has been quite some time since i've made a 10 minute chess opening video but we're back
and today we're going to learn about the evans gambit and i'm also going to add another weapon
for you called the neckmonson gambit which has been on youtube quite a bit uh jonathan trance
and eric rosen made youtube videos shout out to them evans gambit being a godmotor's favorite
so obviously you guys are familiar with that as well and the gambit begins with the white pieces
you have to play e4 they have to play e5 which at the beginner and intermediate level happens
75 to 80 of the time knight f3 knight c6 obviously if they play something like
d6 or you know potentially go for knight f6 you need something different but the point is that
you play bishop c4 and they have to play bishop c5 after i show you about the evans gambit i'm
going to show you the nechmans and gamut and other ideas with knight f6 but for now we have bishop
c5 and here you play b4 so obviously a gambit the is is something where you sacrifice material upon
two pawns sometimes even more and you get a big lead in development and big attacking chances
so obviously there's a couple of options here there's opening theory there's grand master games
most people here are going to take this with the knight or the bishop let's just start out with the
knight the whole point of this is that your next moves are going to win tempe on whatever happens
or happens to arrive on b4 and then you're going to play c3 and d4 and take full control of the
center castle and get some attacking ideas so the thing about this night move is that
it's basically a transposition meaning it's something that can happen in a different
move order uh to what usually will happen which is they take with the bishop and then you get
this position and and now they move this bishop somewhere so it's kind of the exact same thing
it's just that you know they arrive there by taking with the knight first and here i just
recommend taking the full center they can either take your pawn uh or potentially go back to b6
it's very tough to tell here what they're going to do so i'm gonna just give you ideas
and you're gonna fill in the blanks so if they take uh you know they can play bishop b6 bishop
b4 if they check you i recommend blocking with the knight and then trying to castle quickly
and play fast in the center of the board with your pawns so something for example like knight f6
castles and here if black were to castle which this is already not a very theoretical position um
you can play moves like d5 knight a5 if they go here uh obviously they can't go the other
way you would just take uh and you can just slide the bishop back and create an attacking
possibility or you can even play e5 right away because if they take on c4 you just take on c4
you have dominant central presence and you'll use your space advantage to create some sort of attack
now the way you should memorize this gambit is essentially have they taken the gamut or not and
where have they put their bishop so what that means is if most people play bishop takes you
play c3 the main line according to theory here is to play a5 or e7 so if you're playing somebody
that has studied some games before has an opening course on e4 e5 they will move the bishop to one
of those two squares so i should show you what to do right they move the bishop back to a5 um
you can castle but you have other options you can attack the center right away and then when they
take you can castle and this will bait people into taking again potentially and now you'll play queen
b3 and this is the whole point the whole point is that you're trying to get to f7 as fast as
possible in this particular variation but you've already castled your kings so you're pretty safe
other you know queen b3 normally isn't so strong because black can just play something like queen
e7 you know for example uh like here you shouldn't really play queen b3 because i just defend my pawn
but it's different once you've gotten castled so you have options is what i'm saying you can play
d4 take then castle or you can just castle and after knight f6 then you can play d4 and if they
take you can now push this pawn again every move you're trying to make something aggressive happen
you're trying to attack them to the highest extent that you can here black has to know this move d5
this is the best move according to theory and after it takes takes you take on g7 rook g8
there's like a very crazy position that can arise i highly recommend you look at this not you know
with an engine but at the same time uh with an openings database to see what gets played and
what doesn't because computer in the openings database isn't always linked up uh because the
computer says one thing but theory has has said something else so but if they play something like
knight e4 like they don't play d5 uh you can get a very big attack with rookie one something like
this and there's even a variation you sacrifice a rook and uh you just play like bishop g5 and
knight takes d4 and you have a gigantic lead in development and you're basically winning
it's queen f3 queen h5 knight f5 and you're just putting unbelievable pressure on the position here
uh play through some of these variations you know we we only looked at bishop a5 uh if they move the
bishop back to e7 again it's more of the same i mean you play in the center d6 here according
to theory the main line is knight a5 now i can almost guarantee you you will never face that
because that is incredibly unnatural for a beginner to play bishop e7 and knight a5
this is theory i mean it's been played at the highest level check it out an openings database
