It's somehow perfect that the refutation of the cow is an equally crazy-looking response.

@EarnestEgregore

Жыл бұрын

yea lol it made me laugh that the counter is something cows do lol

@psychohist

Жыл бұрын

I actually think the stampede attack refutes a lot of highly unsound openings, not just the cow.

@cinegraphics

9 ай бұрын

Anna working on the Mad Cow variation that will scare the stampede.

I love how stockfish gives a brilliant move on it's own move "oh this is beautiful!! Look at that!! ima give meself a brilliant!"

@GeekonaBike

Жыл бұрын

Just hang on until stockfish dislocates a shoulder by patting itself on the back 😉

@jakekn7304

Жыл бұрын

She stated that the stockfish that analyzed the game is more advanced than the one that played the game

@kesetokaiba

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the photoshopped meme of Obama giving himself a medal xD

@LudwigvanBeethoven2

Жыл бұрын

I think one of the triggers for brilliant mobe is when you sacrifice a piece. It usually gives brilliant move when you sac a full piece

@Person01234

Жыл бұрын

ITT: people who don't know what a brilliant move is. Unless they've done some weird things to the terminology, a brilliant move is one where the engine evaluates that the position is better than it thought the position would have been with it's previously recommended "best move". Basically, your move was better than stockfish's best move when the engine re-evaluates after it has been played. I assume, as people have mentioned, this is due to a discrepancy between the playing engine and the analysis engine, but maybe there's also ways for an engine to literally give itself a brilliant move.

"It's not over for the cow" - Anna is now preparing the stampede attack refutation .

@sodathejunker

Жыл бұрын

They messed with the cow, now the bull is coming.

@verybluevans

Жыл бұрын

The Cow System: Utter Destruction variation

@sawyermerkle8835

Жыл бұрын

@@verybluevansudder destruction

@nm7sp

Жыл бұрын

That would have to be the "Mad Cow" response

@icdogg2361

Жыл бұрын

The Rodeo Response

Whenever the cow is truly refuted, we need to call the variation the fried steak attack.

@brjones27

Жыл бұрын

Hehe, fried steak declined can be the chicken fried steak ;P

@philippvonknoblauchzuhatzb2135

Жыл бұрын

fried steak declined would obviously be the vegan variation

@MzeeMoja1

Жыл бұрын

There is a Jamaican out there trying to come up with cow 🐄 foot gambit, I can feel it.

@johnnytungsong8719

Жыл бұрын

As someone who has just enjoyed two fried steaks, with onions, mushrooms and peppers and chips, plus a bottle of Merlot, I have to say that Anna makes it easy to understand ALL the (possible) moves and their possible outcomes! I managed to follow it all, even as a total novice! Maybe the steak (plus wine!) had something to do with it! Thanks, Anna…you’ve re-ignited my ❤passion for Chess!

@ayeidoucareau5014

Жыл бұрын

"The cow opening is a medium rare opening. It can be powerful if well done though." - HGM Jamie Olivier

Anna please do a cow opening speed run it will be so much fun to watch

@dualify

Жыл бұрын

vouch!!!

@friedsushii_

Жыл бұрын

I think she already does

@blipco5

Жыл бұрын

Just keep tapping the ten second fast forward button.

@TheLeopard2A6

Жыл бұрын

yea I was thinking the same

@BobbyFischer0000

Жыл бұрын

Speed run? She’s rated 2000-2100 on a good day. Very short speed run. I haven’t played competitive chess in 20 years and my rating is the same as hers and she plays daily.

I’ve tried the cow opening now several times a day. It not only gives a funny variation to the game, avoiding those closed positions, but my opponents seem to be a little stunned on how to respond to it and I haven’t seen the pawn push as response as of yet. My game is kind of low but I seem to beat better players, so ”the cow” is kind if a favourite at the moment.

@ofranklin83

4 ай бұрын

Same!

You know you have made it when opponents start naming the refutations to your opening.

😀Since this opening was your present to your GM father, you should let him know about this "Stampede Attack" and let him figure out whether he needs to be afraid of it.

It may have been refuted by stockfish but I played the Cow Opening for the very first time just now (as black) and it totally took my opponent off guard. I won rather easily. I was suspicious but damn !

@Danceofmasks

Жыл бұрын

It's the "I never saw this in a book" phenomenon that probably cost your opponent a lot of time right off the bat.

