Cooking Up Some Promising Tactics - 1.e4 Aggressive Repertoire Speedrun (1900-2000 ELO)

[@SuperNarski]

At 6:30 wasn't there 0-0 b5! winning a piece?

[@ricj441]

Nice maestro, now it's starting to get interesting 2000+. Looking forward to the next session! Saludos

[@yzfool6639]

I agree the Wooden Indian (what I call the Pirc) is a good opening when you attack it on the Q-side.

[@ScottySoul031]

I’m really enjoying this series 🙌🙌🙌 The more I watch, the more I realize Jesse is like the Clarence J. Boddicker of chess 😂

[@ngomusoqwabe4684]

He is a God

[@ngomusoqwabe4684]

Aggressive rep

[@marcel2711]

chess speedrun. my favorite type of videos. thanks for this content. nice games !

[@ChessHoodie]

4:23 Bxe4 instead of Qxe4 would be cool, somehow a similar checkmate to the one that would be intended with Be4 appeared on the board anyways, :)

[@jcup4702]

Last game at 26:00 Rb8, forcing the queen to give itself up for rook and bishop?

[@L30B055]

Queen can escape to a6? Am I missing something?😬

[@Musicrafter12]

I simply can't believe 6. f5 in the Grand Prix is actually any good. It doesn't even make the top 5 Stockfish suggestions list in that position and its score in the masters database is horrible. After the correct gxf5, black scores 68%. Even after Nge7 black scores 59%. Since black isn't castled kingside yet, I could not be afraid of capturing the pawn purely on principle. If chess makes sense f5 must be a bad move. As long as black does not stick his king on g8 too soon before consolidating the position, white shouldn't have anything real and will just be down a pawn for nothing.

[@juyifan7933]

Thats an oversimplistic way to look at the position. You fail to mention the fact that 6.f5 is by far the best scoring move in the position. White scores poorly in the Bc4 grand prix in general. If white doesnt play 6.f5 the whole opening makes no sense as black will have time for Nge7 followed by d5 and only he can be better. The problem is not the move f5, is that the Grand Prix itself is only a good opening in lines where black commits to an early d6. With regards to gxf5, indeed thats the best move, but its highly antipositional, so much so that it only started to be seriously considered in the 90's. Even if the engine gives edge to black, from a human standpoint the gxf5 positions are a mess where white has good practical chances, in the games black usually has to castle kingside anyway and has to shepherd a position with holes for a long time. The fact these positions are hard to play for black can be easily confirmed by the fact even 2700+ players overwhelmingly preffer to decline the sacrifice, only entering those lines if they seriously prepared then before the game. In any case, the whole Bc4 grandprix against lines where black has not played d6 is nowadays seem as a weak opening, which is why white started to experiment first with 5.Bb5 lines and latter with 3.Bb5 lines delaying the commitment to f4.

[@yonaeb]

It doesn't have to be good, as long as you know how to play the structure better than your opponent. Masters play dubious moves all the time because their opponent cannot play like a computer.

[@kirkd1631]

Is it horrendo, or is it stupendo? ROFL

[@sistemann1234]

I’d like the series if you didn’t say “bass” in every other sentence. It doesn’t make you look cool, it makes you an annoying 40 something pretending to be a 20 something.

[@ChessDojo]

Ok grumpy Gus 😂