very good video

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

Thanks

I always play this opening with minor changes the line I like is named black lion

Wow

Yeah, that works great ... if your opponent plays the wrong moves. There are a lot of ways for white to lose this opening, but just playing the most popular moves will get white through it just fine, even with an advantage. Taking the second most popular moves at key points will work even better for white. For example, after 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 Qa5 5.Bd2 Qc7, white's most common move is Bd3, not Bc4, but Bc4 works just fine. After 6.Bc4 B5, white should retreat to Bd3, not Bb3. But OK, Bb3 is the more common move, so let's continue with 7.Bb3 b5 8.Na4 Nxe4 9.Bxb4, then what? 9...e4? is a mistake, because after 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.Bxf8, and now black won't be able to castle. 9...Ba6 might look good, but white just plays 10.Ba3. It is not the most active square for the bishop, but it is attacking near the center, and it also keeps black from advancing the queen's side knight. The two sides are even on material, white has all his minor pieces developed (while both black bishops are still on their starting squares, and the dark-square bishop isn't even able to move yet), and white has the only pawn in the center. His position is much more open. He will probably castle (on either side) in the next couple of moves, then bring his rooks to the center, and things look good for white. Stockfish rates the game as +0.4, and it seems to me that is a conservative estimate. There aren't many games in Lichess database with this position (662 with all options on) after 9.Bxb4, but those that exist are won by white 55% of the time, compared to just 41% for black. I haven't looked through the 1.d4 and other opening moves, so I will not comment on how well it works for those, but I would not use it for king's pawn openings.

What they play queen e2 after pushing the d and e pawns

Merci, monsieur. Est-ce que vous avez un canal Francais aussi? Sinon, pourquoi pas? :)

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

bonne idee

Every time i play this defense and once i move my queen to A5. They almost always move the bishop to d4 making me move it back. Or they jump the center before i get my queen moved. Either way I still like it, but it doesn't work for me as much as I would like.

@orangeRhymingDictionary

Күн бұрын

Them moving the bishop to d4 doesn't really cost you anything. They'll lose the tempo later when they develop the bishop to a real square

I have tourney on 30th, Time to destroy them with this 🔥

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

good luck with your tourney!!

@armaan6the018

4 ай бұрын

@@chessscape thank you so much 🔥

@Solonas-gv8ib

5 күн бұрын

​@@armaan6the018how did it go ?

thank you for showing scenarios where white dont castle. I am a 300 in blitz and ppl rarely castle 😂

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

punish them 😅

Ohhh no no no Magnus is watching this !!!! ... Maggggggnus carll sun ☀️

When you push pawnb4 attacking the knight, after they move the knight and you capture pawn on e4 with your knight, why can't they just take back a pawn on b4 with their bishop on e2?

@Dakodii

2 ай бұрын

Can you use notation?

@jaydubbs3902

2 ай бұрын

No, but I can explain that at 8:27 after you move pawn to b4 attacking their knight and they move knight e2 and he takes pawn with knight to e4, they can simply take back a pawn with bishop to b4. I hope that helps explain why there is no advantage taken at that time contradicting what he says. What are your thoughts?

@jaydubbs3902

2 ай бұрын

@@Dakodii I responded, but forgot to tag you....let me know your thoughts on my response. I hope I explained it clearly.

@Dakodii

2 ай бұрын

@@jaydubbs3902 White can recapture the pawn with Bxb4, however after a5 Bd2, the bishop is forced to retreat and black exchanges their knight for it. This is disadvantageous for white as they lose the bishop pair. Bishops are generally stronger, but having the pair when your opponent does not is a decisive advantage. A move such as 3. Bf4 retains the bishop pair with equal chances for compensation. There is also 4. Ba3, however that is not a natural retreating move. After a5, there’s just too many complications and you’ve wasted 4 moves/tempo on that one bishop when Bf4 avoids it all. The reason he says black has an advantage is because centralized knights are very strong, white’s pieces are restricted, and lastly a bishop pair is being questioned. You have to understand most GM positions are fought with a nearly equal score of 0.00, so these minor imbalances can be massive for creating winning chances. As black, in top level chess, equalizing the position is already considered to be a win.

D8-D5 = B2-B4 is the most common move against the Queen.

Can't believe the chess bot in chesskid play this opening

I believe this opening is a variation of the Old Indian Defense?

all beautiful when i play it i end up with double pawns all the time

I am simple I see chessscape I click it

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

wrong channel 😂

@100subscibersplzzzz

4 ай бұрын

@@chessscape oops !

What is this opening called or would you like to name it?

@ngahu9471

2 ай бұрын

Kings indian / Pirc defense

6:50❤

i won sleeping magnus by using reti opening(develop knight first)

What if they play queen e2?

I went from 1600 yo 1300 by playing this opening.

my birthday🎉

tricky

Online chess is insane. I need at least 100.000 games more to bother about any of it.

I downloaded an AI chess game and he foils every move every time. The AI doesn’t even do any move you predict by white. It seriously does something completely different and trumps any move you offer in this video.

What if I have to go first ?

Archer wants his money back.

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

?

The Perk defence? very suspicious

Czech Pirc ?

why i m watching it too

@chessscape

4 ай бұрын

why not 😂

notre maître est francophone, est-ce qu'il y a un canal d'échec en français?

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

pas encore. j’ai pense a en creer 1 egalement. pas evident de trouver le temps avec mon job ;)

Best opening for black,I win matches more than 10 all I win

This was a very good lesson. I will need to watch it more than once. Liked and subscribed. 👍

If white plays offensive with f4 it seems complicated.

Agadmator

What about "The Cow"?

This opening is like black saying it's gonna be at least a draw

All of this is pointless is your opponent goes f3 instead of Nf3.

Hi

What’s the name of this opening?

@chessscape

10 күн бұрын

pirc

Bd2 every time

S tier

If white plays f4 yhe black bishop can never be developed......How to deal ?

@pallabbala256

Ай бұрын

f4 is an antidote to all this type of opening.. Austrian attack.. is ignored by all videos... Am I correct mate..