My SECRET Sideline Against The Caro-Kann With 87% Win Rate

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

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[@ExgarPond]

“All of a sudden they’re cooked” that made me smile 😁

[@thesingingfly]

One thing that I think should be briefly mentioned; if you have the position at 1:30 in Bullet with f3, watch out for Black's Bullet trick Bg4! If you premove (or move too fast) and take the knight with fxe4??, you lose the queen to Bxd1. Easy fix--after f3 Bg4!?, you just don't take the knight, take the bishop instead. The e4 knight is planted in White's position for the time being because there is no longer an f-pawn to trap the knight, but White should be doing well being up a piece.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters 00:00 Secret Sideline To Counter The Caro-Kann Defense 00:55 1) If Black plays 3...Nf6 02:08 2) If Black plays 3...dxe4 03:22 Only 1 correct move for Black 05:15 Queen trapped out of nowhere! 07:05 Black tries to defend against Qxf7 checkmate 07:53 Black's correct response

[@tallurihymavati8470]

Hi GM Smirnov,I have a doubt regarding chess:- 1)While we are calculating,do we have to move pieces in our mind or do we have to draw arrows in mind 2)Which colour squares of chess board should we imagine? Pls answer.

[@atharvapolekar4443]

Imagine however you feel comfortable. For me, I don't focus on color squares but on coordinates, and my coordinates are good. I also personally move pieces in my mind.

[@tallurihymavati8470]

​@@atharvapolekar4443but to imagine coordinates you have to imagine squares right?

[@SummerDream3r]

One of the best chess channels on youtube! :) I'm a beginner at chess, and I'm having a hard time dealing with more experienced players who bring out both their knights right away as their main attack and wreak havoc on my pieces. (I call them knight gambiteers. hehe) Was wondering if you could consider doing a video on how beginner players can develop their openings in a way that protects them against more experienced players who love using their knights for aggressive attacks right away. Cheers! :)

[@sofiandaghsen343]

Crazy but amazing line ! , I'll try this in my next games for sure !. Thanks @Igor.

[@mdoebs5946]

Thank you Igor for the attacking ideas against these auto-pilot chess systems. Love it.

[@defrigge]

With 6... Qd5 (instead of ...Bf5) black is fine... The difference is that after 7.f3 or 7.Qe2 ...Bf5 makes much more sense. And no, the wild Qe2 variation does no give White enough compensation in the following complications... If Black wants to avoid these complications, even 6... Nd7 would work well.

[@develop3628]

My rating before seeing your videos was 1100-1160 Now I am nearly 1500 using your rules especially offense is the best defence, which I learned from you. Here one of my last blitz games with two brilliant moves and 93% accuracy which illustrate offense is the best defense: 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nf6 3.Qxe5+ Be7 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Qc3 Bb4 6.Qd3 O-O 7.e5 Nxe5 8.Nxe5 Re8 9.f4 d6 10.Qc4 dxe5 11.Qxb4 exf4+ 12.Be2 Bg4 13.Nc3 Nd5 14.Nxd5 Rxe2+ 15.Kf1 Qxd5 16.Rg1 Rae8 17.d3 Qd4 18.Bd2 Qf2#

[@Najeem-J]

Thank you ❤

[@ritarai5934]

Watching from India❤❤❤

[@ShuptahNeelakandan-cg4tn]

Me 2 from Thamizh Nadu 😊

[@AsgherChess]

Who asked 🤔

[@ritarai5934]

@@AsgherChess not telling u

[@krishnenduashwin407]

@@AsgherChesswho asked you to comment.

[@krishnenduashwin407]

@@ritarai5934I am from Pune , Maharashtra, India

[@sunilchristian3430]

Thank you!

[@Notdot-j8r]

@GmIgorSmirnov why don't you play against other bloggers ? That would be fun and showing your power and an idea for making videos , plz think about it

[@MisterCV_Chess]

Igor Favorite Word now is 100% "For Real" 😂

[@Zywl]

I thought it was "all of the sudden"

[@MisterCV_Chess]

@@Zywl that's so true too!!!

[@SmKChess]

No, it's already a losing error!

[@vyggdrasil1631]

I thought it was moreover

[@MisterCV_Chess]

Everyone is right here! Hahaha

[@Akash-21-e]

14% play it?? Now the percentage will go to 99%!!!

[@TheChamp1971]

At 6:01, how do you reply if Black plays g6?

[@og568]

Qxh6

[@TheChamp1971]

@@og568 There's nothing for the queen to capture on h6 and simply moving the queen to h6 will get it captured by the bishop on f8, so it would just be an even queen trade.

[@og568]

@@TheChamp1971 sorry I meant Qxh7 hence the x

[@davidmasse2829]

Black seems likely to just play Qe7 instead of Qf4. Then what?

[@ethanrigopoulos]

Make a video on the fantasy variation

[@dominique7641]

Lieber Igor! Meine Idee wäre,wenn Sie nach Ihren Lektionen 2oder 3 Puzzles kreieren könnten,die sich auf eben diese Lektion beziehen würden.So würde der jeweilige Inhalt viel besser im Gedächtnis haften bleiben.Vielleicht ist dies auch viel zu aufwändig? Jedenfalls vielen Dank für Ihre Leistungen! Mit besten Grüssen von Dominique

[@bobi6804]

I did exactly like the line you showed, won in 20 seconds, felt amazing 😁

[@shortlion111]

Play alien gambit instead

[@geometrygenesis2992]

Alien Gambit is quite stupid ngl

[@mayankthakur5341]

#suggestion please make a video on the Czech Benoni opening

[@254lele]

sorry but after hxg5 queen can't go back easy in e7 ?

[@davidmasse2829]

This opening is useful though. People will play down this line. Nice one, thanks.

[@ShuptahNeelakandan-cg4tn]

😮 My head 💥😅 ❤ thank u for the video anyway 😊

[@Code-002]

Going out of the round defeating an international FIDE rated player as an unrated player using the Alien Gambit and screaming "Alien Gambit!!!!" while thumping your chest is an undefeatable feeling

[@sHaterred-vh7cs]

I play this but first caputre pawn

[@hydradragonantivirus]

Pretty easy to find correct line if you know theory

[@merimackara]

"in most cases" one case. there has been one game.

[@NavalSharma-r9z]

As a person who plays caro kan, why did you made this? Anyways thank you for the video sir🙏

[@joeoleary9010]

Great, but I'd like to see more videos on middlegame wisdom.

[@bikashm5517]

The thumbnail lured me here

[@KadirBaki-t5c]

Yo

[@ramkumariyer8282]

I always tell my son GM Igor is my coach 😊

[@soulfoil3208]

You should have told him you're his coach not a student!

[@MahabubJamal-v5h]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@onyxia8786]

7:20 Well unless they're cheating, than they will cause stockfish will tell em to go there!!