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The grob may be a dubious opening, but if you have not seen it before, you will get caught out.

It's not terrible. It's fun. Stop ruining our fun.

I would argue that the most ridiculous opening in chess is the Danish Gambit Returned: 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 cxb2 5. Bxb2 d5! 6. Bxd5 Nf6 7. Bxf7+ Kxf7 8. Qxd8 Bb4+ 9. Qd2 Bxd2+ It's not bad, in fact it may be the best answer to the Danish Gambit. But it's totally absurd in that White sacrifices two pawns for an attack, and, not to be outdone, Black replies by giving back BOTH pawns, AND the castling privilege, just to chop off the Queens, and kill that same attack. You've still got a really unbalanced position, but it's equal, and at least Black's not in any danger of losing by direct attack any more.

I've never come across the first, but I believe that 1. b4 a5 is in Horowitz's ancient tome, "Chess Openings, Theory and Practice", not as an opening in itself, but as a line in the Polish Opening (1. b4). There are a lot of ridiculous openings that nobody plays any more, but did once. The Durkin Attack, 1.Nc3, was played by Bob Durkin, if nobody else. 1. Nh3 used to be called the Paris Opening, so somebody must have played it. No idea who. I think Anderssen's Opening deserves serious consideration, considering that he played it multiple times, and beat Morphy with it. Santasiere's Folly, if only for the name. The Steinitz Gambit is ridiculous, and he won a World Championship game with it. It was almost like a slap in Zukertort's face that he was so confident of victory that he trotted out that crazy gambit that nobody respected. His Qf6 line in the Evans is pretty ridiculous too. Or 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Qh5 in the Scotch. In fact, I'll bet you could build a Top 10 Most Ridiculous Openings list from Steinitz's games alone. Let's not forget the Rice Gambit, that Rice laid out big money to get top players to play, hoping to prove that it was a good line, and they failed. Alapin's Opening, 1. e4 e5 2. Ne2 looks ridiculous, since it looks like it's going to be a standard double king pawn opening, where White unaccountably blocked his Bishop. Only if you play it like a closed Hypermodern Opening, rather than like a Double King Pawn Opening, it's not so silly. I once freaked someone out by playing the Kopec Sicilian, 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bd3. He gave a flabbergasted "what the heck??" look, but then sort of nodded "Oh, I get it now", when I played 4. c3. There's something inherently ridiculous about both the Center Counter Defense and the Alekhine's Defense. Alekhine's Defense is intended to goad White into building the center he wants, while the Center Counter, likewise, says "Here's my Queen, take pot shots at it".

I'm not sure if we're asking the right question here. The "best" opening might not be the best one for either club players or beginners (i.e. the ones most likely to be watching the video). One big drawback of it is that White has so many different 4th moves, that Black has to know something about. I certainly don't think I'd recommend the Nimzo as a FIRST defense, for someone just learning the game. Start off on something like the QGD or the Slav, and add the Nimzo later. But don't discard the first two, keep them in hand also. Between the QGD, the Slav, and the Nimzo, that will keep you going until you're ready to move up to the Budapest.

Thanks. This was very helpful. But you failed to mention a key trap! After 1.g4 d5 2.Bg2 Bxg4 3.c4 c6 4.Qb3 e6 5.cxd5, Black must play the counterintutive 5...exd5!, violating the maxim about capturing toward the center, since 5...cxd5?? 6.Qa4+ wins the bishop. ChessBase Online shows that a LOT of people fall into this trap. In this move order, 18 people played the correct 5...exd5!, while 7 (i.e 28%) blundered with 5...cxd5??. Another 31 blundered away their bishop by a different move order, I assume 4.cxd5 cxd5 first, and then 5.Qb3 e6?? In this case, they may think they're being clever, since 5.Qb3 Nf6! would allow 6.Qxb7 Nbd7 7.Bxd5. In fact 7.Bxd5?? would be a blunder because of 7...Rb8! 8.Qc6?? (defending the bishop) Rc8 and wins.

Stockfish plays g4. So, it means the first opening move really doesn't matter. It is the response to your opponent's move that matters.

Well, the Grob is like Scholars Mate. An opening that's intended to get an advantage based on the the opponent not knowing how to play against it. For a while Nakamura was playing 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. Q-R5 as a kind of handicap to show he could still outplay certain people who didn't fall for the trap. With the Grob, after 1. P-KN4 P-Q4 2. B-N2 BxP 3. P-QB4 P-QB3 4. Q-N3, Black is supposed to freak out over the possibility of QxP, and play something awful, like P-QN3. The problem is it's hard for Black to freak out sufficiently to wreck his game. After 4... Q-N3, Black is still a bit better. He's even slightly better after 4... PxP and B-B1. At least with the Scholar's Mate White wins if Black falls for it.

