Best Beginner Chess Opening After 1.e4 (Aggressive & Universal)

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🔹 Goring Gambit chess opening –

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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov shares with you the best chess opening for White after 1.e4 which is suitable for beginners; it works especially well below the 1600 ELO rating level. It is both aggressive and universal.

It is the Goring Gambit from the Scotch Game which occurs after the following moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3. White sacrifices a pawn for rapid development and a quick attack against the Black king, especially targeting the f7-pawn.

This opening is ideal for beginners because most players at that level know nothing about this opening variation. By learning this aggressive gambit opening, you will be way ahead of most of your opponents.

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00:00 Best Chess Opening for Beginners (Below 1600 ELO Rating)
00:21 Scotch Game: Goring Gambit
01:44 Main idea of the Goring Gambit
02:30 1) If Black plays 5…d6
03:13 1.1) Black’s mistake 6…Bg4 pin
05:27 1.2) If Black plays 6…Be6
08:41 1.3) If Black plays 6…Nf6
10:46 2) If Black plays 5…Bb4
12:38 2.2) If Black plays 8…Ng4
13:34 2.3) Black plays 7…d6 to stop e5
14:06 2.4) if Black plays 7…Nge7

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42 Comments

  1. Hi Igor. Birthday greetings for yesterday (I think, 28/10).
    I enjoyed and learned from this. I love your cheerfulness😊

  2. Great videos, but the stats you pull out for the most common moves are never the same as my opponents.🥴😎👍♟️

  3. I love those forks. I think when you are at 1300/1400 level being able to play attraction forks like that will set you apart.

  4. GM Igor You are like the Holy Box (my Television), I bow to you. Who knew chess was so easy and so complicated ? … and so beautiful. Every time, You teach something amazing. My rating has gone from 1000 to 1300. I'm an old man, 66. You keep my brain moving. Thank you.

  5. ► Chapters

    00:00 Best Chess Opening for Beginners (Below 1600 ELO Rating)

    00:21 Scotch Game: Goring Gambit

    01:44 Main idea of the Goring Gambit

    02:30 1) If Black plays 5…d6

    03:13 1.1) Black's mistake 6…Bg4 pin

    05:27 1.2) If Black plays 6…Be6

    08:41 1.3) If Black plays 6…Nf6

    10:46 2) If Black plays 5…Bb4

    12:38 2.2) If Black plays 8…Ng4

    13:34 2.3) Black plays 7…d6 to stop e5

    14:06 2.4) if Black plays 7…Nge7

  6. first comment sir pls pin
    nice opening(i am 1500 elo rapid)

  7. I first thought “isn’t this the danish gambit?” Then I realized you play 2.d4 there. Great vid as always

  8. Don't like this line because of after playing e5 black counter attack with d5??????…….

  9. Time to go knight knight!! The sweet dream variation.

  10. Although I am a 1. d4 player now, when I play 1. e4 I always play the Goring Gambit. It’s such an easy to learn, attacking opening and scores ridiculously high <2000

  11. Grand Master, I'm a beginner level player struggling against the "King's Pawn Opening: King's Knight, McConnell Defense", Would you kindly help me with that?

  12. This channel teaches the most surprising and unexpected, but at the same time, brilliant openings. All openings I'm using now are from this channel.

  13. What a coincidence! I started teaching it to my 7 years old son today and THEN I saw your video.

  14. "Dancing boogie-boogie" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  15. U usually cover the right way to play …can u do that….

  16. “The Goring Gambit is definitely not a Boring Gambit”

    -DJ Smirnov

  17. Greetings Sir, would love to hear your take on my contention that Chess is an expression of pi. Have a video with the same name. Love your content.

  18. Great video Igor! My absolute favourite openings are the Scotch Gambit and Goring gambit!

  19. Genuine Question: Why play the goring gambit instead of the Danish? I often reach a similar position but with the danish you don't have to learn petrov theory.

  20. Nicely presented and very effective content as usual, but ….. still missing your cat in the background !!

  21. I just used this; and I love it. Victory in 12 moves. Thanks

  22. Vow👍 lot of variation moves👍👌🙏 thanks

  23. At 3:19 after …Bg4 white's continuation is riddled with many problems,
    1. Qb3 Na5 forking the bishop and the queen, there seems to be no good continuation after this,
    Lets consider Qb5+, after c6 attacking the queen and defending the black knight with Queen, white doesn't have a great continuation. While black is at a disadvantage when plugging in the position in analyzer there is no decisive advantage.

  24. After all these variants I see it is better for black to play 4. – d5 instead of dxc3.

  25. I strongly recommend you to consider renaming all of your videos in past as well as in the future. For instance, this one could be named "Goring Gambit #2" or "Goring Gambit. Part 2" depending on your stylistic preferences. Same goes for Rousseau Gambit parts and many (or even all) your videos. It would make it easier to find them on your channel via "Search" button (even though I simply save them in specific folders but lets not forget about others).

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