DOMINATE with Black: Opening Tier List

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These are the best openings for black for beginner to intermediate chess players. It features well known openings like the Sicilian Defense, the Caro-Kann, the Scandinavian Defense, the intercontinental ballistic missile gambit, the King’s Indian, the Pirc Defense, the Stafford Gambit and many others.

30 Comments

  1. Btw the Englund has another variation called the Hartlaub Chartlick Gambit which is much more stable and popular at the intermediate level.
    After dxe5 you simply push d6 and if they capture, you capture back with bishop and get accelerated development much like the Stafford.

  2. I normally go with french defence.
    Idk feels i interesting when the position is all locked 😛

  3. where is hippopotamus defense?

  4. I love this man, you are so funny

  5. Can you please do one for white 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  6. Yep. As black I play Caro-Khan and the King's Indian. I don't know either one of them that well. Just enough to get me out of the opening.

  7. Someone who has clearly studied an unhealthy amount of chess, check…

    Extremely well edited passionate and entertaining videos, also check…

    You are officially my favorite channel now!

  8. Pls make a video on Dutch defence plsss

  9. I have just seen 1 minute and I like the humor haha. Very aggressive = very enjoyment😂😂😂😂

  10. I dominate the Dutch with the Hopton attack(1.d4 f5 2.Bg5). They try to chase my bishop away with their king side pawns and end up getting checkmated in like 7 moves

  11. It's better without music.

  12. Did I hear an uptuned Disturbed song after Barnes opening or am I crazy?

  13. Please change channel name

  14. I've been doing a Kings indian since I was a kid and had no idea that it was actually a pro move. haha It just felt right to play those moves. I could do them and it didn't matter what they were doing really and then we hit the middle game and I would win??? seemed natural to keep playing that way every time i was black. go figure.

  15. truly had fun playing the kings indian

  16. Caro Kann carried me to 2k elo and it's just insane if you master it

  17. Just wanna say, I love the humor in your videos. I love chess, but I like laughing even more – a lot of chess content is solid but pretty dry. You're my new favorite channel 😀 The editing and jokes go a long way to make these way more enjoyable than the average chess video.

  18. Caro Kann & KIA are the only openings I usually play as black coincidentally lol

  19. I joined a chess tryout and the guy i was playing was classmates with part of the Philippines national team in chess and he was a sodoku teacher and he was grade 11 im second year with barely any knowledge of chess 😭

  20. I'll just leave this here…. Hippo defense

  21. Why am i laughing this much?

  22. Nice video but prerecorded voices are shit. Change it

  23. I only ever win with the goldsmith defense or the austrailian defense if they play d4. When i use all the good ones he talks about, i usually lose. He dont know what hes talking about. Unsubbed

  24. f3 looks like a decent opening allowing the Queen to enter and also helping set up a pawn confrontation in middle of board one thing I could use help against is the fried liver attack knight and Bishop trying to attack my kings pawn

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