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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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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.
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!!
No chance to beat your spectacular views, Tq
I'm french defense opening..thanks!!!
Wouldn't Kf4 a good move? Great video, thank you so much
I would suggest instead of capturing the pawn….move ur knight to h4 to attack the pawn….if the pawn on f3 captures, its a checkmate…if not u capture the pawn…
Play bong loud against e4 that is the strongest response I ever know
@3:55 t0he queen can take the pawn on D4
Another way in the advance variation would be Qd7 (instead of Ne7)/b6/Ba6. How would you compare this to the Ne7 solution ?
One correction . After bishop takes knight attacking queen ur queen has square taking d4 pawn which was earlier defended by knight so queen is not trapped now and u gain a piece ! And also attackon b7 pawn see if m wrong
I’m getting back into chess but at my age having a hard time with all the theory. This is a life saver
Pawn f6 or Bishop f6
Question : at the beginning, why reroute the Bishop from c8 to d7 and then to c6, instead of fiancettoing it on b7 ? Why is it better ?
N f4
Thank you so much for this video. I am 1300 rated but Iv always struggled as black when I’m playing a player of the same level that knows how to develop as white with e4. Just tried it out online and won convincingly. Thank you for your videos!
Best videos and u are really good at teaching explaining
The GM's cat is not impressed.