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I taught myself chess at the age of 8 and 9; I'm now 70. Your videos have taught me more about chess strategy than my lifetime of playing. Thank you, Igor!

@worsethanjoerogan8061

2 ай бұрын

2024 is a great time to be a chess player. The Internet gives us access to high quality chess lessons from GMs and an endless supply of opponents of all skill levels

@VOID-eg2uh

2 ай бұрын

we should play chess sometime i rlly wanna learn from you

@RyxCh

Ай бұрын

I want to learn

@AyushTH

29 күн бұрын

Naw its all stockfish carrying​@@worsethanjoerogan8061

king's gambit but with the wrong pawn sacrifice

@Caseyuptobat

Ай бұрын

King's Bastard gambit

@stbauch1

29 күн бұрын

@@Caseyuptobat You know nothing, Jon Snow

Thanks Igor, now delete this video 🤣

@galkondric5364

Ай бұрын

why

@ledo11148

Ай бұрын

@@galkondric5364 so no one knows how to handles this opening lol

@lightworker2956

Ай бұрын

@@galkondric5364 Because Rockerkunal wants to abuse this knowledge without others knowing it. (It's a joke.)

@bernard9823

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@harshkatiyar8884

9 күн бұрын

Yes please!! I am Benefited now and desire no one else know it to increase the competition.

I´ve been playing chess for 35 years and never heard of Georgy Halasz, this lesson is absolutely brilliant, thank you very much!! 👏👏👏

@ilmariilonen7257

2 ай бұрын

Hungarian master, rating around 2350

Your enthusiasm and rapid pace continue to delight us all.

Igor, I cannot understate how much I've been learning and improving from your instruction! You're my go-to guy for Chess mastery. In particular, I've gotten much better at looking for counterattacking opportunities (rather than retreating or defending). That said, the application of that same concept may present an issue with your strategy for variation 4, at around 11:20. You assume that black will continue dropping back as you advance the h and g pawns. But what if he plays ...Nxg4. White recaptures with the h pawn, but then Bxg4 restores the pin on the f3 knight. The next move, black can play h5 and that bishop is practically untouchable. Meanwhile, black sacked a knight for 2 pawns (so a slight loss of material) but now has a passed and very well-defended h pawn that you'll need to contend with the rest of the game. I haven't seen used that particular counterattack in this exact situation, but I have used it before, as both colors - usually with a win in the end. Is there a solid refutation of that counterattack in this situation, or in general? Also, in this instance and some others, black could sack the bishop first, then recapture with the knight instead, preparing for Ne3, which would fork White's queen and rook (or at the very least, have itself a lovely outpost). Or again, follow the recapture with h5 to create an outpost for the knight at g4. Any suggestions for repelling these threats, as well?

The random guy gambit!...... I like it.

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► Chapters 00:00 Unusual & Aggressive chess opening for White after 1.e4 00:31 1) Halasz Gambit Main Line (Center Game) 01:51 2) If Black plays 4...Bb4+ 03:51 Can you find the winning move? 05:46 Dealing with the Bg4 pin 06:48 3) If Black plays 3...c5 to protect the pawn 10:00 4) If Black plays Bg4 when your bishop is on d3 12:42 5) If Black delays castling

@babubbbb1

Ай бұрын

explain if black plays a6 before castle

You are so thorough and yet you have the humility to admit that you can't cover every line .. this makes you the best on KZread .. keep up the fantastic work - just love your expositions - learning so much, thank you.

@GMIgorSmirnov

2 ай бұрын

Glad to help!

i (1510) just beat a 1528 player in 17 moves in 45 seconds off of my clock (15/10) using this opening! If I had the money I'd definitely give you some, Igor!!!! You are an EXCELLENT TEACHER! Thank you for all you do!

hello igor, i have been watching your videos since December (circa) and i would like to say that i got actual motivation to play chess since you have an easy way to explain and dont feel bothered at same time. i knew how to play but i never got into theory or advanced tactics. i like your channel and i wanted to express my gratitude, thank you, you are my inspiration

@R.Akerman-oz1tf

2 ай бұрын

Igor not alone, but is prolly G.O.A.T. for Xplaining.

