what's up guys today I'm happy to share with you a simple winning plan against the Scandinavian
defense which arises after black going Pawn to D5 on the first booth and what I've noticed about
it is that that very often white players don't know that much about it it's the last mainstream
opening compared to the Italian game or the Sicilian Defense and so white players just
play normal moves they capture here then they develop the Knight attacking this queen so far
so good after Queen A5 they play something like D4 or Knight of three black develops white develops
that as well looks like white is playing Common Sense absolutely perfect moves but here's the
problem within just a couple moves white often finds themselves in a losing position because
black has a powerful attacking plane and white is not sure how to deal with it so first black girls
Bishop G4 pinning the Knight down to the queen while thinks to himself okay let me neutralize the
beam by playing Bishop E2 okay black girls Knight C6 and now it starts being slightly annoying the
black is putting pressure here but why thanks to himself okay look a castle I got a castle anyway
now black Castle's Queen side and it turns out that there was this unpleasant opposition
of Black's Rook against your queen and it's also putting more rush into the poem now I just trying
to hold on to this poem by playing Bishop E3 but after E5 what is actually already quite in a big
trouble you can see that black is attacking this Pawn the pawn is painted down to the Queen Once
the end like he's putting pressure that way the Knight is adding pressure and like very often even
relatively strong players just can't get out of an opening and are got crushed real quick that's the
issue of you playing against the Scandinavian defense without knowing really well what to
do and here's our time to turn the situation around knowing what to anticipate from black
you can prevent them from doing just that leaving them completely clueless of what to do so we know
that they expect you to develop your knight over here so that they can counter it with Bishop G4
beating your knight and therefore we just don't we don't move the Knight over here just yet secondly
we know that as soon as you put this Pawn to D4 the they're gonna Target it in a very near future
and so we just don't put our Pawn there as well so what do you do instead well you play Bishop C4
first and then you solidify it by playing Pawn to D3 let's say after Black Goes Knight F6 or
any other move you play Pawn to D3 and notice that now your position is so solid that there
is just absolutely nothing they can possibly attack anywhere right if your opponent is on
D3 it is defended right your Bishop is defending everything is defending and here's another beauty
of this thing at some point let's say they go C6 for example here a very common in the Scandinavian
defense controlling some several squares but also preparing for the queen to escape to if necessary
and you then play Bishop D2 and also you have the same setup that you play no matter what black does
so you're preparing to Castle queenside and your plan is to play Bishop D2 Queen to E2 and later
on a castle Queen side so just do that also Bishop D2 potentially Targets this queen someone in the
future you may wish to use that tactical Motif now they usually go Bishop G4 anyway because I
mean that's their plan so even although you don't have your night there they just plan it it seems
active for black but strangely enough this bishop G4 is fire so badly if black would only knew what
they were subscribing to they would never play this but so far they are still optimistic they
think everything's good so they do play this move you play Pawn to add three pushing this bishop
back and after Bishop H5 you continue with your plan queen to E2 preparing to Castle Queen side
and just developing pieces black thinks that okay things are normal they're also developing neither
D sound standard Scandinavian defense move and little do they know their position is already
lost although it's hard to believe just looking at the position at the moment it seems like both
players are just developing but you've got this really powerful plan of a press on the king side
so you do that by playing Pawn G4 taking advantage of this exposed Bishop until you gain those extra
temples for your quick advancement on the king side now black girls Bishop G6 which is forced
and you follow up with Pawn to avford and this King side push is what actually your winning plan
and against the Scandinavian defense and again they're completely clueless about this and you're
going to win a lot of games and promise you just try it out now after a four-year first
idea is very simple to play 0.5 and capture the bishop because it will be trapped also notice that
playing E6 will never help black because actually these Pawn is pinged anyway so playing F5 will now
be even stronger for you because not only you attack the special but in some relations maybe
you may consider even you know going into this direction and just going after a Black's cane
so go on E6 is only making things worse for black and it's not helpful at all so let's take it back
what do they do if they want to save this bishop against this F5 threat well they'll
have to move their H Pawn right providing this Escape Square so you do play point of five and
now you're completely locking the Arcane side now this bishop is not going to do anything
constructive for a really long time it's out of the game now your Pawn barrier is just cutting
it off secondly it's hard for black to develop normally because in order to develop the slide
score Bishop to cancel it wish to play E6 but it's impossible because you would immediately
capture the pawn and even casting Queen side is actually impossible for black because that'll
leave this Epsilon Pawn on defended and you're gonna grab it instantaneously so for black it's
really hard to come up with any meaningful continuation here your position is already
completely winning and completely dominant but on top of all that you have a force in win which is
a move Knight to B5 opening up this discovered attack of the queen and you're winning in all
