WEBVTT 00:01.080 --> 00:01.750 Hi there. 00:02.340 --> 00:08.010 In this lecture, I'm going to talk about the Queen's Gambit and yes, there's a really popular Netflix 00:08.010 --> 00:09.570 series, which is a must see. 00:09.880 --> 00:11.100 It's so well done. 00:11.400 --> 00:18.660 It's brought a lot of new attention to chess worldwide and is actually inspiring me to do this course 00:19.140 --> 00:26.340 so that you are equipped, if you are going to try out chess, to have some exciting ideas and the openings 00:26.340 --> 00:30.860 in the middle game and the end game to really see the excitement of chess and a whole load of other 00:30.870 --> 00:31.290 tips. 00:31.770 --> 00:38.340 So I'm hoping this course is going to show you some of the beauty of chess, which you might have glimpsed 00:38.340 --> 00:40.320 that from the Queen's Gambit. 00:40.560 --> 00:47.070 But here we're talking about the Queen's Gambit, the opening which they got the name of the series 00:47.070 --> 00:51.960 from the opening is DeFore D5 and you play Seaforth. 00:51.960 --> 00:56.280 This is Queen's Gambit territory when CIFOR is played. 00:58.080 --> 01:06.330 Now, Black has various major option options they might decline is the gambit and the play ESX, so 01:06.330 --> 01:09.750 this used to be the most popular option by far. 01:11.320 --> 01:18.880 You know, if we're talking, you know, 1960s, 70s, 80s, but nowadays a lot of grandmasters are 01:18.880 --> 01:21.130 playing C6, this line of defense. 01:21.160 --> 01:25.200 This is kind of the new main line when I say mainlined the most trodden paths. 01:25.570 --> 01:31.960 So when you look at these bases, if you were able to on your database, look at more recent games, 01:31.960 --> 01:38.320 some databases don't allow you to put in filters, but you see that the trends, the modern trends, 01:38.650 --> 01:41.590 C6 is is one of the more popular. 01:41.920 --> 01:43.990 And there's also the queen's going to accept it. 01:45.610 --> 01:47.350 So this is where they accept the gambit. 01:49.090 --> 01:56.890 Now, one of the key differences I like to point out why C6 might be trendy compared to ESX is the CIA 01:56.950 --> 01:57.520 bishop. 01:57.520 --> 02:03.550 This crops up in a variety of different openings across even efore and therefore that this bishop is 02:03.550 --> 02:04.630 sometimes an issue. 02:05.620 --> 02:11.920 Now with C6, it keeps the bishop open, at least for a little while longer. 02:13.210 --> 02:14.890 But most of them or not. 02:14.890 --> 02:22.030 Paradoxically, you might think this bishop is actually enclosed with ESX later for practical reasons 02:22.030 --> 02:24.190 that actually godding base. 02:24.640 --> 02:31.030 So there's a lot of theory with the slope of the fence, but the initial kind of feeling is that the 02:31.030 --> 02:40.540 bishop might be potentially freer than ESX and both have some of the same mechanisms later for trying 02:40.540 --> 02:41.880 to handle this issue. 02:42.430 --> 02:46.510 Sometimes the bishop energetically is fixated on the queen side. 02:46.510 --> 02:50.150 Later of this is removed and looks down this whole diagonal. 02:50.560 --> 02:57.520 So anyway, so when we play CIFOR, the Queen's Gambit, so ESX used to be the old mainline DHC has 02:57.520 --> 03:02.320 never been that popular and C6 is kind of the new mainline. 03:02.320 --> 03:05.320 Nowadays, most grandmasters play C6. 03:05.320 --> 03:12.700 The Slav defense is all the rage on other weird and wonderful stuff. 03:12.700 --> 03:14.170 If I play a lot myself. 03:14.170 --> 03:14.700 Bamblett. 03:14.800 --> 03:21.420 It's a wonderful gambit of having a huge amount of fun and entertainment with of even Beeton's and I 03:21.430 --> 03:23.610 am some GMES with it on Blitz. 