Italian Game | Giuoco Piano | Greco Gambit - Traditional Line | Chess Openings | Alex Astaneh

[@lucastooth5775]

Arguably the best chess video I've seen to date - instantly subscribed. Was not expecting anything nearly so comprehensive and clear. Great teacher - pulls off the difficult task of explaining things in a very elementary way without making you feel silly. You deserve more views and keep it up!

[@Chessfactor]

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[@vkborooah]

Alex Astaneh’s chess videos are some of the best available on KZbin. Calm, systematic, and lucid presentation with simple but great visuals. A pleasure to watch and learn from.

[@kennethmiller4950]

This guy is great! Even a lowly 1200 player like me can absorb this! His presentation is very easy to learn and remember. I can not only easily memorize the moves but clearly understand them thanks to his thorough and methodical excellent demonstrations.

[@Chessfactor]

We are happy to hear that you liked the video and that it helped you!

[@SilentThespian]

Loved it. Ideas and planning behind the moves have been lucidly explained. Better than many channels out there. The vids deserve so many more views. Looking forward to watching all of them. Thank you.

[@Chessfactor]

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[@VikramRajpal]

What a delight to watch but not without spinning my head :-). I'll need hours of game to practice the variations of Greco Gambit. Keep up the great work ... love your channel and love your videos / camera angles, audio/video quality and above all the simplicity of explaining. Alex - take a bow 🙇

[@galahadgarza6905]

Thank you for this excellent video. A clear and concise breakdown of some of the possible lines of the Greco Gambit. I was really proud of the fact that (although I had never seen this gambit before) I made the correct moves to counter the different lines involved in this gambit before you broke them down and explained them. Keep up the great work ~ GG.

[@IvanFlores-by3cu]

The class is easy to follow, excellent presenter, exposes ideas with great fluidity which makes it very easy to assimilate, very clear ideas without much unnecessary adornment. Congrats!! IM Alex

[@arturomejiaelbedroom3879]

This is by far the best channel for learning chess that I have ever seen in my life. Kudos for you guys from México.!!!! WOW Im so impressed.

[@ovidenov]

One of the best opening explanations I have ever heard!

[@OrkhanAlizade]

Just a perfect explanation! Thanks a lot and please keep posting!

[@Chessfactor]

Thanks for your nice comment! Of course we will keep posting new videos, so stay tuned!

[@kingcuano668]

Thank you so much for this🙌

[@Chessfactor]

You are welcome!

[@mk45er]

Amazing content! Thank you very much.

[@Chessfactor]

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[@tonyl7000]

Great job. I've been playing mainly the Italian game, center attack since I started playing chess and this video has been so much help. Appreciate it.

[@kushgadia1278]

Thank you for this video! It was a wonderful and detailed one!

[@zainal-mashhadani4206]

A really great video! Thanks

[@andersjonsson8403]

Thanks a lot for a great video! 😀👍♟

[@robertehrenworth3310]

Excellent, clear, analysis. Bravo

[@doctorbaba4880]

Great work love it

[@Chessfactor]

Thanks!

[@c.garcia8706]

Thank you, maestro. Very neatly done!

[@Chessfactor]

Happy to hear that!

[@jisooya7878]

First time learning opening theory, this was really an engaging and interesting lecture, tysm.

[@kuldeepsingh-tx2ur]

nice informative videos. Your vice is good like some documentary commentator, very clear explanations

[@donaldopaiva4853]

Very nice video easy to understand clear and interesting explanations

[@Chessfactor]

Glad to hear that!

[@Priyanaik1983]

Thank you so much for this.

[@carlosmatosfanpage2856]

Great videos!

[@feanaaro8652]

"giuoco piano" and "giuoco pianissimo do not mean "quiet game" and "very quiet game". This is a common misconception in English speaking chess content, likely coming from a 1996 English book quoted by wikipedia. But that book was just wrong. "Piano" can mean "quiet", but as an adverb, thus "quietly" (thus "piano" and "pianissimo" in music, because the meaning is "play quietly!" or "play very quietly", as an order that the conductor gives to the orchestra, or the notation to the conductor. As an adjective, as it is here relative to the noun "game", "piano" means "plain". So, "plain game" and "very plain game" is the correct translation.

[@mangasprai]

Piano also mean slow

[@omagiaht3037]

Come for chess and later find myself learning italian 😂

[@sidsriva]

Thanks Alex for the wonderful presentation. In the Moller's defense (9 d5), Black has 9.. Ne5 response which I know you haven't covered. I was referring 'My great predecessors -Part 1 , Pg 107' and between 9..Bf6 and 9..Ne5 , Garry puts an exclamation for the latter. Is 9..Ne5 slightly preferable (as the line in the book shows) over 9..Bf6 or is it a matter of preference ?

[@bartoszporzezinski4842]

Amazing video, and what a line at the end! If you don't know it as black it can be very hard to defend in time scramble; and white needs to remember to play Bb5 or there is no perpetual. However, there is no need to accept the knight sacrifice - black can play 14... Bf5 instead and after the inevitable exchanges (15. Rxe7 Qxe7 16. Nxf8 Rxf8) the position is plainly equal, with no more tricks from white. Still a draw, but with less chances of blundering something ;)

[@sadunsabir9288]

What a lesson I feel very sad that you just habe 43k subcrb You deserved milions my freind alex❤

[@aavashtiwari]

thank you sir

[@yvonnechen]

Best video ever

[@keniza999]

tip-top teacher!

