WEBVTT 00:01.050 --> 00:01.590 Hi there. 00:02.160 --> 00:07.620 In this election, I'm going to introduce you to the so-called King's Gambit, so 845. 00:08.310 --> 00:10.190 Now, this is a real Guimet. 00:10.620 --> 00:16.770 Unlike the Queen's Gambit, Black can actually take the form and try and cling onto it, and some time 00:16.830 --> 00:17.920 is actually better. 00:18.150 --> 00:25.020 So it's a real game and it's not used that much by modern grandmasters, except maybe for the time patrol's 00:25.020 --> 00:26.860 usually as a surprise weapon. 00:28.830 --> 00:32.770 So it's a kind of opening from the romantic era of chess. 00:32.820 --> 00:37.140 This was an era and the eighteen hundreds up until about 1880. 00:38.220 --> 00:46.530 The romantic era saw openings like this, which had absolutely brilliant sacrifices often for chasing 00:46.530 --> 00:53.910 the king around the boards, sacrificing material for leads and development, peace coordination, brutal 00:53.910 --> 00:57.690 attacks, basically, and games of this era. 00:57.720 --> 01:02.520 You know, if you look at games of Poor Morphin in advance and many of them are so-called evergreen 01:02.520 --> 01:08.070 or immortal, they're talked about to this day, there are many players collections. 01:08.310 --> 01:13.050 You can have absolutely wonderful games from this King's gambit. 01:15.070 --> 01:21.580 And as a club weapon, you know, nowadays it's pretty good, online it's pretty good. 01:22.990 --> 01:28.710 Eleven Iranian jokes, though, the only problem of it is that there's so many things black can do against 01:28.710 --> 01:30.230 that to start off with. 01:31.510 --> 01:32.210 That's that's why. 01:32.710 --> 01:34.340 And it is it is risky. 01:34.360 --> 01:37.060 It's not like one of the most solid positional openings. 01:37.060 --> 01:43.870 You aren't taking a risk and you are potentially compromising your position depending on what the opponent 01:43.870 --> 01:44.470 does. 01:45.850 --> 01:46.810 So it's a little bit. 01:47.820 --> 01:54.510 Unsound, but it's one of those classic gambits that I would recommend you try out in a lot of games, 01:54.510 --> 02:01.350 but when you try out the Kings game it, you should have a lot of Morphy games in the back of your mind 02:01.350 --> 02:06.450 that you've understood Morphy and Anderson, the great romance era players. 02:08.260 --> 02:11.200 So adult fans are not all fans and by the way. 02:14.070 --> 02:21.260 OK, so the Kings game, for if they accept it, it's called funny enough, the Kings can accept it. 02:23.250 --> 02:32.240 So and if we now play night free, then this is the Kings Knights gambit. 02:32.280 --> 02:35.120 This actually stops playing from playing queen a chag. 02:35.460 --> 02:42.270 Now, it's not entirely fatal, by the way, even if you didn't play nice Afri, there is the bishop's 02:42.270 --> 02:48.900 gambit with Bishop CIFOR, which encourages Quiñones for and you can get very, very exciting games 02:48.900 --> 02:49.140 there. 02:49.380 --> 02:51.560 But my Afri is the most common move. 02:51.570 --> 02:54.420 Generally, if we're playing, the Kings can make a play, not free. 02:55.740 --> 02:58.080 And here's the classical VeraSun G5. 02:58.090 --> 03:01.920 So that really is kind of reinforcing that point in advance. 03:02.550 --> 03:03.990 One of the key points. 03:04.140 --> 03:07.860 Well, positionally of the Kings game it is. 03:07.860 --> 03:11.160 Imagine, you know, black just let you get the form back. 03:11.160 --> 03:13.020 Let's just imagine a fictional scenario. 03:13.590 --> 03:18.780 You've got a great SA semi open EFO here for me. 03:18.780 --> 03:25.050 Some you have an Eiffel's or Sameem Falls rather than like one way roads where your car's going to deponent, 03:25.050 --> 03:27.960 but there's no cars returning that ideal. 03:27.960 --> 03:31.480 Your you're sort of having the advantage of our downside here. 03:31.510 --> 03:42.120 There's a semi fall this F.R. which later when you cancel your rook is also conveniently kind of on, 03:42.270 --> 03:45.390 you know, when you cancel, it's by default going to be an active rook. 03:45.720 --> 03:50.190 So this is something to kind of relish because you don't even need to move the rock after just by default. 