@blizzard2099

Жыл бұрын

​@@Danceofmasks Oh for sure. The time he took for each move literally translated to: O_O "WTF...!"

I went up almost 120 elo with the cow opening from 1400 to over 1500 lol, thank you Anna!

This cow stuff is super intriguing. To throw it out into the ether and explore it is an idea that hasn’t occurred in some time. It’s cool to watch it evolve. Good work.

It's bull that the stampede attack can beat the cow opening.

@johns7530

Жыл бұрын

I see what you did there!

thats how you stress relief....attacking crunchie boxes with scissors?

I think taking the cow up against the "Magnus Gambit" (he swaps the positions of his King and Queen!) would be a very interesting and topical exercise.

This cow opening is amazing!! But I just lost a game. Game review said to me "you look like a cow"

or since your pieces all stay very close together (aka crammed) in the opening, it could plausibly be the Cram(med)ling Opening.

I love your creativity, enthusiasm and great sense of humor ! Consider at 2:30 after six paired moves, for the seventh move by whites seems better to be h4 rather than N X c5

ChatGPT did not come up with it, it has seen it somewhere.

@imwithyou38

Жыл бұрын

the thing is though there is going to be a bunch of different openings that people will say to try but it picked this one exactly for some reason. it seem like a weird opening that would be non sense but the fact that you are pushing your pawns so hard there is a chance for good tades and then have a lot of space or pieces to be able to move to protect well

There were a couple of mid game moves that would have changed the flow enough to collapse the stampede IMHO , like you said at one point the AI made a mistake and you let it play out without any sort of correction , I believe there were multiple missed opportunities , that's the beauty of the game , sometimes chaos triumphs over methodical calculation .

@NatoBoram

11 ай бұрын

It doesn't really, though. The game would need to be played by the best Stockfish variation

Actually, The Cow is helping me teach the kids some important middle game principles like NOT overextending! It's a great playground for unexplored ideas.

I just watched your other video where you introduce the Cow Opening and had this immediate take before I saw this video recommended as a followup... i'm a total amateur at chess but in terms of strategy and logical warfare it looked like a turtling move that allowed some probing attack capacity. disregarding the moves of chess pieces for a moment but considering that both sides generally have the same movement capabilities, in logical warfare this would mean in that field of engagement (your chess board size) forward movement was sacrificed and initial attack ability is concentrated more on a horizontal front. if the opponent is conservative this might turn into each side further jockeying for position before really committing to attack... but if the opponent realizes immediately this is a turtling move then they can be really aggressive and push forward from the outset w/ minimal planned defense and surround your middle center by taking out your wings. this is the kind of defensive position in logical warfare one would take when expecting reinforcements but it has a low probability of launching a successful offensive on its own.

It reminds me of Kasparov playing black against Karpov. He did some bold pawn charging IIRC

I'm wondering how much influence you have on the moves? Just moving white pieces until cow is complete and black 100% on it's own? Then white also on it's own the rest of game I take it?

Someone said he was reporting me because I was using an engine. I was using cow opening 😂

As someone who just began to play and learn chess, i have no idea what Anna is talking about im here for the positivity. One day ill hopefully understand.

@Danceofmasks

Жыл бұрын

She's excited because chess is supposedly a "solved" game, and has been completely figured out by engines. Inventing an opening and a refutation at this point is something so rare you might as well have found a real life unicorn.

@jimmccue8063

Жыл бұрын

@@Danceofmasks True. But then Anna would be excited if a fly landed on the board.

@Urza26

Жыл бұрын

I don't think even Magnus Carlsen would play the insane things that stockfish plays

@ronbirnbaum1968

Жыл бұрын

Don’t feel bad. Nobody can understand the Cow Opening!

@jimmccue8063

Жыл бұрын

@@Steves_fish Yes indeed. And comical too - sometimes deliberately!

"If you really want to go full-on cow" is a sentence I'd never think I would ever hear. Ever.

@jimmccue8063

Жыл бұрын

This is the Finnegans Wake school of chess.

The ‘Stampede Attack’ is way to wild for a boring old man like me. I’m looking into a simple ‘Lasso’ though: 1. p-e3, p-e5 2. p-d3, N-f6 3. N-e2, N-c6 4. N-d3, B-b4 5. p-c3, B-e7 (say) 6. And, 0-0 7. …. Leaving the Bishops all tied up after 5 moves…?

