King's Gambit: Schallop Defense

[@brain5531]

“We are not playing the kings gambit for safe” The best part in the video

[@kulik03]

How do people remember this? There's so many different variations.

[@matej9255]

I'm wondering the same thing. Chess is so complicated but looks so simple. I guess focus and your ability to concentrate is the key to remember those patterns

[@dashyz3293]

No, you remember the ideas. That makes everything much easier and helps you when you run into a similar position and you also know the reason why you're playing those moves. As you get better at chess, you'll realise that memory of ideas will play a large part of your studies.

[@matej9255]

@@dashyz3293 make sense, good point !

[@1.4142]

Pattern recognition

[@gereonrath6601]

I am 2200 FIDE and I dont remember anything. Just remember key ideas and you find the moves quickly on ur own.

[@gentleoldmoviefan5680]

at 1:08 in this video, what if Black movies 5. ...Be7 threatening Bh4 + ; doesn't that create some immediate problems for White that are difficult to answer? Also, after Black shortly later moves his pawn to ...d3 (not ...d4), it seems to allow Black time to work toward a safe Queen-side castling.

[@Chuck_N0rris]

Love Kings gambit. I have been playing it since your original video. Keep them coming :)

[@creasemoosecake]

Excellent video - they are always so informative.

[@Bagual133]

Played many, I didn´t know Nxg5! Thank you, man.

[@jelle7937]

Looking to improve my kings gambit options, thank you!!

[@yat_ii]

9:47 why not bishop c4?

[@ΠαναγιώτηςΦρεντζάς]

Feel free to apply for Dzindzi's assistant: Hiding the opponent's strongest moves under the carpet is some sort of talent!

[@wsbarth92]

what if they go pawn d6 to attack pawn e5?

[@nidhalaboobacker]

Which is your fav opening for black

[@Lak1148]

Very sharp line!

[@bildobilz9658]

Hi, you give a suggestion for white that is losing based on newer analysis! In your main line (4...Nh5 5. Be2 g5 6. Nxg5 Qxg5 7. Bxh5) the move you give for black (7...Qxg2) equalizes, but Qh4+ does not. Black is winning, I posted a study on Lichess on the Schallopp Defense recently that covers the line in depth.

[@HenryMcCraken4]

Huh, weird idea... May have to use this. Looks like this just slows the game in general, because the usual kings gambit alot is sacrificed quickly, yet here, it looks like both sides get a slow building attack

[@raphaelhudson]

Love seeing new Kings Gambit videos from you. What I face most often when people play this is Qe7, which necessitates either Be2 or Qe2. A related defence you don't cover is the Petrov KGD where black plays 2Nf6. The variations I have the most trouble with are the Falkbeer Counter Gambit, Cunningham's Defence and to a lesser extent the Becker Defence.

[@raphaelhudson]

PS GM Aman Hambelton repeatedly played the Schallop against GM Simon Williams in a blitz video on Ginger Gm's channel

[@realprofityt]

Hello sir how can i practice with stock fish 10chess engine on my andriod/ PC ..

[@buddy3635]

Hey Kevin, huge fan of the videos!! Can you do a video on the chess game A Night At The Opera with Paul Morphy? I saw your chess sacrifice videos with it featured, and think it deserves its own video like The Game Of The Century. Thanks so much for the videos, and your ten year dedication!!!!

[@willhowkins4071]

what happens if white puts black under check with queen after gambit is offered by black?

[@bennyrookieb2258]

Awesome Kevin 👌👌

[@DirtySn0w]

*Instructions unclear I checkmated myself.*

[@silosednaodora]

My Friends r all Knight eaters which means i cant go on a gambit easily.

[@ydc3396]

Thanks for the video !

[@whatsyurprob158]

Excellent!

[@siLence-84]

Hey Kevin, I'm about 1200 FIDE, and all my coaches and instructors have always said not to move your F pawn as it's a major part of your king safety when you castle (short), is there a reason this is your favorite opening, especially compared to the queens gambit? Thoughts?

[@raphaelhudson]

some of the reason behind the KG is that it tends to displace blacks gameplan which relies on that assumption and sometimes provoke them into attacks that don't work. Similarly the birds opening/dutch defence. And it is true if you do not play accurately you can lose very quickly as white in the King's Gambit or Dutch. But if you know what you are doing the knight defends the diagonal so that at least early game the King is in fact safe. Modern engines tend to give equal or slight negative scores for the sacrifice of the F pawn (0) because you are down material (-1) but have a lot of tempo/pressure as compensation (often on f7/H7). As Magnus Carlsen said in a recent commentary while playing a particularly crazy version of the Kings Gambit where you do not try to defend H5 and just move your king forward, "the paradox of the King's Gambit is that in many positions black's white's king ends up safer than black's". So yes moving the F pawn can be weakening, but that proposition isn't always true.

