Top 10 Most Popular Responses to 1. d4 | Chess Openings Explained

Jonathan Schrantz counts down and identifies the most common black moves against white’s Queen Pawn opening. Basic principles are explained for each response.

2016.03.21
1:10 Queen’s Gambit Accepted
5:16 Trompowsky Attack
12:09 Dutch Defence
16:44 Grünfeld Defence
25:46 Queen’s Indian Defense
30:30 Benoni Defense
37:36 Semi-Slav Defense
44:58 Nimzo-Indian Defence
48:23 Queen’s Gambit Declined
51:36 King’s Indian Defence

40 Comments

  1. Can you shut the door please? internal raging intensifes

  2. Thank you! I haven't played much since I was a teenager and I have renewed interest for the game. I found your material really useful and I'm really enjoying it. Your voice is great, you're interesting and kind. Those 2 top 10 for e4 and d4 are really helpful as I want a more formal understanding of openings. I'm also watching your semi-slav marathon, really great stuff. It's the first time I find watching videos to learn something is not a waste of my time. Thanks for taking the time to do this and for taking your time with the semi-slav! Take care!

  3. You are a great teacher

  4. Great video thank you. By the way whoever came in late and then didn't even close the door behind them, you're the problem.

  5. i want to thank you for your show. i dont know why this channel is not more popular. this is an excellent education in chess.

  6. Great video, but a little disappointed not to see any coverage of the KID Saemisch Variation. Also, it feels like the London System has become very popular in the last 10 years. White players seem to favour it, since it can be played against both 1…d5 and 1…Nf6

  7. i think knight 1. N f3 would be very useful aswell

  8. please do the classical dutch

  9. Is this the right place to make a suggestion? I'd love to see a SLCC video on the Blackmar-Diemer or the Traxler 🙂

  10. hello i just discovered this channel. You seem to be reading comments on your videos. I would love to see a video like this covering very uncommon openings you could play as white. I do not mean crazy gambits or instant winning combinations, but just openings that can take the opponent by surprise, like u randomly play 1.a3 and it does not actually turn out so bad for some reason. if there are videos like this already i apologise for beeing unable to use the search function.

  11. you are alone in that room, aren't you?

  12. Please do an Old Indian Defense video

  13. Ugh… fianchetto. It's not "fee-uhn-CHET-toe," it's "fee-ahn-KET-toe." Also, bruschetta is not "broo-SHET-ta," it's "broo-SKET-tah." (I know he didn't say that word, but it's one of my many pet peeves. Yes, I'm very anal and need help — that's beside the point — but Italian is not a hard language to pronounce correctly.) But I did love his humming of the intro at the beginning. How many of us do that whenever we watch these SLCC videos? OK, that's all.

  14. french defence
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    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  15. The austrian is not even on the list 😭

  16. Loved this and the e4 top 10. As a c4 player, I'd love to see a breakdown of those openings as well.

  17. youd assume after 10 mins youd lose dem jitters john

  18. I like your videos but top 10 is too much to take in. Too much time spent on less popular ie 10 – 5. Then ran out of time. Likely a more relaxed approach on top 5 video would have been better

  19. I think you should have covered the Bg5 line instead of the e3 line in the Semi-Slav.

  20. I always enjoy SLCC videos, but this one I enjoyed the most because I was solidly laughing by 22 seconds

  21. The problem with this video is that you are showing it from white's point of view.

  22. i was trying to learn & understand the most common lines but because the video is ordered from 10th most popular to 1st, the most popular opening lines are a hurried in time pressure & couldn't understand them as well as i hoped.

  23. can do top 10 c4 responses

  24. First of all I'd like to thank you for your class, very interesting and so on. …I always prefer d4 opening

  25. for the queens gambit accepted, we never did resolve what to do with black's queen's bishop. i wonder if it isn't better to move it out early to f5 or g4 so that it at least has a life.

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