@dojisan5050

Жыл бұрын

Interesting!!

two ideas. a variation called the semi cow with a knight on b3 and a fianchetto on the kingside. or a variation related the the caro or kings indian for black. (Caro Cow or Cows Indian)

Been killing it with the Cow, especially timed games!

Played something similar (no kingside pawns were moved) and it did work out pretty well.

pawns can also rush the sides of the boards and push your knights back

"the cow squares" - love it.

9:21 I see what you did there _"- brilliant mjoooves"_ 🐮😄

Take ea look at Dutch Power Cows. And Stampende. It is mostly projects that combine computer power to solve problems like prime numbers and medical research. They selected a project en combined their power for a short period to gif the project a boost and make DPC known in the stats.

on 13:22 you could take pawn g5 with your bishop then take second pawn e5 with your queen and get back bishop

Jesse from the dojo training, wanted to come up with a refutation called the Milkman defence hehe looking forward to seeing more to that one also--

Every time i see a deliberate rook sacrifice i hear Levy's voice in my head. Any time i do it myself, i just tend to yell "THE ROOOOOK!!!" like if i was insane

I used to play this opening (the cow opening) to the t when I was younger. From 14 onto my 20's. So about 20 - 14 years ago now. Granted I never knew anything about chess theory then and still don't know much now. But I would used it as a defensive set up with offensive potential. At least that's how I saw it then. What's even funnier is the friend I would play this opening on, would do that exact triple pawn line up in response. lol. So for the first few moves, out of sheer luck it looked like the games we used to play as kids. I am so happy someone has done something with this!! As I got older I just always thought it was a silly thing he and I used to do, pretending to set our pieces up in various formations like it was Age of Empires before we started taking pieces. It takes me back to my childhood learning and playing chess. This made my month. And congrats on officially creating this opening, it's a treasure. Also, subbed.

@VoxRatio

11 ай бұрын

Also I want to clarify something, I am not in any way saying, "I played it first" etc etc. I am expressing my surprise and delight that someone else through the workings of the universe has not only stumbled upon, but purposefully created this as an opening. It's just wild lmao. My friend and I were just kids playing chess, and found we had more fun when we would set up our pieces how we wanted them, and then started taking.

Seems to need an insanely high rating to make it work. I'd like to see a 900 (my current--but climbing fast! Moo!!) stampede attempt on my cow. I would gobble pawns while developing.

Very interesting kind of refutation, thank you for showing!

I like the Rooke slide move, where you stampede the pawns a row out to give the Rooks the ability to slide across the board and join the queen for a "threefore", attack. Bishops Knights and pawns do the dirty work keeping the threefore in tack. Good luck with your experimentation Anna.

it could be called the ''Bait Opening'' since the goal is for the opponent to overextend.

That triple pawn reminded me of the saying, until the cows get home.

7:49 the bishop has to "moo"

“the king is in a box” or perhaps a castle

I'm with Mikan1546. You should try playing the Texas Longhorn Variation and move the bishops to d2 and e2. I think that might weaken black's pawn offensive. Usually once I've gotten the bishops in the center and castled, I send the knights on the offensive. I've had good results with them being in the center and on the sides. Just a thought.

Hi ! Casual 1200 elo player here. I play occasionaly chess (around 30 games a year). I took part to 2 chess tournaments last month. (9 games each, 12' + 3'' Fischer par player). One before knowing the cow opening (3 wins, 1 draw, 5 losses, I did not lose against lower ranked than me) ; one today, in which I played 9 times the Cow Opening (3 wins, 6 losses, including 3 against lower-ranked players). I lost mainly due to later blunders or failed winning finales so I'm not sure the opening is responsible but I think it is not an opening I feel comfortable with.

Loving the content! Just noticed how much your accent has changed since I started watching you! Crazy😅

I like the raging bull attack the king just attacks ferociously from the beginning of the game

Awesome analysis. You will have to research the f3 line at 10:25. Thank you for sharing your positivity. It is unparalleled in the youtube chess world. Hard to find in any media whatsoever. By the way, what was is the music at the end? It's a great little clip.

I used the cow opening the other day and got to a winning position, opponent resigned!

7:49 "the bishop has to moo"

Everytime I play this opening against my pc, it keeps pinning my knights to either the king and/or queen, preventing them from going to their 'horn' squares.

@judsongordy8872

Жыл бұрын

Yes the anti-cow can be very frustrating

@Run4Ever77

Жыл бұрын

​@@judsongordy8872 and with frustration, you can transition to the mad cow opening...

