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[@dl3.14]

It's so sad for Damiano that he wrote about how bad an opening was, then got the opening named after him lol

[@nazbolthatcherite6769]

BTFO by history. Shouldn't have bothered lmfao.

[@ButcherParry]

I would rather be known for exposing an opening that sucked than nothing

[@Aksriv100]

lol

[@dalkap]

It's like discovering a disease and giving it your name

[@laizerwoolf]

I thought it was a meme opening called Dummy - ano

[@michaeltran4546]

I literally play against this opening all this time 😂. Bout to destroy some 900s.

[@r3dx226]

How did it go??

[@michaeltran4546]

@@r3dx226 played against it twice in the past few days, one guy blundered his rook and resigned and the other guy ran his king to the center and got mated.

[@sailor5853]

They play it often against me, easy win most of the time

[@merluzacongelada5361]

I'm pretty low level myself so I played against it so much I actually had it analyzed. Black can kinda survive with 1. e4 e52. Nf3 f63. Nxe5 fxe54. Qh5+ Ke75. Qxe5+ Kf76. Bc4+ d5 but he's still completely lost and would get mated in a few more moves anyway, as long as white knows what he's doing. Now if he goes for 6. Bc4+ Kg6 then he walks right into a mating net and you can safely premove most of the sequence. Moral of the story is never play F6 I guess.

[@anegg9108]

@@merluzacongelada5361 after d5 just Bxd5+ no? king is forced to go g6, then Qf5+, Kg6, then white plays d3 or h4 and after a few moves it's mate?

[@Rja831]

My boy looks like a mad scientist when he don’t have a fresh cut lol

[@austynjoe3495]

I know he getting too nerdy

[@BatuhanDere]

We gotta make a petition to make his hair white for one video

[@kineshcr9633]

Bro looks like electro wizard

[@LeonJD]

bro looks like a pineapple

[@chillvibez7913]

@@kineshcr9633 with less hair

[@curtisw0234]

It used to be called the Damianos defence. Now it’s not because we discovered that it doesn’t even defend anything.

[@drex5242]

Damiano actually showed that the opening was objectively bad

[@isavenewspapers8890]

1) It's still called the Damiano Defense. 2) That's not how it works. "Defense" just means "opening played by Black."

[@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2]

That's...not how it works

[@NN-cc8uo]

​@@isavenewspapers8890🤓

[@r011ing_thunder6]

​@@isavenewspapers8890 I appreciate this, so any opening with defense in the name means its for black?

[@tomflanagan878]

Fun fact: Bobby fischer drew in a simul after e4 e5 nf3 f6 nxe5.

[@dolsimon]

so he was black?

[@animezoneamv9116]

@@dolsimon Come on try to connect things. Player playing the simul plays as white 😑. He means to say that Fischer drew playing against this.

[@animezoneamv9116]

I researched. And can't believe Fischer drew this lol

[@dolsimon]

@@animezoneamv9116 yeah it's kinda surprising that he drew from that position. That's why I was wondering if he was black.

[@dek_oma]

@@dolsimon no! he's Asians u racist

[@DamianoMeneghini]

Ok, this feels like a personal attack.

[@habibbialikafe339]

haha

[@alisyedhasany6594]

Are you Italian?

[@DamianoMeneghini]

​@@alisyedhasany6594Yep 😆

[@dubbyplays]

more like personal defense*

[@zenoblazenkv]

​@@dubbyplays Bruh 😂

[@lynxx5494]

Imagine finding a disease and they give it your name 💀

[@3van660]

That just makes you look like a good scientist

[@thegrandinquisitor66]

E.g Parkinson’s disease discovered by James Parkinson.

[@TheSCPStudio]

That's... how things work.