03:50.670 --> 03:55.650 The work's been lazy kind of thing, but you've just got a fantastic, you know, dynamic potential 03:55.650 --> 03:59.940 here on this exfoliator, which you can do a lot of damage with quite often. 04:00.060 --> 04:05.040 So it was airfoils, those semi open files or and falls generally. 04:05.400 --> 04:08.430 They're really kind of exciting of aim for them. 04:08.430 --> 04:11.820 The force of the time control look out for semi open fouls. 04:12.480 --> 04:18.360 So there where you have a poor missing and if it doesn't, so the Kings game, it gets quite a vicious 04:18.720 --> 04:21.390 semi open effort in quite a lot of variations. 04:21.630 --> 04:26.730 When the opponents especially don't know what they're doing, it can lead to absolute tactical disasters. 04:27.810 --> 04:31.320 So anyway, so no, a G5 is the classical variation. 04:34.230 --> 04:42.060 Let's go back let's go back to that so it 93 GFI with the classical version and here we can play the 04:42.060 --> 04:50.280 Kaiser ASCII gambit 84 we can play Bishop CIFOR can lead to very, very violent games. 04:50.310 --> 04:56.430 This G4, we just ignore this, believe it or not, because what's happened here, Black's pawns are 04:56.430 --> 05:00.450 kind of fragmented once got good, Central Control once got good developments. 05:00.750 --> 05:04.770 There's a lot of spicy, interesting things that are being traded off the lines. 05:05.100 --> 05:11.220 So chess is a lot about trade offs, careful trade offs between material and, you know, other things 05:11.220 --> 05:15.870 like the opponents can say to your lead environment how active your pieces are. 05:16.290 --> 05:18.630 You know, the opponent's pieces are still asleep here. 05:19.020 --> 05:24.660 The fragmentation issues as well leads to potential King safety issues, the Kingston in the sense of 05:24.660 --> 05:27.480 being an obvious king safety issue in its own right, though. 05:27.720 --> 05:31.440 So even this can be very, very dangerous, the force of the time control. 05:32.160 --> 05:38.100 So just even the Muzio gambit, Bishop CIFOR G4, you can even leave them right there. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.390 Biscet CIFOR so late. 05:42.390 --> 05:48.030 Every G5 is the classic and then we have. 05:50.790 --> 05:58.470 So each for Bishop CIFOR as Bishop CIFOR, Bishop, G-7, herrnstein gamete, and we go back night every 05:59.250 --> 06:01.640 night, Seefried, the quiet combat. 06:06.420 --> 06:12.510 So not every five days for the Rosenstrasse. 06:12.510 --> 06:18.540 Again, it's a lot of these have names quite often not every eighty-six the back of the fence that's 06:18.540 --> 06:21.240 not named after Boris Becker. 06:22.500 --> 06:30.530 So often every black plain h sex here immediately. 06:30.540 --> 06:31.470 So not playing GFI. 06:31.470 --> 06:33.040 Just think Eighty-six here. 06:33.990 --> 06:42.390 There's 97 on Murphree, which is the bunch of Smolensky, the fence, the Cunningham, the fence. 06:42.390 --> 06:45.170 That's not Richard Cunningham from Happy Days. 06:45.180 --> 06:45.660 Nope. 06:46.140 --> 06:48.750 I'm afraid 93, 96. 06:48.750 --> 06:52.500 The shot up the fence there is a Pleiku Shalab the more than the fence. 06:52.680 --> 06:55.980 So that was clearly introduced later. 06:56.220 --> 07:03.000 But you know, this is a good counter action in the center in general as part of kind of wider strategy 07:03.000 --> 07:08.480 on the chessboard flank attacks, the classic way to handle flank to the center. 07:10.260 --> 07:16.030 So this is a classic way, in a way principled to try and counterattack in the center. 07:17.250 --> 07:23.220 So that's quite often a useful thing to do about Desex is like the fisher, the fence. 07:23.610 --> 07:29.190 So he came up Bobby Fisher came up with this idea of kind of trying to refute the king's gambit by first 07:29.190 --> 07:31.770 playing this move desex, then G five later. 07:32.020 --> 07:35.580 It doesn't quite refute it, though, really overall. 07:36.330 --> 07:42.430 So Knight C6, the McCleod, the fence after the referee H5. 07:42.450 --> 07:45.930 Finally, we're getting really weird and wacky Weygand Bash defense. 07:47.160 --> 07:49.770 So we have also the bishops camis. 07:49.770 --> 07:52.050 We don't even play nice if we play Bishop CIFOR. 