03:23.620 --> 03:25.120 Anything can happen anyway. 03:25.480 --> 03:32.580 But these gambits, if they're not prepared for it, you can get a really entertaining game after defore. 03:32.860 --> 03:36.310 So the various distinct ideas, it's kind of a wedge pawn. 03:36.310 --> 03:38.020 You're driving in the opponent's position. 03:38.890 --> 03:42.190 There are some interesting traps to be aware of. 03:42.340 --> 03:51.430 If you do play this, for example, and they play routinely a free that actually you have Bishop before 03:51.430 --> 03:55.930 check and this could get nasty of the Bishop detA taking her. 03:56.860 --> 03:58.780 If they take, you can actually play. 03:59.470 --> 04:01.030 It takes effort to check. 04:01.720 --> 04:09.940 And in this position, you can do a really wacky move, believe it or not, to get a big, huge advantage. 04:10.450 --> 04:14.020 Can you guess why that is so little chess puzzle for you here? 04:14.530 --> 04:18.070 This is one of the major traps of the album Count Kamat. 04:21.450 --> 04:29.560 OK, you'd like the king not to be protecting the queen, and you can do this by actually taking on 04:29.790 --> 04:36.900 one, but not getting a queen instead on the promoting a special case the other night, and it's CHAC. 04:37.800 --> 04:39.210 So they have to deal with the check. 04:39.420 --> 04:44.400 And if they play this now, Bishop Reforger and you've basically won, you've, you know, you're going 04:44.400 --> 04:48.050 to take their queen after so quite crushing stuff. 04:48.060 --> 04:49.140 I mean that's a trap. 04:49.530 --> 04:50.720 That is a must know. 04:51.090 --> 04:57.330 So that's why E3 is is a no no because before generally it's much better for black after that. 04:58.200 --> 04:59.150 But Albon counts. 04:59.490 --> 05:00.810 You don't just play it for the trap. 05:00.810 --> 05:03.080 You play for a lot of other rich ideas. 05:03.540 --> 05:05.700 I had a lot of entertaining games with that anyway. 05:06.060 --> 05:07.000 But there's also. 05:08.940 --> 05:16.950 OK, let's go from the website so we can see sex is the sugar in the fence named after Mikael Chigorin, 05:16.950 --> 05:19.410 who is the adopted father of the Soviet CESCO. 05:19.680 --> 05:23.670 You had very creative ideas and contributions to chess. 05:25.440 --> 05:28.170 We have Bishop AR5, the Baltic defense. 05:28.710 --> 05:29.640 We have C5. 05:29.640 --> 05:32.850 The symmetrical fenceless is hardly seen nowadays. 05:33.060 --> 05:36.870 Grandmaster level these these last few options. 05:37.320 --> 05:42.950 In fact, the major ones seen that grandmaster level usually are just the Queen's Gambit declined, 05:43.070 --> 05:45.150 the Queen's Gambit accepted and Slav defense. 05:45.450 --> 05:51.210 These others are much, much rarer, much rarer at a higher level of chess. 05:52.500 --> 05:55.110 So yes, it's very, very rare. 05:55.110 --> 05:58.560 But and Marshall is not thought to be that good, the Marshall defense. 05:58.980 --> 06:01.140 But Frank Marshall did have some success with that. 06:01.710 --> 06:03.930 G six is not thought to be that good. 06:04.350 --> 06:12.590 Now, key Trappes, if we stick to the most common thing your opponent might do that they don't know 06:12.600 --> 06:18.030 what you're doing with this and you can play the movie for and if they cling on too much to the pawn. 06:19.720 --> 06:22.380 Yeah, there's this trap you just need to be aware of. 06:22.500 --> 06:28.740 I mean, if you can actually do a lot of damage to your opponents, if you take you play nicely free 06:29.310 --> 06:29.760 here. 06:29.760 --> 06:35.190 There's a key move which I've covered elsewhere in the trap section. 06:35.190 --> 06:36.360 But let's test you here. 06:36.720 --> 06:38.550 What does White play for reinforcements? 