[@bedbug6177]

Not a good metaphor

[@comradegab3344]

​@@thegrandinquisitor66 Literally the first thing that popped into my head

[@98Wahnsinn]

Fun fuct: Chigorin in 1897 was the last strong player who played the Damiano defense in a high level tournament. That game ended in a draw

[@BREAKocean]

I love Chigorin! Look up Knorre vs Chigorin, one of my favorite games. It's not the highest quality game but it confused stockfish for me

[@shdii4132]

you haven't seen mcgregor vs fischer huh? he played damiano's defence too, that game was also a draw by agreement

[@farhananasreen1678]

@@shdii4132 khabib vs morphy is better, he played f3 g4 and the game ended in a draw

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

Was his opponent Hellen Keller?

[@ihateorphans]

only because Emmanuel Schiffers (his opponent) played so badly

[@Tepp1c]

I've just had a game where this was played. It was glorious.

[@elthiagoa12]

Btw the knight sacrifice is brillant

[@VendettaCe]

​@@elthiagoa12 No, its a book move

[@sushilmulchandani7258]

​@@VendettaCeit always shows as a mistake to me

[@tylerkarle1228]

@@sushilmulchandani7258I just played this and it came up as brilliant

[@user-ow6nl5bw7w]

@@sushilmulchandani7258 cause the engine is not perfect

[@clashgd7437]

Opponent moves a pawn Levy:- Aaaa yes the worst opening move you can play... .

[@dauntless0711]

Technically, 2. Ba3 is the worst move Black could play. That gives away the Bishop for no reason. With perfect play, (just don’t take the Knight,) Black is only down a Pawn here.

[@reubenmanzo2054]

I remember this in Guess the ELO. "King's Gambit, this could be a high level game." *next move* "All right, this is not going to be a high level game, never mind."

[@Silph48]

Fool’s mate: “am I a joke to you?”

[@stellaleicht4035]

Thats because its hard to call something an "opening" when you get mated on turn two

[@omardanelli2911]

Nah tumbleweed it's worst

[@VeggieRice]

you can come back from a fool's mate open if you change course, there is no coming back from this as the second move

[@brahimbenouda5281]

@@omardanelli2911 tumbleweed is only played for banter or to diss your opponent

[@dizzy9146]

@@VeggieRice foolsmate is mate in 2... there is no coming back from mate

[@zepilly]

I love how I actually start to learn to be better at chess just by watching random shorts

[@animefreak3010]

Right

[@tng2138]

He didn’t consider pawn to G6 and when getting checked, he can move bishop, queen or knight to protect the king and still develop.

[@alphadoughnut2651]

Are you on planet mars? After g6, qe5+ wins blacks rook.

[@night.terras]

"This is why tactical patterns are so important to remember" Me who barely remembers what I had for dinner yesterday:

[@matthewerspamer6274]

“Ah yes the worst opening move you could play” -me every game right before I get dominated

[@guillaumejuillard8258]

This is not fatal, I also open like that and it's great

[@PoochieCollins]

It's okay if you prefer being submissive, we don't judge.

[@averagelizard2489]

​@@guillaumejuillard8258 It's literally fatal wtf areu talking about

[@guillaumejuillard8258]

@@averagelizard2489 no it's the best opening

[@averagelizard2489]

@@guillaumejuillard8258 Man, I'm getting trolled, ahh, should have realized it earlier.

[@flybomb4013]

Intructions Unclear Black Moves : Pawn to g6 blocking the queen

[@gabron4872]

Than take the pawn and fork the king and the rook

[@jasonhe5578]

Wasn't this like a main line opening a few hundred years ago before Damiano said it was bad or something?

[@cftpafan]

Was definitely not main line

[@dashyz3293]

This was never main line, wtf?

[@jasonhe5578]

@@dashyz3293 This was amongst the few openings that was talked about in really old chess books along with stuff like Ruy Lopez and Queen's Gambit so I assume this is main line in the 1500s or 1600s

[@paulomangeron5241]

@@jasonhe5578 nah ur capping

[@asylum9868]

@@paulomangeron5241 its true but it was bad

[@nicoburstein3910]

After Nxe5 the main line is Qe7, but it’s still bad

[@kobz2862]

It should be called the kamikaze variation, because the king decides to leave his army and go for a walk

[@thealphabetsong4585]

I literally got an opponent who played those moves and remembered this video and beat him in 11 moves, thanks Levy!

