so you want to be an e4 player you've come to the right place in this video I'm going to give
you some very interesting and unique ideas you might have not thought about before how to take
on some of the biggest defenses that you're going to face and give you some tools with
a little bit of bite and a little bit of spice to them to throw your opponents off their game
we're gonna start with E 5 and C 5 okay because those are the ones you're gonna face 80% of the
time and then we'll go to the other 20 I'll give you a couple of different ideas against
the French the caro-kann the Alekhine maybe the pierre it's modern and so on and so forth against
the e5 these are all personalized recommendations let's not forget and you can feel free to ask me
in the comments about other things but I am a huge believer in the Vienna system Knight
c3 and delaying the development of the knight to f3 or example if black plays Knight f6 Here I am
a huge fan of the Vienna gambit the Vienna gambit has a lot of off I mean I mean a lot of firepower
you know up to the 2,200 2,300 level against folks that don't usually get this and don't have a clear
repertoire against this the main line of this goes d5 takes takes and I'm not recommending
this or this which are the overwhelming main lines actually I have Queen f3 as a big recommendation
and then you have to study the opening from there if the Vienna gambit gets declined then you play
Knight of 3 get this Bishop out Castle and use the open F file for your pieces against non Knight f6
systems you play something like Bishop c4 d3 and then slowly build four f4 before you play Knight
f3 but even the copycat system can run into huge trouble I'm just gonna give you a very
quick example Queen qi4 here to attack g7 can be met with Queen f6 counter attacking you and now
Knight d5 is completely winning for the white side alright that's that that's all you have to know
about this position Queen f2 King D one that's not mate and Queen g7 97 and Knight h3 trapping
the Queen after Queen D for d3 are all coming so the copycat system is already very dangerous for
black and if black plays something like this I am a huge fan of Death have four systems and I
highly recommend that you go investigate you'll be winning a lot of games when you play Vienna
honestly you will against the Sicilian now what you need to know about Sicilian players
in my mind is that they study a lot of their open Sicilian repertoire close Sicilian repertoire and
I'm still a big fan of nights III stuff okay I like Knight c3 stuff quite a lot especially
close Sicilian with g3 Bishop g2 a slow buildup of the pawns on this side of the board to start
some sort of attack but there is also one very tricky system here with 93 96 and I showed this
in a recent stream that I did Bishop b5 here and you want to take and damage the structure before
you play d3 h3 and again just expand on this side of the board covering the light squares now that
you trade one cool thing here after Knight d4 is Knight f3 and if your bishop gets taken and they
play something like a6 you just come back and basically what you want to do is play d4 and
get very rapid development so something like this d4 takes Queen takes get this Bishop out
long castle and even though you've given up the bishop pair what you've gotten is a huge lead
in development a system that puts black on a back foot very early so early Knights III stuff against
people who play g6 and just try to get a dragon you know you can go close Sicilian style with g3
Bishop g2 try to play f4 and just build up your pieces slowly before creating some sort of attack
that might look something like this just so you kind of you know have this understanding f4 h3
is always useful to prevent against Knight g4 no castles this Bishop h6 f4 g4 Knight f3 just kind
of in a you know aggressive system on this side of the board ah just to put a Sicilian player
like I said on a back foot and thinking about the opening set up very early in the game okay
now in my opening scores I recommend B 3 and a 3 now these are serious Sicilian sidelines b3 just
trying to play Bishop d2 Bishop b2 oftentimes trading the bishop or putting it on c4 one of
my favorite a3 Sicilian lines as a deferred wing gambit goes like this knight c6 before takes too
stakes attacking the knight then I goes back and a lot of players here don't want their
Center to be taken so they'll play like this and now Knight a3 with the idea to play Knight
d5 and night c7 is vicious and I win about 85% of my games here against you know 80 2600 rated
players or so so that should just give you an understanding of how venom is the a3 Sicilian
you know really can be but to know more about that openings course link below but you don't
need that you can take a look at this Knight c3 system close to Cillian I'm giving you as many
weapons as I can against the French defense obviously I'm a believer in taking the center
III I'm a big fan of the system and I'll give you the options I think Knight c3 is going to be the
you know more tactical approach there's win over here and classical French that you would have to
learn there's also Knight d2 French which is a bit more positional obviously both of them can
become the same thing if opponent takes you need to know what to do against recapturing but there
is one system will recommend here for you to do a little exploration and that's the Bishop d3
French a very good author on this system on hell I believe on hell Ariba sore on hell Arriba's Lopez
I don't remember which of his last names goes first but he's Spanish Grandmaster a very tricky
system which looks kind of silly at first because white waste 3 Tempe and puts the bishop on f3 but
there is some serious tricks in this system a 92 comes c4 Knight c3 d5 you can give this a shot
