Top 4 Chess Opening MISTAKES After 1.e4

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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov shares with you the 4 most common chess opening mistakes that millions of chess players keep making without even realizing that they are doing it wrong.
First of all, let's make sure that you are not making these mistakes after 1.e4 as White, and secondly, you will learn how to punish your opponents when they make these opening errors.
These mistakes are extremely common in below 1600 rating level, but even higher rated chess players often make these mistakes and fall for these traps. These mistakes happen after the most common opening moves (in the Italian Game): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6.
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► Chapters
00:00 4 Most Common Chess Opening Mistakes
00:25 Mistake in the Italian Game opening
01:46 Mistake-1: 4.Nc3, Four Knights Game
03:37 Mistake-2 in Two Knights Defense
04:25 3 out of these 4 moves are wrong
05:11 Mistake-2: 6.h3 preventing Bg4
08:38 If White tries to prevent g4
10:46 Mistake-3: 6.Nc3
14:34 What is the correct move for White?
15:17 Mistake-4: 6.Bg5
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[@kugelblitzingularity304]

note that most of these moves are objectively equal in the eyes of the engine, however, human players really tend to blunder later on

[@joeb4142]

That’s a common mistake humans make. Some positions make them feel they’re on the offensive (and +) but the position is actually equal. Emotion can be a plus or a negative in chess. Computers regularly calculate 23+ moves ahead of the current position but only a few humans can calculate even 10+ moves ahead. So obviously computers have the advantage, all other things being equal. Equally obviously emotion, pattern recognition and mental+physical strength are huge factors in human vs human competition.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

It's a really insightful observation!

[@_Tao__]

Most of these lines have very exact moves to do to avoid losing advantage, easy for a engine but not for a human

[@simonaxlz]

Precisely what makes it beautiful in my opinion. You may know these moves by heart, but I get excited when it turns into chaos, mostly caused my me 🤷🏼‍♀️😅

[@davidcovington901]

Beautiful logical step-by-step decision tree demos, as always.

[@chess_material]

You teach it as a tree diagram, it made me to understand easily.keep it up. Thanks for free tutorials. I am from india. Happy to see you.

[@itsmimic007]

Hello fellow Indian

[@idoyahel]

Fantastic lesson. An eye opener. Thanks!

[@crucifiedthief]

tried that King-side attack from Black several times before giving it up. They never go into the lines here. (But I have gotten some great ideas from this channel.)

[@Mrq330]

I love your cat.

[@walterbrownstone8017]

Flipping back and forth between black and white perspectives. Awesome.

[@TheSeraphim75]

wow…every video has such great information… And then I go and get confused and lose Thank you

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These videos are excellent. From a rookie, thank you!

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thank you for your free tutorial to improve one's skill.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters 00:00 4 Most Common Chess Opening Mistakes 00:25 Mistake in the Italian Game opening 01:46 Mistake-1: 4.Nc3, Four Knights Game 03:37 Mistake-2 in Two Knights Defense 04:25 3 out of these 4 moves are wrong 05:11 Mistake-2: 6.h3 preventing Bg4 08:38 If White tries to prevent g4 10:46 Mistake-3: 6.Nc3 14:34 What is the correct move for White? 15:17 Mistake-4: 6.Bg5

[@vladrileynavilys]

At 6:10 why wouldn''t White take the pawn with the Knight? Sacrifice the Knight but the Bishop is behind it. + it would pin the Black Knight to the Queen!

[@Longtack55]

Excellent display Igor!

[@julitoireneojr9587]

Thanks!!!

[@marcoantoniomoralesbeyugo8043]

Milllions of thanks for these lessons. They are really magnificent.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad you like them!

[@andrewmays3988]

Love to watch your play while commenting on your "seemingly natural moves".😇

[@brettkruskie]

Interesting play. I've done it several times but never looked at the position that way. I wonder what a 100 depth would yield on this...

