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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov talks about the most trickiest and trappiest chess opening gambit for Black against 1.e4. It is the Rousseau Gambit (or Ponziani Countergambit) from the Italian Game (Giuoco Piano), which happens after the opening moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 f5.
This gambit has a lot of tricks and traps along the way which helps Black to win within just 10 moves in these lines. GM Igor Smirnov also answers the most common questions asked by the students, walks through the most common responses of White, and shows you how to punish them.
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00:00 Rousseau Gambit for Black
00:28 General ideas for Black, why 3…f5
02:11 1) If White plays 4.Nc3
02:39 2) If White plays 4.Bxg8
05:52 3) If White plays 4.exf5
09:37 How to find the best moves in any position?
09:57 4) If White plays 4.d3
13:23 Quiz for you: Can you find the best move?
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Is there a way to counter White's 5.Nc3?
Queen G3, because if black takes white's queen, then white can take black's queen with his bishop
When pawn to F5 is played, I’ve captured and then when they push their pawn to hit my knight, I play Queen E2 pinning it, and luckily for me that’s a variation not covered in the video
cant white just take the h7 pawn on 5:06? or am i missing something
As white, I'd play d4
I love how he just ignored Nf2 King&Queen fork here 8:45
White d4 is problematic.
What if instead of Bishop to c4, white instead plays b5? I face this a lot with this gambit.
In the iteration of white knight going to g5 and counterattack with black queen and knight….what do you do if the white rook doesn’t take the knight on f2 but instead goes queen e1?
Qg3
For the White's best move: the pawn from h2 to h4 to attack their queen
I’d like to see a YouTube chess tournament of these YT chess gurus!
What about Qg3?
Qg3 fxg3 Bxg4
white still loses
It's like a transposition out of the sharpest line of the Latvian Gambit (Greco Counter Gambit). 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 f5 3 Bc4. My old edition of ECO doesn't give Nc6 as an option here, people had only tried fxe4 and b5?! So are White's chances best here if he simply allows fxe4 to happen? Ne5 is normally a thematic move in this line of the Latvian, so Nc6 is actually a rather effective counter.
At 9:35 there are interesting alternatives to White's Kxh3. Rg1, Re2 and Qe2 all look plausible ways of stopping the mate on g2. Rg1 fails to the attractive Qg3+ Kh1 Nf2#, a variant of a smothered mate! I think both Qe2 and Re2 are met by Qg3+ Kh1 Rf2! At 7:50 I was wondering if the Greek gift sacrifice of Bh2+ was already possible, followed up by Ng4+. But White's pieces may be just mobile enough to defend, including the QB unlike the corresponding line on the French Defence. 4 d3 looks a more logical continuation, and maybe exf5 can then be tried rather than letting Black get f4 in. And 4 d4 is surely worth consideration, again by analogy with corresponding lines in the Latvian/Greco CG. Overall this is the kind of line where the better prepared player is quite likely to win, especially if they are good tactically.
5:46 the queen could fully take the pawn on e4 putting king in check. And from what I can tell, with little consequence
Puzzle: white to move: QG3.
Total rookie here so… queen to g3
My opponents often move their queen to d5 to get an exchange.
Just won 3 games in a row
33.30 min. Qe2 shall put the opponent (black) to "open #" and that move is not allowed. Or 0-0 and next Re1
Qg3
I'm learning the Vienna. Saw this. I figured if I learn both I'll be a master of many lines of similar halves on each side of the board
You had us at "…this bad boy" (!!) …0:01
14:07 Queen to G3? if they take white's queen, white take theirs.
Au lieu de Cxf5 Cxc6. Est ce que vous avez envisagé cette variante dans l'étude ?
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I play this Gambit because of you and can't get enough of these variations
Don't remember it all but I'm remembering enough to go from 800ish to 1279 and I have playing it… when I play it the move that annoys me most is when the opponent plays Bishop B5 in the opening instead of going for the fried liver type attack
That is nice, but I would like coverage on pxd4. If that is the objective best move for white to play, it would be nice to know what to play to avoid disadvantage.
You forgot about if accept they go to d4 with the knight and if you take they check you with the queen and are up a lot
no they don't white has Nd4
Qg3
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Qg3