What a fantastic video, great tutoring skills. Thanks!

Love this, combines so many attacks from other lines!

I can't believe that I found RF8!, I was looking at QB3, but found that it can be blocked, but when I see the QXR leads to a brilliant combo.

@bakersmileyface

Ай бұрын

I saw it but when I saw it I slightly dismissed it just because of the number of things that get in the way of the queen. Serves me right for not calculating it all the way through.

Love odd ball unknown gambits. Will definitely add this to the toll box. Thanks Igor!

15mins on the Halasz-McDonnell Gambit and not a single mention of the most common black response (3...d5)? This must surely be the lowest-quality video you have ever done Igor. :( In the chess database I see results for 3. f4 of +31 =12 -57, which is nowhere close to the claimed 89% win rate. The only higher-level game this side of The Great War is Zubritsky-Zarnicki (2024), which resulted in a black win in 24 moves. Pablo Zarnicki played 3...d5 in this game.

@penknight8532

2 ай бұрын

lol... yeah this only works on maybe 300 to 600 rated players and or speed chess. This isn't a great video but I can see how it helps new players to start to think and use tactics.

@KailamiMwiinga

Ай бұрын

Actually, I played this 16 times at 1800 - 1950 level to see how effective it was on 10 minute blitz... It's not devastating but white has a positional advantage but black can defend the position

Well, your giving that move such a preface did help me find it, especially after recently seeing a similar idea from the "Magnus reacts" shorts series.

I like this openning! Very good class! Thank you

I love that you described so many lines thank you

I cannot get people to take that pawn to save my life.

This is the 2nd video I've watched of yours and I must say your an excellent teacher and I already feel more prepared for my next game....Thankyou Igor I've just subscribed

@GMIgorSmirnov

2 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Thanks! :) This was a really good one! :)👍👍👍

I like this a lot! It's like a better version of the King's Gambit. Thanks GM Smirnoff for showing us this great opening!

I don't know if there is a link but an "Halasz gambit" exists in the Caro Kann by Blacks. After 1) e4,c6, 2) d4 d5 3 Nc3 Black plays ...b5, intending to attack the knight.

Amazing, Igor - your videos always make me think and consider new approaches that on initial blush seem patently silly!

In the second line, I can't imagine playing 6... Bxc3 (capturing the knight), but I see it is indeed black's most common move at that point, barely edging out the more principled 6... d6. My preference would be 6... Nf6, attacking the pawn on e5. Getting to e5 would also mean adding pressure to c3, and I would rather make the capture with the knight. If black's knight captures at c3 and white recaptures with the b pawn, then Bxc3 wins the rook (unless white has positioned his queen or dark-squared bishop to defend c3 or has castled). Of course, white could respond (and does 40% of the time) with 7. Bd3, but then black has d5.

It's a joy to watch your videos. I wish there is variation where instead of black bishop c4, black goes with pawn on d5

dont just trust the computer evaluation . . .lets all remember that going forward

Interesting. Thanks for sharing

One variation you don't talk about, but seems like a logical move for black, is to play Kn-c6 to b4, attacking your light bishop. the light bishop has then nowhere to go than leaving its diagonal, and additionally, it would enable a fork of the queen&rook at c2 in the next move. at about 10:23

@derekeastman7771

Ай бұрын

C2 then blunders the knight, without moving something up to protect the space white takes with queen

at 5:37 , black can sacrifice the queen on f6 to prevent the mate. It's a very difficult position for black, but I can't find a forced mate.

@ginomoujik8488

16 күн бұрын

exactly.. a knight and a rook and a pawn vs queen is not the end of the world..

I love gambits and this looks like the most fun (and unexpected) one yet

Excellent video! Fun interesting opening. Will have to share this with my friends.

I try using this concept against Sicilian and seems working, do you have more games on this topic from Halasz?