07:52.410 --> 07:56.670 So yeah, a big list if you want to like digest those names, but you don't have to. 07:57.090 --> 08:02.010 It's just maybe fun being aware of some of the names by the bishops. 08:02.020 --> 08:07.470 Kambah is a key once the alternative to Murphree and the Judit Pope. 08:07.500 --> 08:13.860 You know, Judit, Pogo's of this world, they've played this bishops gambit, which is kind of rarer, 08:13.860 --> 08:17.820 but with great success and other dynamic, aggressive players. 08:17.840 --> 08:19.620 I've used this bishops Guimet. 08:19.740 --> 08:25.030 So there isn't just a free you don't have to parry Quiñones. 08:25.050 --> 08:31.050 For one thing, I would like to tell you, it's about not play, what not to play. 08:32.280 --> 08:36.960 If your opponents play accounts gometz immediately like the five. 08:38.880 --> 08:41.910 One thing you mustn't play is offtakes five. 08:42.690 --> 08:49.170 If you play this, not only you've invited Cranage 48, but you've also weakened your Eappen. 08:49.590 --> 08:52.890 And this is kind of devastating Quiñones for Czech. 08:54.900 --> 08:57.360 This is absolutely it's going to be devastating. 08:57.930 --> 09:00.000 I mean, what what do you actually play here? 09:00.330 --> 09:07.830 If Jeoffrey Queen takes effort check and you kind of lost your rook, so yeah, this is not what you 09:07.830 --> 09:08.160 play. 09:08.160 --> 09:10.050 You don't play offtakes e5. 09:12.730 --> 09:20.580 And the same with if if they play Bishop C5, the classical defense, you don't play this because Queenie's 09:20.590 --> 09:28.240 for Czech, it's devastating and you don't really want to play this queen takes a fall. 09:29.050 --> 09:29.740 Ouch. 09:30.070 --> 09:31.230 You just been checkmated. 09:31.360 --> 09:37.000 So if you're going to play the Kings, go beware the safety aspects about Quidditch for which you can 09:37.000 --> 09:38.290 actually exacerbate. 09:39.640 --> 09:47.860 So of the stakes you can play here because you kind of vacating F1 Quizno's for here is not lethal because 09:47.860 --> 09:50.140 you play Caernarfon, you can gain some tempo gains. 09:50.320 --> 09:55.780 Sometimes it really does depend on the position, but you definitely don't want this situation where, 09:55.780 --> 09:59.910 for example, Ninety-Six or D5 or Bishop C5 and you play this move. 10:00.490 --> 10:01.150 Ouch. 10:01.630 --> 10:04.590 Queenie's for Czech you can't you can't use AF1. 10:05.200 --> 10:06.310 Where's the king going here. 10:07.210 --> 10:12.070 And if you play Jeoffrey, you end up losing the rook king you two and your kings in big trouble. 10:12.070 --> 10:13.090 See the trap section. 10:13.990 --> 10:15.820 Yeah, you kings in huge trouble. 10:16.150 --> 10:21.090 So you've got to be careful when you play the Kings gambit and any opening generally like the Dutch 10:21.100 --> 10:25.690 defense, you might want to play the Dutch defense any time you touch the airport in general. 10:25.690 --> 10:31.390 In fact, as whites, you're weakening this diagonal and this time or as black, you're weakening that 10:31.390 --> 10:36.250 diagonal, which I literally called the double death and you know, this diagonal. 10:36.700 --> 10:40.210 So you've got to be careful on the diagonals wherever your king is. 10:40.600 --> 10:42.280 Those diagonals are the roads. 10:42.280 --> 10:46.900 Your king, which the opponent, if they're very strong tactically, they're going to destroy you. 10:46.900 --> 10:52.960 This is just a little reminder basically about weakening diagonals, joking how fatal it can be. 10:53.200 --> 10:59.590 But in general, the the F for the Kings game, if you want to be inspired and really see the power 10:59.590 --> 11:06.940 of this opening or suggest looking at some games of pool Morphy with the Kings gambit, it helps when 11:06.940 --> 11:13.480 his opponents are kind of greedy and materialistic kind of bean counters, and they don't really factor 11:13.480 --> 11:15.460 in the more invisible aspects of the chess. 11:15.910 --> 11:21.430 You know, like King safety leads in development, not, you know, not just the material which comes 11:21.430 --> 11:28.420 up, but what the material is doing for you, the the effectiveness of the material, you know, the 11:28.420 --> 11:29.470 quality of the material. 