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I love the pirc defence/kings indian. That combo is so similar, but offers you an answer to almost every first move the opponent can make. Really solid for a beginner

Incredible opening. I play this all the time in bullet and ultrabullet so that I can play positions quickly, accurately and comfortably.

Back for watching again - this is pure gold! ❤

I friggin love this guy. I admit that I learned how pieces move as a kid and didn't pursue chess like one should. I admit that only after my son came home one day and asked if I knew how to play, and if I ever heard of Gotham chess, I picked up the game after 2 decades. What this guy teaches for absolutely free is so far above and beyond the other sites that I literally check daily for his next upload. I was actually worried that he met his demise due to all the wars and rumors of wars. This guy is absolutely dynamite at chess and we are all lucky to know his content.

Lovely! Exactly what I needed. Great lines.
I play king's indian defence a lot but often end up in closed positions with less space and a sometimes a very bad position.
Your moves c6 and Qa5 are game changing.

Excellent and clear explanation of the theory - thank you!

What’s funny is if you play the Czech Pirc defense against the London system, you almost always end up winning a bishop by move eight or nine, because you push your central pawns to threaten a fork and a lot of times they’ll move their bishop to f5 to avoid it, then you push your pawn to attack the knight anyways and discover the attack on the hanging bishop. In a bullet or blitz game, they will forget that your queen is there and you win.

Nice. I tried the Caro Khan and the Acc. Dr. Sicc but this is so much easier to learn. And from there I can train the middle game. Thx.

This is great. Its really helpful to hear you talk through all the ifs and buts and possibilities. 'Assess the threat and deal with it': my new chess mantra!

I learned so much from your lesson on the d3 opening move for black, which I usually play, but in this lesson, I was also enlightened about the real beauty of the King's Indian defense. And you also have a mesmerizing voice! Thanks so very much! 🙏😊!!

I think you gave a great breakdown of one of my favorite openings, but I was sad to see you didn't cover the most critical lines starting with 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. f4.. Would love to see another video covering these more difficult variations

A very enjoyable introduction to this opening. I've been playing the King's Indian... but this gives me some great ideas to move forward with!

One of the best explanatory demonstrations of the Pirc I have ever seen. If not _the_ best!

That really helped me. I have been playing for over a year with no progress. Mostly because its hard to remember all the variables your opponent can play. With your opening you have so many options that it seems winning at every move no matter what the opponent plays. Thank you so much. I finally have an opening I can understand and can build off of.

This was great. I'll spend some time studying all these variations. Thank you for explaining!

I am just learning. Your careful and slow presentation as well as explaining are awesome: I understand!!!! Thank you so much!

I actually play this, I'm not perfect by any stretch of the means but I like this opening for black. I play this a lot and appreciate the lesson, thank you.

This opening was a game changer for me. Thank you!

A really instructive lesson 😎
I'll play this opening for my next few games

After watching this video my perspective on where to look before move a piece, changed drastically. I still can't remember all the positions to counter each move, but this opening can lead to great sacrifices on blitz games. And the principles here can be aplied to whites as well.

This d6 opening followed by the Knight on f6 is in fact the PIRC Defense allowing to merge into the East indian with g6 followed by bishop on g7 onto the great diagonal.The rest is really instructive,as one can see how your thinking functions...Very good tutorial indeed...
I wish I knew what is The ELO ranking of M.Chesscape!

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Beautiful explanation of the official content of the chess game, in terms of techniques and strategies, congratulations!

I want to thank you for your great effort. I seem to be in a slump, trying new things and it is crushing my elo. I guess it is part of it. But I am going to study your channel. May Jesus bless all that you do Amen

I've been searching for a better black opening for a while now. This might be just what I need. Thank you!

That analysis is super great, many thanks !

Thank you so much. This is one of the best lessons I listened to on youtube. I owe you.

Clever! Thank you for all the variations as well! I will definitely be trying this!

I won twice, with one 1700 against a 1200 Bot. But got mated once also. I like it, I am learning from it. Thanks. Your a good instructor, just the right pace.

I have been working hard and studying openings trying to get to 900, when I survive the openings I can do very well. I watched your video and won 2 games against chess AI set to 900. Thank you for showing me this great opening. I am on the move up again.

What is the "King's Indian"? At least, that is what the closed captions are calling it.
Appreciate this kind of analysis in a slow, methodical manner. Very helpful.

Very nice lesson and I got good results with good players. Thanks and regards.

You for explaining the moves it opens up my eyes more variations

Thanks, bro, I've been struggling to defend against this consistently and now I feel like I understand it much better

Your voice is so calm inyour old videos this is miraculous in comparison im shocked.

The voice is as menacing as the opening. Thank you !

Thanks for this video! I actually was losing over and over to white and when I tried this I destroyed him and what he was trying do because I was coming from all angles plus added some other moves I saw fit. 👍

I went from 1300 to 1000 playing this..

Fantastic! Well explained.

Giving it a shot. So far so good. Thank you for sharing 👍🏿

“Devlop”💀

Never knew about this one! Incredible opening! And the video went over all the little details of this opening. This is what Chessscape is all about! Great video!
One question: What about white trying to threaten a scholar's mate after playing d6? The best response is to wait until we can punish it with g6? Or should we immediately deny scholar's?

"Lets say your opponent plays this"....no one ever plays this...😂😂

what an opening, was playing a chess game while learning it and everything we et exactly like the video

After not even finishing half the video I played this opening and lost immediately 😂

at 12:40 we should discuss after 1...c5, white plays e5 instead of dc5 because white players are going to attack the f6 knight instead of relieving the pressure with d4 x c5

i started to use caro kan as black opening 3 months ago, and my ELO dropped from 1200 to 870 till now.

