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🔹 Chess Opening: Englund Gambit 1.d4 e5 | Traps and Ideas –
In this video lesson, we will explore an aggressive chess opening for Black against the White’s first move 1.d4. If you are playing 1.d4 yourself as White or if you are looking for an aggressive way to counter 1.d4 as Black, then you are going to love this!
GM Igor Smirnov shares with you the Englund Gambit, which happens after the first moves 1.d4 e5. Black’s idea is to avoid the traditional closed queen’s pawn games and create an open game with tactical chances, but at the cost of a pawn.
This will be a surprise for your opponents who play 1.d4 looking for a more positional game with strategic ideas. In this video lesson, you will learn the Blackburne–Hartlaub Gambit, which happens after 2.dxe5 d6, aiming for quick development after 3.exd6 Bxd6.
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00:00 Aggressive Chess Opening for Black Against 1.d4
00:21 Englund Gambit 1.d4 e5: Why?
01:49 2…d6 – Blackburne-Hartlaub Gambit
03:46 White loses their Queen: Can you find it?
04:34 Black’s Winning Attack on Kingside
07:06 Line-2: If White plays 6.Bg5
09:05 Tip: How to find Attacking Moves
09:50 Line-3: If White plays 3.Nf3, not 3.exd6
11:55 Thank you for your support!
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Hi Igor,
Can you please explain what to do in case after the whites play h4 the blacks kill the night on c6 and on b7xc6 they just go f4. It seems the black's attack is over and they are loosing. Thank you!
What are your thoughts of playing e5 against D4, Old Benoni Defense. You haven't done a video on that…I don't think. It's my favorite gamibit against D4.
I'm only elo 600, but I figured why not write down what I would do to attack as black at timestamp 4:20
Bxf3 Bxf3, Bxh2+ Kxh2, Qh4+ kg1, Rxd1
Thanks for this video! I'm eating queens non stop!
I will use that technique because my opponent always attack me with that opening
A lot of thanks for making and sharing your video!!
4:15 Bdh2
what if white dont take the d5 pawn? do we continue the defense in our normal style?
What is this called? Blackburn hartlaub gambit brings up something different
What if he never takes D6 pawn?
Beyond the 1600 rapid level this opening is as trashy as the Englund. No one castles.
When we bring our queen side bishop to attack the knight what if they play h3
What about e4
I was 600 before watching this channel and I'm 1500 now , good explanation ❤
What's the difference between this and Charlick gambit?
That was enlightening, very good video thanks for sharing
Bh3
Nc3 seems weak, I’ve always played Bg5 and follow up with c3 and e3. I’d have to check my stats but I’m pretty sure I have a massive win rate against this line.
Igor, what if white goes Bg5 on 4th move?
Bishop takes h2 discovered attack on the queen
Very informative
What if what plays d5
After I moved bishop to g4, white (one of the more advanced Stockfish Fairy programs) moved knight to b5 attacking my dark square bishop, and I did not know how rot deal with it. White then proceeded to launch a vicious attack which unfortunately led to my demise.
Hey, thanks for the lesson! One question: What is to do when white plays h3 immediately after ..Bg4?
With the position at 4:16 if I was in a game I'd be tempted to do this.
1. N f6₁
But knowing that this is more of a puzzle, it's clear there is a more aggressive option available. After thinking for a few minutes I saw this.
1. Bxf3₂
2. Bxf3₃, Q h4₄
3. h3, B h2 +₅
4. Kxh2₆, R x d1₇
5. R x d1₈, Q x f2.
That's as far as I got. I can't predict White's next move or see a way for Black to continue attacking after that so assuming White doesn't threaten the Queen I'd go back to the idea of N f6 I mentioned at the start of this comment.
I assume there is some tactical nuance that I'm completely failing to see
Footnotes (Thank you Unicode, it neatened up my comment a lot)
₁ Solid developing move, getting the Kingside Knight into the game and connecting the Rooks, completing the main opening goals.
₂ Getting rid of the White Knight and leaving the h2 square a bit vulnerable.
₃ White wouldn't want to lose their Knight for nothing and thus would want to recapture.
₄ Threatening Qxh2# on the next move. (It's rare that I spot checkmating threats – I tend to overlook them and get surprised if they're pointed out to me later – so I'm happy I managed to see this one – The complex position in the https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LEMz6BXhG80 video still annoys me a month after I came across it as I analysed all 7 checks I could see and none of those were checkmate.)
₅ Checking the King and opening up a discovered attack on the Queen.
₆ K h1 is also possible but seems worse intuitively. (Note, I've never gone this deep into footnotes in a YouTube comment before)
₇ Winning the Queen!
₈ White salvages the situation by capturing the Rook and putting his own in a position to dominate the d-file.
Bxh2 because the king is in check and the queen is hanging
And I love to say but your chess videos are awesome and I actually love your videos, I appreciate your hard work on this videos
Thank you
Thank you for everything may God bless you. You help us a lot
The light bishop going b5 seems like a big threat to the plan, doesn't it?
good strategy.. thank you