operations but funnily enough in most cases they will treat their Queen to d8 feeling that it's a
safer square and it controls you know the C Sound squares so that he can jump there but you just
reroute it slightly to D6 and it's a nice smaller Checkmate notice that the pawn is pinned so it
is actually a Checkmate you might notice that in the previous example black suffered at the
end they lost because of this discovered attack against their Queen and some of your opponents
will decide to just move the move the queen back in advance so that they never have to worry about
it and guess what that doesn't change anything in your plan you keep playing the very same moves
you play Queen E2 preparing the castle queenside developing the queen on this opens position they
usually respond with Bishop G4 anyway because they aren't familiar with your kingside press
plan and you do just 30 player 3 and you gain all these extra temples for your king side expansion
thanks to this bishop so Bishop G4 seemed to be an active move for black at first but it backfires
so badly that they end up in a losing position within just a few moves so that's how you all
important now right now the thread is still the same Pawn to F5 I mean you may even impress the
Knight after that as well for example I mean if they go something like Pawn H5 trying to challenge
your Pawn you still do the same thing in Port of 5 after Bishop H7 you can even keep pressing with
Pawn to G5 this time driving the Knight away and uh after they go with the Knight somewhere let's
say Knight G4 I mean again your position is so dominant that probably there are many ways for
your win but here the fun way is to go after black skin right away but this bishop takes F7 a little
tactics it's not even a sacrifice because you follow up with Pawn to G6 and you're gonna get
these back but at the same time you're exposing this King and now you're simply having a winning
attack so if black captures here if it tries to hide back you know it will lead to a very funny
track mate Queen to E6 so it's not gonna work for black If instead it captures over here I mean
it's pretty obvious that the kidney is deadly exposed you're gonna keep chasing it similarly
after Knight F6 for example you can go Knight of three and then you follow up with rookie G1 check
Knight G5 and it's over so that's how once again you win with this kingside brass instantaneously
against black who's absolute Clues what the heck is going on here the final question you may have
here is what if black never plays Bishop G4 allowing for your kingside press plan okay
what if they just developed their Bishop to F5 I mean in most cases they will play Bishop G4 just
because it looks so tempting for black but if they play Bishop F5 first of all like good news is that
it doesn't create any problems for you whatsoever I mean this bishop is attacking nothing right you
have like Rock Solid pawns here and secondly you keep playing the same moves Bishop D2 first let's
say they go Pawn C6 you play Quinny to all the same stuff they play Pony six and now there's
also an additional interesting idea that you may deploy against this special path 5 development now
you can actually develop your knight to F3 knowing that the bishop has been developed over here to F5
and it no longer is going to go to G4 and opinion or Knight we can develop overnight normally to
have three so black things that it's just the development normal development going on for both
sides they're playing something like 97 but then you have another interesting attack and plan and
it's also quite Southern you go Knight to D4 take advantage of the fact that unlike the mainline
variations where you have your opponent over here now this Square D4 is vacant for your knight and
you can jump over there attack this bishop on F5 and as it goes back you can then sack one of your
minor pieces on E6 and I will actually encourage you to do that because if although a computer
often doesn't like this I don't say that in real practical game especially if it's a Blitz game
you have great chances of success now with this a little sacrifice you achieve a lot of things
first of all you got two pawns for a minor piece so technically you're only one Pawn down which
is not such a big of a deal secondly obviously exposed blacks cane and now will this opposition
of your queen against it that enables you for all kinds of you know discover checks in the future so
black is already getting worried about that the second nice thing is that your nylon E6 controls
these two squares f8 and d8 and therefore black skin can never cancel either king size or queen
size is just impossible okay finally your knife from E6 also looks at this Square C7 and from
there it's gonna Fork the king and the Rook so black ever moves their Queen away or if you use
this discover check idea you can Lander Knight to C7 and then grab the Rook so that's another
attacking plan you see how you've got a lot of attacking ideas and even if Stockbridge can find
a perfect defense for black you know it shouldn't stop you from using it I think that again in most
cases you're gonna win just like Michelle tells that there are two types of sacrifices the correct
ones in mine so you can also feel free to do that in most cases actually according to the
database black played loses mistake right away they notice that it's unpleasant to have their
Keen there and they move King to F7 hoping to play rookie 8 you know something like that but
you just go Knight G5 check to the king and it ends very quick into simple like Scholars
Checkmate and that is basically it so this is another really cool attack plan in case luck
does not develop their Bishop to G4 you still have this interesting idea at hands now let me
know what you think about this or if you have any questions or doubts about this variation in
comments down below and I'll be sure to follow up and also to those of you who feel that mastering
openings is not enough to level up your chest overall I'm with you 100 just as a strategic
game after all and if you want to learn that side of Chess I'd recommend that you check out
this free Master Class by clicking the link over there keep crushing it and I'll talk to you soon