[@Daviddant100]

If for some reason you wanna make this "work" you can play Qe7 on move 3, now you're just a clean pawn down and with weak squares around your king so still lost but not dead lost

[@Fera-gr5mm]

I mean, you can play 2..h6 for that matter... which goes to show that 2...f6 is really no "defense" for the pawn.

[@icelick6912]

not a pawn down in the end but still much worse

[@Treemur]

@@Fera-gr5mm the point is that 3.fxe5 is a much much worse blunder than 2.f6, the position is very tricky and playable if you know the Qe7 line as black

[@Fera-gr5mm]

@@Treemur If you mean 1.e4 e5 2.f4 f6, I agree with that. (given that 1.e4 e5 2.f4 whatever 3.fxe5 is a mistake due to Qh4+)

[@colinmenzies7162]

What does white play after Qe7 to keep the pawn

[@ithinkinoahguy1581]

Damiano is actually viable after qe7 doesn't lose by force, it's a damiano gambit

[@asaphmelchizidek5441]

Bro I just watch this hop in a game and somebody plays it against me 😂

[@BREAKocean]

It's wild that someone used to this opening to draw fischer in a simul

[@KrisMeister]

"Never move f6" - Been Finegold

[@dmcjonthebot6446]

"tactical positions are so important to remember" literally messes the tactic up trying to demonstrate it

[@zdrak2]

After Nxe5, black doesn't have to capture the knight, he can play Qe7 with a more or less playable position. Still much better for white mind you, but playable. Might be a cool psychological weapon to employ, because after f6 white expects a quick win, relaxes, then he's faced with Qe7 and there's still a lot of work.

[@megaapfel]

I've never noticed that before 💀

[@sneakynut2533]

I just played this exact game 1 hour after watching this short, god bless gotham for helping crush my 870 opponent xD

[@rupeshkumarkhare3910]

He was like : “Aaaaah, you teasing me”LoL😂

[@Squeemb]

The Bongcloud has been dethroned.

[@kimofakh2014]

what if instead of moving the king he moves the bishop/queen?

[@andrewhernandez7928]

The king is in check, king has to move because bishop/queen cannot get in front to uncheck the king

[@ramonechavarria5789]

@@andrewhernandez7928 why doesn't black block with the pawn?

[@ramonechavarria5789]

@@andrewhernandez7928 never mind. It's a nightmare scenario either way 😂

[@niels2091]

What about pawn G6

[@emilianofoscardi2930]

@@niels2091 after black defends with the pawn you punt the king under check and if he defends you eat the rook so its still very bad

[@selentiachess]

im pretty sure you can play Qe7 here instead of taking the knight on e5. i think thats how the main line goes.

[@Arthur-io4ey]

True but even if you avoid the force mate, you still end up in a very bad position, so it's not a reason to play f6

[@Hello-jh1rq]

@@Arthur-io4ey Yeah it's not very good but it actually used to be played a lot in the past with 3. Qe7. There are worse openings.

[@king_akashi]

pov : he defend with pawn g6

[@KLightning18]

“Worst Opening” Fools Mate: Am I A Joke To You?

[@marcosettembre]

251st day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan: "A peggior apertur e scacc"

[@bennyyy4938]

questo è il momento dello scacchista

[@bighillraft]

Average Standard Italian fans vs Average Italic languages enjoyers

[@ResonNL]

What a life u must have

[@adastra2228]

I remember finding this out myself one time and I was ecstatic because it was so satisfying to pull off. Obviously I knew it had been found before but it was still exciting

[@Moushomi-fl4em]

Congratulations 🎉

[@YoxiiPlz]

I was so happy when I found this when I played e4 nf3 opening because people did the pawn mostly there

[@TheStrongestBaka]

I was so proud of myself when i got into that position and discovered the knight sacrifice on my own... But a few days later i still managed to not win as white even after that sacrifice 😥

[@pinkmilky33]

I made this mistake one time…. most humbling loss of my life 😭😭

[@iceeeyy3557]

I made that mistake a lot of times before figuring it out.