Only problem is that I really like 2 pawn saccrifice danish gambit, so now I have to decide between danish gambit and this every time they accept center game :(

Brilliant- thank you

@Igor Smirnov. You are such great teacher in explaining chess concepts. So why you don't paly anymore in OTB chess tournaments?

This looks fun, thank you for sharing

4:38 play made gotham's day better 😄 sacrifice the roooook

your video was suggested, ahahaha dude you are funny af, and easy you make it look

That inspires be to try to become a random guy someday.

pawn f4 to g5 check is such a reality smack with the back of the hand lol.

Brilliant teaching, as usual.

I get a similar position with the vianna gambit sometimes

8:56 Bxf7+ is playable, because Kxf7 can be met with Ng5+. When the king moves, White has Qxg4.

OMG this is beautiful! *goes off to play and try all this*

It looks like a more aggressive Scotch game, it's pretty funny

grandmaster igor is such a wonderful teacher ❤

This is lots of fun! Can't wait to try it out. Thanks!

@GMIgorSmirnov

2 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

even though d5 is inaccurate can you kindly show some good line against d5 after e take d pawn

What to do about an early d5. For example: 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 d5

@Amar0K86

2 ай бұрын

just simply push e5, the purpose of the Halasz gambit is to block the d column and play around it, then block the d4 pawn with Bd3

@penknight8532

2 ай бұрын

I capture it and just play a wild open game where you usually castle Kingside and pray you don't F it up because Black is going to have a very slight edge.

I’ve been experimenting with this opening against the Chess app on the iOS, at level 12, with similar results

I saw this when I was trying to find book moves of the Center Game.😎 By the way, can you show us how to play against the Wing Gambit?🙏🏻

4:24 THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6:05 u can nf6 to d7 and both knights protecting each other

3...Qh4+ seems like a tricky response from Black: 4 g3 Bb4+ 5 c3 dxc3 6 bxc3 Qf6, meeting 7 e5 with Qc6.

I know that you make every opening look amazing but this one *does* look amazing lol. I'm going to try it out! ❤

@GMIgorSmirnov

2 ай бұрын

❤

thats crazy. speechless

before you tell us what the hard move is, I would probably sack the rook for a check. But if you did not say there was a better move I would have probably taking with a queen. Once you gave me that hint I got it instantly. That is my problem, I don't think deep enough.

A lesson in lateral queen moves

I love to play Vienna Gambit, and this gambit line looks interesting to me haha 😂. Will try

This thing falls apart if they play king's indian, which all my opponents seem to be doing :(

@penknight8532

2 ай бұрын

Yeah... it's good to mess with but you probably want something more sound to focus on.

At first when he said "it doesn't do anything, it looks like a tall pole" I thought he said, "It doesn't do anything, just like Tom Holland"

My opponents push the queen-side pawns first to protect their pawn on d4, instead of bringing out the knight and bishop, and c4 becomes the focal point. You have to fight for that square to be able to put your bishop on c3.

Georgy [ pronounced Jorj but more accurately written in Hungarian as Gyéorgy the gy sound is like J in English] - a Hungarian English way to write George (Gerge) is in Hungarian Halász (Fisher). Just a fun fact.

Every time I play this the opponent castles queen side and my attack fizzles out. Can we get a video that shows an attacking plan to stop this from happening?

Those are some very interesting moves. However, I've found that in my games, as soon as I advance that king's pawn to f4, my opponent immediately responds with Qf4, check. So you block with pawn g3, but then after you castle, your king is wide open. If your immediate attack doesn't go as planned, there are all kinds of ways your king can be attacked.

@ems3832

2 ай бұрын

...Qh4+, you mean.

@onlimi616

2 ай бұрын

@@ems3832 Yes, that is what I meant to say, thank you.

@penknight8532

2 ай бұрын

lul you better figure out how to long castle when that happens!

