Learn the Scandinavian Defense in 15 Minutes [Chess Opening Crash Course]

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1. I was the first to watch

2. love ur videos bro, very educational, precise and entertaining. Keep up the work bro!! Also can u do a video for sicilian defense, caro kann defense and dutch defense pls bro

3. GM Igor Smirnoff thank you for all you do! Merry Christmas!

4. Can U do a full course on Sicilian defends variations. I would watch it for hours

5. Thanks for your videos Igor !

6. Learning every day new moves

7. Oh wise and mighty one…

8. Thanks for the videos you are the best
   can you make a videos about middle game plans?
   Thanks!

9. One video on English please, I've been exhausted saying the same

10. I've been playing off of the English opening video you made about a week ago, I've climbed up about 200 rating points

11. This is excellent and exactly what i was looking for!

    Literally yesterday i was thinking “i need to find more aggressive openings for black, i should look on Igor’s channel to find one” 😂

    Great work as always and love the teaching method of explaining the why of every position so you dont just memorize moves.

    Best chess teacher on YT!

12. Great vidéo .. Jobava London next ? Hyper Accelerated Dragon ?

13. Hey Igor, you missed one possible line after e4 d5, which is white playing d4 on move 2 (Blackmar Diemer gambit). How do I play that in case I face it as Black? (I have already seen your video where you covered it from White's perspective, so that's not an issue)

14. Please do make more videos like this. I would love one showing how to play against the Kings Indian as white

15. Thank you so much I have been trying to perfect this opening

16. Hey Igor Nation. I love this channel. Can you look into the CATALAN opening? Please and thank you

17. It's an excellent content on the Scandinavian Defence as a crash course.

    Expecting something like this on the 'Benko Gambit' as a crash course as well.

18. I more thean agree with brandonlaureys: exactly what I was looking for. I will certainly also look into the follow up video. Best regards

19. Great video! I really want to try this now, because I'm bored with the Caro or d6 that I usually play.

20. You continue to make the most useful and informative chess videos, enhanced by your great commucation skill. Their length is about right and they relate so well to un-titled players. The only thing missing is your cat dozing in the background!!

21. AMAZING VIDEO!!! No one else has made such a great video on the Scandinavian defence your video was very easy to understand and it was very educational.

22. Wow thank you this is great

23. Pls B29 Sicilian defense nimzowitsch variation, and also mid game plans, these videos are perfect 💯❤

24. Catlan please!

25. Today's i have a chess tournament than I will play this skandenevian defence.🎉 thanks

26. Good thing you didn't mention d4. 😉So I can still confused my opponent with that move.

27. White could play d4 against scandy and transpose into the Blackman diemer

28. Nice

29. Good teacher❤

30. Thanks a lot, sir! An avid fan of yours from the Philippines… more power and God bless!

31. I love these videos. Thanks Igor!

32. Can you make a video on how to beat d4 Nf6 e3? I'm finding it really hard to get any sort of advantage, as I usually play KID and I can't find any sort of solid plan to beat it. Thanks

33. Hmm I was thinking 1.e4 d5 2.e5 c5 3.f4. I put it into Lichess engine with that move order and it favoured black by 0.6 recommended 3.. Nc6 for the Scandinavian order, put it in as 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.e5 it favoured black by 0.8 recommended 3.. Nf6 for the Sicilian order. Don't trust the engine in the openings.

    Anyway just some ideas if you push e5 and black does not push d4.

    However if black does push d4.

    1.e4 d5 2.e5 d4 3.Bb5+ c6 4. Be2 Bf5 5.f4 d3 6.Bxd3 Bxd3 7. cxd3 Na6 8.d4 Nb5 9. Ne2 Nd3+ 10.Kf1 Qb6 11.Qa4 Nxc1 12. Nxc1 e6. 13. Nc3 Ne6 14. Nb3 Rc1.

    White has a big centre, a strong queen side and black is under developed, a slow positional game. The oposite of a centre counter gambit game. Also some interesting lines not mentioned hiding in that one.

    Also
    1.e4 d5 2.e5 d4 3.Bb5+ c6 4. Be2 Bf5 5.f4 d3 6.Bxd3 Bxd3 7. cxd3 Na6 8.d4 Qxd4 9. Ne2 Qd8 10.d4 e6. 11.0-0 Ne7 12.Nbc3 h5

    Black attacks king side with knight pawn rook and queen. White has a strong castled position and centre is blocked. Options defend or queen side attack. Note white has a floating centre supported by pieces so black might look to undermine that.

34. Hi Igor I'm trying to find one of your videos unfortunately unsuccessfully
    The video is the fort Knox variation of the Caro kann any help will be awesome

35. Underrated

36. my new fav opening

37. PLEASE DO THE KINGS GAMBIT NEXT!

38. I never want to play this. I watched so I could kill it. Thanks.

39. 😊

40. I also like the two sidelines: Portuguese gambit in longer time controls that you've covered in your opening bundle and Kadas gambit for blitz and bullet. Kadas does amazing in bullet.

41. Hi 👋 I bought your premium course and I informed support about it but i still didn't get any course for free. What i should do?

42. Thanks Igor and Happy New Year dude, may 2024 be your BEST year

43. Thanks for making a video on the Scandinavian, I used to make the mistake almost all the time of checking the king in the mainline 9:29

44. GM Igor smirnov I can't find the part of the before purchase details, where it should ask your adress, could you tell me where I can find it

45. Which chess app is that

46. You are an excellent teacher!

47. How about the Modern Defense?!

48. Thank you for the video! I’ll have to study this for a while:) I wonder, is there a similar “good for beginners” opening against 1. d4?

49. Thanks im in 2145

50. Love this format! Scotch gambit and Bishops Opening please

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