Akobian vs. Becerra | U.S. Chess League 2010 - GM Varuzhan Akobian

GM Varuzhan Akobian explores the Gruenfeld Defense in his game against GM Julio Becerra from the 2010 U.S. Chess League.
2013.02.28

[@GobbleDog]

Akobian is without question the best of instructor of on this channel. And when the camera catches him just right, sometimes he looks like Mr. Bean.

[@lemarrose1192]

best teacher. he explains everything from the beginning

[@japphan]

"If somebody plays the Gruenfeld, just play like this." Sure, i'll just do that.

[@johannorman3067]

Love Akobian's lectures, explains things very well. Thank you.

[@prathapchandran919]

CCSCS: Please post more GM Akobian's lectures...these are really superb..excellent teacher !!

[@redsox2722]

Still the best chess lecturer out there, especially for a d4 player. Guy is amazing. Pretty sure I've seen every video of his at least three times. I hope to god he comes back soon. It's been too long.

[@Ujjayanroy]

thanks a lot! i see one of your games every day...a big fan...it is improving my own game...especially the way of thinking...thanks :)

[@muhammadmushtaqawan2423]

varuzhan way of explaining is excellent.I really impressed by his lecture. keep posting your lecture.

[@danagboi]

outstanding.

[@Hypercube1729]

"If someone plays Grunfeld against you, you just play like this." Yeah right! I didn't find half of these moves!

[@RRRaszkolnyikov]

Yeah, when he said that I thought "I wish" :D I can play against the Grunefeld, but not that precisely ... YET :D

[@Ada-jn5ms]

PlaySomeChess and know theory for 60 openings rather than 5 ? No thanks

[@naseempopov9013]

Random Guy there are more openings against d4 than against e4

[@sanmina3]

This is instructive on how to create and exploit weakness in your opponents structure.

[@sinsinter7814]

Only one bad thing at Akobian's lectures is that the more lectures I watch, the more feel myself stupid ...

[@alexandruilea6471]

same 😂

[@OJC6]

The weirdest thing just happened. Varuzhan and I sneezed at exactly the same time.

[@CortezHoratio]

+Omar Chahine I was sneezing as I read this.

[@Jazeraene]

yeh so weird...i sneezed, too... achoooo...very instructive...bravo

[@Kimtaehyung-we2fg]

Thank you sr

[@Kimmo788]

Very interesting lecture. :)

[@fredericadda]

M'y favorite chess teacher

[@Biogsguy]

Very clear lecture -thanks

[@coraaMM2]

I laughed so hard when he said Nd2 and I felt it was over. Haha! If that was one of my games I wouldn't think anything of the position at all.

[@kalpanamitra6090]

DEAR GM WISH YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY !

[@semnome6871]

thankyo for the video...where did u find those videos? they are very good... i saw jenifer's videos 2! Very nice videos you got here

[@Angkol]

good teacher

[@gorantrevise]

Yes, just play like this (and spot these hundreds of different GM ideas)

[@isolatedgirl]

great idea

[@Petemackenshaw]

Around the 12 minute mark he says the bishop on h4 is putting pressure on e7 and can always take if the knight on c6 moved away. But if Bxe7 then Re8 and black wins a piece because the bishop is pinned to the e2 bishop, no?

[@semnome6871]

27:50 rook d1 was a great move

[@klimtkiller]

dxc4 instead of bg7 is giving me trouble because they can play b4 to hang on to the pawn

[@rolfvdhulst]

indeeed qb3 was weird for it exchanging.

[@matend8125]

I just play like this from now on and win every grand master below 2600 ,easy peasy

[@bozidarugljesic2907]

instead e4 maybe he can take on c5 sacrifice a knight or bishop. white dont have a center anymore, but maybe im mising something

[@nathanielanderson4898]

Many times I realize that I lose the game by making one mistake at the beginning.

[@isolatedgirl]

nice

[@GuitarSlinger2112]

Would love to hear GM Akobian lecture on the Russian Defense but he never plays 1.e4! OK I'll quit bugging y'all about the Petrov lol... I want something against the King's pawn other than Sicilian or Ruy. I have the Caro-Kann pretty much worked out but I don't like playing from it any more I want to use something different now.

[@danyizoltan7477]

26:20 a5?

[@bozidarugljesic2907]

nxc5 is not posiblle because of Rc1 i think, and if bxc5 same Rc1,

[@STLChessClub]

Yeah! Easy, right? :)

[@GymChess]

LoL "...just play like this." In that case we'd win every game if we just play like the winner. Nice lecture though.

[@vaughnwampole3954]

That guy answering is really annoying

[@KhornateBeef]

1frst

[@amolm7943]

Nice teaching

[@jackfontenot809]

Hi