[@bjarkenicolaisen4502]

I literally found all the moves myself for this in a correspondence game when I was maybe 14 and just started playing. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 3. Nxe5 fxe5? (3. …Qe7 is actually not all bad) 4. Qh5+ Ke7 5. Qxe5+ Kf7 6. Bc4+ Kg6? (6. …d5! is essential here, although still a losing position) 7. Qf5+ Kh6 8. d4+ g5. And here I spent so much effort, and thought for days (it was all during Christmas break), and actually found 9. h4! myself. Still very proud of that. Many years later I found the Damiano variation written in an old book of my grandpas and thought, “this is my masterpiece!” :D

[@warallied]

why would he moved the king when he can just moved the pawn g7...

[@superiorgameryt6687]

So instead of sacrificing the rook the opponent will sacrifice the game

[@PheGaming]

Why are we pretending that QueenE7, KnightE7, and BishopE7 don't all block the white queens attack from E5?

[@TheRomanianWolf]

You loose the rook....

[@PheGaming]

​@@TheRomanianWolf better then losing a king

[@TheRomanianWolf]

@@PheGaming loosing a rook means loosing the game...you can just resign.

[@fpgamer4566]

Bro this was my opening whenever I played chess against my friends💀

[@notrhythm]

lmao same

[@talemwaelijah4813]

What of d5 after Bc4....bxd5, kg6 then?... If Qg3 ...Qg5

[@jaimonji5503]

What are exactly tactics?

[@NotZack1234]

Yea patterns I've seen they teach in yt are scarly same from most of my match it's good to remember what they teach

[@darknessage5784]

g6 left the chat

[@eternal._.boredom]

you can take pawn in middle marking king then letting you take rook iirc

[@danielyuan9862]

Why are you acting like g6 wasn't covered in the short?

[@blackpinkinyourareaaa7846]

@@eternal._.boredom no but then the queen will logically be put in front of the king and you'll have no choice either to exchange or go back..

[@rAnDoM.199]

@@blackpinkinyourareaaa7846 you still take the rook ??

[@Hello-jh1rq]

@@blackpinkinyourareaaa7846 No that hangs the rook

[@N0Tsoftware]

Chess is not about being smart its about knowing the game and games patterns. Thanks for reproving this.

[@danielyuan9862]

Then define smart. If you replace "chess" with "life" so that you know life and life's patterns (and you know how to deal with it), isn't that being smart?

[@fizzybossyt8675]

@@danielyuan9862 this guy is 400 elo in real life lol

[@bruv.6001]

Yeah i found a player using damiano defence, and it ended with checkmate in 8 moves

[@kfirfrenkel4401]

Just never move the f pawn at the start

[@malleswarikakanaboyina3791]

He can do g6 at first check

[@killthemwithfirelol]

Apparently alternative moves are just plain impossible to guys like this.

[@kaiamy3779]

Did both of you not watch the video he literally explains why g6 doesn’t work because you take on e5 checking the king which either moves or gets blocked then you get a free rook but I guess you’re very intelligent but are unable to watch a 30 second video

[@killthemwithfirelol]

@@kaiamy3779 stop being a moron. The strategy requires your opponent to blunder multiple times consecutively, as well as does not account for alternative moves the opponent could make that render the rest of the strategy useless. In any normal game it's not going to work, but you're too unintelligent to understand if you could play out chess on paper no one would need to play it.

[@Adventurer-te8fl]

@@killthemwithfirelol Wdym? The only 2 legal moves are covered in the vid. After white plays Qh5+, blacks only 2 legal moves are Ke7 or g6. Ke7 leads to a mating line, g6 leads to losing rook. So tell us, what alternative illegal moves are you talking about? Because u stated u think there should be another move that somehow doesn’t violate the rules and will “render the strategy useless”?