[@saksi_mata]

Hi, great teaching! But please can you put the link to the related videos you’ve mentioned in the description so I can easily move forward to the said video? Thank you.

[@linkten4108]

I like this episode, WAY better than opening tricks imo.

[@darrengilbert7438]

I'm completely new to chess. This video was very helpful in showing some of the options that black has available to play.

[@rollyicecream3013]

GOD bless u Sir.

[@champhaishifusquad8919]

Thanks alot man

[@stevesidare2493]

Very enlightening. I'd like to see these mistakes from the white perspective as well!

[@mazyzazie4048]

You are a great teacher.

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I have watched a couple of your videos and they are so awesome!! 👍😎

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Wow, thanks!

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Wow! Super useful

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Wonderful video. Thankyou.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Great learning video

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thank you 🤗

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Wish i could super love this video Very much feel you hit the nail on the head with what most people are missing

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[@kevinbunten7046]

Thanks for posting this video! I have fallen for a few of these. Never again!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad to help!

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Great 👍

[@justicechristopher9780]

Thank you for your free tutorials. They have helped me improve my playing in very short space. I wish I can subscribe to the main academy but as a nigerian; things are a bit difficult at the moment. Maybe in the future. However; I do have a question or an observation about these errors you just analyzed and the solution you proffered for White. moving the Knight to d2; Doesn't that prevent the development of the black spot Bishop. I remember in one of your previous videos, you had advocated developing your officers early on into the game and i have used that ever since and it had helped. So I am asking now; isn't better first to push that particular Bishop out before developing the knight. Are there draw backs to this? Thank you so very much once again for your teachings

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

First of all, I'm happy to know the videos were helpful! As far as I undersood, your question is whether White should develop their dark-squares bishop (for example, by playing Bg5) before developing the knight (Nbd2), did I get it right? In general, as long as you keep developing your pieces, you should be fine. However, in this particular opening variation, developing the dark-squares bishop too early (Bg5) may give Black a strong king-side attack (h6, g5 etc).

[@leadwaycom2388]

Excellent tutorial

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad you liked it

[@CristianJailanderOrozco]

I always do it because the machine told me to do it once and I remember the positions, but never understood the reason. Thanks this was clear and easy even to a low level like me.

[@alamchess4077]

beneficial

[@paulmahinay2183]

Nice trick

[@sauceLegs]

In the first example, if he pushes your bishop with his pawn with h3? trade bishop for knight? then his queen is eyeing down your f7 pawn... what is the best response for this when you cannot simply castle next move?

[@teambellavsteamalice]

After h3 g5, what's wrong with g4? This seems best way to stop the pawn, even though it messes up the structure. Is this salvageable? Black can get the open file by sacrificing a bishop for a pawn (probably 2) but that might give opportunity to get the white queen involved in time to stop the black queen?

[@hsinghal1]

Thinking same thing. I felt this is major problem with this channel. It shows too so many wrong moves that it sometimes forgot to show right move. Sometimes i feel too much frustrated that wat I can see crystal clear (being just a 1200 player) why he could not see.

[@alexp4981]

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[@leadbyyou]

in ex no.2 it is not posible after black play the move g5 white simply play pawn to g4 ? it looks that move stops the attack.

[@sonipolakian4256]

Nice video

[@MegaBenschannel]

Thank you. Goes a bit too fast for me but will watch several times.

[@rolanpelisco8729]

i dol can u recomend me a book for chess to improve my ability in chess?thnk u so mch.

[@ingogoldbeck2886]

Hello , i really need help. Since i play the stafford gambit i mostly end up in a russian game three knights if the opponent does not go for the kings pawn. I dont want to continue with the fourth knight because this leads to italian game which i dont like. So i pull my bishop and hope that the opponent grabs the kings pawn now, but this does not happen. So, can anybody give me some hints what to do in that 3 knights constellation??

