GM Akobian is the best! Clear explanations of positional concepts, and practical lines to play against some sharp openings.

@robertmcvickers5975

3 жыл бұрын

Such a legend, I love his vids haha

@tonymiller6847

2 жыл бұрын

I don't usually go on these sites as I retired from competitive chess many years ago and an old student of mine is now running the local club (only negative is we all have to wear masks for OTB play and none of us older folks (especially those over 70 years old) enjoy OTB chess as much with masks on and I don't enjoy playing or studying chess on the internet , but I think this is the guy that made it tough for the top players in Southern CA (like Jackie Peters and Cyrus Lackdawala) to make a living at chess. Cyrus opted for writing about chess. I believe my best results against the KID were accomplished with the Petrosian variation although I never understood why and I hope I'm about to find out why. Why? How come? Tell me why!

@tonymiller6847

2 жыл бұрын

You just explained this system as well as Tigran himself in one of his books. (I think I own all of Petrosian's writings.) Still he lost 2 games against Bent Larson in the second Piatigorsky Cup in '69. Both great games..

Akobian is a brilliant teacher.

@gabrielshen1434

10 жыл бұрын

***** Yeah. He taught at a summer camp I attended a few years back, and taught us to play the French Defense, my preferred opening ever since

@hagartm

6 жыл бұрын

That he is! ;)

@rogermichou8654

6 жыл бұрын

he was born to teach chess in perfect way

@venkatrathnam9751

5 жыл бұрын

Hooo

@venkatrathnam9751

5 жыл бұрын

Off course

They forgot to write what game was being analyzed, so here it is : Akobian,Varuzhan (2556) - Foygel,Igor (2438) [E61] Minneapolis HB Global op Minneapolis (3), 19.05.2005 1.d2-d4 Ng8-f6 2.c2-c4 g7-g6 3.Nb1-c3 Bf8-g7 4.Ng1-f3 0-0 5.Bc1-g5 d7-d6 6.e2-e3 Nb8-d7 7.Bf1-e2 c7-c6 8.Qd1-c2 Qd8-c7 9.0-0 e7-e5 10.Rf1-d1 Rf8-e8 11.Ra1-c1 Nd7-f8 12.b2-b4 Bc8-f5 13.Qc2-b3 Nf6-e4 14.Nc3xe4 Bf5xe4 15.d4xe5 d6xe5 16.Nf3-d2 Be4-f5 17.c4-c5 Nf8-e6 18.Bg5-h4 g6-g5 19.Bh4-g3 Ne6-f4 20.Be2-f1 Bf5-e6 21.Qb3-c2 f7-f5 22.Nd2-c4 Nf4-d5 23.e3-e4 f5-f4 24.e4xd5 c6xd5 25.Nc4-d6 Re8-f8 26.Qc2-b3 f4xg3 27.h2xg3 Ra8-d8 28.Rc1-c2 Kg8-h8 29.Rc2-d2 Bg7-f6 30.Rd2xd5 b7-b6 31.Qb3-e3 Be6xd5 32.Rd1xd5 b6xc5 33.b4xc5 Qc7-g7 34.Bf1-d3 Bf6-e7 35.Nd6-f5 Qg7-f6 36.Nf5xe7 Qf6xe7 37.Rd5xe5 Qe7-f6 38.Bd3-e2 h7-h6 39.Re5-e6 Qf6-a1+ 40.Kg1-h2 Rf8-f6 41.c5-c6 1-0

@kpradheep8868

3 жыл бұрын

-_- 🤥

@abhisheksarkar3072

3 жыл бұрын

I really like GM Akbian sir's lecture.

Grandmaster class, never imagine I could have a plan like his.

i just love how he always says think about it, because he always knows in advance they will something wrong of the top of their head.

I learnt a lot from your videos, I was and still an average player, but recently won against a player of 1700 ranking, which I couldn't even imagine a month ago, before making every move, i tried to remember every tricks you taught. Thank you so much.

@southparkninja3190

3 жыл бұрын

How good r u now

@sachinmohite9435

Жыл бұрын

Can you share your contact details please, i want to play with you

Thank you for your great classes GM Akobian

Very nice. I love GM Akobian's videos. He's such a patient teacher.

