The Reversed Sicilian: 1.c4 e5 · English Opening Theory

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Watch the introduction to the English Opening first if you haven't yet • Introduction to the En...
00:00 Introduction
5:17 Chessbook
11:33 Reversed Dragon
19:36 Keres Variation (Reversed Alapin)
29:38 Reversed Rossolimo
41:31 Karpov Variation
50:12 Taimanov Variation
55:30 Early d6 and f5
58:09 Three Knights
1:03:04 Kramnik-Shirov Counterattack
1:07:41 Four Knights, Nimzowitsch V.
1:13:53 Four Knights, Quiet V.
1:17:00 Four Knights, Korchnoi V. (Reversed Kan)
1:20:35 Four Knights with d3 (Hedgehog)
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[@HangingPawns]

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I just checked it out. It's actually great

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[@mikestubbs1708]

Wow...full on here with some amazing moves and positions! Many thanks for all this theory! cheers, Mike

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[@RemolzMangoz]

It’s like a late Christmas gift when hpy makes an Openings video 🎄

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I have been waiting for this vid for a long time

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Speedy recovery brother! Hopefully you get to spend some time relaxing while it heals up

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The best chanel of openings in KZbin

[@roro2.00]

Thank you so much for putting out a video on the english opening, as a player of the english I feel that theres definitely a void of content compared to more common openings, I truly appreciate your video, you've got a like and subscribe from me!

[@user-wt1xf5yr9e]

Want you all the best Stjepane,i cant believe you made this good of a video,i also hope your arm will be good!

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Good to see you back. Hope your arm gets better soon!

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Would recommend Chessbook, very easy to import your repertoire and it's good for practicing and showing you holes in the repertoire

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Don't shorten the story. How did you burn it?

[@RU-D88-wq5qd]

He played a tournament left handed, 😂.

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With heat

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[@chesscoachchris]

How did the tournament go? Will there be recap videos?

[@HangingPawns]

Yup. Coming up after the English and the Vienna.

[@heitorguarientianselmo3581]

actually incredible the amount of useful information in this vid

[@Audio_Titan]

I love your content. Many thanks

[@stoutlager6325]

In the patzer realms where I play, I prefer the 2.g3 versions for a couple reasons. The first is that I want to invite black to play 2...d5 because there is a tempting line for black involving recapturing the pawn with the queen that I want black to go for. I want this because black regularly gets greedy there trying to win material and I have extensive prep to punish all versions of that. The second is I also play the hyper accelerated dragon with black and doing both cuts back on the total amount of theory I need to remember for the most part (the extra tempo does make some differences though). An example of the trappy line I want black to play in 2.g3: 1. c4 e5 2. g3 d5 3. cxd5 Qxd5 4. Nf3 e4 5. Nc3 Qc6 6. e3 Bg4 7. Bb5 Bxf3 8. Qb3. Keep in mind you cannot take black's queen right away as you lose too much material in the exchange. It's playable but black is slightly better. On 8.Qb3, delaying capture of the queen, white is considerably better because of Qb7 followup. This is the most dangerous version of this trap. Black can blunder earlier and it's nothing to worry about. Only this move order requires some care on white's part.

[@ranlit7717]

Didn’t expect this to just be everything there will be on the Reversed Sicilian, I can’t not admit I’m disappointed, but thank you for the work anyways

[@cesarlopezmougan2104]

Amazing video!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@michaelsorkin8323]

I started with chessbook. I need to develop a real repertoire if i want to improve my game

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Love your videos for there through ness and detail get well fast

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Thank you

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Been waiting for this for a long time 👀

[@JohnTerhorstPhD]

Oh man, burns are the worst! Wishing you a speedy recovery.

[@espressivsymbols3220]

ive been having a lot of fun studying the english, if you are a fast player/processor and and a lot of practice in games that arent too long but youre prepared, id advise spamming 2+1 format games just to get comfortable with all of the theory.

[@ryanbuzzetto6645]

In the quiet variation of the four knights. There is an idea that after the bishop takes the knight to take back with the b pawn. The point is that you enter a favorable botvinik system without the dark squared bishop for black that would like to be on c5 controlling the weak dark squares. The downside is that you are down a tempo, but recent top players have been playing this line to great success.

[@ilsharko]

Great video! For the chess and for the Monty Python reference 😁

[@flpsnk4848]

Great video btw, I am forever grateful for these amazing analyses! Just a bit of feedback, the microphone you are using has a really sharp sound, maybe some mic cover would fix up the sound going out. Your voice could sound much more mellow while teaching us. Try to experiment with that. Otherwise great content!!

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Bogu hvala ❤

[@AsthmaBreather]

I was waiting for this I thought you just forgot to add it in the English opening playlist

[@Khanattila]

The Kramnik-Shirov counter-attack is my favourite line against the English opening, yet the line shown is neither the critical nor the trendy one. The main line is: 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Nd5 Be7 4. d4 exd4 5. Qxd4 Nf6 6. Nxe7 Qxe7 7. Bg5 Nc6 8. Qc3 d6 9. Nf3 Be6. The trendy one, and currently my favourite, is something like this: 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Nd5 a5!? 4. Nf3 d6 5. a3 Bc5 6. e3 c6 7. Nc3 Ba7 8. d4 Nd7 9. Be2 Ngf6. If white plays 2. g3, then I am happy to play this: 1. c4 e5 2. g3 c6 3. Nf3 e4 4. Nd4 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 which gives black an absolutely comfortable game.

[@raajeshchess]

Can you please tell me how to study opening from lichess study and how to choose a line in an opening 🙏🙏😭

[@majid48941]

What about the tournoment?

[@stoutlager6325]

Awesome. Get well soon with the burned arm there, Stjepan. That must have been nasty to have so much bandaging.

[@Quabanos]

e5 is my main repertoire against the English as black - either going into a Kramnik-Shirov, which I like to play like a reversed Trompowsky or give the bishop up and make a dark-squared wall (ideas which I've seen in a Chess Vibes video) or, against 2. g3, just go 2. ...h5 and poke at the structure immediately with Bc5 and Nc6 d6 or sometimes even c6 d5 to come (an idea which I found in some lichess study). The only problem? I never face the English opening at my level💀

[@Alex-xk6md]

If black does capture the knight on d4 ( nf6xd4 ) in the reverse rossolimo, did you mention you prefer to capture Bg2Xd4 or cxd4?

[@Alex-xk6md]

You do go into that variation, thank you sir

[@OmarAhmed-es8qr]

At last, The English! Sorry for your hand though, get well!

[@AlanTwoRings]

Your mic audio is too loud and it's clipping/distorting. Perhaps try turning down the gain on the mic.

[@flpsnk4848]

I am just pretending Thanos giving me a lesson.

[@RU-D88-wq5qd]

Just kidding by the way, mate. Been enjoying the training games very much

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mans been gone for 2 weeks, comes back with a burned hand and says "sorry if it's distracting" 😆🤣

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Literally waiting for this video for 3 months.

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