Rousseau Gambit Opening TRAPS | Insane Chess Tricks to WIN Fast

02.09.2023

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🔹 Rousseau Gambit Intro –
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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov shares with you the best chess opening traps from the Rousseau Gambit of the Italian Game, which occurs after the opening moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 f5.

You will learn how to punish White’s common moves, how to counter White’s refutation against this Gambit, and also an insane trick involving a rook sacrifice to defeat advanced-level opponents in one of the variations.

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00:00 Trickiest Chess Opening: Rousseau Gambit
00:25 What is the Rousseau Gambit?
02:09 1) If White plays 5.Qe2 to pin the e4-pawn
03:41 1.1) If White plays 7.d3
04:47 1.2) If White plays 7.Nc3
06:57 1.3) If White plays 11.Bxb7
07:49 2) If White plays 5.Nd4
09:00 3) If White plays 4.d4 (advanced players)
11:59 Sacrifice the ROOK – crazy variation!

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20 Comments

  1. Can you make a video in response to the what pawn moving to D3? I’ve been doing great with the Rousseau gambit, but I tend to lose more games with that D3 white move. Thanks, Igor!!

  2. What about queen e2 instead of remove the kni
    ght?

  3. As a causal player playing this gambit, I can't see 4 exf5 e5 to threat the knight before I watch this video.
    Instead of playing e5 as black, I always play 4 d5 and 5 Bxf5 to block the bishop to gain tempo immediately.
    I keep e pawn protected by knight and develop my bishop.
    What wrong if I play this variant instead?

  4. but you didnt talk about d3??

  5. Thanks Igor since I started watching this channel my Elo went from 600 to 910

  6. This is The Kings Gambit for black

  7. OH MY GOD IGOR THIS OPENING IS INSANE!!! I went from winning like 60% of my games to winning 85%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. I used the Rousseau Gambit against the Spanish game! I won a lot of games but also lost a few! So I would like you to analyze the variation please

  9. when they accept the rosseau gambit what if white goes KE5 what do you do

  10. What move do you make if your opponent plays d4?

  11. What if white moves e5 instead of d5

  12. In the end trap if the white kill the rook by knight than black will loose the game

  13. 1:55 after you play e4 and Knight goes back to g1 he says to push d5 and "it's clear you've tricked your opponent and you're dominating him", you won't be thinking that when white replies to your d5 with Qh5

  14. I play this line a lot. I don't always win but if I lose at least I go down swinging.

  15. In my opinion Youtube is full of quick win tips that never work when people know how to avoid traps. I understand YouTuber must create this content to have following but this is the wrong way to learn Chess. What I do is learn this gambit so that when people try them (and a lot do it) I gain a winning position. For the Rousseau gambit the easy solution is d4. When people play fxe4 I play Nxe5 and with Nxe5 I play exe5. This final position is evaluated 2.15 by Stockfish, basically. it's almost a win. This is the reality of all the gambits on Youtube. The sooner you realize it, the sooner your rating will improve. Obviously, you to really improve you must learn as much concepts you can: control center, develop fast, castle, avoid hanging pieces, knights before bishops, connect rooks, end games and much more. To learn chess there is no quick scheme that works you must study, play a lot, analyze your games, etc. IMHO.

  16. I want to sincerely thank you. Because of this video i have managed to win a tournament in which in all the 4 rounds that i had black i have played this and won pretty easily. Thank youu❤

  17. My opponent played black. Move 6 Nd4 I countered Bxf7 while computer saw it as a blunder, 12 moves later he surrendered. I have never played against Russeu gambit, so I was improvising

  18. so at 5:23, white captures with knight first, but what if they capture bishop first? at the end of that exchange, there is a tempo against us because it will be a knight remaining, which attacks our queen. then what?

  19. Queen checked me right after pawn d5 how tf do i deal with that

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