do you like winning chess games in five moves
do you enjoy aggressive openings that lead to big attacks do you like chess memes if you answered
yes to one of these three questions then this is the video for you i introduce to you my friends
the tennyson gambit and specifically the intercontinental ballistic missile variation
named after a very funny chess video that came out some months ago from the youtube channel bosnian
ape society uh it's a very funny video you should totally check it out not yet i'll put it in the
description you could watch it after very short video uh where a missile explodes the chessboard
at some point maybe that doesn't even happen i don't want to spoil the video but it's it's quite
funny and if you notice by the way the chess board is completely messed up in that video
as part of the meme i think the point is that this gambit is for the white pieces and it goes
after the scandinavian defense e4 d5 knight f3 but here's the thing here's my idea when you play e4
and they don't play the scandinavian i mean you're not going to face the scandinavian
scandinavian scandinavian scandinavian a lot right so i think actually a better way to do
this is actually start the game with knight f3 if they don't play d5 and they just copy you then you
can turn the game into a handful of things for example you can go for a london system uh and
then maybe even play like a cr like a not like a knight c3 and try to play for e4 just mix it up
uh you can also play a reverse stafford gambit maybe like e4 take something like this if you
you really like the stafford gambit or a reverse jalalabad the options are are there for you uh
after knight f3 knight f6 uh but let's say d5 and e4 okay you can leave it up to you to decide
most people here are gonna take this pawn uh because if they don't i mean
they can actually turn the game into like a car con or a french but we'll look at that later um
they take your pawn and you play the move knight to g5 now of course why is it called
the intercontinental ballistic missile variation right that's why you're here you're still waiting
to know that because of this i'm going to show you straight up the variation why it's named this if
black plays the move knight to f6 a very natural move you will gambit another pawn with the move d3
okay black has a few options here but let's say black takes the pawn
you will then respond with the bishop now black will look around and go you know what i really
don't like this knight it's very annoying it's unnerving i want it to go away shoo h6
except for the fact that in this position there is no shoe knight takes f7
for king the queen and the rook and after king f7 you have bishop g6 check discovered attack
on the queen and after king takes bishop queen takes queen the intercontinental ballistic missile
the queen flies down the board and picks up the queen on d8 you're completely winning in this
position i leave it up to you i will just show you one more trick in this position if black plays the
move e5 don't take the bishop because if you take the bishop there is a check on b4 and you lose
your queen and oh my god how embarrassing would that be i just saved you i know i just saved you
from some embarrassment you would have gotten this far you would have been ready to put your game
in the comments you would have taken the bishop bishop before he would have been like oh my god
why didn't levy put that in the youtube video but i did so now you have nothing to say i put it
instead of taking the bishop you should just take the pawn you're up a queen if you can't win a game
up a queen well let's be honest i probably can't win a game up a queen so look i'm just make that's
why i make youtube videos you have to win the game up a queen i just have to make youtube videos so
that's the intercontinental ballistic missile variation now first things first let's continue
on this knight f6 right let's continue i'll show you the other stuff that's possible here for
example this can happen and there's no h6 there's no h6 it doesn't happen instead black plays like
knight c6 for example the queen is protected sorry the queen is protected this doesn't work
anymore there are some ways that it can still work like for example c6 i don't know if they why they
would play that move but if they do play that move uh you can still play knight takes f7 but
as long as the king uh guards the queen even e6 you can't do this because very tragically because
they played e6 bishop b4 is now an opportunity so they have bishop to b4 what i like to do and the
way i like to play these positions is for example uh there's positions where the bishop can be on g4
but um if you play like d3 take take and then e6 for example um in this kind of a position i
like to just develop my second knight bring my queen out to f3 even as early as this move i'll
i'll bring bring my queen to f3 uh i'll develop my knight for example develop my knight i've had
people castle here i'll play bishop f4 and i'll castle long and i've had some very interesting
games like this where for the cost of one pawn you know if black ever plays a move like h6 you
you best be sure ain't nobody moving that night first of all there's bishop to h7 in
this position winning the queen but let's say you know black covers up the queen or something
we we going for h4 that's what we're doing we're also going for knight takes h7 for example
and after take take here there is this check so there's all sorts of tactics but generally
the way i play this is i'll play h4 g4 i'll i'll just go pounding away on the king side h4 g4 and
go for long castle even for the cost of one pawn uh that's if they you know take all the way down
and then they don't play h6 the drawback the major drawback of this system is they can play h6 now
before they take on d3 so this is great alright if you want to do this this is great
but now is the part where i'm going to fill in other weapons for you to play this gambit
successfully the problem with this is that you've got nothing better than this and frankly you know
this is completely fine but this is kind of boring and i would never recommend something where on the
seventh move of the game you've traded a queen in a night i mean let's be serious what are we super
gms so that's the only drawback if you're finding that this keeps happening to you this h6 and then
well then you're gonna have to change it up okay against knight f6 i have another weapon for you
against knight f6 the move bishop to c4 this is a very good move because these pieces team up
and black really in this position should play the move e6 they are now blocking out their