06:38.940 --> 06:44.700 What does White play in the super crushing move in this position, which winds lots of material if black 06:44.850 --> 06:46.650 carries on playing terribly? 06:47.400 --> 06:50.850 OK, the move for whites is Queensferry. 06:50.850 --> 06:55.620 So you're hitting that rook of the C6 now rook takes a six is devastating. 06:55.920 --> 06:59.220 If they take care, you take on C6 is check. 06:59.490 --> 07:04.710 They have to impose their queen, you take their rook, they come back, you play check and then you 07:04.710 --> 07:05.970 take the night. 07:06.120 --> 07:08.310 So it's almost like a seesaw chat going almost. 07:08.730 --> 07:15.270 You're scooping up a lot material via checks, bouncing there via checks, huge crushing position. 07:16.110 --> 07:20.250 When I first did a video on YouTube about this, it was called a cheap video by a major site that was 07:20.250 --> 07:23.010 like quite a fuss made about it. 07:23.580 --> 07:24.930 But it's a standard trap. 07:26.820 --> 07:31.530 And I picked it up from 500 monster games of chess if you want to add to your chess culture. 07:32.820 --> 07:35.760 So 500 lost games of chess elaborated on this trap. 07:35.760 --> 07:38.760 You can get a great deal even from the old chess books. 07:39.990 --> 07:45.300 So but be warned, it might have the old rotation unless they revised that the old descriptive notation 07:45.690 --> 07:51.330 wind you up compared to the new, you know, short abbreviated algebraic notation. 07:52.650 --> 07:54.840 But anyway, there's a lot of literature out there. 07:54.840 --> 07:58.860 We can pick up a lot of tracks, but that's like an essential trap within the Queen's Gambit. 08:00.540 --> 08:06.450 So, yeah, the Netflix series was based on a real opening, but it's not quite a real gambit because 08:06.450 --> 08:07.590 it's so damaging. 08:07.980 --> 08:13.110 If Black tries to cling on to the pawn like that, it's just really, really damaging to their position. 08:13.470 --> 08:20.400 If they play a move like Bishop ESX, they've kind of blocked in their pieces and you got ways of really 08:21.300 --> 08:23.610 doing a lot of damage in other ways later positionally. 08:24.390 --> 08:27.210 So, yeah, it's it's an interesting opening. 08:27.210 --> 08:30.780 If you want to try out the form, broaden your horizons and experience of possessions. 08:31.080 --> 08:36.810 But when you first start out, my recommendation to you is try and keep the game stats, call Bofors 08:37.070 --> 08:38.810 black, get a feel for tactics. 08:40.320 --> 08:45.810 Tatties is what is going to win you the most games and winning the most enjoyment and let you have a 08:45.810 --> 08:49.170 lot of encouragement along the journey of learning all about chess. 08:49.710 --> 08:56.040 The more strong you are as a tactical monster, as earlier on, you're going to enjoy all aspects of 08:56.040 --> 08:59.070 your chess because tactics are relevant in the opening, in the game. 08:59.070 --> 09:03.630 In the end, game tactics going to win new games and give you joy. 09:04.540 --> 09:10.340 And certainly give me a kind of lifetime of joy being a tactical player. 09:11.230 --> 09:16.240 And, of course, you should have an interest in all the other aspects of chess because they will also 09:16.240 --> 09:22.900 boost your results and the stronger and stronger opponents you play your needs, other skill sets to 09:22.900 --> 09:24.010 gain advantages. 09:25.060 --> 09:29.500 OK, so that's a key trap to be aware of in the Queens game. 09:29.590 --> 09:31.340 These are the key names, variations. 09:33.460 --> 09:38.710 OK, I think that's enough for a basic intro to the Queen's Gambit. 09:39.920 --> 09:40.460 That's how much.