it's really gonna throw some people off if you want a good anti-french and as always you know
I recommend b3 here with this gambit this very interesting gambit against the French with Queen
e2 and long castles as well as the two Knights French I think the two Knights French is a very
tricky French weapon but not always guaranteed that you get it because if you start with the two
Knights French you might all of a sudden end up in a weird Sicilian transposition so those are a
couple of options that you have against the French defense and I'm not gonna lie if you're gonna
face a caro-kann and you don't like to face the caro-kann there's a lot of tricky stuff you can
play against it I'm going to recommend to I in my course and just in general to all students I think
the advance Cara Khan has the most venom alright I just think that it is the most challenging weapon
against Bishop f5 I'm a big believer in the h4 system with with g4 stuff coming on h4 trying to
expand on this side of the board pregnant nanda plays the system and has won a couple of very
very very nice games not to mention you know just other grandmasters in the world and of course if
they play c5 you take and try to hang on to the pawn one more system that's a huge sideline and
it's gonna throw off a lot of people play Knight c3 d5 Queen e2 this is a very very tricky system
first of all if d 491 is the idea and then what you're gonna do here is play G 3 Bishop G to D
3 F 4 and you're just gonna expand the fleet of pieces this Knight is going to be useful on F 2
once you push the F pawn and by closing the center very early you get all the kingside space so kind
of a tricky system and it and it does come with a little bit of venom I've seen students here for
example not want to get their pawns doubled like this so I'll play 97 and get mated so you might
win a game like this and checkmate in 4 moves if you do please do share the game link in the
comments below that would be quite interesting and quite exciting but Queenie to Knight c3 very
interesting caro-kann system against the peers in the modern you know I I really do enjoy h3
systems so for example I hear if if Philidor 92 and just in general 92 so something like this
h3 g4 Bishop g2 and 92 these systems are super interesting because again you can get a position
where you've got five five pawns mobilizing at your opponent and once you Castle you're gonna
have f4 f5 coming g5 coming and just the general expansion of your Kings side it's gonna make
opponents very uncomfortable because if you play the Pierce and the modern do you want to you want
to be the one attacking you don't want to be the one getting attacked to this magnitude and you can
infuse this system as well to get the bishop off the board Castle queenside take some king sized
space so the same can be said you know for the modern you have Knight c3 and then this system
with h3 g4 Bishop g2 but you also can just play like very simple system with you know if there's
no knight f6 Knight f3 Bishop c4 and then Queen e2 e5 and early Queen e2 in an early you know an
early e5 like this with castles and then you put you'll put your rook on d1 replacing your queen so
in against the modern system where you know black doesn't play Knight f6 he just plays g6 d6 like
this that is one way to play and I mean against the Scandinavian well I personally like to simply
play Knight of three Bishop e2 and castles and delay d4 c4 one of my favorite lines here goes
like this this should be two knight c6 castles and if black goes for a quick [ __ ] throw in the move
age three obviously taking is not very good here you just get to do bishops Knight c3 and Queen
d7 b4 investigate this line it's in my openings course I know I've been plugging it throughout
the video but I can't give you all the answers right I mean that's something has to be behind a
paywall but just as an introduction I do recommend this system in it it's it's it's a lot of fun very
exciting and if Queen a5 I just recommend you know typical Queen side attacking stuff delaying the
move d4 not giving Scandinavian players of target which is usually the deep on and not letting them
get into their comfort zone against everything else I mean you know efore Knight f6 one very
interest I mean there's a lot of good ways to play against Alec kind but one line I'll recommend here
for you a4 also in the final chapter of uh you know the goods a4 is very fun but obviously you
don't have to play like this I mean you know you could just enter a mainline Alekhine and
the alkyne is not particularly challenging if you're an e4 player you need to spend the
majority of your time prepping against C 6 e 5 C 6 C 5 because about 90% of your games as an e4
player will be after those moves everything else and maybe right now Scandinavians got you know
having a bit of a revolution at the intermediate level with Bartholomew and other strong players
you know pushing it but that's it I mean that's as good of an introduction as I can give you in
about 10 minutes of how to play e4 how to approach the Sicilian how to approach the King's pawn and
giving you different spicy ideas to put into your repertoire so you're not bored you're not
getting the same positions all the time and if any of you have questions about lines I didn't
cover like the Italian or something like that put them in the comments below I'll drop in I
will read through them give some suggestions because these were all obviously a bit more
biased toward my choices and as always you know we end with a chat question what's your favorite
sport please don't say chess and if you don't have a favorite sport I don't know come up with
something funny to tell me if you're interested in getting the e4 course or the e6 b6 course it's in
the description below I think it should be the second line and I'll see you in the next video