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🔹 Rousseau Gambit Explained –
🔹 Top-3 Traps in Rousseau Gambit –
🔹 Rousseau Gambit Part-2 –
♛ Find the variations shown in the video in this blog-post –
Some chess players dare to question the Rousseau Gambit, claiming it is unsound. They argue that if one knows the right way to handle it, they can defeat you easily. Apparently, they know the Rousseau Gambit refutation. But, do they?
In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov shares with you the Rousseau Gambit declined variations. The Rousseau Gambit occurs after the opening moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 f5. The most common move for White, 4.exf4, actually backfires as explained in the previous video lessons. Some of your opponents may be aware of those tricks and might not accept the gambit.
However, you can still outplay your opponents even when they decline the gambit. The Russo Gambit is so tricky; you can fool your opponent badly. Watch the video lesson and learn how to win when White declines your gambit.
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00:00 Rousseau Gambit Refutation for White?
00:49 What is the Rousseau Gambit chess opening?
01:49 Rousseau Gambit Declined
02:10 1) If White plays 4.d3
04:00 White’s most common moves are MISTAKES
05:36 2) If White plays 4.d4
08:09 Counterattacking White aggressively
13:00 2.2) If White plays 5.exf5
14:50 2.3) If White plays 5.Nxd4
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What happens after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 f5 4. d4 exd4 5. Ng5
after Black D5, White Reply Qh5+
what is the best moves?
after Black D5, what is the best moves?
after White Qh5+?
I think' this is Dangerous for Black 🤔😓
after Black BxNg5,
white reply, BxNe5/black NxBe5/white F4
I think this is bad for Black, what do you think Sir,?
and There's Threatening Qh5+
A SAVAGE LINE I FOUND! YOU MUST MAKE AN UPDATE VIDEO ABOUT THIS LINE YOU MISSED! In white's d3 response to f5, after you Bc5 whites most popular move is to castle (the Ng5 you WANT is 2nd most popular). DON'T play Ng6 if white castles, you get a second chance to bait him into Ng5!!! White will use their turn to pin your knight every time if you Ng6. Instead play the innocent looking d6. Now they are AGAIN likely (2nd most popular move again!) to go for the fork if they didn't fall for it on your first try! D6 replaces your knight with a bishop for a devastating Qh4/Bg4!/f4 attack. This isn't a guaranteed checkmate if the opponent plays perfectly, but the best he can do is lose a ton of material including his queen, a rook, a knight, multiple pawns, and a completely destroyed position! Bg4! is so strong that the top computer reply is to sac the queen into it. 🤣🤣🤣
(1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 f5 4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. Ng5 f4 7. Nf7 Qh4 8. Nxh8 Bg4!)
FUN FACT! If you like this f5 against the Italian game, try it with my defense! Every single move white plays here is the #1 most played move by white on Lichess with one exception, instead of #1 most played move c4 Italian game, white plays the #2 most played move, b5 Ruy Lopez and gets crushed by the Morphy Defense + f5!
(1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 b5 5. Bb3 f5 6. exf5 e4 7. Qe2 Qe7 8. Ng1 Nf6 9. Nc3 Nd4 10. Qe3 c5! 11. Nd5?? Nxd5 12. Bxd5 Nxc2+) GG! 🤣🤣
Even if white doesn't fall for the Nd5?? tactical trap, (the #1 move played!) stop and take a minute to admire this board position now, black has one of the most dominating board positions you will ever see a player have even though he has 0 material! This is from white playing all of the top moves listed in Lichess, they just beat themselves for you!
More lines using f4 with my defense using whites top moves on Lichess! Again they lead themselves right to a loss for you, these are the #1 moves that white is playing, not wishful thinking!
If instead of (#1) exf5 in the previous example, they play (#2) d3, these are whites #1 most played moves!
(1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 b5 5. Bb3 f5 6. d3 Bc5 7. O-O d6 8. Ng5 f4 9. Nf7 Qh4 10. Nxh8?? Bg4!) GG!! 🤣🤣
If instead of (#1) Qe2 in the first example, they play (#2) Ng2, these are the rest of whites #1 most played moves!
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 b5 5. Bb3 f5 6. exf5 e4 7. Ng1 Qg5 8. g3 Qxf5 9. d3 (Unfortunately there is only 11 games left in the database at this point, black is completely controlling the tempo and white is in a losing board position, obvious moves like Bb7, Nf6, Nd4, exd3, even Bb4# are all the top moves depending on your engine and they are all rated very close to each other so this is a very solid and forgiving position where you don't have to worry about messing up and losing! White has absolutely no good counter play to gain the initiative back. Of the 11 games left to reference, black wins 75% regardless of what he plays next. And again, white put himself in this position by playing all of the top moves on Lichess!
(note: if white is familiar with Rousseau he may play the "free" Nd4 trap here on you instead of Ng1. It doesn't work in this line, ignore the knight and play Qg5, this leads to white taking a poisoned rook in your corner and you winning the game! Nxc6 or he loses it now after Qg5, if he plays something else like g3 or Rg1 then the knight is now free to take. After he plays Nxc6 then Qxg2, Rf2 dxc6, Qh5+ g6, fxg6 hxg6, Qxh8?? Bh3!, the only way for white to save his game here is to trade his queen for your bishop and he'll never do that!)
There are many other lines using combinations of the first, and second most played moves by white listed on Lichess, playing any of the top two most common moves in many different points against this opening just doesn't work! The reason is, players have no idea how to play against the Morphy Defense + f5. It's very complicated to defend against and hard to calculate on the fly with multiple points that require specific moves that are not natural or intuitive or obvious at the time. So if you practice this and learn in, and you play someone who hasn't (almost ALL players!) you will win a huge percentage of your games vs the Ruy Lopez!
One final thing to note, one of my chess engines has d4 ranked 3rd, and the other has it ranked 2nd, as a reply to f5. Only 7% of all players play this, so there's not enough data on Lichess to investigate the lines. The good news is, even if this is a winning move, it's a VERY tiny percent of the moves played here!
You always try to be as evil as possible.
had to look this gambit up because i played it by accident
QUESTION!!!! I love this, still beginner and trying to learn this and watched all 3 videos about this, but my opponents many times after eating my pawn and I move forward (1:28->) threatning knight, they move queen, I do the same, and they keep moving forward with their pawn, and everything is a mess and almost like Scholar's Mate. Any tricks to that?
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