[@killthemwithfirelol]

@@Adventurer-te8fl you can literally just not do any of that beforehand in the first place, are you mental? The whole thing revolves around the knight which you don't HAVE to take to worsen your position, king can hold his own while you prep for the queen should it come out. It's not optimal but you're not paying attention either, it seems.

[@reviewguy559]

Fuhhh i’ve been doing and seeing this 😂 thanks for this man!!!

[@mistzzz4683]

Played against this quite often, true. But I have never seen anyone move the king when queen threatens it. They just move the g7 pawn to block the queen

[@chapchap15]

That's what I'm saying never seen anyone move the king

[@GarryDumblowski]

The video covers that, you can fork the king and the rook.

[@haagerz]

It’s not forced levy

[@casnarrator4043]

yep, it sure is the worst opening

[@mouldygrub33]

bro, me and my siblings would litteraly build a wall of pawns against eachither💀

[@Thesnakerox]

So could you also call this the Forced Bongcloud?

[@akth7474]

*ben finegold smirking in the corner*

[@rlybored8743]

He forgot about the bongcloud (is that the name) where the king moves up

[@kianassary7194]

bongcloud is a lot more sound than this xD

[@-ZubairAli]

What do you do if they dont take the knight

[@akusalonen7512]

White is just a pawn up

[@kitetm7596]

You can still play queen check I think ?

[@minhngotuan3607]

Just play normally, you're up a pawn

[@akusalonen7512]

Or 3...Qe7 4.Nf3 Qxe4+ 5.Be2 and white has already developed 2 pieces.

[@minhngotuan3607]

@@kitetm7596 Yeh if they block with the pawn go Nxg6 and win the rook

[@mikehunt1521]

I'd have just moved my pawn up and threatened the queen forcing you to move it and allowing myself to open up a little with a free knight?

[@Adventurer-te8fl]

That’s not going to work. d3+ revealed check and the king will be the one moving and it’s mate no matter what u do. Moving the king from the start already leads to losing the game

[@crystaltytk3900]

Maybe u should watch the video

[@javakendrick321]

I get this opening in blitz quite often

[@charlesbeeman452]

Commenting so I can find this again

[@Working_on_life]

Here a comment so you can find it again.

[@maxpower9175]

@@Working_on_life a comment so You can find this comment that helped him find this video

[@GustavoHenrique-xp5wm]

@@maxpower9175 a comment so you can find this comment that helped him to help he find this video

[@oZqdiac]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@GustavoHenrique-xp5wmA comment so you can find this comment that helped him find his comment to help him find his comment to help him find the video

[@Kaleii08]

The Waffle House has found it's new host

[@Sv3ksMP3]

The Waffle House has found it’s new host.

[@wolfops9149]

The waffle house has found its new host

[@Geomanb]

🧇

[@phoenixswift5952]

The Waffle House has found its new host

[@InnZane]

The waffle house has found its new host

[@ilikepotatoss]

Broooooo, they didnt take the knight. What do i doooooo

[@rajankorbi3762]

OMG it gave me a brilliant move at Nxe5

[@toxicthunder911]

the waffle house has found its new host

[@The_Hybrid_Gamer]

The Waffle House has found its new host

[@Kaleii08]

The Waffle House has found it's new host

[@piemseml6206]

the waffle house has found It's new host

[@saltyralts]

please learn english

[@redude08]

Nah this is called rhe dummy defense

[@3alt_MC]

My dad is a beginner-amateur chess player as in he doesn’t really practice it but he is really smart so he is pretty good. I played him blindfolded for the third time yesterday and he played this

[@dustinksthabkeinnachname1275]

The Waffle House has found its new Owner

[@DanialProhozdenia]

GothamChess: this is worst opening Meanwhile Bongcloud: hold my king

[@DarthDuck404]

I mean damiano usually just transposes into a bongcloud type opening.