Amazing! superb teaching style, solid technique, brilliant game! :)

AKobian.. always plays simple move not go to complicated.. logical move.. great teacher thank you! I have seen this video 3 times

GM Akobian such a wonderful teacher, his explanations simple and lucid, those extra smart guys criticising here can go somewhere else, if they dont want to appreciate the efforts

Great ideas! Nice lecture Mr. Akobian!

I've watched all of these but it's been about ten years lol. Time to remember what I forgot.

This is instructional, thank you!

thank you very much for sharing these videos, and thank you Mr Akobian you are a brilliant teacher, you are just amazing :)

Very instructive and full of strategic ideas. Thank you.

Wonderful! 🙏🏻 Thank you so much!

His lectures are excellent! His enthusiasm for teaching shows. Great choice STL Chess Club.

@lonewolfmentality999

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

these guy teatches chess ...unlike the other who just analise games or moves!

Thank you very much sir !!

Akobian is the man!

Love these lessons. Thanks !!

I have to agree with many! Great teacher. I've watched a lot of other GM's teach and their not as detailed as him. He makes sure you see what he's talking about and understand why you made that move. The others assume you know already. Great Great teacher!

great lessons please upload more

this is wonderful thank you gm! 🎉🎉

Excellent !! Thank you very much

Best teacher

GM Akobian is very good!

Best teacher..perfect explained

I would like to thank GM Akobian, because this line made me convincingly beat a 200 higher rated opponent very cleanly. Even better, it was a team championship, we were loosing 2-1 and I won on board 1! The ideas are very similar (althought, of course, the accuracy is much lower), as you can see: chessmicrobase.com/g/hpbzi7ze

Thanks for the great video! :)

Amazingly explained

By far, up to this video GM Akopian V. is the best at teaching chess.

@robdavis8434

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the post, Juan. I'm still up north here. Next time I'm in the B. A. we will have to get together for a game ! Rob

@eljuanmanuel

10 жыл бұрын

rob davis Hi Rob, just let me know when you are coming, it will be great.

YES!! More Akobian please!

AMAZING COURSE

The best lector of the chess. 👍👍👍

akobian is the best teacher ever

Quite helpful🌸

Fantastic. Varuzhan is the best professor.

Really love this guy

MLG great lecture!

Thank you sir your teaching very very nice

Beautiful game

rlly needed this cuz of school activities we have chess tournament and many people uses kings indian and mostly strong opponents i lost on the fifth round but still got 5th place but there is still next matches so i needed this tnx so much

Great teacher and lesson. I am 1300 and I can sort of predict what move my opponent is going to make and play accordingly. Very interesting sistem!

35:50 how to checkmate if Rf7? even thought with the next check but the king still can hide behind the rook in 2 steps

@aletrnate24

5 жыл бұрын

checkmate via queen to D6 with rook on 8 file

What about the systems with ...c5 by black? That's what most repertoire books suggest against the Smyslov.

Nice to see very good game. I am interested about their second game. Where Can I find it?

Nice video! What chess software are you using?

WE WANT AKOBIAN BACK

Very well explained for all levels. And, the game itself is very interesting. No doubt that when e3 is played by White instead of the usual e4, Black has to understan the consequences.and GM Akobian explains the ideas well.

Sir you explain so well.. I am 31 years old, and I had somewhat lost interest in Chess. Recently I have started liking Chess again. Your explanations have been really helpful.

I had the pleasure to play a very similar line (same opening) where I also exchanged my rook for the light square bishop and after that my opponent's position (defense) was falling apart :) It was very nice to see how a very smart GM just like GM Akobian plays it to perfection. :)

Best chess lectures.

He should put a DVD out called the Petrosian variation versus the KID.

Isn't the problem with playing Nf3 instead of e4 in the opening that black can immediately play d5? These are cool lines but black can avoid them

You are the best man

Great teacher ! The problem of smyslov for higher levels is that black would switch to benoni and won't play ...e5 but rather ...na6 and ...c5 and white is not ideally prepared for this set-up

38..g6 was apparently a blunder, black can put up more resistance with Rd2; anyways that position was definetly winning even the echange down, it's amazing how the gm evaluated the position, that lsb was valuable.

