in today's ten-minute opening video I'm going to show you the Dutch defense which you can play with
the black pieces but if you like the setup so much you actually have a couple of tricks also
with the white pieces to get into those positions similar-looking positions I should say which I
will show you as well so let's jump in the dutch is an f5 based opening so you can play it against
everything that is not the King's pawn so the way that looks is d4 f5 or c4 f5 and then from
this position you have options so you have the Stonewall Dutch which if you haven't seen my
video on the Stonewall I really don't know why you haven't it's one of the greatest videos ever
created in the existence of youtube go look at that you also have a killer Dutch the the Simon
Williams classical Dutch where you play like this a little bit more passively there's also systems
you can play b6 Bishop b7 and bring the bishop out this way so just trying to control the center kind
of an init in a unique way and then my favorite which is the g6 leningrad dutch and the basically
the kind of position that you're going for here is something like this which looks like a King's
Indian system except you've played at five so while you have opened your King a little bit
you you've actually already played one of these aggressive moves to control the center and now you
just need to play another pawn to e5 and you've got excellent central control you can do that
with a move like east six and slowly set up with queenie 797 and E 5 or you know there's even the
immediate Queen e8 with Knight d7 and E 5 quite as well just trying to get you know active piece
play in the center of the board if I had to push you toward a certain touch I would push you toward
the Leningrad I love it I I have found it to be an exceptional attacking weapon and then you just
need to build a little bit more experience a book that really helped me was a Leningrad Dutch book
by Viktor Malan uke who's a who's a grandmaster either from Russia or Ukraine I'm not sure I
believe one of those two countries and his book is great there's a lot of other Leningrad resources
out there wherever you get your resources and then obviously you know you would study some
grandmaster game and as I said you know this set up you can play just about against everything for
instance you know just because they don't play the move d4 doesn't mean you can't play you know f5
or g6 and Bishop g7 and all the same way and then try to play b6 Bishop b7 or try to move the phone
eeep on but but be careful because if you play f5 very early against d4 there is a very scary
gambit known as the Staunton gambit and for this reason you might actually sometimes want to start
out with d6 or even g6 just to make sure they don't get to play e4 but then you would go to
a different opening if they do play e4 right so d 4 d 6e 4 now you're in a completely different
thing you can't play the Dutch anymore but if you play d4 f5 there is this and this is called the
Staunton gambit it's very aggressive I actually do play this with the white side this is how you can
get in a little bit of trouble just a little bit of trouble if you play the system and it
doesn't mean you're worse you just need to know what you're doing you need to take and you need
to play Knight f6 so something like this and if they offer you the second pot I wouldn't take
it I wouldn't take it I would just give this pawn back and then take the center and develop
and here there's also Bishop g5 against this again you can just go the similar way g6 and
you're not really worried about this because you're just gonna get castled but there is a
little bit of theory here there is one trick don't play d5 because that blenders takes and
then queen h5 check and white picks up the pawn again and white is just much better but you can
play something like c6 to try to get the Queen out this way and also try to reinforce in the center
with d5 but I just wanted to show you that you know this weapon does exist and that is one of
the dangers of opening your King so early but if you're a daring flank defense player you can play
like this against anything Knight f3 move one your opponent plays Knight of three go f5 there you go
but again there's also this gambit here so this is called the listen gambit I think and you need
to know a little bit of stuff here once again take and then just solidify in the center and
don't you know don't do anything too crazy because your King is a little bit open alright how do you
get this setup with white well you can start out with the move f4 the only drawback of this move
is that there are some very aggressive systems like 'if I've and already this is called Fromm's
gambit and you need to know what you're doing here you can take the game back into a Kings gambit by
playing efore so this is one trick that you can employ on your opponent's they think that they're
clever with the Fromm's gambit and then boom it's a Kings gambit all of a sudden but you can't play
something also maybe like g3 move one ah and then Bishop g2 so for example Knight f6 Bishop g2 d5
and then f4 and now you're in a reverse Dutch and this is a very different story because now
he five loses all of its venom because your King has been completely covered but the one drawback
of starting with g3 is they can play you five now you're not going to play a dutch with white right
because they play d5 okay but now we can play a king's indian we can play d3 and Knight f3 so
just a little lesson there of the move order of the opening and then how you can navigate based
on your opponent's responses oh they played like this all right perfect I'm gonna play a Dutch oh
they're playing like this they're not letting me play a Dutch no problem I'm gonna play the
King's Indian but there is a degree of overlap in these openings depending on how your opponent
plays and how you obviously play and ultimately decide which way to take the game but the Dutch
setup is one that's very interesting it involves moving the F pawn very early very aggressive very
very unique system like let's put it this way if you're playing with the white pieces your
opponent is is almost never going to get hit with a reverse Dutch I mean almost never you know the
amount of times that your opponent is going to have to face this and Knight of three and
castles is so rare so rare less than 1% of their games I would imagine and then on the black side
you know if they're a d4 player maybe like you know less than 5% of their games are Duchess I
would say so you're gonna be in the familiar territory and they're they're not going to be
I guess soup as familiar nowhere near as familiar as you are cuz you're playing a
system based approach alright it only took six minutes but now you know how to play the Dutch
arguably with both colors as always let me know your questions in the comments about the Dutch
defense I will happily answer and elaborate on any sort of specific gambits or setups to
the best of my ability and for today I don't know I've been asking a lot of different chat
questions but uh what's your favorite fruit how about that feel free to answer that in
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