[@safesurfing9486]

Iv been watching so many of your videos as much as I learn from them! But I often wonder. The reason I started playing chess was to sharpen my thinking. But listening to other peoples idea my gameshave become all about winning rather than sharpening my mind. Now I feel like im running a script!

[@maleewoki4890]

Same. It’s a lot of memorizing, pattern recognition and theories. When you start newly it sharpens thinking but after a certain level you’ve just got to memorize the script.

[@andrewcain6518]

Fwiw I find that studies and puzzles keep me sharp. This is opening theory and you can learn the hard way by making the mistakes and then finding the mistake, or you can learn from other people's mistakes.

[@timkelly1980]

At 9min46sec what if white advances the pawn further to f5 to attack blacks knight and pawn?

[@SuperSparDante]

What if at 12:19 white plays g4 instead of bg5?

[@jorgebravo5060]

c3 would be the highly recommended move.

[@hamidrezasepahian7608]

hi. At time 2:09 instead of this white movement(C*e4), at first white moves F*C2+ & then C*e4 & black can not take small castle. At time 11:11 it's not the turn of black!! so FC8-G4 is wrong!!(look at the symetrical position of black pieces against white). it turns of white. but inspite of these mistakes, your training is excelent & i use & enjoy it. thanks.

[@Zywl]

2:11 if this is a mistake, why stockfish advises that Nxe4 is the best move for white?

[@Denzel_Plays]

wow!

[@thomzajac5411]

Question: Instead of having things get worse for white after white has used the bishop to pin the queen, would trading a knight for two pawns be such a bad thing? I am a novice, wouldn't even be able to guess my rating, but I've found that the people I play never seem to consider that I would trade a knight for two pawns. This is especially tempting to me when those two pawns are center pawns (in the example above they are not center pawns). Your thoughts?

[@josephmalone253]

Hi tom! A knight is worth more than two pawns so most would not make that trade unless it was part of a mating sequence.

[@thomzajac5411]

@@josephmalone253 , I hear you, Joe, but I wonder if "sacrificing" a knight for two pawns can sometimes be worth it if doing so significantly improves the position? You know, like a knight for two center pawns? (Are knights 2.5 value points?)

[@funnypavel1937]

C3?

[@chefmonsur]

At 12.20 what if white plays g4?

[@vedekn]

At 2:10, what‘s wrong with Bxf7+ and then followed by Nxe4, am i missing something?

[@ultimatejoshua1082]

Black can play d5 after and get a better position. About -2 according to the engine.

[@maritesveruasa2017]

Playing white d4 then how to counter black opening with e5?

[@johanneslekganyane7437]

Move does work

[@garyandersen1186]

6c3

[@alenbatagelj8035]

You analised position that could only occured if black was first to move, Count the numbers of moves for black and white for position at the start of analysis. You said that white had extra tempo, but it is obvious in simetric game that black had extra tempo

[@TheSeraphim75]

4.Nc3, Nxe4 5. Bxf7 and Black gives up castling?

[@williamclayton3164]

Black launches a kingside attack with h6!

[@SubZeroMG4u]

at 3:44 i played many times Nc3 ..and if they take in center the pawn with pony and then try to fork .. i take on f7 with bishop and ruin black castle then take the pony

[@emericgarcia9325]

Bxf7 is even a worse move, computer gives like +2.00 for black. The king is actually safe on f7 or g8 and going to castle manually. Black have all the advantages: bishop pair, center, and the open F file for the rooks. The white knights are usually kicked back with tempo onto awkward squares and sometimes even trapped.

[@SubZeroMG4u]

@@emericgarcia9325 maybe..but i usualy castle and open F line and go for the enemy king after the f7 sac :)

[@timothylee2772]

1:51 At this point what if white plays knight to g5 instead of the other knight to c3 threatening to fork your queen and rook? How do you respond? There is no good way to prevent that.

[@computo2000]

search 2 knights defense

[@toxic_subh.5921]

Sir . How can I beat 1700 rating players. ??

