PUNISH an Early Nh5!! (EASY WIN!)

[@lemomar]

I play the Jobava London, not the regular London but I sometimes face this Nh5 move (it’s petty rare admittedly) I’ll definitely keep this in mind!

[@Zenmindchess]

Yeah it shouldn’t change anything, should still work!

[@theodoremercutio1600]

I picked this up from one of your live streams. Nice to get a refresher. Good stuff!

[@Zenmindchess]

Oh awesome! Hope it’s useful

[@theodoremercutio1600]

@Zenmindchess I've been hoping you'd upload something going over your Scandy lines, like the Portuguese gambit. I'm typically an e4 guy with the black pieces and people have been kicking my butt with the Scotch opening. The engine line for it is really awkward and passive. So I've been thinking about switching to d4

[@Zenmindchess]

@@theodoremercutio1600 Yah I totally understand. So the reason I switched to d4 and why I play the Scandinavian is because quite simply, I am nearly always more prepared in the opening than my opponent because when you play e4, you have to be prepared against a million different openings. When you play d4 you need to study probably idk 9 or 10 max possible responses. Same with Scandinavian. As soon as my opponent plays e4, we are now in my world and I know that at least from the opening, I probably know theory more. But of course e4 is still fun to play!

[@BastounTVChess]

Hi, great tips, so I’m not playing a lot the london these days but in Banzea course about London he gives some reasoning behind Be5…The idea would be to get the center by playing c4 afterwards, and there is a great idea in case of Nbd7 , Nxe5, you play dxe5! and the knight on the rim is already trapped

[@Zenmindchess]

Interesting! I’m going to take a look at those moves, good to know 😀