welcome everybody to another 10 minute
chess opening video
today we are looking at something that
so many people have requested
the queen's gambit now i'm actually
going to include a little bit of
material here on both sides
i rarely do that but first we're gonna
start out with the queen's gambit for
the white side
and i'm gonna give you a few weapons to
be aware of with the black pieces as
well
the queen's gambit begins after the
moves d4
d5 and c4 the point is
that you are gambiting upon you are
giving away
a pawn early uh and what you want in
exchange for this pawn
is you want two pawns in the center
right because that pawn has now moved
it has seated control of the center and
in a perfect world
white will then take that pawn back with
the bishop which has now opened up with
the move
on to e4 and white has a dominant center
notice
that now what happens is that black is
left with one central pawn
and white is left with two central pawns
which is which is good that's
at a very elementary level that's really
what this is all about now
from a theoretical chess standpoint i
want to
address the queen's gamut for beginners
intermediate players
and honestly if you're watching this
somehow as like a 2000
i'm still going to include something
that might be useful for you
so if you're going to play the queen's
gambit on move 2
you should be aware of the queen's
gambit accepted any time this pawn is
taken
accepting the gambit does not lose for
black by any means you should know what
to do
against that i recommend that you do
take the full center
and there's some dangers if the opponent
just defends like this
you can already begin to play moves like
a4
undermining this pawn and creating some
serious weaknesses for the opponent if
the opponent plays a6
you just take and they can't take back
because of the rook
if they take back if they play c6 you
now can
uh take once and then just develop your
knight to c3
and it's again difficult to defend this
pawn with the tactic a6
you just take and there's a exchange
down on the other file
which is going to be an issue at the
same time you also can just kind of
develop your pieces
and if black spends all the moves in the
opening just defending one pawn
black will fall behind in development
considerably
there are other defenses so the two ways
to reinforce this pawn with pawns
this is the queen's gambit decline which
i'll also flip so you see it with the
black pieces queen's gambit declined is
a legendary
unbreakable tier opening if you haven't
watched the opening tier list
that i did along with hikaru it is seen
at
all types of grand master level blitz
rapid
classical does not matter it has not
been broken for many many years
uh and the point is that black will now
play knight f6 bishop e7
and castle now there are branches
of the queen's gambit uh declined
some of them are for example uh this is
the classic with bishop e7
knight c3 bishop e7 the two main lines
being bishop f4 and bishop g5
uh here black can play more aggressively
in the center this is called the
tarrasch defense
and here you know you've got to know
what you're doing with white
there's also bishop b4 which doesn't
play passively instead goes here
this is called the regozen defense and
so on and so forth i mean here black can
play c6
now you're in a semi-slav which we will
get into the point is not to memorize
all the deep theory uh the point is
to have a solid foundation on which to
play an opening
and and then start adding the more
theoretical layers as you move up the
ranks
you're not going to need to know the
intricacies of the ragosan defense
i mean up you know until you're pushing
maybe 2 000 just have a good
fundamental understanding of what you're
looking for early on uh
if you're going to play the queen's
gambit with the white pieces i recommend
the two knights
approach and then i recommend putting
the bishop on f4 or g5
you can play for g5 simply
with this in mind that if black castles
very quickly
like let's say like this you don't
actually always have to castle here
there's some positions where you play a
very early queen c2
and now you've lined up the queen to the
h7 pawn
and if they play h6 you can sometimes
play this
you're gonna say levy what the hell is
that and i'm gonna say that's called a
fish hook or a fishing pole
and the point is that you're setting a
bait you would like your opponent to
take the bishop
after which he will play h takes g5 and
now your queen
and rook hit down here if they play here
obviously take take queen e4
and good luck stopping the queen from
infiltrating
now you're not always gonna win games
like this but that's just one of the
attacking ideas behind bishop g5 but
black has to castle
the other idea is that you're actually
happy to make this trade
and reinforce like this you don't want
to play e3 unless your bishop has gone
out and now you've got a very solid
center you can again
look for a short castle attack with g4
h4 g5 and so on uh this is for the more
aggressive players
and for the more solid players like if
black castles
then you just play bishop d3 you castle
like i don't know
black can play in a lot of ways if
you're gonna be solid you play rook c1
bring this rook to the party
and then try to play e4 going for a more
positional
and slow approach to the game that's
really how you play the queen's gamut
from the white side now
that's if black plays queen's gambit
declined the other way
that i haven't really looked at yet is
the slav defense
the slav defense is different than the
queen's gambit because black reinforces
but the bishop stays a bit more open the
knight is the problem the knight now
cannot come out to c6
you can play this all the same and the
only layer here that i will add that
potentially you should know
is that you have queen to b3 a common
idea that only exists when this bishop
leaves and queen b3 will hit the b7 pawn
when you're a beginner this is going to
work a lot when you're a
slightly stronger player than a beginner
uh people are not gonna lose this pawn
anymore but there will be other
opportunities that await you on the
queen side
with bishop f4 potentially getting a
knight to b5 and knight into c7
but if you just want to keep it all the
same you just want to play like you know
bishop g5
e3 rook c1 by all means
by all means go ahead and do it those
are the two ways to decline your gambit
and that really leaves us with other
stuff um if they defend with the knight
you just take your levy what why would i
take i mean you you didn't take the
other way
the difference is that when they don't
put a pawn there
they're not taking you with a pawn and
if they have to put the knight in the
center
now you take the full center don't
forget that at the end of the day
chess principles exceed or supersede
