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Many chess players want to improve their chess skills with intense preparation only a week or two before their important tournament. Unfortunately, it is not possible to elevate one’s chess skill in such a short period of time..
Nevertheless, GM Igor Smirnov usually recommends this: if there are any weaknesses in your opening repertoire, you can cover that quickly. In this video lesson, he teaches you an opening system that you can learn in just 15 minutes! It is a solid, powerful, and universal chess opening for Black against 1.e4.
It is a solid system in the French Defense which happens after the first moves 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5. You will learn to overcome one of the main problems of the French Defense, which is to develop the light-squared bishop. This system gives you a solid position and also comes with some really cool traps!
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00:00 Universal Chess Opening for Black After 1.e4
00:47 French Defense: 1.e4 e6
01:58 Main idea: Developing the c8-bishop
03:07 Beware of this trap
05:49 Tip: Old rule of Capablanca
08:00 Can you find the winning move?
08:25 Common trap White falls for
10:17 Advance variation: 3.e5
14:13 Really cool trap, sudden tactics
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I still remember playing you in Tamil Nadu ,india sir
GM Igor is the best👌 thanks again sir
8:25 … Nf4? Counter attack white bishop to make the trade again while centralizing Knight?
Ohhh bishop f6! If they take the knight, you can trap their rook with g6!
Knight to F4
8:22 I think we should go Bf4 and play g3 and win the rook if white takes the knight
Bishop to F6 setting up to trap the rock with g6?
French Counter Attack !!!!
Keep it coming 👍 💯 😎 😌
F6
SHOW MORE THE GAME AND TALK LES PLEASE.
Nf4 ? attacking the bishop and let your opponent open the H file for the rook, then double up the rooks and go for the attack over the h-file.. that would be my plan. The knight is preventing the king from running away to e2
What is going on with your cat, is it anesthetized before admission?😺
pushing f6 offers to instead trade bishop for rook and open the h file or forces the rook off the attack. Knight f4 trades Bishops and attacks b2 or wins the pawn on h4 if they move the bishop.
I tried this line. White always plays Re1 early to support Ne5. The …Qd5 trick to regain the e pawn gets nullified
Nf4 is the simplest and strongest.
What if Nxf6? 4:22
Lichess database stats and engine eval look unfavourable for black there
I left French defence because it leads to draw.
Hello
Make video on pawn pushing in end game
At 3.53 minutes, if the white queen goes on to d2, black queen cannot d2..?
Excellent lecture. Thank you
Knight to F4
Pawn F3/RE6;KD7
Pay attention cat you need to remember all this
This is Fox Knox opening
I found it when magnus blizting
Nc6
Ft.Knox
At 3:51, why will the queen be captured? Can't you play Queen to D4?
Pawn f-3
Never mind
Looks like knight f-5 because it’s a trade plus it counter attacks the rook
Nf4
As an experienced French player, I can recommend the French to beginners and players that want to play an opening that is based more on understanding positions and less on memorization of exact sequences of moves. Although not 100% immune from move memorization, most ideas and positions can tolerate a few move sequences in different order.
But, I do not agree with the specific lines offered in this video because I don't agree that very many of the lines lead to equality. The Rubinstein variation in particular where Black plays an early d5xe4 leaves Black with a cramped position and few prospects to resolve which is why although it has been of interest recently for surprises has never been popular throughout French history. And that line where Black aims for a quick Ba6 to exchange the "Bad French Bishop" hardly has any teeth, so although goes through its fads also is not particularly popular.
For me, the attraction of the French is that it's a counter-attacking opening which sets up some imbalances White can hardly avoid.
In exchange for accepting a severe disadvantage in space on the K-side, Black is able to gain an equally dominant space advantage on the Q-side. If White plays either the Exchange variation or refuses to push the e pawn forward to e5 then Black will eventually take on e4 with advantage, White gives up any possibility of fighting for an advantage in the opening. In many lines like the Classical and Tarrasch variations, Black will even allow his Nf6 to be kicked by the e5 move to create the imbalance to exert pressure on the White center and possibly transfer the King Knight to the Q-side.
If the French is to be beaten, White has to know how to attack the K-side regardless if the Black king castles into the storm or stays in the middle and not too many players at any skill level know how to do this which is why the French is so disliked by many e4 players. If White doesn't know how to energetically attack Black, White can be helpless against Black's attack on the Q-side and sometimes it's simply a tempo race which attack is faster.
Sac Bishop for the pawn his rook takes knight then push the pawn two squares blocking the rook from escape
Superb content as always!
Yes Ft. Knox var.
Nh5 to f4 to attack the Bd3 so you keep your extra piece and threaten the rook on e5 and b2 pawn
Nf4 might be the winning move..
I wish you reach 1 m SUBs .I ❤️ Ur Videos
3:53 U can capture the pawn.After he takes bishop..U can take another pawn.
with queen
I have always loved playing French Defense. Thank you for some very interesting insights on how to play better with this opening.
could move bishop to f6, then rook takes knight, then move pawn to g6. The white rook becomes trapped.
very good….
Great video as usual, GMIgor! I just learned another defense against white's 1.e4! Kind of bored with 1..e5!
What should Black do if White plays Bg4 pinning the knight followed by an exchange on c6? I’ve seen this response more than Bd3 in my own games. {Advanced variation}
6:52
Fantastic video and commentary. Thank you for having a very straightforward style.
After Qd2, in your first example, the black queen is no longer trapped!!