[@siLence-84]

@@raphaelhudson thanks for the long winded explanation, but I'm afraid my chess knowledge isn't high enough to benefit from it =( I fully understand that the sacking of a pawn / gambit for tempo can be advantageous if accurately played, especially if the piece can be easily taken back at any point with another tempo gain. Where you lost me was, well right at the start to be honest. What plan of blacks/attack is white interrupting by playing the king's gambit, and does that only apply in the accepted line? Typically as black I try to mirror petrosian (LOL) in being extremely defensive, overdefending pieces, and creating an impregnable defensive position (at least until I blunder and hang a piece lol). I like playing the petrov and caro kann, even the French occasionally although I often have trouble activating the queen side (light square) bishop

[@raphaelhudson]

@@siLence-84 the best move in a position is dependent on the pawn structure and piece placement. Players get used to structures and moves that work against the structures they are used to playing against. When they face a different structure they tend to follow the same plans although that may not be the best or even a good plan in the different structure. Of course if someone has booked up on the Kings gambit they may know the traps and best objective responses, but even then they may not be comfortable with the resulting middle game, whereas the KG player may have played the same position 1000s of times. In the KG the advanced F pawn frees the rook and the knight defends the H file, while white gets rapid central control. The resultant positions are extremely dynamic and if black plays in the usual way white can often get a very powerful attack ending in a king hunt or a series of sacrifices/forks. One reason is that in the accepted line black loses a tempo and may not get castled and may also think they can advance on or threaten white's week F pawn and F3 knight, white actually wants that to occur as usually he is booked up for that and a slight mistake will lead to a big attack. If you want to learn the king's gambit and understand its ideas I suggest you look at the Muzio gambit, Quaade Gabmit, McDonnell Gambit, which are all lines where white allows black to take the knight of F3. In many of these lines even a knight down engines think that white is equal or better, which reflects how powerful the open F file becomes.

[@siLence-84]

@@raphaelhudson wow.. thanks for the info.. do you have any links to KG games or names of players who play it? And those names you gave of.. variations I assume ?

[@raphaelhudson]

@@siLence-84 It was a common opening at the start of the 20th century. chessgames.com would have a lot of games. Otherwise, Simon Williams GM recommend it on his chess.com series, he also has a DVD on the kings gambit. Kevin himself has a video on the muzio in his website. Hanging pawns has another video on it. There is a wealth of information out there. Joe Gallagher's book is the modern classic. But I think Simon Williams has done the most accessible work on it.

[@demetriusdemarcusbartholom8063]

Gallop

[@janalodenambor5811]

Good 👍

[@WilliamJonesChess]

Schallop Gambit? More like getting Walloped gambit! This defence looks too risky for black.

[@owencrawford5984]

it's actually very sound

[@jasperhalsey8574]

I consider this a pretty weak response against the Kings Gambit

[@owencrawford5984]

this is modern engines' top response to the king's gambit

[@jasperhalsey8574]

@@owencrawford5984 perhaps but not so easy for humans to play, especially after 4. e5... many squares the knight can go but not all are good.

[@owencrawford5984]

@@jasperhalsey8574 Knight always goes to h5, that's the point of playing Nf6. The knight is actually wonderfully placed there as it not only guards the pawn but restricts white's play on the kingside.

[@jasperhalsey8574]

@@owencrawford5984 right but you’d be surprised how many average players don’t know that and sometimes put their Knight on d5, e4, or even g4. Anyway the Nh5 line isn’t too scary for white in my opinion. I actually read a book on the King’s Gambit and GM John Shaw recommends white play 5. Be2, preparing to attack the knight once White moves his own Knight on f3, also preparing to castle and put more pressure on Black’s pawn with the rook on the f-file.

[@owencrawford5984]

@@jasperhalsey8574 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e5 Nh5 5. Be2 d6 6. O-O g5 7. exd6 Bxd6 8. Nxg5 Qxg5 9. Bxh5 Rg8 10. Bf3 Nc6 11. Bxc6+ bxc6 12. Qf3 Bb7 13. Nc3 O-O-O and white is playing defense

[@cristiangdc618]

Who plays the king's gambit today...

[@charlesmurray3255]

Me me me.

[@raphaelhudson]

cool people

[@cristiangdc618]

Raphael Hudson 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@fredchoi9843]

true. and who accepts it

[@raphaelhudson]

That's true, when GMs face the KG, unless they know they are facing a specialist (ie Fedorov in the 90s) and have prepared intensely for it, they usually go for a quiet declined line.

[@ashitranjan3971]

Idiotic defence

[@hellohumans9181]

First