opening knowledge of some form right
like if you can put
two pawns in the center that is what you
should be doing and if they take with
the queen
well then you just play knight c3 i mean
you can't play e4 so you play knight c3
knight f3 and e4 like you try to take
the center
with two pawns get your dark squared
bishop out get your light squared bishop
out and either you don't castle and you
try to attack
or you castle and you play it slow the
queen's gambit is so solid
except against gambits
and against c4 there's a few gambits so
for example there's the baltic defense
which is very aggressive system against
the baltic defense you should try to be
as solid as possible
and play things like knight c3 for
example
and if black tries to cheese you early
on like again with something like knight
c6 looking for knight b4 and knight c2
just stick to your game plan bishop g5
rook c1 not really worried about
something on c2
just develop your pieces you're
extremely solid and at the same time
there is something called the
albin counter gamut now this one's a
little bit dangerous
uh because if you take on d5 i bring my
queen and now i'm pressuring the center
with two things
you don't get a very peaceful position
if you try to play knight f3
i play e4 and all of a sudden it's like
whoa black's attacking me
and if you play taking this pawn
black can lodge the pawn into d4 and now
it's not so easy to develop
actually one of the benefits of playing
knight to
f3 on move two is that you avoid the
album
counter gambit basically completely if
black plays knight c6 black is in
a totally different situation uh and
now you there's other ways i mean you
can even go transpose into the london
you say levy this is a queen's gamut
video why is the london here
we're taking advantage of this move
order that's all it is
uh but the album counter gambit with
with e5 after you play c4 is nothing to
be afraid of
you just have to know what you're doing
just play knight f3 and learn
one of the lines i mean there's some a3
g3 systems
where you develop like this or you can
immediately fight against this pawn
this is for the more advanced players
watching as i said beginners
intermediate advanced players all are
going to learn something
but that's generally how you do it i
mean that's nine minutes
you can x out right now if you just
wanted a repertoire for the white pieces
but i said i was gonna give you one for
the black pieces as well
so let's do that let's flip this around
uh
we are now going to be the wrecked noob
huh so let's not be the wrecked noob
let's change this around now we're the
gotham viewer
and they are going to be the wrecked
noob
and let's say they play the queen's
gamut against us now you say levy
queen's gamut only exists after d5 what
about knight f6 well you're not
gambiting anything that's just a
different position
so first things first you can accept the
gambit but it's very risky
uh and when you accept the gambit you
need to develop very quickly in the
center against
e3 and e4 i actually like to play e5
the point being that if black if white
takes on c4 you just take this pawn
and if they go like this now you get a
queen trait early
and you get quick development so knight
c6 attacks the center
you're looking at bishop g4 check and
long castle
so you get a very quick lead in
development on your opponent which might
throw them off so i like e5 a lot
but if they play knight f3 you cannot
play e5
because of this so you should just copy
occupying the e4 square develop your
bishop
play pawn to e6 so you don't block in
your bishop develop the other bishop
like to b4 and castle you can accept the
gambit it doesn't lose by any means
however you can also decline the gambit
and a good setup to play against the
queen's gambit declined is something
like knight f6
uh i did a video on the catalan system
so with g3 bishop g2
what i recommend here is you can either
play bishop b4 or bishop e7
if you play bishop b4 be ready to trade
the bishop
for the knight or the bishop for example
like that
uh and if you do know something like
castles bishop g2 and you're gonna have
to get this bishop out with b6
that's what you're gonna have to do
because the bishop can't come out this
way bishop b7
knight d7 and then c5 so something like
uh castles
let's say this happens i said be ready
to take
knight d7 and pawn c5 so you at least
have two pawns fighting in the center of
the board
your games are going to look a little
bit different but that's if you
basically want to play the queen's
gambit declined
slav defense is okay it's not you know
the the
it's not any better or worse than the
queen's game decline i think they're
equally okay
uh the same game plan develop bishop out
pawn
etc now there's one spicy thing that i
want to include
and that's the move knight c6 uh this
might be interesting
because i did say that if you're able to
put the queen in the center you should
and this is actually called the chigorin
defense if you'd like a queen's gambit
declined weapon this might catch a few
people off guard
c takes d5 queen takes d5 the point is
that now two things hit this
so knight c3 you just take now if they
play e3
they've blocked in the dark squared
bishop at the cost of opening up the
light squared bishop
and now i like to strike in the center
with e5
the point is that if they play knight c3
you don't move your queen now
huh bishop b4
and you pin them and you're just getting
a quick
lead in development you're going to
trade off that bishop you're going to
develop this bishop
and castle long maybe you like that
because you get a lead in development
people are going to be very
uncomfortable
here especially beginners that just want
to get a solid queen's gambit setup
uh and obviously i have to give you a
weapon with the white side now right so
uh the best thing for white to do
against the chugoran
is to just be very solid so just play
something like knight f3
uh and set up knight c3 in the future
uh and generally with black what we'll
do here is again we're gonna try to play
bishop g4 as fast as we can
white might play knight c3 and now we
kind of see the problem
so you can play this in the form of a
scandinavian something like queen to a5
and looking for a quick castling so d5
something like this
uh and we're just trying to play
aggressive chess which the computer is
not always going to like
uh but okay i mean it doesn't really
matter what the computer wants because
if you're playing someone who's around
your level
and they're not cheating then they don't
have a computer
i hope this was helpful all right i hope
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minutes into the video but i wanted to
do this for white and for black
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