Interesting, but surprised that you didn't consider the move d5 for black at several points in your analysis - it's the old standard idea in e4 e5 openings for a reason.

jerome would be proud

Make a full theory video on this pls

Okay I think I found the move at 4:10 It's Rf8+. if King takes then Qf1+ ends the game quickly If Queen takes Rook, its Qb3+ which cant be defended properly

What if in some line black decides to do long castle with Bd6 and Ne7 , Qd2 ?

@GMGC

Ай бұрын

White can always play e5 gaining space

Thanks a lot for the clear direction. But what happens if black castle king side?

3:55 Rf8+, because Qxf8 loses to Qb3+, and Kxf8 loses to Qf1+. In both cases, Black has only useless interpositions. In the latter case, the king can run, but all of its flight squares are covered by Qf7#.

I think this is also known as the Vampire Gambit. I used to play it years ago.

before I used to have people play into that opening all the time, but now that I learned this, nobody wants to play against me this way ...

When I know that there's a winning move, I am pretty good at finding them, so it took me about 15 seconds to find that Rc8 (at 4:33), after checking some other possibilities in the position, that weren't as good. I don't know if I would see it in the actual game without knowing that there IS a winning move, especially in the heat of the moment, and God forbid, run into zeitnot (time trouble).

Wow I will try right now

Good job!😊❤

@GMIgorSmirnov

Ай бұрын

❤

It's funny to see "my" 800 elo gambit get featured. Of course it's not my gambit nor something I invented because it was just some random moves to me without much thought or complexity behind but I wonder if it's possible some low elo players' randomness can sometimes generate real strategies used by the masters.

"unknown opening" is my best opening

after i watched this video i tried out this gambit in blitz and rapid, after 8 games with it i collected 7 wins and 1 draw. works very well for me :)

Hey, Igor! Im absolutely shocked this logical, agressive and surprising opening was never well known and played often. Its a mystery. In my first chess seasons I always loved f4 move. But not in the first moves. Kings gambit is so risky and well known, Bird goes against all principes of chess and there is a problem with Froms gambit. I tried many openings after e4 e5. In some of them I tried to prepare f4 move. There is so much theory, Spanish, Italian game, some opponents played their own gambits with f5 here. So I tried to play e4 e5 d4 game as well. Its not very correct and I stopped using that soon, but im sure I had position with e4 e5 d4 exd4 at least 50 times on board, But i never had the idea to get my f pawn and move to f4. Why? Its so logicall! I want to play agressively as white, and there is a problem after taking on d4 with my queen, and c3 gambit is also very risky. So why not f4? I want to thank you to show me this. The possitions are very similar as in other e4 e5 openings, but. I have f4, i can play knight to f3 soon, so its safe. There are many traps, but the possitions are quite easy and typical. And the best... my opponents will be not prepeared as well, can be often very surprised and lose their time. Im so excied cause I was sure after 5 seconds, it will be my main line in e4 e5. According your opinion, why this opening is not often played and whats the main problem there? Thank you very much!

I had a game where they castled, I move pawn up, and they moved their knight to g4.

what happens if after greek gift, instead of KxBh7, just Kh8?

I just tried it in my bullet game, and won with checkmate, i didnt get the greek gift, but I still sacked my bishop for a lethal bullet aggressive attack, he stood no chance

Very beautiful gambit. I loved it.

@GMIgorSmirnov

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

If black has their pawn on d6 and don't take the pawn on e5, but just move the knight - the sacrifice with Bh7 will not work. There will be move Bf5 for black which defends from the mate and white in this position significantly worst.

This guy has awesome stuff

Against this e4 f4 center I want to play Ne7 and d5

What if knight goes to G4 when you push pawn instead? Still protected by white bishop

Poison pawn from move 1

What happens if the bishop first goes to e6 or f5? I got screwed with that response

What if Nf6 instead of Nd7 ?? Pls reply

Novelty fantastic 🎉❤

"It looks like a tall pole."

What if black play KB4 as soon as the can, threatening both white's white bishopd and C2 ?

If Black plays Bishop f5, and our pawn on f4 prevents us from capturing it with a rook, what should we do?