Smith Morra Main Line Update | GM Moulthun Ly

In this video I will go through an update on a popular line played in the Smith-Morra Gambit which I didn't get to cover in the main one.
The link to the repertoire video is here: • Secrets of the Smith M...
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[@phidybee3334]

Hi, I've actually been referencing your videos for the last couple of years as a lowly SMG player & I don't think I've got round to thanking you yet. So thanks Molton :)

[@Remro88]

You make chess look so simple ! i am a morra player when i can. i won a game thanks to your tutorial on the opening with the Nf6 trap falling to an early e5. Thanks for your videos!

[@MoltonChess]

Glad I could help!

[@prakash_clt]

​@@MoltonChessprevious Smith Mora video link please

[@jimdaily737]

UNDERRATED CHANNEL ALERT

[@MoltonChess]

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[@RedGaming23]

Thanks so much for making the update video and covering the Bb4 line i found that very helpful 😊

[@MoltonChess]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Kuribohdudalala]

Your vids on the Vienna and Morra let me takes some games at my first OTB event a month or so back. Content is fantastic

[@MoltonChess]

Thanks

[@aaaabb1666]

That Qd6, Qb3, Red1 manoeuvre is so nice! Keeps d6 under control The whole time while moving the queen to the king side and simultaneously bringing another piece to control d6

[@MoltonChess]

:)

[@frequensea9434]

Beautiful

[@MoltonChess]

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[@kakashi5951]

Thank you molton 🌻

[@MoltonChess]

You're Welcome

[@Eluhsiv]

Thanks! This is helpful!

[@MoltonChess]

Glad to hear it!

[@zwebzz9685]

Your opening videos are great. I play sveshnikov sicilian and would be really interested in sveshnikov from black perspective or any of the paired openings black will need to know such as Rossolimo, Alapin, 2. Nc3. Do you think most Smith-Morra players are also well prepared to play Alapin or do they usually not understand the Alapin positions well because it isn't their goal position? I know Alapin is a lot more serious for white. My current plan is to just to accept Smith-Morra but I am also considering just playing my Alapin prep and declining it.

[@MoltonChess]

Perhaps stronger players will know the Alapin too. However, I find at sub 1500 most will only know one.

[@tpgame139]

hello, I have a question regarding the Smith Morra variant opening with 6...Bb4, what is your plan and ideas if black does not take on c3? Thanks for your work! Didier from France

[@MoltonChess]

I will cover this in one of my next videos but basically I want to get compensation by playing on the dark squares

[@MoltonChess]

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[@tyrelljeffries2527]

Hi Moulton, Question: How many types of open Sicilian are there? I know there's the Yugoslav attack, the Richter- Rouser, the Levenfish but what are the others called e.g. Ndb5 and Ndf5?

[@MoltonChess]

You are refering to Open Sicilian setups for White? There are too many possibilities to mention them all. If you are refering to Black options I did make a tier on all of them once.

[@Setsuko8]

Lookin good molt3n mut

[@MoltonChess]

Cheers

[@leonasilo]

Ty

[@MoltonChess]

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[@leonasilo]

@@MoltonChess I think you played in Merdeka last Sept. I played in the team rapid. Had I known you were there I surely sought an authograph.

[@MoltonChess]

Yep it was one of my first tournaments in a long long time

[@Schnebbler]

Another solid line for Black is: 1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 e6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bc4 d6 7. O-O Be7 8. Qe2 Nf6 9. Rd1 e5!? Where Black is aiming to follow up with ...Be6. White can immediately win the pawn back with Bb5 followed by taking the knight and taking on e5, but I think this is not what a Morra player aims for, Black achieves equality. Of course the game is not dead, but Black will castle, which is already a success against the Morra:) There are more dynamic ideas with b4 for White but I feel one has to be prepared to play like this. I also agree with the comment below: the ...Bb4 variation with ...Nge7 is really respectable. Black will get the freeing ...d5 eventually with at least equality. If someone told me I have to draw against the Morra I would probably go with this variation.

[@MoltonChess]

Thanks for that, others may find it useful

[@Kuribohdudalala]

Why isn’t the smith Morra player more often at the tilted level? With good play it feels like white can always find a drawing resource in an attack and if black makes one mistake you blow them off the board. Especially in must win situations I don’t understand why the line doesn’t see more play

[@MoltonChess]

It is played here and there but mainly because Black can simply decline the gambit or go for a line which holds equality. That might be why its not seen as often

[@trickychessopenings5450]

In Bb4 variation please make a video with all details After Bb4 0-0 Black always plays Nge7 and don't take the knight, Please make a full variation video

[@MoltonChess]

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[@trickychessopenings5450]

Can you make a video please for those variation

[@JohnS-il1dr]

My opponents always decline with ...d3. It takes away the fun

[@MoltonChess]

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[@iweirjkdkfmk]

Nooo Molton, why are you doing this to me, after watching your SM video it took me half a year to finally stop playing Morra and now I will come back to it. Cryyyyyy

[@MoltonChess]

It was only one line at least, not all of them :)

[@patrikschoupal9926]

6...Bb4 is strong but after 7.0-0 black plays Nge7 first. And then there is a problem. Neither Palkovi,.nor Esserman. Marc is giving 8.Qc2 0-0 9.Rd1 Ng6 10.Be3 a6 11.Be2 Be7 12.Na4 b5 13.Nc5 d6? Only this weak line where white has Nxe6! But after 13...Qc7 black seems little better. After long analysis, I found only one line which is unclear, complicated. It is a bit reversed Morra because the other rook is hero. So 8.Be3 Ng6 9.Qd2 very Morra unlike move but when c1 bishop is out, we don't have Ba3 anymore, so we want to met Bxc3 with Qxc3 9....0-0 10.Rad1 and here is the A rook hero. I believe resources of Nd4, f4 attack or even h4 at some point may work. Though 8...0-0 may be an issue, because 9.Qd2 does not transpose because of d5! And even 8...Bxc3 with d5 looks like ugly equality. But there are no other purposeful moves. 8.Qe2 0-0 9.Rd1 Ng6! 10.Bg5 Be7 leads nowhere. 8.Bf4 Bxc3 9.bxc3 d5 nowhere. 8.Bg5 f6 9.Be3 is similar to Nge7 Bg5 line but it seems when f8 bishop is out, it favours black compared to the Nge7 line. So the best 8th move is a mystery. Seems best result is equality though.

[@MoltonChess]

Thanks for the analysis feedback

[@shauncurtis2810]

Whoever played this as white has a lot of work to do.... E.W 😂

[@MoltonChess]

:)