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.

351 Comments

  1. NOOOOO THE STAFFORD IS GARBAGE, IT'S A REFUTED OPENING AND I HAVE A 90% WR AS WHITE AGAINST IT, DO NOT PLAY THE STAFFORD GAMBIT IF YOU WANT TO GET GOOD AT CHESS

  2. Kings Indian is Legendary but Grunfeld is only okay?
    Kings Indian is most definitely legendary, so by design the grunfeld has to be S tier.

  3. Yall should try favourite opening, the "F U gambit"
    Where you basically put the queen on the 5th rank and have a bishop capture it, then resign out of rage😉

  4. I play the King indian against d4 and c4 and caro vs e4 I am 2170 and I started since 2022 playing.
    This dude know what he is talking about ❤

  5. [discussion of O'Niell Gambit] 'whose idea was this?' 😂😂😂

  6. 2:20 Caro-kann got destroyed by the Alien Gamit this vidoe needs an update.

  7. im close this video when i saw caro-cann on legendary position

  8. You build up your French energy and resign

  9. Thanks so much for this – it answered my questons to myself about how best to respond to my opponent when I play black! 😀

  10. The stafford gambit is good only if you play against weak players

  11. For the caro kann I think its not SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good but its still very good BUT. you can play the tal variation

  12. 😂😂😂😂 I love how you teach stuff

  13. I always play scandanavian modern variation because I enjoy the opening.

    However, I really do like kings Indian, it's a fun style to play, unless the opponent gambits their bishop with the queen behind.

    Caro-kann has become another go to for me.

  14. OK, against anything else than e4: King Indian; but against d4: Caro Kann; that leaves open the question what to do best against e4.

  15. man i never enjoyed this much watching a chess video🤣

  16. Lmao spit my food out when i heard “you resign immediately”

  17. plz make another video like this but its for white

  18. Isn't the St. George defense often just a delayed French defense?

  19. I played the ICBM gambit you showed us. My opponent instantly resigned

  20. You forgot the Bongcloud opening. It even was played on GMs tournament.

  21. Dominant with black 😀
    Dominant with black 💀

  22. So Black ICBM is Budapest

    While White ICBM is Tennison

    ??

  23. I mean caro khan is kinda OP but now there is counter attack for that. The alien gambit.

  24. I love the humour of the video ❤
    Earns a sub

    Could you rank the hippo opening

  25. I love the Scandi since it was the first opening I actually learned with the black pieces.
    Edit: WHY NOT THE HIPPO?!

  26. You missed 2 openings for black, I.e. benko & benoni

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