i recommend just going back to e2 if you get this and again you're always looking to recapture
either with the second pawn or in this case with the queen looking to create something here main
line here goes knight f6 attack the knight now black has to go back and hit your queen
and basically you rotate your queen over to g3 you could do that like this you could do that
like this but you plant your queen on this square it defends and it's attacking here h4h5 is an idea
and you're looking for a very very quick attack the bishop coming back to e7 is one of the most
solid variations the bishop hanging out on a5 is a little bit less solid and it does give you nice
and interesting attacking possibilities uh with a lot of different open lines
but if they don't accept the gambit i don't i don't know they could play something like bishop
b6 um i actually don't think that you even have to play b5 you you can make them accept the gambit by
playing a4 threatening to trap their bishop and then if they play knight before you get
basically all of the same you play a5 c3 and d4 and it's all the same except this pawn is out here
and they will have some difficulty uh finding a home for the dark squared bishop
but that's the point you're giving up the b-pawn for very very quick attacking
opportunities which normally you wouldn't get in standard e45 positions now i did say i would give
you a bonus right i did say i would give you a bonus so the you know the the variation here
uh with knight f3 against knight f6 if you do face knight f6 aka the petrov i highly recommend you
take a look at d4 here it's called the steinitz attack super super aggressive gets a lot of
people out of theory they can't take because you just push and uh if you haven't watched the e4
rating climb i did a video series where i only played e4 against some of my subscribers to test
and you know test the lines and see what they're playing and give you some opening ideas so i've
been playing d4 a lot you can take this pawn but then you run the risk of entering a stafford
gambit so you need to know what you're doing it's very dangerous or just the petrov main lines
and if you get this bishop c4 knight f6 uh this is my favorite part of the video you can play the
fried liver you can go for the cheese but against the player who knows what they're doing with d5
takes something like knight a5 uh you obviously will not be getting as big of an advantage
so what i recommend is you play d4 uh in very much in the style of the evan's gambit just playing in
the center d4 now most people here will take here i recommend castling so giving up the second pawn
this is the nakmansen gambit and uh after knight takes e4 which pretty much is the only move
otherwise you just push this pawn forward and take this pawn back uh you play the absolutely
ridiculous looking knight to c3 uh knight c3 is is an insane move it's it's actually crazy
uh and black has to basically play only computer theory here uh to to survive and ultimately be
winning like the nakmonstem gambit is very good with perfect play the thing is that you very
rarely are actually going to get perfect play on the board and if you do you're most likely
playing a cheater that's actually just straight up the case uh so the most fun variation here is d
takes c3 and the beautiful bishop takes f7 and if king takes f7 queen d5 black has to play king f6
black has to play king f6 uh and you take back on e4 with some sort of big attack queen e4 and
now black has to play bishop e7 so that bishop g5 is not a threat to the queen anymore again
if someone plays like this against you i would be extremely suspicious uh which is one of the
reasons why the nikonson gambit is so vicious it's just you you can't refute it with natural play
and oftentimes black will you know for example not play king f6 we'll play king eight and just end
up in a losing position because of something like rookie one rookie four and there's just no way to
prevent this demolition on on the king so if you don't get the opportunity to play in evans gambit
the whole point of this video is to give you a repertoire with knight f3 and bishop c4 uh that's
the whole point i should say of playing like this playing like an aggressive style with the
evans gambit with c3 d4 castles is because you have to understand e4 e5 players will get this
position on the board 95 percent of the time they will get this position on the board maybe 70 80
of the time if someone doesn't play of four nights the evans gambit takes all of that down to like
five percent maybe five percent four or two percent of their games become the evan's gambit
and they will have no idea what to do that's the whole point of playing a gambit repertoire
and this is not a garbage gambit by any stretch of the imagination it's been played by carlson
carl juan a lot of really strong players mvl just in the past calendar year alone so give it a shot
uh if you'd like you can link a game that you play in the evan's gambit successfully or
unsuccessfully in the comments uh whatever chess website you play on and i'll browse around and try
to give you a little bit of feedback if you have any questions you can also help each other out
uh try to keep the comments positive i know i've had a joke where i've been pinning
you know some some hate comments but i want to move on from that i really want to actually have a
you know see the best of my community because so many of you out there are demonstrating immense
amounts of support and i couldn't thank you enough so hopefully this was good stay tuned
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