What about checkmate in 4? exchange rooks at e file, take with queen, check - pushes king to G7 - queen check E7 - King to G8 - checkmate queen H7 ? Even though Queen E4 is strongest

strongest move ist just Re8+ because its a mate in 15, nice to have this stockfish matefinder, even on superslow hardware ;)

Bravo !

I cannot tell how many games I won with this system against kings Indian defense , great and flexible.

White's move 38 is also incorrectly transcribed. In the talk Varuzhan says he played 38. Bc2, but both Chess Base and Chess Tempo give 38. Be2. Agreed that Varuzhan is a terrific teacher.

What if after Bg5, h6 coming right after the fifth move?

Akobian is best teacher

Great lesson but there is a big detail... if black captures on d4 and the pawn on d6 stays all the system changes and the ideas explained here will not work... it would be good if he mentioned that...

You are very welcome!

What's the opening called again?

What do you mean? Loek van Wely said bayonet attack breaks King's Indian

Akobian should have mention a5 in the Bayonet Attack. It's been used by Ilya Smirin with great success.

What about after white castle black chase white bishop by h6?

If Black plays h6 on move 5 followed by Bh4,g5; Bg3, Nh5 and NxB, isn't Black better ??

This guy is a baller.

is there a way to do this with the e4 white opening??? because I'm not a d4 player

@BREAKocean

7 жыл бұрын

kings indian defense is done primarily to defend against d4. There is also King's indian attack!

on Bc2 he can play Rd2 perhaps

very good game

WONDERFUL EXPLANATION THANKFUL TO YOU... PLEASE MAKE END GAME MASTER 🌍🌎🌏🌼🌼🌼🌼

This is great, but I can never get to the ideal position because nearly every single game I play against the King's Indian involves either 5...h6, 5...d5 (followed by 6. BxN BxB 7. cxd c6 8. dxc Nxd6---and white is a little behind), or the very popular 6...Bb4 with the intention of trading the bishop for the f3 knight and getting the queen out early. I hate the KI so much that I'm thinking of switching to 1.e4 or something other than d4/c4.

Akobian can u play as King's Indian Defense?

I enjoyed a crushing win with White by playing this system after watching the vid! Thanks all.

What happens if after white plays e3, black responds with c5? Hasn't black then forced open the defense to his fianchetto'd bishop?

Good game

Just a 1400 player here but I noticed something interesting. At 23:00 bxd5 is possible but qxd5+ and there's a chance to save the rook at c2. At 23:27 after kh8 the same move is not possible anymore so bxd5 is winning if you don't stack the rooks. I imagine that this was analyzed during the actual game but got lost in the lesson. So he says he could have already taken on d5 before stacking the rooks but that's not accurate. Just my 2c ... for what it's worth.

Best

What if after bg5, they play h6 immediately?

@williamjefferson8280

9 жыл бұрын

TurboROTMG h6 is a mistake. White will play Be3 and then Qd2 and black will end up with a very weak kingside. Bg5 invites h6 for this reason.

@ReugreWins

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamjefferson8280 but Be3 and Qd2 is winning for black according to analysis

akobian is the gambit

Akobian is the best teacher

After Bc2 Td2 is another deflection threatening f2.

What is the formal name of this KID counter?

@goosegoesquack

5 жыл бұрын

0:58

@goosegoesquack

5 жыл бұрын

Smyslov

GOOD GAME

31:36 Is there not a tatical idea for black? RxD3??

@mrgoldie109

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, eliminate white’s light squared Bishop.

i think it's Fritz or Rybka or Houdini

akobian is the best

A quick Blitzie XD

Black should have retreated his knight to g6 instead (from f4 square), and his e5, f7 and g5 pawns seemed to destroy everything on their way forward...

A little annoying that the audience just blurts out moves without thinking. Great game and lecture though Akobian is awesome.

at 26:00 can queen take h7 followed by rook h1 mate?

Why is Smyslov better than Averbakh to conquer KID?

12:05 That's the difference