[@prplt]

"pretty much everyone goes for Nf3" me who plays the Vienna with Nc3 🗿

[@Loki087]

At 3:06, if White were to move their pawn to H3 to push away your bishop, would it not be better to move your bishop to F5?

[@malino0527]

No, you want to maintain the pin on the knight, so white can't move it without significantly weakening their king side (by playing g4)

[@yakobwakjera2102]

Thanks men.... You're smart. You studying error??

[@odeo3550]

Icon means Do not stop it??

[@achingpluto]

I kinda feel like a lot of counter play from white was overlooked here

[@adriantalpos4557]

The cat in background is sleeping so peacefully 😍

[@bradburns491]

At 4:14 why dont you just take e5 with the knight and turn that trap around on him. Ne5... Nxe5. d4 ???

[@noahtipton7302]

Lol well I definitely get caught by this. I will have to watch this a few more times.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Sure, it's hard to remember everything in one go, feel free to rewatch it when needed.

[@klabucar9156]

What if after Bh5 he goes g4?

[@marcinkrzysica3499]

I would go with white bishop take pawn with check on king if he will take it I will go with knight and check again

[@emericgarcia9325]

This line is -2.00 for black

[@KM-mm7hd]

"It's Time to Stop!!"

[@mihuhih2186]

1... e6 and 1. ... c6

[@rojilinlyn1130]

I think it's time for me to subcribe😊

[@Seasonednuts]

In your first error with the pawn double attack in that position before the knight takes the sacrificed knight the bishop smartly goes down and calls check then you take the knight on c4 would like to see you look at that as that is what I do when they play that move and I dominate. Btw I've watched your videos since 2015 and are easily my favorite.

[@nashh600]

After Kxf7 Nxe4 there's d5 Nf6 e4 and the knight has to go back to g1 so black is winning

[@Seasonednuts]

@@nashh600 no you can check with the queen after and start developing

[@nashh600]

@@Seasonednuts the queen is blocked by the knight

[@nashh600]

@@Seasonednuts it's -2

[@zenovymogilevsky2764]

I think it is c3

[@neuuser7071]

Now I can stop playing fried liver with white when I get Nc6… I know what to do to avoid the kingside attack.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

I'm glad it was helpful!

[@brendafain9962]

You are a great teacher. Thank you. Sweet 🐈 Stays close to daddy.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thank you!

[@greatloverofmusic1]

A couple of things: 1) These videos are great and...2) These videos remind me of how poorly I play chess. Because if there is a mistake to be made I'll make it. Cheers.

[@angelmardayangco5498]

Can anyone tell me what to do if my opponent decides to go g4 after h3? Im talking about this part *12:12

[@SigurdBraathen]

Nap cat! ♥

[@INFJ-ThaneTr]

How isn't this so obvious to players?

[@rasimhotepselassiei2249]

XCLAN

[@joycekoch5746]

First mistake is E4 play D4.

[@shadeburst]

Admit it, you got all your ideas for "Top Mistakes" videos by watching me play.

[@marcallanchartrand]

But after D5 in the first game you should go Bd3 instead and keep the bishop

[@Remro88]

Your cat is not paying attention. He might make those mistakes!

[@XylozQuin]

Meanwhile when ever you play these black lines... Whites bishop always takes the Kings Knight instead of stepping back and ruins your game plan.

[@izzojoseph2]

My issue is they never leave the queen in the pin😂 Like… Never

[@truthfinder6207]

Board is hided by message.

[@filcondrat]

just play d4

[@knutgustavhelgesen6547]

Weert

[@zendean5207]

Always watch out for the "peen."

[@SSNewberry]

Play the Najdorf. Problem solved.

[@Jimmy911ism]

Beautiful, but if you play e5 and Nc6, you'll just get Ruy Lopezed almost all the time. You can't count on Bc4.

[@rickderraudige1421]

Is the cat in the background still alive?

[@piyushjadhav2278]

Video is too long to remeber all of these and apply at ones