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🔹 The Most Underrated Chess Opening –
This is a continuation of the “Most Underrated Chess Openngs” series by GM Igor Smirnov. In this video lesson, you will learn the Grob’s Attack, which starts with the unusual 1.g4.
The opening takes its name from Swiss International Master Henri Grob (1904–1974) who analysed it extensively and played hundreds of correspondence games with it.
A great thing about this opening is that the White’s first move 1.g4 is so rare that most of your opponents will be shocked to see it. Therefore, you get them out of their opening preparation giving you a great chance of winning the game!
Watch the video lesson and learn the typical ideas for White, most common traps that Black fall for, common responses of Black and how to exploit them.
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► Chapters
00:00 Underrated Chess Opening: Grob’s Attack
00:38 Why 1.g4 – Ideas for White
01:46 Line-1: If Black plays 1…d5
03:26 Proof: 76% Win Rate
04:56 Black plays 3…e6 to support d5
06:51 Black plays 3…Be6 to support d5
08:30 Can you find the winning move?
08:49 Black’s best response
09:42 White’s aggressive response
10:57 Option-1: Solid approach
11:18 Option-2: Aggressive approach
12:02 Here is the TRICK…
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► Chapters
00:00 Underrated Chess Opening: Grob's Attack
00:38 Why 1.g4 – Ideas for White
01:46 Line-1: If Black plays 1…d5
03:26 Proof: 76% Win Rate
04:56 Black plays 3…e6 to support d5
06:51 Black plays 3…Be6 to support d5
08:30 Can you find the winning move?
08:49 Black's best response
09:42 White's aggressive response
10:57 Option-1: Solid approach
11:18 Option-2: Aggressive approach
12:02 Here is the TRICK…
Oh please stop those tricks-only videos for >1200 players. Many of us would like reviews of good opening lines that actually benefit a learning curve.
I think, Black can avoid all these Tricks with 1.g4-e5 2.Bg2-h5 and is fine already. Regards
I like this channel
Where's the cute cat??
8:44 d6 Be6 dxc7 Qxc7 Qc3 Qxc3 Nxc3 , then we win the rook on a8
d6!!!
At 12:18 black may play Bc5
d6 maybe as it opens an attack to the f7 pawn and if Be6 then dxc7 Bxb3 cxd8 Kxd8 and axb3 winning a piece and the game
useless video, again…..stop it…this is all easily defended.
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Puzzle solution: d6. White cannot protect against both threats of checkmate(Qf7#) or rook being captured(Bxa8)
You can’t rewind the video well ugh! I’m pretty sure he gave white two moves in row??!
Lot of variations for both sides but looks like best for White to follow with
8. d6 e6
(8. … Be6 9. dxc7 Qxc7 10. Qc3 Nd5 11. Bxd5 Qxc3 12. Nxc3 Bxd5 13. Nxd5 {White is a piece up with advantage}
9. Bxa8 cxd6
10. Nxd7 Nbxd7
11. Bg2 {White is a Rook up}
Never mind!
D6
My "comment your answer" guess: Nxf7, and if Kxf7 then d6 dis ch, which is simultaneously a discovered attack on the rook on a8.
if the queen forks the king and bishop, why wouldn't they just move the bishop back to cover the check and attack the queen?
I just wanted to put in writing how much i enjoy these lessons and videos. i really enjoy both your style and content (and MY cat).
(it would always be nice to have some more replies to user questions though) kindest reagsrds and many thanks
I don't want to be rude, but this works not for players >1600/1700 rating.
It's not even hard to refute this opening because it violates many basic principles.
Take the pawn, play c6, keep on developing in the center and play 4. …Nf6.
White cannot take Qxb7, this will just lead to massive problems in development while black builds a massive center.
Hermosa Apertura…Saludos desde Venezuela…GM
Please traducir al Español 🙏
I like it! I play the hungarian all the time and this looks like a fun alternative
What a great video….but you know. You instructors show us all the bailout lines in case they they don't go for the bait. Bishop takes pawn but make some crazy other moves then suddenly wasting clock time using intuition for your next move,.still I'm still fascinated about this opening and it looks like the way you explained it one really can't go too far wrong..I guess I could actually see what stockfish says at different points thank you for the video
Grob Simply loses. There is no win rate in that opening unless u r playing a noob. Its one of the 5 losing opening moves. Its a pawn down from opening. You are simply lost without much effort black can win. Its not a rare move its a blunder.
d6
Thank you 😊 I learned a lot.
Thats's a good trick, but anyway the problem is that from 10/9 people , only first move with knight, no Bishop…
At least at the ~1500 ELO..
Although you uploaded this video on 30 Mar, YouTube put it onto my feed on 1 Apr so of course I thought it was an April Fool! What is true, though, no fooling, is that 1 g4 is one of the worst and least recommendable White openings. It looks foolish and it really is. Black can just answer d5 and Nc6/Bxg4.
How to crush the grob with black??
Cute video. I have posted some new content if you have little time.
1.d6 forking on f7 checkmate and or winning the rook
I would like to mention that "reversed" version 1…g5 has a good statistic results for black, when it is played against English opening (1.c4) and also against Réti opening (1.Nf3) as a gambit.
I do not play these unusual opening lines, because i do not think that first move matters at all, but it is definetly an option.
What happens if Black does not take White g4 after his d5?
I lost every game with this
90% of the time I’ve tried this opening my opponent has played D4 not E4
8:46 should be pawn d6 because it threatens mate it 1 and will guarantee you win the rook next move because it opens up the lines for your queen and bishop
I think some ideas from pterodactyl defense on black can be applied on this opening for white, both involve bringing the king’s bishop and queen out very early as long range pieces that can threaten the other side of the board from move 2
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Again all these tricks are only good for beginners to intermediate. For advance levels like GM's, it doesn't work, you'll end up with a counter-attacks! If you get a wrong continuation & variations.