Only the bee attack could refute the cow opening

I still played the cow defense every game and it is so good

7:15 destroying little boxes is a personal goal of mine

I came up with this type of 'opening' myself about a decade ago [proof among my Facebk notes, although notes feature has since been removed]. But I won against AI Factory Chess level 5 - however has learning capabilities, so soon learnt to overcome it ! UPDATE found some privated posts including game notations after a search, and at the time seemed to have named it the 'saw formation' (pawn attack resembling the jagged edge of a saw)

I have tried the cow opening a few times with mixed results. I find after I play e3, e5, d3 then my opponent hits me with bishop to b4+. I have to throw another pawn forward c3 to kick the bishop away. It makes it look like I'm starting my own mini stampede. A few more moves, setting my knights up, Ne2 and Nd2 they push their other bishop to g4 pinning the knight to the queen. I usually respond with pawn to d3 but that that would block my queen and allow e3 to be taken if their dark square bishop retreated to c5. Interesting problem.

With the cow introduction, you attack the pawns with your knights or your knights are attacked by the pawns😯

My cousin use the stampede attack every game lol

so now we're trampling cows

Anna, please analyse how to counter the stampede attack for the cow! Cow opening is so easy to play for beginners. Long live the cow!

@Danceofmasks

Жыл бұрын

If you're a beginner, you're playing against weak players ... and the stampede attack looks like it has so many opportunities to blunder. Just play solid and you'll be fine.

@Snowkobbie

Жыл бұрын

The slippery "Manure Escape"? 😂

@7:45 when pawn goes to g4, can black not just take with en passente instead of moving Bishop g6? if white pawn takes bishop, then the black pawn takes the rook and promotes?

I am a beginner and have been using the cow opening exclusively. Before I was running out of time a lot but now I know how to develop my pieces in to the cow, I have been getting faster. My rating has gone up and I'm learning how to defend better. I'm scared to play a normal opening now but am adapting slowly to the usual early attacks from bishops and queens which seem to happen a lot. Thank you!

@ghostmanscores1666

Жыл бұрын

@jingo= BOT CHANNEL

@TheJohnaddison10

Жыл бұрын

@@ghostmanscores1666 what?

“…if you want to go full on cow…” was my favorite part. 😂 Great video.

Fence defence 😂😂😂 stampede attack 's refutation where all pawn block like botvinik style close game and semi cow king side 2 N( Ng3,Nf3) in kID wiil be solid opening in G M level

This is the best milking of the cow opening, still love it though!

Gotham has some hilarious videos of him against ChatGPT, and they are wild. GPT tries moves like Rh8-a1 *after* castling. Diagonal rook moves *through* a ton of enemy and friendly pieces! It moves ghost pieces that have already moved or captured, and it produces pieces out of thin air. For instance, suddenly a new queen will appear on e4. It's bedlam.

@mlmg0817

Жыл бұрын

Try the paid version GPT 4, it will probably destroy you.

It's cool for you that you were able to come up with an opening that is both novel and playable, but I'm actually far more interested in the fact that ChatGPT was able to come up with a playable response. That seems astonishing! I wonder though if it came up with then name first (Stampede) and then supplied some plausible moves which just happened to be not losing, or whether it actually understood the chess. In fact did ChatGPT even know the moves to the Cow, or just the name? And was this the free version (GPT-3.5) or the paid version (GPT-4.0)?

@jimmccue8063

Жыл бұрын

Yes. More on this please. (I thought it was for generating TEXT?)

@JITCompilation

Жыл бұрын

If I understood correctly, I believe ChatGPT came up with the name (because it didn’t have a response so it made up one) but Stockfish created the actual response.

@jimmccue8063

Жыл бұрын

@@JITCompilation No, Anna gave it the name, because she uses a cow as her logo - for some reason she explained but which remained impenetrable.

@hummingfrog

Жыл бұрын

@@JITCompilation No, if you stop the video at 10 seconds in and look the actual ChatGPT text (gotta be quick or you'll miss it!) you'll see that ChatGPT explicitly specifies d5, nf5, c5, and b5 as the first four moves for Black. (From Anna's commentary it sounds like g5 and h5 were also specified, but you can't see enough of the text to know). However there is no mention of White's moves, so it's possible ChatGPT just started with the name "Cow" and constructed a "Stampede Attack" response without having any idea what it was responding to, and it was just happenstance that Stockfish was able to take it from there and make it work. I suspect that's what actually happened. The alternative -- that ChatGPT actually knew the moves of the Cow and understood enough chess to supply the opening moves of a playable defense -- would be far more interesting. Anna doesn't seem to be a member of the Tech Geek Club; otherwise she would have published the entire chat and spent half the video talking about it!