bishop which is good for us we play knight c3 so we have two knights attacking the pawn on e4
and we're gonna win that pawn if black tries to play a move like queen d4
we play queen e2 this is always gonna be the move guards this this is gonna be one
we're gonna pick up that pawn in a perfect world what this looks like
is something like this where we win back this pawn and then we take the center with a move like d4
i've won a lot of games here where if black plays like natural looking moves like maybe b6 you can
either castle short or even castle long so you play like queen e2 bishop f4 and castles and then
bishop back to d3 and start again this kind of h4 g4 kind of attack on the king side give it a shot
these positions are actually quite fun to play uh the positions where you just surround the
knight with the the pawn with the two knights on g5 and c3 easily win the pawn back queen to e2
pawn to d4 very comfortable position for white so you have the tennyson gambit but
i don't want to just leave that to be the video bishop c4 is also a great move threatening f7
uh the most critical move on the tennis and gambit by the way if you still want to play it
uh is the fact that there's bishop to g4 this is this actually is the biggest problem
uh and this position is just completely fine for black
completely fine um you can still play it in a very similar way like i described by
you know getting the castle going and and then something like this but i would say that more
often than not if you're running into problems the tennis and gambit with uh you know the ic uh
icbm probably might not work but this one definitely will with this version of it so
take knight g5 and then surrounding like this now black can also play the move bishop to f5
which you will face okay i'm gonna give you the wild option you've got the wild option here
and you got the more solid option okay here's your wild option g4 that's the wild option bishop g6
bishop g2 in this position a lot of people will go here because they want to defend their pawn
in this position you have another wild option you can play knight c3 attacking this pawn or
you can play h4 to try to go h5 and one of my favorite things here is if black plays the move h6
h4 is objectively not very good because black can play h5 which is why i would recommend going
knight c3 but there's a very cool line here like this if they play h6 take take take what is that
that is the ugliest set of pawns i have ever seen and you can do this to your opponents if you play
into the system of course h5 is the best move for black so after g4 you can you know go back to just
surrounding the pawn uh and then later maybe you play h4 or you just win this and then you kind
of go about your business that's the wild way to play g4 but we have other ways we have knight c3
and if black plays the move knight f6 uh remember the difference with with the other version is we
would have already played bishop c4 here we have d3 that's the point you say why what huh take
queen f3 now attacking the bishop and this pawn some people will freak out here they might even
play the move bishop to c8 at that point we take if h6 we bring the knight back and again we have a
position where we're down upon but we're two moves away from doing exactly what we want
we're gonna castle we're gonna develop our dark squared bishop and we're gonna be completely okay
so i've had that happen as well uh queen c8 is another move you'll face because people don't
want to lose either of these pieces against this you can take take and play queen takes you're
upon down but you get quick development i mean you can play bishop f4 again long castle h4 and so on
but there's other options uh on on on queen c8 for example you can take with a c pawn if you
don't want to trade the computer's not going to love it but it is an option for you you can
also just develop another piece give them this and then just go completely insane but this is
not engine-backed this is just if you are really feeling wild and want to sacrifice three pawns for
very skeptical compensation but it it's still you know it it's still there are still some tricks
there are still some tricks like really if you look around this position it's it's not the
easiest thing to play with black considering all of the pieces are on the back rank
uh and again here's another example if you play bishop to e3 and get uh this same position
uh queen bishop knight there's there are tactics here like for example knight takes f7 king takes
f7 and queen takes f5 and there's the pin and pressure here so there are looming tactics kind
of everywhere in this system uh if you play knight f3 d5 and e4 but of course we have to also look
at you know the french and these kinds of things d4 is just a very bad move because you play here
now you're developing two pieces and they've developed none so you're quite a bit better
not to mention probably the best move is just to go c3 attack the pawn you're very
happy here you're just doing quite well uh so c3 is very good i mean if they play the french
you can play the two nights french the idea behind the two knights french being that for example if
knight f6 e5 uh knight d7 d4 is the main line and then you take if they take back you play
like bishop d3 for example uh and they've got to be very careful here castling can get greek gifted
the greek gift sacrifice with knight g5 check queen comes this is protected because of the
bishop knight she five and queen h5 is just completely winning for white um that's just one
way i'm just kind of you know we gotta kind of speed run this uh these variations here
the other thing is the karo khan i mean against the kara khan again you've got
you got options you can play e5 which is the advance which will then become just a annoying
pressure for uh for for you against your opponent and again even here you can play the two knights
uh and then different variations would arise after that more often than not they're going
to take your pawn they're going to take the pawn on e4 giving you an opportunity a golden
opportunity to play the intercontinental ballistic missile variation if you do play this put it in
the comments below i figured i would make a um a short video here for you today on this kind of
cool idea i i've caught so many people with this even i haven't caught uh like fm's and iams in
in blitz in this because they they do see nyx xf7 you 100 will i've actually just gotten that
position down a pawn and castle queenside and just go for a big attack on the king side somehow works
every time either i'm good or the gambit's good or i don't know people who i'm playing are bad