11:29.470 --> 11:34.000 You know how active your pieces are, how to control the safety aspects. 11:34.270 --> 11:38.480 So the Kings game, it is a fantastic opening for you to try out Ashar. 11:38.500 --> 11:45.820 I would recommend trying out various different gambits, having a huge fun with the chess openings. 11:46.000 --> 11:52.540 In your initial stages of chess, we're talking, you know, just get to know the game. 11:52.540 --> 11:53.590 That's the main game. 11:53.590 --> 11:54.280 It's at least. 11:54.700 --> 11:57.600 And effort is a gambit. 11:58.150 --> 12:01.150 And the Kings game, you're celebrating the romantic era of chess. 12:02.020 --> 12:06.220 When stylist's came along, the first Williamston, that's when the first world champion came along. 12:06.490 --> 12:11.680 He himself, in his first part of his career was a hacker, like everyone else, going for the king 12:11.680 --> 12:13.090 and playing these romantic games. 12:13.330 --> 12:18.010 But then he introduced positional play and actually had started having great results against the old 12:18.010 --> 12:19.150 romantic era players. 12:19.420 --> 12:25.060 And the popularity of openings like this went down as a defensive technique went up. 12:25.600 --> 12:30.220 So these romance era openings, yeah, they started people started the defensive measures. 12:30.610 --> 12:31.810 Well, I don't like. 12:32.170 --> 12:39.190 And what recommends you if you want to just counter gambit with like this, you know, defensive disaster 12:39.190 --> 12:45.010 already, if they played esquenet for but also, you know, even if I say you kind of counter check 12:45.010 --> 12:49.300 out games of Morphy, you know, you can get an accelerated development and this can be dangerous for 12:49.300 --> 12:49.810 your opponent. 12:50.050 --> 12:51.700 Like, where are they going to console? 12:51.700 --> 12:56.740 Sometimes you're going to get sometimes a very, very quick crushing game. 12:56.740 --> 12:58.810 It's it's very scary already. 12:58.810 --> 12:59.230 You know what? 12:59.620 --> 13:01.840 You got fast development your pieces out. 13:01.840 --> 13:03.700 It's very scary on these diagonals. 13:03.940 --> 13:09.190 So I'd recommend DFI finding out some key steam games with D5 this time. 13:09.190 --> 13:13.240 Games will give you more reassurance and confidence that you can play this with some idea of what you're 13:13.240 --> 13:14.920 doing with the follow up. 13:14.920 --> 13:17.440 Everything's about follow up and yes, not just the move. 13:17.450 --> 13:19.110 So what I'm saying Defonseca move. 13:19.420 --> 13:25.090 Check out the follow ups, but they they naturally can lead to swapping a bit more material for lead 13:25.090 --> 13:27.610 environments and exciting opportunities. 13:27.970 --> 13:32.320 So D5 is a very, very powerful counter gambit. 13:35.230 --> 13:41.110 OK, so on the one side, yeah, I would, I would try out the Kings gambit and research it from the 13:41.260 --> 13:44.050 inside despite the five. 13:44.050 --> 13:44.190 Yeah. 13:44.200 --> 13:45.310 Find out about the five. 13:45.670 --> 13:47.080 So efore Kingscote. 13:47.350 --> 13:50.130 A lot of fun is to be had with the Kings game. 13:50.140 --> 13:56.650 It don't just play stodge as a beginner, you don't want to just play this and then this and then have 13:56.650 --> 13:58.570 endless games with Seefried. 13:58.570 --> 13:59.650 No this game. 13:59.650 --> 14:00.850 It's here before. 14:01.150 --> 14:01.540 Yeah. 14:01.570 --> 14:02.980 Which I've talked about or Sifry. 14:03.190 --> 14:04.840 Don't play this endless stodge. 14:05.110 --> 14:05.740 Please don't. 14:05.950 --> 14:07.530 It'll put you off chess potentially. 14:07.720 --> 14:10.030 And so you must the basic tactics there. 14:10.330 --> 14:11.110 OK, fine. 14:11.110 --> 14:11.620 Maybe. 14:12.000 --> 14:18.180 But generally, you want to start playing exciting stuff, get a feel for the pieces, basically is 14:18.180 --> 14:20.650 my message, get a feel for tactics in chess. 14:21.690 --> 14:22.590 Check out my tactics. 14:22.610 --> 14:26.380 Cause conflict tactics as well, OK? 14:26.400 --> 14:31.830 By the Kings game, it fits in well, the Gambit repertoire in general, we're boosting all tactical 14:31.830 --> 14:34.980 skills, OK, and so much.