At my rating people rarely play the queens gambit. Is this still good against the London?

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Very good analysis

Awesome stuff! Your coverage of the match has been the best of anyone on RUclips. I'm surprised there aren't hundreds of views on every game you analyzed, but maybe there's just market capture from the biggest chess RUclipsrs stealing all the views.

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Nice one. It looked like Ding didn't try to press at all, or didn't realize he was winning

good analysis

At 3 minutes 46, there is a very strong symmetry for Ding

It's a fun position to play, maybe focus on development and not push too hard.

Thanks for this recap! A lot of stuff no other commentators seemed to cover

I've really enjoyed these recaps! I think you've got the best commentary on the whole match of anyone

Gm teachers often say to their students, keep the pawns tension! Now I often think that the "passive" Queen exchange is good attacking and defensive strategy; The blunder is huge because activate Nf8 and lose Bishop pair; of course Gukesh isn't crazy, if u evaluate the position statically black pawns formation aweful

Bc5 is easy to play, but I only consider Qxh7 trick, wow Rf3 and Qf1, the bishop pair save the game, and with a weaker player White has pracical winning chances, crazy stuff! Open f file was almost a blunder for Ding, that's why Bxe6! A "Petrosian move" King safety first !

Gukesh wasn't familiar with Ding nice queenside attack, He played g4 but arrange his pieces in particular Bishops f2 and g2 as if he played g3. Wow fantastic engine regrouping with Be1,Bf1

that is soooo random lol... but kinda intriguing, so thx for sharing

This was the most creative title I've seen on a chess video yet LOL. Love the jokes and deep discussion of strategy. You should have 100k subs

hey Erik! I just wanted to say that I've been following a lot of the coverage from all of the major chess channels, and I think you've had the best and deepest coverage of the match. You always bring up moves, ideas, and philosophy no one else is talking about. Good stuff!

As a French player, I really loved this game and your analysis

Thanks for the spoilers in the titles of your videos.

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I just resigned a game I THOUGHT I lost my knight in. *1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 e5 3. c3 Nc6 4. Qb3 Be6 5. Qxb7 Na5 6. Qb5+* not seeing after 6...c6, the knight is defended by my queen when i was actually UP half a pawn because i got rattled by white's initiative. now to see if this is a gambit lovers kind of line. at my 1700 level, 2...Bg4 has bad results. after 3.c4, white scores 57:40 in 1 million 1600-2000 rated games.2...c6 is the strongest reply for amateurs at 47:50 in 527k games and is the ONLY line black has an edge in. 2...e5 scores a little better than your line too at my level. I THOUGHT claiming the center was the correct book move.

I’d like to see you refute this opening if a titled player were to play it against you. Grob for life.

An interesting gambit vs. The Grob goes 1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 Bxg4 3. c4 dxc4 4. Bxb7 Nd7 5. Bxa8 Qxa8 6. f3 e5 7. d4 -/+ The method I prefer is 1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 e5 3. h3 Nc6 4. d3 Be6 Black will castle long and play h5 and f6 in some order. Usually, the knight goes to g6 via e7. Black is better.

nonsense why would I retreat my bishop to e3 lol. Qe3! +-

Bro talks shi about grob, when GM Ian almost lost to it by FM Omariev. The grob works untill 2k~ and is absolutely relentless.

Exquisite!!!!!!!!!!

he forgot his anal beads this match

Good stuff. I loved this Can't Lose and Must Win psychology discussion you went into

at 40:55 Kislik offers to teach Hans with his pawn break training manual 😂😂

Funny video! Just randomly popped in my feed

Nice to see you back making vids since Shankland doesn't post them anymore

Nice teardown of the Grob, thanks for sharing.

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3:40 how can you capture the d4 pawn with bf3 if whites bishop is on g2 still?

Hey there G I Bought the Tate's HU2.0 course in 2022 and watched ur lessons. i just came by to check if you still existed , hehe Good luck man.

What happens after knight moves exposing Q to attack?

Can you prove a pawn is worth 4 tempi? Sounds a bit dubious tbh

I don't get this video. I got the point about looking at unprotected pieces immediately, but then you go through position after position to drill through how to do this when 2-3 examples would suffice. And the two examples I looked at as puzzles had nothing to do with unprotected pieces at all, just finding forcing winning moves like Qd8+!! I guess the vid is geared at 1000 rated USCF players but even then wouldn't they benefit from real examples and your showing how this principle works?