@mlmg0817

Жыл бұрын

It should be the paid version. The latest GPT 4 had access to the internet and already had a decent Elo rating.

I love how Anna pronounces the word move as m’you’ve

Watch out, Magnus.

I've never considered creating holes in a cereal box.

Anna this cow opening looks amazing, would you be please make more videos about it?

I’ve been using this opening since I discovered this vid and this has been my favorite opening to play since lol

at 07:23 maybe you can do a ent passant and later move the queen to g7

@AnoNymous-mv4mj

Жыл бұрын

No, you can't do en passant from the 3rd rank, only from the 4th (or 5th on the other side). A way to think about it is that you can't use the double move as a trick to create a passed pawn without giving the opponent its chance to take, but in this case the simple move would be enough to pass the pawn anyway.

"Scissors in the cereal box"? Omg, Anna!

The cow jumped over the moon on its way to heaven.

I actually came across the cow opening while playing chess and i lost

The Stampede Attack isn't actually that crazy when you recognize that White's Cow Opening is passively allowing the opponent to grab the center and a space advantage. All of the pawn moves are just to solidify the space that the Cows patiently grazing on grass are letting the opponent get. However, you don't need to play as pawn-happy as a top engine. A valid approach is ...h5 when the Knight is on g3 like your GM dad mentioned Anna. He was trying to refute this opening before you made this video xD p.s. I also find it funny you emphasized Stockfish calling its own moves Brilliant. This just reminds me of the photoshopped meme of Obama giving himself a medal lol

I’ve been playing the Cow against the my chess computer and after some success the computer started doing a Stampede ie 3 pawns marching down one side. And it worked!! 😩

The Bovine era of chess has begun.

After H3 was played white played G4 but I have to ask why black can't play en passant to capture the pawn and damage the structure and open up the king anyways. I admit I'm only 700-800 elo so I may have missed something

Omg "stampede attack" 😂😂😂

Reminds me of the opening of the movie Tremors, where Kevin Bacon rudely wakes up Fred Ward by shaking the truck and yelling "STAMPEDE!" 🤣

I started using the cows opening. Looking forward to stream later.

Stockfish moves pawn one square: *stockfish patting stockfish on the back* “Brilliant move!!”

When the chatbot that was trained on data that's years old has a counter for a 2023 opening.

I enjoyed the video. Thanks, Anna.

The pawn on C5 is called the stampede gambit btw

The many times required to complete the Cow opening is surely the major problem here

@mlmg0817

Жыл бұрын

Changing move orders (e.g. castles even before the other knight is our) should be ok, as long as the outcome is like the cow you can call it a cow. If it walks like a cow, moo like a cow, and runs like a cow, then it should be a cow. The theme of cow is pawns e and d on the 2nd line, 2 knights in front of its home (b and g).

The Cow just needs to make some more gains and it will flourish again :D

@2019inuyasha

Жыл бұрын

We just need to beef it up...lol

@georgebanker2669

Жыл бұрын

Or eat some more GRAIN.

@chessgains8075

Жыл бұрын

@@2019inuyasha HAHA yessssir

You've gotta add moo sounds to the opening... 👍🏻😀🇬🇧

Stockfish might be able to play the stampede attack successfully, but I doubt any non-titled player could handle the middlegame with so little initial piece activity and overextended pawns

Anna after the opening of cereal box, why don't pop it en passant? I can't see the problem

Anna, one opponent had to win, but The Cow decided to graze over the fence without development of its Queen B&R. This opening only need more perfecting.🐮

@mlmg0817

Жыл бұрын

You should nit feed the cow before letting it out so that it will immediately go into grazing.

I will play this opening thank you flower!

The milkman defence

så glad for jeg så din kanal"håber det er fint med dansk" jeg har fået så meget lyst til at gøre noget ved mit skak igen...jeg starter med at købe en skakcomputer.

It was only a matter of time until the Cow Opening ran into the Roast Beef Defense.

B3 and G3 are pro moves you need more than 14 depth to take advantage of it.