[@albertarce1135]

Very good video, but after Bc5 I prefer the Evans Gambit

[@SunilNagra]

Great Sir ....🫡

[@tedzards509]

Actually the Greco Gambit Stockfish Eval is very close to even according to Stockfish 16, fluctuating between 0 and -0.2 at a depth in the 30s.

[@ilyaibrahimovic9842]

Excellent lecture! Might I suggest that in the camera angles focusing on the lecturer rather than the board, the lecturer looks into the camera whenever he's not looking at the board?

[@Chessfactor]

Glad to hear that you liked the video! What exactly is your suggestion with the camera angle? Do you mean that the lecturer should look better into the camera that is pointed at him?

[@ilyaibrahimovic9842]

@@Chessfactor The camera angle is fine, but he stares almost exclusively at the board. Combined with the camera angle, the complete lack of eye contact creates the sense he's ignoring the viewer. So I'm suggesting he can stare at the board but he should look straight into the camera at least here and there.

[@Chessfactor]

@@ilyaibrahimovic9842 Thanks for your advice! We will take this up and have a look on it for further video recording sessions. Hope that this issue didn't disturbed your learning experience and that you still could follow the moves.

[@ilyaibrahimovic9842]

@@Chessfactor Very clear instruction in the video and I wouldn't suggest a remake. A minor improvement for future videos. Generally I really like the videos on this channel and would heartily recommend them, even with a flaw like this which makes almost no difference.

[@glennyap3824]

good for quality games but white risk the game. If black player is new black will loss but if black balance the attack and defense by way of whites style of offer,, white will loss due to pawn..

[@benshaw5382]

I just want to point out the move d5 (12:41) in response to 10. Qb3 (in the 8...Nxc3 variation) here isn't winning and white still has an advantage after 11. Bxd5 O-O 12. Bxf7+ Rxf7 13. Ng4 Be4 14. Qxc6 Rf3, 15. Nxe6 Rxe6 16. Qc4 . Moral of the story, don't take on c3 with the knight period.

[@niravapurv4578]

Something wrong with your line here... its better seen position at 12:57 where 11. Bxd5 0-0 is show on the board. After the moves you suggest: 12. Bxf7+ Rxf7... there is no Ng4, I suppose you mean Ng5 with a double attack on the rook on f7.. but then you suggest black play Be4.. black has no bishop that can move to e4 in one move, and it Would not makes much sense either becaus it would allow white to capture rook on f7 with check with queen. If you meant Be6, then the bishop is not protected there and will just be captured. Perhaps your point is black has to protect the rook with queen, witch after white can take the rook on f7 with knight and after take the bishop on c3? If thats what you meant it looks like you are right... Bxf7 looks really strong and perhaps blacks best move is to just move the king to h8.. say i lost a pawn and now my rook is active, and if white takes bishop on f3, blank take bishop on f7 with rook.?

[@spokenwordpoetrylamanmudgal]

Hi :) . I hav a query . At time 5:40, where you suggested most games end in draw, why can’t the white place it’s king at b5, where he can easily win one of the knights. :)

[@kenhoadley1798]

After 10.Qb3 Na5 11. Qb5+ is bad because of the pawn block c6. This defends both defends the Knight on d5 and opens up the defense of the Knight on a5 from the Queen so both are protected. Meanwhile White's Queen is attacked and he now loses a tempo. 12. Qc5 b6 13.Qa3 Nxc4 14.Nxc4 Qe7+ Black has a good position :-).

[@niravapurv4578]

@@kenhoadley1798 very well explained, just isn't there something faulty with the last move... Qe7+? 😉 if you meant Qe3+ white cant even play that because of the strong night on d5... so you are defenitly right here, looks like a good position for black.

[@swingtrader6118]

Bro or sir do you do livestreming? If yes then where and pls tell the name of that channel

[@Chessfactor]

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[@MyAllabama]

good video..but anyone knows the name of the board ? the brand? looks nice :D

[@Chessfactor]

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[@zerog1037]

Omg tht was one long engine line just for a draw

[@AndersonAlves-xf3hp]

27:10 the result speaks for herself

[@Youtube喆哥]

nice

[@gingangong]

thx for this good video, I learned a lot.

[@Chessfactor]

Glad you liked it!

[@indrashispowali]

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[@robertovalenzuela3092]

If I were white here, I prefer to play 6.e5 or 6. O-O to pose complications on the black's king on e8.

[@beri4138]

Other videos don't come close

[@prachurjyagayan8385]

HOW TO PREPARE OPENINGS ?

[@Chessfactor]

Thanks for the question. We are planning to make a video on that. Stay tuned.

[@yvonnechen]

That’s alot to remember

[@robertosettimio6403]

grecos gambit because is name Gioacchino Greco not Greek

[@williammaina-xd4vl]

uhhh

[@williammaina-xd4vl]

sorry

[@MANCO513]

U explain everything 10 times bro, do it once and efficiently plz

[@benshaw5382]

oop- I guess we know who the single dislike on the video is. When there are lots of variations and sidelines, it is important to go back to where the line branches so there is some inevitable variation. And, furthermore, chess is fundamentally a game about pattern recognition. More repetition = better memorisation = better chess.

[@SecondSackSox]

Awesome video. Thanks!