[@mikehunt1521]

Literally no one is just gonna keep moving their king like that when other pieces can defend it easier

[@CrypticCobra]

The only ones that have the option to actually defend are the pawns. (2 of them). assuming the player used both pawns correctly it would unlock the black queen and force you to sacrifice it into the white bishop to stop the cycle of checks that leads the king all the way into the corner. Other than the pawns every single back piece is unable to effectively enter the fight due to all the checks.

[@theflyingpharaohmido]

@@CrypticCobra what about the first check, wasn't the knight there to block it?

[@CrypticCobra]

@@theflyingpharaohmido first check was on whites diagonal, only tile knight could reach is blacks

[@theflyingpharaohmido]

@@CrypticCobra oh ok I see it now, thanks:)

[@Adventurer-te8fl]

Most king moves were forced

[@cowskii]

There was one time someone actually played this opening, I remembered this video, and sacrificed my knight. The thing is he started roasting me, like "avg American player," and "you're such a bot." Then I checkmated him a few moves later and he just left.

[@ultrasonic1867]

Black best move this time d5 against check with bishop 😀

[@TheWhiteAllTheTime]

Bong Cloud: phew

[@gravemind7545]

6 d5 for black to block the check by Bishop prevents this from being an immediate mate, but it still leaves black extremely weak.

[@kevinzhao9222]

Now i just need to wait until someone plays this against me and hope that I remember how to do this.

[@Mattsimilate]

I went to play online for the first time in months and this was the exact same opening what the helllll

[@wolfzsuckslol]

Damiano isn't bad if you know what you're doing. Do NOT take the knight as it's essentially mate in 15.

[@omnesadinfernum1293]

Yeah thats exactly my problem. Memorization

[@MrLuckyMuffin]

Imagine you just didn’t move the king and moved your bishop

[@ibealion1]

Seems like there are alternative black responses that don't end up with your King running all over the board trying desperately to escape the entire opposing side.

[@saitama9746]

The pawn at g2 be like : 😑

[@TheOnlyTruth868]

imagine nelson seeing that

[@AntonDaneyko]

@GothamClips I just tried it with Stockfish and it is not forced if you play pawn d6, which opens a bishop and prevents further attack of the white queen.

[@bigtastybaconmitcanabis]

What if they attack queen with pawn

[@oZqdiac]

Qxe5+ and after check is blocked or the king moves away then Qxh8 taking the rook

[@harshvardhansinghhapawat]

It's insane! my opponent in college level chess tournament played this against me TODAY. So it is my duty to comeback and thank you Levy.

[@MadaraUchiha24689]

Why can't king escape to g7?

[@eeppenen]

What are the odds that I watch this video and go play and this is the opening someone plays against me 🤣🤣

[@SeizingSheldon]

Sucks this guy’s defense got broken and I guess he had a whole book on it. Still cool to have this have worked for home time in the past.

[@saurabhchahal24]

You won't believe.. i saw this short and then went to play a game and opponent played exact same moves and I forced mated him in 9 moves 😂

[@finallysecured2375]

"Aaaaaahhh yes"THIS IS CALLED THE DUMB OPENING

[@TheAmazingJordiny]

Bruh, who the hell would play 2…fxe5??, The main line is Qe7 Nf3 d5 d3 (black can never reclaim the e4 pawn as Be2 and O-O and the e-file is wide open with Black’s queen in a terrible spot) and after Be6, white is just winning after 6.Nc3 solidifying the structure and black is just lost due to the lack of control over the center, lack of piece mobility, as well as the fact black is already down a pawn.

[@saramaleke]

"Oh no, my knight has gone *checkmate*"

[@samuelenriquealvarezhernan8088]

Instructions unclear, I lost my queen during the checkmate process

[@wShadow1]

Fool’s mate: “My goals are beyond your understanding”

[@betaloser6787]

them explaining strategies me "Funny pon do the funny thing when cross board"

[@brad1ey50]

I just played against this opening i wish i knew that i could’ve just taken the pawn