Video was helpful thanks very much Sir

not even finished watching yet but this is giving my scandinavian vibes minus the early centre pawns trade

Good video.
Very clear.

Can you please make a tutorial on the Lion defense (d6, Nf6, c6, Nbd7, e5)? I love your videos

3:41 I like it when they castle when I still have a lot of power on the board. In this case, I will sacrifice that Bishop and take that white pawn on a3, to open up his castle, then start the attack.

Wow this opening is so 😮 flexible easy to understand

Hi there among all the people on line I try to learn from you are by day the best I have seen thank you so much you make it easier to understand and follow have you dome one one the lii ok London jobava I would like to learn

thanks master...good video....let´s try it...

I love this video I refer to it often thank you

With 1.d4 d6 2. c4 you can go into the English Rat by playing e5! That might appear crazy, but look at the win percentage of the resulting lines in Lichess.

Can't believe the chess bot in chesskid play this opening

There's a path that you can understand by watching Kasparov's great games, where he does kill chess...but maybe you put it out of your mind so your play does not stale. Well the banned gambit eventually makes you refine the path again.

After opening with d6-Nf6, what determines whether your next step is King's Indian or c6-Qa5? Is it simply, anything other than white e4-d4, then do the KI first, however, if white opens with e4-d4-Nc3, then black d6-Nf6-c6-Qa5?

Heyyyy i played this for months as main but now i main caro and this against anything other than e4 good opening and stable

D8-D5 = B2-B4 is the most common move against the Queen.

Thanks very much Sir

i love how ur voice sounds❤ anyways good video i usually use alkelhines opening and it usually works! meanwhile this opening just works all the time.

Yeah, that works great ... if your opponent plays the wrong moves. There are a lot of ways for white to lose this opening, but just playing the most popular moves will get white through it just fine, even with an advantage. Taking the second most popular moves at key points will work even better for white. For example, after 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 Qa5 5.Bd2 Qc7, white's most common move is Bd3, not Bc4, but Bc4 works just fine. After 6.Bc4 B5, white should retreat to Bd3, not Bb3. But OK, Bb3 is the more common move, so let's continue with 7.Bb3 b5 8.Na4 Nxe4 9.Bxb4, then what? 9...e4? is a mistake, because after 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.Bxf8, and now black won't be able to castle. 9...Ba6 might look good, but white just plays 10.Ba3. It is not the most active square for the bishop, but it is attacking near the center, and it also keeps black from advancing the queen's side knight. The two sides are even on material, white has all his minor pieces developed (while both black bishops are still on their starting squares, and the dark-square bishop isn't even able to move yet), and white has the only pawn in the center. His position is much more open. He will probably castle (on either side) in the next couple of moves, then bring his rooks to the center, and things look good for white. Stockfish rates the game as +0.4, and it seems to me that is a conservative estimate. There aren't many games in Lichess database with this position (662 with all options on) after 9.Bxb4, but those that exist are won by white 55% of the time, compared to just 41% for black.
I haven't looked through the 1.d4 and other opening moves, so I will not comment on how well it works for those, but I would not use it for king's pawn openings.

does this work well against the bird opening? I am about to play spomeone who loves the bird and I am considering uses it, been impressed so far with this. its a great post

Sir...thank you for all these secrets

Great video. Can you do a KID vs Bayonet attack?

Thank you so much u for this video thank you so much!!!!

It has a name, Pirc defense

If anyone wants to expand on this d6 idea there is an interesting book by GM Jorg Hickl called "Play 1...D6 Against Everything". Instead of the Czech defense he shows ways to play the Old-Indian defense or the Phillidor defense. Both system not too many players are familiar with.

a very good explanation!

Im getting cramps seeing how cramped my position is now.... All thanks to u🙁

Thank you

I downloaded an AI chess game and he foils every move every time.
The AI doesn’t even do any move you predict by white.
It seriously does something completely different and trumps any move you offer in this video.

excellent apart from you don't mention what a lot of people do and that is positioning their bishop on h6 ? also what happens when they sacrifice their bishop and take the h6 pawn again and blow your defence wide open ?

I tried this opening today, it went well!

I really like this system I'm allot more comfortable with black

That's a Great Defense.
Can you do a course about the Queen's Indian Defense like you did with Caro-Kann Defense?

this dude earned a sub

Interesting and thank you.
I try to improve my very modest game by playing against AI at levels above my skill. I am consistently trapped and am playing defense after a very few moves; very frustrating not to see the knight and bishop traps.
Should I play at my level to gain experience? Much lower frustration.

this video is pure gold

this gets killed to the fried liver attack

Thanks a lot! I just subbed. I am wondering what to do if I am White and Black plays pirc/kings indian against me! Could you (or did you, already) make a video from the White side? Thanks!

Dear Sir...very instructive...pls need ideas on semi-abervakh & makagonov variation of king's indian...thank u

Thank you very much Chesscape.

This move is like a Pirc defense Czech variation.

The other move is pawn e6, I won literally 30 games in a row went up from silver 36 to silver 6.

You explain very good. Is easy to remember when you explain. Keep doing that.

Amazing really ❤❤

At which stage of the do you decide to fianchetto the bishop or castle king side ?

Thank you.I like to play as black.

Thanks Sir

Caro-kann left the game

Online chess is insane. I need at least 100.000 games more to bother about any of it.

Very clear video. Thanks 🙂

I always play this opening with minor changes the line I like is named black lion

What if he puts his other knight in between the pin that you have created by ping the knight to the queen or he can just put his bishop in between
Please correct me if I am wrong

merci beaucoup ! : )

Well done